Naruto Fan Fiction ❯ Broken ❯ OD ( Chapter 18 )
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By: blackarora 
problems with letting go
Anime/Manga: Naruto Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Psychological / Hentai / Action | Type: Other | Uploaded On: 08.15.2005 | Updated On: 02.27.2006 | Pages: 5 | Words: 6.9K | Visits: 1.7K | Status: Completed
problems with letting go
Anime/Manga: Naruto Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Psychological / Hentai / Action | Type: Other | Uploaded On: 08.15.2005 | Updated On: 02.27.2006 | Pages: 5 | Words: 6.9K | Visits: 1.7K | Status: Completed
18
O.D
Naruto stood in the shower letting the water cascade down his lean frame. It had been over an hour and his skin had already throughly pruned. Picking up the tan wash cloth, the blond started to scrub himself all over again.
He could still feel the dirt and blood on his skin. Naruto could not see it, but he knew it was there. The grit of the filth and slick, hot blood mingling on his tan flesh. Frantically the blond scrubbed, wanted to get it off of him, all of Orochimarus dirty touches, all the blood of the villagers that he had killed. He scrubbed until his skin hurt, but it was still there. He still felt dirty, used.
With a resigned sigh the wet teen straitened and let the water wash over him, hiding the tears that fell down his face. He could not make this dirty feeling go away, even if he scrubbed until he bled, it would not erase what had been done to him.
There was a knock at the door, then it opened slightly. Naruto froze at the creek, fear rising despite the tan curtain that shielded him from view.
“Naruto here are some clothes for you to change in to.”
There was a soft plop as a bag hit the floor just inside the door, then the sound of the door closing behind Neji.
Naruto let out the breath he had been holding. He had come in to shower to get away from the people in the room. Once Sasuke had left to get his leg stitched, the others had crowded around him. He had asked questions and made himself laugh at Neji, to hopefully make him seem at ease.
He did not want them to think he was as scared as he really was. But as Kiba and Lee closed in on him, firing questions about the sound, he could not help but feel overwhelmed. The blond had not answered any and had backed away from them. Neji had told them to back down but Kiba and Lee wanted a play by play of every thing that had happened to him in the sound.
Naruto had kept backing away, trying to put some distance between them and him, until he hit the night stand. Making an awkward yelp as he lurched forward, tripping on the sheets Sasuke had thrown to the floor to get to him before he could of killed Tenten. He would of fallen but Neji caught and steadied him. Jerking away from the hold, he backed away again to press against the night stand.
The scarred blond had been trying to hide it, but Neji saw. He was trembling, eyes wide with fear at the proximity of the others. Every shout or loud noise had him flinching. When Gai punched the air and went in to one of his poses with Lee, he almost bolted. As it was he was rooted to the spot not listening to the questions or the stuff Gai was spouting. All he could hear was the pounding of his own heart in his ears.
He had attacked them and now Sasuke was hurt, what were they going to do to him? If he had attacked like that at the sound he would now be screaming in pain.
Clenching his fists tightly, he was determined to take whatever punishment they had for him. He would not let himself cry or make any sound during it either.
Gai made an outlandish punching gesture in his direction and he could not help but put his hands up in a block. He dropped them almost instantly, still determined to take what ever he had coming to him for hurting them. He was so involved in concentrating on not running away or pleading for mercy, that he did not notice the stunned silence of the others in the room.
Gai quietly told Lee and Kiba to back away, Shino had moved in to the room, but had kept his distance, leaning on the inside door jam. Neji carefully set his hand on the blonds shoulder and the blond winced as he muffled the whimper that escaped his lips.
The white eyed teens brows furled as he felt the trembling of the blond.
“Naruto what’s wrong?”
Naruto stopped himself from looking in to the white eyes of the Hyuuga, Orochimaru had considered it an act of defiance for him to do that. The snake also required him to answer his questions.
“I attacked your team.”
Still not looking at Neji’s face, he looked at his blood covered hands. He could feel the dried blood on his chin from biting Kiba.
“Aren’t you going to punish me for hurting them.”
Orochimaru loved it when he asked for punishment and went a little less brutal in the delivery of the punishment if he asked for it. He could feel the hand on his shoulder shift and felt a hand lift his chin to make him look at the Hyuugas face. Naruto tried to figure out Neji’s emotions at that moment so he could prepare for the corresponding punishment that would be delivered.
The Hyuuga, he realized after a few seconds of searching the pale face, was like Sasuke in the fact that neither conveyed their feelings with facial expressions. He had been able to tell what was going to be done to him just by the set of Orochimarus facial features. The more displeased Orochimaru’s face looked, the longer and more painful the punishment. But he could not read Neji and it bothered him that he did not know what was going to be done to him.
The pale hand on his chin left and before he could return to looking at the floor, it brushed some of the blood off his face. Not sure what was going on, Naruto jerked his head away from the light caress.
Orochimaru and the two men even, only did that to mock him after they had finished or were just about to do something very horrible to him.
Neji pulled him suddenly to his chest and wrapped his arms around him holding him there. One of the blond’s arms was pinned to Neji’s chest, the other was pushing the long haired Jounin away, as Naruto twisted and turned trying to get away from the embrace.
“Naruto calm down. I’m not going to punish you.”
Neji’s left hand let go of Naruto’s shoulders and started to stroke his hair. All the while, telling him that it would be alright, that he was going to OK, that no one was going to hurt him. Naruto could feel the silky strands of hair brush against his face, the warm arm still wrapped around him and the other hand that was running though his hair. It was the same thing Sasuke did to calm him down and comfort him.
In the woods, when he would wake to a bad dream and feel Sasuke gently running his fingers through his hair, even though Kyuubi was asleep, the beast would stop his little twitching and calm from the caress. The calmness from the normally hostile demon reassured him and in turn calmed him as well. It was hard to be anything but calm when all the anger and rage the demon forced him to constantly deal with suddenly was not there, replaced with a feeling of contentment and slight pleasure.
Naruto closed his eyes resting his head on Neji’s shoulder as the hand continued to gently stroke the back of his head. Sasuke smelled different, darker somewhat earthier. Neji was more vanilla.
The hand stopped and Naruto stepped back. Neji was looking at him intently and grabbed one of the blonds wrists turning so the palm of his hand was up.
The scars from his several attempts to kill him self stood out as thick white lines on the tan flesh.
“Naruto, you did this?”
He nodded and pulled his hand away, not wanting to look the Hyuuga in the face, he looked away and focused on the blood from his friend.
He started trembling again as he watched the red puddle of Sasukes blood on the floor. He had hurt more people. People he knew and cared about. This was the second time that he had Sasuke’s blood on his hands. Neji sensed his discomfort and put a hand on his shoulder, leading him to the bathroom. The others getting out of their way.
“Clean the blood off of you. I’ll get the blood off the floor so you won’t have to see it.”
Naruto slowly turned the nob, shutting off the hot water that had flowed over him for over an hour. He could still feel the blood that covered him, the dirt that sullied him. No matter how hard he scrubbed, it would never go away. Wrapping a towel around himself he stepped on to the tiled floor and out of the shower. He went to where the bag of clothes sat and fished around for something to wear.
Grabbing an orange clothe, he pulled it out of the bag. Sasuke had ordered some clothes to be made for him since the store was out of anything his size. They were going to pick it up after the hospital, but had not made it back for obvious reasons. Neji’s team must of gone and picked it up.
