Night 13

Isn't it funny?

It was a moment when a smile was not enough, and I would feel the need to laugh. Laugh at the fact that such joy existed deep within me, like a deep and dark anticipation that hungered for you more and more…just opening my eyes, and knowing you were there. It was enough for my heart to explode, and explode from the joy you brought and then I would want to reach and touch to see…if you are real.

It has to be impossible, and this feeling is immense. It is almost as if, I cannot describe. However, I just know it, I know it, it will be soon. I will not have to wait. It's super, super…and soon, I want to hold your hand.

Wouldn't it be grand? To have it be, me and you all over again.

I wait in anticipation, craving that very moment.

Chapter 13

And It Rains

A month later

Sinister, it's a pleasure.

A dark figure stumbled down the dark street of the young night. The only thing that illuminated his figure were the luminescent orange glow of the street laps. Such softness they held, and such irony they lead. They truly were incredible, and their shine appealed to the intent look in this person's eyes.

There was only one purpose for them, and that was to kill. Kill what ever misery had been born in his heart. He needed to kill...him.

there was no turning back, he had it in his head. 'Tonight, my own tragic story ends'

The Uzumaki household

It had been a month since Naruto learned about the night, and now he could not stop thinking about it. Right now, as he tried to sleep, he wondered about Kyuubi's world. His deep sapphire eyes closed, as he imagined the moon outside, and the light hitting the figure of his cousin. The way it had that night, when Obito had led him back to school. The night had been so strange, and yet he had met interesting people. People, like his cousin, really lived during the night, under different rules, and different delights. It was nostalgic, almost fresh, and yet lonely and silent. It was something hard for him to comprehend. Although, there were many personalities within that group, some of them were even scary like Itachi's younger brother, Sasuke. Although, something that Obito had mentioned that night still had his mind in a confused frenzy, what did he mean by his other half…?

His other half...Kyuubi

What did he refer to when he meant…day and night.

Diligently closing his eyes, Naruto felt his mind pulling into a shallow sleep. He still had so many questions to ask…so many things to know. Why did the lights glow brighter during the night? And why was it so dark to begin with? It aroused a peak of curiosity deep inside his chest to learn more, and he remembered that night, when he looked at his cousin.

A stranger, he thought, and yet…there was a strange eerie need to be near him. The desire, and the ache…to be complete. Hm, it was seemingly impossible to think about being in such a state, seeing he was a whole person. He never thought anything was missing, under his grinning smiles, under the blinding sun…no. He wanted to know the darkness, but even more he wanted to pull Kyuubi out of the shadows and into the warmth of the sun, he wanted to see him bathed in the bright yellow light. He wanted so much….

But it was not meant to be, not now in the least. However, he knew, he had to find and pull Kyuubi into the light with him. He was no longer scared. Turning on his side, and curling into himself, Naruto felt the whiskers of his face perk and he murmured "…something doesn't seem right"

The Uchiha household.

Uchiha Mikoto was in her kitchen, lightly humming a soft tune.

She was softly scribbling across a white sheet of paper, words forming as her pen moved across it, forming a list. She was still thinking about how she was going to celebrate Sasuke's birthday, and be sure that he and Itachi had moments with each other. After all, the reunion between the two could be awkward. Even so, it would be magical and she knew it was going to be. What seemed to work out in this equation was that Sasuke was at least a month ahead of Itachi, in a sense, so he will be twenty before Itachi was twenty-four; slowly she stopped writing and tapped the pen to her chin. It was complex, she guessed.

She then yawned, and decided to go to bed. Just as the thought crossed her mind, Sasuke and Shisui entered the kitchen, silent and unheard. She raised an eyebrow as she took in their appearances, and watched them settle on the table. Shisui looked a little nauseated, and dead, perhaps tire of being up during the night and struggling to sleep during the day. It was a tough change. While her dearest child, Sasuke looked like he always did, perfect with silent elegance. "Is something wrong Shisui?" she asked, a smile crossing her lips, as she knew the answer to that.

