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Homeward
(Naruto�s pov on events in Alternative Education)

Interlude I, part one

It felt good to stretch his legs after the long ride on the
bus. Despite that, and despite what should have been a glorious fact that he
had spent the entire trip in the back sitting with Sakura, Naruto was in a
horribly sour mood as he walked to the exit in wide steps. He helped Sakura off
the bus just the same.

Sasuke was the first one in the line for his luggage. He was
walking away, carefully going around the puddles, without saying goodbye to
anyone and without looking back. Naruto suppressed the strong urge to sigh. It
was over. It was� better not to think about it too much.

�Ahh,� Sakura said. �My mum came
to pick me up. I didn�t call her; they must have given the information on when
we�re arriving on the local radio.�

Naruto smiled weakly. She was too busy squinting at the cars
parked on the dark parking lot of the bus station to notice.

�It looks likes someone�s picking Sasuke up, too.�

�And that just hurt. He didn�t want to hear her say
Sasuke�s name. He didn�t want to think about her watching him go. It was
humiliating for the both of them.

But it was also stronger then both of them, obviously, so he
just said, �Come on, I�ll help you with your things.�

She let him take her bag. When they had to walk through the
glaringly bright lights of what Naruto guessed was Sasuke�s family car, because
they weren�t Itachi�s, Sakura leaned closer, purposely turning completely to
him. She was trying. That was good.

�We�re still going out, right?�

�Of course.� He confirmed, hoping
she wouldn�t see that his enthusiasm was not all that honest. �Is tomorrow too
soon?�

�No, it�s not.� Sakura laughed. �But I wanted to ask
you to come pick me up, if that�s not a problem. I have mentioned you at home
before and� Well, my parents would probably feel better if they met you.
Reputation of the Home��

She didn�t finish, but Naruto knew very well what she was
talking about. Under the light rain, shivering, he felt unreal. �You think
meeting me would help?�

�Sure it would help. Are going to come?�

�Yeah, sure.�

�Well, then�� Sakura said, shifted awkwardly and
turned from him to the car. Then she changed her mind, turned back and leaned
in to kiss him quickly. Naruto watched her walk away and get into the car,
resisting the urge to put his fingers on his mouth. He couldn�t help but smile,
though.

He was the last one standing on the parking. The Home was
not very far. He had to do something else first, despite of the rain, so it was
good that no one was around to see him turn to the opposite direction.

His mood was better after that short conversation with
Sakura. She was being nice. There was no doubt she had asked him out because
she believed she would get a little bit closer to Sasuke that way, but at least
she was trying properly. Besides, it wasn�t as if he could be mad at her for
the exact same reason he liked her in the first place.

Back in the first year, only several months in, he found her
behind the school bathroom crying. It was an accident, Naruto was too busy at
the time trying to find friends in the new school and trying to learn how to
survive in the Home to have crushes. He was trying very hard, in fact. People
looked at him oddly, with distrust and sadness and even some fear when he would
tell them where he lived, so maybe he was a little bit too enthusiastic in his
behavior. It wasn�t making them any more at ease, unfortunately.

He saw Sakura crying by accident, he wasn�t looking for her.
He barely even knew her name at the time. There is nothing quite as compelling
to make you try and help like a crying girl, so Naruto approached her and asked
about what was wrong. And it was Sasuke. He told her something rude she didn�t
want to repeat. It hurt her very much. Naruto told her a couple of nice things,
she calmed down eventually. It was in the days after that he fell in love.

She wasn�t giving up. The asshole was either ignoring her
completely or brushing her off, but Sakura was determined to make him see her.
And she reminded Naruto of himself, of how desperately
he was trying to make his life work at the time. How he wanted for people to
look past his background and the place he lived in and look at him.
Sakura seemed like she knew how that was like, even if only with Sasuke, so he
fell in love.

