SasuNaru

Locked up with you

Disclaimer: I no own contents of Naruto.

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Sasuke was crabby. He'd been crabby since the day before yesterday, but now he was very crabby. He refused to leave the room, and when Naruto asked Sakura about it, she smiled and sighed helplessly saying 'there's nothing wrong with him, he's just stubborn'. Neji reckoned that he had 'got what was coming to him', and stormed off. Neji had also been asking weirdly since Sasuke got back into the room. Ino said that it was because he was just upset about something, while Gaara would glare and tell him to 'piss off'.

"Haku, why are things being so…tense?"

The boy let out a breath and shook his head, eyes fixed on the letter he was writing. Naruto had started writing a letter to Iruka, when Haku came and joined him, though the blond didn't know who the letter was to. Neji passed by, long hair tied in a high ponytail with a black hair tie, hands as fists and white eyes hard. The two writing letters looked up, Haku more subtly, and watched him ignore them.

"He's more pissed than usual," Naruto observed.

Rolling his eyes, the mute boy brought his hand up to his left shoulder and clawed down his chest. It took Naruto a moment to let this information settle.

"Of what?!"

Haku pointed the end of the pencil down the hall to where the rooms were. A look of dawning passed through blue eyes and fell silent. Haku returned to his letter.

Naruto looked over his letter with a satisfied smirk.

Hey Iruka!

How are you? I'm really bored- do you think you could find me something to do while I'm here? Sasuke mentioned someone buying him jigsaws Hint-hint, wink-wink. I hope your students aren't giving you much trouble! You were put into yr 1 this year, right? HAHA! Maaan, I'd hate to be you!

Sasuke moved back into our room, though Neji hasn't yet. I think they're not as bad as they seemed, though they're still assholes. You're not here to scold me for swearing, so I don't care, hahaha! I'm sitting next to Haku, who's writing a letter as well. Kiba's watching TV and Gaara's off getting a blood sugar check. He's diabetic. Sai's sitting with Kiba and they're not killing each other like I've seen them do recently.

There's not much else to say. I still can't remember why I'm here, and Sakura said I can't have a different medication until I remember. The one I'm on at the moment's gross! I'd rather be drinking that cold liver oil stuff you fed me when I was a teen.

I'm off to bug Sasuke; he's been really down lately!

Bye, Naruto!

Getting up, the blond boy marched over to the hall where the rooms were, fully prepared to face any horrible name the Uchiha would give him for trying to cheer him up. It was totally worth it.

"Sasuke-teme!" he chimed, opening the door wide and looking at the upper bunk where Sasuke had taken residence. "How are you feeling?"

"Piss off, dobe."

Naruto pouted. "That's not nice."

Sitting up, Sasuke observed him with black eyes, full of something. "What do you want?"

"Can I not check up on my fellow room-mate?"

An inky eyebrow rose.

"Fine, be like that bastard. What you up to?"

"Nothing really…just thinking."

Naruto sat on Kiba's bed. "You know, you're really vague sometimes."

"Oh, I didn't notice. Maybe it's so people leave me alone…"

Naruto grinned. "Shame some people just won't leave you alone, huh?"

Sasuke sighed, a sure sign of giving up, and swung his legs over the side of the bed to face Naruto. "What do you want?"

"I don't know, I'm bored. What do you want to do?"

"Sleep?"

Blue eyes rolled. "You're so boring, Sasuke-teme."

"Sleeping can be lots of fun. Come here," a pale hand patted the bed. Cautiously, Naruto stood and took a shaky jump to the Uchiha's bed wobbling and sitting down next to Sasuke, who moved back into his sleeping position. Naruto eventually followed so that the two were asleep, side by side.

"How is this fun?" Naruto asked after a few minutes of silence, itching to get up and do something.

"What are you thinking about?"

Blue eyes blinked at the question and looked over to Sasuke. The boy was still, looking at the ceiling with his hands folded on his stomach. "Well?"

"Ramen," Naruto admitted, his eyes focusing back on the ceiling. "Miso ramen."

Sasuke scoffed. "Plastic noodles?"

"No, ramen. Repeat: r-a-m-e-n."

"R-a-m-e-n," Sasuke humoured. "What about caviar?"

Naruto giggled. "Caviar, Sasuke? I've never had it before."

"Seriously?"

"Seriously."

Sasuke genuinely seemed surprised. "When you get out, go for some."

"It's expensive…" Naruto complained.

"Fine, I'll give you the money to go get some. It's been building in my bank account for ages, there's far too much," the boy said. "Let's think about something else. I'm getting hungry."

Naruto laughed again. "What about books?"

