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The Sacrificed	By : Sasunarufan13 Category: Naruto > Yaoi - Male/Male > Naruto/Sasuke Views: 5667 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto nor make profit of it. Kishimoto owns it.

Chapter List
- 1-Part 1
- 2-Part 2
- 3-Part 3
- 4-Part 4
- 5-Part 5
- 6-Part 6
- 7-Part 7
- 8-Part 8
- 9-Part 9
- 1
- 2
- 3
Author's note: I have no idea why I insist on giving a chapter count when I haven't even reached the final scene yet. As some of you might already have guessed (if you're a long time reader of mine, you'll definitely not be surprised to hear this) this story is going to have at least one more part if not more, depending on which scenes still pop up :') Because clearly my brain hates me and can't just let me finish a story in two parts.
Thanks to the following reviewer: Ookima
Warnings: Minor time skips; explanation about Bites; Sasuke getting a tad too intense at times
I hope you'll like it!
Part 2
He sat on the bear's fur in front of the fire, trailing his fingers cautiously across the stiff fur. The Beast had returned to the bear's carcass four days ago and had dragged it back all the way to their cave where he had proceeded to remove its fur entirely. He had left it out to dry properly in front of the fire.
Naruto wondered if the Beast considered this fur to be some kind of trophy, because he had managed to kill the animal. It felt a bit unsettling to sit down on something that had been a living animal just four days ago, but it was oddly fascinating as well.
"Why did you ask for a sacrifice?" he asked out of the blue, holding his breath when the Beast – again in his human form, and still very much naked – turned to look at him.
It had been bothering him for quite some time now; the Beast had made it clear he wasn't going to eat him, but why had he asked for a sacrifice in the first place then? The deaths before were a clear indication that the Beast wasn't bothered by killing humans and there was nobody strong enough to take him on. So what had made him decide to stop killing the townspeople in exchange for a sacrifice he wasn't even planning on killing?
Had he decided from the start that he wasn't going to kill whoever ended up being his sacrifice? Or was Naruto somehow special? Why, though?
"Took you long enough to ask," the Beast smirked, crossing his arms.
Naruto kept his gaze firmly fixated on his face and definitely not any lower. The Beast had been switching between both forms several times now over the last couple of days, but the blond still wasn't used to seeing him fully naked. He didn't think he would ever get used to it and the Beast didn't seem to understand the need to cover himself up.
"It's just you and me, what does it matter?" he'd said and shrugged when Naruto had meekly asked him yesterday whether he was thinking of covering himself up.
"It's been something I've been wondering about for a while now," was all he said, giving the other man an expectant look.
He started worrying that he was becoming too noisy when the silence endured, but then the Beast sighed and rolled his shoulders. He wandered over to the fireplace and sat down on the fur, crossing his legs and resting his arms on his knees.
"I left my family behind to look for a mate – a partner," he clarified at seeing Naruto's confused look.
"A partner – like in the romantic sense? Like a spouse?" Naruto questioned, intrigued in spite of himself.
He hadn't considered it before, but the Beast had to have come from somewhere; he had to have at least parents. Was there a whole family of Beasts out there like this one? Could they all change into wolves freely?
The Beast cocked his head slightly to the left. "I suppose you could call it that, yes. We call them mates. I went searching for one and figured I could settle down in the meantime here. Then some humans crossed my path and tried to attack me." He shrugged. "So I killed them."
Naruto swallowed uneasily. The casual way in which the Beast had mentioned killing people made his stomach churn, but if it was self-defence as the wolf shifter seemed to imply – could he really hold the murders against him then? Killing was never okay, but it sounded like those people had attacked him first.
"They kept bothering me, so I just got rid of them," the Beast continued, narrowing his eyes slightly. "But then your village sent me a messenger and I wanted to see what they would offer me if I asked for a sacrifice."
The look he levelled the blond boy with was thoughtful when he added, "I believed they would send me livestock as I never specified it had to be a human."
"And then they gave me," Naruto said hollowly, bitterness filling him as he realised that he had been dumped like garbage here for no reason.
They had handed him over instead of cows or pigs; they had considered him to be less worth than livestock which would have met their end underneath the butcher's hands anyway. He had always known that most of the villagers didn't like him, but to hear it confirmed that they had preferred seeing him die instead of a cow or a pig …
It stung.
