Mine

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"I love you," Naruto murmured.

Time seemed to speed up again as Sasuke felt his sword slice through flesh before he blurrily watched and heard the sickening thud of Naruto's body hit the ground.

Sasuke stood in shock for half a second before screaming.

"NARUTO!"


Mine

Chapter 14: The True Killer

"Tsunade! Where the hell are you?!" Sasuke bellowed as he burst into the Hokage office, breathing hard after carrying Naruto to be healed. He watched as the color began to drain completely from Naruto's face, his skin a deathly shade of white. He wasn't losing much blood, but the shock was clearly affecting his body.

"Naruto's dying!" Sasuke yelled, trying to keep himself calm but failing miserably. Only Naruto could make him lose his cool under normal circumstances – the thought of losing Naruto made him want to go berserk. He was sure that Naruto wouldn't die, not physically at least. But Naruto might die mentally if he wasn't treated soon.

"What are you yelling about?" Tsunade asked angrily as she came out of her side room, looking extremely annoyed, only to stop dead as she looked at Naruto lying limp in Sasuke's arms. Sasuke could see her mind analyzing why Naruto looked so strange in his arms before she saw what lie on top of and detached from the rest of Naruto's body: his leg.

"He wasn't acting himself! He came at me, hysterical, like he was trying to kill me or rather himself..." Sasuke shook his head, feeling mortified. He wasn't sure what was going on. "He threw something in my eyes." In fact his eyes still burned horribly, but he barely noticed the pain in his panic. "I couldn't see, and I drew my sword...and I thought he would be able to dodge, but...he was screaming he wanted me to kill him," Sasuke choked out.

"What are you doing just standing there?! Get him in here so I can fix his leg!" Tsunade hissed angrily, looking almost as pale as Naruto did. Sasuke's senses kicked back into gear, and he followed Tsunade into the medical room, past Shizune who gasped as Sasuke walked by with Naruto in his arms. Tsunade glared at Shizune angrily, as though the current situation were her fault before quickly moving past her. Tsunade flung some sort of medical book that was on one of the stretchers clear across the room, making it crash into the wall so Sasuke had a clear place to lay Naruto down. Sasuke watched mortified as he watched Tsunade take Naruto's right leg and placed it below the stump. It looked so fake as though it couldn’t possibly be real.

Sasuke’s sword had his lightning element infused in it, so Naruto’s wound was cauterized. That was good in that it stopped the bleeding. That was bad because he could have completely fried the nerves, meaning Naruto's leg would not be able to be sewn back on. Meaning Naruto...Naruto would never be a shinobi again without his leg. Never be Hokage. He wondered if he had just given Naruto a different kind of death.

Sasuke stood, shaking his head as Tsunade used a pair of scissors to cut the orange fabric away from Naruto's leg, and then used it to cut the fabric area from around the stump. Suddenly, Shizune was pushing Sasuke away from the table so she too could help Tsunade. Sasuke looked about him helplessly, his eyes landing on the other medical stretcher in the room to distract him. What was on the other table sure as hell distracted him.

Sasuke didn't think he could be in any more shock after cutting off Naruto's leg. He was wrong.

"Sakura?" Sasuke asked dumbly. It looked like Sakura, lying there on the table, but she looked dead. "Sakura?" Sasuke asked again, walking towards the table, expecting her to answer him.

"Get out of here," Tsunade said, not even looking up from what she was doing to Naruto's leg.

"Is Sakura-"

"I said get out!"

"Is Sakura dead?" Sasuke whispered in shock, his sharingan swirling, able to tell him what his brain didn’t want to register, not really needing a confirmation from the medical nin.

"Obviously! Now get out or I will have to throw you out and that will take away more time from Naruto's surgery than he has time to lose!" Tsunade bellowed. Sasuke squared his shoulders, half tempted to stay, but not sure if Tsunade's words were an idle threat just to make him leave or not. He looked at Naruto and decided he wouldn't take the chance before storming out of the medical office and out into the Hokage's office, sitting down roughly in a chair.

