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Marks of Ownership - Part II
Naruto was surprised to find himself the first one to reach the Konoha Swimming School. He quickly changed into his trunks and went to sit by the pool to wait for his instructor and the other students to turn up. A minute later, a pair of pale legs joined his in the pool and he looked up and almost screamed.
Seated beside him was Sasuke…no wait…a man who looked extremely similar to Sasuke.
"You look like you've seen a ghost," the pale boy said and smiled at him. Naruto grimaced at the fakeness of the smile. But then again, getting a reaction like the one Naruto had given this guy would have never made anyone happy.
He smiled apologetically and rubbed the back of his head, intent on making amends. "Sorry for that. It's just that you look like someone I know…" he trailed off awkwardly hoping that was explanation enough.
"Yes I know. Uchiha Sasuke, right?" the pale man said as he thoughtlessly swung his legs in the water causing a series of slow, lazy ripples on the otherwise calm surface of the pool. His fake grin widened when Naruto's mouth opened and he simply gaped at the man.
"How…?" he asked unable to think of how to continue. The man was…frankly…downright unnerving.
"Well I get that a lot and I know the Uchiha through…well…my own means." He said and faced the pool.
"You must be Uzumaki Naruto, right?"
Okay, scratch unnerving. This man was just…creepy.
He raised an eyebrow. "How do you know that?" he asked completely nonplussed.
The pale man raised a brow. "I have…my means." He said and his voice reeked of nonchalance. "I'm Sai by the way." He offered a hand for a handshake but Naruto was just too freaked out to give him his in return. After a moment's pause, Sai retracted his hand and snuck it under a thigh as he continued to swing his legs.
"Frankly I'm surprised the Uchiha has been with you for so long," he mused softly but Naruto heard him.
"Excuse me!" Naruto asked on his guard at once. "What the hell is that supposed to mean?"
Sai turned to him and gave him that fake smile again. "Well because…you don't have a penis."
Maybe it was Sai's luck or Naruto's bad luck that their instructor, a beefy hairy man had walked up behind them and had heard the last bit of the conversation. So when Naruto got ready to deliver a punch, his hand was quickly caught in a vice-like grip.
"Now really Mr. Sai," the instructor said in a warming tone but the next second Naruto was screaming.
"Why you bastard-" Naruto screamed as their instructor held his wrist and refused to let him go. He glared up at his instructor. "Let me go." He commanded and just for the fraction, that grip on his wrist loosened.
"So you really don't have one, do you?" Naruto really wanted to murder the asshole right there.
"Wha-"
"Because if you really had one, all you had to do was lower your trunks and point it out than get all defensive and-"
That was it! With strength Naruto didn't know he possessed, he broke free of the instructor's grip and charged towards the asshole. It took him immense pleasure to feel the burn on his knuckles when they collided with Sai's cheek and sent the infuriating fucker flying. But that wasn't all, with a surprising quick speed Sai was on him and a second later they were punching the shit out of each other.
And then all too soon it was over when their instructor, as well as another person who could have been a new learner like Naruto, was pulling them away. He kicked and flailed at the arms that held him and almost screamed in frustration when the grip did not even loosen an inch.
"Ah the Springtime of Youth shines brightly upon us today! But as much as I like this display of youth, I'd really like it if you two could put it to good use in the pool." He turned to look at the man who was holding Sai down and almost blanched when he took in the green thing that was standing before him. Spandex…all of it was probably spandex… Naruto mused stupidly as he looked at the man who was bent in an almost impossible position as he trapped both of Sai's legs and hands simultaneously with his own. The man had possibly the bushiest eyebrows Naruto had ever seen.
And then the man in green did the most surprising thing on earth. He picked Sai up and began doing push-ups using the man in his arms as his weight.
Honestly, Naruto couldn't help but feel sorry for Sai for a moment. Only a moment, because a second later he caught a glimpse of the bastard's face still wearing that superior, smug and fake grin.
"Gai put him down," the instructor who was holding Naruto spoke in a voice that sounded tired. Naruto turned to see the hairy man look utmost embarrassed and he shot the man a what-the-actual-fuck look. The man just averted his gaze away as he let Naruto go. "GAI PUT HIM DOWN NOW BEFORE I FIRE YOU!" That seemed to do the trick because the green clad man looked sheepish as he put Sai back on the ground.
It gave Naruto immense satisfaction to watch Sai wobble on his feet before he was steady.
The instructor then turned to look at them with a glare that could have put Sasuke's to shame. Nah! Naruto thought as he examined the glare some more, there is no glare in the world that can rival the Uchiha's was his verdict.
"You two," the instructor said, "stay away from each other!" He sighed and ran an agitated hand through his shaggy dark hair. "If one of you starts a fight again, I swear I'll throw you out!"
"But he-" Naruto started in an attempt to clarify stuff when he watched the instructor put up a hand.
"No explanations. Just do what you're told." He then proceeded to stomp towards the other end of the pool and Naruto turned his mouth still half-open and his brow furrowed in anger. There were people standing at the opposite side and Naruto assumed they were either new students or people who came here to swim this time of the morning.
"Hn, still dickless I see," Sai spoke and had it not been for the threat of being chucked out of the swimming classes, Naruto would have lunged at his throat again.
Once the hairy man reached the other end, he beckoned them over. Once they had reached and were all together he spoke, "Everyone, I'm Sarutobi Asuma your swimming instructor and the man beside me is Maito Gai, another instructor. Together we shall teach you swimming." He placed his hands on his hips and looked around at everyone, "Any questions?"
A hand shot up and Naruto turned to see a boy with a spiky ponytail looking bored as hell. "Will we get breaks during the lesson?"
Asuma glared at the man and said, "It's a one hour lesson Mr. Nara for what do you want breaks?" he asked exasperated.
I'm sure he's regretting his decision to start these tutoring lessons, Naruto mused feeling sorry for the hairy man.
"So you mean we won't get any breaks?" Nara asked still looking bored as hell.
"Are you here to learn swimming or to take breaks?" Asuma asked pulling out a cigarette from his bathrobe and lighting it quickly.
"Take breaks," Nara answered not missing a beat.
Asuma sighed. Well the man had paid money for these lessons and he might as well do whatever he wanted with the lesson. "Do whatever you want," he said huffing and puffing out a huge cloud of smoke. Idly Naruto wondered if it was possible for this man who smoked to be able to swim. He had heard that swimming acquired shit loads of stamina and judging by the way the man was practically smoking the shit out of his cigarette, he assumed the man must not have too much of it.
Nara shrugged and another hand shot up. A man with shaggy brown hair and weird red triangle marks on his face grinned at the smoking instructor and asked, "What time do the girls come in here?"
