Chapter 3; what a glorious and monumental achievement. 3...as in "threesome." this threesome of chapters might just wind up breaking the mold for all other threesomes...

...I'll stop now. That was just getting weird. Anyway, chapter 3!!!!!

XxXF-Flashback XxXEF-End Flashback XxXFW-Foreword XxXP-Present Time XxXS-pov switch XxXTL-Time Lapse

I couple these things up a bunch.

"Zetsu's other half"

Reader beware, there's boy love down there.

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The flat was stifling. Simply stifling. The kind of stifling the makes the ocean pale in comparison to the sweat dripping off of your back. Sai was seated in a chair three feet from the bed where Sasuke lay. Sasuke had a bandage around his left arm from the bullet it received. He was currently shirtless though. Sai was reading a book and occasionally remarking about some quirk or flaw in the plot or characters.

Sai looked up from his book. "I do think my master has been very kind to you, don't you think?" He said, smiling. "To have hooked us up with such accommodations as these...It's simply marvelous." His tone was almost sarcastic. He snapped the book shut. "What are you trying to achieve? What is your purpose, Sasuke; your drive for living?" he said, drastically changing the topic of his monologue.

Sasuke was silent and stared at the spinning ceiling fan. It undulated and twisted to drive back the heat. The blades of the fan were just that—blades. If Sasuke locked onto one of the blades with his eyes, he could see that they were serrated down to the very ring that held them together. He suspected that it was the weapon that Zetsu used in battle. It looked efficient enough, and probably had a boomerang effect to it. But to use it as a ceiling fan?...

"Sasuke?" Sai asked, leaning forward in his chair.

Sasuke turned his head toward him, his eyes taking on a slight burgundy hue. "My purpose? My drive for living? What I'm trying to achieve? Revenge, to answer all three of your questions. Now go back to your book, unless you don't want eyes to read with."

Sai just smiled and turned his head to the side. "Okay." Sai opened the book up to the exact page he was on before. His eyes drifted down to the page before he was lost inside of it.

A knock on the door sounded, and it opened to reveal the man who had taken them in. Zetsu walked into the room carrying a tray in his arms. He had on a long black cloak with three red stripes running down the middle of it. The stripes on the left and right sides branched off to run down the sleeves. Zetsu's skin was pale green, which made him look as if he was sick.

"Time for your medicine, Sasuke" Zetsu said. "This is the last bunch." Zetsu had a split personality. Which didn't matter much to Sasuke or Sai.

When they had arrived two days ago at Zetsu's door, he was less than happy to see them. In fact, Sasuke had had to explain that Konan sent them to keep his head from getting chopped off. Once they were inside, they had to walk around numerous bones hanging from the ceiling. Sai asked what they were for, so Zetsu pulled one and a Baretta fell down from the ceiling pointed at the door. He pulled another one and the TV in a corner of the room turned on. He pulled it again to turn it off.

He had taken care of Sasuke's arm first, pulling the bullet out of his arm and then wrapping bandages around his arm. Once finished with that, he had given Sasuke medicine which made him immediately fall asleep.

"He'll need the rest." Zetsu had said to Sai. "He does look like the stubborn type, he'd probably rush out of here tomorrow without the wound healing if we hadn't administered the drug."

"Drug?" Sai had asked.

"Yes, the drug; otherwise he'd still be awake now."

So now here Zetsu was, walking into the room with his tray of medication.

"I don't need anymore. I feel perfectly fi--" his sentence was cut off as Zetsu's hand invaded his mouth. Zetsu pushed the pills to the back of his mouth, and Sasuke's body instinctively swallowed them. Zetsu removed his hand.

"Bastard." Sasuke said, wiping some saliva off of his chin.

"It's for your own good, idiot." Zetsu turned and smiled to Sai before he walked out of the room.

Once the door closed, Sai was left looking at a rapidly falling asleep Sasuke.

"Sasuke?" he tempted, to see if the man could still respond.

"What?" Sasuke replied.

"Do you remember when we first met?"

For the first time in a long time, Sasuke smiled. "How could I forget?"

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Sasuke ran out of the big black car as soon as it stopped. He waited for his blond-headed best friend to get out of the car before he grabbed his hand and pulled him up the steps toward the large mansion. Naruto protested a bit, but Sasuke ignored him. He was just too happy to be visiting his friends Nagato and Yahiko again. It had been almost a whole month since he had last seen them, and he was eager to show them Naruto. He hadn't been able to bring Naruto the last time he had visited them, because Naruto had been on vacation. Sasuke remembered the quick flash of sadness that had come over him when he heard that Naruto couldn't come, but that was all in the past now.

