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Sky-eyed Kitsune and Gomi-kun blab & Updates
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Gomi-kun: --peeks onstage— Er…..
Crowd: …… -.-
Gomi-kun: --sigh— Yea, I'm introducing the chapter, deal with it. Sky-eyed Kitsune is kinda sick right now, but even through her illness she finished typing this chapter, ansered her reviewers, and asked me to post it.
Sky-eyed Kitsune: --in background—I'm –cough—ok! Really!
Gomi-kun: Shut up and get in bed or else no Dei-Dei plushie!
Sky-eyed Kitsune: o.O
Gomi-kun: Anyways….there's a poll out for this fiction of a one-sided pairing you might want to see. Or else just say so in a review. Hn. Oh, and there's ALMOST LEMONS in this chapter. You'll see. Beware. There's no warning before it…hn.
Reviewer Replies:
To Chibi Tsuki Hikari: Yesssssssssss, haha! XD Yes, Sakura was icky, but she gets a bit better. I REALLY didn't like her before, but she's ok in Shippuden. Still, SASUKE LOOOOVES NARUTO! ZOMG! Who saw the new opening for the latest Shippuden episode??? Sooooo shounen-ai!!! And Sai:D
To Lugga: Okey-dokey!
To vampire-anime-lover19: Wa! I am, I am! And as for Sasuke…..MWAHAHAHAHA! Yes, I'm going to make him work his ass off for Naru! XD
To shadowphoenix143: Ahhh, you hit on a major key to chapter two that will come into play here during Naruto's breakdown! –slaps mouth over hand— Wa! I mean…..WHO WANTS MUFFINS!?!
To hiya couldn't find a name: Aw, thanks!
To Darkspider: I know, Sai is kinda perverted, but I'm making him fuzzy and nice:D Thanks for the suggestion! I didn't uncheck it because I didn't want Spam. :( Loved your review!
To Black-Dranzer-1119: Indeed I will!
To moonwillow: --looks back at first line of chapter two— Hmm, I was kinda in the zone when I wrote that, so I don't remember what I was thinking! O.o
To t6hurw: Yes, Naruto is the new mega heart throb! Hooooot! XD
To xXkawaii-chanXx: Yes, I write a lot because I have no life outside of torturing Gomi-kun, my university, my family, my job, and my cat. T.T As for Sasuke…..—puts flashlight under face-- Mwhahahahahaha!!!
Chapter Dedication
This one goes out to Darkspider, Chibi Tsuki Hikari, and vampire-anime-lover19 for their loverly reviews!!! X3
A recommendation! To get the full emotion, play the song "Famous Last words" by My Chemical Romance during the third section of the story. –sniffle— Go to radioblog . com to listen for free. Just type in the song, artist name, or both. –runs off to sob--
Chapter 3: Crimson Reflection
Naruto let out a small yelp as he grabbed his kunai from under his pillow in the middle of the night and turned to press it against the neck of the person that grabbed him.
Sai gulped as the sleek metal was shoved against his throat, drawing a bit of blood. He looked at Naruto, noticing his blue eye had bled into a deep crimson red, his whisker marks were a deeper black, and his teeth, curled in a snarl, had elongated into sharp canines.
"Naruto," Sai said calmly, and Naruto blinked a bit.
He lowered his weapon as Sai came into focus more in his sleep clouded mind.
"Sai?" he said groggily.
Sai just smiled.
Being an ANBU captain, Naruto looked after his squad with his life, sleeping only about two hours a night to watch out for them, even when another ANBU was placed on guard duty. He would not have anyone on his team die from surprise attacks. When he did sleep for that short period of time, he always had a weapon close, and he heightened his senses to that of the Kyuubi naturally before he slept, aware of every twig snapping and bush rustling in the wind.
His first instinct when being pulled around the middle was to hinder movement from the enemy doing so, and he had drawn his kunai out of reflex.
Naruto dropped the knife onto the mattress as he saw Sai clearly, his right eye fading back to sky blue.
Sai let out a breath.
"Sorry," he said. "You were shivering. I was just pulling you against me."
Naruto looked at the blood dripping down Sai's neck.
He leaned forward and kissed the spot, nestling his head into the crook of Sai's neck. Sai let out a soft hum as Naruto lapped at the blood, clearing the pale skin of the crimson stains. Sai also recognized this as another side affect from Naruto morphing with the Kyuubi.
Naruto was more animal-like all around actually.
As foxes were very territorial, this impacted onto Naruto protecting his home even more, driving out any intruders at first sight. As foxes were also known to have to obey an alpha male or female, to Naruto being Tsunade, if someone did not abide by her he would not hesitate to kill them.
When fighting Naruto used his incredibly heightened senses- stalking enemies, and if without a weapon and in his more dangerous fox-like form with sharper teeth, attacking the foe from the back, breaking their spinal cord with his teeth and killing them.