The orange jacket was like his old one, but had black instead of blue on the shoulders, the collar was black and there was a strip of black on each side of the zipper on the front. The design was slightly different, sportier. His old jacket was thicker and bunched up making him look heavier than he was, this one used a thinner material so it did not add any weight to his appearance and it was easier to move around in.
Sasuke’s clothes were in the bag as well. The black pants with extra hidden pockets and a dark blue shirt with wide collar and Uchiha symbol on the back. Pushing these aside Naruto rummaged through the bag looking for the last thing he needed. Boxers, his orange pants had a zipper on it and there was no way he was taking a chance to get caught in it.
His hand brushed up against some thing soft and smooth, not sure what it was, he pulled it out. Sasuke had black silk boxers made, at the time Naruto thought it was stupid but considering how nice it felt rubbing on his hand, it must feel that good rubbing down there. Shrugging, he put the silk undershorts on, leaving Sasuke to find the polka doted red ones he had picked out.
Naruto smirked after he pulled the shorts up. It certainly felt different than his normal cotton ones. The smirk left his face as he straitened up and saw his distorted reflection in the steamed up mirror.
Wiping some condensation away, he got a good look at himself. Lifting a hand to slowly trace a white scar, the pale lines of the kanji “monster” centered on his chest. Slowly his fingers switched scars and traced one of the many that crossed over the old scar.
Looking at his face in the mirror, the x scar over his left eye had completely healed and faded out. The other scars from the two men had faded out and had been replaced by the ones from the snake. The only two that remained was the kanji monster on his chest and demon on his thigh.
Maybe because they were true.
A drop of water ran down his face and in to his right eye, closing it he still saw his reflection in the mirror. Holding still for a long moment he opened and closed his right eye several times. He could see with his left now. It was still a little fuzzy and blurry at the edges of his vision but he could see out of it. He had been able to tell light and dark out of it for about a month now but Kyuubi had been using so much chakra just to keep him alive he could not spare much for a non life threatening injury.
The blond reached down and grabbed the clothes and dressed himself not zipping the zipper on his jacket so it showed the navy blue shirt underneath it. Slowly he opened the door out letting a puff of steam rise out. The towel was around his shoulders and he grabbed the bag of clothes and brought it out with him.
Neji was sitting at the table watching the birds fly around the tree outside the window. The sun had come up and was shining through the tan curtains. Sasuke lay sleeping on his stomach on one of the beds in only his black boxers. Naruto felt a little guilty for taking his silk ones, they felt so wonderful on his skin. He dropped the bag next to the bed Sasuke was in and started to towel dry his hair.
Sasuke groaned and Naruto looked down at his sleeping friend. He was pale and occasionally a tremor would pass through the pale form. Eyes going wide, the blond dropped the towel and knelt next to Sasuke who was clearly having an episode. He put his tan hand on the muscular back of his sleeping friend.
“Sasuke.”
Naruto felt the hot, flushed skin and the small tremor that passed through Sasukes muscles. The blond teen felt really guilty now. Not only had he taken Sasukes boxers, he had missed one of his episodes. Sasuke wanted him around to help him through them and he missed it.
“How long has he been like this.”
Naruto turned to the Hyuuga that was now watching him.
“For a little over a hour.”
Naruto slumped against the bed, keeping a hand rubbing small circles on Sasuke’s back and resting the side on his face on the edge of the bed.
“He’ll be fine Naruto.”
Neji had come up behind him and sat on the other bed still Naruto did not move from Sasukes side.
“Tenten went to get some breakfast. She’ll be back soon.”
“Ok.”
“Naruto, how much control do you have over the demon.”
“W-what?”
“This morning, was it him or you that attacked.”
Naruto was stuck, what if he said it was himself that started the attack and they got mad. But what if he lied and said the demon did it and they were scared of him. He did not want to blame the demon for everything and Sasuke would know the truth any way.
“I attacked this morning, I didn’t know it was Kiba. I, I thought he was one of Orochimarus men and I could not go back to that. I just couldn’t do it. So I attacked and Kyuubi’s sleeping. He so drained right now that he can’t take over, but I was so scarred that it was Orochimaru that I didn’t evan realize that I was using Kyuubi’s chakra. I’m sorry.”
Naruto was rambling and he knew it, watching Neji’s every move, certain that this time now that he knew what had happen that the long haired shinobi would find him at fault and punish him now.
Neji moved toward him and Naruto moved his head away so that it touched Sasukes shoulder.
“I’m sorry. I’m sorry. Please don’t hurt me.”
The sheer desperation in his voice startled Neji. Slowly not to scare the blond Neji set his hand on the back of Naruto head and turned it to make the blond look at him.
“No one is going to punish you. Ok.”
Still not quite believing him Naruto nodded and Neji let go of his head.
“Kyuubi’s asleep, can he still take over?”
“Not right now, he’s sleeping because he out of chakra. But when he wakes he can....”
Naruto paused. He had not thought about it before. The only thing that had kept him restrained at the sound was Orochimarus seal. Now that it was gone, what would happen when Kyuubi woke. The demon could take over at any time and go on a rampage.
“I, I need to leave.”
He could feel Kyuubis progress. Every moment had him closer to being healed completely and then it would happen all over again. Kyuubi had not changed, he still loved carnage and violence, the only reason he hated the snake was that it hurt his demonly pride to be controlled. Even now Naruto could sense the dream Kyuubi was having about destroying a town.
“ I have to leave.”
Naruto got up from the floor next to Sasuke and started for the door. Sasuke groaned and he looked back spotting the bandage around his leg. That was nothing compared to what Kyuubi would do when he woke. Turning he continued for the door.
Neji grabbed Narutos wrist and the blond spun around with a yelp.
“Let go Neji.”
Naruto jerked his arm away but the grip on his wrist remained.
“No, it was put out by the Hokage herself that if any teams were to encounter you they where to escort you back to Konoha. Jiraiya can redo the seal on your stomach and it is safer for all if you have trained shinobi around you to handle the demon if they have to.”
“But if he comes out he’ll kill you all. I can’t live with that.”
Naruto’s face was down turned, he really meant it when he said he could not live with killing them. If it meant him having to live in the middle of nowhere all by himself for the rest of his life he would do it.
Naruto felt Neji’s thumb go over one of the scars on his wrist. Yes, if it came down to it he would kill himself before he would let the demon harm them.
Neji figured that’s what Naruto meant.
“Naruto from what I can tell, Kyuubi’s chakra is a tenth of what it was when I saw you at the hospital. From the rate he’s been healing I would say you have another week, give or take a day before he’ll have enough chakra to take over. That is plenty of time to get you back to Konoha to be resealed.”
“I don’t want to hurt any one else.”
“I know.”
Neji turned Naruto around and once again pulled him to his chest in a reassuring hug.
“We wont let that happen. You’ll see, it will be ok.”
Sasuke woke with a groan and looked over for his blond friend only to see him being held by Neji. Anger and resentment swelled in his chest. He did not say that Neji could hug Naruto. He was still pissed at Neji for taking Naruto from him at the hospital. Now the white eye bastard is hugging Naruto in front of him. The fucking bastard is going to die.
In a small voice he heard Naruto say “promise” and Neji reply “yes I promise.”
‘What the hell was Neji promising Naruto?’
