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Chapter Six: Came to Be
Naruto growled as he pressed his kunai against a katana, the sickening sound of metal carving against metal filling the air space. He glared up at the black-haired teen before him from his crouched position on the rooftop. He wore a black belly-shirt with pants to match, his skin pale and a fake smile upon his lips
"Who the hell are you!?" Naruto shouted, and the teen's smile only grew wider.
"You're a bit of a pansy aren't you?" he said. "Do you even have a dick?"
Naruto guffawed and blushed for a moment before snarling and pressing on his kunai more.
Naruto crossed his arms as he settled lower into the hot spring, silently grumbling. It had been two and half years since Sai had become a part of Konoha, and since Naruto was an ANBU in training now, it was his first mission with his team in a while.
"Naruto-kuuuun!" Sakura cried from over the hot spring fence, and Naruto rolled his eyes. Since he had turned sixteen Sakura had suddenly been all flirty around him, and now at eighteen she was acting like an obsessed fangirl.
"I'll see you soon, Naruto-kun!" she said, and Naruto cringed at her sickly sweet voice.
Naruto closed his eyes and sighed as he tilted his head back and let the hot water wrap him up in a world of calm.
Silence…
Peace…
Serenity…
"Hello Naruto-kun."
…and apparently Sai.
Naruto peeled open one lazy eye to watch his comrade sink into the water and sit next to him.
"Nani ka?" Naruto sighed, closing his eye again.
"You've been acting a bit strange lately," Sai said.
"Have I?" Naruto said uninterestedly.
"Hai. You seem frustrated and toss a lot in your sleep, and you always want to take the night watch. You also circle around us when we talk. You weren't like that before."
Naruto opened his eyes and looked at Sai, impressed that he had noticed his quirks.
"I'm just different now," Naruto said.
"How?" Sai asked, and Naruto glared at him.
"Why the hell would you care?" he spat.
"Because you're my comrade…" Sai paused and then said softly, "…and you're my dearest friend."
Naruto looked to the spring water, blushing a bit.
"I'm your closest friend?" he asked quietly, and Sai nodded.
"Why me?" Naruto asked. "All you and I ever do is argue about the size of my dick which you think is nonexistent and spar together."
"It's because of that that you're so dear to me."
"Eh?"
"We don't have to spend time together anymore since we're ANBU in training now, but we still do, even if it is arguing or sparring. In between all of that we learn about each other. But the real reason…is because you helped me create a real smile. You gave me back my life and let my emotions go free."
Sai smiled and placed his own hand on Naruto's, currently resting behind him on a spring rock.
Naruto shivered as he felt a quiver run up his spine from the contact.
"Sai…what're you dong?" Naruto asked, and Sai smiled.
"I read in a book once about how to thank someone you really care about…"
Sai edged his face close to Naruto's, and Naruto caught his breath.
"S-Sai!" Naruto said, blushing harder.
"Arigatou Naruto-kun…" Sai said, and he lowered his lips to Naruto's.
Naruto's eyes widened as Sai kissed him softly, moving a hand to cup his whiskered cheek.
Naruto shut his eyes tightly and shoved Sai off of him.
"What the hell Sai!!?" Naruto cried, wiping his mouth fervently with the back of his hand.
"Just saying thank you Naruto-kun," Sai said.
"You don't say thank you like that Sai!"
"But the book said-"
"You only thank people like that if you're in love with them!"
Sai looked a bit taken aback, then lowered his eyes to the water.
"Gomen Naruto-kun," he said quietly, and Naruto sighed.
"It's fine," he said, waving a careless hand.
"Naruto…what would you do if I said that I really was in love with you?"
Naruto locked his gaze with Sai, and the atmosphere was quiet for a moment.
"I-"
"Everyone enjoying their break?"
Naruto and Sai turned as Kakashi entered the onsen, the lower half of his face securely covered.
"Hai Kakashi," Sai said, smiling.
