Naruto Fan Fiction ❯ Broken Reflections ❯ Hidden Clues ( Chapter 4 )
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By: siberianknight 
Anime/Manga: Naruto Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Romance / Mystery | Type: Yaoi | Uploaded On: 02.22.2006 | Pages: 2 | Words: 3.8K | Visits: 1.4K | Status: Completed
Anime/Manga: Naruto Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Romance / Mystery | Type: Yaoi | Uploaded On: 02.22.2006 | Pages: 2 | Words: 3.8K | Visits: 1.4K | Status: Completed
Author's Notes: Finally after being sick, I finished this chapter. Hopefully the weather will improve and my allergies/sinusitis won't bother me so much. Fresh air helps me to not get as many sinus infections ...
So this is the fourth chapter of B.R. I hope everyone is still enjoying it. Things are starting to get a little more complicated now in this chapter. ^_^
Warnings: Sexuality, Language
Chapter Status: COMPLETE
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Naruto curled himself closer to the radiant warmth near him. He couldn’t remember a single time in his life when he had felt so comfortable or safe. He let out a soft sigh and wrapped his arm around the source of the heat. As he snuggled deeper against the other body, he felt a tender brush of lips against his forehead. “Sasuke ...” He mumbled softly and contentedly.
Sasuke grinned at Naruto’s sleeping face, he had crawled into bed with him at some point during the night and had immediately began to cuddle. Sasuke ran his fingers through the messy blond locks and lowered his mouth onto Naruto’s. At first Naruto felt a bolt of fiery warmth rush through his still sleeping body, but then his brain began to force him to awaken. Without warning, Sasuke was shoved away and Naruto was standing, wiping his mouth to rid himself of the remnants of the kiss. “What the hell!? Sasuke, what was that!?”
Sasuke sighed as he realized that Naruto was now fully awake. “You were snuggling, it felt right ... sorry.” He rolled over and made a show of angrily pulling the blankets back up over his shoulders. Naruto stared at the back of his friend’s head. He then realized that he had been in bed with him, and had no recollection as to how he had ended up back in Sasuke’s room.
“Sasuke,” Naruto began quietly. After he heard Sasuke grunt, he continued. “Um, why was I in here?”
“I don’t know ... I woke up about an hour ago and you were practically crowding me out of the bed. But then the other you normally did that too.”
Naruto looked at the bed and the memory of seeking a familiar warmth creeped into his mind. Why would he have done something like that? It wasn’t as if he had never slept alone. In fact he had never shared a bed with anyone ... other than Jiraiya while they were trying to find Tsunade. He turned to leave the room, but then stopped as he realized how lonely the thoughts of returning to the cold futon were. “Say, Sasuke ...”
“What now?” He was starting to sound a little angry, but that didn’t stop him from continuing.
“Can I stay in here -- I mean ... since I was in here already, and the bed is more comfortable than the futon.” Naruto ended his stuttery sentence with an equally nervous sounding laugh. Sasuke rolled over and stared at him. It was still early morning and there was only the soft light from the sinking moon filtering in through the windows. He felt the tingle in his groin and tried to force it away by looking up at the ceiling. This was not his Naruto, he couldn’t do that to this man. He rolled over and put a pillow at his back.
“Get in.” Naruto crawled into bed and grabbed onto one of the two pillows behind his head. He wasn’t going to cuddle again, he promised himself that he wouldn’t. It was just too odd waking up that close to Sasuke. After wiggling for a good ten minutes, Naruto finally fell asleep, and Sasuke wasn’t very far behind.
Naruto groaned softly as a warm hand began to run up and down his thigh. He could feel himself getting aroused, but thought very little of what exactly was happening. The touching felt too good and it felt right. A hot mouth pressed down onto his and he responded by pushing and rubbing against the tongue which was trying to invade his own mouth. The hand which had been stroking his thigh, pushed down the pajama bottoms and eagerly wrapped itself tightly around him. Naruto let out a loud moan as the hand began to work against his sensitive skin. He reached out and wrapped his arms around the shoulders of the one who was brining him so much pleasure and pulled him closer.
