A Dog's Life

I know it has been a while since I last posted, but with the story coming close to the end, I was having a hard time figuring out how to write this chapter out. It’s a little shorter than last months, but I hope you all like it. I appreciate everyone’s comments, even though some of them weren’t as pleased as others… I can kind of understand where you are coming from and it wasn’t my intention to make people upset, it was just how I saw the story. In the end this is what I ended up, so thanks again for reading, I look forward to your comments and thoughts on the next couple of chapters.

‘A Dog’s Life’ by KitsuneFun

Disclaimer: I don’t own Naruto that honor is held by Masashi Kishimoto, I am just a fanfiction writer doing this for fun.

It was as Sasuke was exiting the bedroom that he came face to face with none other than his father, the older Uchiha glowered down at him before opening his mouth, “You have a lot to answer for Sasuke,” he intended to push past his heir so that they could talk inside the bedroom only to have his son push him back.

“Now isn’t the time dad… Naruto has been kidnapped,” Sasuke could already feel a slight pain in his chest due to the separation starting.

Fugaku noticed the looked and sighed, pressing his index finger against his forehead as he tried to calm himself in front of his obviously frantic son, “Why couldn’t you have found a nice Sharingan girl…” he mumbled more to himself as he was suddenly pushed aside from a rather buxom and older blond woman behind him.

“What do you mean he has been kidnapped!” Sasuke had never met the woman till now, but he could recognize the features from a picture he’d seen once of her, it was the sennin Tsunade and she wasn’t pleased by the turn of events, she had hands on either side of her hips and was glaring down at him, “You better talk…”

“Now Tsunade… that’s no way to treat the son in law…” The man behind her, sipping at a glass of sake, was the same man who had saved him from the pink bitch and hell.

“Jiraya! What did I say about drinking at a time like this?” Tsunade yelled over her shoulder at her husband who only waved her off and continued drinking, “And I know this is the brats mate… stupid man,” she shook her head and looked at Sasuke again expectantly, “Well?”

“Look, I know as much as you do, maybe less…” Sasuke shook his head trying to clear the pain filled fog that filled his mind, the connection after the mating ceremony should have lessened, but it seemed heightened for an unknown reason, “All I know is that I am feeling a tremendous amount of pain and its taking everything I got to focus on finding Naruto.”

“Pain?” Tsunade seemed confused by the confession, “But didn’t you have sex with him?”

Sasuke glared up at the woman from his hunched form, “It’s none of your business what I do with my mate,” his voice fairly growled as he forced himself to stand strait.

Fugaku’s brow creased worriedly at the news, “What she is saying is true Sasuke, none in our clan continues to have these pains after mating… unless…” His eyes narrowed in thought before turning a startling shade of blood red, “Unless someone else has mated with him.”

“Absolutely not!” Tsunade yelled hitting Fugaku slightly, trying to knock some sense into him, “A mate doesn’t willing have sex with someone else… its why Naruto never consummated his relationship with Gaara… if he had done it with both Gaara then Sasuke it would mean they would have to duel to the death for that mate…”

Jiraya drunkenly wandered into the room and stood looking around the place, “Well I guess there is only one way for us to find out what happened…”

Tsunade glared at her husband as he put down his drink on a side table and arranged his long sleeves so they weren’t spilling over his hands, “You better not be thinking of using that spell… no one but you wants to see sex.”

Jiraya sighed and turned to look at Tsunade briefly, but seriously for once, it surprised her, “I am trying to prove a point… I am certainly not eager to see my grandson having sex, but if the Uchiha’s connection has been challenged he has a right to know.”

Fugaku eyed the older man oddly, “And how exactly does the spell work?” Tsunade held up a hand to quiet the older Uchiha as her husband got to work on the seemingly simple spell.

Jiraya ignored the voices surrounding him in order to concentrate, closed his eyes, then stretched out his arms and palms over the bed, and began to chant beneath his breath, “distant images of a long passed time… appear now beneath our eyes… so truth may be seen and past realized.”

It started out like a white shimmering within the room, the bodies like a milky unformed shape, before they began to become stronger and strengthened beneath the power that accumulated from the spell.

It showed Sasuke gazing down lovingly at Naruto as he lay in bed, the problem with the images is that the words couldn’t be heard, but Sasuke didn’t need to hear to know what happened then.

Sasuke watched himself look one last time at Naruto before leaving to find Shikamaru, “Why did you leave?” he heard Jiraya ask from inside the room with a blank look on his face.

“I wanted to speak to Nara regarding Arashi’s plans to have Naruto married to Orochimaru… I wanted to find a way to keep him with me,” Jiraya suddenly gave him a brief smile as though saying, “You shouldn’t have worried.”

It was barely a few moments since Sasuke left and suddenly Gaara entered the room to the current occupants surprise, “What is he doing here?” Tsunade was the first to ask.

Her question was answered when the redhead undressed at the base of the bed and changed his form into that of Sasuke’s own before getting into bed with Naruto.

Sasuke didn’t realize when his eyes turned red; all he could feel was an all encumbasing anger towards the assassin for taking what was not his, “That bastard… I’m going to kill him.” He didn’t for one instant think it was Naruto’s fault, it was the changeling’s specialty after all to change everything they were, except their minds, into the person they needed to be. So Naruto, having matted with Sasuke earlier and being still tired from the encounter wouldn’t have known the difference.

“I should have known he was a changeling,” Tsunade shook her head as she looked away in disgust, “God this explains why Naruto was hesitant to have sex with him though they had been together for 3 years.”

