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Tenebroso
By : ofphenwa
Category: Naruto AU/AR > Yaoi - Male/Male
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Title: Tenebroso

Author: ofphenwa

Rating: R

Summary: Having obtained what he desires, Minato keeps a stranglehold of his most precious treasure, Naruto. Should Naruto be taken away from him, Minato will gladly burn the world down in his dark madness. Is there an end to the nightmare?

A/N: The long awaited chapter 12! I bet you're really happy about this, aren't you? A lot of talking and banter goes on here.

Tenebroso 12

Lately, Naruto had been sleeping quite well with no nightmares what so ever. He was naturally quite happy about this because the accumulated stress and lack of sleep was affecting him despite his high resilience. He still couldn’t remember what the nightmares had been about but he had noticed that they had stopped some time after Minato’s discovery of his real identity and amazingly, his unconditional acceptance. Everything was still the same as before despite the revelations.

Happily, Naruto could only conclude that his nightmares might have been his subconscious fears of discovery and rejection manifesting itself. However, he also could not remember having any dreams recently – if anything, Naruto only came up with a void. But it did not worry him much because he usually didn’t recall his dreams and he wasn’t a clairvoyant anyway (despite the fact that his memories could be taken as eerily accurate predictions of the current-future.)

Minato also had noticed this change and was quite relieved. His lover had been quite concerned for him, having witnessed first-hand how stressful it was for him. He had been on the verge of sending for Tsunade-baachan or even Yamanaka Inoichi to diagnose his ailment. In the worst case scenario, Minato had been prepared to put him on medical leave for an indefinite period of time, not wanting him to risk his life just because he couldn’t stay awake and drop his guard at a crucial moment.

Naturally, Naruto had been quite offended by the plan and argued furiously with him, not wanting to be de-commissioned for such a pathetic reason when he had gone through worse scenarios with worse circumstances/injuries during the Third War. After all, he was the Fox Sage and he wasn’t going to sit around like a…housewife! They managed to come to a compromise: if Naruto’s ailment didn’t get any better, he would be restricted to missions below A-Rank.

But now, Naruto did not suffer insomnia anymore and he was free to take on whatever missions he liked, no matter the ranking. Grinning ferally, he decided to request for a S-rank mission; it had been a while since he last went on an S-rank and he felt the need to stretch his muscles so to speak.

And take some real action for the future.

In his office, Minato was contemplating the information about Naruto’s past (and his now defunct-future) for the umpteenth time. He was quite concerned about the mysterious organization Akatsuki and Orochimaru, considering how dangerous they had been (will be?). In particular, the mysterious and powerful Uchiha Madara was a source of much concern especially since he had been behind much of the tragedies Konoha (and the world) experienced.

He couldn’t help but frown as he remembered how Naruto had been almost killed by that monster as a newborn baby, just mere moments after his birth. As for the alternate Minato and to a lesser extent, the alternate Kushina, he couldn’t really bring himself to care. It had been their choice to basically commit suicide at the expense of Naruto’s wellbeing – goodness, he was supposed to be their son and there was no way in hell that he would ever take up the role of being Naruto’s father even if he was, well, this reality’s Namikaze Minato. Besides, Naruto was just one year younger than him and it was completely impossible for Minato to view him as a son in any way. (Thankfully, Naruto also didn’t want him to become his father. That would have been immeasurably awkward.)

His thoughts cycled back to Akatsuki once more and he recalled Naruto’s description of their uniform; high-collared black cloaks with red clouds. Minato was slightly surprised by how vividly he could visualize the Akatsuki outfit and the overwhelming sense of familiarity. It was as though he had personally met one of the Akatsuki members but he distinctly recalled never seeing such a person. It was quite hard to miss or forget such a conspicuous outfit after all.

Straining harder, Minato vaguely recalled that he had a similar reaction to Uchiha Fugaku’s bracelet decorated with red clouds a while back. Funny, he’d almost completely forgotten all about that. He remembered trying to break past the fog in his mind, much like what he was attempting now… Suddenly, there was a flash of red and black in his vision.

When Minato reopened his eyes (when had he closed them?), he was shocked to find himself sprawled on his back staring up at the ceiling. He also had a splitting headache along with a dull throb on the back of his skull – he must have hit his head on the chair in his fall. Wincing as he gingerly got up, Minato was deeply perturbed as he glanced at the clock to find that barely a minute had passed – he had a distinct impression that he’d been unconscious for much, much longer than that.

