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'Thoughts'
'Naruto speaking to Kyuubi'
'Kyuubi speaking to Naruto'
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Last time: 'Kami, I'm a dead man.'
Fourth Chappie. Here goes!
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Naruto currently found himself in a rather unwanted position. He was alone in a room with what looked like an extremely pissed off Tsunade. Mind you it was her room… her office… the hokage's office, which meant that she could get away with anything in there. No one would know and no one would disrupt her.
And by the menacing look in her eyes while she stared at him from behind her desk and the devilish smile she gave him, he could tell that she came to that realization way before he did.
'Don't worry kit. It's not like she's going to kill you.' 'No Kyu, she'll just cut me up into little, bloody Naruto-kabob pieces so that no one will know of me or hear from me again.' Before Kyuubi could speak again, Tsunade got up and walked around to stand before Naruto. "Gaki, what in the world made you think you'd get with a year long 'mission' when it was only supposed to take a month?"
Naruto grit his teeth to withhold any and all sarcastic quips he might have come up with because he knew it would only make things a lot worse for him. He stared into Tsunade's hazel eyes and waited for the inevitable. Her hazel eyes narrowed when she saw that he wouldn't dare speak without her permission. 'Gaki's learning quickly.'
The blonde-haired hokage expelled a breath and punched him in the jaw at an angle so hard that Naruto flew to the wall beside the door. 'See, kit she didn't kill you. She just fucked you up a little, that's all.' 'A little, she probably broke my back, you heartless damn fox. And even though you heal me quickly it's gonna hurt like hell for a bit.' 'Quit complaining at least you're not in 'little, bloody Naruto-kabob pieces'. You'll live, and I'm not heartless I was just trying to cheer you up a little.'
Tsunade turned one of the chairs that were facing her desk around to face the disheveled Naruto crumpled in a heap on the floor. She knew that she didn't have to punch him but if she didn't treat him like her son or her godson when it came to disciplining him then who would. She let out a regretful sigh when she looked at him and then narrowed her eyes on him. 'I want some answers and if I have to beat them out of him, then so be it.'
She calculated that the nine-tailed must be trying to heal his back already. 'So that means…' "Gaki, what exactly happened when you saw Sasuke during your 'mission'?" Naruto was about to respond when he felt the sudden urge to spit. He lifted his hand to his mouth and spit in it then he saw blood. 'Great.' As soon as he was about to yell at Kyuubi he felt the metallic taste of his blood disappear from his mouth. 'Thanks kyu.' "May I have a napkin please?"
He heard movement in front of him but he didn't feel like tearing his eyes off the sight of his own blood. For some reason he found it mesmerizing but he couldn't quite put his finger on why. "Because gaki, you haven't seen it for a year now."(A/N: I hope it was obvious that she knew he would bleed a bit from her punch.) Tsunade spoke as she handed the napkin to Naruto. As her words registered he looked up when she handed him the napkin. "Thanks baachan."
Tsunade let his nickname for her slide, and she followed his azure eyes up to the wall that he was just slammed into. 'Damn that must've hurt like hell. I'm glad that he has the nine-tailed though.' As soon as he felt that his back was completely healed Naruto felt well enough to speak to Tsunade. 'Thanks again kyu.' 'No problem, kit.' "I want you to tell me what exactly happened when you saw Sasuke during your 'mission', gaki." Azure eyes met hazel. "You read my reports didn't you." "You didn't elaborate enough gaki." "Fine this is what happened."
Flashback
Naruto and Kyuubi were arguing about something for the umpteenth time in the past half hour. (A/N: It's the beginning of the 11th month, somewhere in the third week. They just can't stop arguing.) Naruto was currently found leaning against a tree staring up at the clouds. It appeared that Kyuubi was reprimanding Naruto because if the azure-eyed nin paid more attention to his surroundings then Kyuubi wouldn't have to heal him every damn time that Naruto was ambushed.
"Kyuubi, you say that but you don't take into account the reason that I'm not paying attention to my surroundings is cause some damn fox has to keep making his comments known continually." Spoke the azure-eyed nin out loud. Just when kyuubi was going to come up with a smart-ass retort, Naruto heard a kunai brush past his left ear to jam itself directly into the trunk beside his left ear.
'Direct miss, why? A warning shot?' Kyuubi couldn't help but let out a laugh. 'Yes, it's a warning shot and you're not going to believe who threw it.' 'Was it Jiraiya?' (A/N: Jiraiya has been going to Naruto and collecting his daily letters and sending them to Tsunade.) Kyuubi chuckled. 'Nope I think I'll let you have your surprise.' Naruto growled low in his throat as he pulled out the kunai and stood up swiftly. As he got up a figure leapt off a tree and landed gracefully on the ground facing the blonde nin. "It's been a while hasn't it…dobe?" Naruto's eyes widened at the nickname no one had used for him for three years. 'Kyu, is it possible for a heart to plummet and swell at the same time?'
Kyuubi sighed at his container. 'I think you should stop asking me questions and answer the Uchiha-bitch.' 'Right, answer him. What was his question?' 'Just come up with a comeback, or he's going to think that you've gotten even more dobe-ish since he last saw you before.' "So you just here to call me names or you gonna try and kill me again Sasuke-teme.?" (A/N: In this fanfic, Sasuke has tried to kill Naruto five times counting Valley of the End. Each time the attempts have been Chidori in Naruto's chest.) Sasuke growled at Naruto. "Can't I just try conversational segue, seeing as it works so well for you?"
