Fox eat Dog

Wowerz another chapter. Excuse the lateness but for me, it should be expected. I wonder if anyone who started on chapter one over a year ago still reads this? Or was it two? About the secret.. I lied! You have to wait longer! Muwahahahaha! Not that's it even hard to see. I already have the plot for it worked out for the next chapter... but don't think the story is almost over, oh no, its only about a thrid of the way there! Think we can make this twenty chapters? Think that will take another five years to write?

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"So then there I was, totally tucked away unseen, undetected as I waited for the dumbass ninja to pass me..."

Just as Sasuke emerged from his bathroom, his hands at his head drying the midnight black locks with a towel, wearing nothing but the skin he was born into, he heard an aggravating voice taunting him again for the one hundredth time that month. He had been trying to kill said person for the same amount of time.

Cockroaches were impossible to eliminate unfortunately.

"Naruto... What the fuck are you doing monologuing outloud under my bed?"

"And then the dumbass ninja asked me the stupidest question ever because he is retarded like that." A blade came down through the thick mattress of the sharingan heir's bed into the wood surface of his floor where Naruto's head would have been if he didn't roll out from under it. The blond was crouched at the ground several feet away like an animal ready to strike. His expression held nothing but an impish smile at the totally nude Uchiha brandishing a katana from seemingly out of nowhere. One furious Uchiha with a talent rival that of a sannin. Most ninja would be worried about then, the blue eye teen gave a wolf whistle.

"Nice sword, a little smaller then what I'm use to seeing..." An arrogant voice taunted. It was answered with one bland tone.

"Say that when it's going through your stomach."

"Sasuke I never knew you swung that way... or lusted after me. I feel so dirty and violated."

"Get out of my bedroom." The Uchiha's voice was higher in pitch with an underlying venomous hiss the blue eye ninja simply ignored.

"...so I'll turn my back and you can get into my pants? Oh no I'm not dropping the soap around your queer ass." The blond finished for Sasuke.

Naruto would admit Sasuke was fast. When he was toying with you he was moving at a speed of a peregrine falcon at the hunt, when serious he would run at the speed of sound. When he lunged at the whisker marked boy then, as to impale Naruto, the brunette was somewhere around the speed of light. As the taller man ducked Sasuke went through his own bedroom door, quite literally. Splitters of wood laid decimated at his feet of what was once the door and frame. Naruto knew when the getting was good and that was five minutes ago. Perched at the window sill of his escape route he waved to the Uchiha with a satisfied grin on his face.

"If I didn't know any better I'd say you were trying to kill me." His words were met with red sharingan eyes, not that he was dumb enough to look directly at them. "So I'm taking off but before I forget..." Naruto reached into his pocket and swiftly pressed a switch, a flash came up for a brief second before there was nothing. "This will make me millions among your fans... tootles!" With that he jumped out the window skipping from roof to roof like a stray cat making off with the fisherman's haul.

Sasuke so choked up in rage had to refrain from moving lest he honestly follow after the idiot blond and give him the gift of his death at the brunette's hands. Killing Naruto would be bad if he had any desire to live himself, Konoha would not allow him to live if he harmed his own. Though maybe they wouldn't notice if he took a finger or ten...

"Fucker took a picture of me naked..." He said off handedly in the silence of the trashed room.

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"I'm bored." Absentmindedly Naruto kicked his feet back and forth under the table he pushed important paperwork out of the way to sit. Needless to say it bothered the person who was trying to do said paperwork but they let it go easily enough and all it took was a skull-cracking fist to the one person's head.

"Is that why you are bothering me?" Was his tormentees agitated reply.

"What is there to do around here?" He brushed off the comment without a second thought and continually shifted like a restless child made to stay put for far longer than they could.

"How about mission? Going out and avoiding death would be good for you... or not. At least you won't be here." The comment was far more harsh and positively dripping with malevolence.