Before he even sat down again in his chair, a burst of smoke signaled the arrival of his ANBU bodyguard. Oh, it looked like it was Dog’s shift this time. His mask failed to hide his concerned body language as he queried in monotonous voice, “Hokage-sama, do you need to see a medic?”

Minato ruefully smiled at him and waved off his concern, “I’m fine, Dog. I only have a little bruise and a wounded ego. Just don’t tell anyone that I carelessly tripped on a snag in the carpet in my own office.”

Dog, who was actually his former student Hatake Kakashi, did not seem convinced. He replied, “That was a pretty bad fall, se-sir…”

“I’m fine. Really. Thank you for your concern, Dog but there’s no need for a medic.” Minato firmly said, ending the conversation. Dog stiffened slightly and he bowed his head, “Yes, sir. I’ll be taking my leave now.”

Minato instantly felt a twinge of guilt for being so brusque with Kakashi who only had been doing his job and concerned for him. He quickly attempted to mollify him, “Well, I’ll visit the hospital afterwards just in case. You may return to your post now.” I’m sorry.

“Yes, sir.” Dog straightened up and he vanished with a small poof of smoke. Finally alone, Minato slowly exhaled in an effort to calm himself. He froze as he felt something wet drip from his nose. Even as he wiped his nose, he already knew what he would see on his wet fingers – blood. He hadn’t had a self-induced nosebleed for years.

“I can’t believe it. This is…”

Kushina covered her mouth as horror dawned on her in realisation. After three long weeks of deciphering Orochimaru’s notes (and writing reports for Sarutobi’s perusal as agreed, urgh), she had finally found the elusive Cursed Heaven Seal. What she had discovered terrified her. While she didn’t have an advanced understanding of medical ninjutsu or its terminology, her fuinjutsu knowledge was sufficient for her to grasp the gist of Orochimaru’s evil research.

“This seal should have never existed! It’s slavery and playing god with the human anatomy! Goddamn, Orochimaru’s such a twisted bastard. He must have killed so many people trying to perfect this seal.” Kushina muttered angrily to herself as she reread the whole section once more. Her stomach still turned at the memory of the horrific details that she had read earlier.

“No wonder, Sarutobi-jiji was so cautious with this. It would be terrible if this fell into the wrong hands… Did he already know about this when he passed the scrolls to me?” Kushina pondered before she shook her head, “Probably yes, considering he’s ‘The Professor’ after all… Then why did he agree to let me read them…?”

Biting her lip in consternation, she recalled the original purpose of getting into Orochimaru’s research – to find out more about Minato’s mysterious seal that was supposedly an improved version of the travesty she now had before her. If the original was this bad, how much worse was Minato’s improved version? She wasn’t that naïve to think that Minato had only developed his seal for academic purposes though he had done so a couple times before. He must definitely have used it at least once.

“Hrmmnghhh…!” Kushina made an unintelligible frustrated noise as she pulled at her bangs. Though it went against her personal morals, she couldn’t do anything at the moment. It was pure suicide if she simply waltzed up to Minato and ask him point-blank about the seal and who he had used it on. She couldn’t even find out who the victim(s) were. All she could do now, was to break Orochimaru’s seal and reverse-engineer Minato’s seal from what she knew so far and following Minato’s brain-processes.

“This is going to take forever. Just when I thought the hardest part was deciphering these coded notes…! Gah.”

Kushina very much wanted to slam her head repeatedly into the desk at the mere thought of having to do so much bookwork, but she needed her precious brain cells for the arduous challenge before her. Her only consolation was that the blonde bastard still did not seem aware of her dissident activity (she better update her anti-surveillance seals soon, come to think of it…)

“Hokage-sama, I want an S-rank. Is there one available?” Naruto boldly demanded as he stood in front of Minato’s desk. Minato looked up at him and raised an eyebrow. He suggested, “If you want an S-Rank mission, you should have gone to the Missions Office instead of coming to bother me at work.”

“I did. But they said they didn’t have any. Besides, you love it when I come to your office to see you. Your office furniture can certainly attest to that.” Naruto teased him mischievously, his eyes sparkling with humour.

“Brat. I’m working as your Hokage, you know. You should have more respect for me.” Minato grumbled as he eyeballed the small script of the report in his hands. His earlier headache had thankfully dwindled enough for him to continue his work though it still made it hard to read such small font comfortably. The admin-nins were crazy sadists – whose brilliant idea was it to use font size 10 for the noble cause of saving the trees of Konoha via conserving paper? Font size 12 should be the minimum font size. He certainly felt like slamming a rasengan into his face, if he ever learnt of his identity.

