Byakuya

Chapter 16

Gaara was still lying on the stones, breathing heavily and regarding Naruto with amazed, but guarded eyes. He felt his breath catch in his throat unpleasantly and his skin tingle with an after glow stronger that anything he had ever experienced. Naruto was still sitting on him, and as he moved, Gaara gasped and laid his head back to the ground.

Naruto's slightly sweaty bangs were framing his face and his blue eyes sparkled with a feeling Gaara had never seen in them before. He could still feel the sudden explosion as the blonde had vanished, and suddenly he was dragged after him. He had been amazed at the feel of mostly blue chakras flaming around the water country, but had lost the feeling after Naruto and he had met with a dark green chakra.

Gaara's eyes widened slightly as he regarded the feelings that had swarmed him the moment he had Naruto had approached the dark green chakra, Naruto continuing across the distance towards something as his chakra stuck with the green chakra for a while.

Gaara bit his lower lip, suddenly aware that it was the first time he had been hesitant in years. Being the kazekage was hard work, and even though he eased his workload to his assistants as much as he could, it was still the Kazekage's duty to discuss politics, and politics never allowed hesitation or mistakes.

"I know that green chakra…" Gaara finally said after he had gained his breath enough to speak. He almost flinched at the weakness in his voice and forced his mind to sink into the cool quicksilver of emotions in his head.

"What…?" Naruto asked dazedly, his thoughts still bothered by the feeling of sudden power. Then his eyes cleared a bit and with a slight grimace he pulled off Gaara, almost flinching at the feel of both his and Gaara's semen between his legs. Gaara hissed as his member was pulled out of Naruto slowly.

It took Gaara a moment to orient himself and gather his line of thought.

"That dark green chakra… It was Kisho." Gaara said, and Naruto's eyes widened slightly as he realized what I meant.

"Wait a minute… I felt eight different chakras while riding that wave that stood out, and… well, the magenta chakra was next to the green one, along with the sick light green, and the slightly worried blue chakra…--" Naruto started to explaining, and Gaara's eyes widened also when he realized what Naruto was talking about.

"--…That would mean the Dark green would have been Kisho, the magenta Yei, the blue one could be Yuki; kind of hard to say because his chakra looks mostly normal when he uses it… And that would mean that the sickly looking light green chakra you apparently saw, is probably Minoru." Gaara ended Naruto's sentence for him. Naruto nodded, while slightly frowning.

"I felt other colors too, but the memory is already failing…" Naruto muttered, more to himself than Gaara. Naruto climbed onto his feet before offering a hand for Gaara. Gaara took the offered hand and Naruto pulled him swiftly to his feet; not that Gaara needed the help per say, he would have probably dismissed the hand normally, but the after glow of their rather explosive sex had left him with a strange sense of closeness to Naruto.

The walked into the warm water spring without a word, both of them rather winded and deep in their thoughts.

Gaara threw Naruto a sharp look as he saw the blonde to completely relax into the warm water, his face morphing into a smooth mask of total calmness. With his golden hair tousled little to the side and with his normally striking blue eyes closed, Naruto had a look of serene innocence on his face.

Gaara resisted the urge to snort. He could always, on some lever, as did the other Jinchuuriki's, feel when Kyuubi took stronger control over Naruto. Normally the presence of the demon only appeared with super natural senses and peaks in power, but at that moment, when Naruto's awareness had been thrown away towards the other chakra's, Gaara had known that he was looking into the face of the Kyuubi no Yoko himself.

Suddenly Gaara hadn't been in control anymore, but the red eyed blonde under him was. The Kitsune had twisted its host's body so that the blonde body landed on top of Gaara, slamming the redhead into the ground harshly with power Gaara was surprised the lithe body on top of him could produce. Sure Naruto was strong, but the power before him had been something more… otherworldly.

And of all the things Gaara had expected Kyuubi to do, the nine tailed demon had just continued to fuck with him, not even throwing a thought at the possibility that he could possibly take over Naruto's body, or that he would at least have the time to kill the other Jinchuuriki, seeing as the redhead was quite naked and defenseless, his sand lying lifelessly on the ground, unable to move fast because of Gaara's rather dazed daze as the orgasm continued to build up.

