Naruto Fan Fiction ❯ Just an Illusion ❯ Twins- Part 3 ( Chapter 4 )

[ Y - Young Adult: Not suitable for readers under 16 ]

Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto, nor any of the characters from it. I do not make any money from the writing of this story.

Title: Just an Illusion

Author: Dragon Dung (yuurimaoh)

Pairings: Naruto x Sasuke x Naruto

Warning: Alternate Universe, yaoi, general OOC…

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Chapter 4: Twins- Part 3


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Naruto was still a little pale on the ride back home. He still hadn't fully recovered from the scene he witnessed earlier.

Somehow he understood that:

1. He caught his brother kissing someone up against a wall. It was like seeing his reflection making out with somebody he rarely knew. Disturbing much?

2. That person just happened to be Sasuke Uchiha's brother. He felt a little stupid not to have realized they were related before all of this.

3. He really HADN'T imagined the feeling that his brother wanted to swap schedules for another reason that he was hiding.

As they got on the bus, their friend Kiba noticed neither Naruto's nor Kyubi's unusual silence. "So, are you guys giving me the lowdown or what?" he asked innocently.

"Not NOW Kiba," the twins carped after they sat down. They looked at each other as soon as the words flew out of their mouths as if they each had forgotten that the other was there.

The scattered chatter on the bus continued around them, but the twins remained silent until the bus screeched to a stop and they both unboarded.

Kiba worried about his two friends, but he knew better than to fan the flames. They would eventually tell him what was going on when they felt that they could.

Naruto waited for Kyubi to unlock the door of their house before he sluggishly followed him inside. Their parents left earlier than they did for work and arrived in the evening with similar shifts. The twins only saw them for about four hours every weekday. Naruto had inherited their father's determination while Kyubi inherited their mother's deviousness.

Kyubi dropped his backpack, a loud ‘thunk’ proving that their textbooks were murderous. He turned around with his hands in his pockets, kicking at the air just like he always did when he knew that he had done something wrong and was already regretting it. "I...I got angry at my crush, so I decided to mess with his head and kiss his best friend."

Naruto took a deep breath as he let the Kyubi-logic sink into his head. "Kyu," he began slowly. "I don't know what exactly you were going for, but kissing your crush's best friend won't put you on his good graces any time soon." He let everything click together in his head for a moment. "You have a crush on raindrop-I mean, Kisame?"

"I was going to tell you EVENTUALLY," Kyubi whined guiltily.

"You know what," Naruto rambled. "That doesn't even matter. It's just my luck that you would go and kiss that Itachi just when his brother agreed to tutor me in math."

"Run that by me again?" Kyubi's eyes widened incredulously.

"You heard me," Naruto confirmed. "Mondays and Wednesdays, I'm going to the Uchiha's. Tuesdays, Thursdays, and FRIDAYS...Sasuke's coming here. No doubt getting dropped off by his brother."

"FUCK."

"Exactly," Naruto ended with a twisted smile. "That means, like it or not, YOU'RE going to be seeing a lot more of that Itachi than you thought."

"Naruto, damn it," Kyubi paced with his hands pulling his hair back. "It's just MY luck that you would go and unintentionally ruin my plans like this! What am I going to do? Now Kisame's REALLY gonna hate me."

"Should have thought of that before you shoved your tongue down Itachi's throat."

"I did NOT," Kyubi cried indignantly. "No tongues involved, thank you."

"You keep thinking about that," Naruto said while writing out a quick note for their parents in case Kyubi forgot to tell him where he was in his unstable state. "I, on the other hand, am going to the Uchiha's. Later."

Naruto took out any textbooks he didn't need from his backpack, grabbed a bus route pamphlet, and stepped out of the house leaving the sounds of his brother's whining behind him. He walked down the sidewalk and around their community to get to the bench where the public bus would pick him up. He knew the bus routes by heart, but he brought the pamphlet in case the studying took longer than expected. He unzipped a corner of his backpack and slipped the pamphlet inside, take out a folded notebook paper in its stead. Naruto read over Sasuke's address a few more times before the bus showed up.

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"I'm telling you that I cannot guarantee that the other twin will show up along with Naruto," Sasuke explained to Itachi. "You're going to have to figure out how to see that other twin on your own."

"Kyubi," Itachi corrected. "His name is Kyubi. And I have a feeling that Naruto is the key to Kyubi, so make sure he doesn't leave before talking to me first."

"Fine. Whatever. Now stop hovering," Sasuke warned. The sound of his cellphone vibrating on the counter alerted him to Naruto's call. "Hello? Hold on, I'm going out front right now." He walked out the front door and down the steps to the front of his house. With a look around, he finally spotted the top of a blonde head around the corner across the street. "There you are. Look to your left." Sasuke put his left arm in the air to get Naruto's attention and the other teen finally made his way over to him. "If you followed the map I sketched you, it should have been more than easy to find the house."

"What?" Naruto countered. "That map was so crudely drawn that I couldn't find the house even with a magnifier."

"Heh," Sasuke smirked, walking with Naruto back into the house. "Let's just hope that you're a little better with math than you are with directions."

"You jerk," Naruto answered after his mouth went slack at Sasuke's comment. "Fine. Let's see if you're better at tutoring than you are at drawing."

Sasuke smirk never wavered. "By the end of the semester, I'll have you eating your words. But enough arguing. Let's get to work."

That being said, the two teenagers focused all their attention on getting Naruto to understand his homework and other Algebra basics. They migrated to Sasuke's room and by the time they were done, it was almost five o' clock.

"This is so much easier when you explain it," Naruto wondered aloud. "I just hope I can remember half of what we went over."

"You'll be fine," Sasuke encouraged. "Just keep at it and I'll be here for the more difficult problems."

"Thanks," Naruto grinned, the action causing havoc somewhere in Sasuke's mind.

"I hate to bring this up," Sasuke changed the subject. "But, my brother wants to talk to you about YOUR brother before you leave."

"I don't have much time if I want to catch the bus," Naruto pointed out.

"Then, I'll drive you home," Itachi said from the doorway. Both Naruto and Sasuke nearly had heart attacks. How long had he been standing there?

"No," Sasuke argued. "Why don't you both talk in the living room. I'LL drive Naruto home. I am his tutor, after all."

"Fine," Itachi conceded. "Come with me."

Naruto thanked Sasuke inwardly for offering to ride him home, half jealous of the fact that the other teen already had a driver's license. He followed Itachi slowly as if at any time he could step on a land mine. Naruto didn't quite realize how awkward it would be to study with one Uchiha when THIS Uchiha was kissed by his brother. Damn. What was he going to ask him about? Naruto didn't like to lie. In fact, he rarely did if at all. But, his instincts would always be to back his brother up first no matter what. "Well, what do you want to know?"

"Your brother," Itachi began. "He kissed me so suddenly and unexpectedly that I have to either assume that he likes me or was pulling some kind of stunt. Which is it?"

"W-well, the only person who can tell you that is Kyubi himself," Naruto answered. "I'm sorry, but I don't really know what he was thinking." Which was true, in a way.

Itachi gave Naruto a strange, calculating glance. "Fine. I'll take this up with Kyubi himself, then."

Before Naruto gave in to letting out a sigh of relief in front of the older Uchiha, he decided that he had stayed there long enough. "I should get home."

He all but ran back to Sasuke's room to gather his things. Sasuke gave him a strange look, but began to dig out his wallet and keys from his backpack. "Let's get you home."

Ironic that he had left home in a rush to avoid having to deal with his brother. Now, he wanted to leave Sasuke's home to avoid dealing with HIS brother. Man, what a beginning to a new school year.

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TBC
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