The question caused more interested faces to turn to Asuma for the answer. Asuma just glared at the man who had asked the question. "If you're here for the girls and not the lessons, I recommend you leave the class. We only teach interested students who are keen on learning, not those who only wish to ogle the opposite gender."
The man looked downcast but then he shrugged and grinned again. Naruto was pretty sure that this guy would look at the time table and satisfy his query.
Asuma walked to a nearby trashcan and flicked the butt of his now finished cigarette in it. "Anything else?" he asked and when no other hand shot up, he nodded and clapped his hands reminding Naruto of his PE instructor from school. "Well then," he said taking off his robe to expose more hair, "shall we begin?"
The swimming lesson was fun and Naruto soon found himself grinning as he held tightly to the green clad instructor's hand and moved his legs splashing water around himself crazily. His grin widened when Gai kept encouraging him and complimenting him.
I can do this! Fuck, I will do this! If not to prove to Sasuke, but to prove to himself, he thought and moved his legs faster.
He looked around and saw the progress the others were making. Besides him and that asshole Sai, there were five more people who had signed up for the class. The spiky ponytail guy was Nara Shikamaru - a pharmacist by profession, his wife had forced him to join these classes in an attempt to make the man more energetic. There was the shaggy haired guy with the red triangles on his face, Inuzuka Kiba - a vet who just wanted to do this to get girls for obvious reasons. There was a fat guy named Akimichi Chouji who had been forced to join these classes to lose weight. He and Shikamaru were apparently childhood friends so the decision had been made by the wives of both men. There was this man who already wore his swimming goggles and stood quietly in the corner holding on to the pegs as he splashed his legs around. Aburame Shino, Kiba had told him and no one knew what he did because he didn't talk to anyone. Frankly, Naruto found him a little eerie.
And the last member of their batch was this guy with one protruding shark-like tooth who reminded Naruto a little of Kisame. The guy looked like he was perfectly happy being in water as he splashed around and played with Kiba as though they were little kids. His hair was dyed grey of all the colors in the world and every time he grinned a shiver raced up Naruto's spine. Hoshigaki Suigetsu, that's what he had said his name was.
Creepy
He turned towards Gai-sensei when the swimming instructor told him to take a break. He nodded and walked out of the pool to sit beside an almost asleep Shikamaru. "So your wife forced you to come here, eh?" Naruto asked wiping his face with his towel as he watched Suigetsu dunk Kiba under the water whose arms flailed around wildly as he fought for air.
Shikamaru just made a humming sound which Naruto assumed to be a positive response. He nodded and turned to the front. His spine straightened when he saw Sai step out of the pool and walk towards him. "Um…Shikamaru I'm going to the washroom should anyone ask." Shikamaru just made a vague gesture with his hand and Naruto took that as another positive response. He just wanted to get away before Sai could do something else to rile him up. Judging from the way Sai had looked at him while he was stepping out of the pool, he was pretty sure that Sai was not going to leave things like they were in the morning and he'd be dammedif he got thrown out of these classes because if that were to happen, Sasuke would have this guy's head. A small part of Naruto was almost tempted to subject Sai to that fate.
He went and stood in one of the stalls to relieve himself when a whistle from the neighboring stall almost caused him to jump in fright dick-in-hand and all.
"What the hell?" he looked at Sai who was busy looking down at Naruto's private parts.
"So you do have a dick, eh?" Sai asked amused his eyes still fixed on Naruto's crotch. Naruto quickly looked down and tucked himself in, moving to the sink to wash his hands.
I will not punch him. I will not punch him, was chanting inside his head as he pretended to ignore the existence of the other. Naruto let out a frightened yelp when out of the blue Sai came and stood behind him, so close that they were almost touching.
"Get away," he ordered his voice low and threatening.
"What if I don't?" Sai asked challengingly and Naruto sighed. Clearly this man did not "enough means" to have warned him about the dangers of being in close proximity to Naruto.
To each his own.
His shoulders dropped and a second later his back went ramrod straight when Sai ran a hand down his back and into the waistband of his swimming trunks.
Naruto swirled so fast that he lost his footing on the ground and because Sai was so close to him they both went flying to greet the floor. Naruto fell on his back and his ass while Sai fell smack on Naruto's chest with his hand on Naruto's -
"What the hell is happening here?" Suigetsu exclaimed as he chose that moment to walk in on them.
"It's not what you think it is!" Naruto hastily put up a hand for explanation and tried to squirm away from Sai. He let out a gasp and his face flushed when Sai used the hand on Naruto's crotch to haul himself up. But being the pervert he was, despite their risqué state and the fact that he had an audience, he dug his nails in and full on groped Naruto.
It was the end of the line for Naruto!
He lifted his leg which was snuggled in between Sai's legs and thrust it upwards and then he flipped them around and began pounding the shit out of Sai. He completely forgot there was Suigetsu watching them till he felt the other guy pushing him off Sai panting heavily and muttering, "You'll kill him Naruto. Let go." When Naruto still did not let go, Suigetsu screamed for help.
It could have been five minutes, it could have been five seconds or five hours and it still wouldn't have been enough but soon all too soon, strong beefy hands were pulling him away from Sai and the man glared up at him from one eye, the other eye having been beaten blue and black.
"That's enough," Asuma said as he asked Kiba and Chouji to hold Naruto while he prepared to rush Sai to the hospital. The man was semi conscious and if word about this got out, he could very well kiss his career of being a swimming instructor goodbye.
He glared at Naruto who was breathing harshly with murder still shining in those blue eyes. "Let go," he harshly ordered and Kiba and Chouji both let him go still looking at little scared. The bathroom reeked of tension as everyone watched Naruto warily as if expecting him to attack them.
Naruto just went to the sink and washed his bleeding knuckles and then splashed some water on his face. When he'd calmed down enough he turned towards everyone gathered in the bathroom and made a lame attempt at a smile. "Sorry about that," he used his slightly less damaged hand to run it through his hair and grimaced when the raw skin scraped against his skull and it hurt.
Asuma spoke, "Everyone, class is over for today." He then turned to Naruto and took a deep breath before speaking. "I'll call you and let you know about your timings." Naruto nodded accepting that and everyone scattered to take their respective showers before leaving.
This had to be the worst day of his life.
Throughout the day Naruto kept reliving the scene in his head again and again. For some reason there was something that was nagging him at the back of his head. Every time he tried to put a finger on it, that detail just kept slipping from his mind. He tapped the back of his pen agitatedly on his notepad and rubbed his still sore knuckles across his brow. A deep feeling of foreboding was seeping into his bones.
"What's up?" Hatake Kakashi's ever cheerful voice made Naruto startle as he looked up at him in bleak shock.
