'This is War' by 30 Seconds to Mars

Events from four days ago:

"OI! BRATS!" Tsunade's scream echoed throughout the entire school grounds, and the whole crowd of fighting people froze, heads slowly turning. Shikamaru and Kiba were standing behind the busty principal, one smirking at the battlers, the other looking out the window lazily. The two brunettes had been in thier dorm together, watching tv, when the fight had begun, and had gone to get her. She was glaring at them, fist clenched, and people there that day swear that she had red eyes, her hair writhing around her angry face.

"Tch. Who started this shit?" she growled dangerously low, and flicked her eyes around, until they landed on Ino. The glass-blonde gulped and retreated a few feet, before shouting, "It was all that bastard fox's fault!"

Nods and calls of approvement came out, but as they grew louder, the door beside the crowd slammed open, and the great Duck Butt himself stepped forward, eyes like murder and death.

"Lies," he hissed. Ino, surprised, stared at him for several milliseconds before shaking her head and stepping closer, a devious glint in her eyes. She grinned cruely and went on.

"No, Sasuke-kun! He was just being a stupid, useless monster! You know it's tru-" she was cut off by a pink fist connecting to her face, and Sakura stood over her, heaving and growling.

"Lies," she echoed the raven who stood behind her.

"Sasuke. Sakura," Tsunade nodded, acknowledging them and appriciating thier help in shutting up that dumb bitch.

"I came out to do laundry, and suddenly was attacked by these damn bitches,"' the Uchiha's voice was like poison and he spat it at the stunned girls who stood around, frozen.

Sakura nodded, and Neji and Gaara materialized from behind both of them, growling thier agreement. Sasuke nodded slightly to them. Tsunade raised a brow and glanced at the raven. He nodded again, and she relaxed, an unspoken conversation coming to an end. Sakura began to go wild now, slamming into Ino, her eyes beginning to tear up slightly. Sasuke put a hand on her arm, just as she wound up for another swing.

"Sakura."

She scowled, but stepped back, gritting her teeth angrily at being called back from her rampage.

"Get away from here, you filthy-" Sasuke stopped, unable to think of a single suitable word for them. For the first time in awhile, he didn't know what to say.

Later, as the crowd dispersed, each person was given different punishments, all for a month.

Except...for the people who were inside a room when the principal got there. Tsunade let them go with an apology for the mess.

"Sasuke? Open up," Sakura's voice came again from the other side of the door. She looked down at Kakashi, who hadn't been in the room for nearly three and a half days, and nodded a hello. He wasn't given any sympathy, and Sasuke had already told him that if he wished to say something about the fettish the silver had made up, he wouldn't live through the night.

...Kakashi hadn't said anything as of yet about Sasuke's supposed fettish for pillows and thier like.

"Hey." The man nodded back, his mood sullen. Tsunade told him not to leave the dorm unguarded unless nessessary, and she'd skin him if she saw him going back to his place to eat...or sleep...or take a shower...thankfully, though, there was a regular bathroom near the room, or very unpleasant things could've happened. As it was though, a vile smell was coming from him, and he mumbled something under his breath as the door opened.

"What was that about my mother, Kakashi? Didn't quite get that," Sasuke leant down and whispered, a dangerous glint in his eyes. The silver said nothing, and scooted away a little bit. Sakura shoved past the raven, and he shut the door, rolling his eyes.

Inside the room, it was dark as usual, but a cozy dark. One that wrapped around you and held you close, giving you peace and warmth. Sasuke followed the pinketteand sat next to the napping blonde on the bed, and looked at him softly, brushing his loose hair from his face. Naruto snuggled closer and smiled a little.

He's so cute...

Sakura watched silently, and smiled secretly. Then, deciding, she murmured gently, "Why don't you tell him?"

Sasuke stiffened, and his face was shadowed by his coal black bangs, a thin smile on his lips.

"Is it that obvious?"

The girl sighed and nodded, "To me. I'm not sure about anyone else. But I know what love looks like."

He turned from the smaller teen next to him an looked up, face neutral, masked. As Sasuke shook his head though, the pinkette spoke again.

"He needs someone to say it. And he needs someone to believe in."

"He doesn't need to know I..." he couldn't say it aloud.

Sakura smiled sympathetically, and shook her head sadly, "He needs someone to lean on."

"He has me."

