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Chapter 13: Lovers

It had helped Naruto a lot talking to Deidara. At least now he had some tactic to get Sasuke— that arrogant and prideful Uchiha— to approach him. The matrimony was a great farce. Naruto hadn't been able to go out but the guards rumored about what people were saying in the streets. Everyone thought that the matrimony was functioning very well now that they barely saw Sasuke at the city's strip joints. Everyone thought that Naruto must've been fierce in bed to have his husband so controlled. The rumors where far from reality, though. He hadn't even gotten him to get in bed with him.

Ever since Deidara left the garden, Naruto had not stopped thinking about those words. He only needed a good plan; it didn't even have to be good, he just had to get someone just as attractive to make his husband jealous.

Naruto got up from the stone bench where he had been sitting and walked through the hallways until Kakashi came out of nowhere, worried about having lost Naruto out of his sight for a few seconds. With Pein in the castle, Kakashi did not trust even his shadow because in the end, Pein was the nephew of the usurper of the Namikaze's throne and he had retained the heir to the throne. He didn't want to lose Naruto out of his sight as he didn't want any tragedy to occur.

"I'm fine." Naruto told him to take away the anxiety that followed him.

"Don't ever disappear that fast."

"Nothing's happened. What's more, Pein wouldn't be so unwise as to attack me being in the Uchiha's castle. That'd be like declaring war to the entire kingdom. He wouldn't face the supposed rage my husband would take out towards him. To my luck, Pein doesn't even know that there is nothing but hate and little affection between us. Sasuke wouldn't bother to start a war just for me."

"You can't know that, Naruto.

"But I do know. Sasuke doesn't worry about me."

"Perhaps he worries more than what he lets on. He's an Uchiha, they're always trying not to show emotions."

"You don't know him."

"It's you who doesn't know him, Naruto." Kakashi told him with a serious expression on his face, making Naruto think better in what he had to say about his husband. "Remember that I've lived longer than you. I've seen many things and I've raised you and your brother. I was Deidara's bodyguard way before becoming yours. I watched him grow, laugh, and cry. I spent my summers with him in that palace watching how your parents tried to get him to get along with Itachi ever since his infancy in hopes of marrying them in the future. They didn't get along well, they never did until that one last year."

"You were with my brother that year?"

"Yes. Every summer, the Uchiha and the Namikaze would meet in the palace in the outskirts of the city— a castle in the north— trying to live together and strengthen their alliance. I've watched Itachi grow up. He was arrogant, stubborn, and cold. He was just a stuck-up kid who thought he was the best warrior in the kingdom. Deidara always tried to play with him when he was young but to Itachi, he was only a bother. With the years passing by, Deidara stopped following Itachi to play. He locked himself in books and read in the library while Itachi practiced the art of swordsmanship. His father always taught him how to fight; he was insistent with that subject as well as with diplomacy. He was just a boring kid. That one last year, something changed in him."

"I don't remember anything." Naruto commented.

"You were very little. Not even Sasuke could remember something like that. You liked playing with him." Kakashi smiled. "You were a cheery little kid and Sasuke, a serious Uchiha. You loved bothering him, grabbing his cheeks and pinching them. That bothered him a lot but at the same time, I think he liked it. You were always together and when you weren't, you'd cry without stopping."