Naruto Fan Fiction ❯ I'll Fight For You ❯ I Need To Depend On You ( Chapter 8 )

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I Need To Depend On You

 

“It's nothing personal really, but I need the Sharingan, and Sasuke is most prone to give in when he is mad and scared, and both will take place immediately when he sees you, if I'm correct.” The pale man smiled widely, snake fangs a little bit visible poking out over his lip.

 

He snapped his fingers again, and Naruto's eyes nearly popped out of his head as a snake slithered its way across his stomach before sliding down into his pants and wrapping around his cock. His screams involuntarily slurred into wailing moans as the snake flexed its muscles over his length, driving him crazy in a sick was that made him wish he were dead. The snake moved again, slithering further down, dragging along his ass and beginning to push into him, and Naruto panicked. He bit down far too hard and right through the snake in his mouth, the two halves falling out of his mouth as he screamed.

 

“SASUKEEEEEE!!!!”

 

Meanwhile

 

“SASUKEEEEEE!!!!”

 

Sasuke slammed his heels into the ground and rocketed to his left. He was flying he was running so fast. He'd left all their things at the camp and the fire Naruto started still burning in the trees.

 

None of that mattered.

 

Orochimaru had Naruto, and nothing else mattered.

 

Wait for me Naruto! Sasuke snarled, forcing himself forward faster. Don't do anything stupid!

 

Meanwhile

 

“SASUKEEEEEE!!!!”

 

Sakura's head whipped to the right and her eyes read the trees, but it was too far away.

 

“Didn't that sound like Naruto?” Sai asked casually.

 

“Do you think it's him Kakashi?” Sakura asked anxiously.

 

“It certainly sounded like it.” Kiba agreed. “Loud, obnoxious, no regard for forest peace.”

 

“He s-sounded scared, K-Kiba.” Hinata said quietly.

 

“Shut up.” he barked.

 

Shino remained silent.

 

Team Kakashi and Team Kurenai were returning from a combined mission of delivering two scrolls to the Hidden Village of Stone, and had gone this very unused way because of a cliff collapsing and the normal passageway back to Konoha being blocked off.

 

“We need to go see!” Sakura dashed off into the forest, forgetting every danger there was to her at the sound of her old friend's voice.

 

“Oh, Sakura.” Sai said softly, watching her go.

 

“Sakura!” Kakashi yelled, groaning as no pink hair reappeared through the trees.

 

“Oh no.” Kurenai murmured. “She can't go running off on her own like that! There are bands of rogue ninja everywhere in the forest.”

 

“I'll go get her.” Sai said before shooting off into the woods.

 

“Wait! We want to see Naruto too!” Kiba shouted after him.

 

“But K-Kiba—” Hinata reached out for him.

 

“Come on!” he grabbed her hand, making her blush furiously. “Let's go!” they shot off into the trees, Shino right beside them.

 

“Hey!” Kurenai yelled, and shared a glance with Kakashi before they both took off after their teams.

 

A Few Seconds Later

 

“Naruto!” Sasuke burst into the clearing, immediately slitting the throat of the ninja in front of him until he saw what was in front of him and skidded to a halt.

 

The rage bubbled up inside of him like a volcano, boiling and heating up at to the temperature of a lightening bolt and threatening to explode. He gritted his teeth and clenched his hand until he felt the blood dripping from the skin his nails had broken, forcing himself not to loose it. If he did, Naruto would probably take the full force of his fury. Orochimaru would throw him in the way, and it was still not figured out if he would be able to stop himself.

 

A pale hand gripped the back of Naruto's neck, but the main thing holding him in place was the horde of snakes. Tears streamed down Naruto's face, and his eyes were wide with horror but he was silent from the snakes gagging and nearly suffocating him. Sasuke felt the snarl crawling up the back of his throat.

 

He looked down in confusion at Naruto's stomach, where a seal drawn in blood was overlapping Naruto's already existing seal. The one that wasn't supposed to be visible. It was easy to figure out what was going on. The bastard had sealed off the Kyuubi, and Naruto was as helpless as a newborn baby.

 

“Sasuke, how wonderful to see you again.”

