The Sound of Dreams

AN: Wow, so many wonderful reviews last chapter (not to mention a few death threats if I let anything happen to Sasuke!) LOL, seriously though, thank you so much for your continued involvement and enjoyment of this story!

Also, a big thank you to blue-genjutsu for pimping me out over at the aarinfantasy forums! You guys are great over there! *big hugs*

Chapter 67


The wagon finally rolled up to the gates of Konoha. Togimeishu let out a sigh of relief as the guards started the routine questioning of the visitors. He stepped forward as the guards’ attention was directed at Ren in the back of the wagon, still unconscious and covered with a blanket. The young girl sat beside him and sporadically patted his head in a soothing manner.

“My name is Togimeishu,” the doctor introduced himself. “I need to get my traveling companion to a hospital as soon as possible. He has had some health issues and needs to be attended to in a medical facility.”

One of the guards nodded and spoke into a radio that was attached to his collar.

“Also, I need to speak with your Hokage. I have business with her concerning a personal matter. She should recognize my name,” he added on. He needed to find out what had happened with Uchiha and also find out if his son had been located.

“She is in a council meeting at the moment, but she will be informed of your arrival as soon as possible,” the guard answered after once again talking to the person on the other end of the radio.

A few medical personnel came up and loaded Ren onto a stretcher and then proceeded to carry him hurriedly to the hospital with both Yuni and Togimeishu following.

**********************
Sasuke could feel the form of his lover within his grip. His heart was racing and his blood pounded in his body, but not out of pleasure. The emotions were ripping through him, tearing into his psyche and clawing into his soul. Rejection, betrayal, obsession; they were all howling in his head and echoing in his empty heart.

The urge to destroy what he could not possess became overwhelming and he felt his grip tightening, tearing, shredding.

Even as he obliterated the life of the one that he loved more than anything, he hated him with every fiber of his being. Even as he took vicious joy in slaughtering the one that had caused him so much pain, he screamed in agony as he lost his beloved.

His eyes burned, branding the vision forever into his mind. His stomach heaved as if he could physically purge the images from his brain.

As the last spark of life died from the one he loved, so too did the last shred of warmth flee his heart. He felt cold. Alone. Condemned.

He couldn’t help but wonder; had Itachi felt like this, too?

*******************
Sasuke blinked his eyes open and for one moment felt the irrational fear that Naruto was gone from him. However, he reassured himself that those hadn’t been his memories.

Naruto had been alive.

Naruto had been alive and breathing and smiling that smile at him that told him that the blond would always be there by his side. No matter how many times he had tried to drive him off, no matter how much of a prick he could be, no matter how many stupid mistakes he made.

Naruto would always be there as long as he had breath in his body.

Speaking of which, where exactly was the idiot?

Consumed by the sudden urge to see Naruto with his own eyes (and he could truly say that now), he climbed out of the narrow bed in the otherwise empty room. Still clad only in a pair of sweatpants, he stiffly made his way to one of the two doors in his room, the one that had a small square of glass in it, and slid it open.

He came face to face with Shino.

“Is there something you need, Sasuke-san?” Shino asked quietly.

“I want to see Naruto,” he said, relegating his voice to its normal chilly tones.

Shino took in the rumpled appearance and realized that the other teen must have just woken up. “Hokage-sama gave us orders to keep an eye on you and not to let you leave the room,” he murmured.

“I want to see Naruto,” Sasuke repeated, his tone somehow giving the impression of dripping icicles.

“I would relay your request,” Shino ignored the scoff at the comment, “but Tsunade-sama is in a meeting with the council and cannot be reached.”

Sasuke felt the faintest chill go down his spine at the mention of the council. He scowled at the sensation and promised himself that there was nothing those old bastards could do that would force him to give up either his as yet unattained goal or Naruto. Those were the only two things that mattered in his life and they would have to pry either one from his cold, dead grip before he would let them go.

“Get cleaned up,” Shino finally said. “I’m sure she will be in the meeting for some time.”

Sasuke felt a sudden wave of gratitude towards Aburame and expressed it with a short nod as his posture relaxed minutely.

