Chapter two surprise surprise indeed
"…don't leave me…"
Sasuke's eyes opened slowly as the dream of his team mate and himself faded leaving his mind clouded with images of the blond that he cherished and thought about days on end, while those days turned into week and the weeks turned into months and eventually turned into years. Those thoughts eventually turned into an obsession, an obsession that he had grown to realize tainted his every thought and hidden fantasy of the said blond that he had grown to love. The Uchiha lips parted ever so slightly at the thought of his sun kissed features, and delectable sultry lips that would make any angel sin. The ravens heated thoughts were interrupted all too soon for his liking.
As a light nock sounded throughout the room as a gray haired teen with glasses made his way into a dark room "Sasuke?" asked the boy as he made his way through the dark room only to be answered with a dark growl, causing the teen to frown at the rather rood greeting. While the other in question was looking around rather a little annoyed at being disturbed especially by the one known as Kabuto in other words Orochimaru's lap dog. The lap dog whom he despised since the day that he had caused pain to his property. Four years it had been since he had joined the Snake and his henchman and four years it has been since he had seen the one he cared about the most. Sasuke was suddenly brought out of his short musings by the one that stood before him his outline being barely notable due to the open door that let in dim lighting.
"What is it?" He spat.
Kabuto brought his index finger to the bridge of his nose and pushed his glasses closer to his face. " Now now Sasuke is that anyway to treat a person upon first greeting them?" Kabuto mocked hurt in is tone, the Uchiha merely stared at the teen placing his hand beside him on his sword. Noticing this action the teen smirked in delight and readjusted his glasses again. "Lord Orochimaru is waiting for you in the intake and is requesting your presence immediately. " and with that he left leaving the raven to himself. Sasuke then stood up and walked casually to the intake where Orochimaru likes to bring in his new ….toys per say. As he walked his mind began to conjure up possibilities on what Orochimaru would need him for this time as he finally reached his destination.
Sasuke narrowed his eyes at the one before him known as Orochimaru who had his back turned away from the door way eyes down and focused on what was happening before him. "Ah Sasuke how nice of you to join me." Orochimaru turned around with a very noticeable glint in his golden eyes that reflected mischief that the young Uchiha was all too familiar with. "You took your time getting here I see perhaps I should withhold this information." Orochimaru hissed with a hint of excitement underlining his tone, Sasuke quirked an elegant brow ever so slightly waiting for the man before him to continue. The snake like man's glint seemed to become more evident at Sauske's attempt to mask his interest. Recently Orochimaru had resorted to childish means to keep himself entertained.
The Sannin smirked and Sasuke gritted his teeth out of annoyance but waited to be told this so called information. The two stood there facing one another one with a growing chip on his shoulder and the other just continued to eye his precious container with a hungry expression as if he was waiting for the other to do something that would elicit further excitement within him. The Sanin sauntered closer to the said boy. "Why the long face Saaaasssssuuukkkkeee? Do you not want to hear about your beloved home, Konoha the one that you betrayed?" The Snake hissed in a delightful tone with a sick smile that looked as if he were a cat that was just about to catch the Cannery while the teenager before him lifted his head ever so slightly onyx meeting gold. "Orochimaru….what is it that makes you think I want anything to do with Konoha I left there for a reason that reason being is to kill my elder brother, Itachi Uchiha nothing more nothing less." Orochimaru eyed the boy before him and sighed losing sudden interest in this little game of taunting. " Then I suppose you do not wish to hear of your darling team mate…..what was the little fox brats name…ah yes Naruto was it not? Yes Naruto Uzumaki." Orochimaru peered at the boy behind him and noticed a small amount of tension from the way the raven was standing.
Sasuke masked his interest with a bleak stare at the snake before him, Orochimaru smirk fell back into place as he turned to face his student "Sasuke I was recently informed by one of my anbu spies working in the hidden leaf village that your Naruto whom might I add has grown to be quit precious gem to the hidden leaf." Orochimaru took this moment to pause and think about the kyuubi container, this made Sasuke glare at the snake before him with hatred. "What is it Orochimaru?" Sasuke growled grabbing the hilt of his sword, Sharingan activated the Sanin did not look phased one bit except for the poorly hidden amusement that was clearly evident on the man's snake like features.
Orochimaru moved around Sasuke in a rather bold suggestive manner, "Saaaasssssuukkkkee what if I told you that your darling foxxxxx boy has been sssspirited away with another?" The Sanin hissed causing the young boy to narrow his eyes in a very possessive manner that made the snake's sadistic smile grow. "Oh yes a very important person has his eye set on the boy and is in Konoha asking for his hand in marriage as we speak…." He paused and eyed the boy before him with a sneer that made the other remove his blade and come charging forward at the Sanin, only to be ceased by a kunai at his throat. "Kabuto we will have none of that here that is enough." Orochimaru clapped his hands together and narrowed his eyes at his little container, and began to walk away. "OROCHIMARU TELL ME WHO THIS PERSON IS!" Sasuke boomed in a threatening manner that caused even Kabuto to flinch ever so slightly.
