Forbidden in Love and War
Summary: Sasuke, a lupine, and Naruto, a vulpine, were suppose to hate, and sneer at one another. But instead they found friendship, and something even stronger, as their world was building for a war they didn't want to fight. AU. SasuNaru.
M for Full-Blown Teenage SasuNaru Lovers.
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Chapter Two: Forbidden Meetings
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Naruto stumbled clumsily as he ran through the dense forest, he pushed past branches and jumped over bushes hoping to make it home in time. He knew that would be highly impossible though. He had spent to much time at that oak tree with the lupine he met. A smile appeared on his childish features. Just thinking about all the times they got into trivial fights that night made him laugh. Mostly, they just fought over everything they could find to fight about, like "Who got the branch near the owl hole," or "Who got to go swimming in the ravine first." Stupid things like that.
Naruto bounded into his village just as his father appeared from his den. Minato looked at his son with surprise, for he looked quite disheveled. Multiple leafs and twigs revealed themselves in his messy blonde hair. His clothes had grass satins as well as mud stains all over, and his face had small scratches from the branches he had forgotten to block on his way back.
Gaara had looked at the blonde once he entered the village and shook his head before setting the basket he had been holding down and walking over to the blonde. With one stern look to the blonde he turned to his leader, who was staring at Naruto with a heated glance. "He had informed me earlier that he was going hunting." He said with a bow to Minato. "I'm sorry for not informing you sooner."
Minato walked over to the two youths and put a hand on each of their shoulders. "I'm glad that's the case." He said with a forced smile, for he knew something was up.
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"Thank you so much Gaara!" Naruto said once the two were in private. He wrapped his arms around the older teens neck and grinned at him blissfully his tail also showing the emotion was true.
Gaara sat their stoically as he waited for the blonde to stop his thanking. Once finished he gently brushed the tanned arms off of his own pale neck and turned his aquamarine colored eyes toward the blonde. Naruto forced a smile and nervously laughed as Gaara stared at him. And stared. He just kept on stared. Naruto's ears flopped down and his tail quit it's wagging spree. He gently sat himself before his best friend and looked at him. "I met a lupine." He whispered quietly so only Gaara could hear.
The usually stoic youth's eyes widened as he said so and he glared. "Naruto." He said firmly.
"I know. I know. It's forbidden." He said dramatically as he pulled at his blonde hair. "But you know, He actually understands me." Naruto muttered before grinning broadly. It quickly faltered as a loud bang sounded of beside him. He looked over to Gaara who was still sitting, yet his head hung low. His fist was pounded into the dirt wall that made up one side of their den.
"Gaara." He said softly as he gently extended a hang to touch him. Before he could actually make contact Gaara stood up and glared at him heatedly. Naruto stared up at him with big eyes, in any case, he resembled a frightened puppy. His friend had never been so mad at him before. Without another word Gaara stormed out of the den and left Naruto sitting there utterly confused.
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Gaara heatedly walked away from the village. "That moron." He quietly said to himself. His tail swung back and forth angrily as he continued to walk. Not even caring where he was going. He violently broke past branches as he tried to control his rising anger; or pain. This lupine understood him. Gaara had been with Naruto all his life, and he says the lupine understood him. If looks could kill. Everyone in the world would be dead. Gaara grinded his teeth as he broke out from the forest into a clearing, and there he saw a man. Gaara stared at him, his long brown strands blowing gently in the wind, his light lavender eyes that started at him as well, and his gray wolf tail that waged so very gently in his presence.
Gaara no longer cared about what had happened earlier that day. All he cared about is what stood a mere two feet in front of him.
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Naruto sighed as he trudged through the forest. He had been searching for his friend most of the day yet still failed to find the fuming red head. And from what it looked like the sun was beginning to set, for darkness enclosed the wooded area. "Damn you Gaara," He mumbled softly as he took a seat on a tree root. He Didn't know what his friend reacted so heatedly to his words, and he wouldn't pressure him in telling if he didn't want to. All Naruto cared about was finding him.
"What are you doing?" A familiar voice asked the blonde. His ears raised high and Naruto quickly spun around tears evident in his eyes.