The experience of having fucked with the greatest demon Lord in existence had left Gaara a bit baffled.

Naruto let out a small groan as the hot water started to loosen up his muscles, and Gaara smirked. Moving slowly in the water, as to not alert the blonde, Gaara moved gently behind Naruto. The only indication that the blonde was surprised when Gaara settled his palms on his shoulders was the opening of Naruto's lips as he let out a silent gasp.

Gently, first, and then with more force, Gaara started to rub Naruto's shoulders, enjoying the way the other boy's slim muscles rippled under his fingers. Gaara let out an inaudible sigh, before leaning forwards so that his lips hovered next to Naruto's ear.

"It has been a long day. I believe we talked about relaxing, Rokudaime?" Gaara whispered into Naruto's ear, taking note of the way how Naruto shivered slightly at the way Gaara said the unofficial title.

"Mmm… we should take this opportunity to unite our nations and strengthen our political bonds, kazekage-sama…" Naruto absentmindedly said, while sliding even deeper into the steaming water.

"Ah, politics." Gaara's simply answered before sliding beneath the surface after the blonde.

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Naruto rubbed his temples furiously, trying to force away the sudden head-ache he had been attacked with. The sun was on its way to disappear behind mount Hokage, painting the hidden village of leaf in different shades of orange and purple. Naruto couldn't appreciate the beauty of it though. He was sitting on top of one of the main gates leading into the ninja village, hanging his feet over the bright red beam while the chuunins on guard-duty glared at him once in a while.

One of them had appeared before him, intending to shoo him away; Naruto had growled, once, and now the chuunins preferred to fight him from distance with glares and taunts. Naruto knew better than react, though, it always made them want to fight him even more. He had avoided trouble with the low ranking chuunins since he was small, Naruto remembered. Most of the chuunins were old middle aged men with too much excess fat on them, implicating that they had become soft on the years.

And seeing as the chuunins were middle aged; every of them had of course been in Konoha sixteen years ago when the kyuubi no Yoko attacked. Naruto resisted the urge to sigh, he had started doing too much of that lately.

He had spent an amazing and relaxing evening with Gaara in the hot-springs, and after several rounds of mind-blowing sex, they had, surprisingly, gone dancing at the local club. Seeing Gaara for the longest time had distracted him from thinking about the news he had gotten earlier the same day; now, however, sitting alone on top of the beam and waiting for his team to arrive, his brain was left to jump from subject to subject freely.

His min full of thoughts about Drake, his own possible death and generally war that seemed to be a bigger threat to Konoha than he had really thought, he didn't notice the chuunin appearing before him, until Shikamaru's shadow blocked his view of the sunset. Naruto blinked, startled.

"Sh-shikamaru?" Naruto asked, his throat suddenly dry and his eyes throbbing with a feeling he quite couldn't place. The shadow sighted and moved from the sun, so Naruto could see his friend better. Shikamaru rolled his eyes before taking forth a piece of parchment from his pocket.

Naruto frowned; parchment wasn't really often used after all, as it was so expensive. The only people he knew used parchment were the Hokage and the evil clan heads on the council.

"So troublesome. I'm not their bloody messenger." Shikamaru sighted before giving Naruto the parchment. Naruto frowned, testing the hardness of the parchment beneath his fingers, before opening the note that was folded in two. The words were simple, in the neat hiragana of Tsunade, and Naruto smiled to himself. He was the only one whose notes were slightly more personal. Everyone else got their notes in neat katakana, the messages always as short as possible.

'I hope your mission was successful. When your team arrives, come immediately to see you so you can leave your report and I can give you a check up.' The words softened Naruto's heart and he could sense the care in the Gondaime's words. That warmth was instantly turned into feverish coldness, however, when he read the last line at the bottom of the parchment.

'The council requires an audience with you. It is about your progress these last few years.'

Naruto could feel the barely expressed hate and fear for the council rise up and could barely stop his hands from shaking. He had had many run-ins with the council of twelve in Konoha, the biggest force of authority after the Hokage, and he knew the council hated him with a passion.

They were also the only thing that held him off immediate execution for his crimes as the Kyuubi.

