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Chapter 7- Nightmare Come True

You bleed just to know you're alive…

Sasuke shot up like a bullet in his bed, sweat staining his forehead and pretty much everywhere else. The room was dark and he glanced at his bedside table, he could just make out the four figures in his one photograph. The curtains were drawn, but Sasuke could see the trees silhouettes on the other side and he growled threateningly at them; even though he knew his threats did nothing to trees.

Wiping away the sweat on his forehead and under his chin he threw the covers off and sat there in his pyjama's, leaning against the head-rest. Breathing heavily he tried to re-cap the vital bits of his dream. Well, it was more of a memory. The memory that haunted him like a ghost, every other night he seemed to have this same dream. The memory of his brother slaughtering his clan.

He pounded his fists into his legs and bit back tears. He would not cry. he refused to cry. He told himself over and over again not to let the memories and nightmares torture him. Yet every time one broke his minds defensive wall, he couldn't help but let his emotions tumble out. But still, he refused to cry.

He stumbled out of bed and made his unsteady way to the bathroom. Facing the mirror he stared into his own eyes. His t-shirt was sticking to his chest and he pulled it off and discarded it. There was dark rings staining his eyes, and he glared at them with hatred. He knew he should sleep, but he also knew that his attempts at sleep would be laughed at by the gods.

He let the rest of his clothes join his t-shirt on the floor and ran the shower for a while before stepping in it. The warm water hit his body and drenched himself in the water, trying to tell himself it was only the showers water that was trailing down his cheeks

He pound his fists into the wall of the bathroom and let the water wash down his back, washing away the cuts which Itachi had dealt with his backstabbing words. Gasping and spluttering he let the anger boil slowly in his stomach. The power in his shower was slowly dieing as he sank to the floor of the bath and continued to sob quietly into this hands. All too soon it was cold and he shivered as it hit his body. He lifted himself out and slowly dried and dressed. A cold chill filled the otherwise static room, and Sasuke span to the window, which he hadn't realised was open before.

Actually, he remembered shutting it the night before, so why would it be open now? Sasuke extracted a knife from the table top, (he always left one there, just in case) and went to go inspect the window. It was way to late before he felt the presence behind him. Before he knew it a knife was pressed up against his throat from behind and a hand was running up and down his spine in a… seductive way? That couldn't be right.

"You weren't going to try and kill me now were you Sasuke?" he asked, pressing his lips to the back of Sasuke's neck. The younger boy shivered and lifted up one arm to run his fingers through silver locks of hair. The knives dropped to the ground, Sasuke just didn't have the strength to try and fight. He welcomed whatever Kakashi would do to him, as long as it didn't go too far.

"Why are you here Kakashi?" he whispered, as Kakashi trailed kissed down his collar bone and span him round, going back on the kisses he had just made and running them along Sasuke's jaw line. Sasuke had closed his eyes and Kakashi's knife making contact with his throat, and now he opened them again, waiting for his answer.

Kakashi had left his usual Jounin outfit behind, and instead he was wearing a black long sleeved t-shirt and blue jeans. His hair was damp, Sasuke wondered if he had showered before he came round.

"I came to see you of course." came his reply eventually. Sasuke stopped Kakashi in his attempt to kiss every part of his neck by placing his hands gently on the older mans shoulders. Kakashi looked at him and Sasuke caught his gaze.

"I don't like your answer, you're lying to me." Sasuke said, even in his own mind he sounded immature, but right now he really just wanted the truth out of Kakashi. He didn't want any more lies to rest in his soul. As he stared into Kakashi's eyes he suddenly felt all his emotions over flow, tears leaked from his eyes and he rushed into Kakashi's arms. The Jounin wrapped his arms around the younger boys chest and began to smell his hair. Sasuke didn't mind, he just wrapped his arms around Kakashi's waist.

"Sasuke, what's wrong? Why are you so emotional all of a sudden eh?" asked the older, running his hand up and down Sasuke's spine again, although this time it was a comforting gesture, not a seductive one. Sasuke shook his head into Kakashi's chest and clutched at the other boys shirt. Wishing he could never let go, he felt safer with Kakashi's arms wrapped around him.

