A/N: Ahh I hope you guys really enjoy this chapter. It makes me happy to see new people reading this. So thank you all. Basically, you guys motivate me. I'm becoming more used to typing, so this was a quicker update than my..other..updates. Thanks for being patient with me.

Warnings: Master/Slave relationship

Disclaimer: I do not own anything.

Sasuke must've smelled all the flowers in Naruto's garden. He soon found his nose feeling a bit weird from all the different scents. Some of the flowers he really enjoyed the look and smell, while others smelled horrifyingly bad. He wondered how something so beautiful could smell so bad. But sometimes, the flowers smelled like nothing to him. Either way, he enjoyed seeing and smelling all of them. He has of course seen flowers before, but he's never been able to actually smell them.

He had seen his previous master's mistress receive flowers one time, and she had taken a deep sniff of the flowers and sighed happily at them. When he saw this, he became curious. He wanted to experience what she was feeling, but of course, he was never allowed to until now.

One particular flower caught Sasuke's eye. It was midnight blue with dark red lines in the inside, and it was beautiful to Sasuke. Naruto noticed Sasuke staring at the flower.

"You like this one?" He bent down next to Sasuke.

Sasuke looked at his master and nodded.

Naruto gave a soft smile. "Here." He plucked the stem of the flower and gave it to Sasuke.

Sasuke at first looked surprised to be given the flower, but then gave a small smile to his master. He twirled the flower between his fingers, admiring the colours of it. Naruto patted Sasuke's head.

"You should smile more often." Naruto thought Sasuke's smile was a rare, beautiful feature to the kit's face.

Naruto lead Sasuke to a bench and sat down. He let Sasuke rest his head on his lap, while kneeling on the ground. He started to pet the soft, raven hair and Sasuke was very pleased. Sasuke started to purr under his master's touch. Never had he felt so much at peace in a moment. He heard the wind rustling, the heat of the sun, the beautiful flowers sway, and that gentle hand petting his head.

"Sasuke."

Sasuke's ears twitched in response.

"Are you sure you're an adult?" Naruto questioned. "You sure act like a little kid."

Sasuke faced his master and then turned away to pout, head still resting on the blonde's lap. Sasuke then moved and rested his arms across his master's legs, flower still in hand. He stared at the flower his master gave him and then looked up at his master.

Naruto laughed. "I'm not saying that because of you liking a flower." He took the flower from Sasuke's fingers. "I think it suits you." He placed the flower in Sasuke's hair, next to his ear.

Sasuke became flustered. No one has ever done anything like that to him. It made him feel almost special. He removed his arms and buried his face on the side of his master's thigh. He almost wished he could be special, but he couldn't keep his hopes up too high.

"Sasuke, listen to me okay."

Sasuke looked up at his master to show he was listening. He took his head off of his master's leg and settled on the grass.

"I seemed like a very angry person at first didn't I."

Sasuke didn't answer. He didn't want to, afraid the answer might give him trouble.

"Either way, I know I did. I just want you to know that I'm only like that when I'm stressed." Naruto didn't know why he was telling Sasuke this. He just felt like he needed to get it off his chest, and honestly, it felt good.

"Come here Sasuke." He patted the spot next to him on the bench.

Sasuke climbed onto the bench and sat next to his master. It felt very strange sitting how normal people would since he was not used to it. He brought his knees up to his chest so it wouldn't feel so weird. He made sure to keep his heels on the bench so he didn't hurt his feet.

Naruto put an arm behind Sasuke so he could continue petting him. Sasuke slowly closed his eyes and started to purr once again. Sasuke found himself almost leaning onto the blonde. He pulled away from his master, only to be met by his master pulling him back until his head rested on Naruto's shoulder. Sasuke looked up at his master, but Naruto didn't look back. Sasuke then relaxed against Naruto's shoulder, eyes fluttering closed.

Sasuke didn't understand why his master was being like this, but he didn't care. He felt so good. Naruto continued stroking Sasuke's hair, occasionally touching his ear, earning him a cute twitch. He noticed the constant sway in Sasuke's tail and almost smiled at it.

