Chapter 5!!! I really do hope your enjoying the new version! It would suck if you guys weren't u.u'' But w/e, I'll still keep on writing!!! D: anyways, please enjoy.
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Chapter 05: Questions and Answers
Sasuke put his sword against the wall then walked over to Naruto and sat by him. The blonde gave a bright smile, and Sasuke couldn't help but think how amazingly cute the blonde was when his cheeks were rosy with blush.
"So how did it go?" Naruto asked. Sasuke noticed how there was a bit of a non-interested tone in the blonde's voice...but if he weren't interested why would he ask?
"I killed someone..." Sasuke said casually, watching Naruto's expression. The blonde's eyes widened in shock, but he didn't pale like most people would when they were in shock.
"What!? How!? Why?!" the blonde shouted...adding a bit too much emotion.
"How? Using my sword skills... Why? She killed my partner..." Sasuke said with a blank expression. Naruto didn't say anything, he just stared at Sasuke with this look in his eye that Sasuke couldn't identify. Sasuke glanced at the fox in Naruto's lap. "...Sasha followed me...did you know that?"
"Sh-she did!?" Naruto said, looking down at Sasha to hide the panic in his eyes. Sasha's tails swished, her ears arched sideways.
"Yes... I don't mind... actually I have to thank her. If she hadn't came, I would have been dead... or I would have probably have killed more people." Sasuke said, smiling softly at the fox, who blinked. Naruto looked up at Sasuke, relief swept through him. It seems Sasuke wasn't going to bring up anything suspicious. "...But no one but me could see Sasha..."
Naruto froze, his smile disappeared as Sasuke locked eyes with him. Sasha stared at Sasuke with her ruby red eyes, stiff from tension in the air. Sasuke's eyes narrowed as they turned to stare at Sasha.
"No one but me....could see her back there... Why is that Naruto?" Sasuke said, locking eyes with the shocked blonde. He wasn't going to drop this subject...He wanted answers, and he will get them...
"Wh-What should I do Nee-chan?" Naruto stuttered to the fox, his eyes wide as he stared at Sasuke.
There's nothing you can do.... Just tell him the truth....
"The truth?"
Yes...
"Naruto?" Sasuke said, his eyes narrowed by how serious the blonde's expression had gotten.
"Do you believe in angels?" Naruto said seriously. Sasuke scowled. Not this again...
"I've said it before... I don't believe in people with halos Naruto--
"What if angels don't have halos?" Naruto said, cutting Sasuke off. Sasuke stared at Naruto with confused dark eyes. Naruto returned that gaze with steady azure eyes. "What if... they don't really have wings... What if they're not really even human...."
"What are you talking about Naruto?" Sasuke said, narrowing his gaze. Naruto eyes flickered to Sasha.
"I'm saying....what if angels are actually animals..." Naruto said, scratching Sasha behind the ear. Sasuke froze, staring at Naruto incrediously. What was this boy talking about!? Maybe he had picked up a delusional boy up! Sasuke shook his head. No...Naruto couldn't be dilusional...he just couldn't..
'It doesn't mean it can't be possible...' Sasuke scowled at the little voice in his head. He refused to believe this sweet boy was crazy. He refused to believe that Naruto...was out of his mind... Sasuke wearily looked up at the blonde, who gazed at him with those soft crystal clear blue eyes.
"What if... Sasha was an angel?" Sasuke heard those words escape those soft pink lips...those azure eyes looked down...down at the fox... Sasuke stared at Sasha with wide eyes, the fox staring back with intence red eyes, her tails swishing.
"What?" Sasuke said in a hushed tone.
"Haven't you wondered why she looks so different from other foxes...why she has three tails...?" Naruto said softly. Sasuke sat there, silent. Yes...he had wondered...always have... He had came to a conclusion that maybe his mother's stories had been true, that maybe such animals have exsisted all this time...they were just rare that's all. But angels? That was just...just incredible!
