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Children of Darkness	By : Luma Category: Naruto > Yaoi - Male/Male Views: 1351 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 2
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Title: Children of Darkness
Author: Dying Dreams

Fandom: Naruto

Feedback: Feedback is always welcome!
Dream: So I realize it's been awhile, but I got distracted worrying about things like school. I'm trying to get my general ed classes out of the way before I apply to a school I might want to go to. So yeah. Fun times fun times.

Itachi: No one missed you.

Dream: Why must you hate me?

Itachi: I don't hate you. I just like making you feel bad.

Dream: -Rolls her eyes- You're a dick.

Sasuke: Tch. No one ever said my brother even knows how to be nice. I'm not sure what you're expecting.

Dream: I suppose you've got a point there.

Itachi: Silence ototo.

Dream: Itachi shut up. I'm not in the mood for you to be an ass.

Naruto: What's wrong?

Dream: I'm tired as hell and I can't think properly. I'm having issues with a drawing I'm doing for someone and parts of it aren't coming out how I want it to. It's frustrating me.

Naruto: Oh. Anything I can do to help?

Dream: Not really but thanks for offering. Anyways. The long awaited Chapter Six and the departure of Yukiko. Enjoy.
KagomeGirl021: I freaking love you. XD When they finally do get back together, there will still be loads of obstacles for them to get past. Ah the joys of making lives miserable.
Warnings: Craptastic romance attempt. Enjoy it. xD It's corniness at its best. I'm not one for romance. xP