"And then they gave you," the Beast confirmed and his eyes gleamed in a curious way. "Which makes me think that they weren't so useless after all."
"What do you mean?" Naruto asked confused, startling slightly when a cool hand brushed across his ankle before the Beast rose up smoothly, stepping away from the fur before he shifted into his wolf form.
"I'm going to hunt dinner for us," the Beast said; his voice gravelly in this form.
"Erm, okay." Naruto could only watch bemused how the giant wolf disappeared into the corridor to head outside.
Leaving him to feel like he was missing something huge, something important.
But what?
Considering that the Beast hadn't snapped at him when he'd asked him a question, Naruto felt brave enough later that evening to ask another question which had been on his mind for some time now.
Plucking at the last bits of fish clinging to the skeleton, he asked tentatively, "Do you have a name?"
The Beast paused, discarding his own skeleton on a broad leaf. He was back in his human form, sitting on the edge of the nest next to Naruto. "My name's Sasuke. Uchiha Sasuke."
"Oh." Naruto was a bit taken aback by the normal sounding name. He hadn't known what he had expected, but his brain seemed unable to compute linking the normal human name with the Beast in front of him.
Then again, given that the man could change into a human, it wasn't that abnormal for him to have a human name, no? What did he know about Beasts, though?
"You thought I wouldn't have a name?" the Beast – Sasuke – asked amused.
Naruto shrugged, a bit embarrassed. "I don't know. Not like I know much about people shifting into animals, you know?"
"Well, we hardly go around announcing ourselves to the world," Sasuke said dryly. "People tend to react violently towards our kind."
"They might say the same about you," Naruto blurted out and cringed. Oh god, way to go, offending the other man straight away. His stupid mouth might actually cause Sasuke to change his mind about keeping him alive after all.
The dark haired man didn't appear offended, though. He smirked instead. "Most likely. I'm not going to pretend to be innocent here: sometimes it's just fun to let loose. You don't expect any of the predatory animals to hold back when they get accosted by the humans, so why should we hold back? You come near my den and you pay the price, it's as simple as that."
"How come I'm different?" Naruto coloured red instantly the second the words left his mouth. He hadn't meant to ask that, had wanted to ask more about this whole mate thing, but he was in a stupid mood apparently and he swallowed the last piece of fish with difficulty.
He was startled when Sasuke leant towards him abruptly, bringing their faces closely together. "Because you are," he murmured, his dark eyes trailing down Naruto's face to his body. "My people tend to heavily focus on scents, as that tells us a lot about each other. The second you ended up in front of the cave, I thought you smelt great. Divine even." His voice slipped into a rumble at the end and his warm breath caressing Naruto's cheeks made the blond boy shiver.
"Great, like great to eat?" Naruto squeaked, his belly performing several funny flips when Sasuke's nose brushed against his left cheek before sniffing a path to the hollow beneath his ear.
His comment made Sasuke huff in amusement. "Not the type of eating you most likely have in mind," he smirked.
Blue eyes blinked and Naruto again felt like he was missing something. "Are there different types of eating then?" he asked innocently.
That for some reason made Sasuke chuckle, the low sound doing funny things to Naruto's lower belly. "Perhaps I will show you the different type soon," he said, pulling away and grabbing the discarded skeleton of the fish. "I'm going to throw these away."
"Okay," Naruto said confused, leaning back on his hands. He really was missing something here, wasn't he? "Oh, I'm Uzumaki Naruto," he added, remembering belatedly that he hadn't introduced himself yet.
Sasuke flashed him a quick grin, collecting the remains of his fish in the leaves before wrapping them up tightly. "Nice to meet you, Naruto."
Naruto watched him disappear into the corridor and thought for the first time that perhaps it wouldn't be so awful to stay here.
At the very least Sasuke seemed to like having him here, which was a lot more than he could claim of the villagers.
They settled into a new routine. While Sasuke still went out to hunt for their food, he was now more likely to eat it in his human form together with Naruto. With May having entered the country and the weather turning warmer, they found themselves spending more time outside. Sometimes Sasuke wandered around with him in his wolf form, sometimes in his human form.