Naruto felt calmer and more at ease. His worries and stress seemed to disappear as he sat with his pet. Having company on his usual walks made it more enjoyable. It was also strange watching Sasuke become so happy over flowers. Despite being a little younger and even a little shorter than him, all Naruto saw was an image of a little kid. Or in this case, kit. It was as if his innocence has been preserved. But at the same time, Sasuke was an adult. Sasuke was well aware of the world he lived in, and his placement in life.

Naruto was enjoying the sun just as much as his kit was. Naruto earned his well tanned skin exactly from these consistent walks he took. It was a nice breather. He had taken them alone until now. And once again, it was nice having someone to enjoy it with. He looked at Sasuke's skin and noticed the contrast between them. He made a note to take Sasuke outside more often. He guessed that his pale skin was from being inside too much. He decided to ask to see if he was correct.

"Sasuke."

Sasuke shifted a little and made a humming noise in response. It was odd hearing something come out from him. Naruto came to a conclusion that the kit just didn't want to speak, but that didn't stop any noises escaping his mouth.

"Have you mostly been inside during your life?"

Sasuke barely nodded, drowsiness starting to take over. He started to shift more and tried curling towards the blonde, still purring.

Naruto liked the purring that came out of Sasuke. He could feel it come from the kit's throat. He saw a faint blush appear on Sasuke's cheeks, mouth slightly parted opened, and eyes shut. The same image he saw when he first petted him.

Sasuke was enjoying the warmth of his master and the sun. Cool breezes kept him from sweating and that hand rubbing his head felt so good. He kept nodding off. He tried to fight the drowsiness, but he couldn't. Darkness welcomed him from his bliss and he fell asleep on his master.

Naruto noticed the weight change. He looked down at his pet.

"Sasuke?"

No response this time, just the lingering purr. Naruto moved Sasuke into a better position. He started to move Sasuke's head onto his lap, but Sasuke seemed to be bothered by it and moved on his own. He laid himself down with a grimace on his face, head onto Naruto's lap. He then turned himself, facing Naruto's stomach. When Sasuke was comfortable again, his grimace disappeared. Naruto chuckled at how cheeky Sasuke was during his sleep.

Naruto noticed the heavy breathing coming from his pet. He remembered that he had tightened the collar because of his anger. He loosened the collar. Sasuke softly sighed, almost as if in relief and breathed normally again. He curled up into a tight ball, head still on his master's lap.

It was Naruto's turn to sigh. He needed to find a way to control himself, but sometimes he just loses it. His anger becomes uncontrollable. He hoped that he wouldn't do anything too terrible to the kit.

Naruto would usually go back in by now but, he didn't have the heart to wake him up anytime soon. Seeing something that was so peaceful made him almost feel the same. He decided to let the kit have his way for once (probably the first time too), and let him sleep without any disturbances.

"This is longest you've been out here."

"Yeah, I seem to have a sleeping cat on my lap that's keeping me here."

Sakura giggled. She had given him a drink and a book to pass time.

"He seems to be attached to you."

Naruto raised an eyebrow. "Why do you say that?"

"Well I've heard hybrids are usually afraid of their masters, but Sasuke's sleeping peacefully on your lap."

"I think he's just a kid."

Sakura tilted her head. "How old is he anyways?"

"He's twenty I believe. I didn't exactly check all his papers, but the owner said he was almost twenty-one."

"He's twenty?!" She gasped. Sasuke's ears twitched at her loud voice and he made a face of discomfort.

"Yeah and he acts like a kid." He petted Sasuke's head, relaxing the kit.

"He's even older than me." Noticing the affection Sasuke was being given. "Here I was thinking that he was younger!"

"He is indeed a strange pet." Naruto concluded. "You may leave now."

"Ah yes Naruto-sama." Sakura excused herself and left Naruto and Sasuke alone.

