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Sky-eyed Kitsune and Gomi-kun blab & Updates
Sky-eyed Kitsune: Hello Minna-san! Alrighty! For the updates, I'm putting Sainaru in here to make it even harder on Sasuke!
Gomi-kun: Not more lime to translate… O.o
Sky-eyed Kitsune: Indeed!!! –thrusts fists in air—
Gomi-kun: --dies—
Sky-eyed Kitsune: There is also some Sakura-bashing in this chappie! YAY!
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Chapter Dedication
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Chapter 2: Bleed Black; Stay Close My Love
Liquid darkness mixed with hot red blood, spilling over ethereal skin in a crimson glow.
A pale hand lifted to brush the streams of blood away, shaking with triumph and weariness.
Scarlet eyes bleeding black focused on the stained ground, a body motionless across the red grass.
A man of twenty two, tall and lithe with unending grace and dignity, straightened himself, casting a dark silhouette against the moonlight.
Gone. Orochimaru was dead and gone.
Sasuke had never wanted to wait so long to kill the snake, and this had been his main fault. Over time the serpent recovered from his searching for a body, borrowing stronger and better ones as time went by.
It was predictable now when he needed a new one; yearly down to the mark. A time at which Sasuke would make sure he wasn't in Otogakure.
But Sasuke had put up with enough of the man's pointless missions, all leading to unnecessary killing sprees to satisfy his blood thirsty minions.
He had in reality drawn the line four years ago after he was no longer able to spy on Konoha……particularly one shinobi he ached to see.
Sasuke turned his gaze up to the night sky, and the starlight caressing his pale face.
He was going home now. Nothing would stop him.
He would see Naruto again.
"Narutooooo!"
A blonde man of twenty two years walked through the front entrance gates of Konoha, his steps weary as his black shinobi shoes scuffed against the brown earth he trekked on.
He was beautiful, decked out in the traditional shinobi ANBU uniform of black with silver arm guards, black gloves, a white sleeveless vest, a weapon's pouch, and a katana strapped to his back.
His form was strong but thin and lithe, shorter than the average expected height for males his age, but taller than most females.
On his left arm the bore the red ANBU tattoo, making his sun-kissed skin glow against it, a delicate fox mask covered his face, his golden locks spilling around it, and his right ear was pierced with a silver loop.
"Narutooooo!" a pink-haired woman called again to the man in a high and sweet voice as he entered the gates after identifying himself.
She ran up to him, another blonde haired woman with her hair in a high ponytail following her.
The woman with the cherry blossom hair wore a black boots up to her thighs until they met a deep red halter dress. The other had more of a tomboyish fashion, wearing scuffed brown shorts, bandages wrapped around and up her legs, and a violet tank top.
"Naruto-kun!" the blonde said as the two stopped in front of the beautiful man.
"Hello Ino, Sakura," Naruto said, nodding to the two.
Sakura giggled at the village heartthrob.
"Naruto, take off your mask!" she said.
Naruto moved his fox mask so that it hung off to one side of his head, revealing a beautiful tanned face. Or at least what wasn't covered of it.
He still wore a black mask akin to Kakashi's over the lower half of his face and over his left eye, stained red by the Kyuubi's morph with him.
Even with the mask, the young man's beauty couldn't be hidden.
"That's better," Ino said, blushing at his sheer exquisiteness.
"Umm…I have to go now!" she said quickly, running home as she tried to cover a nosebleed.
Sakura didn't even notice her departure, her eyes glued on Naruto.
She grew brave and reached up a bit to pull down the blonde's mask, revealing his true face in its entire splendor.
She leaned in close to the man and brushed her lips against his.
"I missed you Naruto-kun," she whispered.
Naruto's face remained impassive.
"You're going get Sai mad Sakura," he said. It was common knowledge to the entire village, whom now so dearly loved their blonde ANBU captain, that he and Sai had been dating for two years and currently lived together. But did that stop the girls (and guys) from shamelessly flirting with him? Nope.
Sakura smiled as she pressed up against the man and nuzzled his neck affectionately.
"You worry too much Naruto," she said.
Naruto simply stood there with his hands in his pockets, blank as ever.
