A bond thicker than blood

right guys, getting lucky today

chapter 17 is done and checked
thanks again to leila my awesome beta reader

one thing must be said, i really didnt think this story was going
to be so long as it has become and i am still not done so hope you stick around
to the end

enjoy chapter 17

Chapter 17

On his way home Naruto sat staring out the car window, lost in deep thought. Haku knew what he was thinking and wanted to say something but he knew that no matter what he said it wouldn’t stop tomorrow from coming.

“Thanks Haku” the blond boy said as the car pulled up in front of the flats. “Sure no problem” Haku answered as he watched the blond boy step out of the car.
“I’ll see you tomorrow Haku” was the last thing he said before closing the car door.
Haku nodded and turned the car leaving Naruto alone on the payment outside the flats. “Damn” he cursed in a low voice and turned to walk up the stairs leading to his flat, and all the way he played a series of scenarios of lies in his head that he could tell Sasuke when he would open the door.
He knew he had to tell Sasuke where he came from eventually but now was not the time he convinced himself, it’ll be alright. The blond boy took a deep breath and put the key in the door and turned while listening for the click telling him that the door was unlocked.

“Ah there you are dobe, what took you so long?” Naruto could hear Sasuke shouting from the living room, he gazed up towards the clock when he entered the living room, 1 am.
“Sorry got caught up with some customers” Naruto lied as he smelled the room, it smelled like curry and his stomach began to make noises. He just realized that he hadn’t eaten anything since breakfast, “hungry?” he heard Sasuke’s voice come closer.
“Yeah, sorry I didn’t make dinner” he said turning towards the boy who had just stopped next to him. The blond kissed him gently on the lips and smiled, all though he was still worried about tomorrow he felt a little more relaxed in Sasuke’s presence.
“It’s okay, since you had to help in the shop, it couldn’t be helped.” Sasuke filled a plate with curry and rice placing it on the table, in front of the blond boy who sniffed in the nice smell of curry before starting to eat.

Sasuke was sitting across from Naruto watching him eat; he was very cute, Sasuke couldn’t help but smile.
“So what kind of shop do Haku and Momochi run?” he asked after he had stared at the blond for a couple of minutes, “it’s an antique shop” Naruto said with a mouth full of food.
This time Naruto wasn’t lying because it really was an antique shop, on the surface anyway. Behind the façade of the antique shop weapons like swords and guns were being sold or traded, also money was being laundered through the back of the shop shop.
Naruto could remember sitting watching and some times helping with the transactions, his father had been a traditional man and always stuck to the old fashion methods of the Yakuza but now that his uncle had taken over drugs had been introduced as the new trade.
However Momochi had refused to have anything to do with drugs and still refused each time Orochimaru asked, times might change but this was your fathers pride and joy, he would never come and visit Tokyo with out coming here. This is the way he left it so this is the way we’ll keep it, Momochi had said once and he stuck to it, never changing the appearance of the shop only fixing things when they got broken.
“Naruto?” without realising it he had drifted off into his memories “oh sorry, you were saying?” Sasuke was making a ‘why do you make me repeat myself’ face “I said can I come next time, I’d like to see what kind of stuff they have.”
Without thinking the blond answered “sure” before he froze realising what he’ just said yes to. Sasuke gave him a smile before taking the empty plate from Naruto, the blond boy smiled back hiding the fact that he was panicking on the inside.

“Well better get to bed” Naruto got out of the chair heading for the bed “you coming?” he said before he disappeared in to the bedroom, “in a second just going to finish washing the last couple of plates” the dark haired boy said turning his head realising he was talking to an empty room. Sasuke sighed and washed the last couple of plates, he must be really tired he thought, usually Naruto would hang around making sure Sasuke would go to bed with him.

The dark haired boy entered the bedroom finding that Naruto had already crawled under the covers half asleep, “dobe, you are taking up the whole bed” Sasuke said smiling as he crawled over the blond boy.
“Hmm, so? It is my bed.” the blond opened his eyes looking at Sasuke in the dark, it was a bit hard looking him in the eyes as they were as dark as the room. Sasuke lay down next to Naruto feeling his head move onto his chest, the dark haired boy put his arm around the blond and kissed his forehead
. This sleeping position had become a habit, Naruto had trouble sleeping if he didn’t get to use Sasuke’s chest as it made such a soothing movement as the dark haired boy breathed. Sasuke had also become used to having someone warm to hold at night that when he slept alone he would subconsciously hold a pillow once he had fallen asleep.

The next morning they were woken by Naruto’s phone going off, the blond boy turned around and moved his hand across the floor searching for the phone but it stopped ringing before he could find it, “damn” he said opening his eyes.
After a couple of minutes more of searching he found the phone, one missed call was written on the display and he opened it to see who had called. Sakura? Why was she calling so early in the morning, the blond flipped the phone shut again and noticed that the time was 2 pm.
He shot up as he remembered he had promised Momochi and Haku he would come around in the afternoon, the problem now was figuring out a lie to tell Sasuke.

The blond boy snuck out of bed and got dressed, he headed for the kitchen to make himself some breakfast. He thought Sasuke must’ve been really tired after work seeing as how he was always awake before him.
As he ate his bowl of cereal he was wondering what he should tell Sasuke, one option was to say he was typing up his essay in the computer labs but that plan would fail through as Sasuke could decide to keep him company after he woke up. No it had to be something better, something Sasuke couldn’t be around for.
Well he could just say it was a family matter he needed to attend to and it wasn’t technically a lie, that way he would give Naruto the space he needed for the day.
However the slight complication was that his family was no longer amongst the living and he hadn’t told Sasuke yet, come to think about it I haven’t really told Sasuke anything. He really didn’t want to deal with Sasuke asking questions about his family right now because it would be really hard to tell him they were killed with out brining up the Yakuza. Aaaahhhh why does it have to be so bloody hard, he put his head on to the table just barely avoiding tipping over the glass of juice.

