Naruto Fan Fiction ❯ I'll Fight For You ❯ Driven ( Chapter 10 )

[ X - Adult: No readers under 18. Contains Graphic Adult Themes/Extreme violence. ]

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Driven

Sasuke sat quietly on Gaara's bed, silently combing through Naruto's hair with his fingers as he stared down at the sleeping angelic face.

Flashback

Sasuke bit deep into his lip, drawing blood in his frustration.

Shit, I have to get by Gaara without hurting him… There was a very high chance that Naruto wouldn't ever want to see him again if he even touched Gaara. Naruto had very strong feelings about his friends getting hurt.

Sasuke crouched lower, his eyes flicking between his surroundings and the huge ball of floating sand in front of him. He was not in a good position, he was surrounded by sand, fighting a sand-wielder, and it was on Gaara's territory to boot.

Sneaking in had been a bust, he'd gotten halfway to the tower when Gaara had appeared out of nowhere in front of him, saying something about how he didn't have the right to see Naruto, and that people like him should be drowned in their own ego to finally be forced to understand how much they hurt others.

And the second Sasuke had tried to get into Gaara's mind to just play a few mental tricks for a moment and then move on his way, the damned-to-hell sand ninja had sealed himself inside a giant ball of his sand, effectively cutting off the needed direct connection between their eyes, and Sasuke couldn't use the giant eye made of sand to hypnotize Gaara. He was going to use the Mangekyo to melt the sand into glass, but it was too hot, and not to mention unstable and extremely dangerous. He would just melt the Kazekage too.

End Flashback

Naruto sighed contently, resting in Sasuke's lap with his head laid carefully on Sasuke's shoulder. He murmured something unintelligible in his half-slumber and then went back to drooling on Sasuke's shoulder as he slept.

Flashback

“Bastards like you have no right to destroy the lives of others.” Gaara's voice echoed from the ball of sand across the sand dunes. “You've hurt Naruto more than you, who is as cold as the dark side of the moon, could ever understand.”

Sasuke snarled, leaping into the air and flipping back and forth away from the crushing grip of the deadly sand that wanted to taste his blood.

He couldn't do anything, not without hurting Gaara. He'd never had a reason to learn to fight someone without hurting them, he was a ninja, ninja fought to kill, not to be pacifists and never give anyone so much as a bruise, but Naruto was so attached to the insane redhead, fighting without hurting someone was exactly what Sasuke had to do.

End Flashback

The redhead continued to stand guard, leaning against the door with his gourd of sand between him and the wood. His gaze was deathly, and was frankly making Sasuke's skin stand on end as Gaara never looked away from them, keeping a never-ending watch over Naruto.

Flashback

“Just let me talk to him!” Sasuke roared.

“That is the last thing you will be doing.” Gaara's voice echoed from inside of the ball and the sand over the city rippled, anxious to attack the Uchiha again. “What you will be doing, is dying.”

Sasuke snarled and leapt over another wave of sand, looking down sharply as it wrapped around his ankle and flung him back into the walls of the nearest building. Sasuke shoved himself out of the wall, dashing down the sandstone and to the ground before the sand in the building could grab him. He'd seen the sand coffin before, and had no desire to witness it first-hand.

“Naruto needs to hear what I have to say!”

“What he needs is you out of his life to stop hurting him.” Gaara spoke in his monotone voice, the sand launching and twisting for Sasuke as he managed to dodge it.

“Naruto's here?” Temari asked quietly from down below on the streets with the other ninja and Kankuro. Her fan was open beside her and Kankuro's puppet was standing beside him, waiting for orders, all of the ninja of the city ready to step into the battle to help despite how the darkness of night made it nearly invisible.

Sasuke swore as Gaara remained silent and charged the ball, his anger overthrowing him as the chidori sparked and glowed in his palm. He flipped over the sand, smashing through it with the excess energy of the attack, and launched himself at the floating sand orb, winding his hand back and throwing the chidori at the Kazekage.

He flipped back, avoiding the gathering villagers that had come to watch the battle and landed on a roof of one of the few wooden buildings, keeping him safe from the sand for the moment.

