Oh, my heart!

A/N: Hi! I am back from my holidays. I have to apologise profusely about this delay in my updates and all. My computer crashed first then my internet line crashed. Damn. But their finally fixed. Yay! Here is the installment of ‘Love? Troublesome’ enjoy.


Chapter 5


“Dobe! Why the hell are you taking so long?!” Sasuke opened the door only to duck an incoming geta thrown his way. “Oi!”

“Stay out Teme! I’m not done yet!”

The raven was about to yell at the other but the sight before him had his mouth pause in agape. Naruto is kneeling beside the futon. A simple baby blue kimono with random pinkish floral designs hung onto his body loosely, plain blue obi in his left hand while the other clutches onto the opening in effort of holding the pretty material together from exposing himself any further. The bottom half of the kimono splayed around him and his face blushes ever so slightly from embarrassment in this half dressed state. “I said I’m not done”

Sasuke broke out of his stupor. “Why the hell are you not dressed yet?”

“Like I know how to put this thing on” Naruto looked at the other in disbelief. “I could have been done a long time ago if you had not dumped my clothes inabasinfullofwater!”

Sasuke snorted. “I am not allowing you to wear those pants and shirt any longer. Five days is enough. Unless you wanted to smell rotten but that’s not going to happen since I’m around too bad. Now hurry and let me help you”

“Like you know how” The blond cocked an eyebrow.

“Just shut up and let me help you”

“Hell no. You are certainly not going to dress me up. Just tell me and I’ll do it myself thank you”

“Too slow. Either let me or we’re not going anymore”

“…………………………F.I.N.E”.

Victory.

The blond hesitantly gave the other full access to his body. His heart rate shot up like a space shuttle when a pale hand accidentally brushed against his chest when adjusting the opening of the Kimono together.

“Stop fidgeting. What are you shy?” Sasuke teased.

“Don’t be ridiculous I have what you have, maybe even better.” Naruto scoffed.

“Sure”

“What?”

“Nothing”

“No,really what is it?”

Nothing, except you look so fuckable right now.

“Sasuke” Naruto pulled himself away, a hand on his waist demanding an answer.

Yeah. I want to take this obi and tie you up, lick all over till you scre-

“Oi!”

“Hn”

The raven said nothing but pull Naruto by the sleeves. The other’s eeping and grumbling were ignored as Sasuke proceeded to dress the boy up. After tying the layers of obi in place he bent down to pick up the large matching ribbon for the back and instructs the blond to turn around.Thank god those pervs bought a ready made one.Ensuring the ribbon is attached securely, the raven stepped back to marvel his work. Not bad. Oh well I am a genius after all.

“and your Hair?”

“You want to make my hair too?” The blond frowned.

“You’ll look untidy and unlady like if you don’t.”

“Why the hell would I want to be lady like!?!”

“Would you rather have people assume that you are a cross-dressing Geisha?” Oh how he love to make the blond twist.

Blond brows deepen further. Naruto remained silent as he walked over to the closet and rummage for a pouch in his bag. He then walked back to the Uchiha and threw it at him. Sasuke opened the bag to see all sorts of hair accessories and earrings.

“Comb?”

“In there” Naruto said as he settled himself on the floor followed by the raven, pink comb in hand.

In comfortable silence, the raven comb through the blond and red strands while appreciating its …texture. So soft. So unexpectedly soft. So smooth. Is the dobe wear perfume? So nice. Smells like jasmine. So…

“Sasuke? What are you doing?”

Sasuke opened his eyes to see a slim tan… neck? The Uchiha pulled back and carry on combing Naruto’s hair, while internally berating at himself for his momentary lost of control.

“Done. Let’s go” The raven got up and straightened his purple Kimono before walking out to wait for the blond by the front door. He put on his slippers but felt a sudden chill ran down his spine. He turns swiftly to the direction of where the brief flash of chakra came from but nothing.

“Something wrong?” Naruto asked as he caught the raven looking far into the trees and bushes as if inspecting something.

“Hn” Sasuke pushed the uncomfortable feeling in his gut and started walking.

Naruto looked inquisitively at his friend but decided to not ask anything as he followed suit. Sasuke had always disliked being lengthy with words unless necessary.


