Murder Mystery

Chapter 6

Naruto stood there in front of his half finished canvas with a vacant look. A good 20 minutes passed before the blonde snapped back to reality with a start as a pair of arms snaked around his waist. Glancing to the side he relaxed as he spotted familiar red locks as the man laid his chin on the blonde's shoulder. "Gaara." He sighed and leaned into red-head laying his head against the side of Gaara's. "I didn't hear the door, did you have a nightmare?" The blonde asked and Gaara shook his head. "No, I couldn't sleep…you can't have nightmares if you don't sleep." Naruto brought a hand up running it through the red-head's hair. "You should sleep Gaara it's not healthy otherwise."

Gaara snorted and looked at the blonde. "You're one to talk you have bags under your eyes." Naruto gave a half-hearted glare. "Why are you up?" The red-head's eyes began to droop as the blonde continued to message his scalp.

Naruto sighed closing his eyes he said. "Couldn't sleep." He opened his eyes and stared at the canvas again. "So I decided to work on finishing this but I'm at a loss." Gaara glanced at the panting and frowned, there was no color and it looked almost foreboding, this wasn't something the blonde would normally paint. "You had a nightmare… of the past again." The red-head stated as Kyuubi came into the room yawning as he headed towards the kitchen his red hair was tousled from sleep and he was only wearing boxers, yawning again he stubbed his toe on the end table near the couch. "Fuck… mother…shit, you…fucking hell… piece of shit furniture!" Naruto giggled but shut up instantly as piercing green landed on him then a wicked grin stretched across the older red-head's face.

"You think it's funny, kit?" Kyuubi said as he stalked over to the blonde and said blonde went wide eyed shaking his head slowly. Naruto tried to back away but Gaara was behind him and still holding onto the blonde's waist. So Naruto pulled out his only weapon. He pushed out his lower lip and let it quiver a bit as he made his eyes big and watery. His uncle stopped and raised a brow. "You know kit that look doesn't work when you have those dark rings around your eyes. It's like Gaara trying to pout and that's just scary. Whatever I'm gonna make some coffee." Kyuubi said lazily as he turned on his heel and waltzed into the kitchen. Naruto blinked and the red-head still holding onto him drug the blonde away from the canvas towards the couch.

After the blonde was sitting, Gaara laid down putting his head in Naruto's lap. Naruto giggled at this and ran his fingers through the red hair in front of him. "Uncle Kyuu why are you up so early? It's like around four-thirty." The older red-head walked out of the kitchen and flopped down on the chair next to the couch as he waited for the coffee to finish brewing. "Because I need to get an early start to find out were that weasel is so I can shove my foot up his ass for ditching me all those years ago." Kyuubi muttered under his breath. "And if I have to find that brat from the restaurant then so be it." Naruto rolled his eyes. "Sasuke-teme won't tell you anything even if you do find him he seems like to much of a bastard."

Green eyes glanced over at the blonde and narrowed in thought. "You're right kit." Naruto gave a smug smile but it fell away as his uncle grinned evilly. "That's why you're going to find him and ask where that asshole Itachi is hiding." The blonde was sputtering as Kyuubi just got up heading into the kitchen for his coffee. "I-I can't …I have errands to do… I have to help ba-chan at the hospital for a couple hours, go help Kiba paint his living room and fix then his kitchen sink then I have to go shopping for art supplies and go to the store for food unless you want to do that!" Naruto fumed.

His uncle walked back into the front room with a large cup of coffee and sat down. "Yeah, yeah I get it. By the way while you're out make sure to pick up some cream for my coffee and I feel like having fish and rice tonight so pick that up too." The blonde glared and closed his eyes to ignore the older red-head only to fall asleep awhile later.

Later at the hospital

Sasuke woke up with stiff muscles he had fallen asleep in the chair beside Itachi's bed, standing up he stretched and rubbed at his sore neck, glancing at the clock he saw it was about 6:40 in the morning. "I need some coffee." The raven grumbled as he walked out heading towards the cafeteria, though before he could reach the designated place something or someone plowed into him both falling to the ground with a yelp as hot coffee spilled all over them. The person on top of the raven sat up quickly. "I-I'm so sorry I was in a hurry and…S-sasuke-teme?"

Looking up Sasuke's black eyes meet stunning blue. "Tch. Dobe, just because I wanted coffee doesn't mean I wanted to wear it." The raven said still a little out of it from just waking up, he is not a morning person only at a sign of danger or strong coffee can wake him up though his mind was still sharp at picking up things. Naruto blushed at the husky tone in the pale man's voice then caught sight of how ruffled the raven's appearance was and he laughed. "Teme, have a rough night with one of the nurses or something?" Even though the blonde was laughing humorously there had been a twinge of jealousy in those spoken words and Sasuke had picked up on it.

Sasuke smirked, a little more awake now, and with an amused tone asked. "Are you jealous dobe?" Naruto's laughter stopped immediately. "Like hell I am bastard!" The blonde glared daggers at the raven that still lay below him until he heard a giggle then the person just outright laughed and the poor blonde went red at the audible click and flash of light.