The chidori rocketed for Gaara, hidden deep within his shield, and the sand whirled up around it, spiraling and trying to throw the chidori off track.

End Flashback

Sasuke's skin prickled again as he shifted to lean up against the headboard, signaling that Gaara was glaring death at him. He ignored it as best he could and adjusted Naruto across his lap, putting the blonde in a more comfortable position so his shoulder wasn't digging painfully into Sasuke's collarbone, threatening to bruise it.

“Gaara.”

“……………………Ye s?” Gaara answered slowly, his bone chilling voice barely making it across the room he spoke so quietly.

“With the Shukaku, did you have sides?” Sasuke looked up at him, meeting the icy eyes for the first time.

“……Sides?” he repeated slowly.

Flashback

The sand continued to swirl up around the chidori, and began to shoot up in its way, slowing the momentum down as it burned through the masses of sand, and eventually, the whirlwind and the sand in the way slowed the chidori enough to ricochet it up into the sky.

Sasuke swore, forced to admit that Gaara would have also gotten better along with Naruto in the time he was gone, it wouldn't be as easy as blowing a hole through the sand anymore.

The only way…

“Let me talk to him!” Sasuke shouted up at the eye of sand. “If he doesn't want to see me, I'll leave!”

Gaara remained silent, and another thought occurred to Sasuke.

“I'm not here to bring him to Akatsuki! I've been traveling with him for weeks! I would have done it eons ago if that was my reason! I wouldn't have waited until the idiot was being hidden from me!”

Slowly, the sand around the ball began to disperse, leaving a small hole where Gaara's ice blue eyes stared through, seeming to bore into his soul.

That was it, if Gaara didn't let him through to Naruto, Sasuke wasn't going to hold back anymore. No one but no one was going to keep Naruto away from him, not even the Dobe himself. Gaara could go to hell along with Naruto's caring for him.

Gaara's sand whirled up out of nowhere and encased Sasuke's legs and arms, leaving one his head free to movement.

The sand in front of his feet twisted into a slow whirlpool and Gaara rose out of the center, sand running off of his head like an hourglass.

“If he doesn't want to see me, I'll leave.” Sasuke repeated, firmer this time, staring back unblinkingly into Gaara's eyes.

Slowly, Gaara nodded, and the sand rose up, carrying Sasuke like a hung bear over the city and lowered him through a window, setting him on the floor and sliding off of him, though it remained at the window behind him, guarding him.

Naruto was sitting on the bed, and jolted up like 14,000 volts had been sent through the sheets when he saw Sasuke, staring with almost horror back at Uchiha, though he seemed to relax when Gaara again rose out of the sand in the floor. That hurt the most, that Naruto didn't feel safe around him.

“Naruto.”

Said blonde backed up more, until his back was almost against the wall.

He didn't know what to say. He was waiting for Naruto's tirade, but if Naruto said nothing, then Gaara would shatter his spine through his neck from behind.

Naruto was quivering, that was his only reaction so far since—

“YAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!” Naruto launched himself as Sasuke, colliding and smashing back into the wall, pummeling his fists into Sasuke's gut and punching Sasuke across the face, intent on leaving some bruises, if not some broken bones.

“You—” punch “—stupid—” thwack “—double-crossing—”

“Naru—oomph!” Sasuke began, only to be cut off with a knee in his gut.

“—idiot—” kick “—bastard—” pow “—son of a—” wham “—SNAKE!” Naruto roared, throwing punches and kicks every pause in his breath. Meanwhile, Gaara stood up against the wall, one eye raised in amusement as he watched Naruto pound Sasuke.

“Naruto!” Sasuke attacked back, flipping Naruto over onto his back and trying to pin his arms down. Naruto yelled out and lashed forward, sinking his appearing fangs into Sasuke's arm.

“AH!” Sasuke yanked back, giving Naruto the time he needed to flip them again and continue battering him.

“What the hell were you thinking?!” Naruto's hands were heating up with his rage, leaving fist marks not only stinging, but burning too. “Did you think Orochimaru was just going to welcome you back and ask you to bring him teaevery now and then?!”