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The market place……


“Sasuke look! I’ll go and get us one. Wait here~” Naruto shot of to the Omochi vendor across him. The butterfly shaped that is holding the upper half of his hair in place glimmer under the sun. Shorter strands fell and framed his face while the rest sway slightly at each step he took.


The raven let out a sigh. Naruto’s hyper-activeness could really get to him. Ooh he could feel his headache coming already. The half an hour walk to the village was okay. The comfortable silence was a nice change around Naruto but the raven started to feel unsettled when the blond hadn’t spoken a word throughout the walk. Unless the occasional cough and throat clearing sounds are taken into consideration then they had one heck of a wonderful stroll. Sasuke had felt a bit worried about Naruto’s behaviour but he was definitely reassured when the blond went berserk with excitement upon arriving at the market place of Kinoshita Village. The Kyuubi vessel was ooh-ing and ahh-ing at everything like a kid in a toy store. The happiness is clearly shown on the boy’s face like an open book. Naruto can be so easily amused and pleased. How could the blond remain untainted by the ‘darkness’ despite what he had been through? Sasuke knew about the nine tale fox and Naruto for a long time now but he made a new discovery when he overheard a conversation between Iruka and Naruto a few months ago.


Flashback

Sasuke was about to knock on Iruka sensei’s door to his office but hesitate as he heard two voices bickering behind the wooden barrier. He’s got company? Later then.

“Ow Iruka tousan!”

The raven paused on his track. Naruto? Overwhelmed with his curiosity, the raven turned back and shifted closer to the door and strained to hear the conversation. Why was Naruto shouting in pain?

(Behind the door)

“Stay still Naruto and just let me dress the wound!”

“It’s okay~ it’s just not that serious. It’ll heal by tomorrow morning maybe even by tonight” Naruto tried to convinced his father figure, besides the med stings.

Iruka’s frown deepened. “You really should defend yourself a little you know”

“But the guy is so old~ ow! Gently!”

“He still doesn’t have the right to do that to you know? It’s a long time now. He should get over it. Everyone would have already. I just don’t understand why some people can’t just let go.”

“beeecuuzze his wife to be got killed a day before his happy ever after wedding day?”

“………………It still wasn’t you who did it”

“He is an old delusional guy who can’t get his mind straight so let’s just drop it okay? So here, dress and bandage my head all you want. Forget about all this, deal?” Naruto persuaded.

Iruka shook his head in defeat and proceeded to dress the wound with antiseptics before taping a small piece of cotton and gauze above the left brow and below the right cheek bone. The genin teacher then opens an individually packed eye patch. He stretched the string and gently adjusted the patch nicely over the blonde’s swollen left eye.

“Done”

“Do I really have to wear this?” Naruto poked at the eye patch experimentally.

“Yes. You have to give it some rest. A lot of blood got into your eye. Though I had cleaned off most of them but I’m no medic you know. My handy work may not have been as good. I should have dragged you over to Tsunade”

“Nah. She’ll get too worked up for nothing”

Iruka let out another sigh. “I really hope you would care for yourself more”

“Ma. I’ll be leaving. Thanks tousan. Have a good sleep tonight!”

“Door!”

“Fine” The blond dropped his left leg from the window sill and shuffled over to the door. With a final wave he exited and the door closed with a click.

After a few second of silence Iruka decided that Naruto should be meters away from his office.

“You can come in now”

The door creaked open and the dark haired individual enters the room.

“You knew?”

“The moment you right at my door”

“Na-“

“Don’t worry. He doesn’t know. That’s the problem with the boy. He let’s his guard down so much I don’t know if I should call him oblivious or a sucker. The boy trust people too easily for his own good!” Iruka dumped some papers into the drawer and shut it with a good kick. “Sorry. I just don’t get it why some idiots are just hell-bent on hurting Naruto for something he did not do”

“Hn… Your document” The raven hand over a brown file.

“Ah yes….. Thank you” Iruka opened the file and skim through the papers to confirm that it was the document he had asked for. “Go visit him Sasuke. I’m sure he’ll appreciate it”

“Maybe another day”

Iruka nodded and thanked the raven again. Sasuke left while the genin teacher walked back to his working desk to continue with his remaining task not knowing that the Uchiha has made his way to a certain blonde’s apartment.

