Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto or any of the characters.
A/N: Hey people! Sorry for the late update, my internet connection died on me. Imagine it, weeks without the internet! It was torture! Good thing I pulled through without going crazy. Now on with the story!
CHAPTER 5
Sasuke stares at Kakashi with shock as he poof out of nowhere with an amuse expression on his partially covered face. The winds in the cemetery whisked by, leaving a trail of drifting fallen leaves and an echoing silence. Kakashi then decides to break the unbearable thick silence.
"Yo Sasuke, how are you doing?"
Sasuke death glares him, knowing that his not-so-secret is now exposed while Kakashi continues placing the amuse expression on his face with an orange book in his hand. Typical…he barely changed at all… thought Sasuke.
"What do you want Kakashi?"
"Now, now, Sasuke, is there any way to speak to your teacher whom you haven't seen in 6 years? In case your wondering why I'm here, I'm merely visiting an old friend and to my luck, I found you confessing your feelings to your parents,"said Kakashi as he gestures to a nearby older tomb.
'Uchiha Obito…my cousin…killed during a raid from the Mist pack 12 years ago. But I never really know him very well before…''
Kakashi glances at Sasuke thoughtfully then pulls him out of his thoughts by speaking. "Sasuke…want to get some ramen?" Sasuke sweatdrops and stares at him with confusion written on his face.
"No"
"Come on Sasuke, I bet you haven't tasted good ramen in the past 6 years and Ichiraku Ramen is the best there is. It'll be just like old times when we ate ramen together after a tedious training session."
Sasuke glared at him and replied, "The times have changed, I'm not a child anymore, Kakashi, you can't bribe me to spill out my guts by giving me food."
"Really…I don't recall…"said Kakashi with an innocent smile under his mask. When they were young, Kakashi was in charge of Naruto, Sasuke and Sakura's development. Each time they attempted to hide a guilty secret from Kakashi, being an observant sensei, he bribe them with food. And each time, Naruto spilled the beans due to the promise of filling his bottomless stomach which got them into trouble more then one occasion. Although… Naruto did receive the redemption of fury from the others later.
"Now Sasuke no need to be rude, unless you want me to spread that wonderful secret of yours to the world," said Kakashi in an innocently pleasant tone.
Sasuke is pissed, that's blackmail! Shouldn't that be illegal or something? He glares at Kakashi, wanting nothing more then to smash that smirking face of his. Kakashi looks at the young demon teen, amused by his fuming expression, obviously Sasuke is going to answer…
"Hn…fine…"
*****
6 years ago…
A 13-year-old Naruto was standing under a large oak tree waiting for a certain someone. Pure white snowflakes were drifting down slowly to the ground, placing themselves on any surface available, painting the earth into a snowy landscape. A winter breeze whispered by causing Naruto to shiver and wrapped his orange scarf tightly around him.
"Damn it! Where is he?" exclaimed a pissed off Naruto, he was freezing in the middle of winter, his teeth is clattering, and he wanted a hot bowl of ramen more than anything! Okay… maybe not anything.
The person in question was obviously the 12-year-old Sasuke (Naruto got held back by 1 year due to over failing in the academy) who had not been sighted yet. Why? You ask. Obviously that today was 14th February, a.k.a Valentine's Day and being one of the most popular guys in the academy, Sasuke as per usual was running from his fangirls, who were crazier than usual, hoping to get him as a potential mate. Demons don't usually mate until they came on-age, which was 16-years-old.
