A/N: Sooo sleepy… Look, it's another chapter! Cool, huh? Yeah, right… Back to Bleach or something like that. Diie from the SasuNaru fluffiness! Although there's probably a lot of unintentional SaiNaru and NaruSaku as well… Ah, yeah, sorry about that…

Important Notes!: March 18th is Lunar Chasmodai's birthday! Don't forget to drop by and wish her a happy birthday! Oh yeah... Happy Birthday, Chas!

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"Uwaah, Sakura-chaaan… Don't leave me with him… Uwaaaaah!" Naruto started tugging on her sleeve again.

"Eh, Naruto, let go now… I have to do stuff too… Come on, I promise you that Sasuke won't do anything!" the kunoichi tried to pry his fingers off, but to no avail.

"Stop bothering Sakura. Let's go, dobe," Sasuke said calmly, dragging him away from Sakura by the back of his collar. A giant dust cloud followed them.

"Sakura-chaaaan… Saave meee…." He wailed and cried, attracting a lot of attention from the people around them.

"Shut up, dobe." The dark haired boy snapped, ignoring the strange gazes they were receiving.

Naruto picked himself up and clamped his mouth closed indignantly, crossing his arm and pouting. He followed the boy grudgingly and took the opportunity to make faces and stick his tongue out at him whenever possible.

"Stop that," Sasuke turned around and looked at him with a sneer on his face.

Naruto frowned but stopped afterwards. He's such a rude person… he agreed with himself. He nodded with a defiant expression on his face. Suddenly, he crashed into Sasuke's back. He hadn't realized that he had stopped.

"Welcome… dobe," the boy sidestepped to reveal an opening gate. The blonde's mouth parted a bit in awe. A gigantic mansion was revealed to him. A sprawling and well maintained yard framed the monstrous house as well.

Geez, his house is huge! It's not even a 'house'! It's a freakin' mansion!

"Close your mouth. It's rude," Sasuke ordered him. Once again, Naruto snapped his mouth close and scurried past him, pouting a bit.

"Excuse… something, intrusion…" Naruto muttered, purposefully slurring the words together and kicking his shoes everywhere. Although Sasuke wasn't exactly pleased with his behavior, he said nothing about it.

"Don't go into any of the rooms as of right now. Don't touch anything. Don't do anything… yet…" the Uchiha said, rather coldly. He led Naruto into an enormous living room and motioned for him to sit down at the large table in the room. After he watched the boy sit down, he exited the room.

The blonde felt rather insecure in such a huge place. He wasn't used to something like this at all. In a few minutes, Sasuke returned with a platter with two cups of tea. He set it down onto the table in front of the chair that Naruto was sitting at.

He took one of the ceramic cups and placed it in front of Naruto before taking the other one and sitting. There they sat for a few minutes, allowing the tea to cool. Naruto absentmindedly watched the steam float up and twirl around before vanishing.

"Your turn," Naruto announced, taking a sip from the tea. He nearly spat it out because it was so hot, but he made his face as emotionless as Sasuke's.

"Hn?" Sasuke's eyes darted up and examined his face for any emotion. There were none.

"Your turn to tell me your story," the blonde elaborated. "That's your cue to start, Sasuke-teme."

"I wanted power," he started, actually startling Naruto. "I wanted to kill my brother, Itachi, to avenge my clan. I lost sight of what was right and wrong. And I went down the wrong path. I followed Orochimaru. But once I saw that there was no more that I could learn from him…" he trailed off and stood up again, leaving Naruto hanging.

When he returned, Naruto was fidgeting in his seat. His blue eyes scanned the entire room for anything interesting while he walked back in slowly. It was unnerving, how slowly and deliberately Sasuke was walking.

He placed some snacks in front of Naruto and resumed his seat.

When he started again, he didn't continue from his previous sentences. "I wanted to break all the bonds that I thought were worthless. 'In order to kill my brother,' I had said to myself, 'I must severe all bonds except for that one. Then I will be strong enough to kill him. No matter what, I will avenge my family…'" he stopped and drank deeply from his cup. He put it back down with a small 'clink'.

Dark eyes scrutinized Naruto. "You're not eating."

"Not hungry."

For the third time, Sasuke stood up, taking the snacks with him. There were soft scraping sounds from the floor as Sasuke walked out, his slippers rubbing up against the floor.

That idiot is doing that on purpose, isn't he…? Naruto looked at the retreating back distastefully.

"You." Sasuke pointed at Naruto after returning. He stood at the doorway and beckoned him over. "Help with dinner."

"Uwaaah? I'm the guest though!" Naruto complained. He had helped Sakura because… uh… she was pretty… and… but… But he wasn't going to be helping Sasuke!