"Neeeh Sakura-chan you're so bitchy. No wonder you don't have a boyfri-ack!" The violent kick to his leg did its job in shutting him up, only it practically broke his leg at the same time though with the girl in question he would not be surprised to find that was what she intended. Not that she was as quick to hit him these days as she grew older, the topic of men or lack there of in her love life was something of a touchy subject. A subject Naruto didn't go into with fear like someone who wanted to live would. In fact truthfully he had hoped she'd be over Sasuke like she seemed to be over three years ago though of late it was obvious having him back did much to raise her hopes if only slightly of something more. The blond didn't know why then or ever since the dark hair ninja was a unappreciative bastard and the biggest asshole you'd ever have the displeasure of getting shit on by. He was only grateful he didn't harbor deep seeded feelings for the pink hair girl still or he'd be in a tough spot, though he really wouldn't mind if he got to see her boobs again in a wet t-shirt.

A few seconds later he received another bone cracking kick.

"What?! I didn't even say anything!"

"Stop staring at my shirt." Her reply was bland but Naruto suspected that she truthfully like the attention, she hit him with less intensity this time.

Sometime after leaving his break-in from the Uchiha's dwelling he waundered over to visit the young woman he hadn't seen in a while. A while being four days, it would seem donning her bra and flaunting it around her friends at the hospital was a bad thing to do and had to go into hiding for a while. He thank the heavens that he was faster as he actually out ran her flying fists of fury, he did however have to pay the damages himself out of pocket. Those walls needed new paint anyway. One deep anxiety filled sigh resonated around the room before she dropped her pen by his thigh on the desk.

"What is wrong with you? You haven't been this annoying since we were twelve. You won't leave me alone and been bothering me for weeks, what the hell is bugging you?" Even though emerald eyes were advently focused on the blond the said man was staring at the ceiling with a contemplative look on his face. He was thinking.

Now she was really frightened.

"Sakura, would you say you like being around me?"

"I don't know, would you like having an enema?"

Unguarded sapphire eyes met hers and for a moment she felt bad about the teasing.

"I'm serious. Am I someone you like seeing and talking with?"

"Naruto... I don't know why you'd even doubt that. Sure you're annoying as all hell and its inconvenient you're sitting on form three-seven-four of hospital supplies and replenishes..."

"Oh... sorry." He lifted his side so she could pull out the paper.

"But you're someone I treasure to have in my life. Don't be stupid you moron."

The blond gave a bashful laugh and rubbed his neck shyly.

"Sure you love me but do you like hanging around me?"

"Of course... most times anyway."

"Hmph." The indignant huff he gave had her with a rueful tilt of his face had her laughing inside.

"You are being unbelievably bothersome these days, what has got ants in your pants?"
He looked at the floor and proceeded to continue kicking his legs though this time she knew it wasn't restlessness but nervous energy.

"I don't know I just have this weird feeling lately..."

"Weird feeling?" Naruto was being extremely vague and he kept scratching himself like he had a rash all over his body, first his neck then his chest before he was at his arm. A common sign of psychosis, something emotional was plaguing him. Sakura had seen many cases like this in new ninjas who hadn't gotten use to the sort of things they had to do to preserve the village and complete more unseemly missions. In fewer cases they didn't get over it and developed more extreme mental defects like schizophrenia or paranoia. At one brief moment in time she wondered if Sasuke's brother was such a case being as young he was at the time he was in ANBU, that was for a very brief moment seeing how she also saw him as more monster than man.

"It's just... nothing. I mean... I shouldn't feel that way you know... sometimes I just think that... I don't feel right. I can't shake this feeling somethings missing." Naruto furrowed his brow staring at the floor trying to come up with and answer for something he didn't have one for. What she could make of it wasn't much. Something missing? He had been doing nothing but haunting everyone he knew recently to the point she fear he'd piss someone off enough to break his neck to shut him up. Not that she knew anyone who would, or could really.

"Have you've been feeling lonely Naruto?" Vulnerable blue eyes met hers and she could almost feel the protest come and die before it was even made. His eyes fell away to somewhere below her face but not looking at any part of her body. It seemed like an almost dreamy realization hit him.

"I dunno... maybe... a little bit." The blond started kicking his legs again his voice light and low like a whisper as he almost averted back to a child. It made Sakura smile.