 

Sasuke looked up sharply, not at all surprised to see Kabuto's body, with Orochimaru's long tongue snaking out and licking his lips. Kabuto had never been strong enough, it was bound to happen sometime after Sasuke left, because Orochimaru's body was already too weak.

 

“You found us quickly. You aren't going for any weapons?” he chuckled eagerly. “Then you already know that your battle is lost.”

 

Sasuke's lip pulled back in a growl.

 

“Your body belongs to me Sasuke, and if you refuse, well, I'm sure I don't have to tell you what'll happen.” His finger traced down the side of Naruto's face, making the blonde shiver as he stared at Sasuke.

 

Sasuke's brow furrowed. He didn't have any other options. He couldn't use anything with the Sharingan, Naruto was too close to Orochimaru, and Orochimaru would realize he was trying to use it and kill Naruto before he could do anything, it was the same with any other jutsu.

 

“After you let Naruto go.”

 

Naruto screamed through the snakes, thrashing and writhing against his bonds until a ninja kicked him sharply in the gut, making Sasuke twitch and Naruto go limp.

 

“Not until we… seal it.” Orochimaru smirked.

 

Sasuke flinched and unconsciously took a step back. Orochimaru's face went cold and he picked Naruto up by the collar of his shirt.

 

“Alright!” Sasuke said quickly. “Just let him the hell go!”

 

Orochimaru's smirk returned quickly, and he slammed Naruto into the hands of a few of his ninja, knocking them all to the ground with the force. Naruto managed to spit the snakes out again to yell.

 

“Sasuke! Get out of here! He's going to kill you!”

 

“Dobe!” Sasuke shot back harshly. “What do you think he's going to do to you?! You can't do anything! Just get out of here before you get yourself killed by tripping or something!”

 

“Sasuk—” another snake forced itself into Naruto's mouth, and Sasuke winced at the expression of pain and terror on Naruto's face.

 

Sasuke braced himself, prepared for the impact when—

 

A snake shot up from the ground and slammed him back into the tree behind him. Nearly as thick as he was and fifteen times as long, it easily wound around him and soon had him completely immobile against the tree. What he wasn't expecting, was when the snake reared back and sunk its fangs into Sasuke's upper arm. Sasuke bit back a startled gasp as the snake began draining his chakra through his arm.

 

This was bad. Really bad. He couldn't do anything because of the kunai those monkeys had to Naruto's neck, after having recovered from him being slammed full force into them.

 

“Now, just relax.” Orochimaru seemed to mock, gliding slowly forward as his neck extended and drifted toward Sasuke. Sasuke forced his head to remain motionless as Orochimaru drifted by him and licked his lips. The long tongue slithered out and licked across Sasuke's cheek before traveling down to the junction of his neck and shoulder.

 

I shouldn't have yelled at Naruto… Sasuke thought weakly, his now very low chakra amounts taking away his energy with it.

 

Sasuke repressed a shiver and closed his eyes as Orochimaru moved closer to him, and the burning fangs sunk into his neck once again.

 

His mouth fell open with a small pained `pop' and he exhaled loudly as the fire shot up his skin again. Kyuubi's bite had been nothing like this, it was just a puncture wound, it hadn't burned like acid or some type of venom.

 

“Sasuke!”

 

Sakura? What the hell is she doing here? No, damn it, why can't they just get away?

 

“Welcome home.” Orochimaru murmured to Sasuke, going suddenly silent at the sound of tearing flesh.

 

“Don't…”

 

…Naruto…? Sasuke opened his eyes, trying to see through the haze of the pain. Naruto was… glowing bright orange, the blood melting and dripping off of his seal. He spit the shredded parts of the snakes covered in teeth marks from his mouth.

 

“Naruto?” that was Kiba. What were they all doing here?

 

“…touch…” Naruto growled.

 

Rrrrrip. More screaming, and a few ninja fell limply to the ground. Sakura shrieked at the sight.

 

“What?” Orochimaru's near horror was almost overridden by his excitement.

 

“…Sasuke!” Naruto roared, bursting into flame and shooting forward, the burning snakes and ninja that were holding onto him falling off him as their skin turn black with the flames.

 

Sasuke couldn't see, his seal was burning more than it had with Orochimaru or Kyuubi's bite. Now it wasn't acid burning, his neck was on fire, and he was blinded by the pain.