"Hell no" He muttered, running a hand across his face and cupping his chin as he let out a stressed sigh "God, I miss the sun so badly, this new change is messing with my biological clock, it can't be good" Mikoto laughed and Sasuke scoffed, giving his cousin a pointed look. For a moment, he would think Shisui a wimp for not being able to adapt to the gentleness that is the darkness. Although, something told him it had more to do with the erratic pace the night seemed to dwindled itself in. It was either slow, soft, or fast paced and upbeat, but the night was always unpredictable. Like silence, and hidden secrets, a mistress of dance and erotica, as well as the dangerous as it was peaceful. A stressful combination of something that could never truly be grasped, that alone was the night. But what of the day? What was that….

"If you miss that ray of burning light so much, why don't you and Akihime make it official?" Sasuke mocked, a light smirked on his lips. Even though, he did not understand what happened once the night dweller met the sun with their rightful day dweller by their side. Was the sun still going to burn and bite at their skin, or was it going to be different. Obito had told him once; it was like asking what it was like to be human.

"Shut up you snarky little brat, you think it's that easy?" Shisui puffed out his chest, in determination "I assure you, that it is not!" After all, it was not going to be a simple transition, not for Akihime, and not like it had been for him. Sasuke raised an eyebrow, thoroughly confused.

"Why don't you enlighten me?"

"He is right Sasuke" Mikoto spoke, as she walked over to the table and sat down "Love doesn't grow over night, and even if it did, it wouldn't be perfect. You would have to work at it every single day. Besides that, being a day dweller seeking a night dweller, as Shisui is, he and Akihime share no memories as others do. Like you and Itachi might and that makes it harder. It all depends on trust in the end and the willingness, you'll soon understand" Sasuke listened to her every word, knowing how hard it sounded when it looked so easy…she and his dad made it seem so easy. Both lived together, had children together, and yet he…he felt lost.

"I guess," he muttered, looking away and recalled the image of Itachi, the last he had seen him. It was as if in that time, the feeling of emptiness intensified, and he was about ready to claw at his own skin if it did not stop aching to touch Itachi.

"Anyways" Mikoto clasped both of her hands together, a happy smile replacing the sadness "Aren't you excited about your upcoming birthday?" The words were almost foreign to Sasuke as he turned to look at his mother.

"Honestly, I had forgotten such a time existed" Sasuke dryly said. This startled both Shisui and Mikoto. Birthdays within their family were rarely celebrated, but they never thought Sasuke would even be disheartened to think of such a moment. Sighing, Mikoto reached for her son's hand making him look at her with perplexed curiosity.

"Trust me sweetheart, this birthday is going to be different," She murmured, in a motherly way, but even so, Sasuke found it hard to believe in her words. It was not as if she had ever lied to him, but the actions presented to him by all his family made it sound like wishful thinking. That anything was going to be different for him…seemed out of his reach. Nothing ever happened in his life that was worthwhile.

"Really?" he murmured sarcastically, a disbelieving look on his face.

"Yup" She grinned at him.

"Think about it little cousin, you are going to be twenty, and you'll even get to see Itachi again" Shisui added, a grin of his own plastered on his face. Sasuke scoffed.

"I don't want to see him, I've seen him already. I want to touch him" Sasuke found himself not caring how his words had sounded, after all, they were nothing but the sheer and naked truth. There was no shame behind what he felt deep inside, grounded into his soul. He wanted to do more than see; he wanted to reach out and hold…reach out and touch. His heart clenched at the thought. That was his wish unfulfilled and the ache that seemed to echo in his heart. Mikoto and Shisui who were staring at Sasuke in disbelief shook their heads, with mirth in their eyes.

"Then you'll get to touch him" Shisui tried to assure, the grin on his face growing.

"Yeah, right" Sasuke muttered, "If I don't have you and Obito dragging me away again" Mikoto giggled and Shisui rolled his eyes.

"Hey, that was for your own safety."