The old train wagon just out of the town was very dark, but
Naruto was there so many times he didn�t need the light to find his way to it.
It was just a wreck left where it ended up when the train fell off of the
rails. One side was crushed completely, but there were maybe six carriages
intact. They were complete with the glass on the windows and seats functional,
so kids from Home took over it a long time ago. It was useful for hiding, when
you�re running away and some parts were even fixed so well by girls, it wasn�t
uncommon for it to be used for trysts.

Naruto had something he was hiding there. Generally, it
wasn�t a good idea to keep your things on the train. But he had a secret place
no one would know to look for, and besides, it was just a single key. Even if
people found it, they wouldn�t know what to do with it.

Naruto picked it up, stumbling through the darkness despite
of the familiar ground. One detour and he will be able to take a shower.

Ten minutes later, he was standing in what was once his
front lawn. The house was nice, even with the yard full of junk and, now when
he was eighteen, it belonged to him. Naruto used the key to unlock the
basement, where the actual keys of the house were hidden. It was fortunate the
place was in a good, open neighborhood. In almost six years since his parents
had died, there had not been even one burglary attempt.

In the hallway, Naruto automatically flipped the switch �
and flinched when the light blinded him. The electricity was supposed to be
off. Nothing else seemed out of place on the first glance, so it must have been
Jiraiya. He was occasionally checking in to make sure everything was well,
because Naruto was supposed to move back in as soon as possible. It
wasn�t like him not to go back down the basement and turn the switch off,
though.

When he adjusted a little, Naruto found a note.

�Left the electricity so your cake
wouldn�t go bad. Time to get laid, kid�

A smile threatened to split his face. You never know with
Jiraiya, so Naruto always kept his expectations low, but his godfather never
forget about his birthday. He could be late, yes, but not forget. Naruto
postponed the thing he came there for and cut himself a huge piece of cake from
the refrigerator. His hands were full now, but he would have to come back the
next day and take it to the Home with him.

It was good. But the sweetness couldn�t quite cover the
bitterness Naruto couldn�t suppress ever since Sasuke kissed him that day,
before they started the trip home. No, he was feeling weird even before that,
ever since Sasuke found out that Sakura finally accepted to go out with Naruto
and changed his mood dramatically.

He was so much better in the last couple of days. Naruto
would even go so far to call his behaviors likable, if not normal. There was
some glaring, though not nearly as wordy and impatient as usual. And then he
found out about Sakura and it was like the field trip had never happened.

Well, aside from the jealousy he hadn�t even tried very hard
not to show. Has anyone ever been jealous over him before? Naruto didn�t think
so. It made him feel so good for a moment, before he realized it wouldn�t
change anything. Sasuke definitely wasn�t in denial about his, at the very
least mixed, sexuality, but he was determent not to do anything about it.

And regardless to the rather amazing sex, it was painful to
watch him after. There was so much guilt in him, in every sentence, in every
look. He was not supposed to take things so seriously � worse yet, he wasn�t
taking things seriously � and it still felt as if he�d choke on his guilt any
second when Naruto was watching him closely. And that was triggering his own
guilt, because he was feeling like he�d fucking up Sasuke�s life, especially
because Sasuke was not initiating the first contact after the first couple of
times.

Well, he�d never make a move or say anything, yes, he would
just � look at Naruto in a certain way, eyes clear and measuring, face
as flat as possible with the jaw clenched. Naruto wasn�t sure what would other
people read in it; there was nothing blatantly sexual about it. For him,
though, it meant that Sasuke wants but is simply refusing to ask,
or do anything about it. And just knowing Sasuke was horny made him almost
instantly hard and Naruto had no real problems demanding sex when he wanted it.

So, basically, it was Naruto�s own fault the big date with
Sakura wasn�t feeling as good as it should have felt. Sasuke never lied to him,
not once. He said, it was only until they went back home. He made it very clear
that night � when he stared from his bed until Naruto was just about to start
humping his bed and later actually kissed him on his own, without any
encouragement � that it would end with the trip. The sadness Naruto was feeling
because of it was odd and unfamiliar and not something he wanted to feel about
Sasuke.