"Does he?" The pink-haired girl look at the slumbering face of the blonde and smiled again.

Sasuke looked at him too.

He'll always have me...

"Then you should tell him."

"What if..."

What if I ruin everything by doing so?

"What if he doesn't feel the same?" Sasuke nodded slighlty, and she went on, "Well, lets cross that bridge it it hops out infront of us."

That, dispite himself, coaxed a bark of laughter from the stoic teen. He nodded and looked back at Naruto, a gentle smile on his face. He reached over and cupped the blonde's scarred cheek in one hand, brushing away imaginary tears with his thumb.

"Hn."

For those who knew about Naruto, every day was filled with anger towards thier own classmates. It wasn't a healthy environment to say the very least. And classroom time was extremely awkward.

The first time the teacher reprimanded Neji for not paying attention, he gave her a glare so cold it could've frozen hell twice. Needless to say, this little episode didn't need further demonstration.

After thier initial rage had passed, and been put in a low simmer in thier stomachs, the three teens would try to visit Naruto at least once every two days. They would bring him a soda, or a bag of chips, or just a magazine to help wind away the day. Kakashi had been guarded at first, but soon begged Sakura to bring him some spare clothes from his classroom, which he'd temporarily abandoned. A substitute was in place, and the students grades were rising in that class. Suprise suprise.

As the blonde's body healed, his mental strength raised too, and he hadn't had a fit since Neji, Gaara, and Sakura had been told the story. When they got too close to him, Sasuke would gently but firmly warn them off, afraid of the repurcussions of such things. Sakura wanting to give Naruto a hug wasn't ranked near as high on his list of important things, as his desire to keep him safe was. In fact, it was bouncing on the cold bricks of rock bottom.

Soon, though, the blonde's ribs had healed fully, and the day before the check up at the hospital, Kakashi was allowed inside again. Sasuke swung the door open to reveal the snoozing silver, grabbing him by his shirt and yanking him into the bathroom quietly, not wanting to disturb the already asleep Naruto.

Shaking him, he brought the man close to him, until his lips were right beside his ear.

"If you ever try to get Naruto to know my feelings again like that, you will wish you'd never heard the name Uchiha Sasuke. In fact, I will make it so you don't remember ever knowing an Uchiha Sasuke. You'll be wrapped up in a nice, cozy white walled place with fluffy rooms and big needles. I'll kill every shred of sanity in you if you ever do something that reckless to me again. DO YOU UNDERSTAND?" He whispered furiously, his hot breath washing over the now freezing skin of the teacher. He nodded quickly and swallowed past the gluey lump in his throat.

"Can't hear you, Kakashi. Speak up please."

"O-O-okay, Sasuke. Okay, already. It was only a joke, anyways," he stammered, trying to chuckle. It came out strangled.

"So you call getting Naruto and me a book on 'One Hundred and One Fun Positions' a fucking joke? What would've happened if he'd seen it? You'd have to be completely mental to think I wouldn't kick your damn ass for that!"

His hair was shadowing his eyes, and he was still whisper-ranting furiously, when a knock came at the bathroom door.

"S'ske? I've gotta go."

"Eh-okay. One second." He grabbed the silver and shoved him into the shower, somehow ripping his smelly shirt off and ordering him to strip the rest, turning the water onto warm. The man let out a shriek and tried to escape the barrage of freezing water that hadn't had time to heat up. Within seconds he was soaked and growling miserably as he did as he was told.

"Come in."

Naruto, with a sheet trailing from his shoulders, came in. Sasuke turned to him, face softening, and gasped softly.

~I'm going to freeze here to fully describe our little kitling~

As he blinked at the bright flourescent lighting, his huge blue eyes shone like crazy, and his tan skin was almost pearly from not being in the sun. His cheeks had long-since scarred over and dark black lines defined his 'whiskers', as they'd come to call them. He had one of the raven's black and red sheets trailing from his bare, still visibly muscled shoulders, where one of Sasuke's big dark blue shirts hung, drooping just enough for him to have to pull it up often. He'd stretched it out so it wouldn't constrict, and now it hung from both of them when they wore it.

His golden hair bounced slightly as he stepped, and his naked legs were lean but strong, bruises faint and fading. A single creamy bandge was still wrapped around a long cut on his ankle, and was in the process of healing. The big shirt was hiked up and rolled onto itself from sleep, and a large sliver of light tan skin was showing, the V of muscle lined with Naruto's tiny blonde curls, leading below the elastic strap of the boxers.

