Kyuubi had decided on a last desperate attempt to persuade Naruto not to stay in a relationship with Sasuke. Her attempt was completely useless; the blonde knew exactly how deeply he felt for Sasuke and the angered ramblings of a demon fox were not going to faze him in the slightest. Naruto had noticed that since Kyuubi came out, Sasuke had been acting different. When they were in the same room for a while Sasuke would suddenly start mumbling things that didn't make sense, followed by lame excuses, then he would dart out.

Sometimes Naruto would simply find him sitting in another room and the blonde was beginning to think that his boyfriend simply couldn't stand to be near him. One time Sasuke left the house and didn't return for hours. Naruto was getting more paranoid and now he was certain Sasuke couldn't stand the sight of him. When the raven finally got back, Naruto decided it was time to confront him about his strange behaviour. "Sasuke…" he paused, wondering how to address this particular problem. He decided to just say what was on his mind. "What's wrong with me?" the blonde demanded, pain lacing his expression. Sasuke frowned. "Don't act dumb, teme. You can't stand to be near me anymore. Is…is there someone else?" Naruto finished, scared of the result. Before Sasuke had the chance to speak Naruto continued. "Or do you simply not love me anymore?"

"Dobe…of course I love you! I always have and always will." He said gently, cupping Naruto's face gently. Naruto snapped his head away from Sasuke's touch. The raven was slightly startled by this reaction. "Then why do you keep avoiding me?" he asked. Sasuke opened his mouth, but Naruto cut him off quickly. "Don't say your not, because you literally run out of every room I'm in!" he snapped, his voice rising in volume letting Sasuke know he was annoyed and not to make up any excuses.

"There's no problem. My heads just been all over the place lately." Sasuke replied. Naruto shot the raven a glare. "Why?"

"Well…ever since Kyuubi spoke-" Sasuke stopped suddenly, noticing the tears that were forming in Naruto's startling blue eyes. "I knew it! You don't want anything to do with me because of Kyuubi! I suppose it took that for you to realise what a monster I really am! Well it's not my fault I got stuck with Kyuubi. I didn't want this!" Naruto was becoming hysterical by now. Sasuke grabbed Naruto's hand and forced the blonde to look at him. "Dobe, calm down! Its not that." This made Naruto frown.

"Then…what? I thought things were going all right. Kyuubi apologized and I thought you accepted her." He said sadly. Sasuke was about to tell Naruto what the fox had said. Kyuubi seemed to have recognised this and Naruto's eyes, unknown to the blonde, momentarily flashed deep red. Sasuke took the warning and didn't say a thing. "I know. I guess it shocked me a little, seeing her in front of me." He lied. "It doesn't matter to me you have Kyuubi inside you and I'll never love you any less because of it." Naruto nodded in acceptance.

He let Sasuke wrap his arms around him and relaxed into the raven's touch, burying his face in the crook of Sasuke's neck "I didn't mean to make you feel that way." Sasuke felt Naruto smile against his neck, telling him everything was forgotten. Sasuke subconsciously tightened his hold on Naruto as he thought about the fox. Kyuubi didn't want them together and she had made it clear she was going to go to any lengths to split them up.

It was killing Sasuke to know that the fox was going to strike any time and he had no idea of what she was going to do and when she was going to do it. 'She wouldn't physically attack me…would she?' he thought. He had seen the fox's power channelled through Naruto when he had killed Orochimaru. To be honest, it was downright scary. Sasuke knew he wouldn't be a match for an enraged demon fox. 'She wouldn't. I don't really care what happens to me, but if anything did it would kill Naruto.' Sasuke ran his fingers through Naruto's soft blonde hair. 'Surely she can't sense Naruto's feelings for me and know how deep they are. Unless she doesn't want to kill me…perhaps she doesn't want to harm me, just try and get me to split up with Naruto.' Sasuke gave a soft laugh. 'Like that would ever happen. I have come close to losing Naruto many times and I'm not about to let it happen again. Bring it on, fox.' Sasuke's thoughts ended with a smirk.

He was feeling slightly more confident. He looked down and while untangling his fingers from the blonde hair he had been playing with, noticed Naruto had fallen asleep. Sasuke lifted him up and carried him gently to the sofa. He put a note next to the blonde and left the house. "I'll be back soon, dobe." He whispered gently to the sleeping blonde, kissing Naruto quickly before leaving. As the door slammed behind the raven, unknown to Sasuke or Naruto, there was complete havoc going on inside Kyuubi' cage. "That. Bastard!" she shrieked. "Oh, you just wait Uchiha! You're going to pay for crossing Naruto!" she growled angrily. "Then I'll kill you for pissing me off!"

A/n: Sorry my updates seem to be getting less and less frequent. I'll try write more often! Anyway, please review and tell me what you thought of this chapter!

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