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By the time the third part of his merging started Naruto was wrapped in Sasuke’s arms being gently rocked back in forth. He paid no attention to the tears that were streaking down his tan face that had an unhealthy glow to it as red and blue chakra swirled around the pair.
“Sasuke are you okay?” Tsunade asked watching the whole thing take place without being able to help.
“Yes, I think we’ll be fine. Just I feel a little different.” He said closing his eye’s briefly.
“How so? Explain!” She ordered her worry frowns deepening as she looked at the two.
“I don’t know, its warm I feel warm but like its not my warmth it’s his it’s hard to explain. But it seems right somehow.” He said his eye’s locked in thought as he looked off at nothing.
Frowning at his answer she could do nothing to stop him being in there with Naruto so all she could hope for was that everything would be fine. “And how is he?” She asked hardly able to see them through the swirl.
“He’s in pain, lots of pain. When this is over he’s going to need a lot of rest! I think we’ll both need rest.” He paused as a scream passed the blonds lips. He started back up with his rocking motion his head resting on the fevered one below him.
40 minutes into the merging Naruto’s chakra started to turn purple as it merged together with Kyuubi’s.
Breathing out Sasuke watched it as did the others. ‘Its beautiful…’ his thoughts trailed off in awe.
“I’ve never seen anything like this.” Iruka said his eye’s wide with wonder.
“I wouldn’t think you would, none of us have.” Tsunade stated looking briefly at the man before going back to the sight on the bed.
Kakashi glancing at the actual bed sighed. “Were going to have to get a new bed that one looks trashed.”
“The bed does not matter Aho what does is those two on the bed.” Tsunade said angry at the jounin’s words.
They were silent for a long while after. After another 40 minutes went by they all let out a collective breath as the force field around the two drop and the two did the same. Dropping down on the bed exhausted from all they had gone through.
Noting that the force field was indeed down Tsunade went to the teens checking them over. Sighing in relief when she came back with nothing than what they had expected and anything else would have to wait until they were awake.
The three adults left the room letting the two sleep for now questions would be asked later.
The next day Sasuke awoke feeling better, he was still tired but that didn’t matter to him. All that mattered was that the blond well not so blond anymore was still asleep.
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sasuke pov-
Slowly moving from the bed I walked out into the living room area of the cabin finding three people sitting there trying to occupy themselves. Not very successfully either I might add. Growling slightly to get there attention which still didn’t work I spoke up.
“Hokage sama?” I said annoyed and confused.
“Sasuke, how are you feeling?” She asked looking up at me from the chair she was sitting in.
“I’m… fine, how is he? How long was I asleep? Has he woken yet?” I asked not giving her enough time in between to answer until I came close to running out of breath.
“I’m not sure how he is yet we have to wait till he wakes up.” She answers all my questions in one.
“Then he hasn’t woken yet.” I said eye’s cast to the floor a frown growing on my face.
“Its only been a day give him time. His body has gone through extreme changes in a very short period of time.”
“I know I was there. He was so… when the two chakra’s merged… I’ve never seen anything so, breath taking.” He said a little breathy.
“I must say I was a little taken away at the sight of the purple chakra that surrounded you both. Did it affect you in any way? You said you felt different.”
“I don’t know. I don’t think so.” I said trying to think straight and process
“Well I guess we’ll just have to wait till he wakes.”
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norm pov-
Three days later-
A quiet moan was heard from the bed as the only occupant started to stir. Slowly a pair of eye’s opened blinking a few times before they could focus on anything.
“You’re awake!” Came a happy statement.
“Wa..water please.” A horse voice asked from the bed.
Quickly the request was filled as a glass was brought to his parched lips.
“Better?”
“Ha, hai.” Looking up he gave a small smile looking into the ebony eye’s that watched him. “How long?”
“It’s been 3 days. How do you feel?”
“I’ve been better.” He said closing his eye’s for a moment with a slight grown. “I need to figure out how to turn this off.” He mumbled out as he opened his eyes.
“Turn what off?” Sasuke questioned with a quirk of his eye brow.
“My, senses! Its hard to concentrate on one thing when I see, hear, smell and feel everything.” Naruto said slowly opening his eye’s to look at Sasuke.
“How so?”
“Looking at you I see your chakra but not the way Neji and Hinata see it. It’s different, beautiful, but over whelming.”
“And how do you see it?” Sasuke asked tilting his head slightly in wonder.
