A Dog's Life

Sorry about the delay everyone in posting this new chapter, I was hoping to get it out sooner, but I ended up getting busy and I never got around to finishing it when I wanted to. Despite the delay in posting I hope you still all like the new chapter and I want to thank you all for the great support you have given me so far. A little more is hinted at in this chapter about Naruto as well as his relationship to Sasuke. Without further ado here’s chapter 7, please review I love to here all your thoughts on the story. Thanks again .
Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto that honor is held by Masashi Kishimoto I am just a fan writer doing this for fun.

Chapter Seven-A Dog’s Life by KitsuneFun

Their was a suddenly ringing from Gaara's cell phone, Sasuke had been told about the devices used by humans to communicate with others unlike the Magical realm where it was more common to send messages by other means including telepathy, fairy and mirror. The music coming from the strange silver piece was cold and unemotional in comparison to the live music Sasuke was used to hearing in his father’s castle. The music reminded him of Gaara whom like the music was as unemotional a person as they came, so it seemed strange that the redhead would seem torn between answering the phone and continuing to stare down Sasuke, 'As if he could ever intimidate me' Sasuke thought with a smirk.

Gaara finally gave in with a sigh and answered his phone, "Hello Subaku here?" His eyes widened and his body straitened in surprise, 'It must be something truly shocking to get that kind of reaction from Gaara' Sasuke's eyes narrowed suspiciously as Gaara put a hand over the phone briefly to look at Naruto apologetically, "Sorry Koi... I have to take this... some important business matters came up."

Naruto, not one to let anything show that bothered him just smiled and nodded, "Sure…” he nodded, “We can always talk later..."

Gaara gave a small satisfied smile, ‘another feat‘ in Sasuke‘s mind, "Sure..." he turned back to the phone and continued talking as though it had only been a courtesy to ask the blond to stay while he walked towards the back of the store to continue his conversation with whomever he was talking to.

When the redhead was no longer looking, Naruto's smile turned sad, he looked down at Sasuke and sighed, "I guess its just you and me for lunch... at least I won't be alone for once." The raven didn't know why, but the slight confession from the blond made Sasuke's heart thump painfully inside his chest, if the raven had been in his real body nothing would have stopped him from bringing the blond into his arms where Sasuke could comfort him as Naruto deserved.

The raven opened his mouth about to speak, forgetting for the moment in his need to confess his feelings to the blond that dog's don't talk, "Nar..." only to be interrupted by a stack of books suddenly being dropped on top of Sasuke’s head from an unknown source, "Oops..." the dry voice said from behind the raven unmindful of the sudden shock of pain that caused the dog to pass out.

"SASUKE!" Naruto yelled dropping down on all four in fear towards the dog's side, he leaned close and pressed his face against the dog’s mouth, the warm yet shallow breath confirmed for the blond that for the moment the dog was alright. ‘Thank God’, Naruto thought before turning his head to look up in anger at the perpetrator, “Nice going genius...you almost killed my dog... what the hell were you thinking?" he yelled pointing an accusing finger at the rather unenthusiastic looking youth.

Shikamaru could be cute if he smiled with that long mahogany brown hair pulled tight into a ponytail and earnest brown eyes set against slightly caramel colored skin. The genius in question sighed getting down on his haunches to pick up the books he dropped, 'How troublesome,' he thought, but out loud he said, "Sorry I was just bringing this stock to the shelves and I tripped... I didn’t mean to hit your dog."

Naruto's face contorted comically in anger at the other boy‘s lack of feeling, "You really sound heartbroken over it Shika... Do you ever care about anything?" The blond wasn’t happy, first with Gaara’s unusual attitude now his employees were acting strange and it was pissing him off, "You know I have half a mind to fire you... really Shika,” The blond shook his head in confusion regarding the brunette’s attitude, “What were you thinking... Idiot."

The blond gently picked up Sasuke as best his could considering the dog was surprising heavy for his size, "I'm going home to cool off... if Gaara gets back from his phone call tell him something came up and that I will talk to him tomorrow..." Then the blond headed in the direction of the store only to stop briefly as he realized, "Shit..." he mumbled, "I need a car since I walked here."

