A Dog's Life

Welcome to a new chapter of ‘A Dog’s Life’. I hope you like the outcome and the sudden twist. Don’t worry Sasuke and Naruto will still get together it just won’t be quickly since there are still some complications yet that need to be worked out. Again this chapter is unedited, but I hope you still like it and will review. Without further to do Chapter 13.

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


Chapter Thirteen-A Dog’s Life by KitsuneFun

Naruto leaned down and kissed Sasuke softly on the lips as the raven slept, “I’m sorry Sasuke…” the blond hand hesitated in midair before leaving over to caress his love’s cheek, “Your everything I remembered, but if I allow them to see how much I care they will only hurt you… like they hurt me… I can’t live with that.” he whispered softly into the raven’s ear before gently moving his hand from the older boy’s check through his hair, “The first time I see you with my true eyes and I have to leave…” he leaned down quickly and kissed Sasuke on the forehead before moving away, “I will always love you Sasuke…” and with that said the blond left out the bedroom door that he had come in.

(Flashback)

“He left me…” Naruto mumbled the words, but he was in shock still remembering how Gaara had rejected what he had become.

“Naruto I…” Obito moved a hand to touch the smaller boys shoulder as it shook, he felt bad for Naruto’s loss knowing how much it would hurt him to loose the one he loved like that, “I’m sorry…”

Naruto’s eyes had turned a bright red with unshed tears making the blue stand out fiercely, “Is that it?”

Obito was confused by the statement, “Naruto…”

The blond paled and clutched at his stomach in pain, “Ah god… what’s happening?” he managed to gasp out.

The older man stared at him in fear, he could feel a pulsing of intense power surrounding the area around the boy’s hieroglyph on his stomach, it was like the power was almost alive. ‘It’s not a normal seal…’ was Obito’s first thought as he pushed Naruto’s arms away from his midsection. Staring down at the area he noticed it was a bright red with black around the edges like it was burning from the outside in.

Naruto moaned in pain and looked up at Obito from his knelt potion with tears in his eyes, “Help me…”

Obito nodded knowing what needed to be done and prayed that it wouldn’t hurt the blond in the process. Opening his channels of power, he moved it like a stream of water towards the throbbing and suddenly moving mass on the smaller boy’s stomach.

Naruto panted and tried to run at the area, but Obito’s arms held them in place as he stretched his mind to help the other. It seemed that the only way to stop it from killing the boy was to destroy the hieroglyph all together.

Closing a hand of power over the area as Obito closed his eyes he began to chant, “Take back the power… make it gone… a seal it began… please now be undone… In the name of the Goddess and all directions of power; North… East… South… West… As this power started… let it now be…. GONE!” the last word he yelled as he opened seal.

Their was a sudden flash of power then the seal began to uncoil and fall down from the blond’s navel to his feet where it became apart of the ground from where it was created then with a final hiss like the seal had been a snake it was gone.

Naruto began to shake and perspire as he lifted his head to look at Obito; the blond seemed surprised, as though till that moment the other hadn’t really existed for him, “Why?” Naruto asked in confusion.

Obito was surprised by the look, it was like suddenly the other boy was different, and the older man found himself wondering what it was he had actually unsealed, “I don’t know what you mean Naruto…”

The blond gripped his arms around his middle, he felt cold and confused, as he looked around, “So this must be the place they don’t want me to be…” he looked at Obito for a while, “They’ll be upset that you let me remember… the bad people will come soon now…”

Obito didn’t know how to respond to the remark, “Bad people… what do you mean Naruto? Arashi’s guard won’t let them hurt you…”

“Yes but he isn’t afraid of being hurt… he’s afraid they will hurt you?” Obito turned in surprise seeing the genius.

“Shika…” the blond’s shaking increased at the appearance of the other boy.

“Don’t worry Naruto… I won’t let them get hurt…”

The blond bit his lip and nodded his head slowly, “but… Sas…” the rest that he was about to say was blocked by Shikamaru’s suddenly appearing hand.

It surprised Obito how quickly the normally lazy guard moved like it was all an act his other self, “Shhh…” Shikamaru whispered for the blond’s ears only, “Don’t say his name and you won’t have to worry about him.

Naruto nodded sadly while ducking his head in misery at thoughts of the raven, “Does that mean I won’t be able to say goodbye?”

Shikamaru sighed, “No…” he tilted the blond’s chin up so he could look deeply into the sapphire eyes of the child he remembered, that had finally returned to him, now grown, “I’ll let you say goodbye but the sooner we leave the better… I will give you 15 minutes while I gather the others… just remember every second you delay…” the genius warned.

