Cautious Wolf, Trembling Fox
Summary: Sasuke returns back to camp one night to find the rest of Hawk has taken in his former teammate, Naruto Uzumaki. Haunted by new aquaintances and fearing for Naruto's safety Sasuke is unsure of what course of action to take. But what will Sasuke do when he discovers Naruto is hiding more than the Kyubi.
Rating – M – Yaoi, SasuNaru - If you don't like it get lost, i dont have time for twats.
Disclaimer - Yes i own Naruto, in fact i own Masashi Kishimoto and George Bush (twat) and if you dont know sarcasm when your reading it...You're a twat!
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Chapter 2 – Fireside Revelations
Sasuke leaned harder against the tree trunk observing the camp from the branch he had settled on. Yugo ans Suigetsu were eating quietly by the small fire which illuminated the shadows of Karin and Naruto from inside the tent.
Sasuke sighed. It wasn't normal for him to clam up like that, but seeing Naruto... He had never seen the blond so utterly defenceless. It unnerved him. What he saw behind Naruto's goofy mask was so different than what he had expected. It felt like he hadn't really known Naruto at all. A sinking feeling gripped his stomach as his chest began to throb.
The raven cursed himself inwardly. He shouldn't care about the blond, not anymore. But he knew he wouldn't let 'him' get hold of Naruto. Why must he have such a contradicting personality? Wanting to break is bond with the blond while at the same time wanting to protect him.
A flash of red light ignited the raven's eyes as he noticed the movement of the shadows in the tent had changed and soon after Karin came out of the tent with Naruto trailing behind her, wingless.
Frown lines indented Sasuke's forehead.
Karin walked to where the food had been left out for them, leaving Naruto standing alone, fiddling with his fingers while he looked down at the ground.
Yugo looked up. "Hey, don't just stand there," he patted the area of earth between him and Suigetsu. "Come on, join us," he continued, smiling.
Naruto carefully sat down hugging his knees to his chest. Sasuke realised they must have given Naruto some of their old clothes. A pair of black combat trouser and a black jumper, both hanging loosely from his slender frame. The trousers being held up only by the blonds hip bone and the neck hole of the jumper was so wide each end was in danger of slipping off his shoulders. Because of this most of his collar bone was exposed and the long sleeves his his hands from view.
The raven also noticed his hair had grown longer and was now more floppy than spiky and was hanging over those large sky blue eyes that brightened his face, which Sasuke also noticed was minus some whiskers. It was no wonder Yugo had called him cute. To Sasuke it seemed the more the blond grew the more gorgeous he became. Gorgeous? No, he had set aside those feelings for the blond long ago.
"Here," Karin passed Naruto a bowl, "Eat up."
Then two small words slipped through the blonds lips. "Thank you" And these two small words were enough to shock Sasuke to his core. The words were soft, quiet, held nothing but innocence. This was Naruto, but it wasn't his Naruto.
His Naruto was loud, confident, the number one hyper active knuckle head ninja of the hidden leaf village.
This Naruto had none of that confidence, none of that strong sense of right and wrong. This Naruto, wasn't Naruto.
The blond boy took the bowl, shyly from Karin and began to eat for it.
"So," Suigetsu said turning to the blond, "Why isn't Konoha searching for you?"
"Ko-no-ha," Narutopractically mouthed, as confusion flitted through his eyes, but that wasn't what shocked Hawk. What shocked all four members was he deep, unbidden fear that swirled around those blue orbs and clouded them. The scraping sound of spoon on bowl alerted them to his trembling hands.
Karin gently took the bowl from his hands and the blond looked at her with eyes so wide and Innocent they managed to melt even Sasuke's heart.
"Look at you, your all muddy and dirty," said Karin smiling. "There's a small lake not that far, why don't you go and wash."
The blond glanced at the direction she was pointing, then cautiously got to his feet. Karin gave him a towel and directed him to the small path before turning to the other two and saying, "Where's Sasuke?"
The raven sighed before sliding off the tree branch and handing lightly behind the obsessive fan-girl. "I'm here," he said blankly.
