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Bloodlines
By : Usha
Category: Naruto > Yaoi - Male/Male
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Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto, nor do I make money off this
Chapter List
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Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto, nor do I make any profit from writing this
Warnings: The usual
“Pull her up!”
There was a loud squeal, accompanied by a blur of gray as a filly shot across the track. The blond haired jockey pulled back on the reins, trying to bring the horses head up and under control, but the mare seemed to have idea’s of her own. She ducked her head and gave a powerful buck, making Naruto bite the inside of his cheek as his body followed the motion of the buck. As soon as her hind legs were on the ground again, she leapt forward, trying to take the bit in her mouth and gain control over the person on her back.
Naruto though, was thoroughly fed up and pulled the reins tightly to the right, forcing the mare to circle. They were both covered in sweat, despite the cool morning air, and for the first time, Naruto was wondering if Sarutobi had picked a bad horse.
“This horse is evil!” he shouted as the filly tried to dart forward again.
Frowns creased the old trainers face as he thought of a way to calm the over excited filly down, “Set her up on the backside and then let her out.”
The jockey nodded and pushed the gray towards the straight part of the track, where she pranced lightly. Her ears perked forward as the vast track spread out in front of her and she gave a little skip/hop, before breaking out into a fast gallop. Wind whipped up her mane as Naruto threaded his fingers through the coarse hair to help keep balance. She moved around the turn and slowly began to settle into an easy pace before dropping down into a smooth trot, and then came to a stop in front of Sarutobi.
“That,” the trainer stated, “is why I bought her.” Naruto let out a sigh before taking the mare around to cool her out.
“And why am I doing this again?” an annoyed voice asked.
“Because if you can’t even bring him in to a winning position, you are obviously out of touch with him.” Came the smooth answer.
Dark eyes locked onto the animal in front of him and he let out a sigh, “I wanted to go riding today with Sanis.”
“In due time, but for now, just watch the run.”
Sasuke grunted and leaned against the railing of track. Tobi was prancing along the inside of the ring, ready for one last run before he would get a well deserved rest before his big race next week. Normally, the raven didn’t watch the practices that the assistant jockeys gave the horses; he didn’t see the need to. However, for some reason, Itachi wanted him down at the track today to watch Tobi run; something to do with the race last week.
It wasn’t his fault that Tobi didn’t want to run. The horse disliked to run in mud and hadn’t tried during the race, he explained repeatedly to Itachi, but his brother ignored him. They both knew that his head was not in the race that day, but neither mentioned it to their father that night when he asked about the race. Fugaku had been understanding when Sasuke explained the tracks condition and did not fault him for Tobi’s performance, but instead, insisted that they train him some more before his next race.
After their talk with their father, Itachi left the room without a word to Sasuke and ignored him for the rest of the day. Sasuke was confused but shrugged it off, thinking that Itachi was just in a bad mood still from the races and did not think anymore on the subject; until now. It was obvious that the older Uchiha was still mad and was just trying to make Sasuke suffer because of it.
His eyes followed Tobi’s movements along the track, noting the way the muscles bunched and released as he moved around the backstretch and into the turn. Beside him; Itachi and Kakashi had stopwatches on the horse, and were comparing times as the horse moved by them. They signaled for Kiba to bring the horse down and cool him out, and Itachi turned to Sasuke.
“Did you notice anything?” he asked.
Sasuke shook his head, “No, this is a waste of my time though. Today is the day I don’t have classes and I want to ride Sanis; I won’t get the chance next week.”
Itachi waved him away and let out a sigh of annoyance, “Foolish brother, he’ll never win this way.”
“And you think the blond can?”
He let his eyes slid over to the grey haired trainer, “I’ve seen him race, I know he can.”
Sasuke eased the bit into the horses mouth, then unclipped the cross ties from the halter. He couldn’t understand the point that his brother was trying to make, but whatever it was, it was annoying him. Sanis followed him as he led her outside the stable and climbed on her back. Her grey ears flickered back and forth, as he found himself leading her to the woods that connected with Eclipse Estates. Not that he wanted to see the blonde-haired person; he was still upset that for the past few races, he had not been able to beat the jockey, and it was hurting his creditability.