Kakashi suddenly grabbed Sasuke's shoulders and made the younger boy face him. "Sasuke, what is wrong?" he asked, seriousness staining his ever amused tone of voice. Sasuke broke eye contract and looked at his feet. Kakashi could see his shoulders shake with silent sobs.

"I'm fed up with lies, I need the truth. I need to understand. It's my nature." he explained, he looked up and Kakashi could see his dark eyes shining in the bathroom's light, reflecting his forgotten tears. He did a double take and cupped Sasuke's chin, leaning down and placing a tender kiss on his students lips. Sasuke's felt his knees buckle and grabbed onto Kakashi's shoulders to stop from falling pitifully.

"I've always told you the truth, the truth has just been hiding behind bad jokes and excuses." Kakashi broke their embrace and sat on the edge of the bath. "I invented this game because I'm stupid. I was just trying to make you see, I talked about winning, but I never could win." he stopped again and looked at Sasuke, deep in thought. Sasuke stared back, now hugging himself to make up for the warmth he lost when Kakashi stepped away. "I loved you from the beginning, so I had lost before I even began the game."

Sasuke stared at his teacher, before silently advancing on him and sitting on his lap. He brought Kakashi into a silent kiss, and smiled into it as he felt the other boys arms wrap around his waist again. He ran his finger through the silver hair and let Kakashi deepen the kiss, it felt like heaven to have Kakashi's hands teasing his lower back.

But sooner rather than later it was over and Sasuke just sat on Kakashi's lap, breathing heavily and resting his head on the mans shoulder. Kakashi licked at Sasuke's ear, and the younger boy suddenly realised what he was doing. He pushed himself off Kakashi and strode back into his bedroom. Kakashi followed but he shook his head, He signalled the door and Kakashi didn't move.

"Please, just go. I'm sorry for being an idiot in the bathroom. You won. Well done, but you didn't have to lie about loosing to win. Besides, even if you weren't lying you need to find someone else to like. Because it cant be me." he explained and slipping back into bed, turning away from his teacher.

After a long time he felt a new weight on his bed, but he refused to turn over. And as felt a hand touch shoulder, he knew in a instant that it wasn't Kakashi's. he turned in shock to find Kakashi being held be a man who looked a lot like a shark, he was gagged and completely silent. What scared him most was that Kakashi seemed to have given up fighting. The person who had touched his shoulder, was no other than Itachi Uchiha.

"Sorry to intrude on your exclamation of love, but we have business." said the older Uchiha, Sasuke was in so much shock his vocal chords weren't working properly, he kept stealing glances at Kakashi, making sure the man was okay. "Where is Naruto?"

At this Sasuke wrenched from his brothers grip on his shoulder and slapped the other right across the face. Itachi blinked a few times and then turned to his brother.

"How girly of you." he stated before Sasuke tackled him to the floor and began punching him repeatedly in the stomach. Itachi turned and pinned Sasuke to the floor. "I don't think it's a very good idea to try and hurt me, I only want to know where Naruto is."

Sasuke eyes filled with tears, he spat into his brothers face and kicked upwards, hoping his feet was in the right position. As it happened Sasuke landed a kick in Itachi's right thigh and the older Uchiha growled.

"There is no way in hell I will tell you where Naruto is, now let Kakashi go!" he whispered, as quietly as he could, so only Itachi could hear him. Itachi smirked at his younger sibling.

"Oh, you want me to let him go?" he asked, nodding towards Kakashi, who was almost limp in the shark mans hold. "Do you love him Sasuke?" he asked, laughing as Sasuke squirmed underneath him. He nodded towards the shark man, and he let go. Kakashi fell to his knees and gasped for breath. Sasuke watched him with incredible sadness, wishing that somehow he could help. "Do you 'love' that pathetic idiot?" asked Itachi, grabbing Sasuke's cheek and forcing the younger Uchiha to look at him.

Sasuke stared at his brother, side glancing at Kakashi and biting back tears. "Yes." he whispered, only this time it was loud enough for the whole room to here. Itachi and his companion burst into laughter, and Kakashi looked up, looking at Sasuke, who was staring hard at his brother.