He certainly wasn�t feeling that way when Sai left Home, and
that lasted for more than a year. He had lost his virginity to Sai in every
possible way, but not even the best of that �roommates with benefits�
encounters was good enough to compare with anything that happened in the last
week.

Naruto washed the plate, because the water was on, too. It
seems like Jiraiya did more about the house then strictly necessary to maintain
it. All the dust was wiped off; it almost felt like someone was still living in
it.

The room with a bathroom on the left was the one that
belonged to Naruto when he was living there with his parents. Now it was
crowded with junk, his old things, the boxes with his parent�s old things, some
stuff Jiraiya brought in. It was more logical to make his room a storage room,
because the bed was not very big. If he needed to stay in the house, or if
Jiraiya needed to stay in the house, it was more logical to use the big bed in
his parents� room. And because they lived in the house for only a short while
before they died, Naruto wasn�t feeling bad about it. The room was not even
fully fixed. He could remember coming in there after the funeral and wondering
why the paintings were still leaned against the wall, why his father had never
found the time to hang them up.

He took the presents he got for his birthday out of his bag.
The small snow globe, that hadn�t actually had snow floating around, but rather
something like petals, he got from Hinata. She congratulated him with everyone
else, but gave him a neatly wrapped package the next day. Naruto wished she was
not so shy, because she seemed like a great person, like someone he�d love to
have for a friend. She was impossible to talk to. He put the globe on the desk.

Shikamaru and Chouji bought him a small wallet shaped like a
frog. Naruto smiled looking at it. It was a joke, though the thing was cute. It
was a small reminder of how they became friends, toward the end of the first
year of high school. There was a lot of rain that year, so everything was
flooded. A couple of days after, when the water was still everywhere, Naruto
saw a frog floating oddly in the middle of one of the really huge remaining
puddles. He stepped into it to check if the frog was really dead or maybe he
can save it.

That was when Shikamaru and Chouji popped out of nowhere.
Naruto expected to be laughed at, but he stubbornly refused to tell them
anything but the truth, that he was trying to save that frog. Shikamaru and
Chouji looked at each other, with that annoyingly familiar look all best
friends in the world had and Naruto wanted to share with someone badly. Instead
of the mocking, Shikamaru just told him he doesn�t have to get wet for it and
the two of them helped him get the frog out, without hurting it more. The thing
was dead.

Shikamaru put the little badly wrapped package into his hand
and told him to open it later. It was probably for the better, because Naruto
almost teared up when he saw it. It was just a stupid
frog-shaped wallet, but it somehow felt like it was much more. Naruto put in
the first drawer of his old desk.

And then there was Sasuke�s book. It was just a stupid book,
never even meant for him. But Naruto carefully checked if water came through to
it somehow and placed it with relief among his family albums, in the last
drawer of his desk.

No doubt about it, it was that book�s fault he was grown
attached to Sasuke that night. It wasn�t going to the store � although that was
also uncharacteristically sweet of Sasuke.

Naruto would�ve had shut up if Sasuke really wanted him to.
Not because he would do what Sasuke said, but because it wouldn�t be worth it
if Sasuke decided to be his usual self. But he didn�t really try to make him
quiet. And he wouldn�t have taken Naruto with him if he was trying to get away.
Also, considering that he didn�t buy anything, it was quite clear he didn�t
have to go. It was for Naruto, something like comfort trip because he was stuck
in the hotel while everyone else was out. It was sweet; no matter what would
Sasuke have to say about it.

And even though that made Naruto warm up to the guy, it was
the book, in a completely unreasonable and weird way that did it for him.

He heard Sasuke answering stiffly to Sakura the book was
present from Itachi earlier that day. When he went to the bathroom, the
curiosity got the better of Naruto, so he took the book. The only thing outside
of work that Itachi was ever willing to talk about was his brother. Of course,
even that would make a weak conversation, but it was the one personal thing,
one person you could actually ask about and get an answer. Naruto wanted to see
what kind of book he would give to his younger brother.

