Chapter 2

Knock, knock, knock.

Sasuke was in the land of dreams, and happy dreams were they, ignoring the knocking on his door. They held him and a certain blond with… Taki and Kyo humping in the back round?! What the fuck?!

Sasuke sat up quickly from his bed at the banging on his door, Itachi's booming voice telling him to wake up. "I'm awake already! Geez…" The banging stopped and foot steps resounded off the walls as his brother walked away. Taki was up and at the door, couldn't wait to go and see the fox again. "I'll be right with you, just let me get dressed already."

And now that he realized it, he was still in his towel from last night. Goosebumps covered his arms and legs from being cold, telling him to get ready quick and get outside, which was as beautiful and sunny as it was yesterday. Speaking of yesterday, Sasuke was surprised at himself for not being a total jerk to Naruto. Sure he was quiet at first, but soon started to have conversations with the blond. Wasn't he supposed to be a royal pain in the ass for the orphanage owner? What happened to the 'ice princess' that most people called him for being so cold?

He can't help it; the blond just brought the niceness side out of him with only a few words. Naruto was caring, listened to what Sasuke said, and gave advice that would be quite useful in the near future. Some were of how to not get caught while sneaking out, and the other half was of respecting you parents for the most part. In some odd way, he put the two together that made the raven understand. Sasuke couldn't help but laugh at the blond's choice of words.

Not only was Naruto funny in a wild and political way, but he also had a dry sense of humor. The dry humor always made Sasuke laugh, no matter how hard he didn't want to. He liked Naruto as a friend and couldn't the smile formed on his face as he thought about the boisterous man. His parents would freak if they saw him smiling right now.

Taki suddenly barked, wanting the raven to hurry up. Sasuke rolled his eyes and put on the same pair of pants he wore yesterday, but wore a different shirt; it was a dark blue t-shirt today. Putting on his not so nice shoes anymore, Sasuke trotted to his bedroom and opened it, only to have Taki burst out of it before him. His mother was in the kitchen like always, cooking breakfast. And like always, Sasuke was gonna be an ass and not take some of her delicious cooking.

Itachi, however, decided to have some of mom's breakfast instead of having his normal apple or banana routine. The smell and sight of it made Sasuke's stomach rumble. Itachi smirked at hearing the rumble and nodded his head in greeting. Fugaku was at the family table, reading the newspaper with his regular black coffee. His voice suddenly came from behind the newspapers.

"Iruka called and said that you can drive yourself over now that you know the way," Fugaku started. "But if he finds out that you skipped and betrayed his trust for you, he's gonna make you working curfew longing." He gave a warning glance at his son over his newspaper before going back to whatever he was reading.

Sasuke only nodded and checked his wristwatch to see what time it was; 8:54. I guess I can head over there now. I do start at nine and it is about a twelve minute drive there. "I got to get going if I don't want to be late then. Bye," I replied, surprising my parents and Itachi. Never had he once said good-bye to them on the way out of the door. Maybe something was wrong with him.

Sasuke drove to the orphanage, using what he remembered to get there. Instead of kids shooting water at each other (they must have been cold), they were playing a game of tag. All the kids were outside, Sasuke noticed, because when he went inside to look for the blond owner, there wasn't a single small head of hair except for Ino's and another lady's.

The new lady he had never seen before had long black hair, lavender colored eyes, and pale skin. She had on a light purple turtle neck and a dark pair of jeans. Purple sneakers covered her small feet as she walked from the kitchen to put plates of food on the table for the kids. She smiled at me when she noticed Sasuke was there.

"Hello Sasuke," she greeted, surprising him. She must have seen it, because she quickly added, "You don't have a clue who I am, do you?" He shook my head. "It's me, Hinata Hyuuga! Neji's older cousin. I used to be so shy that I would barely talk to anyone at the small gatherings and parties we held."

The teen thought about it for the moment before it finally clicked. "Oh, Hinata, the one who always stuttered and had shorter hair then. How long has it been since we last saw each other?" he asked, giving a small smile at her, who was shocked at his civil greeting towards her.

"U-uh, three years I think."