Sasuke deactivated his sharingan and stared icily ahead. His jaw was set firmly. His trembling clenched fists were the only indicator of the fear Sasuke felt as he sat and waited for Naruto to be okay.

The burn in his eyes was like nothing compared to the burn in his heart, but he still blamed the pain in his eyes as the reason he couldn’t stop himself from crying.

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When three hours had passed and neither Shizune nor Tsunade had come out to get him, Sasuke knew it wasn't good for Naruto. The pain in his eyes had long since dulled, and there was nothing else to distract him from his thoughts until someone knocked at the door. Sasuke glared at it, mentally daring the other person to come in and distract Tsunade from Naruto and see if he let them live.

"Tsunade-sama?" the voice asked through the door accompanied by a series of knocks, waiting for entry. Sasuke didn't recognize the voice and he didn’t respond to it. "Hokage-sama?" the voice tried again. The door swung open, revealing an ANBU guard. Her short dark hair stuck out around her ANBU mask, and she searched the room.

"She's busy," Sasuke snarled, standing up from his chair, his sharingan activated.

"Where is Tsunade-sama?" the woman asked, unafraid of Sasuke.

"She's busy with a patient. Leave," Sasuke growled. The ANBU stepped forward unabashed.

"A patient? This isn't the hospital, and you've no right to order me around boy," she added.

"Why you-"

"Sato-san! Come back later. Tsunade-sama is busy, and you will only distract her at the moment!" Shizune said from behind Sasuke. He whirled around, looking at Shizune. He hadn’t even heard the door open from the adjacent room, but clearly she had heard their conversation and it was distracting them. Sasuke's eyes widened in shock when he saw that the medical jacket Shizune had donned was covered in blood. Naruto hadn't been bleeding when he'd brought him in. Where had the blood come from?

"Naruto?" Sasuke breathed as his eyes raked over the blood splashed down her front. Shizune sighed sadly and shook her head.

"It doesn't look well," Shizune murmured back, the two of them trying to exclude the ANBU woman from their conversation.

"The Hokage?" Sato-san asked. Sasuke couldn't tell for sure because she wore her ANBU mask, but he was fairly certain that the woman was also eyeing the blood on Shizune's medical coat, clearly curious as to what was going on.

"In surgery," Shizune clipped, waving a hand down at the blood on her front as though that explained everything. She didn't bother to wait and see if Sato-san left or not as she re-emerged back into the room. Sasuke's attention turned back to look at the ANBU, glaring at her to leave. She gave him an appraising look (or so he assumed behind the mask) and turned and left.

Didn’t these people know that Naruto’s life was more important that all of Konoha, and Naruto deserved Tsunade’s full attention? Foolish people.

Sasuke sat back down in the chair he hadn't left since three hours previous. Sasuke propped his elbow on the chair's arm, and then rested his forehead in his hand.

"Naruto..." Sasuke murmured. "What were you thinking?" Sasuke asked, trying to still his hands from trembling further, trying so desperately not to dwell on the fact that Naruto may never be a ninja again. Instead, Sasuke put his mind to work on trying to figure out what had been going through Naruto's brain to make him want to attack Sasuke in hopes of his own death.

It didn't take a genius to put the situation together, so Sasuke, as a genius, had put it together very quickly.

Sakura lie dead on Tsunade's medical table. Naruto had attacked him like a raving lunatic, asking Sasuke why he didn't kill him, and then asking Sasuke to kill him.

Naruto thought that he had killed Sakura.

Hurt washed through Sasuke as he realized that Naruto probably had good reason to suspect that he had killed Sakura, but why was he so sure? He hadn't even asked Sasuke if he had! Just assumed. Unless someone had told him differently? Sasuke eyed the medical room out of the corner of his eyes, wondering if Tsunade had said something to Naruto to make him think it was him. But why on earth would she do that?