Sasuke was so pissed he was shaking. He was taking care of Naruto. Neji had no right to promise any thing to him and Naruto had no right to cling to Neji like he was the only person left in the world. HE WAS RIGHT HERE.
And halt. He was not jealous, was he. No, Uchida Sasuke did not get jealous. Even if he did, it would not be over the dobe and Neji hugging.
Still, looking at Naruto and Neji made a undeniable lump of something form in his chest. Coughing to clear up the tightness in his chest, and letting the Hyuuga prick know that he was awake. Neji let go of Naruto who then jumped on the now awake Sasuke.
Naruto was smiling that big dopy grin that weaseled it’s way it to you until you yourself could not help but smile back. It was the first time that Sasuke had seen that smile in over 7 months and knowing it was because of Neji made the lump in his chest grow.
“You ok Sasuke? You look mad.”
Naruto asked cocking his head to the side and looked at the Uchiha. Naruto had taken a seat next to him on the bed and was looking at him with both eyes.
Stopping himself mid internal rant about skewering Hyuugas, Sasuke looked at the two blue eyes focused on him.
“Naruto your eye?”
“It’s works now. Kyuubi healed it.”
The smile widened tenfold.
“I’m getting better to, almost all the old scars from the men are gone and only the most resent one’s from the snake still show.”
Yes, Naruto was healing nicely, he no longed needed him around to take care of him. Beside Neji was here to help him. Finding this thought depressing Sasuke got up to take a shower.
Soon after Sasuke went in to the shower Tenten knocked on the door and came in, Kiba following close behind . Naruto jumped a little at the dog boys loud greeting, but quickly resettled, sitting on the bed. Neji had returned to the chair at the table watching the birds. The most wonderful smells radiated from the bags Tenten carried.
She walked over and set them on the table in front of Neji and started to unpack. Naruto wanted to run over and hover the way Kiba was, but then it had been only about 2 hours since he had almost killed her. So he opted to stay on the bed.
“Come on Naruto I know your hungry, and I even found this horse drawn ramen cart that makes the best ramen I have ever tasted.”
Naruto got up and went to the table ogling the many take out boxes that covered it. Kiba reached out to grab something and Tenten swatted his hand away.
“This is not for you, you had some when we picked it up. Beside you don’t look half starved.”
Kiba launched a protest but was shot down by Tenten.
“Go on eat, we’re not going to eat it front of you or jerk it away at the last moment.”
She was smiling at him and deftly keeping Kiba at bay at the same time.
Slowly he grabbed a plate and piled it up with food. Setting it aside he started to gorge on the food straight out of the boxes and containers.
“Hay Naruto what’s this for .”
Motioning to the plate of food, Kiba reached out and was about to grab a piece of BBQ from it when a low growl from the blond stopped him short.
“Ok, ok I won’t touch it. Geez no reason to be so food possessive.”
Sasuke’s shower was short, the thought of leaving Naruto alone with Neji for very long, bothered him. Getting out the dark haired teen noticed that there was no towels and that his boxers had gotten soaked from being to close to the shower. Grunting in irritation he opened the bathroom door. The room was air conditioned but even soft and cold he had nothing to be ashamed of. Uchiha’s were naturally well endowed.
Dripping wet he strode over to where the bag of clothes was at the foot of the bed he had been sleeping on.
“Hay ahh Sasuke.”
“What.”
He snarled and Kiba did not say anything more.
Sasuke turned toward the now oddly quiet Kiba and saw Tentens red face and eyes the size of saucers. Kiba and Neji were not looking at him and Naruto was feeding like a shark on an assortment of foodstuffs. Grumbling he grabbed the only boxers he could find and put them on, ignoring the snicker from Kiba.
Naruto, startled out of his feeding frenzy by the chuckle looked over to see a fuming Sasuke in red polka doted boxers, water dripping off his long bangs. He had to admit it was funny. But Naruto saw the scars on Sasukes from Kyuubi and the stitches in his leg from earlier. He quickly looked away.
Sasuke grabbed the towel Naruto had used to dry his hair and slung it around his shoulders. He then grabbed a roll of bandages from the bag and re-wrapped the stitches before pulling his pants on.
Still shirtless Sasuke went over to the table and removed Kiba from the chair next to Naruto and sat down in it.
Not looking at Sasuke, Naruto pushed the loaded plate in front of him.
“Not hungry.”
Naruto pushed the plate again so that it bumped one of Sasukes arms and softly growled. Sasuke snorted but picked up some chop sticks.
Half a hour later Naruto had finished and only a quarter of the food on the plate in front of Sasuke had been eaten.
Neji stood up and looked at the clock.
“Come on Naruto.”
“Where are we going?”
“The doctor that saw you yesterday was adamant about you coming in and getting a follow up. I said I’d make sure you went. So come on.”
“Sasuke.”
Naruto was looking at the shirtless Sasuke, fear and uncertainty radiating from his blue eyes. Sasuke was acting weird and he was still not fond of doctors.
“Naruto come on. He’s not going to be there the whole day.”
The blond was trembling and staring at Sasuke. Who was looking from Neji to Naruto then back to Neji.
“Sasuke please....”
“Just go Naruto. I’m sure Neji can protect you.”
The pure venom in his voice when he said Neji startled Naruto and he continued to stare at the Uchiha with a look fear and confusion. He knew that the withdrawal made Sasuke moody but he had never been this, what, vicious, callous, uncaring toward him. Kiba’s hand on his shoulder made the blond jump.
“Come on leave the prick here.”
Slowly Naruto got up and was escorted away by Tenten, Kiba and Neji.
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The dark man whispered little murmurs to the great hawk that sat perched on his shoulder. In response the bird of pray ruffled it gleaming feathers. A pale hand removed the piece of paper from the carry tube on the birds leg. It had been a long time since he had worked with the Konoha messenger hawks, but the birds remembered him. For some reason the great birds of pray liked him. They had a mutual affection for each other perhaps. One the ruler of the sky, the other one of the deadliest men alive. Reading the message on the note. Itachi smiled and gently rubbed the birds neck. His mutual affection just payed off.
“Why are you smiling Itachi-san. It’s rather disturbing.”
The pony tailed Uchiha glared out at the shark like man.
“It seams that my foolish little brother brought the Kitsune to a border town for medical treatment. He ran in to some old friends from Konoha and is staying with them for the time being. The jounin in charge is awaiting Tsunade’s orders on how to proceed.”
The other members of Atuski looked at the younger man with interest. They had been waiting for their chance to grab the kitsune from Orochimaru ever since they had let it get away from them in the woods outside Konoha.
“And how shale they proceed.”
Itachi looked at Koten. The man was not very imposing, in fact he was a midget. But he had legions of followers. More so than Orochimaru and all the kages combined. Almost all underground dealing’s were in some way connected with this man. If he gave the order to have someone killed they died. The beggars on the streets, the whores on the corners, the little old ladies selling flowers. You never knew who was on the midgets side.
When Orochimaru had needed people to harm Naruto, Koten had selected the two men that would have the honor. It was his army of strong men in the woods waiting for the demon and if they had not been distracted by Sasuke they would of gotten their demon.
Itachi thought for a moment before he came up with a plan.
“Konoha is having a war planing meeting where all the jounins not currently on missions are required to attend. In two days”
“How do you know this. The meeting was kept in utmost secret.”
