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Constellations (complete)	By : momhuey8 Category: Naruto > Yaoi - Male/Male > Naruto/Sasuke Views: 1362 -:- Recommendations : 1 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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NOTE: At this point, 'All In' and 'Constellations' are still identical. If you've read one, you've read the other. That will change...promise!
Sakura was so happy. Sasuke was back. Her heart was a lump in her throat and tears had been just below the surface from the moment she had sensed his chakra five days ago.
Kami, but he had grown so handsome. As Tsunade�s prot�g�, she had been present for almost all of Sasuke�s treatment. Even lying in a hospital bed, the grace and power that radiated off him made her womb clench in an unfamiliar female reaction. Her throat was dry while her palms were moist; her breath was shallow while her heartbeat was deep.
She absolutely could not believe her luck in being assigned as his daytime guard, even if it was for only ten days. Though Tsunade advised the pink haired medic that she was the best choice because of their history as teammates and because Sasuke was so recently out of the hospital, she just knew that the fates were trying to tell her something.
Certainly she had told Tsunade-shishou that she would guard Sasuke round the clock, but her teacher had declined reminding her that she had to sleep sometime. Unbidden images of sleeping next to Sasuke in his bed filled her mind.
But Sakura had a plan, or at least a general idea and two weeks in which to accomplish it. Her goal was to have Sasuke request that she remain as his guard even after Naruto�s return. She thought that Tsunade was fond enough of her to agree to the change if she understood that Sakura�s entire future happiness resided in the agreement.
So she thought hard about what kind of woman would appeal to the pale Adonis. Knowing what she did about his distant cousins, the Hyuugas, she suspected that feminine, domestic females would be appreciated. Armed with this insight, she determined to make Sasuke�s old house a home. She tried to show her sensitive, empathetic side and chose the building that would contain the most memories, and then dragged over enough stuff to begin a small-scale restoration.
Sakura wasn�t stupid, she knew that the house had bad memories as well as good, but believed the application of a damp cloth and the smell of freshly baking sweets could create a new set of memories that would erase the old.
But that wasn�t the entire plan. Sasuke was a man now, with basic male urges and needs. A steady stream of reminders of her femininity would surely wear at him like a glacier on granite.
With all of that in mind, she had carted over everything she would need to keep his home clean, cook all of his meals�and stimulate his libido.
Naruto was a nervous wreck, although very few people would�ve have known it from the casual image he portrayed slouched against the wall outside Konoha General, Room 309.
The last three days had been three of the worst in his life. While not fretting about Sasuke�s recovery, he was a basket case trying not to think too much about his return.
What did the bastard mean when he said he�d come back for Naruto? What if came back just to try to kill Naruto again? What if he only came here because he knew that this was probably Itachi�s next destination? It seemed that no matter what, Naruto�s heart was in serious danger of being destroyed once and for all.
He wiped the sweat off his palms once again, just as the door slid open and the brunette in question strode out, hands in his pockets. He walked right up to the blond and stopped just a shade inside his personal space.
�You�re leaving soon?�
�Yeah, off to Wave. Gonna stay with Inari and Tazuna. Remember them?� His voice was loud, his grin wide.
Sasuke watched with interest as Naruto looked at everyone and everything but him. He wondered what the blond was thinking. Did he think Sasuke was here to kill him? To use him as bait? He gave in to an urge to reassure his old teammate.
�Naruto.� He waited until Naruto finally looked at him and then he bowed. �You saved my life.�
The blond was taken aback for only a second, and then smiled widely. �Naw, I�m sure you�d�ve been fine.� He ducked his head then looked back up. �I gotta tell you, though; I�d been wantin� to take a run at that fucker for a long time.� Sasuke nodded.
�So, wind element?� Sasuke tipped his head. �And what was with the ravens?�
�Oh, yeah, new training. The toads�ve taught me how to draw on nature.� He shrugged and blushed.
�I can feel that your chakra is different, stronger.� Sasuke took a step closer and reached up, touching the orange around his eyes. �This is a good look.�
Naruto�s mouth opened and closed a couple of times. Then a bark of laughter escaped him and he punched Sasuke in the shoulder.
�Dickhead,� he chuckled. �C�mon, let�s go.�
�So, Sakura�s staying with you during the day? She�s a Jounin now, ya know?� He waved his arm in a broad arc, his tone cheerful and bright. �Not sure why she didn�t come today. She said something about having lots to do for this mission.� He scratched his head. �Can�t imagine what since she�s not leaving town and it�s only the day shift.�
�Perhaps it�s part of my punishment.� Sasuke kicked a stone sullenly. �Is it too late to request being stretched on a rack or pressed under a wheel?�
Naruto guffawed loudly. �You grew a sense of humor, you bastard.�
�You only think that because you think I�m joking.� Naruto laughed again, slapping Sasuke on the shoulder.