“I know…” Naruto gave the taller boy a tired smile, “I’ll hurry…”

(End of Flashback)

“Are you finished?” Shikamaru asked from outside the door as he looked worriedly at his charge, the genius had already informed Ino and Shino to get ready to move, “It’s for the best… Orochimaru would kill him…”

Naruto froze at Orochimaru’s name, “I know… I won’t allow him to be killed like Kiba…”

Shikamaru remembered his charges first playmate, the brunette had been a regular human that had taken a liking to Naruto and when Orochimaru saw how close they were he had Kabuto kill him, “He doesn’t know who Sasuke is or he would have done that years ago when he erased your memory.

Naruto gave a shuddering sigh as he steadied his emotions, “Yes… Shika…” he looked at the brunette earnestly, “Make sure he doesn’t know where I am… and don’t let Orochimaru know about him…”

Shikamaru sighed scratching at his head, “How troublesome…”

“Shika…” Naruto grabbed the brunette by the shoulder and pulled him down so he could look his friend in the eye, “If you love me… don’t let him die or I’ll die…”

Shikamaru raised his hand to gently tough the soft white-gold hair slightly ruffling it, “You will be the death of me you know that?”

Naruto gave the brunette a soft smile, “Just promise… please”

Shikamaru sighed again, but nodded, “I promise…” he only hoped the promise wouldn’t get him killed instead.

(Elsewhere in the Real World)

Tsunade paced the length of Naruto’s apartment in anger, ‘I should have insisted that he got an roommate,’ she thought, one she could implant from the fae world that would make sure he was safe instead of being in danger every waking second in the fae world.

Jiraya chuckled at the antics of the female as she paced the length of the room, “Really Tsuade…your going to run a hole in the boy’s carpet if you keep doing that…”

Tsunade turned to glare at him, “This is all your fault…” she pointed a shaking finger at him.

The man’s eyebrow rose mockingly at the suggestion as he took another sip of sake from his cup, “And how is this my fault?”

The blond haired woman growled moving till she grabbed the pervert by the front of his kimono, “You bought him the damn dog… didn’t you know it was a spell?”

Jiraya shrugged while taking another sip of Sake, he was used to the woman‘s anger having been married to her since they were teenagers, “I wasn’t expecting Fugaku’s heir to be in dog form and in a human pound no less…”

Tsunade’s eyes narrowed at her husband’s lackadaisical attitude, “I swear you do this to test my patience…”

‘Patience be damned,” Jiraya shrugged while grabbing the whole bottle of sake from the tabletop and downing it in one shot making Tsunade all the angrier for the gesture.

“Don’t test me Jiraya?“ He watched with a wince as his wife grabbed the empty bottle along with the cup and broke both with the pressure of her strong and magically enhanced hands making the items turn to dust in front of Jiraya‘s eyes.

“Ah…” Jiraya pouted, “And that was good sake too from fairy pleasure plants…”

“And people wonder why I regretted ever marrying you…” she snorted throwing the broken cup to the ground as Tsunade grabbed her cloak and threw it over her shoulders making the garments underneath change from a regular business woman’s outfit to that of blue soft leather breaches with matching vest, dark boots and white long sleeved and heavily embroidered tunic.

“Where are you going?” Jiraya asked though he knew better than to speak to the woman while she was enraged.

Tsunade sneered in his direction, “To the magical world you old pervert… I need to find out what news Anko has learned from Orochimaru and have a long talk with Arashi, he needs to know that his son is in danger…” and with that she left in a flash of lilac colored smoke.

Jiraya sighed while conjuring another bottle of Sake… a bigger one this time while forgoing the cup, he needed something to fortitude his nerves before he faced what he knew he would only regret later… Orochimaru.

(Back in the Magical Realm)

Sasuke awoke with a start, he was sweating, he could remember seeing Naruto before he woke up, “Naruto…” he stated running a hand through his sweat soaked hair.

“He’s gone Sasuke…” The raven looked up in surprise at Obito; it looked like the other man had been crying.

“What do you mean gone… where did he go?”

“I don’t know where Sasuke… I’m so sorry…they wouldn’t tell me, they just left…” tears continued to fall from the older man’s eyes, ‘It’s my fault…’ he thought looking at his cousin’s stricken expression.