Now the real question: who had killed Sakura? Whoever it was it had been someone good.

Sasuke closed his eyes, letting the information sink in. He had never wanted Sakura dead. Sakura was one of the few people he had counted close to him. Despite the fact that Sasuke wouldn't have minded if she had never come back to Konoha so he could be with Naruto, Sasuke would never have killed her. That would have hurt Naruto too much. And she was – to an extent – his friend. Obviously they weren't as close since he had purposefully tried to take Naruto from her, but still. If Naruto hadn’t been between them, she had been one of the only other people he would have bothered to spend time with.

Still, the question remained, who would want Sakura dead? Who would want Sakura dead and actually had the ability to do it? The thought made him clench his fist. He hated the person, whoever it was. The person had killed a friend – a rival – and had hurt Naruto in the process. Sakura would be avenged for Naruto’s sake, Sasuke promised. He was well versed in revenge after all.

These thoughts swirled around in Sasuke's head as he waited for Tsunade or Shizune to reappear to give him an update on Naruto. His thoughts jumped back and forth between the cause of Sakura's death, the possibility that Naruto would not be a shinobi again, and what Naruto had said to him before Naruto's leg had been severed.

"I love you."

Sasuke shut his eyes, the words ringing in his ears. How long had he waited for Naruto to say those words to him? How long had he known that Naruto loved him, loved him more than Sakura, only to have Naruto murmur them right before practically committing suicide.

That was something that Sasuke was having trouble wrapping his mind around altogether. Naruto coming after him to help aid in suicide? What on earth had possessed Naruto to do that? It made no sense. Sasuke shook his head. Actually, Sasuke just didn't want it to make sense. When he stopped to think about it, there were "logical" reasons behind Naruto's actions.

Naruto had clearly snapped after Sakura's death and hadn't been thinking. Sasuke knew all too well how much death could make someone go crazy. If someone were to kill Naruto...Sasuke was sure he'd kill not only that person but their family and friends as well. If Naruto had thought he had killed Sakura, the natural reaction would be to come after him. But Naruto wouldn't ever kill him. That much was clear. Naruto didn't want Sasuke dead, which was of very little comfort even as Sasuke realized Naruto would rather die than kill him. However, clearly Naruto would want nothing to do with Sasuke after Sakura's death. Though if he didn't want anything to do with him –

Ah. That was it, Sasuke thought bitterly. If Naruto thought he'd killed Sakura, the fact that Naruto would want nothing to do with Sasuke would mean life or death for Naruto. As Sasuke knew only too well, Naruto needed him to live. If Naruto chose not to see Naruto anymore, it would mean suicide for him anyway. Sasuke could imagine that Naruto would rather go down fighting. What stupid, nonsensical logic!

"You're the biggest dumb ass Naruto," Sasuke gritted out angrily.

"Sasuke," Tsunade said, and Sasuke stood up right away, whirling around to face her. His eyes flashed at her dangerously, as though daring her to give him bad news. "We did what we could," Tsunade said, her lips in a tight line. She paused, and Sasuke held his breath. Surely she would look more upset if Naruto had died, so that couldn’t be it, right? But clearly there was some unpleasant news.

"And?" Sasuke prompted.

"He won't be quite the same," Tsunade said, her lips tight, clearly unused to being unable to make her patients perfect.

"What do you mean?" Sasuke asked.

"His leg's wounds were cauterized. The nerve endings were frayed. We couldn't repair them," Tsunade explained. Sasuke's eyes went wide.

"He's legless?" Sasuke breathed. Tsunade narrowed her eyes.