“It’s pulsing like a blue flame that warms your whole body with the most beautiful dance of swirl around…. your heart and there’s a spark in your eyes.” He said with the warmest most breath taking innocent smile one could ever see. It made Sasuke just want to melt into a pile of mush. “I guess that makes sense since your Sharingan there would have to be a concentration of chakra always there ready.”
Just as he finished speaking the door to the bedroom opened.
“Oh your awake now I see! How do you feel?” Tsunade said walking towards the bed.
“Whoa, yours is so different from his.” Naruto said not even listening to the question.
“Huh what’s different?” The Hokage asked looking from one boy to the other.
“He says he can see chakra now!” Sasuke said looking up at the Hokage that stood in the doorway.
“How so?”
Chuckling at the question he just answered he told her what he saw looking at her. “While his is swirling around his heart and eye’s, yours is in your hands and stomach how odd. You must get a weak stomach while healing.”
“Sometimes the blood gets to me.” she said honestly while eyeing him.
“I can understand. When someone sees something of that matter far too often they will either block it from mind and do there task or become sick and not want to do any thing referring to that. But, I see why you would become such a great Hokage for us to do what makes you sick is truly putting the village before yourself.”
“When did you become so enlightened?”
“He is many things Hokage sama, you wouldn’t believe the things he has done without any ones knowledge.”
“What else has change of you other than what we can see?”
“All my senses are heightened I have gained Kyubbi’s knowledge and I know there must be something else I’m just not understanding what that is right now.” He said as if starting to get lost in thought before he looked up to meet her eye’s again “I know I slept for a long time but I’m really tired, am I allowed to go back to sleep.” He said softly.
“Yes, go ahead and rest we will talk more when you wake up.” She assured him before walking back towards the door.
“Okay.” He said through a large cat like yawn. Naruto then looked at Sasuke as if giving him a silent question of ‘please stay’.
Lifting up the covers Sasuke slid into bed next to the blonde and instantly Naruto was curled around him, sleep came quickly for him.
Looking up at the Hokage as she left he noticed the slight smile on her lips as she looked at the two of them.
Letting his frustration known through a grunt, she left the room closing the door behind her hiding her chuckle on the other side of the door.
....
Walking out into the living room she looked up at the two men looking at her expectantly.
“Well, he awoke for a few minutes but he’s still pretty tired and is resting again. Curled up around Sasuke it’s quite… cute.” She finished with a smirk.
“Yes, they are cute when there like that from the very first night. Did he say anything?’ Kakashi asked.
“Yes he said that his senses are heightened, all of them and that he can see chakra now.”
“He sees chakra, how?” Iruka asked confused.
“Well he said that mine is centered and swirling around my hands which makes sense seeing as I’m a medic. He sees it like no other has. It’s different from the Byakugan and I would suppose the Sharingan as well. Well any way when they wake, inform me I have more questions for him.”
“Hai Hokage sama.” They said in unison before they settled back down on the couch cuddling as they processed what they were told had changed about there adopted son.
Hours seemed to pass with neither teen stirring in the bed. Finally the younger of the two moaned shifting his body closer to the one he was practically lying on already.
Slowly violet eyes began flutter open only to close them in a small smile before opening again. Gently so not to wake his bed mate he brought his hand up to move the lock of hair that had fallen into the ebony haired teens face while they had slept.
“How long have you been awake?” Came a sleep roughened voice under him.
“Hmm, I didn’t wake you did I?” Naruto asked softly.
“No. Are you hungry? I haven’t known you to go this long with out eating.” Sasuke asked concerned
“Yes I’m starved.” Naruto said with a pout.
“Alright let me up and I’ll make us something to eat and let the others know that your up.” He smirked at the pout as he started to get up.
“Okay.” Naruto said happy at the prospect of getting food. “Thanks suke.”
With a nod Sasuke stepped out of the room to see two heads pop up.
“Is he up yet?” Iruka asked worry evident on his face.
“Yes, but he hasn’t eaten in a few days and is asking for food!”
“Oh, then I’ll make him something.” Iruka said standing.
“No. it’s alright, I got it. I’m sure you just want to see him.”
“Hai!” Iruka said walking past him to the bedroom.
Sasuke continued on to the kitchen where he made up something quickly for them to eat, while Iruka and Kakashi went into the bedroom.
“Naruto?” Iruka asked hesitant as he opened the bedroom door.
