Naruto Fan Fiction ❯ Bound ❯ Cahpter 4 ( Chapter 4 )

Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto nor do I make any money from this fanfic.
Rating: NC-17
Pairings: Naruto/Sasuke
Parts: 4 of ?

Bound

“Oi, Sasuke.”

 

“Saaasuukeee wake up.”

 

Blinking his eyes opened Sasuke sat straight up, shoving Hozuki forcefully away from him in the process. Sasuke held back a groan as he heard his back creak in protest from sleeping on the forest floor. “Where is he!?” Sasuke demanded when he did not see Naruto anywhere around.

 

“Ouch! Your welcome Sasuke. Damn…wake a brother up and this is the thanks I get.”

 

Sasuke ignored Hozuki's irritating grumbling and demanded again to know where Naruto was.

 

“Look boss man, the only thing that is here is him.”

 

Looking to where Hozuki was pointing behind him Sasuke frowned when he saw the Kyuubi with its nine tails curled around its body glaring at him.

 

“That demon hates you something fierce dude. I swear I thought it was going to rip your throat out so many times.”

 

Sasuke stood gritting his teeth at the aches and pains. “I could care less about how it feels about me. I only care about finding Naruto.” Sauske scowled down at the Kyuubi when the demon started growling at him.

 

“Funny. You would think that with the amount of “dislike” rolling off that furry body he wouldn't have stuck around and made sure you stayed safe.”

 

“What makes you say that?”

 

“Ahh cuz of all the dead predators around you?”

 

Talking a look around him Sasuke was surprised when he saw three dead wolves and even a bear not that far from where he had been sleeping. Glancing back at the demon fox Sasuke lifted a brow. “Where is Naruto?” Sasuke asked it and once again the Kyuubi growled menacingly at him. Spying the orange shirt that the blonde must to have put under his head after he somehow knocked him out cold Sasuke reached down to pick it up only to snatch his fingers to his chest when the fox rushed him, grabbing the shirt into its sharp teeth, taking it away from him.

 

“Wow, he reaaalllyyy doesn't like you at all. He snagged your pillow.”

 

Sasuke glared at the fox as it turned its back to him, curling eight of its tails and leaving one tail to stand straight up.

 

“Hahaha! Look, look! He's giving you the finger!”

 

“Shut up.” Sasuke kicked Hozuki in the leg to stop his idiotic hackling. “What time is it?”

 

“About six thirtyish give or take an “ish”.”

 

“And you only found me now!?”

 

“Nah. I found you around sevenish last night but no matter how hard I tried I couldn't wake you up not to mention that every time I touched you that damn demon tried to rip my guts out. Even with my ability to liquefy wouldn't matter to something that powerful. So trying to wake you really wasn't overly high on my list.”

 

Sasuke raked his fingers through his hair. “You really didn't see a blonde kid running around out here?”

 

“Nope. Just the Kyuubi but I did find this.”

 

Sasuke snatched the braid of blonde hair from Hozuki's hand.

 

“Found that along the wall last night. One of the reasons why I came to the gardens to look for you.”

 

Sasuke rubbed the silky stands with his thumb and forefinger. The fire in the blonde's eyes and body had been electrifying. Turned him on a hundred times more then when he had thought he had thought the boy had been a helpless pretty face lost and abused by his mother.

 

“Oi Sasuke…don't be pissed man but…”

 

“But what?” Sasuke demanded coldly.

 

“But do you think it's wise getting involved with this guy? Not that I'm saying it's wrong or nasty, not in the world we live in, but you're engaged and then there's also Karin…”

 

“My engagement,” Sasuke spat distastefully. “Is nothing but a tool for my father to get closer to the girl's parents. I have absolutely no intensions of marrying her and I have also made it clear to my father that I will never agree to an arranged marriage. Ever.”

 

“Well that takes care of the unloved bride-to-be. What about Karin?”

 

“What about her?” Sasuke said tucking the blonde hair in his pocket.

 

“Your stalker girlfriend? The chick that shaved the head of our sexy, big booby, classmate when all she did was talk to you.”

 

Sasuke looked at Hozuki with a blank, uncaring look. “She's not my girlfriend.” Sasuke said as he started walking away, back to the direction of the mansion.