He had long ago realized that his "crush" on the girl was never real. It was just a phase, and he was long over it. Unfortunately Sakura was entering her own: the Uzumaki Syndrome.
Sakura traced a finger up Naruto's covered chest, feeling the ripple of his muscles underneath.
Naruto turned his head away.
He didn't bother to tell the woman to stop anymore. It was pointless.
"Naruto, let's go out later tonight, hm?" Sakura said in a sickly sweet voice.
"No," Naruto said firmly. He took the girls wrists in hands and pushed her away.
"Sakura, I will never love you," he said as he started walking.
Sakura pouted as she clung to his right arm and the blonde lifted his mask back up.
"Narutooooo, one date?" she whined. "I promise after one date you will!"
Naruto sighed and shook his head.
"No," he repeated.
As they walked the citizens roaming the streets of Konoha stopped and waved to the once hated "demon", now so beloved for his countless missions to protect the village he loved. He was finally revered as the hero he deserved to be...but then you would have never guessed it by his constantly impassive disposition.
Naruto eventually got tired of the pink-haired girl, and quickly disappeared with barely a flick of his hand.
"Naruto- excellent work as always," Tsunade said as the blonde handed her his report from the A-class missions.
"I was smart to pick you as ANBU captain, and it will soon be the wisest choice I've ever made when you soon become Hokage.
"Arigatou Tsunade-sama," Naruto said, bowing to his superior.
Tsunade scanned him with her eyes. He should have at least had a kunai gash somewhere, since this was after all his third A-class mission in a row, but there wasn't a scratch on the man!
"Naruto, are you injured in any way?" the fifth asked him warily, taking in the exhausted aura that emanated from him.
"You've been on long missions one after the other, all very high rank with little rest in between. And you just returned from taking on three consecutive A-class missions. If I know you as well as I do, you didn't stop to recuperate much if not at all."
"I'm fine, Tsunade," Naruto said firmly. "I'm just tired."
Tsunade could tell the blonde was lying, but she didn't want to press the matter further. The last thing he needed after two weeks away from home was a lecture.
"Alright then," she said slowly. "But I would like you to come in to the hospital in a few days for a physical."
Naruto nodded, and with another poof of white he was gone.
Naruto sighed contentedly as he unlocked the door to his apartment.
Now that he shared it with Sai, it was larger than the one he had owned as a teenager, and he found it quite cozy.
Naruto dropped his house keys on the table haphazardly as he went to the bedroom.
He removed his mask, setting it on the nightstand carefully, and placed his arm guards in his closet.
Naruto paused and listened for a moment, but heard nothing.
Sai must have been on a mission.
Naruto made his way back to the den.
He spotted some scrolls on the table, addressed to him, and with a quick jutsu he removed the seals on them and scanned over them.
Suddenly Naruto felt something wrap around his waste as warmth enveloped his cold body.
"I missed you," Sai said as he held Naruto close to him where he stood, and he leaned his head down to nuzzle the blonde's neck lovingly.
"Sai," Naruto breathed, smiling a bit as he leaned into the comforting touch.
Over the years Sai had finally left his belly shirt behind, replacing it with a shirt identical to it, but covering all of his skin.
His hair had grown a bit longer, just barely passing the nape of his neck, and he had retained his slender but strong form.
Sai kissed Naruto's neck softly, relishing the feeling of the golden skin he had been deprived of.
He breathed in deeply, the scent of the wind and the rain washing over him and wrapping him up fondly.
"Naruto," Sai said tenderly, keeping his warm embrace around the blonde.
Naruto smiled again as he settled into the warmth.
"How were the missions?" Sai asked.
"Fine," Naruto replied. "Nothing special."
"Then why do you feel so limp?"
"I'm really tired."
"I can imagine."
Naruto pulled out of Sai's caring hold, placing the scrolls back down and facing him.
He smiled weakly as he said,
"I'm going to take a shower and go to bed, alright?"
Sai nodded.
He walked forward a few paces, gently pulled down Naruto's mask, cupped on side of his face in his hand, and kissed him softly.
Naruto gripped Sai's black shirt loosely between his slender fingers, pulling him into the kiss a bit more. He licked the crease of Sai's lips, asking for entrance, but Sai pulled away.
