MENTAL. [On Hold ]

Chapter 23

The first rays of morning light seeped through the window and illuminated the side of the room that, on inspection, had a table stacked with books.

Naruto rubbed his eyes and stretched out his hand in search of a warm body that he doubted he would find.

Though, to his shock, his hand cascaded down smooth, warm skin.

He finally opened his eyes, rubbing out the remnants of sleep and looked at the beautiful, raven haired man sleeping next to him.

He had honestly never seen Sasuke this peaceful. His mind always seemed to be wondering. He always seemed to be looking for something he couldn't find.

"Maybe he was searching for you," his mind told him, but he quickly discarded the thought as soon as it came.

"Wake up," he nudged the other, finally tired of watching him sleep.

"I've been up," he mumbled, "just waiting for you to man up and give me a kiss. With all that staring I'm shocked I'm not tied to the bed yet,"

He could definitely hear that Sasuke was trying to be smug. His face turned red showing just how embarrassed he was.

"You saw me?" he asked quite shocked that he didn't see the other open his eyes, "you knew?"

"Nope... but now I do,"he said finally opening his eyes and planting a quick kiss on the other's temple.

"Bastard,"he mumbled , "I'm sore."

"What can I say? I'm quite the lover,"he smugly responded.

Naruto enjoyed seeing this side of Sasuke. If he was like this from the beginning, he wouldn't blame stockholm syndrome for making him fall for him.

"Tell me about you Sasu? I don't know much," he said, quickly diving under the covers.

The room was silent. He was scared now. What if he angered the other man, he definitely wasn't a fan of being chained up.

"What do you want to know?" he said as he kissed the outline of the boy's forehead, immediately calming his nerves.

"Just tell me about your childhood," he said offering a small smile, "I wanna know about your whole life till now."

For some odd reason, Sasuke seemed cornered somehow. His body grew tense at the question but immediately relaxed.

" Alright," he closed his eyes and breathed, " I lived in some city with my family, life seemed really fine. I loved my brother, my mother was a sweet little thing and my father was a stern man, I still loved him though. My father praised Itachi so much, maybe it was because he was older. I lived almost everyday trying to please him....."

He became silent and even Naruto knew that a trip down memory lane would be a hard one. He moved from under the covers and sat his body behind the other man's, placing his head on his chest and running a tan hand through his hair.

"Go on," Naruto encouraged him to continue.

"I was never enough for him. In the end, my efforts didn't matter. When I turned eleven, my mum and dad decided to move to the countryside, which we did. They wanted to control one of the UCHIHA branches situated there and form a partnership with the HYUUGA. Funny how I still remember that," he laughed a bit, "Started going to school there, where I met a girl. I loved her so much, it was so hard to even get her to go out with me. I started with the normal courting and stuff, but she turned me down for a full year."

Naruto snickered a bit, earning himself a glare that asked him to shut the fuck up.

"After the struggle, she finally accepted. My brother kept teasing me about how long I actually struggled to make her mine. A week after she accepted to be my girlfriend, she died," he said sadly.

"How?" Naruto asked feeling a little bad for asking.

"You pushed her down the hill," he whispered, his voice almost inaudible.

"I'm sorry.... very sorry," Naruto said, almost ceasing his ministrations in the other's hair.

"It's the past now anyways.... So, a month after she died, things at home just got worse. Mum and dad would argue a lot, business started failing. A woman wanted to buy the company from them, but that would leave them bankrupt so they declined. That decision wasn't as wise as they thought it was. The woman ordered the assasination of my parents, and when she succeeded, she took the company away from us, leaving my brother and I with nothing,"

"What? that's not fair, you were just kids," he said in disbelief, "Who was she?"

"Tsunade," he said, "that's why I always said, 'you made me this way', even without meaning to. She wanted the company so bad that she had to kill for it. I thought I'd get satisfaction after tormenting you... it was never enough...Don't worry though.... I still love you. My brother became a cop and all he wanted to do was make sure everyone of you would rot behind a cell, I couldn't let him do that to you though"

Naruto couldn't believe any of this. His grandmother was the main cause of all of this shit and all she did was sit back and watch it happen. His dad should be free, but he's getting the beating of his life behind bars.

He rubbed at his eyes daring the tears not to fall, but he couldn't.

"That's enough for now," he said turning around and wiping the other boys tears, "We can talk about this later."

"I should just die," he said still furiously crying.

"And kill our child too, you must be out of your mind," he said holding me close to him, "I love you and this won't change that."

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Hey... Sorry was really busy with school, still am actually.
I'll try to work on another part tonight loves.
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