Naruto liked it best when he was in his human form, though, because it made reading his face a lot easier. While Sasuke was capable of speaking when he was a wolf, this form of him made it more difficult for Naruto to decipher what exactly he was thinking and feeling. He wasn't going to lie: it was also a lot more pleasant to look at his handsome face than the scary wolf one.
He knew Sasuke wasn't going to attack him in his wolf form – if he really wanted to, he would have done so already, so Naruto took comfort in that – but that didn't take away the fact that his wolf form was still terrifying to look at sometimes. Perhaps he would get used to it eventually but for now he preferred looking at Sasuke's human face.
He was sitting on the riverbank, his legs up to his knees in the water with Sasuke resting in his wolf form next to him, when he spotted two foxes on the other edge of the river. They were sniffing at each other, uttering odd squeaking noises. One of them started snapping at the other, but the other one darted out of the way and jumped on top of the first one.
The two foxes rolled around, disturbing bushes with their fighting, making birds fly away in fright, until the noise suddenly stopped and one of the foxes laid submissively down on the ground. It was only when they disappeared underneath the shrub together that Naruto realised the two foxes were probably forming a couple now and were on their way to make baby foxes.
That realisation made him glance at Sasuke, who appeared undisturbed by the noise of the foxes. His eyes were closed, but the tips of his ears twitched faintly, showing that he wasn't actually asleep. He would probably jump up the second he detected a threat.
Thinking about the two foxes made Naruto wonder about Sasuke's own plans. He'd said that he had come here because he was searching for a mate – yet for as long as Naruto had been here, he'd only seen him go outside to hunt. Was he no longer interested in getting a mate? Or was Naruto's presence ruining his efforts to find one? If so, why not tell him to leave?
"I can hear you thinking," Sasuke drawled and red eyes opened, flicking up at him. "What's on your mind?"
Naruto pursed his lips together and rubbed his right cheek with the back of his hand self-consciously. "Just wondering … You said you were looking for a mate and that's why you came all the way here, right?"
"Yes."
"Well, how are you going to find a mate if I'm here?" He bit down on his lower lip. "Don't I – am I not in the way then?"
"My, you really are quite innocent, aren't you?" Sasuke huffed amused and with the sound of twisting and cracking bones reshaping themselves, the wolf disappeared, leaving the man behind.
"What's that supposed to mean?" Naruto demanded, scowling.
Sasuke moved so quickly he didn't have a chance to react. One moment he was still sprawled out near the tree, the next he was leaning over Naruto. The shock of having Sasuke so close to him – whilst naked – had Naruto yelping in surprise and he fell back on the ground, staring as if hypnotised in burning black eyes. The dark haired man bent even closer to him, so close that Naruto felt like he was being swallowed right up by that intense gaze.
"I've already found my mate," Sasuke murmured; his hands braced on each side of Naruto.
"Oh? Erm, where is she then?" Naruto inquired; his voice higher pitched than he would like.
He couldn't lie, however: having Sasuke this close to him, on top of him, was intimidating and it was doing weird things to his body, especially when he couldn't smell anything else but Sasuke's pure essence, musky undertones mixed with the scent of a forest after a fresh bout of rain.
Sasuke's mouth pulled back in a smile, showing off his impressive fans which lengthened underneath the wide-eyed gaze of the boy. "So innocent," he breathed out and goose bumps abruptly broke out all over Naruto's arms and back. "I'm not talking about a girl, Naruto."
"Ab-about who are you talking then?" He barely got the words past his lips, his mouth drying up underneath Sasuke's intense gaze.
The intensity into those black eyes turned calculating and Sasuke tilted his head slightly to the left. "I wonder if I should tell you now or whether I should still wait," he mused. "You're still so innocent after all …"
That had Naruto bristling and he jutted out his chin, retorting annoyed, "How can I stop being innocent if you won't tell me anything!"
Sasuke snapped his teeth at him lazily. "Be careful, Naruto. Words have power, you know, and certain words might make one … snap."
He should heed the implicit warning, he knew, but it had been established a while ago that his self-preservation skills sucked around the wolf. So instead of shutting up, he said, "Maybe then I would finally get some answers."
"Oho," Sasuke said impressed. "Not that meek after all, hm? Well, if you're sure …" he trailed off, raising an eyebrow.
Naruto felt brave enough to give him a challenging look, even when a small voice in the back of his mind was berating him for it, calling him an idiot to challenge a wolf. God, he really was an idiot, wasn't he? It was amazing that he hadn't been killed yet!