It was a guide book, expensive looking guide book. On the
first, blank page, it said �Page 76, third paragraph from the bottom. Does
it remind you of something?�

Naruto looked it up, but he couldn�t see anything, of
course. It was just some myth. But he was sitting there, with the sounds all
too loud coming from the bathroom, and without any reason wished fiercely he
was in on it. Judging by the way the book was opening itself automatically on
that page, like it was reread many times, whatever the memory was, it was
important to Sasuke. But Naruto couldn�t see it, and just like that, it hit him
that he barely knew anything about Sasuke, even though they went to school
together for more than three years. And maybe � no, judging by that entire
evening, it was probable there was something worthy about him,
something that was making Naruto want to know him.

When Sasuke came out of the bathroom, Naruto forgot to put
the book back. So he pretended he was reading it. He figured someone as bookish
as Sasuke should relate to that and not snap at him for touching his things. He
was right, too. Sasuke didn�t say a thing. And Naruto kept staring into the
pictures and trying to figure out a way to get to know Sasuke better.

Unfortunately, the only thing he could come up with was to
play on Sasuke�s obvious sexual attraction for him � not that that wouldn�t be
good for both of them. It worked, in a way. Watching the guide book lying on
the top of the family albums, Naruto wished it hadn�t. He wished he never got
to see that more human side of Sasuke Uchiha. He wished he hadn�t heard those
couple of sharp jokes, that he didn�t see those quick smiles when Sasuke would
see something he saw before when he was there with his family. They made him real.
They made him likable. And Naruto didn�t want to like someone who was
emotionally as fucked up as Sasuke was.

That wasn�t a matter of choice any longer. There is nothing
else to do but try to forget it all.

Naruto kicked the drawer closed and hurried out of the
house. No use to ponder over it. Sasuke had made himself
very clear, there was a date Naruto waited on for years and he had to go back
to Home and make sure everything was okay.

***

It was just Naruto�s suck ass luck that in the period that
should have been the happiest in his life since his parents died, he would be
stuck with a fishbone in his throat.

Kabuto was behaving. What made him think in the first place
that if the youngest kids started to come back from his office bruised was
something Naruto would never understand, just like he couldn�t wrap his mind
around what exactly he was saying to them to make them quiet about it. Physical punishment was not a way to deal with children,
and Naruto didn�t care if they were bad in school, steeling or even killing
puppies. Most of them were in Home to escape families that believed in beating
up. But only Naruto seem to have noticed; or at least no one but him was saying
anything.

He had the room for himself many months after Sai got kicked
out. Itachi had found out about Suigetsu and him � and Karin, though she was a
much better student - are not going to the classes for the extra schooling they
took on to be able to stay in Home, so they lost their place. Social service
was taking good care of the kids until they were of age, but after that, they
could live for free in the public institutions only while they were going to
school. Itachi had gone out of his way to make sure they could stay without
going to college, so even though they were mad at him, Naruto couldn�t be. All
they had to do was take those classes - they didn�t have to even do well in
them.

When Inari came after his grandfather went to jail for
whatever reason at the beginning of the summer, they put him in Naruto�s room.
It was only month later when Naruto caught a glimpse of a fading bruise on his
back, but no matter how many times he had asked about it, Inari refused to say
anything � just like he was refusing to say anything about his life and what
was giving him those horrible nightmares. Naruto had tried talking to Kurenai
about it, as the only female that was working the night shifts in Home, but she
brushed it off on a school fight. It took time and effort to catch the pattern.
Itachi was the only one who listened.

But Inari, and also the rest of the kids Naruto had noticed
that were coming out of Kabuto�s office sometimes � were not talking, not for
anything. There was nothing to be done. Itachi had said that if he accused
Kabuto publicly and failed to prove anything, which was very possible, Naruto
would be the one in trouble.