When around friends and family (Iruka, Tsunade), Naruto was protective, prone to naturally growl at strangers and walk around his group of friends in a circular manner, signaling others to be wary of the space around them and that he was guarding it.
But above anyone, Naruto was protective of his "mate" the most, in this case Sai. He would purr and nuzzle his mate to comfort them, protect them fiercely, lick at wounds and cuddle against them, and keep them close. Grooming was also a habit he displayed naturally to show unity, running his fingers through Sai's hair the most. But one side effect, good or bad depending how you looked at it…was the influence of his new fox hormones.
After being separated for a while, Naruto would show the need to be close and intimate with his mate, not leaving their side often. During the spring from December to April, Naruto would become very…erm…for lack of a better word, horny, it being the mating time for foxes in the wild. The very worst months for him were the second week of January and the last of February. Before these more intense periods of time he would stay at Iruka's and lock himself in the spare room there for the two weeks. He constantly paced and whined with frustration, but Iruka was used to the routine by now- Naruto told him every time NOT to let him out no matter what.
After returning from this "vacation", he would be grouchy and often disappear into the forest for a few days to vent his anger. Upon returning he would be back to normal.
And so, this cleaning of Sai's wound was not uncommon behavior, as Naruto was in tune and settled with his newly fox-morphed self.
Naruto leaned his head against Sai's shoulder, the blood gone, and bit his lip.
Sai pulled away from Naruto, feeling his shoulders tense with his repressed emotion, and looked at him with concerned eyes.
"What's wrong?" he asked.
"I'm sorry," Naruto said quietly. "I could've really hurt you…"
Sai smiled and removed the kunai on the mattress. He pulled Naruto close to him.
"It's what you were trained to do, Naruto," he said. "I wouldn't expect any less form an ANBU captain."
Naruto smiled and nuzzled against Sai's neck back in forth in a fox-like manner apologetically, purring softly.
"I'm still sorry," he said.
This time it was Sai to show Naruto some fox-like affection.
Sai had wanted to learn Naruto's behavior since four years ago when he discovered his merge with the Kyuubi, and then two years later more in depth about vulpine manner with mates when he and Naruto became a couple.
Sai was quite fluent in this physical fox-speak, admiring how words weren't necessary to communicate.
Sai leaned his head down and nuzzled his cheek against Naruto's silken gold locks, making his way down to the underside of his chin, and Naruto closed his eyes and purred more.
"You do that perfectly now," Naruto said between hums of pleasure.
"Now? I didn't before?" Sai asked, his breath rippling across the tan skin on Naruto's neck.
"No," Naruto replied, laughing a bit. "You sucked."
"Hey, you told me I did fine!"
"Yea, fine…which to an ANBU captain is not good. You should know that."
Sai pouted a little.
Scuffed black ninja shoes kicked up the dust, walking during the wee hours of the morning. Shoddy brown licks of hair framed a dark tan face, bleeding red triangles under dim coffee eyes.
The man wore a russet top with black pants, an overall relaxed state.
Beside the man a large white wolf walked, in step with his master.
It suddenly barked and whimpered.
"I know we've been walking for a while," the man said, sighing.
Another bark.
"Because Naruto got back from his two week missions today. He's always up real early."
The wolf yapped a few times.
"I know he's with Sai! Geez Akamaru, do you always gotta remind me?" the man said, folding his arms across his chest.
The wolf sat down and stared intensely at his master.
The man stopped and turned back to look at the ninja dog.
"Who says I can't fall in love with my ANBU captain?" the man asked, and the dog named Akamaru snorted.
"Just because we were trained to hold back our emotions doesn't mean I can all the time…"
Akamaru rolled his eyes.
The man turned up his nose and continued.
"Where is that fox?" he growled to himself.
Naruto pivoted off of the trees, his weapons at the ready in his pouch and his ANBU mask secured. His black uniform was soaked with his own blood, a deep gash over his left eye. It bled, dripping down his more dominant whisker marks as his crimson eyes scanned the area.
He was on a scent. He didn't know what it was, but he knew that he was getting closer to it.
As he jumped from the branches, the use of his feet gradually shifted to going on all fours, claws protruding from his hands and ripping at the bark he leapt from.
The scent suddenly grew so strong that it was overpowering, and Naruto stopped.
He fell down into the clearing he was above, landing neatly.
He looked around.
He was in a meadow. In front of him was a rushing waterfall with jagged rocks carved from the harsh elements. The only sound was the water and the faint rustle of the trees in the wind.
Naruto walked forward until he reached the edge of the lake the waterfall spilled into, and he dropped to his knees to look at his injured reflection.