He was smaller than the raven by one-fourth of a head and he looked up at him, mouth forming an 'o'. He had on his own long orange boxers with two black suns on either side of his slim hips. They were dark on his body, which on anyone else would've looked retarded, but he made them work perfectly. He uncurled a fist that was in the sheet and waved, a look of confusion on his face, as he glanced at the shower.

"What..?

I had to. You had to understand just how adorable I view our blondie. Ahem. Back to the chapter now~

"What..?" He stepped closer, but Sasuke stopped him, one hand on his nose, the other held in front of his body. His voice came, muffled, from beneath his palm.

"Uh-uh. It's just Kakashi in there. I'm making sure he's clean for tomorrow," and pointed at the toilet.

"Hi, Naru-" The silver's eyes widened, and he retracted swiftly back into the curtains to treat his gushing nosebleed.

"Ne? Kakashi?" But the blonde was stopped by his friend, as he shook his head and muttered, "Don't bother with him. He's just being a perv."

"You have a nosebl-" Sasuke grabbed the silver through the curtain and shoved him under the now scorching water, effectively silencing him. Naruto just went over and shrugged, lowering his boxers. The raven looked away to conceal his blush.

Once the other was gone and the door was shut, the dark-eyes boy swung around and wrenched the curtain back, nearly off the rod, and growled. Then blinked and chuckled at the sight, his face relaxing it's glare.

Kakashi was sitting down, blood running down the drain, and a sad look was on his face, which was concealed by a drenched mask. He was pouting. Also, his face was beet red from the burning water. His feet were pulled up to his grey boxers, and his shirt was clinging to his frame, tall and lean, much the same as the raven who was laughing at him.

Stopping, the teen grabbed the shampoo and popped the cap, drizzling it on the whitish spikes that were dripping wet. The other's stormy grey eyes looked up, still pouting.

"You didn't have to burn my face off like that, Sasuke. It wasn't nessessary at all."

"It was entertaining though."

"Meanie," still in full pout mode, Kakashi stood up and stripped himself of his pants, throwing them at the raven, who dodged and pointed at him.

"Get clean. I'll be back in ten minutes with the clothes I chose for you to wear."

"Yes mother," Kakashi grinned at the resulting growl and slamming of the door.

Then, sighing in relief as the warm water washed over his smelly skin, he scrubbed and scrubbed, loving the way the soap felt after so many days, and enjoying the lather that slid over his smooth, flat tummy. It snaked along the happy trail of silver hairs into his boxers. As his hair frothed up, he took the last shred of material off and began to wash.

Naruto dug around in the small breakfast box that worked as a pantry and giggled, grabbing a blueberry muffin. He straightened up, hissed lowly because he was still a bit sore and bruised. Dismissing the pain, though, he unwrapped the baked good and ripped a piece off, stuffing it in his mouth and smiling at he chewed.

Flavor exploded as he chomped into a berry. He giggled again, this time muffled by his food. As he swallowed his mouthful, he went over to the bed, wriggling his rear. Rejecting any negative thoughts with practice, he leapt, ignoring the pain said action caused. He laughed softly as he landing in the middle of the gigantic mountain of pillows and blankets. However, a mountain in shape, it was. He began to roll off the bed and landed on the pillows that were piled around the bottom for this very purpose. He blinked as he kept rolling, blueberry muffin caught between his teeth. He rolled until he came to a stop beside the coffee table, thankfully not hitting it.

Getting up, he still hadn't noticed the raven, standing in the hallway connecting the room to the en-suite bathroom and watching him softly, a warm and loving smile covering his face. Though he'd had a freakin' heart attack when the blonde had fallen from the bed, he was gazing at the happy smiling face now, and couldn't help but chuckle.

The action made Naruto glance around, and he took the blueberry muffin from his mouth, chewing before he said, "Hey S'ske." The gentle smile hardened a bit to hide the obvious love.

The Uchiha nodded back and walked to the fridge, grabbing a can of soda from inside and shutting it again, as Naruto snuck up behind him and grabbed him around the neck. He smirked and snaked his arms around the blonde's own, throwing the-unopened-can on the couch.

"Yes, dobe?"