Sasuke's fist struck out, catching Naruto sharply across the cheek and sending him flying back. Naruto could hit hard, but when the blonde hit him he couldn't go any further back into the floor, but Naruto had the entire room behind him to go when was hit. As Sasuke flew at Naruto again, he saw Gaara shift beside him, ready to jump in and snap Sasuke's neck if the occasion arose, as he seemed rather eager to do it already.

Naruto flipped himself in midair and latched into the wall with his claws, clinging into the sand and snarling in his rage.

Sasuke made one move to get back up and Naruto rocketed forward, slamming into Sasuke again and sending them sprawling across the floor.

“He wanted to rape you! Damn it, you're such an idiot! Didn't you get that `I want your body' had more than one meaning?!?!”

“And you know this how?” Sasuke dodged another particularly vicious punch, ducking around Naruto's kick next.

“I could smell it, alright?!” Naruto roared, fury heating up more at Sasuke's perplexed face. “The damn fox and his damned hyper senses?! Remember?! He took one look at you and the arousal in the area shot through the roof and only got higher when you agreed to give your body to him!!”

“His snakes were all over you, idiot—oww!” Sasuke yelled as another punch hit his chest, knocking the wind out of him.

“I'm the idiot?!?! I was the entrée, you were the main fucking course!!

“Jealous?” Sasuke smirked, stiffening when Naruto grabbed his collar. Naruto growled for another second, and Gaara took a step closer, ready to separate them forcibly if need be, when Naruto yanked Sasuke forward, slamming their lips together.

Naruto pulled back to rest his forehead against Sasuke's chest, his grip still tight on Sasuke's shirt, incoherent mumbles of “stupid” and “bastard” could be heard from Naruto, but that was the only sound in the room.

Later

Sasuke sat quietly on Gaara's bed, silently combing through Naruto's hair with his fingers as he stared down at the sleeping angelic face.

“Gaara.”

“……………………Ye s?” Gaara answered slowly, his bone chilling voice barely making it across the room he spoke so quietly.

“With the Shukaku, did you have sides?” Sasuke looked up at him, meeting the icy eyes for the first time.

“……Sides?” he repeated slowly.

“When Naruto… looses himself, there's different side he goes into.” Sasuke continued. “One side, his first side, is himself. The obnoxious, loud, idiot who has bad chakra control.”

Out of the corner of his eye, he saw Gaara smirk.

“The second side, is the Kyuubi itself. I've seen it come out a few times when Naruto was asleep, but Naruto's body stayed the same.”

If Gaara was unnerved by that fact, he hid it very well, so Sasuke continued.

“The third was like… now. When he's mad and starts to leak the fox's chakra. And then I've only seen his fourth side once, when he got mad at Orochimaru and attacked him; he attacked Sakura too. It was just the Kyuubi's power and a… lust for killing.” That didn't sound right when he was talking about Naruto.

“…I think I had sides like that, I don't remember much of it though, except being angry, and needing to taste blood.” Gaara said finally.

Sasuke nodded slowly and shifted the sleeping Naruto again so he was leaning comfortably against the wall behind the bed.

Good bloody lord he was tired, he hadn't slept since leaving Konoha because it had been so damn cold. He and Naruto had been in the south when they were traveling together, so no snow had been affecting their sleeping patterns, and on top of that, he didn't waste time with sleeping during traveling to Suna to get Naruto back for the fear that Naruto would leave Suna again and he would have to try and find Naruto out of the entire damn country again.

Dodging Gaara's attacks without fighting back had also been draining, and added to the fact that his sleep before leaving in Konoha had left him exhausted because of that dream, it was like he hadn't slept in six days.

Sasuke bit back a yawn, and settled for just closing his eyes instead.

Just for a second…

Later

“You can drop the act now Naruto, he's asleep.”

Naruto cracked an eye and looked curiously up at Sasuke, making sure the raven was really asleep before easing up out of his lap and back onto the bed, being careful not to jostle anything or risk waking Sasuke.

“So you don't sleep anymore?”

Naruto scratched his head sheepishly. “Not since he said the Kyuubi comes out when I do. You know… too dangerous. It's hard though…”

Gaara nodded, keeping still against the wall.