Naruto held onto that body as he quivered with release. He could hear his name being whispered in his ear, but failed to understand what else the voice was saying. He smiled as his body, now feeling very heavy, slowly gave back into sleep. “Figures, you’d fall asleep again ... I’m sorry, Naruto. I guess I shouldn’t have allowed myself to give into temptation ... hopefully you won’t remember this tomorrow.” Sasuke ran his fingers through the thick blonde locks and placed a soft kiss upon Naruto’s head. “Sleep well ...”
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Naruto stretched as his eyes fluttered open. The room was still dark, but that was because Sasuke hadn’t raised the shades on the windows yet. Naruto glanced at the clock and noted that Sasuke had allowed him to sleep as long as he had needed. He rolled out of bed and realized with some surprise that he was actually more comfortable today than he had been the previous day. Things didn’t seem quite so strange and he had confidence that he would make it back home.
Naruto showered and then ate some breakfast, then with a bit of disappointment realized he was still stuck in the apartment. “Great ... I get to be bored out of my mind until Sasuke gets back. Yay.” He slumped down onto the futon and clicked on the television. There he sat until Sasuke returned later that afternoon.
When Sasuke returned, he found Naruto yelling at the television. He had found a soccer game and was apparently completely engrossed in it. Sasuke just stood there, watching Naruto enjoy the game, and he felt somehow that he had his Naruto back. “Who’s winning?”
“Um ... the team in blue -- I’ve forgotten their name.” Sasuke sat next to Naruto and began watching the game as well. “Um, Sasuke ... I was wondering, could you leave me a key so I could go out while you’re at school? It gets really boring here alone.”
“Oh, uh ... sure thing. Sorry about that. I guess I didn’t think that you’d get bored sitting around here all day.” In fact, he hadn’t thought about that at all. He was so concerned about the fact that this Naruto wasn’t the right one, that he had completely forgotten about his attention span. Even if they weren’t the same Narutos, they still behaved the same way. “I’ll leave you one tomorrow. Right now, if you’d like, can we go out together?”
“Out? For food!? Ramen!?” Naruto’s grin was wide and eager and caused Sasuke to chuckle softly.
“Yeah, if that’s what you want. We can go to that little soba restaurant you like so much.”
“Woohoo!” Naruto jumped up excitedly and ran to the door. “Well, are we going?” Sasuke laughed as he picked up his keys and followed Naruto out of the apartment.
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His eyes felt as if they had been glued to the tops of his cheeks. No matter how hard he tried, they refused to open. He wasn’t certain where he was, but he could hear thunder rolling in the distance. Rolling onto his side, he winced as he sat up, still unable to see anything. “He-hello? Is anyone there?” His deep voice bounced back softly to his ears.
Not wanting to stay put on the cold ground, he pushed himself up onto his feet and wobbled slightly. He gingerly took a step forward and tripped over what appeared to be a very large tree root. “Where am I?” A soft feminine giggle answered his rhetorical question. His head snapped up and despite the fact he couldn’t see, he still turned his head trying to figure out the origin of the noise.
“You’re here while he’s there.” The voice wasn’t familiar, but he was completely uncertain as to what she was talking about.
“I don’t understand?”
“You will ... when they find you. I decided that it would be better this way, since you need to realize your folly.”
“My what?” He was growing impatient, but that was a normal occurrence for him. He tried to lash out in the direction of the voice, his arms flailing wildly, but hitting nothing. “Goddammit! Where are you!?”
The voice giggled once again. “You’ll be sad to know that he’s already touched him ... in a way that you’ve only dreamed of ... yet he doesn’t know. It’s going to be interesting when he finds out what happened.” He heard a soft rustling beside him, and lunged in the direction of the noise. However, all he got for his effort was an armful of what felt like bramble. “Teehee ... you should just give up. Naruto’s in a different place with someone who’s already proclaimed his love for him. You’re alone now ... Sasuke-kun. The way you were always meant to be. A-l-o-n-e.”
