Don't Look Down

Don't Look Down

Chapter 3 The One Who Saved Me

Beta byItaNarulover


Kisame chuckled as he stood back, "Well Ita-chan, what are you doing here and you brought a kid that insulted me?!" He looked back and forth between them; Itachi would never have brought someone home with him unless it was necessary.


"Oops." He covered his mouth and hesitantly looked to his right away from Itachi that was on his left. "I'm sorry Mr. Kisame." Naruto out right bowed to the blue male.


Kisame left the door and went inside, leaving the door wide open.


"Naruto, I told you not do say anything about his looks." He felt ashamed of Kisame but he did do that to himself.


He placed his hands together in front of his face. "I couldn't help it! I'm really sorry Itachi. Why does he look like that?"


Itachi turned around, grabbing Naruto to do the same. "He tattooed his whole skin with blue ink and a dentist sharpened his teeth."


"Oh." Naruto eyes widened for a slip second before they went back to normal.


Itachi turned back around and went inside, Naruto followed really close to Itachi's back. "Oh." he stopped, making the blond run into him. "Don't touch the fish tanks."


"Gotcha." He nodded his head firmly. He wasn't going to disappoint Itachi again, Itachi started moving again. They reached the living room where they found Kisame on the couch smoking a bunt.


"So, who's the kid?" He gestured with his hand holding the smoke.


"Naruto." He told him, he then read his grey shirt. 'I Got Wood.'


He took a puff of smoke, inhaling and blowing. "Never heard of ya."


Itachi walked over to the couch, grabbed the blunt from his hand. "No, you wouldn't." He sat down and smashed the blunt in the ashtray.


"HEY!" Kisame shouted as he pushed the ravens hand away from the ashtray. "That was the last of it." He picked the blunt up and tried to straighten it out to try and smoke it again. "Why are you here?!"


"Where's Deidara?"


"He's at work." He relit the blunt and inhaled. "You aren't fun anymore. You should start smoking again."


Itachi huffed and pushed himself hard into the couch's back. "Damn. I needed to talk to him."


He brought a hand up to ruffle his hair; he then looked up to found an uncomfortable blond.


"You can sit." He pointed to the chair that wasn't too far away from where he was standing.


Naruto gave a long look at the torn up chair that looked like it was older than him. He began to move, it looked like he was heading for the chair but in fact he was heading for the couch.


He fell back against the couch, squeezing next into Itachi and the armrest. "I can't protect you over there." He grinned at the frowning face.


Itachi moved over an inch, allowing and letting the boy to fully sit on his ass.


"Aww, Itachi's has a crush! How cute." He puckered his lips at the Uchiha; he then gave them a knowing smirk.


Naruto jumped to his feet, pointing a shaky finger at Kisame. "I am not his crush. I'm only here to save him!"


Itachi cut in before Kisame could make it worse. "Naruto. Could you get us sodas from the kitchen. It's just in there." He pointed a finger behind him and to the side through an arch way to the kitchen. "In the refrigerator, top shelf."


Naruto sighed as he lowered his shoulders and finger. "I guess so. But I'm not getting anything for him!" He gave Kisame a death glare as he went into the kitchen.


"What's with the kid?" He picked his legs up and set them on the coffee top as he finished his smoke.


Itachi let his head fell back against the couch's back. "I saved him and now he thinks he owes me."


"Just tell him to give you sex and call it even." He leaned forward and smashed his blunt into the ashtray before leaning back.


"I'm not going to do that." He said as he sat up, taking off his wool black jacket and threw it on the coffee table. He then sat back in his black and brown sweater. He crossed his arms over his chest and then gave a light cough.


"Why? It's not illegal here." He rubbed his hands together as the room was heating up on a cold day.


Itachi looked at Kisame as if he'd lost his head. "I don't care. I'm still not doing that. I don't care if he follows me the rest of my life; I'm not doing that to him."


"Doing what to me?" Naruto came back in and only had two cans in his hands. He handed one off to Itachi before sitting down next to him. Blue eyes looked at him waiting. Sounds of a can being opened and then Naruto opened his.


Kisame stared amused at the both of them. "Are you sure you don't have a crush on him?" He shifted his body so that he was facing Itachi and the blond kid.


Naruto took a large sip of his drink before talking back. "Yup. I'm sure." He slumped down on the couch to get more comfortable as he looked around the room. "Is that a shark!?" Naruto jumped up and headed over to the large tank with thick glass with ting fish and a small baby shark swimming around.


Kisame smirked as he watched the hyper blond almost bounce everywhere he went. "I'm a volunteer at the Ocean zoo. I orphan baby sharks until they get big enough so that the older adults won't eat them."


Itachi's back relaxed as he settled in and drank his cold drink. It was nice being here, watching Naruto begin to follow the shark with his eyes that matched the water color. Naruto was startled when the front door opened a taller blond came in, tugging off his tie and kicking his shoes off.


