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All In	By : momhuey8 Category: Naruto > Yaoi - Male/Male > Naruto/Sasuke Views: 1711 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 1
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Here it is!
This is the first distinct chapter from All In. From here on out, this story is NOTHING like Constellations. Enjoy.
At a light touch to his cheek, Naruto gasped and shot up into a sitting position.
"Sasuke!"
"Shh," Tsunade soothed, pressing him back onto his pillow. "Everything’s okay. Everyone is okay."
Naruto's eyes widened as memories assailed him. He wondered for a moment if it had all been a dream, until he became aware of the agony in his leg.
"Is it gone?" he whispered.
"No. You'll be good as new before long," she answered, smoothing his hair back gently.
He nodded. "And Sasuke's okay?"
"He’s…okay." Something in her tone alarmed him.
"What?" He gripped her hand. "What’s wrong with him?"
"He was very upset..." Again her voice faded.
More memories returned. He closed his eyes. "I...I died."
She pushed her fingers through his hair. "I do wish you'd quit doing that."
"He tried to…" Naruto swallowed and closed his eyes, "kill himself?"
She just looked at him.
"Where is he now?" He sat up again.
She looked to the ceiling as if asking it for guidance. "He's spending a couple of days in a cell."
Naruto's eyes widened. "Are you afraid he's going to try again?"
"No." She rolled her eyes. "But he might just try to send the rest of the village to hell."
"Oh," Naruto muttered. He could easily envision the wrath Sasuke would pour on Konoha after an incident such as the one they'd experienced.
"You want something for pain?" she asked, standing.
"No," he answered. "When do I get out?"
She looked again at the ceiling, this time hoping it would be a source of patience. "A couple of days. I think it's taxing even Kyuubi to reattach a limb."
He looked like he was going to argue. "Just take some time. You're enraged boyfriend needs it anyway; he's scaring everyone to death. I have three mass murders asking to be moved to solitary confinement just to get out of his wing of the prison.
"Just rest, okay?" She kissed his cheek and left the room.
Lying there alone in the dark, his mind filled with images and sounds and emotions from the altercation.
He remembered experiencing a moment of disorientation and then the absolute terror of the villagers. They had thought he was the actual demon. A genjutsu... He wondered who, but then shook his head. It didn't matter. He had so many enemies, in and out of Konoha, civilian and ninja. It would be a miracle if they ever found out who was pulling the strings that night. If Sasuke was the target, it was no different. They both had hundreds of enemies while their friends numbered in the single digits.
He closed his eyes and rubbed his forehead. What concerned him was Sasuke's reaction to his death. It occurred to Naruto that he'd been selfish and had forgotten the lesson Sasuke had taught him as a child.
He'd been so afraid of the pain should he take a chance on Sasuke and then lose him. In spite of their talks about Kisho and bonds, he really did think that having a bond and losing it was harder than never having one at all. After all, he'd never had one in his whole life and, while ignorance hadn't been bliss, it had been ignorance, nonetheless.
Now, if he lost Sasuke, he would lose everything that meant anything to him and it would be unbearable. But if Sasuke lost him, it would be his second time losing everything. Naruto couldn't even comprehend what it would be like to go through that twice.
He sighed. What was to be done about it at this point? For now, he decided not to think about it. Hell, Sasuke had probably been thinking about this also, and may well want to be shed of this whole thing.
Sakura roused from a light doze as she heard several thumps and her door rattling. She'd been waiting for days for someone to come and tell her about Naruto's demise. Last she had seen him from her perch in the trees outside Sasuke's gate, the blond was dead.
Unfortunately, she suspected, since she'd chosen to play the serious convalescent in order to divert any thoughts of suspicion from coming her way, no one had the heart to tell her about her dear friend's death.
Still she had thought Sasuke would come see her. He would likely need some comfort and there was no one else in Konoha to whom he would go.
It had been heart wrenching to watch Sasuke's grief and she felt badly that she had to do this to him, but honestly, this was best for everyone around. Sasuke would get his children and the village, indeed the world, would be free of any future threats from the nine-tailed demon.
Sakura had considered that after enough time passed, she might let is slip that she had brought about all these miraculous changes. In retrospect, she thought, the village would consider her to be a hero. She had, after all eliminated a tailed demon single handedly.
She was imagining that Konoha might one day make her Hokage when, after another couple of thumps and a groan, her door slid all the way open.
"Naruto?" Sakura gasped.
"Hey, sweetie." He hobbled in on his crutches.
After easing to sit on the side of her bed with a pained hiss, he smiled gently at her look of shock and smoothed the hair back off her brow.
"Naruto?" She was in shock. Naruto was dead. She'd watched him die.
"Don't worry. I'm fine, just snuck out of my room so I could check on you." He sighed again.
She suddenly realized that Naruto was here without Sasuke. That never happened.
