He Sees Darkness, But Smiles Like The Light

By The Un-wanted Angel and Beta'd by Morgan Yukimari

Now, that Sasuke is living with Minato and Naruto, he's officially family according to the father and son. What new adventures arrive for the trio? Read more to find out. And I will warn you all, the next chapter will be a mega timeskip, to keep things interesting.

*smiles*

We do not own Naruto

CHAPTER 14

Sasuke had gotten used to living with Naruto and Minato. It was a very happy, loving home to be in. But what sort of irked him was how long Minato would be gone for his job, whether it was meetings or other duties. Usually after school they would walk home with Kakashi or another ANBU member and wait for Minato to return home. Sometimes Naruto and Sasuke would play a board game after their homework was finished or they would read, but today it was almost eight o'clock and Minato still wasn't home.

Naruto started to feel anxious, Minato was never this late. "Sasuke...I'm worried." He admitted.

Sasuke turned from the TV and looked at Naruto.

"It's okay, Naru-chan. Maybe Minato-san is in a meeting." Sasuke suggested.

"I hope so, he's never this late." Naruto frowned, turning his attention back to the TV. Suddenly, Naruto winced in pain, gripping his hair. Sasuke turned his attention back to Naruto, very concerned for the Blonde.

"Naruto? What's wrong?" He asked, slightly frantic.

"My head...it hurts." Naruto whined. "I'm starting to get a headache, I need my pills." Sasuke bit his lip. He had seen Minato give Naruto pills everyday and usually he would apply some white cream and bandages afterwards. Sasuke was a bit nervous. He had no idea where the pills were, but it looked like Naruto needed them now.

"Well...where are they?" Sasuke asked.

"I don't know." Naruto cried. "My head hurts so bad!"

"Okay, okay. Don't cry, let's go find them." Sasuke offered, taking Naruto into the kitchen. Sasuke pondered for a bit, trying to look for the pill bottle. He first decided to check the lower cabinets when he couldn't find them there, he pulled out a chair and began to look in the higher places.

"What is your medication called?" Sasuke asked.

"That's the problem, I don't know." Naruto winced, gripping his head and rubbing his temples with his fingers to calm down the massive migraine he had going on in his small head. Sasuke gulped. There were a lot of pill bottles in the cabinet, he was scared that if he gave Naruto the wrong one and the wrong amount, that he'd kill him. He started reading the labels until he saw the word: treatment. It had to work. He took down the bottle and smiled.

"Okay, I found it!" Sasuke beamed.

"Goody!" Naruto cheered. "You have to chop it up for me."

"...What?"

"Yeah, you have to chop it up and put it in a cup of water so I can take my pill." Naruto replied. "Tou-san doesn't like it when I try and swallow pills, he's scared I might choke on one, he also says it's safer this way."

Sasuke took a look at the pills. They looked like the kind that dissolve in your mouth.

"I think they dissolve in your mother, Naruto." Sasuke answered.

"Really? Like candy?"

"I think so."

"Okay, give me two, I take one in the morning and two at night." Naruto held out his hand and Sasuke shook the bottle until two pink pills came out. Sasuke looked at the color of the pills.

"Um...Naruto what color are your pills?" He asked.

Naruto shrugged and popped the pills in his mouth, swallowing them. He rubbed his stomach. "I like these ones, they taste like strawberries!" He beamed. Sasuke nodded he went to put away the bottle and shut the cabinet door when Minato walked in the back door.

"Hey, kids." He smiled.

"Papa!" Naruto raced to his father hugging him tightly around the legs. "Papa! I missed you! You took forever."

"I'm sorry about that, Naruto. I was stuck in a meeting and then I had to run to the pharmacy." Minato replied placing two small bags on the kitchen table. Sasuke gulped, knowing something didn't add up correctly.

"Um, Minato-san-" Sasuke started but Naruto interrupted him, too excited to let someone else speak to his father.

"Papa! I had a headache and Sasuke gave me my pills!" Naruto cheered, jumping up and down.