"Aw, Naru-chan Tsunade-san is going to like this. Oh, and don't worry I'll make sure Gaara-chan gets a copy too." Naruto snapped his head in the direction of the voice so fast Sasuke thought he was going to break his neck. "Noooo, Temari-chaaan!" The blonde was now wrapped around Temari's legs. She was a pretty blonde with her hair up in four pigtails and teal eyes. She wasn't like other girls all dolled up no she was a tough nut to crack, a tomboy. "If you show that to ba-chan she'll never let me live it down." Naruto whined and the blonde tomboy grinned.

In that time Sasuke had picked himself up from the floor then as he stood there listening to the two he pulled his shirt away from his chest curling his upper lip at the cold wet stain. "That's the point Naru, it's my revenge for shrinking my bikini this summer." The young man pouted. "If you show anyone I'll tell Gaara that you were the one who took his eyeliner and not Kankuro." Naruto said with a defiant look shining in his blue orbs.

Temari narrowed her teal eyes and sneered. "You wouldn't. Not unless you wanted to keep that dick of yours." Naruto's eyes about popped out of his head and he scurried back behind Sasuke who stood back watching the scene. The raven rolled his eyes he wasn't in the mood for childish antics it was too early and he hasn't had his coffee yet. Temari huffed a 'that's what I thought' then sighed at the mess of now sticky liquid on the floor. "Naruto you should take Uchiha-san and find some spare clothes in the locker room, I'll get the janitor to clean this up and let Tsunade-san know that you here." She then turned to leave only to stop looking at the younger blonde over her shoulder she said. "Oh, and I'm sure that both of you got minor burns you should put some cooling salve on them. And Naruto, make sure you apply it to Uchiha-san also, not just yourself." A wide grin stretched across Temari's as she turned and walked off.

Naruto puffed out his cheeks childishly and mumbled to himself. "The teme can put it on him self." He turned quickly striding down the hall and called over his shoulder to Sasuke. "Come on teme follow me." The raven silently followed and had to catch himself a few times from looking further down the blonde's back to that nicely shaped ass hugged by those tight jeans, he wouldn't mind…shaking his head Sasuke thought. What the hell am I thinking? The raven averted his gaze from the blonde not really trusting his own eyes to stay looking forward as he continued walking.

They reached the locker room and Naruto had Sasuke sit down while he looked for some cloths and the ointment. "Now where is that salve at… Ah ha! Found you." The blonde said picking up the ointment and grabbing some unused scrubs for the both of them, a burnt orange for himself and a dark blue for the bastard. "Hey teme, I've got the-" He said as he walked back over to where he had left said bastard and nearly dropped the items in his hands as he stared wide eyed with a deep blush rushing across tan cheeks and his mouth agape. There sitting in all his glory was Sasuke with no shirt his pale chest, a bit red from where the hot coffee had burned him, was well toned leading down to a nice six pack. Naruto let his eyes roam further following the raven's happy trail and nearly drooled. Sasuke's hand came into view and motioned upwards with his fingers as he said in an amused tone. "I'm up here dobe."

Naruto turned redder his blue eyes snapping up to meet with the raven's smirking face. The blonde swiftly walked over and dropped the blue scrubs into Sasuke's lap along with the cooling cream then turned to walk off. "Aren't you going to rub this on me dobe?" Naruto turned to glare at the raven and huffed. "You can do it yourself teme." Sasuke glared back then smirked.

"You're the one who ran into me so I think it's fair that you are the one to put this salve on me. Besides I don't want my hands smelling like this stuff." The raven said tossing the ointment to the blonde. "And after that you can buy me some coffee for causing me so much trouble."

Naruto glared. "I'm not buying you coffee bastard you can get your own!" The blonde huffed as he walked over to apply the salve onto the raven's chest. He knelt down in front of Sasuke and opened the small jar of cream, Naruto dunked his fingers in and sat to work. The raven his when he felt the cold ointment touch him then just watched as the blonde rubbed it in.

Naruto blushed slightly as he touched Sasuke's toned chest and let his eyes wander over the raven's body. His blue orbs once again falling to the trail of dark hairs then lower. The blonde blushed a bright red as he realized the position he was in, kneeling on the ground between the raven's legs. Sasuke raised a brow. "Dobe, why are you blushing?" Naruto's eyes widened then closed tight and he ducked his head fast in embarrassment. The raven's eyes widened for a split second then sighed inwardly in relief, thank God the blonde's head didn't duck any lower than it did otherwise that one would have hurt.

"Watch what you're do-" Sasuke was cut off by a giggle and a flash. Both of their heads shot towards the door and saw Temari as she grinned widely then darted out the door. Naruto didn't think he could get any redder, oh boy was he wrong. He chanced a glance up at the raven and saw that Sasuke's cheeks were dusted with a light shade of pink. The blonde couldn't help but giggle at the sight and the raven glared down at him. "Move so I can get dressed dobe." Naruto frowned then huffed while he moved away to change his clothes as well.

As they walked out Sasuke asked raising a thin brow. "Aren't you going to put the salve on your burn?" The blonde just walked ahead of him and replied with a small 'no'. The raven shrugged it off. "Whatever." He muttered as he turned to the cafeteria to get his long overdue coffee. Naruto watched as the raven walked off then turned and headed towards Tsunade's office.