Kitsune no Yomeiri

A/N: *walks to front of crowd, megaphone in hand -boooop-* THE LEMON HAS ARRIVED. please step back and form a single file line. proceed in an orderly manner.

actually, i don't think it's as good as some of you have been hoping for, but i'll try to make up for it when... uh, later. i'm thinking one more chapter, then an epilogue. we'll see. i have things to do tomorrow, so i'll let the next chapter hatch in my mind.

thank you all for your wonderful reviews. in this case, they actually are the reason i'm updating so quickly. i love to read what you guys write. naruto fans rock!!

now on to chapter 11!

same tags apply, except, this time there is a flashback that is denoted by >*< that thingy.


_____________________________

Chapter 11: Connection
_____________________________


Blood was everywhere. Sasuke stared at the red liquid disbelievingly, as if he found it strange that Orochimaru should have the same color blood as normal people. Naruto looked from the silent Uchiha to the dead sannin. He moved his tongue over his teeth, collecting the remaining blood, and spit it onto the floor. It had a foul taste, and even a demon such as he was loath to drink it.

Naruto stood within the bloodstained cell and recalled the last thing Orochimaru had said.

Please, have mercy! I didn’t mean it! I never meant to do all the things I did!

And Naruto had thought, ‘Lying son of a bitch, die!’

In his rage, Naruto had forgone taunting and torture. He’d simply gotten behind the snake and sunk his muzzle, for he had turned into his smaller fox form, into the back of the man’s neck. Once those vile words had been uttered, Naruto had snarled and snapped the sannin’s neck in two, breaking through tissue, bone, and cartilage until his jaws met in a satisfying click.

But when he’d transformed into his lesser demon form, Naruto had completely destroyed the Uchiha clan kimono Sasuke had given him, and its tattered remains were what he bent over to retrieve now. Looking upon the dark blue silk sadly, Naruto, mindless that he was disrobed, walked over to the Uchiha and picked him up by the arm. When the other was standing and staring comprehensively into his eyes, Naruto spoke the only thing he could think to say.

“I’m deeply sorry that I destroyed the kimono you gave to me.”

The Uchiha just stared at him a moment before snapping. “That’s all you have to say? You just killed one of the strongest shinobi from the Leaf village, and all you can say is ‘sorry I ruined the fucking kimono’? You’re un-fucking-believable!”

It was then ANBU decided to swarm the cell, and all that entered gasped in shock when they saw a naked demon lord and a dead Orochimaru. Kakashi pushed his way through, and his one visible eye widened in horror at what he saw. Naruto fought the urge to roll his eyes.

‘Are they really surprised that I killed the bastard?’

“Kazahaya-sama, here is a robe for you.”

An ANBU handed him a clean robe, from where he couldn’t fathom as this was supposed to be a secret headquarters for assassins and interrogators, but he shrugged it off and thanked the man.

“Now, take Uchiha to the hospital to get his shoulder patched. I will accompany Kakashi-san to inform the Hokage of Orochimaru’s demise.” Naruto watched as Sasuke shrugged off the helping hands of ANBU and walked to the door. Then he and Kakashi followed the Uchiha out and up, into the waning light of evening. They began to jump to the rooftops, but Sasuke landed wrong and began to slide down a shingled roof. Naruto leapt to his aid and caught him up in his arms, the Uchiha’s hands coming up to grip his shoulders.

“Put me down.”

“No. You’re obviously too weak to move quickly, so just sit tight so we can get you some medical attention.”

“I don’t need medical attention! All you did was bite me!” Naruto saw a small blush on the Uchiha’s face, which really could have just been the red of irritation, but whichever it was, he couldn’t enjoy it due to the curious looks he knew were being directed at his back.

“You bit him? With Anko, there were five distinct puncture wounds from claws. Why the difference in method?”

He didn’t need to see Kakashi’s eye to know there was probably a small amount of malicious enjoyment sparkling within its depths. Sasuke stiffened in his arms, having found out Naruto could have easily done the purification without his mouth. But then the lithe body relaxed, and a pale hand tightened its grip on his shoulder momentarily before relaxing. Naruto stared at Sasuke, confused, but the man had hidden his eyes with the fall of his bangs.

