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Sky-eyed Kitsune: PWEASE GIVE ME YOUR ATTENTION FOR A MOMENT…
By the end of this chapter, many of you will love me….many of you will hate me….and some of you may come chasing after me with a rabid banana….but pleaz, I beg, don't kill me! And no flames….—cowers in fear—
Gomi-kun: Yea….I'm just the translator so….yea………
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To shadowphoenix143: I think you'll enjoy this chapter, and hopefully not chase me with a rabid banana…--sniff—
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POLL RESULTS!
One-sided Pairing:
Sainaru: 10
Gaanaru: 3
Sasunaru: 7
Itanaru: 2
Only Kibanaru: 2
If you haven't gotten your vote in for this poll do so now! The poll will end on January 5th 2008! And if you have voted, don't vote again or I shall wack you with my frying pan! RAWR!!!
Naru's "First Time"
Sai: 27
Sasuke: 25
THIS POLL IS CLOSED PEOPLE!
Chapter Dedication: --sniff—I DUN WANNA BE KILLED BY TEH RABID REVIEWERS! WAAAAA!
Chapter Seven: Sweet Misery
Sai walked down the hall of the infirmary, holding his hand against his left shoulder where a kunai had been thrust into his flesh.
The mission was successful and he had left Tenten and Shino to give the report to the Hokage.
He passed the receptionist's desk, not needing directions or asking for his wound to be patched up. No, all he needed right now was to see that Naruto was still in a stable condition since he had left two days ago.
Blood trickled down Sai's hand and dappled the white tile floor as he walked. He stopped when he reached the Emergency Medical Care solo room and opened the door.
He let out a relieved sigh when he saw Naruto in the same position as when he had left him.
His monitors beeped steadily as his chest moved up and down in rhythmic succession. The oxygen mask over his mouth had been removed but the wires under his skin over his bare chest remained hooked up to the chakra monitor, and an IV was attached to his right wrist.
Sai walked forward and traced a hand along Naruto's whiskered cheek lightly, moving it back to run through his hair that splayed over the white pillow like liquid gold.
Sai bent his head down and nuzzled Naruto's neck, outlining his pink angel lips delicately with the tips of his fingers.
"I'm home," he whispered, brushing his lips against Naruto's ear gently.
"I'm glad."
Sai slowly lifted his head up and saw a pair of sky blue orbs looking into his own eyes.
Sai smiled as Naruto reached up and placed his hand over his own, and he laced their fingers gently.
"How do you feel?" Sai asked.
"Tch. Don't treat me like I'm some woman," Naruto said, pouting.
Sai chuckled.
"Girl or not, how are you feeling, really?" he asked again.
"I have a headache. While you were gone baa-chan put me on like six painkillers because she was shooting experimental chakra into my body and recording my reaction. After that I slipped into a coma."
"How did you know you were in a coma?"
"Kyuu told me. He also said that he can't do anything for me with the seal. Tsunade baa-chan mentioned a jutsu to strengthen the seal, ne?"
"Yes, but it's extremely risky. You have a 15 percent chance of surviving, and I'm not taking it."
Naruto sat up despite the pain shooting through his skin from the wires in his body and around his seal.
"I appreciate your concern Sai, but I'm the one who really needs to decide soon," he said, looking down to the wires inside of him.
"Naruto, please don't," Sai said quietly. He didn't need Naruto tell him when he already knew what the blonde had decided.
Sai leaned in again and gave Naruto a soft kiss.
"I love you……I can't lose you…"
Naruto met Sai's lips again and gave him a kiss back.
"You won't," he said reassuringly.
Sai shook his head in disapproval and sighed.
"You're not going to change your mind, are you?"
"Nope."
"Then I guess arguing is pointless."
"True…" Naruto reached up and pulled Sai's face close to his own once more.
"…but kissing is not."
Sai smiled as Naruto's lips met his own.
"Alright Sasuke, here is your new genin team," Kakashi said, flourishing a hand at three young ninjas, two girls and one boy. The girls looked like twins, identical with their long black hair and brown eyes. The boy had his hands shoved into his pockets, his face emotionless. His red hair was cut short and jagged, showing off against his yellow eyes.
"You can take it from here," Kakashi said, moving over to sit under one of the trees in the training grounds.