"Heh…..HAHA…..HAHAHAHAAHA!" Orochimaru's laugh was slick and cold and curdled with an obnoxious cackle causing Kabuto to place the Kunai back into his pouch pack strapped to his lower back and readjust his glasses with his index finger. Sasuke on the other hand put his sword away closing his eyes as he did so and reopening them Sharingan gone but his hand still lingering on the hilt of his sword. "Your actions still never cease to amuse me Sasuke." Orochimaru stopped laughing and replaced his amused stare into a look that held knowing and a serious formality that could almost be taken as a fatherly. "Orochimaru who is it." Sasuke demanded in a lightened tone causing the Sanin's expression to soften having finally ending this little charade, "The Lord Kazekage himself…Gaara no Sabaku."
Sasuke was silent as his eyes suddenly clouded with darkness and began to widen, Sharingan flaring in rage. Why Naruto?! And why Gaara of all people?! Sasuke's thoughts darkenedwitheachpassingmoment. "Sasuke." Orochimaru boomed looking the boy before him, "Go" was his simple and short reply that shocked everyone within that room. "LORD OROCHIMARU! You can't be ser-." Kabuto was cut off by Orochimaru's glare that promised pain if he dared to question him further. Sasuke stared at his teacher with hidden confusion, "Sasuke do not make me repeat myself you can go I am giving you a year's time to woo your blond and have your fun consider it a vacation, but know this do not think you can slip from my grasps and choose to stay I can always get you back Sasuke now then leave." And with that he left leaving a relatively shocked Kabuto and a smirking Orochimaru.
"My Lord aren't you worried about him leaving you?" Kabuto asked walking up next to his master while pushing his glasses further up his nose the Sanin eyed the boy beside him then shifted his gaze to where Sasuke was once standing. "I have no doubt that he will betray me …..let's just say I would like to know how this will fan out." Orochimaru murmured "Lord Orochimaru why would Lord Kazekage of the sand show interest in Naruto besides building a stronger alliance? I mean the possibility of love could be brought into the equation but I am still not quite sure." Kabuto asked pushing at is glasses again, "Hmmm…perhaps you're right but are you aware that jinchuuriki regardless of their gender can give birth? If Gaara a past jinchuuriki and the nine are brought together and reproduce then the hidden leaf and the sand would be an even stronger force to be recon with yet I am not entirely sure how the giving of birth would work in Naruto's case but let us hope that Sasuke will never find out, yet….I support his decision despite what I told him." Orochimaru explained turning to face the boy beside him he smiled, a true smile. "Shall we go my lord?" Kabuto smiled back deciding to wait and see what his master had in mind.
Sasuke POV
Konoha the Hidden leaf village, the source of where my hole crave for power started and the realization that dawned on me as I watched the one I fawned over grew stronger, and one who would make a fine shinobi, Friend, lover and Hokage if not the best. That person being the one that I envied, loathed, hated and grew to love his obnoxiously loud behavior that made every ninja from within a mile radius to cringe but yet smile, the vibrant color of his blonde hair that was passed down to him by the third Hokage himself MInato Namikaze. The hair that would make even the sun jealous, naturally tan caramel sun kissed skin with three whisker lines on each cheek that was there since birth. Followed by the most captivating part was his eyes…oh those eyes the one's that always held so much emotion that at a time only I myself alone could invoke. Those blue eyes that meant everything to me and still do. Just wait for me Naruto you will be mine, The time has come for me to fufill my promise and retrieve what is rightfully mine….." Naruto Uchiha..heh….has a nice ring to it."
With Naruto….
"Achoo….A-achoo" Naruto sneezed rubbing his sleeve over his leaking nose as his team made its way back to the village. "Ah someone must be talking about me."
Meanwhile in the Village with Gaara and Tsunade
"Hokage- Sama I would like to ask for Uzumaki Naruto's hand in marriage."
The two leaders stood there one with a blank expression and the other with fists tightly closed at his sides as beads of sweat rolled down over his tattoo as he tried to keep his composure while addressing the woman before him expecting at any given moment to be either hit, yelled at or flung through a window. Either way it didn't matter to him if either were to occur he would not back down not now not ever. Gaara swallowed the hard lump that was in his throat as he watched the respected leader of the hidden leaf village move off her desk and walked towards him in a hurried fashion. Her eyes slanted in a determination laced with an unreadable expression that radiated danger.
