Unfortunately, this will be the last chapter you will see for a little while. My internet access will be cut off after today. -_-'But that just means I will be writing more in it, making them longer, and hopefully better. You'll see a chapter from me maybe within the next month :] R+F
Disclaimer: I do not own any of these characters.
"Never mind that right now. Who's in your room?" Sasuke asked.
Naruto's face appeared indifferent. "I'm not in my room, how could I tell you?"
Sasuke blinked. "Naruto…?" His face suddenly showed worry. "Are you okay?"
"To you? No. To me, I'm perfectly normal." Sasuke looked at him and then turned to Kiba. Kiba shrugged. Sasuke then looked back at the house.
"I thought you said you don't get visitors?" Sasuke said, indicating the shadow he saw.
"I don't. You're the first one." He said staring at Sasuke. He turned to Kiba and nodded at him. "And you're the second."
Kiba nodded back feeling slightly awkward and confused. Sasuke blinked. Naruto's behavior was odd enough before, today it seemed to be slightly odder. Naruto then looked up at his house. "I don't think anyone's inside, I was just in there a second ago. My door was jammed so I had to climb out through the window." He explained as he walked up to his house.
Sasuke felt a slight relief lift off of his shoulders. He probably saw Naruto's shadow as he was crawling out then. His small worry had been for no reason. "Well, you couldn't have said something? I was pounding on the door."
"Why? It was open." Naruto said pulling his door open and stepping inside. Sasuke blinked then shook his head.
"Not this door, your bed room door."
"I told you it was jammed."
Sasuke smacked a hand to his forehead. "Naruto…Never mind…" Kiba smirked, letting out a small chuckle at the conversation as they walked all the way inside. The three of them stood inside his living room before Naruto stepped down the hallway. He passed up the bathroom and walked straight towards his room, reaching out for the handle. Sasuke and Kiba watched from the living room taking a step or two towards the hallway.
He twisted the door knob, finding it still jammed. "Yeah, it's jammed." He wriggled it a bit and then pushed it upward, somehow managing to get it open. Once it was opened, Sasuke and Kiba followed him towards his room, both of their eyes widening.
"Whoa…" Kiba mouthed.
"Naruto…" Sasuke stepped into the room. "Did you…draw all of this?" He asked looking at all of the sprawled paper everywhere with pictures of the house and lake everywhere.
"Draw?" Naruto cocked his head, picking up one of his pictures and examining it. "That's what people call this?"
Kiba raised an eyebrow at the statement turning to Sasuke for an answer, only to be ignored. Sasuke looked at some of them, and then spotted one of a person. After a second glance he realized that it was him in the picture. He stepped over some pictures and picked this one up, examining it. He was sleeping. His face was half buried in the pillow, his arm underneath it. His expression was peaceful looking and relaxed. Something he never seemed to see in himself. "When did you…?"
Naruto looked over and saw the picture he was looking at. His face reddened a bit. "Um, I did it at your house…When we decided to take a nap." Naruto started to play with his fingers, biting his lip timidly. "I woke up and felt like putting you on paper so I did…"
Kiba looked at the picture and then at the two. Both of them seemed to have almost a giddy aura between each other. It was strange seeing the normal, quiet and laid back Sasuke with a weird glow. "How long ago did you guys meet?"
Sasuke and Naruto looked at each other and then at Kiba. "Umm, a few days ago, actually..."
Kiba blinked. "Seriously? You guys look like you've been friends since childhood or something."
Sasuke blinked at the statement. Although, he defiantly did feel closer to Naruto than anyone else. Maybe it was because Naruto was the only person he actually willing let into his life. Naruto didn't seem to be affected by the statement. In fact, Kiba's presence seemed to have just hit him.
"Who are you?" Naruto asked finally in a monotone.
Kiba blinked. "Oh, Name's Kiba." He extended his hand for him to shake. Naruto stared at it blankly then looked up at him. Kiba pulled his hand back, now feeling awkward.
"Why'd you do that?" Naruto asked.
Kiba looked over at Sasuke, who had a small smile on his face. "Um, hold out my hand?" Naruto nodded. "Well, that's what you do usually when you meet people. You shake their hands."
Naruto scrunched his eyebrows together than held his hand out and began shaking it. Sasuke let out a laugh."Not like that…" He said, shaking his head. "Like this." Sasuke then extended his hand out towards Kiba, who grabbed it and shook it casually.
"Ohh." Naruto mouthed. He stared at his hand for a second longer and then looked up at the two. "Why'd you come here?"
Sasuke bit his lip. "Well, to ask you something and to show him something."
Naruto stared at him, waiting. Sasuke let out a small breath, and then lifted up his shirt, pulling it off and turning slightly so that he could see the mark on his back. "Do you know how I got this?" Naruto blinked, his mouth dropping slightly seeing the wound.
Sasuke's face dropped. "I guess not…"
Naruto swallowed then shook his head. For some reason, the look of the wound on his back sent an odd chill down his spine. It gave him an urge to touch it, run his hand on it and see how Sasuke would react to it. His hand twitched, wanting to dig his nails into it and cause it to bleed, then to watch him when he'd-
Naruto shook his head, ridding himself of the thought. Why on earth was he thinking thoughts like that? "You okay?" Naruto twitched to Kiba's voice. He looked up at him. "You look a little…queasy like."