 

Screaming, and tearing flesh, the sound of fire roaring, and then blood showered Sasuke, coating him in the crimson liquid. He cried out, unable to take any more pain when claws accidentally sunk into his chest, and then the snake holding him against the tree was torn away from him, its fangs shredding through the flesh in his arm, and he was splattered with more blood that wasn't his.

 

His hand moved slowly to his neck as he slumped to the ground, trying to put out the fire on his skin, but to his actual surprise, there was no fire. It was just pain. He could feel his skin convulsing where Orochimaru had bit him, and the Kyuubi's bite was at least a thousand degrees, the heat spreading to Orochimaru's bite.

 

“N-Naruto!”

 

Hinata? Are they all here?

 

Sasuke's eyes opened slowly to the blurry world around him, and found he was face to face with a chunk of someone's severed arm.

 

“Naruto…” he gasped, trying to turn to the source of the screaming, but he was too weak from the snake draining him of his energy and chakra.

 

“Sasuke!” Sakura yelled, running toward him, already ready to heal him, the green energy swirling up her arms.

 

Naruto flew out of nowhere and slashed at her, his claws raking deep into the skin on her arm and stomach as she tried to shield herself.

 

She screamed and jumped back, the burning temperature of his claws leaving the skin smoking and black around the claw marks. She collapsed when she fell, using her energy to heal herself after she landed as Kakashi and Sai appeared in front of her.

 

Sasuke looked up as something landed above him, protecting his body with their own.

 

“Naru…to.” He winced at the heat radiating off of Naruto as the blonde crouched over him, claws gouging into the ground as he snarled at his friends, daring any of them to try and come closer.

 

“Naruto!” Kakashi yelled. “Get a hold of yourself!” he tried to take a step forward, and Naruto roared and snarled at him, arching his back in a territorial way as he crouched over Sasuke, his fangs bared like they would be at an enemy.

 

“Naruto! Sasuke's hurt, he needs medical attention!” Sakura yelled, pushing herself back to her feet and cradling her arm, which still felt like it was on fire.

 

It was easy to see the shock on their faces when Naruto didn't move from his protective position, especially because ordinarily Naruto would have snapped back at hearing that one of his teammates was hurt.

 

“Naruto.” Sasuke ground out, forcing himself up, and—ignoring the boiling heat on Naruto's skin—placed his hand on the blonde's cheek and pulled him down into a kiss.

 

Naruto's lips smoldered against his own, and Sasuke's eyes pricked at the burning the heat was causing, but he didn't let himself move. His lips seared and his hand was beginning to go numb from the sickening heat, but he didn't let himself pull away.

 

“…Sas…uke…”

 

Sasuke's eyes opened, meeting Naruto's eyes as they slowly bled back to the perfect blue and the heat died down, relieving his hand from setting on fire.

 

“Whoa.” Kiba said quietly.

 

“Sasuke?” Sakura whimpered.

 

“Naruto?” Sasuke whispered. “Are you…?”

 

Everything was silent, and then Naruto gritted his teeth and leapt back, yanking away from Sasuke's hand.

 

“Na—ahh!” Sasuke shot into a sitting position before crying out again in the pain, and sinking back to the ground, clutching at his neck.

 

“Sasuke.” Sakura whispered, running up behind him and holding him up against her chest so he could see Naruto.

 

“…Y…you promised.” Naruto whimpered, shaking his head slowly as he stared into Sasuke's eyes.

 

“N-Naruto…” Hinata whispered, her hand still held tightly in Kiba's as the slowly approached.

 

“…Was it… just words? Uchiha pride.” Naruto scoffed, his anger beginning to break through his fear. “I suppose killing your brother wiped out the last of whatever pride you had left, along with trying to kill your home. And now… after everything… all those promises… everything… you went and fucking gave yourself to him!”

 

“Naru—” Sasuke began weakly.

 

“To be used by him! You walked right into his arms, willingly! What the hell is wrong with you?! Where would that leave me?! If you went and died…I'd…!” he staggered back slowly.

 

“Na—”

 

“Please don't.” Naruto cut him off again. “I'm begging you, just… please don't say anything.” Naruto bit his lip, and a single tear traced down his cheek before a whirlwind of fire flared up around him, and then he was gone.

