Broken Promises

Title: Broken Promises
Author: Tali
Disclaimer: I do not own any part of Naruto or the fandom. I am not making any money off of this story. This is a work of fiction in no way resembling the cannon.
Warnings: Angst, slash, het, cursing; violence and graphic description of sex between men and women as well as two men.
Author’s Note: I’m hoping this will go full circle I’m not a fan of unhappy endings. This story started off one way it was to be a one off, but it appears to have its own ideas of what it wanted to be. All grammar and spelling mistakes are my own. Sorry in advance. FEEDBACK IS ALWAYS ENCOURAGED AND LOVED! :0)

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Naruto was waiting for them at the gates. He was pacing pissed off at having missed a mission to the Sand and on the chance to spend some time with Gaara, as well as half his team being sent on a mission without him. “Stupid Tsunade. Stupid Neji! If we’d just done the recon and come back like we were meant to I’d have been here to go out with them. But NO Neji just had to escort those villagers home!” He was seething; Neji’s kinder gentler side was really starting to grate on his nerves. He’d never say it to Hinata who had been working diligently to get Neji to open up and more social, to make friends with their peers. He was still a stoic jerk most of the time but occasionally he would do something kind enough to make people stop and wonder if he’d been swapped with a Neji clone.

Stilling the blond head jerked up when he heard rustling. Eyes going wide he rushed to Sasuke.”You… oh my god! Sasuke are you ok?” He was pulling at the dark ninja’s shirt searching for open wounds. He was covered in blood and just the sight of it made Naruto’s heart beat triple and his eyes darken murderously.

“Naruto… NARUTO!” Saskura glared at her other teammate. “He’s fine, ok. I healed him! He lost a lot of blood and should really get to the hospital...” When his eyes looked back to her’s Sakura sighed looking down at the ground.
Blinking Naruto looked them over assuming Sasuke’s unwillingness to look into his eyes had come from his exhaustion and possibly pain. Leaning in he put Sasuke’s arms around his shoulders and jumped up carrying Sasuke on his back. He took the quickest route to the hospital, across the rooftops. Normally Sasuke, even bleeding and unable to walk Sasuke would have fought and argued the entire time. Instead Sasuke buried his face in Naruto’s neck breathed in Naruto’s scent and closed his eyes. Reminding himself all he had to lose if his blond lover figured out what he’d done. The silence only further worried Naruto and he wondered how injured Sasuke really was.

The medic nin’s took Sasuke away from Naruto and rushed him back to work on him. Naruto rubbed his hands over his face and his nose twitched, something was wrong, something was off Sasuke smelled different. He loved the way Sasuke smelt and considering he’d been bleeding and Sakura had helped her scent would be on him mingled with his raven’s blood. Naruto couldn’t shake the feeling something else was there.

When Sakura was brought in moments later Naruto hugged her tight and she smelt like Sasuke, blood, and something else something similar and yet different. “Thank you. Thank you for helping him Sakura. I don’t know what I’d do if I lost him.”

Sakura was taken by the medic nin’s who were glaring at Naruto. She muttered something about it being her job. Half an hour Sakura was released she’d been easily healed but Sasuke would have to stay overnight. Sakura had been ordered to the Hokage’s office once she was released and Naruto was ordered home because they’d given Sasuke something to help him sleep. Naruto had fought to stay with Sasuke but he’d been ordered out. They’d threatened to get AMBU to escort him out.

Irritated the blond headed to the house he shared with Sasuke, his tiny apartment not even close to what Sasuke was willing to live in. So Naruto had grudgingly agreed to move into Sasuke’s home. Entering the blond slid his sandals off. He hadn’t even come home after debriefing Baa-Chan and being informed Sasuke and Sakura were on a mission of their own and due back that day Naruto had gone right to the gates to await them.

Grinning Naruto shook his head. Sasuke was completely anal about the house, half the time it looked like some sort of showplace. He moved deeper into the home stopping to grab some clean cloths and went to shower. Fresh and clean in his night shirt and boxers Naruto moved to their bed raising a brow at its unmade state. He flopped face down into the cool sheets and grinned when the scent of Sasuke hit his nose. He loved how Sasuke smelled. His grin became fox like when another scent hit him, “Naughty Sasuke… couldn’t even go three days without getting off?” Then the smile fell, Kyuubi’s slick voice rolling over him tauntingly from the recesses of his mind. “No.” He whispered on hands and knees now moving lower sniffing at the sheets. Shaking his head as the familiar scent assaulted him. His nose wasn’t as good as Kiba’s but thanks to his guest all of his senses were slightly enhanced. His sense of smell enhanced enough to smell his mate’s seed. Well enough to know that had been the odd scent on them both, on Sakura.

“No, no they wouldn’t do that. Sasuke would NEVER do that.” He growled eyes beginning to lose their blue. Breathing deep he got up ripping the sheets from the bed. He was wrong, Kyuubi was wrong and he was tired, jumping to irrational conclusions because he had been worried. They were his friends, Sasuke and he loved one another he would never to that to them. “He wouldn’t do that to me.”

His eyes filled with tears he would not shed, and he shook his head. He stared at the bed and decided it was too big and too lonely to sleep in alone so he took himself to the living room and slept on the sofa. He’d see them tomorrow and then he could look into their eyes and find out what happened.

The silence in the house was loud and he couldn’t sleep because it reminded him of Sasuke’s silence as he’d been carried to the hospital and the way his lover had been unable to look at his face. Across the village in her own apartment Sakura lay in her bed eyes closed in sleep. Sasuke was over her once more taking her whispering words of love. She jerked up eyes wide. In the hospital Sasuke was trapped in a medicated educed sleep with nightmares plaguing his dreams. Tears slid down his eyes into the pillow, Naruto walking away from him again. The dream would replay over and over until the dawn broke over the trees and he could struggle out of it as the medications left his system.

Trembling Sasuke sat up looking out the hospital window as he felt the world crashing down around him. If he told Naruto what happened he stood the chance of getting his lover’s forgiveness. If he hid it there was a chance of Naruto never finding out. But either outcome also had the possibility of him losing Naruto forever and he wasn’t sure which the riskier option was.

** I hated the way the last chapter ended so I felt the need to complete this one and get it posted.**