 

“Say that to her! She's been shouting out throughout the whole campus that you're her man.”

 

Sasuke ignored Hozuki and walked on. “Where is Juugo?”

 

“I don't know. Maybe hugging some tree around here? Last I saw was him petting some dear in the clearing. That boy got some Snowwhite skills when it comes to furry critters.”

 

“Humm…”

 

“But seriously Sasuke…this kid you've had me and Juugo searching for…It's not good to keep normal humans around.”

 

Sasuke gave Hozuki a side ways look. “What makes you think he's normal?”

 

“I don't know…maybe because your mother hides him from everyone? It's not safe for them or us. If the kid is normal then having him find out about us is dangerous and for that matter, this is your mother's lover your hard up on and that's-“

 

“That's what?” Sasuke asked Hozuki softy, warningly.

 

“Ahh..nothing.”

 

Sasuke ignored Hozuki or tried to, again, not wanting to hear anything he said anymore. He already knew the dangers that Naruto could face, will face, since he had already reveled his Sharingan. Their world filled with magic was a closely guarded secret from the lower life forms of the human race. The Uchiha policed all the other clans, making sure they didn't over step themselves. They stepped in only if another clan thought to attack another or if someone thought to bring in a “normal”. Criminal activity? As long as you don't get caught it was fine. Murder? It's cool. As long as it wasn't one of their kind. They lived in a messed up world.

 

Finding a mate in the normal human world wasn't impossible; it was gaining approval to be with them. There was no such thing as running away from home or your parents disowning you, kicking you out of the house just to be with the one you loved. Only if the human had chakra in their bloodline and had a high possibility of passing it down to any offspring would they be considered worthy enough to enter their world and that in itself was hard.

 

A couple hundred years ago when the world started to change so did charka users. Mating with normal humans their people's power had hardened in them. From the free flow of blue charka that could be expelled from the body and used it became an aura of nothing. Another reason why mating with humans and creating children with them was taboo to have a child in a world of magic that could not practice his art was something they did not want.

 

“Err…Sasuke?”

 

“What is it now Hozuki?” Sasuke asked.

 

“Yeah…about that fiancé thing…”

 

Sasuke stopped and glared at Hozuki.

 

“Don't get pissed at me, man. Look your old man called last night and demanded your attendance at the only hotel in town. He's brought that chick here, with her parents.”

 

“What?!” Sasuke's hands crackled with energy.

 

“They don't plan to stay long! Your papa just thought that while they were passing though town that they'd pay you a visit…”

 

“Shit!” Enraged at his father's greed and his gall in believing that he could use him to obtain more money had Sasuke punching the fern next to him. His chidori cutting through the thick trunk and splinters of wood exploded around them as the tree exploded.

 

“Damn…Anyone ever tell you that you some times have a serious anger management problem?”

 

Panting Sasuke glared at Hozuki with his red Sharingan eyes until his friend backed away grinning. “What time do we need to be there?” Sasuke demanded.

 

“Ahhh…nineish?”

 

Sasuke `tsked' and stormed off. Knowing Hozuki and the way he paid attention to time he probably had enough time to shower and dressed to show up late to meet his father and that woman he wanted to force him to form a union with.

 

xXxXxXx

 

“Hinata!” Naruto shouted out when he saw his pale eyed friend. Running up to the girl Naruto stumbled to a stop and grinned. “Wha'ca do'n?”

 

“Oh! Naruto-kun…I-I'm on my way to the servants quarters to drop off the package my father sent me…S-should you be out in the open like this?”

 

Naruto grinned as he rocked on his heels, scratching the back of his head. “Hehe everyone that matters has gone to some meeting with Sasuke. Mikoto is sleeping and I saw you carrying that heavy box so I thought “why not” and came to see if you need help.”

 

“Y-you shouldn't be out i-in the open like this…What if…”

 

Naruto waved Hinata's concern away by taking the box from her arms. “I really just wanted to see you before I go.” Naruto said motioning to the shy girl to lead the way.

 

“Go?”

 

“Yup. Today's my last day at the mansion. Time served and all that.”

 

“Y-you're leaving?”