The dark eyed teen examined his companion from the corner of his eye. Gods be damned, but Naruto looked good. While Toshio had, perhaps, reminded Sasuke of Naruto�s adolescent years, this ripped, tan, head-turner screamed testosterone. He'd gotten broader, thicker than Sasuke; his shoulders were wide and the hands and forearms hanging out of his sleeves were large and muscular. Tattoos of what appeared to be flames slithered up from his left wrist and disappeared under his shirt sleeve. With his shaggy hair hanging just passed his shoulders, he had a dangerous, rangy look that did funny things to Sasuke's stomach. The changes to his eyes only added to the striking look that the blond had gained since Sasuke last saw him.
"So anyway, asshole, how's it hanging these days?"
Sasuke considered a number of responses but, satisfied with the mood the blond had established, settled on the standard, "To the left."
"Me too. Must be the weather."
"For fuck's sake, you two haven't seen each other in three years and your first conversation is about your dicks?" Sakura�s voice came from behind the two teens.
�Hey, Sakura-chan.� Naruto scratched his cheek. �It�s not like we whipped 'em out and pissed on each other." He reached out and pulled a large piece of fuzz from her bangs. "And anyway, it's better than the last time. Something like 'Die mother fucker�?" Sasuke flinched.
"So, you all done now? Wanna walk with us? The bastard and I were just catching up." Naruto threw his arm over Sasuke�s shoulder and Team Seven continued down the road together.
"Seriously you slippery prick," he started, steering them down the road. "You have to tell me what the fuck you've been up to." Before Sasuke could even open his mouth, Naruto continued. "Kabuto said you killed that greasy cock sucker. I don't think anyone in the whole fucking world will miss that son of a bitch."
"You've developed quite a...verbal repertoire," Sasuke said.
"Huh?"
"You cuss like a Hunter nin."
�Oh, yeah. Probably from spending so much time with them. Foul mouthed pieces of shit, aren't they Sakura-chan?" Before she could say a word, he continued, gesticulating broadly with his free arm.
"Toad Sage said the same thing to me. Just those words; 'Naruto, you cuss like a Hunter nin.' So I said to him, 'Fukusaku you.' Took me a week to recover from the beating he gave me. 'Course it wouldn't have taken that long if," his poked his stomach and yelled at his belly button, "A CERTAIN FURRY PARASITE HADN'T DECIDED TO BE A BITCH." He waved his arm wide. "Kyuubi decided not to help heal me. Said even he wasn't stupid enough to tell a sage to fuck off..."
Sasuke had wondered how this first coherent meeting with Naruto would go. He envisioned a lot of scenarios, all of them fraught with tension.
"�so I told the stupid furball to suck my left nut..."
But he should have known that Naruto would have none of that, pushing aside for later something that would be best dealt with over time. It wasn�t a reunion with any depth, but Naruto was meeting him halfway.
"�let me tell you, Sasu, be careful what you wish for. He sucked my left nut all right. Right up into my fucking pelvis�"
So as he walked along, Naruto's arm comfortably over his shoulder, he hid a smile and listened to the blond fill the spaces, and to some extent, the missing years with comfortable chatter.
"�had me screaming like a girl, no offense, Sakura-chan, for almost an hour."
And he was grateful.
Once Naruto, amidst much neck rubbing and foot shuffling, dropped him awkwardly at the door to the Hokage�s office, Sasuke was immediately directed inside. Before the Godaime could raise her head in acknowledgement, Sasuke slid to his knees, inclining his head in a demonstration of submission.
"Uchiha Sasuke," the blond woman's strong voice carried to the kneeling ninja. "Stand and state your business."
He arose slowly. "Hokage-sama, I wish to return home. I have news and information. And I wish to, once again, be of service to the home of my childhood, of my f�family." He was surprised to hear his voice falter.
Tsunade raised an eyebrow and studied the dark haired teenager. She stood, came around her desk and leaned back against the giant piece of furniture.
While he kept his eyes pointedly lowered, the buxom blond circled him, her eyes narrowed.
Sasuke was well familiar with Tsunade's status as one of the legendary Sannin and kept his body still as she strode to within a few feet of him. Although they were alone in the room, he was hyper aware of the intense focus of what must have been twenty ninja ranging from Chunin to Tsunade�s renowned Niju Shotai and knew that if his Sharingan so much as flickered, he'd be dead before his body hit the carpet.
"So, you want to come home." She stopped in front of him. "Be advised that I am already aware of the events of three weeks ago." A flicker of sadness crossed her face and was gone.
Sasuke winced. "Yes ma'am." He bowed his head further. "I regret if my actions have caused you grief."
"Hmm." She eyed him speculatively. "Well, let's not stand here boring Konoha�s finest. Come on, brat. We have lots to talk about." She grabbed his elbow and jerked him into a brisk stride across the room.
"You have lots to talk about."