Kakashi raised a brow at his favorite employee and took the seat opposite the man. "Something happened?"
Naruto schooled his features and shook his head. "Nothing much," he answered vaguely. He put down his pen and regarded his boss with a blank look. "So what brings you here Kakashi?"
"I wanted the file on Umino Manufacturers," Kakashi stated nonchalantly and Naruto rolled his eyes.
Like hell you'd come yourself for a file, he mused internally but opened his drawer and pulled the file to give it to the man anyway.
"You mean you came to check on me?" Naruto asked as he handed over the blue folder to his boss who took it and threw it on the table before leaning on it.
"Why? Can't I? As someone who signs your paycheck it is my duty to ensure that all my employees are working for it, not sitting gloomily staring into space." Kakashi did not sound harsh or angry and Naruto was internally thankful for that.
"Fair enough," Naruto nodded as he picked up his pen again and began tapping it against his notepad.
"So what really happened? A night on the couch? Angry make-up sex? Sasuke not talking to you?" Kakashi raised a knowing brow.
"What makes you think that," Naruto shot him a glare and snapped.
"Ma - ma Naruto-kun! Nights on the couch happen to everyone you know. There is no reason for you to get all touch-" Naruto stood up and glared at Kakashi.
"It's not what you think it is," he said slowly and softly, a tiny threatening edge to his voice that sent a thread of fear up Kakashi's spine.
"If you continue to brood like that and then my spies come complaining to me, what else is a man like me to assume-" Kakashi stopped abruptly as he watched Naruto's eyes widen.
"Spies!" Naruto whispered coming around to put his arms on Kakashi and almost hugged the man. "Kakashi you're a genius." He said as he picked his coat, quickly packed his laptop and picked up his phone. "Kakashi I'm taking the day off," he announced as he folded the jacket of his suit on his arm and almost ran to the door. The final piece of the puzzle was finally in front of his eyes and the feeling of foreboding that had been gripping his insides in fear just deepened.
Kakashi just stared dumbfound at his blond employee. It wasn't everyday a man took him by surprise and before he could actually voice out an objection, Naruto was already running out of the door.
Well that was...interesting, Kakashi mused as he shoved his hands in his pockets and walked out of the doors to Naruto's office, the file on Umino manufacturers still lying on the desk.Naruto tried for the umpteenth time to call Sasuke but he just couldn't get through. His brow furrowed. Why wasn't Sasuke taking his call? Where the hell was he? He hit 'Redial' as he put his car in reverse and switched gears to pull it out of the parking lot.
He replayed the scene in his mind again and this time he was sure about what it was that had slipped off his mind. Suigetsu! Suigetsu had slipped out of the bathroom before Asuma had finished with his lecture and Naruto was pretty sure it was because Suigetsu had a call to make.
A call to Uchiha Itachi, if his guess was correct.
He sighed and ran abused hands through his hair tugging at the ends when he called Itachi this time. Itachi picked up on the second ring. "What does Sasuke know?" he barked into the phone switching lanes in his haste to get to his mansion.
Itachi paused for a heartbeat and Naruto banged his palm against the steering wheel. "Damnit Itachi! Hurry up and tell me!"
"What will you do knowing? Try to stop the inevitable from happening?" Itachi asked his voice sounding like frozen glass, in anger.
"Itachi I'm one second from jumping off a cliff! Hurry up and tell me what Sasuke knows!" Naruto screamed as he swirled the car through the throng of traffic and honked impolitely at the car ahead of him.
"You wouldn't dare!" Itachi's voice sounded real panic-stricken and Naruto rolled his eyes at the dramatic men in his life. "Sasuke knows what he needs to know," Itachi finally spoke and Naruto almost hit the brakes in shock.
This is bad; this is really, really bad, Naruto rudely overtook the car in front of his and raced towards his house praying for Sasuke to be there and not where Naruto had a feeling he'd be.
God! Not another set of hands again…
Sasuke walked in the hospital trying to keep his mounting fury in check. He was pissed at a lot of things which included his boyfriend. When Itachi had called him, Sasuke's heart had beaten madly in his chest. The reason why he had contacted Itachi in the morning was only as a safety measure because this time unlike every other time, Sasuke had wanted it to work out for Naruto. In as much as he hated the idea, the look in Naruto's eyes at the prospect of doing something he wanted to do had made him reconsider a lot of things and reluctantly agree to it.
He balled his hands into tight fists when he recalled the conversation he had had with Itachi, in which, though hesitant at first, Itachi had told him what Suigetsu had reported and then had just said one thing which had made Sasuke feel better:
"Call me if you need helping getting rid of the body."
The fact that Naruto hadn't called him to tell him about all that had transpired had really got on Sasuke's nerves. Angry, Sasuke had thrown the phone with all his might but sadly the phone had just bounced on the couch cushions while Sasuke had already picked his keys and wallet and stomped outside the house.
What Sai had done was way out of order and Sasuke would be damned if he let this go without a fight.
He walked to the reception and the nurse on duty looked up wearily before doing a double take when she saw him standing there. Sasuke could almost see the stars shining in her eyes as they glazed over in lust. He mused her imagination was already running wild.
Sometimes, it paid off to have good looks.
He leaned forward and shot the hapless woman a small but charming smile. At once the woman turned into a puddle at his feet. "Hello, I'm here to meet a friend of mine. I think he told me his room number but I might have forgotten…Could you tell me the room number of this patient - Sai?" he grinned when he mentally felt like snapping the woman's neck into two and rubbed a hand through the spikes at the back of his head trying to look sheepish.
He had seen Naruto carry off that look perfectly while they were dating and it worked like a charm all the time, so when she quickly wiped the drool from her face and nodded to tap feverishly on her keyboard he figured it was a useful weapon to store in his arsenal.
"Room 203," she whispered, her voice still filled with awe and she pointed to what Sasuke assumed was the direction of the elevators. "The elevators are-"
Sasuke walked away before she could finish and jabbed at the button of the elevator hurriedly. His insides were still seething in anger and the quickly the job was done the better it was. Finally, when Sasuke seemed at the end of the straw, the doors of the lift opened and he hastily got in, pressing 2 and standing at beside the number pad tapping his foot impatiently.
At the first floor the lift opened with an irritating 'ding' and Sasuke glared at the man who got in. There were bandages covering most of the man's face and he held a phone to his ear and was engaged deeply in conversation with someone on the line. Sasuke doubted the man had even looked at him before he got in.
Which reminded him of his own phone and he cursed himself for his stupidity.