"C'mon, Naruto!" he said, dragging the blond up the steps and to the front door. He raised his free hand and banged on the door loudly. "C'mon, let us in already!!" he pressed the call button to the right side of the door. "C'mon!"

A voice fizzled in through the speaker above the button. "Oh, Master Sasuke, is that you?" Master Sasuke. Sasuke loved it when the butlers called him that. They did so because he was at the mansion so often that they viewed him as one of the family.

"Yeah! Could you let us in?" he asked, eager to get inside.

"Us?" came the voice again.

"I brought my friend Naruto!" he answered. Naruto yelled out from behind him. "Hi!"

"Oh, all right. I'm unlocking the door now."

Sasuke opened the door as soon as the butler had finished talking. The door swung open, and Sasuke ran inside still holding onto Naruto's hand. The were in the front room of the mansion now, and Sasuke yelled for his friends. "Yahiko! Nagato!"

Almost immediately the sound of feet pounding on marble filled Sasuke an Naruto's ears. "Sasuke!"

Sasuke was looking up at the top of the stairs expectantly, so Naruto followed his gaze just in time to catch thew sight of two kids appearing at the top of the stairs. One of the kids had a head full of bright orange hair, the other's hair was dark black.

The kids bounded down the stairs and each of them called out Sasuke's name as they pounced on him. That made Naruto feel a little weird, made him feel like he didn't want them to be on Sasuke.

"Hey guys!" Sasuke cried out. "It's been like a month."

Yahiko and Nagato both sat up on him. "Yeah," the orange-haired boy said, "and you didn't call or send us any email or anything." Nagato decided to chime in: "Yeah, we kinda wondered what you were doing 'cause whenever we called or sent you something you never replied back."

"Sorry, I was spending most of my time with..." Sasuke's eyes widened, and he pushed the brothers off of him. He got up and ran the few steps over to Naruto, lacing his fingers through Naruto's right hand, which he then proceeded to lift up into the air. "Guys, I want you to meet my best friend Naruto!"

Hi Naruto!" said the orange haired boy, "I'm Yahiko!" He pointed to the black-haired boy. "This is my brother Nagato!"

Naruto took his hand out of Sasuke's and put both of his hands behind his head. "Hi!...Hey, do you guys have any ramen here?" He asked innocently.

"Yeah! We could get the butlers to make some for you. Hey, come on and see our game room!" Yahiko said, turning and motioning for Naruto to follow.

"Okay!" Naruto said, and he and the brothers ran up the steps, leaving Sasuke standing alone in the entrance hall.

As Sasuke stood there, he was just thinking how great it was the brothers instantly liked Naruto. They could be pretty picky at times with who they hung out with. A couple minutes passed, and then he realized he was all alone.

"Hey guys, wait for me!" he shouted, running up the right staircase. Just as he turning the corner at the top of the stairs, he bumped into someone, head-on. He closed his eyes from the impact. Then, the feeling of something soft against his lips registered into his brain, and he opened his eyes. Sasuke was looking into the long lashes of a boy with luscious black hair. The boys lips were pressed against Sasuke's own; and they just stood there for a minute, not fully registering what had happened—until Naruto bounded out of the room ten feet from where they stood frozen.

As Naruto looked upon the scene, something hit him, smacked him in the face. Sasuke shouldn't be kissing the other boy, his brain screamed at him. He shouldn't be kissing anyone!

Naruto walked forward and pulled the two ravens heads apart. Sasuke blinked at him, and then regained his posture. The other boy still looked a little frazzled.

"What were you doing?" asked Naruto.

Sasuke looked at him. "I was just rounding the corner at the top of the stairs when...he bumped into me.

The other boy finally recovered and broke into a huge smile. "Hi, I'm Sai, nice to meet you."

Sasuke looked at him, and then he laughed. "Hi, I'm Sasuke and this is Naruto."

Sai's smile grew wider. "Sorry about that. I was kinda in a hurry."

"It's nothing; I was kinda in a rush too. I gotta be going though."

Sai walked past them. "Okay, see you later then."

Naruto hated what he was seeing and hearing. Both of them were just talking and acting like nothing had happened. That made Naruto even angrier—didn't the jerk realize he had just taken Sasuke's first kiss? Naruto wanted to...make bad stuff happen to him for that.

