Okay guys, here's the third chapter. Enjoy and review.

warnings for this chapter: implied self harm


Truth or Dare?

Searching

Naruto woke up to banging on his apartment door. He got up and went to the door to see who was making so much noise. As he opened the door he found Kakashi and Sakura fuming and Sasuke leaning against a wall in the hall way not really bothered.

Sasuke sneaked a look at Naruto and gave a sorry-your-going-to-get-beaten-up-big-time-by-Sakura-and-Kakashi-for-being-late-because-you-were-up-all-night-with-me apologetic smile.

"WHAT THE HELL HAVE YOU BEEN DOING?! WE HAVE BEEN SEARCHING ALL OVER FOR YOU! WHY WER'NT YOU AT THE MEETING POINT?!? WE'VE MISSED OUR MISSION OPPORTUNITY NOW! WE HAD TO GO TO TRUNADE AND SAY THAT WE COULDN'T DO AND TO SEND SOMEONE WHO WAS READY!!!HAVE YOU ONLY JUST WOKEN UP?! WHY…" the shouting went on for a few minutes, Naruto started out staring at them hardly taking in what they were shouting at him, as he realised he was late and had by far over slept, his hand crept up to the back of his head where he scratched for a while with is signature big grin.

"Sakura-Chan, Kakashi-sensei, you don't need to worry. I just overslept a bit, I erm…" he snuck a glance at Sasuke who had a faint blush on his cheeks, but as Naruto was the only one looking, Naruto was the only one that saw, "…couldn't get much sleep last night. Do you want to come in?" he finished off moving to the side to allow in his team mates and sensei. "Do you want something to eat or drink? I just need to get washed up a bit and then we can go okay?" He took their orders and went to the kitchen to gather their drinks of tea and biscuits. As Sakura and Kakashi were discussing how unbelievably tidy Narutos apartment was, Sasuke sneaked to the kitchen to get a little word with Naruto.

"Sorry" Sasuke leaned against a kitchen counter looking at his shoes slightly embarrassed.

"Heh don't worry about it, they'll cool down…eventually", he let out a slightly uneasy laugh.

'You always look on the bright side don't you?' Sasuke looked up and smiled a genuine smile.

"Erm, about last night…" started Sasuke looking slightly worried.

"Don't worry I won't tell anyone" said Naruto placing the hot tea pot on the tray with the cups and biscuits.

"oh eh, well thanks" he was slightly disappointed as Naruto was acting like it wasn't anything special or any big deal, it kind of hurt him but he smiled as though relieved and followed Naruto to the awaiting team mate and Sensei.

He placed the tray in the centre of the room on the small table where Sakura and Kakashi were sitting in silence, their discussion having had come to a close or lost in their thoughts. Naruto poured them all some tea and excused himself while he left to get ready to head out.

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"Hey Sasuke did you expect Naruto's place to be so…sanitary?" asked a curious Sakura.

"Well…I don't know. It wasn't like this the last time I was here. But that was years ago. I guess he's grown up?"

"true I mean if this had happened before he went with Jiraiya the place would be a tip and he would have chucked us out, not invited us in and serving us tea and biscuits. "Stated a wisening Kakashi, taking another sip of his tea. "But I also expected him to be more like Jiraiya but now he seems to hate the 'icha icha' books more than ever!" said a now bawling Sensei. He decided to ease his pain by taking out the pocket sized book that Naruto had given him after his return to Konoha and was instantly brought to the world of 'Icha Icha'.

"I wonder what he was doing last night. To be honest he's only been 5 or 10 minutes late tops recently. What could he have been doing that caused him to oversleep?" asked Sakura, mostly to herself. Sasuke had a slightly panicked look on his face but took another bite of his biscuit. "Sasuke you wouldn't know anything would you? I know that all the guys met at your place yesterday, Naruto was the last to leave apparently, and you wouldn't know what he had done would you?"

Sasuke choked on his biscuit, "Sasuke! What happened?" Kakashi diverted his attention from the book and started hitting Sasuke on the back in an attempt to get the biscuit out of his throat. Sakura just sat there looking stunned. After about five minutes of drinking tea to get rid of the biscuit Sakura started asking Sasuke again if he knew what Naruto had done the previous night.

"w-why are you asking me?" asked a slightly jumpy Sasuke.

"Well I was just wondering, you were probably the last person to see Naruto, did he say anything about what he was going to do when he got home?" asked Sakura.

"No, I don't know anything we didn't do anything why should I know?" what an idiot. Nothing good ever comes out of babbling like that when your trying to hide something. But I guess he wouldn't know that seeing as he doesn't have much experience in hiding secrets like that. "I'm...err…going to the bathroom" said a nervous Sasuke. He stepped into the hallway, leaned against the wall and let out a sigh of relief after having escaped a 'potentially embarrassing situation' like it wasn't embarrassing enough already.