The problem was, no matter how much Naruto wanted to put
Kabuto behind the bars where he belonged, the immediate well-being of the kids
was more important. He confronted the fucker, but that ended up with Naruto
being just one step away from being kicked out. In fact, after Kabuto got back
from the hospital � where he ended up even though Naruto only managed to land
one hit � Itachi�s steely determination was the only thing that kept him in
Home.

But things were well that fall. Kabuto knew that Naruto was
onto him, and that Itachi was on his side, so no more kids were lead into
Kabuto�s office when they did something that demanded punishment. He was afraid
still and keeping his eyes open, but the most important thing was that no one
was being hurt.

Also, Sakura was warming up to him. It wasn�t so good in the
beginning, the awkwardness was heavy between them, but Naruto wanted it to work
badly. She was so nice, so normal. He was feeling normal with her. She
helped him study, so his grades got a little better. He took her to his house.
Taking her virginity was wonderful and heartbreaking. Naruto really, really
wished he was happy.

But he wasn�t, mostly because every so often, Sasuke would
give him that look again. He was trying not to, and he was pretty good at it,
too. But maybe once a week, he would slip up, find Naruto with his eyes and
just� look. And despite of having a girlfriend he cared a lot about, it was
only that they were always in school at the time that was stopping Naruto from
slamming him against the wall.

He got one of those just before Sasuke kissed Sakura in the
schoolyard on the big break. Sasuke looked back when Naruto was asking if
Sakura wanted him to get her something, because she wasn�t going out, and
Naruto was frozen in tracks for a long, long moment, watching and not quite
believing the raw desperation on his face. As Kiba yanked him forward, Naruto
couldn�t help but admit to himself that, many years of crushing on her or not,
if he only had a little bit of hope Sasuke would change his mind about them
being together in any way, he�d have left her in a heartbeat.

So he was pretty much pretending to he was listening Kiba
while trying not to show how very horny and unhappy he was when they turned the
corner and he saw them. It hurt so much to see Sakura with her eyes close, one
hand frozen in the air - probably because she wasn�t actually daring to put it
on Sasuke. Telling himself he�d do the exact same
thing to her, given the chance, wasn�t helping. On the other hand, neither did
that he had no claim over Sasuke at all, and that it wasn�t any of his business
what he was doing � aside from it being with Naruto�s girlfriend.

But then he remembered the way Sasuke was looking at him
just a several minutes ago, and Naruto�s mind clouded a little, from the anger
and surprise and just a tiny little bit from hope. He wasn�t stupid. Sasuke was
using Sakura; he was just trying to break them up. However, he would have
achieved the exact same thing kissing Naruto. Only he chose not to, that fucked
up little asshole.

It was later that night that Naruto realized that he�s
having an actual crush on the guy, as weird and messed up as he was. That never
happened before. Having sex with guys was one thing, but actually caring, in a
romantic way, that was odd and new. The realization hit him hard when Sasuke
opened the door for him to take Inari out, and he barely managed to keep his
mouth shut upstairs in the room when Sasuke wanted to know about Home. The itch
to spill his guts out was so strong it left him annoyed and frustrated, so he
took it off on Karin. It was a little ironic that it was Sasuke who
offered the comfort.

The real disaster, however, happened at Lee�s birthday
party. Well, it wasn�t really a disaster, just�

***

Naruto was climbing the stairs in a hurry, so he wouldn�t
turn back and return to where Sasuke was for once cooperative and inviting. He
overreacted when Karin said she was running away. Telling Itachi what�s she was
up to would have been more than enough. It wasn�t her fault he was so
frustrated that entire day, it wasn�t his place to tell her what she should do
with her life anyway.

Itachi was just walking out of Karin�s room when Naruto turn
to the hallway. All the doors were closed, but there was no doubt most of them
were awake and listening. Itachi gave him a sign to follow and lead the way to
the empty community room. From the long line of windows that were looking on
the main street, the room was bright enough, so neither on reached for the
switch when Naruto closed the door.

