Remember now! Unskilled at fighting scenes, without magic! (Which I stated back in Chapter Three) Although, there isn't much to see in this chapter, seeing as Sasuke's blind, there will be in the next chapter, so I thought that I would remind you again. Now that that job is done, here's the tenth chapter! Enjoy!… Hopefully!
Sasuke groaned, as he slugged along behind his teammates. Kami… he was so fucking tired. They had been walking all day, and had yet to camp for the night, although Sasuke's body was screaming for him to. Sasuke's eyes teared up, as he struggled not to yawn, but unfortunately his body was a traitor, as the yawn was let loose.
A hand suddenly descended upon Sasuke's shoulder, making him jump, before he relaxed, realizing it was only Kakashi. "Sasuke-Kun, you should have told us that you were tired", Kakashi mused, cheerfully.
Sasuke crossed his arms, and turned his head away, wishing that he could glare at the man. "I'm not tired", he said, stubbornly.
"No offense, Sasuke, but Sakura and I aren't the blind ones", Kakashi taunted him. Sasuke growled, as he bit his tongue, feeling too tired to chew Kakashi's head of for that.
He heard Sakura chuckle, before Kakashi took his hand, gently, and led him away. After a few steps, Kakashi let go of Sasuke's hand, causing the raven to stop. Kakashi left Sasuke alone for a few minutes, before reappearing by his side. "Who's hungry?", Sakura asked. Sasuke sat down next at the campfire that Kakashi led him to, before he felt the elder sit down next to him.
"Hm, I'm famished", Kakashi said.
"I know! Me too", Sakura said, as Sasuke heard her moving around, "What about you, Sasuke?"
"I'd rather go to sleep", Sasuke said, shrugging at her.
Sasuke felt Kakashi stand up, before he felt the man take his arm. "Come on, Sasuke-Kun, I'll take you to your tent. I set it up for you", Kakashi said, as he led Sasuke to his tent. When Kakashi stopped, he held his hands out, searching, when they came into contact with the tent. Sasuke took his hand from Kakashi, and entered the tent.
Déjà vu came to mind, when he felt Kakashi grab his arm, when he was halfway in the tent. He snapped his head towards Kakashi, glaring his eyes where he was pretty sure Kakashi's voice was. "What?", Sasuke hissed, tiredly.
"No need to throw a hissy fit", Kakashi chuckled at him, "I just wanted to tell you goodnight"
"Whatever… Goodnight", Sasuke said, a little awkwardly.
Kakashi chuckled again, and Sasuke felt him get closer, suddenly, before he nearly hyperventilated as lips pressed gently upon his forehead. Sasuke's heart jumped in his heart, as he felt his face warm, undoubtedly blushing like a strawberry. "Sweet dreams, Sasuke", Kakashi whispered, before Sasuke heard Kakashi move away from him. Sasuke stood still as a statue, as he tried to calm his racing heart, with no luck.
When the shock had fallen away, Sasuke entered the rest of the way into his tent, and zipped the flap closed. He crawled over to his sleeping bag, that was laid out so neatly for him, and cuddled inside it. Once he was settled, Sasuke lifted his hand to his forehead, and brushed his fingers over where Kakashi had kissed him.
He shook his head, and sighed, as he closed his blind eyes. It was just a friendly goodnight kiss… although, Sasuke's intuition couldn't help kicking in the fact that Kakashi's action's didn't feel all that friendly to it.
Sasuke shook off the thoughts. He needed to sleep. Sleep would never come to him, if he kept thinking over it… Tomorrow. Sasuke nodded, allowing himself a little smile at the thought. Tomorrow he would think it over… Cause right now, all he wanted to do was sleep. Mmm, sleep felt so good.
Terror washed through Sasuke, as he huddled against the wall, his hand in Naruto's, as the two of them stared in horror at the door. Sakura ran towards them, from down the hall, and huddled against Naruto, joining the frightened. The front door shook, as someone outside beat against it, yelling, frightening the three teens. "Leave us alone!", Sasuke yelled.
The stranger was about to come through the door, when Sasuke ran towards it, locking the padlock just in time. But the lock got stuck, and Sasuke had to unlock it and relock it in a flash, his heart pounding like crazy. He looked over at the others, as he leaned his back against the door. The stranger began beating at the windows again, as Sasuke ran back to his friends, holding onto them for dear life.
Naruto became brave, and he went to the door, and opened it, to face the stranger. "Naruto, no!", Sasuke yelled, angry at his best friend.
The stranger stepped inside the room, the strange black fog obscuring his face, as he lifted his right hand. Naruto stepped back, afraid, while Sasuke and Sakura tightened their hold on each other, as they watched the stranger. The stranger waved two fingers at them, and the black fog suddenly disappeared, surprising the three friends.
Kakashi stood before them, smiling at them with his eye, as he said, "Yo"
Sasuke, Sakura and Naruto's eyes went wide, before all three of them glared murder at the man. "What were you thinking!? You scared us!", Naruto screamed at him.
Sakura left Sasuke, to go over to Kakashi and scream at him too, "You baka! You should have told us it was you!"
"Hn", Sasuke muttered, as happiness overcame him and he just smiled at Kakashi, who looked over at him, before smiling at him with his eye.
"Oh, look!", Naruto said, excitedly, as he pointed over at something. Sasuke looked over, as a raccoon dog ran into the room, before running out through the door. "Doggie! Wait for me!", Naruto yelled, as he ran after the raccoon dog.
