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Naruto has been pacing back and forth in the parking lot of his families home for probably about thirty minutes now. His parents owned an entire floor in this loft complex that became the permanent Namikaze residence when their house 'mysteriously' exploded when Naruto had been twelve.
All it took was the short walk to the elevator to press the button for the tenth floor and then the five feet walk to his families front door. He would knock, his mother would answer and that would be the last moments of Namikaze Naruto's life.
He couldn't do it. Sure, his neck was nearly healed but not enough that it completely erased the few hickies Sasuke gave him and the god damn bruised puncture on his bottom lip. His parents had eagle eyes, they'd spot it quicker than Naruto could say 'ramen'.
"Naruto?" A soft voice snapped him out of his worried thoughts. Naruto jumped in surprise, turning around to meet the onyx eyes of one of his brothers friends. It took a few seconds for Naruto to remember his name.
"Ah! Hi! Itachi! Um... how are you?" He spluttered, his cheeks going warm. Itachi rose an eyebrow, clad in a maroon hoodie.
"I'm fine, thank you. But, if you don't mind me asking-" Itachi's soft voice was cut off by a deeper and way grumpier voice coming from behind him. Well, more like stomping.
"Where the hell have you been you little brat!?" Sasori hissed, hazel eyes narrowed distastefully. Naruto's stomach dropped. You know that saying; men fall in love with woman reminiscent of their mothers? Yeah, Naruto's older brother took that to a whole new level by dating someone like Akasuna Sasori. Their mother and Sasori were similar right down to the color of their hair, they were both impatient and their tempers were both absolutely terrifying. Naruto didn't know how Deidara could do it.
"It's-it's a long story!" Naruto shouted, putting his hands up in defense. Sasori stalked over to him and smacked him on the head.
"I swear, you're more stupid than Deidara and Karin combined!" The red-head barked, Naruto swore he heard Itachi giggle in the distance except that Itachi didn't giggle so Naruto brushed it off as him hearing things.
"Ow!" He winced, rubbing his head. Sasori looked like he was about to shout again but stopped, his nose twitching. He leaned in closer to Naruto, like he was scenting him the way Kiba did. That didn't make sense, though. Sasori is human and Kiba is a werewolf. There's abit of adifference. Naruto chose to see it as Sasori acting weird, he always was acting sort of weird so it was a little normalized to him at this point.
After Sasori's short scent inspection was over, he snapped his head over to the Uchiha with furrowed eyebrows. Itachi's face remained impassive, save for the small upturn of lips as he held a large paper bag with oil stains at the bottom. They must have been bringing Deidara takeout.
