Special Delivery- Chapter 7

The Night-Terrors

SUMMARY: Naruto is an average adopted son. Then one day his life changes when he gets a special delivery from who knows where! NaruSasu YAOI

WARNINGS: Yaoi (BoyxBoy), OOC-ness, NOT REALISTIC EVENTS, sucky writing, horrible writing, even more horrible writing, probably the worst writing you will ever find, probably language….

A/N: Hai! I just finished of Schizophrenia. Depressing! It was good so go read it Lol. Read my other stuff! REVIEW! So today we had rehearsal for the play coming up Feburary 8th, and all I was called for was to stand there. My feet fucking HURT!

Anyways, Go read Scizophrenia, review, and no SOPA. Because with SOPA this site won't be here.

RIP Megaupload.

Thoughts/Emphasis

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~Flashbacks~

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More emphasis

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"Talking"

(Author's Note)

And almost anything else is stage directions- I mean the narrator. As in the guy who states the obvious.

Damn plays got me saying stage directions…

P.S. I don't appear to have MS Word, so I am currently using a program without grammar/spell check. And, as it appears, I cannot speak my own native tongue, and my keyboard is slightly broken, so I'll try my best to catch any of that stuff before I post the chapters up. Sorry for the inconvenience.

Previously, on Special Delivery (The actual story Lmao~)

"Just... hold me. Please." Saskuke whispered.

"O-okay." Naruto said quickly, wrapping his arms around Sasuke. Naruto sighed, burying his nose in Sasuke's ebony hair. He inhaled his scent and smiled into the younger male's hair.

This was... nice.

Naruto looked all around him. He found himself in heaven; he was in a pool of ramen. Pure RAMEN! He plunged down, eating the substance, surping it up, believing in the superstition that for every noodle you slurp you gain an extra year in life. Oh, yeah, Naruto was going to live to be fucking 2,004 when he finished this. Naruto swam to the top, his hands pushing back on the stringy ramen, surfacing out of noodle and broth to regain his breath. He looked to his right; at the end of the pool was a single lounge chair, and upon it sat Sasuke. Naruto smiled and waved.

Sasuke looked at him, and all of the sudden Naruto was beside the boy. Naruto looked into Sasuke's eyes and, instead of that warm, welcoming, fuzzy feeling Naruto always got when he got lost in Sasuke's obsidian orbs he claimed were his eyes, he was scared. The eyes were dead, just... dead. There was no life-like quality to them. Naruto gulped. He wasn't sure he was comfortable looking at Sasuke when his eyes looked back at him like that. It was as if he couldn't see Naruto, as if he wasn't there, he was in a different world. Sasuke looked down at Naruto's feet. The boy was really scaring Naruto now. Naruto waved his arms in front of Sasuke, and Sasuke's head snapped up to lock eyes with him at an inhuman speed. But, something was different...

The whites of his eyes were red.

And then Naruto was somewhere else. It was all dark, just dark, nothing to see besides himself...

...There, off in the distance.

Sasuke.

Naruto walked to him and called out. Sasuke didn't turn to him. Could the boy not hear him? Naruto cupped his hands around his mouth to make his voice louder, but, upon getting no response, Naruto gave a grunt of disapproval and frustration. Naruto tried again and was startled to find that not even he could hear his voice. He looked down at his hands, where he could only see his hands, but they had an odd, eerie, ominous blue tint to them, and he could slightly see through them. He looked up at Sasuke. Sasuke smiled at someone, and, much to Naruto's surprise, another Naruto walked up to him. The other blond said something and Sasuke laughed. Naruto tried to scream at Sasuke that it wasn't him, to warn the raven haired boy, but he couldn't. He couldn't speak, couldn't make a noise. Naruto couldn't feel the tears, he could only hear them.

Then it was raining. Hard. Naruto looked around, and he suddenly wished he had brought his umbrellas. In his head, he heard people talking.