Naruto looked away.
"Hai…" he said quietly.
"Naruto-kun."
Naruto rolled his eyes. It was HIS sentry duty!
"What is it Sai?" he said, looking up at the midnight sky.
Sai took a seat next to Naruto on the tip f the boulder he was perched on.
"Why won't you tell me why you've changed?" Sai asked, also looking at the sky and the winking stars above.
Naruto paused for a moment.
"Because…" he said quietly. "I don't want anyone to see me as a monster.
Naruto gasped a bit as he was drawn into a warm embrace and his hands hit a firm chest.
"I will never see you as a monster," Sai said sternly, and Naruto's eyes widened a bit.
Naruto gripped the front of Sai's shirt tightly as he felt his heart jerk.
"Sai…" Naruto said quietly. "It's the Kyuubi. I…I've merged with it. Everything about me is changing. My body, my behavior…everything. It feels so strange…"
"Is that all?" Sai asked, chuckling, and Naruto looked up at his face. "I thought you were hurt or sick. Don't scare me like that Naruto. Now, about that new behavior; can you teach me fox-speak for friends?"
Naruto smiled and nodded.
"Another successful mission as usual," Tsunade said proudly, beaming up at the ANBU before her, now at the ripe age of twenty.
"Hai Tsunade-sama," Naruto said, bowing.
"Naruto, I'd like you to meet me on top of the Hokage mountain later today at sunset."
"Eh? Why?" Naruto asked, and Tsunade smiled.
"You'll see. For now, you are dismissed."
Naruto nodded and disappeared in a puff of smoke.
He reappeared outside of his house and went inside quickly. He exited wearing a black tank-top with an open short-sleeved orange jacket and a pair of thin black pants. His hitaiate was wrapped around his right shoulder, his golden locks falling loose around his carved face.
He locked the door to his house and began walking leisurely down through town. People waved and smiled at him, and he smiled back, but he didn't stop.
Naruto kept walking until he reached the forest on the outskirts of Konoha where a lake was settled peacefully between the trees.
Naruto smiled as he removed his shirt and jacket and plunged into the water, the cool sensation engulfing him. He resurfaced, crashing through the water and spraying crystal drops into the air.
Naruto flipped onto his back and looked up to the afternoon sky. There were lots of clouds today. Shikamaru must have been enjoying himself.
Naruto smiled and closed his eyes, enjoying his time away from the town's hustle and bustle and the ritual of missions.
"Naruto-kun."
Naruto turned his head to the shore and saw Sai standing there, smiling.
"Oi, Sai!" Naruto said, straightening himself in the water.
"Get in! The water feels really good!"
"I'm fine," Sai said.
"What, afraid of getting cold?" Naruto said mockingly, and laughed. "Geez Sai, I didn't know you were so much of a pansy! And you used to make fin of ME for not having a-gak!"
Naruto choked as Sai threw off his shirt and leapt into the water with lightning speed and grabbed Naruto in a headlock.
"Now who's a pansy?" Sai said, smirking as Naruto struggled.
"Sai, leggo!" Naruto whined, and Sai let him loose.
"You're getting it now!" Naruto cried, and tackled the brunette.
Naruto laughed as he and Sai walked onto the shore, soaked and tired from rough-housing.
"Told ya I could dunk you first!" Naruto said triumphantly.
"Urusai. You did not," Sai grumbled.
"Did too."
"No, you didn't!"
"Did too!"
Naruto gasped as he felt something hit him from behind and Sai tackled him to the grass, straddling him and pinning down his wrists beside him.
"No, you didn't," Sai said, smirking, and Naruto turned his head away and pouted.
"Whatever…" Naruto spat, and turned his gaze back to glare at Sai, when he stopped and saw the brunette looking at him intently.
Naruto looked back into Sai's onyx eyes. He really had grown to be a handsome man, losing his belly-shirt and letting his hair grow a bit.
