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Dark, Light and the Shadows Between (complete)	By : momhuey8 Category: Naruto > Yaoi - Male/Male > Naruto/Sasuke Views: 1490 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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A/N: Warnings of violence, sex, and possible non-con.
Tsunade's eyes widened and her arms fell to her sides as the door to the emergency ward was kicked open…again.
"Would someone please tell me what the hell is going on?" she yelled as Shikamaru, with a disgusted grunt, dumped a nearly unconscious, very bruised and bloody ninja onto the floor. He gave the groaning chunin an uncharacteristically aggravated shove with his booted foot before straightening and wiping his bloody hands on his pants.
"Nara!" Tsunade snapped as he turned to leave.
He turned back, an annoyed look on his face.
"I asked a question," she ground out. She pointed to the newest patient leaving slimy red puddles on her floor. "What's the story with this one?"
Shikamaru shrugged. "Fighting."
"With you?"
"Certainly not," he snorted derisively. "I imagine Kakashi will be dumping the other useless carcass here shortly." He looked thoughtful. "Or maybe not. He's pretty pissed. You might want to dispatch a team of nin-dogs to the Forest of Death in case he…"
"Nara!" She snapped again. After a deliberate inhale and measured exhale, she rubbed her face. "What's going on? Why are our ninja beating the shit out of each other?"
He continued to look at the drooling lump on the floor angrily for several moments then sighed.
"Hell if I know. Maybe you can figure it out." He looked at her. "If you want more information, be at the Bloody Kunai at ten tonight." He looked her up and down. "Come incognito."
"A bar?"
Just then an explosion could be heard from across town.
"Mother fucking, immature, stupid…," Shikamaru growled, his eyes closed. When a blood curdling scream floated through the window he looked at her with eyes blazing. Ignoring protocol, he poked an aggravated finger in her direction.
"Ten o clock! Be there!" The he flew out the door.
Even though she was the undisputed queen of the henging arts, Tsunade was pretty sure at least three people in the bar saw through her disguise as a bent, bewhiskered old man slouched in a corner chair.
Of course, Nara was expecting her, but the twinkle in Kakashi's eye as he studied her gave her pause. Perverted as Kakashi was, she didn't think he was hitting on her in her current form. And Iruka was a nervous wreck casting anxious glances between her and a couple of the other patrons in the bar; namely Uzumaki Naruto and Uchiha Sasuke.
God damn, but the atmosphere in here could be carved up with a knife. There was such an air of suspense; like watching a fuse burn down to an explosion. The room was packed and the occupants might as well have been wearing team jerseys; one side blue, the other orange, as the sides just glared at each other in tense silence.
Not everyone was perched on the razor's edge of confrontation. She could tell that a fair number of ninja, Iruka, Kakashi, Shikamaru, Sakura, Neji and Lee, were there to try to avert disaster.
As for Sasuke, he sat at his table, watered down drink in hand, staring morosely at melting ice cubes. His unhappiness radiated off him in waves. He seemed completely oblivious to the sycophantic gathering of groupies on his side of the room.
Across the room at the bar, was Naruto. Naruto shouldn't even be there; he was on a mission. She studied him carefully. A clone? It had to be, but damned if it wasn't the most amazing clone she'd ever seen, completely indistinguishable from the real thing.
He was a mirror of Sasuke, slumped miserably over a drink that he was clearly not drinking. He was surrounded by his closest friends but was ignoring all of them. She could feel his focus on the brunet across the room, though he hadn't looked at him once.
The ninja in the Sasuke camp seemed very juvenile, sitting on the edges of their seats, watching Naruto. They poked each other and made faces across the room.
Naruto's friends seemed more a pack of bodyguards. They ignored the occasional taunts in favor of watching their friend with sympathetic looks.
Tsunade watched this for an hour, coming to understand the escalation of violence in Konoha. These two groups wanted to tear each other apart.
She just had no idea why.
Finally Sasuke sighed, threw some money on the table, stuffed his hands in his pockets and shuffled out the door.
Naruto's clone slumped onto the bar in absolute relief. Then he gathered himself, threw money on the bar as well and turned toward the door.
Choji grabbed his arm. "Naruto…"
Naruto looked anxiously back and forth between Choji and the door.
"I have to go."
"This isn't the way."
"What is the way?" He pulled on his arm, his voice taking on a panicked note.
"I…" Choji slumped. "I don't know but, if you'd just tell us…"
Sakura rushed up and threw her arms around the broad torso, wetting his shirt with her tears.
"I know, baby," Naruto murmured, smoothing her hair back. "I gotta go though."
"Naruto, please tell me…"
"No. It's not mine to tell." He kissed her forehead, then pulled free and left in a rush.
Tsunade was trying to make her way to Kakashi and Iruka when the distinct sounds of another fight could be heard from outside.