"I understand Naruto, I think we all do. It's not like anyone wants to be alone all the time. I feel lonely sometimes too." Her empathy though fell on deaf ears she could tell. In a situation like this only a couple of people could understand what Naruto had been through and watching him stare listlessly at the ground she felt so incompetent and useless knowing she really couldn't do more then pat him on the back and say 'its okay'. Though she didn't get the chance because milliseconds later it wasn't just the blond's eyes on the floor, it was all of Naruto with one irate male pulling his fist back ready to strike.

"Sasuke!"

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"Well, well Kakashi you do look a bit rumpled after this last mission, I did have another here planned for you but I think I'll hand it over to someone more fit and up to the task."

To say the silver hair jounin was 'rumpled' was more than a understatement. His hair was matted to his forehead with blood coloring part of it red and pink, enemy's as well as his own when one of them landed part of a tree trunk at his skull. Yeah, a tree. His clothes were covered in it too, what was left of his shirt and pants, he had to ditch the vest when a explosive tag was slapped onto it. One of them was also very fast. His forearm was broken for sure when he thought to shield his head from the damn trunk. Aside from the head trauma and arm he only had minor injuries. Some fractured toes and fingers, deep cuts that would need bandages or stitches as well. Though the hole in his foot was starting to hurt with the adrenaline rush fading after running for his life. One of them was sadistic, licked the kunai after stabbing him in the foot. He was the last to die.

Kakashi didn't say anything to Tsunade or that far-too-smug sadistic smirk she sported. You'd think having one of her ninjas beatened and battered, dripping life fluid on her floor before her would be a concern for her. In a sense she wasn't like the third Hokage, no where near it.

The bitch was laughing for fucks sake!

"Don't give me those eyes, I said complete the mission to the best of your abilities, not kill yourself doing it." Yeah she also had a delightful sense of humour. "When I suppose this could still be considered a successful mission since you completed it, even with the wounds you substained..."

The jounin was livid, he wanted so badly to gut the woman before him, even though on a good day injury-free she'd probably punch his jaw through his head before he could blink. There had to be some law about this, he felt himself about to pass out from blood loss and she was still mocking him! Her face grew serious for a moment though as she stared at him with emotions other than that of amusement.

"But again boy the value of your life wasn't worth the rewards for this one. Next time don't stand and fight."

"Easy for you to say... they didn't exactly give me... a chance... to flee." He was actually bleeding out his mouth as he puffed out his words. He stopped coughing up blood but the punches to his face made him cut his inner cheek, deeply, it was still bleeding. For a moment her honey colored eyes were unreadable before she rolled her shoulders into a shrug and looked away.

"We are done here, go get yourself patched up by Sakura then recover. You'll be sent for when needed."

That in itself was also quite a task, but he wasn't about to be carried out on a stretcher, not while neither one of his legs were broken. Certainly not with the fresh wounds on his pride. Maybe the Hokage understood that much because even as he barely stood upright and did in fact fall twice, catching himself on the wall once, she didn't say a word.

Though as he left he wondered minutely if she didn't savor his pain.

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"Naruto! I'll kill you!"

"Gah! Please Sakura-chan it's not- AH! My arm!"

Over was the second that Sasuke came in, the wrath of hell swirling around him. Gone was the minute Sakura watched it horror as they fought it out before her. Naruto dodging for his life and Sasuke breaking many of the hospitals pieces of property while he tried to land a punch. Not long off from the moment when the pink hair konouchi broke up the one way match with pleas, threats and promises to deliver worse than a quick death. Just passed the instant where the Uchiha heir revealed 'the brainless worm' had sold off and generally released to the public pictures of himself in the buff. Though his anger did not lie within the photos themselves, or so he said, but the fact all morning he could not show his face to anyone at anytime without being on the receiving end of a come on.
They wouldn't lay off his fucking nuts.

To the present one pink hair woman took this information quite personally as though it happened to her and was currently gripping the guilty party by his shaggy blond locks while gripping his arm behind his back in a painful manner, one foot on his back, while she pulled.

Naruto swore he felt his joints tear.

"Ah! Mer-MERCY!" There wasn't many people alive who would ever get Naruto to beg. Ever. He had more pride than that. It wasn't the same as when they were young and the blond never could bring himself to raise his hand to his crush. No. It wasn't like he wouldn't prevent a beating from Sakura. He couldn't.