"Yeah I know!" the bandaged man laughed and Sasuke winced at the hollow sound. "But dude he was totally worth the fight! I mean the ass is perfect! And you know what the icing on the cake was?" The elevator rang when it reached the second floor and Sasuke hastily prepared to get out. He put one foot forward and hauled pressure to his feet when the guy behind him spoke, "The guy was wearing swimming trunks with the Uchiha clan symbol on them! Picture that!" But it was too late, Sasuke whirled around just as the doors began to close and Sai's eyes rounded on the Uchiha. Before Sasuke could reach forward and put his hand between the doors, Sai flipped him in the middle finger in a mock salute and then he was gone.
Sasuke had just shared an elevator ride with the asshole he wanted to murder and he didn't even know it.
He tugged at his hair in agitation and then looked up to see where the elevator was going to stop. He sighed when it finally reached the fifth floor.
Fucking hospitals and their never ending buildings, he cursed as he ran towards the stairs. He'd rather die than let the asswipe escape.
By the time he reached the fifth floor, the adrenaline from the anger had pretty much died and he panted harshly as he went from room to room searching wildly searching for the bandaged asshole. His anger resurged when the man was nowhere to be seen and he punched the wall in fury causing several of the visitors and patients alike to stop and stare in fright at the man.
An old woman even tutted sadly and began talking loudly about death and loss and insanity. She stopped short when Sasuke quelled her with a murderous glare. Two of the young women on the floor ran to the washroom in fright when those dark eyes landed on them.
Sasuke fought the urge to yell, literally stopped himself from putting his hands in his hair, glancing upwards towards the heavens for the injustice done him and scream.
He always had a flair for drama.
Instead, he schooled his features into a raw mask of anger and unavoidable wrath as he made his way to the elevator and pressed the button. Now that the sneaky rat had escaped, he had no choice in the matter but to go home and plan his entire strategy.
There was no way he was going to miss Sai a second time.
Naruto's fear escalated when he got home and found no Sasuke inside. He called up Itachi and the only thing the elder brother said was, "It's too late to stop him Naruto," and then the fucking bastard hung up on him.
Naruto called Sasuke again and sighed in irritation when he saw Sasuke's phone ringing on the couch.
Assholes…I'm always stuck with assholes!
He made a beeline for the doorway and yanked it open in time to find Sasuke standing at the opposite end with murder shining in his dark orbs. He quickly pulled Sasuke to him and hugged him, making soothing circles on his back. "It's okay," he murmured cradling Sasuke's head with his other hand running fingers through his hair in an attempt to calm him down. He figured Sasuke would want to be reassured like always after he was done dealing with someone who tried to make a move on Naruto.
"He got away," Sasuke whispered, his face still buried in Naruto's shoulder while his hands hung limply by his side.
"Huh?"
That jarred him out of his stupor. He pushed away from Naruto and looked down at his hands. "The bastard got away Naruto! Come to think of it, he was riding the elevator with me! He was this close to me," Sasuke screamed and made a gesture with his hands indicating how close he had been standing next to Sai before continuing, "This close! And what did I do?" He looked up but not at Naruto, he looked beyond Naruto to something only he could see, "I just stood there like the fucking idiot that I am and heard him talk about the perfection of your ass to one of his friends! I just want to-"
Naruto sighed and pulled Sasuke closer to himself but Sasuke just shook off his hands and walked towards the couch. He picked up his phone from there and dialed the only person Naruto was sure he would talk to. Sighing again, he walked up to Sasuke and took the phone from his hand quickly disconnecting the call before it got through.
"Look Sasuke," he began, "what's done is done. It's gone. I'm sorry I just-" Sasuke rounded so fast on Naruto that the latter thought the dark haired man must have given himself a whiplash.
"Sorry? What the fuck are you sorry for? If there's anyone who needs to apologize it's that motherfucking bastard Sai and-" Naruto covered Sasuke's mouth with a hand and gently ran his thumbs along pale cheeks.
"I'm sorry I wanted to go for these classes." He put up a hand when Sasuke opened his mouth to argue. On the way over, he had thought things over and realized his mistake and planned this little speech in his head. Now come what may, it was his turn to mend the bridge and he was going to do it. "No, hear me out first. On the way over here from work I realized that I'd asked too much from you when I talked about these classes. But Sasuke, you know the idiot I am right? I mean, I never think things through the way you and Itachi do! I always go with the flow and stuff always backfires on us. It makes sense for you to be mad at the way Sai touched me and the way he kept goading me by calling me dickless and then peeping on me while I was taking a leak and-"
"He did what?" It was official; Naruto had just pushed Sasuke off the anger cliff. The man had gone tomato red in his fury as his hands shook wildly where he'd fisted them so tight that the knuckles had turned white.
Naruto cursed himself over and over in his head. "How much did you know?"
"Just the fact that Sai touched you…" Sasuke's voice had gone low and dangerous and Naruto couldn't suppress the shudder than through him.
Fuck! Fuck! Fuck! He was going to murder Uchiha Itachi for not providing significant information.
"Look Sasuke-"
"Did he grope you?"
"Huh?"
"You heard me dobe, did-he-grope-you?" Sasuke spoke slowly as if talking to a child who was potentially slow.
Naruto weighed the pros and cons of answering that question and his hesitation was all the answer Sasuke needed.
He stood up and walked to the door before Naruto could stop him. Sasuke heard Naruto ask him to wait behind him but the red haze that had covered his vision had blocked all rational thoughts and he just wanted that bastard's pretty neck in his hands, choking him slowly till the blood would drain from his face and his eyes would roll upward. Sasuke really hoped that that fake smile he had seen on the bastard's face would stay, so that his fake existence could be gone for good.
The mental image of throttling Sai gave Sasuke immense satisfaction and he quickly dialed Itachi's number. "Sai's address," he barked unlocking his car and pushing Naruto away when he tried to stop him. "You have one minute," he said as he slid into the driver's seat. "Text it to me," and then he snapped his phone shut.
He then proceeded to deal with the next problem. "Uzumaki Naruto, you have three seconds to get out of my car before I throw you out by force," he said in a clipped voice glaring daggers at Naruto.
For his part, Naruto just rolled his eyes as he buckled his seatbelt in. He looked outside his window pretending to not have heard his lover when the sound of a seatbelt being unbuckled reached his ear and he turned just in time to see Sasuke get out of his BMW and stride off towards his Honda. He unlocked the car and got in before Naruto could even get out of his car and drove off before Naruto could chase him.
Sasuke was pretty sure Naruto had just let out a loud curse when he passed him. He made sure to punish Naruto later but for now he had other people to punish. He opened the message and grinned evilly when he read the address in the text message he had just received. He fed the address to his GPS device and practically flew to the place evil grin still intact.
