I changed the way some jutsu influence the body during execution. Perhaps some SLIGHT slight OOCness in this chapter.

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Chapter IV

Forgive Me

The next morning, Naruto did snooze until around 1, as usual. When he woke up, Sasuke was nowhere to be found until he wandered into Kakashi's study. Sasuke was bent over a chakra study book, and Sakura was beside him asking him questions. "Sasuke.. I know something's wrong now. You just can't tell me why you're studying that book, can you?" She complained. Sasuke glanced up for a few prolonged seconds as Naruto came into the room, then went back to his book while Naruto leaned over his shoulder.

"Hey Sasuke.. what—" he stared at the contents of the page. The type was small, the information was complicated.

"Chemical changes in the body while executing special jutsu?" Naruto read. Sasuke didn't say a word.

"Sasuke why do you even need to know that? I mean I know your Sharingan happens to be strengthening the curse seal but I thought our whole point with that was to force it to become dormant." Sakura reasoned. Sasuke sighed.

"Sakura.. it's a long story. I just need to know, alright?" Sasuke finally said.

"Wow that's the first thing you've said to me of any help in the whole hour and a half I've been in here." Sakura growled, crossing her arms. Sasuke leaned closer into the book, turning the page and reading on along with Naruto.

"Libido.. testosterone.. chemical imbalance.. pheromones?" Sasuke thought to himself as he read.

"The strongest jutsu throw all these off..." Sasuke said quietly. Naruto mustered up the hugest smirk he could conjure.

"Ooo Sasuke."

"Shut up!" Sasuke barked.

"What!? What is it! Tell me!" Sakura pleaded. Naruto snickered and kept it to himself while Sakura fumed in her seat, and Sasuke closed the book carefully, staring at it endlessly. Suddenly Sasuke got up abruptly and brushed past Sakura, pulling Naruto after him by the arm.

"Whoa, Sasuke! You never touch me when she's right there looking.." Naruto said, wondering.

"Sh. Naruto.." Sasuke stopped when they were alone behind a tree on the opposite side of the training camp. Sasuke looked extremely uncomfortable.

"Um.. Sasuke?" Naruto asked cautiously. Sasuke began pacing, and crossed his arms, deep in thought.

"My levels.. hormone levels.. they skyrocket. And I partly knew that.. but.. everything else unbalances too. And since mine is so strong.. and forceful.. I'm completely unstable when that happens to me." Sasuke began deducting.

"And.. to stop it.. I'd have to balance. But it's so hard to do that by sheer willpower that it's nearly impossible." Sasuke said.

"Uuuuh…" Naruto scratched his head, puzzled.

"Um, say what?" he finally blurted. Sasuke sighed in slight frustration.

"Dobe…bluntly.. you keep it under control because.." Sasuke paused and glanced heavenward.

"What? Because what?" Naruto begged, hopping. Sasuke made him stop hopping and sighed deeply.

"Because, Naruto. You stop it because you.. you.. 'excite' me." Sasuke muttered quietly and awkwardly. Naruto's eyes widened abruptly.

"What? Hah you mean.. that's how I calm you down!?? How's that—"

"God I just explained it Nara!" Sasuke yelled. Naruto bit his bottom lip.

"Ok, ok. I'll be serious. Sasuke.. you need me to keep you under control?" Naruto asked, making sure he got things straight. Sasuke looked partly defeated.

"Yes." He said simply. Naruto looked gleefully entertained. Sasuke rolled his eyes while letting Naruto squeeze him in a hug.

"Hehehe.. you neeed meee…" Naruto sang. Sasuke sighed and slid his arms around Naruto.

"Whatever." He murmured while he touched his lips to the tip of Naruto's ear. Naruto was still cuddling, but Sasuke was getting a little physical. Naruto was pleasantly surprised by the spontaneous necking, but blushed thoroughly when he felt Sasuke's hand squeeze his butt.

"Whoa…Sasuke.. what's gotten into you?" He asked. Sasuke shrugged while he paused and backed off a bit.

