A/N: Hellllllllllloooooooooooo! I'm back! And I feel so much better! I apologize that I was away for a while. Being sick blows but now I'm all better. In order to make it up to you guys I'm posting chapters 8 and 9! Whoohoo! Just to be clear it's Thursday night in the story. Naruto has been out of it since Monday. Like I said I'm going to try to pick the pace up without missing any information. I'm not going to keep you guys so here is Chapter 8!

Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto in any way, shape, or form. It belongs to Masashi Kishimoto. I don't write for any profit.

Warnings: it's a yaoi, which means boyxboy. I'm not twisting your arm to read this story so if you feel that this isn't your style, don't read. As the story progresses, there will emotional, psychological, verbal, and maybe physical abuse.

Rating: T for right now but it might change and I'll put any warning in each chapter if there is any.

Pairings: For now it's SasukexNaruto but at one point or other it will turn into ItachixNaruto. Other pairings will be added as the story goes on.

"Talking"

'Thinking' or 'Text message'

Flashbacks and memories

Chapter VIII

Pein and Kisame stared at Itachi. They both knew the circumstances surrounding the elder Uchiha. After that night, Itachi left the town, and sought them out. The trio weren't exactly what some would call friends, but they could tolerate each other.

Kisame came from a neighboring town. He didn't have any parents or relatives, living on the streets wasn't easy but he did what he had to survive. His looks didn't help either. Kisame was a man with a huge build with hair that was short spikes that had a blue tint to it and skin was a sickly bluish color. He had small black eyes that look like they were sunken in and under his eyes were there cut marks that were deep and somewhat resembled gills. Also his teeth were pointed.

Pein on the other hand had an interesting look about him. He was had a muscular but lean build with short orange hair that spiked out in different directions. His eyes were like ripples and seemed hypnotic. There were six piercing going through his nose, with three on each side. Each of his ears held seven piercings including an industrial, he also had two studs below his bottom lip. Even with fifteen piercings, Pein was quite attractive.

Kisame spoke "Itachi-san, you've been away for a long time. By stepping out, you'll probably cause an uproar" he chuckled.

"Exactly" Pein said "And as for me, how would I go about finding that bastard Orochimaru? He can be hard to find when he doesn't want to be found"

Looking at the two, all Itachi said was "I don't care, Find him".

Far from the suburb where he spent his life, Sasuke was now in a seedy apart of town. If it wasn't for him wanting to kill his other brother, there would be no way in hell that Sasuke would have come here. But he was told he could get stronger by going with Orochimaru.

Sasuke could never compete with his older brother but all that would change. He left Sasuke to grow up alone. Alone in that house where the silence was deafening and the memories were all too vivid. In exchange for forcing him to grow up by himself, Sasuke would take his life.

Orochimaru was at one time an important person in his small town, but he didn't like how things were running and killed the councilman, Sarutobi Hiruzen, who was apparently Orochimaru's teacher when he was in school. After that, he fled the town and nobody's heard or seen him since. Sasuke wasn't interested in his back story. All that mattered is that he promised Sasuke that he would be able to kill Itachi.

The building he was in looked more shady than the town itself. It was rundown on the outside but the only way one could tell it was there was if they knew where it was. On the inside, there were leaky pipes, and the hallways were dimly lit. The air felt bone-chilling. Being in this building gave off the feeling that no matter where you were inside, there was always someone watching you.

It was rage, pain, loneliness that had Sasuke seated across from this man.

"Sasuke-kun" a voice that make Sasuke sick, said "I'm glad you came to me."

"Hn" came Sasuke's reply.

"You'd be wise not to show your disrespect" a third voice said

Sasuke looked over to the owner of the voice.

The man looked around Sasuke's age with grey hair pull into a short ponytail and wore glasses. In Sasuke's eyes, this man was nothing.

"Kabuto" Orochimaru said. At the sound of his name being called, Kabuto stilled. Orochimaru didn't say anything else to him. He didn't need to.

Pushing up his glasses with his middle finger, Kabuto apologized "Forgive me, Orochimaru-sama"

Sasuke resisted the urge to roll his eyes. Wanting to get out of this man's presence, he spoke

"So exactly how are you going to help me?"

Orochimaru gave a sickening chuckle saying "Well, I know how much you want to kill you brother so I'll teach you some of the methods I know."

