A Dog's Life

Welcome to a new chapter of ‘A Dog’s life’ again I want to thank everyone for their support of my story especially since they are still unfortunately unedited and I hope you keep reviewing cause they really make my day and help me to push the story along. This chapter starts a little dark and I apologize for that but it was necessary for the story especially in regards to Naruto. Also since it was never mentioned in the Naruto manga/anime, I had to make up a name for Naruto’s mom, so I hope you like it and again thanks for reading.

Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto that honor is held by Masashi Kishimoto I am just a fan writer doing this for fun.


Chapter Eleven-A Dog’s Life by KitsuneFun

Kyuubi gasped and coughed up tiny splotches of blood every time a spasm rocked her body. The red-haired fae woman knew her time was coming soon.

Gaara could only watch in wide-eyed fascination at the beautiful fae, he’d never seen so much blood before, the stoic boy didn’t understand she was dying otherwise he would think all the glistening red from her open chest cavity would be beautiful against the pale flush of her skin.

Kyuubi looked up at the redheaded boy that had thrown the killing blow and smiled, the fae woman could not hate the changeling boy for doing this. Gaara was only doing the job of someone else; it was the boy’s first kill.

Gaara suddenly felt like crying, the boy moved his hands to his pale jade colored eyes, but Gaara could feel no tears. ‘Shouldn’t he cry for this woman,’ the changeling thought, out loud Gaara found himself saying, “Sorry…” in a quiet voice unused to talking.

The beautiful woman with sapphire colored eyes looked at him and laughed, it was beautiful tinkling laugh, unfortunately, the action caused more pain than she expected and she had a coughing fit soon after.

The changeling did not understand a lot, especially the feeling of wanting to help the one he had struck a killing blow against, but Gaara found himself kneeling beside Kyuubi and helped to sit her up to the woman’s surprise. She lifted a blooded hand to caress the boy’s pale cheek as his jade colored eyes starred at her in confused pain, “Don’t worry about me… I chose this path.” Kyuubi managed to say though the words felt stuck in her chest.

Gaara started shaking, he was unused to feeling anything, “I’m sorry,” he said again while trying to look away from Kyuubi, he felt embarrassed.

The redheaded woman found she could not hate Subaku’s son, ‘He deserves to know,’ she thought, “Can I tell you a story Gaara?”

The changeling boy looked at her in confusion at the request, knowing it would be her last; he nodded his head, “Yes.”

Kyuubi explained to Subaku’s son of her early years, how she had been sought by every male she saw except one, it was ironic that the one she fell in love with was the one the redheaded woman couldn’t have… Arashi.

The heir to fae kingdom at the time was madly in love with his wife Shuzaku, a plain looking girl with pale brown hair and brown eyes, but when she smiled, which she often did around Arashi, Shuzaku beauty could light up a room. Arashi’s wife viewed everyone with kindness and did not have a judgmental bone in her body. Kyuubi could not blame Arashi for falling for someone so good, it seemed natural, but Kyuubi had still been jealous of the relationship and still tried to break the two lovers apart.

In the end, the redheaded woman had nearly succeeded with Arashi when Kyuubi found out his wife could not have any children.

She remembered bringing him almost reluctantly to her bed, promising him between kisses that she would give him the heir he needed, but all the while Kyuubi couldn’t stop thinking about Shuzaku’s smiling face as she greeted Kyuubi for the first time. Her rival did not greet her with Malice as other women in the kingdom did because of her beauty, but because Shuzaku said she saw in Kyuubi a kindness to match her own.

It was that thought that made her pull away from Arashi in tears and run away. From that day forward, she did not try to break up the couple again, but Kyuubi had made a decision. It was an old spell the redheaded woman used from the time the fae had owned the Human world and long before they banished themselves to their own realm.

The spell she knew meant her death if she used it, but in death it would bring life in the form of a baby in Shuzaku’s belly.

Kyuubi laughed at how ironic life was that in the end, Shuzaku had been right about her, that the redheaded woman was too kind for her own good. She remembered how Orochimaru, a Sanin, had agreed to perform the ceremony after brought him the woman’s heart that the Sanin would then infuse into a crystal soul stone, the process would take 250 years to complete.

Once Shuzaku gave birth, the baby may inherit Kyuubi’s traits, but he or she would be Arashi and Shuzaku’s child. The redheaded woman only prayed to any god that would listen that the child born from her soul would find the happiness Kyuubi never had for herself.

Kyuubi looked up at Gaara at the end of her story and she noticed the young boy shaking again, but the difference this time was that a single tear had fallen from those pale jade eyes. The redheaded woman found herself smiling warmly up at the youth and she was reminded of Shuzaku’s words, “I see kindness in you…” Kyuubi could feel her vision start to become blurry from the lack of blood to sustain her body and the redhead woman ended up falling to the floor to the changelings shock. Kyuubi found herself saying in her final breath, “I hope you find happiness too Gaara,” and with that she succumbed to the black void of death.

