The Fox Spirit and The God of Yin

Ch.13 Sasuke, The Asshole

Naruto had woken up pretty early; around 4-5 he'd say. Just laying in his bed staring at the ceiling. The quietness and sunlight had disturbed his sleep, well if he could call it that. He was restless throughout the night and it didn't help that he woke up in a new bed, in a new place, with new people, and he knew none of them. Each day Naruto felt that same uncomfortable feeling throughout the whole week. It was tiresome.

No matter how luxury, quaint or if the people he loved were there it still didn't feel comfortable. He wished to wake up under the tree, in the forest like he always did. The sunlight shining through the leaves, the soft moss and the grass tickling his bare feet. He longed to be at his home again.

He turned over and hugged the pillow.

The thoughts about the forest reminded Naruto of Sakura lecturing him about how he should live in the town or with her. Saying he could catch a cold or how defenseless he would be. He told her he couldn't leave that was where he grew up. The place was important to him.

She eventually gave in and stoped nagging about it, but she did insist that the blonde had to use a pillow and blanket at the very least, so he did. Although every now and then the pillow and blanket might get a really dirty or moldy; the first time it happened he didn't want to throw it out since it was special. Sakura had to force it away from him and console him afterwards.

'Those were such nice times.'

Always worrying and concerned over his health. Scolding him on the small things then crying that she's too hard on him. Naruto chuckled. "She's like a mom."

His smiled soon faded away. "I wish she was here." He mumbled to himself cuddling the pillow. Naruto slowly drifted back into sleep missing his big sister.

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"Naruto!" He heard a voice yell to him. His arms flailed out, the pillow he was cuddling resting under his arm. Naruto groaned feeling the blanket pulled off of him.

"Let me sleep Sakura!" He yelled turning over to the other side cradling himself into a ball.

"If you don't wake up then I'll just have to do this the hard way." The man said. Naruto didn't budge. He kept on sleeping drooling slightly on his own arm. The blonde could hear the man sigh. He thought that he could finally sleep peacefully but he was most definitely wrong.

Suddenly he felt the man tickle him all over making him burst out laughing. The blonde squiggled around flailing his arm and legs a bout. "STOP! Hahahahahaha!!"

"You asked for this." He said intensifying the tickles.
"N-no! Hahaha! Please-hahahahaha!" Naruto kept on laughing for what seemed like forever till finally the man stoped. The blonde wiped his tears, opening his eye to see Shisui next to him.

"Ahem, now that your awake get dressed. Your food is getting cold." The man said acting as if he wasn't the one to tickle him awake.

"You act serious for a man who relies on dirty tactics." Naruto stretched across the bed. Shisui raised his eyebrow.
"Dirty tactics? Whatever do you mean?" He smirked.

Naruto sat at the side of the bed as Shisui brought over the the bowl of water and placed over a table in front of him. The blonde stared down at his reflection. He looked the same since the last time he looked himself in a mirror more or less. Besides from the obvious lack of proper sleep, he felt dull. His eyes didn't  shine like before, his complexion paled. Of course it wasn't enough for the average person to notice but he just didn't look the same, at least not in his eyes.

Naruto sighed and splashed his face with water.

"What time is it?"
"It's six in the morning." He said bringing over new clothes for the blonde to wear. They were more maroon colored robes, they were probably dark colored because light colored clothing gets dirty easily. He payed no mind to it. He wore his clothes with a little help from Shisui and went to eat his breakfast.