The next three days were taxing for Sasuke, but no more than he�d endured most of the last three years. His cell in Konoha prison, which comprised four walls, a bed and a commode, was no worse than his room at the lair in Sound. Even the constant barrage of staring, insults and threats was a common occurrence for Orochimaru's next body and was something he had learned to sort into harmless or harmful and then ignore as needed.
He�d been surprised by Tsunade. As she had been a comrade of Orochimaru, he hadn't expected her openness to listen, and believe, everything he had imparted in the many hours of interrogation. He had been sincere and honest in his answers, telling Tsunade and Ibiki Morino everything he could remember, from his first meeting with Orochimaru at the Chunin exams to the Sannin�s death. He gave coordinates, names, and dates. He told them every strategic and mundane thing he could think of.
Intuitively knowing that it was in his best interest if he hoped to regain his home and status, perhaps even keep his life, he had even reached deeper inside at the Hokage's counsel, and shared his reasons. It was not as difficult as he had imagined telling the honey-eyed woman that most of his motivations were based on his, admittedly, confusing feelings for Naruto.
�You know he is terrified that you�re here to use him as bait to finally fulfill your vow to your clan.� Her eyes narrowed. �If I hadn�t assigned him the mission to guard you, he would have leapt at the next long term mission and we probably would�ve never seen him again.�
�I won�t let Itachi hurt him.�
�Ha! As if Itachi could.� She studied her nails. �That�s not what he�s afraid of.� She crossed her arms on the veneer and leaned forward. �Whether you�re here to kill him, use him as bait or offer to have his babies, he�s never going to be the same. We�ve trained him to be the best a ninja can be. He is independent and can kill with efficiency and detachment. For us he is solid as a mountain, as fearless as the demon inside him. For you, he�s as fragile as a locust�s wing.
�No one in this world has more power to hurt him than you do.� She stretched her arms and cracked her knuckles. �And no one cares about him more than I do.�
�I�� he whispered, his brows furrowed. �He�s always been�� He hitched a shoulder. �He�s the reason I�m here.�
She merely smirked at him and said, "Welcome to the club."
�Tell me.� Tsunade and Ibiki Morino sat across from each other in an empty interrogation room.
Ibiki flipped through several sheets of paper for a moment.
�He has no plans and no real goals. He�s not a deliberate threat to Konoha security.�
�Ok. Why is he here?�
�He�s here for Naruto.�
Tsunade nodded. Sasuke had already told her that. �Why?�
Ibiki ran his finger down a page. �He loves him.�
Ibiki looked up as the room became quiet. He added, his face revealing nothing, �Romantically.�
She blinked. �They haven�t seen each other in years.� She glanced at him sharply. �Have they?�
�No, not directly, but there have been factors that have kept Naruto at the forefront of Sasuke�s consciousness.�
�Such as?�
�Shortly after Sasuke arrived in Sound, Orochimaru gave him his own personal servant. Sasuke thinks Orochimaru did it to keep him off balance, maybe sharpen his anger and hatred.
�But this servant,� Ibiki said squinting at the page before him, �Toshio, had the opposite affect on Sasuke.�
�In his own words,� Ibiki continued as though reciting, �every time he looked at the boy�s blond hair and blue eyes, his anger cooled a little more. Every time the two were together, he was reminded of things he�d left behind, things that he considered good, friendship, acceptance, loyalty.� He looked back at Tsunade. �Things that Naruto gave him.
�Even though he�d never been outside of Sound, the servant became an anchor to Konoha and to Naruto.�
Tsunade was rubbing her forehead in agitation.
�Without that blond hair and blue eyes in his life every day,� Ibiki cleared his throat, then added, �and night, he probably would have let Orochimaru have his body at the end of the three years.�
�Did Sasuke love him?�
Ibiki looked thoughtful. �In a way.�
�Where is Toshio now?�
�Sasuke sent him home.�
�This is dangerous,� she said, rubbing her forehead again. �More dangerous than if he�d come here leading an army.�
�Yes, that�s what I meant by deliberate,� Ibiki agreed. �It�s certain that Naruto�s emotional health and Konoha�s security are intricately linked.�
�Alright,� Tsunade sighed, made several notes on a scroll and then looked once again at her inquisitor, �what about Sasuke�s quest for revenge?�
�It�s over.�
�Really?� Tsunade raised her brow. �But Itachi�s still alive.�
�Sasuke�s matured.� Ibiki said. �His need for revenge transformed into a need for justice.� She looked at him impassively and he asked, �Do you see the difference?�
�Explain it to me.�
�Revenge is one sided. It was all about Sasuke�s pain and anger; his needs.� Ibiki smoothed the pages in front of him. �Justice is multi-sided; it encompasses the victims and the perpetrators.
�When he realized that, he started to have doubts. He began asking himself, �why.� Sasuke realized he�d convicted and set himself up as executioner for his brother, without having given him a trial.�
�Really? That is very mature.�
�He�s had a hard life,� Ibiki said and added, uncharacteristically, �It can make a boy grow up quickly.�
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