After a long discussion with himself in his head he decided to phone up Sakura to see if she had any better ideas. “Yeah?” he heard the pink girl’s voice answering the phone “Hey Sa-chan” he said silently into the phone and closed the bedroom door so that he wouldn’t wake Sasuke or have him eavesdrop on the conversation he was about to have.
“Naruto, there you are I phoned you earlier” she said annoyed “Yeah, sorry was still asleep. Sasuke and I stayed up a bit late last night.” That last sentence got Sakura’s attention.
“Oh is Sasuke over at your place?” she giggled a little before she continued “so something going on between the two of you? You have been stuck to each other like glue for the past month and a half” she stated already knowing that something was afloat.
Naruto had to laugh; nothing went passed Sakura’s radar when it came to couples.
“Yeah he stayed last night. And yeah I guess you are right we are somewhat dating” his memory taking him back to when Sasuke had said yeah, you like me and I like you. So from now on you are my boyfriend. It had been a clumsy way of stating their feelings for each other but it served its purpose, and the fact that he had said somewhat dating to Sakura was because despite being in the peek of their sexual age they still hadn’t had sex.
“Ha I knew it, it was about time” the pink haired girl said excitingly “now we can go on double dates” she added.
All Naruto could do was laugh at the girls excitement “Lee, hun come here a second. Guess what?” Naruto could hear Sakura talking to Lee “S-Sa-chan do … nt” too late, she had told Lee about him and Sasuke and he could hear him state the same thing as Sakura.
“Please Sa-chan” he begged her “we haven’t told anyone yet so please don’t go around telling everyone. Okay?” They really hadn’t talked about when they were going to tell the gang that they were dating, it was not like it was a big thing they just needed to test the waters before telling them knowing there were a lot of people against gays.
“Oh and don’t tell Sasuke that you guys know, we kinda agreed that we would tell people together when we do” he added quickly.
“Oh okay, sure thing Naruto” she told Lee what Naruto had said and he had shouted that their secret was safe with them.
“But the reason I called Naruto was that I was going to ask you if you wanted to go out to the cheap Chinese restaurant down the road from university with the whole gang.”
“Sorry Sa-chan I can’t go” he took a deep breath “Naruto?” “I need to attend to some family business today” laying emphasis on the word family, the pink haired girl knew what he was referring to and didn’t like it one bit.
“I was kinda hoping you could help me figure out what I can tell Sasuke so he wont worry or ask questions.” It got quiet on the other end and he knew what was coming.
“UZUMAKI NARUTO! You haven’t told him yet?” he held the phone a couple if inches away from his ear in order to save himself from hearing loss.
“No I haven’t told him yet and I prefer it that way, at least for a little while longer. Sa-chan please, I-I’m … I just can’t tell him yet okay? Please.” Sakura sighed knowing that it would take a lot before he told anyone about his origin, but she had hoped Sasuke at least would be an exception seeing as how close they were, only problem was that they weren’t aware of it themselves.
“Fine, just tell him you have to type up your essay today and that you are going to visit Haku and Momochi to pick up some food or something like you always do and we’ll take him with us, we’ll drag him if he doesn’t come willingly.” She said in a clearly upset voice.
“Thank you Sa-chan, I’ll come next time.” He said gently knowing that’s not what she wanted to hear. “Well I’ll speak to you later Sa-chan.” Panicking a little she shouted his name into the phone.
“NARUTO! Ehm be careful ne?” she lowered her voice as if she was trying to hide it. “Always” he smiled and flipped his phone shut watching the light on the phone die out.

The blond boy wrote Sasuke a note and left it next to the breakfast plate he had made for him before he entered the bedroom where Sasuke was still sleeping, he walked up to him bending down to his knees.
He looked at the dark haired boy as he slept so soundly, Naruto let his fingers gently caress Sasuke’s cheek and let his hand slide through his dark hair. It was not a lie that Sasuke looked very tempting at that moment as his bare chest was moving up and down, he leaned over and kissed his lover gently on the lips.
“I’m sorry Sasuke” he said with his head only millimetres away from Sasuke’s face “I’ll explain one day.” He kissed him again before getting up and leaving the room.
As he was about to close the door he heard Sasuke moan “Naruto” and the blond stuck his head in to see if he was awake but the dark haired boy had only rolled to his side clinging to a pillow, the blond smiled from ear to ear, the scene was just so cute.
He shut the door and walked out of the flat feeling the cold breeze hitting his face as soon as he exited.

It had taken him about half an hour to reach the antique shop and he noticed the close sign was hung on the door, which it rarely was but it could only mean one thing. Naruto took a deep breath and lifted his hand which was shaking to the doorknob, as the first fingertip touched the knob he flinched and pulled his hand half way back. His whole body began shaking now, geez Naruto pull yourself together. You are not 13 anymore.
He took a deep breath, although the memories had been suppressed in the back of his mind the body still remembered and it made no attempt to hide his fear.
His hand reached for the doorknob again and this time it didn’t flinch, he turned it and pushed the door open. All the lights in the shop had been switched off except for the back room; he could see the strip of light that was coming from the door as it stood in a crack open.
He closed the door behind him and stood completely still as he allowed his eyes to get used to the darkness, suddenly his body froze when a familiar voice filled the air.
“Welcome Naruto”, the shaking he had was gone, replaced by terror. He could hear the footsteps coming closer but he couldn’t tell where they were coming from as the whole shop had the ability to make an echo, all he knew was that he could move or scream for help no matter how much he wanted to.

thats it for now, hope to see you for chapter 18