"I don't know.. but I think we'd better give it a rest for now.. Not the right timing.." Sasuke concluded. He took a deep breath and walked away. Naruto watched from the shade of the tree as Sakura came out of nowhere and rubbed Sasuke's shoulder. Naruto sighed and stared at them, feeling a bit possessive.

"If I can take care of him by.. balancing out his hormone levels or whatever it was.. can't she do it too just by being around? I mean.. she IS touching him." Naruto thought. It made him angry. He crossed his arms and glared, then followed them. He followed silently for awhile, until Sakura turned and saw him, keeping her hands on Sasuke's shoulder.

"Naruto what—"

"Sakura, Kakashi Sensei wants you." Naruto said suddenly, pointing toward the house. "Oh. O--kay…" Sakura turned and went for the house.

"Sasuke stay there alright?" She called as she left. Sasuke rolled his eyes a little as Naruto immediately began harshly massaging in her place.

"Hmph. Sakura wants you so bad. Well she can't have you!" Naruto yelled in her direction. Sasuke let his head fall back, groaning.

"Ah.. that feels really good Nara.." Naruto proudly rubbed and squeezed Sasuke's stiff muscles.

"Better than Sakura?" he added.

"Mm-hm." Sasuke said, soaking in Naruto's massaging.

"So.. you're okay, right?" Naruto asked. Sasuke sighed.

"Fine. It's not normally that strong." Sasuke said.

"And if it ever does again.. and it will.. It'll get nasty if we can't get it under control." Sasuke said.

"We can handle it.." Naruto said with a wide grin, blushing.

"Oh you're so tense.." Naruto said again. Sasuke nodded this time.

"I know." He said plainly. He then smirked. "I like the hard massaging. Like I said. It feels really good, I need it." He said. Naruto pulled on Sasuke's arm.

"I know she said stay where you are, but let's go." Naruto laughed as they began to head for Naruto's room.

"Well we should.. I think just stick around Naruto. We can't keep disappearing like that. Too risky." Sasuke said, crossing his arms and staying put.

"Come on, who cares Sasuke?! Risk it! This whole thing, whatever we're doing, isn't even going to work if you never risk anything!" Naruto complained.

"No! Come on, don't be dumb, you don't wanna' blow it." Sasuke growled. Naruto turned his back and crossed his arms indignantly.

"Such a jerk...what is it, you want to be here when Sakura comes back?" Naruto muttered, letting his jealousy over the dark haired avenger get the best of him. Sasuke snubbed him and kept his back turned and his eyes closed. That's how they were standing when Sakura came back outside.

"Naruto, Kakashi Sensei didn't want me! What're you talking about?" she asked, standing next to Sasuke, who still wouldn't face Naruto. Naruto frowned.

"I don't know. I just know Sasuke's a stick in the mud."

"Shut up Nara." Sasuke snapped, which drew Sakura's attention.

"Um.. did you just.. call him Nara?" She questioned, looking a bit disturbed. Sasuke froze and sweat-dropped.

"I only call him that because he hates it." Sasuke covered. Naruto fumed, and finally turned around.

"Now who's blowing things!?" He yelled, which made Sasuke look.

"Naruto! What's your problem!? Shut UP!" Sasuke roared, turning and leaving. Naruto paled from frustration and turned to storm off, the both of them letting their heightened confusion over what the heck they were doing drive them to irrational and overly dramtized anger.

"God! You stomp on my last nerve! TEME!!" Naruto screamed as he left. Sakura stared, looked at the both of them, then turned to followed Sasuke, naturally.

Late in the afternoon, Sasuke was tired of fuming in his frustration, and he hadn't seen Naruto in hours. He was still angry at Naruto's carelessness, but—

Sasuke jumped up and went tearing through the yard.

"Naruto!!" he called. He ran and called, dashing past Sakura at one point, screaming Naruto's name.

"Sasuke-kun?" she questioned, but he was gone. "Wow. I think that's the strangest thing I've witnessed in awhile..." She said to herself.

"Naruto!" Sasuke reached the back of the house and barged into Naruto's room through the back door. Naruto was sitting on the edge of the bed glaring.