Sasuke’s heart began to pound within his chest. Where was Naruto? He knew that he had gone in the opposite direction when the group had split, but Sasuke had heard nothing from any of the others for a while now. At least he had heard nothing since he had been knocked out. “What have you done with Naruto?!”
“I told you ... he’s there and you’re here. It’s no big deal really for us to do something like that. After all we’ve been making many a lonely person happy by transplanting them somewhere that they fit in better. I suppose that you were doomed to remain here in Konoha since this is where you still are.” Sasuke sat up and sighed. Whoever this voice was obviously delighted in playing games, and by the sound of her voice, she was apparently very young. He wasn’t certain as to how to approach the situation to get any more information out of her than he already had gained. Just as he was about to ask another question, she made a tsking noise and he heard another rustle nearby. “Someone’s coming ... I have to leave now ... enjoy figuring everything out! Later!”
“Sasuke!!!” It was Jiraiya. Sasuke turned in the direction of the distant voice and began to yell as loudly as he could to get the old man’s attention. After long minutes of yelling and listening, Sasuke finally heard Jiraiya’s footsteps approaching him. “Ah, there you are. A villager said they saw a young man by your description milling about near her home. I’ve been looking for a month for you.”
“A month!? I’ve been out for that long?”
Jiraiya stared at Sasuke’s closed eyes. They looked as if the lids had been seared onto his cheeks. “Sasuke, your eyes -- what happened?”
Sasuke slowly raised his fingers up to his eyes and carefully ran the tips along the lids. Panic rushed through him as he realized that the sensation of them being glued to his cheeks had not been just that, it had been reality. “I -- don’t know ... I can’t open them.”
“Odd. Come with me.” Jiraiya helped the young man up onto his back and then took to the treetops. He needed to get Sasuke back to Konoha as quickly as possible. They needed to hear his story.
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Sasuke watched as Naruto happily ate his dinner in the apartment kitchen. He had been debating whether or not to tell him about what had happened early that morning, or if he should just let it slide. He knew that he had taken advantage of him, but he still felt no remorse over his actions. Sasuke had been half asleep when he had started kissing Naruto, and had found it difficult to stop. At least he hadn’t tried to actually penetrate him. Of course there was no doubt in his mind that Naruto would have awakened instantly if he had tried that.
“Say, Naruto,” Sasuke began quietly as he sat down.
“Hmm?” Naruto’s mouth was full of Chinese noodles as he looked up at Sasuke, who smiled at him.
“How did you sleep last night?”
Naruto swallowed and thought carefully about the night before. He remembered leaving the futon and going into Sasuke’s bedroom, where he had fallen asleep. When he had awakened in the morning had had felt refreshed and energized. “Excellent. Why?”
Sasuke’s stomach knotted when he realized that Naruto didn’t remember anything. The fear of losing him was so great that he was beginning to feel nauseated. “Are you sure? Nothing happened while you were sleeping?”
“Sasuke, how would I remember something happening if I was asleep?” There was no understanding this guy in either world, Naruto decided. He made no sense no matter what universe you were in.
“Well ... that’s not what I meant. I mean, did you have a dream of some sort that was significant or something?”
Okay, Sasuke was acting very weird now. Naruto slowly set down his chopsticks and stared at the man who looked so much like his longtime friend. “Does this have something to do with me getting back home? Is this a riddle of some sort? I don’t understand you. I thought that the other you made little sense, but you’re just wacked.”
Sasuke sighed and gazed down at the table. He was going to have to tell him now, he had walked into it. Either he let Naruto think he was some lunatic or tell him he was. Somehow the latter seemed less severe now. “Naruto I took advantage of you while you were asleep.”
“Huh?”
“I kissed you ... and -- I ... well, I played with,” Naruto’s eyes widened as Sasuke’s voice trailed off into silence. He wasn’t sure how to react at first, but then fury filled every inch of his being. With an angry scream, his thick fist slammed into Sasuke’s nose. Tears were welling up in his eyes as the full brunt of this man’s betrayal settled into his mind. He had promised that he wouldn’t cross any lines, and he had broken that promise. He had molested him while he had been asleep! That was lower than anything his Sasuke would have thought to do.