His blood fell into the crystal clear water, rippling his reflection with crimson life. When it settled Naruto's eyes widened. He saw not a slender and handsome twenty-two year old man with glowing red eyes, but a thirteen-year old with a bright shock of untamed yellow hair, flamboyant orange clothes and a bright sky blue gaze.
Naruto touched his face, his younger visage unperturbed by the small whisker marks where the ones on his older face were more predominant.
His reflection on the water mimicked him, brushing fingers against its cheek, face in awe.
Naruto stood up, still looking over the water, and his younger self followed.
"Hn. Dobe."
Naruto's breath caught in his throat as he heard a cold immature voice call him his scornful nickname.
"It can't be," he thought to himself. "No…no….no…"
"Oi, usuratonkachi," the voice said again, louder this time.
Naruto didn't want to turn around. He didn't want to see the face that voice belonged to. He didn't want to hurt again like that.
Suddenly Naruto was turned around, and cold onyx eyes clashed with rippling azure.
Naruto stared at the younger face of his former friend, rival, and first love.
"Sas….u….ke," Naruto breathed, and clapped a hand over his mouth as his eyes widened.
Why was his voice so much higher? So immature? And…why did he see bright sunshine yellow locks above his eyes instead of gold?
Naruto looked down at his clothes, and orange blinded his vision.
He tugged at his shorter and lighter hair frantically and touched his face, feeling the much thinner whisker marks.
Naruto rushed over to his mirror image in the water, throwing himself to his knees, and his thirteen-year old self stared back at him again, devoid of the blood that had previously stained his body.
"Dobe, what are you doing?" Sasuke asked scornfully, stuffing his fists into his white shorts.
Naruto stood up abruptly and turned from his reflection. He ripped off his jacket and threw it to the ground, revealing a black tee-shirt. He looked down at it, tugging at the dark fabric, and suddenly stopped. He raised his smaller tanned hands to his eyes. They shook as he stared at them with fear and disbelief.
"You're such a moron," Sasuke sighed, rolling his eyes. Naruto looked at him, only to see a more rugged eighteen year old Sasuke in the younger Uchiha's place.
Naruto looked at himself again, only to look down at a subordinate ANBU uniform. Naruto moved his gaze back up to meet Sasuke's. He wore a black version of the uniform of Orochimaru's followers, a katana at his side and the curse mark visible on his neck.
"Dobe," the older Sasuke said, his voice smooth and uncaring. He walked forward until he was only an inch from Naruto, staring him in his half crimson and blue and eyes. He placed a pale hand on Naruto's cheek, and the blonde ANBU felt shivers rise up his spine.
"Sasuke," Naruto said, and Sasuke inched his face closer to Naruto's until they were a centimeter apart.
"Naruto," Sasuke replied, and the small distance between the two shinobi was closed.
Naruto's eyes widened as he felt the soft caress of Sasuke's lips against his own, and two hands positioned themselves on his hips.
Naruto shut his eyes tightly.
He could feel the pain already; bubbling up inside of him and wrenching open his wounded heart. This couldn't be real, yet he could feel the warmth of Sasuke's breath, the sensation of his soft lips…everything.
Naruto's legs became weak, and he wrapped his arms around Sasuke's neck for support as the Uchiha kissed him more passionately now.
Tears started flowing from Naruto's eyes as he felt the sleek black hair on the back of Sasuke's neck between his fingers, and he gripped it tightly, relishing the feeling.
He moved one hand to cup Sasuke's cheek as he kissed him back now, his other hands staying at the back of his neck, nested in his hair to press him into the kiss more.
Suddenly Naruto gasped as a pain shot through his chest. He looked at Sasuke's impassive face, now younger yet again.
Naruto looked down at himself and saw his black and orange jumpsuit……with Sasuke's katana piercing through him.
Naruto coughed up blood as Sasuke smirked and pulled out his crimson sword.
"Dobe," he said.
Naruto backed up a bit, wobbling as he did.
His vision went blurry for a moment, and when it focused again a second later, he saw the Uchiha's thirteen-year old form again, a crackling Chidori screaming in his hand, his eyes red and enraged.
They were no longer at the meadow, but the Valley of End, standing on the carved heads of two Shinobi, the waterfall rushing below.
"Sasu…….ke," Naruto breathed, his new younger body taking with him the wound the older teen Sasuke had given him.
Sasuke smirked, and with a strong thrust of his hand, he pierced Naruto's chest again, this time directly through the heart.
Naruto didn't even flinch as Sasuke pulled his bloody arm out of him. He felt the pain swimming over him, numbing him, and his soul let out a silent scream as he fell off the mountain, tumbling over the air and crashing into the water below.
He hung there in the water, his blood seeping around him and turning his vision red. He looked up as he began to sink lower and reached a hand skyward.
The last thing he saw was Sasuke standing on the water above him, smirking.
"Dobe."