Sasuke quickly walked to the other door in the room which led to a shower and toilet. He glanced in the mirror to see some redness around and in his eyes, but it seemed that Tsunade had healed the incisions. It was both strange and a relief to look once more into the dark eyes of his reflection.

He shook his head and quickly shucked his clothes, not wanting to waste any more time that he could be spending with Naruto. He turned on the water and hastily showered, scrubbing his hair and body.

The door to the bathroom opened as he grabbed a towel to dry off. It was Shino again, who calmly turned to the door as Sasuke rubbed the towel over his skin.

“Naruto is awake and, according to Sai, has been pacing the room most of the day. We have Hinata set up to keep a lookout for Tsunade-sama or anyone else that shouldn’t know about your visit. She will radio us when we need to get you back to your room,” the bug-used reported in his typical unruffled tones.

Sasuke pulled his pants back on since he didn’t have a spare pair. “Thank you, Aburame,” he said almost inaudibly.

“Henge to look like me so that the cameras don’t catch you leaving the room,” the other teen told him. “I will stay in here for a bit before doing the same. Leave here and turn right, then just follow the hall.”

Sasuke nodded and quickly transformed himself to look like Shino. He then walked confidently out of the room and followed the hallway down to the familiar-looking round room.

Sai was standing outside the door, appearing as if he had been there a while, keeping guard. Sasuke glanced at him before walking right up to the door. A hand on his arm kept him from opening it.

Sasuke scowled down at the appendage touching him and glared up at the other pale-skinned boy.

Sai opened his hand and presented him with a small, innocuous-looking tube. “Hate to see you come limping out of there,” he said with a snicker.

Sasuke let out a growl, but grabbed the tube anyway. Shouldering past Sai, he opened the door and stepped inside, dropping the henge as he did so.

Sasuke could tell that Naruto had been in the middle of pacing. As soon as the door had opened however, he had stopped and looked to see who was entering, his tails twitching irritably.

Naruto didn’t appear to have a mark on him, not even any sign of redness around his dazzling blue eyes. Sasuke would have been able to tell since the dobe was standing there buck-ass naked.

“Don’t you believe in clothes?” came the sardonic query.

Naruto gave him a slow grin. “Would you rather I get dressed?”

“Only when I’m not here,” Sasuke said with a small frown. He really didn’t like the idea of others seeing Naruto nude. Especially considering the pervert standing guard outside.

Naruto started walking forward, tails almost quivering eagerly behind him. “Clothes are hot,” he said, eyeing Sasuke up and down like something that he was considering whether or not to pounce upon, “and they itch. Not only that, but what’s the point when the pants have to hang halfway down my ass because of the tails anyway?”

Sasuke moved away from the door, at a tangent to Naruto. “Maybe I don’t want someone looking at you and seeing what should only be seen by me.”

“Only by you?” Naruto teased lightly, curving his path so that they were almost circling each other.

“Only by me,” Sasuke affirmed roughly, allowing his eyes to rake down Naruto’s form in emphasis.

The circle tightened by a single pace as they both took a step closer as they continued. “And do you like looking at me?” Naruto practically purred out, his tails unconsciously flicking outwards in a fiery display.

Sasuke thought briefly about being coy with his lover, but decided against it. He couldn’t tell if Naruto was uncomfortable with his new appearance or not, although he wouldn’t guess it from the way the other boy was practically strutting, but opted to answer honestly instead.

“Very much so,” he breathed.

Another step tightened the circle.

Naruto’s hand came up to his chest and caressed its way down to his abs, stopping right before his slowly hardening length. “And would you let me fuck you?” he asked huskily.

Sasuke’s eyebrow rose slightly. “Haven’t I already?”

Naruto’s tails gave an irritated flick and his nose scrunched slightly as he huffed a breath.

Apparently that was the wrong answer.

“Would you?” Naruto repeated with a hint of a question in his tone, as if he were truly unsure of the answer.

Sasuke’s eyes raked his lover’s form once more from head to toe, making an obvious show of it for the blond’s benefit. “Into the ground,” he confirmed with a slight growl.

Naruto’s eyes flared red briefly and his manhood stiffened proud and hard against his belly.