She kept her disguise intact and joined the growing crowd watching the fight brewing outside.
"He is such a fucking pussy," one young chunin screamed at another equally young chunin.
"Shut your fucking hole! You don't know anything. He's the best ninja in this pathetic village!"
"Uchiha-san kicked his ass four times this month, you loser."
"I told you to shut your mouth before I shut it for you! If you didn't have your head so far up Uchiha's ass, you'd see that Naruto-san lets Uchiha win."
The other snorted. "You are either a complete retard or," his eyes took on a malevolent glint, "or maybe you'd like something up your ninja's ass…like maybe…your dick!
The other ninja howled in rage and launched himself at his smirking foe.
Tsunade waited for her jounin to break up the fight, and Iruka made a tentative step forward, but Kakashi held his arm, pulling a small orange book out of his pocket.
The two teens were panting bloody messes and one had finally pulled a sword, ready to move beyond 'difference-settling' to murder when Kakashi finally released Iruka.
Tsunade moved to his side. "What's going on?"
His look was surprisingly serious. "I don't know. Naruto isn't talking. And of course Sasuke isn't talking either."
"Naruto's leaving clones here?"
Kakashi raised a brow. "That was a clone?"
"Naruto's been out of town for over a week."
Kakashi looked thoughtful. "I'll be damned." He nodded. "Naruto's watching him for something."
The smell of smoke reached them and they sighed in unison as a blaze could be seen glowing in the night sky.
"Feel free to join the show tomorrow. There are nightly performances."
And Kakashi vanished.
The next two nights were repeat performances, identical to the first, the only difference the second night being that Naruto had returned from his mission and shown up in person.
The third night seemed to be progressing the same, except the tension was less. Boredom had taken the edge of most tempers.
Then out of nowhere, Naruto slapped his hand on the counter and stood.
Every nerve in the place stretched to the limit at this signal.
Neji grabbed Naruto's arm. "Naruto…"
The anxiety Tsunade felt rolling off the blond was at complete odds with the angry look on his face.
Naruto looked at his friend for a second. Neji finally sighed and dropped his head.
"At least take it outside."
Naruto gave a short nod and pulled free, stalking over to Sasuke's table.
"What the fuck are you looking at, Uchiha?"
Sasuke raised his head and blinked several times at Naruto. Tsunade had the distinct impression that he wasn't all there.
"Wha…" He wasn't right. There was a hint of something in the chakra she felt across the room. Something…familiar… Then she noticed the cursed seal markings peaking out of the top of his high-necked shirt. Orochimaru. And his eyes… More than just the activation of the Sharingan. The tomoes were spinning out of sync with each other. .
Naruto grabbed his arm and jerked him to his feet.
"I asked you why the fuck you were staring at me."
Comprehension and clarity slowly transformed Sasuke's face. Then anger…
"Why the hell do you do this, loser? Do you have a masochistic side that just likes to have the shit beat out of you?"
"And who's gonna do it? You?" Naruto barked a harsh laugh and poked Sasuke in the chest with a thick finger.
"Don't poke me," Sasuke snarled. Tsunade felt his ire rise and as it increased, the strange fluctuations in his chakra seemed to level out.
Naruto poked him again. This time when Sasuke's tomoes flared, they were symmetrical and a clear result of his own will.
Naruto stared at Sasuke another moment, and Tsunade had the sense that he was assessing the other shinobi. Then he clenched his jaw and poofed them from the room.
The tumult within the bar was insane as several people shouted to each other. "Where are they?" "Shut up. I'm trying…" "Shit, where did they…" "They're not…" "The training grounds!"
When Tsunade arrived at the training grounds, nearly every stump and tree branch was draped with cheering and booing residents, ninja and civilian alike.
And the fight was on.
Sasuke was beyond furious. He was so angry that tears were mixing with the sweat on his face.
Naruto was more calculating. To the more advanced ninja, it was clear that Naruto was performing a dance, letting Sasuke lead. He gave just enough and was exactly where he needed to be to let Sasuke burn through whatever was going on with him. Even when Sasuke's anger made him sloppy, Naruto was at the end of his fist, or within reach of his foot.
Finally Sasuke brought up Chidori. Tsunade watched the flames on his neck recede completely at this drain in chakra.
She realized her hand was being crushed and looked over and saw Sakura with a look of anguish on her tear stained face.
The clearing fell into silence and they both held their breaths as Naruto's body jerked and twitched from the electricity coursing through it.
Sasuke stood over Naruto in a silence broken only by the crackling of residual lightening on and around the heaving, wincing blond.
"Stop doing this!" Sasuke yelled down at him.
Naruto looked up from his position sprawled in the dirt. After a moment, he closed his eyes and turned his head away.
Sasuke's face contorted in rage and he howled at the sky, his fists clenched at his side. Then he poofed out of the clearing.
Before anyone could move, Naruto was gone as well.
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