“It wasn’t Naruto who waited, but Gaara, he wanted to be sure of Naruto’s feelings before they had sex,” Jiraya stated, he had only hoped to changed Naruto’s mind about being with another male, not to have something like this happen, “I think he was feeling desperate and wanted to be with him one last time… I don’t think he even considered that it would mean he would have to fight Sasuke to the death later.

“I wouldn’t put it past Gaara to do it…” Fugaku stated calmly from the side, “He is Itachi’s assassin after all… I have never met a more cold or unfeeling person in my life.”

The rest of the scene commenced with Gaara changing back into himself and putting on his clothes before he left. It took all of Sasuke’s will not to swing out at that smiling face as it past him, but he knew it wouldn’t do any good knowing it was only a mirage of what happened earlier.

‘You better run Gaara because once I am through with you, you’ll wish for death,’ Sasuke vowed to himself as he watched the redhead exit the room.

It was then that the doors to the balcony opened, revealing the form of Kisame, “Who is he?” Fugaku asked with a frown, “And why the hell is everyone coming and going… let’s hope he doesn’t have sex with Naruto too.”

“Fugaku that was uncalled for!” Jiraya yelled, loosing his temper for once towards the Uchiha lord, “I will not have you imply that my grandson is a slut.”

“Jiraya?” The older man turned to look at Tsunade only to figit in dread under the cold stare, “You should look in the mirror yourself sometime if you want to mention that.”

Sasuke ignored the arguing adults as he eyed Kisame as he walked towards Naruto and picked him up gently, making sure he was wrapped securely within the blanket, before carrying him bridal-style back towards the balcony doors.

‘That must have been when he dropped the chloroform,’ he thought following the man outside where the fish man cautiously placed Naruto in front of him as he mounted his dragon and flew off.

“I guess we now know who took him,” Jiraya stated walking over to stand next to Sasuke while looking at the mirage dissipate as the spell collapsed, he looked over at the Uchiha heir and smiled, “Don’t worry… we will get him back,” he put an arm around Sasuke’s shoulder in a comforting manner, “It may not seem like it at first, but with someone like Shikamaru, Tsunade, Arashi, your father and myself helping you… you’ll have your mate back in your arms soon.”

“For once he’s right, “Tsunade stated moving to join them, she moved till she faced Sasuke, then holding up a glowing hand she pressed it gently against the Uchiha’s forehead and chest feeding a sense of soothing healing power within the raven, calming his instincts that were thrashing about demanding he find his mate fast, “We’ll make sure the bastard pays for doing this… no one messes with my grandson and gets away with it.”

The intense presence of the woman made Sasuke smile, it reminded him so much of his mate, that he could see how the two were related, “Thank you…” Now it was only a matter of time and how quickly they could find him.

(Elsewhere and later in the day)

Itachi stood sitting at his desk, his head was within his hands and he found himself drawing a shaky breath, “God… what have I done…” it hadn’t seemed like it would have mattered, but with the realization that His niece or nephew was now in jeopardy meant something to him, he didn’t want to be the one to have killed something that shared his blood before it even had a chance to prove its importance in his life.

“I can’t let it happen…” he continued to mumble, in the back of his thoughts, he wished he had someone whom he could confide in regarding this, but his family were now his enemies and his greatest ally and friend, Kisame, was dead at his own hands.

“What can’t you let happen?” Itachi looked up in surprise at Gaara as he entered the office.

“It’s nothing…” The Uchiha stated trying to distract himself with something in order to avoid his assassin’s blank look, “By the way you no longer need to watch the Key, Kisame kidnapped him Arashi’s tower.” Because the dark-haired man wasn’t looking he didn’t notice the look of startlement cross Gaara’s face.

“He’s here?” Gaara was hoping it didn’t mean that they were commencing the ritual so soon.

Itachi didn’t seem fazed by the question, he looked at Gaara and nodded, “He’s sleeping in my room right now, so don’t disturb him, he needs all his strength for what will happen next.

Gaara’s fist tightened in reflex at the news, “You’re really going to kill him?”
“Of course he is…” they were joined by the presence of an amused Orochimaru, “All the gates have been gathered… once Naruto awakens anointed for the ceremony and then sacrificed,” the older sennin said this will a blood chilling grin.

Gaara suppressed a shiver of rage as the man put an arm across his shoulder and leaned in till the redhead could feel the other’s breath against his ear, “A recent spy has told me of your affections toward the key… I have to wonder if maybe the children growing within the boy’s belly are yours or the Uchihas.”

The redhead didn’t have to look to know that Itachi’s eyes were glaring over at him, “You slept with my brother’s mate?”

Gaara knew better than to lie at this point, knowing it may cost his life to do so, he chose to tell the truth, “I did…”

Orochimaru seemed to think the whole idea was amusing, he moved his arm from Gaara’s shoulder and strode further into the room wear he sat in a leather overstuffed chair across from Itachi, “It really is too bad that the key has to die… now we will never know who the babies belong too…”

‘Something has to be done,’ the sudden thought simultaneously crossed both Itachi’s and Gaara’s minds at the same time, whether for good or ill, it seemed the outcome would be decided by the ceremony.


Well, that’s it for chapter 18; I hope you all liked it. The ending of this story is fast approaching and it could mean the death of someone important. I hope you all stay tuned to find out what happens. I would like to thank everyone for their continued support, thanks and good evening ^_^