"But it is true, Sasuke" Mikoto stood from her chair, ready to go to bed. "You and Itachi can talk and hang out together from that night you turn twenty, at around one in the morning of the next day, and forever on" She yawned and then said, " Well, I am going to bed"

"It's early," Sasuke muttered, looking at his mother with a disappointed look. He rarely got to see her since the whole 'anniversary' fiasco that had happened not so long ago.

"Sorry sweaty, but soon okay" Mikoto said as she walked out of the kitchen not looking back. Shisui let out a cackle making Sasuke turned to him with full curiosity.

"That's the code word for, I'd rather be in the bed sheets cuddling my husband kind of thing Sasuke, I think you'll understand as soon as you and Itachi get acquainted again" Sasuke's passive stare turned into a full smiled at that, and then decided to ask something of his own.

"Is that what you dream about doing with Akihime, the two of you under the sheets?" And Shisui blushed. "Maybe doing more than just cuddling"

"Sasuke! You are too young!" Both ended up laughing, and then having to find something to eat before they both leisurely headed out to school.

Since they had returned to school, Sasuke rarely saw Kimimaro.

Although, tonight, Kimimaro sat in his regular desk looking slightly different from before…Sasuke neared him and looked at his face. There was something new, and Sasuke knew it, but it was something that was subtle. Something that was hard for him to comprehend, "Sasuke is something wrong?" Kimimaro asked, lightly. He was unsure as to why Sasuke was looking at him in such an odd way.

"I don't know there is something different about you," Sasuke muttered, almost as if it was hopeless to even fathom what could be different. Kimimaro smiled at the words, and shrugged.

"I have no idea what could be different" Kimimaro teased, and Sasuke arched an eyebrow.

"Oh, there is something going on, you are smiling and you look as if you are more than glowing…radiant" Sasuke shook his head "you just seem different, is all" Kimimaro shrugged once more.

"I guess I do feel different…" Kimimaru murmured, "Ever since I met Juugo…Sasuke I can't help but feel complete, and you know, it feels so good. That feeling is so indescribable, and yet so addicting. You have no idea how good it is" No, Sasuke did not know, but he thought he could see it in the way that Kimimaro's eyes shinned. The way even though his voice was soft, it held a bounce to it that sounded elated and frivolous. It was almost confusing and at the same time, it was curious. It made Sasuke wonder. What did it mean to be 'complete'?

"Is it because he's your other half?" he could not help but to ask the question that he knew the answer to.

"Yeah, I guess"

Sasuke frowned, crossing both his arms over the desk. "You know Kimimaro, a month ago, during the night I saw Itachi again, there was a blond boy clinging to him…and I felt such an awful feeling I had never had before." Sasuke looked up, his face looking a little disdained "I don't think I can name it , that wretched feeling, though since I have never had that feeling before…it was completely new to me" Sasuke shrugged, as if he had no other way to place what his new situation, or feelings were, in the correct words.

"Hmm, really" Kimimaro looked confused, he had not been there for Sasuke in some time, but was glad the small raven was still willing to share his troubles. "Can you explain it more fully?"

Sasuke narrowed his eyes, and the words he said next came out in a dark tone "I wanted to kill him for touching my Itachi, and I wanted to make sure he felt pain" Sasuke nearly jumped when he felt a hand ruffle his hair.

"That my dearest little cousin, is called jealousy, and it's a nasty little thing" Shisui said as he sat down next to the smaller raven. Sasuke glared at him shoving his offending hand away, and Kimimaro looked at him with interest.

"Really, then you have felt this jealousy before?" he asked.

"Well…no not really, at least not in that way, but I know it can be bad" Shisui shrugged his shoulders "It never leads to anything good." Shisui then looked at Sasuke again, regarding him with a little more interest on the words his cousin had spoken "But for you to feel both jealous and possessive, it's nearly scary Sasuke" Sasuke blinked just then, confused.

"Possessive?"

"Of course, you just claimed Itachi as yours" Shisui then crossed his arms "And you said this was a month ago, how come you never come to me with your problems?" Sasuke gave him a look, pointed to Akihime, and crossed his own arms.

