30 kisses #3- jolt!

Candy Coated Drugs

Part XII

Where the lightning strikes

Despite his travels and being a ninja, Naruto was still slightly afraid of storms. This remained a prevalent fear even in his travels with Itachi. The Uchiha had noticed this as of late. The winter had started to fade into spring which in turn meant instead of snow they had to deal with heavy rains and storms. As of now the skies had turned to an ominous grey and low rumbles of thunder could be heard. He looked back and noticed Naruto tense everytime a light flash of lightning could be seen.

"Naruto, we're going to stop as soon as we find shelter. It looks like we're walking right into a storm. It'd be best if we wait for it to pass."

Naruto nodded and shivered at the severe look of the clouds. " I hope we find a place soon. I don't want to be caught in the rain." He mumbled while curling his arms about his body.

Itachi found it interesting that despite seeing and experiencing things worse than a spring storm, Naruto was still frightened. He smirked a bit and filed that morsel of information away for possible later use. "If I remember correctly, there's a hot spring close by. We could hold up in there until the storm passes."

Just as Itachi had said up the road was a small bath house and inn. He watched Naruto let out a sigh of relief and followed him inside. Itachi had wished that the impending storm wasn't happening because he would have liked to sit in the hot springs for a bit to relax his muscles. It seemed that his young lover unknowingly shared his sentiments as he watched him rotate his shoulders to relieve the built up tension.

Itachi asked for a room for the night figuring the storm would probably last a while. A sudden clap of extremely loud thunder caused Naruto to jolt and jump into Itachi. The Uchiha smirked, but allowed the blonde to clasp to his cloak tightly. Naruto did not relinquish his hold as they entered the room. Itachi smirked.

"Of all the horrific things you've experienced that you show no fear to you are afraid of something that can't hurt you." He whispered in a slightly mocking tone.

Naruto pouted, "I never had anyone to get rid of that fear. You'd be afraid of it if your entire childhood was traumatized by one experience." He sighed and let go. "Maybe not, you're not afraid of anything, but when I was really young, lightning struck the house of the family I was with and they left me to die in the burning building." He jolted again as he saw a bright streak through the window. "I wish I was more like you. Fearless...."

Itachi knelt down and wrapped his arms around the blonde's body. "I have a few fears...but I think you can help me get over them..." He murmured next to Naruto's ear before kissing his sun-gold locks. "Just as I can take your fears from you..."

As his lips were kissed, Naruto soon forgot about the severity of the weather and all fears tied to it.

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.