�She said that you also had someone in your room.�
�Inari fell asleep on your brother.� Naruto said, a little
surprised by that. He had practically sent Itachi to his room to make sure the
kid was okay, and his closet was definitely not big enough to hide anyone. �We
were just putting him in his bad.�

Itachi was looking back at him with his usual expressionless
face. �You two are getting along really well, considering that you had hit him
this morning.�

�He was kissing my girlfriend this morning.� Naruto said,
getting angry again. �In the middle of the schoolyard, to where every single
hallway window is facing. What I was supposed to do?�

Itachi said nothing for a long minute; he was just watching
him steadily in the half dark. It became uncomfortable very soon.

�Two weeks on the bathroom duty.�

�What? I�m getting punished? What for?�

There was no keeping the bitterness out of last words.
Itachi was always fair to him. Sasuke deserved worse than that one hit for the
crap he pulled out. Naruto couldn�t believe Itachi was abusing his position to
punish him for hitting him.

Naruto was glaring, but inside, he was feeling a little
betrayed against all reason. Itachi frowned a little. �Do you really
think that if I saw it fit to punish you for fucking my little brother I would
stop at two weeks of bathroom duty?�

For the first time in a while, Naruto felt blood rushing up
to his cheeks. There is something very uncomfortable about Itachi simply saying
that, as he had no idea Sasuke told anyone. But it made sense. They were close,
weren�t they?

�Er.� He said. There was no doubt that what happened that
morning was largely because of what happened between Sasuke and him on the
field trip, but if Itachi wasn�t punishing him for that, then� �Then what?�

�There were better ways to deal with Karin.� Itachi said as
he turned to open the door. The conversation was over. �Also, you will want to
apologize and she will be too mad to talk to you.�

Naruto followed out, smiling a little.

Inari was still asleep, even after all that yelling in the
hall. He must have been exhausted after that nightmare. Naruto shivered at the
memory of his crying brokenly in his sleep as he covered the boy better. When
he got in his bed and prepared to sleep, Naruto was very happy he took of
Itachi�s coat earlier. It was faint, but his pajamas smelled like Sasuke.

***

As Itachi predicted, Karin wasn�t talking to him. Naruto
didn�t want to apologize, but he wished that she wasn�t mad at him. He meant
well, despite the hysterics. Maybe if she ever bothered introducing him to the
tall, quiet guy who was visiting her, if Naruto knew something good about him,
he wouldn�t have overreacted.

But Itachi was also right when he predicted that the
bathroom duty would help. There�re only so many toilet seats you can scrub with
someone without talking. On the fifth one, after Karin cleaned the showers and
Naruto floors, she finally said, though not in response to any of his
questions. �He�s cute.�

And even Naruto just knew she was talking about Sasuke for
whatever reason, he asked, �Who?�

Karin rolled her eyes and fixed her glasses better. �That
guy you had in your room, of course.�

�I told you, he was helping me put Inari in bed.�

�Hm,� She shrugged. �For a random
Itachi�s brother, who was conveniently there to help you put Inari in bed, he
was surely determined not to let me attack you.�

Naruto stopped scrubbing to blink up at her in
confusion. �What? I don�t need protection from you.�

He never got along with Karin to well. But, first, she was a
girl. And second, they were two of the oldest residents of home and she was
decent enough. Naruto would never let it turn violent.

�Your boyfriend didn�t think so.� Naruto groaned. She was
like a fucking Doberman. If people around him kept seeing that there was
something off about the two of them, Sasuke will think he was telling them and
possibly decide to take care of things with the help of his father�s weapon. By killing him dead. �He was shielding you.�

Besides, she was talking nonsense. Sasuke hadn�t said a
thing. He was just standing there� Between him and Karin, efficiently stopping
her to come closer and take her things back from Naruto or possibly hit him, if
that was what she wanted. Shit. Sasuke really was trying to protect him.