Sai, you'd better be prepared…
Part III
Naruto was surprised to find himself the first one to reach the Konoha Swimming School. He quickly changed into his trunks and went to sit by the pool to wait for his instructor and the other students to turn up. A minute later, a pair of pale legs joined his in the pool and he looked up and almost screamed.
Seated beside him was Sasuke…no wait…a man who looked extremely similar to Sasuke.
"You look like you've seen a ghost," the pale boy said and smiled at him. Naruto grimaced at the fakeness of the smile. But then again, getting a reaction like the one Naruto had given this guy would have never made anyone happy.
He smiled apologetically and rubbed the back of his head, intent on making amends. "Sorry for that. It's just that you look like someone I know…" he trailed off awkwardly hoping that was explanation enough.
"Yes I know. Uchiha Sasuke, right?" the pale man said as he thoughtlessly swung his legs in the water causing a series of slow, lazy ripples on the otherwise calm surface of the pool. His fake grin widened when Naruto's mouth opened and he simply gaped at the man.
"How…?" he asked unable to think of how to continue. The man was…frankly…downright unnerving.
"Well I get that a lot and I know the Uchiha through…well…my own means." He said and faced the pool.
"You must be Uzumaki Naruto, right?"
Okay, scratch unnerving. This man was just…creepy.
He raised an eyebrow. "How do you know that?" he asked completely nonplussed.
The pale man raised a brow. "I have…my means." He said and his voice reeked of nonchalance. "I'm Sai by the way." He offered a hand for a handshake but Naruto was just too freaked out to give him his in return. After a moment's pause, Sai retracted his hand and snuck it under a thigh as he continued to swing his legs.
"Frankly I'm surprised the Uchiha has been with you for so long," he mused softly but Naruto heard him.
"Excuse me!" Naruto asked on his guard at once. "What the hell is that supposed to mean?"
Sai turned to him and gave him that fake smile again. "Well because…you don't have a penis."
Maybe it was Sai's luck or Naruto's bad luck that their instructor, a beefy hairy man had walked up behind them and had heard the last bit of the conversation. So when Naruto got ready to deliver a punch, his hand was quickly caught in a vice-like grip.
"Now really Mr. Sai," the instructor said in a warming tone but the next second Naruto was screaming.
"Why you bastard-" Naruto screamed as their instructor held his wrist and refused to let him go. He glared up at his instructor. "Let me go." He commanded and just for the fraction, that grip on his wrist loosened.
"So you really don't have one, do you?" Naruto really wanted to murder the asshole right there.
"Wha-"
"Because if you really had one, all you had to do was lower your trunks and point it out than get all defensive and-"
That was it! With strength Naruto didn't know he possessed, he broke free of the instructor's grip and charged towards the asshole. It took him immense pleasure to feel the burn on his knuckles when they collided with Sai's cheek and sent the infuriating fucker flying. But that wasn't all, with a surprising quick speed Sai was on him and a second later they were punching the shit out of each other.
And then all too soon it was over when their instructor, as well as another person who could have been a new learner like Naruto, was pulling them away. He kicked and flailed at the arms that held him and almost screamed in frustration when the grip did not even loosen an inch.
"Ah the Springtime of Youth shines brightly upon us today! But as much as I like this display of youth, I'd really like it if you two could put it to good use in the pool." He turned to look at the man who was holding Sai down and almost blanched when he took in the green thing that was standing before him. Spandex…all of it was probably spandex… Naruto mused stupidly as he looked at the man who was bent in an almost impossible position as he trapped both of Sai's legs and hands simultaneously with his own. The man had possibly the bushiest eyebrows Naruto had ever seen.
And then the man in green did the most surprising thing on earth. He picked Sai up and began doing push-ups using the man in his arms as his weight.
Honestly, Naruto couldn't help but feel sorry for Sai for a moment. Only a moment, because a second later he caught a glimpse of the bastard's face still wearing that superior, smug and fake grin.
"Gai put him down," the instructor who was holding Naruto spoke in a voice that sounded tired. Naruto turned to see the hairy man look utmost embarrassed and he shot the man a what-the-actual-fuck look. The man just averted his gaze away as he let Naruto go. "GAI PUT HIM DOWN NOW BEFORE I FIRE YOU!" That seemed to do the trick because the green clad man looked sheepish as he put Sai back on the ground.
It gave Naruto immense satisfaction to watch Sai wobble on his feet before he was steady.
The instructor then turned to look at them with a glare that could have put Sasuke's to shame. Nah! Naruto thought as he examined the glare some more, there is no glare in the world that can rival the Uchiha's was his verdict.
"You two," the instructor said, "stay away from each other!" He sighed and ran an agitated hand through his shaggy dark hair. "If one of you starts a fight again, I swear I'll throw you out!"
"But he-" Naruto started in an attempt to clarify stuff when he watched the instructor put up a hand.
"No explanations. Just do what you're told." He then proceeded to stomp towards the other end of the pool and Naruto turned his mouth still half-open and his brow furrowed in anger. There were people standing at the opposite side and Naruto assumed they were either new students or people who came here to swim this time of the morning.
"Hn, still dickless I see," Sai spoke and had it not been for the threat of being chucked out of the swimming classes, Naruto would have lunged at his throat again.
Once the hairy man reached the other end, he beckoned them over. Once they had reached and were all together he spoke, "Everyone, I'm Sarutobi Asuma your swimming instructor and the man beside me is Maito Gai, another instructor. Together we shall teach you swimming." He placed his hands on his hips and looked around at everyone, "Any questions?"
A hand shot up and Naruto turned to see a boy with a spiky ponytail looking bored as hell. "Will we get breaks during the lesson?"
Asuma glared at the man and said, "It's a one hour lesson Mr. Nara for what do you want breaks?" he asked exasperated.
I'm sure he's regretting his decision to start these tutoring lessons, Naruto mused feeling sorry for the hairy man.
"So you mean we won't get any breaks?" Nara asked still looking bored as hell.
"Are you here to learn swimming or to take breaks?" Asuma asked pulling out a cigarette from his bathrobe and lighting it quickly.
"Take breaks," Nara answered not missing a beat.
Asuma sighed. Well the man had paid money for these lessons and he might as well do whatever he wanted with the lesson. "Do whatever you want," he said huffing and puffing out a huge cloud of smoke. Idly Naruto wondered if it was possible for this man who smoked to be able to swim. He had heard that swimming acquired shit loads of stamina and judging by the way the man was practically smoking the shit out of his cigarette, he assumed the man must not have too much of it.
Nara shrugged and another hand shot up. A man with shaggy brown hair and weird red triangle marks on his face grinned at the smoking instructor and asked, "What time do the girls come in here?"
