Pervy-sennin was out on one of his drinking binges again. Feeling up the pretty women and seducing them with his infamous charm. It didn't bother me in the least because Sasuke sent word to me while my sensei was gone. I'm very thankful that my echhi-sensei was not here even if it cost me the remaining money I had stashed away in my cute frog wallet.

It gave me a chance to see what my koibito has been upto.
We've finally reconciled our differences after the battle that took place bw both village borders and of Sasuke almost nearly killing me.
It was hard. I couldn't stop myself from flinching back when he even motioned to come closer. I just smiled sheepishly rubbing the back of my neck as I usually do and waved it off but he saw past that and took me in his arms. Begging for my forgiveness. For hurting me. For ever hurting me and leaving me the way I was.
But he didn't do it with words. He did it with body language alone. Holding me tighter where I found it hard to breath.

Still that was very unlike Sasuke. And I accepted it without hesitation.

Even if I was on the brink of death. Alone. The sky crying out for my pain.
If it wasn't for Kakashi-sensei and his nin-dog, pakkon, finding me, everything would of ended there. In that field.
I thanked Kakashi-sensei. He was one of the few who really cared. Besides Iruka-sensei. I wasn't sure with the rest but Konohamaru fell into that group.
I'll admit, I miss my jounin Instructor.
Travelling with my pervy-sennin brought new meaning to the Outside World as well as to training. But Kakashi-sensei was too from a time I just didn't want to go back to. Not yet, anyway.
But one day I will.

I had learned a lot that day battling with Sasuke, my koibito and at the same time I loss someone dear to me. At first I thought our relationship was over but it was just the beginning.
I had gotten to see a side of Sasuke that the other mysterious boy had been holding back for so long. Yeah, I almost died that day but I healed and not just by the Kyuubi that fed me the energy.
I thought I also felt the rays of the sun on my face. Soothing my broken heart and giving me strength to keep going.
Your dream doesn't have to end here. It whispered. The voice that was so unfamiliar yet familiar like a memory of a memory when I was just a newborn. I wondered for just a moment, of all the tales that my pervy-sennin told me of how similar I was to the great Fourth Hokage, that just maybe.. MAYBE... that amazing man that saved the village and at the same time sealed my fate, was indeed my father.
It all but past but it just kept prickling at me.

Mhmmm Sasuke's body felt so soft yet callous all over. I wondered how much he was training and who was training him. I hoped it wasn't Orochimaru but suspected that the lone survivor of the Uchiha clan was doing it all on his own.
Sasuke was wanted now since he abandoned the village but contact from Sasuke was more vital to me than following the rule my village intact while Jiraiya and I had left to travel the countryside.

Three of the great sennin's left and weren't prosecuted. So Why should Sasuke be?

It seemed more like he was driven away in my opinion. I don't see that as a crime and when I become the next Hokage, I am sure to pardon Sasuke of all that transpired before any one objects.
It's not like THEY bothered to help Sasuke while he struggled through the death of his family. Pushing pass his limiations and grow stronger to one day take revenge on his family's clan and make his older brother pay for the crime he committed against their family with the life of the man responsible. Uchiha itachi. I heard from Jiraiya that Sasuke's older brother was like Kakashi by accomplishing amazing feats at a young age before turning bad in the middle.

I did not know what to think of the older brother but knew of one thing. He causes Sasuke immense pain. Mental, physical. Even when the older brother was not present but when he was, it was unimagineable. Rolling off Sasuke in a torrant of extremity, it was almost crippling.
The hatred, the sadness, the betrayel. The thirst for revenge. The need of it. It was what drived my koibito. It is what made Sasuke into the type of person he was now and it was the reason they were forced to live out the remaining of their years away from each other until Sasuke found it fitting to return.

Return.
He had returned now.
And it was so unexpectant, I found myself just holding the raven-haired boy to my chest, crushing him in my grasp as I sobbed my relief.

Hearing him say dobe for this feeling that weld up just made me lose the rest of the control I had been hanging on too. Desparately.
It had been so lonely without him around. I had Jiraiya but Sasuke was of my own age. I didn't miss Sakura as much as Sasuke.
And now I had Sasuke back.
So close, that I hoped he'd never leave.
Not again.
Not this time.
Not ever again.




Naruto speaking

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