"Concentrate on your own damned problems"

"Wait. Let's go back to jealousy" Kimimaro interfered, one reason he was curious and the other he didn't need both cousins fighting "Does it mean that Sasuke really would have killed that boy for being near his brother slash other half?" Shisui shook his head as he frowned at Kimimaro, and then thought of a way to describe jealousy.

"Hasn't anyone ever had something you wanted as well, and just hated them for it?"

"You mean envy?" Sasuke muttered, and Kimimaro thought the same thing. Shisui shook his head, and then thought about it.

"Yeah, maybe like that" He then added, "Though envy can be a little more subtle, kind of like greed, while jealousy is more spiteful. It is hard to describe, other than what Sasuke said he wanted to kill Naruto. It really doesn't mean he would kill Naruto though" as Shisui finished his explanation, Sasuke scoffed.

"Naruto, seriously, what a name"

"See, jealous" Shisui chuckled. Sasuke frowned for some reason disliking the idea of him being jealous at all. Shisui noticed this and quickly said, in an affirming voice, "Sasuke, Itachi is yours, you don't have to feel that way"

"I can't help it, not when he lives in a different time from me"

"I have to agree with you" Kyuubi suddenly came to sit next to them, his voice startling all of them. This was odd for both Sasuke and Kimimaro who never once really talked to this male. He was just always sitting on his own, away from everyone and that is where he was left. He rarely even seemed to have any real friends, but it seemed like this conversation peaked his curiosity. Shisui was not having it though.

"You two are hopeless," he muttered "Don't you think Itachi and Naruto feel the same way? Thinking about whom you guys are hanging out with all night long? They are pretty much in the same situation as you, and not being able to see you" That was a reverse of what they were feeling. They never thought that the other might feel the same way.

"I never really have gotten to hang out with Naruto though," Kyuubi pointed out "I know for a fact that is a strain in our bond, he won't know me when I meet him"

"I don't really remember Itachi" Sasuke decided to add to the argument "and I have even more conflicting feelings in me that I don't really comprehend, so sorry that I got jealous. Sorry I don't remember, and damn this feeling" then Sasuke's look got curious as he looked directly at Shisui "Has Itachi ever gotten jealous for me?" Shisui had to think about his answer on that one. Then he decided to answer it honestly.

"I have no idea, Itachi has thought you've been away all this time and now the one that hangs around him is Obito" Shisui shrugged. "Besides, I didn't even know who Akihime was, and look at us now, we are a starting out as a couple." Kyuubi scoffed, and Sasuke stopped listening the moment Shisui mentioned that Obito hanged out with Itachi now.

"True" Sasuke mumbled to himself, bringing out his cell phone.

"Hey, what are you doing?"

"I am going to call Obito and ask for a straight answer"

"Sasuke, no, don't" Shisui moved to try to take the phone away, but the damn brat was faster than him. Sasuke had moved to sit by Kimimaro who blocked him away from Sasuke. It was just like Karma to give Sasuke protective friends.

"Hey" Kyuubi called out to him, catching his attention as if drawing him away from the little raven "So, you once were living during the day, can you tell me about Naruto?"

"Huh, what do you want to know?"

Kyuubi shrugged "Does he have a love interest?"

"Uh" Shisui froze. Naruto had had a crush on one person once before, and he was not even sure if that crush still applied to this day, well night, whatever. "Well….he did once for Sakura" Shisui rubbed the back of his head "I have no idea if those feelings are still there though"

"I see" Kyuubi was even more discouraged now that he would ever have a chance with Naruto.

"What are you doing?" they turned to Sasuke who asked the question "Eww, I didn't need to know that, who cares, look I just want to know what Itachi is doing. Yes, I am checking up on him, no I am not going to let you…wait what, what the hell are you doing. Obito?" The line went dead. Sasuke scowled at it but closed his phone and put it away, back into his pants pocket.

"What happened?"