The mare shied away from a squirrel in a tree, jarring Sasuke out of his thoughts. He calmed her down and let her pick out a path that she liked while trying to keep his mind focused. He knew that he had to do a lot of things this week since they were going to be away all next week and he would be missing finals, but the professors knew that he was a jockey and had offered to extend his final deadline. However, the finals were not bothering him much, compared to the races from past weeks.
No matter how hard he thought about them, he couldn’t figure out how the blond jockey beat him each time.
‘And that is why you will always lose to me.’ A voice echoed in his head.
He shook his head, trying to get the blonds voice out, but the sentence intrigued him. Naruto obviously knew something about training since he caught him training that colt a few weeks back; however, if he wanted to find out what he meant, that would mean that he would have to go talk to him. Meaning Sanis would have to cross the stream.
As much as he hated to admit, he couldn’t get the mare to cross the stream again. Even having one of the trainers pony her. All it accomplished was leaving both horse and rider frustrated and annoyed that day; not the best way to leave a horse.
The stream came into view and he could feel Sanis slowing down as they approached it. Sasuke blew out a breath and gently urged her forward, but she hesitated. He forced himself to stay calm and moved her upstream, walking through the shallowest parts of the water, trying to get her used to the feeling of water flowing over her hooves. Once he mapped out the stream, he went back to the narrowest part and tried to get her to cross again.
Sanis stomped her hoof and shook her head in a flat out refusal. Now Sasuke was getting annoyed and pushed his heels into her side harder than before, but the mare still refused.
“Sanis, I can’t lead you through water obstacles every time we go riding.” Sasuke snapped.
The mare snorted and backed away from the stream, but the raven would have none of it. His father had told him long ago when he first started to ride that horses were supposed to listen to their human owners, not the other way around, and sometimes you needed to make them see that.
He frowned and reached behind the saddle with his whip, giving Sanis a quick pop on her hindquarters. She let out a squeal of unhappiness but jumped into the stream, and stood unmoving for a moment or two before hesitantly taking a step forward. Sasuke felt bad about the whip but he knew it didn’t hurt the horses and was used as a last means.
After they left the stream, he pushed the horse into an easy trot, allowing the mare to once again pick her path, and it wasn’t long before the rolling line of black paddock fences came into view. In some of the paddocks, Sasuke could see some horses quietly grazing and he was starting to wonder if anyone was even home, when he spotted movement to his left. It seemed that the blond jockey was home and was trying to get the redhead to join him in something, but no matter how hard the jockey pulled at the others arm, he wouldn’t move.
Finally, the blond let out a huff and walked off towards another part of the pasture. Sasuke’s eyes followed his movements, curious as to what he was going to do next.
Naruto pouted at Gaara who flat out refused to do anything, even when he gave him the puppy dog eyes. He couldn’t help it that he was bored.
Both trainers and Iruka had left to go make sure their preparations were ready for next week, leaving him alone with Gaara, Lee, and Sakura. Gaara was not in the mood to do anything, and Sakura was busy helping Lee with some of the horses that were still inside the barn. Therefore, he turned to his one and only trusty, playful buddy.
Kyuubi.
He whistled and the chestnuts ears perked up. Once he spied Naruto, he trotted across his paddock and nosed him lightly, making the blond laugh. He let himself into the fenced area and cradled the horses head into his chest before bringing it up again. As their eyes met, the blond blew evenly onto the horse’s nose.
Kyuubi tossed his head with a snort as Naruto jumped away from him. He pawed at the ground as the little human grinned at him and coaxed him to follow. The chestnut needed no urging, picking up on the game that his human wanted to play with him. They played it many times before when he was younger; still a youthful colt and just weaned from his mother. His human darted off to the side of the pasture, and he quickly followed his movements, reaching out to nudge the boy, but he ducked under his neck, fingers flaying out to barely touch his coat.
He trotted after Naruto as they moved across the pasture and as the boy picked up speed, so to, did the horse. Naruto once again dodged his reach and he shook his head in frustration as he circled around the blond. His human laughed at his frustration and moved to run to the corner of the pasture, hoping that he would follow. He waited for a moments hesitation to give him a lead, then slowly cantered after him; chasing him continuously around the pasture till he dropped to the ground, gasping for breath.
The chestnut slowly walked up to him and lowered his head to the gasping human, breathing lightly onto his face.
“Kyuubi stop, your whiskers tickle!” Naruto cried and brought his hands up to grab hold of the horse’s nose, bringing it closer. They stayed that way for a moment before Naruto puffed air onto Kyuubi’s nose again, and then scrambled up.