"Hey, have you ever wondered the name for all of the numbers between 1 and 699?"

"Uh... no."

"Well, it's called a verger. Now, let me put this into perspective for you. One verger is like a rocket launcher shot. Now, I know that if you drink 6 vergers of coffee a day you're probably laughing at me right now. Well, 6 vergers is like an atom bomb filled with rocket launchers."

The voices raged on, spouting out useless information Naruto didn't need. Naruto sat down on the grounf, the water piling up and up, filling the word with it's cold and wet presence. Naruto thought of death. Rain always reminded him of death. He remembered seeing a man and a woman, screaming, raining, dark...

That never happened. But it did. The place Naruto was at seemed familiar, yet... not. He had never been there before yet he knew that he had, once before. Maybe more than once. The rain poured heavily, Naruto listening to the rain hitting itself, until he could only hear it in the distorted version it pplayed over and over under the water. Naruto found that, oh, yeah, he couldn't breathe under water. Naruto tried to get breath into his lungs but, instead of water, fire seemed to enter them. Naruto couldn't swim up, the ground came out from underneath him. He was cold and alone. He watched helplessly as the water rose, and he knew he was gone. He could feel it, his last breath, and he opened his mouth to scream.

Naruto bolted up in his bed, clutching onto whatever his hands had found. Naruto's breathing was laboured. He just sat there, clinging to whatever was in his grasp, breathing. Just breathing. Naruto was relieved to find that when he breathed in, it was air, not fire. Naruto had broken out into a cold sweat. Wow, he was such a sissy. What was his dream about again? He couldn't remember, except the part about a verger, rain, water, darkness, ramen.

Sasuke.

Naruto looked at what he was clutching. His eyes fell on his fists, clutching the fabric of a shirt. Naruto brought his eyes up, trailing up the shirt to see Sasuke's face, looking down at him, stunned. He had tears at the corners of his eyes. In a very quiet voice, Sasuke broke the silence.

"Are you alright?" Sasuke peeped.

Naruto stared at Sasuke for a bit then sighed. His grip on the shirt loosened, until his hands fell limp on the bed. Naruto looked at the clock on the bed side table, the numbers a red blur against the black of the night, or mid-morning. Against the darkness. Yes, darkness, and Sasuke, he was there, no words. Couldn't speak.

The dream seemed to be coming back to him in clips. Like watching a movie where someone had taken scissors and cut out some of the scenes. Although you hadn't seen the other scenes, you knew immediately that they were essential to the plot. Naruto could finally make out the numbers on the clock.

4:56.

Great, Naruto thought, groaning in displeasure, waking up in the middle of the night is going to help with school tomorrow.

Naruto felt a weight on the other side of the bed, but it was only slight. Naruto sighed as Sasuke brought his arms around Naruto, pulling his back against the raven haired boy's chest. Sasuke's arms were shaking, and Naruto knew he had frieghtened the boy, but he couldn't help it.

Frightened. Eyes. Crying. Dead.

Naruto could remember only some, and then red. Red eyes. Naruto looked down at the arms wrapped around his torso, visibly vibrating, even in the dark state of the room. Naruto brought a hand up and placed it on Sasuke's arm. Sasuke inhaled sharply, as if he expected Naruto to hurt him. Sasuke seemed to hold the breath, and then exhaled.

"Do you..." Sasuke started off quietly. The voice didn't seem to fit the situation, the small voice, slicing through the silence of the room, seeming to illuminate the dark room, taking away all of the misleading shadows. Naruto relaxed more in Sasuke's embrace.

"Sure..." Naruto trailed off. Even though Sasuke didn't finish the sentence, Naruto knew what the younger boy was asking. Sasuke let go of Naruto slowly, as if he didn't want to let go. Naruto lay down and sighed, Sasuke laying his head on the blond's chest. Sasuke let out a shaky breath as Naruto pulled the covers over them.