"Go rest Naruto," he said after they had parted. Naruto gave him a quizzical look.
"Isn't this what you want?" he asked. "I haven't seen you in two weeks."
Sai laughed and nuzzled Naruto's neck again lovingly.
"Of course I do," he said. "But you're exhausted."
Naruto smiled as Sai pulled away and went to the couch, taking out his kanji brushes and placing them on the table.
Naruto sighed deeply as he undid his armor and took off his clothing, revealing white bloodstained bandages around his chest.
He flipped out a kunai from his weapon's pouch now by the sink and slashed down the red tainted ribbons neatly, allowing him to clear them away from his body and throw them in the trashcan.
Naruto turned on the hot water, the sound of the droplets hitting the floor soothing to his ears, and he stepped into the shower.
He hissed as the hot beads of water hit his chest wound, grinded his teeth together, and clutched the tile wall with one hand for support.
Earlier in his mission he had been given a fatal stab to the chest with a kunai. His new healing abilities gained by the Kyuubi would have taken affect if it weren't for the fact that the blade plunged into him was laden with a heavy poison.
The poison would spread through the body internally, causing the person to bleed continuously from the outside, and then internally until they died.
Naruto wouldn't bother Tsunade with something as trivial as incessant blood loss. He could take care of it himself…somehow. Even though he had never had such a poison in him before, maybe he had an antidote?
Naruto cringed as the blood washed down his firm and slender chest, mingling with the tan shine underneath and splashing gold with crimson.
He watched as the blood feel into the water heavily, seeping down the drain. There was so much, Naruto thought for a second his blood was black.
He stood there, just letting the water wash away his blood, when gentle hands wrapped around his waist and a head lowered to rest on his shoulder.
Naruto silently cursed.
Shit.
Sai was NOT supposed to see him with such an injury, bleeding so much! He would surely get worried and then call Tsunade, whom would anxiously abandon her duties to check up on her "little brother".
Sai ran a hand up from Naruto's bare waist to his chest, grazing the outside of the wound with his fingertips.
Naruto hissed and his skin contracted at the jolt of pain he felt from the light touch.
"Naruto," Sai said as he lifted a bloody hand up to see, keeping it out of the range of the water.
"Does Tsunade know about this?"
Naruto didn't answer.
He watched Sai rinse the blood off his hand and wrap it back around Naruto's waist comfortingly.
Naruto realized that Sai still had his clothing on from the wet sleeve that hung off his wrist slightly. He must have heard Naruto's growling at hissing from pain and stepped in to see if he was alright.
"Naruto," Sai repeated, unaware of the shower water soaking his clothes through. "Please answer- Does Tsunade know about this?"
Naruto shook his head no this time.
"I can take care of it," he said. "It's just some poison. Kyuubi will heal it."
"If he could, why hasn't he already?" Sai asked.
"He just hasn't identified the poison yet. Once he does, he'll take care of it."
Sai sighed.
"Fine," he said. "But if you won't let Tsunade look at it, at lease let me call Sakura."
"No," Naruto said quickly. "I don't need her molesting me twice in one day."
"Wha-"
"Front gates," Naruto answered, knowing the question.
Sai growled a bit and pulled Naruto closer to him by his hips.
Naruto laughed a bit.
"Still want to call Sakura?" he asked playfully.
"No," Sai responded immediately.
"Knew you'd see it my way. I need to finish washing myself, ok?"
"Alright," Sai said, stepping out of the shower.
Naruto reached for the blue shampoo bottle on the rack, but hissed and withdrew his arm when he did.
The wound was at the base of his chest, making every stretch or movement shoot liquid fire through his veins
The bottle was suddenly taken from his hands as Sai appeared behind him, his wet clothes gone.
"I can do it myself, Sai," Naruto griped, but Sai shook his head.
"Number one, you can't. And number two, I needed a shower too," he said.
Sai grumbled something about cotton candy-haired bitches as he squirted the shampoo into his hands and lathered Naruto's golden locks with it, washing away flecks of blood and dirt unnoticed by the eye.
Naruto closed his eyes under the gentle caress over Sai's fingers, taking his mind off the hot pain surging through his chest and the crimson blood flowing down his skin.