Konoha shook as the sun peeked over the horizon and a cry of agony carried over the hills and rustled the trees, the birds flapping away from them frantically.
Naruto sat up in his bed, panting. Beads of crystal sweat ran down his toned and slender chest as it rose up and down with his fast breathing.
Naruto looked to his left.
Sai had already gone, having a mission early that morning with his spy team.
Naruto whipped the covers off of himself and ran to the bathroom. He spilled onto his knees over the toilet as he hurled until there was nothing left in his stomach.
He stood up shakily, grabbing the sides of the white bathroom sink, and looked at the mirror facing him.
He focused on his chest, one mark in particular that was just to the right of where his heart would be- a white spiral scar invaded his skin there, the wound having been previously pierced through the rest of his chest by a certain younger Uchiha…
Naruto hurled out his fist and punched the mirror, shattering it into a thousand shimmering pieces, tearing at his face, chest, and other exposed skin as they clattered to the ground.
Naruto looked at his fist, his knuckles dripping with blood, and then let it fall to his side again.
The only sound in the room was the gentle pat of blood against shards of glass
"Hm?"
Three figures with black cloaks paused in their conversation with the fifth Hokage as they heard a scream echo through Konoha, and the birds fled, shrieking as they flapped together and away in large groups.
The four of them stayed still and quiet for a moment, before a figure on the left broke the silence.
"What was that?" he asked. Another cloaked figure shrugged, but one met the Hokage's gaze.
She nodded, and Sai threw off his cloak, disappearing in a puff of smoke.
Naruto fell to his knees, panting heavily as he knocked away his last kage bushin out of the total 300 he had conjured to fight against.
Numerous kunai cuts and rasengan burns lined his body. His black shirt was ripped, revealing crimson stained skin, and his eyes were bright red. They faded back to blue as Naruto let himself kilter off from his knees, landing on his back in his weakness.
Blood…there seemed to be so much of his own blood that it overwhelmed him. But then again, any damage inflicted to his clones ultimately came back to burden his real body when they disappeared.
"Kit, you've gotta stop doing this," the voice of the Kyuubi said in Naruto mind, thoroughly concerned.
"What else can I do?" Naruto thought back to him.
Kyuubi didn't answer. What else could he do?
There was only ever one way for Naruto to forget about Sasuke, and that was through extreme training. But even then those times in the past had never brought him to where he was now, on the brink of passing out from pain.
"Don't cry…" Naruto snarled at himself, digging his claws harshly into the earth beneath his hands, wrapping his fingers in the soil.
"ANBU captains don't cry…remember training…remember the shinobi rules…" Naruto continued, his eyes prickling with unshed suffering.
"Don't show emotion, don't be weak…"
Naruto's vision suddenly became blurry and his eyes drooped.
"Kit! Don't black out now!" Kyuubi reprimanded. He would never let Naruto die from something as trivial as lack of blood, but if Tsunade found out that he had trained himself into submission, it was bye-bye long term missions. Naruto never particularly liked them because they kept him away from Sai, but they did let him clear his head, which is what he needed the most sometimes.
Kyuubi knew. He lived there.
Naruto closed his eyes and Kyuubi went on another spaz lecture.
"I'm not passing out," Naruto told him. "I'm just resting my eyes…"
Kiba's nose twitched as he caught onto a familiar scent moving swiftly about 300 meters ahead of him.
"Gotcha!" he cried victoriously, taking off to trail the smell, when something else came to his noise.
"Blood?" Kiba said to no one in particular, his ninja dog Akamaru having abandoned him for a more meaningful use of a Thursday morning.
Kiba jumped down from the canopy of the trees a few minutes later, landing neatly in a secluded and cleared area of a forest just outside of Konoha.
Kiba gasped a bit as he saw Naruto there in the midst of puddles of his own blood, on his hands and knees as his body shook from weakness.
His head hung down, his golden locks stained with red spilling over his face.
"Naruto!" Kiba said, kneeling down in front of him.
Naruto raised his bright ruby eyes to meet Kiba's dark honey ones.
"Kiba?" he breathed.
"Naruto! What happened?" Kiba asked anxiously. "Were you ambushed? Surrounded?"
Naruto looked back to the ground as his eyes became distant.
"…nothing happened," he said quietly.
"Bull! I know something did, Naruto! What was it? Who did it!?"
"I did."
"When I find them I'm gonna…you?"
Kiba stared at Naruto in disbelief.
"Were you training?" he asked, and Naruto nodded.
Naruto winced as Kiba pulled him into an embrace.
"Don't hurt yourself like this Naruto!" Kiba growled, and Naruto didn't reply.
Kiba pulled back to look at his beautiful captain, flecked with blood and eyes glowing.
"Don't…scare me like that," Kiba said a bit more quietly, inching his face closer to Naruto's.