Rena had gotten Sasuke his own bed in Naruto's room, but lately Sasuke had been sleeping in Naruto's bed, thanks to Naruto's night-terrors. Or, as most people called them, nightmares. Naruto had been raised with Rena calling them night-terrors. At first the word had struck him silly. What kind of word was night-terror? But, alas, the word seemed to grow on the adolescent boy. Naruto sighed, bringing a hand up to stroke Sasuke's hair.

It was these moments Naruto never wanted to let go of.

"How did you both sleep last night?" Rena asked.

The boys exchanged glances; what were they going to tell her?

"I... uh... I had another night-terror." Naruto said sheepishly.

"Aw, Naruto." Rena said. She placed the dishes she was washing into the sink, removing her yellow latex gloves from her hands. The brunette walked up to her son and wrapped her arms him, placing his hands ont he back of his head, pressing his head against her bosom. Somehow Naruto found it nice and comforting; Rena wasn't often motherly.

"Do you want to get a dreamcatcher or something?" Rena asked.

"I dunno..." Naruto said, though he knew that he thought that was a stupid idea. Naruto basked in the embrace, feeling like he was just another kid in the crowd. Sasuke remained silent, seeming to detect how sacred the moment they were haring was. Sasuke knew that these moments were to be remembered and cherished, because in the end, all you have are you're memories. And in the end, that's all that you are.

"Hey, I- whoa. What happened." Nina asked.

The moment was broken, Rena removing her arms from Naruto, stepping back a step or two. Rena looked at Nina, and began talking to her, though Naruto didn't pay much attention. He kind of missed the embrace, he liked the feeling of security. It was a nice sanctuary to have with all that was going on. Sanctuary, that was a good word.

It was definately a sanctuary.

At school, Naruto couldn't concentrate. He just kept thinking of one part of his dream. The eyes. Naruto snuck a glance at Sasuke, who was working diligently on the assignment. Naruto sighed. He wasn't in the mood for math.

Why had the eyes been red? Sasuke's eyes weren't red. Why would they be?

Naruto mentally slapped himself. It was just a dream. It didn't have to make sense if it didn't want to.

"Are you alright?" Sasuke whispered to Naruto. The blond found himself wondering why Sasuke had whispered, the whole class seemed to be in an uproar of laughter and the latest gossip, who won America's Next Top Model and the newest videos released by NigaHiga.

"Yeah." Naruto responded. Kiba and Sakura were looking at Naruto funny.

"What?" Naruto asked.

"Are you sick?" Kiba asked.

"I'm perfectly fine. Just night-te- nightmares." Naruto stopped himself. People always made fun of him for not being normal and calling then 'nightmares' instead of 'night-terrors'. Naruto always found that to be funny. He wasn't normal in almost any way, and they made fun of him for something as small as that? Maybe they were trying to let him feel normal, be teased a little, so maybe he could be part of the crowd. Naruto had never thought of it that way before.

Sasuke placed his hand on Naruto's forehead.

"You look pale." Sasuke said, taking his hand away from Naruto's forehead.

"Yeah, seriously, dude, you might want to visit Nursie." Kiba said, using his nickname for the nurse.

"Um... I don't feel bad." Naruto said. then he realized that he felt as if he were burning up, laying in an oven, waiting to meet that required inner temperature of 160 degrees.

"I'm taking you to the nurse." Sasuke stated. He got out of his chair, pushing it in, walking over to the teacher and began getting a pass. Naruto sighed.

"I feel fine." Naruto said.

Naruto opened his eyes and groaned.

"Too... bright..." Naruto groaned.

"I'm sorry, do you want me to turn off the light?" A voice asked. Naruto just nodded, groaning. It was really hot. Where the hell was he? And who was talking to him?

"Is he up?" Another voice asked. Naruto immediately though of black, raven hair...

"Yes, he is." The first voice confirmed. Pale blue. Pale blue. The voice reminded him of pale blue. Why? Why did it?

