I stared in shock at the scene that had unfolded before me
"Aunt Rin, Uncle Obito, Kakashi? Is that you?" I was stunned silent, my jaw dropping uncharacteristically as I stared at them dumbfounded beyond belief.
"Sasuke, Is that you?"
Kakashi, or was it even really Kakashi? Spoke in response and I was more than stupefied, 'he knows my name then he must be…'
"Well shit, Naruto. You really blew up big time," my uncle, Obito, muttered, well not much mutter as he was screaming under the sound of the helicopter hovering on top of the schools rooftop, which, by the way, is illegal.
"What!" it was Naruto who spoke now, "It isn't my-"
"Oh no, don't you think you're getting out of this!-" Obito growled out. "-You weren't supposed to talk to anybody! Let alone Sasuke! You know who he is and yet you-"
"That's enough," Rin, who was up till then standing beside Obito watching quietly as the events unfolded, spoke for the first time. "We are quite disappointed in you Naruto"
I could feel Naruto physically stiffen his lower lip trembling. Feeling that I had sat in stupefied silence long enough I just did what I normally do when situations as awkward as this occur, I glared everybody down. After all, why was I so left in the dark? Now that I have made up my mind that these people are, indeed, my uncles and my aunt. I squared my shoulders; glare intensifying as I spoke next.
"What the hell is happening? I thought you were dead! And why do you know Naruto?-"I turned to the blonde "how do they know you..." I didn't mean this to happen, but even I could hear the hurt and betrayal in my voice, damn, what had I become? And all because of this blonde idiot, I had felt a bit of satisfaction as his shoulders dropped a sign of defeat and, guilt?
"I spend the whole day chasing after you! You never even looked at me, not once! Do you have any idea how that makes me feel!" 'holy shit! What was I saying?!' "You kiss me! You run away from me! You hide from me! And I don't even know-fucking-why!" 'why the hell am I saying these things?! I sound like some emotional high school bitch on her period!' "Then, when I had finally, finally! Caught you I find out that you've known my relatives who I actually thought were dead" I turned and gave a sharp look towards the three adults, then I turn my head back to Naruto, I just feel so defeated, so confused, tired even. I sigh"-who are you Naruto…" then again at the adults… "and where have you been all this time?"
Kakashi for once, looked guilty, Obito was stunned silent looking down at his feet as if he wanted to be swallowed whole by the ground and Rin was giving him a sympathetic look.
Rin took a big breath then said "Sasuke… it seems… there are-"but she was cut off when Sasuke was grabbed by the wrists and was swung to face the blonde.
"I'm Naruto Uzumaki, my birthday is on October 10, I like ramen, my birth place is classified information" I raised my brow at this "My parents-classified, where I live-classified. You see there isn't much that I could tell you, bu can I would but I can't and don't ask why because I can't tell you that either." My brows rose higher still, if it were possible, oddly enough it was. "But know this Sasuke, I'm real." He took in a deep breath his face reddening to a point that he looked like one over-sized tomato with blonde hair, if ever you could picture that. "And kissing you was not a fluke," My eyes were wide for a moment.
"Wait-"I said "is that why you've been-"
"Shut up and let me finish!" he shouted" I mean, you might think that way, and that actually really pisses me off, and It makes me want to kick you in the balls because of it. But-" he took in a deep breath, his face was serious… but the redness of his face over threw that expression and it had only made him look… cute? god! What was I thinking "I don't!"
I know that this may sound in appropriate, considering how the dobe worded that phrase of his, but my heart just skipped a beat. This could only mean that he, that Naruto actually…
"-And this might sound cheesy as hell, but I think that it might, or hell, was destiny that did it. That destiny had led me to you. But I'm also running away from you for reasons that are-"
"Classified?" I finished for him. He smiled a small painful curve of his lips. "No…" He turned to look behind me a look I couldn't describe was painted on his face.
"It's because I believe that destiny did it that I had ran away." I knot my brows because of this. "My destiny isn't particularly pretty; it has a way of… of eluding me? Yeah you could say that I suppose. And I couldn't help but drag down everyone because of it. And let's just say, Sasuke that what we have, is just simply "it"." I try, but I guess I tried in vain, to hide the pain that had shown in my face, but weather Naruto saw it or not didn't show in his face. "That's "it" Sasuke because it can't be more, and you can't be more, simply because…" I glare at him… my emotions were running heir haywire, why is he saying all these, why weren't Kakashi, Obito or Rin saying anything. There was so many unanswered questions there was so many things I don't know and there was so many things that I had wanted to say but all I had managed was a feeble;
"Why?"
He smiled yet again that painful smile of his, then I couldn't help but think to myself that I could, and as painful as it was to admit, would forgive him for anything, accept him as anything, he wouldn't even have to tell me anything, as long as he wouldn't smile like that.
