When He Comes

Alright, you guys have persuaded me. I’m looking for a beta, any takers?

Anyway, you guys have really amazed me. I post my story and a couple days later… Whoa, 30+ review! I personally thought that this story honestly sucked, but you guys have forced me to reconsider. For that, I thank you guys. I couldn’t get this chapter done without your support.

Responses to my reviewers:

To all the people who generally asked me continue, "Thank you and here you go."

To special questions and comments:

To FumetsuKaji:
Thanks for your request for the explanation of “Wind Needles”. It gave me the idea for this chapter.

To Dark Toy:
I didn’t really think about Sasuke explaining his actions, but I hope this chappie satisfies you.

To Dana:
I don’t think I could do Mpreg at the moment. I used to think it was weird. Maybe in some time I will do an Mpreg.

Pyromaniacs Anonymous:
Where is my Pocky!?!


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Everything was going considerable well for the Uchiha since he had returned. Sure he may have been sentence to two hundred hours of community service and probation, but taking missions for free was technically considered community service and the probation wasn’t bad. It wasn’t like he had ANBU following him around every second of every day. He just wasn’t allowed to step foot out of the village limits (the village limits included all the empty forest around the Konoha gates) and he wasn’t allowed to start anymore trouble or he would be in for it big time.

In fact, Sasuke had managed to get most of his community service done already with his first mission. The Konoha hospice needed assistance for a week and during that week Sasuke was a live in resident on call 24/7. His job was to make the terminally ill as comfortable as he could before they passed. That had been finished three days ago and gave him 168 hours right off the bat to start with. He still had a whole year to complete the rest.

As far as the village’s opinion went, they had actually celebrated his return. Konoha families in almost every civilian household toasted to the raven the night his return was announced. When Sasuke was release from his short detention in the Hokage’s dungeon, he came home to find the front porch of his new apartment littered with welcome back gifts. The fan girls had even returned, though cautiously I might add. They didn’t want to upset the boy in anyway whatsoever.

Sakura picked up on old habits. Though she no longer had the childish crush Sasuke, she did try to get him to be more social. At least this time around she was kind enough to include the blonde and even the new members of team Kakashi (Naruto would be willing to bet that she just wanted to see some man on man action between the two younger ravens of the group due to her reaction to Double Knockout Guys Jutsu that Konohamuru used to create a distraction a few months earlier).

All this Sasuke brushed aside as though it were nothing. He had gotten everything the blonde had hoped for him.

But why was Naruto so jealous?

“Sasuke! Naruto!” Naruto and Sasuke had been walking alone together, the silence being something that Naruto had gotten used to by now. They looked across the street to find the source to the noise offending their calm silence. They found Sakura waving at them with Sai at her side looking as indifferent as usual. They seemed to be together a lot lately.

“Chouji’s family is hosting a picnic over in the park and you know how they are with food! It’s gonna be great! Wanna come?!” Sakura exclaimed sounding like an over excited child due to the fact that she had to yell for them to hear her.

Sasuke silence continued leaving Naruto to answer for them. Examining the way Sasuke’s muscles tensed on his forehead, Naruto took his body language as a no. “Sorry Sakura, we’ve got other plans. Maybe next time?”

“KAY!”

The two continued to walk in silence. Naruto of course always had something to talk about, but he wasn’t sure if Sasuke wanted to hear it.

“Ne, Sasuke. I am kind of hungry. Wanna go to Ichiraku’s?”

“Hn.” Thankfully, Naruto was fluent in the language known as Sasuke and took that as a yes. The two walked through opening of the ramen bar and Naruto ordered for the two of them. Naruto set in on his beef ramen. The store had gotten a nice deal on Texas beef, a rarity in this part of the world. Beef from America was considered a delicacy, especially when it was from Texas. The cow ranchers in that state had made it an art. Naruto had never tasted better red meat.

“So, how is your training going?” Naruto looked in surprise to the boy with him. This had been the first full sentence he had formed that day. Sasuke couldn’t exactly help it. Curiosity burned every time he would see the blonde return extremely exhausted and normally carried into the village. One time he saw the blonde being carried in on stretcher by a team of medic ninja. What in the world was he doing out there?

“Well, it’s been going pretty well. I’ve been playing with my wind natured chakra and figuring out what I can do with it. I’m pretty sure that you’ve already heard about Fuuton- Rasengan Shuiriken.” The dark haired boy nodded.

‘When your probation is over, you will be put on team Kakashi. Besides the usual missions, your job is to make sure that Naruto does not use that jutsu. It is very dangerous, not only to the people around, but to Naruto himself,’ Tsunade had warned.

“That’s the first thing I worked on. Then I started to play with it. I can created gusts of wind strong enough to cut down trees and stuff. What I’ve really been working on is my new Fuuton- Senbon.” Sasuke (who had been staring down into his bowl of ramen) looked up to find that Naruto was slurping the soup from his bowl.

‘How the hell came he inhale that stuff while having a conversation?’ he asked himself and looked down into his bowl. He was only three quarters of the way through his and he was feeling pretty heavy. Sliding his bowl to the grateful blonde, he watched him happily put away the rest of the noodles with something akin to amusement.

“Show me.”