Gaara was reminded of the incident every time he thought of Naruto, how much the boy despite carrying both Arashi’s and Shuzaku’s genes seemed so much like that woman, but in his own way very different. It was with Naruto that Gaara had first found he could feel any emotion other than hate; it was with Naruto that he found he could love.

It upset him that Itachi’s demands and orders lead him away from the blond more than he would have liked. When Gaara came back from the back of the bookstore after finishing his call, he realized to his surprise that Naruto was no longer there. He was told later by Chouji that Shikamaru left him a message saying that Naruto was upset and didn’t want to talk to him until tomorrow since he needed time to cool off.


Gaara had not realized how his actions could have upset the younger boy, but he vowed he would make it up to his love tomorrow. It was not until two days later of not seeing Naruto that the redhead received another call, clicking open the phone he answered, “Subaku?”

Kisame, Itachi’s go-between man, answered it “Ah Subaku-san their appears to be a problem… Naruto’s in the magical world…”

Gaara dropped the phone in shock and stared at it as if it was a foreign object not something to communicate through, picking it back up, he found himself stuttering, “Wha…What do you mean gone?”

Kisame sighed apparently he didn’t care about Gaara‘s odd behavior, “Apparently the twins that work under Orochimaru were busy following Kakashi and Obito through the Northern Light Elves Forest when to their surprise the two men stumbled upon Arashi‘s heir…” his voice lowered, “I didn’t tell Itachi this, but his brother is there… I suspect things may go wrong.” Kisame despite Itachi’s distaste for the half-breed was in fact in love with Itachi and would do anything the other man asked.

Gaara tried to school his emotions by taking a deep, calming breath, “When did the two see Kakashi and Obito?” maybe if it was not too long ago he might have a chance to catch up.

Kisame seemed to pause, their was a loud shuffling of paper on the other end as if he was looking for something, “It looks like it was yesterday evening… why do you ask?”

The redheaded snorted at how stupid Itachi’s right hand man could be sometimes, “My job Kisame… I am going to return the key to where it belongs,” he stated almost emotionlessly, but to himself he thought, “I need to protect Naruto… now that he is in the magical realm all plans that had been delayed till he turned 21 in human years will have been forwarded.

Kisame seemed to sense some hesitation from the changeling, “Gaara don’t do anything stupid you need to remember the cause…”

Gaara gritted his teeth at the mention of the plan, “Of course… how could I think differently…”

Kisame seemed to smile, “Ah I better get going Itachi needs me to deliver a message to Orochimaru… just remember what I said I will be calling you on your progress in two days,” with that the fish-man disconnected leaving the redhead torn over thoughts of whether or not he could betray Itachi and if he could somehow save Naruto despite that.

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Sasuke woke up in a room in didn’t recognize, his bleary tired eyes noted it was early morning, but he couldn’t understand what had woken him up, for that matter he couldn’t remember much of anything at the moment. The raven stretched out his legs and he paused feeling a difference in the length. He sat up quickly in excitement and peered down at his naked body, it had been partially uncovered during the night as he slept.

Hearing a noise beside him, Sasuke could understand why, Naruto had fallen asleep at his side and had begun to subconsciously drag whatever warmth he could to cover him making the blond’s body except for his head almost unnoticeable beneath the blankets.

The mouth was parted in sleep and he was moaning, tempted by the form he realized he could now touch; Sasuke crawled closer till his face was right next to the other. ‘One kiss shouldn’t matter… especially since he is asleep,’ the raven thought bending his head so that he could taste for real what he had only up until that moment dreamed about, however just before he could touch the softest looking pair of pink hued lips they parted in another moan, “More… please.”

Sasuke sat back up in surprise, just that little plea from his mate’s lips was enough to make him hard as he realized for once he could do something about it. Taking a chance again, the raven moved to gently kiss at Naruto’s lips, “Mine…” he whispered.

Naruto’s brown seemed to frown in his sleep as he tried to pull away, “No… mine…” he mumbled still caught up in whatever he was dreaming.

The site made Sasuke laugh, “So cute… are you dreaming of me little fox?” the raven decided the name suited the smaller male whose face reminded him of a golden haired fox his father once had as a pet. Sasuke remembered that his father said the fox had run away and that Sasuke shouldn’t worry about it though he suspected till this day that his father had been covering up the fact that it had died so that the raven wouldn’t be more upset than he already was.

‘But…’ he thought some more, ‘It was weird in itself… since other than what his father told him…’ Sasuke felt he had no real memories of a fox. His thoughts were interrupted by his blond mate’s increased moans of pleasure and he laughed finding himself at ease hearing it.

“My one and only love…” Naruto sighed making the raven’s eyes narrow, ‘He better not be thinking about anyone other than me…’ the idea that his ‘fox’ was dreaming about his rival, Gaara suddenly made him pissed and without thinking he shook Naruto awake.

“Dobe wake up!” the raven growled.

Naruto jerked away with a yell, “RAMEN!” his eyes tried to focus on a room he didn’t recognize and when those sky blue eyes turned on Sasuke they seemed puzzled, “Sasuke?”