"Thank you Shikamaru." Naruto answered, slightly sullenly, and noticed how the chuunins eyes widened slightly at his less energetic response.

"Maa…Naruto? You all right?" Shikamaru asked, a tone of concern in his voice, wondering what the note said.

"Yeah. It's nothing. I'm sure my team arrives soon." Naruto answered, unknowingly using a tone that clearly dismissed Shikamaru. Shikamaru turned to walk away, his thoughts on the blonde whose eyes were a bit more darkened than before he got the note, staring thoughtfully into the wild woods around Konoha.

Saa… he already has a Hokage voice. How annoying.

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"Thank god were almost there. I'm worried about Naruto…" Sakura complained to Lee, her voice bearing signs of exhaustion. Sasuke tuned Sakura's voice out as he fought the urge to frown. Sasuke wasn't a very emotional person, but he and Naruto ha, in their own way, always been close.

When Naruto had disappeared to train almost four years ago for unknown reason, and Sasuke he had gotten personal tutelage from Kakashi, Sasuke had been thrilled. Even though Naruto had left with the legendary sannin, Sasuke knew that training with Kakashi would be of more use for him, seeing as they both shared the Sharingan. So he had thought that Naruto would be out of the way for a while, and he would get his chance to get better, stronger, faster…. And he would be able to hold on to his superiority over the blonde.

It had taken Sasuke two months to realize he missed the blonde.

Sasuke and Naruto had hated each other from the beginning when they had formed cell seven. Sasuke had thought Naruto was a useless hyper-active idiot who would be crushed the second he realized that being a ninja wasn't just about saving princesses. Naruto had thought Sasuke was a bitter bastard that couldn't show that he cared of anyone but himself.

But time had changed things. It had started with the work together on the tree climbing exercise, and they had realized that working together, rather than against each other, brought better results. And then of course, came the bridge incident where Sasuke offered his life for Naruto's. Still to this day Sasuke couldn't figure out what he had though as he had lunged in front of the deadly senbon and his memories of the fight with Haku weren't as clear as he would have wanted them to be.

But he remembered, that in the moments he was dying, and seen Naruto cry above him, he had asked Naruto, in his round-about way to kill his brother for him. And his feelings for Naruto were forever changed. The hate just wasn't there anymore, even though they still hurled insults on each other.

Sasuke remembered blurrily the recuperation time after the bridge fight. They had been forced to stay at the bridge builder's, Tazuna's house because Sasuke was so wounded he couldn't move. He had stayed awake, at night, when Naruto had sneaked into his room. The blonde had known he was awake and in pain, unable to concentrate on anything but the senbon holes in his back.

Without a word Naruto had stepped by his bed, turned his over, and spent the next night massaging healing salve on his back.

It was never mentioned again.

After that, their relationship had just grown closer and closer, and they had trained together in the middle of the woods, and when bored, had drawn each other out to fight. And when Naruto had disappeared to train, Sasuke noticed he missed the way Naruto would whine for ramen, or the way those clear blue eyes would gleam with anger as they fought.

And then Naruto had returned, and Sasuke realized he didn't know the blonde anymore.

Or perhaps I never did.

And then Gaara of the sand, of all people, had shown up, and Sasuke felt all those confused feelings for Naruto surface again. Naruto had so many secrets now, and on some level, Sasuke wanted the old Naruto back. Or maybe he just wanted to find out what was behind all the pretences, the facades, the masks.

Well you just wait, Naruto. Because whatever it is, I'm going to find out. And damned if I'm going to let anyone to take you away from me, lest of all, Gaara.

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A/N: Finally! May I present you, chapter 16! Sorry I haven't updated before, but I was in Finland (My home country) for about a week, so I couldn't very well work on Byakuya then. And I know you may be confused about the chakra thing and such, but it is supposed to be a bit confusing. You also may have problems remembering all then names of the characters I made, but hell, you'll just have to cope.

I just realized something… The "style" Naruto fight's with, is called Fuketsu Koodori. Now, that's in Japanese…so everybody (in Konoha) should realize immediately that it means "dirty dancing"…I just get a bit confused myself…oh, who cares…

Reviews make me works faster and with more vigor!

And I think reviewing is healthy…really!

--Dark