Reise zu Reinkarnation

XI.

Sakura washed the blood from her hands and sighed, watching her assistants clean up her knives and needles she’d used for the surgery. The entire shinobi community was having a moment of silence, waiting for her to emerge from the operating room with the verdict. Finally, the rose-haired woman left the room and moved to find the waiting shinobi. Naruto sat surrounded by Kiba, Hinata, and Neji, while Lee and Shino took positions beside obvious escape routes. TenTen and Ino had positions before the windows, carefully keeping an eye out for anyone who wasn’t in their little circle.

She gave them a smile then. “He’ll make it. It was a clean cut, very little tissue damage. Besides having a very nice scar, Sasuke’s going to be sticking around with us for a while longer.”

The collective breath of relief certainly eased the tension in the room and Naruto rose to address his gathered group of shinobi. He met everyone’s eyes, getting their utmost attention.

“Keep your eyes and ears open for any dissent. We’re not the only ones to know Sasuke survived this. I’m counting on you guys to keep him safe.”

“Why is he so important all of a sudden?” Kiba quipped, voice low to keep his question sounding innocent. Naruto just shrugged.

“Why is Shino so important to you?”

Kiba only nodded.

As the rest of the shinobi left the room, Naruto turned to Sakura. “Can I see him?”

“Right now, only through glass. I’m afraid of any infection getting into the wound with it so freshly stitched together.” She sighed. “Tomorrow morning, I’ll let you see him.”

Naruto frowned, but he had to trust Sakura in her judgment. After all, she was the licensed doctor of their group. So he could only go home that night and wait for the morning to come, unable to really sleep because that scene would replay over and over in his mind, and this time he would be too slow to save Sasuke at all.

Even after exhausting himself with katas and personal training, he still couldn’t sleep, unable to even lay down and try.

Kit, Kyuubi grumbled, the Uchiha brat’s going to make it. Relax.

“I can’t,” Naruto mumbled. “I see that… all that blood. So much blood from a wound that was meant for me.”

Kyuubi sighed. The demon fox’s head tilted, staring at the Rokudaime as if through a mirror. The boy was obviously upset; he tended to get so when he wasn’t able to protect something or someone he held dear.

Look, Naruto. Kyuubi said. He got that wound protecting you. Worse things will happen. Relax.

Naruto took a deep breath and slowly let it out, sighing as he moved to sit on the couch, rubbing the back of his neck. The biju was right, after all. There would be worse things that happened to the people protecting him. Worse wounds, some that would be fatal, some that would create horrible scars on everyone’s souls. Sasuke’s wound was just a reminder of that. He rubbed his face and fought not to laugh. Only once he’d run out of breath did Naruto lean back on the couch and close his eyes, sighing.

“You’re right, dammit.”

Of course I’m right. So knock off the sappy shit and go to bed, Naruto. Kyuubi grumbled.

Naruto just sighed and closed his eyes, deciding not to argue this time. There would be plenty of time for that in the morning.


Sasuke was reading when Naruto entered his hospital room. A stack of books was on the bedside table, a smaller stack beside the larger, signaling that the brunette had already gone through them. Naruto smiled and held up his own gift in a meager apology.

“I see you’ve already been sufficiently distracted from me, huh?” Naruto asked, earning a soft smile from the brunette.

“I could never get distracted from you. Just put it on the pile.” Sasuke dog-eared the page he’d been reading and closed his book, setting it aside to focus on the blonde. Naruto set his book on top of the pile and moved to sit beside the injured man, head canting.

“How are you feeling?”

“Sore,” Sasuke said with a sigh. “Sakura has me on antibiotics and a mild painkiller. I’m not allowed to do any strenuous activities until I’ve scarred.”

“Sakura won’t heal it with chakra?”

“She tried, but the skin is fragile. It’s not healed all the way, so.” Sasuke shrugged. “I can’t do anything that would tear the skin.”

Naruto nodded. “Thus the books.”

“Books.” Sasuke said with a small smile. “You make them sound like a bad thing.”

“Eh.” Naruto shrugged and shifted to lay his head in Sasuke’s lap, watching the black orbs focus on his face. Sasuke slowly began to card his fingers through Naruto’s hair, smoothing the wild strands. Naruto closed his eyes to enjoy the feeling, sighing.

“Sasuke?”

“Yes, Naruto?”

“I’m gonna tell you something stupid, all right?”

“It can’t be any more stupid than what’s coming out of your mouth right now.”

Naruto narrowed his eyes in a glare, reached up to hook his hand behind Sasuke’s head to pull him down. Their lips brushed together and Naruto felt Sasuke jerk a little bit. Naruto pressed further, bringing their kiss into something that made Sasuke shiver and tense. Naruto pulled back only to shift his position, pushing the book beside Sasuke off the bed. When it clattered to the floor, the brunette jumped again, and Naruto took the opportunity to kiss Sasuke again, harder this time, nipping only slightly to gain entrance into the brunette’s mouth.