Bitch was strong.

"Die worm!"

"Gah!"

"What is... going on... in here?"

There was a moment of confusion before the instance of horrified silence. The voice was broken and raspy but still carried a strength of authority. Or maybe their memories played tricks on them. Beyond the spot Sasuke had taken up residence in watching the painful torture of his comrade, right in the middle of a crowded doorway with an abundant amount of terrified yet curious eyes there stood, or rather slouched, their blooded and beaten teacher. He pressed the palm of his hand to the door frame to hold himself up off his injured foot. It got harder to walk on every second. He'd be in immediate care right now if he didn't hear the explosion of yells and destruction that suspiciously sounded like people he knew.

"Kakashi-sensei!" Two voices erupted, the thrid gave him disbelieving eyes before they were guarded. The girl was on him in a second's notice gripping his arm in a far too painful manner.

"What? What happened? Why aren't you in intensive care? Why are you standing here? You're bleeding all over the floor dammit!"

"Sak... roke... arm." He could hardly grit it out. He'd survive if she wasn't squeezing his fracture arm! The woman didn't even notice his good arm trying to pry her wrist off. The jounin was starting to black out with the pain.

There was a moment of relief when she was forced away, or rather pushed into the wall. That was before the moment of humiliation he was picked up like a woman on her wedding day.

Damn hero-types always doing things the flashy way.

"We need to get Kakashi-sensei to a hospital right away! Hurry Sakura use you're jutsu to heal him or something!"

"Not...dying..."

"Jackass we are in a hospital. Those wounds he has aren't even fatal so stop panicking idiot."

A strong wind and tumbleweed would have fit the awkward calm that came then. Nothing but the raspy breathing of an injured ninja in Naruto's arms filled the silence. Maybe it was the pain and slight loss of coherence but the jounin would have laughed at the completely ridiculous picture in that moment of his limp body in his students arms. He was actually waiting for the boy to start screaming 'Nooo Kakashi-sensei!' like he was a second from releasing his last breath. Hurt too much to laugh, even to try and fight his way out of strong arms cradling his body. He really just wanted to go to sleep the moment he got off his foot.

"Naruto if you want us to treat Kakashi-san you have to let him go..." The blond turned to a nurse who's face was familiar but name he couldn't recall. Behind her two hospital orderlies had a gurney ready to transport the injured man anytime. Truth be told Naruto would have ran the jounin himself to the operating table knowing it would be faster and he could over see the man's care himself. Only he didn't know where that place was. He was forced to lay the man down who looked like he already passed out. A cold shiver ran down Naruto's spine as he stared at the battered man. Dried blood in his hair and the pale, almost blue white of his visible skin made it look like he was already dead.
Even as they retreated he stood there helpless to do anything as people began to drift away. Averting his eyes to the floor after they turned the corner frustration fell over him as his body tightly coiled. His gaze caught droplets on the floor of blood. Kakashi's blood. Following their path he could see some off in the distance where the jounin must of walked from. A straight line of bloody imprints of the jounins left foot reached far beyond what his eyes could see from where he was. He felt a twinge of pride in his chest and his lip twitch into a smile.

Stupid bastard refused to be carried and limped all the way here.

Releasing a steady breath a slight wave of relief rippled over him. Of course Kakashi was alright. His sensei was strong, a little cut or bruise wouldn't be enough to keep him down.

'This time.' The pessimistic side of his mind added. It purged some of the calm that was returning to him. Naruto had a few encounters with death to loved ones being as how almost everyone he cared for was a ninja though it never came any easier to him to accept their passing and for him, his sensei was too precious to die.

"Wipe your eyes pussy he isn't dead yet. You're so pathetic." Sasuke spitefully said as he harshly pushed passed the blond. Naruto tensed watching the dark hair teen walk down the hallway his steps disturbing the blood his teacher spilt. The rage at the teen's words made Naruto's blood burn. He had an urge to run after the bastard and split his lip. Seconds later after the others form disappeared from sight it occurred to him that's what the other boy wanted and he laughed.