Minato's smile turned into an instant frown and Sasuke blushed.

"What?" Minato asked seriously.

"Sasuke gave me my pills, since my head started to hurt. But I feel better now." Naruto smiled.

"Naruto...You ran out of your pills, that's why I went to the pharmacy. To pick up your prescription." Minato said, gripping Naruto's shoulders, now slightly terrified, he felt himself becoming overbearing knowing his baby just swallowed pills by himself. Naruto felt worried himself, he did something wrong.

"Papa...What do you mean?" Naruto said, sounding worried.

"Naruto, what pills did you take?!" Minato asked.

"The strawberry kind Sasuke gave me!" Naruto said pointing to Sasuke.

Sasuke handed Minato the pill bottle and Minato read the labels. He let out a sigh of relief.

"Oh...Thank God." He smiled.

"What?" Sasuke asked. "What's wrong?"

"Oh...Nothing's wrong, Sasuke." Minato smiled hugging Naruto who began to shake out of fear. :I'm glad you gave Naruto those pills instead of something else, those pills won't hurt him."

"Huh?" Sasuke asked.

Naruto felt his stomach rumble and he darted for the bathroom.

"Wait, what?" Sasuke asked, mind-boggled.

"Oh, Sasuke you gave Naruto pills for when he's going threw constipation." Minato slightly giggled.

"Oh..." Sasuke quietly said.

After Naruto's "bathroom incident", he was given his real pills (with much fussing from Minato who wanted to hear EVERY detail about Naruto's headache) and had cream applied to his eyes with fresh bandages wrapped taut around his head. Minato decided it would be nice to read the boys a bedtime story.

After Minato had tucked both boys in he smiled.

"Good night boys." He smiled, flipping on a night light, leaving the room.

"G'night Papa." Naruto mumbled, very sleepy.

"Goodnight, Minato-san." Sasuke yawned.

Minato grinned and closed the door. He stomped his foot on the ground and cursed. He had no problem with Sasuke sleeping in the same room with Naruto, but the thing was, Sasuke could see him. Meaning, he couldn't adjust the stuffed bear and brush away the fur from the lens of the camera so the shots would be in focus again. He tried to sneak in last night to fix the camera, but he tripped on something in the dark and fell with a loud thud. The sound had woken up the Naruto and scared the bejeebers out of him.

"I'll have to try again tonight." He muttered.

"Or you could take down the cameras." A voice said. Minato jumped, startled. When he turned to find the source of the voice he saw his Ex-teacher.

"Oh...Hey, what's going on?" Minato greeted.

"Nothing much, I heard about the kill spree Itachi went on with the Uchiha clan, and a little birdie told me you took in Sasuke? That's bold." The white-haired toad sannin smiled.

Minato sighed, walking to his office.

"I can't take down the cameras because-"

"You're paranoid?"

"No...Because I don't want anything to happen in my son's room. A room I can't see what's happening in. And also what would happen if Naruto fell out of bed and split his head open and he couldn't reach me? What would happen then?!" Minato spat.

The Ex-teacher sighed, pinching the bridge of his nose.

"I think the odds of that are one-to-one million."

"Still, ONE! My baby isn't going to be that one."

"Well...I came over to ask you a question, but I guess the answer's a 'no'." He turned to leave, but Minato stopped him.

"What was your question?" He asked.

"Never mind, I'll ask later. See ya'. I have girls to chase and pages upon pages to write about boobs." He added a laugh, hopping out the window. Minato sighed. He turned to the TV on the desk and he felt agitated, he couldn't take it anymore. He snuck quietly into their room and smiled seeing both boys sleeping. He tiptoed across the room. As quickly but quietly as he could he made his way to the white fluffy bear. Upon reaching it, began to fumble with the wires in the back, trying to set them properly. Though, as smart as he was, he was never any good in the electrical department, the only way he knows how to fix anything is to bang and beat on the TV until the signal is good.

"Dammit." He cursed. "Stupid wire."