Breaking the circle, Sasuke took those few steps that lay between them and met Naruto halfway. His arms immediately went around the toned, tanned back, pulling them together so that their lips could meet. Claws lightly scratched his shoulders as fangs accidently nipped his tongue. A roughness brushed inside of his mouth and gently soothed the abused areas.

He lifted a hand to delve into the red-streaked blond hair to hold the head in place as he slid his lips with increasing force against Naruto’s. The claws dug in a little more as they clutched at each other, their passion causing their movements to become more frantic, less refined.

Sasuke almost jumped when he felt the sinful feel of fur brushing against his bare ribs. He shivered at the sensation, pulling away just enough to look into Naruto’s smug eyes.

“There is nothing in this world that I want to do more than pin you down and take you until you are screaming my name, but…” He lifted his hand and showed the few drops of blood on his sharp nails. “I don’t want to hurt you and I am afraid that I will. There is a part of me that, even now, wants to sink my teeth into you and claw you and hurt you until you cum from it.”

Sasuke couldn’t repress the shudder that went through him, couldn’t stop the way his pupils dilated out, giving evidence to just how much that thought aroused him.

“No,” Naruto said in response to that look, albeit not as firmly as he would have liked. While that part of him wanted to fuck Sasuke to the point where the room stunk of blood, sweat and cum, the more civilized part of him didn’t want to take the chance of taking his lover past the point of safety. He loved Sasuke and didn’t want to go down the dark road that led deep into his psyche, especially since the road seemed to have widened with the demon’s influence.

Sasuke let out a moan, half in disappointment and half in desire, before crashing his lips into Naruto’s once more. Tongues played together, breaths panted into each others’ mouths and hands held tightly onto each other.

Sasuke hissed both in pain and pleasure as claws dragged down his back, leaving seeping red lines in their wake. Leveling a dark-eyed glare at Naruto, he grabbed the teen’s waist and spun him around, pulling him up against his chest. He ran a hand slowly down his torso as Naruto had done earlier, feeling each ridge and valley of muscle and bone until his hand was right above his navel, mere centimeters away from the thick hardness that was dripping in its desire to be touched.

Naruto started to let out a low growl, but it was cut short as Sasuke latched his teeth onto the juncture of his neck and shoulder. Naruto seemed to relax slightly, to become more pliable. Sasuke almost moaned when he felt the surrender in Naruto’s body.

He slid a hand up into the blond locks and took a firm grip. He lifted his mouth just enough to voice his demanding question. “Are you mine?”

Naruto felt his knees go weak at the harsh inquiry. His head was given a little shake when he didn’t reply fast enough. “Are you?” came the sterner demand.

“Yes,” Naruto moaned out. “I’m yours. Always yours.”

“I want you,” Sasuke whispered against his ear before allowing his tongue to lick against the cartilage there.

A shiver ran through Naruto’s body before he reached up and took one of Sasuke’s hands in his own. He guided the pale fingers to his erection and gently urged them to wrap around it. His head leaned back, exposing his neck to Sasuke’s mouth. The pale hand squeezed carefully but firmly, causing a whimpering moan to reverberate in Naruto’s throat.

Sasuke moved his hand from Naruto’s hair and onto his shoulder where he pressed down lightly, encouraging the blond to slide down to his knees. Sasuke then quickly pulled off his sweats, freeing up his own hardness from the warm confines of his pants. He fished out the tube of lubricant before tossing the article of clothing aside.

Naruto glanced over his shoulder at him, his eyes blazing once again as if reconsidering their positions. Sasuke swiftly knelt and placed that hand once more on the back of Naruto’s neck, silently letting the dobe know that he wasn’t giving up his place on top any time soon.

“Move the tails,” he muttered. He reflexively flinched as the furry appendages flipped up into his face. He felt the gentle shake of Naruto’s laughter through his hand on his shoulder and smirked at the back of the teen’s head. The blond just thought that it would deter Sasuke.

Sasuke quickly dropped the unopened tube, grabbed Naruto by the back of the neck and at the base of the tails before forcefully shoving down and yanking up respectively.

Naruto made a strange almost squawking sound as his ass was lifted none-too-gently into the air and he was pushed face first into the floor. He was just about to protest in a most violent way when he felt the damp tip of Sasuke’s cock brush up against his entrance. Another tremor of desire wracked his body and he lowered himself to his elbows submissively.