The question caused more interested faces to turn to Asuma for the answer. Asuma just glared at the man who had asked the question. "If you're here for the girls and not the lessons, I recommend you leave the class. We only teach interested students who are keen on learning, not those who only wish to ogle the opposite gender."
The man looked downcast but then he shrugged and grinned again. Naruto was pretty sure that this guy would look at the time table and satisfy his query.
Asuma walked to a nearby trashcan and flicked the butt of his now finished cigarette in it. "Anything else?" he asked and when no other hand shot up, he nodded and clapped his hands reminding Naruto of his PE instructor from school. "Well then," he said taking off his robe to expose more hair, "shall we begin?"
The swimming lesson was fun and Naruto soon found himself grinning as he held tightly to the green clad instructor's hand and moved his legs splashing water around himself crazily. His grin widened when Gai kept encouraging him and complimenting him.
I can do this! Fuck, I will do this! If not to prove to Sasuke, but to prove to himself, he thought and moved his legs faster.
He looked around and saw the progress the others were making. Besides him and that asshole Sai, there were five more people who had signed up for the class. The spiky ponytail guy was Nara Shikamaru - a pharmacist by profession, his wife had forced him to join these classes in an attempt to make the man more energetic. There was the shaggy haired guy with the red triangles on his face, Inuzuka Kiba - a vet who just wanted to do this to get girls for obvious reasons. There was a fat guy named Akimichi Chouji who had been forced to join these classes to lose weight. He and Shikamaru were apparently childhood friends so the decision had been made by the wives of both men. There was this man who already wore his swimming goggles and stood quietly in the corner holding on to the pegs as he splashed his legs around. Aburame Shino, Kiba had told him and no one knew what he did because he didn't talk to anyone. Frankly, Naruto found him a little eerie.
And the last member of their batch was this guy with one protruding shark-like tooth who reminded Naruto a little of Kisame. The guy looked like he was perfectly happy being in water as he splashed around and played with Kiba as though they were little kids. His hair was dyed grey of all the colors in the world and every time he grinned a shiver raced up Naruto's spine. Hoshigaki Suigetsu, that's what he had said his name was.
Creepy
He turned towards Gai-sensei when the swimming instructor told him to take a break. He nodded and walked out of the pool to sit beside an almost asleep Shikamaru. "So your wife forced you to come here, eh?" Naruto asked wiping his face with his towel as he watched Suigetsu dunk Kiba under the water whose arms flailed around wildly as he fought for air.
Shikamaru just made a humming sound which Naruto assumed to be a positive response. He nodded and turned to the front. His spine straightened when he saw Sai step out of the pool and walk towards him. "Um…Shikamaru I'm going to the washroom should anyone ask." Shikamaru just made a vague gesture with his hand and Naruto took that as another positive response. He just wanted to get away before Sai could do something else to rile him up. Judging from the way Sai had looked at him while he was stepping out of the pool, he was pretty sure that Sai was not going to leave things like they were in the morning and he'd be dammedif he got thrown out of these classes because if that were to happen, Sasuke would have this guy's head. A small part of Naruto was almost tempted to subject Sai to that fate.
He went and stood in one of the stalls to relieve himself when a whistle from the neighboring stall almost caused him to jump in fright dick-in-hand and all.
"What the hell?" he looked at Sai who was busy looking down at Naruto's private parts.
"So you do have a dick, eh?" Sai asked amused his eyes still fixed on Naruto's crotch. Naruto quickly looked down and tucked himself in, moving to the sink to wash his hands.
I will not punch him. I will not punch him, was chanting inside his head as he pretended to ignore the existence of the other. Naruto let out a frightened yelp when out of the blue Sai came and stood behind him, so close that they were almost touching.
"Get away," he ordered his voice low and threatening.
"What if I don't?" Sai asked challengingly and Naruto sighed. Clearly this man did not "enough means" to have warned him about the dangers of being in close proximity to Naruto.
To each his own.
His shoulders dropped and a second later his back went ramrod straight when Sai ran a hand down his back and into the waistband of his swimming trunks.
Naruto swirled so fast that he lost his footing on the ground and because Sai was so close to him they both went flying to greet the floor. Naruto fell on his back and his ass while Sai fell smack on Naruto's chest with his hand on Naruto's -
"What the hell is happening here?" Suigetsu exclaimed as he chose that moment to walk in on them.
"It's not what you think it is!" Naruto hastily put up a hand for explanation and tried to squirm away from Sai. He let out a gasp and his face flushed when Sai used the hand on Naruto's crotch to haul himself up. But being the pervert he was, despite their risqué state and the fact that he had an audience, he dug his nails in and full on groped Naruto.
It was the end of the line for Naruto!
He lifted his leg which was snuggled in between Sai's legs and thrust it upwards and then he flipped them around and began pounding the shit out of Sai. He completely forgot there was Suigetsu watching them till he felt the other guy pushing him off Sai panting heavily and muttering, "You'll kill him Naruto. Let go." When Naruto still did not let go, Suigetsu screamed for help.
It could have been five minutes, it could have been five seconds or five hours and it still wouldn't have been enough but soon all too soon, strong beefy hands were pulling him away from Sai and the man glared up at him from one eye, the other eye having been beaten blue and black.
"That's enough," Asuma said as he asked Kiba and Chouji to hold Naruto while he prepared to rush Sai to the hospital. The man was semi conscious and if word about this got out, he could very well kiss his career of being a swimming instructor goodbye.
He glared at Naruto who was breathing harshly with murder still shining in those blue eyes. "Let go," he harshly ordered and Kiba and Chouji both let him go still looking at little scared. The bathroom reeked of tension as everyone watched Naruto warily as if expecting him to attack them.
Naruto just went to the sink and washed his bleeding knuckles and then splashed some water on his face. When he'd calmed down enough he turned towards everyone gathered in the bathroom and made a lame attempt at a smile. "Sorry about that," he used his slightly less damaged hand to run it through his hair and grimaced when the raw skin scraped against his skull and it hurt.
Asuma spoke, "Everyone, class is over for today." He then turned to Naruto and took a deep breath before speaking. "I'll call you and let you know about your timings." Naruto nodded accepting that and everyone scattered to take their respective showers before leaving.
This had to be the worst day of his life.
Throughout the day Naruto kept reliving the scene in his head again and again. For some reason there was something that was nagging him at the back of his head. Every time he tried to put a finger on it, that detail just kept slipping from his mind. He tapped the back of his pen agitatedly on his notepad and rubbed his still sore knuckles across his brow. A deep feeling of foreboding was seeping into his bones.
"What's up?" Hatake Kakashi's ever cheerful voice made Naruto startle as he looked up at him in bleak shock.