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A voice crackled on the radio and Izumo startled out of his pleasant nap. Grumbling, he took notice of the lazy drawl coming through the speaker.

“Don’t mean to get your panties in a bunch ladies, but Sasuke just left the village gates with Naruto. Watch him from your stations and make sure he doesn’t violate his probation.” Shikamaru ended the transmission with a yawn.

“You’d think since he doesn’t really do anything all day, he wouldn’t always be so tired,” Kotetsu said to his snickering friend.

“Yes, but we do know what he does at night,” Izumo said in a lilting voice.

“And if you ever tell anyone about it I will shadow bind your balls to Kotetsu’s face.” The voice crackled over the radio.


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To say Sasuke was surprised at the state of Naruto’s training grounds would be an understatement. He looked at the obliterated trees in the area and the upturned earth that literally extended for miles. A small crater from what looked like an explosion was beginning to fill with water.

“So, for the last month or so, this has been my home away from home,” Naruto grinned sheepishly and habitually began to rub the back of his head.

Sasuke said nothing. Naruto hadn’t expected him to. Instead, he turned around a raised one hand, pushing wind chakra out of his pores. Sasuke could feel what felt like a stinging slap on his bare hands as the chakra reached him.

“I had been experimenting with what would happen if I just shot wind natured chakra straight out of my hand and that was the result. Kakashi-sensei actually got pissed when he got hit by it. Can you believe that?” Naruto still wasn’t expecting a response from his friend so he continued. “So after doing that I wondered, if this was the result of simply shooting chakra out to disperse, what would happen if I concentrated it into one area. You know, zeroed it out…”

Naruto raised his hand again and again Sasuke felt the dull sting on his bare skin, but it passed. Of course you couldn’t see the chakra by itself without activating the Sharigan or Byakugan but you could certainly see the results. A wide circle of earth on the ground began breaking up as if a group of kids from the academy were shooting it with slingshots. The diameter of the area being pelted with chakra became smaller and smaller and the effect became more and more devastating. When the diameter of the area became only a couple of feet wide, the effects looked like someone was attacking the area with a machine gun.

“That is the best I can do so far,” Naruto admitted still grinning that sheepish grin.

“Hn,” Sasuke sounded, still looking at the devastated area of damage in front of it. Although he wouldn’t say it, he was pretty impressed.

Nearly a full minute had passed in silence as Naruto stared at Sasuke expectantly. Grumbling, he turned around and began walking to the village, leaving the other boy behind.

“Naruto, wait!” Sasuke exclaimed. Stomping towards the boy and grabbing his hand, he turned the blonde to face him with a questioning looking in his eye.

“What the hell is wrong with you, Sasuke?” the blonde angrily spat at the boy holding him.

“What?” The raven blinked, confused at the sudden mood swing he had just witnessed.

Pulling his arm from Sasuke, he began his rant. “What do you mean, what? Are you stupid or something? Why do you have to be such a cold and indifferent bastard? I mean, you go and fucking betray the village! Most of the bastards that betray this fucking village are sentence to death! But the great Uchiha doesn’t get punished! No, he gets welcomed with arm wide fucking open. I don’t understand why I have served this village with all my being and these people hate me but you betray them and they fucking worship you! Do you even care that they care! Why-” Naruto’s rant was cut short as Sasuke’s lips silenced him.

Naruto completely forgot whatever he had been going on about the moment before as Sasuke pulled him closer. In a confused haze, he whimpered as Sasuke’s hand found Naruto’s neck and began to rub out the tension that seemed to be permanently situated there.

“I don’t think you understand. They only thing I care about is you.”


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Izumo whistled lowly, checking the action out through the binoculars.

“Well that's a way to shut him up. Why didn’t I think of that before?” Kotestu said to the chuckling brunette beside him.

A familiar voice crackled over the radio once more. “I hope you guys aren’t getting off on this.”

Izumo began to outright giggle as he picked up the receiver to make a reply. “Do you want us to?”

Kotetsu could practically hear the blush on the genius' face as he stuttered a response back.

"Troublesome."


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Naruto didn’t know if he was panting from arousal or anger. He was confused. Yes, he was very confused, and he was growing more and more confused by the moment as Sasuke simply held him in his arms.

“I could never forget about you no matter how hard I tried. Do you know how much you tortured me. Every night it took me hours to fall asleep because I couldn’t get the vision of your smile out of my head. I was pissed when anyone ever interrupted my sleep because at night I’d dream of you. Through every mission I survived, you were the one to keep me alive. Do you know why I left so I could destroy Itachi? Because he wanted to destroy you. He destroyed everything I had ever loved before, I didn’t want you to go next.”

Understanding, that’s what Naruto felt as he leaned into the embrace. This whole time, all he wanted was to save Sasuke. It was his driving force up until he had gotten back. He had no idea that Sasuke was trying to save him.

“Naruto, please say something. Anything! Tell me you love me… tell me you hate me! Just do something!” Sasuke pleaded in desperation. Naruto was shocked to see an distressed Uchiha. He never ever thought he’d live to see the day.

At a loss for words, he responded the only way he could. Pulling Sasuke’s lips down to his, he responded to Sasuke’s sentiment.

‘How could you not know I love you.’


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