“Nevermind how it was done,” Naruto finally answered. “We need to move.” Without looking back, he began his sprint across the rooftops to the hospital and Hokage Tower, Kakashi and some others following behind.

~*~

“Let me get this straight. Something distracted you after releasing Uchiha from the curse, and Orochimaru was able to escape from the cell. But you snapped his neck, and that was it?”

Naruto stood before Tsunade’s desk, the blonde woman seated in the chair behind it, glaring daggers at him. He found it hard to hide his amusement, but he tried his very best. Jiraiya was standing at her side, and Kakashi was beside Naruto.

“More or less.”

“You expect me to believe that it took you seconds to do what no one has done in fifty years?”

“Fifty years is a bit extreme, Tsunade.”

“Shut up, Jiraiya!”

“Hokage-sama, believe me when I say that my powers know bounds that humans can only dream of. But even so, Orochimaru would have been tougher to kill had he not enraged me beforehand. You, yourself, have commented on the power a fox demon can wield when it has lost its temper. The point, however, is not how long it took me to kill the man, but that it’s done.”

“He’s right, Tsunade. Now that Orochimaru is dead, Oto will more than likely disband. Most of them will probably join the ranks of Akatsuki, and that’s what we should be focusing on. Once word that Orochimaru was killed in Konoha reaches Akatsuki, some unsavory people might show up to see who did it and try to claim that power.”

Jiraiya eyed Naruto, and the demon lord knew the man was referring to Itachi. But he planned to be out of Konoha long before then, and he’d have Sasuke with him, gods permit. There’d be nothing here for Itachi but a rumor that a kitsune lord had killed the snake sannin and had left no trail to follow.

Tsunade looked as if she was about to cry, so Naruto bowed politely and took his leave. He’d told her what he needed to, and now he was going to see Sasuke in the hospital. He had to know once and for all what Sasuke was going to do, and then plan his abduction accordingly. But a grip on his wrist stopped him from going very far. He turned to see Kakashi eyeing him strangely.

“Earlier, you knew the man I was with, Iruka. How do you know him?”

“I more or less told you the day I got here that I’d been to Konoha before. I know a few people.”

“I don’t believe you. I think you know a hell of a lot more than ‘a few people.’ Am I correct? Naruto? I was in your room that morning, but I needed more proof that it was you.”

At Naruto’s surprised jump, Kakashi’s hand tightened around his wrist, and Naruto’s shock was replaced with confusion when he didn’t feel the expected bite of metal into his skin. Fearfully, Naruto brought his other hand to Kakashi’s arm and ripped it from his wrist, pulling back the robe’s sleeves to stare at bare skin.

‘Where is my bracelet? Where in hell…’

A dark room covered in blood flashed before his mind’s eye, and before Kakashi could even reach for his wrist once more, Naruto had disappeared into the coming darkness.

~*~

“Today was the bestest birthday I’ve ever had, Sasu-chan.”

“I’m glad, Naru-dobe. But it’s not over yet. Here.”

“A present? What is it, what is it?”

“Open it and find out, usuratonkachi.”

“A bracelet! And it’s so pretty! Look how it shines in the light, Sasu-chan!”

“It reminded me of you, dobe. It looked like sunshine, like you do.”

“Does this mean you love me, Sasu-chan?”

“What do you mean? Like I love my family?”

“Like, I saw a man give a woman something like this, and he said it was because he loved her. They were getting married.”

“Oh, then I guess I do love you. Yeah, I love you, dobe.”

“I love you, too, Sasu-chan!”

“You’d better. I don’t want you loving anyone else.”

“Sasu-chan!”

“What is it, Naru-dobe?”

“Will you take me as your bride when we’re older?”

“Aniki says I’m supposed to marry a strong female to produce heirs.”

“But I can produce heirs, too!”

“Alright, Naru-dobe. I’ll take you as my bride.”

Naruto came out of his memory as his frantic searching finally paid off. From the dim glow of his chakra, he could see something glinting in the dark, and he walked over to it to find his bracelet lying in a puddle of blood that had yet to dry. Orochimaru’s body was long since taken from the cell, but no one ventured close enough to clean it, afraid with his death some insane jutsu had been triggered and his bitter spirit wondered the room.