Muscles twitched in Sasuke’s grip as the furry tails jerked to and fro. He slowly let go of Naruto’s neck and gathered them up, moving his hand down until he could still their waving about by pinning them against the blond’s back. He then reached down and grabbed the lubricant once more, popping the cap open to coat his fingers.

“Sasuke,” Naruto moaned as he felt the cool gel against his heated skin. “Hurry up.”

“Every protest makes it that much longer,” Sasuke growled as he positioned two fingers at the flushed ring of muscle.

A whined protest was Naruto’s response right before the two digits were thrust deep into him. “Sasuke!” he cried out as he pushed back into the invasion.

Sasuke didn’t spare him as he pulled his fingers back and thrust once more as far as he could. He could barely hold himself back. He wanted to be just as deep, even deeper inside of his lover than that. “Naruto,” he breathed out, his desire too thick in his throat to voice anything louder.

“Sasuke, please!” Apparently Naruto didn’t have that same problem as his cries rang out. “No more, just do it!”

He pulled his fingers out and hastily coated his straining flesh with the seemingly icy cold gel. Getting a better grip on the twitching tails as well as grabbing onto a hip, Sasuke slowly pushed his way in. He groaned as Naruto’s body shuddered and jerked around him, gradually swallowing his cock until it was buried as far as it could go.

Naruto tried to stifle his whimpers as he was filled so fully. Oh, gods, it felt so damn good. He wanted, he needed Sasuke to move, to skewer him, to drive him to the brink of insanity with the pleasure that he knew his lover could give him. His body trembled as the heated flesh smoothly slid from his body only to slam right back in.

“Fuck, yeah! Like that! Oh, gods, Sasuke! Just like that!” he panted out, his stance adjusting so that they could move together with ease.

Sasuke began driving his hips faster, neither of them able to hold back what with their previous teasing. He felt his eyes roll as his head tilted back, the pleasure crawling up his spine and clouding his mind. The only thing that mattered was the heat wrapped around his cock, squeezing him and luring him in deeper and harder. He heard Naruto crying out his name and it was just so fucking erotic, so damn arousing to bring the powerful shinobi beneath him to both his proverbial and literal knees.

He heeded Naruto’s demanding instructions until he was slamming into him as fast as he could go, as deeply as he could manage; his sore body protesting every rock of his hips. But he didn’t care. He needed this release like he needed air to breathe and he knew that Naruto felt the same way. With everything that they had been through, with everything that they had suffered, they deserved this. They were owed this moment.

Naruto’s claws dug into the stone in an effort to brace himself; chipping it and flaking it away as Sasuke continued to plunge into him. He could feel the cock inside of him start to swell and knew that his lover was close. Giving up his leverage, he reached down and, being cautious of his claws, started to stroke himself rapidly, wanting to cum when Sasuke did.

“Na-ru-to!” Sasuke called out as, with a final, hard thrust, he buried himself to the hilt within Naruto’s body.

The hot pulsations of his lover’s seed filling him were enough to push Naruto over the edge with a strangled cry. He released his lust onto the floor below him, his body shuddering with the force of his orgasm. Everything seemed to pour out of his body along with the thick white fluid; his aggression, his tension, his worries, his wild emotions. It all left him, leaving only a warm, euphoric feeling that flowed in his veins and the desire to be wrapped up in his lover’s embrace.

Sasuke slowly regained control of his breathing as he rested against Naruto’s back. He felt exhausted but in a very, very pleasant way. He pulled himself off of the sweaty skin and carefully eased himself out of Naruto’s abused body. His dark eyes spotted the futon a couple of meters away and wished it would somehow magically appear closer.

When the mattress failed to obey his mental commands, he nudged his friend and they both slowly crawled over to the awaiting softness.

Naruto immediately sprawled out, trying to cool his body down and Sasuke curled up against his side, resting his head on the warm shoulder. Sharply clawed fingers languidly moved through the black silky hair, being careful not to scratch.

Through the drowsy haze in Naruto’s mind, he felt the sudden urge to tell Sasuke. Licking his dry lips, he drew in a breath.

“Sasuke,” he whispered.

“Yeah, dobe?” came the mumbled reply.