"I'm sorry Sasuke… But that too, is classified."
My eyes were blazing red, I flushed in anger, I was just so confused, why wouldn't they tell me anything don't I have the right to know, even just a little? After all!... after all what? I stopped dead in my tracks…
Why do I feel the need to know, the burning desire to, why am I feeling so hurt because he wouldn't tell me anything?
Because he doesn't trust me…
And why dose that even bother me in the first place? Why?
Because I love him.
Then I had swung my arm ready to hit. Naruto didn't even flinch, he didn't move a single muscle. I was bringing my arm down when a silver blur passed before me and my fist was cupped in a pale hand. A single red eye was blazing. I could feel hands stopping me from me back and a hand on my forehead. All three of them; Kakashi Obito and Rin were holding my down. My eyes grew wide as Rin, who had been holding my forehead, whispered; "I'm sorry Sasuke…" Then she had hit a nerve. I could distinctly remember being paralyzed, frozen on the hot cemented floor of the roof top. How my Aunt did it I didn't know, but there seems to be a lot I didn't know about, the fact that they were alive was already enough of a mystery that hurts me from my very core, pulse the realization of my feeling for this blonde idiot, I don't have the time, or the energy to know, or to even wonder what my Aunt did to me and where she had learned it. My eyes were opened wide but my whole body simply refused to move. My vision was gradually blurring.
"It was dangerous what you did Naruto… That was really irresponsible. If it weren't for Iruka we wouldn't even know where you are! And Sasuke… did you tell him-" I heard Kakashi say but was cut off.
"Come now Kakashi, we can talk about this later…"
"Rin's right Kakashi, We can talk about this later, for now we need to take Naruto away…"
Then everything blurred to black.
I was a kid then, everything was simple. Kakashi was sitting beside me at Uncle Obito's and Rin's oh, wait its Aunt now, Uncle Obito's Aunt Rin's wedding. Kakashi was dawned in all white, contrasting with his pale skin and hair. He had this look, it wasn't sad, it wasn't all that happy either, well you can't really tell with that mask on his face all the time. I scrunched my tiny brows at him and he seemed to notice my gaze, since he looked down on me and smiled. This time I knew it was real, so I smiled back. He patted my head.
Then Kakashi's image blurred into nothingness and then the scene changed it was now my 7'th birthday They were all there, Kakashi, Rin and Obito always those three and off course my brother, and as usual they were not there.
"Happy Birthday Sasuke." They had sung in Corus.
Again the scene changed now, everything was a flare of crimson. It was the fire.
"No! Mom! Dad!" I screamed, thrashing my small self in Itachis' grip. We were running away from the mansion. And I had watched as the edifice I had called home deteriorated. My heart sank to the pits of my stomach and then I had realized that they were now, really never coming back. And now not only they were gone but Uncle Kakashi, Obito and Aunt Rin as well. I gripped my brothers' shirt and I had clung to it desperately throughout the whole ordeal. I watched forlornly as the mansion had now receded to ashes and how it had been re-constructed a few months later. I had watched as my brother drifted away from me and now I was standing in a black void watching my younger self sit in a corner and I had cried myself until I couldn't cry anymore. Then it was empty again.
I was staring at myself, I had grown, I was in black and white and I was facing away. What was I looking at? I came closer to my own figure. Then I saw somewhere not too far from where I was standing a mop of golden hair.
"Naruto?"
I whispered. Then the black void that I was in morphed to the schools rooftop, startled beyond belief I backed away. But then the black and white figure of myself stood still and his gaze was still locked on to the blonde. I watched, in horror as Naruto was slowly and dangerously getting closer to the roofs edge. "No…"
I feel a dread in me, my life that had been so torn, my life had been so monochrome from that very day, wasn't so bland till I met you. I finally found something that I think could lead me away again. I finally found a reason to stand again. I finally found a person who would look at me again. But this time Naruto wasn't looking at me. He didn't even look at me once. And then I knew I had to run after him, he was going to jump.
I dashed in to a sprint but when I came close my hands simply slipped through him. I couldn't reach him! But I couldn't lose him! Not now! Not ever!
"What are you doing there?" I scream to my monocromic self "Go after him! He's going to jump!" I tear my gaze away from my image, frustrated and infuriated beyond belief, I was beginning to panic. Naruto was so close, so close. I try and reach out for once last time, but again my fingers slipped through, and I had watched him fall.
"NARUTO!"
I woke up in cold sweat, dripping wet in a bed? I looked around and I was in a dark room. My hands were shaking, my insides were bussing, it was all a dream. I cupped my face then I remembered.
They're going to take Naruto away! I've got to…
"He's alright… he's still here." My eyes easily got accustomed to the light and I saw in a chair sitting beside my bed was Kakashi. My eyes narrow at the sight of him. He had noticed me, then he sat up strait, his arm shot up and he had switched on a nearby lamp. Eliminating the room, it was one of the universities dorm rooms.