Sasuke quickly jumped out of bed and put on the simple clothes he summoned, it was a pair of used jeans that fit comfortably and slightly low on the hips along with a dark blue t-shirt, the outfit reminded him of Naruto’s own clothes. After putting on the clothes he turned to look at Obito, “Tell my father I need to speak with him right away… its urgent…” Obito nodded slightly before racing off to contact Fugaku.

Sasuke watched him go and the raven knew that even if he had to threaten King Arashi himself, Sasuke would never let his mate go… especially to the likes of Orochimaru, “Just wait for me Naruto…I don‘t want to find you only to loose you again.” The blond was apart of even his first memories as a child, they were meant to be together, even if the blond never remembered it himself… Sasuke would make Naruto love him again.

(Flashback)

Sasuke whistled and swung his feet back and forth in boredom, it seemed that the adults when they weren’t cooing over how cute Fugaku’s youngest son was… they were ignoring him, it was like he wasn’t important, “They are all stupid anyways… this party is stupid…” he mumbled kicking his legs harder.

He was interrupted by someone laughing softly, he turned at looked at a plan looking woman with the biggest belly he had ever seen, “What are you laughing at…” he pouted which only made the woman smile.

“I was just thinking the same as you…” Subaku winked a brown eye at him; “I think this party is boring too…” she rubbed at her belly lightly as she talked to the small boy, the movement caught Sasuke’s attention.

“Why is your belly so big?” he yelled a little too loudly as he pointed at the woman’s distended tummy.

Subaku laughed again at the comment, “Ah this…” she rubbed at her belly again, “This is my child…” she looked at the area lovingly just imaging what the baby would look like as it born. Looking up she noticed that the raven haired boy had moved closer he had raised a hand as though he wanted to touch the area himself and the action made he smile, “Do you want to touch it?”

Sasuke looked up at Subaku in surprise, “No…” he yelled a little too quickly even though secretly the raven wanted to touch the woman’s belly for himself.

The brown haired woman leaned close and smiled, “Its ok… my baby won’t bite you… he’s not due yet…” at the raven’s hesitate look Subaku decided to use a tactic that always worked against Arashi, “You aren’t scared are you?”

Sasuke lifted his head to stare at the woman in anger at the suggestion, he remembered his daddy saying that Uchiha’s didn’t get scared, “I’m not scared… let me touch it…” he said moving his hand to touch the area.

Subaku chuckled to herself at how cute the young boy was, “Sure… reach out your hand and…” she lightly guided the smaller boy’s hand to her stomach, lifted and placed it near the middle towards her navel, “Don’t move… or you’ll miss your surprise.”

Curious about what the surprise was, Sasuke leaned closer till his face wasn’t almost against the belly and kept his hand strait on the area where Subaku had placed it. At first nothing happened then suddenly Sasuke felt a gentle bump from the area, a tingle of awareness shot up his spine at the action. The awareness coming from the area where his hand touched her belly was warm and the raven felt a similar sensation of love poring from the area to him that reminded him of his mom and he smiled, “Nice to meet you too.” he said and he felt another bump as if the other being was answering him.

Subaku paused to look at the raven in curiosity; she wondered if she had heard him clearly, “What did you say…”

Sasuke didn’t realize the significance of the event as he turned to look up at the woman while still smiling, “I think he likes me…”

“Who likes you…” she asked leaning close, wondering why the little boy, who had been depressed before, was suddenly happy.

“I don’t know who he is…” he rubbed at the area and felt it give another bump, “But he says he likes me a lot and wants to see me…” he pointed to the stomach making the brown haired woman nervous.

“But that’s not possible… I” Subaku started to say before they were interrupted by bored looking Itachi who had been asked by Fugaku earlier to get his younger brother so that he could be taken home early since it was past the raven’s bedtime.

“Come-on Sasuke… Stop playing around… Dad says I have to take you home since its past your bedtime…” Itachi hated that he was the one to take his brother home early from Orochimaru’s party since he had been waiting all evening to see the Sennin’s famous weapon collection.

Sasuke didn’t want to go, but knew that if he didn’t his brother would be angry and his brother was always mean and hurtful when he was angry , “Ok…” he jumped off the seat and walked off slowly with his brother, but not before turning back to look sadly at the pregnant woman, “I hope we meet again.”

Subaku looked at the smaller boy’s retreating form and gave a soft smile understanding the young boy‘s sadness, ‘I am sure you will one day Sasuke.’

Well that’s it for chapter 13, I hope you all liked it and looked forward to reading chapter 14. I look forward to hearing your comments and if you have any questions I will try to answer them without ruining the plot for you. So please review, I will talk to you later, Goodbye for now.