"Don't be stupid. As if I would have allowed that," Tsunade said, wiping her arm across her forehead to wipe the sweat that was gathered there. "We had to delicately cut off the nerve endings on both parts of the stump and his leg to get to working nerve endings further up his leg." Sasuke nodded, now understanding the blood from earlier. "It took a long time, but we managed to get the nerves reconnected. The bone will take some time to adjust to it’s new positioning, but it wasn’t splintered. The flesh itself shouldn’t be a problem with the Kyuubi’s help in healing, but Naruto’s right leg will forever be shorter than his left leg, and it will take some time for him to get used to the feel of the spacer connecting the bone," Tsunade said, pursing her lips together. Sasuke waited for more.

"Is that it?" Sasuke asked, after a moment. Tsunade's eyes went wide in anger.

"What do you mean ‘is that it?’ It means that Naruto will have to relearn everything he was taught in order to compensate for one leg shorter than the other!"

Sasuke waved his hand dismissively.

"Naruto can do that just fine. He'll still be a ninja, and that is all that Naruto needs," Sasuke said. Tsunade still looked livid.

"Well he won’t live much longer if you don’t help him. He needs his chakra re-balanced," Tsunade clipped. Sasuke swallowed, his mind going numb.

"Now?" Sasuke asked.

"Now," Tsunade confirmed, looking loath to admit that she needed Sasuke's help at all. Sasuke looked to the side, questions assaulting him quickly that it was hard to sort through them all.

"What happened to Sakura?" Sasuke asked, deciding that was important in getting Naruto to want him to help him.

"She died," Tsunade said, and Sasuke was surprised to see the almost lack of care in informing him, as though Sakura's death meant very little to her.

"How?"

"It's under investigation," Tsunade said, seeming harassed.

"Why the hell did Naruto think I'd killed her?"

"How should I know? It doesn't matter right now! Right now Naruto needs to be kept alive, and his chakra is completely out of whack. Fix it," Tsunade demanded. Sasuke glared at her, but stepped by her into the medial office where Shizune sat, checking Sakura over. "Shizune get out!" Tsunade barked. Shizune got up and shot a strange look at Sasuke before she left the room.

But Sasuke wasn't paying attention to her. His eyes were locked onto where Naruto lie, his right leg bandaged heavily, his favorite orange jumpsuit torn apart. Sweat glistened off of his skin, and his chest fell and rose in shallow breaths, clearly indicating he was in pain.

"He's asleep," Sasuke said, still standing in the doorway, looking accusatorily at Tsunade for making him responsible for waking Naruto up.

"Yes. Keep it short so he can go back to sleep when you're finished," Tsunade said, slamming the door on her way out. Sasuke glared angrily at the door before he looked over to see if it had made Naruto wake up. It hadn't. Snarling, he locked the door before walking over to Naruto.

Sasuke looked down at Naruto, sighing. He looked around the room, noting how awkward it was to have Sakura's lifeless body so close by when he had to make love to Naruto to help keep him alive when Naruto currently (and unjustly) wanted nothing to do with him.

Feeling horribly disrespectful, though much more worried about Naruto's own welfare for the time being, Sasuke moved the table with Sakura's body on it to the other side of the room from Naruto, and quickly looked about the room to further hide her from view. He noticing there seemed to be ceiling curtain drapes that ran through the center of the room. He pulled those out from where they were tied to the wall, grateful as they seemed to seclude Naruto and him even further from the rest of the room.

Sasuke moved to where Naruto lie spread out, his breath coming a little more evenly than just a few minutes before, but his face was still contorted in pain. Sasuke's hand moved toward Naruto, but his hand stilled before touching his lover. He was certain that Naruto would not want to have sex right now, but he was also certain that Tsunade would not have ordered him to do this to Naruto if Naruto's life were not in immediate danger.

Would it be easier for him to use the sharingan to put him under a genjutsu so that way Naruto didn't have a chance to argue? Sasuke pulled his hand further away from Naruto, disgusted with himself. Things were different now. Naruto knew. There was no way he could force himself on Naruto, even in a life and death situation. Well, at least not before he had consulted Naruto first. He wouldn’t let him die, but he would ask him before just screwing Naruto.