"What do you want? And haven't you learned to knock?!" Naruto shouted, red in the face from anger. Sasuke sneered, feeling his own frustration level rising.

"Um—Naruto.." he began, getting closer. They both felt the tension rising between them, and soon Sasuke was just standing there between Naruto's knees.

"I hate you Sasuke." Naruto growled under his breath, glaring at the floor between Sasuke's feet.

"I hate you more, you clueless dobe.." Sasuke nearly whispered, and in the next instant, they proceeded to take out their anger at each other, on each other. Naruto put up a rehearsed, half-hearted resistance while Sasuke kissed him more roughly than usual, squeezed him until it hurt, and shook him until he thought he'd made the blonde ill. "Sas—Sasuke—that—ah—hurts.. really bad.." Naruto protested, which only resulted in being overpowered. Sasuke gave Naruto a few more good harsh kisses, then began to slow down when Naruto began to stop responding. Sasuke stood and crossed the room, wiping a few drops of Naruto's blood from his mouth with the back of his hand while Naruto lay on the bed, subdued, his clothing disheveled, feeling more than slightly dizzy. Sasuke fingered a few scratches on his upper arm that Naruto had inflicted upon him, then sighed and turned back around to stare at Naruto sniffling on the bed.

"Itai...Sasuke.. why.." Naruto panted, curling into himself tighter. Sasuke hurriedly came and sat down.

"Naruto… I'm so sorry... I can't take out my anger that way.. even if you did go along with it.." Sasuke began. Naruto kept face-down, fisting a bunch of sheet in his hand. Naruto's silence was feeding a growing guilt. Sasuke reached out and rubbed Naruto's back.

"Naru-kun? Naruto I'm sorry! I didn't mean to yell at you earlier. You just irritate me sometimes with the things you do." Sasuke said, sighing afterward. Naruto sat up slowly. "You know you liked what just happened.. and you know I did too. You didn't hurt me. It was just an angry make-out." Naruto said with a smile.

"But.. I did hurt you." Sasuke said, looking at him like he was nuts. Naruto cautiously dabbed at his bruised lip with his finger.

"Okay so you did. That's just how we fight. We don't get into fist fights anymore.. so this is what happens. I mean if we really did hate each other, make out fighting would be our worst nightmare." Naruto said good-naturedly. Sasuke shook his head.

"No.. I should never use fooling around with you as a way to beat you up.." Sasuke finished. Naruto laughed a little, trying to loosen him up.

"Come on Sasuke. We use to fight all the time. Only that.. it was a little more sexy." Naruto excused. Sasuke gave him an amused look. Naruto grinned brightly and continued.

"Well it was! I think if you'd shook me like that one more time you would've knocked me out." He laughed. Sasuke sighed.

"I've got anger issues.. stop covering for me." he said plainly, shaking his head at himself while he let Naruto rub his arm.

Kakashi was walking around the house aimlessly. He hadn't seen any of his students in over 3 hours. He passed the door to Naruto's room, then came back to peek in. He opened the door noiselessly and peered inside. He'd been about to call Naruto's name, when he spotted movement in the bed.

"Nar—" he paused before he said Naruto's name and watched, listening. He heard deep breathing, and a little bit of light laughter from under the covers on the bed. Then he saw Sasuke's hair. He stared in utter disbelief.

"Sasuke and…is it Sakura in Naruto's bed?" Kakashi thought, but continued staring in disbelief, backing up a few steps, then immediately stepping back forward in bewilderment.

"What in the heck.. but why are they in Naruto's.." Kakashi paused and dropped his jaw as he listened to the talking, having not quite believed the other person was Sakura anyway. There were absolutely zero sparks between the two; Sasuke made sure of that on a daily basis.

"Ahhh.. Sasuke..." the voice panted. Kakashi nearly shouted out loud. "NARUTO? And Sasuke???"

Teeeeeheeeee... Kakashi found out...Please don't get bored with the story! Keep reading just for the heck of it if anything pleeeaase please??!

-Kitsune