"Fucking asshole.'' He cracked a smile as he used his slevee to brush away the tears that almost escaped just as Sakura walked up to him, a look of concern overcoming her visage even though minutes ago she had him in a death lock ready to snap his arm in two.
"Naruto it's alright. Kaka-sensei is almost like you in a sense. A cat with nine hundred lives. Both of you idiots make it out alive somehow, you should learn how to dodge a punch instead of leaning towards it. It makes it hard for medics like me with you always showing up with broken bones and knife deep wounds... and would it hurt for you to bathe once and a while? It really sucks to have to tolerate your stink while I heal your injuries..." Naruto didn't mind the ranting, just like he didn't hate Sasuke being an ass. He knew they dealt with things like this in their own different ways and trying to offer comfort just the same.

"...I've had enough with you using your body as a punching bag for people to use freely. Next time you think it's a good idea to stand still and let others beat you down at their hearts content I'm leaving you where you lay to become fertilizer for flowers."
Rolling his eyes he thought maybe again he did mind it. He ought to go find where they took his former teacher and wait until he woke up so he could lecture him for once. Payback is so sweet.

"Where do you think you are going? I still haven't forgot about the pictures you know..." Scared blue eyes turned to the sound of the pink hair woman cracking her knuckles.

"Bu-bu-bu-but Kaka-sensei..."

"Yeah, I'm sure he wouldn't mind a little company in ER." A cruel smile split her face into something ghastly frightening.

"Meep."

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When Kakashi awoke his senses were hit hard. Scents, blood, that was his own. There was a distinct medicinal stench that could only be tied to hospitals. His ears were pounding as was the blood in his head, a dull yet stinging throb from a cruel headache that the beeping of the heart monitor only aided in making worse. There were voices somewhere not nearby but perhaps in the next room over that the thin walls couldn't stop. His body ached, like that was surprising. Someone must have felt pity for him for his muscles felt like as though they were recovering from a morphine high. What a rare treat of pain relief he wasn't awake for. Or maybe he was but his brain couldn't function with the chemicals hindering it.

He was incredibly thirsty too but he refused to open his eyes right away to find out where the water the nurses always left out was. The most painful time in recovery was first waking up to a headache. It was the most awful when you awoke in the middle of the day and the curtains were left open. As everything alerted him at once and his body worked to disentangled the feelings, it came to him he was not alone. When in captivity you should never show signs that you're awake. Even though he was in safe territory he still wanted his company to remain unaware of his coherency.

It could be someone he didn't want to talk to.

Against the pounding headache he slitted his normal eye, avoiding using the sharingan as it would hurt so terribly, and saw someone sitting on the visitor's chair sleeping quite uncomfortably. He opened his eye fully and slowly rose to a sitting position, hissing lowly when he juggled his injuries, as he stared bemusedly at the blond.
Naruto had his head back against the top of the wood chair with his mouth wide open and drool trickling down his cheek. One arm was tossed carelessly over one side of the chair just as his one leg mimicked on the other side. He was dangling rather precariously and Kakashi wondered if he wouldn't slip off at any moment. Against better judgement, his devious side could not be stopped.

"Enemy attack!"

At that sapphire eyes snapped open and Naruto rolled out of the chair, or tried too. When he lunged forward his body slammed right into Kakashi's bed jolting the injured man painfully while the teenager was on the ground nursing his ass that had hit the metal bar quite roughly. So it was a double edge move, still it was funny watching the boy complain as he nursed his bottom.

"Naruto that hurt, what were you thinking?" The jounin sternly spoke adding just a tiny bit of unconcealed pain in his voice, it wasn't forced.

"I'm sorry I guess I had a bad dream... Kaka-sensei!" Then like that the boy was like a puppy hanging off his bed side his hands gripping the sheets as he beamed at the older man his eyes shiny with relief. There was a pang of guilt in Kakashi's stomach that he denied was there.

"What are you doing here brat?" Words were safe, emotions were not.

"You were hurt and bleeding all over the place of course I stayed to see if you were alright! Well actually I stayed for the surgery then went home to shower and eat ramen before I came back. I'm surprised you're awake so soon, how you feel?" Naruto stood up and pushed aside Kakashi's feet gently to sit at the end of the bed as he voiced his every thought in one breath. The older male didn't hold the other's gaze as he leaned back into the pillow rest his head against the headboard.