"hmmmm." A moaning came from the bed. Minato stopped in his tracks and slowly turned his head towards the boys. He watched Naruto tossing and turning and finally roll over to the other side, falling right back to sleep.

Minato sighed with relief and turned back to the bear. He managed to finish the wiring and clean the lense out. It was perfect.

Minato smiled, thinking he had no more camera problems. Boy was he wrong.

With two children in the house, things could get pretty noisy. Especially if you're trying to do a mountain of paperwork and two children ran around your desk in circles. Minato loved Sasuke and Naruto, don't get him wrong, but sometimes he wished for a little peace and quiet. He was beginning to get a small headache when he noticed the alarm clock change from one-twenty-nine to one-thirty.

"Alright, nap-time." Minato declared.

"What?" Naruto said in disbelief. He was six-going-on seven, no way was he going to take a nap.

"I'm not a baby, Tou-san! I don't need naps!" Naruto pouted, granted he couldn't see and was pretty much pouting at the desk .Since Naruto was so small, Minato could barely see him over his desk, but that's just another reason why Naruto's his "small child".

"I know you are not a baby, Naruto. But you and Sasuke have been running around the house all day, you need rest." Minato insisted, already picking up the boys carrying them to Naruto's room.

"Now, I'm not asking you to fall asleep completely, I'm just asking you to be quiet and rest until dinnertime, alright?" That last part sounded like a plead, but Naruto huffed. Minato set the boys in their room and returned to his office to complete much needed paperwork and Sasuke pouted.

"Well, now what do we do?" Sasuke asked, after an hour or so of staring at the wall.

Naruto looked around. "Well, tou-san said we had to be quite, right?"

"Yeah, I guess."

"So, we can still play, it's just we have to play very, very quietly." Naruto smiled mischievously, he reached for his two of his plush toys. A plush fox from Kakashi and the plush frog his godfather had given him on his first birthday. Sasuke himself had his plush dinosaur. Naruto felt bad that Sasuke only had one stuffed animal so he pointed to the shelf.

"There's a bear, we can play with that too." Naruto smiled kindly.

Sasuke nodded. "I'll get it." He climbed on the dresser and reached up on the top shelf, yanking the bear off, but he lost his balance and fell on the bed.

"Sasuke, are you okay?" Naruto asked.

"Yeah." Sasuke held a "thumb's up" sign to indicate that he was alright, not that Naruto could see it.

Minato was very absorbed in his paperwork. He never noticed on the screen the camera in Naruto's room go from perfect to static filled black and white.

Sasuke admitted the bear was soft, but when he squeezed it, it felt hard inside.

"Naruto, this bear doesn't feel right, he feels hard on the inside and he's sort of heavy for a stuffed animal." Sasuke answered.

Naruto gasped with excitement. "Let's play doctor and figure out what's inside, maybe there's treasure!" Naruto smiled and his excitement showed on his face. Naruto's energy flowed into Sasuke, making him equally excited. He knew that Minato kept some kunais on the mantel in the living room. He guessed that was just for show, but still he hurried down the steps, making sure to be quiet, and spotted the kunais. He took the liberty of taking one and hurried back to the room.

"What if inside was a secret ramen base where all the ramen in the world was at?" Naruto asked. Sasuke stopped cutting the bear and gave Naruto a strange look.

"What?" He asked.

"Hey, I can dream can't I?" Naruto stuck out his tongue.

Sasuke had sliced down the bear and instead of treasure or endless supply of ramen, he found...wires. And knobs and more wires.

"Uh...does the bear talk or something?" Sasuke asked.

"No. I don't think it ever did." Naruto replied, picking up the bear. A round, black, circular object fell out of the bear's foot and rolled on the ground. Sasuke picked it up. His eyes widened. He knew what this was, this was a camera lense.

"Naruto, there was a camera in this bear."

"...A camera?" He asked, confused.

"Yeah, here, feel this?" Sasuke asked, handing the lense to Naruto, who touched the smooth glass and rough ridges. Naruto nodded.