Naruto nodded. "Yeah, I'm fine. I was just….thinking about something…"
Sasuke returned his shirt back to his chest, then looked at Kiba. "Well…I…I'll have to tell you when we leave."
"You don't need to." Kiba said. Sasuke blinked. "I get it now…" He then eyed Naruto for a moment. Naruto avoided his gaze, feeling like Kiba had read his thoughts and was trying to call him out on it.
Sasuke stared at the two for a moment and then looked around them. "Um…Anyways…" He said trying to start up a conversation that would get rid of the odd tension that had suddenly filled the room.
Kiba turned to Sasuke. "Shouldn't you be at home right now? If we have another incident like earlier, we'll have to get you checked out by a doctor…"
Sasuke sighed then turned to Naruto. He was hoping to talk with him a bit more today. "Well, I'll see you tomorrow or some other time maybe…"
Naruto bit his lip. He really didn't want them to go. He liked being able to talk with Sasuke, and Kiba as well, even though he had just met them. He nodded and watched as the two started to walk towards the hall. "Um, Sasuke!" He jumped, watching him turn around to his name. "What do you do when people leave?"
"Say goodbye...Give a wave, or a hug." He responded, shrugging. Naruto cocked his head to the side. Sasuke rolled his eyes, and then waved. "Bye Naruto…" He said walking down the hall. Kiba nodded at him, and then waved as well.
Naruto's reaction was delayed, lightly waving his hand after the two had left. He sighed then looked down at the drawing he did of Sasuke. His eye was disproportionate …
"That's why you asked me about that story?" Kiba asked.
"Wait a minute, how'd you figure that out?" Sasuke asked.
Kiba rolled his eyes. "First, you ask me about the stories, then you've got that mark, then on top of that, you take me to a place in the woods where one person lives alone. It isn't hard to figure out."
Sasuke didn't feel answered. "That's not what I meant."
"You asked me how I figured it out and I told you."
"No! I mean…" He thought for a minute. "You say it like it's obvious and that anyone would know about it…"
"Sasuke…" He let out a deep breath. "I don't mean this offensively but, when most of us were told that story, you were…well…" Kiba looked over at him, hoping he'd understand. Sasuke stared at him waiting. "…You were putting yourself to bed…" Kiba said in the nicest way he could think of.
Sasuke looked down. "Oh…" He mumbled.
Kiba felt bad for having to bring it up. "And, well, when the whole thing happened, it was rumored that it was all real. The parents just kind of turned it into a story to keep it out of their minds and to keep their kids in line. The issue died down after a couple of years."
Sasuke thought on it for a moment. "But what happened? You said something about a fox before. How was that possible?"
Kiba rubbed his face. "I don't know, you're asking the wrong person. My mom didn't give two shits about what was going on then…She was more concerned about making rent without my dad around…."
Sasuke bit his lip. "…I'm sorry…" He mumbled. Kiba shrugged.
"No biggie. The only thing I really know is that those 'they' people he was talking about, it was most likely the people in our government. Something they did, they made sure to keep it secret. It came out to the public seven years afterwards- which was like, shit ten years ago now…? Anyways, they came up with some reason for it, but like I said, you're asking the wrong person."
Sasuke sighed, looking up and seeing his apartment come into view. "Well, that still helps…but doesn't that bother you?"
"What? The government lying?"
"No, well sort of. I mean how they're treating Naruto. You saw his house."
Kiba shook his head. "Do you know how many things the human population has done that bothers me? That bothers everyone? It's not exactly a question of it bothers you or not, more of how to fix it."
"Why can't they just release him? He doesn't act any different from anyone else…besides his lack of communication knowledge…" Sasuke mumbled.
"Obviously there's some reason…I mean that wound, I can tell that he did that to you and I wasn't even there."
Sasuke suddenly felt defensive. "Hey, you don't know that."
Kiba looked at him. "Sasuke," Sasuke continued to hold his defensive expression. "Look, there's something different about him, I can tell that. I'm not saying to cut off communication with him, just be careful. He didn't even recognize the wound."
"Which means it probably wasn't him! When could he have done it anyways? I was with him the entire time and I didn't feel the wound until I woke up after the nap." Kiba chuckled a bit. "What?"
"Your stupidity right now is hilarious …" Sasuke's jaw dropped slightly. "Didn't he just tell you that he woke up to draw you earlier? Right then he could've….Then, if you were with him the entire time, who else could've done it? I highly doubt you did that to yourself while you were sleeping." Sasuke kept his mouth shut. He felt slightly embarrassed at his choice of words. Kiba smirked. "Just get some rest. I'll tell the boss you got injured tomorrow. "
"Well, I was gonna come in tom-"
"You're not coming in after what happened at work. If things weren't so damn busy, the boss probably would've sent you home after your crazy spasm…"
Sasuke blushed slightly. "I didn't do that on purpose…"
"I know you didn't…" Kiba sighed out. "Just take some pain killers or something."
Sasuke nodded and waved goodbye to him then made his way towards his room. Once he opened his door and stepped in, something hit him.
He didn't feel sick in the slightest way.
Sasuke stepped into his bathroom and examined himself. Besides the lack of shower that had made his hair slightly greasy and his face a bit dirty, he looked perfectly fine. Sasuke drew in deep breathes and blinked his eyes. No congestion and no watery eyes…When the hell did this happen?
He shook it out of his head, and then pulled off his shirt. Shower first, and then sleep, he concluded, pulling out a clean towel, turning on the water and pulling off his remaining clothes.