Naruto Fan Fiction ❯ Primitive Instincts ❯ Recovery ( Chapter 3 )

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Title:
Primitive Instincts
Author: Dagger Stiletto
Summary: Naruto as half-fox, half-human, is a pet to abusive Gaara Sabaku, & Sasuke as half-wolf, half-human, from the forest. What happens when they meet?
Disclaimer: I’m getting a little tired of repeating that I don’t own this. Really people, do you have short-term memory loss?
Warnings: OOC, yaoi, Gaara bashing, angst
Knives: *bandages all over, arm in sling with crutch under other arm, glares at sister* I hate you….so much.
Cross: You’re welcome. *smiles and turns to Dagger* What’s next?
Snow: *walks in grinning happily, licking her lips*
THE WORLD WILL END!!!!!…….unless we start the story! X3
Cross: Agreed! Start story!
Dagger:
*jumps and scrambles to obey*
Knives: I hope she eats you.*cringes away from Snow*


Chapter Three: Recovery

Naruto woke up the next morning, free of pain, warm, and dry. Startled, he jumped to his feet, only to realize that a heavy, pale arm was draped over his small body. His blue gaze flew to the sleeping face of the raven-haired man who smelled so like a wolf. They were in a cave, a den, laying on an actual mattress under deer skin blankets to ward off the cold.
Creeping cautiously out from under the imprisoning arm, he made sure to make no sound or noticeable movements as he eased off the mattress. He examined the paw he’d once had a cut on and was surprised to find it completely unharmed. His spirits lifted, though he didn’t dance and bounce the way he wanted for fear of attracting attention to himself.
He glanced around hesitantly and saw that the area he was in was separated by a thick curtain. He nuzzled aside the curtain and peeked out. Four other wolvesthe dark brown from last night, a solid black, a blue, and a deep redlay strewn through the rest of the cave. They were deeply asleep, and the red one looked like she was pregnant. He looked farther back and saw the opening of the cave.
If I’m quiet, maybe I can escape without waking anyone.
He glanced over at the human, who hadn’t stirred. He slipped out the curtain and tiptoed around and through the sleeping predators, not running until he was six feet away from the last wolf and seven feet from the entry. He was almost to the portal between “Wolf World” and freedom when a mouth closed over the back of his neck, and he screamed in fright, then went limp, curling tail and hindlegs up to his body, like a kitten in its mother’s grip.
Mission failed.
The red wolf carried him back to the others, who had awakened with the fox’s cry. They all nosed the bundle of trembling gold, and the black looked like he wanted to play.

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Dagger: Hey, sorry to interrupt the reading experience, but I thought I’d let you know that the italics inside quotes(“blah blah blah”)are animal speaking. Please continue reading.
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“Lee, behave yourself,”
the read said as she put the fox down between her legs protectively. “He’s only a kit.”
“Ahh, Sakura. I would never hurt he kitsune. It would be quite unyouthful,”
the black replied. He sat down and gave a doggy grin.
“Is he fully healed, Sakura?” asked a sleepy human voice. The raven came out from the secluded, curtain-hidden area.
Not know why he had the irresistible urge, Naruto shot through the wolf legs and hid behind the human ones, trembling fearfully.
The red wolf known as Sakura laughed. “It would seem so. I healed his woundsthree broken ribs, two fractured, bruised lung, and his paw. Poor thing was so out of it, he probably doesn’t remember crawling to sleep with you. Also, I stimulated the growth hormone that was stunted due to his….captor’s abuse.”
My growth was stunted because of Gaara beating me…? And why did she call my master my captor?
Naruto sat to scratch his neck, and he suddenly realized that his choking, restrictive collar around his throat was missing. He yipped in surprised and searched frantically before accepting that it was gone. Elation filled hi, and he looked to see everyone watching him carefully.
He gave his own doggy smilecuter than Lee’sbounced on his feet, and yipped happily. He wanted to run all around in circles with his joy, but he refrained from doing so. The others smiled at his exuberance, and the black would have pounced to play if Sakura hadn’t stopped him.
“Perhaps now we should tell him who we are now,”
the blue-haired wolf suggesting in a quiet, almost hesitant voice, and the others nodded. She astonishingly changed to a human form, and Naruto vaguely remembered doing so once an dwas struck down by an enraged Gaara. “I am Hinata. The brown is Neji, my cousin.”
Neji snorted in greeting.
“The red is Sakura, our healer, and the black is Rock Lee, her mate. The human is our leader, Sasuke, and we are all a family.” She paused and turned her lavender, pupil-less eyes on him. “What is your name?”
“His collar said Naruto,” Sasuke reported.
Naruto yipped in agreement.
“Do you know how to change forms?” Hinata inquired.
He paused, thought a moment, then shook his gold head.
“We’ll have to teach him,” Sasuke concluded. “But right now, we should go back to sleep. We hunt tomorrow.”
The others nodded and returned to heir original places, except that Lee put his head down on his mate’s bulging belly, probably listing to his pups.
“Are you coming, Naruto?”
Naruto turned to where Sasuke stood holding the curtain to his room open. The fox hesitated before going in. He watched Sasuke lay down on the mattress. Then he cautiously curled up on it a foot away, only to be reeled in by a strong, pale arm until he was snuggled by a wide, equally strong chest. He waited five minutes after Sasuke went to sleep before he followed suit.

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When he woke, Naruto sneaked out to take care of some private business. Once finished, he trotted form the twenty feet away from the cave/den to sniff out the clearly marked boundaries of the territory, exploring to get “the lay of the land.” The sun was hidden by heavy clouds, so it was a gray day. The air was chilly, so the fox moved back in the cave to find the others just rousing from slumber.
Naruto sat at the entrance to watch them He stayed there, observing as everyone but Sakura changed to humans while Sakura remained asleep. They planned their hunting strategy for an hour-and-a-half before they prepared for the trip, which would last for three days. Sakura woke and helped with what she could. Sasuke eventually came to the fox and smiled gently.
“Naruto, I have a job for you,” he said.
Naruto perked up, ears pricking forward.
“Sakura is pregnant, which means she can’t come along with us. You are still recovering, so you will not be eligible to join the rest of us. So I would appreciate it if you would protect Lee’s mate while we are gone. Do you think you can do that?”
Naruto didn’t even hesitate with his answer, which was a series of happy yips and barks and a slight wave of his tail. Sasuke laughed and patted his head. The others, in wolf forms, came to press noses to his throat as a way of saying farewell before trailing out the entrance. He and Sakura sat at the entrance and watched them all leave, disappearing into the grayness of day.

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Dagger:
Yay! I’m done with Chap 3, and Knives is taking a drug-induced sleep. I finally have some peace and quiet.
Knives: *starts snoring*
Dagger: Nooooo!!! It’s evil!
Sexy Man-Beast: *evil laugh*I laugh at your pain! Muahahahahaha!!
Danny-boy: *walks in from work*Who are you?!*points at SMB with wide eyes*
Sexy Man-Beast: *deep, low, seductive voice* I am….Sexy Man-Beast.
Knives: *startles awake after choking on a bug, then goes back to sleep like nothing happened*
Dagger: That was strange……
Danny-boy: Dagger, who is that?!
Dagger: A friend.
Danny-boy: Who’s friend, and what kind?
Dagger: He’s straight, and he’s my friend. Platonically.
Danny-boy: *glares at SMB* Stay away from Knives.
Sexy Man-Beast: Sharp, pointy things make me sad.
Dagger: Reviews please!!