30 kisses - theme#12 - In a good mood

Candy Coated Drugs

part V

A soft lull

When Naruto awoke, the gentle sound of soft breathing greeted him. He lifted his head quickly, startled by the rhythmic noise. After his eyes focused he lowered his defenses. As long as he had been with Itachi he still wasn't used to the sound of another person in the room with him when he awoke. His gaze slowly took in every bit of his captor's sleeping form. Itachi looked worn. He looked beautiful when he slept, but his mouth was set in a grim line, as if he was seeing hell in his dreams. Naruto reached out and traced a finger along one of the scars on Itachi's cheeks. He wondered how he had gotten such a fine cut. The Uchiha's hand shot out quickly closing around Naruto's wrist and stopping him from touching the fine lines. Deep onyx eyes gazed at him from beneath lowered lids.

"Don't..." Itachi whispered with a touch of heat in his voice.

Itachi's eyes closed again and he sighed wearily while dropping Naruto's wrist. His breathing evened out and he was back asleep, but something wasn't right. Naruto watched as the ebony-haired man's chest rose and fell with a shudder. He touched his forehead cautiously. The man's skin was cool to the touch. Realization dawned on him. Itachi was suffering from chakra deficiency. He wondered how long Itachi had been slowly draining his own chakra to keep from being detected. It was his chance to escape and warn Konoha, but one look at the lightly parted, full lips on his captor's face and the small traces of pain and he could not leave him. He sighed and walked from the small inn room.

"Dango, dango..." He muttered to himself as he trudged down the stairs to the small bar inside the inn.

When he asked if they had dango, the bar keeper merely shook his head saying that they only served drinks and sushi. Naruto was worried about going to far and incurring Itachi's anger should he awaken while he was gone, so he asked where the closest place was that sold it. As luck would have it, the weather was terrible, assaulting the village with heavy rain. Naruto looked outside, but for the moment decided that getting some sort of food to Itachi was important.

Itachi woke up to the sound of thunder and a pounding headache from over use of the sharingan. He sat up alarmed noticing that Naruto was not in the room. He guessed that Naruto knew what had happened and used it as his chance to escape. He'd only been asleep for a little while, so he bet he could catch Naruto. Though it didn't show, he was hurt and angry. He'd been gentle with the boy and let his guard down. He vowed not to let that happen again. Anger stirred in his eyes, but everything was still spinning. He stumbled to the door and was surprised to find a dripping wet Naruto standing there when it opened. Upon closer inspection he noticed the brown bag held protectively to the blonde's chest beneath his jacket.

"What are you up and dressed for?" Naruto questioned while pushing into the room. "Are we leaving?" He huffed and set the wet bag on the table. "Can we at least eat first?"

Itachi was surprised in the very least as he watched Naruto remove the contents of the bag. His eyes were drawn to Naruto's shaking hands as he placed dango and onigiri in the center of the small piece of furniture. Itachi grasped them quickly and put his mouth to the cold fingers. The fox boy blushed at the sudden movement. The feeling slowly started to come back into his fingers.

Slightly embarrassed Naruto pulled his hand away and pointed at the food. "I got you some dango since I know you like that and you need to eat to regain your chakra." He pouted pursing his lips out, "though I would've prefered ramen."

A soft smile crossed Itachi's face as he watched Naruto pout. He wondered how the boy had worked his way under the layers of stone around his heart. The last time he'd felt any emotion quite as what he felt now was when he was a child and spent his days training with Shisui. After that incident though, he had built up armor around his emotions so that he would never feel attachment to anyone.

Slowly he turned Naruto to face him. "Let me eat what you got for me and I'll get you some ramen." He whispered into his captive's ear.

Blue eyes widened and a blush crossed his cheeks. "You mean it?" He asked excitedly.

Itachi didn't answer, he merely kissed the blonde sweetly letting him know that he was feeling better already.

A/N: These are drabbles from the 30_kisses community on live journal. I wrote these quite a while back, but never got around to posting them. They are meant to be a short snippet of a longer story. I hope you enjoy them. EVen though I'm no longer active in the community, I do plan on finishing out the themes.

Also, if you happen to be one of my readers for Marked or Scrap, just know that I have nice Christmas present for you in updates on both in the next couple of weeks. SOrry guys, gotta finish finals first and then They will be posted.