“Where’s Sasuke?”
Naruto rubbed the back of his neck, not answering right away.
"Naruto!” She gripped his arm. "Where’s Sasuke?"
"Grandma locked him up."
"What?" She pushed into a sitting position. "Naruto, what the hell's going on?"
"Team Seven’s having a really crappy couple of weeks." He took her hand and squeezed it gently. "It'll all be okay, though. Sasuke and I will be fine. You just worry about getting yourself better."
"But what happened?" She needed to know how Naruto had returned from the dead. And Sasuke in jail?
"There was some ruckus with the villagers." He scratched his head. "I guess they're mad at Sasuke.” He shook his head dejectedly. “Tsunade worried that might happen."
"But why is he in jail?"
"You know how he is," Naruto sighed. "A temper the size of Lake Biwa. She just has him in there to cool off."
She flopped back onto her pillow, her eyes wide, and her mouth still open in shock. How could her plan have gone so wrong? It was, admittedly, hasty, but this? Naruto sat here, happy as a lark, and Sasuke was sitting in a jail cell.
She took a deep, calming breath. "Tell me everything."
"Don't really know much." He shrugged. "Anbu and Grandma are still trying to figure out what happened. It seems that someone tried to stir the villagers into a mob. We're not even sure who the target was. It might have been me, but…" He looked thoughtful. "I did feel something weird. I’m thinking genjutsu." He shrugged again. "We'll just have to wait and see what they find out.”
But," she said, eying him, "you’re not telling me everything. You're hurt. And what about Sasuke?"
"I'm fine." He blushed. "The mob did do a number on me, but Kyuubi took care of everything once Tsunade took the cuffs off. As for Sasuke, what can I say? He got pissed, and since we don't want anything interfering with his return home, she decided to keep him separated from the general population until I get out of here."
"I can't believe this." She looked at Naruto and realized she was back at square one. Which meant a new plan. Which meant, for the time being, 'keep your enemies closer.'
"I feel sick..." He nodded in sympathy.
Gathering her resolve, she sat up and pulled him into her arms and stroked his back. "My poor boy. Such a trauma. Here, lean on me for a while."
Two days later, the door to Sasuke’s cell opened slowly. He stood as Naruto hobbled in on a crutch.
“Hey, bastard,” Naruto sighed, leaning against the bars in exhaustion. Sasuke sat back down on the bed and just looked at Naruto, impassive.
He’d had a week to stew on this and even though he knew Naruto must have come straight from being released from the hospital and was probably in pain, he kept his distance. He had a point to make and couldn’t afford to be distracted by his joy at seeing Naruto upright and moving on his own.
“Mind if I sit?” Naruto asked, unsure of what to make of the cold reception he was receiving. Sasuke just stared at him, not answering his question. So Naruto remained standing and rubbed the back of his neck uncertainly.
“If you attempt to protect me again, I’ll leave this village,” Sasuke finally said in an even voice.
“You will?” Naruto asked, not completely surprised. He plastered an unreadable look on his face and looked beyond Sasuke, not meeting his eyes. He should have known it was too good to last.
“God damned right I will.” Sasuke stood and his voice was rising. “I’ll be gone so fast your fucking head will spin.” He was going to force Naruto into compliance on this. Fear had been like acid in Sasuke’s veins for days. He knew that if he ever again experienced anything like what was burned in his memories, he’d lose his sanity. If he ever again felt Naruto take his last breath, while in his arms, ever had to watch his soul leave his body...
Naruto nodded. “The Hokage will be letting you out after she thinks you’ve cooled down enough.” His voice was steady since, at this moment, he felt absolutely dead inside.
“I’ll make sure I’m gone when you get back home.” He turned toward the cell door.
“What? Wait!” That wasn’t what Sasuke expected to hear from Naruto.
Naruto didn’t look back, just fished in his pouch for the keys.
“I said wait! You’ll be gone?”
“I’m not going to live there if you’re leaving. I’ll go back to my apartment.”
“I’m…I’m not…” Sasuke shoved his hands into his hair. “You’d let me leave when you know I’m right and can protect myself?”
Naruto turned, his eyes narrowing at the implication that he was being manipulated. “I know god damned well you can protect yourself, especially against civilians. That’s not what I was doing.
“Don’t you understand? If you’d so much as broken one of their fingernails, this would be over. After everything else with the Uchihas, you’d be put in jail or tossed out of Konoha altogether.” Naruto clenched his fists. “That is my mission. To stand between you and anything that would threaten your return home. And,” Naruto poked his finger toward Sasuke, “make no mistake, it is my mission. I have no choice.”
“I won’t have it,” Sasuke shouted. “I can’t go through this again.”
Naruto nodded again. “I do understand,” he said more gently. “I’ll tell Tsunade to reassign this to Neji and his team.” He closed his eyes. This would turn out the same either way. “She’ll assign me to another mission.”