"I've already found my mate – I'm looking right at him now," Sasuke said.
Heat instantly flooded Naruto's cheeks, at the same moment his voice seemed to have deserted him completely. He could only gape at the wolf shifter, who smirked and bent down to rub his nose from Naruto's right cheek to his ear, before dipping down to breathe in his neck.
"I told you before that you're mine, didn't I?"
"But – but that was the first day!" Naruto spluttered shocked. "You can't just decide I'm your mate on the first day!"
Sasuke shrugged almost laconically. "Why not? I'm not bound by silly human customs. I like how you smell, how you look, and you feel right to both me and my wolf. That's enough for me. Do you really think I would have let you live if you hadn't captured my interest?"
The atmosphere around them changed, the air becoming charged with tension. "I have no qualms about killing humans, which you should know. If you didn't smell this good, if you didn't feel right, I would have torn your throat out with my teeth before you would have even got the chance to wake up. I would have ripped open your belly and feasted upon your insides before you could have done so much as scream," he rumbled, his eyes bleeding red.
Naruto could only lie there frozen, only now really comprehending for the first time how close he had come to dying.
"But I didn't. Because you smell utterly divine, because you feel so right to both my human and my wolf side," Sasuke continued, his voice husky and smooth now; the redness in his eyes receding. "Because I know you'll be the perfect mate for me, because my wolf and I know you're going to give me perfect cubs. I didn't kill you, because I knew I had finally found you."
"I – I don't know …" Naruto stammered, uncertain how to react to the confession.
Never in a million years had he expected to hear that the wolf shifter was in love with him. At seventeen years of age he'd seen plenty of people falling in love with each other back at the village, but with his status as a social pariah he hadn't experienced a relationship yet. That wasn't so say he had never fancied someone before. He had for a time liked a local girl, but she had always looked straight through him as if he was mere air and his feelings for her had died out once he realised she would never return them.
To now hear that Sasuke liked him enough to want to take him on as his mate, even though they hadn't known each other for that long … It was mindboggling and quite overwhelming to say the least.
What could he have possibly done to capture the wolf's interest? Well, apparently he smelt good …
"You don't have to say anything just yet," Sasuke said and he was calm once more. He sat up, allowing Naruto to slowly rise up too. "That's why I said I wanted to wait a little while longer before telling you this. To give you time to get used to me."
"Are you sure you wouldn't want someone else?" Naruto asked cautiously.
Sure, he smelt right to the wolf – but what if there was someone else out there who smelt even better but Sasuke just didn't know it yet because he wouldn't go out to look? He had left his family specifically to search for a partner; that had to mean he had to have some sort expectations of this person, no?
Black eyes regarded him calmly. "I'm certain. Scent doesn't lie to me."
"Oh." Naruto looked down, a bit uncomfortable now and not knowing what to say.
He hadn't really considered the possibility of liking Sasuke in a romantic sense. Certainly he could admit that the man was very handsome, easily the most handsome man he had ever seen, but a relationship couldn't be built on looks alone.
A light touch on his right ankle had a shock running through him and he snapped his head up, staring at the dark haired man.
Sasuke smiled wryly. "Don't think too hard about this, all right? There's no pressure for you to give me an answer now."
"But what if I won't be able to give you a good answer?" Naruto asked in a small voice, fidgeting with a loose thread of his shirt.
Sasuke stilled, looking remarkably well like the predator he was even though he wasn't moving. Then he gave a light shrug and a faint smile. "Then you won't," he answered simply and stood up, stretching out his arms.
Instantly Naruto looked away, his cheeks burning, before he could catch sight of something a bit too private. Sasuke still refused to wear any type of clothes, though he had acquiesced to finding something else to sit on after Naruto had offhandedly mentioned that his arse was growing numb from constantly sitting on the cold cave floor.
He didn't know how Sasuke had done it and the man refused to explain, but now there was a crudely crafted table and two chairs placed in a nook in the cavern.
"I'm going for a dip in the water," Sasuke announced and sauntered over to the river, getting into the cool water without even the slightest flinch.
Naruto watched him sink lower in the water, droplets in black hair catching the sunlight and making them shine like diamonds, and wondered whether he would ever be capable of giving Sasuke the answer he so clearly wanted.