"Like springtime in the garden of Eden." He grumbled. He was cranky, what did the idiot want from him? "Well it's time to go."

"Oh. Well... okay... I guess I'll just come back to- Kakashi-sensei what are you doing!" The jounin threw his feet over the edge of the bed and was steadily rising as the blond protested. He ignored the fact that it felt like his foot was being speared all over again. The silver hair man threw a bland glare over his shoulder.

"I'm not staying in this hell hole to be used as a lab rat." It was around that time the older man realized he was wearing a hospital gown and not clothes. He reached up to his face with his good arm to be sure it was covered. Thankfully doctor's knew well enough now to leave the mask on when he didn't need a breathing hose. He had made many 'complaints' in the past to be sure of that.

"Tsunadae said you'd try and run, she's hoarding your pants." The boy said without prompting. Kakashi grimaced that Naruto somehow knew his discomfort. His ass was hanging out and the boy surely got a good view of that when he got out of bed.

"Are you my guard then?" It wouldn't surprise him as it wasn't the first time. That's how she learned not to send female konoichi as they were easily swayed or young ninja as they were frightened off even in the face of a injured ninja. He didn't think she'd be send one of his students though, strategic move though. They knew his tricks.

"What? No, though she did ask that I keep an eye on you while I was here. Shouldn't you rest longer? You were hurt real bad..." He was on the receiving end of another piercing wounded eye gaze. Like the boy could feel his pain by just looking at him.

Around that time he stopped looking at Naruto in the eyes again and cautiously limped towards the window. It would be difficult to jump down with one bad foot and one injured arm but he dealt with worse. When he opened the window two hands reached out and grabbed him before he could try to escape. To this he hissed and turned. If he had to fight the boy to get out of here he would. He despised hospitals.

"Let go." Kakashi turned his head to stare at the blond, his eyes full of rage as he was full of pent up anxiety and pain but it made him all the more angry. His voice viciously deadly, enough to put anyone at ill ease. Naruto didn't bat an eyelash, he look more stern then anything.

"I'm not going to try and change your mind, I know what a stubborn ass you can be, but at least let me carry you there." Kakashi blinked and slowly his eyes widen. He hadn't been expecting that. He was ready to refuse even as Naruto encouraged him to come closer by the grip he had on the masked ninja's arm. "Please."

The jounin tensed and closed his eyes. It didn't effect Naruto in the least and he was even against his leaving, yet he begged so sincerely it was making Kakashi want to appease him. Fucking children.

"Fine, but you're carrying me on your back."

"You sure you want to do that? I'm mean it's late and not many people aside patrol would be out but your ass is sticking out for the world and perverts to see." Naruto smiled and Kakashi frowned. He had forgotten about that. He wasn't one for modesty but at the same time he didn't want anyone who knew him to see that. Especially while another man was carrying him around. The rumours that could come of that was just too horrifying to think about.

"Alright! Just make it quick. And don't go on rooftops, all the station guards will be up there." Resigned to his fate the older man gripped Naruto's shoulder with one hand and waited for the blond to lift him up. There was a short pause as the jounin kept his eyes closed and the other man remained immobile. It was quite odd and uncomfortable.
Sure enough he felt an arm wrap around his back and the boy shifted to bend over so he could grip from under Kakashi's knees. There was a brief moment of pain as he was swiftly lifted up as Kakashi's sore body didn't take kindly to the action. He had unknowingly clenched on the taller boy's shoulder and pressed his head under his chin. Once he pulled his nails out of the flesh he undoubtably marked, Naruto moved to climb out of the window sort of awkwardly with the large form in his hands but not overly difficult. If there was one thing the teen had abundance of aside from determination was brute strength, or maybe he was strong because he was determined.

To escape from the window Naruto had to use his chakra to latch onto the side of the wall. He would have just jumped from there but thought better of it to walk down, it required more strength to do it that way seeing as how Kakashi was in no condition to use any chakra at all and the teen literally had to squeeze the jounin closer so he didn't fall out of his arms.

