28. Variety
Sasuke stood outside the door to The Hokage's office. He had been thinking up different things to say to Naruto all day and by this time had quite a variety of insults and threats on the tip of his tongue. The previous evening Naruto had promised that he would meet up with Sasuke at their usual training spot for an early morning spar. He had not shown. Sasuke was nearly seething with anger at being ditched. He raised his hand to knock on the door, but was interrupted before his knuckles made contact.
"The Hokage isn't seeing anyone today," the masked guard by the door said sullenly.
"Oh isn't he?" Sasuke asked, anger prickling his voice. His hand dropped to the handle and he shoved the door open without knocking at all, the ANBU beside him gasping and whispering desperately for backup. All Sasuke's thoughts of anger were forgotten in an instant.
Immediately Sasuke was assaulted by a wave of heat and he almost slammed the door closed again. Instead he pushed his way into the room, closing the door behind him. The room thrummed with heat and glowed with fire of Kyuubi's chakra. It took Sasuke a few moments to locate Naruto, as he was not sitting in the chair behind his desk.
Naruto was curled up tightly in the corner of his office, hands clenched in his hair and tears streaming down his cheeks. He had not noticed Sasuke enter the room and did not show any signs of movement besides a strange shiver that ran through his body irregularly. Sasuke could barely comprehend what was happening. Why was Kyuubi acting up? Why was Kyuubi hurting Naruto?
Stumbling across the office, Sasuke collapsed on his knees next to Naruto. The heat was making it hard to breathe, but he refused to leave before he figured out what was going on. Sasuke placed a hand on Naruto's shoulder and hissed as it burned slightly; he left it where it was. "Naruto." His voice was uncertain.
Blue eyes shot open and Sasuke was relieved to see that there was no red glowing in them at all. Naruto's eyes darted around the room before settling on Sasuke. They stared at each other for a few moments and Sasuke tried to keep himself calm, to lend some strength to Naruto. He was willing to do almost anything to help Naruto.
Naruto's hands slowly slipped out of his hair and Sasuke snatched them up, kneading them comfortingly with his own fingers. He did not say anything, but continued to hold eye contact with Naruto. The heat in the room was slowly dissipating, the tension in Naruto's body lessening with it. Sasuke breathed a sigh of relief and let a smile slip onto his face. Naruto began to doze off after a while, slumping into Sasuke.
Sasuke turned around when he heard a quiet noise behind him and was not all that surprised to see three ANBU standing around the room. He glared at them. "You are the most useless, good for nothing, group of retards I have ever laid eyes on! Don't let him sit here by himself all day next time!" he said, glad that his day of planning had not been a complete waste of time.
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Sorry that yesterday's sucked so bad. I hope today's was more enjoyable. I can't believe how many sasunaru stories I've written compared to the narusasu stories…. I thought I didn't like sasunaru. Argh.