Well, that didn�t mean he had to admit it to her. �We�re
friends from school.�

Alright, so that wasn�t technically true. Karin just
shrugged. �He�s cute, that�s all I said.�

�Yeah,� Naruto snorted. �Like a poisonous snake. All pretty
outside, but kills instantly if stepped on. In a really cute
way.�

Karin stopped and grinned at him over the seat. �You like
him. You really like him. Does Sai know?�

�I don�t.� Naruto snapped, but she only grinned wider. He
was not very convincing. �And I don�t see what that would have to do with Sai,
even if I was.�

�I don�t know. You never know how he�d react on thing. He
might not even think of it twice but��

But he might also get possessive. He didn�t have to care for
Naruto to consider his territory stepped on, even after so many months after he
was out of Home and out of Naruto�s bed. No, you could never be sure about Sai;
that much was true.

Naruto grumbled anyway, �I don�t give a shit how he would
react.�

The conversation died with that for a while, until Naruto
remembered to tell her. �I didn�t mean it. You�re not a kid; you should be able
to decide for yourself.�

Karin straightened from where she was scrubbing behind the
seat. �I have decided.�

Naruto sighed. He was afraid of that. She was mad about
Itachi punishing her for sneaking someone in, yes, but she also thought about
it. She had a place to go; she said someone was waiting for her.

�Really? On
what?� He asked, hoping she would tell him specifics. Maybe she though
it out, but that didn�t mean that it had to work out. Someone knowing where she
was going would be good.

But she just glared. �Like I�m going to tell you��

They finished with the last stall, so Karin stood up. Naruto
grinned, happy that crush or not, he had no problems admiring a cute ass when
he was giving a wonderful opportunity to do so.

�Come on, I won�t tell anyone, I swear.� He called after
her. �Tell me.�

�Nope.� Karin answered, washing her
hands for the zillionth time that day.

�Kaarin!�
He whined. �Tellmetellemetellme��

She covered her ears, laughing and closed the door that was
open because of the chemicals. �Oh, shut up, just shut up!� He did.
�We�re getting married. Next Sunday.�

�Married? Properly married? In a church?�

She pursed her lips. �In a courthouse.
We have the date set and all the documents. They won�t be able to drag me back
here if I�m already married and with a place to live.�

So she had it really though out. Running like that was the
easiest way to deal with it. If she told someone, she�d have to go through
millions of question, checkups, paper work. She was nineteen; technically no
one could stop her. But it would take time, getting kicked out was so much
quicker than getting out properly. So if she just got kicked out, when police
found her eventually, she�d only have some minor paperwork to deal with.

�It�s a waste of time. I will never get that scholarship,
too many people want to study medicine and I have nothing to base a loan on.
I�ll find a job and he already has one. We�ll be fine.�

She was talking more as if she was convincing herself rather
than Naruto, but at least she had a plan. He wished she would try for
scholarship anyway, but it didn�t sound too bad that way it was. Naruto was a
little ashamed because of the things he told her.

�But I�ll stay until the last day, just in case.� Almost as
if she was just remembering Naruto was still there, she glanced at him and
frowned. �You won�t tell anyone? They�d keep me for at least three months if I
told them I was getting married.�

�I won�t.� He promised.

And he didn�t plan to. It was her life. But when Naruto
stopped by his house that afternoon � which was becoming a habit � he found his
mother�s red suitcase. It was dusty despite being in the hallway closet, but
Karin seemed grateful and invited him to see her off when the time came. She
was planning on getting out through the storage room window after curfew on the
night of Lee�s birthday, which was awkward because Naruto already asked to stay
out longer that night. Well, he would just have to come back early until she
was off, but maybe later, if the party doesn�t break up, he can go back. Lee�s
house was not very far from Home.

A/N: This interlude is going up in two parts, because it
turned out to be a monster.
But things are not nearly as bleak from Naruto�s pov, aren�t
they? I was writing this and I couldn�t believe how messed up Sasuke is in this
story
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