Naruto hummed contentedly and purred- another side effect from merging with the Kyuubi.
Sai laughed. He loved it when Naruto purred.
Sai let the water run over Naruto's soapy locks as he washed his own hair.
Naruto whined a bit at the loss of contact.
He turned around and pressed his body against Sai's, wrapping his arms around his neck and resting his head against the crook of his neck.
"I missed you," Naruto sighed, and Sai smiled.
"I missed you too," he said, rinsing the shampoo from his hair.
Sai jumped a bit as Naruto kissed and nibbled at his neck, purring more.
"N-Naruto," Sai said, trying to force down a groan.
"You're too tired."
"Mno mm nmot," Naruto mumbled against Sai's pale skin as he continued.
Sai closed his eyes, trying to calm himself so as not to jump the blonde right there.
"Relax, relax. You haven't been with Naruto for two weeks. You can last a bit longer," he told himself.
In reality he and Naruto had never gone "all the way". Sai never wanted to push Naruto into anything, since he was so busy and ultimately not ready, so they settled for heated make-outs.
But this was just way to suggestive!
Sai reluctantly pushed Naruto away from him a bit as he grabbed the conditioner bottle and continued washing the blonde's hair.
"Sai, I'm not tired," Naruto whined.
Sai rolled his eyes.
"Ok," he said, and suddenly Naruto found himself pressed up against the tiled shower wall with Sai's lips on his own.
Naruto closed his eyes and placed his hands on Sai's firm chest, feeling the rifts and dips his muscles made in his skin.
Sai asked Naruto for entrance to his mouth, and Naruto eagerly complied.
He kissed Sai hungrily, burning for more and more contact as their tongues met and grappled together.
Naruto moaned as Sai rubbed his own bare leg against Naruto's, the friction making the shower water seem hotter.
Naruto basked in Sai's taste of warm honey and mint, coaxing his tongue to play more with his own.
Sai groaned as Naruto rubbed his tongue against the underside of Sai's, and Naruto smirked a bit. He knew all of Sai's soft spots.
Suddenly the taste was longer there and the friction was gone as Sai broke away from Naruto, both panting for air and a bit pink about the face.
Sai grabbed the conditioner again and finished washing his hair as Naruto caught his breath.
"Will that hold you out for a little while?" Sai asked, and Naruto pouted.
Naruto winced as Sai wrapped white bandages around his bare and still bleeding chest. He sat on the edge of his and Sai's bed as Sai sat behind him, continuing his ministrations.
Naruto gripped the navy blue covers beneath his fingers tightly, suppressing the urge to shout out in agony.
"Almost done," Sai informed him, and a few seconds later he was.
Sai stood up and placed the bandages on the desk in their room, and grabbed the glass sitting there.
"Here, drink it," he said, holding it out to Naruto.
Naruto took the cup in his hands and grimaced at the purple liquid inside it.
"Bleh, what is this?" he asked.
"The antidote for the poison," Sai said. "I looked it up quickly while you were drying yourself.
Naruto sniffed the concoction and turned his head away.
"No way am I drinking this," he declared, and Sai rolled his eyes.
"C'mon Naruto," he urged, and Naruto shook his head.
"You're sleeping on the couch unless you do," Sai finally said, and with a glare Naruto gulped the fluid.
"Ek, gross!" he said when he had finished, handing Sai the cup and holding his throat.
"It's a very fast antidote," Sai said. "It should take affect in a minute or two."
"Wow," Naruto said, and he yawned.
Sai looked outside, and judging by the sky it was only 5:30. But what could it hurt to go to bed early?
"Let's sleep," Sai said, and Naruto nodded.
Naruto removed his dark red pajama pants so that he was clad in his orange boxers, and got into bed.
Sai slipped in next to him, leaving his own black pajama pants on.
He pulled Naruto gently to his chest, being careful of his wound, and Naruto snuggled up next to him.
"Goodnight Naruto," Sai said. "Aishiteru."
Naruto didn't respond and Sai looked down.
The blonde was face asleep.
Sai chuckled. He placed a kiss on Naruto's forehead and cuddled closer to him as he too fell asleep.
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