The man that looked like he was half eaten by a venus fly trap asked . Itachi shrugged and the hawk on his shoulder flapped its wings to stay balanced.
“The hokage and her boyfriend along with all the top shinobi from the village will be in one place. Easy to trap. It would not take much to take over the village with out their hard hitters...... Little red riding hood.”
“What?”
It was known that Itachi was a little odd, but perhaps he had just crossed the fine line in to insane.
“The wolf takes the grandmothers place to get the girl close enough to eat her.”
Kisami smiled now.
“We take over Konoha and wait for the kitsune to come to us.”
The Uchiha nodded, the action was repeated by the other members. The pony tailed man pulled out a piece of parchment and wrote instructions on it. His hand writing a perfect match of the hokages.
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Sasuke had left soon after Naruto but did not go the direction of the hospital. If Naruto wanted Neji around to help him then, well he could have him. It’s not like he cared.
Spinning quickly he slammed his fist in to the wall of the little ally he was walking through. The wall crumbled, not built with pissed shinobi in mind.
Who the hell was he kidding, he cared so much it hurt. It hurt that the dobe would run to Neji the moment he woke up. It hurt a lot that after all that he had done and gone through, Naruto did not want him to comfort him and be there for him.
Naruto did not want him.
He was rejected before he even had a chance. And god damn Neji. So calm and collected, oozing confidence and trust. How could Naruto not trust the guy. Hell, he trusted the fucking Hyuuga.
All he did was insult the dobe and try to save him from Orochimaru but end up having to be saved instead.
Sasuke destroyed another wall and stormed down the ally that led in to the not so nice district of town. Here, instead of the flashy colors drawing you in to the shops, there were faded old signs. The street looked weather worn and dirty. Glaring at a prostitute and scaring her away before she approached him, he continued down the street.
The desolate, grungy feel of this place reminded him of the sounds city. He could go any where he wanted there. No one would question him and he had enjoyed a few on the finer things of life there.
Or maybe it was the drugs Kabuto gave him every time, right before he was let out that made it seem better then it was.
Sasuke grabbed his left arm kneading the tender flesh of his inner elbow. Naruto was safe and did not need him anymore. There was no reason for him to deny that he wanted it. He did not need it, but he wanted it. He wanted the betrayal of Naruto to sting less and he knew this would make it stop. The others knew about him and it did not matter, they were protecting Naruto and would continue to do so evan if he was stoned out of his gourd.
Looking down a trashed ally he saw a shady man leaning on the wall and went over to him.
It took some finagling but after he convinced the man he was Neji and not Sasuke, who he had orders not to sell to, Sasuke came out of the ally with a brown bag shoved in to one of the many pockets his pants had. Not having any where else to go he returned to the hotel and snagged a spoon from a room service cart as he passed.
Naruto and the others still had not came back from the hospital. Gai was waiting for Tsunades reply and Shino and Lee were patrolling the town for bandits. Glad to be alone, Sasuke pulled out the bag and removed the two colored balloons. Putting the contents on to the spoon he heated it up watching as it melted and turned in to the familiar clear-ish liquid. When it was done he slowly pulled the syringe plunger out to pull the fluid in to the syringe. He did not have a filter but he did not care at the moment.
He had used almost 10 cc of near pure heroin at the sound, so with this stuff not as pure he should be able to take the same amount and not worry.
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Naruto backed away from the doctor, sure he had been nice to him yesterday, but then Shijima was OK at first as well.
Neji was trying to get him to hold still but it was not working. Every time the doctor got withing 5 feet Naruto jerked away in fear. Neji was nice, but he was not Sasuke.
Finally Neji lost patience with him and picked up Naruto and carried him to the bed. When the Hyuuga held him down, Naruto started to scream and thrash trying to get away. When Kiba and Tenten came over to try and calm him, the blond broke down in to panicking hysterics. He clawed, bit and at the same time screamed and cried in fear.
He wanted Sasuke.
He wanted the bastard here with him to protect him from the awful memories. He wanted him here to scare the doctor. He wanted Sasuke to hold him to his chest so that he was only thing that he could see and feel.
Right now all he saw were hands holding him down to a bed and a dreaded white coat standing by. Red chakra seeped out and filled the room. The demon stirred from the fear of his vessel and for a moment Neji paused as Naruto grew claws and his eyes shifted in to blood red. Just as quickly Kyuubi found Naruto in no real danger and went back to sleep.
With a lunge, and Neji holding still from the wave of red chakra that had just washed over him and vanished, Naruto pushed the hands off him and rolled off the table. He made a break for the window but was intercepted. Darting away before the person at the window could grab him, he slid on the slick tiles and crashed in to the second bed in the room. The bed over turned, flinging Naruto in to a corner where he sat huddled in a little ball.
Neji tried to go near the terrified blond to calm him but Naruto would scream and cower away. Wisps of red chakra came out every scream and it was slowly tinting the room red. Nothing Neji did could get him close to Naruto. After several attempts the most pitiful wail Neji had ever heard radiated out from the blond.
“Sasukeeee.”
The stoic Hyuuga not wanting the scared teen to lose any more control over the demon, motioned for Kiba to get away from the window.
“Naruto, Sasukes at the hotel, go to Sasuke.”
“Sasukee.”
“He’s at the hotel. Go to Sasuke.”
Naruto got up and Neji backed away from him. Neji could see the tears still streaming down his face and the distant look in his eyes. Neji sighed, Naruto was lost at the moment in the horrible memories and the blond probably did not realize who they were and would not hold back if he attacked. Slowly Naruto started to move, never taking his eyes off the occupants of the room, inching over to the window and jumping out. Running at top speed as soon as he hit the roof next to the hospital, heading for the hotel and Sasuke.
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Sasuke had just pulled the needle out of his arm, when the door to the room opened. Shino marched up to him and slapped the needle out of his fumbling hands. He did not feel the sting of the slap all he saw was the needle falling to the floor. The glass’ clad teen, grabbed Sasukes collar and said something. But Sasuke could not hear him, the wonderful bliss pumped in his veins blocking out everything. Shino tried to force him to his feet but his legs refused to function at the moment.
Then there was a large green thing, standing over him. Looking up at it, Sasuke giggled. Gai looked pissed and it was funny. The green beast had throbbing veins on his forehead and a really stupid look on the round face.
Suddenly the wonderful feeling left and was replaced with a not so good one. Every muscle in his abdomen clenched at once and Sasuke gasped in pain that he was not supposed to feel.
Gai grabbed Sasuke by the oversized collar of his shirt and picked him up. Hoisting him up so high that the teens feet did not touch the floor. Gai was screaming at him but he could not hear any of it. Suddenly the green beast crushed him to the iron muscled chest in a fierce hug as tears streamed down the mans face.
Gai stopped hugging Sasuke when he felt the jerking muscles and held him out to get a better look at what was wrong with him. The raven haired teen shuttered violently then Sasuke puked all of the breakfast Naruto had made him eat, all over Gai’s arm. Dropping the teen in disgust and waving the sodden arm as he screamed, Shino called Gai to a stop as Sasuke’s whole body started to convulse.
The bug user keeled next to Sasuke and forced the handle of a kunai in to the downed teens mouth to keep him from swallowing his tongue as the seizure wracked his body.