"Wake up."
The command, spoken in a low gritty voice, had Naruto waking up abruptly and he sat up, disorientated. The cave was pitch black, no fire having been made yet, and he jumped when a cold, wet nose pressed against his bare arm.
"Sasuke?" he whispered, voice rough with sleep and thoroughly confused. Was it morning already? But shouldn't a fire be lit then? That was the only way for him to be able to see in the cave, seeing as he didn't have Sasuke's special night vision.
"Get on my back, I want to show you something," the wolf rumbled and fur brushed against Naruto's skin when Sasuke moved closer.
"Is it morning already?" Naruto inquired bemused, but nevertheless clambered onto Sasuke's broad back, sliding his arms around the shifter's neck.
This was only the second time he sat on Sasuke's back and the first time he was able to catalogue what he felt instead of being in shock after a bear attack. Sasuke's fur was long, but smooth and felt incredibly soft to the touch as if he took regular baths with a lot of soap.
The mental image of a soaking wet gigantic wolf with suds covering his body had Naruto grinning and he almost missed Sasuke's reply.
"… still night, but I want to show you something before the sun rises," he was saying as he trotted into the corridor.
"Okay," Naruto mumbled and yawned, draping his body across Sasuke's back. He was still so very sleepy and Sasuke felt incredibly warm underneath him, making it difficult for him to keep his eyes open.
It was still quite warm outside despite it being the middle of the night and he knitted his eyebrows together, the muggy weather annoying him slightly. It was much better deep in the cave, where the air was comfortably cool.
Some bushes rustled with the movements of an animal, but Sasuke ignored those, walking to the left of the cave. There was an owl hooting softly somewhere high above them and if Naruto concentrated hard, he thought he could hear a dog howling in the far distance.
"Where are we going?" he asked, peering into the darkness.
There was enough moonlight streaming through the gaps in the leaf roof that he could make out the outlines of the trees and even some larger bushes, but it was still too dark for him to be able to recognise the path they were taking – if they were even taking a familiar path. While he and Sasuke spent most of their days outside now, it wasn't like Naruto was all that familiar yet with his surroundings and he was likely to get lost if he strayed too far from Sasuke.
Not that the wolf shifter ever allowed him to walk too far away.
"You'll see," was the frustratingly vague reply and Naruto huffed, pouting slightly.
Some fireflies were still out and about at this late hour and Naruto spent some time watching them hover near the ground, amusing himself with the thought that they acted like some kind of mini-lanterns, doing their best to illuminate the path.
After a while he realised they were going uphill and that made him sit up straighter, interest chasing away the last vestiges of sleep. Where was Sasuke taking them?
Soon they arrived at the top of the hill, no trees here to block the view of the sky and Sasuke came to a halt near the edge. "Look."
At first Naruto had no idea where to look. The sky was quite pretty, no doubt, with its numerous stars glittering and the full moon a bright luminous orb. Then he looked down and he gasped softly, getting off Sasuke's back as he gazed in wonder at the sight which met him.
There was a lake at the bottom of the hill and it reflected the moon beautifully, as if the moon herself was dipping into the water. And right above the surface of the water were dozens of glowing spots dancing and twirling around. Whenever they danced too low, they brushed against the surface of the water, making perfectly round ripples appear. Those ripples grew in size before fading away and the illuminous spots would dance in circles above those ripples.
One hand braced on Sasuke's shoulder, Naruto breathed out, "This is such a wonderful view. What are they? Are they some sort of creature?"
Sasuke hummed, the sound a bit funny in his wolf form. "They're from the Other Side. On full moons they gather here to perform their dances."
"I've never seen them before," Naruto murmured in awe, his eyes locked on the pretty vision of the Fae dancing above the water.
"You wouldn't. They're very careful to keep to themselves."
Blue eyes tore away from the beautiful vision in alarm. "Wait, is this okay then? Shouldn't we leave them alone?"
"We are leaving them alone," Sasuke answered calmly, his gaze fixated on the creatures down at the lake. "They know we're here; as long as we don't bother them, they don't mind us watching." His lips twitched. "They like to perform for others too much to send us away."
The blond boy hesitated, his eyes shooting back and forth between the dancing Fae and the giant wolf next to him. "So this really is okay?"