“What the fuck is wrong with you!? You gave me your word! You told me that you realized that I wasn’t your Naruto! Why then?! Why?!” Naruto stood over Sasuke panting, his fists clinched so tightly that he drew blood from his palms.
“I’m sorry ... I was half asleep when I started to snuggle and kiss ... then I -- I couldn’t stop. You were responding and I guess I wasn’t thinking.” He felt like such an ass, but there was nothing he could say or do that would make up for what he had done. “You can sleep in the bedroom tonight. There’s a lock on the door, I can’t unlock it from the outside.”
“Fine. I’m going to bed now ...” Naruto strolled out of the kitchen and Sasuke heard the loud reverberation of the door being slammed behind him.
“I’m sorry ... Naruto.” Sasuke pulled his knee up to his chest and buried his head in the crook of his arm. Everything was falling apart ... something was wrong, there was this overwhelming sadness within him that had been there since the previous morning. However, he was at a loss as to why it had settled into his heart, and why it seemed to revolve around Naruto.
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“Tsunade-s ama! Tsunade-sama!” Shizune came to a screeching halt before the godaime’s desk. She panted and took in a few deep breaths before explaining herself. “He found him ...”
“Found who?” Tsunade sat up straight and set down the scroll which she had been studying, so that she could devote all of her attention to her friend.
“Sa-Sasuke. Jiraiya ... found him. They’re at the hospital right now.” Tsunade was already out the door by the time Shizune had finished her sentence. She quickly chased after her hokage.
The two arrived in record time at the hospital room in which Sasuke had been placed. “What happened?” Tsunade asked before she was even completely through the door.
“I’m not certain. He’s asleep now ... ever since we left the forest he’s been in excruciating pain because of his eyes.” Tsunade walked up to Sasuke’s bed and gazed down at the young ninja. She was stunned by what she saw. Jiraiya continued with his explanation as she studied Sasuke’s eyes. “They’re gone. Well ... not really gone. The eyeballs are still in the sockets, but from what the doctors can determine, there’s severe nerve damage. Even if his lids hadn’t been seared together ... he would never be able to see again.”
“His sharingan ... do you think it has something to do with that?” Tsunade glanced over at Jiraiya who was standing near the window and gazing outside.
“I’m not sure. There is that possibility, but we won’t know until he can remember more. Right now all he remembers is being knocked out. There’s a bit more, but it’s very odd.” Jiraiya glanced over at Tsunade to see how she took his information, her face was blank as usual. Despite the fact that she was a renowned loser, she had the straight face of a gambler down to an art form.
“Well, I don’t care how odd it is ... I want to know.”
Jiraiya chuckled humorlessly. “Demanding as usual, eh Tsunade?”
“Just tell me.” She growled as she slammed her hands down on the side of Sasuke’s bed. With a sheepish look, Tsunade moved her hands off of the bed and tried to act dignified despite her blunder. Jiraiya decided to hold his laughter inside, it was safer that way.
“Well, he told me that this young girl was there ... and she said that he,” Jiraiya indicated Sasuke with a lazy pointing of his finger, “is here, and he is there.”
“Huh? Jiraiya ... I know it’s not in your nature to be sane and serious, but could you do so right now? Please?”
“I’m just telling you what he told me!” Jiraiya crossed his arms against his large chest and turned his back to Tsunade. She always did this to him. Always. It wasn’t fair, why couldn’t she just realize that he was a jokester all the time except when people’s lives were at stake?
Tsunade sat down and sighed loudly to let Jiraiya know that she was trying to be more patient. “Okay, what are you talking about?”
“The other ‘he’ would be Naruto. Apparently he’s somewhere else, but she didn’t tell Sasuke where.” Sasuke groaned and both Tsunade and Jiraiya’s gazes moved onto him. He was mumbling in his sleep, and it sounded as if he was begging for Naruto.
