Side fics to Drafted: Back to Reality
Pairing: Naru/Sasu
Rating: PG
Disclaimer: "Naruto', don't own it; not mine. I just borrow Masashi's characters and replace them in naughty positions, and I mean really naughty positions.
Summary: Little one-shots depicting Naruto and Sasuke's (and OTHERS') life after "Drafted."
A/N: If any of you are the Ryu/Sasuke shippers that asked for the one-shot, go read A Passing Fantasy after this.
Sasuke stepped back into his old dormitory of the Hokkaido Keys' Academy with a strange feeling. His bed was the same place in the same cell with Jason, Bryce and Haku…but it felt alien.
The Hokkaido Academy felt… tiny considering what he had been through. this place was a world unto itself, contained and secured from the madness that was just outside its walls. Sasuke wanted to appreciate the safety its advertised but could not stop picturing what he knew was true. He dropped his duffel on the bed and went to the window.
Growing up he had thought the world to be an ugly unfair place set up to profit those who abused the system and abuse those who profited the system. Now his eyes were open. There was no mercy for anyone the world screwed the good and the bad. Many would say it was a pessimistic way of looking at it but Sasuke felt it was realistic.
His hands clenched tight- poor Kin. She did not deserve that.
Rubbing his hand over his face Sasuke realized that it was lunch time so the guys must be in the mess hall. Squaring his shoulders, Sasuke left and allowed his feet to take him over the memorized path to the mess hall. At the door he could hear the chatter of the boys at lunch and though he was in the same age group of them he felt old. The things he had seen at Kyushu, the things he had suffered through, the pain and torture he had felt, agony of losing someone and then…
Sasuke looked down as his hands, they were clean but there were days when he could see the Hidan's rich red blood flowing over his hands. There were nights he could feel the slick pungent fluid and the bite of the sharp garrotte wire in his hands. He had left a vigilante boy now he came back a vindicatory murderer.
Stepping into the room Sasuke spotted Haku first and went over to him, Luckily, the Momoshi looked up and his eyes went wide. Scrambling away from his seat Haku rushed over to him and greeted him with a warm hug.
"You're back."
"Yeah," Sasuke sighed, "A little worse for wear."
The teens' gentle eyes went soft, "How bad was it?"
"I…" Sasuke stalled, "It went well for the most of it.,.. but then Naruto almost…." he stopped, "Haku…let's talk later okay, I don't want to go back there right now."
They both know that conversation was not slated for later that day but later in life. Sasuke had still not come to grips that he had almost gotten Naruto killed and that he had actually gotten Kin killed. However, he forced himself to swallow it.
"Okay," Haku said, "I understand."
"Oi!" Bryce's loud British voice cut through the air, "Your back!"
The black teen rushed over to him and grabbed him in a fierce hug, "Missed you bloke, how was it?"
"And where's…" Jason chimed in while twisting his head over his shoulder. He was probably looking for Naruto Sasuke assumed, "…where's Naruto?"
"He's back at Mt. Fuji." Sasuke clarified, "But I think he'll be here the next holiday though."
"Oh." Jason nodded and clapped a hand on Sasuke's shoulder, "Glad to have you back."
Over his shoulder, Sasuke saw Neji and Shikamaru amble in and smiled but then something chimed in his head, "Where's Namikaze and Konohamaru?"
Haku lips formed a thin hyphen, "They transferred out, Konohamaru went first and then the Namikaze after."
Sasuke wasn't even sure how he felt about that. With Ryu he knew he should feel relief but then…he couldn't stop wondering how he was knowing that his father was in prison. He was going to miss Konohamaru though as there was possibly no way for him to meet Naruto as he had once promised.
He blinked and turned away. "Oh…"
"Well, your back…how do you feel?" Haku asked.
Scanning the familiar surroundings while knowing he had changed and was bound to see the world differently, Sasuke breathed out, "…I honestly don't know yet."
He did know what he felt but he did know that the love he and Naruto had taken another level. Unlike when he had first arrived at the Academy, there was no anxiety about how the stood and what they were. In a world of uncertainty, his love was sure.
Mt. Fuji
Naruto had barely hit the ground on Mt. Fuji campus when he knew something had changed. It was not the looks he got but a feeling. He had nearly beaten death and felt everything around him so intensively. The smell of the air, the sound of the chatter around him, the colors that met his eyes- they all seemed so much more!
He briefly wondered if news of what had happened in Kyushu had gotten around so quickly despite the gag order on the mission? But fuck it, it was bound to come out someday. In his dorm, he spotted Kiba's bed and decided to meet up with him later. The Inuzuka had been let out of the home debriefing meeting before he had as Alpha Omega had sent him to update his medical info first. Now that he was free, he dumped his bag on his spread bed and immediately went to the quad.
"Force?"
Naruto spun and grinned at Asuma, "Asuma-sensei, hi. I did not think I'd see you when I came back."
"I got A.O to give me some more time, six more months." Asuma said as his brown eyes brimming with pride, "Son… I have got to tell you; you did the memory of your father good. From what I see on the news and all the other whispers around the military lines, you avenged him. No one and I mean no one would have thought that Namikaze was such a despicable bastard, and they got the Kyuubi too. You removed two assholes from the planet son."
Naruto felt bashful, "I…Sensei….actually that was all Sasuke. He was the one who saved my ass at the camp and made me come here. In a roundabout way, he was why I even got to know who my dad was and it was him why I got to avenge him. If it wasn't for him…hell, I don't even know where I'd be now."
The older man smiled, "You truly love him, don't you."
Naruto briefly thought of telling Asuma that he had almost died for Sasuke but thought that conversation could be had for another day, "I do…when he gets here; you'll see why."
"I look forward to it," Asuma nodded and shook his hand, "You will be the perfect soldier, Naruto. I know that."
"Thanks man," Naruto replied and watched Asuma walk off.
"He's not wrong you know," Karin said as she approached him. "You will be good."
Smiling at his cousin, Naruto greeted her, "Hey."
"So, what happened over there…." Karin said while joining him under the tree, "where you went, I mean."
He forced a grin, "A lot, a fucking lot, but I survived. Why? You had some doubts?"
"Nah." she shrugged and bumped his fist, "You're one tough sonofabitch, I know that. We come from the same blood."
"Thanks cousin," Naruto said while rubbing the back of his neck,
"So Sasuke huh," Karin grinned and nudged his shoulder, "Are we ever gonna meet him someday?"
"Depends," Naruto grinned while picturing how Sasuke was going to look while meeting everybody, "How much drama are you ready for."
"He's that crazy?" Karin laughed, "Man I like him already,"
"Yes, he's that. He's a brilliant moody bastard with a lot of crossed wires, had a lot of anger issues, loves pain and fire and there are days when I am… just, hell, balls-out scared of him, but I love him," Naruto's smile was silly soft and his broad shoulders shrugged, "He's just…Sasuke."
"And you're just Naruto," Karin smiled and stuck her hands in her pockets, "If I don't end up in jail or something, send me pictures of your babies, in a few years that is."
Naruto gawked, "Babies, what babies?"
"You'll see…." Karin grinned knowingly, "…I know you'll see."
A/N: More of a filler but it is poignant. For those who want the Ryu/Sasuke story check back soon. Thanks guys.
