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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 13: Inner Demons

The harsh sun beat down on Sasuke through the car window. The heat soaked into his jeans, making him feel as though he were getting sun burned, and he shifted uncomfortably. The hot desert wind blew on him from the open front windows and he cast a resentful glance in the direction of the driver and front passenger, gone unseen through his sunglasses. It had been a week since their near death experience in the forest, and they had finally reached the outskirts of the desert city of Suna. Sasuke already hated this place. It was hot, dry, miserable, and as far as he was concerned, unfit for human settlement. He could not, for the life of him, figure out why anyone would choose to live in a sand soaked furnace.

His teammates, on the other hand, seemed to be thoroughly enjoying the warmth. Gaara was driving, due his prior knowledge of the area, and had rolled down his window to let in the “nostalgic smells and warm air,” as he had put it. Sakura was stretched out with her seat laid back and her feet on the dash. Her long pink hair whipped around in the wind, blowing across her sleeping face. Naruto was sprawled out in the back seat beside Sasuke, with one of his feet on the center console, and the other alternating between being sitting next to Sasuke's thigh, and resting across his lap, depending on how he moved as he too slept.

Sasuke longed to climb down the ladder into the living room, but they had all agreed to stay together while they were driving. Something about teamwork and moral support, or something. Sasuke had only agreed out tiredness and the desire to avoid an argument he was sure to lose. Besides, staying in the living room while they drove seemed to make extremely motion sick.Normally he didn't mind being up her, but right now he desperately wanted out of the sun, and didn't see the point of being "moral support" if everyone in the car was asleep anyway.

Naruto shifted again and his leg was back strewn across Sasuke's lap. Sasuke looked over at him, already knowing that he was still asleep. This was the only contact they had had since the forest. Sasuke wasn't sure why, but Naruto had scarcely looked at him in the past week, and had spared him no more that a few short words. He also wasn't entirely sure why it bothered him.

As he looked over the sleeping teen beside him, Sasuke spied a piece of black fabric under the seat near his elbow. Carefully as not to wake him, Sasuke shifted Naruto's leg away to the floor and leaned over to grab his own hoodie that he had left up here a few days ago when they'd been in milder weather. He unzipped it and tucked one end under Gaara's head rest, earning a slight chuckle from the driver, before rolling down the window enough to tuck in the other side, creating his own little shaded area in the corner of the vehicle. It didn't do much for the heat, but it kept the sun from relentlessly beating down on him.

"We'll be there in couple hours. You should get some rest too," Gaara told him. The red head had been considerably kinder towards him in the last week, Sasuke had noticed.

"Hnn," Sasuke quietly agreed with him. "What about you, though?"

Gaara laughed again, "I don't need as much sleep as the rest of you," he winked at Sasuke in the rear view mirror, "a fun demon trait for me." Seeing Sasuke’s comfier expression he gestured at the other demon, "That one gets insane strength and an immense aura, and I get insomnia." He shrugged lightheartedly to show that he didn't have any hard feeling towards Naruto for his genetics.

"Why is that?" He asked bluntly.

Gaara shrugged again, "I think it just has to do with what kind of demons our parents were. Unfortunately neither of us knew enough about them to answer that.” Sasuke nodded in understanding but didn't ask anymore questions and Gaara's eyes returned to the road. Sasuke turned to rest his back against the door and pulled his feet up on to the bench, falling asleep much faster than he had anticipated.

When he awoke several hours later, it was only due to Naruto violently shoving his legs away as they had become entangled with each other across the back seat as they'd slept. Sasuke was offended before remember that this attitude of disgust was exactly how he had treated Naruto until last week. It was how people had treated Naruto his entire life. A knot in his chest tightened. He promised this boy that he would protect him, and then had turned on him like everyone else. He had never cared before what Naruto was, not until he'd stupidly listened to the teachings of his clan. Sasuke had begun to realize over the past couple days that being with these three people over the previous few months, he felt more comfortable than he had at any time with his own blood family. The lengths that he had gone to in order to protect Naruto had mended things between himself and Gaara, but Naruto understandably had not forgiven him. Sasuke wasn't sure how to repair the remaining damage, or if he even could.

Sasuke removed his jacket from it temporary position and peered out the window. Tall dusty colored skyscrapers rose all around them, blocking the suns direct light. Everything looked to Sasuke to have a sandy texture which made his skin feel extremely dry and uncomfortable.

"Where are we?" Naruto asked Gaara through a wide yawn. He placed his hand on the seat in front of him to push himself forward between the seats to look at there surrounding through the windshield. The movement of her seat had caused Sakura to wake as well, and she irritably pushed him back into his own space.

“A few blocks away. We’ll be there in about 15 min.” Gaara answered him, distractedly as he leaned over the steering wheel to see around the corner.

Itachi’s book had given reference to an old church he thought may be home to the clan placed in this city. They had all agreed that is was their best place to start looking for the gate. Sasuke still feared interacting with other clans. The Namikaze clan was good natured enough, but according to Sakura, hunting or even using magic in another clans territory held the possibility of death, if they were to break any of their bylaws. If they spoke to this clan about what they were doing or what they were looking for, and the clan disapproved of their goal, or were actually working with Madara, their job would get much harder.