Naruto couldn't seem to muster the strength to speak, so instead he gave Kiba a quizzical look.
Kiba smirked a bit.
"Even battered like this, you're still as hot as hell," he said, and pressed his lips against Naruto's.
Naruto's eyes widened as Kiba bit and sucked at his lower lip, asking Naruto for entrance to his mouth.
Naruto pushed against Kiba's chest with his hands, trying to pry him away, but he felt too drained.
Kiba pinned Naruto to the ground, and Naruto closed his eyes and winced as his back hit the earth.
"Naruto," Kiba said, straddling the blonde.
"Off," Naruto managed to croak, opening his now enraged eyes.
Kiba grinned.
"Naruto, what do you see in Sai? Sure he's very good looking, but really, how could he understand an animal?" he said.
Naruto glared at Kiba, and the wolf-like man lowered his head to Naruto's neck, kissing it.
"Naruto, no one could ever understand you like I do….a fox and a wolf," Kiba purred. "I know what could really make you feel good. Sai for all I know could be a great kisser, but no one…."
Kiba pushed up Naruto's black ANBU shirt, and he winced as it scathed his bloody wounds.
Kiba brushed the edge of his lips against Naruto's lower stomach and dragged them up to his torso.
Naruto let out an involuntarily shudder.
"…could make you shiver the way I can."
Kiba brought Naruto's shirt back down over his wounded chest as he attached himself to his collar bone.
"O-off!" Naruto croaked again, his throat burning with the effort.
Suddenly Kiba was ripped from Naruto and slammed against a tree.
"What the hell- Sai!?" Kiba said, staring into furious black eyes.
"Leave. NOW," Sai said, his voice deadly and promising death, and Kiba was gone in a white poof.
Naruto sat up, wincing, and Sai got on his knees in front of him.
"Naruto! Are you ok?" he said, anxious waves rippling off of him.
"Sai?" Naruto said, his vision becoming blurred again.
Sai enfolded Naruto in his arms gently, the blonde's head resting against his lover's chest.
"Naruto…why would you train so hard?" Sai asked quietly, stroking Naruto's stained locks.
"I was so worried…"
"Why would you want to worry so much about someone so weak?"
Sai pulled back as Naruto's eyes, one melded back into bright blue, searched his own.
"Naruto, don't ever say that," Sai said firmly. "You're not weak. You never were and never will be. You're captain of the ANBU squad, one of the top ninja in Konoha, and the soon to be Rokudaime. What would you have to feel so weak about?"
Naruto looked to the ground, but Sai tilted his chin up to look at him.
"Sai…" Naruto said quietly. "If you weren't there all those years ago when we were sixteen and met Sasuke again…I'd be dead."
"Wha-"
"I wouldn't have moved, Sai. Sasuke's sword….I would have stood there and let him kill me."
"Naruto…."
"When we were thirteen, I could have showed my true potential instead of holding back. But I just hung there in his grasp and let him punch his chidori through me. It was only by his choice that I was left alive. Even yesterday, if you hadn't look up that poison….I would have just bled to death."
"Naruto, this doesn't make you weak-"
"It does!" Naruto said. "I…couldn't do anything. I would let myself die so easily without a second thought, when I should fight on. But…"
Naruto shook his head as tears clouded his vision and finally spilled down his face.
"I feel so weak, that I can't…just look at me now."
"Naruto-" Sai tried again.
"Look at me!" Naruto cried, locking his gaze with Sai's again.
"I am looking at you Naruto," Sai said, cupping Naruto's face and wiping away his tears.
"And I see someone so brave, so strong…anything but weak. Someone who keeps on fighting even when everything seems to be against him, even himself."
Naruto stared at Sai with wide eyes as his sadness continued to spill down his face, only to be cleared away by Sai's delicate touch.
"Everyone feels weak sometimes, Naruto," Sai said softly. "Even trained ANBU captains need to cry sometimes. But when you do…I want to be the one to be there for you."
Sai reached into his pocket and pulled out a dark blue velvet box. He opened it to Naruto, and his eyes widened.
On the velvet was a shining silver ring, twinkling in the rifts of sunlight that spilled through the canopy of trees overhead.
"Naruto," Sai said. "I love you so much. I don't know how I could ever forget such an important feeling, but you brought it back to me. I don't think that they explained this amazing emotion in anything I've ever read or heard. You mean the world to me…"
Naruto's eyes water even more at the sheer affection in Sai's words.
"I want you to wear this," Sai continued, taking the ring from its case. "I want you to know that no matter what, I'll always be there for you; that I will always love you. Please wear this Promise Ring. I have one too."
Sai held showed Naruto his left hand, and sure enough a shining silver strip was on his ring finger.
Naruto smiled, his pain disappearing as he nodded to Sai.
Sai smiled softly back as he placed the ring on Naruto's left ring finger.