"Is he gonna be alright?" Blond. Blond. Yellow.

"He has a high temperature." Pale blue said. Naruto closed his eyes as the light turned off, the only light in the room being the natural light filtering through the blinds of the window, filling the room with it's brilliant blue-ish tones.

"Is he going to be fine?" Black asked, practially demanded.

"I... I'll get the keys." Yellow said, cutting into the conversation.

"Yes, that would be nice." Pale blue responded.

"Why won't you answer me?" Black asked.

"I... Sasuke..."

Sasuke.

It all came rushing back. Rena, Sasuke, Nathan. Pale blue eyes, black eyes and hair, blond hair.

Naruto.

He was Naruto.

Yes, he was. And he had fainted.

In math class.

But why?

"Naruto, do you feel alright?" Sasuke asked in a concerned voice.

"I... hot..." Naruto groaned out. It was all he could manage.

"I'll turn the fan on."

The fan was turned on, Naruto could hear their rotating blades, but it was only teasing him, he was still hot. He felt something lifted off of him, but it was still hot. He sighed as it felt slightly cooler, but it was still hot.

So hot.

"Are you better now?" Sasuke asked. He must have taken off a blanket. Why did he have a blanket on him?

"No..." Naruto groaned out.

"I..." Sasuke said. Naruto could hear the frown and confusion in his voice.

"Hey, Sasuke, what's up?" Nathan asked.

"Will you bring him to the doctor?" Sasuke asked.

"Yes. We'll get him there as soon as we can."

"I... I want to know if he's going to be alright." Sasuke said. Naruto could hear Nathan walking, and then he stopped.

"It's fine, Sasuke. Don't worry." Nathan comforted the boy.

Would he be okay?

And why was it so damned hot?

Naruto went to the doctor, alright. He had asked a bunch of questions, and Naruto answered them as best as he could, what with the burning up and the fact that he couldn't think straight. The doctor had given him something and Naruto felt considerably better. It wasn't so hot anymore, and for that Naruto was undoubtly grateful. They were now back home, Naruto sitting on one end of the couch. Naruto was looking around the room when he heard a noise. It startled him, causing him to jump a little where he was sitting. He looked around for the source but he couldn't find one. He heard it again, and his eyes fell on Sasuke, who was on the ground, curled up in a ball.

His body convulsed a bit as he coughed, then settled down. Naruto observed the movement. Was Sasuke sick, too? Then why weren't Nathan and Rena getting him a doctor?

"Sasuke?" Naruto asked. Sasuke sat up and turned to look at the boy.

"Huh?" He asked.

"Are you alright? I mean, are you sick?" Naruto asked.

"No." Sasuke quickly denied. "I'm fine."

Naruto wondered why Sasuke was lying to him. Sasuke stood up, walking over to where Naruto was.

"Do you want anything?" Sasuke asked, wringing his hands in a nervous gesture.

"I want to know if you're sick." Naruto said.

"N-"

"Don't lie to me." Naruto said lowly. Sasuke looked at Naruto, and their eyes met. Sasuke's eyes didn't seem to have the same life as they usually held, but at least he had some in them. They weren't completely dead.

"I'll get you a glass of water." Sasuke said quietly, walking off quickly.

The fact that Sasuke was lying was worrying him. He hoped that Sasuke's lie wouldn't hurt him. That would be very unfortunate.

"Hey, Naruto, how are you feeling?" Nina asked, entering the house. She set her bag down on a chair in the living room.

"Better than earlier." Naruto replied. Nina nodded.

"Hope you get better soon." She said, the generic thing to tell someone who was currently sick.

"Here you go." Sasuke said nonchalantly, placing a glass of water on the small balck end-table. Naruto grabbed a hold of Sasuke's wrist before he could make his quick and sly get away. Sasuke's head whipped around to look at Naruto.

"What?" Sasuke asked.