They rounded a corner and Gaara pulled in to the parking lot and an abandoned church matching the description and location of the one In Itachi’s notes. It was nestled between several large towers in a way the suggested that it was always in the shade.

The asphalt was cracked in many places and tall dry weeds sprouted through the openings. The windows on the lower levels of the building were bordered up, and the stained glass that adorned the higher windows was shattered, letting in the elements to wreck havoc on the interior. Sasuke felt a strange sense of foreboding as he looked out at the derelict structure.

Gaara parked and they exited the safety of the vehicle. The crumbling pavement crunched under Sasukes boots as he stepped out. The full blast of the heat outside hit him as though he’d just opened the door of an oven. The car door was scalding to the touch and he withdrew his had quickly. Even in the shade, heat radiated up from the pavement.

“What do we do? Knock?” Naruto asked.

Gaara shrugged and walked up the the chained wooden doors to test his theory. He knocked hard three times, a loud hollow sound that shook the doors and rattled their chains, but nothing happened.

“Smell anything?” He asked the blonde to Sasuke’s right, who shook his head.

“What now, genius?” Naruto rounded on Sasuke. His hands were loosely shoved in the front pockets of his worn jeans, and his cold blue eyes scanned Sasuke with contempt and disapproval.

“Che,” Sakura retaliated Be Sasuke could, “this isn’t his fault. Cut the hostility.” Sasuke opened his mouth to defend himself but Sakura cut him off by punching both of them hard in the shoulder. “Both of you,” she scolded in irritation.

Naruto groaned and stormed off to circle the building, and Sasuke did the same for the opposite side. Neither Gaara or Sakura followed either of them. Sasuke scanned every inch of the Church, searching for some sign of a left over aura that would tell him that Itachi’s notes had been correct. He didn’t know why, but he felt he desperately needed them to be. This note book was the only connection to his brother that he currently had, and he needed to be able to rely on it.

When he reached the back side of the building he ran into Naruto again. Sasuke tensed automatically, but the other boys aggressive nature seemed to have lessened somewhat, and when he spoke his voice was much softer than Sasuke had ever heard it before.

“Maybe it’s been a long time since he’s been here?” He asked, not looking at Sasuke, but up at the building before them.

“There aren’t any dates in his entries.” Sasuke replied warily, but Naruto only nodded in understanding. He wanted to be able to rely on Itachi as much as Sasuke did. Was it pure admiration, or had something else transpired between the two? The image of Naruto being handed a wad of cash from the backseat of a dark car, and the rumors that had followed him through school circled around Sasuke’s head. He didn’t think his brother would be the type to ever get tangled up with someone like Naruto, but then, it didn’t look like Sasuke knew his brother very well after all.

‘Someone like Naruto,’ he thought. There was that mindset again. Who was Naruto exactly, to deserve such negative demonizing from Sasuke. Sasuke looked him over while the other was also lost in thought. This was the boy he once called his best friend, the one he would have done anything for. The one failed to protect and doomed to a life of abuse. True he had only been a child, but had he told his parents, or even Shisui, about the strange boy he’d found in the woods, could Naruto have been spared that life? Did Naruto have these same thoughts too? Did he blame or resent Sasuke?

“What?” Naruto had returned from his own musings before Sasuke and caught him staring. His tone was still calm.

Sasuke opened his mouth to reply, but he has been so caught if guard that no words formed in his head and closed it again, averting his gaze.

“Come on.” He passed Sasuke and stode back to where the other two waited. “We should get started looking elsewhere.”

Gaara and Sakura were standing back by the car, and old map unrolled across the hood, while Gaara pointed out and circled different locations. Sakura looked up at them as they returned but they both shook their heads at her.

“There’s no trace of any aura. No one has been here in quite some time.” Sasuke told her.

“There’s no scent either, which is odd.” Naruto mused. “There should be at least something from passerby’s or or punk kids , or something. But there’s nothing.”

“We think we should split up. Gaara and Naruto head south, and we’ll head North.” She indicated the map Gaara had marked for her.

“Whatever.” Naruto replied distantly.

Sasuke was about ask how exactly they were supposed to split up with only one vehicle in such a huge city, but Naruto answered that question before he could get the chance.

He reached into the pocket of his jeans and pulled out something that he promptly chucked at the ground beside him. A tiny clink sounded as something orange hit the pavement and quickly began to grow, quickly unfolding into orange chopper style motorcycle.

Why am I the only one without a cool toy?” Gaara asked in a pouting voice that surprised Sasuke. “This is bullshit.”

Naruto snorted in what was almost laughter as He swung his leg over the bike, kicking over the engine as he sat. Gaara climbed on behind him.
”what are you going to do, exactly.” Sasuke wasn’t sure why he was asking.
Naruto shrugged and smiled. “What I do best.”
Gaara scoffed at him.
”hold on tight, sweetheart,” naruto chided him, and Gaara folded his arms across his chest in response. Naruto gave them a parting wink and half-hearted, “Later,” as they took off through the parking lot and back onto the crowded street.

Sasuke watched them disappear as an uneasy knot began to form in his stomach.
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