Kisame stood up and walked over to where Naruto was and he found a white plastic container, he ripped the lid off and off a green fishnet, to scoop one of many tiny goldfish and dumped them into the shark tank. "Deidara you finally came back!" The baby shark swam and with a quick motion he chummed and did a roll.


"Cool." Naruto let out a gasp of excitement as a fin from the goldfish sank to the bottom.


Deidara didn't look at anyone in the room; he headed to the door that was dangled in front of the couch. "I hate work!" He opened the door and went inside only to come back out. "There's not a drop of clay anywhere."


Kisame chuckled as he went back to the couch, stepping over the Uchiha's legs as they were propped on the coffee table. "That's because you use it all by making all of those clay bird models."


Deidara now noticed the other people in his apartment. "Yo Itachi." He nodded to the raven on the couch; he then looked over to see blue eyes staring at him. "Who are you?"


Kisame giggled under his breath. "Itachi's little boyfriend."


He quickly jabbed a finger at Itachi. "I knew it! You like the younger ones." He wiggled his eyebrows. "It made me wonder why you never took up on the offer of dating me. I have blond hair and blues eyes but he's younger..."


Naruto turned around fully; he leaned back on tank base to sneer at the other blond.


"Ignore them Naruto." He told the blond as he glared at his so called friends that teased him at every corner on the simplest of things.


Deidara smirked, eyes on Itachi he moved towards the still sneering young blond. "Aw come on. Don't you want your friends to get along with your new boyfriend?" He wrapped an arm around the younger blond, pulling him closer to his armpit. Deidara looked him over, "He's kind of cute." He stated as he released the boy.


Meet The Losers


Kisame sighed as he walked out the door, "Later!"


There were hmms as he shut the door. "Where's he going?" He asked Itachi as he looked at the cards in his hand.


"Work." Both Deidara and Itachi answered.


Naruto raised his eyebrow; he then looked over the table at Itachi. "Do you work?"


Deidara burst out. "TSHAHA. Uchiha and work don't go together." He laid his cards down. "Full house. Another round?"


"Naha." Itachi laid his cards down and got up, he moved in between the couch and table.


Naruto eyes widened as he watched Itachi leave. "Where are you going?" He got up from his butt to his knees.


"Possessive boyfriend you have there." Deidara commented Itachi.


"I'm just going to the bathroom." Itachi lifted his hand at the boy as he walked into the kitchen and then to the bathroom.


"Do you have a clue what Itachi wants in life?"


Deidara furrowed his eyebrows. "I...I don't think Itachi wants anything…"


Naruto laid his head down; he crossed his arms over his head with his hands gripping his hair. "I'm going to owe him for the rest of my life."


Deidara sat down in the couch and looked at Naruto with a weird expression. "What's with you owing him?"


He took a long deep breath as he lifted his head. "He saved me and now I'm trying to repay him but I'm not finding anything that he wants…"


He blinked as he saw eyelids close over blue eyes. "Oh. So, you're not his boyfriend....huh. Well, Itachi's different from most people. I never saw Itachi want anything that his money couldn't give him."


They heard a door open and then shut, light footsteps skidded across the tiled floor. Itachi walked in and didn't like the look Deidara was sending him. He only glared at him lightly before walking in between the couch and table, sitting back where he was. He sideward glanced at both blonds. "What?"


Naruto shook his head and picked up the pile of cards. He did some tricks with the cards before dealing them out to all three of them.


"You know Itachi, someone is looking for you." Deidara said in his teasing tone.


Itachi cocked his head to the side towards Deidara. "Who?" He had a name already in his head, his parents never called his friends. They thought he didn't have any, so that's probably why. "I think I know the person, spiky hair, black eyes...kind of looks like me." He described as he shyly glanced at the blond boy on his knees.


"You got it, unless he changed his hair and his eyes."


Naruto couldn't help but to curiously wonder who they were talking about. "Who are you talking about? Who's looking for you Itachi?" Naruto stood up as he was now waiting. He wasn't getting any answers quickly like he wanted; he started tapping his foot against the peach carpet.


Itachi didn't like talking about his family. "It's nobody, Naruto. Sit down and let's play the game."


"You're lying to me." Naruto kept standing; his knees didn't shake even though they felt like doing so. "I don't like when you don't tell me anything."


"Naruto…" There was a long pause after that. "It's none of your business." Itachi was starting to get defensive as Naruto kept pressing on.


"It is my business to know everything about you."


Itachi balled a fist next to his hip so that they couldn't see him doing the action. "No it's not! I'm getting sick and tired of you following and asking me where I'm going and who I'm talking about!"


"I'm just trying to find out how I can repay you for saving me."


Itachi grimaced as he couldn't get Naruto to think he didn't need to repay him. "I'm started to regret saving you!"


Naruto stopped, hurt and pain washing over his face.


Itachi was shocked and his look showed it. "Wait a minute…I…I didn't mean that."


Naruto bit his lip. "Yes, you did." He turned away and rushed to the door; he threw it open and left without closing it.


Itachi lowered his head into his hands. "Fuck!"


TBC