 

“Damn straight I am!” It took Naruto a minute to realize Hinata wasn't walking next to him. “Hinata?” Looking behind him Naruto's smile dimmed when he saw the girls sadden face. “What's wrong?”

 

“Nothing…I'm happy that the Mistress is letting you go. You've been kept here for a long time...It's just that I'm going to miss you Naruto-kun…”

 

Naruto walked up to Hinata and dumped his hip to hers. “It's not like we'll never see each other again Hinata-chan….I might not come back here to visit you but your service to the Uchiha clan is coming to an end isn't it?”

 

“…Hai.”

 

“I'll come and visit you on your homeland okay?” Naruto said gently “We can drink tea in some café there, ne?” Naruto squatted down so he could look Hinata, who hid her face with her hair, in the face as he said it. “Ne?”

 

“…Hai.” Hinata said smiling happily even though her lips trembled.

 

“Then there's nothing to be sad about.” Naruto said grinning as he stood. “Let's get going before everyone comes back.”

 

`Going to the child's homeland is not possible kit. The child's clan lives in Konoha where Sasuke's main residence is and the population of Chakra users out numbers that of normal humans there. If we were to go you could end up in the same situation as you are in now.'

 

`But she's my friend…the only friend I've ever had. Surely we can make an exception once just for her? Come on. Please?'

 

`…'

 

`She won't be done here for a few more months. That's more then enough time to check the place out before showing my face. Just once. I'll listen to everything you say.'

 

`Fine. But the moment I say we would have to leave I don't want to hear your complaints.'

 

`Deal!'

 

`You have to listen to everything I say Kit.'

 

`Hai, hai!”

 

`….'

 

`I promise you old fox. I'll listen to everything you say, I swear. I never want something like what Mikoto's done to me to ever happen again.'

 

Naruto grinned down at Hinata when the Kyuubi was silent, signaling he truly won. The old fox never went back on his word once he gave it. “Until Sasuke and his goons come back wanna do something fun?”

 

“I-I can't Naruto-kun…Because it's Sunday all the servants but the few attending the Mistress are gone a-and it's just me…its m-my turn to clean the bath house.”

 

Naruto giggled mischievously. “I think I can help you there Hinata.”

 

`Kit…No.'

 

`You're a damn wet blanket you know that? You heard her. There's no one here so what harm can it be? I wanna play!' Naruto's grin got wider when he felt the old fox back down. Being always in hiding, the fact that everyone was gone really was the only time that he could come out.

 

“Help me Naruto-kun?”

 

“Yup! I can just transform into the Kyuubi and chase out everyone that comes in. This way they'll think that it's my fault that you couldn't go in and clean it. That way we can go out now and have fun, right?” Naruto laughed at Hinata's shocked expression.

 

“Y-you can't do that.”

 

“Sure I can! We can go to the lake and fish Hinata-chan! Before Mikoto fell asleep she told me to be at her chambers at sundown so we have the whole day to play.” Naruto wanted to jump up and down in excitement. Sure he knew that coming out in the open was dangerous but from the finality in the old woman's voice when she said she was breaking the spell tonight had left him so happy that he couldn't keep it to himself. He had to share it with someone and Hinata being the only one that knew what he truly was and what his situation was, he wanted to share it with her.

 

“B-but if we're fishing how will you chase them out..?”

 

“Bah, don't worry about the details so much Hinata and let's go!” Naruto said grabbing Hinata by the arm and pulling her to the servants' quarters to drop off the girl's package.

 

Naruto and Hinata never noticed the young man leaning against a tree across from them. Sparrows sang sweetly to him on his shoulders and in his orange hair as he watched the pair laughingly make their way down the servants' path.

 

“Transform into the Kyuubi?....Sasuke's, Naruto-kun..?” Juugo whispered.

 

xXxXxXx

 

Sasuke mood was bordering homicidal by the time he returned to his mother's mansion. Loosening his tie Sasuke snapped orders to the staff to prepare his bath. He had barely made it back before sunset to attend to his mother's request of breaking the bonds she had over the Nine Tail because that damn girl had been stuck on him like a blood sucking leach and wouldn't leave him alone. It didn't matter how much he ignored her or treated her rudely she just couldn't get it in her big forehead, pink haired head of hers that he didn't want her. That he wasn't going to marry her.