"I'm guessing we have a lot of explaining to do."
I grip the sheets tight in my hands, my face a cold mask. Kakashi sighed; "You haven't changed a bit." And it took all my will power to stop myself from screaming at him 'how would you know, you weren't even there to compare if I had changed.'
"Sasuke, listen…" I kept silent. Then Kakashi sighed again.
"Well, I never expected this to be harder when the person you're trying to convince is actually listening in the first place…" there was a pause. "I don't even know where to start."
Well this was new, Kakashi was actually at a lost for words.
"From the beginning" I supplied him. He squared his shoulders and gave me a hard look.
"Sasuke, there isn't much to tell you, not because we hold a lot of secrets… we do, but not that, well not the once that…" Kakashi shook his head, much like a dog did, and he did use to have a lot of pet dogs before. I keep my gaze at him, hard and unwavering. He's nervous, it's already pretty obvious that there's a lot he's hiding. And I will wait, for my answers that is, the answers that I deserve to get.
"You were very young back then. The house had caught on fire, it burned everything to the ground, and you had believed that we had all burned down with it… But as you can see, Sasuke that was not the case."
I glared at him harder a look that say's I-already-know-that-so-why-don't-you-cut-to-the-ch ase-and-tell-me-why-you-left-me-to-suffer-alone-al l-these-years.
"It was an order… An order form you father, the head of the Uchiha clan." My eyes widened.
"The house was burned by…terrorists… Sasuke, over all the people you should know what our family dose. There are two economic pillars that hold the whole of the Fire nation together and that are the Uchiha Clan, and the clan of the Hokage. The responsibility of these clans can only be passed on to hairs that's you and Itachi. And we, Obito, Rin and I had been especially trained to protect you. Considering that our family is the economic pillar, and that we hold a certain amount of power in national security we serve as the strong hold of the other pillar, which is the Hokages' clan, the political side to this coin, is a way to put it. They hold the power to the countries governance and resources, together we had been working together for as long as this country was built.-"
"I don't see the point of you giving me a History lecture, why did you leave, why did you have to falsify you're deaths…" 'Why did you leave me?'
"-when the house was burned by terrorists," Kakashi continued "your father knew that this was a stage set up for something much bigger. When the house was burning, National security was focused on the Uchiha manor that they had left a vital part of our country exposed for a short period of time. But that period of time was long enough to do its damage. And Sasuke, I don't know if you could still remember, but on that same night, the Hokage's clan was killed."
Sasuke's grip tightened on the sheets his heart was pounding all this had happened. And he didn't even know it! It was right under his nose for God's sake.
"Then all you have to know now is that your father had sent us to, salvage what we could after the attack, but we couldn't do it if the terrorist still think we were alive. We had to sacrifice a lot of things Sasuke." Kakashi looked at me with a sad, pleading eye.
"You were one of the sacrifices we had to make, we had no choice." He had walked to the bed and he had knelt in front of me. "I'm sorry Sasuke. I had left you, it was something we had mourned for every day, and you and Itachi were still so young then…" I looked away, so that's how it was… then.
"My father, and mother, are they still alive?" there was a pause.
"No… They had really burnt in the fire."
"I see…"
A long stretch of impregnated silence consumed them. Tension so thick, a butcher knife won't be able to cut through.
"Then, Naruto…"
Kakashis' eye widened, then narrowed, the he had looked away.
"What about Naruto? Where dose he fit in all of this?" there was silence again, but this time It was eating away on Sasukes nerves.
"I think you better ask him that you're self." I had watched as Kakashi walked off and stride to the door.
"You seem to have quite the relationship with the boy," Kakashi said, a calm tone in his voice
"It's not-"Kakashi looked back at me, he had that expression again, that same expression that he had at Aunt Rin's and uncle Obito's wedding.
"I'm glad, it's you. But at the same time I wish it hadn't been. I just advice you to stay away, it's better if you didn't know, you don't have to know, but it's up to Naruto if he would trust you." The looked at me a certain sharpness in his eye
"And it's also up to you to take responsibility."
Then he had shut the door, immediately then after the door slammed open.
"Sasuke!" And I couldn't stand the thumping of my heart as he had come in the door. He run to my side and his expression was worried. I had expected him to hug me, and I could deny all I want that I wasn't looking forward to it but, hell, who was I kidding? Then it really brought my hopes down when he suddenly thwacked me on the head.
"What were you thinking trying to hit me like that! I was actually being honest back there you asshole!" He screamed into my face.
"Why you! Usuratonkatchi! What do you think you're doing!?" He then tackled my with a growl and I had fallen, easily at that, I was still dizzy from that nerve pinch.
"You're not mad…" he said. "You won't run away." I tried to look at his face but I couldn't see his eyes through his bangs. I wish I could.