Naruto began reading his book, but was shortly disturbed by a certain kit mumbling. He looked down and saw his pet muttering incoherent words. He couldn't hear them, but he saw distress on the kit's face. Then Sasuke started to tremble and whimper. Naruto didn't do anything and continued to watch to see what would happen.

He soon saw tears roll down Sasuke's pale face and thought it was enough.

"Sasuke, wake up." He lightly shook the kit.

Sasuke became irritated at the movement and started to squirm. All of a sudden, dark red eyes flashed open. Sasuke shot up from Naruto's lap with some unknown urgency. This was too sudden for the blonde, as Sasuke's head collided into Naruto's chin. Sasuke was too confused on what was happening, but he felt pain throb from his head and he held the top of his head, ears drooped. Naruto on the other hand was slightly pissed off, mood ruined.

"You little..!" He reached for Sasuke, but was too slow.

Sasuke became afraid. He had no idea what was going on. He scrambled off of his master and tried running away. But he hadn't gone too far since Naruto had a tight hold of his leash, and his feet hurt him like mad. Sasuke fell forward, almost choking himself from the collar. He started coughing He turned over and saw his master coming closer to him. He covered himself with his arms, trying to protect himself from any upcoming wrath.

But nothing happened.

Sasuke slowly removed his arms and dared to look up.

"Sit up." Naruto ordered, rubbing his chin.

Sasuke quickly sat on his knees and bowed down, trembling.

"I said to sit, not fuckin bow."

Sasuke quickly got up, feeling somewhat stupid. He felt his chin being grabbed by his master, forcing him to look up. Sasuke's heart was pounding fiercely inside his chest.

"I was trying to have a peaceful break. I let you sleep. I let you borrow my lap. You were having a nightmare, and I woke you up to relieve you from that." He glared at his pet below him. "Yet your reaction to it was terrible and you act as if I was going to kill you. And you even try running away. Do I need to be worried about you running away now."

Sasuke shook his head to the best of his ability, as Naruto was still gripping his chin.

"Good. You have no where to go anyways. Not in your condition." He let go of his bruising grip and sat back down on the bench.

He rubbed the bridge of his nose and sighed heavily.

"This is what I mean." He lightly laughed to himself. Naruto groaned as he leaned back onto the bench. He turned his gaze to Sasuke who noticeably flinched.

"Come here."

Sasuke quickly made his way to his master and sat on the ground next to his master's feet and stared downwards.

"Since you like being out here so much, I'm going to leave you here until I have someone take you back in." Naruto had enough and didn't want to deal with his pet. He unhooked Sasuke's collar, looped it around the bench arm and through the leash handle. He clipped the leash back onto Sasuke's collar and put a small lock on it.

When Sasuke heard the second click, he became uncomfortable. It really meant he couldn't go anywhere until his master let him back in. Naruto didn't say anything before leaving the kit by himself. Sasuke tried following his master, but was stopped by the leash. He watched his master go through the door and disappear from his sight.

"Naruto." Kyuubi had been waiting for the blonde.

"What do you want."

"Father called for you, there was a problem with the company. He told me to bring you there."

"Are you kidding me." Naruto sighed. He had enough problems on his hands. He slipped the light jacket he had taken off and put it back on.

He left the house, forgetting about the kit outside.

Sasuke still kept his eye on the door. It had been quite some time when the blonde left. Sasuke hated being forced to stay in the same area. He felt a loss of control of his space and body. He started to panic as he uselessly tugged on the leash. Just from that, he was lightly panting. He quickly gave up and settled on the grass. He became bored and started to pick at the grass. He was too far to go up to the flowers. He touched the side of his ear and noticed the flower his master placed was gone. He went to look for it since he had nothing else to do.

After a couple minutes of searching, he finally found it. His face dropped when he saw the condition of it. The petals were all messed up with tears and the stem was broken. He became upset at the sight of it. He really liked the flower and its beautiful colours. He placed the broken flower on the bench so it wouldn't be lost again. It was rare he would be given things, so he tried treasuring everything he had gotten.