He bent to pick it up, sighing in relief when he realized his vassal had seen fit to charm the bracelet to never get dirty, much like his clothes. He returned the bracelet to its rightful place and turned to leave the cell. His steps faltered as he reached the outside, unsure where he should go.

But with the memory fresh in his mind and a vow more real than fifteen-year-old words around his wrist, his decision was made quickly, and Naruto turned in the direction of Konoha’s largest meeting hall. A victory party was being thrown after the news that Orochimaru was dead, and it was doubling as the Uchiha’s bachelor party before the wedding tomorrow. It would be a celebration of life, Tsunade said, after such a battle that Konoha had recently seen.

Naruto gave a small, sad smile to the night sky. ‘It’s now or never.’

~*~

He stood in a shadowed corner of the hall, watching Sasuke lean against a wall drinking whatever type of alcohol he could get his hands on. It had turned into more of an engagement party than a bachelor party, for the women of Konoha were at the party as well, Sakura clinging to Sasuke anytime he was too distracted to avoid it.

Naruto reeled in another growl, wanting very much to walk over to the annoying woman and slam something down her throat, like his clawed fist. He sighed, running his hands over the pale blue kimono Iruka had let him borrow.

Oh, and hadn’t that been fun? Kakashi had told Iruka who he was, and the chuunin had hunted him down to berate him for never coming home, cry that he had missed him, and throw himself into Naruto’s stunned arms. Then he’d been dragged to the two men’s shared home and been dressed in one of Iruka’s winter festival kimono.

>*<

“Naruto, you don’t know how happy I am to know you’re alive!”

“You’re the only one, Iruka-sensei.”

“That’s not true!” Iruka grasped his hand between his two. Watery brown eyes looked up into his gray ones, and Naruto realized he didn’t need the disguise now. His form shimmered for a second, and his blonde hair and blue eyes were visible to the two men.

“What’s not true, Iruka-sensei? This village never liked me, and aside from one or two Uchiha, and you, no one even cared that I was taken. Do you know Sasuke thinks this village killed me?”

“What? Oh, Naruto, I’m so sorry.” Iruka began to cry again, and Naruto suffered through more tears and hugs, looking at Kakashi over Iruka’s shoulder.

“Sasuke is your husband, isn’t he?” asked the masked man. Iruka gasped and pulled back from him, eyes widened in surprise.

“What? But Sasuke’s marrying Sakura tomorrow!”

Naruto smiled gently down at Iruka, and whispered a somewhat broken, “I know.” Then, more together, he said, “But he’s not my husband. We just promised to get married before I was taken by my kitsune tribe.”

Kakashi’s eye widened in shock. “That means that we were all talking to Kyuubi when you were in the hospital!”

“Yes, Kyuubi is my father. He was making sure my disguise didn’t falter in my unconscious state.”

“Nevermind that! What are you going to do about Sasuke?” Naruto smiled sadly, and Iruka turned to look at Kakashi, who nodded, and Naruto was dragged into their bedroom. “Well, no time to lose. Let’s get you into something so you can look your best!”

Naruto followed, dazedly, wondering if the two men had just joined him in his fight for the man he loved.

>*<

As Naruto continued to recall the conversation between him and the two Leaf shinobi about his whereabouts and why he was here now, someone came to his side and waited until he acknowledged him.

“May I help you with something, ero-sennin?”

Before Jiraiya could open his mouth, a loud clinking noise came from the front of the hall. Naruto and Jiraiya looked over to see some guy with a dog – Kiba, his father reminded him – clear his throat and throw wide his arms.

“Never did we think we’d see the day when Uchiha Sasuke removed the stick long enough to tie the knot. So, in honor of this special occasion, maybe he’ll come up and say a few words if we ask him nice enough.”

Cheers erupted through the hall, and Naruto looked over to see both Sakura and Ino ushering the Uchiha towards Kiba. Sasuke had a dark scowl on his face and yet another drink in his hand. He pulled away from the girls’ hands and continued the trek to the front alone. People he passed saw the dark look he was wearing and quieted down. The calm soon rippled through the entire crowd, and Sasuke completed his walk in silence.