He walked into the bathroom and found it full of steam. As the steam cleared, it revealed a soaking wet, toned and tanned upper body of Naruto Uzumaki. His hair was dripping wet and the bangs were at the side of his face giving him a god-like glow that caused an unusual sensation in the Uchihas lower regions. "Ah! Sorry I didn't think you would still be in here", said an extremely flushed Uchiha as he looked away and closed his eyes. It appeared to Naruto that he was trying to not look at the Uzumaki, but even though he had closed his eyes he could still see the dripping wet body in front of him, luckily for him, Naruto didn't know that.

"Sorry sorry sorry sorry sorry" Sasuke slowly backed up towards the door in an attempt to exit the room before anything else could happen.

"Err. Sasuke, are you alright?"

"Yea, I'm err…fine… dobe"

Naruto couldn't help but smile at the red faced Uchiha. He placed a hand on his shoulder and helped him out of the bathroom without him making a bigger fool of himself. As Sasuke recomposed himself he decided that he had to get out of here before anything else goes wrong and left without a word despite the protests of Sakura and Kakashi. When Naruto came out again and noticed Sasuke had disappeared, he asked the others where he had gone and went out searching for him when they said they didn't know.

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First they were looking for Naruto and now they are looking for Sasuke. But he was harder to find. They looked everywhere they could think of, they searched his house, went to all the bars, the school, the rock faces, but no where were they able to find the Uchiha. As they searched Naruto decided that something must have happened.

The sun was starting to set over Konoha so Sakura and Kakashi, deciding that nothing bad could happen to Sasuke, went home to get some sleep having been looking all around the village twice in one day.

Naruto, having already decided that something was wrong carried on his search. He went into the forest searching for a sign that he might have been here, but there was nothing. His feet took him from branch to branch. He wasn't thinking and his feet were just moving on their own. Where they were taking him he didn't know. But then he came to a clearing. Ha hadn't realised he was going up and was now able to see the very few village lights from a very high cliff that he had never even seen before, and by the edge of this cliff was a hunched over thing that was slightly bobbing up and down.

He approached knowing he had found what he was looking for and accompanied the thing by sitting next to him. Sasuke didn't look up and didn't even realise that he had been found. He simply sat there sobbing. Naruto placed an arm around him and he looked up into those blue pure eyes as tears continued to flow down his own, dead, black ones. When Naruto looked down at Sasuke he didn't put on his everything-is-going-to-be-alright smile, he kept a straight face and looked into the bloodshot black eyes that were aching so much. They sat there for a moment simply looking into each other eyes, and then Naruto turned away and looked out onto the village.

"You know i'm here if you need to chat" said the blonde who seemed to be taller than the boy his arm was wrapped around. Sasuke kept on looking at the blonde, "so do you want to tell me what's wrong?"

Sasuke looked down towards the bottom of the cliff and let out a weak "no".

"Okay, but if you do then you know where I am." He looked at the raven and gave a smile. "Would you like me to stay here with you?"

The raven looked up at his friend and nodded; he looked back out towards the village and felt a hand gently push his head onto the shoulder of the arm around him. He rested his head and closed his eyes as they wouldn't stay open due to the stinging he felt from crying so much. Narutos hand went and gently stroked Sasukes jaw line in a soothing manner.

They sat there for a while and as Naruto turned his head to have a good look at the child-like teenager, he found a bottle of pills and a kunai in his hands. These only caused one thought to come to his head of what he would be doing with these. He eased the objects out of the small hands and placed them in his pocket. The raven had clearly fallen asleep on the blonde and as Naruto lifted him up bridal style, he decided to take him home.

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Seeing as Naruto didn't have the keys to the Uchiha estate, Naruto took him to his own home and placed Sasuke on his own bed.

He undressed the sleeper; taking of his shirt he was able to see the toned pale torso that belonged to Uchiha Sasuke, he lost control of his hand and gently stroked the dream dweller down the centre of his upper body, he realised what he was doing and took his hand away warily, he then continued to undress the beauty before him, taking off his trousers, as he slipped them off the Uchiha's boxers came down a little with them, just enough to see a couple stray black curls, Naruto immediately pulled the boxers back up, gently enough to not wake the boy on his bed, he left him in his boxers and threw the blanket over him to keep him warm.

He looked over the sleeping boys face as the moonlight hit it through the window, his bangs had fallen over his face and Naruto decided to move them out of the way, his face was so soft, and his skin was so smooth, he looked so innocent in his sleep and the moonlight was causing him to give off an angel like glow. He stared at the splendour sleeping in his bed a few minutes more before picking up his clothes, folding them and placing them on a chair in the room. He then set of to prepare the spare bed that came out of his sofa. He went back into his room to get the bed covers from the wardrobe in there and spared another glance at Sasuke. He went to bed and placed the kunai and pills on the table next to him. He should probably have a talk with Sasuke the next day about these.

He placed his head on his pillow in hopes that the following morning, Sasuke would have a good excuse for these items and Naruto was not thinking right.


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