The Guardian

A/N: Shit I almost updated my Psych assignment...:sweatdrop: luckily i checked before adding chapter!!

Chapter 4:

The rest of that week had passed fast enough. Naruto hadn’t mentioned anything to Sasuke about the kiss. He had feeling Sasuke didn’t remember. He couldn’t help feeling worried that Sasuke didn’t have any friends from that school of his. He decided to talk to Sasuke about it. It had been a few weeks since Sasuke had been back at school…he hadn’t been caught getting into a fight, but he did come home with a black eye, a split lip or a cut somewhere.

Naruto did try to find out what was wrong, but the boy had clammed up and refused to tell him anything. And much worse…every time there was a fight, a nightmare was sure to follow. Naruto couldn’t remember how many times in the past few weeks he had run into the brunette’s room to comfort him. Honestly, he was starting to get more than worried…he was desperate for an answer…something…something that could stop Sasuke looking like that.

Sakura visited a lot, but she’d stopped in the last few days. What with classes and Sasuke, Naruto didn’t seem to have time for anything else. He was extremely tired out and decided to ask Tsunade to tell him exactly what happened with Sasuke.

This fine evening he was relaxing on the sofa. Sasuke hadn’t returned from school yet, mentioning something about having to do a project with some classmate. When Naruto had teased him about whether it was his girlfriend, Sasuke had glared a death glare and left. Naruto smiled…no girl would want that boy, if he treated them like that.

The door bell rang. It was Sakura. She sat down next to him. “So Sweetie, do you like this dress?” she asked him, not bothering to note his too tired face.

He looked her over; it was a nice dress…a red strapless which reached her knees when she stood. He nodded appreciatively. “Yeah…wow, you look really beautiful!” she grinned at that and then her eyes narrowed. She grabbed his collar and yanked him in for a kiss. They snogged for a while and then she began feeling his crotch up when he stopped her.

“I’m sorry Sakura, not today. I’m really wiped out and I have to cook when Sasuke gets home.” He sighed and covered his face with his hands.

Sakura stared at him as if wondering how he could turn her down. “Naruto. Baby, what’s wrong?”

“Gosh I’m just tired. I’m also worried. Sasuke has been getting into so many fights and I wish he’d just tell me what was wrong so I can help him. He’s hurting and I know it! I want to be there for him, but it’s becoming really difficult. Sometimes I feel like just skipping college and making sure Sasuke is ok…you get what I mean?” Naruto looked up at her.

“Sasuke is getting to be a nuisance! You should just get rid of him, now! You’re not the only one he has, send him back to your godmother or put him in foster care! He’s ruining you!” Sakura ground out angrily.

Naruto stared at her. “You can’t be serious… you want me to throw him out? Sakura, he’s my ward! I can be there for him! Putting him in foster care is so not the solution! I can’t believe you suggested that!”

Sakura stood up, glaring at Naruto. She was completely furious. “Ever since that boy came, it’s been Sasuke this and Sasuke that! Every time I come to see you it’s Sasuke, Sasuke, Sasuke! You have to cook for Sasuke so you don’t have time! You need to look after him, so you don’t have time! All I’m asking for is a little bit of time as your girlfriend…but no! I hate it! I was here before that maniac, entered your life and now you’re pushing me out to make room for that soppy little orphan...”

Naruto looked shocked before anger clouded his features too. “I CARE ABOUT HIM! I love the boy like he was my brother or something! I can help him and I’m not going to give up because you got into a bloody hissy fit! He’s a teenager….I won’t force another teenager to go through what I went through!”

“You know what? We need time apart. You are driving me nuts!” Sakura stomped out, not noticing that Sasuke was hidden in a niche in the wall. The dark haired boy heard the door slam and Naruto collapse on the couch.

I CARE ABOUT HIM! I love the boy….Sasuke couldn’t help hearing those words over and over again. No one had said that and meant it before. Then he slipped out and pretended to enter once more. The moment he entered the living room, Naruto jumped up with a huge smile on his face.

“Hey, Sasuke…how was school?”

Sasuke wished he could just comfort the blond, whose smile looked faker than a clown’s red nose. “It was fine. I had to go to Gaara’s house…it was extremely boring. That’s it. Oh yeah…I have holidays tomorrow and the day after…want to do something?”

Naruto nodded. “How about we visit a friend of mine? He’s got a farm a few miles from here…it should be fun…”

Sasuke considered it for a moment. He’d never done stuff like that before and well, Naruto needed a break. “Yeah that suits me fine!”

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The farm was a nice place. The house was really small, though. It was built on top of a small rise in the ground, cream colored with a tiled green roof. Naruto drove up the small, slightly bumpy drive way and stopped a few feet away from the house.

A tall man with a mop of wild gray hair and a most of his face covered by a mask came towards them. Naruto got out and ran towards the man, enveloping him in a hug. Then he turned to Sasuke. “Sasuke meet Kakashi, my guardian of sorts…he was my father’s student! Kakashi this is my ward, Uchiha Sasuke.”

Kakashi seemed like he was smile, at least the eye curved upwards. “Nice to meet you Sasuke! Can’t believe this moron is your guardian! He can’t even take care of himself!”