"Who am I, Gaara?" Sasuke asked before pausing in thought. "Ever read 'Vanishing Acts'?"

"No…" Naruto admitted. In all honesty, he wasn't much of a book person. He thought it was a waste of time. Though, there wasn't much else to do in here...

Oh, but there could be much to do. You just wouldn't have the nerve…

Naruto jumped up, his eyes wide and skimming the room nervously. He looked down at Sasuke, who was propped up on his elbows. "D-Did you…hear that?!"

Sasuke's eyes turned soft. He wasn't pitying…anything but pitying. He looked understanding.

Two thin arms wrapped around Naruto's toned frame, pulling him into a mess of black shirt that covered a week feeling chest. Sasuke wasn't strong, or well-built. He lacked exercise and muscle building. But he smelt nice, comforting. Like crispy autumn air and apples. And he was warm and his shirt was surprisingly soft.

"You'll get used to it," the deep voice said. "You are crazy, after all."

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When he woke up, Sasuke was still asleep. Naruto was laid on one of his arms, and the other was on his other side. The one under Naruto had tipped the boy onto his front, just as Sasuke had tipped onto his back so they were still welded together. He had to be careful in getting up, because his own arms were wrapped around Sasuke possessively.

It was surprisingly not as weird as Naruto would have expected.

The blond had wandered through the living room, seeing that it was the start of lunch. Sakura saw him and waved, saying she would wake up Sasuke. Just as Naruto walked into the hall to get to the meal room however, a man walked through the door at the end, catching his attention right away.

The first thing Naruto noticed was the eye patch over his right eye. It had a strange symbol on it that looked like an iris with three tadpoles in it. Silver hair was wild and spiked in one direction, and the visible eye was a dark inky colour. He also wore a black mask over his mouth to go with his biker jacket.

"Hey!" Naruto greeted, beaming up at the man.

"Why hello there, I'm on a ward visit!" the stranger said, his one eye curving up and smile-creases forming round the eye.

"I never knew there was such a thing," the blond muttered, frowning a little.

The topic was swiftly changed. "You must be new; I've never seen you before!"

"I'm Naruto Uzumaki! And you?"

"Let's get into a more…comfortable area before we do introductions, shall we?" he suggested, clapping Naruto on the back and walking into the lounge. The two sat next to the TV, and Haku gave them a passing glance before sighing silently. "I'm Kakashi, how long have you been here?"

"Not long, only a month or something. Who are you visiting?"

"A best friend's ex-baby cousin who is still alive and blah, blah, it's a very tiring annoying story. I've only just been aloud to visit again. About a month ago he wasn't aloud visits. Such a shame, I would've been able to meet you sooner other wise…why don't you tell me something about yourself?"

"Well…I like ramen, I guess. And I share a room with four other people. What about you?"

"I don't live with anyone, and I'm not very superstitious, so I don't dislike or like anything. I have a pet snake?"

Naruto shivered inwardly. "S-snake?"

"It's not mine, it's-"

"Kakashi."

The two turned round to see Sasuke Uchiha standing there, glaring at the silver haired man. Sakura was behind him, shuffling nervously.

"Ah, Sasuke. We were just talking about your pet snake."

"You're visiting Sasuke?!" Naruto exclaimed. "You're the guy who gave him the jigsaws!"

"So nice to know he's been playing with them. I buy them for him all the time but-"

"Take me to his grave, Kakashi."

There was a long, strained pause, where Kakashi didn't turn back to Sasuke, and the boy stood there with the same expression that Naruto had met him with painted on his face. Sakura had stopped moving completely and was watching with a panicked expression.

"No."

Naruto cringed in advance and braced himself for the punch. Kakashi grabbed the boy's wrist, twisted it and somehow managed to get Sasuke's back facing him in a highly awkward position as the older man was still sitting down.

"My Sasuke, you've obviously lacked a gym around here. Better get well soon, right?"

"Why?!"

"Why, because I know you hate being weaker than me. You've never going to get stronger if I go to the gym every Thursday and you don't go at all."

"Don't patronize me!"

"When you calm down, Sasuke. Then I won't patronize you."

That's when Naruto noticed how heavy the Uchiha's breathing had become and the strained face that came with it. He was in pain, and he couldn't keep up his mask to hide it.

"Mr. Hakate," Sakura said. "Please, it's time for the patients to eat. Would you like something?"

Kakashi let go of Sasuke and smiled. "I'd love some, Ms. Haruno. What is there to eat today?"

"Shepard's pie," she said, smiling widely. "It'll be nice to have you eating with us again."

