[FIC] You and Me - Chapter I
You and Me
Overall rating: R - NC-17
Summary: Uchiha Sasuke has returned to Konohagakure. He's changed of course. But so has everything else...
SPOILERS: Up to current in Anime (i.e. Episode 135).
Pairing: Uchiha Sasuke x Uzumaki Naruto Others may be mentioned
Chapter Rating: PG-13
Disclaimer: Naruto and all related characters (c) Masashi Kishimoto -- i.e. They are not mine.
AN: My First SasuNaru, non-drabble. teehee. Be kind, ne?
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Unexpected
No one had expected Sasuke to come back on his own accord. Least of all himself. Yet here he was, standing in front of the gates of Konohagakure. And at noon, no less. It hardly seemed to be his style; to return at noon. But then, he mused, it would have been expected, so clichéd, if he returned in the dark of the night. The two ANBU stationed at the gates recognized him immediately and he smirked. He did not know these two. Two more came from behind him.
Cocking his head to one side, it took Sasuke a moment to recognize the two new ANBU - he had not really been paying attention - one through his chakra signature that he no doubt allowed Sasuke to notice, and the other by the dog next to him.
“Hyuuga. Inuzuka. Tadaima.”
Tsunade looked at the Uchiha, not much surprise in her eyes and surprisingly, not much anger either. There was not much of anything in the hazel depths. Not even a mild curiosity. Just, a knowing. It annoyed Sasuke to no end. She let out a sigh and, intertwining her fingers together, rested her chin on the platform her hands now provided for her.
“Well.” Was all she said, and was all she had said so far.
When he had been ushered into her office by the two who had met him at the gate she was in the middle of a meeting between two of the Senior Advisors of Konoha. She had merely glanced at Sasuke before telling him - or rather, Neji and Kiba, to have him wait outside since she was busy right now.
Sasuke had felt insulted and the Hyuuga had picked up on it. He heard the Hyuuga snort through his mask.
“What, Uchiha? You had expected a welcoming ceremony?” The Hyuuga chuckled.
Sasuke felt his sharingan activating itself as he glared at the other doujutsu user. He knew, that behind the mask, Neji did not so much as flinch. Rather, he could almost hear the man’s smirk.
He had then turned his gaze upon Kiba, who up to that point, had not said nor done much. Immediately, Kiba had gone into a defensive stance and Sasuke found himself smirking before he turned away and looked at the door. As he had done so, it had opened with the two Senior Advisors stepping out and a gesture from Tsunade to step inside. Neither Neji nor Kiba had followed him.
“Well.” She repeated again.
She regarded him for a moment, nodded slightly to herself before standing up and gesturing to a corner of her office.
“Tea?” She asked.
He shook his head then. She shrugged and poured herself a cup, with the grace and deftness women of high ranked families were taught. Turning to him once again, she sipped her tea, looking at him over the rim of her cup. After a moment, she brought the cup down and she leaned against the tea table, her stance relaxed. Then, she asked the one question Sasuke had expected least. In fact, he had not been expecting it at all.
“How have you been?”
There was a warmth in the question and Sasuke did not know how to react. He opened his mouth to answer but then shut it again. He looked, for a moment, like a fish gulping for air, before he regained his composure and he steeled himself.
“Fine.”
Tsunade’s eyes left his as she set her cup back down behind her.
“Hai. Hai.” She said softly, as she did so.
She looked back at him, a sorrow in her eyes that lingered before leaving them. He furrowed his brow. She pushed off of the table she had been leaning on and took her place in front of him, in her chair.
“Word gets around fast. I didn’t know it would be this fast though.” She whispered, mostly to herself as she gazed at the papers on her table.
Sasuke was perplexed but he didn’t say anything. He didn’t want to sound like an ignorant idiot. She raised her eyes up to him and Sasuke nearly stumbled back at the sight of tears there. She blinked and the fell but no more followed.
“It’s good of you to come see him, Sasuke.”
Sasuke’s eyes widened in confusion and he did nothing to hide it.
“What?” He asked, taking a step back before cursing the show of weakness.
Any thought of that though, was wiped out of his mind as the Godaime’s eyes widened in shock.
“You don’t know? About Naruto?” She said, standing and reaching out to him, as if readying herself to restrain him, if need be.
“What? What about the dobe?”
He didn’t want to admit it, but something inside him had jumped slightly at the mention of the name he had pushed almost totally out of his mind.
“What? What about him?” He demanded again.
Tsunade was moving around her desk now, and all Sasuke could do was stand still. The same thing inside him that had jumped was icing over now and he felt a shiver go up and down his spine several times.
As Tsunade’s words left her lips, Sasuke felt numb and he thought to himself, as his eyes went in and out of focus: So this is why I came back. Many words, sentences maybe even pages of them, were being said by Tsunade.
He heard none of them. He had only heard the first.
That was when, inexplicably, his head had started spinning but the rest of him had stayed still.
“He’s dying.”
Whew!!!
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