“I guess we keep looking. Surely he’s still alive ... I hope. For all our sakes.” Jiraiya knew exactly what she was thinking of, the kyuubi. If somehow it managed to get ahold of Naruto’s body and become whole again ... there was no telling what destruction it could bring upon the world.
Naruto belongs to Kishimoto Masashi, TV-Tokyo, & Shounen Jump
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So this is the fourth chapter of B.R. I hope everyone is still enjoying it. Things are starting to get a little more complicated now in this chapter. ^_^
Warnings: Sexuality, Language
Chapter Status: COMPLETE
Naruto curled himself closer to the radiant warmth near him. He couldn’t remember a single time in his life when he had felt so comfortable or safe. He let out a soft sigh and wrapped his arm around the source of the heat. As he snuggled deeper against the other body, he felt a tender brush of lips against his forehead. “Sasuke ...” He mumbled softly and contentedly.
Sasuke grinned at Naruto’s sleeping face, he had crawled into bed with him at some point during the night and had immediately began to cuddle. Sasuke ran his fingers through the messy blond locks and lowered his mouth onto Naruto’s. At first Naruto felt a bolt of fiery warmth rush through his still sleeping body, but then his brain began to force him to awaken. Without warning, Sasuke was shoved away and Naruto was standing, wiping his mouth to rid himself of the remnants of the kiss. “What the hell!? Sasuke, what was that!?”
Sasuke sighed as he realized that Naruto was now fully awake. “You were snuggling, it felt right ... sorry.” He rolled over and made a show of angrily pulling the blankets back up over his shoulders. Naruto stared at the back of his friend’s head. He then realized that he had been in bed with him, and had no recollection as to how he had ended up back in Sasuke’s room.
“Sasuke,” Naruto began quietly. After he heard Sasuke grunt, he continued. “Um, why was I in here?”
“I don’t know ... I woke up about an hour ago and you were practically crowding me out of the bed. But then the other you normally did that too.”
Naruto looked at the bed and the memory of seeking a familiar warmth creeped into his mind. Why would he have done something like that? It wasn’t as if he had never slept alone. In fact he had never shared a bed with anyone ... other than Jiraiya while they were trying to find Tsunade. He turned to leave the room, but then stopped as he realized how lonely the thoughts of returning to the cold futon were. “Say, Sasuke ...”
“What now?” He was starting to sound a little angry, but that didn’t stop him from continuing.
“Can I stay in here -- I mean ... since I was in here already, and the bed is more comfortable than the futon.” Naruto ended his stuttery sentence with an equally nervous sounding laugh. Sasuke rolled over and stared at him. It was still early morning and there was only the soft light from the sinking moon filtering in through the windows. He felt the tingle in his groin and tried to force it away by looking up at the ceiling. This was not his Naruto, he couldn’t do that to this man. He rolled over and put a pillow at his back.
“Get in.” Naruto crawled into bed and grabbed onto one of the two pillows behind his head. He wasn’t going to cuddle again, he promised himself that he wouldn’t. It was just too odd waking up that close to Sasuke. After wiggling for a good ten minutes, Naruto finally fell asleep, and Sasuke wasn’t very far behind.
Naruto groaned softly as a warm hand began to run up and down his thigh. He could feel himself getting aroused, but thought very little of what exactly was happening. The touching felt too good and it felt right. A hot mouth pressed down onto his and he responded by pushing and rubbing against the tongue which was trying to invade his own mouth. The hand which had been stroking his thigh, pushed down the pajama bottoms and eagerly wrapped itself tightly around him. Naruto let out a loud moan as the hand began to work against his sensitive skin. He reached out and wrapped his arms around the shoulders of the one who was brining him so much pleasure and pulled him closer.