Naruto walked through the doors of the their company's building.

"Father, why do you need me." He asked.

Minato, Naruto's father looked at him. "You didn't do this correctly." He handed Naruto several papers. "If you plan on ever taking over, you should at least be able to do this correctly."

"Sorry father." Naruto mumbled, irritated that he had done it incorrectly. "I'll finish this now."

Naruto sat down in one of the desks to work. He hated coming here, as it took about an hour to reach there by carriage.

"When you're done I'm going to need you to deliver it back to Kakashi. He needed that by yesterday and he said he couldn't make it here today."

Naruto sighed and agreed. Such a stupid error made him more than he had to.

"I heard you got a hybrid."

This was something he had not expected to be asked. He put his pen down and turned to face his father.

"Kyuubi told you?"

"You still call him that? And yes, he told me."

Naruto mumbled bastard, "Yeah I did. His name's Sasuke, he was actually pretty expensive."

"I've never thought you would ever get one."

"I didn't either." Naruto didn't feel too comfortable talking about this with his dad.

"Just don't kill him."

Naruto raised an eyebrow at that. Why would that even come across his father's mind? He shook that thought off and continued his work.

It started to get dark. Sasuke became a little worried. He idly picked at his collar, where the lock was. He noticed that at some point his master loosened it, and he was grateful for that. Dark clouds started to cover the sky, sun not in view. It became chilly and Sasuke hugged his knees to try and keep warm.

His stomach growled in hunger, but he ignored it. He was used to going without food for at least a couple of days.

All of a sudden, he heard a low rumble from a far. Sasuke knew what that meant.

Rain.

He hated rain with a passion. It was different from a shower. It was dirty and cold. It felt disgusting to him. He hated thunderstorms even more. That flashing lightning that strikes the sky always gave him a fear of it hitting him. Even though it was unlikely, he just hated it. And the thunder was too loud for his ears.

He prayed his master would let him in soon.

Naruto heard a low rumble.

"Shit." He said under his breath.

He was finished with his work and had to now deliver it. He said his goodbyes and went outside. He told the driver where to go and sat inside.

It started to rain. Something had been bothering the blonde for a while, but he couldn't find out what. He stared outside watching the rain come down, while he waited to reach Kakashi's.

Sasuke felt the rain fall down on him. He glared at the sky for choosing this day to give them rain. Sasuke had no type of shelter, and going under the bench wouldn't help him at all.

He felt miserable.

When will his master come?

Naruto finally reached Kakashi's home. The rain had become heavier and lightning could be seen. He took the umbrella that was in the carriage and made his way to the front.

He knocked on the door and the silver haired man opened it.

"When will you ever take that mask off Kakashi."

"Hello Naruto. Sorry I couldn't make it today, a black cat crossed my path." Totally ignoring Naruto's comment.

"That's your excuse everytime, I bet you never even saw one before."

Kakashi smiled. "Thanks for bringing the papers to me."

"Yeah whatever." He handed them over to Kakashi.

"Don't run into any black cats." He closed the door in Naruto's face.

Naruto tsked and then it dwelled on him. Kakashi had reminded him of a certain black cat he owned at home.

Sasuke.

"Shit!" He quickly made his way back to the carriage.

"Can you please try going back as fast as you can." He asked the driver.

"I'm not too sure about this weather, but I'll try."

"Thanks." Naruto muttered before going back inside.

He cursed himself on how he could forget about him.

Sasuke flinched when he heard the loud thunder roar. His ears clung against his head from being so heavy in the rain. His whole body was violently shaking from the cold water constantly hitting him. His shirt clung to his body heavily. His usually spiky hair had now flattened.

He saw lightning strike the sky and he buried his head, while hugging his knees so he didn't have to see it.

Wind had picked up and the rain started to slap him harshly.

He silently whimpered to himself.

Naruto had finally made it home. Luckily Kakashi's was on his way home, so it didn't take him too long.

He rushed to through the door, ignoring his maids greeting him. He went straight to the back door and opened it.