 

Sitting in the large tub; Sasuke closed his eyes and leaned his head back, relaxing for the first time since he woke up this morning. Letting the hot water ease the tension and aches from the trying day…or at least he tried to as a knock sounded on the bathroom door after he had only been in the water for five minutes.

 

“Young master? You mother requests your presents in her chambers. She says “The time to start begins now”.”

 

Sasuke opened his eyes and glared at the bathroom door. A knock sounded on the door again.

 

“Young master?”

 

“Tell my mother that I'll meet her in twenty minutes.” Sasuke growled.

 

“But she-“

 

“Twenty minutes!” Sasuke yelled.

 

“Ye-yes.”

 

But even as the servant departed Sasuke couldn't get that feeling of relaxation back. Cursing angrily Sasuke washed up quickly and stood, wrapping a towel around his lean waist and wetly stormed out into his bedroom. Putting on only a pair of jeans Sasuke slammed his door as he went to seek out his mother.

 

Sasuke knew his was being childish by yelling at the servants, slamming his door, stomping his feet and dressing inappropriately to see his Mikoto but he was tired of the demands he had to put up with from his selfish, self centered parents.

 

Opening his mother's bedroom door, announcing his presents by slamming her door, Sasuke coughed and waved his hand in front of his face when he was greeted by a wave of cigarette smoke.

 

“You ever think that it's because of your smoking so much that that could be the reason why your sickness is progressing?” Sasuke asked as he journeyed farther into the room.

 

“Death is death. I can't be cured so why bother quitting the one thing I love to do?”

 

Sasuke squinted his black eyes; the room was dark with only a few candles to light his way. Following the sound of his mother's voice Sasuke found her kneeling at the side of her bed as were the sounds of muffled hisses and growls from the muzzled demon that was chained in the center of the king sized bed. Feathers floated and littered the bed and floor as the Kyuubi clawed the pillow and comforter. Sasuke's mother cooed a soft melody to try and calm the Nine Tail down.

 

Expecting some type of comment for the way he was dressed or undressed since Sasuke only wore a pair of jeans and more scandalously, from the reactions of the servants, Sauske hadn't bothered to even button the fastening of his jeans.

 

But his mother didn't even look in his direction. “Typical.” Sasuke muttered. Thinking that he should have known better then to think his mother would take and interest in him or his attire or him at all. The only thing Mikoto was interested in was his power and what he could do for her and as if to prove his point Sasuke's mother paused in her singing to order him to take his place at the foot of the bed and being strengthening the containment seals that hung on the chains around the Kyuubi.

 

With a bored expression, ignoring the hatred that radiated off the demon, directed at him, Sasuke made quick work of the required hand symbols while his mother started chanting.

 

The concentration needed to keep the Nine Tail Fox locked down, after just a few minutes, began to put a strain on Sasuke as the demon suddenly began to thrash wildly. You would thin the damn demon would be happy to be set free, Sasuke thought at first until he realized that his mother wasn't casting a releasing spell as she had told him she was going to do which would break the living bonds around the Kyuubi. No…the eerie rhymes that flowed too naturally from his mother's lips were a death spell, a soul stealing spell.

 

“What are you doing?” Sasuke demanded to is crazed mother. “You can't take the Kyuubi's soul to heal your body! He's too powerful for you to kill!”

 

“Silence child and do as you're told! Keep him contained!”

 

Sasuke's arms trembled at the force that was slammed up against him. Gritting his teeth Sasuke glared into the flaming red eyes of the Nine Tail as it fought against the hold on the chains and seals.

 

“He's mine! He's coming with me!”

 

Scowling at his mother's psycho babble, Sasuke did as he was told but only because if he let the Kyuubi go, the back gust of the demon's power directed at his mother would kill her instantly especially in the condition she was in now. Sasuke flinched as his mother paused in her chanting to laugh darkly as the Kyuubi let out a mournful cry.

 

“I almost have him. Keep holding it and its powers at bay!”

 

Just as Sasuke was about to dig deep within himself for more power to use to keep the demon fox from escaping, Sasuke heard the Kyuubi speak, not out loud and not to his mother or to him…

 

`Kit hold on!'

