My Weakness | NaruSasu

4. Erotic Books

Naruto

The old pervert wasn't giving me a break.

I wasn't stupid enough to think that leaving to train with him was going to be that walk in the park. But he still wasn't going easy on me.

And when we weren't training, it was all talk about his next big book and all the dirty things he put in there.

He really was a pervert.

I created a shadow clone and quickly started practicing my rasengan. It lacked a lot, but I couldn't wait to master it, so I did everything I could. I worked hard.

"Guuhh!" I shouted. "Baamm!"

I drove the force into a tree and the destruction was immediate. It had worked. "Did you see that?!" I was so excited.

"Yeah, more or less," Jiraiya shrugged with his arms crossed.

I loved that he understood I had my own way of doing things.

I was more than ready to try again. But before I could, I felt it.

It was a chill passing over my body. My heartbeat increased just a little bit, but the chill lingered. Something was terribly wrong.

"Naruto?"

"Something is wrong pervy sage," I tell him.

"Wrong? Did you read my book? I knew I should have built up enough tension before everything got dirty. If you know what I'm saying," he wiggled his eyebrows.

I tried to search my brain for what it was I was feeling, drowning out Jiraiya's voice in the background.

Why couldn't I just place–

"Sasuke," I said.

"A fine young man but I doubt–"

"I have to stop the training. Pause it at least."

"It's been what, a day? We just got here, there's no way we'll stop the training whatsoever."

"Something is wrong and I have to know if Sasuke is alright."

I was getting restless. I really had to do something, I had to know!

"If something is wrong Naruto, we'll get a letter in a few days telling us, no need to be so rash."

Everything he was saying was so logical. I hated it all.

What if something happened to him?!

It was a risk I wasn't willing to take. Maybe I was just being paranoid, but when it came to Sasuke, I just couldn't control myself.

"I'm leaving," I tell him matter of factly. "I'm going to Konoha. I'm sorry but this training will have to wait, I have make sure he's alright."

He was thankfully understanding, not that that would have stopped me.

"Fine, go on. I'll be writing a very erotic book about two lovers who just won't admit their feelings to each other."

I can't focus on what he's trying to say because I was already leaving.

I tried to think but worry clouded my every thought. Sasuke right in the middle of it all.

Please be alright. Please be alright.

I remember the last time I saw him, his back to me, telling me to go. I told myself it didn't matter but it had hurt to hear him say that so coldly.

But it wasn't important now.

I promised I would protect him always. I wasn't planning on breaking that promise.