Surviving a Zombie Apocalypse

Chapter 5: Couldn't Stand the Weather

"That's it," said Naruto after two days of them sitting around in the house, not really able to do anything besides take lazy potshots at the zombies around the Uzumaki-Namikaze estate, occasionally nabbing one in the head. "I'm going out to look for Mom and Dad."

"Great, tell us how the zombs treat you when you get out there," said Gaara nonchalantly, earning a glare from the blond teenager.

"That's suicidal, 'ttedana," said Kyuubi. Kiba and Naruko nodded, and Sasuke grunted his agreement.

"Besides, how the hell are we going to get to the middle of town with a shitload of the undead and a traffic jam?" said Sasaki, raising an eyebrow.

"We're all worried for our families, dobe," Sasuke put in quietly, "but you don't see us rushing out to get ourselves killed, do you?"

Naruto sighed and clacked his tongue piercing against his teeth in frustration.

"Sorry," he mumbled, "it's just that we've been in here for two days without much of anything to do and the caffeine's running out."

"What happens when you don't have caffeine?" Sasuke queried sarcastically.

"He turns into the Incredible Hulk," said Kiba, and then imitated the Hulk. "Hulk angry! Hulk has no caffeine! Hulk smash!" He brought his fists down on the table with a loud crash that made everyone jump. The brunet looked sheepish.

"Sorry, got a bit carried away," he muttered.

"You are officially an idiot, Inuzuka," said the raven, shaking his head in resignation.

"Well, up yours, Ice Princess," the dog lover shot back.

Naruto snickered while Sasuke gave Kiba a death glare that promised pain and eternal suffering for calling him "Ice Princess."

"Hey, is it just me, or is it getting really dark out there really early?" interrupted Shikamaru, who'd been staring out the window for most of the time they'd been there.

Just then a bright flash of lightning, followed by a loud crash of thunder, assaulted everyone's ears. Kiba yelped, hands over his ears, Naruko, Saya and Sayuri shrieked, Kyuubi jumped a little, and Naruto jumped up and ran for his room. Everyone watched him bemusedly and then turned to his older brother.

"Uh yeah," Kyuubi said, rubbing his head, "Naruto has a pathological fear of thunderstorms."

"He just jumped up and ran," said Gaara emotionlessly. "Like the devil himself were chasing him…"

An evil grin lit up his face, and everyone except for Sasuke scooted as far away from him as possible.

"You're a creep, Sabaku," Sasaki stated baldly. "Did you know that?"

"He's not a creep," Kiba corrected her in a shaky tone; "he's a sociopath. You know, the kind you think of when you watch The Shining or Psycho."

"He's my best friend," said Sasuke, raising an eyebrow.

Everyone stared at the raven incredulously.

"I never knew you were part of a network of serial killers, Uchiha," said Kiba in a conversational tone as another flash of lightning lit up the kitchen.

"Only where you're concerned, Inuzuka," Sasuke retorted. "I'm going upstairs to check on Naruto."

"Okay, you'll probably find him under his bed with his thumb in his mouth, sobbing like a baby," offered Kyuubi with a snicker. "He's such a little pussy sometimes…"

Naruko smacked him. "Don't be mean, Nii-san. Although," she added to Sasuke, "he's probably right about Naru-nii being under his bed. That's what he used to do as a kid when there was a thunderstorm."

"So how did you get him out?"

"Well, we didn't," said Naruko. "We tried everything from distracting him to singing to him, and nothing worked."

"I see," said the raven, heading up the stairs.

At the top of the stairs he paused, watching another flash of lightning light up the hallway. With the lighting came the rumble of thunder and an almost inaudible squeak from the end of the hallway. Getting to the end of the hall, Sasuke found the door open a crack and peeked in.

"Naruto?" he called softly. After a moment, when he had no response, he let himself in and sat on Naruto's bed.

"It's okay, you know," he said quietly. "I have an insanely irrational fear of snakes."

The voice that came from under Naruto's bed didn't sound much like Naruto.

"Y-you do?"

"Yeah," said Sasuke. "When I was younger my brother used to tease me with a rubber snake. He would leave it everywhere in the house for me to find, and inevitably it always sent me screaming in tears to my mom or caused me to have an asthma attack. Itachi always got in big trouble."

"I didn't know you had asthma, 'ttebayo," said the timid voice from under the bed. "I've never seen you use an inhaler."

"Well, most times I've got it under control, so no one except my family really knows. And I do have an inhaler, but I only use it in emergencies. But that's beside the point. The point is that every person in the world has something that they're afraid of, and there's nothing wrong with that; it's just that you need to learn how to handle that fear properly."

Then a loud crash of thunder sounded again, and Naruto squeaked. Sasuke felt the mattress moving as the blond tried to move as far away from the window next to his bed as possible and mentally cursed the uncaring storm.

Getting down on his hands and knees, the raven-haired teen looked under the bed at the blond, who stared back at him with eyes the size of dinner plates. Sighing, he held out his hand.

"Come on, sweetie," he said soothingly. "It's not too bad once you get used to it." When the blond whimpered, he smiled sympathetically. "Do you want me to stay with you tonight?"

Naruto's hand stretched out and grasped the one that Sasuke was offering to him.

"D-don't leave, p-please," he whimpered, holding on tight.

"All right," said the raven with a drawl, "but are you going to sleep on the floor all night? It seems rather uncomfortable."

Naruto thought about it for a minute, then crawled out from under the bed and dove under the blankets. Sasuke laughed, the sound drowned out by the loud rumble of thunder, and sat down on the bed next to him, their hands still linked.

"Thunder and lightning are not going to kill you, usuratonkachi," he said amusedly.

The blond blinked owlishly at him from under the covers. "You never know."

