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Monsters	By : LoneReader3173 Category: Naruto > Yaoi - Male/Male > Naruto/Sasuke Views: 4323 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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Chapter 12: People Who Eat Darkness

Sasuke attempted to reel the spell he had started back in, but he had grown far too weak to contain the magic and the second flare erupted into the sky. 'Shit' he thought, fighting to keep his eyes open. If those lights didn't belong to someone friendly, there was no chance of escape for either him or the dying boy in his arms. He had no way to defend them either. After the release of the last flare, his connection to the arcane force that drove his magic felt lost. His aura was almost drained. He'd used too much of it to keep the curse in check, and if he lost anymore it would consume them both. It has spread up into his chest, and the pain was making his mind float and his vision blurry.

Naruto had not opened his eyes since he had sat down hours ago, and Sasuke feared that it may already be too late, even if help did come. The earthy scent of the blonde's hair filled his nostrils, stirring something inside him that left an overall peaceful feeling that added to Sasuke's confusion.

The lights were now coming their way. Four small golden orbs floating quickly through the dense treeline. Sasuke willed himself to blend in to the tree behind him. The rough bark dug into his back when he subconsciously pulled Naruto's body closer, trying to think of how to save them.

Voices joined the lights as they neared and Sasuke's heart lifted. He knew those voices.

"Gaara,” he tried to to call to their teammate, but his voice was too weak to make any sound. Gaara seemed to have spotted them, however and was sprinting across the clearing in his direction, Sakura close on his heels. They reached Sasuke wearing expressions that matched his own fears.

“What happened!” Sakura all but shouted at him as the balls of light that had followed them now came together overhead, shedding light on the horrific scene.

Sasuke again tried to speak, but a whispered grunt that sounded something like the word, “Curse,” made it past his lips.

"Ok, ok, stop, don't hurt yourself. We'll figure in out." she muttered in a panicked sort of voice. Her eyes closed and she held her hands above Sasuke's covering the wound on Naruto's side, and Sasuke realized that he was now too weak to use the Sharingan to see her aura. The agonizing pain that shot through his body as she began to untangle the curse, however, was not missed. He cried out in pain with what little voice he had and Naruto, too, stirred in his arms. Gaara knelt beside them, unsure of what to do, looking helplessly at Sakura. Tears streamed from under her closed lashes, leaving darkened trails down her pale cheeks. She shifted her head, so that he long pink hair fell in front of her face, obscuring her expression.

Sasuke gritted his teeth in attempt to stave off the pain, but it was no use. He was far too weak to bare anything else, and darkness took him for the second time that night.

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He was running down the path again, as fast as his little legs could carry him. The long grass that encroached upon the over grown path brushed against his bare legs, leaving tiny cuts that would sting when his mother forced him to bathe later that evening. He was almost to the end of the path and the waterfall that lay beyond. He was determined to prove to his bother that he was a big boy now, that didn't need to stupid babysitter telling him what to do. And then he heard it, the low, animalistic growling that made is heart stop. The sound that made the adult part of his brain, the sleepy part that was aware of the dream, shout at his younger self to stop and run away. But little Sasuke had not listened to fears back then, and nothing older Sasuke did not could change the past.

He felt strange. Somehow he was more aware in the dream this time than he ever had been. Watching his younger self at times and then others seeing through younger Sasuke's eyes. He stood in front of the shack once again, all thoughts of treasure and babysitters long forgotten, erased by fear. This was part of the dream where he always tripped and knocked himself out. This was the part he normally woke up, Only this time his eyes reopened in the dream.

A concerned and terrified face stared down at him. Bright blue eyes looked into his own, partially obscured by dirty blonde hair that hung across the equally dirty face of a small boy, roughly his own age. Sasuke did the first thing that came to mind and screamed at the top of his lungs. The boy screamed back and scurried away in fear, disappearing into the shack. Sasuke sat up and stared after him, trying to decide if what he had just seen was real. Slowly, he stood up. Fear and curiosity battled furiously in his mind, both pleading their cases in dire tones of urgency.

He took small, slow steps towards the shack as curiosity emerged victorious. Taking a deep breath and puffing out is cheeks in defiance, he made the last several feet to the derelict structure. He had never really gotten along with kids his own age, finding them annoying. He would make this boy pay for scaring him and causing him to hurt himself. He was an Uchiha after all, and such things were beneath him.