When he was at the front, he lifted his drink in the air, the crystal tumbler catching the light to create a mosaic of reflections on his pale face, and he stated clearly to everyone gathered, “I’ve decided,” and downed the amber liquid in the glass. He let it drop to the ground, the shattering sound the only one in the giant hall, and Sasuke turned to leave. Sakura called out his name, but she didn’t move to stop him.

Almost imperceptible, Naruto was the only one to catch the slight stagger in the raven-haired man’s stride. Uchiha Sasuke, the great stone-cold shinobi himself, was stone cold drunk.

“I’m guessing you want to be the one to walk him home, to make sure he gets there safely, of course.”

‘So Jiraiya noticed as well.’

“Keep the bride occupied. It’s now or never.”

“Good luck, Naruto.”

Naruto spared the man a vulpine grin and hurried after the Uchiha. He found him leaning against a brick building some blocks from the meeting hall. He was breathing kind of harshly, like it had taken some work getting to where he was, and Naruto had an inkling that the Uchiha was even more drunk than he had originally thought.

“Come on, Sasuke, let’s get you home.” Once again Naruto had the Uchiha in his arms as he sprinted across the rooftops to the abandoned Uchiha mansion. He’d learned some days ago that Sasuke lived there alone. Had it been at breakfast with Sakura and Ino?

Soon the mansion loomed before him, as he’d sped down the bloodstained streets of the Uchiha district. When he tried the door and found it unlocked, Sasuke explained that no one ever came into the Uchiha district anymore, which Naruto surprisingly understood, even through the drunken slurring.

He made his way upstairs and deposited Sasuke on his bed. Naruto looked down at his love, staring at the face that was bathed in moonlight from the window. He wanted so much to ask Sasuke just what he had ‘decided,’ but he thought the Uchiha too drunk to even remember what he’d said, let alone what it had meant. He turned to go when a hand grabbed his kimono.

“I thought you looked beautiful in my kimono, Kazahaya.”

Naruto’s breath caught in his throat, and he slowly turned around to find glazed black eyes on him. He dipped his head in acknowledgement of the praise and used his kitsune magic to change the pale blue kimono into the Uchiha clan’s family kimono. He watched Sasuke’s eyes widen slightly and a small smile tug at the corners of his mouth. Naruto leaned over Sasuke, gray eyes looking fondly into black.

“Go to sleep, Sasuke. You have a wedding to attend tomorrow.” Naruto made to rise, but before he could, Sasuke’s free hand grabbed the back of his neck and brought the demon lord’s lips down on his.

Naruto gasped into the kiss, giving Sasuke the opportunity to slide his tongue in his mouth. Sasuke’s other hand pulled on the kimono, and Naruto climbed onto the bed without breaking the kiss.

That fire that Naruto has felt in Orochimaru’s cell was returning, and Naruto’s clawed hands set out to tear the Uchiha’s shirt from his pale body. Naruto sat back on Sasuke’s lower body and felt his hard length through the layers of clothing. He moaned and moved his hips a bit, his ass rubbing against the Uchiha’s erection. Sasuke hissed at the wonderful friction, and his hands reached up to rip the obi from Naruto’s body as he rocked his hips up into the demon lord.

“What kind of fantasy would you like tonight, Sasuke?” Naruto asked as they continued to rock teasingly, his breaths coming in small pants as his nails raked over the Uchiha’s bared chest.

Sasuke’s eyes were closed, and in a voice that told Naruto the other man was in a far away place, he whispered, “Naruto.”

His name in that sinful voice sent a jolt of lust to Naruto’s cock, and he lost his composure. His illusion dissipated like so much smoke to reveal his short blonde hair and his expressive blue eyes. His skin regained its golden hue, and his whisker marks returned to his flushed cheeks. He reached out a hand to caress Sasuke’s face, asking the Uchiha in a soft voice to look at him.

Sasuke’s eyes were glazed with lust and alcohol, but a smile bloomed on his pale face. “Naruto,” he whispered again, returning the caress with his own hand.