"That's a camera lense. But why would it be in the bear?" Sasuke asked himself.

Naruto gasped. He knew exactly why it was there.

"hm? What?" Sasuke asked him.

But Naruto didn't answer, instead his hollered, "TOU-SAN!" His voice was extremely loud filled with anger as it echoed all through the house. Sasuke wondered how someone so small could have such a big voice.

"Alright, explain!" Naruto demanded. Minato gave his son a very confused look. Sasuke stood next to him, confused as well but an annoyed look on his face. Minato had no idea what was going on.

"What are you two doing out of bed? You were supposed to be napping." He spoke, using a voice that indicated that they would be in trouble if they didn't have a good reason. Naruto mimicked Minato's voice, giving Minato a shocked and appalled facial expression.

"mim-mina-ma-blah,blah,blah." Naruto's high pitched voice spoke. "Who cares how we're out of bed, Tou-san. This is a camera!" He yelled, tossing the evidence along with the cut up bear on Minato's desk. Minato gulped. How did they find this out? The bear was on the top shelf...unless-

"You mean to tell me one of you climbed the dresser and went on the top shelf?!" Minato screamed, panicking.

Naruto sighed, annoyed.

Sasuke took this chance to speak. "Minato-san, why would there be a camera in the bear? And why in Naruto's room?"

Naruto nodded. "Yeah, my room."

Minato bit his lip. "Well...uh..."

He was speechless. How you would explain this to a six year old, he had no idea.

"Well, boys you see, since I'm the Hokage I have a son, now two sons," Sasuke blushed at the Minato's words, but was still very upset.

"I have two responsibilities I need to take care of, and yes I admit, the bear actually has been there since Naruto was a baby." Minato frowned. "It's for security reasons. And to be frank, I'm upset that you boys found this out."

"Why?" Naruto asked. "I mean, it's my room. Nothing's going to happen to me there!" Naruto felt embarrassed, he thought that his Tou-san was actually letting up and backing off the over-protectiveness. But he was wrong. Naruto felt angry, confused and let down.

Minato sighed, he could see Naruto was about to cry.

"Naruto...son." Minato stood up walking closer to Naruto but Naruto stepped back.

"No!" He shouted. "You told me that you were going to let up, and you didn't!"

Minato was confused once again. "When have I ever said that, Naruto?" Minato demanded to know.

"When I was starting school! You said that I had to grow up and not act like a baby anymore, well I did my part, I tried to grow up and be a grown up, when will you do your part and let me have more freedom!?" Naruto yelled. "I want the camera out of my room!" Minato was shocked. Naruto had never once talked to him like that, he held back his protectiveness, disbelief, and slight anger. Minato took a deep breath.

"Naruto...I understand you're upset, but I'm not taking down the camera, I'm still going to use it for your own safety and so I know what to do if-" Minato tried to explain but Naruto shook his head, saying: "no...no...No!"

"Why do you always do this! You always break your promises!" Naruto was on the verge of crying and tried to hold the tears in, but his bandages were already soaking wet.

"Naruto, I never made a promise, I said I would try-"

"You never tired! You never did, all you did was something different, you never changed!" Naruto cried. "Kaa-san wouldn't be like this, I wish Kaa-san was alive and I wish you weren't here!"

The room went silent and Minato's heart almost stopped beating. The eerie quiet rang in his ears but all he could hear were Naruto's words. Over and over again, they echoed in his head. I wish you weren't here.

Minato swallowed. "Naruto...you don't mean that-"

"Yes I do!" Naruto yelled and stomped out of the room. Sasuke looked at Minato. He swore he saw tears. Minato slowly went back to his desk and sat down. He was still in shock, and his face reflected that. He had a piercing and burning sensation in his chest that wouldn't leave him. Even Sasuke's timid voice sounded very far away.

"Minato...san?" Sasuke asked.

Minato didn't answer but instead muttered under his breath. "It's all my fault," he said, his voice weak and strained and hardly his own.

Sasuke shook his head, trying to comfort the man. "No it's not. Naruto was just upset, he'll be alright tomorrow .I'm sure."