In one fluid motion Tsunade had Gaara pinned to the wall by one hand the impact of the action causing a deep gash within the wall that became deeper and deeper by the second as more pressure was applied around his throat. Gaara tried to speak but through the woman's unbearable grasp feeling his hear thump rapidly within his chest. Yet his expression remained calm and blank as he locked eyes with the woman before him honey locked with Jade. "Gaara No Sabaku…." Tsunade lips seemed to emphasize each of her words as she spoke his name, her eyes becoming more and more threatening by the second. "Let me say something to you and I am not keen on the idea of repeating myself is that understood?" The large breasted woman loosened her grip around his throat so he could answer, "Yes." Came his rather short and simple reply, "Good." Her grip tightened again, causing the red head before her to grimace ever so slightly while he was fighting with his inner self to not crush her with his sand burial justsu but decided against only for two reason one he had the deepest respect for the woman that held him in place and also the fact that Tsunade was and is like a mother to Naruto which also made his current respect for the woman before him grow exponentially.
Tsunade eyed the red head before her with a fixed glare that promised pain if the man before her did not heed her command. "Naruto Uzumaki has become someone that means a lot to this village and many of its individuals have forged ties with him….bonds, bonds that could and will never be broken I happen to be one of those lucky individuals I love him as if he were my own flesh and blood," Tsuande paused her lips turning into a small smile while thinking of the said blond, but soon disappeared as she zeroed back in on the situation at hand. "He has changed me and many others for the greater good…..and I can see that change has reached you as well." Her smile broke out again as she loosened her grip letting go completely but still kept her palm rested on the newly dented wall next to Gaara's head.
"If you love him prove it to him and to the ones that care for him…..you know his pain better than most people as an ex Jinjuruki but that being said if you add any more pain to his life by hurting him I will not hesitate to end you." The woman cracked her knuckles in a threatening matter letting a sinister smirk break free over her strong features. "Now then any questions?"
Gaara shook his head and freed himself from the wall that he was originally pressed against letting his sand brush any sort of wall fragments and dust whip it off of his body.
Gaara's POV
I stood there letting the stinging sensation in my back subside as I looked at the woman before me with a heavy expression that said that my feelings for Naruto were genuine. "5th Hokage I love Naruto I truly do….and as from what I have seen and felt I know that you love him as well." My heart started to pound within my chest in discomfort my hand suddenly clenched the clothing that seemed to hold me heart captive, this was a feeling that only seemed to arise when I spoke of Naruto or was even around him. I had once voiced my own thoughts with Temari on this feeling within my chest, she had only smiled and hugged me saying that I would know when the time comes. Now that that time has actually come I realize it now I love Naruto Uzumkai, "As for the time before when he had beaten me to a pulp It was then that I realized that true strength is not given or taken, it is achieved by the ones around you that you truly care for." I paused looking the woman before me with a heightened look that made me feel the need to get this out now or it would never be said again. "Those people made Naruto strong and I am more than willing to help him along the way as the Kazekage and as his future lover I too will become strong because that is my ninja way the will of fire, I want to protect and love him just like he did for his comrades on that day..….I have come to realize that I will not only protect him but do my best to grow with him and make sure he….…no we are both a success and change the way if the world together." I could feel the words that I had just spoken leave me feeling light and true as I walked towards the shocked Hokage that stood before me and that alone made me feel as if she understood. I lifted my hand from my side holding it out for her to take as my eyes never left hers she smiled and grasped my hand with firmness that had meant she understood. My sand circled around our hands in a gentle breeze causing our hair to dance within the small breeze and with that I left feeling…..Happy.
Normal POV (with Tsunade)
The slug queen slumped in her chair letting her breath escape her lips with a small smile play at the corner of her mouth. "I hope you prove me right Gaara….I honestly believe you and Naruto will take the Shinobi world by storm you have my blessing." She chuckled to herself eyeing the stacks of papers crowding the desk before her. "Shizune get in here!" the door slammed open as Shizune came stumbling in "How did it go what happened?" Shizune rambled placing her palms out onto the desk before her. Tsunade looked at the flat chested assistant before her and sighed turning her chai around standing up to face the window only to be met with a view of the village in the cold darkness of the night. "Heh….so he really does smile…..and you are the cause of that Naruto you really do change people for the better." Tsuande murmured to herself
"What was that Tsunade-Sama?" asked the persistent female Tsunade shook her head and smiled at her. "Nothing." Came her short reply "What?! Lady Tsuande what Happened?!" Tsunade growled and glared. "Bring me more Sake!" and with that the two had begun to argue meanwhile a certain Uchiha was on his way to the place he had once called home.
Naruto POV
"Achoo…A-achoooo!" Man this sucks