However, as soon as Naruto hit puberty 1 year ago, he began to have particular feelings around the raven cat demon, like butterflies were flapping in his stomach, like now. Later, he soon discovered that he had an uncontrollable urge to steal more glances of Sasuke when he was in vicinity and he began to have self-consciousness regarding Sasuke's appearance. How his porcelain skin contrasted perfectly with his raven black fur, bring out the intensity of his onyx black orbs… How his movements were always graceful and flawless on his perfectly sculptured body … How his personality that attracted him the most blazed like a wild untamed fire…
When he had these thoughts appeared in his mind for the first time, he screamed and slammed his head onto the nearest tree, convinced that he had went crazy for having such thoughts regarding his best friend. However, after countless confessions and advices from his guardian Iruka, occasionally Kakashi and Jiraiya (although it is mostly Iruka, Jiraiya was mainly thrilled about the idea of writing a new Icha Icha Paradise Gay Edition and had not been much of a help what so ever). He finally came in terms of his feelings and built up his courage to confess his feelings on Valentine's Day, which brought us to the current situation.
He was now pissed beyond all reason; Sasuke was late for more that half-an-hour and he was now going to march up to the Uchiha estate and bang on his door until he answered it. 'Maybe that teme got killed by his fangirls and now lying dead in a gutter somewhere! Ha! That served him right for being so good looking!' Although deep down he didn't mean it…
As he was going to march of to the Uchiha compound in a huff, Sasuke jumped out from the oak tree and landed right in front of him. Naruto gave a shocked shout and yelled,
"Damn it teme! Are you trying to give me a heart attack?"
"Oh shove it dobe! Do you have any idea how hard it is to outrun to crazy bitches? What's the matter? A little fright too much for the great Uzumaki Naruto?" Sasuke said sarcastically.
"Shut it teme! You came late! You have no right to criticize me!"
"Do you even know what 'criticize' mean dobe?"
"You-!"
Eventually their bickering lasted for a moment until both of them cooled down. They stared at each other for a long time, each wondering about the thoughts of the other, with white snowflakes falling slowly onto them. As the snow fell on Sasuke's raven black hair, they stood out perfectly with his appearance, painting a beautiful picture of Sasuke to Naruto. 'He's so beautiful…' Instinctively, Naruto placed his tanned hands on Sasuke's raven locks and slowly brushed the snow away and stroking his hair at the same time. Sasuke seemed to relax and leaned into his touch and had a slight pink blush on his porcelain face, he then purred in content as he mumbled,
"Naruto…"
Naruto snapped back to reality and quickly withdrew his hands, blushing. Sasuke held down a whine of disappointment. Naruto averted Sasuke's stare and rubbed his golden locks while stammering,
"Erm… Er… Sasuke…that was just…I…Er... Damn it…"
But, the only thing he received was Sasuke's blank stare, obviously confused and beckoning him to continue.
"I LIKE YOU SASUKE!!!" he shouted out.
"Naruto…?" whispered Sasuke.
"I meant…I like you more than a friend…and I was wondering that would you be my boyfriend… what I'm trying to say is…I-"
However, he was immediately cut off when he felt a pair of soft lips on him. He opened his cerulean eyes and saw a pair of half-lidded onyx black eyes looking back at him with an intense unknown emotion within them. 'Sasuke's lips are really soft and warm…' he thought as he felt an electrical spark between them, leaving him to crave for more contact and warmth.
He then placed his hands on Sasuke's raven locks and waist, deepening the kiss. He felt Sasuke wrapping his arms around his neck, pulling their body closer together. Naruto then closed his eyes and nipped Sasuke's lips, asking for entrance which was later given. His tongue travelled into his love's moist caravan, tasting, exploring and savoring every moment. Their kiss heaten, leaving both of them unaware of the winter's frost. Each of them focused solely on seeking the warmth and love of the other, holding each other tightly with the fear of losing the other. Naruto wrapped his fox tail around Sasuke's, resulting their tails to intertwined.
Sasuke gave a soft moan, causing Naruto to attack his lips more viciously. They broke up for air occasionally, giving Naruto the chance to pin Sasuke onto the trunk of the oak tree, hence intensified the kisses. Finally, the broke up for air, leaving both of them panting and blushing in each other arms. Puffs of white smoke were coming out from their breaths due to the cold of the winter's day.