 

Sasuke frowned in confusion, listening intently wondering who the fox was talking to.

 

`Hurts…Can't hold onto your form…getting weaker…turning back…'

 

Sasuke's eyes widened. “I know that voice…” Sasuke whispered.

 

`Stay awake,Kit! Take my strength! She doesn't have enough power to keep the spell going. You just need to hold on!'

 

`…Stupid old fox…I have been using your strength…she's separating us…your too far away…so tired…I can't help it…I'm turning back into me…so tired…'

 

Sasuke watched as the fox screamed in fury and lunged at his mother before falling down on the destroyed bed. Then in horrified amazement as the demon's hind legs began to straighten, lengthening. Red fur receding to become smooth sun kissed skin and ears melting away for, shimmering, golden blonde hair to tumble down to touch bare shoulders.

 

Naruto cried out weakly and within him the Kyuubi howled in rage. Naruto felt his dear friend being locked away deep inside of himself by unseen assailants. Naruto heard a cage slamming shut, the echo of a bolt locking into place.

 

Naruto could feel the old fox building its power to try and break free, trying to reach him, help him…something that could kill the demon if he succeeded in breaking the personal bond they had. A bond forged, cemented, since his birth.

 

`Don't old fox…take my shell when I'm gone and keep it as your own…Sucks that my time was cut short…' Naruto whispered as the pull to his soul grew stronger. Naruto's will to fight was strong but it was a fight that he was steadily losing.

 

“Naruto.” Sasuke rasped at the naked boy in disbelief. Not sure how the hell the boy he'd been obsessing about could be the Nine Tail but knowing that his mother was killing him. Sasuke quickly made his decision and with no hesitation formed his hands to make new symbols while chanting loudly, making his mother scream in rage.

 

Glaring at Mikoto, Sasuke reversed the spell back onto his mother but held back the final strike. Power crackled in the room and another shrill scream pierced the air. Sasuke mentally held the spell by the tail, the last nail that would permanently put his mother in the ground.

 

Sasuke lowered his hands and watched in distaste as his mother, with the last of her strength, on shaking limbs, climbed onto the bed with his Naruto only to dive in between them when his mother revealed a knife and tried to stab Naruto.

 

Flinging his mother off the bed, feeling no remorse for the person that gave birth to him, Sasuke easily broke the spell on the chains trapping the blonde, grimacing at the broken and bleeding wrists and ankles of the blondes, from the restraints.

 

“…Mine…he's mine…”

 

Sasuke gathered the slim form that moaned weakly in pain and stood. Sasuke looked down into tired eyes that flashed from blue to red, the irises elongating then circling in almost a strange dance in the way they changed. Sasuke could also hear, just barely, the hiss of the Kyuubi, a hiss that as the seconds passed grew fainter and fainter within Naruto.

 

“Mine…mine…”

 

Sasuke looked down at his mother who was deliriously mumbling on the floor. Pity, sympathy…guilt? Sasuke knew that he should feel one of those emotions towards Makoto but he didn't. Sadly he knew more about the boy in his arms then he did his own mother. Choosing to save Naruto and killing Makoto by turning her spell against her didn't bother him as it should have.

 

With one last glance at his mother Sasuke let go of the deadly tail of the death spell he held back from devouring his mother's fragile soul.

 

Pale nearly translucent skin stretched across high cheek bones as Sasuke watched impassionedly as his mother's mouth opened wide in a silent scream. Blood red Sharingan eyes watched coldly while Mikoto clawed at her throat that could no longer take in air until she slumped to the floor never to move again.

 

At his mother's last shuttering breath Sasuke dropped to his knees, almost losing his grip on the blonde. Invisible cables seared past his defenses, hooking into him. Panting in pain at the forced connection, Sasuke tried to break the unknown bond with no success. Unable to sever the almost living strings, the way they dodged his attacks, Sasuke instead followed the lines down thinking that maybe he could cut them from where it ended. Blinking his eyes Sasuke quickly backed off once he saw that those shining cables lead back to the unconscious blonde, Naruto, in his arms.

 

Sasuke got shakily back up on his feet and slowly smiled. “You really are mine now…”

 

TBC…