Sasuke looked at him. Everything about this man was off. His skin was disgustingly pale, sure so was Sasuke's, but where Sasuke looks normal, this man's skin was almost grey. His eyes were a golden hue, with purple-like makeup around them.

"What do you want in return? I highly doubt that you're doing this for free" Sasuke said. This man really got under his skin.

Licking his lips, Orochimaru replied "What I want is you, Sasuke-kun"

'He is fucking gross, but I'll play along until I decide to kill him' Sasuke thought. After a minute of thinking Sasuke responded "Fine."

In the hospital, Naruto looked at Tsunade with eyes the size of saucers. He wasn't sure he heard her correctly.

"W-What did you say?" he stuttered

Quietly the older blonde said "It's Thursday evening. You've been unconscious this whole time. Naruto, you lost a good amount of blood. So much that we had to do a blood transfusion"

Everything seemed to stop moving at that point. Nothing made sense anymore. Sasuke had gone to the extent of hurting him so bad that he ending up in the hospital and for what? Sasuke wasn't one to do anything without reason, but in this case Naruto didn't know what the reason was. What had driven Sasuke to do this?

Once again tears found their way down his cheeks. It seemed that lately he was crying but he didn't know what else to do.

Tsunade saw the tears and gently hugged Naruto. Seeing him like this was too much. She felt his body shaking in her arms. In a mother-like fashion she slowly stroked his hair and whispered "Shh, it'll be okay, Naruto. I promise. You have people who love you. Me, Iruka, Kakashi, and your friends who came to visit you. We're all here for you and we'll support you ok?"

Fearing that if he spoke, his voice would crack, Naruto silently nodded. They stayed like that for a few more moments, when Naruto pulled out the hug said "Baa-chan, I'll be okay now" wiping his tears.

"Are you sure?"

Smiling his usual foxy grin, the blonde answered "Yeah"

Tsunade smiled back and asked "Well there are a few people who are waiting impatiently outside. Are you up to seeing them?"

Naruto's grin dimmed a little "I don't know what to say to them."

Tsunade could see why he would be hesitant. Standing up she said "Don't worry, I told them not to weigh you down with too many questions." She offered Naruto a smile as she walked out and told everyone they could come see him.

As she walked out, Naruto's friends came in and stood around his bed. Naruto looked down trying to avoid their faces. Ino spoke first "Ah, Naruto I brought you some flowers from my family's shop"

Looking up, he gave her a small smile "Thank you Ino-chan"

"N-Naruto-kun, how a-are you f-feeling?" Hinata said. It was hard on her to see Naruto like this. When she heard what happened, the poor girl had a panic attack.

"I've been better, but you know this isn't anything!" he said.

Shikamaru looked at Naruto. 'There he goes with that obnoxious tone'. It was clear that Naruto was putting up a front.

"Geez fox-boy" Kiba chimed in, scratching his head "You had us worried. Especially the girls"

Neji joined in "Yes Naruto, you caused quite the stir"

Feeling embarrassed, Naruto said "I'm sorry guys. I didn't think that it would have gotten this far. Thing got out of control"

Frowning Kiba said "Out of control? Are you serious?"

All eyes on him now. "Naruto, I can't believe that still have that kind of attitude"

Naruto looked him in the eyes and spoke "what are you talking about?"

"Really? How can you be calm in your position?"

"Look" Naruto said, not really wanting the conversation to go this way "I'm not saying what Sasuke did was right but-"

Kiba, ready to explode retorted "Oh my god. Are you going to make excuses for him every time he wants to be an asshole?"

Naruto getting angry replied "Kiba, this has nothing to do with you. Whatever happened between Sasuke and I, is our business and I'll deal with it"

Now almost yelling, Kiba responded "Do you understand how worried we were? How worried Iruka-sensei and Kakashi-sensei were? You won't let us help! Are we even friends anymore?!"

Blues widened.

"Kiba that's enough" Shikamaru intervened. This was getting too close. The room went quiet. Naruto looked down and his hands and how they had little nicks and cut on them from the glass. Shikamaru felt the need to take control of the situation now.

"Both of you are annoying" Shikamaru said lazily "Kiba you were going too far. We're all still friends. And Naruto, you don't understand how concerned we were"

Ino sat on the edge of his bed and took his hands in hers and gently said "Naruto, you have to understand how we feel. You are our friend and you're important to us. We never expected to see you in this condition and hurts. We just want to help you"

Looking at his friends faces, Naruto saw just how concerned they were. He wasn't being fair to them. Here they were trying to comfort him, and he was trying to ignore it. Lightly squeezing Ino's hands he said "I'm sorry. It's just I don't know how everything came to this, and I'm so confused."