"He just hanged up; he said something about Kakashi spanking him for being a bad boy"

"That sounds weird"

Shisui felt like banging his head on the desk, "Do you two even know that that means?"

Sasuke scoffed "Of course we do, who do you think perfected that act in the dead of night? The prostitute or the whore…" Sasuke gave a dark chuckle to go along with his strange grin. Kyuubi high fived him and Kimimaro nodded as he answered Sasuke.

"I think it was the whore Sasuke, or maybe those night clubs full of bondage, it looks painful" Kimimaro crossed his arms "The illegal kind" Shisui was ridiculously confused. Who would have thought that to night dwellers talking about sex would be like second nature? It was almost unnerving as how the conversation had gone from innocent and simple jealousy to a full-blown sex and porn exclusive of the dark corners of the night. "I think one learned how to suck his own dick, a perfection of the art is now being studied"

"No way, who would want to study the 'art' of sucking cock…much less your own…that can't be good"

"People find it hot"

"Only because they themselves can't do it, and it isn't an everyday occurrence, it's interesting"

"What about when the one of someone being able to take a whole fist up their anus"

"Ouch, imagine what that could do to an ass, and imagine a vagina, tch all that blood, what waste"

"Dude, they were probably torn and surgically done to take it all in"

"Will you two stop talking about blow jobs and nasty weird sex positions or creepy stunts?" Shisui hissed, and Kyuubi scoffed. He had been into the conversation the two smaller boys were having.

"And it was just getting good" he muttered, making the other three stare at him as if he was crazy. By this, time Kyuubi paid them no attention and the class was settled as soon as the teacher entered the room. The teacher started to write something on the board and they all got ready for a long lecture of not taking on whatever subject their teacher decided to carry out.

Hatake household

Kakashi stared at Obito with a confused look in his eyes.

"What?"

"Did you just tell your cousin what we we're doing?"

"Relax" Obito said, as he moved away from Kakashi "You make it sound like it's a bad thing. Besides, you can even get a profession as a domatrix with such language, as mine" Kakashi frowned at that and pulled his boyfriend back down onto the bed "Ah"

"There is no way you are getting a profession as a dominatrix, you are much too good for that" Obito was startled by this.

"I never said I was Kakashi, besides, you should know that the night isn't scare of anything. We all talk like that"

"You mean…"

Obito smirked, and leaned in to kiss Kakashi. "Don't swallow your tongue" he murmured with amusement and then got up as if he had attempted to do earlier. Kakashi blinked with disbelief as he watched Obito disappear into the bathroom, and closing the door taking him out of his view. He was nearly speechless, but then a slow grin spread his lips as he settled back in the bed, his face free of his daily mask. Well, you learned something new about the night every time. You did not have to know proper dictation, or any formal speech when living during the night.

Although, something about having Obito saying such vulgar things turned him on immensely, and it was enough to get him out of bed to follow his lover into the bathroom.

Shisui sighed, as he watched Sasuke and Kimimaro walk ahead of him.

Both night dwellers seemed to be talking intently and silently about something that apparently happened some time ago, and were obviously leaving him out of it. It was already late, and he knew that Sasuke and he were going to have to be home soon, in time for bedtime. Although, something did not settle right with him at that moment, and that was the clouds that washed over the sky, covering the full moon. It seemed that the night was getting darker before his eyes, even more than he had ever expected it to. Something told him it was going to rain.

At the front, Sasuke and Kimimaro were thinking the same thing.

"A storm has never started this late," Sasuke whispered, his eyes looking up at the sky "What do you think it means?" Kimimaro grunted.

"That is why I came to school today; I had to make sure you were alright." Kimimaro whispered back "Juugo had mentioned something about it not being a good night, and that something was wrong. I thought the same for a moment."

"Well, rain at this time is not good, it will be almost dawning." Sasuke bit into his lower lip "it looks like it's going to be a storm" Both paused though, when the first small drops fell, each of them landing in their cheeks. Both looked up at each other.

Rain.

