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I fussed and fussed with the most effective formatting of the genjutus. Centering...italics...divider...aaagh! There are a lot of them in future chapters so I wouldn't mind some input on the presentation. Maybe center the divider and left align the text? Okay the way it is?
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When Naruto returned alone two days later, Sakura was in a mood. Her very life had been sustained by the last words Sasuke had said to her, perched on the edge of her bed; ‘I love you, Sakura-chan.’
She wanted him so badly, it was a physical ache. He was different than any of the other males in the village. He had treated her like a princess; solicitous, gentle, loving.
And this fucking blond moron was standing firmly between them. She really hated Naruto, and if she had to be nice to him for one more second, put up with his hands on her… Well, she’d not be responsible for the outcome.
He sat next to her on her couch, bandages draped across his knees waiting to be applied and gently took her hand, chattering about some inane thing. And she snapped.
Two seconds later, Naruto was sitting blank faced, his hands limp in his lap, while she stormed around her living room.
“Don’t you fucking touch me,” she shouted. “I’ll put on my own god damned bandages, thank you very much.”
All the while, Naruto sat in a genjutsu, in which he continued to blather on and wrap her hands and arms.
For the next half hour, she paced and stalked. She fixed herself a cup of tea and sipped, agitated, talking to herself. Finally she felt calmer and went back to the couch. She sat where she had been and contemplated Naruto’s vacant expression.
“What the fuck does he see in you?” She shook her head and proceeded to wrap her own arms and hands.
Finally she sighed and released Naruto from his dreamlike prison.
“Doncha think?” he asked smiling.
“Beyond a shadow of a doubt,” she answered and patted his hand.
After Naruto left for the day, Sakura sulked. The foreseeable future looked dismal. She would have to put up with Naruto every other day.
And she couldn’t even look forward to future visits by Sasuke. She had absolutely loathed watching the interaction between Sasuke and Naruto while they were in her home. The love of her life had ground her face into a steaming pile of their relationship.
And she knew why. She could just picture Naruto running home…”Sakura said…” “Sakura said…”
Tch. Big whiny-ass baby. Fucking tattle tale.
Well, if she was nothing else, she was smart. She learned her lessons. There would be no more ‘Sakura saids.’
So she couldn’t kill Naruto. And she couldn’t talk him into leaving the brunette for his own good. She’d tried that and Sasuke had been all over her like ugly on a…Naruto.
The experience with the genjutsu this afternoon was a bright spot, however. Naruto could still come over every other day, but she could be in control of the visits now.
By the time she was turning off her light for the night, though, all these musings from the day were rearranging and realigning into something more. A picture, a plan, was emerging.
She had realized some time ago, that Naruto would have to take himself out of their lives. She believed that the blond idiot would leave Sasuke if he thought his relationship was harming him or making him unhappy. She suspected he felt lucky to have the pale warrior. He’d virtually proved that by running back to Sasuke with insecurities after the tiniest little push from her.
Using ninja arts against Naruto was risky, but it had worked after her encounter with Itachi. Genjutsu was different than other ninja arts, however, mostly because Naruto was such a butt-stupid moron. If it was muscle or chakra, she would never consider it, but this was really her brain pitted against his. Honestly, if she took the time to think and plan properly, it should be no contest.
The key, she knew was that she couldn't involve anyone else, either in fact or in illusion. That would eventually fall apart and then she would be exposed.
So, it would take subtlety, so very much subtlety, because Sasuke was brilliant and if anything seemed to come from somewhere other than Naruto, he would suspect. And if he suspected, it wouldn't take him long for his genius brain to come to her.
~~~###~~~
“I will love you until the day you die.”
“You’re my hero and I have complete faith that you’ll fix this for me."
"I've been thinking about how I'm going to restore my family name. I was getting so close, but now... Well, I know I can count on you to find another way. My name is the only that means anything to me...besides you, of course."
~~~###~~~
As Naruto gingerly wrapped fresh gauze around Sakura's waist, she stroked his head.
“Naruto, you seemed so sad when you came in. Is everything okay? You're not still upset about all of this are you?" She waved at her own body.
"Huh? Oh, no, well, yeah, but I was just thinking about Sasuke. He talked to me yesterday." He looked confused a moment. "Or the other day, or...," he trailed off.
"Anyway, he needs my help with a problem and I just don't have any idea how to help him. And since his problem is really my fault, I really hate the thought of disappointing him."
She smiled. "I'm sure you'll think of something."
~~~###~~~
“I will love you until the day you die.”
“Aren’t you going to apologize?”
“I’m…sorry?” Naruto wracked his brain trying to remember what he’d said or done.
“You don’t even know what you did do you?”
“Uhm…”
Sasuke sighed and shook his head. “If only you loved me as much as I love you. I know how to keep from hurting you.”
“Sasuke! Wait! I am sorry. I’m so, so sorry.” Naruto hugged Sasuke tight and hoped with all his might that his lover would forgive him for…whatever it was he’d done or said.
“Okay. Let’s just forget about it this time.”
~~~###~~~
“I will love you until the day you die.”
“Sasuke, I love you.”
Sasuke gave Naruto a speculative look. “What does that mean to you?”
Naruto rubbed the back of his neck. “Uhm, it means…” Naruto floundered.
While the casual observer would think that Naruto never lacked for words and that Sasuke never spoke, in actuality, behind closed doors, Naruto preferred to speak with actions, while Sasuke was more eloquent.
Sasuke looked hurt. “You don’t even know.”
‘Wait. I do,” Naruto said. “I’ll tell you.”
Sasuke just looked at him, his expression conveying his doubts.