Sai let his grip on Naruto's wrists go, and he lifted one hand to brush away some stray wet locks from Naruto's sun-kissed face.
"S-Sai?" Naruto said, and Sai smiled.
"I understand now why you have a fanclub Naruto," Sai said. "You're really beautiful. But then again, you always were."
Naruto blushed a deep crimson.
"Thank you Naruto."
"F-for what?"
"I'm not sure," Sai said. "Naruto, what was it that you told me two years ago? About that special way of saying thank you? Wasn't it to only say thank you like that if you were in love with someone?"
Naruto slowly nodded, not taking his crimson and sky blue gaze away from Sai.
Sai smiled.
"Then I think that this time, this really is the best way for me to say it," he said, and leaned his face down to press his lips against Naruto's.
Naruto eyes widened. If Sai was kissing him, that had to mean…
Naruto closed his eyes as Sai's lips caressed his own, and he gently kissed back.
Sai moved the hand on Naruto's cheek up to slowly run through his hair, leaving each lock tenderly cared for in his grasp.
Sai pulled back from the soft kiss and looked at Naruto.
"I love you, Naruto," he said quietly.
Naruto paused for a moment, then slowly smiled and pulled Sai back down for another gentle kiss.
"I love you too," Naruto said once they had parted, and a loving smile stretched across Sai's face.
He leaned his head down and nuzzled Naruto's neck affectionately, raining light kisses on the tanned skin there.
Naruto closed his eyes and purred affectionately.
"Naruto, are you…purring?" Sai asked, and Naruto nodded.
"The merge with Kyuubi changed a lot," he said. "Do you think it's annoying?"
Sai smiled.
"It's adorable," Sai said, and Naruto pouted.
"Urusai," he said.
"Ok," Sai replied, and captured Naruto's lips.
"I wonder where Tsunade-sama is," Naruto said as he and Sai appeared on the top of the Hokage Mountain, hands linked.
"She said she wanted to meet me up here, but I don't-"
"SURPRISE!!!"
""GAK!!!!!!"
Naruto yelped in surprise and collided onto the head of the Yondaime as his ANBU partners, Tsunade, Jiraiya, and the council appeared in a poof before him.
"N-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-nani!?" Naruto cried, trying to collect himself.
"Still acting like a genin I see," Jiraiya said as he helped Naruto up. "Tsunade-chan, are you sure that Naruto is ANBU captain material?"
"ANBU captain?" Naruto said, blinking.
"Hai! Naruto, you've proven your worth, and myself, your teammates, the old pervert and the council have deemed you to be the next ANBU captain," Tsunade said, crossing her arms and smiling.
Naruto looked over his friends standing there.
"You guys…you…" he said, and suddenly he was grabbed from behind and spun around wildly.
"NARUTO-KUN! YOU HAVE BECOME SUCH A SPLENDID FLOWER IN THE GARDEN OF YOUTH!" Lee cried, "manly" tears of joy spouting from his eyes. "IF ONLY GAI-SENEI WERE HERE TO SEE THIS, HE WOULD GIVE YOU THE BEST HUG OF ALL OF YOUR YOUTH!!!"
Naruto tried to choke something out, but failed as his face began to turn blue.
"That's enough Lee," Jiraiya said, and Naruto gasped for air as he was released from fuzzy brow's death grip.
Naruto smirked.
"Ero-senin…" he said. "You-"
"Don't read into it brat," Jiraiya said smugly, sticking his nose up.
Naruto laughed and looked at the council.
"Is it really ok?" he asked. The withered old men and women smiled and nodded.
"You have a deep love for our village," an old man with a cane said. "A love that you're father also shared that led him to give up his life to keep it safe. We are immensely proud to have you among one of our highest ranks in the village."
Naruto grinned and looked at Tsunade.
"Baa-chan," he said.
"Gaki," Tsunade replied.
They both had a stare off for a while, before Naruto suddenly hugged Tsunade tightly.