Kakashi raised a brow at his favorite employee and took the seat opposite the man. "Something happened?"
Naruto schooled his features and shook his head. "Nothing much," he answered vaguely. He put down his pen and regarded his boss with a blank look. "So what brings you here Kakashi?"
"I wanted the file on Umino Manufacturers," Kakashi stated nonchalantly and Naruto rolled his eyes.
Like hell you'd come yourself for a file, he mused internally but opened his drawer and pulled the file to give it to the man anyway.
"You mean you came to check on me?" Naruto asked as he handed over the blue folder to his boss who took it and threw it on the table before leaning on it.
"Why? Can't I? As someone who signs your paycheck it is my duty to ensure that all my employees are working for it, not sitting gloomily staring into space." Kakashi did not sound harsh or angry and Naruto was internally thankful for that.
"Fair enough," Naruto nodded as he picked up his pen again and began tapping it against his notepad.
"So what really happened? A night on the couch? Angry make-up sex? Sasuke not talking to you?" Kakashi raised a knowing brow.
"What makes you think that," Naruto shot him a glare and snapped.
"Ma - ma Naruto-kun! Nights on the couch happen to everyone you know. There is no reason for you to get all touch-" Naruto stood up and glared at Kakashi.
"It's not what you think it is," he said slowly and softly, a tiny threatening edge to his voice that sent a thread of fear up Kakashi's spine.
"If you continue to brood like that and then my spies come complaining to me, what else is a man like me to assume-" Kakashi stopped abruptly as he watched Naruto's eyes widen.
"Spies!" Naruto whispered coming around to put his arms on Kakashi and almost hugged the man. "Kakashi you're a genius." He said as he picked his coat, quickly packed his laptop and picked up his phone. "Kakashi I'm taking the day off," he announced as he folded the jacket of his suit on his arm and almost ran to the door. The final piece of the puzzle was finally in front of his eyes and the feeling of foreboding that had been gripping his insides in fear just deepened.
Kakashi just stared dumbfound at his blond employee. It wasn't everyday a man took him by surprise and before he could actually voice out an objection, Naruto was already running out of the door.
Well that was...interesting, Kakashi mused as he shoved his hands in his pockets and walked out of the doors to Naruto's office, the file on Umino manufacturers still lying on the desk.Naruto tried for the umpteenth time to call Sasuke but he just couldn't get through. His brow furrowed. Why wasn't Sasuke taking his call? Where the hell was he? He hit 'Redial' as he put his car in reverse and switched gears to pull it out of the parking lot.
He replayed the scene in his mind again and this time he was sure about what it was that had slipped off his mind. Suigetsu! Suigetsu had slipped out of the bathroom before Asuma had finished with his lecture and Naruto was pretty sure it was because Suigetsu had a call to make.
A call to Uchiha Itachi, if his guess was correct.
He sighed and ran abused hands through his hair tugging at the ends when he called Itachi this time. Itachi picked up on the second ring. "What does Sasuke know?" he barked into the phone switching lanes in his haste to get to his mansion.
Itachi paused for a heartbeat and Naruto banged his palm against the steering wheel. "Damnit Itachi! Hurry up and tell me!"
"What will you do knowing? Try to stop the inevitable from happening?" Itachi asked his voice sounding like frozen glass, in anger.
"Itachi I'm one second from jumping off a cliff! Hurry up and tell me what Sasuke knows!" Naruto screamed as he swirled the car through the throng of traffic and honked impolitely at the car ahead of him.
"You wouldn't dare!" Itachi's voice sounded real panic-stricken and Naruto rolled his eyes at the dramatic men in his life. "Sasuke knows what he needs to know," Itachi finally spoke and Naruto almost hit the brakes in shock.
This is bad; this is really, really bad, Naruto rudely overtook the car in front of his and raced towards his house praying for Sasuke to be there and not where Naruto had a feeling he'd be.
God! Not another set of hands again…
Sasuke walked in the hospital trying to keep his mounting fury in check. He was pissed at a lot of things which included his boyfriend. When Itachi had called him, Sasuke's heart had beaten madly in his chest. The reason why he had contacted Itachi in the morning was only as a safety measure because this time unlike every other time, Sasuke had wanted it to work out for Naruto. In as much as he hated the idea, the look in Naruto's eyes at the prospect of doing something he wanted to do had made him reconsider a lot of things and reluctantly agree to it.
He balled his hands into tight fists when he recalled the conversation he had had with Itachi, in which, though hesitant at first, Itachi had told him what Suigetsu had reported and then had just said one thing which had made Sasuke feel better:
"Call me if you need helping getting rid of the body."
The fact that Naruto hadn't called him to tell him about all that had transpired had really got on Sasuke's nerves. Angry, Sasuke had thrown the phone with all his might but sadly the phone had just bounced on the couch cushions while Sasuke had already picked his keys and wallet and stomped outside the house.
What Sai had done was way out of order and Sasuke would be damned if he let this go without a fight.
He walked to the reception and the nurse on duty looked up wearily before doing a double take when she saw him standing there. Sasuke could almost see the stars shining in her eyes as they glazed over in lust. He mused her imagination was already running wild.
Sometimes, it paid off to have good looks.
He leaned forward and shot the hapless woman a small but charming smile. At once the woman turned into a puddle at his feet. "Hello, I'm here to meet a friend of mine. I think he told me his room number but I might have forgotten…Could you tell me the room number of this patient - Sai?" he grinned when he mentally felt like snapping the woman's neck into two and rubbed a hand through the spikes at the back of his head trying to look sheepish.
He had seen Naruto carry off that look perfectly while they were dating and it worked like a charm all the time, so when she quickly wiped the drool from her face and nodded to tap feverishly on her keyboard he figured it was a useful weapon to store in his arsenal.
"Room 203," she whispered, her voice still filled with awe and she pointed to what Sasuke assumed was the direction of the elevators. "The elevators are-"
Sasuke walked away before she could finish and jabbed at the button of the elevator hurriedly. His insides were still seething in anger and the quickly the job was done the better it was. Finally, when Sasuke seemed at the end of the straw, the doors of the lift opened and he hastily got in, pressing 2 and standing at beside the number pad tapping his foot impatiently.
At the first floor the lift opened with an irritating 'ding' and Sasuke glared at the man who got in. There were bandages covering most of the man's face and he held a phone to his ear and was engaged deeply in conversation with someone on the line. Sasuke doubted the man had even looked at him before he got in.
Which reminded him of his own phone and he cursed himself for his stupidity.