Sasuke smirked. “Yeah, he’s a moron…”

Naruto frowned and glared at him childishly for that. Sasuke rolled his eyes; it was funny how childish the older man could be…it was like there was a five year old stuck in that nineteen year old body. He helped the older men with the suitcases… and lugged them up the small porch into a smaller kitchen. There was just enough space in the kitchen for two people to stand side by side. Kakashi led them up to a medium sized bedroom on the first floor. It had a huge double bed with a small bedside table and a stained glass lamp on it. There was a very small bathroom adjoining the bedroom. A cupboard stood at one corner, with a full length mirror on it.

Naruto shoved his bags into a corner and took the last one from Sasuke. “Okay! Now all we have to do is get some lunch. Then we’ll help out at the farm! I’ll show you around after lunch k? Um it’s ok that we’ll have to sleep in the same bed right?”

We’ll be sleeping in the same bed?? Sasuke shook of the tingling feeling in him and nodded. They went down for lunch; it was very simple compared to what Naruto had been making for him. Just sausages, onion and bread. Naruto doused his sausage in barbeque sauce before eating with great speed. In a blink of an eye, the sausage was gone and three more followed. Then he whined about having to wait for the others to finish. Sasuke sighed and shook his head before getting up to clean his plate.

The moment they were done, Naruto got them squeezed onto Kakashi's tractor. Naruto excitedly pointed out the stables, the meadow, the barn, the pen for the sheep, the different crop growing there and shed used for carpentry. He seemed to really have forgotten that he was nineteen, as he ran around pointing excitedly and yelling at the op of his voice. Five dogs bounded out to greet him, toppling the blond to the floor and licking him clean. Sasuke was sure he’d squeak if he was rubbed. At last Naruto’s excitement seemed to lessen and he stood panting a bit, but still grinning.

Kakashi tsked. “Naruto, you shouldn’t be wearing yourself out like this…you’ll never be able to work at this rate. Ok, now we’ll have to begin working and you’ll need to meet my farm hands. Naruto you can work in the stables with Raidou. Sasuke I’ll show you where Izumo and Kotetsu work at the barn. You can milk the cows. And I will be doing some work patching up the fence.”

They nodded and split up. Sasuke was intrigued by the milk machine and enjoyed milking the cows. Izumo and Kotetsu were fun; they talked continually putting him at ease. “So you’re Naruto’s ward…gosh I can’t believe he’s got a ward!! How dyu like it eh? Him being your guardian and stuff?”

Sasuke shrugged. “He’s a dobe…but he’s kind.”

They seemed to have got it that Sasuke wasn’t much of a talker. So instead they told him about Naruto. “Well, he came to stay with Kakashi after the great tragedy! He was a small ‘un… like about ten or so…” Izumo started off.

“Yeah… he and Kakashi used to stay at the city on school days and come here for the weekends. I remember Naruto used to have this big orange school bag; he used to bring huge amounts of home work here. Then he’d go find a quiet place and settle down…” Kotetsu smiled, his eyes crinkling at the corners as he recollected.

“Tell me more…” said Sasuke, his curiosity whetted.

“Well, ok. He used to love this farm, he helped out all the time…but usually it ended in disasters…like the time he wanted to clean the horses and fell into a pile of manure instead. Thing is he loved the horses so much it didn’t bother him. And he ran all around the house until Kakashi realized. It took us days to clean that up and five bottles of shampoo and shower gel to make him smell all right for school…” Izumo chuckled.

“What was the great tragedy?”

They’re expression turned guarded at once. Kotetsu rubbed the bandage on the bridge of his nose. “Well, Naruto will tell you sometime. He hasn’t had it easy, I can tell you. But he was too strong to be a cry baby.”

Izumo nodded. “He got chased by a bull once.” He changed the subject and started to giggle a bit. “He’d watched a bit too much TV, so when he was fourteen, he decided that he was old enough to get on the bull and ride it. But Kakashi had got a new bull, a feisty thing he was. Naruto of course held on for all he was worth, but Trevor…that’s the bull… broke the fence and tossed him off. Naruto started running and almost ran up a tree. When we found him, Trevor was trying to shake him out of the tree and he was clinging for all he was worth. Poor fellow had sore arms for the next few days and they must have hurt like hell, but he didn’t cry at all!”

They talked a bit more about Naruto…how he’d managed to set the meadow on fire, broken his arm in the carpentry shed, been carried off by a run away horse…well Sasuke felt a little glad that he hadn’t known the kid when he was young. Once they finished Sasuke decided to go to the stables and find Naruto.

The moment he walked in, his jaw dropped. The blond was wearing loose dark blue jeans and was shirtless. Sasuke could see black boxers peeking out at his waist and his body had a sweaty sheen to it. Naruto hadn’t noticed him yet, he was grooming a huge gray gelding; his muscles rippling as he brushed the horse down. Sasuke stared with hungry eyes as a bead of sweat made its way down Naruto’s chest, between two small pink nipples and well chiseled abs. It slipped under the waist band of his pants and Sasuke’s eyes followed it hungrily. Sasuke saw a weird spiraling tattoo on Naruto’s firm stomach and was tracing it with his eyes when…

“Sasuke?”