"She's....an angel?" Sasuke said incredously. Naruto chuckled.
"You humans....are so clueless to the real world...to the things that surround you..." Naruto said softly, a bitter smile graced his lips. Sasuke stared at Naruto. You humans? Isn't he human!? Sasuke swallowed hard, before a simple question escaped his mouth.
"What are you?"
Naruto stared at Sasuke, his sad azure eyes met with Sasuke's shocked obsidean eyes. Naruto sighed deeply as he grabbed his sheet and wrapped it around himself, Sasha jumped out of his lap and walked over to Sasuke. Sasuke stiffened when the fox brushed her tails against him as she circled around him, but his gaze was fixed on the sad blonde.
"There are many things in this world you humans don't understand..." Naruto mumbled, closing his eyes. Sasuke felt a pang of sadness wash through him, but he didn't know why.
"Such as?" Sasuke said, his voice steady, though his heart pounded.
"This Earth...our earth...contains eight different beings..." Naruto mumbled, his eyes remianed closed. "There are dominant beings...and non dominant... Starting with the most dominant...is Humans..."
Naruto opened his eyes, and looked up into Sasuke's.
"Humans have no power what so ever...but somehow, they're the most dangerous... Then the animals... Their sixth sence is so much keener than humans...they can see things...hear things that you can't.... But humans can kill a species before you even know it..." Naruto mumbled, staring at Sasuke, who stared back with wide eyes. "Plants... they're the source of life... without them, humans and animals can't live..."
"You have so far been naming things I already know... Humans, animals, plants! That's all the things this world has!" Sasuke said, his voice a bit loud.
"Wrong!" Naruto shot back, his blue gaze narrowed. "Those are the only things that have no choice but be visible! The others, they have the choice to be visible or invisible!"
"What other 'beings' exist then!?" Sasuke growled, his temper rising. Naruto scowled, before looking at Sasha.
"Angels...Shinigamis....Oni...souls.............Dark Angels..." Naruto said... Sasuke stared at Naruto, his eyes contained disbelief and shock... But the way Naruto had said Dark angel...it seemed as if he hated that word... but why? "Sasha is an angel....a Light Angel... Her kind is what you guys call 'miracles' or gaurdians...stuff like that... Shinigamis are death angels, they take the soul of a human who's death date has came... Oni cause nothing but trouble, they get into human's souls, overpowering their soul only for a short time and cause chaos. Souls are well souls.... They're also known as spirits, ghosts... They stay on this planet only if they have something of regret, or left something unfinished...or because they can't find their way to the other side..."
There was a long silence as Naruto hung his head, not daring to look into to those dark eyes of Sasuke. Sasuke cleared his throat... Naruto actually believed all this....he believed all these things existed... Sasuke's eyes saddened. He had brought a delusional boy home...a sad lonely delusional boy... But, what caught Sasuke's attention was the fact Naruto didn't explain about Dark Angels...
"What are you? A light Angel?" Sasuke said. He decided he would play along with Naruto...at least for a while before he'd take him to the loony house... No matter how sad it made him...the boy needed help.
"No... Light Angels come in the form of animals...they just look a bit different from the real thing..." Naruto whispered. Sasuke scowled. That was exactly like what his mother had told him... Animals that looked a little different from the rest of them.
"Then what are you?" Sasuke said softly. Naruto shut his eyes, he visibly shook. Alarmed, Sasuke crawled over to Naruto's side. "Hey what's wrong?"
"Nothing's wrong....except that I'm the most disgusting being on this planet..." Naruto said, opening pained eyes. Sasuke was about to protest to that, when Naruto suddenly slipped off the sheet off his shoulders...off his back...off completely... "I'm a Dark Angel... "
Sasuke stared at Naruto with wide eyes as the blonde looked up at him sadly, dark wings unruffled themselves. Sasuke stumbled backwards, lost for words, but it was a horrible mistake to have done that. Almost immediately, Naruto wrapped the sheets around him again, and looked away. Sasuke quickly recovered and sat up correctly.