End of flashback


That time Sasuke had wanted so much to jump through the window and hug the blond closely and kiss all the pain away. The blond was fumbling in the kitchen with one eye and knocked the glass of the table by accident. He bent down to pick up one of the shattered pieces but misjudged its size and got a cut. Sasuke frowned when Naruto just squat there immobile for a moment, staring at the bleeding middle finger. Suddenly the blond clenched his hands on the shard and tossed it into the bin nearby. He continued picking the other shards without stopping, undisturbed by pool of red liquid forming on the floor.

Sasuke’s mind was overheating from the scene before him. After finish dumping the broken glasses Naruto moved robotically into the bedroom and strip himself of the dirty clothes slowly. The raven felt his heart being stabbed by a thousand pin needles at every exposed inch of tan skin. Bare back is covered with several healing wounds and a couple of bruises here and there. Sasuke never saw how badly hurt Naruto was on other parts of his body because the anger boiling within him has driven him to investigate on this matter immediately. Turns out the guys weren’t so old after all. Bastards. There wasn’t enough time. Just another five minutes and he could have taken their arm out of their sock-

“PLEASE! Let.go”

Naruto?

Onyx eyes focused to the dango stall and noticed a brown haired young gentleman, who presumably is the vendor of the sweetmeat business, is molesting his blond sweetheart shamelessly. Eyebrows creased to a scowl and strong legs were already striding across the street before he knew it. No one touches Naruto that way… but him.


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Naruto really wanted to smack this idiot upside down if not for the need of being inconspicuous.

“Let go of the bag… Please” The blond said between clenched teeth while tugging on the plastic bag that held his red been flavoured dangos.

“Why the rush sweetie? We should get to know more of each other” Large hands tighten his grip on the plastic bag and tugged it back.

Oh God. Why on earth such an embarrassing thing has to happen to him? All he wanted was some dangos and this flirtatious bastard who happened to fall for his disguise had been making passes since the moment he stepped right at the stall. Damn guy fondled his hand! People are already giving them odd looks ass they pass. Naruto didn’t want to make a commotion so he had really hoped that ‘Keichi’ as how this fellow introduced himself, would stop this nonsense and let the blond be on his way!

Calm down. Calm down. Stay cool. Breath. Fucker.

“I have someone waiting for me. Now would you kindly loosen your hand or I’ll k-”

“What is taking you so long honey” Sasuke cut in, slipping an arm around the blonde’s waist.

“S-sasuke?” Pink colour tinge tan cheeks as the blond looked perplexedly at the man beside him.

“I was worried you know? You took so long so I came looking for you” The raven said in a honey dripped voice as he tugged the blond closer.

Naruto stilled against the hard chest. Sasuke was holding him so close he could feel his breath against his cheek. Man he was going to hyperventilate if the raven doesn’t let him go soon and God that smile. Though it was just an act but he wanted so much to have his secret love smile at him like that. Always.

“I’m.. done. Sorry for keeping you waiting dear” Naruto played along.

Keichi released his hold and straightened. Gray eyes stared into onyx ones and onyx ones stared back in challenge. The air around them seemed to have thickened and Naruto felt goosebumps forming on his arms already. More stares were directed their way. They better leave. Now.

“Shall we go um.. honey?” Naruto nudge Sasuke at his side.

“Of course” Sasuke replied with a smile.

Naruto was already good to go but the unexpected happened. Uchiha Sasuke bent down and planted a kiss on his cheek as he continued.

“Anything for you my love” The raven flashed another smile before ushering Naruto away.

The next few minutes were a blur to Naruto. If Sasuke had been talking to him, he hadn’t notice. His body was still held closely against the raven’s side, feeling all warm and fuzzy. He didn’t care where they were going. The blond’s body felt all gooey inside and the small smile on his face never faded at the thought of Sasuke calling him ‘honey’, ‘my love’. The scene before replayed again and again in the little blond head delightfully. Sasuke was like a knight to his rescue (exaggeration? Yeah well he was just so happy) Unable to resist, he let out a giggle. Oh my god. Naruto shut himself up with a hand before it made more damage to his pride. He awkwardly turned his head to look at the raven, hoping maybe he hadn’t noticed. No such luck.

