Author's notes: Look! A new chapter in less then two days! Whoo! It's it grood! …sorry, I started to say great and then good at the same time. Yes, it's good. Good and great, great and good. Meh, shut up laughing at me. Anyways, there will finally be big steps ahead in this chapter! Yay! –Dances- Everybody do a happy dance with me! Joy! Anyways, I'll try to get on with it now.

Gaara: …

Fox: I know! Look at all the reviews I got over night!

Gaara: …

Fox: I love it too! Let the world feel my love and joy!

Gaara: …-slowly begins to inch away while performing desert coffin-

Fox: Lookit! The sands moving! Ooh..pretty. Hey! It's all gritty and stuffsh, it feels funny. Wait, it's getting a little too-mnph, ffrfhnph, thufflelefullfll!

Gaara: …

Reviews!

Princess Kitana: Me? Troublesome! Never! P I love you Shika! So snuggleful. A new chapter for you to read and find out! Yeah! 'Member to review when you're done, I neeed yoooooou! –Clings to you- Ignore the limpet attached to your arm please. . Anyway, I wanna give you a new plushie, how about a Shizune plushie! Whee! –Twirls-

Bholdi Li: Welcome welcome and welcome! . It was short, ne? (Lookit, I used Japanese! Though I have no idea what it means. Stupid, stupid slow mind of mine. –pouts-) Yay for unneeded cliffies! Anyway, hopefully this chapter will be much longer. Whoo! Have a Neji plushie!

BtTara: Yup, it is too! Fell the pain and pride of being kind enough to review, . Are you still interested too? Please go don't let people loose interest now! NOOO! –Cough-, yes, anyway… Please keep reading! Have a Hanabi plushie for reviewing, and because I just wanna give them all away. .

Silent Victory: Yay! Its fine, I don't mind as long as you enjoy reading it, but I still love reviews! They make my sad existence worth it. –Sigh- Lol, anyway. I don't' like anything I write! It always seems really stupid to me, and it is. Bleagh. Thankies for saying it's good though! A new person to love! Yay, . Have a Naruto plushie!

Azamiko: Don't we all, I'm too childish for my own good. –sigh- Meh, I don't wanna change just yet, growing up looks boring. It is non-happy! If I lost you, I…I…

Kiba: -raises eyebrow-

Fox: Shut up, I'm trying to be a little dramatic here.

Kiba: You're too much of a drama queen, you don't need to be anymore dramatic then you already are.

Fox: Meh.

But anyway, Sasuke is in trouble! Hehehehe! –gigglesnort- eww…. Another plushie for you! Hmm, which one haven't I given you…how about a Kabuto plushie this time? Ok? Ok!

Smoking Panda: You're welcome! I'm just g;ad that someone enjoys them! GO plushies! –Huggles back- Oh god my! He is! O.O Aww, really? Damn it, I'll haveto delete the next chapter…lol, just kidding. Nup, it's not, but it may be yet! I can't either, it means more readies and more reveiwies! Wheee! Time to give you a …a Gaara plushie! .

Touyas Mate Kit: Yay! The longest post from this chappie! P If it has a Sasuke on top of course! And if it has a smexy Sasuke on top! Definitely! And if it had a super smexy snugglishious Sweet Sasuke then you can have all the updates you want! –points- Evil laugh! I love you, and ignore me now. But anyway! Time for a Ten Ten plushie!

And now it's time for song of the moment! Yayness!

This time the song of the moment is 'You're so Last Summer' by 'Taking back Sunday'. It's addictive damn it! Anyway, download it and listen to it! It's so awesome! I loved it . And now, since I wanna, I'm gonna post some lyrics from the song:

I'd never lie to you
Unless I had to
I'll do what I got to
Unless I had to
I'll do what I go to, the truth
is you could slit my throat
And with my one last gasping breath
I'd apologize for bleedin on your shirt

And all I (all I)
Need to know (need to know)
Is that I'm somethin you'll be missin
(is that I'm somethin that you're missin)
(maybe I should hate for this)
Maybe I should hate you for this
Never really did ever quite get that far
(maybe I should hate for this)
Maybe I should hate you for this
Never really did ever quite get that...

Cause I'm a wishful thinker with the worst intentions
This'll be last chance you get to drop my name

That's a little part of the song anyway, so good!

Fiction time!