Naruto buried his face in the raven's back, making him blush a little, and murmured, "My muffin."

The blush intensified, and he stuttered for a few milliseconds.

"M-Muffin?"

The blonde behind him nodded, "I've decided that the optimum postion for you not to be able to steal my muffin...is here!"

Sasuke sighed, the blush draining quite a bit. He chuckled, relieved but disappointed at the same time.

"Ah. Baka." He whirled, stooping slightly to pick Naruto up bridal style. He then spun them, listening to the other giggling and holding on tightly to his neck. He chuckled and tossed him effectively into the huge pile of comfort on the bed, making him tunnel deep inside. A muffled shout of laughter came continuesly from the pile, and Sasuke went over to it, patting it's top.

"Soo...where was that muffin of yours?" Then he spotted it. The confection was sitting on his chest of drawers, a big bite taken from the side top. He got up and grabbed it. The blankets writhed around until the toppled off the opposite side of the bed and a little golden head popped up, growling playfully.

"Oi! Dat is mine! Gimme back!" Naruto pounced, wincing, but kept going, tackling the normally stoic teen. He tickled a spot on the Uchiha's neck, and was surprised greatly when he froze and a shudder ran thourgh him. He turned slowly to the blonde and his face narrowed slyly, his mouth smiling, as he tackled him back, holding the muffin just out of reach as he ruthlessly tickled the smaller teen.

"Oi! OI! Sasuke, don't-Hey, Hahaha! Don't-no! Ah! Not there!" he was laughing so hard tears were coming out and he was doing contortions on the floor, Sasuke grinning like a madman above him.

(A/N: Ok, so I know it's way OOC for Sasu, but I got sick of the stoy being so damn sad. So here, ladies and gentlemen, is your happy chapter! Enjoy. I've got something planned for the next one.)

As they finished, the raven couldn't help but notice the panting and gasps of the other. He blushed slightly, but quickly tried to dismiss it, biting into the muffin. He watched Naruto, and smiled again, as said blondie looked up at him from the floor. Sasuke was sitting cross-legged beside his head and pulled him gently the rest of the way to rest his golden hair on his lap. Naruto lookedaway, presumably at the clock, and therefore the raven completely missed the wild blush that burst across his cheeks.

Frustrated tears came to him for a moment, because he still didn't know...or if he did...refused to admitt what was causing these strange feelings.

He is scared. Who would blame him...

But he knew..or...a part of him did, that he deeply cared for Sasuke. More than a friend. Much more.

But how can I possibly tell him and ruin everything? It's obvious that he doesn't...me back.

Sasuke hides his feelings all too well...

The raven laughed, smirking down as he chews softly on the mouth of muffin. Blueberry. As the blonde is turned away, he watches him lovingly, his mask disintigrating. When the other glances back at him, his mask is instantly back and he smirks again, chewing more obviously.

Something clicks, and Naruto leans up mouth connecting...with the exposed flesh...of the...muffin.

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(Hahahahahaha! Poor damn suckers. Had you there, didn't I? But maybe you weren't fooled after last time? Lol. I think its about 50/50? Sorry. Too good not to try.)

Sasuke's eyes widen and e pulls back, his own wad of blueberry nearlt killing him as his throat dries up like a bone, refusing to let the suddenly swallowed food pass. His hand released the muffin and Naruto laughed around it, overly-large canines poking prominently out from his lips and crushing a few berries. He grins and reaches up to take the pastry from his mouth, but is beaten to it by a recovered raven. He pouts and chewsed the bite he'd already ripped off, gulping it down.

The Uchiha takes another bite.

He then tears off a piece and offers it to the other. Naruto looks at both him and it, accepting it. His lips brush the raven's finger tips, exciting a blush from both. Kakashi shouts suddenly, "Sasuke! I'm done now!"

They sigh, and Naruto sits up, wincing at his side but ignoring the pain. He lets the raven hand him the muffin, watching as he sorts out the waiting silver's clothes.

He sighs again, and turns his head away.

I wish...I wish I wasn't such a coward...

Kakashi listens carefully to the wall, wondering. It's been nearly all the time Sasuke alotted him, and now he's just enjoying the warmth.

Yes...he knows.

I won't be able to save these lovestruck idiots forever...

He sighs too, climbing out and shutting the water off, wrapping a towel around himself.

Sasuke...hurry..

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