"Help. Me. With. Dinner." Cold, dark eyes glared at him. The blonde whimpered and stood up from the table, following Sasuke quietly.

Wah, Sakura broke her promise… Sasuke-teme is so mean! Tears started to from at the corners of his eyes.

"Get out some…" the Uchiha stopped when he noticed that Naruto was close to crying. His nose was all red and his eyes were watery. "Eh… What? Why are you crying?" he took a step closer to the blonde and frowned at him.

"… U… Uwaaah, Sasuke-teme… -teme is so mean to meee! So meaaan!" the boy began crying.

Sasuke's eyebrows shot up. He wasn't used to seeing grown men cry. Especially not Naruto. Actually, he had no idea what to do with him. So he hit him on the head. "Stop crying," he commanded roughly. "You're annoying me…"

Naruto's sniffing stopped. He had halted crying out of fear. He rubbed his eyes and trotted over by Sasuke.

"Get some tomatoes out," the dark haired boy told him.

"T…Tomatoes? Why are we eating that stuff?" his voice wavered a bit, but he attempted to make it steady.

"Just take it out."

"F… Fine." This isn't fun at all…

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"I'll… I'll help with the dishes…" Naruto said his voice barely above a whisper.

"No. I'm fine. Go shower first," Sasuke replied, picking up their dishes and bowls.

"Uh… Sasuke? Where am I going to be sleeping tonight?" he asked.

"I'll show you later."

"Oh…" The blonde wasn't satisfied with his answer, but he was too scared to make him elaborate on it. He quietly walked into the bathroom and dropped his bag full of spare clothes.

Upon several instances, Naruto actually got lost in the place. Sasuke had to fish him out from a variety of places. Even he couldn't believe how many times the blonde could get lost. I mean, seven times within three hours seem to be a bit over the edge isn't it? Sure, it's a big place, but that's just ridiculous. It took Naruto five times before he found the bathroom…

He turned on the water and closed the curtain, waiting for the water to get hot. As he began taking off his clothes, he caught his reflection in the mirror. Azure eyes stared back at him tiredly.

… Look what that teme has done to me now… I'm so scared…

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"What? I… I don't want to sleep here!" Naruto screamed loudly.

Sasuke's gaze fell onto him. Naruto immediately quieted. "Would you like to sleep on the floor then?"

"But there's a whole mess of other rooms in this place! I can sleep in those—"

"All of them are empty." The Uchiha walked over to the window and drew the curtain. "Completely empty."

"Then don't you have a spare futon or something? Or maybe the couch will do!" he vainly tried to persuade Sasuke.

"I'm saying it again. It's this or the floor." Briskly, he walked over to the candles and blew them out.

Naruto examined the cold, wooden floor. "But—"

"Three seconds to decide," Sasuke said, sitting down at the edge of the bed, making the mattress sink. "Three."

"Why can't I take the couch, darn it?" he exclaimed over the other boy's voice. He began waving is arms around wildly.

"Two."

"You're such an idiot! Stubborn, stubborn, stubborn!"

Sasuke sighed and rolled his eyes. "Two and a half."

"I'm going to tell Sakura-chan on you!"

"One."

Naruto froze, but didn't speak.

"Floor it—"

"Fine…" he muttered, shuffling over to the other side of the bed. "Stingy idiot… Giant house and won't even let me sleep in the other rooms…" he murmured softly, hoping that Sasuke wouldn't hear.

The boy only stood up and pulled back the blankets, removed his slippers, and crawled into bed. Naruto stood at the other side, glaring at him.

"Get in," Sasuke said, his back already turned to him.

The bed creaked and moved as Naruto slid in, pulling up the blanket to his chin. He rolled all the way over to the edge of the bed, so that he wouldn't have to be close to Sasuke.

Why must he do something like this? I mean, everyone has a spare futon, right? Well, I guess I don't… But still, this isn't a good excuse! Stupid Sasuke! Sakura-chan will do something… about it… right… Yeah… he thought to himself.

Within a few moments, even his more vigorous complaints faded as he fell asleep. It didn't take long before he began rolling around in bed until he was right next to Sasuke.

Slowly, Sasuke's eyes opened and he turned around, so that they were facing each other now.

"… Ramen?" Naruto vaguely slurred out, his hair sticking to his face. His mouth was wide open as he dreamt about… whatever a guy with a seven year old mind's dreamt about. Ramen, probably.

Sasuke moved his hand out of the blanket and brushed his hair back. He sighed. Naruto… When will you remember? His thumb rested on the side of his face. The blanket rustled a bit when Sasuke wrapped his arm around the other boy and hugged him tightly.

Naruto…