He held Naruto close, and Naruto closed his eyes.
Everything seemed so much more…peaceful.
"Now if I could just keep that mutt away from you…" Sai suddenly grumbled, and Naruto laughed.
"Just mark me as your mate," Naruto said, and Sai pulled back to look at him. He was a bit amazed to see most of his minor wounds already healed by the Kyuubi, the blood dissolved and leaving the beautiful sun-kissed skin behind.
"How do I do that?" Sai asked.
"Basically just give me a hickey on the neck visible to him," Naruto replied.
"I give you plenty of hickeys. Where are they?" Sai asked, moving a bit of Naruto's hair to scan the back of his perfectly tanned neck.
"Healed by Kyuubi," Naruto said, and Sai frowned a bit.
"Won't he just heal it again if I give you a new one?" he said.
"If I tell him not to he won't."
"You let him before?"
"I'm NOT going on missions with my ANBU team constantly bugging me about the red marks on my neck and waggling their eyebrows at me."
"OK, but don't get rid of it this time, all right?"
"Yea, I'll tell Kyuubi- ah!"
Naruto yelped a bit as Sai attacked the vulnerable flesh near the front of his neck, kissing it gently and then applying more pressure as he began to nibble the spot.
"Nnn, Sai," Naruto said between hums and purrs. "In the- nnn- front? Neh…everyone will see!"
"That's the point," Sai breathed against Naruto's skin as he continued adhering to the red spot on his neck.
Naruto groaned softly as Sai licked over the spot benevolently and suddenly started kissing back up Naruto's neck until he reached his lips and captured them softly.
Naruto felt Kyuubi's healing lift the main burden of the wounds from his body, and he gripped Sai's shirt as he kissed him back.
Sai pushed Naruto onto his back again, only this time much more gently than Kiba, as he started to kiss the blonde passionately.
Sai asked Naruto's mouth for entrance politely even though he knew he was welcome, and Naruto accepted him.
Sai's mouth burst with Naruto's sweet addictive flavor as he rubbed his tongue against the ANBU's, and Naruto moaned.
Sai memorized Naruto's mouth as he had done many times before going back to play some more with the blonde's tongue.
Naruto ran his hands down Sai's back, and then up again to twine them in his midnight black hair. He rubbed his left leg against Sai's right, causing the man to moan at the friction it created through the kiss.
"Neh…more Sai," Naruto pleaded.
Sai kissed the blonde senseless as he peeled Naruto's shirt back up his chest, breaking momentarily to discard it.
He reattached himself to the sore hickey on Naruto's neck, nibbling and kissing it more.
He moved down the golden kitsune's neck after the brief visit to the sore mark, and continued down to his abdomen. Now, what was it that he had briefly seen Kiba do to make Naruto shiver?
Naruto gasped as Sai brushed his lips up the blonde's torso, just barely scathing his skin, and he let out a long groan. It was such a simple motion, yet it appealed to his new animals senses and drove him crazy.
He closed his eyes, reveling in the sensation.
"Was that right?" Sai purred to Naruto, who hummed in return and didn't open his eyes as Sai began his ministrations again.
Naruto dug his fingers up Sai's shirt and trailed them along his chest, feeling the defined muscles chiseled out from his skin.
In his cage Kyuubi was focusing on healing his blonde kit's wounds, when his ears perked and his confinement shook violently.
"Kit! Kit!" he cried out. "Kit! Something's happening, kit!"
Naruto didn't have time to acknowledge as he tore his mouth away from Sai's and let out a shriek of pain.
"Naruto! What's wrong?" Sai asked anxiously as the blonde shut his eyes tightly and gripped the earth in anguish.
"Naruto, what hurts!?" Sai asked, running a hand gently over the ANBU captain's arms and down his torso, searching for major injuries.
Naruto gasped and suppressed a scream as Sai reached his abdomen.
Sai's mind went into a bit of a panic as he saw the black seal symbols around Naruto's belly button pulse red and swirl dangerously.
Sai scooped Naruto up in his arms quickly and made his way to Tsunade's office as fast as he could, when a weak hand tugged his shirt and he stopped.
"Don't…" Naruto pleaded weakly.
"Naruto, we need to see what this is," Sai insisted, but Naruto shook his head.
"I'm fine…I just need some rest," he said.
Sai argued with himself before sighing and carrying Naruto back home.
Sasuke pivoted off a branch, chipping the bark under his feet as he moved.He faltered a bit as his body begged for rest, and he gave it its first salvation for the last six hours of straight travel.
He sat on the ground and caught his breath, remembering to hide his chakra signature just in case.
Sasuke looked up at the sky. It never looked as bright as it had been in Naruto's eyes.
"Soon I'll see those eyes," he thought. "If I keep going like this, I'll arrive at Konoha by nightfall."