Naruto held onto that body as he quivered with release. He could hear his name being whispered in his ear, but failed to understand what else the voice was saying. He smiled as his body, now feeling very heavy, slowly gave back into sleep. “Figures, you’d fall asleep again ... I’m sorry, Naruto. I guess I shouldn’t have allowed myself to give into temptation ... hopefully you won’t remember this tomorrow.” Sasuke ran his fingers through the thick blonde locks and placed a soft kiss upon Naruto’s head. “Sleep well ...”
Naruto stretched as his eyes fluttered open. The room was still dark, but that was because Sasuke hadn’t raised the shades on the windows yet. Naruto glanced at the clock and noted that Sasuke had allowed him to sleep as long as he had needed. He rolled out of bed and realized with some surprise that he was actually more comfortable today than he had been the previous day. Things didn’t seem quite so strange and he had confidence that he would make it back home.
Naruto showered and then ate some breakfast, then with a bit of disappointment realized he was still stuck in the apartment. “Great ... I get to be bored out of my mind until Sasuke gets back. Yay.” He slumped down onto the futon and clicked on the television. There he sat until Sasuke returned later that afternoon.
When Sasuke returned, he found Naruto yelling at the television. He had found a soccer game and was apparently completely engrossed in it. Sasuke just stood there, watching Naruto enjoy the game, and he felt somehow that he had his Naruto back. “Who’s winning?”
“Um ... the team in blue -- I’ve forgotten their name.” Sasuke sat next to Naruto and began watching the game as well. “Um, Sasuke ... I was wondering, could you leave me a key so I could go out while you’re at school? It gets really boring here alone.”
“Oh, uh ... sure thing. Sorry about that. I guess I didn’t think that you’d get bored sitting around here all day.” In fact, he hadn’t thought about that at all. He was so concerned about the fact that this Naruto wasn’t the right one, that he had completely forgotten about his attention span. Even if they weren’t the same Narutos, they still behaved the same way. “I’ll leave you one tomorrow. Right now, if you’d like, can we go out together?”
“Out? For food!? Ramen!?” Naruto’s grin was wide and eager and caused Sasuke to chuckle softly.
“Yeah, if that’s what you want. We can go to that little soba restaurant you like so much.”
“Woohoo!” Naruto jumped up excitedly and ran to the door. “Well, are we going?” Sasuke laughed as he picked up his keys and followed Naruto out of the apartment.
His eyes felt as if they had been glued to the tops of his cheeks. No matter how hard he tried, they refused to open. He wasn’t certain where he was, but he could hear thunder rolling in the distance. Rolling onto his side, he winced as he sat up, still unable to see anything. “He-hello? Is anyone there?” His deep voice bounced back softly to his ears.
Not wanting to stay put on the cold ground, he pushed himself up onto his feet and wobbled slightly. He gingerly took a step forward and tripped over what appeared to be a very large tree root. “Where am I?” A soft feminine giggle answered his rhetorical question. His head snapped up and despite the fact he couldn’t see, he still turned his head trying to figure out the origin of the noise.
“You’re here while he’s there.” The voice wasn’t familiar, but he was completely uncertain as to what she was talking about.
“I don’t understand?”
“You will ... when they find you. I decided that it would be better this way, since you need to realize your folly.”
“My what?” He was growing impatient, but that was a normal occurrence for him. He tried to lash out in the direction of the voice, his arms flailing wildly, but hitting nothing. “Goddammit! Where are you!?”
The voice giggled once again. “You’ll be sad to know that he’s already touched him ... in a way that you’ve only dreamed of ... yet he doesn’t know. It’s going to be interesting when he finds out what happened.” He heard a soft rustling beside him, and lunged in the direction of the noise. However, all he got for his effort was an armful of what felt like bramble. “Teehee ... you should just give up. Naruto’s in a different place with someone who’s already proclaimed his love for him. You’re alone now ... Sasuke-kun. The way you were always meant to be. A-l-o-n-e.”
Sasuke’s heart began to pound within his chest. Where was Naruto? He knew that he had gone in the opposite direction when the group had split, but Sasuke had heard nothing from any of the others for a while now. At least he had heard nothing since he had been knocked out. “What have you done with Naruto?!”