"We have to get home," Kimimaro urgently said, and Sasuke nodded.

"I'll see you then"

"See ya"

That was when both sprinted in different directions; startling Shisui who followed his cousin "Hey!" he called out. Of course, Sasuke did not stop, and it was not long for them to reach their home. As soon as both of them were safely inside, the rain started to heavily pour, making Sasuke glance outside with worry. Shisui caught the distressed look and asked, "What's wrong Sasuke?"

"It's an Omen"

Both turned to look at Fugaku, who walked over to them. "Father" Sasuke said, and then caught sight of Itachi behind his father. He felt his heart rate increase, as his eyes stayed on him. Fugaku noticed this and internally rolled his eyes. It was amazing what finding your other half could do to you.

"What do you mean by omen?" Shisui asked, as he looked at his uncle, knowing that if he did not ask nothing more was going to be said. Fugaku listened to the downpour of rain, and sighed to himself. It was tragic, really.

"It never rains during the day, which always happens at night." Fugaku spoke "But, in rare occasions, a night dweller will kill their other half, resulting in rain for the day" Fugaku glanced at Itachi, and then back at Shisui and Sasuke "We call this an Omen, because the world cries, and the spell nick picks, and it can be dangerous for any day dweller." Obviously, the death of someone had happened at the hands of his or her other half. It was something that seemed so impossible, who would want to kill their other half?

It was strange, and it was horrific, but at the same time sad.

Sasuke kept his gaze on Itachi, just the thought of him dead, killed him.

"Unbelievable" Shisui whispered.

"Truly" Fugaku turned to Itachi "don't go outside," Itachi nodded and Fugaku turned to Sasuke "Sasuke, you are going to be sleeping in mine and your mother's room tonight. We want to make sure you will be safe; now both of you get ready for bed."

Sasuke knew there was no room for argument, so he simply nodded and headed upstairs.

Shisui stayed behind, Fugaku left to the kitchen and Itachi walked over to his cousin. "How's Sasuke doing?" he asked. He could see his little brother, but he could not speak to him.

"Sasuke's doing just fine" Shisui grinned "though you'll never believe what he admitted tonight in school, come on, I'll fill you in, I'm kind of starving" Itachi rose an eyebrow as he followed his cousin to the kitchen. As the night faded, they knew it was going to be along day. One full of sorrow, and only the pain the heavens, stirred. The real between the supernatural and the natural, was a fragile stance for life.

When you were a being that after a period of time, will completely stop aging. It was scary to be placed in the position where death happened.

Death is an Omen.

The dark figure sank to his knees, blood covered his hands, shirt, and pants. All he could do was stare, wide eyed with a dark intense purpose. The vile that burned his esophagus was nearly deadly, as he started to shake. No, he was not feeling terror at what he had done, as the red life of this particular person, slipped past his fingers. Blood was truly thicker than water, and even held such a beautiful, and red pigmentation to it. No, he was not shaking from fear, but rather from the lunatic mirth he felt, and that rose withing him...a kind of satisfaction that was only heaven to him, and him alone.

He was laughing, maniacal as it was in this situation. He leaned in, and for once felt the hot tears that ran at the side of his cheeks. No...even in his high and mirth he was in pain. It was because now he understood, now he knew...now he finally could grasp what his other half meant. As much as he tried to deny it, there was no escaping this curse. He, Shimura Danzo leaned in, and harshly whispered "I'm going to be with you until I die...I promise you"

And it's funny, it makes me laugh

Dancing in circles, our eyes are locked. And then the blood spills and I cry. Why, why is it so hard to accept, so hard to live…in a world where time completely stops once you mature…yes it is funny. It is so deep a pain, a ripping sting in my chest, and I fall…

And I can't wait, anymore, the anticipation of knowing one day, one night, in sometime, it will be me and you all over again.

And Another chapter :) I couldn't help myself. I was in a roll. Well, I'll try to make the next chapter, but can't guarantee nothing. THANK YOU so much for those of you who still are reading this story. Means alot. Hope you enjoy.

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