The blonde boy stood before him, eyes wide and confused, unmoving. Sasuke stumbled back slightly from his sharply cut off turn. Mentally, he cursed, why was it that Naruto could always cause him to totally forget all his poise, stoic calmness? That was an easy answer though: it was simply because he was Naruto.

"Sasuke…you came?" It wasn't really a question, but in a way, it was. Obviously the other had not been expecting him to be found, and if so, not by Sasuke. The dark haired Chuunin faltered for a moment. "I came to see you." Once again, his cold self had returned, the momentary fumble for words gone.

Blue eyes were cast over him; he could feel the cerulean orbs taking in every tiny detail about him. The stoic youth suppressed the urge to shiver from the familiar sensation, one he had felt so many times before, as the gaze sent jolts up his spine. He waited for the other to speak; feeling as if his answer head either been ignored or gone unheard, though the latter was unlikely, for all his stupidity, not much went unheard by the blonde.

A voice cut through the tension of the air, Aoshi's to be exact. "Naruto?" Are you out here?" It was quiet, coming from below them in the street. Immediately, the gaze was switched from him to the street where Naruto's 'mother' stood calling him. Sasuke was at the same time thankful for the distraction, but annoyed that they had been interrupted. It was definitely not the first time that day his emotions had been conflicting. "I'm just up here, Mom! Just a moment!" The blonde shouted back, he certainly hadn't lost his loud mouth over the last few weeks. Sasuke was surprised at the term his friend/rival used for the woman. Mom? He thought curiously, but the thought was dismissed for later when Naruto's attention turned to him.

"Wanna come have dinner with us, we're having fish." The dark haired boy of course already knew this, and the image before him caused a small smirk to pass over his features. The blonde stood with his hand scratching the back of his head, appearing slightly nervous, while the rest of his body was relaxed and casual. The stoic boy nodded simply, and followed the other down onto the ground below.

Aoshi was waiting outside the flower shop still, giving her new son a confused look at the arrival of Sasuke. "Hiya Mom, this is Sasuke. He's a friend of mine." Immediately she smiled at the said boy. "Hello Sasuke, it's very nice to finally meet a friend of Naruto's." Again the dark haired shinobi nodded, giving a tiny half smile. "It's a pleasure to meet you too." Amused none the less by the quiet, polite youth before he who stood so easily next to her loud, hyperactive son, the woman moved aside slightly to allow them inside the house. "Well go on in and get ready for dinner, and hurry up about it." Naruto flashed her a fox-like grin and dashed inside, shouting over his shoulder while dragging his friend by the hand. "We will, don't wait for us!" He yelled, charging up the stairs as Sasuke tried desperately avoided knocking over various flowers and tables as they went. It was only after Aoshi had shouted back her good natured reply of "Get on with it and we won't have to!" that he noticed there was something different about the grin Naruto now wore, some thing more…real, perhaps. He wasn't quite sure what it was exactly, but for now he'd forget about it and think it over later.

After changing quickly into clean clothes (Sasuke had borrowed a pair of slightly too small black pants and, horribly enough, orange shirt from Naruto. The blonde was still a few centimeters shorter then himself) and washing their hands and face, the two boys half fell half jumped down the stairs and seated themselves at the dinner table with the rest of the family. Well, Naruto half fell half jumped, Sasuke walked as normally as is humanly possible when a one has a hyperactive ball clinging to their forearm.

While they had been changing, Aoshi's husband, Kobashi, had returned from work (he had a job loading and unloading cargo from the ships that docked in the port on the other side of the town) and was currently helping his son set the table. Well, it could have been called setting the table, but it looked more like they were playing around together, Kobashi throwing Ryoku in the air while catching him. He was a tall man, well built and strong enough from lifting heavy crates at work, with short brown hair and blue eyes. Aoshi's mother had also entered the room, relaying plates of streaming food back and forth from the kitchen which was connected to the dining room by a pair of large rolling doors, both of which were currently open. The old woman (called 'old bat' by Naruto but otherwise known as Kanato) had long graying hair tied back in a bun while her squinty black eyes were hidden behind a pair of thick glasses. She was arguing animatedly with who Naruto told him to be her youngest daughter, Okina (who looked to be only a few years older then Sasuke himself, nineteen perhaps) who resembled Aoshi with slightly short hair (dyed an amazingly bright shade of electric blue) and the same golden eyes. The last person in the home seemed to be the quietest, the eldest of the three of Kanato's daughters, Tsukina, sat reading in the corner. Her ebony hair was done up in a neat plait while a few stray wisps fell into her light brown (bordering gold) eyes. Despite the noise, chaos and mess around her, she seemed totally switched out to the world.