 

“Naruto.” Sasuke shook his head desperately. No, no, no, he can't… he can't just leave! “Naruto!”

 

“Sasuke, you need to stay still, you're hurt—”

 

Again. He'd let Naruto leave again. Naruto needed someone, and Sasuke had just… let him go. He still wasn't good enough. He still wasn't strong enough. He wasn't even strong enough… to protect one boy.

 

“DAMN IT!!!” Sasuke roared, his burnt palm fisting and slamming into the ground before he blacked out.

 

XXX

 

White.

 

Lots of white.

 

Where the hell did all of this white come from?

 

Sasuke rolled his head limply to the side and was finally able to conclude that he was in a hospital, and because he had recently been near Konoha ninjas, he could also conclude that he was in a Konoha hospital.

 

Aw fuck.

 

He'd been here too many times after leaving. Leaving. It was supposed to mean that! And not coming back!

 

He sucked in a breath as his hand reached up, but he already knew he was going to find it there. Yep, the collar he'd been put in in the cell, and it had completely sealed off his chakra. He also had the separate cuffs, the ones not connected by chains between them on his wrists to make sure his chakra was kept sealed.

 

“Are you awake?” the nurse poked her head into his room.

 

“No.” Sasuke snapped. He needed time to think, and he under no circumstances wanted to talk to anyone right now. Especially not—

 

“SASUKE!!” Sakura shrieked, racing into his room, skidding up to his bed, flinging herself into his chest, wrapping her arms around his neck and then proceeding to blubber like a two year old into his shoulder. God hated him.

 

“You have visitors.” The nurse laughed. “How are you feeling? You've been unconscious for a week. What ever happened out there must have been traumatic, because your injuries weren't that bad.”

 

Damn it, can't they just go the hell away?

 

“Sasuke! Are ok?!” Sakura practically screamed, soaking his shirt with her tears.

 

I was until you got here.

 

He grunted.

 

“Thank god!” she blubbered.

 

That was not a yes.

 

“You were so burned up by Naruto, your hand was black! I thought they were going to have to amputate it!”

 

“That's the worst of my problems right now Sakura.” Sasuke grumbled.

 

“…What?” she sat back quickly.

 

“Orochimaru put his seal on me again, a burn isn't really important.” Sasuke snapped. “He has control over me again and I don't know how Aniki released me from it. I'm a puppet again.”

 

“But…” Sakura's eyes traced over his neck before reaching out and touching Kyuubi's fang marks, making him flinch, as they were still painful from the way they had been burning, “you mean this? Did he change the seal?” He called his brother… Aniki.

 

“People don't change seals Sakura.” He said slowly, trying to be patient. Anger would just drain more of his energy.

 

“But Sasuke…” she reached into her pocket and fished around a little before pulling out a small powder compact, flipped it open and handed it to him.

 

Sasuke took it weakly, tilting his head the necessary inch the see his neck. There was nothing. The only mark on his neck was the Kyuubi's mark, Orochimaru hadn't even left teeth marks in him, or even a scar.

 

You are marked as mine Uchiha, no one else's.

 

That was what the Kyuubi had said after biting him, and with that, Sasuke was slowly able to piece together what had happened.

 

The Kyuubi's mark had overpowered Orochimaru's cursed seal. He wasn't going to be a prisoner to Orochimaru again.

 

“And what about Orochimaru? Did he get away?” What was he asking for? Of course the snake man had—

 

“Actually, Naruto was… sort of…” Sakura stumbled over her words as she tried to find one that would fit the way Naruto had acted.

 

“The word you want is deranged.” Kiba supplied, appearing in the doorway with Hinata by his side. She had her hands clenched up by her chest and was practically hiding behind Kiba. “First he tried to burn Orochimaru to a crisp, and then when Orochimaru tried to move away, Naruto tore him limb from limb before we could even blink and then incinerated everything that had once been Orochimaru.” Kiba shivered. “Kind of weird to see Naruto doing something like that, seemed like more of your thing.”

 

“Kiba!” Sakura shrieked in Sasuke's defense, but Sasuke wasn't even listening anymore.

