Sorry for the fact that it's a bit late, been in Scotland visiting the brats and in-laws. Right, Sasuke is slightly OOC in parts, and there is extreme cheese later on. Not sure whether to classify it as Gorgonzola or mozzarella, but it's CHEESY! Warning issued.

And before I forget, mentions of torture here.

After watching Sasuke and Naruto swallow one another whole for five minutes, and Kyuubi nearly wet himself with himself with laughter, Itachi decided to intervene. He wasn't stupid enough to do it on his own though. He enlisted the help of his uncle for a start, who was grinning his fool arse off at the same time.

He started by trying the subtle approach, well, poking Naruto in the shoulder at any point. When that didn't work, and Obito joined Kyuubi in laughing his fool arse off, instead of just grinning it off. Then he decided that if subtle wasn't going to work, the be as subtle as a brick. He sprang his claws on his right hand, and side swiped Naruto across the lower back.

Both Sasuke and Naruto screamed, and Itachi just stood there, blood dripping from his right hand. "Have I got you attention?" he asked dryly as the pair of them turned round to glare at him. "And you shut your damn mouth as well," he said to Obito who was still sniggering at the pair in front of him. "We're not in a secure location," he added, turning back to his brother, and the blond idiot that was wrapped around him. "Move!" he snarled at the pair of them, then he turned to Obito. "Fat lot of help you were," he said to him as he stalked past him, and glared at Kyuubi as a bonus for his lack of support as well.

Just then a scream went up, and Zabuza and Haku came back from wherever they'd skulked off too, dragging one of the remaining mercenaries in tow. "Ah, toys," a vampire by the name of Suigetsu said as he saw the man struggling with Momochi brothers.

"Wait a moment, Suigetsu," Haku said as Zabuza manhandled the man to his knees. "Sasuke's got a slight case of telepathy on the go at the moment. We'll try that first. If it doesn't work, we use the old tried and trusted methods."

"Torture?" Suigetsu asked, perking up a bit as Kisame walked over, and three of the vampires present loomed over the man quaking on the floor.

Naruto brought Sasuke over, not looking happy at this point. And Sasuke looked less than amused to even be attempting this as well. As soon as Sasuke, for want of a better expression, turned his consciousness on on the man being held by Zabuza, he lost what colour he'd regained, and just started to shake his head repeatedly.

At that point, Naruto merely looked at Kyuubi as he pulled Sasuke away, and Kyuubi just nodded at Kisame who grinned at Suigetsu and Zabuza. The man on the floor started screaming before Zabuza even picked him to take him elsewhere.

Naruto took Sasuke to the safe house that they'd recently vacated, knowing that Sasuke felt safe there. "It was horrible," Sasuke whispered as he folded himself into the sofa.

"What was?" Naruto asked as he returned from making sure that the doors were secure, and that no light could breach the windows.

"He was so scared. I know he came to kill us, all of us. But he was so scared," he whispered. Then he looked up at Naruto. "Make it stop, just make it stop," he nearly begged. Naruto walked over to the sofa, and curled up around Sasuke, not really sure what to do as Sasuke burrowed into him.

As he stroked Sasuke's hair, he could feel him slowly start to relax, and eventually he fell asleep. Naruto used this opportunity to phone his brother.

Kyuubi answered the phone to a background of screams. "Having fun are we?" Naruto asked dryly, knowing that Kisame and Suigetsu were hard at work on the poor sod that had been unfortunate enough to survive.

"It's an education, as ever," Kyuubi said, laughter lurking in his voice. "Damn, boys from Mizu are good," he said, his admiration clear. "Right, Orochimaru wasn't to blame. Someone else was using his men without his knowledge. He's slime, but useful slime. Itachi is gonna get Madara on it. See if you can keep Fugaku and Mikoto safe, and keep Shisui out of it as well. Obito will help too." And with that, Kyuubi hung up.

"Fuck you too, wanker," Naruto said as he looked at his mobile. But the damage was done. His agitation had disturbed Sasuke.

Sasuke looked up blearily, focussing on Naruto, and asked "what's going on?"

Naruto shrugged, "Kyuubi's been interrogating the man that Zabuza captured. It wasn't Orochimaru. Itachi's getting Madara involved -"

He never got a chance to continue, because Sasuke's eyes widened then. "Madara? Our uncle Madara? Grandpa and Dad fell out with him years ago. Why now?"