"Well it's nice to meet you after a long time. Um, where's Naruto? We're supposed to finish the roof today; we only finished half of it yesterday." He immediately asked about Naruto even though he was curious what Hinata was doing here.

"You just missed him," Ino said, making herself know. "He went to go pick up Kyuubi. He said that you can start on the roof if you want to, or you can us girls clean the house." He shuddered at the mention of cleaning, making the blond woman smirk.

"I'll be outside," Sasuke replied, wanting to get to work and have most of the shingles down before Naruto got back. Taki was playing with Kyo, rough housing with the fox and proving that he was stronger. The fox seemed to pout and turned away from the dog, nose in the air. Taki whined, wanting to get Kyo's attention, but that didn't seem to work. Getting fed up, Taki made his way towards Sasuke, barking and cooing at him as if telling on the fox.

Kyo turned around and angrily made his way towards the teen, barking and cooing also as if telling that Taki was wrong and needed to shut up. Taki growled at the fox and the two started fighting again, nipping at each other's heels and necks. Sasuke rolled his eyes and ignored them, climbing the ladder to the small attachment's roof and started on the roofing, nailing in the shingles.

It was about two hours later when Naruto came back home with a handsome redhead. The redhead had short, spiked hair, one blue eye and one green eye, and tan skin. A blue polio shirt covered his torso and wore baggy, navy green pants with a lot of pockets and zippers. Red high-tops covered his feet with black laces. Sasuke climbed down the ladder with his shirt pulled off, walking up to the blond and redhead.

"Ah, Sasuke! I see that you already started!" Naruto exclaimed, smiling brightly. The redhead looked at the raven with lust filled eyes and leaned on Naruto's shoulders with his elbow.

"And who's this Naruto? Your boy-toy?" the man asked with a smirk. Sasuke blushed along with Naruto. The blond punched the redhead lightly on the side and glared at the taller man. "Nice punch."

"Sasuke is not my boy-toy! He's my helper! Remember? I told you about him on the way home! Anyways! Sasuke, this is Kyuubi. Kyuubi, Sasuke," Naruto introduced them, annoyance in his voice. "Kyuubi is my foster brother before I lived with Iruka. He had gone to Alaska to take pictures of their wildlife and go fishing. Speaking of which, do you bring back any salmon?" He looked at Kyuubi in hope, inspecting him.

"Yes, but I thought you hated fish anything that involved the sea creatures," Kyuubi said, giving the blond a quizzical glance.

"I do, but it's for Kyo, he's loves fish and I promised him I would give him some. Now gimme!" Kyuubi rolled his eyes and started back to the small car Naruto drove, popping up the trunk with the blond's key and pulling out a small cooler before handing it to Naruto.

The blond snatched it out of his hands and ran towards Kyo, who was rolling and cooing in front of Taki, who was ignoring him, watching his master. As Naruto approached the two, Kyo jumped up on his feet and ran towards his own master.

"Hey Kyo, you hungry?" The fox barked happily and pranced around him as Naruto opened the cooler and took out two large salmon that were already gutted and heads severed off. Kyo snatched them from his master's hands and ran back to Taki, giving one to the dog. Taki sniffed at the fish before sneezing and giving Kyo a quizzical glare.

"You're supposed to eat it!" Kyo barked happily, scooting it closer to Taki with his nose. "It's good, I promise!" Taki huffed and took a bite out of it. He quickly spit it out and shook his head at the taste. He was defiantly not used to uncooked food. "Don't like it?"

"It's disgusting and uncooked!" Taki growled, moving the carcass away from him. His growling face soon softened at the fox's sad and down turned face. "But I'm glad you like it. I'm just not used to these kinds of foods. You go ahead and it them."

"Ok," Kyo cooed softly, laying next to the dog and digging into his fish, their sides flushed together.

Naruto giggled at the sight as he walked back to Sasuke, who was already back on the roof and continuing work. Joining him, Naruto took a hammer and several nails. "Do you ever wish you could talk to animals and understand what they're saying?"

Sasuke straightened and looked at the blond oddly. "I talk to my dog all the time, but I rather not know what he has to reply back with." He sighed at Naruto's silly question, before one of his own came up. "Naruto, how do you know Hinata?"