Sasuke sighed.
"Ok, I'm your new sensei," Sasuke said. "Let's start with names."
"Ooh! Me!" the twin on the left squealed, and Sasuke nodded.
"My name is Makabisho Kimiko! Friends call me Kimi!"
"Ok," Sasuke said. "Next."
"Ano…I'm Makabisho Konami," the other twin said nervously.
Sasuke looked to the boy.
"What, me?" the boy said, raising an eyebrow. Sasuke nodded.
"Yukuza Soujin," he said lethargically.
Sasuke's eyebrow twitched.
"Ok…"
"What's your name sensei?" Kimi asked excitedly, her eyes the size of soup plates.
"Uchiha Sasuke."
The twins gasped and Yukuza lifted an eyebrow.
For a good five minutes the clearing was quiet.
"Ano…the Uchiha that betrayed Konoha?" Konami said quietly.
"Pfft. No way," Yukuza scoffed, shoving his hands into his pockets and glaring at Sasuke.
"He's an imposter. A fake. Hokage-sama would never allow a traitor to be allowed back into Konoha."
"But…wasn't Naruto-sama friends with the Uchiha?" Konami asked, the mention of Naruto's name grabbing his attention.
"Yea, once I guess. But he's a traitor! Naruto-sama would never want that Uchiha back after what he did! I mean c'mon! Would you want to be friends with someone who stabbed your back?"
The girls looked down.
"Yukuza-kun, that is in fact Sasuke Uchiha," Kakashi sighed.
Yukuza whipped his head around to the white-haired ninja for any hint of sarcasm, but he found none.
He was dead serious.
"Tsunade-sama has allowed him to come back to the village with a strict line of rules to abide by, or he will be killed."
Yukuza locked eyes with Sasuke, his eyes wide and dazed.
"No…y-you're lying!" he said as fear molded in his yellow lightning gaze. "That's impossible! I don't believe you! I don't!"
"Yukuza-kun, calm down now-"
"I DON'T BELIEVE YOU!" Yukuza shouted, speeding off into the forest.
Kakashi sighed.
"He'll be back," he said. "He's stubborn and won't go without training for more than a day."
"Why is the kid getting so bent up about it?" Sasuke said.
"Ano, Sensei?"
Sasuke looked down at Kimi and nodded.
"Yukuza-kun sees all of the Hokages as role models, especially Naruto-sama. For him to find out that the current Hokage, Tsunade-sama, let you back into the village, that would mean that this decision would have had to pass through Naruto-sama as well, since he is very soon to be the Rokudaime."
Sasuke's eyes widened.
"So…for Yukuza to find out that the person he looked up to let a traitor back into the village…it's shocking for him."
"And…you're not?" Sasuke said.
"My sister and I see how Naruto-sama would look at the situation. We love Naruto-sama very much…but we see how he reached such a decision."
Sasuke was bewildered.
Naruto…let him back in?
Tsunade checked over the monitors and charts attached to a clipboard in her hand.
Naruto lay flat in his bed, the wires making it painful so sit up. Sai stood by him, stroking a hand through his hair soothingly.
Tsunade sighed.
"Well, there hasn't been a substantial change from the last time I checked you. Your chakra is actually higher than Kyuubi's" she said to Naruto. "But the rise in your chakra will mean that the next time one of the seal's prongs break, Kyuubi's chakra will practically erupt…maybe wiping you out with it."
Naruto quivered a bit and Sai took his hand firmly in his own.
"Baa-chan, Kyuu says that he can't help me," Naruto said. "I'm going to have to go through with the special seal technique."
Tsunade looked into Naruto's eyes for any hint of doubt.
She found none.
"We commence the sealing tomorrow," Tsunade said softly.
Naruto nodded.
Tsunade removed the wires from Naruto's skin, the blonde wincing as she did so.
"You may go home now…but be back here in the special care room tomorrow at 6am. The process will take sixteen hours…if all goes well. I'll recruit the shinobi with the largest chakra reservoirs and skills I know of. Sai, you are one of them."
Sai nodded.
Naruto stood from the examination table, slipping back on his black ANBU shirt and facing Tsunade.
She looked into Naruto's sapphire eyes, memories spilling from their every sparkle against the light. She hugged Naruto tightly, as she would have no time to waste the next morning when she saw him.
