A/N– Sorry for the wait. Sometimes I forget how much I love writing.

Summary- Naruto is not like everyone thinks he is, he hides his true self from everybody. The few who know about the real him know very little. When various events force Naruto to spend time with his team mates in situations outside of the norm he finds it hard to keep up the act.

Parings- SasuNaru, some KakaIru others not decided.

Rating- very much an R rated fic

Warning- sexual situations, foul language, self mutilation, attempted suicide, a very OOC

Sasuke. And bitchy Sakura!

*EXTRA WARNING THERE IS LEMON IN THIS CHAPTER!*

The lemon is not super descriptive so I don't get in trouble…

Spoilers- for anyone who is not up to date on the manga up – – that's so not true now its kinda funny.

Disclaimer– this chapter is for me, sometimes you need to do things for you. Sometimes they hurt you as much as they will someday help.

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Red Walkways

Chapter Twenty

Color Blind

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It was a moment in time that Kyuubi thought would never come. Time exist not in a line but as many dots in a cloud. For this fox his one special dot that could release all his pain had been lost in the mist. For years he was sitting on the side of the road waiting for his ride to relief not knowing the road wasn't a strait line.

But the meandering of the pavement did help him arrive here in the most unlikely way.

Karasu stood in the middle of the room of the Sand inn. His normal aura of calm filling the room to the brim, even more so then normal like he was trying to make sure Kyuubi would want him still. As if there was any doubt… but his lover didn't know why he never came to save him.

Kyuubi took a step forward slowly away from the door.

"Karasu…"

The Raven look down at the floor for a moment.

"Kyuubi…"

His voice betrayed all his fears and doubts.

"I didn't mean to lose you, I would of searched for you if I could have… then I thought you were dead." Kyuubi blurted out not knowing how to explain.

Karasu let out a breath, his fox still wanted him he could tell. With his worst fear under the carpet he plunged forward. With a movement faster then any human he launched himself at Kyuubi slamming him back against the door making it shake on its hinges.

Kyuubi waited for the punch he knew was coming. The warm lips that met him were not what he had expected. He froze for a short moment thinking it was all in his head. When the lips moved he was shocked back to reality.

Suddenly all the pent up emotion in the fox burst out in the almost violent action of pushing Karasu across the room until he fell onto the bed.

Kyuubi press his mouth to his ravens so hard he knew it must hurt him, but the pain was welcomed because it proved he was there.

Karasu felt warm tears hit his cheeks, he pressed back harder against the painful kiss, I'm here…

Kyuubi felt himself being flipped over and let it happen. With the raven on top the kiss ended slowly.

The dark eyes looked down into warm red. Karasu's tears and Kyuubi's both running down his cheeks, mingling as they rolled, allowing their pain to come together.

Karasu raised his fist and slammed it down on Kyuubi's chest, the fox let him. Then again the raven struck out, and again. Faster he pounded on his lovers chest until he was hysterical, crying, sobbing, pounding… screaming.

"I would understand if you hated me…" Kyuubi said softly through the yelling, but he knew he would be heard.

Karasu stopped and looked long and hard… "you know I can't even if I wanted to."

Kyuubi gave a small smile for the man on top of him.

"I will explain everything, but I need to ask you to wait until we get back to Konoha because Naruto disserves this explanation as much as you do… just know that I love you, I want you and I always will, it wasn't my choice to leave you back then…"

Karasu nodded "Ok, I can wait as long as all those things are true."

Kyuubi smiled again, then gently reached up and pulled the smaller one to his chest, no more words were needed. There was nothing sexual about their action, it was so much more to just hold each other.

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Sasuke and Naruto sat in the next room over to their bond mates. They tried the best they could to block their minds to give the two demons some privacy. The only reason they were in the next room was Sasuke was still unable to be to far from Karasu in this early state of the bond.

They sat in an awkward silence. The moment they left their demons in the other room both couldn't think of anything but what they might be doing.

The silence was broken by a loud bang and the shaking of the door frame one room over.

"I guess it was a warm reunion…" Naruto half joked.

Sasuke let out a half grunt half laugh in response.

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The next morning there was a warmth besides him that filled every part of his body with light and happiness. Reaching out with his hand he put it on the head resting on his chest. The silky dark locks ran over and under his fingers like warm water.

The one still sleeping let out a sigh of contentment as he reached up and covered the hand on his head with his own pale one.

Naruto looked down at the midnight eyes…

Karasu looked up into red ones…

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Naruto felt more in that moment when his eyes connected to Sasuke's then he had since he was a child. He knew that it was far from what he should be feelings, he still had a mental block of some sort. But after this moment he was determined to confront what was behind the door when he got home so he could make the boy on his chest his forever.