"I thought as much..." Shikamaru said in an easy tone, "take this," he threw a set of keys to a surprised Naruto, "You can borrow my car, and I will get a ride from Chouji... so troublesome." he mumbled shaking his head at the other brunette’s actions.

Naruto looked at the keys and snorted in annoyance at his employee, "So what else is new Shika… everything is troublesome to you," The blond noticed Shikamaru's slightly hurt face and took a breath trying to calm down, "Listen your not fired ok... you know how I get sometimes?" the brunette nodded, "Well... I just need some time to cool down and I want to make sure this bastard dog is ok... thanks for the keys." and with that Naruto finally left the store not noticing Shikamaru's unusual smile as he left.

"Don't worry about it Naruto-sama... I'm sure your father would be more upset if I disrupted your illusions." with that the brunette picked up the rest of the fallen books that he had dropped on purpose and headed off to put them back on the shelves where he had taken them in his haste to stop the Uchiha from talking, 'It wouldn't do’, Shikamaru thought for the prince to find out about his magical roots before his father deemed it important to do so, in a way he felt sorry for the other brunette.

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Arashi paced the length of his large sumptuous apartments in the Fae palace in anger, "What the hell is Fugaku’s younger son doing there... and his right hand man, Kakashi, is there too... How did this happen…" he stopped to grip the back of his head in frustration gripping the hair there almost painfully as he tried to think.

As far as Arashi had understood, the Sannin Orochimaru had disrupted whatever searching spell the Uchiha had put on his son 15 years ago and it had taken quite a powerful sealing spell to do it, but they had finally managed to place it on his son when Naruto was 5 years old. The older man still couldn’t comprehend how the Uchiha clan had managed to place the searching spell on his son in first place, as far as he understood only those there at the time of the boy’s birth knew about him.

In fact the spell had seemed rather odd, in Arashi’s mind that it had only connected Naruto to one other person in their clan, though to this day the older man could never figure out who it had been. ‘It’s odd,’ Arashi thought trying to piece it all together, ‘I need to get him out of there as quick as possible,’ he thought.

All of that work hiding his true form and the blond’s powers from outside forces and it looks like he is in jeopardy. He only hoped that nothing happened to his son by the time Ino and Shino retrieved him.

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Sasuke felt warm, he snuggled closer to the warmth as it tried to shift away, going to far as to bury his muzzle into the softness, “Sasuke…” a voice sighed dreamily before he was whisked back into dreamland from temporary reality.

In dreams Sasuke was free from his dog form. The Uchiha opened his eyes slowly and viewed the rolling fog that had settled in the large palace of white that reminded him of his mother’s suite at the Uchiha palace. He heard the almost purring sigh again, this time in his dream and Sasuke smiles warmly to view a sleeping Naruto lying next to him. Naruto’s spiky white blond hair spread out upon the pillow seemed soft to the raven's mind and Sasuke gave into the temptation of stroking it by leaning down and doing so, “My mate…” the soft words seemed right in Sasuke’s heart as he spoke them though he didn’t understand how this slight framed boy had captured his attention so easily when other’s in the magical realm had tried desperatly but had never even gotten this close to him let alone garnered his notice.

Leaning down he closed his eyes briefly as he leaned down to brush his firm lips against the surprising soft skin near the blond's temple, ‘like peaches.’ the raven thought wishing he could drink in the other’s smell in dreams that in reality smelled like vanilla and citrus, an odd combination in his mind, but one the Uchiha found he he was growing to like.

The raven felt a hand push at him softly if only half hearted, “Sleepy… not now Sasuke…”the blond mumbled only partially aware of what he was doing in his dream like state it made Sasuke chuckle lightly.

“Ah but the sooner the better my love…” he stated cryptically to the other before leaning down to steal another kiss from those temptingly soft lips he'd only tasted once, “I find that I am no longer willing to wait.”

"Ok...Sleep now," The blond sighed again snuggling his face back into the pillow.

'Yes... Tomorrow he would talk to Kakashi and learn what needed to be done to turn him back', then he thought, 'Their will be nothing to hold me back from my goal.' Not Itachi... no one.

Tomorrow.

Well that’s the end to chapter 7, the plan to turn Sasuke back to his regular self with be discussed in the next chapter but will Naruto no longer be there? that’s the question… well it wont all be answered in the next chapter, but soon so I hope you all look forward to it. Goodbye for now .