Naruto glanced at Sasuke, who was panting for air through his parted red lips with a soft rosy blush on his porcelain cheeks and his deep onyx eyes held only lust and love that was focused solely on him. He hugged Sasuke tightly.
"You are really beautiful Sasuke…"
He heard Sasuke mumbled something into his shoulder, which sounded suspiciously like 'You too…' Naruto smiled.
Suddenly, they heard a squeal behind them. Sasuke quickly broke free from Naruto's embrace and turned around to see…
An entire horde of Sasuke's fangirls which had turned to yaoi fangirls in a few minutes.
"Did you see that?"
"Dude! That's sooooo hot!"
"I think that I'm gonna faint!"
"These photos are going to morning's newspapers!"
While they were fantasying about the newly-found couple, the-couple-in-question quickly made their escape to Naruto's apartment. When they got there, they were exhausted.
"Well so much for keeping that a secret…" said Naruto.
"Yeah…crazy people… Nii-san will never let me live this down when he sees it in the newspaper tomorrow…" mumbles Sasuke, annoyed.
Naruto then turned to Sasuke, now serious.
"Sasuke?"
"Hn?"
"I want to hear your answer."
Sasuke focused in eyes onto Naruto's, his blue eyes was filled with nervousness and a slight glimmer of hope. He walked towards Naruto and hugged him, inhaling his scent. 'It's like the fresh scent of summer.' He found that oddly relaxing.
"I love you too, Naruto."
*****
Naruto sat in his room, pondering about the moment he confessed to Sasuke. A small smile lilts on his features. He was so glad and happy back then, like the luckiest person in the world. But that was in the past, Sasuke died a few months after that, in the Uchiha massacre, he thought that his heart will break when he heard the news, he even ran to the Uchiha compound after that calling Sasuke's name over and over again with tears streaming from his blue eyes, hoping that Sasuke will suddenly emerge with that smirk of his. But it never happened.
For years, he went though countless sleepless nights, often sobbing with Sasuke's memory, his health declined along with his performance in the academy, his glossy fox fur actually started molting. His friends were very worried of him, and it went on for a few months, until Sakura got fed up and gave him a hard punch on his head. She practically screamed at him in the middle of the road, saying that Sasuke would only want them to live his life to the fullest. He finally snapped out from his zombie trance and sworn to live on for his sake. After 4 years of hard work, he was finally appointed as the alpha male.
And now… a cat demon that looked like an older Sasuke…who acts like Sasuke…who has he same name as Sasuke… who is wearing the same silver bracelet he gave to Sasuke…suddenly turned up at Konoha's doorstep. What are the odds? He hadn't spoken to him ever since he was released from the hospital. Naruto guesses that he just didn't want to get his hopes up, he was afraid even though he doesn't want to admit it what if it's just coincidence? What if it's not? What if that's the real Sasuke? What happens then? What about Haku? Who does he really love? Naruto groans in frustration and slams his hand onto the table.
Suddenly, a pair of arm wrap around his neck with the owner's breath in his golden locks. He turns around and sees his current mate, Haku in front of him with a content smile on his face.
"It's nearly autumn now Naruto-kun, the Harvesting Festival is coming soon," whispered Haku as he kissed Naruto softly on the cheek.
"Yea Haku, that sounds nice…" replied Naruto with a forced smile on his face.
"What's wrong Naruto-kun? Is anything troubling you?"
Naruto smiles and says, "It's nothing Haku."
"It is regarding Sasuke-kun?"
Naruto averts his eyes and replies, "Don't worry about it."
"This Sasuke-kun looks like your old lover, doesn't it?" asks Haku as he pointed to a picture frame nearby.
"I know, but it's not him! His gone for 6 years now Haku…"
"But-"
"The dead could never return, Haku," says Naruto while placing his hands on Haku's pale ones. "He's never coming back…"
But deep down, he doesn't know who he is trying to fool.
A/N: So how was it? Please review! *smiles*