“I thought I was going to loose it, earlier.” Naruto stared blankly at the wall where large gouge marks from his claws were very visible, his hands draped limply across his knees.

“I thought I was going to have to forcibly restrain you.”

Naruto glared at his friend's sadistic face—who was enjoying the idea far too much—not yelling only because he didn't want to wake Sasuke.

“You're having way too much fun with this.” He accused, crossing his arms childishly.

“Believe it.” Gaara said smugly, moving to the door.

“…Y-You're going?” Naruto's voice was small and frail. Gaara felt the anger bubbling up inside of him again at the sound of it. Damn the Uchiha to hell and back seven times! If he hadn't given himself to the snake man to be killed, then Naruto would still be his same idiot self minus his most recent abandonment issues.

“I was just going to keep watch outside the door. Only Temari and Kankuro know you're here, the other villagers thought you left. I don't think it would be good if they knew he”—he shot Sasuke a glare—“was here, especially after the fight.”

Naruto nodded, scooting back over to Sasuke's side and laying his head against the raven's shoulder.

“…Gaara…?” he asked after a while.

Naruto sighed, moving right along to the question when Gaara didn't answer.

“How am I going to tell him?” Naruto asked quietly, playing with a loose string on Sasuke's shirt nervously. “About…” he looked pointedly at his stomach, unable to say it out loud.

Naruto sighed again when Gaara didn't answer.

“…He might just notice after a while.” Gaara said finally.

“…Notice?” Naruto blinked.

“Have you seen anyone pregnant recently Naruto?” Gaara rolled his eyes. “The huge stomach? The enormous appetite—”

“I have!” Naruto defended himself haughtily.

“Don't wake him, I can't deal with anymore of him for the moment.” Gaara growled, glaring at Sasuke again.

“Uh… right.” Naruto unconsciously inched closer to Sasuke in an almost protective way.

“So you aren't going to ditch him again?” it was clear Gaara disapproved about him staying with Sasuke.

“………The bastard's important to me.” Naruto said quietly. “I know you don't like him, but… he sees me for me Gaara, not for the fox… a lot like you.”

Gaara stiffened visibly at the mention of him being anything like Sasuke, but remained silent.

“Gaara…? Um…”

“What?”

“Can we stay here? Just for a little bit? It's a long way back to the south and Sasuke doesn't like the snow or the cold and we can't go back to Konoha—”

“Fine.” Gaara cut him off, pulling open the door as he spoke to Naruto over his shoulder. “I'll have something set up for you, but only so long as you stay hidden from the rest of the villagers. They like you, but him…” Gaara seemed to be trying to spit venom at Sasuke through his glare. “And if you're both going to be here, it would be better if you were both staying hidden.”

“Thank you Gaara!” Naruto yelled as loud as he could in a whisper, leaping across the bed and latching onto Gaara in a tight hug, missing the annoyed, but happy smile of the Kazekage as his friend buried his face in his back.

“You both have to keep you chakra nonexistent.” Gaara's face was stoic again, and he shot Sasuke another glare before detangling himself from Naruto's arms.

“Thank you—”

Gaara's hand over his mouth cut him off abruptly as Sasuke stirred to the loud noise, but thankfully went back to his motionless sleep after a moment.

“Quiet.” Gaara hissed dangerously. Naruto nodded quickly, prying Gaara's hand off his mouth so he could breathe.

“I'll swear a small group of maids to secrecy and assign them to you, they'll get you anything you need so you wont have to leave your room, and…” he gave his bed a disgusted look, “don't do anything with him in here, I'm already going to have to burn that bed because he touched it, I don't want to have to incinerate this room too.”

Naruto blushed a deep shade of red, going into `statue mode' as the Kazekage left to make the arrangements. He sighed and looked back at Sasuke, surprised—in the least—to see that Sasuke's expression was relaxed… peaceful, almost.

After months spent traveling with him over the years—before and after Sasuke had left—Naruto had gotten accustomed to Sasuke's pained and stern face when he slept, but now, for some reason, Sasuke almost looked… happy.