For some reason, the horse knew that his human had stopped too soon, and he could tell that the game was still on. He, however, had other plans to win at this game, and turned his tail toward the human and walked off. He could hear Naruto calling back to him and the emotion rolled off his small human body, drawing him back to the boy he loved, but he kept walking a bit more. Finally he turned around and saw his boy still standing in the pasture, with a look of confusion on his face, while another boy stood outside the pasture, watching the game.
He waited until the boy turned around, deciding to give him a rest, before he broke out into a canter towards him. At the sound of his hooves, the boy turned around and stared at him. Any normal human would have ran by now, but he seemed to know what he was up to, and he was fine with that. He dropped his speed as he reached the blond, tucking his hindquarters under his body, and bringing himself to a stop before nosing Naruto to the ground.
Naruto laughed from his position on the ground as Kyuubi trotted around him, letting out a loud whiney. “You win this time Kyuu.” He said standing back up and running a hand over his horses’ neck. From his spot on the rail, Gaara shook his head.
“Only you.” He said, “Only you.”
“What, you don’t play with Shukaku?” he asked.
Gaara arched a non-existent eyebrow and gave him a look that asked, ‘Are you crazy?’
Naruto gave Kyuubi one last pat on the neck before leaving the paddock to join Gaara as they walked back to the bunkhouse. “We have company.” Gaara said after a while, jerking his finger to the slight hill at the corner of their property where an Uchiha sat on a horse.
“Ah man, I was bored, but not this bored to want him here.” Naruto whined and he poked Gaara, “Quick, go get Sakura.”
“No, I don’t think I will.” Came Gaara’s answer.
“WHAT?!” Naruto screeched in his ear.
The redhead winced and rubbed his ear that Naruto yelled in, “Life is full of people that you hate, you’re just going to need to get used to that little fact.” He said and walked off. “Besides, I have money on this bet.” He muttered under his breath.
Sasuke watched in surprise as the red headed jockey left Naruto after a quick talk about something and for a second he was worried that they were going to leave. His fear subsided though as the blond turned to his direction and started to trudge up the small hill. Sanis pulled at her bit as she noticed Naruto approaching them, and Sasuke let her walk to meet him.
“What do you want?” Naruto asked him curiously, as he raised a hand to calm Sanis down.
The raven was silent for a while, testing Naruto’s patience before he dismounted so he could look at the other jockey on equal footing before asking his question “Weren’t you scared?”
“Huh?”
Sasuke sighed, “When your horse came at you like that. Why didn’t you do anything, he shouldn’t be able to do things that could put people in danger.”
“It’s a game Sasuke.” Naruto stated and the raven felt surprise wash over him and it was a moment before he could answer again.
“A game.” He repeated.
Naruto nodded, “Yeah, I trained Kyuubi since he was a foal and we would always do that. It’s sort of like tag, and he would never purposely hurt me.”
“Speaking of training,” Sasuke started, trying to get to the point quickly, “Last time I came over, you told me that I would always lose to you. What did you mean by that?”
The blond gave him a weird look, “Sasuke, how did you get here?”
There was a moment of silence in which Sasuke gave him a look that questioned whether the blond had any common sense in his entire body. He contemplated giving a smart-ass comment, but bit his cheek; he was here for answers, not to start World War 3.
“I rode Sanis.” He answered as calmly as he could.
“I can see that.” Naruto answered, his eyes traveling over the horse in front of him, “But, last time we met, she was afraid to cross the stream and only crossed when I doubled with her. How did you get her to cross?”
Sasuke tilted his head to the side, “She wouldn’t go at first so I had to use my whip.”
Naruto’s eyes hardened, “The whip?” he echoed.
“I tried to get her to cross before but she kept balking.” He could see the frustration in Naruto’s eyes and his mind went back to the time when he raced for them and refused the whip. He could see where this was going to go. “Naruto, horses are meant to listen to us, if she doesn’t listen, she’ll start to think that she can get away with it.”
Naruto knew this was true, however, there were other ways to go about the whole ordeal and he was not in the mood to argue with Sasuke about them at the moment. “That, Sasuke, is why I can’t answer your question.” He said and turned around, “Sorry you had to come all this way and put your mare through hell.”
