Naruto tightened his grip on the pale hand wrapped tightly around his own, using his other hand to pull his gaudy orange jacket closer to his body.
"Cold?"
The blonde started at the smooth murmur. Sasuke had been quiet since they'd left the Uchiha mansion but that was fine, Naruto could talk enough for the both of them.
Naruto chuckled and tucked himself into his boyfriend's side. Sasuke was like a furnace, he was always radiating heat.
"I'm fine."
Sasuke turned his head and brushed his lips across the blonde's temple briefly. "What movie are we going to see again?"
Naruto grinned mischievously and bumped his head against Sasuke's shoulder, "It's a se-cret!"
Sasuke rolled his eyes "Dobe."
"Eh?" the blonde screeched and smacked Sasuke's chest with his free hand, "Teme!"
Chuckling, the raven haired male untangled their fingers to wind an arm around his dobe's waist. The two fell into a companionable silence.
Sasuke lifted his head slightly and let it hit the back of the padded chair with a nearly silent 'thunk.' Of course Naruto would pick a movie like this, a tragic romance doomed to fail from the star, the dumbass. He sighed softly despite his thoughts and lightly pet the blondes head when he heard the younger man sniffle.
"Sasuke, psst, Sasuke," the blonde whispered loudly and Sasuke was glad they were one of the few people in the theater.
"What dobe?"
The blonde hissed angrily at the name but relented of a few seconds "Let's get out of here, I'm hungry."
Sasuke nodded and silently stood, pulling the blonde up with him. They quickly ducked out of the theater and made their way out of the cinema complex.
Sasuke smiled slightly as the blonde leaned against him as they walked "Thanks for taking me out tonight S'ke," Naruto mumbled into his shoulder, a light blush adorning his cheeks.
Sasuke smirked and let out a "Hn."
Naruto shoved him "Bastard, is that all you can say?"
"Hn."
"Asshole," Naruto growled and Sasuke held back an amused chuckle.
The blonde's retaliation was cut short when a hand reached out of the darkness and yanked Sasuke, and by default Naruto, into the alley way.
The blonde's shriek was cut off by a gun being pressed against his temple.
"Scream and I'll blow your brains out," a rough voice murmured as the blonde was forced to his knees.
Naruto froze and swallowed. His eyes darted around wildly looking for his boyfriend only to find the raven haired male pressed against the wall by a tall, ape looking man. The ape man was digging roughly through Sasuke's pockets pulling out anything valuable and handing to the person standing over Naruto.
Sasuke snarled and bucked against the man's grip, trying in vain to get free. Ape man shoved back harder, flicked a butterfly knife he'd had in tucked in his pocket open with a snap of his wrist, and pressed the blade to Sasuke neck.
"I'd keep still if I were you pretty boy," he growled.
Naruto tensed and the gun resting against his temple was shoved against his head sharply, causing him to lose his balance momentarily.
"Don't go getting any stupid heroic idea's in your head neither brat," the gun wielder advised snidely.
The scene made Sasuke snarl viciously, visions of pain retribution dancing tauntingly behind his eyes.
"Hey, Johnny!" the ape man called to the gun holder "the blonde boy looks pretty delicious, maybe we should let his friend go and take him somewhere nice, somewhere no one will hear his screams."
Sasuke saw red. He brought his head back, hitting the ape man harshly in the nose. The man immediately released his grip at the shock of pain and his hands flew up to cover his bleeding nose.
"My nose!" he wailed pitifully "He broke my nose!"
The other, Johnny, pulled the gun away from Naruto and turned it on Sasuke. Sasuke brought his leg up in a forward instep kick and nailed the guy right under the chin. The raven haired boy let out a satisfied 'hn' when he heard the crack of the other man's jaw being forced out of place.
Seizing ahold of the brief moment that Sasuke was distracted, the ape man scrambled quickly for his companion's discarded gun. He pointed it swiftly at the raven's chest and cocked the hammer. The ape man let out the breath he was holding and squeezed the trigger, this clearly wasn't part of their plan.