 

Naruto had killed Orochimaru, and he wasn't sealed, but he was also tied down to a Konoha hospital bed and… Naruto was gone. Sasuke gritted his teeth, his burnt hand clenching until it hurt so much that it had gone numb.

 

“Was anyone able to see where he went?” Sasuke cut off whoever was speaking, not giving a damn what they were talking about or even who was talking. What was the point in wondering anyway? Exactly, there wasn't one.

 

“…No.” Sakura whispered sadly. “Kakashi says that wasn't jutsu he used, it was the fox's chakra, so he couldn't trace it. And Naruto relocated too far away to even sense his chakra.”

 

“Shit.” Kiba grumbled, his hand reaching up and running through his brown, spiky hair. “We just find him, and then you have to go and chase him off again. Brilliant Uchiha, just splendid.”

 

“KIBA!” Sakura shrieked, but in all honesty, Kiba was right.

 

“…Y…you promised…was it… just words? After everything… all those promises… everything… you went and fucking gave yourself to him! To be used by him! You walked right into his arms, willingly! What the hell is wrong with you?! Where would that leave me?! If you went and died…I'd…!”

 

Sasuke bit his lip, his eyes hiding behind his bangs as he battered his emotions down. He couldn't let himself feel anything, he needed to be numb, just for now, because he had to get out of here.

 

“Uchiha.”

 

Four pairs of eyes looked up to the door, where Tsunade was standing as calmly as she could, though her hands were trembling slightly, and her smile was without a doubt forced. (AKA: it looked like she was trying to convince herself that killing him was not the best option here.)

 

“…I've been told you found Naruto?” she asked, her voice dangerously strained.

 

Sasuke didn't answer.

 

“…And that you… no longer know where his is, is that correct?” again, very unstable.

 

…

 

“I'm looking for an answer, Uchiha.” Her smile was no longer existent. She was loosing it.

 

“…Yes, I found Naruto, and yes, I no longer know where he is.” Sasuke said flatly, only restating what she'd said and nothing more.

 

Her eyebrow ticked, her forced smile back in place. “Do you have any idea where he might be?” she ground out through gritted teeth.

 

“…No.” That wasn't a lie. He had absolutely no idea where Naruto would be now.

 

Her eyebrow ticked again, multiple times. “…I see. Well, in any event, your trial will be tomorrow, so I suggest you get as much rest as you can until then.” She backed out of his room, looking like she was still trying to refrain herself from turning momentarily into a vampire and biting through his throat before slamming the door, and the only sound after that was her shoes as they clicked away down the hospital hallway.

 

“Well, um, we'll let you sleep then…” Kiba said, slowly coming back from his cowering over at the wall, his hand was still protectively in Hinata's, but when the nurse poked her head back in, they quickly dropped the hold.

 

“Do you want some sleep medication, or are you going to try on your own? The Hokage wants you to sleep.”

 

“I'll try on my own.” Thank you very much; now get the hell out of here so I can think.

 

“Sasuke, I'll come back later to bring you some food.” Sakura stepped over to his bed as two ANBU walked into the room, taking up their position as guards by the window, their eyes trained on him.

 

“Hn.”

 

She bit her lip at his coldness, but he honestly didn't give a damn, and not nearly soon enough, she left the room with Kiba and Hinata.

 

Sasuke looked at his bonds through the reflection of the window. He had the cuffs and collar on, and there was a seal on the window and the back of the door to keep him from leaving.

 

He would have to take out the guards manually, and if he did it quick enough, when they weren't expecting it the most, then all he had to do was wait until someone opened the door from the outside and then he could make a break for it. But what about the chains? Tsunade would probably have the key… no, if there was any sort of emergency with his body, like if he went into a relapse (he snorted mentally) then someone in the hospital would need the keys to be able to get him free in time to help him.

 

It wouldn't be anyone that saw him regularly, that would be too risky, and the head of the hospital would be too obvious. It also wouldn't be any of the nurses, they were too low in the food chain, so to speak, and it had to be someone high enough up that the head trusted them. Well, when he got free of this room, he could worry about that later. But…

 

Sasuke looked inconspicuously at the cuffs on his wrists. They were manual locks, and had no jutsu on them… maybe if he found something small and strong enough, he could just pick the lock. It would have to be something like a syringe.