Red eyes flicked towards him. "I wouldn't have brought you here if it wasn't safe."
Naruto relaxed then and turned to look at the Fae again. They really were quite a sight to behold, he mused, with their glittering wings and their luminous bodies. Their moves were in perfect sync as they started drawing eights above the water before flying into spirals.
"I sometimes come here to watch them dance," Sasuke murmured, his tail idly swishing back and forth. "I like this spot because it's deep enough into the woods that nothing will bother me. The Ones from the Other Side performing on a full moon is an added bonus."
Naruto's belly squirmed funnily at the realisation that Sasuke had invited him into his private spot. The cave was Sasuke's den, of course, so it was private in its own way, but this spot on the hill felt different, more intimate even in spite of being in the open air.
"Thank you for showing me this," Naruto said softly; his fingers absently curling around a tuft of black hair.
"I thought you might appreciate this view," Sasuke said and if a wolf could smile, he would be doing so now.
Appreciate the view Naruto did, but as he furtively shot a glance at the wolf next to him, he couldn't help but think that while the dancing Fae might be beautiful, they couldn't really hold a candle to the wolf shifter sitting next to him.
Sasuke's confession at the riverbank kept lingering in the back of Naruto's mind and as the days passed by, the weather only growing hotter with the occasional storm to cool things down, he started thinking more and more about it.
He had never considered having a man as a partner before, but then again he also had never expected that the village would readily abandon him to what they all believed to be a ruthless murderous monster, so his world view definitely had reshaped itself quite a bit over the past couple of months.
How would it work, however, if he did decide to accept Sasuke's confession? Would he be required to turn into a wolf too? If so, how would that work? And what about a family? Would Sasuke want to have children? Given his comment about the cubs, yes, he would want a family.
Again, however, how would that work? Naruto was a boy; he didn't have the necessary parts to create a child and bear it. His bodily state kind of put a damper on the whole cubs thing, didn't it?
"How would it work?" he asked out of the blue one evening.
He guessed it had to be around June now; they were sitting right outside the cave, the smoke of the small fire keeping the bugs away. The sun was only slowly setting; its dark red and rose pink rays reflected on the trees making them look like they were on fire.
Sasuke stirred, turning his head to look at him. He was lying stretched out next to the blond in the grass in front of the cave. He was in his human form this time after having traipsed around the woods as a wolf for a while.
"How would what work?" he questioned; the sunrays catching onto the blueish shine of his hair.
Naruto licked his lips, feeling somewhat embarrassed for some reason. "If I – if I decide to say yes, would I have to turn into a wolf too then? How would that work? And babies, you said you wanted babies, but it's not like I can have them, right? I'm a boy and boys can't have babies, so how could we possibly have kids together?" All the questions left him in a rush and he gasped for air at the end, feeling his cheeks sting slightly with heat.
"One question at a time," Sasuke chuckled and he felt his cheeks heat up even more. The older man sat up and ran a hand through his hair, stretching out his arms before turning around to face Naruto fully. "While you turning into a wolf would ensure that you live as long as I do, you don't have to become one if you don't want to. I know some other couples of which one of them remains human and they work it out."
"But if I decide to turn into one, how would that happen then?" Naruto bit down on his lip; a part of him wondering just how old Sasuke could become if turning into a wolf would make sure that Naruto became that old as well.
"First, I would make an impression in the ground with my paw and fill that one with blood from my wrist and mix it together with water that has been purified by the full moon," Sasuke explained, drawing a line across his right wrist with a sharp claw. "You would drink that mixture and after that I would give you the Bite that will turn you completely. You can bite me back if you want, but it's not necessary. Once the Bite takes, you're a wolf like me."
Drinking Sasuke's blood from a paw print? Naruto couldn't help but grimace at that thought. "That doesn't sound … very appetising," he remarked carefully, not wanting to offend the other man, but honestly it was a rather disgusting idea to drink someone else's blood.
Sasuke didn't appear to be offended, for he chuckled with mirth; his eyes shining. "I suppose from a human standpoint, it's not an appetising way, no, but it is what it is. However, as I said before: if you don't want to turn into a wolf, I won't force you. The option is there to take it should you want it to, though."
At this point in time Naruto honestly thought he would never choose to be a wolf, because it sounded all rather disgusting and painful. But perhaps he would change his mind in the future if he and Sasuke became closer? Especially if turning into a wolf would grant him the same extraordinary life expectancy that Sasuke apparently had.