“When I think of you, the…uhm…the thing I think about the most…” Naruto wiped his palms on his thighs. “Is how I can make you happy. And…and how I can make your life better.”
Sasuke looked as though he was going to get up.
“Wait.” Naruto pulled him back into his seat. “Please, just give me a chance.”
Naruto closed his eyes and dug deep inside himself trying to find words for something for which, in his opinion, there were no words.
“I feel like I…uh…want to…I want to hold you in my hands and lift you up to the sky. I need to hold you up and help you reach triumph. And peace. And joy.”
Naruto was blushing, feeling inadequate and uncomfortable trying to put his feelings into words. But Sasuke did it all the time and made it seem easy; the least he could do was try.
“I want to be everything it takes to make your life the best it can be.” As he spoke, it seemed easier to continue. “I want to be in front of you, clearing all obstacles. I want to be behind you to catch you if you fall.
“I want sunlight to shine on you all the time,” Naruto finished.
“Huh.” Sasuke looked at the wall ahead of him. “Is that what you think love is?”
Naruto felt his stomach churn. He felt he’d botched this…test? Sasuke patted his leg.
“I think love is like bondage,” Sasuke said. Then he raised a brow. “That’s probably why they call them ‘bonds.’ Love binds you to a time and a place. And a person. Like you. And like Itachi.” He tilted his head. “It’s kind of like…chains.”
Naruto winced. “Does it…does it make you happy?”
“That’s part of it. I guess love is happiness and despair and everything in between.”
~~~###~~~

A bird had delivered a message to Naruto this morning instructing him to come to the Hokage tower that afternoon.
As Naruto and Sasuke reached the steps leading up to the building they heard god awful yelling and then a chair came crashing through Tsunade’s window to splinter onto the sidewalk.
They poofed directly to her office to find it in shambles.
She was leaning on her desk, panting, her head down, her fists clenched.
“What’s the matter?” Both teens had weapons drawn, ready.
She raised her head to look at Naruto for a moment, then came around the desk and pulled him into her arms.
“I’m so sorry. I tried.” He just stood stiff, his eyes wide as she muttered, “It’s just for a while. I won’t let this stand, I promise.”
Disregarding all protocol, Sasuke grabbed her elbow and pulled her to face him.
“What?” he growled. “What the hell’s going on?”
She closed her eyes for a moment, and he shook her. “Tell me!” he yelled.
“The cuffs,” she sighed. “The council wants them back on Naruto.”
“Abso-fucking-lutely not!” The temperature in the room rose as fury filled Sasuke.
“They said since he’s healed completely now and doesn’t need Kyuubi, the original decision goes back into affect.”
“That whole incident happened because of the cuffs,” Sasuke shouted. “What kind of Hokage are you that…”
“Listen here, you little prick,” Tsunade interrupted.
“I swear to all our gods, if you don’t fix this,” Sasuke cut her off, the Sharingan whirling in his eyes, “I will.”
“Hey!” Naruto yelled. “Guys!”
The other two shinobi eyed each other, anger radiating off both of them in waves.
“Please don’t fight because of me,” he pleaded.
“Dobe…”
“Naruto…”
“No. Stop. It’s okay.” He scratched his head and looked at Tsunade. “You said it’s just for a while, right?”
“Naruto.” Sasuke grabbed his arm. “You fucking died because of those cuffs. If you think I’m going to stand by and…”
“It wasn’t the cuffs’ fault. It was mine.” He shrugged. “I forgot they were on. I should have sent a signal to Neji before I ever left our living room, but I just forgot.”
He took Sasuke’s hand. “I won’t let it happen again.”
Sasuke jerked his hand free, looking mutinous.
“I won’t,” Naruto repeated. “I promise.”
Still enraged, images of Naruto’s last breath whirling in his mind, Sasuke poked Naruto in the shoulder. “How can you just let them do this to you? Why don’t you get angry?”
Naruto frowned, his face flushing as Sasuke’s displeasure was now directed at him.
“I don’t understand how you can even be a god damned ninja,” Sasuke ranted. “You don’t have an aggressive bone in your fucking body.”
Naruto blinked, taken aback. Then his lips thinned. “That’s okay; you have enough aggression for both of us.”
Sasuke moved into his space, his eyes blazing, his jaw clenched. He growled in anger for a moment, then grabbed Naruto by the collar.
Two seconds later, they were standing in the middle of the training grounds.
“Maybe I just need to teach you how to get pissed.”
Naruto closed his eyes. “Sasuke…” Then he was flying through the air. He twisted at just the last second to keep from slamming into a tree trunk.
“Sasuke…” Naruto said louder, his hands up, placating. Again he didn’t get to finish as he found himself maneuvering to avoid a shower of projectiles.
He sighed inwardly. Sasuke was furious and evidently needed to purge his mind and body of the rage boiling inside him. Reluctantly, Naruto dropped into a fighting stance, ready to be Sasuke’s punching bag until the brunette cooled down.
An hour later, Naruto caught an exhausted Sasuke as he threw one last weary swing at his head. The punch transformed as Sasuke stumbled forward and wrapped the arm around Naruto’s neck. He heaved and panted, his face buried in Naruto’s shoulder. He sagged and Naruto let him down gently until they were kneeling in the dirt.
“Sasuke,” Naruto whispered.
“Don’t,” Sasuke shuddered. “I can’t talk about this now. Just take me home.”
~~~###~~~
“I will love you until the day you die.”
“Sasuke, I’m sorry I was so upset yesterday.”
Sasuke shrugged. “You're always upset about something or another."
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