"Sasuke!" the girl squealed attaching herself to his arm. He scowled.
"So, who do you think did it?" Suigetsu asked smirking, once Naruto was out of ear shot.
"Did what?" Sasuke replied, sitting down, trying to dislodge the fan-girl in the process. He failed.
"Suigetsu," Yugo said in a dangerous voice, a frown line appearing on his forehead.
Suigetus turned form Yugo to Sasuke, who cocked an eyebrow in response.
An evil grin spread across Suigetsu's face as he looked at Sasuke before nodding his head in the direction the blond took.
"Who do you think has been experimenting on little cutie pie foxie?"
Sasuke's entire body stiffened at the word 'experimenting'. A dark shadow fell across the raven's face.
"What do you mean?"
Yugo sighed. "All the evidence points to someone practising human experimentation and using Naruto as their guinea pig. We've seen this before at Orochimaru's. The experiments alter certain points of the brain which affect emotions, personality and on certain occasions...memory."
"Well you can't blame whoever it was," Suigetsu cut in. "I mean the kids got massive reserves of chakra which can heal his body, ect. ect. You might as well put a big sign on his head saying 'experiment on me'.
"Suigetsu!," said Karin shocked. "Don't say that! You'll upset my Sasu-boo-boo!"
Suigatsu and Yugo raised an eyebrow at each other sceptically.
"Sasu-boo-boo?"
"Yes! My Sasu-boo-boo! And Suigetsu your such and insensitive bastard! Besides," she continued. "None of that stuff is our buisness. We'll get him back to Konoha, at's then that's that."
"What!" Yugo started. "It's obvious Konoha has something to do with these experiments! He'll be in danger!"
"That's not our problem!," Suigetsu shouted back. "Fox boy belongs to Konoha! What they do with him is their buisness!"
"But he's just like us now!"
"He's nothing like us, Karin you agree with me?"
The fan-girl became uncomfortable and began fiddling with the ravens arm.
"He does have to go back to Konoha," she began hesitantly, "But i don't want to see him get hurt. Especially when he's so vunerable right now."
"Karin!" Suigetsu practically screamed, almost ripping his vocal chords, enraged by his friends betrayal. "What are you on! And what the hell does ' i don't want to see him get hurt mean'! Huh?!"
"It's called motherly instinct," she said coldly uptruning her nose.
Yugo looked from one team-mate to the other before fianllt resting his eyes on their raven haired leader, who still sat stifly, being clutched at by the affronted fan-girl. He held his head low casting it in shadows and covering it with his bangs, making sure that any emotion that slipped through his mask was quickly hidden.
"Sasuke, what do you want to do?"
Sasuke couldn't quite comprhend what was being said. When he had left to join Orochimaru he was sure that Konoha would keep his little blond safe. But they didn't. He couldn't protect Naruto. THat would change this time around.
He rose stifly, removing himself from the crazed fan-girl. "Naruto won't go back to Konoha, not yet anyway."
Yugo let out a small sigh of releif but quickly turnedhis head to attention as Suuigatsu jumped to his feet, breathing heavily. He glared angrily at the face of the raven which was still covered by his bangs.
"Fine," he said taking a deep breath, "When is the fox leaving."
"His name isnt fox it's Naruto," Sasuke snapped, glaring daggers at Suigatsu who flinched at the spite in his leaders voice.
"I don't care what he's called, when can we get rid of him!"
Sasuke's entire body shook with rage. Why did he always loose control like this when Naruto was envovled? He knew if he listened to this any longer he would end up flambeing Suigestu. Even as this thought passes through his head he bagan to like the sound of it.
He swiftly turned on his heels heading in the direction in which he had entered the camp, ignoring his name which was being called out by a certain funny haired stalker.
He jumped into the air, rocketing himself off with such force that the branch he had recently been vacating snapped in two falling to the forest floor. But Sasuke kept on going.
Well that's that. The next chapter 'In the Moonlit Night' will be much better i promise. .