Naruto shrugged, reminding the pair of them of the position that they were still in. "Probably because he scared the shit out of Izuna," Naruto said bluntly, reminding Sasuke unintentionally of just how old he really was.

"What's really going?" Sasuke asked as he tried to move away a little bit. He didn't get very far. Naruto tightened his arms and refused to let him go.

"Kyuubi had him interrogated, I told you that," he sighed.

"You mean tortured," Sasuke interrupted.

"Well, yeah, Naruto said sheepishly. "I think they know who's behind it, but he didn't tell me. I've got to keep you safe, and your mum and dad, and your cousin as well. Obito's going to help as well."

"That'll go down well with my dad," Sasuke said dryly, obviously starting to regain his sense of humour.

Naruto sniggered at that point, remembering Fugaku's less than favourable reaction to Obito's presence at the clinic. "He's gonna shit a brick." Then his phone rang again, it was Obito this time.

"You still with Sasuke?" Obito asked without preamble.

"Hello to you too. Yes, he's with me," Naruto said as he put it on loudspeaker so Sasuke could hear.

"Good, Kakashi and I are going round to your parents house now. Kiba's getting Shisui. We'll see you tomorrow night," Obito said, ignoring Naruto's sarcasm. "You two stay put," and then he hung up.

"We intend to," Naruto said, as he pulled Sasuke in a little closer.

"And why would that be?" Sasuke asked, looking amused.

"For starters, first lights in 45 minutes," Naruto said, looking at the time on his phone, "and secondly, I'm comfortable here."

Sasuke arched an eyebrow at that comment, he could feel the waves of contentment coming off of Naruto, and it was making him sleepy again.

"C'mon," Naruto said. "If we sleep here, you'll regret it when you wake up." And he stood up and pulled Sasuke with him and led him towards the bedrooms where they'd been staying previously.

As Naruto went to leave Sasuke on his own, he stopped as he felt a hand grab his arm. "I don't want to sleep alone today," he said softly. "I feel off balance still, and I don't like it," he added.

Naruto never said anything, knowing what it must've cost the prickly human to have admitted it, he merely turned around and followed him into the other bedroom, and they both settled down for the day.

When Sasuke awoke, somehow he knew it was still daylight. How he knew this he didn't know. And following the events of the last couple of nights, he decided not to question it either. He just knew it was better for his sanity that way.

After having what passed for breakfast at 4pm in the afternoon, he decided to go and check on Naruto again, but he was still dead to the world. So he decided to play. After nicking all of the covers off of him, and it having no effect whatsoever, Sasuke decided to explore, as it were. As Naruto was only wearing boxers, it was made fairly easy for him to get his hands on him. And Sasuke intended to take advantage of this opportunity.

By the time that Naruto woke up, Sasuke was straddling his hips, having thoroughly explored his chest, arms and shoulders with both his hands and mouth. At the sight of a flushed looking Sasuke sitting on top of him, Naruto's eyes rapidly changed colour to a bright red. Then he flipped the pair of them so he lay in between Sasuke's legs and grinned down at him as he propped himself up on his hands.

"Enjoying yourself?" he asked.

"You tell me," Sasuke replied, bucking his hips slightly, letting Naruto feel his erection. He didn't think it was possible for Naruto's grin to possibly get any wider, but it did.

"My my doctor. It can't be good for you to sustain that for too long, let me help you with that," and with that cheesy comment, Naruto made his way to Sasuke's boxers, and with absolutely no finesse at all, whipped them off in one go.

"Oi! Watch what you're doing down there, idiot," Sasuke snapped, and went to say more, but stopped in mid tirade as Naruto swallowed him whole.

As Naruto went to work, Sasuke's eyes crossed, and started to tint slightly red, and he nearly swallowed his tongue. "Shit!" he shouted as Naruto deep throated him.

It was with revolting ease that Naruto had Sasuke cumming in his mouth with a quiet scream. As he finished licking him clean and grinning at the twitching brunette beneath him, his phone started to ring. As Naruto noticed it was Kyuubi, he decided to ignore it this time. But Sasuke didn't have that choice.

His head decided to start feeling like it was splitting open.

Madara and Itachi had arrived.