Sasuke blinked. “That means…you’ll be leaving the village?”
Naruto nodded. He wasn’t sure how much longer he could hold up. He kept a silent chant in his head, ‘fall apart later…fall apart later.’ His arm reached toward Sasuke, but then he jerked it back and let himself out of the cell.
“Naruto…” Sasuke dropped his face into his hands.
Sasuke had kept a bead on Naruto's chakra the whole time he was locked up. After Naruto had left his cell yesterday he'd gone to his old apartment and hadn't moved since.
When she finally released him, Sasuke went straight there and found Neji sitting in the hallway outside Naruto's closed door.
"What are you doing here?"
"If he leaves, I'm going to..." Neji hadn't actually decided what he was going to do. Stop him? Go with him?
"He's not leaving. You can go now."
"How do you know this?"
"He doesn't want to." Sasuke sighed. "And I won't let him.”
"Maybe you don't know what you're talking about. He's in there ready to leave Konoha.” Neji glanced up. “And you."
Sasuke looked at Naruto’s closed door. “He died in my arms last week. The pain was...” Sasuke’s voice faded and he swallowed thickly. “So I made a mistake. I tried to manipulate him with empty threats. I won’t do it again. He'll forgive me."
"I think I'll just wait and see for myself. You can go."
"You know what, Hyuuga? You could have had him. And it's your own fault that you don't." Then Sasuke asked even though he already knew the answer, "Did you ever tell Naruto that you love him?"
After several moments, Neji finally answered, "No."
"Why not?"
"My family...the timing..." Neji said quietly, absently outlining a stain on the floor with his fingertips.
"So you're waiting for Naruto to take all the risk?" Sasuke cocked his head. "You stood just out of reach, hoping and wishing, waiting for him to come to you.”
“You talk of love as if… To me it is more than a risk. It’s… terrifying.” Neji pulled his head protector away, revealing the seal on his forehead. "This is the love I've known all my life."
"My family killed each other. We’ve both come from fucked up families.” Sasuke shrugged. “The love we received was a mixed bag. But we did have some. He’s never had any.”
Sasuke squatted in front of Neji. “Look, you and I, Uchiha and Hyuuga, we need to define what love means to us and then do whatever we can to make it happen. Including showing him what love is.”
"No disrespect to your loss or your dead family," Neji said, bowing his head. "But you have this freedom only because you are unshackled from living relatives. I wonder, if your family had lived, if you wouldn't even now, be facing the impending nuptials to a docile, but highly connected female?"
Sasuke sighed and nodded. "As the youngest son trying to gain the approval of a father who clearly preferred the eldest son, I probably would have found myself consenting to that very scenario.
"But, Neji, I can only bid on the hand I'm holding today. And the prize is his heart and soul, his past present and future." Sasuke stood and pointed to the door to Naruto's apartment. "So, I'm all in."
"So it's his terms and you capitulate?" Neji finally stood and faced Sasuke.
"Our terms are the same; all or nothing.” Sasuke shrugged. “And it does come with a price. One that’s harder for me to pay it than it is for him. I have to let myself laugh. And cry. I have to rip myself open and let him see inside me; see my weaknesses. My fears."
Sasuke looked at Naruto’s closed door. "But, you know what I get in return? I get to see inside him." Sasuke’s face softened. "And it's fucking beautiful.
“So I’m telling you, it was a mistake to wait for Naruto. This is your result. You’re both in need, but there’s a closed door between you. As for me, I’ll tear this whole fucking building down to get to him if I have to.”
The apartment door opened enough for Naruto to stick his head out. Both ninja turned to look at him, but Naruto only had eyes for Sasuke. As the two looked at each other, Neji realized that Naruto had been listening to this exchange.
Sasuke slid to his knees where he stood and bowed his head.
"Naruto, I was wrong. I’m sorry and I beg you to forgive me."
He looked up at Naruto and whispered, “I love you. I need you.”
Neji watched arrogant, cold, closed off Sasuke admit he was wrong, apologize and beg, all in one breath. Discomfort moved through him as he watched the other brunette submit on his knees and pour his heart on the ground before another male, with yet another male as witness.
It came to him as he watched Sasuke on his knees, what this weakness? Or was it a strength that was beyond him?
Then he watched Naruto come into the hall, smile gently and pull Sasuke into his arms. He could feel the warmth of Naruto’s love as the blond cradled Sasuke’s skull close and brushed his lips over Sasuke’s brow, whispering his own endearments.
To be held thus, and have that sun shining on him, warming him… Was the price Sasuke paid really so high when one considered the return? He suddenly realized it would be worth any price.
Naruto finally pulled Sasuke into the apartment, leaving Neji alone in the hallway to contemplate his mistakes and what he was really willing to pay to have someone like Naruto in his life
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