"Gaara!" He shouted happily wrapping himself around the older boys waist. "I'm sorry, really, truly, sorry for what I did."
"What did you do?" He asked stoically. Gaara always had Naruto think about what he did wrong so he, as in Naruto, could make it better. Yet Naruto always just pushed it off as if it was nothing.
"I don't know!" He cried with regret. "But I really did think about it this time. I did!"
Gaara smirked ever so faintly and Naruto immediately stopped crying. He placed a pale hand on Naruto's head and gently ruffled his hair fondly before detaching the blonde from his waist and walking away. Naruto wiped a tear away before revealing a big grin. He darted after the red headed fox.
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Sasuke sat calmly on a branch of the big oak tree. He gently thumped through a book and read the pages without a thought. Though a few minutes later panting rang through his ears. He looked down to find a blonde half dead in the grass by the ravine. "What's with you?" He asked emotionlessly.
Naruto sat up and glared at the raven haired fiend before falling back down on his back. At that Sasuke smirked and marked his place in his book before jumping from the tree to the foxes side. "Did you want to see me that badly, dope?" He whispered his smirk widening.
"Fuck you teme." Naruto panted out. Yet he smiled at the penname the lupine had bestowed on him.
Sasuke chuckled ever so slightly before laying himself next to the blonde. After a few minutes Naruto's breathing stabilized and he looked over at the raven who was staring at the starry sky. "I had to lie to my father today."
"Really?" Sasuke asked, not seeming that interested.
"Yeah. I didn't tell him about coming to the oak tree, or meeting you." Naruto said closing his eyes. "If I told him, he would make a big fuss and say I could never see you again."
Sasuke looked over at the blonde and smirked. "So you did want to see me."
Naruto quickly realized his mistake and blushed. "That's not it." He protested with a pout. While looking at the sky Naruto smiled. "You are the only one who knows how I feel. We are the same, you and I."
"Yet dramatically different." Sasuke muttered as he propped himself up by the elbow.
"Huh?" Naruto his ear turning ever so slightly to Sasuke.
Obsidian eyes looked up at the midnight blue sky. "You know, someday, things are going to change."
"What do you mean?" Naruto asked looking up at the same sky Sasuke was.
"Dope." He chuckled out. Naruto turned back and glared, but that quickly turned into a smile as he saw the expression on Sasuke's face, it was completely peaceful.
Naruto smiled warmly as he watched the star covered sky with Sasuke. Somewhere in his heart it pained Naruto, for he knew one day he and Sasuke would be fighting against each other, and that alone would ruin there friendship. The lupines would kill the vulpines, the vulpines would kill the lupines. He hated the thought. Naruto quickly shut his eyes to block out all of the unwanted thoughts, but for some reason could not force himself to open them.
Sasuke watched as the stars shone in the sky and smiled as he saw a shooting star pass. He Didn't believe in that kind of stuff, but could just picture the blonde making a silent wish. Even thought they had known each other for merely a day, Sasuke could feel that they were in some way connected. Not only as enemies, but as friends. Sasuke's eyes widened a centimeter as he felt an arm wrap around his stomach. "Hey Naruto," He started before turning to look at the blonde. A soft pang echoed out in Sasuke's chest before he gave way to a smirk. Carefully he turned so he was facing the sleeping blonde. With his left hand he delicately brushed away some stray hair that hung loosely in his face. He placed his hand on the foxes cheek and carefully ran his fingers across his whisker marked cheeks before his fingers strayed off the path to his lips.
His thumb gently grazed the full pink lips the blonde possessed. Sasuke was mesmerized, without him knowing it he leaned closer, until there noses brushed against each other's. He just sat there staring at Naruto's closed eyes before smiling guiltily. "Stupid Dope." He let himself fall to the ground as he once again looked at the sky. Another shooting star passed over head. And this time Sasuke made a wish.
"Let this unneeded war be over." He said to himself. For he wouldn't be able to restrain himself from the fox boy any longer if this went on. Only a day had past, and he already almost kissed the boy. He Didn't want the meetings they were having to be forbidden.