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Lost But Not Alone	By : stephfarrow94 Category: Naruto > General Views: 1420 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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Chapter List
- 1-Lost But Not Alone
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"Naru-chan?" Tobi whispered that night. "Naru-chan awake?"
Naruto rolled over in his bed, snoring loudly. Tobi whimpered, tears rolling down his cheek.
"Naru-chan! Wake up!" Tobi cried, growing hysterical.
"Huh?! What?!" Naruto jumped awake instantly, coming face-to-face with a crying Tobi. "…What's wrong, Tobi…?"
"Tobi had bad dream! Can Tobi sleep with Naru-chan?"
"No, Tobi. Go back to sleep."
"But Tobi scared! Tobi always sleep with Zet-san!"
"Tobi, I'm not Zetsu. I won’t share a bed with you because I don’t trust you. Now go back to the couch."
"No!" Tobi screamed in panic. "No! Tobi scared!"
Naruto sighed. "Fine. Go grab your blankets and pillows and make a bed up on the floor."
Tobi smiled, his fear suddenly forgotten. "Thank you, Naru-chan!"
Naruto kept his eyes open long enough to see Tobi drag in his night gear before tripping over the blanket and face-planting in the wall. Naruto burst out laughing, not realising he had hurt Tobi's feelings by doing so.
"P-please don’t l-laugh, Naru-c-chan..." He stuttered, wrapping his cloak tighter to his body in distress. "N-naru-chan hurt T-tobi's feelings."
Naruto frowned. "I'm sorry, Tobi -- I didn’t know..."
Tobi shrugged, setting the make-shift bed up. It didn’t take him very long to fall asleep in Naruto's presence, but the same couldn’t be said for Naruto himself.
Opting to watch the sleeping Akatsuki member, Naruto laid on his side. Tobi was twitching, sometimes muttering incoherent words. All in all it looked like he was having nightmares.
"Z-zet-san!" Tobi moaned, fear in his voice. "No...! Tobi scared! Dont make Tobi leave...! Z-zet-san! H-help!"
Naruto raised himself onto his elbows. Tobi was screaming and beginning to thrash in his sleep. Naruto had to wake the kid up before he woke the neighbours. Naruto slid from the bed, kneeling beside Tobi, shaking his shoulder.
"Tobi!" He called, shaking harder. "Tobi, wake up! It's alright... wake up, Tobi!"
With a final scream, Tobi sat bolt upright. "Z-zet-san!" He whimpered, tears flowing from his single eye. "Where Zet-san?! Z-zet-san!"
"Tobi, shh..." Naruto soothed him gently. "It'll be okay..."
The Jinchuuriki reluctantly wrapped his arms around the missing nin.
Tobi didn’t shy away from the touch this time -- in fact, he welcomed it; he had never had a hug before. To him, it was the best thing in the world. He was able to stop his sobbing, his breath evening out, and finally, the boy was fast asleep again -- without nightmares. Naruto smiled at Tobi, shrugging and following the boy's example by closing his own two eyes.
--LINEBREAK--
Tobi woke the next morning alone. He yawned and stretched, getting up to go to the bathroom. After his shower, he dressed in his usual black attire complete with the Akatsuki cloak, green scarf and black gloves and decided that breakfast was next on the list.
Tobi entered the living room, intent on finding food when the front door banged against the wall, startling him badly. He whimpered as an orange blur ran to the kitchen.
"N-naru-c-chan?" Tobi stuttered, not moving from his spot.
"It's alright, Tobi." The orange blur called from the kitchen. "It's just me."
"Naru-chan... scared Tobi..."
"Sorry, Tobi. I bought you breakfast! I wanted to hurry before you woke up so I was kinda in a rush..." Naruto rubbed the back of his head sheepishly.
Tobi's mood brightened. "Naru-chan... bought Tobi breakfast?"
"Yeah. Come get it."
Tobi grinned, skipping to the kitchen. He grabbed the box of cereal and a carton of milk, pouring it into a bowl – well, attempted to. He had dropped milk carton, knocked the bowl to the ground -- shattering it -- and accidentally tipped the cereal box over, spilling its contents everywhere.
Tobi whimpered, trembling at the thought of how Naruto would punish him for this.
"Tobi sorry!" He cried, shielding his face with both of his arms. "Don’t punish Tobi! Tobi good boy!"
Naruto frowned. "Do you think I'm going to hurt you?" Tobi nodded fearfully. "No, I won’t. Relax -- it was just an accident."
Tobi nodded again but still wouldn’t lower his petty shield. "Naru-chan make Tobi his breakfast?"
Naruto sighed. "Only if you calm down. Put your arms down, Tobi. I won’t hurt you -- I promise."
Tobi whimpered, beginning to tremble again, but he lowered his arms anyway, albeit reluctantly. Naruto smiled at him as he made the boy breakfast. Tobi sat at the table, waiting, and when Naruto place the bowl of cereal in front of Tobi he cheered happily, completely forgetting that he was, minutes ago, terrified.
"Itadakimasu!" Tobi cried happily, digging in.
Naruto sat at the table, watching the flighty boy for a few minutes. He couldn’t help but be curious about something.
"Hey, Tobi…. Tell me something... why were you hurt when we found you?"
Tobi froze up almost immediately, his eye becoming wide and watery. "Tobi no talk about it! Tobi scared!"
"Scared... of what, exactly?"
"Zet-san."
"Did he hurt you that day?" Tobi shook his head. "Will he hurt you if you tell?" Another shake. "Well... are you scared of him?"
"No! Tobi scared for him!"
"Why?"