The raven felt his control snap and he reached forward, swinging the blond around, “Do you think you’re better than me, that you know something that I don’t about horses?” he snapped, “I’ve been riding since I could walk, and my family has been in this business since before you were born. There is no way that a rookie jockey like you, with only a few wins under your belt can win against me next week. Both my father and my brother have won that race and I’ll be the next one to win, not you.”
Blue eyes bore into black one, never faltering, “So, who do you race for? What do you race for?”
The question took Sasuke by surprise but he quickly responded, “What kind of stupid question is that? I race to win, for the acknowledgement that I’m better than everyone else on the field that I raced against.”
Naruto nodded, “I see. Then I defiantly can’t help you like this, and now I’m going to make you eat those words.” Determination seeped into his voice, “Even if I don’t win next week, I’ll make sure that I at least beat you and knock you off your high pedestal that you’ve built for yourself.”
He turned around and headed back to the barn where Sakura was coming from. She met him halfway and looked over his shoulder, “Is that Sasuke?”
“Yeah.” Came the short answer before Naruto walked away.
Sakura trotted off towards the fuming Uchiha and he gave her a death glare, but she ignored it. “Sasuke, why are you here?”
“I’m not sure now, but it proved to be a waste of my time.” He snapped.
The pink haired girl was silent for a while before carefully asking her next question, “Is it Naruto that makes you this edgy; or are you always like this?”
Sasuke looked at her in surprise, “What?”
She shrugged, “I’ve seen you on the track before and with your family, and you’re normally never this riled up. But whenever you come close to Naruto, you seem to lose it.”
“That’s because he’s an idiot.”
“He just does things slightly different and sees things from an unusual perspective, that’s all.”
“Why are you telling me this?” Sasuke questioned.
“I just think that you should know that, and you shouldn’t judge him based on what you see at the surface. You’ll find that once you get to know him, he’ll be the best friend you could ever ask for.”
She patted Sanis on the neck and turned around, heading back to barn where Lee was looking for her. Sasuke watched her as she left and shook his head, ‘This whole farm is crazy.’ He thought and led Sanis back to his Estates.
Sakura found Naruto slumped across the sofa, flicking though channels. She could tell he was upset about something and she could easily say that it had to do with the argument between him and the Uchiha.
‘Their like a little married couple.’ She thought with a silent laugh.
“What’s up?” she questioned as she flopped down next to him. “Is the big bad Uchiha being mean to our poor little Naru?” she asked, poking him in the cheek.
He swatted her hand away, still pouting, but answered, “Yes. Go do something mean to him.”
Now she let out a laugh at his child like behavior, but she quickly calmed down, “What did he do? He didn’t hurt you, did he?”
“No mother.” He said, regretting it instantly when Sakura smacked him upside the head. He glared at her before letting out a sigh, “No, nothing like that, I just thought that he would be different. I mean, for the past two weeks, he seemed so comfortable compared to how he was just a moment ago. Sure, he wanted to win, but I always thought of him racing another way. Now I know that he’s just like everyone else that races.”
“Naruto, he’s probably under a lot of stress. I mean, his father and brother did win the race and he wants to keep up that expectation as well. You can’t fault him for that.” Sakura said gently, “I know that you two train in two separate ways, but that’s the way he was brought up. Do you expect him to change his ways?”
“Yes.” He answered, “I can’t believe that I thought that.” He stopped and Sakura glanced at him.
“That what?” she prompted.
He shook his head, “Nothing.” He said stubbornly.
Sakura sighed and stood up, “Come on, it’s getting late and you need to go into school early tomorrow to take those finals, and we need help getting the horses in.”
Naruto grunted an unintelligent response before standing up and heading out to the paddocks.
“So close!” Sakura exclaimed after he left and she stomped her foot.
“So close to what?” a calm voice behind her asked and she turned around to see Gaara standing in the stairwell.
“To him confessing something, at least dropping a small hint.” She said, and her eyes glittered evilly, “Hey Gaara, how much do you have in this bet?”
“Enough.”
“How would you like to double your winnings?”
Gaara eyed her for a moment before answering, “What do you have in mind?”
Elsewhere, as Naruto led Kyuubi in for his dinner, he felt a shiver run through his body and he had the feeling that someone was plotting against him.
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Bloodlines	By : Usha Category: Naruto > Yaoi - Male/Male Views: 1022 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto, nor do I make money off this

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