"And what about babies then?" he persisted, leaning forwards slightly, resting his weight on his hands. "How would I be able to give you babies if I don't have the parts for it?"
Sasuke smiled, his eyes glittering this time. "That would require another type of Bite. We call it the Mating Bite. Bites are all about intent and if I give you the Mating Bite, your body will adjust itself in order to make you capable of birthing cubs."
Blond eyebrows furrowed together. "So it's kind of like magic then?" he concluded tentatively.
One Bite to turn someone into a wolf and another Bite to grant the ability to bear children, hm? That sounded quite complicated and peculiar. A part of him rebelled against it, not wanting to believe it, but he was living with someone who could literally turn into a wolf at will and had witnessed Fae dancing under the full moon – Bites being able to change someone's physics didn't sound that farfetched anymore.
Sasuke inclined his head. "If you want to call it like that, then yes, it's a form of magic."
Huh. Well, that did finally explain where the cubs would come from then. He sneaked a glance towards his stomach, wondering how it would feel like to carry a child. Back in the village the women who were expecting all looked so happy all the time. If he agreed to become Sasuke's mate and have his children, would he feel so happy too then?
He would never have to feel alone anymore, that was for sure …
"Where the sudden interest?" Sasuke murmured, looking at him with half-lidded eyes.
Naruto shrugged and looked down at the ground, fiddling with some grass strands. "What you said back then just got me thinking."
"Thinking in a good or a bad way?" Sasuke inquired and while his voice sounded neutral, there was hope lurking in the depths of his dark eyes.
It's strange, Naruto thought distantly, how I seem to have a lot of power here even though he's a wolf.
Sasuke might tease him often about him still being so innocent and naïve, but he was under no illusions. Given the large gap in physical power between them, Sasuke could easily overpower him whenever he wanted to and force Naruto to do whatever he desired. There was no way that Naruto could ever fight back, even though he had been eating a lot better here than he had in all his years in the village.
If Sasuke wanted to take him, he would and there was nothing Naruto would be able to do to stop him. Some of the villagers might even argue it was Sasuke's right, considering Naruto was his sacrifice.
But Sasuke didn't. Even after confessing to Naruto there at that riverbank, making it clear that he desired him, there had been no further attempts from the wolf. He didn't push or prod and while he had become a tad more freely with touching Naruto, the touches never strayed to private areas and never lingered so long that it could become uncomfortable.
In fact Naruto found he liked being touched by Sasuke, whether that was with human hands or thick fur brushing against his skin. Back in the village being touched by other people had been a very rare thing. Kakashi had never been the physical type, even though he made up for that in other ways and while Tsunade hadn't been shy about hugging him whenever he visited her, Naruto had always strongly felt that obvious lack of affection that most children grew up with.
There was only so much Tsunade's hugs and Kakashi's companionship could do after being forced to grow up without any sort of parental affection and with most of the villagers preferring to ignore him.
It was why he found himself soaking up Sasuke's attention and freely offered affection now, wary as he had been about it at the beginning.
Sasuke could do so many bad things to him and no one would be able to stop him, Naruto completely powerless to hold him off. Yet all he did was offer his companionship and freely bestow affectionate touches without them ever crossing a line.
He might be considered a Beast, but he had shown Naruto more respect and care in these past few months than the majority of the villagers had in all those seventeen years he'd lived with them.
"In a good way," he admitted and was treated to the sight of a beautiful smile spreading out across Sasuke's face, making him glow from within.
The almost hauntingly beautiful sight had Naruto's breath hitching and he looked away, worrying his cheeks might be permanently stained red.
He might not be completely there yet, but with just a bit more time …
Sasuke was dozing next to him, his large head cradled on Naruto's thighs, blocking him from getting up when Naruto was struck by how much trust the wolf shifter was displaying right now. Even though he was the most dangerous predator lurking around these woods, he remained vigilant the entire time, ready to strike the moment something was amiss.
But here he was: sleeping on top of Naruto's legs, putting himself in a very vulnerable position without even a second thought.
Nobody had ever trusted him like that. Even Kakashi and Tsunade had been more prone still to consider him a child in need of protection even as he grew older and showed he didn't need to be babied.