"Why are you lying to me?" Naruto asked sternly. Sasuke looked at him, wide-eyed, and gulped.

"I-I'm not lying..." Sasuke stuttered.

"Whoa, what's going on?" Nina asked.

"Sasuke, if you're not feelig well, get Rena and Nathan to take care of you." Naruto said.

"No." Sasuke wrenched his wrist almost violently from Naruto's grasp. Sasuke looked at Naruto and said, "I feel perfectly fine."

It would have been convincing if Sasuke didn't cough.

"Sasuke? Are you alright?" Nina asked.

"Yes. Just... allergies. Sure." Sasuke pointed at his throat. "Maybe some dust. I'm fine."

And he exited the room without another word.

Just. Like. That.

After a couple of days, Naruto was fine to go back to school again, though the couple of days was actually the weekend. Naruto was growing even more concerned about Sasuke. His coughs seemd to be getting progressively worse, though Rena, Nathan, and Nina didn't seem to notice. Sasuke kept it a secret from them. Naruto had formerly decided that if Sasuke wasn't going to do it, then Naruto was. Naruto was standing in the dining area of the kitchen, Rena currently doing the dishes. Naruto took a deep breath.

"I'm worried about Sasuke." Naruto said.

Rena looked at Naruto.

"What?" She asked, lowering the dish she had been scrubbing before the interruption.

"I think he's sick."

Rena removed her gloves, placed them on top of the microwave, and stood in front on Naruto, hands forming fists on her hips.

"What?" She asked.

"He's been coughing." Naruto said. Rena thought about this for a second or two.

"I'll give him a cough drop." Naruto looked at Rena in disbelief. Rena sighed.

"Naruto, it's only a cough. Nothing major. He's a healthy boy." Naruto scoffed at the last comment.

"And he screams in agony when I'm away from him. Try telling him he's healthy." Naruto considered what he said for a second. "Nevermind. He thinks he is."

"Naruto, just because you came down with a fever doesn't mean Sasuke has something seriously wrong. He's only coughing."

Naruto frowned, but he thanked Rena anyway and exited the kitchen. He sat down on a chair, thinking of Sasuke. It was like Rena said.

It was a cough.

Nothing serious.

Naruto could hear the sirens wailing in the distance. Naruto willed them to come faster, he didn't know how much he could take. Naruto looked down at Sasuke, who was currently out cold. Naruto was shaken up, he was really frieghtened. Rena held Sasuke. Nathan told Naruto to go to his room, who said no, he wanted to stay out here.

Nathan and Rena looked at eachother. The door opened as the paramedics entered the house, taking Sasuke away on a stretcher. Naruto attempted to follow the paramedics, going where Sasuke was being taken, but he was stopped by a hand on the shoulder. Naruto looked to see who the hand belonged to, and, not really to his surprise, it was Nathan's. Nathan shook his head.

Naruto settled for watching them place the stretcher in the ambulance, then they closed the door on the ambulance, but not before Naruto caught a glimpse of one of the paramedics giving Sasuke CPR. The ambulance drove down the road, and Naruto broke down.

All he could do was cry.

Naruto, Rena, and Nathan were at the hospital. Nina was at school. It was now Wednesday, three days after the incident.

Naruto still cried about it, it had been frieghtening, as he watched Sasuke's body spasm out of the boy's control.

Seizures were scary.

The doctors had said it was probably a one time thing, and that they were keeping him for a little longer to be safe. They were also doing something about his cough, which was, as crazy as it seemed, just a cough.

Naruto began to cry again. He felt so useless, so hopeless.

There was nothing he could do for Sasuke.

And he hated it.

A/n: If it makes you feel better, this chapter was supposed to just be fluff between Naruto and Sasuke. Sasuke was supposed to have the nightmares, not Naruto. It just turned out this way.

Why is everything I write dramatic?

...I guess I did just finish writing Schizophrenia...

MUST READ MY OTHER CRAP! :D

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