 

If he took out the ANBU, and then called in the nurse for those sleep medications, which would most likely need to be injected, he could easily take out the nurse and then pick the lock on the cuffs and the collar. After that, he could just blow through the wall and escape, he didn't even need to go through the hospital, and after that… well, he'd escaped this village three times already, twice under lock and key, it would be no problem getting out.

 

Meanwhile

 

Feet padded slowly across the floor, and wary eyes glanced between the scroll in front of them and the hallways around them. It was dangerous for the boy in his room to be here. No one could know that the boy was staying with him right this second.

 

Gaara glanced around again before turning sharply right and continuing his swift walk down his hallway. His hallway, no one else was allowed here, but that didn't stop Kankuro and Temari from the occasional `stroll' down here where no one else dared go.

 

Gaara flicked his finger, and the sand holding the scroll out in front of him as he walked slid it open more, and he continued reading.

 

At first, it hadn't seemed possible, but after what Naruto had described to him, and because of the nine tail's strange chakra abilities, it was really beginning to sound plausible.

 

Gaara scanned the dark hallway again before ducking quickly into his room, rolling his eyes at the flash of blonde hair as Naruto raced to hide. It probably would have been invisible to anyone else, but he'd been expecting it.

 

“It's just me, idiot.” Gaara grumbled, waving his hand and the sand from the floor rose up and barricaded the door, blocking off all sound travel between his room and the outside. He did the windows next, and then the walls too just incase, and the created the eyes of sand outside the door and the windows. It was seriously dangerous, Naruto being here, no one could know that he was hiding here. Many of the villagers were still a little scared of Gaara even though he'd had Shukaku removed from him long ago—the sand abilities were very powerful—but having two people who were both unstable in Suna would just freak them out, and worse then that would be the spreading rumors that might eventually lead unwanted enemies here.

 

.… Speaking of which, where the hell was he?

 

Gaara looked around, only to groan when he saw nothing. With a wave of his hand, the sand swirled up, and slid open the closet door, sending Naruto crashing to the ground from off of the top shelf.

 

“Ow.” He mumbled, sitting up and rubbing his head.

 

“It's just me.” Gaara repeated impatiently, moving to sit on his bed where Naruto quickly joined him, leaning over his shoulder to read from the scroll the sand was holding up.

 

“Cursed Ninjutsu, Senjutsu, and Kekkei genkais. Gaara, what's that going to do to help me?”

 

Gaara refrained from groaning again. “Things like this don't just happen on their own Naruto, it had to be some sort of jutsu or manipulation of chakra.”

 

“Well, yeah, I know that.” Naruto said, acting exasperated for some reason. “But if it's already happened, what's the point of researching how it may or may not have happened, if it already has?”

 

To say Gaara was surprised would be an understatement. Naruto's question actually had a point to it, but still, it was a dumb question.

 

“If it has happened—which I'm still not entirely convinced of—then we need to know any sort of risks that may or may not take place with the jutsu.” He mimicked Naruto in a high-pitched, squeaky voice just to annoy him. Naruto riled up was funny, and being Hokage, laughs were often hard to come by.

 

“Hey!” Naruto snapped, shooting up out of the bed. “I had a reason to ask—”

 

“Shh.” Gaara hushed him suddenly, holding up one finger. He'd covered his hallway in sand—completely covered, on the walls, ceiling, ground, and even left some grains of sand floating in the air—to feel when anyone was coming toward them, and some of the sand had been shifted.

 

“Gaara?” Temari knocked on the door. “Are you in there?”

 

“What? I can't hear anything.” Naruto whispered.

 

“Of course you can't hear, idiot, I blocked off the door, now shut up so I can hear.” Gaara hissed.

 

“Gaara? I thought I saw some fire off in the distance, is Naruto here?”

 

After a few minutes of Temari waiting for him to answer, Gaara could feel her walking away across the sand and he lowered the hand signaling for Naruto to stay silent.

 

“I though you couldn't use the sand anymore…” Naruto scratched his head.

 

“It's a type of Senjutsu,” Gaara explained after another moment of listening, “I was already `harmonized' with the sand because of the demon, so using it with my own chakra was fairly easy, and it just became easier over time.”