Suddenly the balcony door was slammed open and a terrified Naruto charged in followed by Neji and company. Naruto stopped mid stride as soon as he saw Sasuke and the shape he was in, red chakra swirling around him. Neji moved passed the chakra engulfed Naruto and went to Sasuke’s side.
“What happened.”
Neji ordered, Naruto was losing control and needed this prick to help him. In a worried voice Shino answered.
“Overdose.”
O.D
Naruto stood in the shower letting the water cascade down his lean frame. It had been over an hour and his skin had already throughly pruned. Picking up the tan wash cloth, the blond started to scrub himself all over again.
He could still feel the dirt and blood on his skin. Naruto could not see it, but he knew it was there. The grit of the filth and slick, hot blood mingling on his tan flesh. Frantically the blond scrubbed, wanted to get it off of him, all of Orochimarus dirty touches, all the blood of the villagers that he had killed. He scrubbed until his skin hurt, but it was still there. He still felt dirty, used.
With a resigned sigh the wet teen straitened and let the water wash over him, hiding the tears that fell down his face. He could not make this dirty feeling go away, even if he scrubbed until he bled, it would not erase what had been done to him.
There was a knock at the door, then it opened slightly. Naruto froze at the creek, fear rising despite the tan curtain that shielded him from view.
“Naruto here are some clothes for you to change in to.”
There was a soft plop as a bag hit the floor just inside the door, then the sound of the door closing behind Neji.
Naruto let out the breath he had been holding. He had come in to shower to get away from the people in the room. Once Sasuke had left to get his leg stitched, the others had crowded around him. He had asked questions and made himself laugh at Neji, to hopefully make him seem at ease.
He did not want them to think he was as scared as he really was. But as Kiba and Lee closed in on him, firing questions about the sound, he could not help but feel overwhelmed. The blond had not answered any and had backed away from them. Neji had told them to back down but Kiba and Lee wanted a play by play of every thing that had happened to him in the sound.
Naruto had kept backing away, trying to put some distance between them and him, until he hit the night stand. Making an awkward yelp as he lurched forward, tripping on the sheets Sasuke had thrown to the floor to get to him before he could of killed Tenten. He would of fallen but Neji caught and steadied him. Jerking away from the hold, he backed away again to press against the night stand.
The scarred blond had been trying to hide it, but Neji saw. He was trembling, eyes wide with fear at the proximity of the others. Every shout or loud noise had him flinching. When Gai punched the air and went in to one of his poses with Lee, he almost bolted. As it was he was rooted to the spot not listening to the questions or the stuff Gai was spouting. All he could hear was the pounding of his own heart in his ears.
He had attacked them and now Sasuke was hurt, what were they going to do to him? If he had attacked like that at the sound he would now be screaming in pain.
Clenching his fists tightly, he was determined to take whatever punishment they had for him. He would not let himself cry or make any sound during it either.
Gai made an outlandish punching gesture in his direction and he could not help but put his hands up in a block. He dropped them almost instantly, still determined to take what ever he had coming to him for hurting them. He was so involved in concentrating on not running away or pleading for mercy, that he did not notice the stunned silence of the others in the room.
Gai quietly told Lee and Kiba to back away, Shino had moved in to the room, but had kept his distance, leaning on the inside door jam. Neji carefully set his hand on the blonds shoulder and the blond winced as he muffled the whimper that escaped his lips.
The white eyed teens brows furled as he felt the trembling of the blond.
“Naruto what’s wrong?”
Naruto stopped himself from looking in to the white eyes of the Hyuuga, Orochimaru had considered it an act of defiance for him to do that. The snake also required him to answer his questions.
“I attacked your team.”
Still not looking at Neji’s face, he looked at his blood covered hands. He could feel the dried blood on his chin from biting Kiba.
“Aren’t you going to punish me for hurting them.”
Orochimaru loved it when he asked for punishment and went a little less brutal in the delivery of the punishment if he asked for it. He could feel the hand on his shoulder shift and felt a hand lift his chin to make him look at the Hyuugas face. Naruto tried to figure out Neji’s emotions at that moment so he could prepare for the corresponding punishment that would be delivered.
The Hyuuga, he realized after a few seconds of searching the pale face, was like Sasuke in the fact that neither conveyed their feelings with facial expressions. He had been able to tell what was going to be done to him just by the set of Orochimarus facial features. The more displeased Orochimaru’s face looked, the longer and more painful the punishment. But he could not read Neji and it bothered him that he did not know what was going to be done to him.
The pale hand on his chin left and before he could return to looking at the floor, it brushed some of the blood off his face. Not sure what was going on, Naruto jerked his head away from the light caress.
Orochimaru and the two men even, only did that to mock him after they had finished or were just about to do something very horrible to him.
Neji pulled him suddenly to his chest and wrapped his arms around him holding him there. One of the blond’s arms was pinned to Neji’s chest, the other was pushing the long haired Jounin away, as Naruto twisted and turned trying to get away from the embrace.
“Naruto calm down. I’m not going to punish you.”
Neji’s left hand let go of Naruto’s shoulders and started to stroke his hair. All the while, telling him that it would be alright, that he was going to OK, that no one was going to hurt him. Naruto could feel the silky strands of hair brush against his face, the warm arm still wrapped around him and the other hand that was running though his hair. It was the same thing Sasuke did to calm him down and comfort him.
In the woods, when he would wake to a bad dream and feel Sasuke gently running his fingers through his hair, even though Kyuubi was asleep, the beast would stop his little twitching and calm from the caress. The calmness from the normally hostile demon reassured him and in turn calmed him as well. It was hard to be anything but calm when all the anger and rage the demon forced him to constantly deal with suddenly was not there, replaced with a feeling of contentment and slight pleasure.
Naruto closed his eyes resting his head on Neji’s shoulder as the hand continued to gently stroke the back of his head. Sasuke smelled different, darker somewhat earthier. Neji was more vanilla.
The hand stopped and Naruto stepped back. Neji was looking at him intently and grabbed one of the blonds wrists turning so the palm of his hand was up.
The scars from his several attempts to kill him self stood out as thick white lines on the tan flesh.
“Naruto, you did this?”
He nodded and pulled his hand away, not wanting to look the Hyuuga in the face, he looked away and focused on the blood from his friend.
He started trembling again as he watched the red puddle of Sasukes blood on the floor. He had hurt more people. People he knew and cared about. This was the second time that he had Sasuke’s blood on his hands. Neji sensed his discomfort and put a hand on his shoulder, leading him to the bathroom. The others getting out of their way.
“Clean the blood off of you. I’ll get the blood off the floor so you won’t have to see it.”
Naruto slowly turned the nob, shutting off the hot water that had flowed over him for over an hour. He could still feel the blood that covered him, the dirt that sullied him. No matter how hard he scrubbed, it would never go away. Wrapping a towel around himself he stepped on to the tiled floor and out of the shower. He went to where the bag of clothes sat and fished around for something to wear.
Grabbing an orange clothe, he pulled it out of the bag. Sasuke had ordered some clothes to be made for him since the store was out of anything his size. They were going to pick it up after the hospital, but had not made it back for obvious reasons. Neji’s team must of gone and picked it up.
The orange jacket was like his old one, but had black instead of blue on the shoulders, the collar was black and there was a strip of black on each side of the zipper on the front. The design was slightly different, sportier. His old jacket was thicker and bunched up making him look heavier than he was, this one used a thinner material so it did not add any weight to his appearance and it was easier to move around in.