“I just... I wanted to let you know… that is, I… well, you know,” he finished lamely.

He felt lips pull into a small smile against his shoulder. “I know,” Sasuke assured him.

Naruto smiled and relaxed, once more ready to doze off.

“Me, too,” Sasuke said quietly. The hand in his hair hugged his head to the shoulder tightly for a moment before settling lightly on his shoulders.

**************
Out in the hallway, Neji stood against the door, Anbu mask securely in place. He had relieved Sai of guard duty not too long ago and, as was his habit, activated his Byakugan to check to make sure his friend was faring well.

His eyes had widened under his mask at the sight that had met him. Now he understood the smirk that Sai had shot him as they had changed places.

For some indefinable reason, he had been unable to look away. He had watched, entranced, as the two bodies had moved together inside of the room.

He was unclear how they made a relationship with two disparate personalities such as theirs, but had to admit that their souls were very similar. While Naruto had shown him not everything was dependent upon Fate, he had to admit, this was not one of those times. The two were obviously bound together, whether for good or ill.

He swallowed with some difficulty as they reached their climaxes, bodies locked together in ecstasy. It was a relief when they lazily curled up together on the futon. He could finally shut off his bloodline limit.

Now if he could just do the same to his hard on.

********************
The council knew everything.

Tsunade wasn’t sure how, but it didn’t alter the fact that they did. They knew about the eye transplant, they knew about the snake summoning tattoo on Naruto and they knew about the demonic features. They seemed to know the whole damn story or enough of it to piece it all together.

What was worse was that they had let her make her reports. They had let her sum up everything in a nice, tidy vague synopsis and had then blown it to bits. More than once she couldn’t help but wonder if they had the Sandaime’s crystal ball or, worse yet, had their own spies among the shinobi that reported directly to them.

She had just spent the last several hours hashing out punishments with them, arguing for leniency and for understanding. Not surprisingly, she had had to argue more on Naruto’s behalf than Sasuke’s, but she had still had to salvage what she could for both of them.

Unfortunately, she knew that the results would devastate them. But at least they would both be alive.

A knock on her door interrupted her thoughts and reminded her that she would still have to go down and break the news to the two boys.

“Enter,” she commanded, recognizing the chakra signature of one of her guards.

“Hokage-sama, there is a man here to see you. He says that you will recognize his name,” Izumo stated. At Tsunade’s expectant look, he added, “Togimeishu.”

She sat up a little straighter in her seat. “Send him in,” she ordered.

A few moments later, a middle-aged man with a hint of silver at his temples entered the room. “Hokage-sama,” he greeted with a bow.

“Togimeishu-san, it is an honor to meet you. I’ve heard a lot of good things about you,” she said in return. “And a few other things as well,” she added in a tone of voice that suggested he had better be there on honorable intentions.

He acknowledged both statements with an inclination of his head. “I am hoping that my work will be of a better nature from now on. You spoke with Uchiha? And were able to retrieve my son perhaps?” he asked hopefully.

“Your son should be here within a few days,” she said. “In the meantime, we have some talking to do about what exactly was done to Uzumaki Naruto and Uchiha Sasuke while they were in Orochimaru’s hands.”

“I merely did the eye transplant, Hokage-sama,” he said with a slight shake of his head. “To learn more of what was done to Uzumaki-san, you will need to speak with the man that traveled here with me.”

“Where is he?” she demanded with a slight frown.

“Unfortunately, he is in the hospital right now. He seems to have suffered some kind of stroke and hasn’t been able to regain consciousness.”

She stood up and rounded the desk. “We will just have to see how he is faring then,” she said briskly.

“Another thing that you should perhaps be aware of,” he added as he followed her towards the door.

“And that is?” she asked impatiently.

“The man had been captured by Orochimaru and had been forced to do whatever it was that he did to Uzumaki-san. It was not by his choice. Also, he is the current Otokage of the Hidden Village of Sound.”

Tsunade paused. Things just kept getting more and more complicated. She would have to notify those in Sound, but she would still have a few days to find out what the man knew and get him to reverse what he had done to Naruto.

She took a deep breath, ignoring the appreciative look from the male beside her, and squared her shoulders.

Throwing open the door, she began to give orders.


TBC