"Dobe, you lied to me, off course I'm mad." He looked at me now, there was pain clearly showing in his eyes, from a distance this close I could see his eyes more clearly now. It was just so blue. I could feel my heart thumping, seeing those eyes, I wondered what my heart would do if I could see those eyes without those glasses.
"I-I thought I'd never see you again…I'm sorry, Sasuke…"
He hugged me then. His body was flat against mine, and I couldn't help but shiver. And I wrapped my arm around him this time.
"I'm the one who's supposed to say that, Usuratonkachi…" I couldn't believe how stupid I'm becoming. This boy was a complete mystery, I could be putting my life in danger at the very moment, I don't even know who he is, why he's like this and the reasons behind all this is just a staggering blank. But somehow I couldn't care less…
I think it's the love part… yeah, it probably is…
Our bodies melded together he was flat against me, we were sting up in bed, his legs were wrapped around my waist and he had buried his head on the crook of my neck as did I. I breathed in his scent, his very addicting sent. And now I could feel through the fabric of his clothing that he wasn't stout or lumpy at all, I had to dig in pretty deep to actually be able to reach his back. He then abruptly pulled away a mad blush on his cheeks.
"Well I'm glad you're okay!" He said, his eyes going to a flurry.
I smirk at this, boy, when he's not being quiet or reserved, his being a totally barbaric dobe, if his not a barbaric dobe, his a mysterious jigsaw puzzle, but all of those sides, he's just plane out cute…
Then I blushed, damn what the fuck is wrong with me! I'm turning to shogo boy for Christ's sake!
I leaned in and I captured his lips it was brief and gently, yet my heart was hammering and my cheeks were glowing as if we just had 3 rounds of amazing sex!
He blushed even more so, then I thought that, that three rounds of sex might actually be a good idea. But then he smacked me across my face.
"p-pervert!" he stammered I sighed and he scampered off of me.
"Kakashi said you had something's to say to me."
He stared at me for a moment, his face grave and his eyes wide, " I have nothing to say…"
He turned to look away. "I'm sorry Sasuke I can't-"
"Okay I get it already…" I sighed and I scratch the back of my head looking away. We didn't look at each other and I had closed my eyes, 'I think I can't handle being rejected my you twice in a single day…'
ou can tell me whenever you want too. I'll be waiting." He looked at me with a shocked intensity in his eyes and I had returned that intensity with my own unwavering gaze. He smiled, the first one I've seen in day's
"Yeah…"
Then at that moment there was an agreement between us, it was secrecy thicker than a blood pack, but what that secret is, apparently I still don't know it yet, but it was there, and I will keep it until I know what it truly is…
I'll keep this because I love him, and I know he loves me to and that is also, I guess part of that secrecy.
xXx
"So it's been decided that Naruto will stay in this University for a while!" Kakashi said with a gleeful chip in his voice. "And I'll be your new physics teacher! He added"
Both Naruto and Sasuke who had been standing side by side in front of the three adults blurted in unison "WHAT?!"
"And I'll be your new P.E. teacher!" Obito exclaims for the right of Kakashi, "And I'll be your new history teacher!" Rin and chummed it immediately afterward.
Kakashi grabs Naruto by the neck and whispered to his ear;" we wouldn't want the same thing that happened in Suna to happen again now do we?" Kakashi said a menacing aura in the background. Naruto visibly sweat dropped and moved farther away from the trio.
"Well I guess It can't be helped." I sighed in defeat, I mean, it's not like they could just shoe them away…
No matter how painful it would be now that they're here, I hung my head in silent contemplation. But then I wasn't able to brood for long as a tan arm wrapped it's self around me.
"Well isn't this great bastard?! We could go back to pissing each other again. He said grinning at me, that maniac grin of his. But couldn't help but turn away and smile at this.
"Hn, usuratongkatchi."
Well if they're here then He's here as well so… I guess it really couldn't be helped.
But then this is just the beginning…
OKAY! everyone! it's been like? 2 years now? i don't know. please don't rub it in. and I'm REALLY sorry okay! so there. anyway, i was re-reading this fic of mine and believe me when i say that i cried while reading it, (No it's not because i think I'm awesome, you judgmental bastards, I'm not THAT EGOTISTICAL!) but i had a LOT off grammar and spelling mistakes that's just plain UNREASONABLE and yeah, i cried out of embarrassment. so i wrote this part down, i hope that it's a little bit more well written then the last chapters... sigh well enough with this rant. its 3 in the morning and i still have a lot to do, and yes this update is nothing short of a miracle and i just thought that hey, I'm an Author, i should finish this shit so I;m going to. but when i do I think I'll have to re-edit everything... sigh!
well ANYWAY I HOPE YOU ENJOYED AND I THANK YOU ALL FOR THE CONTINUED SUPPORT PLEASE REVIEW!