Naruto couldn’t take much more. That voice, that body, everything he had ever wanted right in front of him for the taking. He backed up until he was straddling Sasuke’s legs and moved to undo the pale man’s pants. Then he slid them down pale and thin legs, and when the Uchiha’s shoes got in the way, he slid seductively down to the floor to remove them and the pants.

His beloved Sasuke wasn’t wearing anything under the tight, black pants, and Naruto gazed hungrily at the erect cock jutting from a thatch of black curls. He crawled up Sasuke’s legs and slowly licked the Uchiha’s member from root to tip, dipping his tongue into the sensitive slit. When Sasuke moaned and bucked, Naruto quickly swallowed Sasuke whole, reveling in the scream of ecstasy that escaped his love’s throat.

He encouraged Sasuke to fuck his mouth, using his tongue and spit to coat the Uchiha well. Naruto, himself, was achingly hard, having the only man he loved writhing in pleasure beneath him. He was also very wet, having been born with the necessary parts to give birth. His arousal was two-fold, and it was all he could do to not impale himself immediately upon Sasuke’s thick cock.

Fingers had found their way into his short locks at some point, and they tightened, warning Naruto that he’d better stop. He held down Sasuke’s hips as he pulled his mouth away, earning a grunt of disappointment from his lover. He slid up the Uchiha’s slick body, the kimono falling off his shoulders and pooling at his waist. Without his obi, the folds fell apart, baring his erection to the smoldering eyes of his lover.

“Beautiful,” his lover whispered, and Naruto shivered as that silky voice traveled over his flushed body.

“I want you inside me, Sasuke. Please, let me…” He trailed off in surprise as strong hands grabbed his hips and positioned him over Sasuke’s throbbing cock. With little help, Naruto eagerly sank down upon it, crying out in pleasure as each hot inch became incased in his body.

Before he was fully seated, Sasuke gave a brutal thrust, ramming into Naruto’s ass, making them both scream in pleasure. With little time to breath, Naruto began a grueling pace as he rode Sasuke, circling his hips each time his ass met Sasuke’s groin before pulling up until Sasuke’s cock almost slipped out, just to forcefully come back down again. At some point, his hand reached for his own dripping cock, stroking it in a counter rhythm to Sasuke’s thrusts. Then Sasuke’s hand joined his, and it was too much.

The dual sensations of his and Sasuke’s hands on his cock, Sasuke thrusting so forcefully into his body, the very idea of having Uchiha Sasuke fuck him… It was all too much. With a deafening roar, Naruto came, his seed covering Sasuke’s stomach and chest. His insides clenched the Uchiha mercilessly from the pale man’s cry of ecstasy, and Naruto could feel his warm seed filling him. After a moment of catching their breaths, Naruto leaned over to capture Sasuke’s lips in a warm and sated kiss.

“I love you, Sasuke,” he whispered to the raven, but when he got no response, Naruto opened his eyes to see an unconscious Uchiha. ‘Figures.’ He smiled in the moonlight. His Sasuke really was beautiful, and he caressed a pale cheek with his hand.

Naruto moved from atop Sasuke, hissing as the Uchiha slipped from his ass, then deactivated the spell on the kimono. Once it was pale blue again, he moved it from about his waist and used it to clean them both up. Throwing it to the floor, Naruto pulled back the covers and maneuvered himself and Sasuke beneath them. Whatever the morning brought, he’d still get to sleep beside the man he loved.

When he moved to wrap his arms around Sasuke, Naruto found he couldn’t move his right arm very far. Looking down, he gasped, and tears filled his blue eyes. Sasuke’s hand had a hold of the bracelet he had given Naruto so many years ago.


TBC


______________________________________________

okay, so it wasn't twenty pages, but it is nine. anyway, like i said, i'm really stuck on what to do next. i have a general idea, but... oh, and i want to tell you guys that there won't be angst when the truth comes out. i wanted a WAFF and that's what i'm going to write, so i hope y'all won't be too disappointed.

also, do you all want to make me so very happy? i have chapter one of a holiday fic up in the Gravitation section, and i love it if some of my fav fans and authors would check it out and tell me what you think.

anyway, thank you for reading! we're almost to the end! see you next chapter! what in the world will happen?!!!