Little Drummer Boy

“God why are you saving us now?” I feel the words trickle from my lips as another tear streams from my eyes.

I feel like falling on my knees and thanking God, but I can no longer control my limbs and my sight is blurring. As my head swims with the lack of blood.

My eyes rolled to the back of my head as my body went numb, I fell. Feeling the wind whip past my body as I free fell to the ground. With a load thump I hit the ground, my body writhing on the dirt for a brief second before darkness took me.

For a long time I sit in the dark, I felt nothing, heard nothing, a nothingness engulfed me in a wholeness that was almost comforting; I almost felt like staying in it forever until finally I heard something. At first it was deafening after breaking such a whole silence.

I look around and finally I see something, a tiny dot of light breaking through and illuminating just a small bit of the darkness but it was enough to fill me with something I will call hope.

My eyes flutter open and the light floods my vision, so I blink trying to capture something in my sight. The first thing I see confounds me, my captain is leaning over me and staring right into my eyes.

His face is soft, and his eyes are lined with complete worry. I feel a smile tug up my cheeks as I reach up and cup his face with my hand and whisper,” Ma always says worrying will make ya older.”

I watch with curiosity as a sad giggle purrs from his delicate lips and he leans back into his chair. With all my might I try and sit up, I hate feeling so weak. His large, gentle hand presses against my chest as he pushes me back into my bed.

My eyes look into his with confusion as he shakes his head, “You are too weak, and have lost too much blood to be doing much of anything.” I nod and rest into the bed, letting my eyelids fall slightly, but never taking my sight from the captain.

“Where am I…and what happened at the battlefield?”

His head rises as he gets a far off look and stares at the tents roof, he always gets this look whenever he is remember something. I had started noticing this when I was allowed inside all the captains tents as they discussed their battle plans and such.

“We were saved…a group of reinforcements arrived just in time to save the rest of us.” I nod and turn my head to look at the tents opening.

A man is ducking down and entering, his long brown hair slightly falling over his shoulder; the loose tie allows it to flow wherever it feels.

“Shika!” I smile and greet him warmly, my heart happy to see that at least he lived, my best friend…and once something more.

His face lights with a smile as he walks over to me, first saluting the captain before he takes a seat next to me.

“Glad to see your ugly face made it.” He giggles as his hand grips mine.

I giggle warmly as I embrace his hand. His free hand comes forward and brushes away the hair that falls in my sight. I feel the crimson burning slightly on my cheeks as his fingers lightly touch my skin.

My eyes quickly snap to the side, taking in the captain’s face. A scowl turned down his eyes as his fingers gripped his knee tighter. I am curious to this reaction but I say nothing as Shika leans forward and whispers.

“I don’t know what I would have done without you.” A soft smile takes my lips as I look up to him thankfully and nod my head.

“I don’t know what I would do without you…brother.” He giggles softly as he raises and shakes his head.

“Troublesome little brother.” With that he ducks down and exits the tent, going to rejoin his unit. A smile remains gently etching out my face as I slowly turn upwards to face my captain.

His eyes are looking down, at a spot below my bed and an expression that could only be described as shame shone through his face.

I frown as my hand reaches out, cautiously it lands on his knee, my fingers gently squeeze as I state cheerfully.

“I owe you my life Captain…whatever you want of me…it is yours…I let you down…and was a fool…I must repay my debt to you, to regain any honor.”

A smirk slowly raises his lips as his eyes lock again with mine.

“No Naruto…it was I who let you down. You are a brave and honorable soldier; it was the rest of my men who let me down…never you.”

He leaned forward, his body coming closer to mine. His body heat soon enveloped me and I felt my face flush as my heart skipped faster in my chest.

His eyes were slightly misted as his fingers pressed against my chest and pulled my shirt down from my collar toward my navel, a large hole had ripped the side of my shirt open and revealed an unsightly gash clotted with blood and dirt, a rag placed over part of it.

My leg shifted slightly to the left, I bite my lower lip as a whine builds in my mouth. I look to the captain’s eyes with a false smile as I put my leg back in the position it had been. I see him shake his head as his fingers stream lightly down my abdomen and remove my shirt.

His arm wraps around my back and gently raises me from the bed, completely removing my shirt. I shiver as the cool breeze lightly dances over my exposed skin. Deep onyx eyes glance up at mine with a bit of a raised eyebrow then go back to staring at my exposed nakedness.

I don’t know why but I feel a blush burning on my cheeks brighter then before and I feel the need to cover myself but his hands quickly grip me sides in place as a doctor comes in. My eyes look in horror at the little brown bag a blonde woman is holding as she pulls out a large needle.

Pulling myself up slightly I start to protest until captain walks around the bed until he is sitting at the end behind me. His arms appear at either side of me as each grab one of my hands and cautiously pull them up toward my chest and hold them there.

His heat is pouring into me now with such intensity I feel I might pass out; his strong arms wrapped snuggly around me. I quiver as his breathe sweeps over my neck and swirls in my ear.

I see the doctor look at him with a questioning gaze as she sits next to me, the needle outstretched toward my gapping wound, threaded and ready. I hear him grunt, at this she nods and his grip tightens around me as he whispers.

“This will be very painful Naruto,” he pauses as his lips come into contact with my glistening skin and his arms squeeze me tighter into his chest,” but afterwards I promise to make everything all better.”

My heart skips in my chest as I feel every fiber of my being tingle with a strange emotion. His chin snuggles into my neck and shoulder as needle enters my skin for the first time.

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