"Sasuke-teme, I highly doubt that it works for emo-avenging temes such as you." Kyuubi laughed at Naruto's comeback appreciatively. 'Nice one kit.' Sasuke walked towards Naruto quietly. He stopped seven feet in front of him. Sasuke was wearing black shorts with the Uchiha emblem emblazoned on the corner of the right leg and a black shirt that had a fiery flame on it. "I see you're getting sharp Naruto but you're still not sharp enough." Naruto looked at him irritatingly. "Tsh. Whatever, teme. So, you're still hanging with the snake-bastard?" "Of course I am dobe. He's going to make me stronger and then I'll be able to avenge my clan by killing Itachi. I thought we covered this already. It's my destiny."
"Right. Do you honestly think your gonna have enough knowledge of jutsus let alone the right jutsus before it's time for Orochimaru to shed himself of his current clothes to put you on like his new suit?" "You keep saying that but it's not going to scare me. Orochimaru will have taught me all his jutsus to kill my brother, before that. After my clan's vengeance I'll revive my clan. If he wants my body in exchange for my clan's vengeance and revival, then so be it."
"You have got to be shitting me. You can't believe that with access to all of that snake-bastard's jutsus that you'll be able to kill your brother? It's Itachi we're talking about. He's the genius Itachi Uchiha. He's the mighty Uchiha clan's prodigy." Sasuke was about to retort but Naruto beat him to the punch. "Do you honestly believe that magic can beat pure strength and genius? That's what Orochimaru is offering you, magic not strength. You can't beat Itachi's strength and genius with some crappy magic tricks."
The only indication that Sasuke was slowly getting pissed off was that he was clenching his fists at his sides due to Naruto's words. "Why the fuck do you think that Orochimaru went to you to only after going to Itachi? The snake-bastard knew that he couldn't persuade or force Itachi to come to him let alone kill him, so he went to his back up, you." At this Sasuke couldn't stand Naruto's words anymore and he slammed the Kyuubi-container into the trunk of the tree behind him. Sasuke had Naruto locked in place. Naruto's azure eyes were currently closed because of the impact of the slam.
When the blonde-haired nin opened his eyes, azure eyes clashed with obsidian. Naruto suddenly found that those obsidian eyes held him captive in their depths 'If you don't stop these perverse thoughts he's gonna find out because they're no doubt gonna cause you to blush profusely. Unless, you want him to know you're perverse thoughts?' As soon as the last syllable left the nine-tail's mouth Naruto bit his tongue. Sasuke stared into those azure depths and was instantly captivated. When Naruto felt that he could say something to Sasuke he did. "So, teme, now that you got me trapped here what you gonna do?" Sasuke didn't dare retort.
"You won't kill me, you don't have the balls to kill me, and we've already established that seeing as how you already had five tries." It felt like an eternity for them both before Sasuke spoke. "What do you want from me?" Naruto's eyes widened slightly. They stood there Naruto trapped between the trunk of the tree and Sasuke's firm chest. The sun cast shadows of the canopy of leaves above them. 'I really want to kiss him…' Sasuke thought as he felt Naruto's breath hitch when his obsidian eyes dropped from azure eyes to rest on the blonde's full lips. 'Just a couple more inches then…' Sasuke looked up at Naruto's azure eyes. '… I can taste him.' Azure and obsidian clashed once more and Sasuke inched forward closing the remaining distance.
Both set of eyes closed as Sasuke's lips came closer to Naruto's. Then the raven's lips touched Naruto's lips barely and they kissed shyly, it took a while before the kiss went from shy to intimate. Naruto's hands found themselves around the raven's neck, and Sasuke's hands found themselves at the blonde's hips. They stood there leaning against the trunk of the tree, kissing passionately then the need for oxygen became annoyingly known as they parted. Obsidian eyes opened the same time that azure eyes opened. "I wasn't expecting that." Naruto spoke as he tried to regain his breathing, Sasuke's lips formed the slightest hint of a smile before he averted back to his stoic demeanor.
"I should go, Kabuto's on his way." Naruto's azure eyes narrowed at obsidian. 'It was a trap?' 'Yes it seems so, kit. But he changed his mind at the last minute. You're just gonna let him go without asking him to come back are you?' 'He's the one who's talking about leaving. If he wants to leave then it's his choice, I will not beg him to stay or come back.' "You do what you gotta do and I'll what I gotta do." Sasuke's façade fell for the slightest of seconds and he released Naruto's left hip from his left hand to raise it so that he could gently stroke the blonde's left jaw line. "I'll come to you, we need to talk about us." The raven said just before his stoic façade came back. And he left. Naruto's knees instantly buckled and he fell to the dirt ground trying to process what had just happened. 'He kissed me, kyuubi.' 'Yes, surprisingly, kit. And you just let him go that's so fucked up.''Yeah, well, he's the one that told Kabuto to come along with him.'
'So you're saying that if Kabuto had stayed being the snake-bastard's bitch you would've slept with him?' 'We won't have the luxury of finding out now, will we?' 'Hmm, you're right sorry, kit.' A moment of silence befell the forest and then. 'Kit he left his kunai look…' To Naruto's left was Sasuke's kunai. 'I must have dropped it when his kissed me…' Picking up the kunai Naruto saw the Uchiha emblem on the blade, and he smiled. 'Maybe you should hold for him, kit?' 'I'll do that, kyu.' Naruto said as he placed the kunai in his weapon's pouch. Then they both stayed silent, only talking in Naruto's head about anything and everything way into the night.
End Flashback
Naruto finished his report and stared at Tsunade's red cheeks. She must've left her visual haze because she cleared her throat. "And you haven't seen him since?" "Nope I haven't baachan." "So what are you going to do?" "Nothing. He knows already how I feel about him, and if he doesn't I'll just remind him when I see him." "Very well. And what about the message-scroll Akatsuki sent you?" "I haven't read it yet, but I know what it says, baachan." "What does it say, gaki?"
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That's it for now. Hope you enjoyed. Please R&R. Sorry if the seen with Sasuke and Naruto felt forced.