Minato shook his looked shellshocked. "Sasuke...we've never fought like this, the last time this happened Naruto was kidnapped and lied to by Orochimaru. It took hurtful words and a long time to coax him into loving me again. I don't think that'll work this time." Sasuke walked up to Minato and threw his small arms around Minato's large frame. Though he wasn't very big, he felt as if Minato was smaller then him in that moment. He hugged the Blonde tightly and Minato hugged the child right back, fighting tears.

"Stupid Tou-san...always making my life miserable." Naruto mumbled while putting on his coat. He zipped it up, stomped into his shoes and out the back door. He knew Minato wouldn't notice that he left if he went out the back, it was too far from Minato's office for him to hear the sound of anyone entering or exiting.

"I'm gonna' runaway." Naruto muttered to himself. "See if I care anymore."

Naruto shivered when a gust of wind hit him. It was early spring, but it still felt as if the winds of the winter were still blowing in. He tightened the collar of his coat ran down the wooded hill. He almost ran into a tree but he managed to turn around in the nick of time. But there was something he couldn't help but run into. The Wall.

"Oh...you." Naruto sneered as if it was a person. "Stupid wall, you're just as bad as the camera!"

He decided to climb a tree. He grabbed on a tree branch and one by one he climbed higher and higher. After a while, he thought he was high enough to jump. He took a leap of faith,and came up short, just barely missing the top. Thankfully he grabbed a hold of the edge and struggled to keep himself from falling to the ground. Unfortunately, it wasn't enough. His grip began to loosen and he started to slide. He fell to the ground with a thump, landing on his butt. He groaned and his anger grew as he climbed the tree once more, going even higher this time. He jumped to the wall only to be back on the ground. His anger turn to fury and he he started to feel confused. He couldn't leave no matter how hard he tried and it annoyed him to no end. He sat on the ground and tried desperately to prevent tears of frustration fall from his eyes. Eventually, he admitted defeat and realised how tired he actually was. Curling up in a ball, he let the tears he'd been holding back fall freely.

Minato was behind Naruto in an instant. He bent down and gently picked up Naruto. He had saw everything on the cameras.

"Naruto...I'm so sorry," he apologised.

Naruto sniffed. "I don't like the cameras, because...when you use them, I feel like you don't trust me enough to be alone."

I trust you, Naruto. It's the World I don't trust. Minato nodded. "I'll take down the cameras, once I gain closure and security." Minato said. "Please, for just a little while longer, let them be up. Then when I'm ready, I promise to take them down."

Naruto thought about it. "Promise?"

"I promise, on my Hokage Way." Minato grinned.

Naruto smiled, sweetly. "Okay."

The cameras were taken down later that month and Minato soon began to realize how foolish having cameras were. They only thing that he saw threw them that even counted as a burglary or kidnapping was when Kakashi came to give Naruto the fox plushy or when Jiraiya came to see him. He figured that it was time to let the cameras be taken down and to learn to trust Naruto. Minato smiled

"He's growing up." He told himself.

"And that's a problem?" The Third asked. He was visiting for the day. He and Minato sat on the deck and they both admired the boys as they flew their both took a sip of their tea.

"I'm not ready to let him go." Minato said and laughed.

Hiruzen shook his head. "You don't need to let go of your children, Minato. You just need to guide them, after all that's what parents are here for."

Minato nodded. "I guess you're right. But...I just want the moment to last. Is that too much to ask?" He narrowed his eyes and said that with a smile.

"Tou-san! Look how high my kite is!" Naruto smiled, calling to Minato.

Stay innocent, Naruto. Dear God, please, stay just as you are.

Wow, this chapter was long, wasn't it? But a ton has happened here, A TON! Now that Sasuke is part of Naruto's family things should go a lot smoother now am I right? DO NOT FORGET TO VOTE ON MY POLL, IT'S VERY, VERY IMPORTANT.

-The Un-wanted Angel

-Morgan Yukimari