Naruto patted Tsunade's back as he hugged her back, her shoulders quivering as tears slipped down her cheeks silently.
"Baa-chan, why are you crying?" Naruto said. "I'm not going anywhere."
Naruto pulled away from Tsunade and grinned at her.
"After all, someday I'm gonna be Hokage! I can't afford to die now when I'm so close!"
Tsunade let a sob escape her as she nodded, and Naruto gave her one last embrace before he left hand-in-hand with Sai.
Naruto sighed as the crisp night air rippled across his skin and made his blood shiver.
He sealing seemed so close…
And it was.
The blonde looked up through the branches of the trees from under the one where he sat outside of his and Sai's house, the crescent moon filtering subtle light through the trees.
Naruto wished the stars weren't hiding tonight.
Naruto felt a hand on his shoulder and turned to see Sai sitting next to him.
"Are you ok?" he asked.
Naruto looked back up at the sky and nodded.
"I just wanted come out here one more time before I'm kept in that room for sixteen hours tomorrow," he said. "It might be Kyuubi's effect on me, but I always liked being outside. I feel more like I blend in."
Sai smiled as the wind caressed Naruto's hair, leaving each lock thoroughly tended to with love.
"I'll make it."
Sai snapped out of his daze as Naruto turned his gaze to him and smiled.
"I'm not givin' up without a fight," he said.
Sai smiled.
"I know you won't."
Naruto crashed his lips against Sai's, the coma he had been in making it feel like forever since they had touched.
Sai responded by allowing Naruto entrance to his mouth, emitting a low groan as Naruto entwined his tongue with his own.
Naruto pulled Sai forward, one hand gripping his shirt and the other positioned at the back of his neck.
He broke from Sai as he felt his knees hit the edge of their bed, and he toppled onto it, taking Sai down with him.
Naruto grinned sheepishly up at Sai, then groaned as the brunette attacked his neck, sucking and biting at the gorgeous tanned skin there as his hands roamed under Naruto's shirt, slowly peeling it off him.
Naruto lifted his arms, aiding Sai as he flung off the blonde's shirt and kissed down the kitsune's bare and beautiful chest softly.
Naruto groaned and gripped Sai's shirt, hating the fabric that separated his hands from that smooth pale skin.
Sai understood and sat up on his knees.
Naruto kissed Sai passionately, moving his lips down his jaw and to his neck.
He sucked on the moonlit skin gently, steadily applying pressure, and Sai let out a low purring noise from the back of his throat.
Naruto quickly disposed of Sai's shirt and kissed him, massaging his tongue against the brunette's in slow circles.
Sai heard the sound of a zipper, but didn't flinch as Naruto undid his pants.
Sai threw his head back and groaned as Naruto kissed down his chest and to his lower abdomen, steadily pulling the brunette's pants down with each kiss until he was clad in his black boxers.
Sai cupped Naruto's face and lead him back up to his lips again, pushing the blonde back down onto the bed without breaking their lips.
Sai hooked his thumbs on the rim of Naruto's back ANBU pants, teasing the blonde as he released his lips and dragged his body up and down his lover's.
Naruto groaned as he felt Sai's hard brush against his own more covered one. He growled in frustration as his pants clung to his legs, making him hot and sweaty.
Sai chuckled, kissing Naruto's neck and leaving his hands unwavering at the hem of the blonde's ANBU pants.
Naruto growled and bucked his hips up, grinding them against Sai's in hot friction induced pleasure.
Sai let out an "oof!" and then moaned softly.
He narrowed his eyes down at Naruto who gave him a fox-like grin.
Oh yes, the teasing session was definitely on.
Sai kissed Naruto's lips fast and hard, moving down his neck and sucking at his collarbone. He slipped his hands underneath Naruto's pants and boxers and kneaded his palms against the blonde's hips, purposely brushing against his manhood.
Naruto gasped and moaned as he felt an enticing shiver run up and down his spine.
"S-Sai!" Naruto gasped. "Please!"
Sai continued his massaging, kissing lower and lower down Naruto's torso, dipping his tongue into his belly button.
Naruto hissed as Sai's tongue brushed against his sensitive seal, but it soon morphed into a loud moan as pain mingled with pleasure in an intoxicating combination.