Naruto broke into a huge grin and switched to `stealth mode', calling on his chakra, but making sure to keep it invisible, crawled up carefully onto the bed. He got onto his knees and slid his arms at snail pace under Sasuke, making sure his head would stay in the same place as he lifted the raven, and switched their positions, settling Sasuke like a China doll across his lap, with Sasuke's head resting on the crook of his neck.

And for the second time, after discovering that he could smell unwanted visitors and some emotions, he thanked the Kyuubi for his powers and chakra.

“Well bastard,” Naruto whispered, burying his face in Sasuke's ebony hair, “I finally did it. I saved you. You saved me from the Kyuubi, and I saved you from Orochimaru.”

He still didn't quite remember what had happened, it was all just a red fiery blur in his mind, but he knew that Orochimaru was dead. He remembered his claws sinking through the freak's heart.

“You save me from my monster, and I'll save you from yours.”

XXX

More blackness.

More darkness.

Sasuke looked around, but he could see nothing.

He was beginning to hate the darkness.

He hated how you couldn't see anything.

He hated the numb feeling.

He hated the vulnerable feeling.

He hated the aloneness.

He used to find comfort in the dark.

It was quiet.

Calming.

Peaceful.

But now it was just another pain.

Another source of hurt.

And it seemed… the blackness wasn't going away.

The blank feeling wasn't leaving any time soon.

And he was still alone.

“Aniki…” Sasuke whispered into the darkness.

There had been a time when Sasuke always turned to his brother for comfort.

A time when his mother would tell him things would turn out fine in the end.

And he vaguely remembered a time when his father told him once that he knew Sasuke would be a great ninja.

But Sasuke was unsure of that now.

There was just pain.

There was just nothingness.

He was alone.

He was always alone.

A light flashed somewhere in the distance, and Sasuke opened his eyes to a field.

Bright blue sky, grass rustling in the light breeze, and flowers.

Sasuke huffed.

Flowers were just an annoyance that girls had once asked him to give them on Valentines Day.

Just something to hate.

“Wow!”

Sasuke looked up in confusion to the new voice, someone was here with him?

A little way off stood two people, young people, judging from their size.

He took an unconscious step towards them, and then the second spoke, his voice much more disinterested.

“They're just flowers.”

It was his voice, a younger him, long before he'd left the village. He could see his bored stance, standing with his hands in his pockets as he stared out over the field, acting as if watching the clouds would be more interesting than standing in a field of flowers.

“Yeah, but look at how many there are!” the second stood up, throwing his hands into the air.

It was Naruto, a younger Naruto.

“They're just flowers Naruto.” The young Sasuke repeated, turning to walk back into the forest. Sasuke's brow furrowed painfully. The forest was so dark… and he wasn't old enough yet to know to not walk into the darkness. This Sasuke before him hadn't suffered through anything yet.

“Sasuke, look at this!” Naruto raced off into the field, pushing aside the waist high flowers as he ran.

“Naruto, we have to go back.” The young Sasuke paused at the edge of the forest, rolling his eyes as Naruto continued running.

The young Sasuke waited for a moment, groaning when nothing orange or blonde ran back over the hill into their view. Sasuke felt his feet following the younger Sasuke as he went to go retrieve Naruto, but he felt oddly… disconnectedfrom his body.

“Naruto! We can't be late!” young Sasuke yelled out from the top of the hill. Sasuke stepped up to his younger version's side, but he seemed invisible to everyone in this world.

“Naruto?” young Sasuke looked around, pulling his hands out of his pockets as he continued to walk down the hill. Sasuke recognized it immediately as what he used to do when he was nervous, to take his hands out of his pockets and clench them, Sasuke's lips pressed into a straight line; it was probably because he wanted to hit something, to release his nervousness.

“Naruto!” the younger Sasuke shouted, walking faster as he continued to look.

He stopped at the edge of a small river and looked out over the surface, shimmering in the sun, before turning back to the field.

“Naruto!” his younger version shouted, breaking into a run. Night was falling, and fast too. The field was getting too black to see in.