“Hai Iruka sensei.”
“How are you feeling?”
“Better. Though I feel like I had a horde of people ran over me a few times.”
“Hmm, than you’ll live.” Kakashi said from behind Iruka.
“Ah, Kakashi sensei. Staying ever close to your favorite ninja I see. I hope
I haven’t kept you away from anything important..” He says softly.
“Seeing as your awake, I’ll let Hokage sama know!” Kakashi stated before leaving the room.
“So, tell me. Hokage sama said you can see chakra now. How do you see it.” Iruka asked excitedly.
“Iruka sensei, when I put the tinniest bit of chakra into my eye’s I can see the chakra as its pure form not its coils or the path it takes or whatever but the colors and the way they flow.”
“And looking at me what do you see?”
“Iruka, you are all heart! You are a smart man who thinks with his heart though you must know I see more than just your chakra. I can see who you are and it tells me weather I knew it or not that you are a good person.”
“Here, I made us some sandwiches since it was quick.” Sasuke said handing a sandwich and glass of water over to Naruto and sitting down in a chair by the bed to eat his.
“Thank you.” Naruto sighed hungrily before quickly devouring the sandwich and the tall glass of water he was handed.
“What do you see when you look at Sasuke?” Iruka wanted to know.
Smiling softly Naruto looked at Sasuke before answering.
“Sasuke is heart also though it’s well guarded its beautiful and trying to break free of his barrier he put up.”
“How can you look at me and know that?” Sasuke asked wonder and sadness trying to pass the stoic boys face.
“It is what I see it is swirling around your heart like Iruka’s does but it’s different. There is so much that is concentrated there, that if the barrier were to drop suddenly, I’m sure you’d feel an incredible rush of power that you have locked away with your stubbornness to accept.”
“Accept what… dobe?” He said almost as an after thought.
“That what’s in the past will always stay in the past the only way you will ever truly heal is if you look to the future and see happiness. Not in death of others but in life you could bring to someone someday. I believe that this is where you and Iruka sensei are different. He let his down when he allowed Kakashi to be in his life and when he accepted me. And though his power is different than yours it is just as powerful and you see it everyday within the children he teaches.”
Breathing hard Sasuke didn’t know what to say to that. How could one respond to that with out admitting your feelings for the other you’ve been trying to ignore.
“Naruto, thank you… no one has ever said that.” Iruka said softly.
“There is no need to thank me Iruka sensei, I merely pointed out the truth as I see it.” He said with a small smile before turning back to Sasuke to see how he took in all he had said. “Sasuke?”
“Hai Naruto, I’m sorry, I know… your right but, I’ve spent too much of my life like this to suddenly change from your words no matter how much I….”
“Sasuke,” Naruto cut off suddenly. “No one ever expected you to. Anyone who thinks they know you would have expected you to deny any and all about it that the only thing you could ever show emotion for is that of the destruction of what you feel you need to.. have to avenge. Just know this! Everyone in this room knows what its like to feel loss. To have your family taken from them and that as alone as you have always felt and the anger, others have felt that too.”
“What are you talking about?” Sasuke questioned looking between Naruto and Iruka.
“Iruka sensei, lost his parents the same way I did. What is apart of me killed his family. The only reason she’s apart of me is because my father gave his life to put her there. One being can change many in a single moment. Ones actions can change lives. Think of your life after you accomplish your goal. How do you see it Sasuke?”
Thinking for a few moments his face blank before looking up at Naruto. “I see nothing, there is nothing for me after I accomplish it.”
“Now erase that goal it never existed you may know how it feels to have lost but what do you see? Would there be love? A family of your own, perhaps?”
Thinking again as a flash of emotions crossed his face. So deep in thought he never heard the others enter the room. Looking up into the others eye’s he gasped forgetting everything but the one on the bed his soft eye’s spreading warmth through him he never felt before he knew deep down what he felt for Naruto he couldn’t just ignore.
Falling to his knees next to him his head on the bed he gasped out. “Oh god, I don’t know how to… it’s all I’ve ever known how… to have just a flicker of that… god!”
“Shh.” Naruto said running a hand gently through his ebony hair. “Everything in time for now just breath. Nothing has to happen today or tomorrow all you have to do is breath.” He spoke softly to the other blocking out the others in the room for the moment.