"Sai!" Naruto said a bit angrily, swallowing a groan.
"Tell me what you want, Naruto," said whispered huskily, leaning up to his ear and licking the shell of it. He removed his hands and ground his hips down on Naruto's.
Naruto gasped and groaned.
"I-I want you, Sai!" he growled, thrusting his hips up for more delicious friction.
Sai licked Naruto's neck.
"As you wish, koi," he breathed.
Naruto gasped as cold air abruptly washed over his lower body, and his pants and boxers were removed in one flick of Sai's hand.
Sai took off his own boxers and straddled Naruto, who groaned at the bare abrasion of skin on skin.
He leaned back a bit, drinking in Naruto's gorgeous form before him.
Naruto blushed and turned his head away.
"God Naruto," Sai said, capturing his lips in a passion filled kit and nuzzling his neck shortly after. "How can you be so damn beautiful?"
Naruto's face flushed crimson, but he smiled nonetheless.
He pushed Sai up off his neck, grinning as he seized his mouth with gentle ferocity.
"UCHIHA!"
Sasuke bolted upright in bed as a holler of his name was zeroed in directly at his ear, and he practically fell off his bed.
He looked to his right and saw Tsunade standing there, her arms crossed and lips pressed tightly against each other.
"What?" Sasuke deadpanned, his hair cluttered and tank top slipping off of his left shoulder. Really, he had thought that in Konoha he could at least put his guard down while he slept for crying out loud!
"I have a mission for you," Tsunade said.
Sasuke looked at his clock.
"It's 5:00 am and I haven't gotten a good night's sleep in ten years," he droned, flopping back down onto his bed and mashing his pillow over his face.
"You wanted to see Naruto, right?"
Sasuke shot up in bed and flung the pillow away.
"Naruto?" he said.
Tsunade nodded.
"What does Naruto have to do with this mission?"
"Naruto doesn't have much time left," Tsunade said, her tone becoming softer.
"What do you mean he doesn't have time!?" Sasuke said, his heart jumping into his throat.
"The Kyuubi's seal is breaking. Very soon it will shatter completely and the Kyuubi no Kitsune will take over Naruto's body. In other words, Naruto will die."
Sasuke felt his heart slice open and stop beating completely.
"In one hour I along with the nine most skilled shinobi I know with great chakra reserves will gather and use a forbidden resealing technique. This could mean the difference between not only the life and death of Naruto, but the life and death of the Rokudaime as well. The procedure will last sixteen hours and Naruto has a slim chance of surviving, but if a stable chakra connection can be kept during the jutsu, he may make it. You are one of the nine that I request to be present and partake in the technique. That is, if you choose to acce-"
"I accept," Sasuke said, standing from his bed and pulling out clothing from his dresser.
Tsunade nodded.
"I'm counting on you to be there Uchiha."
Sai slowly peeled open one eye as his inner alarm clock went off.
He looked down at the source of the warmth radiating throughout his body, and he smiled at the golden beauty nuzzling against his chest in his sleep.
Sai snuggled closer to Naruto, leaning his head down and kissing the blonde's neck softly.
Naruto purred and smiled as he snoozed, and Sai wrapped his arms around his lover's lithe form.
"Naruto," he whispered, continuing to kiss his tanned skin. "Naru love, it's time to get up."
Naruto's peaceful expression scrunched up, an he buried his head in the crook of Sai's neck.
Sai sighed and held Naruto close to him, embracing his warmth.
He just wanted to stay like that forever, his love wrapped in his arms and their world utterly tranquil. All that was there was the two of them, and nothing else mattered.
But life wasn't so kind.
"Come on Naruto," Sai tried again, shaking the blonde.
"Mmmf," Naruto groaned.
"C'mon Naruto, it's 5am."
Naruto bopped Sai with his pillow.
Please….sasunaru fans….—sniff—……PLEAZ DUN KILL ME!!! TT.TT Just cause Sai took Naru doesn't mean they'll end up together! And it was only fifty percent depended on the poll! The other fifty is my choice! Sasunaru is my fav couple…but I was writing the chappie….and it had to be done! –begins to write will—
Sky-eyed Kitsune
Translated by Gomi-kun