Sasuke ran after his younger self, who he estimated to be twelve or so, just after they'd formed group seven. But what were he and Naruto doing out this late? It was well past the time when Kakashi would have sent them home, declaring whatever mission they had that day over.

“Naruto!” he heard himself shout, the anger beginning to be noticeable in his voice.

Sasuke looked to the surrounding forest, startled at the snake eyes beginning to form out of the darkness, countless pairs, watching the younger him as he ran.

The younger Sasuke gasped as they appeared in front of him, the snakes slithering out of the darkness and rearing up in front of his younger self. About to draw his sword and jump in, Sasuke remembered that he was just a ghost here, unable to do anything but watch.

“Naruto!” Sasuke whirled around, trying to find a way through the snakes and to find Naruto at the same time. Sasuke closed his eyes, unwilling to watch the suffering he'd already been through.

Sasuke opened his eyes again as his younger self faced him, staring wide-eyed through him to whatever was behind him.

Sasuke frowned at the fear in the younger self's eyes. It wasn't fear for himself, or even of the snakes, it was fear for Naruto. That much, he was sure of.

“Naruto!” young Sasuke broke into a run, passing right through Sasuke to run back to the field, but it was too dark, Sasuke knew his younger self would never find it. The darkness was too smothering.

“Naruto!” the young Sasuke yelled, racing to the form in the distance. It was orange. Sasuke felt oddly more comforted as his younger self relaxed at the sight of Naruto.

“What?” Naruto asked casually as young Sasuke caught up with him.

“Naruto, the snakes! We have to get out of here!”

Well, Sasuke thought with almost disinterest, at least his younger self had sense enough to know he wasn't strong enough to face Orochimaru yet.

“Teme.” Naruto shook his head, and young Sasuke's head snapped up sharply. “I already beat him, remember?”

Sasuke looked back to the forest they'd just run out of, finding every snake in the forest slithering weakly out, each one of them being engulfed in a flame that slowly ate away at them until they were nothing.

“But… how…?” young Sasuke gaped and all Sasuke could do was stare disapprovingly at how open his emotions were.

“Come on.” Naruto smiled, leading young Sasuke into the darkness.

“Naruto, are you crazy?” young Sasuke barked as Naruto began to disappear into the blackness. “We can't even see in there!”

“I can see.” Naruto looked back at him with confusion. “…You… can't?”

The young Sasuke stared blankly at him, obviously shocked that Naruto could see, but to Sasuke, it now made perfect sense. Naruto was so bright, so like the sun all on his own, that he would always be able to see through the blackness in front of him, even if it seemed hopeless to get through to others.

“Come on.” Naruto said happily, waving Sasuke forward, but his younger version didn't move.

Naruto sighed, walking back to Sasuke's twelve-year-old self, he held out his hand gently.

“Come on, it's late, and I want to show you something before we go. I can see, trust me.”

The younger Sasuke looked to the darkness and back to Naruto, before slowly reaching out his hand and taking Naruto's.

It was pitch black, Sasuke couldn't see anything, and was forced to follow his younger self and Naruto's younger version by the sound of their footsteps alone, making following them difficult because of how thick the air was in the dark. It was hard to breathe, let alone hear or see.

“Look.” Naruto pointed, and both Sasukes looked up, slowly making out a small patch of light in the distance.

Eventually, they made it out of the darkness, and Sasuke found himself with the other two back in the field… except… it was night.

Sasuke looked up to the stars in confusion. It was night. Why could he now see through the blackness, to make out what was really in the dark?

“See?” Naruto asked, his grip still tight on younger Sasuke's hand. “Isn't it pretty?”

Sasuke had to admit, that it was pretty. The flowers had a whole new meaning and look in the night, swishing quietly in the breeze, and the river at the bottom of one side of the hill they were on caught the stars like a mirror.

“Yeah.” His younger version said finally, looking out over the field with a small smile on his face.

“Told ya' you'd like it.” Naruto grinned smugly, plopping down into the high grass and flipping over onto his back, staring up at the sky with a huge grin on his face.

Sasuke's younger self looked down in annoyance at Naruto, but eventually sat down beside him, and then laid down among the grass, watching the stars.