If Naruto wanted to, he could easily harm Sasuke now that the man had left himself in a very vulnerable position. All it would take was one precise strike of a sharp rock and it would be over.
This huge sign of trust had a lump forming in Naruto's throat and he slowly reached out to stroke the pitch black fur lightly. Sasuke was so patient with him, kept treating him like he was something precious to treasure, even when he had no way of knowing Naruto would ever return his feelings. He gave him all the space and the time he needed, never putting any pressure on him or reminding him that he had a decision to make. For all that Sasuke knew, he might be waiting for years for Naruto to make up his mind and something told the blond boy that the wolf would be more than willing to wait that long.
Sasuke could have everyone he wanted, all the girls and even several boys would jump on the chance to become his mate, and somehow he had chosen Naruto.
The boy the town had been more than happy to offer up as a sacrifice, the lonely orphan only two people out of an entire village were willing to look after, the one they all considered to be useless and stupid even when he'd tried so hard to show he could be of use, that he was capable of learning useful skills.
Out of everyone he could have chosen, Sasuke had chosen Naruto. This amazing, caring man was all his the second he opened his mouth and said yes.
How had his life changed that much in just four months? How had he gone from the town's loser, the useless orphan everyone had been so eager to throw to the bad wolf, to someone desired by the wolf shifter himself? To a person who was cared for, who was treasured even without offering anything in return.
It made him feel so overwhelmed, yet so happy at the same time. After all these years he had finally found his place at someone's side, someone who was treating him with the love and care he had so desperately desired for years. Someone who would be all his, who wouldn't hurt him, who wouldn't betray him or throw him to the side like trash. Someone who didn't taunt him or make fun of him just because he didn't understand something immediately, someone who didn't think he was useless or unable to be loved.
Someone who made him feel all warm and fuzzy inside, who made him blush and smile, who cared for him every day even when Naruto still had been afraid of him, even when he had made an attempt to run away.
Someone who liked him because he was just him. Just Naruto.
It was strange to think that just four months ago the sight of the huge black wolf had scared him to death, had driven him to the point of fearful tears. Just four months ago he'd tried his best not to get noticed, to stay out of the wolf's way as much as possible. Only four months ago he had barely dared to talk, fearing that every word could incite the Beast to attack him.
Now he looked back at his past self and thought of him as silly, because now he couldn't imagine not waking up anymore to Sasuke lying close to him. Now it was the thought of not seeing the man again, of being separated from him that caused him the most fear and had him clinging to soft fur sometimes.
Now he couldn't envision his life anymore without the black haired wolf shifter in it.
Funny how quickly life could change in just a manner of months.
It was that realisation that had him sinking his hands into the black fur, grabbing the thick strands tightly. "Sasuke."
The wolf awoke instantly and sat up. "Something wrong?"
"No," Naruto murmured, clasping his hands around Sasuke's neck. "Just wanted to tell you that I've decided to stay. With you. If you'll still have me."
The shift was instantaneous. One second Naruto was looking at and holding a wolf, the next he was pulled onto firm thighs, having him straddle the older man whose hands immediately descended on his lower back, resting like a hot brand there.
"You mean it? You'll be mine? My mate?" Sasuke asked urgently, almost breathlessly so, dark eyes gliding all over Naruto's face as if to catch him in a lie or a cruel prank.
Butterflies fluttered like crazy in Naruto's belly at the words and he bit down on his lip, unable to keep a smile from breaking through. Clasping his hands tighter around Sasuke's neck, he nodded, still a tad shy. "Yes, I'll be your mate."
He had never been kissed before, but as Sasuke's mouth covered his eagerly, yet gently, bestowing the softest of kisses on his lips, he decided there and then that he definitely wouldn't mind kissing Sasuke again and again.
Which he did. Again and again.
Nothing had ever felt as right as them together now.
AN2: I admit I had some trouble forming the last scene. I didn't want to have it come across as rushed, which was tricky given how they first started out. I hope this doesn't come across as unrealistic or too rushed!
As I said, there will be at least one more part if not more for this story, so enjoy the ride I guess? *clears throat*
Please leave your thoughts behind in a review; should you spot any mistakes, please point them out to me.
I hope to see you all back in the next part! Please stay safe and take care of yourselves!
Cuddles
Melissa
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