He was still there. Naruto's heart dropped at the sight of his pet; a black figure, obviously curled upright.

"Sasuke!" Naruto yelled, while he ran to his pet. He didn't bother bringing the umbrella.

Sasuke's ears twitched. Did he hear something?

"Sasuke..!"

Sasuke look behind him and saw his master coming to him. Never in his life was he so happy to hear his name being called by his master.

Tears formed and ran down his face, unseen due to the rain covering it.

Naruto finally reached his pet and unlocked the lock.

Sasuke shakily held his hands up to his master, and Naruto got the jist of it. He picked Sasuke up to his chest. He put his hand on Sasuke's bottom to support the weight and placed his other on Sasuke's head. He noticed how much the kit was shaking.

Sasuke wrapped his arms around his master's neck and buried his head in between them.

"I'm so sorry Sasuke." Naruto whispered.

It was during this moment that everything faded away. Naruto's status of being a master, and Sasuke being his pet. Naruto truly felt horrible leaving Sasuke out during the rain for who knows how long.

Naruto carried Sasuke back inside and all the way upstairs. Both of them were drenched from the rain.

"Sasuke" Naruto started, not expecting a response, "I'm going to prepare you a warm bath. I know you probably don't want to, but we need to warm your body up okay?"

Sasuke nodded against Naruto neck.

"I'm putting you down now." He placed Sasuke in the tub. He noticed that the bandages on his feet had come off, and saw how much the shirt stuck to his skin.

"Can you take your shirt off."

Sasuke didn't respond, but he shakily tried bringing his hands to take off his shirt. He couldn't do it. Naruto came over and took it off for him instead.

"I'm sorry Sasuke." Naruto said again, as he turned the water on to warm.

Sasuke looked up at his master and shook his head. In the end, Sasuke blamed himself for angering his master in the first place, which brought them to the situation now.

"I'm sorry." Naruto repeated.

Water had started to fill the tub. Sasuke flinched a little bit from the heat, looking away from his master.

"I'm sorry." Again.

Sasuke looked up at his master. Sasuke started to tremble more. He picked up all his strength and weakly hit his master on the chest. It was so weak that it didn't have any impact at all. Hot, angry tears spilled from the kit and he leaned against the blonde, not able to support himself fully.

Naruto hugged Sasuke and rubbed the back of his head.

"I'm sorry." Naruto said for the final time.

He let go of Sasuke. Naruto's clothes was still wet, so he didn't want to make the kit even more cold.

Soon Sasuke found himself enjoying the warmth. He had stopped crying. When his body was done warming up, he found himself able to move more. He stopped shaking, but he didn't want to be in water anymore. He was sick of it. They had quickly washed Sasuke and then Naruto lifted Sasuke out of the tub and dried his kit.

Sasuke was enjoying the attention his master was giving him. Naruto dried Sasuke's hair with the towel; it was still damp, but it was enough.

Naruto dug through his closet to find Sasuke a sweater. He found an old one he didn't wear anymore and gave it to Sasuke. The kit slipped it on. Naruto then rebandaged Sasuke's feet.

"I'm going to quickly shower, stay here." He finally said, silence broken.

Sasuke sat on one of the rugs in the bathroom. He was tired. Slowly, his eyes started to close. He listened to the water pound rhythmically in the shower stall, covering all sounds from outside.

Naruto finished showering in less than ten minutes.

"Sasuke, I'm sure you're hungry righ–" Naruto saw Sasuke curled up on the rug, sleeping.

Naruto smiled softly. He would feed Sasuke first thing in the morning. It was late anyways, so he let the kit sleep.

Naruto dried and dressed himself. He picked Sasuke up, not surprised that he didn't even wake up. He decided himself that he would sleep too. He carried Sasuke to his bed and laid him down in between the blankets. Naruto climbed into the bed after and pulled the blanket over them. He light touched Sasuke's hair and brought his hand down to his cheek. He took note on how cute the kit's sleeping face was up close before saying–

"Goodnight Sasuke."