“I told you ... he’s there and you’re here. It’s no big deal really for us to do something like that. After all we’ve been making many a lonely person happy by transplanting them somewhere that they fit in better. I suppose that you were doomed to remain here in Konoha since this is where you still are.” Sasuke sat up and sighed. Whoever this voice was obviously delighted in playing games, and by the sound of her voice, she was apparently very young. He wasn’t certain as to how to approach the situation to get any more information out of her than he already had gained. Just as he was about to ask another question, she made a tsking noise and he heard another rustle nearby. “Someone’s coming ... I have to leave now ... enjoy figuring everything out! Later!”
“Sasuke!!!” It was Jiraiya. Sasuke turned in the direction of the distant voice and began to yell as loudly as he could to get the old man’s attention. After long minutes of yelling and listening, Sasuke finally heard Jiraiya’s footsteps approaching him. “Ah, there you are. A villager said they saw a young man by your description milling about near her home. I’ve been looking for a month for you.”
“A month!? I’ve been out for that long?”
Jiraiya stared at Sasuke’s closed eyes. They looked as if the lids had been seared onto his cheeks. “Sasuke, your eyes -- what happened?”
Sasuke slowly raised his fingers up to his eyes and carefully ran the tips along the lids. Panic rushed through him as he realized that the sensation of them being glued to his cheeks had not been just that, it had been reality. “I -- don’t know ... I can’t open them.”
“Odd. Come with me.” Jiraiya helped the young man up onto his back and then took to the treetops. He needed to get Sasuke back to Konoha as quickly as possible. They needed to hear his story.
Sasuke watched as Naruto happily ate his dinner in the apartment kitchen. He had been debating whether or not to tell him about what had happened early that morning, or if he should just let it slide. He knew that he had taken advantage of him, but he still felt no remorse over his actions. Sasuke had been half asleep when he had started kissing Naruto, and had found it difficult to stop. At least he hadn’t tried to actually penetrate him. Of course there was no doubt in his mind that Naruto would have awakened instantly if he had tried that.
“Say, Naruto,” Sasuke began quietly as he sat down.
“Hmm?” Naruto’s mouth was full of Chinese noodles as he looked up at Sasuke, who smiled at him.
“How did you sleep last night?”
Naruto swallowed and thought carefully about the night before. He remembered leaving the futon and going into Sasuke’s bedroom, where he had fallen asleep. When he had awakened in the morning had had felt refreshed and energized. “Excellent. Why?”
Sasuke’s stomach knotted when he realized that Naruto didn’t remember anything. The fear of losing him was so great that he was beginning to feel nauseated. “Are you sure? Nothing happened while you were sleeping?”
“Sasuke, how would I remember something happening if I was asleep?” There was no understanding this guy in either world, Naruto decided. He made no sense no matter what universe you were in.
“Well ... that’s not what I meant. I mean, did you have a dream of some sort that was significant or something?”
Okay, Sasuke was acting very weird now. Naruto slowly set down his chopsticks and stared at the man who looked so much like his longtime friend. “Does this have something to do with me getting back home? Is this a riddle of some sort? I don’t understand you. I thought that the other you made little sense, but you’re just wacked.”
Sasuke sighed and gazed down at the table. He was going to have to tell him now, he had walked into it. Either he let Naruto think he was some lunatic or tell him he was. Somehow the latter seemed less severe now. “Naruto I took advantage of you while you were asleep.”
“Huh?”
“I kissed you ... and -- I ... well, I played with,” Naruto’s eyes widened as Sasuke’s voice trailed off into silence. He wasn’t sure how to react at first, but then fury filled every inch of his being. With an angry scream, his thick fist slammed into Sasuke’s nose. Tears were welling up in his eyes as the full brunt of this man’s betrayal settled into his mind. He had promised that he wouldn’t cross any lines, and he had broken that promise. He had molested him while he had been asleep! That was lower than anything his Sasuke would have thought to do.