Sasuke, noticed Naruto shaking and said: "What's wrong?"

Naruto calmed down. "Nothing." his face lit back up. "C'mon to the game room! There's bunches of ramen and cool stuff in there!!" Now the situation was reversed, and Naruto was dragging Sasuke.

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"You took forever to recover from that, Sai." Sasuke said, drowsiness pulling at his eyelids.

"It was my first kiss you know." Sai grinned.

"What did you have to do after that?"

"Hm? Oh, I had to be inaugurated as an official butler for the family." Sai answered, but Sasuke didn't hear him, he was already out on the bed. Sai saw this, and went back to his book. Sasuke would never know, but he would always be there, watching over him.

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Sai stretched himself over the sleeping Sasuke, letting his weight rest on him. He matched his breath to the sleeping Sasuke's, lowering his heartbeat so that it would not wake him up. He raised a hand to trace along Sasuke's face. His pale fingers brushed the raven locks, and he rested his hand at the back of Sasuke's head. He used his other hand to travel down Sasuke's body. Once his hand had reached a nipple, he rubbed it, and got the satisfaction of Sasuke moaning in his sleep. Sasuke's mouth opened, and he exhaled a large breath. Sai looked at Sasuke's open mouth as it closed, wondering if those lips were just as soft as he remembered. Yes, it had been a little over ten years ago, but Sai would never completely forget the quaint feel of Sasuke's lips against his own. He had wanted to have that feeling again for too long now. Sai rubbed his nipple again, causing Sasuke's mouth to open once more. While he hand the chance, Sai lowered his head and plunged his tongue into Sasuke's mouth. He tasted wonderful. Sai explored him fully, mapping out every single edge of that beautiful cavern. He kissed Sasuke to him, pressing himself onto him more, causing Sasuke's eyes to snap open.

Sasuke took one second to register Sai on top of him and in his mouth, then he snaked his right arm between them and flung Sai off of him. Sai crashed into the table, but he didn't stop there: he hit the wall back-first. The indent Sai made in the wall was the size of an office desk. Plaster rained down to the floor, and Sai's body convulsed as it hit the floor.

"What the fuck were you doing, Sai?" Sasuke asked, wiping off his chin from where some of Sai's spit still remained. Sai coughed, and then sat up, holding his chest.

"I think the real question here is how did you get so strong?" Sai said, half smiling.

"Don't fucking avoid the question." Though it was true. Sasuke couldn't have normally thrown Sai like that.

Sai coughed again. "Well, we were reminiscing about when we first met, I just thought--"

"That what? I liked that? It was funny. An event. It's not a life-long dream to be pursued...Shit, Now we'll have to wait for your ribs to heal. One more setback." Sasuke was fishing for a shirt when Zetsu came through the door.

"What happened?" he asked. "What the fuck's up with the noise?"

"Nothing." Sasuke said, finding a shirt and putting it on.

The doorbell rang. Zetsu turned. "Finally. Sasuke, come with me." Sasuke got up and followed Zetsu to the front door. Zetsu opened it, and a strange sight met Sasuke's eyes.

A man with blue skin stood in front of him. He was dressed in a long black cloak and wore blood black boots. He carried a large sword on his back, and had gills on either side of his neck.

"Zetsu; long time no see."

"Kisame." Zetsu acknowledged him.

"I brought what you asked for." He took a large package out from underneath his cloak.

"Thank you."

Sasuke was still staring at the man, who finally noticed. "Don't ask how, Sasuke Uchiha. There's a lot to this world you have no idea about."

"Shut it." Zetsu said. Kisame laughed. "All right."

"Are you staying. Kisame?" Zetsu asked. Sasuke half hoped he was, just to give him the chance to try to figure out what he was.

"Nope; sorry. But I should tell you, Itachi's men are on the way here." He waved. He walked a few steps away from the door, and then suddenly, and disturbingly vanished into thin air.

Sasuke was frozen. Partly because of then man's disappearing act, and partly because of the mention of his brothers name. Well, mostly because of the mention of his brothers name.

"There's no time to be shocked, Sasuke, you have to leave." Zetsu said. Sasuke nodded, and then headed back into the room where Sai had propped himself up into a chair. Sasuke finally regained himself.

"Those broken ribs will have to wait, Sai." Sai looked up at him in confusion.

"We're leaving now."

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Woot, another chapter out...but I do believe that I'm evil. I mean, a cliffhanger?

Anyway, till next time!! R&R!