"Yeah I know!" the bandaged man laughed and Sasuke winced at the hollow sound. "But dude he was totally worth the fight! I mean the ass is perfect! And you know what the icing on the cake was?" The elevator rang when it reached the second floor and Sasuke hastily prepared to get out. He put one foot forward and hauled pressure to his feet when the guy behind him spoke, "The guy was wearing swimming trunks with the Uchiha clan symbol on them! Picture that!" But it was too late, Sasuke whirled around just as the doors began to close and Sai's eyes rounded on the Uchiha. Before Sasuke could reach forward and put his hand between the doors, Sai flipped him in the middle finger in a mock salute and then he was gone.
Sasuke had just shared an elevator ride with the asshole he wanted to murder and he didn't even know it.
He tugged at his hair in agitation and then looked up to see where the elevator was going to stop. He sighed when it finally reached the fifth floor.
Fucking hospitals and their never ending buildings, he cursed as he ran towards the stairs. He'd rather die than let the asswipe escape.
By the time he reached the fifth floor, the adrenaline from the anger had pretty much died and he panted harshly as he went from room to room searching wildly searching for the bandaged asshole. His anger resurged when the man was nowhere to be seen and he punched the wall in fury causing several of the visitors and patients alike to stop and stare in fright at the man.
An old woman even tutted sadly and began talking loudly about death and loss and insanity. She stopped short when Sasuke quelled her with a murderous glare. Two of the young women on the floor ran to the washroom in fright when those dark eyes landed on them.
Sasuke fought the urge to yell, literally stopped himself from putting his hands in his hair, glancing upwards towards the heavens for the injustice done him and scream.
He always had a flair for drama.
Instead, he schooled his features into a raw mask of anger and unavoidable wrath as he made his way to the elevator and pressed the button. Now that the sneaky rat had escaped, he had no choice in the matter but to go home and plan his entire strategy.
There was no way he was going to miss Sai a second time.
Naruto's fear escalated when he got home and found no Sasuke inside. He called up Itachi and the only thing the elder brother said was, "It's too late to stop him Naruto," and then the fucking bastard hung up on him.
Naruto called Sasuke again and sighed in irritation when he saw Sasuke's phone ringing on the couch.
Assholes…I'm always stuck with assholes!
He made a beeline for the doorway and yanked it open in time to find Sasuke standing at the opposite end with murder shining in his dark orbs. He quickly pulled Sasuke to him and hugged him, making soothing circles on his back. "It's okay," he murmured cradling Sasuke's head with his other hand running fingers through his hair in an attempt to calm him down. He figured Sasuke would want to be reassured like always after he was done dealing with someone who tried to make a move on Naruto.
"He got away," Sasuke whispered, his face still buried in Naruto's shoulder while his hands hung limply by his side.
"Huh?"
That jarred him out of his stupor. He pushed away from Naruto and looked down at his hands. "The bastard got away Naruto! Come to think of it, he was riding the elevator with me! He was this close to me," Sasuke screamed and made a gesture with his hands indicating how close he had been standing next to Sai before continuing, "This close! And what did I do?" He looked up but not at Naruto, he looked beyond Naruto to something only he could see, "I just stood there like the fucking idiot that I am and heard him talk about the perfection of your ass to one of his friends! I just want to-"
Naruto sighed and pulled Sasuke closer to himself but Sasuke just shook off his hands and walked towards the couch. He picked up his phone from there and dialed the only person Naruto was sure he would talk to. Sighing again, he walked up to Sasuke and took the phone from his hand quickly disconnecting the call before it got through.
"Look Sasuke," he began, "what's done is done. It's gone. I'm sorry I just-" Sasuke rounded so fast on Naruto that the latter thought the dark haired man must have given himself a whiplash.
"Sorry? What the fuck are you sorry for? If there's anyone who needs to apologize it's that motherfucking bastard Sai and-" Naruto covered Sasuke's mouth with a hand and gently ran his thumbs along pale cheeks.
"I'm sorry I wanted to go for these classes." He put up a hand when Sasuke opened his mouth to argue. On the way over, he had thought things over and realized his mistake and planned this little speech in his head. Now come what may, it was his turn to mend the bridge and he was going to do it. "No, hear me out first. On the way over here from work I realized that I'd asked too much from you when I talked about these classes. But Sasuke, you know the idiot I am right? I mean, I never think things through the way you and Itachi do! I always go with the flow and stuff always backfires on us. It makes sense for you to be mad at the way Sai touched me and the way he kept goading me by calling me dickless and then peeping on me while I was taking a leak and-"
"He did what?" It was official; Naruto had just pushed Sasuke off the anger cliff. The man had gone tomato red in his fury as his hands shook wildly where he'd fisted them so tight that the knuckles had turned white.
Naruto cursed himself over and over in his head. "How much did you know?"
"Just the fact that Sai touched you…" Sasuke's voice had gone low and dangerous and Naruto couldn't suppress the shudder than through him.
Fuck! Fuck! Fuck! He was going to murder Uchiha Itachi for not providing significant information.
"Look Sasuke-"
"Did he grope you?"
"Huh?"
"You heard me dobe, did-he-grope-you?" Sasuke spoke slowly as if talking to a child who was potentially slow.
Naruto weighed the pros and cons of answering that question and his hesitation was all the answer Sasuke needed.
He stood up and walked to the door before Naruto could stop him. Sasuke heard Naruto ask him to wait behind him but the red haze that had covered his vision had blocked all rational thoughts and he just wanted that bastard's pretty neck in his hands, choking him slowly till the blood would drain from his face and his eyes would roll upward. Sasuke really hoped that that fake smile he had seen on the bastard's face would stay, so that his fake existence could be gone for good.
The mental image of throttling Sai gave Sasuke immense satisfaction and he quickly dialed Itachi's number. "Sai's address," he barked unlocking his car and pushing Naruto away when he tried to stop him. "You have one minute," he said as he slid into the driver's seat. "Text it to me," and then he snapped his phone shut.
He then proceeded to deal with the next problem. "Uzumaki Naruto, you have three seconds to get out of my car before I throw you out by force," he said in a clipped voice glaring daggers at Naruto.
For his part, Naruto just rolled his eyes as he buckled his seatbelt in. He looked outside his window pretending to not have heard his lover when the sound of a seatbelt being unbuckled reached his ear and he turned just in time to see Sasuke get out of his BMW and stride off towards his Honda. He unlocked the car and got in before Naruto could even get out of his car and drove off before Naruto could chase him.
Sasuke was pretty sure Naruto had just let out a loud curse when he passed him. He made sure to punish Naruto later but for now he had other people to punish. He opened the message and grinned evilly when he read the address in the text message he had just received. He fed the address to his GPS device and practically flew to the place evil grin still intact.
Sai, you'd better be prepared…
Part III