The door in front of him hung loosely on its hinges, and came crashing to the ground as Sasuke threw it roughly open. The sound scared him even more, and he almost turned to run for the tree after all, but a second sound held him rooted to the spot. Terrified sobs filled the small room. The blonde boy was sitting in the dusty corner, as far from the door as he could possibly get, with his knees pulled up to his chest. Sasuke got a good look at him for the first time. Blue eyes shone at him, full of fear and overflowing with tears. He was dirty from head to toe, with cuts and bruises covering most of his visible skin.

"I'm sorry!" he pleaded desperately with Sasuke. "I didn't mean to. Please don't hurt me." He hid his small face in his knees as he pulled them closer, attempting to make himself smaller and unnoticeable.

Sasuke suddenly felt horrible. He had never seen anyone this scared. "Its ok," he told the boy cautiously, "It was just an accident." The boy didn't reply, but continued to cry into knees. Sasuke approached him carefully. He wasn't at all sure what he was supposed to do, but he wanted the boy to just stop crying. "It's ok." he repeated, stretching out is hand to touch the boys shoulder. The second his fingertips touched the ripped fabric of the orange t-shirt, the boy cried out and jumped away as though Sasuke had tased him. "Oh for crying out loud, I'm not going to hurt you, so calm down," he snapped. This seemed to have done the trick. "My name is Sasuke, what's yours?" he asked mechanically, in an attempt at the bored cool voice his brother often spoke in, and extended his hand.

The boy eyed him suspiciously. His eyes and face was still wet, but no fresh tears fell. "Naruto," he responded, but did not accept Sasuke's extended hand, his own still wrapped around his knees.

Sasuke slowly sat down where his was. "So what are you doing, running around scaring people?"

Naruto sniffed and wiped his nose on his sleeve, muttering something that Sasuke couldn't here.

"Huh?" he asked the boy.

"I said, 'I thought you were a monster.'" He twisted his finger nervously, and didn't make eye contact with Sasuke. "Sometimes, he brings monsters." Sasuke didn't understand the last part, so he ignored it.

"Well I thought your growling was a monster!" Sasuke snapped. The boy peered over at him and they made eye contact for a moment before both bursting into laughter.

"What are you doing, all the way out here?" Naruto inquired of him, and Sasuke told him of the waterfall and the red stones. "I know where that is!" he responded enthusiastically, "want me to show you?!"

Sasuke readily agreed and Naruto grabbed him by the hand, dragging him from the shack with a wide smile. Sasuke felt his cheeks heat up as he let himself be pulled along to the river. Naruto pointed down into the water, and there sparkling beneath the surface, were fist sized stones that shone red in the sunlight. Naruto released his hand and smiled at him again. Sasuke beamed. They were real, and he could take one back and show Shisui. He waded into the water snatched up the closest stone. He wasn't greedy, one was all he needed.

"Does that mean you're leaving?" a small voice behind him blurted out. He looked over his shoulder to Naruto looking down at his toes.

"Don't you have to go home too?" It was getting late in the day, and even with the stone, Sasuke knew he was going to be in trouble. Naruto shook his head slowly. "Well, I can come back tomorrow..." he offered tentatively.

"You would come back?" He asked in surprise.

"Sure." Sasuke shrugged at him. He owed Naruto for helping him, and felt a little guilty for making him cry.

The bright smile he'd received in return for his offer, brought a blush to Sasuke's small cheeks. It was the beginning of Sasuke's first and only friendship. He returned to that spot almost everyday to play with Naruto for the next several months. Shisui hadn't noticed his disappearance, and Sasuke stopped complaining about him. He now welcomed the absentminded teen, knowing it would make it easy to slip away. Deep down he knew there was something strange about Naruto. His clothes were always ripped and worn out, and he wore the same ones each day that Sasuke went to visit. They never left the area around the shack and the waterfall. The first time they had tried, Naruto had been jerked violently backwards by the bracelet he wore around his wrist. Naruto had laughed it off, and Sasuke was too young and naive to understand what it meant. To him, this was just where Naruto lived. He knew that Naruto wasn't human. There was too much animal about him. His eyes sometimes glowed red when he and Sasuke argued, and when he smiled, somehow he seemed to show too many pointed teeth. Sasuke didn't care much about any of that though. Naruto was strange, but he was the only person his own age that Sasuke had ever gotten along with. He felt comfortable and happy when they played together.