“What the fuck is wrong with you!? You gave me your word! You told me that you realized that I wasn’t your Naruto! Why then?! Why?!” Naruto stood over Sasuke panting, his fists clinched so tightly that he drew blood from his palms.
“I’m sorry ... I was half asleep when I started to snuggle and kiss ... then I -- I couldn’t stop. You were responding and I guess I wasn’t thinking.” He felt like such an ass, but there was nothing he could say or do that would make up for what he had done. “You can sleep in the bedroom tonight. There’s a lock on the door, I can’t unlock it from the outside.”
“Fine. I’m going to bed now ...” Naruto strolled out of the kitchen and Sasuke heard the loud reverberation of the door being slammed behind him.
“I’m sorry ... Naruto.” Sasuke pulled his knee up to his chest and buried his head in the crook of his arm. Everything was falling apart ... something was wrong, there was this overwhelming sadness within him that had been there since the previous morning. However, he was at a loss as to why it had settled into his heart, and why it seemed to revolve around Naruto.
“Tsunade-s ama! Tsunade-sama!” Shizune came to a screeching halt before the godaime’s desk. She panted and took in a few deep breaths before explaining herself. “He found him ...”
“Found who?” Tsunade sat up straight and set down the scroll which she had been studying, so that she could devote all of her attention to her friend.
“Sa-Sasuke. Jiraiya ... found him. They’re at the hospital right now.” Tsunade was already out the door by the time Shizune had finished her sentence. She quickly chased after her hokage.
The two arrived in record time at the hospital room in which Sasuke had been placed. “What happened?” Tsunade asked before she was even completely through the door.
“I’m not certain. He’s asleep now ... ever since we left the forest he’s been in excruciating pain because of his eyes.” Tsunade walked up to Sasuke’s bed and gazed down at the young ninja. She was stunned by what she saw. Jiraiya continued with his explanation as she studied Sasuke’s eyes. “They’re gone. Well ... not really gone. The eyeballs are still in the sockets, but from what the doctors can determine, there’s severe nerve damage. Even if his lids hadn’t been seared together ... he would never be able to see again.”
“His sharingan ... do you think it has something to do with that?” Tsunade glanced over at Jiraiya who was standing near the window and gazing outside.
“I’m not sure. There is that possibility, but we won’t know until he can remember more. Right now all he remembers is being knocked out. There’s a bit more, but it’s very odd.” Jiraiya glanced over at Tsunade to see how she took his information, her face was blank as usual. Despite the fact that she was a renowned loser, she had the straight face of a gambler down to an art form.
“Well, I don’t care how odd it is ... I want to know.”
Jiraiya chuckled humorlessly. “Demanding as usual, eh Tsunade?”
“Just tell me.” She growled as she slammed her hands down on the side of Sasuke’s bed. With a sheepish look, Tsunade moved her hands off of the bed and tried to act dignified despite her blunder. Jiraiya decided to hold his laughter inside, it was safer that way.
“Well, he told me that this young girl was there ... and she said that he,” Jiraiya indicated Sasuke with a lazy pointing of his finger, “is here, and he is there.”
“Huh? Jiraiya ... I know it’s not in your nature to be sane and serious, but could you do so right now? Please?”
“I’m just telling you what he told me!” Jiraiya crossed his arms against his large chest and turned his back to Tsunade. She always did this to him. Always. It wasn’t fair, why couldn’t she just realize that he was a jokester all the time except when people’s lives were at stake?
Tsunade sat down and sighed loudly to let Jiraiya know that she was trying to be more patient. “Okay, what are you talking about?”
“The other ‘he’ would be Naruto. Apparently he’s somewhere else, but she didn’t tell Sasuke where.” Sasuke groaned and both Tsunade and Jiraiya’s gazes moved onto him. He was mumbling in his sleep, and it sounded as if he was begging for Naruto.
“I guess we keep looking. Surely he’s still alive ... I hope. For all our sakes.” Jiraiya knew exactly what she was thinking of, the kyuubi. If somehow it managed to get ahold of Naruto’s body and become whole again ... there was no telling what destruction it could bring upon the world.