Disclaimer: Don't own it. The only things I own are the characters and places I create myself.
Bold/Italic � time changes/flashback
Chapter 6
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Tuesday Night
'Must you really go back?' Naruto asked, searching her face for any possible sign of a lie.
�Yes,� Yukiko replied. �You know how it is. It's all of the political bullshit we have to deal with now and a few other things.�
'I know, but I don't want you to go. I can't stay here without you,' he replied, staring at her.
The olive skinned woman smiled sadly. �I'm sorry. You know I want to stay with you, but I can't. I have to go back.�
Naruto nodded, looking down.
�Things have gotten better since Saturday though. At least Taro isn't shouting his hatred for the idiot anymore.�
Naruto nodded.
�And you have Iruka-san to help you. He said he'll come by to help you out once I go. I already know you trust him a lot.�
Naruto nodded a third time, and Yukiko smiled. At least he had one person he could still rely on. Certain 'friends' hadn't exactly gotten on Yukiko's good side and were still being forced away by her. She told Iruka not to let any of them near unless they could prove themselves. She had told Iruka this, and he had agreed. He had never seen any sign of them trying to help him after what happened. He would not let them see him either.
The day before
�Do you hate them?� Iruka asked, looking over at the woman.
�Not all of them, but yes,� she replied.
�Who don't you hate?�
�The two Hyuuga's, Nara, and Akimichi.�
�That's all?�
�Yes. Hyuuga Hinata was never informed. Hyuuga Neji and Nara Shikamaru were on a mission. Akimichi Choji, when I spoke to him privately the other day, informed me that he had tried to see him, but was not allowed to. I originally had been under the impression that none of them cared until I found this out.
�However, Aburame Shino, Haruno Sakura, Inuzuka Kiba, Lee Rock, Tenten and Yamanaka Ino, I was informed had done nothing to see nor help him.�
�What about Sasuke?�
�I hate him, but not as much as them. At least he I know still wants to make things right. You should have been there Saturday,� she said with a small laugh. �As stupid as it was, it was very amusing.�
�What did he do?� Iruka asked, clearly interested.
Yukiko smiled before delving into some of the details.
Three days before present
�Where are we going obasan?� Taro asked, looking up at the white eyed, dark haired, dark skinned woman.
She only smiled and shook her head. She wasn't going to say. The Uchiha had asked her the day before to get Naruto out of the house today. He had a plan of his own. She hadn't asked any questions, well other than asking where he wanted them to be first. She wasn't going to help him with anything.
Taro stared longingly as they passed the Ichiraku ramen shop, waving enthusiastically at the old man he could see from underneath the flaps.
Several feet away from the shop, they were stopped by a masked shinobi masking his chakra perfectly from them.
He recruited people eh? Yukiko said to herself, smiling inwardly and knowing that this was not Sasuke holding out a bouquet of flowers to the blond at her side.
Naruto hesitantly reached out and accepted the proffered bouquet of blue roses. Yukiko was laughing inwardly at the meaning behind the color Sasuke had chosen for the flowers to give. Traditionally, blue roses signify mystery or attaining the impossible. She was banking on the latter of the two and wondered if Naruto understood the meaning. If he didn't, she wasn't going to tell him. She had no idea what Sasuke was doing so it didn't really matter.
Naruto was staring confoundedly at the flowers, not seeing the card the man held out to him as well. Yukiko smirked and took it, nodding a dismissal to the man who nodded in return and disappeared.
�Naruto,� she said. �There's also a card.�
Naruto looked at her, then at the card in her hand before reaching out to take, shifting the flowers to one hand so he could take and read it.
'Good morning, dobe.' Naruto stopped reading, not wanting to go on with it. He already knew it was from Sasuke. He did not want to read anything from Sasuke.
When Yukiko took the card from his hand, she read it to herself.
'Good morning, dobe.
I already know you'll never forgive me for what I did. I don't deserve it, and I'm not asking for it. But there is something I want you to know. And whether or not you believe me, it's true. I love you. I always have, and I always will. Never forget that.'
Well that was stupid, Yukiko thought, rereading the note and shrugging with an audible sigh accompanying it. At least now I know the Uchiha isn't one for romance. A smirk spread across her face at the thought. She looked at Naruto and handed him the note, taking the flowers from him.
�Read it,� she said, taking Taro's hand and starting away from the unmoving blond.
Moments later he joined them, the note in his pocket, and took the flowers back from a smiling Yukiko. His arms wrapping lightly around the paper the flowers stems were wrapped in.
Well, he thought, They are beautiful, I guess. But I don't understand what he's trying to do.
He sighed inwardly and followed Yukiko and his son. What the hell do blue roses mean anyways? Years ago he had learned from Ino that every different colored rose each had its own symbolic meaning. Like red roses meant love and pink roses meant grace or gentle feelings of love. He remembered a few, but he'd forgotten the rest, blue among those he'd forgotten. He knew Yukiko knew, and she wasn't going to tell him. He just wondered what Sasuke was trying to do.