Sasuke want Itachi to meet the boy. He knew that his older brother could answer the questions he didn't even know to ask. However, on the day that he went to ask Naruto if it would be okay to bring his brother to their spot when he returned home the next day, Naruto did not come out to greet him as he normally did. It was quiet and the air felt strange, as though something lingered in the air that he didn't yet have the knowledge to identify. He approached the shack and glanced quickly inside. The quick look had given him sight of his friend inside lying on the floor against the wall. Sasuke moved slowly over to him. Naruto's eyes were open, but he didn't move until Sasuke sat beside him. As he sat up, Sasuke noticed his friend a great many new cuts and bruises. There was what looked like dried blood, caked in his hair and he seemed to be having trouble moving his limbs.

"I can't play today." He told Sasuke in a whisper that sounded far away. "I'm tired." Sasuke scooted closer to him and the blond boy laid his head on his shoulder as tears started down is cheeks.

Sasuke knew something bad was happening to Naruto, something he didn't understand. But he would bring Itachi tomorrow. Itachi would fix everything.
"Shh, idiot. I've got you." He promised, and Naruto smiled sadly up at him.

But when Sasuke returned the next day with his brother, the shack had been burned to the ground, and his one and only friend was gone.

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The pain that had caused Sasuke to lose consciousness was also what roused him from the dream. His arm felt as though it were full of needles, and a heavy weight rested against his leg. The vibrations of whatever he was resting against told him he was in a moving car. He was sitting upright and his head rested against something hard and cool. The window, perhaps. He forced his heavy eyelids open and was met with more darkness.

“Try not to move too much.” A very tired voice that he barely recognized as Sakura’s, said from somewhere in front of him. He bagan to be able to make out her face as his eyes adjusted to the dark.

He was sitting in the backseat of her car. It had been folded down flat into the bed that he normally slept on, but he want laying in it. He was sitting upright behind the driver seat with his back resting against the door. The cab lit up occasionally as they passed beneath overhead street lights.

“What-“ he tried, but his voice failed him again.

“Shhh. I need to concentrate.” She told him distantly, not looking up.

Sasuke followed her gaze to see Naruto laying across the seat with his head in Sasukes lap. Sakura her self sat behind the console that separated the two front seats. Gaara was diving them, but his hand was reached behind him to rest of Sakura’s should. While Sasuke still didn’t have the use of his Saringan, he could guess that Gaara was transferring as much of his aura to Sakura that he could in order to heal Naruto.

“I’ve pulled the curse out of both of you, but he’s still very weak.” She sounded exhausted, as though each word cost her a great deal of effort. “His heart kept stopping...” she added in an even softer tone.

Sasuke wished desperately that he had any strength at all to give her. Knowin he had nothing, he still extended his hand to rest upon her knee, but she brushed it away impatiently.

“Don’t be stupid.” She scolded gently. “It’s becase of you that he’s even alive.” She looked over at him with a soft smile. “You’ve definitely me plenty. Thank you.”

Sasuke shook his head as though to tell her thank he didn’t need thanks, but she looked away before she could see it. The hand whose feeble help she had brushed aside, came to rest on Naruto’s forehead, gentle brushing through his hair.

As Sakura and Gaara worked he looked down at the face of the of the boy that had once been his friend, the only friend he’d ever really had. He remembered now the years he had returned to the shed and searching for Naruto. Itachi had been convinced that it was just a game Sasuke had been playing. He had told him that his imagination had run away with him, until Sasuke had begun to question his own reality, and eventually age and time had stolen the memories all together.

The car jerked violently, but Gaara quickly corrected. He was growing as tired as the rest of them.
“That’s enough.” Sakura told him, pushing his hand away as well. “We’ve done all we can, but we still need to get away from this place.” She shifted her body to lay against the opposite door from Sasuke, by Naruto’s feet. She fell asleep the moment her eyes closed. Sasuke caught Gaara’s eye in the rearveiw mirror, but no words were exchanged between them.

Sasuke rested his head back against the cool window. They were away from the street lights now and he was watching the stars that stood out against the dark sky. Dawn had beeen near when Sakura and Gaara had found them. Sasuke could remember the faint light that had begun on the horizon. But the sky he saw now was as dark as could be. He’d been unconscious for for at least an entire day. His head was reeling with new information that he had no idea how to process.

He closed his eyes, hoping sleep would take him again quickly, but as his head began to swim, he felt Naruto move and try to sit up. He pushed the other boy back down, and whispered in a voice he hoped only Naruto would hear, “Shh, idiot. I’ve got you.”

Naruto shoulders stiffened as he looked up at him, but Sasuke couldn’t meet his eyes. Not yet. Naruto said nothing to him, but Sasuke felt the tension in his body release. Eventually words would be required between them, but this was neither the time or place. He opted instead to return to staring out at the stars in the night sky as they passed the window.
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