With a soft gasp, Sasuke opened up to Naruto, allowing the blonde to plunder his mouth. Naruto pressed Sasuke back into the pillows, working to get the blanket over Sasuke’s legs off, careful not to agitate the scar too much. His hand moved under Sasuke’s kimono, hand traveling up to his nipples, gently tweaking them into hardened nubs. Sasuke’s hands found his shoulders, forcing Naruto back.

“What?” The blonde asked, breathless.

“You didn’t lock the door.” Sasuke replied, his voice husky with the pleasure that was showing in his eyes.

Naruto rolled his eyes and crawled off the bed, locking the room’s door before applying a trap as an incentive to stay away, returning to the brunette on the bed and getting back to where he’d been before being interrupted. Naruto pulled off Sasuke’s shirt, careful not to touch the bandages wound around his stomach. Sasuke arched beautifully into his mouth when Naruto descended on his nipples, the Uchiha’s nails digging into the Hokage’s back. Naruto simply purred, feeling himself begin to harden. Still, he had to keep his need in check, had to keep control of himself lest he hurt his mate. Sasuke, though, didn’t seem so inclined, nails scraping along Naruto’s back so hard he was sure he was going to have welts. Naruto pulled back to divest himself of his jacket and shirt, leaning down then to get at the hospital-issued kimono, opening the length of cloth over Sasuke’s legs, purring at the sight of his mate.

He wasn’t aware Sasuke was blushing until he took hold of the brunette’s erection and heard the soft gasp. The blonde only grinned, staring up at the brunette, touching his tongue to the tip and hearing again the gasp.

“You’re beautiful, you know.” Naruto said softly.

Sasuke huffed. “You’re just saying that to get into my pants.”

“Well then, it’s working, because you’re not wearing pants.”

Naruto descended on the brunette again, licking the tip and teasing, slowly taking Sasuke’s cock into his mouth. It was strange but Naruto kept at it, wanting to hear more and more of that breathy little gasp. He forced Sasuke to lay back on the pillows, to spread his legs, aware of how the brunette arched into his touches, into his mouth, aware of the smells coming from his mate.

“Mm, Sasuke?” Naruto purred, letting Sasuke slip from his mouth, watching that chest rise and fall, smiling as he saw the heels of Sasuke’s hands pressed to his eyes.

“Stop teasing me!” Sasuke pleaded. “Naruto, please don’t tease me!”

“Look at me.” Naruto said softly, smiling into the elder man’s ebony eyes when Sasuke finally pulled his hands away to follow the order. “What do you want?”

“You.” Sasuke gave a soft plea.

Just kill him now! Uchiha snarled, arms wrapped tight around his chest, trembling with the mix of hate and pleasure.

Orochimaru kept his silence, watching the exchange between Naruto and Sasuke, feeling the voyeur.

“Me?” Naruto purred lowly. “How?”

Sasuke swallowed. His eyes traveled from Naruto’s face southwards, and then to his own hips. His jaw worked, trying to ask, but Naruto only covered his mouth with his own, kissing him hard. Naruto’s fingers ran over Sasuke’s thighs, moving the touches into the inner thigh and up, teasing at the exposed pucker. He waited for Sasuke’s approval before he pushed his fingers into Sasuke’s body, only two, knuckle by knuckle until they were pressed as deep into the brunette as he could get them. Sasuke arched, mewling, nails scratching at the blonde’s shoulders. Naruto growled playfully, drilling his fingers into his lover, spreading his digits to spread the tight muscle around them.

When Sasuke was sufficiently loosened, Naruto gently turned him onto his hands and knees, and took up position behind him. Sasuke let out a soft noise and Naruto took that as the signal to go, pressing into Sasuke’s body without any preamble. Sasuke’s muscles stretched to accommodate him, the blonde’s cock disappearing into that willing body until his hips met Sasuke’s. Then Naruto pulled out, pushed back in, repeating the process over and over, careful not to agitate Sasuke’s stomach wound with his thrusts, listening to Sasuke’s cries. The brunette’s knuckles were turning white, and Naruto felt Sasuke’s hole begin to constrict, so he began to pound harder and harder into his lover until Sasuke cried out his name –

- Sasuke cried out his name! -

- and his inner muscles constricted far too fast for Naruto to really try to hold back. He thrust once more, and joined Sasuke in orgasm, Naruto’s seed filling the brunette up. Panting, sated, Naruto finally pulled back out of Sasuke, carefully rolled the brunette over and settled beside him, smiling, panting.

Sasuke snuggled up against Naruto and sighed, feeling warm as Naruto drew the blanket over them. He heard Naruto whisper three little words, and thought he whispered them back before he fell asleep.