“The moon is pretty too.” Naruto said casually, his fingers still entwined with the young raven's, who nodded slowly.

Sasuke watched as Naruto adjusted himself, so that his feet were facing the opposite direction as young Sasuke, with their ears next to each other, their fingers still locked by their heads, and quite suddenly, Sasuke felt like he was invading on something private.

It was hot.

And getting hotter, fast.

What the hell was going on?

Sasuke wrenched open his eyes to the dark confides of the room they must have been moved to, but… even though it was the middle of the night, the room was actually anything but dark. Sasuke stiffened, recognizing the dark chakra as he turned carefully to the side.

Naruto arched his back, his claws tearing through the sheets on the bed as he slowly pushed himself onto all fours on the bed. His deep, ragged breathing echoed around the small room, and his body was glowing with the unearthly power of the Kyuubi as he clawed at the bed, trying to get himself in control. It wasn't working.

“Get him to shut up!” Gaara barked, appearing at the door of the room, a small group of maids cowering behind him.

“And what do you suggest?!” Sasuke shot back, reaching for Naruto, but the blonde dematerialized before his eyes and reappeared over on the far side of the room, pressed as far up against the wall as he could be to get away from them.

Gaara snarled and began to sink into the floor. “I'm going to block out his chakra with mine. Get him calmed down.” the Kazekage said with the voice of a serial killer as he disappeared into the floor.

Sasuke watched until he disappeared into the sand before moving quickly to Naruto's side.

“Oi, Dobe.” Sasuke reached out, only to have Naruto smack his hand away sharply.

“Get… away.” Naruto forced out through his teeth, clutching at his head. “I can't… control…”

Sasuke's brow furrowed, and he prepared himself for another few hours of blistering, burning lips until the Kyuubi's chakra died down enough so he could heal himself and leaned in.

“N…No!” Naruto yelled, shoving himself further back into the wall. “I'm… I'm…”

“Usuratonkachi!” Sasuke slammed his hands against the wall on either side of Naruto's head, trapping him there. “This is how I woke you up last time, just sit still for a second!”

Naruto shook his head, a frantic look beginning to appear in his red eyes as he flattened himself against the wall.

Sasuke crouched lower to get at eye level with Naruto and leaned in again. His lips touched softly against Naruto's, and he was shocked to find them… cool. Not hot and blazing like Naruto usually was when he was like this. He could hear Gaara's sand burying the room, blocking off the windows and doors to keep things silent and nonexistent to the outside world, but his mind was only on Naruto.

He felt Naruto relax against him, and then push forward into the raven's chest until Sasuke was rocking off balance backwards. Sasuke pulled away to breathe, and Naruto's red eyes met his before Sasuke was thrown back with the force of a tsunami, the backs of his knees slamming into the bed and his head smashing against the wall as he fell back.

He looked up to the sound of jagged breathing above him, finding Naruto hovering above him, hands on either side of his head and knees on the sides of his hips, an excited look flashing behind his red eyes as Naruto rolled his tongue hungrily behind his sharpened teeth.

“Naruto?”

Naruto laughed and leaned in, licking Sasuke's neck harshly, canine teeth scraping across skin and drawing blood as he moved down to Sasuke's chest.

Sasuke's eyes popped open as his brain fit all of the pieces together.

Naruto was horny, and it was making the fox restless, coming out as this unstable chakra, driven to mate.

Whatever, I'll just deal with it. Get rid of it and he'll calm down.

Sasuke swallowed and pushed up off the bed, moving his arms up and down over Naruto's arms through the material of his shirt. He traced his tongue over Naruto's cheek as the blonde sat still for a moment, purring slightly at the caresses, but as Sasuke tried to roll Naruto onto his back, Naruto's arm snapped up and slammed Sasuke's arms back down against the bed, pinning his hands up by his head and diving into his neck again.

Sasuke wasn't called a genius for nothing, and his eyes went wide with almost horror as he finally understood what Naruto wanted.

He wants… to top me.

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Heh heh, I was feeling bold… so guess what?

LEMON NEXT CHAPTER!!

Expect it my young Patawans!