Naruto turned his head to look at the raven, who was looking back at him before nailing in several shingles. "She's been working here since last year. She said she needed the work and I gave it to her. I was surprised that Hinata Hyuuga wanted to work for me. Having all that money shouldn't be a problem for her, but she never really told me every thing."

The Hyuugas were a branch to the Uchiha Corp. and were just as famous as the Uchihas. The owner of the Hyuuga Industry was unknown, wanting to conceal himself and his wife as much as possible. But many think it might be Hinata's father, Neji's Uncle. But Sasuke wouldn't know.

"And what about Ino?"

"She was one of my foster sisters when I first went into foster care. I lived with her family for six years before hopping into one home to another. Some of them didn't have children and others did. She found out where I was five years ago and visited me time to time. Then after I told her about what I wanted to do with this place, she encouraged me. This place used to be rundown and had only two stories. But I built onto it over the years and Ino helped me. And now it has become into a real luxury home for homeless children and teenagers."

"Must have been a pain in the ass to fix this place." Sasuke whistled and put on the last shingle on his side of the roof. Naruto nodded and chuckled, almost finished with his side.

"Yeah, each day I would whine and say 'Oh my aching beam. I got so much pain in the joist, who wouldn't know?'" The blond burst into a small fit of laughter at his own words before calming down when the raven just looked at him like he was crazy. "Anyways… I love this place. It's been more like a home than any other home I've stayed at."

"How many foster homes have you lived in?"

"Let's see, I've lived with Ino for six years, making me eight when I moved into my second one. I lived with my second parents for three, making me eleven when I went to my third. I lived with them for four, then I went to live with Iruka until I moved out when I turned eighteen," Naruto said as he thought about it, nailing in the last shingle. "I stayed in a small apartment until I saw this dump and started to work on it with some help. And that's how it became a small orphanage. I've stayed here since then."

"So how many kids do you have here now?" Sasuke couldn't help himself with the questions; they just seem to flow out of his mouth like water out of a facet.

"Twelve, eight girls and four boys. The oldest of them is Yuki, he's 17. He's been helping out a lot around the house. And I think he's gay," Naruto whispered the last part, leaning toward the raven and looking around.

"Why do you say that?"

"He's been going out a lot with this guy named Shikamaru and he says they're just 'friends'. Then he comes home late at night with a small limp. And I don't think it's from a small trip down the stairs either. Should I be worried?"

Sasuke was surprised at the question and didn't know what to say. "Um, probably not. If they're together, they're together. If they aren't, they aren't. I don't know what else to say. You against homosexuality?"

"What? No! Of course not!" Naruto said defensively. "I'm gay myself!" Right after he said, his hands flew to his mouth, eyes widening. "I mean, oh shit…" he covered his face with his hands, not wanting to look at Sasuke, who also was surprised at the blond.

"You're gay?" the raven asked, amused at Naruto's actions. "Well that's not so surprising. I kinda already guessed it from all the talking you did yesterday."

"The why did you ask me if I was against homosexuality?!"

"Because maybe you are in denial. Are you?"

"No! I've had sex with plenty of guys! Shit, that came out wrong."

Sasuke chuckled as the blond embarrassed himself. "Are we finished with the attachment or what?" Sasuke changed the subject, not wanting the man to bust a nerve or something. "Cause it seems like we've finished the roofing, anything else we need to do on it?"

Naruto was grateful for the change of subject and the blush on his face disappeared. "No, we finished it; for the outside. On the inside, we gotta put the flooring in and paint the walls. Then we have to move my stuff from the den to the new room."

Ah, so that's why he wants it done quickly, it's his new room. Meaning more kids was coming soon. "Ok, shall we get to it? It's only three-thirty. Or we can get lunch really quick since we skipped it. Plus I didn't have breakfast." Sasuke blushed lightly, almost hard to see if you weren't observant, looking away sheepishly. Damn, he never acted like this before and neither did he want to. The blond just brought the nice side out of him.