"I-I'm sorry... That was rude of me, it's just..." Sasuke said, struggling for words.
"I'm disgusting aren't I?" Naruto's soft voice surprised Sasuke.
"No!!" Sasuke shouted immediately, scowling. Sasuke caught himself and looked down at his lap, glaring at it. "I mean.. of course you aren't disgusting.... So you're a boy with wings, there's nothing wrong with it."
"That's not the point!" Naruto snapped, earnined a surprised look from Sasuke. Sasuke's eyes widened further when he saw the blonde glaring at him with tears welling up in those azure eyes. There was a soft click and Sasuke looked over at the door that had just been closed. He glanced around the room and noticed that Sasha wasn't here anymore.
"She hates it when I'm like this," Naruto said, sniffing as he wipped away his tears. Sasuke bit his bottom lip, before he reached out and grabbed the blonde's hand, pulling it away from his face.
"...I hate it to..." Sasuke whispered, wiping the tears away himself with his thumb, earning a shocked gaze from the blonde. Sasuke's expression was a pained one as he pulled Naruto's arm, making the blonde fall forward into his arms. "Don't cry...ne?"
Sasuke held the boy to him, as it began to shake and sobs soon left the boy's lips. Sasuke just sat there, with the boy cradled in his arms, letting him weep. He stared up at the cileing as he gently stroke the blonde locks. A rule for being a swordsman is to never show emotion or show any sympathy to anyone.... Lately he's been breaking rules, and it's all because of this boy.
"I've h-had it!!" The boy sobbed into his chest while Sasuke listened silently. "I've had i-it being a D-Dark Angel!! Y-you're always cast down! No one wanted to b-be with you! They hated the way you looked, e-especially if you were the h-human-like dark angel! They hated to know that you are more powerful then them! They feared you, even i-if they don't show it! ...You couldn't be with your other half's kind, because you feel like you don't belong! You were always left alone! Alone in the dark...with no l-light..."
Sasuke said nothing as he stared up at the cileing through narrowed eyes. This boy was just as lonely as he was... Sasuke sighed softly and pulled away a bit, only to cup the tearful tan face in his hands. He gently kissed the tears away, earning a shocked look from the boy. Sasuke gently kissed the boy's forehead, almost affectionately before he hugged the boy comfortly. He had expected Naruto to push him away at any moment, but he was relieved when he never did. Instead, he hugged back, and sniffled softly.
"...I won't cast you down...." Sasuke said, making the boy look up at him with wide azure eyes. "I want to be with you... I like the way you look, wings or no wings... I have no idea how strong you are, but I'll still like you. I don't fear you, surprised yes, but not afraid. I'm guessing your other half is human, and I'm human aren't I? Do you feel right arond me Naruto? Will you let me be with you?"
Sasuke smiled down softly at the boy, carressing his face gently.
"Say yes... and you'll never be alone...ever again," Sasuke whispered before he leaned down and kissed the boy's cheek. He didn't want to move to fast for the boy...but it was obvious to him and the boy, that he, Uchiha Sasuke, deeply cared for the boy. Sasuke pulled away when he heard Naruto whimper. He looked at him curiously, asking him with his eyes if he felt uncomfortable with him. In answer, the blonde pressed his face against the raven's chest.
"I-I feel right with you..." Naruto mumbled. Sasuke smiled at that, but it faltered at Naruto's next words. "B-but I'm not sure i-if I can let you be with me...."
Sasuke sat there unmoving, staring at the blonde's head with a blank expression. He felt like someone had punched the air out of him...what a horrible feeling it was.
"Then I'll keep trying..." Sasuke whispered, wrapping his arms around the boy protectively. He will try. He wanted to be with Naruto for the rest of his life now... Sasuke's face flushed a light pink. He never thought he could feel so strongly for someone...what's more his precious person is male... "I'll try harder..."
