Chapter Six

"The Uchiha Way"

As ebony orbs flickered between the offered hand and those azure blues, his gaze shifted back to his hand. Naruto smirked shaking his head when his mate slapped his hand away but headed in the direction of his den. The den was located at the base of a giant tree. In response, Naruto gestured for him to continue through the small circular door. When Sasuke entered the den, he noticed the size was similar to a small studio apartment, with just enough room to walk around comfortably without crouching. Naruto, however, was a different story.

Despite the fact that he was underground, Sasuke could feel the warmth. He watched as Naruto used his feral chakra to light a lantern atop a small handmade dresser.

Since he was exiled and had no real place to call his own, he had devoted his soul and heart to his den, and there were so many things he collected neatly arranged throughout his home that piqued Sasuke's curiosity, from old toys to colorful rocks and feathers to a comfortable looking forest green cot against a root-cloaked wall.

"You can have a seat on my bed if you like."

He was hesitant at first but did just that surprisingly, the cot was quite firm but very comfortable.

He watched as the blonde walked over to a water bucket on the ground crouching, he cupped his hands and splashed his face and hair with the water rubbing the dirt off. "This is close to a bath that I can get." Spending so much time in that cage with no shower was worse than the beating. Taking off his robes, he stripped down to his slacks and pulled them low enough to clean that area without scaring his guest, using a tattered cloth draped on the bucket side to wipe the stench of prison off his body.

"I have to apologies I left in such a hurry you had no time to grab any of your things." He eyed his mate's pen-striped cotton pajamas. The raven's body jolted as if realizing that he was indeed in only pajamas and barefoot.

"You can wear my clothing if you like this is as much yours as it is mine." Sasuke respectively declined to watch stiffly from the clot as the blonde began to remove his layers of clothing stripping down to just his black slacks. He watched the whole thing unfold. The demon's bandages were off.

As he watched the water cascade down those lean muscles, he noticed that there was still a lot of definition there. His physique had not changed even after being locked up for those weeks. He was still in peak condition. It wasn't until much later that he realized he had been staring for much longer than he should have. TAP TAP TAP his head shot up at the feeling of three drops of water hitting his left cheek. The drops were coming from the blonde who hovered over him almost possessively.

"You like what you see?" Abruptly, he leaned in placing his palms flat against the wall behind Sasuke. His face was partially covered by those damp blonde strands. Timidly, he bumped his nose with his mate. As Sasuke scanned the blonde he saw a wild man with wild hair, shirtless and wet.

As Naruto tilted his head to one side, wanting nothing more than to kiss him. He pressed a knee between his mate's thighs their breaths mingling as he kept coming closer desiring his warmth, every now and then their lips would brush as the dance began his mate kept moving back until he wound up on his back with the demon hovered over him Naruto witness ebony brows furrowing in confusion. He was normally never this distracted.

The blonde removed his hand from the wall to caress that translucent cheek, however, the raven had turned away from his touch. All Sasuke could hear was his own heartbeat pulsing in her ears he was sure his face was on fire as he could feel the heat crawling beneath the surface causing the bite mark on his neck to burn. Sasuke wasn't even sure if he even liked the men or women actually no one had piqued his interest, and even then he wouldn't be able to he was bound by his clan's ways. Why was it getting hard to breathe?

He'd begrudgingly agree that he had to have been somewhat attractive because people let him get away with a lot of things that someone less fortunate in the looks department would never receive the same leniency or kindness. He could be cold, distant, and rude at times. He was no walk in the park there had to be more substance than looks that would fade over time. How could Naruto be so sure he even liked him? As of now for the first time, he felt self-conscious being pinned underneath that intense gaze. It was frustrating not having control over his own anatomy.

"I can't." He placed both palms flat on the blonde's pectorals pushing at him though his arms felt floppy like jello. He was an Uchiha, and their faith practice celibacy until an Uchiha received approval from his clan elders to even start a family, and well, all his elders were dead his people were massacred so things were complicated, to say the least.

"That's not what your body says." Those keen senses picked up on the goosebumps form underneath his touch and his bated breath. Naruto was going to test the waters to see just how far he was allowed to go.

So he slid a hand up the fair-skinned raven's outer thighs causing static electricity beneath nimble tan fingers sliding underneath his pajama shirt feeling the ripple of his ribs. His voice was more an animalistic growl as his canines became more pronounced, "Just say the word and I will penetrate you so deep that you'll feel me in your bones. I'll bring you to completion so fast that the mere mention of my name will be like ecstasy upon your lips." How could he respond to that?