"Arigatou baa-chan…" Naruto said, his voice shaking a bit.
Tsunade smiled and patted Naruto on the head thoughtfully.
Naruto pulled back and grinned at all of his comrades and friends, grinning as his eyes grew glassy.
"Arigatou minna-san," he said.
"YATTA NARUTO!" Lee cried, and the group clapped, Kiba and Akamaru howling loudly.
"This calls for sake!" Jiraiya piped up excitedly at the thought of alcohol pouring down his gullet.
"We can all go back to my place," Naruto suggested.
"Oi, Gaki! Be in my office- hic- at the- hic- crack of dawn- hic- tomorrow!" A tipsy Tsunade said as she was escorted out of Naruto's apartment by Jiraiya, who had amazingly sustained a good level of alcohol clarity.
"I know, I know," Naruto said, waving them out as they were the last to leave.
Naruto closed the door and sighed. All of the partying and talking to everyone had made him tired.
Naruto walked down the hall, opened the door to his room, and let out a shriek. (A very manly one, mind you!)
"S-S-S-Sakura-chan!?" Naruto stuttered as he saw Sakura spread across his bed in a pink tank top and black short-shorts.
"You have a very comfortable bed Naruto-kun," Sakura said suggestively as she sat on the end of the bed and smiled seductively up at Naruto.
Naruto sighed and shook his head.
"Sakura-chan, I don't know what kind of obsession you have with me now but you need to get over it," he said sternly. "I don't love you and I never will. In fact, I'm seeing someone."
Sakura raised an eyebrow.
"Who?" she said, her voice a bit edgy.
"Sai."
"Why would you want to date him? You're not gay Naruto."
"You don't know that, and frankly neither do I yet. But I know that I love him."
"Oh Naruto-kun, you don't know what real love is," Sakura said, moving up from the bed and sidling over to Naruto.
Naruto tried to slowly back out of the room when Sakura swiftly shut the door behind him and his back hit it with a thud.
"Let me show you what real love is Naruto-kun," Sakura purred, and she reached up and crashed her lips against Naruto's.
Naruto's eyes widened and he shut his eyes as Sakura's tongue asked for entrance to Naruto's mouth.
Naruto denied her access, and a bit miffed, she pushed Naruto in the stomach with her knee.
Naruto let out a gasp and Sakura plunged into his mouth, kissing him hungrily and relishing the taste.
Naruto had to keep from puking then and there, the very thought of Sakura's lips touching his own making his spine shift.
Naruto made an attempt in his dazed state to pushed Sakura off, but Tsunade's training had not betrayed her, and she stood firmly pressed up against Naruto as she made her way down his neck and began to unbutton his shirt.
"Sakura, stop!" Naruto shouted, trying to shove her away roughly now, but to no avail.
Naruto winced as Sakura trailed her nails down hard Naruto's now revealed chest, leaving red marks in her wake.
Sakura smirked up at Naruto, and suddenly the blonde found that the world had turned upside-down and Sakura was straddling him as she threw away his shirt and began to undo his belt.
"Sakura get off now!" Naruto said firmly, wriggling. "I love Sai, not you!!!"
"Oh but you will after tonight Naruto-kun," Sakura said, whipping off Naruto's belt. "You will love me."
Sakura reached for the hem of Naruto's pants, and Naruto seized her wrists.
"NO!" he cried. "Get the hell off of me you bubblegum-haired bitch! I've had it with you!"
"Don't make me force you Naruto-kun!" Sakura said, narrowing her eyes now as she thrust her mouth back against Naruto's, kissing him roughly and abusing his lips.
Sakura dragged down Naruto's pants, leaving him clad in his orange and black boxers.
"N-no! Sakura, ah!"
Sakura moved to Naruto's neck and bit down hard on the skin there, drawing blood. She let her hands run up and down Naruto's chest and hooked her thumbs on his boxers.