“Ouch, unfair low blow, Minato! Why do you call me a brat when I don’t even call you old man even if I’ve got the right?” Naruto protested dramatically, his arms akimbo. Minato twitched and shot a glare at him, “I’m only 24! You’re just one year younger than me yourself.” Good god, don’t call me that.

“But you sure weren’t complaining that time.” Naruto smirked, one of his hands suggestively sliding down his thigh as he canted his hips. Minato sent a quick prayer of thanks to the gods that he had activated the privacy seals at the moment he first detected Naruto’s presence. He certainly did not need his ANBU bodyguards, especially Kakashi, witnessing this. He deadpanned, “That was only because I was too preoccupied having sex with you to really care. But now and in the future, I’ll rather not be called ‘old man’ or any other appellations related to our secret, even if it’s funny. That’s not who I am.”

Undeterred, Naruto sauntered forward to place his hands on the desk and lean in close to Minato’s face as though he was about to kiss him. He smiled softly, “I know. You are not him even if you are Namikaze Minato. I’ve long come to terms with that. I’m sorry if I made you feel uncomfortable with my teasing.”

Minato could only look back at Naruto, unsure of what to say. Then Naruto made a smart-ass comment that rather spoilt the whole mood, “It wasn’t my intention to trigger your premature middle-age crisis.”

*WHAP* "YEOW!"

Minato swiftly smacked Naruto in the face with the paper sheet. Repressing an amused smile, he said, “Nonsense. Now kindly leave me alone, I’ve got work to do.”

“But I still haven’t gotten what I came here for! I want, no, I need an S-Rank!” Naruto whined as he rubbed his stinging nose.

“Why do you want an S-rank?” Minato finally put away the report, curious to learn why his lover wanted to do such a high-ranking and difficult mission. It was true that there were currently no S-rank missions on the shelf unless he, the Hokage, authorized a new S-rank mission (including other lower ranking missions).

Naruto straightened up and he replied thoughtfully, “You’ve probably already thought about this, no doubt. I’ve been thinking of tracking the Akatsuki’s and Madara’s whereabouts. Especially Madara, considering how dangerous he could become in a few decades.”

“I’m not letting you go off and fight him on your own!” Minato snapped; horrified by the idea of letting him fight such a powerful shinobi who had been good enough to force the alternate Minato into a corner, even if it was only for a short while. Naruto raised his hand to stop him from speaking further and placated him, “No, I’m not going to fight him. What I’m planning to do is to coordinate with Jiraiya and his information network to find out Madara’s whereabouts and his plans so we can counter-attack without giving him a single chance. I don’t want another repeat of the Moon Eye plan. Once was bad enough.”

Minato leaned back in his seat, relieved that Naruto wasn’t going off half-cocked. Taking Naruto’s hand and squeezing it slightly, he answered, “Well, it brought you to me, so that’s the only good thing about it. But of course, it also means that you might leave me and go someplace where I can’t reach you. I’m not going to let that happen ever.”

“Minato…” Naruto tremulously smiled, touched by his sentiments. Squeezing Minato’s hand back, he said, “I already promised that I would never leave you. I’m never breaking that promise.”

“I know. That’s your nindo, isn’t it?” Minato already knew that Naruto would never leave him, simply because he unknowingly couldn’t.

“So, am I getting that S-Rank?”

“Give me a few days first and we’ll see how it goes. This is going to be big.” Minato thoughtfully replied, his mind already delving into plans and scenarios.

Naruto closed the short distance between them to kiss him deeply. Responding and appreciative of the kiss (even if he still had work to do, he was still a red-blooded male, thank you very much), Minato reached up to pull his lover down. But unfortunately, Naruto had already withdrawn with a beaming smile, “Thank you, Minato. I’ll see you later. After all, you did say that you had work to do right?”

Without further ado, Naruto opened the window and jumped out of it. Minato looked witheringly at the open window and growled under his breath, “You are such a tease.”

Oh yes, Naruto would definitely be paying for his mischief tonight.
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Tenebroso	By : ofphenwa Category: Naruto AU/AR > Yaoi - Male/Male Views: 3108 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 1
Disclaimer: I do not own NARUTO series and make no profit from it.

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