"Naruto," Sasuke murmured. When Naruto didn't stir, he said his name louder and shook Naruto's shoulder gently. Naruto's eyes fluttered open; his eyes were unfocused as they landed on Sasuke.

"Sasuke?" Naruto asked, wincing in pain as he attempted to sit up. Sasuke kept his hand on Naruto's shoulder, firmly preventing Naruto from moving much.

"Relax. You've just been healed from a major injury," Sasuke explained, wondering how long it would take before Naruto remembered everything.

"I feel so drained," Naruto murmured. "My leg," he groaned, his hand reaching down to his leg. Mid-reach a look of comprehension dawned on Naruto’s face as everything came back to him. He started to struggle underneath Sasuke's grasp, and Sasuke had to place his other hand on Naruto's other shoulder to keep him still.

"Stop struggling! You'll only hurt yourself more!" Sasuke said, frantically watching Naruto's body move, hoping that Naruto wasn't upsetting his leg.

"You bastard! You fucking bastard!" Naruto yelled. "I hate you!" Naruto choked out, and the words hurt more than any type of attack that Naruto could have attempted at the height of his strength. Sasuke swallowed, trying to remember how Naruto's voice had sounded when Naruto had said, "I love you" several hours before.

"Stop struggling!" Sasuke demanded, pressing his hands hard against Naruto so that Naruto was pushed hard into the bed, his struggling effectively stopping as the energy left him. He turned his head to the side, his face contorted in rage even while tears began to streak down his face.

"I hate you so much," Naruto whispered harshly. Feeling foolish as he reacted to the words, Sasuke felt weak as tears sprang to his eyes at the amount of pain those words caused. Sasuke grabbed Naruto's chin and forced his face to look at Sasuke.

"I don't know what the fuck your problem is," Sasuke said, his eyes suddenly blurry as they built up tears which threatened to fall from his eyes, "but I didn't kill Sakura. I had no fucking clue what you were trying to do when you came at me, wanting me to kill you. You are such a dumb ass! What the hell was I supposed to think or do you idiot? I had no idea what you were upset about, and now you're lying, a fucking cripple in the hospital for not thinking. Do you have any idea how that felt, watching as you came at me recklessly, wishing for your own death? Do you have any idea how much pain that caused me? Now hurry up and explain yourself!" Sasuke said furiously, tears finally streaming down his face too.

"You didn't-"

"Of course I didn't kill Sakura! I'm not stupid, like you," Sasuke said, his tears coming faster, and he cursed at himself as he wiped his tears on his sleeve. "Do you think I would do something like that to her or to you for that matter?" Sasuke demanded. Naruto closed his eyes.

"I didn't know what to think. Tsunade said it had to be you," Naruto said.

"What?!" Sasuke demanded, outraged. "The old hag just told me they were still investigating who had killed Sakura and that she didn’t know why you would have thought it was me!"

"Then why did she tell me something different? If it wasn't you then who?" Naruto asked, his voice broken with sorrow.

"Listen dobe, I don't know, ok? I know you’re upset. I know you’re in pain, but so am I! We'll figure out who killed Sakura. I promise you any type of revenge you want against them. But first, I have to balance your chakra," Sasuke said. Naruto's eyes opened wide.

"What? You mean now?" Naruto asked surprised.

"Tsunade-baa-chan just sent me in here to do it. She must not think I'm the killer or she wouldn't have let me in here with you alone," Sasuke said.

"I don't want to," Naruto muttered. "Sakura's dead..."

"You're giving up?" Sasuke asked incredulous. "You, you who promised everyone that you'd be Hokage is going back on his ninja way and is just going to give up now?"

"But Sakura is dead! Why live after-"

Crack!

Naruto's eyes were wide with shock, and he weakly moved his hand up to touch his cheek that Sasuke had just slapped.