Hinata, sitting in the chair Tsunade previously occupied "D-Don't worry N-Naruto-kun. We'll b-be by your side n-no matter w-what"

Huffing Kiba joined in "I'm sorry too"

Feeling a lot better Naruto smiled "Thanks you guys!"

A knock on the door came before Kakashi and Iruka walked in.

"Yo" came Kakashi's greeting. In his hand was another one of his porno books. Naruto couldn't figure out why he enjoyed reading those books, but he just filed in under Kakashi being a pervert.

"Naruto!" Iruka said. These three days had been torture for him. He stayed with Naruto at the hospital, since he had been admitted, hoping and praying that the light of his life would pull through.

Placing a small peck on a cheek, Ino got up and said "Well, I think we better get going. Naruto we'll come see you later okay?"

Sounding chirper Naruto replied "Of course Ino-chan!" with that his five friends left, leaving Naruto with his two surrogate parents.

Kakashi, letting Iruka take the chair, leaned against the wall with his book opened but not actually reading it. He wanted to know exactly what happened but could guess bits and pieces of what driven Sasuke to do what he did.

"So" Iruka asked "Are you feeling any better?"

"A little" Naruto said. Placing a hand on his stomach he said "But I'm really hungry! I don't want to eat nasty hospital food. I've been out for three days. Three days without ramen!" he pouted

Laughing Iruka said "Naruto, you can't live off that stuff forever. You have to eat more healthy foods"

"Yes, like vegetables" Kakashi chimed in.

Sticking his tongue out, Naruto exclaimed "yuck!" as if on cue, his stomach rumbled.

Slightly blushing, the blonde looked at Iruka with puppy dog eyes "Iruka-sensei, can you get me some ramen?"

Standing up Iruka smiled "I won't get you ramen, but I'll get you some food from the cafeteria"

"Please?" Naruto practically begged. Looking at him, Iruka was defeated. He could resist to those ocean blue eyes.

"Ah, fine". Iruka left leaving only Kakashi and Naruto.

Kakashi was waiting for the question he knew Naruto was going to ask. It never ceases to amaze the grey-haired man how far the blonde would go for the Uchiha.

"Kakashi-sensei" Naruto said in a low voice.

'Here it comes' he thought "What is it?"

Naruto was quiet for a second. "Do you know about Sasuke's…childhood?"

"His childhood?"

Naruto looked to Kakashi "Yeah, about when he was younger."

Closing his book looking back at Naruto, Kakashi asked "Why do you want to know?

"Well" Naruto started "I thought if I knew what happened to him when he was younger, then maybe I could help him?"

'Sasuke, do you even understand how far Naruto is willing to go for you?' Kakashi thought.

"Naruto, if I told you what happened, how do you think you could help him?"

Naruto thought for moment before he answered.

"Sasuke and I are kind of the same. We were both lonely and didn't have anybody who understood us. But Iruka-sensei was there for me and so were you. Then Kiba and everybody else. I felt happy that I had so many people who cared for me. Sasuke. Sasuke doesn't have anyone like that. I thought that I knew him more that anyone but I was wrong." Naruto looked at Kakashi with determination in his bright blue eyes.

"Regardless of what Sasuke thinks I am his friend. I'll get a better understanding of Uchiha Sasuke and then I'll show him that he's no longer alone and there are people who care about him!"

Naruto's smile was contagious that Kakashi smiled as well. If there was anybody to could make the Uchiha see the light, it would be Uzumaki Naruto. Iruka then walked in with food.

"Ramen!" Naruto yelled practically salivating. "Gimmie, Gimmie!"

"Geez, Naruto" Iruka said with a smile "You're like a little kid. Be careful it's hot"

Naruto took the tray of food and broke his chopsticks. "Itadakimasu!" he said a dug in.

Blocking out the slurping sounds, Kakashi thought 'I wonder how he will handle the story.' Seeing Iruka and Naruto smiling 'Maa, It can wait until later'

I hope this was to your liking! Poor Naruto. He gives Sasuke an inch and the Uchiha takes a mile! Suggestions, comments,advice and reviews are welcomed