 

“Oh.”

 

“What? You can use fire right? From the nine tails?”

 

“Well, I could, but my chakra's been fucked up as of late, and I can't figure out why. I had perfect control—I'm serious!” he barked at Gaara's skeptical face. “I had perfect control, and then we merged and it went kaboom, literally! I destroyed my apartment building and part of the hospital!”

 

“I know, you've told me before.” Gaara looked back at the book, skimming over the words, looking for one thing in particular.

 

“Well then—”

 

“Here,” Gaara cut him off, pointing to a paragraph in the book.

 

“What?” Naruto walked over to him.

 

“It's a jutsu to artificially inseminate a living creature, this is most often used in couples where one of the two is infertile.”

 

“…What?” Naruto put his pinky in his ear and twisted it back and forth.

 

Gaara rolled his eyes. “The fox…” he looked over the paragraph again, “created a chakra womb inside of you, and then knocked you up.”

 

“…The Kyuubi knocked me up?” Naruto squeaked, horror flooding his face.

 

“It doesn't make sense though…” Gaara paused for a minute, “you've been merged with him for months now, why would he wait this long to do this?”

 

“Maybe he was waiting until I could handle it?” Naruto's face was as white as snow, which said something considering how tan he usually was.

 

“You don't look like you can handle it.” Gaara pointed out.

 

Naruto shook his head frantically. “I don't feel like it either.” He squeaked.

 

“So if that wasn't it…” dawning flashed across Gaara's face, and instantly, he was unbelievably sorry for Naruto, because he just had a hunch, but if it was true…

 

“Naruto, after you and Sasuke were traveling with each other… did anything happen between you two?” he asked flatly, unwilling to show his emotions, even to his best friend.

 

Naruto went from snow white to fire engine red in about 0.2 seconds, and ducked his head in a futile attempt to hide it.

 

“Well… we sort of…”

 

“Did you and him engage sexually in anyway?”

 

Naruto was still, and then slowly, as if the movement caused him actual pain, he nodded.

 

“Then that means the Kyuubi didn't knock you up.” Gaara murmured, mostly to himself.

 

“He didn't?” Naruto was serious, Gaara felt his face deadpan.

 

“No, I think he was waiting for the Uchiha prick's powers. If he had to reproduce anyway, and he had to do it through a human, limiting the power the babies would get, then it makes sense that he would want to have the strongest and most available partner.”

 

“But then…” Naruto pulled up his shirt and looked at his stomach. If he was `on time', then he should have been about 8 weeks along now, and a little bit of a bump was just barely beginning to poke out of his middle. He touched it curiously. It was… hard, not soft like skin at all, it felt more like he'd swallowed a rock.

 

“I'm carrying… Sasuke's children?” Naruto whispered.

 

“Irony's a bitch.” Gaara grumbled. “And irony seems to hate us jinchuuriki the most.”

 

“But you aren't one anymore.”

 

“I was.”

 

Naruto nodded slowly, looking back down at his stomach.

 

“Gaara, um…”

 

“Yeah?” Gaara prompted gently.

 

“I need… I need to depend on you.” Naruto said, aggravatingly slowly. “B-Because… I couldn't for him… I need to let go… I can't… he's not… for me… he isn't…”

 

Gaara got up slowly and sat down next to Naruto, knowing what was coming next. “You don't know that he's not right for you.” I don't think he is either, but if I say that, Naruto will pitch himself out of my window.

 

Naruto gave a nod, and a shaky breath escaped his throat before he exploded in sobs, throwing his arms around Gaara's neck.

 

“He'll come looking for you soon, and when he does, we'll find out if he really cares about you or not, all right?” he gave Naruto and awkward pat on the back. He was not a people person.

 

“But what if he doesn't?” Naruto wailed into his shoulder.

 

Gaara paused. “Then you can stay here. Naruto, people care about you, even if that bastard doesn't. You gave me a reason to want to live… I want you to depend on me… even if he doesn't.”

 

Naruto nodded, and another waterlogged sob burst from his throat, and then he was bawling again.

 

Gaara's fury shot through the roof, and the sand on the floor rippled uneasily with his anger.

 

Damn you Uchiha, you will suffer for what you did to him.

 

 

 

 

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