I knew you would find me

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They met often, under the intense heat of rivalry, rage and maybe on the edge of love. Neither was very sure, but at the moment, neither cared. At the moment they both had reached the limits with each other, the Sharigan blazed with rage and he sent a bone crunching kick towards his sparring partner but the other dodged it, just barely though.

“It’s true and you know it!” Roared the blond suddenly twisting around grabbing the ankle. Sasuke’s teeth gritted and he spun out of the grip jumping backwards nimbly,

“I came back didn’t I?!” He snarled back launching forward a kunai blade flipping in one hand and a large shuriken ready to be let loose with a flick of his wrist in the other. The blond young man suddenly stopped but it was too late Sasuke had raised the deadly weapon. In speed his Sharigan barely caught Naruto had jerked his hand up and caught the swirling shuriken, a splash of blood dropping to the ground as the weapon imbedded itself in his palm. Sasuke raised the kunai, blood fire in his eyes, but Naruto’s other hand caught his wrist, a darkened look possessed the tan face and the eyes suddenly jerked up staring Sasuke dead in the eyes, the edges of the cerulean depths were tinted in bloody anger.

“It was the fact you left.” Naruto whispered….


Sasuke stared almost listlessly at the body now splayed on the floor; the wounds were healing slowly, mostly due to the seal Kuroraka had placed on the body to keep the chakra in check. He couldn’t have Naruto tapping into that power whatsoever. The body shifted, the eyes tightening before the man reared up abruptly, the eyes flashing blood red. The blond haired Hokage curled up as waves of pain cascaded throughout his body.

“Moving wouldn’t do you any good.” Sasuke’s voiced stepping silently towards the other man. Naruto’s wild eyes turned towards him and he clenched his mouth closed, his eyes narrowing, the color fading slowly to the cerulean blue as he struggled upward. Lightning fast Sasuke had Naruto’s throat in one pale hand and forced him back down to the ground ignoring the gasp of pain from his former lover.

“I told you not to move.” He whispered, loosening his fingers slightly as the other man coughed, Sasuke let his hand slide from the flesh and gently grasped the chin, rebellious, angry eyes glared at him.

“But then, you were never one to listen to orders.” he mused leaning over the man not breaking the eye contact.

“Shut up.” Naruto snarled, the fingers tightened on his lower jaw and his head was forced up towards the other shinobi’s, and the lips grazed his own,

“You couldn’t bring yourself to kill me, and now that I have you, you will not be leaving.” He breathed caressing the bottom lip along with his tongue, the lips pressed tighter together and the head wrenched away from his fingers while and strong tan hand connected against the chest hard with a fair amount of chakra he had slowly been gathering.

“I told you not to move.” Hissed Sasuke as he braced a hand on the floor, having been shoved two feet from the other man. Naruto staggered up to his feet but it was evident that the movement only caused severe pain by the grimace forcing its way on the face. Letting a low sigh out Sasuke straightened himself out and stepped forward.

“You don’t have the strength to fight me; you’ll only end up damaging your body.” The blond gasped a bit in pain as he slid into a fighting stance.

“As long as I fix my mistake, the condition of my body is irrelevant.” He snarled through his panting breathes,

“I still don’t believe you could kill me, can kill me.” Replied the raven headed man, there was no mocking tone to his voice even as he pushed his former lover to the wall, his lips grazing over the gasping mouth,

“You have mourned for me for three years, my face plagued your dreams and your nightmares,” He murmured, suddenly drawing a hand up and brushing a few sweat plastered blond strands of hair from the forehead, the other mans eyes widening a bit.

“….Your face from that night has plagued my dreams and my nightmares…” He continued in a murmur,catching the lips in a soft kiss.
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“Can someone please tell me why a rag tag group of missing nin have not only taken out Konoaha’s most competent nin, but was able to capture the Hokage?” Asked Tsunade, the former Hokage, her stance was rigid, and her eyes narrowed as she gazed around the group of ANBU, missing nin-hunters and few available Elite Jounins in the room. Kiba and Shikamaru among the group.

“Tsunade-sama—it seems that Uchiha Sasuke has been alive all this time and has been gathering corpses and using some form of advanced resurrection jutsu’s and controlling jutsu's….there were only a few Shinobi’s that we encountered that were of the living.” Shikamaru responded wearily, the blond women clutched her brow.

“Explain everything.” She commanded, breathing in to calm herself.

“There were no true patterns of how they attacked and we were unable to question any of them,” Continued the Shadow-manipulator, “Our group had been split three ways, the corpses only attacked the groups with the strongest shinobi’s and the chuunin’s chosen for the guard should be arriving before dawn.”

“Naruto-sama had made the final decision to only have Hyuuga Neji with him when we split completely from the main force; I believe he wished to receive his answers on his own.” Shikamaru finished flatly,

“Of course.” Gritted the older Shinobi, but before she could continue Shikamaru raised his voice again,

“There is something else I need to inform you that is relevant to Naruto-sama, but I will only do so in privately.” Tsunade glanced briefly at him, her lips pursed together tightly, she nodded once in understanding

“Kiba I need you to go to Sakura for a final check then rest, tonight you will be leaving with an eight man squad to retrieve the Hokage, the rest of you return to your posts immediately, I don’t want anything breathing without me knowing about it. Dismissed!” She barked. Shikamaru frowned slightly as he waited for the final Shinobi to leave.