Sasuke’s clothes were in the bag as well. The black pants with extra hidden pockets and a dark blue shirt with wide collar and Uchiha symbol on the back. Pushing these aside Naruto rummaged through the bag looking for the last thing he needed. Boxers, his orange pants had a zipper on it and there was no way he was taking a chance to get caught in it.
His hand brushed up against some thing soft and smooth, not sure what it was, he pulled it out. Sasuke had black silk boxers made, at the time Naruto thought it was stupid but considering how nice it felt rubbing on his hand, it must feel that good rubbing down there. Shrugging, he put the silk undershorts on, leaving Sasuke to find the polka doted red ones he had picked out.
Naruto smirked after he pulled the shorts up. It certainly felt different than his normal cotton ones. The smirk left his face as he straitened up and saw his distorted reflection in the steamed up mirror.
Wiping some condensation away, he got a good look at himself. Lifting a hand to slowly trace a white scar, the pale lines of the kanji “monster” centered on his chest. Slowly his fingers switched scars and traced one of the many that crossed over the old scar.
Looking at his face in the mirror, the x scar over his left eye had completely healed and faded out. The other scars from the two men had faded out and had been replaced by the ones from the snake. The only two that remained was the kanji monster on his chest and demon on his thigh.
Maybe because they were true.
A drop of water ran down his face and in to his right eye, closing it he still saw his reflection in the mirror. Holding still for a long moment he opened and closed his right eye several times. He could see with his left now. It was still a little fuzzy and blurry at the edges of his vision but he could see out of it. He had been able to tell light and dark out of it for about a month now but Kyuubi had been using so much chakra just to keep him alive he could not spare much for a non life threatening injury.
The blond reached down and grabbed the clothes and dressed himself not zipping the zipper on his jacket so it showed the navy blue shirt underneath it. Slowly he opened the door out letting a puff of steam rise out. The towel was around his shoulders and he grabbed the bag of clothes and brought it out with him.
Neji was sitting at the table watching the birds fly around the tree outside the window. The sun had come up and was shining through the tan curtains. Sasuke lay sleeping on his stomach on one of the beds in only his black boxers. Naruto felt a little guilty for taking his silk ones, they felt so wonderful on his skin. He dropped the bag next to the bed Sasuke was in and started to towel dry his hair.
Sasuke groaned and Naruto looked down at his sleeping friend. He was pale and occasionally a tremor would pass through the pale form. Eyes going wide, the blond dropped the towel and knelt next to Sasuke who was clearly having an episode. He put his tan hand on the muscular back of his sleeping friend.
“Sasuke.”
Naruto felt the hot, flushed skin and the small tremor that passed through Sasukes muscles. The blond teen felt really guilty now. Not only had he taken Sasukes boxers, he had missed one of his episodes. Sasuke wanted him around to help him through them and he missed it.
“How long has he been like this.”
Naruto turned to the Hyuuga that was now watching him.
“For a little over a hour.”
Naruto slumped against the bed, keeping a hand rubbing small circles on Sasuke’s back and resting the side on his face on the edge of the bed.
“He’ll be fine Naruto.”
Neji had come up behind him and sat on the other bed still Naruto did not move from Sasukes side.
“Tenten went to get some breakfast. She’ll be back soon.”
“Ok.”
“Naruto, how much control do you have over the demon.”
“W-what?”
“This morning, was it him or you that attacked.”
Naruto was stuck, what if he said it was himself that started the attack and they got mad. But what if he lied and said the demon did it and they were scared of him. He did not want to blame the demon for everything and Sasuke would know the truth any way.
“I attacked this morning, I didn’t know it was Kiba. I, I thought he was one of Orochimarus men and I could not go back to that. I just couldn’t do it. So I attacked and Kyuubi’s sleeping. He so drained right now that he can’t take over, but I was so scarred that it was Orochimaru that I didn’t evan realize that I was using Kyuubi’s chakra. I’m sorry.”
Naruto was rambling and he knew it, watching Neji’s every move, certain that this time now that he knew what had happen that the long haired shinobi would find him at fault and punish him now.
Neji moved toward him and Naruto moved his head away so that it touched Sasukes shoulder.
“I’m sorry. I’m sorry. Please don’t hurt me.”
The sheer desperation in his voice startled Neji. Slowly not to scare the blond Neji set his hand on the back of Naruto head and turned it to make the blond look at him.
“No one is going to punish you. Ok.”
Still not quite believing him Naruto nodded and Neji let go of his head.
“Kyuubi’s asleep, can he still take over?”
“Not right now, he’s sleeping because he out of chakra. But when he wakes he can....”
Naruto paused. He had not thought about it before. The only thing that had kept him restrained at the sound was Orochimarus seal. Now that it was gone, what would happen when Kyuubi woke. The demon could take over at any time and go on a rampage.
“I, I need to leave.”
He could feel Kyuubis progress. Every moment had him closer to being healed completely and then it would happen all over again. Kyuubi had not changed, he still loved carnage and violence, the only reason he hated the snake was that it hurt his demonly pride to be controlled. Even now Naruto could sense the dream Kyuubi was having about destroying a town.
“ I have to leave.”
Naruto got up from the floor next to Sasuke and started for the door. Sasuke groaned and he looked back spotting the bandage around his leg. That was nothing compared to what Kyuubi would do when he woke. Turning he continued for the door.
Neji grabbed Narutos wrist and the blond spun around with a yelp.
“Let go Neji.”
Naruto jerked his arm away but the grip on his wrist remained.
“No, it was put out by the Hokage herself that if any teams were to encounter you they where to escort you back to Konoha. Jiraiya can redo the seal on your stomach and it is safer for all if you have trained shinobi around you to handle the demon if they have to.”
“But if he comes out he’ll kill you all. I can’t live with that.”
Naruto’s face was down turned, he really meant it when he said he could not live with killing them. If it meant him having to live in the middle of nowhere all by himself for the rest of his life he would do it.
Naruto felt Neji’s thumb go over one of the scars on his wrist. Yes, if it came down to it he would kill himself before he would let the demon harm them.
Neji figured that’s what Naruto meant.
“Naruto from what I can tell, Kyuubi’s chakra is a tenth of what it was when I saw you at the hospital. From the rate he’s been healing I would say you have another week, give or take a day before he’ll have enough chakra to take over. That is plenty of time to get you back to Konoha to be resealed.”
“I don’t want to hurt any one else.”
“I know.”
Neji turned Naruto around and once again pulled him to his chest in a reassuring hug.
“We wont let that happen. You’ll see, it will be ok.”
Sasuke woke with a groan and looked over for his blond friend only to see him being held by Neji. Anger and resentment swelled in his chest. He did not say that Neji could hug Naruto. He was still pissed at Neji for taking Naruto from him at the hospital. Now the white eye bastard is hugging Naruto in front of him. The fucking bastard is going to die.
In a small voice he heard Naruto say “promise” and Neji reply “yes I promise.”
‘What the hell was Neji promising Naruto?’
Sasuke was so pissed he was shaking. He was taking care of Naruto. Neji had no right to promise any thing to him and Naruto had no right to cling to Neji like he was the only person left in the world. HE WAS RIGHT HERE.
And halt. He was not jealous, was he. No, Uchida Sasuke did not get jealous. Even if he did, it would not be over the dobe and Neji hugging.