"I'm kinda hungry myself, so let's get lunch." Naruto's stomach growled just after he said that, blushing at his stomach's whining for food. Sasuke's stomach responded to the growling and the two stomachs seemed to be communicating to each other. "Listen, our stomachs are talking to each other. And it hurts." Naruto grabbed his stomach at the hunger pains, getting hungrier by each passing moment.

The two boys ran inside into the kitchen and fixed themselves up a nice big sub-sandwich to split between them. Ino laughed as the boys gobbled up the sandwich hungrily. Hinata blushed and giggled, while the kids around them cheered them on. It soon became an eating contest and the two boys started to eat faster, trying to see who can finish their half of the sub first. The girls voted for Sasuke as the guys cheered for Naruto. And in the end, Naruto won. But not without its side affects.

Naruto clutched his stomach in pain as his stomach tried to digest the not so well chew up food. Sasuke's stomach did the same, never having to do that in his life. So he was in more pain than the blond. Ino laughed her ass off at the two boys in pain, Hinata handing them both a class of cranberry juice. The boys chugged them down, trying to not let it become a drinking contest.

"That was awesome Naruto," the kid with blue that Sasuke met yesterday said. The boy and the blond high-fived each other. "And Sasuke, you suck." Sasuke glared lightly at the boy and the bluenette scrambled behind Naruto.

"Don't pester him Sora. There's a first for everything," the blond man said with a wide grin. Sora chuckled at the raven's angry glare towards Naruto and quickly left the safety of the blond to bound up stairs. "So, shall we get started on the floor and paint?"

"Yeah," Sasuke sighed, fallowing after the blond into the new attachment. There was no door put up yet to the new room and no light fixture, except for the bulb. "Good, you did the wiring for the room before I got here. I have no idea how to work electronics."

"Well I'm glad I did too. Now let's get started on the walls first and save the floor last."

Sasuke nodded and watched as the blond walked out of the room to grab two gallons of pain and a stick to mix up the paint all by himself without trouble. This made Sasuke want to drool at the blond and watch the muscles work underneath the tan skin. But he restrained himself and stirred the pain while Naruto went to go get the paint brushes. He came back not too long after with two paint brushes and two rollers.

After having the paint stirred, Naruto pored some of the light orange pain into one of those things you put pain in so you can roll you roller into (I have no idea what they're called) and rolled his roller into the pain before running over the walls. Sasuke fallowed the example and went up and down with it. When they reached the corners, they used their paint brush to get the pain evenly in them. Done with all the corners, they waited two hours for the paint to dry before putting another coating on it.

Sasuke had no idea why they were putting on another coat, but soon learned afterwards that it gives it more of its original color than one coat of paint. It was eight when they finished the painting and Naruto asked if the raven want to help put the border around the room with him. Of course Sasuke couldn't resist the smile and nodded a yes as his answer.

The border was painted a darker orange before being nailed onto the bottom of the wall and around the area where the door would be. Sasuke couldn't understand why anyone would want to pain their room orange, but kept his mouth shut. It was then Sasuke realized something was wrong.

"Naruto, shouldn't we have put the floor in before putting in the border?"

Naruto looked around the room at Sasuke's question before blushing sheepishly. "Dammit, you're right. Well, we can do that tomorrow. It's already nine-o-five. You can go now."

"Ok, thanks. I'll see you tomorrow." The raven said good-bye to the blond and slowly walked to his car, not wanting to leave the homey atmosphere. But he was soon at his car and driving home.

At home, he was greeted with Itachi talking to their father, who was angrily whispering something back. But it soon disappeared when Sasuke walked into the room. Itachi was anti-emotional as usual at his father's angry scowl. Straightening his hair and suit, Fugaku gave his son a fake smile and greeted him.

"Welcome back Sasuke, how was your day?"

"Tiring. And what are you two fighting about? Whatever it is, fix it and don't take it out on me," the raven warned, walking up to his room. It was then that he remembered something. Taki was still at the orphanage. "Shit… oh well, Naruto'll take care of him."

Taking a quick shower, Sasuke dressed into a new pair of boxers and snuggled into his blankets, quickly falling asleep. Tomorrow is a big day.

A/N: here's chapter two. I hope you like it. sorry about it being late, the document management wasn't working.