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Kakashi was the one who had brought Sasuke to the ward after convincing the court that he wasn't a simple murderer, and that the anger and hate for Itachi was what had caused the last living Uchiha to go insane. Kakashi was a lawyer, a popular one according to Ino, who helped Sasuke's current lawyer, as Kakashi was a criminal lawyer, not a medical or financial lawyer. Sakura said that she thought he was training to be a medical lawyer for Sasuke, but the man denied it. He said that he was happy where he was and got a good pay, and didn't want to waste it on University.

Sasuke said he'd rather have a mosquito as a lawyer.

"Well, they're already blood sucking parasites, all they'd need is a briefcase," Kakashi reasoned, looking completely honest. Sakura and Ino laughed, and Naruto let out a sort of nervous chuckle. It was hard to tell when the man was joking or not, his face was always straight.

Kakashi had lots of lawyer jokes as well.

"Kakashi was the one who fought against Itachi," Sasuke had said, much later into the day when the two were in the art room. Sai and a few other ward members were the only people in the room, as Haku, Gaara and Kiba were doing some form of sewing. Naruto suspected Gaara was only there because Neji refused to be in the same room as Sasuke, and Gaara didn't want to upset Neji.

"Itachi's your brother, right?"

"Was my brother," Sasuke corrected, not stopping the movement of his pencil against the paper. "He's not anymore."

Naruto turned back to his own random telephone doodle. "Did he win?"

Sasuke shook his head.

"Ino said he was really popular."

"He is, expensive because of it. But Itachi's lawyer worked with Itachi, who worked in forensics. They came up with enough evidence to reason Itachi wasn't the killer."

"So Kakashi lost…"

"That wasn't the only thing though. Kakashi came up with a winning statement, because he was so close to my family and knew the ins and outs and everything, he had things that Itachi wouldn't have been willing to disclose, and things Itachi didn't even know about the Uchiha's."

Naruto was confused now. "What happened?"

"Itachi used it against him. He told the court that Kakashi was emotionally attached to the family, and said, to Kakashi in front of the whole room; 'I know you and my Uncle Obito were in love, and I understand why you are blaming me, but I have a little brother to look after, Kakashi. Please, don't do this. You're too emotionally attached to my family…just like me'.

"When Kakashi was questioned about it, he refused to admit he had anything to do with Uncle. That's why he lost. He was emotionally involved with my Uncle, but hated to admit to it. He was a self respectable Christian man, and was too afraid to loose that title. My Uncle was a pastor, and Kakashi truly didn't want his church's last thoughts to be negative. He loved him too much, enough to let Itachi get away with it."

Naruto and Sasuke both paused to glare at a nurse, who was trying to listen to them.

"Everyone knows now, of course," Sasuke reasoned, when he saw Naruto was getting too angry at the nurse. "He admitted to what he did during my case. I guess that's one of the reasons he won that one. When the opposing lawyer was interviewed, he said that Kakashi had 'grown up', and he became more popular because of it."

The blond didn't really know what to do. Sasuke had just told him everything about his case purely because the idiot had said 'Kakashi was your Uncle's friend then'.

"You don't need to say anything, it's gone now. You probably knew half of it; the Uchiha's Massacre was rather popular."

"I'm sorry for your loss…"

'Is that what he prays about?'

Who knows? If you would ask him and not be a complete wuss you might find out.

"I'm sorry for yours."

Naruto's head snapped up, frowning. "What?"

Flustering, Sasuke faltered under the eyes of a stern nurse. "Nothing."

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Dear Zabuza,

I miss you a lot, as normal. It's hard not being able to talk, but I'm used to it, as you know. I haven't made much progress since I last wrote to you, but I think I'm getting somewhere. My night terrors are starting to calm down, and Sai seems to have moved onto a new target. Shikamaru, that nurse Kiba's friendly with, changed shifts. Kiba's really upset about it. I am too a little, I really liked him.

I moved into a six-person room! Sasuke moved back in (he got thrown out for a month) a little after me. It's really nice in there, and Ino said that if I keep it up, I'll be getting leave soon.

I'll come visit your grave, I promise.

Love you always,

Haku

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Kitty: who likes it when Kyuubi calls Naruto kit? Because it's my pet name, so I'm thinking of not having it. If anyone really likes it though, I'm happy to put it in.

Gaou-ness. I'm very VERY sorry it's late. I'm like … super sorry, and super busy, and ya-ya-ya.

Ja ne

Kivea

Preivew –

"What did he mean by 'I'm sorry for yours'? I never had a loss."

I don't know. Why don't you ask him instead of me?

"Because the fact you're in my head all knowing and stuff is starting to creep me out."

You have a memory loss.

"…What?"

I know, but you don't. You've had a memory taken away from you.

"By who? Answer me!?!"