Introductions were made and dinner was served, each person grabbing their plate and dishing themselves out a bit of everything (Ryoku had positively beamed when he discovered the every last piece of his fish was taken) until everyone settled down to begin eating. Conversation was thrown back and forth (some about himself, though he never said much, more nodded then anything, especially not about Naruto's departure of Kohona) and Sasauke was surprised to find himself smiling slightly while the blonde beside him grinned and spoke enough for the both of them. It was a wonderful atmosphere, friendly with the smell of well cooked food. To him, the night was an enjoyable one, he would say no more.

The house it's self was a moderately large one, though it astounded Sasuke as to how so many people managed to live there without constantly getting into one another's faces, but, surprisingly enough, they got on very well together. The house belonged to Aoshi and Kobashi, but the rest of the family played their part in it's upkeep. While Aoshi and Okina ran the flower shop (the blue haired girl found it impossible to get a job elsewhere due to her habit of being late every single time she had a shift), Kanato looked after Ryoku and did the cleaning (Naruto now helped with this job, though he had also become something of a delivery boy for the flower shop) and Tsukina worked at a book store around the corner.

Finally, the meal was over. Everyone cleaned away their own pots, but the majority of the left over food and the plates they were set upon was washed up the women as Ryoku, Kobashi, Sasuke and Naruto left them to it. Before they left the kitchen, the dark haired Chuunin watched his friend/ex rival slip the family cat a piece of fish he had saved from his plate. Kanato hit him lightly for doing so, laughing when the poor boy yelped as she pinched his ear. The two boys made a hurried escape before she could wound the blonde further.

The light atmosphere had left Sasuke feeling happy and warm, having forgotten why he was here in the first place. It was only once they were upstairs in Naruto's room and sitting crosslegged upon the floor did he remember. "-And this is my desk and this is my bed and this is my-"The Uchiha cut him off suddenly, having been too immersed in his own thoughts to hear what his friend was talking about. "Naruto," He began, slightly nervous though his exterior was calm and relaxed. "Yeah?" The blonde asked, fiddling with a small figurine he found on his beside table. "I was wondering…" He paused, eyes switching from the floor up to Naruto. "When are you coming home?"

The other boy simply stared at cold eyed youth. "What are you talking about Sasuke? This is my home." He appeared slightly confused or nervous perhaps. A sudden look of something vaguely like disappointment and disgust rolled into one crossed the dark haired boy's features. "No it's not," He muttered darkly. "Don't be stupid," Naruto snorted, "Yes it is. I'm happy here, I have my family with me, it's my home."

With those words, something deep inside Sasuke snapped. "Not it's not!" He yelled, leaping to his feet. "It was never you're home! You're home is back in Kohona, with me! I'm you're family, not them! Me!" The blonde sat staring up at his friend in shocked silence, unable to say anything.

"Come back," He whispered, a slightly desperate look within his eyes, but the again, it could have been imagined. "Come home and be happy with me…"

Anger rose in the blondes face as he slowly climbed to his feet. "Don't say those things," He growled, voice low. "Don't say you're my family when you know it's not true. Family love each other, you never loved me at all." A feral sort of red stirred within his eyes, "I told you in the letter, I know you don't really care. Even now Sasuke, even now I'm still just you're little fucking toy, nothing else." The whisper like scars upon his cheeks darkened. "I'm not going to be used by you again!" He roared, "Not by you or anyone else! Not ever again!" His voice slowly faded back into a harsh whisper. "Get out." He snarled,

"And never come back."

Author's Notes: DAMN YOU CHAPTER!I will kill this chapter one day, let it die! It was so jumbled, poorly written and pathetic, and yet I really don't want to have to re-write it all over again. Yes, I am possibly the laziest person on earth…including Shikamaru. Yes people, I am that lazy! –Sigh- Anyways, guess what! I'm reading this new manga which I found at my library! Yay! They've started to actually have some anime and manga in the books and dvd's! I love you anime and manga...Well, as I was saying. It's called 'Rebound' and so far it's actually pretty good. It's by a guy called Yuriko Nishiyama. Did I mention its good? …Review!