Naruto finally found the feeling in his legs again after a swift surge of emergency chakra from the Kyuubi, and he gave Sakura a swift kick to the ribcage.
Sakura let out a yelp and held a hand to her side as she fell off the side of the bed.
She looked up quickly in time to see her prey escape through the window.
KNOCK! KNOCK! KNOCK! KNOCK!
Sai looked up from his kanji as loud and fervent knocking resounded form his front door. Who would be visiting at this hour of the night?
Sai stood up calmly and walked to the door as the knocking became frantic and insistent.
BANG! BANG! BANG!
Sai opened the door, and suddenly found himself with a bundle of gold.
Sai looked down as Naruto clung to him, his hands gripping his shirt and his face buried under his neck.
"S-Sai!" Naruto cried as tears poured down his cheeks and his boyfriend held onto him tightly.
Sai shut the door and led Naruto to his couch, holding the blonde close and letting him cry. He didn't speak, instead rubbing Naruto's back soothingly. He suddenly noticed that Naruto was clad in his boxers, revealing his beautiful and fit sun-kissed body.
Sai's eyes widened when he noticed a bleeding spot on Naruto's neck and sharp vertical red marks down his chest.
"Naruto…what happened?" Sai asked softly, hugging Naruto closer to him.
Naruto calmed slightly as he felt Sai's protective and warm arms wrap around him comfortingly, relaxing his quivering body.
"S-Sakura-chan…she…she tried t-to…" Naruto buried his face in the crook of Sai's neck, unable to get out the sentence. But Sai didn't need him to.
He understood perfectly.
Sai's calm onyx eyes blazed with anger at the pink-haired young woman. He would have run out right then and there to slap the bitch into the next dimension if it weren't for his blonde boyfriend clinging to him. He wouldn't leave Naruto.
"Shh, I'm here Naruto," Sai said, nuzzling Naruto affectionately. "I'll never let that pink bitch touch you again, I promise."
Naruto pulled away and looked up at Sai, tears flowing from his sparkling blue eyes.
Sai reached up his hand and gently brushed away Naruto's tears, giving him a soft kiss on the cheek, and Naruto smiled.
"Arigatou Sai," he said. "I love you."
Sai leaned in and gave Naruto's bruised and defiled lips a tender kiss.
"I love you too," he said.
Naruto blinked, opening his eyes to find himself in front of Kyuubi's cage. The red fox was curled up, glowing brightly.
"Kyuu?" Naruto said, approaching his cage. He was no longer scared. Kyuubi was like a father to him now.
Kyuubi lifted his head and placed it to the edge of the cage so that he was nose to nose to Naruto.
Naruto reached out and pet the fur on Kyuubi's nose, the fox purring appreciatively.
"You look…different," Naruto said. "And why am I here?"
"You're in an unconscious state," Kyuubi said. "The old hag has you hooked up to some kind of beeping machines and a bunch of tubes and wires in your body. Your monthly physical revealed that the seal is breaking."
Naruto's eyes widened and things seemed to click in his mind.
"Then…the seal hurting, and losing control that time with Sai…that was your chakra?" Naruto asked. Kyuubi nodded.
"My chakra is seeping through the weak points in the seal. Each time a point breaks, you will get that animalistic surge. Due to one points being broken, the others are weakened, and my chakra seeps and tears through those as well. Soon, there will only be me left, and you will be locked inside your own body, replaced where I am right now. When the last point breaks, you will die."
Naruto looked down and bit his lip.
"Kyuu…do you want me to die? I know you don't like being in here…"
"No!" Kyuubi growled. "Killing your own kit is barbaric!"
Naruto smiled sadly and reached through the bars to hug the old fox around his nose. Kyuubi looked at his kit with sorrowful eyes.
"I can't do much more than I am," he said. "The old hag and your friends are the people you need to seek for help now. The hag mentioned some kind of jutsu to your mate."
Naruto nodded. "Arigatou."
I know, flashbacks are so boring! X(
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