A few hours later, another masked shinobi masking their chakra handed Naruto a bouquet of red and orange roses and another card. As soon as he had them, the shinobi disappeared in a puff of smoke. Yukiko took both bouquets from him so he could properly read the card.
'Good morning again, Dobe.
I hope you got the first ones, and I hope you understand what they mean. I also hope you remember what these ones mean. I think you do. You wouldn't forget. After all, I did give you a bouquet of red and orange roses for our six month anniversary, among some other things I don't need to mention in case Yukiko decides to read this.'
By this time Naruto was blushing fiercely as he read the words.
'Anyways. Did you believe what I told you before? I want you to believe me, because it's true. It's always been true. And I know words can never say how much I'm sorry for hurting you like I did. I was confused. I wasn't in my right mind. I don't know what happened to me. I wasn't thinking rationally and I acted without thinking, and I hurt you more than I ever thought possible.
But I love you, Uzumaki Naruto. And if it takes my entire life to do it, I'll prove to you that I will do whatever it takes to be with you. Even if I have to write messages like these to you every single day, I'll do it. I'll do anything for you.'
Naruto was still blushing by the time he'd finished. He knew exactly what red and orange roses symbolized. Red for love, and orange for passion. Sasuke wouldn't give these to him if he didn't mean it, right? Right.
But the little voice in his head was telling him to stop and put his walls back up before it was to late. Those two little messages had brought so many walls down and he hadn't been able to stop them. He didn't understand what was happening now. He was so confused, and he couldn't stop himself from feeling emotions he'd locked away four years ago. It hurt. Those things rushing back to him filled his mind with a pain that hurt even Kyuubi. The fox was being overwhelmed by wave upon wave of emotion he'd tried so hard to hide from the world.
Tears stung the back of his eyes and threatened to fall, but he desperately held them at bay, his eyes closing tightly as he fought them back. He would not allow himself to fall. He would not allow the levees to break. Slowly, he forced them back. Those emotions no longer had a place with him anymore. They were unwanted. He knew this.
He could feel Yukiko's eyes on him as he fought down the blush that had spread across his cheeks. He didn't have to look up to know she was smirking. But why the hell was she smirking? She obviously knew something he didn't know. What was it?
He sometimes hated the Taiyo nin because she always kept so many things from him, but that's how she was. She did it to annoy him and she knew it. Yukiko loved annoying and pissing people off. She was weird like that.
He sighed and pocketed the note, moving forward to take the flowers from her. If he could speak, he would have called her a bitch at that moment.
Present
�So anyways. It went like that. If I remember correctly he received two more bouquets and two more notes, neither of which I remember what was written. But I tell you they were corny as hell and I'm still laughing about it. Never would I have believed the Uchiha of being able to do something like that. Naruto is still blushing about the second and fourth notes.�
�Really?� Iruka said, laughing softly.
�Mmhmm,� the brunette replied. �It's cute really, seeing him act like that. Hell even after all of this time, though it might not seem like much he's opened up a bit. A few of his walls have crumbled, and the rest are only a matter of time.�
�You're leaving tomorrow, right?�
�Yes. And you'll be sure to help him right? Kami-sama knows he can't take care of himself and his child right now. Taro understands the situation, but he can't take care of Naruto, and he's going to need you.�
�I understand.�
�Ah, and please inform the other four that if they are willing, I would also like them to help him out. He needs all of the people he can get that care for him to be there for him now. I won't be able to return here for at least six months, hopefully less if we can get things done fast. Civil war is a bitch, and the politics after that are fucking bitch to deal with.�
Iruka only laughed. He couldn't fully understand her position, but he still felt sorry for her.
�Oh and tell Kakashi I said hello. I haven't seen the pervert once since I arrived.�
�Of course I'll tell him,� Iruka replied, rising to make his leave.
�Oh goody. Ah. Can you come by tomorrow around noon or so? That's when I'm leaving and I already know Naruto is going to have a breakdown. It happened once before when I had to leave for a mission. My husband told me he completely shut down soon after I left, so I'm afraid that it might happen again.�
�Yes. Yes of course I'll come by,� Iruka said, a small sad smile forming on his lips.
Yukiko nodded and Iruka left.
Present � Tuesday Night
�Listen,� Yukiko continued. �Iruka-san will also be coming by tomorrow before I leave. Remember what happened last time?�
Naruto nodded his head slowly.
�He'll help you. You know he will. I know you don't want me to go, but it can't be helped, and I can't take you back with me. But when I do come back, if things haven't changed with the council and certain other individuals, I'll take matters into my own hands, understand? You know I'd do anything for you, right?�
Another nod was her answer. She smiled and drew him into her arms, wrapping him in a loving embrace. The blond let the brunette hold him for a few moments before they broke apart, the blond withdrawing and staring at the floor. He didn't want her to leave.
Yukiko smiled and gently brushed her hand across his cheek, getting him to look up into her eyes.