Looking up Naruto looked at the faces of the other three in the room. “I’m sorry baachan I know you have some questions for me!” he stated before thinking. ‘ god how I wish I could just hold you now and tell you everything will be fine when I need to be reassured my self’ he thought glancing down for a moment.
‘I wish it too’ came the reply he couldn’t believe he heard but more shocked when he realized the other had heard him.
“H.. how are you hearing me?” Naruto said shocked as he looked down at Sasuke.
“Huh? Well you are talking to me so how am I not to hear you?” Sasuke said sarcastically. “Wait what?” Sasuke thought looking up to meet startled eye’s before voicing his sudden confusion. “How is that possible? Please tell me I’m just hearing things.”
“Then we’re hearing them together I’m afraid.” Came the shocked reply.
“What are you two going on about?” Tsunade asked looking from one teen to the other.
“We, we can hear each others thoughts apparently.” Naruto informed them.
‘Naruto what does this mean’ Sasuke said in his head looking at him then to the others.
‘I don’t know what it means’ Naruto sent back. ‘Maybe it’s because you were my anchor during the last two parts of the merging’ he offered.
‘That, I guess makes some sense’ he sighed.
‘You’re not upset about this are you?’ Naruto worried.
‘No, I just have to watch what I think’ he chuckled to everyone’s wonder out loud.
“Something funny?” Kakashi asked looking at them.
“Huh, oh I just told him that I would have to watch what I think.”
“And that was funny?” Tsunade deadpanned.
“You would have had to hear the way he said it Tsunade baachan.” Naruto informed smiling.
“Are you able to stop the link or is it a permanent thing?” she asked trying to wrap her mind around everything that had changed.
“I don’t know, we just figured out we could do it when you walked in so we haven’t spent much time doing so. Now are there other questions you would like me to answer?”
“Oh, yes. Is the seal still in place?”
“The seal is no longer required there is no way to separate us we are apart of each other though I still haven’t seen any of my outward changes I know that I have changed I can feel it.”
With that said Kakashi handed him a mirror so he could see just how much he had changed.
Looking into the mirror his face froze. He looked into his own eye’s not seeing the normal azure he should see. Instead was a breath taking violet that was just as alluring as his blue had been also his pupils were now elongated more animal like. Looking at his hair, he was only slightly surprised to see that it was now heavily streaked with a fiery red and had grown down to his shoulders. Then he saw his ears they were now slightly pointed but still looked human enough. He smiled feeling that his teeth had also sharpened a little.
With a sigh he put down the mirror and looked up at them smiling. “Well at least I don’t have breasts!”
All looked at him for a moment not sure what to say to that. Finally Sasuke broke the silence.
“Baka!” He stated rolling his eyes.
“Nani, did you expect something else for me to say. I mean what would I do with breasts?”
“Wear a bra!” Came the quick response before laughter filled the large bedroom.
“Kakashi!” Iruka chided smacking him lightly on the arm.
“Tsunade baachan were there any other questions you would like me to try to answer now?” Naruto sighed getting annoyed at how often he had to ask.
“What has Kyuubi said to you about this? About you and Sasuke during the merging that is?”
“She hasn’t said anything! We were resting this whole time being drained how we were I’m sure even Sasuke had to rest for a while.”
“I think we should look into this I’ll have Sakura start researching on this. especially since Sasuke mentioned something about feeling different. We know nothing about demon- human mergings other than what the 4th did with sealing Kyuubi in you.”
“Alright.” Naruto said looking into his lap for a minute before looking her in the eye. “I’ll ask Kyuubi what has happened I’m sure she knows maybe if I pester her enough she’ll tell me.”
“For now I want you both to go back to Sasuke’s and rest for a few days. Then you can start training again. I want to know how the merging has affected you alright. Just focus on that and let us figure this out alright.” She said seeing the worry in Naruto’s eye’s as he looked between her and Sasuke.
“Alright baachan.” Naruto sighed realizing there was nothing else he could do.
“Alright well go on home when ever you feel up to it and I’ll talk to you in a few days to see what we’ve come up with. And I’d like to have a medic look you over alright.” She said with a reassuring smile.
After that Tsunade left to get things going taking Iruka and Kakashi with her. Leaving Sasuke and Naruto to themselves in the quiet bedroom.
“Sasuke, everything’s going to be alright won’t it?” Naruto asked looking up to meet the onyx eyes.
“Naruto, i…” he started meeting the violet ones. “Of course it is.” He said shortly.
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Chapter 6 part 2 end
(tbc)
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