The fact that his mate had been dreaming about food instead of Gaara put the raven a little at ease, but only a bit, since Sasuke still didn’t like to be replaced with anything especially a barely digestible food product, “What the hell is this ramen business,” Sasuke grumbled in annoyance while crossing his arms, ‘And why did you sound like you were having sex…’ he wanted to say, but he felt glaring in an angry way would get his point across just as well.

Naruto didn’t seemed to be amused, “Now I remember… my annoying yet lovable and quiet pampered dog got replaced by an even more annoying bastard with a complex about ramen… I think I am leaving…” and with that the blond got up and started to walk away.

Sasuke’s eyes widened in horror as he realized that not even one day had passed in his old form and Naruto already hated his guts, it was the complete opposite of what Sasuke expected to happen… sure he figured that Naruto wouldn’t exactly fall at his feet, but the raven figured in a day that would change (he is optimistic), now it looked like it may take longer, “Oy Dobe… were not done talking…”

The blond turned to glare at him over his shoulder, “I am done with you…” then he turned his head back around and put a hand on the door to open it, only to realize that Sasuke had run over and wrapped his long arms around Naruto.

“Please don’t go…” the raven found himself saying, it was like his body moved without thinking, “Don’t leave me…”

Naruto’s heart started to beat hard inside his chest, the blond went to rub at the center only to come in contact with Sasuke’s warm hand, ‘Why does this feel familiar,’ Naruto thought. The blond felt an overwhelming desire to lace his fingers with the other’s hand, but before he could do so their was a knocking at the door.

“Obito….” Kakashi whined in an almost pathetic voice, “Open the door for Kashi-chan… I promise it was only a fluke it doesn’t always leave your hips numb and you will eventually walk again without a limp…” the white haired man opened to door in surprise to see a naked Sasuke standing behind a clothed Naruto, “A hah… your not Obito…” he smiled (always one to state the obvious).

Kakashi had been busy looking for Obito since the man had run away after their sex marathon leaving a note to the white haired man saying that he was hiding and for aka Perverted Bastard not to look for him till he was able to feel anything again in his hips so Obito could kick Kakashi’s ass later. The letter ended with, “P.S. Kakashi when I see you next I am going to give you a limp to match mine, but mine won’t be as pleasurable.” Kakashi looked forward to his mate trying with glee, but he had to find his dear Sweet-Tush first.

Sasuke glared at his cousin not feeling amused, “No we aren’t so get your perverted loser ass out of here…”

Kakashi faked looking hurt while putting up his hands in defeat, “Sasu-Doggie is so mean to his beloved cousin…”

“God Dammit!” Sasuke moved to attack his cousin only to remember to his shock that he was still naked, apparently Naruto hadn’t who blushed a bright red at the site.

“Uhm Sasuke…” the blond started trying to help cover the taller boy from the pervert’s view.

Only to be interrupted by a smiling Kakashi, “Don’t worry Naru-chan I wouldn’t have sex with Sasuke now that I have my precious Honey-Hole so I will leave him to you…” with a wink and a misunderstanding about Naruto and Sasuke’s situation, Kakashi left.

“God I hate that bastard…” Sasuke mumbled trying to think of various tortures he can subject to his cousin later.

“Sasuke…” if he hadn’t been listening Sasuke would have missed his mate talking again.

“Yes…” the raven asked noticing the blond still wouldn’t look at him.
“I love Gaara… he’s my boyfriend…” Naruto mumbled ducking his head as though he was trying to convince himself the words were still true.

“Not for long…” the raven stated smugly.

A little too smugly since the blond looked pissed as he turned to glare at Sasuke, “Don’t even think you can compare to him… unlike you Gaara has known me for three years and we have been friends since the store opened a year before that… can you really say you love me without knowing me?” when Sasuke didn’t respond right away a pained look seemed to appear on Naruto’s face and the raven wished more than anything that he hadn’t been the one to put it there.

“Naruto…” he wanted to say so much, but he couldn’t explain what he was feeling, “I…”

His mate put a hand up to stop him, “Don’t… anything at this point is a lie both you and I know it so don’t even try Sasuke,” the blond left without a word and Sasuke felt like his insides were tearing themselves apart.

Sasuke knew he wanted Naruto, the raven just wished he understood why.

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“Silly Brother…” Itachi smirked looking into the crystal at his brother‘s misery, he thought it was funny that the one thing his brother had of real value and cherished since he was five years old, Itachi had taken away easily with the help of Orochimaru, “You have no idea how much I worked to destroy your relationship with your soul mate brother… now soon I will have the key and everyone’s dreams including yours will be destroyed.”

Kisame watched from the shadows as Itachi crowed in triumph at his brother’s destruction, he wondered if the man touted as a genius would ever learn his lesson and Kisame wondered why he still tried to find the good in Itachi anymore.

Well that’s the end for chapter 11, I am sure it raised some questions, but hopefully it also answered some as well. If your wondering why I didn’t mention the whole sex scene between Kakashi and Obito well it was because I didn’t want to put too much focus on them since its mainly about Naruto and Sasuke relationship, but I hope you like the hints I did leave and I hope you stay tuned for more in chapter 12. Goodbye for now.