Suddenly Sasuke's eyes widened a bit.
What if the village wouldn't take him back? Sure, he had been their last Uchiha and wonderful prodigy, but he was also their vile betrayer. Would the good really outweigh the bad?
What was the name of that Hokage again? Tsu something…oh yea, Tsunade. Would she allow him to come back? And what about the council?
What about Naruto?
Would he stand up for Sasuke? Go to his defense?
It made all the difference in the world.
"I'm fine, geez!" Naruto said as he slammed his front door in Shikamaru's face.
"So troublesome," he heard him sigh behind the door.
Naruto retreated to his room and opened his dresser. Why did Sai have to send someone to look over him while he was on his mission? He was a freaking ANBU captain for God's sake! Soon to be Rokudaime!
Naruto sighed as he grabbed some clothes and went into the bathroom. He slipped on the attire and walked out only to bump into the number one lazy ninja in Konoha.
"Shikamaru!" Naruto said, agitated.
Shikamaru raised an eyebrow.
Naruto wore his black form fitting ANBU pants, shoeless, with a tight crimson tank top that outlined his firm and lithe figure and mad his tan glow. The necklace Tsunade gave him so long ago still hung loose around his collar.
"Wow," Shikamaru said. "No wonder Kiba was all over you."
Naruto blushed a bit as he made his way back to the den of his apartment.
"Not you too…" he whined, and Shikamaru shrugged.
"Don't think so. You're hot Naruto, but I don't like relationships. Too-"
"Troublesome?" Naruto suppled.
"Finally someone gets it," Shikamaru said as he made for the door.
"Well I just dropped by to check on you like a promised Sai. He was kinda worried about your seal."
Naruto rolled his eyes.
"He worries too much."
Shikamaru sighed as he closed the door and left Naruto alone.
Naruto looked outside as he unraveled some new mission scrolls on the coffee table.
It was about 10pm. Sai would be home in a few hours.
Naruto scanned over the scroll leisurely when his mind was prodded.
"Kit?" Kyuubi asked.
"Hm?" Naruto replied.
"You might wanna have the old hag check out what's goin' on in here…somethin's not right."
"You worry too much Kyuu. I bet you and Sai would get along well."
"I'm serious Kit."
"So am I."
Kyuubi snorted and the conversation ended.
Naruto continued to gaze over scroll after scroll, his eyes never leaving the kanji, until his eyes started to droop, and an hour later he was fast asleep.
Naruto walked through the forest in his everyday attire of black pants, sandals, and a dark orange and black long-sleeved shirt. His hair hung loose, hovering above his shoulders as he trekked onward peacefully. He knew this forest; he came often to relax and think.
Naruto turned sharply as he heard rustling beside him. He instinctively reached for his kunai, only to find that his weapon's pouch was gone.
Naruto backed up a bit as a twenty-two year old Sasuke trudged forth, wounds littering his body.
"Naruto…" Sasuke breathed, his eyes meeting Naruto's.
Naruto felt a stab of pain in his chest and he closed his eyes. Not again…not again!
"Help, please…" Sasuke begged, falling to his knees in front of the blonde.
Naruto looked down at him, horrified at the sight. Where was the strong and arrogant Sasuke he knew so well?
"Sasuke," Naruto said, and as he did, his world suddenly tossed and flipped, becoming distorted as he opened his eyes.
Naruto opened his eyes groggily as Sai picked him up from the couch and carried him to bed.
"Sai?" Naruto said as he was laid gently on the covers.
"Sorry, did I wake you?" Sai asked. "You fell asleep on the couch with scrolls on your lap."
Naruto grinned a bit stupidly as he said, "Yea, sorry about that."
"How are you feeling?"
"Better."
He sat up.
"How was the mission?"
"Boring," Sai answered as he removed his shirt and pants, trading them in for his black night attire.
He slipped in bed beside Naruto as the blonde laid back again.
"I was on sentry this time while Shino and Tenten infiltrated the area."
"So then, you're not tired?" Naruto asked.
"For once, no," Sai said. "Why?"
"Because I have something much more useful for you to put your energy into."
"Wha-" Sai was cut off as Naruto suddenly straddled him and attached his lips to his own.
After a split second Sai kissed back, one hand on Naruto's chest and the other pressing his neck forward.
Sai felt Naruto slip back a bit meekly, and he decided to take over the kiss. He flipped Naruto over a bit roughly, this time with a leg on each side of Naruto, and kissed him passionately.
Short breaths and gasps filled the air space as they continued, their bodies hot against each other.
Naruto gripped Sai's shirt tightly as their tongues grappled, and in a second the article of clothing was tossed away.
Sai moved down to kiss Naruto's neck, nuzzling and nibbling it as he removed his tank top. He broke to throw it off, and then dove back into the recesses of the blonde's mouth.