Still, looking at Naruto and Neji made a undeniable lump of something form in his chest. Coughing to clear up the tightness in his chest, and letting the Hyuuga prick know that he was awake. Neji let go of Naruto who then jumped on the now awake Sasuke.
Naruto was smiling that big dopy grin that weaseled it’s way it to you until you yourself could not help but smile back. It was the first time that Sasuke had seen that smile in over 7 months and knowing it was because of Neji made the lump in his chest grow.
“You ok Sasuke? You look mad.”
Naruto asked cocking his head to the side and looked at the Uchiha. Naruto had taken a seat next to him on the bed and was looking at him with both eyes.
Stopping himself mid internal rant about skewering Hyuugas, Sasuke looked at the two blue eyes focused on him.
“Naruto your eye?”
“It’s works now. Kyuubi healed it.”
The smile widened tenfold.
“I’m getting better to, almost all the old scars from the men are gone and only the most resent one’s from the snake still show.”
Yes, Naruto was healing nicely, he no longed needed him around to take care of him. Beside Neji was here to help him. Finding this thought depressing Sasuke got up to take a shower.
Soon after Sasuke went in to the shower Tenten knocked on the door and came in, Kiba following close behind . Naruto jumped a little at the dog boys loud greeting, but quickly resettled, sitting on the bed. Neji had returned to the chair at the table watching the birds. The most wonderful smells radiated from the bags Tenten carried.
She walked over and set them on the table in front of Neji and started to unpack. Naruto wanted to run over and hover the way Kiba was, but then it had been only about 2 hours since he had almost killed her. So he opted to stay on the bed.
“Come on Naruto I know your hungry, and I even found this horse drawn ramen cart that makes the best ramen I have ever tasted.”
Naruto got up and went to the table ogling the many take out boxes that covered it. Kiba reached out to grab something and Tenten swatted his hand away.
“This is not for you, you had some when we picked it up. Beside you don’t look half starved.”
Kiba launched a protest but was shot down by Tenten.
“Go on eat, we’re not going to eat it front of you or jerk it away at the last moment.”
She was smiling at him and deftly keeping Kiba at bay at the same time.
Slowly he grabbed a plate and piled it up with food. Setting it aside he started to gorge on the food straight out of the boxes and containers.
“Hay Naruto what’s this for .”
Motioning to the plate of food, Kiba reached out and was about to grab a piece of BBQ from it when a low growl from the blond stopped him short.
“Ok, ok I won’t touch it. Geez no reason to be so food possessive.”
Sasuke’s shower was short, the thought of leaving Naruto alone with Neji for very long, bothered him. Getting out the dark haired teen noticed that there was no towels and that his boxers had gotten soaked from being to close to the shower. Grunting in irritation he opened the bathroom door. The room was air conditioned but even soft and cold he had nothing to be ashamed of. Uchiha’s were naturally well endowed.
Dripping wet he strode over to where the bag of clothes was at the foot of the bed he had been sleeping on.
“Hay ahh Sasuke.”
“What.”
He snarled and Kiba did not say anything more.
Sasuke turned toward the now oddly quiet Kiba and saw Tentens red face and eyes the size of saucers. Kiba and Neji were not looking at him and Naruto was feeding like a shark on an assortment of foodstuffs. Grumbling he grabbed the only boxers he could find and put them on, ignoring the snicker from Kiba.
Naruto, startled out of his feeding frenzy by the chuckle looked over to see a fuming Sasuke in red polka doted boxers, water dripping off his long bangs. He had to admit it was funny. But Naruto saw the scars on Sasukes from Kyuubi and the stitches in his leg from earlier. He quickly looked away.
Sasuke grabbed the towel Naruto had used to dry his hair and slung it around his shoulders. He then grabbed a roll of bandages from the bag and re-wrapped the stitches before pulling his pants on.
Still shirtless Sasuke went over to the table and removed Kiba from the chair next to Naruto and sat down in it.
Not looking at Sasuke, Naruto pushed the loaded plate in front of him.
“Not hungry.”
Naruto pushed the plate again so that it bumped one of Sasukes arms and softly growled. Sasuke snorted but picked up some chop sticks.
Half a hour later Naruto had finished and only a quarter of the food on the plate in front of Sasuke had been eaten.
Neji stood up and looked at the clock.
“Come on Naruto.”
“Where are we going?”
“The doctor that saw you yesterday was adamant about you coming in and getting a follow up. I said I’d make sure you went. So come on.”
“Sasuke.”
Naruto was looking at the shirtless Sasuke, fear and uncertainty radiating from his blue eyes. Sasuke was acting weird and he was still not fond of doctors.
“Naruto come on. He’s not going to be there the whole day.”
The blond was trembling and staring at Sasuke. Who was looking from Neji to Naruto then back to Neji.
“Sasuke please....”
“Just go Naruto. I’m sure Neji can protect you.”
The pure venom in his voice when he said Neji startled Naruto and he continued to stare at the Uchiha with a look fear and confusion. He knew that the withdrawal made Sasuke moody but he had never been this, what, vicious, callous, uncaring toward him. Kiba’s hand on his shoulder made the blond jump.
“Come on leave the prick here.”
Slowly Naruto got up and was escorted away by Tenten, Kiba and Neji.
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The dark man whispered little murmurs to the great hawk that sat perched on his shoulder. In response the bird of pray ruffled it gleaming feathers. A pale hand removed the piece of paper from the carry tube on the birds leg. It had been a long time since he had worked with the Konoha messenger hawks, but the birds remembered him. For some reason the great birds of pray liked him. They had a mutual affection for each other perhaps. One the ruler of the sky, the other one of the deadliest men alive. Reading the message on the note. Itachi smiled and gently rubbed the birds neck. His mutual affection just payed off.
“Why are you smiling Itachi-san. It’s rather disturbing.”
The pony tailed Uchiha glared out at the shark like man.
“It seams that my foolish little brother brought the Kitsune to a border town for medical treatment. He ran in to some old friends from Konoha and is staying with them for the time being. The jounin in charge is awaiting Tsunade’s orders on how to proceed.”
The other members of Atuski looked at the younger man with interest. They had been waiting for their chance to grab the kitsune from Orochimaru ever since they had let it get away from them in the woods outside Konoha.
“And how shale they proceed.”
Itachi looked at Koten. The man was not very imposing, in fact he was a midget. But he had legions of followers. More so than Orochimaru and all the kages combined. Almost all underground dealing’s were in some way connected with this man. If he gave the order to have someone killed they died. The beggars on the streets, the whores on the corners, the little old ladies selling flowers. You never knew who was on the midgets side.
When Orochimaru had needed people to harm Naruto, Koten had selected the two men that would have the honor. It was his army of strong men in the woods waiting for the demon and if they had not been distracted by Sasuke they would of gotten their demon.
Itachi thought for a moment before he came up with a plan.
“Konoha is having a war planing meeting where all the jounins not currently on missions are required to attend. In two days”
“How do you know this. The meeting was kept in utmost secret.”
The man that looked like he was half eaten by a venus fly trap asked . Itachi shrugged and the hawk on his shoulder flapped its wings to stay balanced.
“The hokage and her boyfriend along with all the top shinobi from the village will be in one place. Easy to trap. It would not take much to take over the village with out their hard hitters...... Little red riding hood.”
“What?”