Kakashi grabbed a knife and swung it forcefully at the shark man, who was taken off guard and fell to the floor. Kakashi continued to fight with the man in new found fury while Itachi began to talk to Sasuke again.

"So you are a gay idiot who likes his pervert teacher." stated Itachi, smirking down at Sasuke, Sasuke growled and punched Itachi in the stomach. The fight was on.

With kicking and punching and slashing with knives Sasuke didn't really get what was going on; only that he wanted to beat the hell out of everything associated with his brother. He wanted to cause his brother pain, just like he had caused Sasuke pain. He was in agony when the window opened and two figures jumped out. One with blue tinted skin which looked like a shark, and one who looked like a older version of Sasuke.

Sasuke quickly checked over his wounds, cuts here and there and a lot of bruising. He was fine, it looked like Itachi hadn't wanted to hurt him to much, it was vital that Sasuke lived. The boy rushed over to Kakashi, who was lying on the floor, looking almost dead. He was covered it cuts and bruises and a huge gash ran down his side; Sasuke gasped and Kakashi smiled at him.

"Don't worry." he said, Sasuke shook his head, he was worried, if Kakashi's wound didn't heal soon he would loose to much blood and would die. Kakashi grimaced as Sasuke helped him limp to the hospital. He felt pathetic, just like Itachi had said.

The team of doctors and nurses helped Kakashi into a bed and began healing his wounds. Sasuke paced the waiting room like a lost puppy. The nurses had told him Kakashi had fallen unconscious while they operated and he had lost a lot of blood, they said they weren't sure if he was going to be okay. Sasuke kept sitting down and standing up, silently praying for Kakashi's health. At about two in the morning Sakura and Naruto entered the hospital waiting area and told Sasuke what they knew. Sasuke promptly pulled Naruto into a bone crushing hug and the blonde almost freaked.

"What the hell was that about?" Naruto shouted as Sasuke let go, but soon Sasuke had simply pulled him into another hug. Sakura was simply blinking at the scene and staring between to two boys as Sasuke let Naruto go for the second time.

"I am so glad to see you alive. I'm going to kill him I swear and then I wont have to worry." he half explained, Naruto just left it at that, figuring Sasuke was 'emotional' at that moment in time.

"Mr. Uchiha?" asked a nurse to the room at large, Sasuke raised it hand and the nurse smiled at him. "He should be okay now, you can come see him if you like." she said, and Sasuke followed her inside, Naruto and Sakura following him.

The room was small and Kakashi was lying in a hospital bed, his mask was no-where to be seen as when Kakashi had visited Sasuke he had seen no need for his mask. Naruto and Sakura gasped at seeing the teacher with out a mask, Sasuke simply slid into a chair beside the bed and took Kakashi's hand in his own.

The nurse, being all amazing and figuring what was going on between teacher and student made up and excuse for her needed to talk to Sakura and Naruto privately and took them to a café near by while Sasuke stayed with Kakashi.

Maybe it was noises Naruto was making as he rushed down the hall, or maybe it was Sasuke tightening touch on Kakashi's hand, but whatever it was, Kakashi's eyes opened and he looked at Sasuke, dazed and grinning stupidly.

"it's a cool sight to wake up to you." he said, Sasuke closed his eyes and shook his head, biting back his tears again. "Where am I?" asked the Jounin, Sasuke smiled at him.

"I don't know where you are, but I think I'm in heaven." he spoke the most cheesy thing that came to mind and watched as Kakashi laughed, he leant forward and placed a tender kiss on the silver haired mans forehead. Kakashi placed a hand on the back of his neck.

"Are we alive? This is way to good to be true." He asked and Sasuke smiled at him again, he drew a knife from his pocket and rested it on his fingers, slowly drawing across his knuckles and watching as a tiny bit of red liquid flowed out.

"We're both bleeding now. So we're both still alive." he said, Kakashi laughed and pulled Sasuke into a hug, carefully avoiding his almost closed up wounds.

"You win."

Just something i thought of ages ago, fully finished, the end, fini, dixi. meh. hope you ejoyed it, please reveiw.