Said fifteen year old looked up with a blush on his face. He met the blue eyes which were staring at him strangely and wondered what to say. “Um…I thought I’d come and find you since I’m done…”

Naruto just grinned and scratched his head. “Yeah, just give me a hand will you? I need to rub Haro down and it’s going to take me a really long time…” Sasuke nodded and took the brush from him, but he had no idea what he was supposed to do with it. Suddenly two hands came around him and a sweaty chest pressed up against him. “Like this…” and Naruto’s hands guided his hands in the directions he was supposed to follow. Sasuke took the chance to lean back against Naruto, and the blond man’s hands stilled for a moment, both of them frozen in their positions. Then Naruto just continued as though nothing had happened leaving a very relieved Sasuke to finish the job after he moved away.

Once they were done, it was all ready five in the evening. They got back to their bedroom and collapsed onto the bed. Naruto smiled. “Fuck, I’ve missed this so much!”

“Yeah, you seemed to be having a lot of fun, dobe! I heard all those stories about you…I’m sure your friends would like to hear some of the things you’ve done…the bull story was cool…” Sasuke said his mouth quirked in amusement.

Naruto groaned. “No!! Why did they have to tell you? I thought they were my secret keepers….”

“Well, they thought that since I’m your ward I needed to know these things….incase you tried to ground me or something…”

Naruto just grinned and ruffled Sasuke’s hair. “Yeah ok, teme…whatever you say…” and Sasuke suddenly felt all warm inside.

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It gets Lemony here...but not too much or in detail...

Sasuke woke up in the middle of the night, panting slightly…he’d dreamed that a rock had fallen onto him…then he realized that it was because Naruto had slung an arm around him. Sasuke tried to get calm, but his skin had begun tingling where Naruto’s arm was touching him. Suddenly the arm cured and yanked; Sasuke went smack into the blond’s chest, he stayed as still as he could, but feeling the soft smooth skin under his lips was a bit too much for him.

On autopilot, he began to kiss the toned flesh, he ran his tongue on it; Naruto tasted a wee bit salty. He blond groaned slightly in his sleep and pulled on Sasuke, so the boy found himself on top of his guardian much to his delight. My will power is non-existent…Sasuke bent down to capture those soft pink lips in his and nibbled at Naruto’s bottom lip. The blond’s mouth parted allowing the dark haired boy access. Sasuke slipped his tongue inside, loving Naruto’s slightly spicy taste. Suddenly the blond ground upwards against Sasuke. The Uchiha gasped, feeling heat pool in his groin. This was going way too fast… if Naruto woke up…if Naruto woke up; Sasuke didn’t know what he’d do. But he still couldn’t stop kissing the blond, light soft kisses… Naruto’s hand suddenly moved down, cupping the boy’s ass and grinding upwards once more. Sasuke bit his lip hard enough to draw blood and now consciously forced himself to move off the blond, before it got out of hand.

He rolled all the way to his side of the bed; breathing hard…his erection was painful. Standing up he hobbled to the bathroom and locked the door behind him. He fumbled with his pants, finally undoing the string and pushing them down with his boxers, thankfully freeing his straining erection. His hand curled over the smooth flesh and began to stroke at a fast pace. Sasuke closed his eyes, imagining it was Naruto’s hand, that the blond was there hovering over him, kissing him and he tightened his grip. Now he imagined it was Naruto under him, moaning very softly as he thrust in and out of that silky heat. He bit his poor lip, abusing it once more as he held in the sounds. But then he came hard and fast into his hand with a short hoarse cry. He slid down against the door, glad that it was over, wondering how he was going to get through another night of this.

Back in the bedroom, Naruto was staring at the ceiling wide awake. He’d pretended to be asleep, he had woken up to Sasuke kissing him and had had no idea what to do, considering what Sasuke had been doing had felt so good. He cursed, feeling guilt welling up in him. This was his ward…a fifteen year old boy! He had no idea how to stop this and the sounds of Sasuke jerking off in the bathroom were driving him nuts…forcing him to imagine things he didn’t want to. He heard a short cry as Sasuke came and then the sound of the boy sliding down the door. Naruto squeezed his eyes shut and forced himself to go back to sleep before Sasuke came back.

Lemony-ness ends here...

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The next day passed all too fast. Sasuke had avoided Naruto as much as he could, busying himself with work on the farm. The blond had acted normal, pretending to question why the boy was avoiding him and such like. Naruto had a hard time; he had to stop checking the boy out, all the time. And at some point the guilt seemed like it was going to kill him. In the evening he came to bed late, making sure Sasuke was asleep on his side before sleeping on the edge of his own side.

The next morning they left early, so that Sasuke could be on time for school and Naruto for college. As Naruto dropped the kid off at school, he wondered if it could ever work out. Then he realized that he still had Sakura whom he loved and that Sasuke would and must stay like a brother to him….nothing more…

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A/N: yeah how was that? I didn’t want to put in too much lime…and no lemon yet cause they have to tie up a few lose ends here!! Anyway please review! Ja ne!

Taka