It was known that Itachi was a little odd, but perhaps he had just crossed the fine line in to insane.
“The wolf takes the grandmothers place to get the girl close enough to eat her.”
Kisami smiled now.
“We take over Konoha and wait for the kitsune to come to us.”
The Uchiha nodded, the action was repeated by the other members. The pony tailed man pulled out a piece of parchment and wrote instructions on it. His hand writing a perfect match of the hokages.
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Sasuke had left soon after Naruto but did not go the direction of the hospital. If Naruto wanted Neji around to help him then, well he could have him. It’s not like he cared.
Spinning quickly he slammed his fist in to the wall of the little ally he was walking through. The wall crumbled, not built with pissed shinobi in mind.
Who the hell was he kidding, he cared so much it hurt. It hurt that the dobe would run to Neji the moment he woke up. It hurt a lot that after all that he had done and gone through, Naruto did not want him to comfort him and be there for him.
Naruto did not want him.
He was rejected before he even had a chance. And god damn Neji. So calm and collected, oozing confidence and trust. How could Naruto not trust the guy. Hell, he trusted the fucking Hyuuga.
All he did was insult the dobe and try to save him from Orochimaru but end up having to be saved instead.
Sasuke destroyed another wall and stormed down the ally that led in to the not so nice district of town. Here, instead of the flashy colors drawing you in to the shops, there were faded old signs. The street looked weather worn and dirty. Glaring at a prostitute and scaring her away before she approached him, he continued down the street.
The desolate, grungy feel of this place reminded him of the sounds city. He could go any where he wanted there. No one would question him and he had enjoyed a few on the finer things of life there.
Or maybe it was the drugs Kabuto gave him every time, right before he was let out that made it seem better then it was.
Sasuke grabbed his left arm kneading the tender flesh of his inner elbow. Naruto was safe and did not need him anymore. There was no reason for him to deny that he wanted it. He did not need it, but he wanted it. He wanted the betrayal of Naruto to sting less and he knew this would make it stop. The others knew about him and it did not matter, they were protecting Naruto and would continue to do so evan if he was stoned out of his gourd.
Looking down a trashed ally he saw a shady man leaning on the wall and went over to him.
It took some finagling but after he convinced the man he was Neji and not Sasuke, who he had orders not to sell to, Sasuke came out of the ally with a brown bag shoved in to one of the many pockets his pants had. Not having any where else to go he returned to the hotel and snagged a spoon from a room service cart as he passed.
Naruto and the others still had not came back from the hospital. Gai was waiting for Tsunades reply and Shino and Lee were patrolling the town for bandits. Glad to be alone, Sasuke pulled out the bag and removed the two colored balloons. Putting the contents on to the spoon he heated it up watching as it melted and turned in to the familiar clear-ish liquid. When it was done he slowly pulled the syringe plunger out to pull the fluid in to the syringe. He did not have a filter but he did not care at the moment.
He had used almost 10 cc of near pure heroin at the sound, so with this stuff not as pure he should be able to take the same amount and not worry.
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Naruto backed away from the doctor, sure he had been nice to him yesterday, but then Shijima was OK at first as well.
Neji was trying to get him to hold still but it was not working. Every time the doctor got withing 5 feet Naruto jerked away in fear. Neji was nice, but he was not Sasuke.
Finally Neji lost patience with him and picked up Naruto and carried him to the bed. When the Hyuuga held him down, Naruto started to scream and thrash trying to get away. When Kiba and Tenten came over to try and calm him, the blond broke down in to panicking hysterics. He clawed, bit and at the same time screamed and cried in fear.
He wanted Sasuke.
He wanted the bastard here with him to protect him from the awful memories. He wanted him here to scare the doctor. He wanted Sasuke to hold him to his chest so that he was only thing that he could see and feel.
Right now all he saw were hands holding him down to a bed and a dreaded white coat standing by. Red chakra seeped out and filled the room. The demon stirred from the fear of his vessel and for a moment Neji paused as Naruto grew claws and his eyes shifted in to blood red. Just as quickly Kyuubi found Naruto in no real danger and went back to sleep.
With a lunge, and Neji holding still from the wave of red chakra that had just washed over him and vanished, Naruto pushed the hands off him and rolled off the table. He made a break for the window but was intercepted. Darting away before the person at the window could grab him, he slid on the slick tiles and crashed in to the second bed in the room. The bed over turned, flinging Naruto in to a corner where he sat huddled in a little ball.
Neji tried to go near the terrified blond to calm him but Naruto would scream and cower away. Wisps of red chakra came out every scream and it was slowly tinting the room red. Nothing Neji did could get him close to Naruto. After several attempts the most pitiful wail Neji had ever heard radiated out from the blond.
“Sasukeeee.”
The stoic Hyuuga not wanting the scared teen to lose any more control over the demon, motioned for Kiba to get away from the window.
“Naruto, Sasukes at the hotel, go to Sasuke.”
“Sasukee.”
“He’s at the hotel. Go to Sasuke.”
Naruto got up and Neji backed away from him. Neji could see the tears still streaming down his face and the distant look in his eyes. Neji sighed, Naruto was lost at the moment in the horrible memories and the blond probably did not realize who they were and would not hold back if he attacked. Slowly Naruto started to move, never taking his eyes off the occupants of the room, inching over to the window and jumping out. Running at top speed as soon as he hit the roof next to the hospital, heading for the hotel and Sasuke.
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Sasuke had just pulled the needle out of his arm, when the door to the room opened. Shino marched up to him and slapped the needle out of his fumbling hands. He did not feel the sting of the slap all he saw was the needle falling to the floor. The glass’ clad teen, grabbed Sasukes collar and said something. But Sasuke could not hear him, the wonderful bliss pumped in his veins blocking out everything. Shino tried to force him to his feet but his legs refused to function at the moment.
Then there was a large green thing, standing over him. Looking up at it, Sasuke giggled. Gai looked pissed and it was funny. The green beast had throbbing veins on his forehead and a really stupid look on the round face.
Suddenly the wonderful feeling left and was replaced with a not so good one. Every muscle in his abdomen clenched at once and Sasuke gasped in pain that he was not supposed to feel.
Gai grabbed Sasuke by the oversized collar of his shirt and picked him up. Hoisting him up so high that the teens feet did not touch the floor. Gai was screaming at him but he could not hear any of it. Suddenly the green beast crushed him to the iron muscled chest in a fierce hug as tears streamed down the mans face.
Gai stopped hugging Sasuke when he felt the jerking muscles and held him out to get a better look at what was wrong with him. The raven haired teen shuttered violently then Sasuke puked all of the breakfast Naruto had made him eat, all over Gai’s arm. Dropping the teen in disgust and waving the sodden arm as he screamed, Shino called Gai to a stop as Sasuke’s whole body started to convulse.
The bug user keeled next to Sasuke and forced the handle of a kunai in to the downed teens mouth to keep him from swallowing his tongue as the seizure wracked his body.
Suddenly the balcony door was slammed open and a terrified Naruto charged in followed by Neji and company. Naruto stopped mid stride as soon as he saw Sasuke and the shape he was in, red chakra swirling around him. Neji moved passed the chakra engulfed Naruto and went to Sasuke’s side.
“What happened.”
Neji ordered, Naruto was losing control and needed this prick to help him. In a worried voice Shino answered.
“Overdose.”