Sasuke gave a half smile up at the blond. For the first time he wasn't embarrassed to wake up with Naruto in bed with him. At this point he gave in to his feelings, what ever Naruto gave him, he would take and try to be content.

"We must have fallen asleep waiting." Sasuke mumbled still drowsy.

Naruto nodded, neither made a move to get up.

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Kyuubi was happy… he was normally settled or amused, sometimes mildly happy when Naruto was involved. But for the first time in many years he was content. He smiled at the eyes looking up at him.

"What are you grinning about?" Karasu smiled back, he already knew the answer.

"You" Kyuubi answered anyway.

Karasu reached up with both arms and rapped them around his fox's neck and let his cheek rest back on his chest. "I don't want to get up…" he murmured.

Kyuubi slid his hands that were resting on the ravens back down to cup his ass. "Then lets not." He responded.

The raven felt pleasure he had been missing for so many years cause a shiver to run down his spine. Kyuubi felt his own body start to respond when his felt his smaller partner shiver.

Karasu moved one of his hands from around the red heads neck and slid it to rest on his cheek, raising his head he looked into red eyes for a long moment. He found what he was looking for and slowly slid up the tan body below him bringing his lips to rest on Kyuubi's.

The moment they touched lighting struck both bodies. The distance Karasu moved to Kiss the fox was enough to have their hard erections press into each other.

The kiss became hard and needy, Kyuubi pressed his tongue against Karasu's teeth until the raven let him in. at that moment Kyuubi flipped the pair devouring his bird like a fox should.

Both demons could feel that their hold on the block between their minds and their bond mates was slowly falling, the pleasure making them lose control.

Kyuubi put that thought in the back of his mind and ground into his lovers hardness. Karasu arced off the bed in a way that could only be described as beautiful.

Shirts were gone and the feeling of their skin touching almost made both finish right then. Rushing to feel whole again Karasu reached down and started to untie his own pants, Kyuubi pushed his hands away and cut the pants with his claw before doing the same to his own.

Kyuubi pushed himself up to remove the offending cloth , when they were both free he lowered him self slowly… the first contact was like fire, as he added weight it felt like hot coal pressing, a pain in the best possible way.

The block was slipping farther…

Karasu couldn't wait, foreplay tossed to the side, the moment Kyuubi was settled Karasu opened his legs causing his fox to slide down and line up at his entrance.

Kyuubi was worried they were going to fast, that he was going to hurt the other man. Karasu threw everything away and pressed himself down. Their connection was like an explosion, a wonderful mix of pain and pleasure.

And the block fell between their minds…

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Sasuke and Naruto were still in bed and still in the same position.

For sometime they felt like something was going on with their bond mates, but the block held and neither thought much of it. Both were silent having nothing important enough to say to break the wonderful moment.

Sasuke was resting his cheek on Naruto's chest looking off into the room while Naruto was still on his back studying the ceiling.

Then like a volcano blowing out its sides rather then the top a feeling like nothing Naruto and Sasuke could even imagine slammed into them. Love Greater then over 500 years and … Pleasure.

So much Pleasure. The boy found each others eyes like magnets, and they couldn't look away.

Sasuke felt like his face was on fire , he was on top of the boy he liked feeling love and lust that weren't his own while also being as hard as a rock. Judging by the redness on the blonds face, he was on a similar thought path.

"We should get up…" Naruto whispered in a husky voice he didn't mean to use.

"Yeah…" Sasuke agreed…

Neither moved for a moment, then all at once the both darted off the bed trying not to let the other see their erection. Naruto ran into the bathroom leaving Sasuke alone in the main room.

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The demons were sweaty and panting, the larger one slack on top of the smaller.

"That was good…" Karasu breathed out.

Kyuubi could only nod.

They drifted into a nap.

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And hour later they woke to pounding and yelling from the room next door. Their demon hearing making it that much louder.

"Naruto! Open the door!" Sasuke's yell went right through the wall.

Both demons were confused…

"NO!" Was the blonds reply.

"Come one your going to be late to your mission!" Sasuke tried to use the mission as bate.

"NOOOO!"

The demons could almost see the Uchiha sigh.

"It wasn't that bad…." Sasuke didn't sound very convincing.

"IT WAS! I can never look at you or them again!" Naruto threw back.

At that moment the demons understood, and they laughed… they laughed hard.

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When I was young I read love stories… I dreamed that one day I would find a love true and pure and I would be happy.

When I was 17 I fell in love for the first time, and it ended. Life got in the way. His career over the affection.

In the stories love was the most important thing… in reality that is often not the case.

But that first love never stops haunting you.

Tsunade looked out her window…

On the street a white haired man walked talking with the elders.

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A/N– sooooo… sorry for the wait. I am in school again. For animation and game art! So I have been a bit over booked.