"Please, dobe," said the raven, rolling his eyes, "the chances of a fatality from a thunderstorm are only a step above your chances of meeting Bigfoot or seeing Santa Claus."

"Are you laughing at me, 'ttebayo?" Naruto growled, squeezing Sasuke's hand until he winced.

"Ouch!" he said in a pained tone. "All right, all right, I take it back!"

Just then another flash of lightning illuminated Naruto's room, followed quickly by the loudly rumbling thunder, and Naruto let go of Sasuke's hand and put both arms around his waist instead and buried his face in the raven's side. Sasuke sighed, running his fingers through Naruto's soft golden locks.

"Dobe," he muttered, yawning; he hadn't realized until now how tired he was.

"Temee," came Naruto's muffled reply.

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"Sasuke's been up there an awful long time, 'ttedana," commented Kyuubi, sipping his tea. "I hope everything's all right…"

"I bet it's fine," snickered Kiba as a flash of lightning lit up the sky. "He's probably fucking around with Naruto, and they'll have forgotten all about the thunderstorm."

"I don't think so," said Naruko, "because when Naruto's doing something like that it carries throughout the house. Much like Sasaki-chan and Sayuki-chan last night."

Sasaki and Sayuki blushed.

"Shut up," they said in unison.

"Anyone willing to go check it out, at risk of getting their retinas burned out by smoldering hot gay sex?" joked Kyuubi.

Everyone looked at him incredulously.

"What?" he said defensively. "I walked in on Naruto by accident four years ago when he was getting nailed by his then-boyfriend Hyuuga Neji."

Shikamaru groaned.

"We did not need to know that. You go check."

"But-!"

"It's your idea," said Naruko, completely deadpan. "You go check."

As Kyuubi went up the stairs, he braced himself for a repeat of four years ago… Clothes strewn in the hallway, the sound of panting and moaning from behind Naruto's…

Open door? What the hell?

All right, so they probably weren't having sex. Still, Kyuubi listened for any groans or noises that would indicate that he should just go back downstairs without looking. Hearing none, he peeked into the room.

Nope, no sex here. All clothes were where they were supposed to be. In fact, the scene before Kyuubi put him in mind of a couple of sleeping babies. Naruto was curled up with his arms around Sasuke's waist, and his head rested in the smaller teenager's lap. Sasuke was slumped backward on the pillows, and his left hand was gently entwined in Naruto's golden hair.

Kyuubi quietly closed the door. He wasn't going to wake them. It had been a long three days, and they could use some alone time together. Maybe it would get them to admit their feelings for each other…

The redhead grinned and crept back down the stairs.

"Well, was it messy?" asked Kiba eagerly. "Cum everywhere? Clothes thrown every which way?"

"I swear you are secretly gay, Kiba," Kyuubi teased the brunet. "Nope, they were both asleep, 'ttedana. All clothes were where they should be, which is to say on the owners' bodies. And Naruto actually came out from under the bed!"

Kiba gasped.

"Are you serious?" he said indignantly. "You guys have been trying to get him to come out from under the bed during thunderstorms for years without results, and Sasuke just goes waltzing in there and he comes out!"

"I know, right?" said Kyuubi thoughtfully. "I wonder what he did that we didn't."

"Naruto has a huge crush on him, Nii-san," said Naruko, rolling her eyes. "He's got our brother wrapped around his finger. I bet you Naruto would do anything Sasuke asked of him."

"True…"

"But you'd have to admit that they'd make such a cute couple!" she tittered.

"That's my best friend you're talking about!" said Gaara and Kiba at the same time, and then glared at each other.

"If they do start going out and your best friend breaks my best friend's heart, Sabaku," Kiba warned the other boy, "I'm gonna kill him. Understood?"

"How do you know that Sasuke's even interested in guys, let alone your friend?" said Gaara, glaring at the brunet.

"It's kind of obvious, Sabaku," countered the dog lover. "He's so flaming it's a wonder he doesn't burn everything he touches to ashes. He couldn't hide it even if he tried, and if he really is trying to hide it he's failing epically. I've never met a boy that girly and obsessed with hair and skin care who calls people 'sweetie' that isn't gay. And I've seen the way he looks at Naruto, as if he wants so badly to just rip his clothes off and do the nasty with him right where they stand."

Gaara bristled.

"My best friend is not a whore. And your friend is neither girly nor flaming, and yet he's gay."

"I never said anything about him not being gay, but whatever," said the brunet. "And what I said amounts to 'Every flamer I've met is gay, but not every gay I've met is a flamer.' Are you picking up what I'm putting down? The point is, if he hurts Naruto in any way, don't be surprised if I beat the crap outta him."

"The same goes for Uzumaki, Inuzuka," said Gaara.

"Fine."

"Fine."

"Fine!"

"Fine."

Shikamaru rolled his eyes.

"Morons…"

Kyuubi chuckled.

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Yep, there is chapter five for anyone who cares… XD

Anyways, for a few days I panicked because I thought I'd lost my thumb drive, which has all of my stories and half of my artwork on it, and that I was going to have to start over. I was almost ready to shoot myself, but then I found it in the first place where I'd checked… my backpack! What the hell, people! That means that I freaked out over nothing, which is good, but also bad because I freaked out for no reason at all in the first place.

As always please review! Or I will kill Sasuke and Naruto! –Dangles couple over a boiling vat of tar-

Naruto: 0.0 Please review so the psycho lady doesn't kill us!

Sasuke: _ I don't think she really means it anyway…

Me: D'you wanna bet, pretty boy? D –Cackles evilly-

Sasuke: 0.0 Uhm, no, thank you. Review, please, so that we don't have to find out how serious she really is.