"Dobe", Sasuke commented.
Kakashi chuckled, as he walked over to Sasuke, and kissed him on the forehead. Sasuke lifted his hand towards Kakashi's face, about to take off the other's mask. He had always wandered what lay beyond that mask. But suddenly Kakashi disappeared, as well as Sakura, and Sasuke found himself in a dark room, a figure in front of him.
The figure chuckled darkly, and Sasuke looked up, frightened. Itachi. "You're so pathetic, little brother", Itachi said, smirking wickedly, "Blind… And not to mention that you're in love like a sick puppy"
Sasuke covered his ears, and closed his eyes tightly, trying to ignore the voice, as he shook, his dead brother's voice repeating over and over, "So pathetic, Otouto"
Sasuke jerked awake, as he sat up. His heart was beating like crazy, as he was drenched in sweat. He wiped his hand across his forehead, before he rubbed his eyes, furiously, trying to forget the image's that the dream had provoked. Wonderful… Just wonderful. Even in death, Itachi was laughing at him. Fucking Itachi…
He didn't feel like going back to sleep, even though he still felt exhausted, so he climbed out of his sleeping bag, and crawled over to the tent flap. Sasuke unzipped the flap, and crawled out of the tent, before crawling over to where the campfire was still going. He was surprised that Kakashi or Sakura hadn't put it out.
Sasuke buried his hands in his face, groaning, at the sleep he was losing over that damn dream. And the dream had started out so good… Sasuke whined. He lifted his head suddenly, when he heard a noise, from the trees above. Now, Sasuke may have been stubborn at times… or all the time, whatever. But he wasn't stupid to think he'd be able to do anything without his eyes. He sought out Kakashi's chakra, before he hurriedly crawled over to Kakashi's tent.
He unzipped the tent flap, and entered Kakashi's tent. Sasuke crawled until his hands met the edge of Kakashi's sleeping bag. He patted the sleeping bag, until he felt something solid. Sasuke shook Kakashi, trying to wake him up. "Kakashi!", Sasuke whispered to him.
Kakashi whined, as Sasuke heard him move around. "Wake me in the morning, sweetie", Kakashi said, half-asleep. Sasuke's eye twitched, before he smacked whatever part of the body beneath the sleeping bag that he could. He heard Kakashi move around again, not really reacting to the smack, like he hoped he would have. "Sasuke?", Kakashi asked, confused.
"Well, it's certainly not your fucking 'sweetie'", Sasuke growled at him.
"Calm down now. What's wrong?", Kakashi asked, chuckling a little.
"What's wrong is that your sleeping, when no one's keeping watch! I heard something outside", Sasuke said.
Sasuke stood up, as he heard Kakashi get up and move around the tent. He turned towards the tent flap, when he heard Kakashi move towards it. "Stay here. I'll take a look around", Kakashi told him.
Kakashi left the tent, and Sasuke stood around awkwardly, waiting, before he sat down, next to the sleeping bag. After a few minutes of silence, Sasuke jumped when he heard strange noises outside. He crawled over to the tent opening, and lifted the flap, to look outside… or hear outside, when he remembered looking out of a tent wasn't going to get him any information.
Something hit the ground heavily, when he heard Sakura emerge from her own tent. "What's going -! Kakashi!", he heard Sakura yell, before sounds of fighting filled the air.
Sasuke crawled through the tent opening, before standing up, holding onto the top of the tent for comfort, as he listened to whatever fight was going on. "Sasuke!", Kakashi suddenly yelled at him, "Stay back!"
Someone suddenly appeared behind him, and an arm was draped around his shoulder. Sasuke tensed, not recognizing whoever was holding onto him. "Why should he stay back? He looks like he could hold his own, here", the person who was holding him said. Sasuke vaguely remembered the voice, but couldn't for the life of him remember who the voice belonged to.
"Get your hands of Sasuke!", Sakura yelled, angrily.
"Oh, but we're old friends. Right, Sasuke?", the voice asked.
"Don't touch me", Sasuke growled, as he tried to get away from the arm. The arm tightened around his shoulder, keeping in place as the voice laughed at his attempts.
"I forgot how funny this boy is. Kakashi, don't you think the boy's funny?", the voice taunted.
Sasuke heard the unmistakable sound of someone growling, before Sasuke was thrown on the ground, and the sound of fighting filled his ears again. He rubbed his forehead, as he pushed himself onto his knee's. As he rubbed his forehead, Sasuke heard something approach him. He turned his head to side, pointing his eyes where the noise was coming from, ignoring the obvious sounds of fighting in front of him.
It sounded kind of like paper crinkling, as he heard the noise get closer. Sasuke felt on the ground, before whatever it was, landed on the back of his hand. Sasuke touched it with his other hand. It was a bird… Wait… A paper bird?
"Sasuke! Run!", Kakashi yelled.
Time seemed to slow, as Sasuke turned his head towards Kakashi, the warning sinking into his heart. Before anything could be done, an explosion went off, sending Sasuke backwards, as he crashed into one of the tents. He was barely conscious, as he heard someone screaming his name, before a larger explosion sounded, his ears ringing, as he slipped into unconsciousness.
Poor Sasuke! That dream took up much space then I thought it would… Oh well. I hope you enjoyed! Next will be from Kakashi's view! Finally! Someone who can see! Aishiteru!