Growing up | By : vermilioncream Category: Naruto AU/AR > Yaoi - Male/Male Views: 3633 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 4 |
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Author’s note: Hello, dear readers. Here you have the new chapter. I am beginning to wrap this story up; I’m thinking it’s going to have 2 or 3 more chapters. Enjoy! Warning: This is a yaoi fanfiction. If you are offended by that or if you are not the proper age, don’t read. Disclaimer: I don’t own Naruto and I don’t make any profits from this work. Chapter 7: Night terrors Naruto felt strong arms wrapped around him and a warm body covering his from behind as he opened his eyes and looked around the dark room. He was in his bed, trying to fall asleep while Sasuke held him. The brunet had already dozed off, but Naruto was kept awake by the memory of what went down earlier in the day. He, together with Sasuke and Itachi had gone to tell the parents about his and Sasuke’s relationship, only to be the ones receiving shocking news. He learned from Fugaku that the way in which his parents had died eight years ago had not been an accident. While feeling the sting of embarrassment, Naruto remembered his legs failed to support him and Sasuke had to hold him up when he learned of the news. Fugaku had been very gentle as he explained that Naruto’s parents had been the target of a particularly powerful man, named Orochimaru. Orochimaru was the owner of Orochimaru enterprises, company which manufactured plastic containers. He spent years in court with Minato, because his company never complied with pollution regulations, but he always found a way to buy his way out of a legal charge. Minato however, seeing the injustice that was being made fought even harder, appealing and discovering new evidence that indisputably incriminated Orochimaru Enterprises. When Naruto’s parents died, they were in the middle of a trial in which Orochimaru had poor chances of winning. As such, Fugaku explained, Orochimaru hired a professional killer to make their deaths seem an accident. At the time, nobody seemed to question the police’s final report, everybody being 100% convinced, that while the death of young Minato and Kushina was a tragedy, it was nothing more than an accident. However, two weeks ago, Fugaku got a call informing him that there was a possibility the accident from 8 years ago had not in fact been an accident. The head of the Uchiha family didn’t tell Naruto anything until now, because he wanted to personally investigate the matter and he had spent all this time working with the best detectives in the field to unravel evidence that supported the theory of their death being murder. Unfortunately, they found out that all the evidence pointed towards murder and towards Orochimaru as the culprit. There have been other cases of people dying under suspicious circumstance while they were having unfavorable business with Orochimaru, and that was what drew the attention upon the death of Minato and Kushina. Once the case started being thoroughly investigated, the evidence was overwhelming. All that was left to do now was to accuse and prosecute Orochimaru, which wasn’t going to be easy. However, Fugaku had reassured Naruto that he will do everything in his power to put the murderer behind bars. Under all the confusion, anger, frustration and numbness Naruto felt, as he heard all, that he couldn’t help but be curious as to why the older man was so eager to help him. The pain of having to deal once more with the death of his parents numbed Naruto enough to simply ask the man: “Why are you helping me?” “I’m sorry. I don’t understand.” “You hated my dad. You were probably glad he died. Why are you so determined to catch the man who killed him? Why do you care?” As the boy asked that he could see the older man’s face change. He saw sadness, then disappointment and finally anger. “How dare you say that to me? How could you even think like that? Naruto, it is true that your father and me never saw eye to eye, but I didn’t hate him. I just couldn’t stand him as a man, but I respected him as a lawyer and I never would have wished him death. What kind of person do you think I am?” “Well, I-” “And how can you even ask me why I want to help you? I have welcomed you into my home and raised you as my son. I have looked past the differences I had with your father. His death erased any last trace of resentment I might have felt towards him or you. I may not be the type of person to blatantly express love, but please be aware of this Naruto – I carry deep affections for you…as I do for the rest of my sons.” The shock Naruto felt at Fugaku’s confession served to both calm him and take his mind off his parents, but also to confuse the hell out of him. He never would have guessed the older man felt like that about him. Now that he knew how the man regarded him, he was even more scared of telling him about his relationship with Sasuke, because now he knew he could lose his affection. Before, when he thought Fugaku felt nothing for him, he thought that if the man didn’t approve of his and Sasuke’s relationship, it was going to suck, but it wasn’t as if he would lose the man’s love and respect, because he didn’t know he had them. Now however…. Sasuke had been very attentive of him the entire time, but Naruto felt like he would rather be alone. After the discussion about his parents, during which Sasuke stood by him, and held a hand on his lower back, he locked himself in his room, not wanting to speak or see anyone. He just stood there, lying in bed reminiscing about his folks. He found that he didn’t remember them as well as he would have liked. He realized that he had lived without them for as long as he had lived with them…in a way he supposed it was normal, but on the other hand it pained him terribly that he couldn’t remember what their voices sounded like. Sasuke tried to come into his room and talk to him, but he didn’t allow him, feeling the need to be alone. He spent long hours thinking of his parents and crying. As night came he felt hungry and he went downstairs to have a snack. While he was eating he started thinking about Sasuke and how terribly he had treated the brunet. The boy only wanted to help him, and he rejected him so brutally. Naruto started feeling incredibly alone and depressed as he thought about Sasuke, and he decided that he was going to die if he didn’t see him. As such, he made his way up the stairs and to Sasuke’s room. When he entered Sasuke’s room the boy was reading a book, his eyes heavy with sleep. “Naruto! Are you ok?” “Yeah. I-…Sasuke, I’m sorry about how I treated you today. I was a jerk. You were only trying to help and…” “It’s ok, there’s no need for you to apologize. It’s…it’s perfectly understandable.” The blonde approached Sasuke’s bed as they were talking and sat on it. He shared a long, slow kiss with the brunet. Sasuke tried to convey all his love and how sorry he felt in that kiss. After they broke apart Naruto was the first to speak. “Umm…do you mind…aaa, would you like to…aaa…sleep with me tonight?” Sasuke’s eyes got huge as he starred at the boy in disbelief. “NO! Oh my god! Not like that! I mean SLEEP sleep, not sex sleep. I- I just don’t feel like being alone any longer.” Naruto said, waving his hands. “Sure, no problem.” Sasuke smiled cheekily. As such, Naruto found himself in the arms of the other boy, while he looked around his dark room, trying to find sleep. He tried to push the thoughts of his parents in the back of his mind and just focus on the steady breathing and soft heartbeats of the other boy. As he did that he was slowly swept away into sleep.
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