Naruto gasped and lurched towards Sasuke. He threw all of his strength into it as he pushed Sasuke out of the way and screamed as the bullet burned its way through his body.
Ape Man dropped the gun with shaky hands and reached out to touch the blonde, he didn't mean to shoot him!
Sasuke turned from the man on the ground in horror as he heard his blonde scream. A shriek of rage tore its self from his throat as he saw the blonde on the ground clutching at the wound in his chest.
The raven quickly launched himself at the ape like thug but the man manages to twist out of the raging boys grasp and take off towards the opening of the alley way. Sasuke dropped down to his knees beside the blonde and gently pulled the boy to his chest. He stroked the blonde locks softly with one hand while the other fumbled through his pockets for his phone. He snarled when he realized that the thugs had pulled it out of his pocket earlier.
A sound at the opening of the alley way causes Sasuke to grab the gun that lay innocently on the ground, it was still warm to the touch.
The raven haired boy aimed it at the intruder with a crazed look in his eyes, willing to kill anyone that came closer to protect that blonde in his arms. It was a man in a business suit who raised his hands in a gesture of peace as he slowly came forward.
"It's okay, I'm a doctor, I've called the police and an ambulance and they're on the way."
Sasuke nodded in a mimicry of understanding but the gun didn't waver from where it was aimed directly at the man's heart.
He refused to lower it even when the paramedics sped onto the scene, sirens wailing and lights flashing.
"What's your name?" a policewoman in a caviler vest asked, trying to calm the obviously high strung young man who just stared at them unblinkingly.
"Sasuke."
"Well, Sasuke, is there anyone I can call to come get you so that the ambulance can take him to the hospital?"
Sasuke snarled and the policemen behind the woman tensed and brought a hand to his own holstered gun.
"He's not going anywhere without me."
"Okay, okay" the woman shushed soothingly "You can go with him, but you need to let us come and get him, or he'll die, look at him Sasuke, he's already passed out from lack of blood, let us help him."
Sasuke nodded and slowly lowered the gun and the paramedics rushed forward to pull the blonde from him. They settled Naruto onto a stretcher and stifled the blood flow, murmuring things into radios and to each other that Sasuke didn't understand.
Sasuke climbed swiftly into the ambulance after the blonde, never once letting go of Naruto's hand once the paramedics got the blonde settled into the vehicle.
Mikoto watched her son feeling dismayed as he paced the hospital waiting area impatiently. She'd never seen anyone resemble an animal more than her son did at that moment; stalking the floor like an angry jungle cat, fangs bared and lashing out at everything.
She could see past the anger though, she'd always been able to read youngest son like an open book—whereas her husband could easily read Itachi—and what she saw was anxiety and debilitating fear and, in that moment, she knew that the little blonde who'd sacrificed himself for her son simply had to live. Her precious youngest son would shatter if he didn't. If anything ever happened to the little blonde Mikoto didn't think Sasuke would ever survive the loss.
Silently she waved her hand at Itachi and Fugaku to summon them to her and bit the inside of her cheek in fear as they sat on either side of her. Both men sat stoically as she shared her observations with the other two.
"…in other words, we must keep that blonde safe and happy, for Sasuke."
The two men stayed silently for a moment before Itachi spoke "Naruto deserves our protection because he risked his life for Sasuke. Sasuke needing him like air just gives us more incentive, but regardless of that, Naruto deserves to be protected on the sole fact that he cared enough about Sasuke to put himself in danger."
The patriarch of the Uchiha family nodded his head in silent agreement and might've said something if the doctor didn't push his way past the double doors at that moment.
Sasuke's head snapped to the doctor giving him his full attention. The doctor's stiff face melted into a small smile as his eyes landed on the tensed raven and Sasuke immediately sighed with unspeakable relief.
"The surgery went off without a glitch and its expected he'll be good as new within three months," the doctor's mouth drew into a firm line, "if he gets the rehabilitation that he needs and takes it easy."
Sasuke nodded slowly, face unreadable, but Mikoto could see the wheels in her son's head turning rapidly. It seemed that Naruto would get the rehabilitation and rest that he needed whether he liked it or not.