“Now what is this information that you couldn’t declare in front of the others?” She asked,

“The Hokage is in a relationship with the Kazekage-sama—”

“What?!” Tsunade roared, her eyes wide at the information, Shikamaru let a long suffering sigh escape his lips at having to explain this to the former Hokage,

“Naruto has been in a relationship with Gaara-sama, but it seems either the Uchiha still had plans to continue his research on demon vessels….or he has more of an emotional attachment to the Hokage…”

“Does that man not think before he does anything…” Tsunade muttered to herself getting over the shock of the two men, no Kage’s, where in a relationship, then, “Uzamaki’s orders were to kill him,” She rubbed her fingers over her temples, “He was confirmed dead by the medical shinobi’s who were chosen specifically for that mission.” She insisted.

“He did” A voice sounded as the door opened slowly revealing Hyuuga Neji, his breathing shallow from the movement he wasn’t supposed to be doing. Shikamaru narrowed his eyes…he didn’t realize he had released him…or maybe it was his own exhaustion.

“You shouldn’t be out.” Shikamaru said crossing his arms; the grimace passing over the others lips did not go unnoticed.

“I’m fine—Tsunade-sama, Naruto had performed a perfect execution, there was a medical nin who carried out one of the checks that was killed two weeks later, I believe he was…”

“No…..it wasn’t.” Shikamaru suddenly cut in, his eyes narrowed in thought,

“I went on that mission—the kill was clean” Argued the other shinobi, but Shikamaru started shaking his head,

“It was clean….but at the missions return I followed him, you were there, you knew his mental state, he didn’t receive missions for at least week after that,” The black eyes darted to the former Hokage’s before looking back to the Hyuuga who seemed as if he was going to argue, “It was only when he was cleaning his blade, it lacked efficient chakra marks that would have been left on the blade for enough chakra to have broken down the Uchiha’s vitals, which would have killed him instantly.”

“Why wasn’t this reported to me?” Tsunade asked, her jaw clenching at the newest information, Shikamaru felt the Hyuuga’s eyes on him and he shrugged,

“I was more concerned what he was going to do to himself then what his blade looked like at that moment,” he replied truthfully, Neji stared at him,

“Even if he was Naruto-sama’s lover, he was a missing-nin and a dangerous one at that; there is no way he would disobey a direct order like that.” The Hyuuga said, glancing over at the former Hokage, She stood a bit rigidly, staring out the window, her eyes narrowed in thought,

“Shikamaru please go to you father and tell I want to see him as well as Chozu and Inoichi immediately, you both are dismissed, go rest. You’ll need it.” She turned to the desk and began rummaging for a scroll, Neji turned took a step back to leave, Shikamaru at his side.

“Come on you’re in no condition to be up.” The Shadow manipulator grumbled, suddenly grabbing his elbow as Neji felt the weariness to begin to take him.

“Let go, I’m fine.” Hissed the other man, but the wave fatigue hit him once more and his body automatically leaned into the other jounin, Shikamaru only rolled his eyes,

“Tch….fine my ass….” He mumbled.
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“His scent is fading quickly—”

“Move faster.” Gaara ordered, cutting the small dog off, Pakkun was able to follow the unique Hokage’s scent when Gaara had lost all trace of his chakra and ever since the murderous intent had only risen to a barely controlled level. Kakashi motioned one hand for the rest of their small group to fall back a little and caught up to the Kazekage.

“Gaara-sama, we’re heading straight towards Suna, have there been unknown nin movements in your land?” Gaara’s eyes flashed to him, the sand spiking a bit in anger.

“There have been no troubles in Suna, and what lays to the south is unexplored territory.” His eyes narrowed even more towards Kakashi, “The fact that the Uchiha has been living and planning this within the outskirts of my land does not need to be said out loud.” Gaara hissed suddenly and a wave of sand swirled dangerously around him as if to say any more and everything would be destroyed. The small dog suddenly leapt up to their level,

“We have unknown nins approaching with high levels of chakra stored in their bodies—corpses like everything else— ” He was cut off as Gaara surged forward rage emitting from him in waves, it didn’t take long with a streak of sand lurched forward, Gaara’s hands guiding it and a high scream as the first nin was killed could be heard. Kakashi’s sharigan caught the jutsu of another nin coming from the left but in seconds anything that was going to attack was over whelmed with the Kazekage’s sand.

“We keep moving.” Gaara said, leaving behind ten attackers, the fight hadn’t even lasted ten minutes. Kakashi silently nodded once to Lee who moved from to make sure none were left alive.

“All dead, why does he use dead shinobi’s?” Lee asked quietly

“Maybe he only wanted to retrieve Naruto back—I don’t see him killing him after having all this trouble to get him—the need for his demon is non-existent.” Kakashi replied, his eyes on the back of the other Kage as they moved liked shadows through the trees,

“You do not feel as if Uchiha Sasuke is a threat to our Hokage?” The green beast asked, his voice a bit hushed,

“That’s what I don’t understand…something’s not fitting right…If he wanted him dead, it would have happened, and we would know.” Kakashi replied….his former student had probably killed every one of his subordinates…but the reasons why, Kakashi couldn’t figure out, he fell back to the other following closely behind;

“If this becomes a battle between the Kazekage and the Uchiha, do not get in the way, our main objective is to remove Naruto as quickly as possible.” Kakashi ordered. Shino tilted his head in understanding, while Lee’s four men cell nodded. The Sharginen wielder looked up at towards the Kazekage, if Naruto was killed; there would be no stopping that shinobi.


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