"Snap out of it! This isn't you at all," Sasuke growled. Naruto glared up at Sasuke, and Sasuke felt a little catch in his throat. There was a spark of life in Naruto's eyes as he looked angrily at Sasuke. "Do I mean so little to you that you want to leave me?" Sasuke asked quietly.

"Of course you mean a lot to me bastard! But that hurt!" Naruto growled. He had the decency to blush and looked ashamed of himself before he gasped as Sasuke took out a kunai and began to cut away the rest of Naruto's already ruined pants.

"This will hurt too if you don't hold still," Sasuke warned. Naruto's face paled slightly, both of them remembering how Sasuke had torn Naruto’s insides earlier. Had that just happen today? It felt like ages ago. Sasuke looked around him, looking for some sort of lubrication to prevent that from happening. Not to mention the fact that Sasuke would need it to stimulate himself. He was totally and completely not in the mood due to the current situation.

"What are you looking for?" Naruto asked.

"Something to prepare you with," Sasuke said, looking around him.

"Just use your sharingan. Make me feel blissful. Make me forget," Naruto whispered, his eyes drooping. "I don't want to think or feel right now," Naruto murmured. Sasuke turned toward Naruto, his cock finally giving a twitch of life at the idea of taking Naruto without any lube, being able to make Naruto's body move ecstatically, solely controlled by him alone.

"Are you-"

"Yes I'm fucking sure!" Naruto spat out before Sasuke could even ask. Naruto's eyes looked up toward him, and Sasuke had his sharingan activated. Naruto was in a genjutsu before Naruto had a chance to say anything else. Sasuke removed the shreds of clothing around Naruto before positioning him in such a way so that he wouldn't hurt Naruto's leg. Pressing himself to Naruto's entrance, pure bliss crossed Sasuke's features as he could already feel Naruto's heat touching his cock head, seeking his release as he watched Naruto's body for reactions as he thrust inside of Naruto, losing himself in the feeling of being so close to his lover.

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Naruto groaned as he woke up. His mind was groggy and his body felt heavy. It felt like a mix between how just having a long bout of training felt and how falling asleep and waking up only ten or so minutes after he'd had sex with Sasuke felt.

Naruto's eyes widened as his surroundings and his recent memories came back to him.

"Sasuke?" Naruto asked, looking around him. He noted that he was in what looked like the back of the medical room in Tsunade's medical office. "Sasuke?" Naruto tried again. A loud crash made him turn his head to the left toward the wall the separated him from the Hokage's office.

"How could you do it? How could you be the one to kill Sakura? You should die!"

Naruto's eyes widened as he heard Sasuke's muffled yells. Sakura's killer was in the Hokage's office? Another loud crash, and Naruto sat upright as he realized that Sasuke must be fighting whoever it was that had murdered Sakura. Naruto snarled as he sat to reposition himself.

"How could you kill her Tsunade?" Sasuke's muffled voice came.

Several things happened all at once after that.

Naruto stopped adjusting himself in pure shock as Sasuke accused Tsunade of Sakura's death. He lost his balance and fell to the floor. Naruto's body landed heavily, his head bashing against the cold, hard tiled floor. He lost consciousness immediately, completely unaware of the sound of shattering glass in the other room as Sasuke was thrown like a rag doll through the large window of the Hokage office, pummeling hundreds of feet to the ground below.


Next Chapter: Revenge


::runs away from angry readers on a semi-healed foot:: For those of you who are curious, Naruto’s leg wound was totally inspired due to my inability to walk without crutches. My foot still hurts, but the gaping wound on the bottom of my foot has shrunk, though it looks infected. T-T

For those who are interested, I posted a oneshot called Lacking. If you’d like to see it expanded into a multi-chaptered fic (with the rating raised from T to M) then see my Fanfiction dot Net profile and review and vote. Thanks for those who already have.

Let me know what you thought of this chapter! ~ Jelp