Sasuke guffawed and let out a string of laughter, genuine laughter. His eyes teary and slanted in a crescent, slim lips tilted up on the side as rich voice were let out in waves, a hand clutching at his side in attempt to keep himself in control. Now under normal circumstances, Naruto would have felt insulted and annoyed as hell but seeing the Uchiha laugh like that for the first time made his slip-up all the worth while. Yeah, he tends to giggle under weird conditions. There’s nothing he could do about it.

It took a minute or two by the time Uchiha Sasuke got his wits back. Naruto didn’t know how to react to what just happened so he made a good imitation of a gold fish. A couple of flies could have made a home out of his mouth but alas they missed out.

“You laughed” Naruto could not stop himself from asking.

“Yeah I did.. so?” Sasuke replied nonchantly as he reverts back to his bastard-y mode.

“But you never laugh. Well not like that anyway”

“There’s a minimart over there. Go buy your instant ramen”

“Don’t change the subject!” Naruto stuck out his tongue at Sasuke but walked to the shop anyway.

“Hn”

After purchasing the ramen cups, both of them visited other stalls for fresh ingredients and preserved food as well. However after visiting the third was enough to make the Uchiha’s arm pop of their sockets. Since ladies aren’t supposed to carry heavy things, loads of items in dozens of bags held in both of his arms (courtesy of the smaller boy beside him). Vendors and sellers alike offered discounts and free items in favors of the beautiful blond that enticed them so.

“As much as I like being treated decently for once but I really don’t appreciate being sexually misunderstood, it’s embarrassing” Naruto grumbled.

Sasuke agreed for once. Too many people were all over the blond for his liking. The next bunch of idiots who comes in within a meter radius with ill, pervy intentions is going to get a taste of his Chidori. The raven grunted in distaste.

“Sasukeeee~” Naruto waved a hand in front of the other.

The raven jerked his head up to see blue eyes staring at him in a worried expression. “What?”

“I dunno…You went into La-la land for a while now. I called you twice but you didn’t hear me” The blonde pouted.

“Hn. I think we should head back now” Sasuke said looking at the sky as the sun shone right above their heads. Afternoon.

“Yeah.. you want have lunch now or back home?”

“Home”

Naruto nodded in agreement. They did not really want to draw any attention since they are considered as strangers to this village and would defiantly be easily spotted when wanted to. The less burdened blond walked ahead of the raven merrily until a man in cloak knocked into Naruto heavily and sprinted of into another direction.

“Oi! I think he took our money!” Naruto patted all over himself but the pouch of money was still missing.

“Naruto stay here” That was all Sasuke said before chucking all the bags of groceries at him and sprint after the culprit.

“B-but what-”

“Stay!” Sasuke ordered before taking a sharp turn and disappeared.


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Sasuke was nearing the guy. He could see the gray cloak fluttering as the figure ran as the figure try to shake him loose. The raven himself would have told Naruto to let the guy go but he recognized the chakra signature. It is identical to the one he picked up back at the safe house before they left. This is certainly someone he needed to interrogate. Just another step and he’ll be able to grasp the flying material. Damn we are getting further away from the market. They are in the residential area now.

“Argh!” Sasuke infused his feet with chakra and made a leap in time to grab the cloak and yank the figure back. Another hand launched forward in a power packed punch and successfully hit the mystery man’s jaw. The figure flew into a tree and…..poof? Poof? That wasn’t supposed to happen!!!

Sasuke cursed extensively as he sprinted back towards the market where he left Naruto, jumping onto rooftops. To hell with laying low.

Naruto…

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“Oh go~d so heavy~” Naruto wiped the sweat that was beading on his forehead. It had been five minutes since Sasuke ran after the other guy. They could have sent a message to baa-chan to loan some cash but the raven hadn’t given him the chance to explain so now here he is, stuck under a shady tree he found nearby, waiting for Sasuke’s return. He’d be damn if he has to carry all the stuff by himself back to the house.

I’ll kill him!

Sigh……


“Hello there Kitsune-chan”


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End of chapt

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