"I want to taste you Sasuke." The demon whispered; all Sasuke could see were those blue pools glowing in the dim room his face hovered tantalizingly close, but as soon as Naruto saw that hooded dark face back at him he knew. Naruto lowered his head the corner of his mouth tugging upwards creating two dimples.

He knew he had a seductive allure about him that most humans found irresistible. The blonde wanted desperately to have a little fun, but even then, with his mate affected he still fought the allure but he knew the raven had caved. It wasn't right he wanted Sasuke to come to him willingly.

"We are leaving at dawn."

"Huh." Sasuke seemed to snap out of his daze. Gradually a murderous red blush spread across the bridge of his nose as he realized what had happened to him and in doing so, he lifted his barefoot focusing all his chakra into his foot and kicking the blonde square in the jaw.

If Naruto was fully human that kick might have knocked him unconscious or killed him, he chuckled rubbing his chin. "Guess I deserved that, but can you blame me?" Without warning he jumped up he needed the distance or else he was gonna take what he wanted because seeing his mate laying on his bed all disheveled just like a virgin sacrifice became too much, so he hightailed it out there as if his home was on fire.

"I'll be back! We're leaving at dawn, so make yourself comfy!"

He lay there staring up at the ceiling his heart still beating out of control and his body was on fire. There was no way he could still be under the allure, right? He inhaled and balled his hands into fists until his knuckles were white he exhale and started to repeat all the weapons he had been trained at to help him relax.

Just then he heard rustling outside, Well, that was fast he thought but who enter was the last person he expected.

"Tsunade?" He sat up as she came barging in with a large sack draped over her shoulder.

"How?" There was no way she would have made it even if she left at the same time, they took to the sky which cut the journey in half.

"Your boyfriend summoned me a ride here. Now get up and get dressed." She tossed the sack at him.

"I'm going to kill him!" he roared, still mad at the blonde, but now that she was here something was bothering him. "Was it you?"

The moment the two of them locked eyes, her head snapped up. She note that he didn't deny the boyfriend part.

"Was it you who set him free?"

"Yes, I owed him one. After all, our Hokage has so many skeletons stuffed in his closet that he is trying to hide from the rest of us, especially you. He has so many bloodstains on his hands. He is the true monster here."

"Where are we going?"

"To the Land of Demons, I heard there's a young priestess that might be able to help us but first I want to visit Sunagakure."

Once Naruto was at a distance where he couldn't smell his mate. He leaned against a tree his hand hovering over his pants. Before being stopped, he was about to release all that pent-up tension. He was like a fiend! He was nowhere near this crazed before this he had no time to be he would train himself until he was exhausted with his god dad. He'd been fighting for his life ever since the day he was born. He plopped on the forest floor.

"What am I going to do?" Naruto had fought the likes of ANBU, Jonin, and even other demons but Uchiha Sasuke was an entirely different story. He expressed his concerns to a nearby skull.

"Maybe I went too far." He sighed and rested his chin in his hand before staring at the skull expecting an answer.

"Oi, you're right skull-chan! I should just tell him that I'm afraid." Not scared of him, but afraid that having such devotion would surely lead to Naruto's downfall if he is truly a deviant person.

In that cell, he contemplated all his reservations. Was this feeling he felt real? Or all pure instincts and he's not entirely human, so would he find a new mate when Sasuke grew old and died? That thought saddened him. He had so many questions that no one but his father's side of the family could answer.

Did his father struggle with similar thoughts when he fell in love with his mom? Was she his mate or a human he found fascinating at the time?

He sat there as the sun broke through the horizon having a full-blown convo with a skull that was until sandal-clad feet came into view stepping between him and skull-chan, innocently he peered up at the owner of those sandals he saw Sasuke peer down his nose at him one hand on his hip.

"Who are you talking to?"

"Myself, I tend to do that sometimes, I been in isolation for so long it's kinda hard not to." He shrugged it off.

"Tsunade sent me to come to fetch you." The anger vanished as Sasuke realized living in the forest alone with only his enemies to keep him company seemed like a lonely existence. So, exhaling through his nose Sasuke shoved his hand in front of the blonde's face, cocking his head to the side as Naruto smiled up at him. He was helped to his feet not that he needed any help but he appreciated the small gesture.

A/N: Happy Holidays my lovelies