Kakashi was far from cozy. Being cradled like a child in someone else's arms seemed worse now then when he was too incoherent from blood loss to care. It was positively mortifying for that said person to be one of his students when he could remember a time when he had to carry the kid on his back when he was injured. He was alot smaller and lighter then too.

"You falling asleep?" Naruto whispered even though he doubt anyone was close enough to hear them.

They were on the ground and the teen had started a brisk jog to the other's house. So much for going fast.

"No."

"I was... worried when I saw you today..." The confession surprised the older man as though Naruto had waited all day to say.

"This wasn't the first time I ever got hurt Naruto."

"I know... it's just I've never seen you covered in so much blood before. That smell... I could smell your blood for hours afterwards." Kakashi raised his head to stare at the other's face but Naruto had a closed off expression. Like he was in deep thought as he stared blankly before him like he didn't just whisper words of fear and worry.
Thinking of it he couldn't remember if the teen ever saw him covered in blood. There had been a few times when he was bleeding from wounds from their various missions. Though it wasn't like the ones he sustained were all that life threatening.

"You're worried for nothing. I have pently more running threw my viens right now." The jounin closed his eyes and the teen said nothing more as they drew nearer to his home.
Even after they arrived at the building the blond didn't let him down just yet and against the bitter feeling in his stomach at being carried he didn't complain when the blond ushered them through the door and apartment. They stayed that way until Naruto arrived at his bedroom which the teen brought him all the way to his bed.

Staring at the clean inviting sheets an apprehensive feeling ran through Kakashi's veins as the boy slowly lowered him to the bed like he was almost afraid of disturbing him. The jounin said nothing as the pit in his stomach grew to nausea as he stared at his exposed toes and not the other body still occupying his apartment. Why was he still here? A long stretch of silence followed and Kakashi was ready to order Naruto out of his house if the boy wouldn't say something in the next minute.

Kakashi braved himself to turn to gaze up at to the other's face but instead of demanding he leave he was struck confused at the look he was receiving.

Blue eyes didn't seem so worried as before, though there seemed some lingering concern dwelling in their depths, those eyes looked almost darker, but glowing too. If it was a play of light by the moon or the darkness of the room Kakashi couldn't tell but for certain there was a torrent of emotion playing in the iris of the boy's face. It was sort of frightening.

The jounin felt himself blushing.

Just the injured man lost the nerve to stare at Naruto's eyes any longer the boy broke from his stupor and spoke.

"I should go." Kakashi concented with a nod and didn't look elsewhere but at his toes this time. Just as the blond reached his bedroom door before he closed it he left with three last words whispered in a voice so strained and husky it was hard to hear.
"Take care Kakashi."

When the door closed and the blond's tension left with it Kakashi's own didn't retreat so quickly. It wasn't easy to distinguish just what the teen was thinking about looking at the jounin as he did. Nor could the mask ninja figure out what disturbed the boy from the time they left the hospital room til now. Though Naruto managed to really set Kakashi off into a spiral of confusion and distressed with his departure.
Since when did he call him by his first name in a tone like... that?

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Intellectual facts! Fan fictions are good for learning too!
1) Peregrine falcon's (whatever kind of bird they are...) can dive at a speed up to 200 mile per hour.
2) Speed of sound is 344 mph
3) Speed of light is 670,616,629.2 miles per hour
Don't laugh because before looking up info for the joke I didn't know this! I love wikipedia... and whatever that site was for the animal thing. Didja know cheetahs are the fastest land animals reaching speeds 70 mph? hopes to never have to out run a man eating cheetah.

I wasn't sure how to make this chapter go so, again, I used Sasuke as my scapegoat. He is my filler when I have no idea what to do. Yay to gay emo ninjas!

I feel that because of the time in which to take to update compared to all I want to add in the story that I will skip quality for faster updates. I could prolly add a whole other side story about bull crap but rather that I should attack the heart of the matter and actually have some yaoiness within the next few chapters. Perhaps sooner if my brain can make it make sense in a shorter length of time... perhaps I can't entirely do away with quality. XD

Finish time... 7am after staying awake all night. I fixed the typos, most of them anyway I think.