Naruto rubbed his leg against Sai's both of them moaning from the sensation, and Naruto decided that he wanted to feel their skin clash there instead of the fabric between them.
Naruto pushed Sai up, kissing him keenly, and they both straightened until they were sitting up on their knees on the bed.
Naruto pulled away from Sai's mouth and seized his hips by his hands. Sai gave him a quizzical and disappointed look until Naruto rocked his own hips against Sai's, grinding them together and brushing their covered hards against each other.
"Gods Naruto…" Sai groaned as the friction enticed him and drove him wild.
He whipped out his own hands and clutched Naruto's hips and grinded them against his own faster.
Naruto moaned and threw his head back a bit. Then, remembering his hatred for the clothing between them, he attached his lips to Sai's neck.
Sai groaned again as his kissed down to his collar bone and nibbled at it, brushing his tongue against the red mark growing there occasionally.
Naruto hooked his thumbs on the sides of Sai's pants, and he moved one hand to undo the zipper there.
"Neh…Naruto," Sai breathed as Naruto ripped off his pants and discarded them, leaving only black boxers.
Sai pushed the blond roughly back on the bed and leaned down to whisper to him, "My turn."
Sai kissed down Naruto's chest, careful to avoid the Kyuubi's seal below, just in case. He slipped Naruto's black ANBU pants down slowly, decreasing his kissing speed to match, and Naruto growled.
"Sai…too slow," he said, and Sai grinned at him before kissing back up Naruto's chest, stopping to lap at his neck with his tongue. He finally removed Naruto's pants, and the flushed blonde let out a sigh.
He wrapped his arms around Sai's neck and pulled him down to kiss him fast and hard. Sai slipped a bare leg in between Naruto's intertwining their limbs, and he rubbed them together. They both broke the kiss to let out a lengthily moan before returning to their fanatical kissing.
Naruto gasped as Sai bit his lip and moved his tongue to soothe it afterwards. Naruto twined his fingers in Sai's hair, combing his fingers through it as they groaned and panted.
Naruto whined as he begged for more friction, and Sai ran his body slowly up Naruto's drawing out the sensation.
Naruto suddenly grabbed Sai's hands that were running up his waste and pressed them to the edge of his own dark orange and black boxers.
Sai's stopped and pulled away, his own eyes meeting Naruto's as they both panted and caught their breaths briefly.
Sai wrapped his arms around Naruto's waist as he dipped back down to the blonde's mouth, their bodies pressed up against each other. Sai moved to Naruto's neck as he said,
"Nn…Naruto, are you sure? Are you ready?"
Naruto thrust his hip upwards to Sai so that his hard hit the black-haired man's, and Sai couldn't suppress a groan.
"Does that feel like I'm ready?" Naruto said, smiling at Sai.
Sai pulled back to return the smile, and he kissed Naruto softly as he hooked his thumbs on the orange boxers.
He started to pull down slowly as he sped up the kiss, and was about to feverishly rip away the rest of the fabric when-
"Yo!"
"AH!" Naruto shrieked as he fell over the side of the bed, his boxers still intact. Sai looked over to the window and saw Kakashi leaning against the wall there with his arms crossed leisurely.
"Kakashi," Sai growled. "What. Do. You. Want."
Kakashi winced as Sai ground out every syllable, each promising a beating later, but he didn't let his minute fear show. Instead his grinned so wide that it was clearly visible under his mask.
"Sorry, did I interrupt something?" he asked.
"Yes!" Sai shouted back, enraged.
Naruto let out a groan from the floor on the side of the bed unseen by Kakashi. Sai looked down at him from the edge of the mattress to find that he had landed quite awkwardly, his head and chest splayed against the floor as his feet came up from behind him and dangled over his head. It looked…very painful.
"Naruto?" Sai said, and the blonde groaned.
"Was that from pain or pleasure?" Kakashi chuckled.
"Pain," Sai hissed, glaring at the man.
"What. Do. You. Want."
"Actually I'm here for Naruto."
Naruto grunted, and Sai leaned over the bed to help him. He pulled the blonde up onto the bed and in his lap so that he faced Kakashi, and Naruto blushed madly.
"Sai," he griped quietly, emabarassed.
"Naruto," Kakashi said, catching the blonde's attention. "Tsunade needs you out on the northern border of Konoha near the front gate immediately with your troop. A missing rogue ninja has been spotted running in the direction of Konoha on foot quickly. By the chakra levels our jounin team gauged him sending off, he is very strong."
"Hai Kakashi," Naruto said, and he jumped from Sai's arms to grab his ANBU uniform from his dresser, retreating to the bathroom.
There was an uncomfortable silence as Sai glared at Kakashi.
"So, first time?" Kakashi asked.
"Shut it," Sai snapped.
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