�Don't be sad. You know I want to stay, but you also know I can't. I'm needed back home. You know I'd love to take you with me, but I can't do that either. Just promise me that you won't regress. From that day we've really come so far. I don't want anything bad to happen to you.�
Naruto slowly nodded. He knew he couldn't go back to how he first was. In those days he would barely move unless forced. He seldom ate or even slept, even though he knew his growing child needed the nourishment he was supposed to be providing him, he just couldn't do it. If he did, the nightmares would come to him, most of them had almost always involved Sasuke doing something... unpleasant. Ranging from killing him to openly having an affair with some faceless person. It was always the latter that hurt so much. He could sort of handle being killed by the one he loved, but he could not handle seeing him with someone other than him. It destroyed him inside.
The fox had tried to do his part by making an effortless attempt at holding the nightmares at bay, but they usually seemed to slip right through his grasp anyways. Nothing he could do would really help ease the pain his blond host was forced to feel on those nights. The fox hated it even more because he had the best seat in the house. Right smack dab in the middle of the theater where the sound was easily the loudest and filling his ears. Try as he might he couldn't even block it from his own mind.
Naruto had been nothing more than a puppet, to put it lightly. Others had been made to make his decisions for him. Yukiko had given male Shinobi 'missions' to bathe him and help him use the toilet since she refused to see him naked. They didn't much like it either, but they understood. They could see the pain flashing in his eyes as they helped him do daily things that needed to be done. A few of them had declined it as a mission and simply helped out of the goodness of their hearts, becoming willing participants in his daily life. These were the kind of people the blond had needed. No not to help him with those things, but people who would actually care about him and make sure he was alright.
He had never been given that opportunity as he had been shunned and hated by the citizens of the village he loved so much. He would never show it in those days, but the pain was always present, hidden behind a mask crafted to perfection to hide himself behind it while out in the public eye where everyone could see him as he wore it proudly, or what they seemed to think was pride. Naruto had despised his mask so much, but he wore it anyways because it had become a necessity to everyday life. It helped him get by even on the days he simply wanted to lie in bed and sleep the day away.
That was his former life, before the heartache. He had thought he'd found someone who could love him and care for him. But alas, things were not as they had seemed in the end. He had belittled destiny and fate once, but they had hit him hard that day. He was destined to be alone forever. He would live alone, and he would die alone. That's how he had come to see things as he grew. Even now despite the presence of his beloved child and guardian, he was still all alone. In his mind he wandered alone, and when the time came he would alone into the abyss, never truly knowing what happiness ever really was. This was how he saw things. This was how he interpreted his life. That was what it meant to him.
No one knew of his inner turmoil aside from the fox, and the fox could not get free to tell anyone. Over the years the fox had stopped hating him and the two had come to their agreement, and while the blond did not know it or even realize it, the fox cared for his well being now. He cared about what happened to him. He had tried to voice it once, but the blond had denied him and ignored him. That had been almost two years ago, and he had not tried again. All he did now was let the blond use him as a comfort device and an outlet for how he was feeling. This was their relationship now, and the fox accepted it.
He knew the blond's decisions were his own, and he could not change them despite how he wanted to. It was not his life to do with as he pleased. It was not his to control.
'I'll miss you,' Naruto signed, staring straight at her.
Yukiko smiled warmly and embraced him again. �And I you, beloved one. Never forget that there are people who care so much about you. We have only your happiness in mind. I beg of you, let yourself believe again.�
Naruto pulled back to respond. 'I'll try.'
�That's all I ask.�
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Dream: And we're done.

Itachi: What took you so long?

Dream: Life. School.

Itachi: Hn.

Dream: Quiet you. My Creative Writing class is zapping brain cells left and right.

Itachi: -Laughs at her-

Naruto: Stop being mean Itachi.

Dream: So anyways. I didn't add Yukiko leaving, but she won't be around next chapter. There might be a mention of it with a flashback from Naruto and his reaction to it if I can work it in. if not, oh well.

Itachi: I want to see him have a breakdown. -Stares at Dream-

Dream: You're such a bastard.

Itachi: Yeah but you still love me.

Dream: This is true.

Sasuke: You're both idiots. -Grabs Naruto and drags him into the next room-

Dream: I love you, too! -Grabs her camera and prepares to follow-

Itachi: Where're you going? -makes a grab for her but misses-

Dream: Where do you think? -Follows the pair-

Itachi: -Blinks- Pervert. -Sighs and scratches his head- Well whatever. Please review. She'll kill me if you don't.

Dream: LIES! -Coughs- Ahem. Review please! -Resumes videotaping as moans are heard coming from some room-
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