"Because Tobi doesn’t know if Zet-san is -- Tobi doesn’t wanna talk about it! Tobi wanna eat!"
Naruto recoiled. Something terrible must have happened to the boy. "I'm sorry, Tobi -- you just eat, okay? How about after you eat I'll introduce you to my friends?"
"Okay!" And with that, Tobi was happy once again. God, this kid sure was bipolar.
-XX-
"Oh, Na... Naruto-kun!" The voice behind the two boys made them turn. Hinata was behind them, blushing and poking her fingers together.
"Oh, hey, Hinata," Naruto greeted kindly.
"Who..." Tobi whispered, nervous. "Who your friend?"
"Oh, Tobi, this is Hinata. Hinata, Tobi."
Tobi blushed, stepping behind Naruto and ducking his head. "He... hello..." he said shyly.
"H-hi, Tobi-kun..." Hinata was just as shy as Tobi.
"Huh?" Naruto looked back and forth between the two. "Why are you guys so shy all of a sudden?"
No one answered him.
"Why are you all the way out here, Hinata?"
Hinata blushed; she couldn’t tell him that she was out looking for Naruto… "N...no reason..."
"Well, I gotta introduce Tobi to everyone else so we'll see you later, Hinata."
"Oh! Naruto-kun! C-could I c-come with you? I need to see Kiba-kun a-and Shino-kun anyway..."
"Sure thing, Hinata! Tobi, is that alright?"
Tobi nodded, blushing darker and avoiding eye-contact -- this was only the fourth girl in his entire life that he had met, apart from Konan-chan, who had practically raised him, and Sakura and Tsunade, who he had only met a few days ago. He wasn’t sure about girls, to be honest. If most of them were anything like Konan, they would best be avoided...
Naruto shrugged and set off again. Tobi followed, trying to put a little distance between himself and Hinata.
They walked for only a few more minutes until they came to the outskirts of Konoha and found Neji and Lee sparring.
"Hey!" Naruto called out, running towards his friends. "Neji! Bushy-brows! I have someone I want you to meet."
The other two both stopped their movements and turned to face Naruto. Then they caught sight of Tobi, still in his now-ragged Akatsuki cloak. They kept their distance, hatred burning in their eyes – or Neji’s at least.
"Naruto," Neji started, "why are you hanging out with that Akatsuki member? He's dangerous."
"Did you bring him here so I could spar with him?" Lee asked in excitement, running towards Tobi and looking the male over. He noticed how Tobi stepped back every time Lee got close to him. "He looks nothing special."
"Hmph." Neji smirked at Tobi, talking loud enough for the Akatsuki member to hear. "Don’t waste your time, Lee -- he's a weakling -- probably the punching bag of the Akatsuki."
Tobi looked to the ground, hurt.
"Zet-san says Tobi not weak..." He said quietly, his voice trembling with nerves. "Zet-san says Tobi gotta concentrate and listen to what he's told..."
Neji laughed. "It's obvious this Zet-san," he said mockingly, "can’t tell worth from waste. Either that or he just didn’t want to hurt your feelings."
Tobi sniffled, looking at the ground. "T-tobi just--"
"Of course, you can’t change your destiny," Neji continued on. "Your fate is to be weak. It was determined the moment of your birth."
"Hey…" Naruto said weakly, trying to intervene before things got worse. "Come on, guys... Don’t be mean to Tobi -- he's really kind and gentle and caring..."
Hinata looked to Tobi, seeing the tears in the boy's eye. "N-neji-kun-"
"Don’t waste your breath, Hinata; he's not even worthy to be wearing that cloak -- he's just a waste of space. He's better off dead, if you ask me."
Hinata watched Tobi spill a tear before the boy turned around and ran back towards the village.
"Neji-kun..." Hinata said softly.
"Teme!" Naruto shouted, angered. "Why were you treating him like that?!"
"If you cared, you would have said something sooner, Naruto. Anyway, why are you standing up for him?" Neji sneered.
"Naruto is right!" Lee said. "Even if he is an Akatsuki member, he still has feelings! If Lady Tsunade let him stay in the village, than he must be different from the others!"
"N-naruto-kun..." Hinata whispered, getting Naruto's attention. "You s-should go find Tobi..."
Naruto nodded, knowing that she was right.
"I'm not finished with you, Neji." He hissed before he ran to find Tobi.
-XX-
Sob, sob.
Naruto turned at the sound of someone crying.
Sniff.
"Tobi?" Naruto said quietly, walking slowly to the alleyway the noises were coming from.
The noises stopped with a whimper. "W-who there...?"
"Tobi, it's me." Naruto said gently, walking into the alleyway. "Are you alright, Tobi?"
Sniff. "Tobi wanna go home! Tobi no like it here!"
"Tobi..."
As Naruto got closer to Tobi's hiding spot, the sounds of the younger boy scurrying away caught his attention.
"Can I sit with you, Tobi?" Naruto called, knowing to approach Tobi slowly and carefully.
Tobi whimpered. "N-naru-chan... hurt Tobi..."
"No, Tobi, I won’t -- I promise."
Tobi sobbed again. "...Okay..."
Naruto smiled gently, slowly approaching the trembling boy.
Tobi’s shaking increased horribly the closer Naruto's presence got to him, but soon Naruto was sitting next to him. Just being near Naruto was enough to soothe the young Akatsuki. He relaxed after a while, suddenly realising just how tired he had gotten. He yawned and placed his head on Naruto's shoulder, closing his eye and falling deep asleep.
Naruto smiled and stroked the boy's hair for a while before he picked Tobi up and carried him back to his apartment.
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