Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto!
A/N: Coarse Language & BoyXBoy: SasuXNaruXSasu!
Letters from Nii-San
- What's Up With Sasuke? -
Naruto was scared shitless when Sasuke finally came back to Konoha.
During the war, Tobi and all of his followers had been either killed or incapacitated by the Allied Shinobi Forces. However, unpredictably enough, it was Sasuke himself who had delivered the final blow in killing the misguided Uchiha during the climax of the final battle. When questioned by the village elders about the unrivaled determination with which he had fought, he had even said that it was to prove his allegiance and loyalty to the shinobi world and more importantly, to his brother's cause: Peace.
The bastard even started a peace foundation in Itachi's name.
And although, he never 'formally' apologized to the public for all of the wrongs he did during his status as a missing-ninja, Sasuke took the time to painstakingly apologize to each and every member of the original Rookie Nine and all the other ninja, specifically those involved in bringing him back, including the sand siblings, Gai's team, all the remaining jonin and chunin who had taught them when they were younger.
So Naruto had no reason to be scared that he would leave again.
Additionally, (as punishment) Sasuke completed a colossal number of high-ranking missions; both solo and group, for free, without a single protest. Tsunade, being the devious Hokage that she was, took full advantage of his uncharacteristic co-operation by purposefully assigned him horrible political missions that involved schmoozing high flying socialites who owned companies that did business in resources Konoha needed most, like raw materials and agricultural supplies. The first time she had assigned the usually anti-social man a mission of the 'political sort', everyone in the room (and Kakashi and Iruka by the windows) had watched with bated breath as he reacted by casually shrugging and quietly taking the assigned scroll and suit.
In fact, he was so good at those missions that with the four he completed, he somehow managed to flirt and charm more than one hundred million yen into the Konoha economy, raising their economic status to a level even greater than what they had been at, before the war. He was also set to take on three more, voluntarily!
Well, Sasuke Uchiha manipulates those fat cats in a way that only Sasuke Uchiha can. And their wives. Especially their wives.
Perhaps, that was the reason Naruto was so scared with Sasuke's return. He was scared that Sasuke would be considered as a better candidate for Hokage than he!
However, that could not have been right since Sasuke explicitly stated that he had no desire in becoming Hokage because of how two-faced most of the title-holders had been thus far. Also, although a good one, Sasuke had never liked to be a leader. He had always been (and still was) a little too self-absorbed to appreciate the title and prestige. Sasuke also hated all the added social responsibilities.
Maybe, the issue was that due to his increased self-absorption, he was becoming too involved in starting anew for himself that he was ignoring his friends and his other social responsibilities!
Although arguable, Sasuke was naturally standoffish and was not significantly more anti-social now, than he was before he left. Even if so, he had gone to great lengths to show his gratitude for the ninjas' support by scheduling lunch or coffee dates with every group to catch up on all the missed news and gossip. Tenten even claimed that he had laughed at something Rock Lee did last year that involved Neji's hair in braids and girls' clothing. While that alone was enough to shell-shock Naruto, she went on to say that Sasuke even shared with them a story about how Itachi actually let him dye his black hair red when they were five and ten.
That took more social decency than Naruto had ever dreamed Sasuke would care enough to use.
So maybe, the only real issue was that Sasuke was drifting away from his best friend Naruto and acting differently around him.
This was at least partially true.
These days, when Sasuke and Naruto hung out, they still bantered as usual but without the blatant need to outdo one another from their younger years or the suffocating tension from their later ones. Sasuke even went so far as to pay their weekly ramen bill without Naruto asking or pick him up after shifts on guard duty to treat him for drinks!
And as a result of carefully observing Sasuke's new tendencies, Naruto had come to the very logical conclusion that something extraordinarily scary was happening to make Sasuke act this way.
So the blonde seventeen year old standing on Sasuke's roof at three in the morning with a variety of sealing, summoning, de-activation, informational scrolls and his enhanced ninja weaponry, was indeed, scared shitless of what had happened, or still was happening, to Sasuke since he came back.
Focusing his chakra to his feet, Naruto slid to hang upside down from the drainage pipes. He located Sasuke's bedroom window, the only one emitting internal light, and crept forward. He flapped some birds' nest to work as an auditory distraction to muffle whatever minute sounds he made, quickly pulling open the window's shutters.
Straining to see through his light-colored curtains, Naruto made out a form resembling Sasuke's, sitting cross-legged atop his bed with a glass of water in one hand and a book in the other. For the next half an hour, Naruto watched as he sat there drinking, flicking the pages and simply smiling, as though he hadn't a care in the world. Growing too curious, Naruto finally pushed aside the curtains, desperate to discover what book had made Sasuke that enraptured and happy. He saw the notebook's cover page was blank with formal looking hand-writing on the front. It read a date from winter, three or four years ago.
He also registered that Sasuke was shirtless.
Processing that, Naruto blanched, coming to yet another completely logical hypothesis.
Had Sasuke finally realized the joy of masturbating? Was he reading some high class version of the plot-less literary porn Kakashi sensei reads? (Poor guy never truly found a replacement for the Icha Icha ones.) Those fancy pornos are the only books Naruto had ever seen with absolutely no cover art and such serious fonts. Well, those high class pornos in the restricted section, and dictionaries, but if Sasuke was grinning like that at a dictionary, than he was too far off the deep end to be bothered about anyway.
Or maybe, supplied his perverted brain, he was reading a compilation of all the love letters he had accumulated, since the date written on the top! Did the egotistical bastard actually have the letters binded to create an entire fucking confession book? Were there other volumes, for letters from his previous years?
Naruto pouted.
Much to the blonde's annoyance, two weeks after he was officially recognized as a Konoha ninja again, Sasuke started receiving bucketfuls of love letters, even more than he used to! Naruto had initially teased Sasuke, commenting that they were due to his semi-nudity, until Sasuke switched over to the basic green jacket, which somehow managed to look way more attractive than his revealing white shirt. Especially, when the jacket's fabric pulled across his tall, muscular frame when he fought during their weekly sparring sessions...
Not that Naruto noticed or anything.
Some fan-mail writers were so shamelessly brash, that they even sent him explicit explanations of what they would let him do to them and how badly they wanted him to 'make passionate love' to them.
Naruto fought the blush threatening to erupt over his face as he recalled accidentally opening, and reading one such letter that had been wrongly sent to his address. However, remembering that he read the smutty part of the letter three times over (for some incomprehensible reason), his blush won the battle and spread across his face and neck, contrasting his bright, blonde hair.
He blamed it on his over-active hormones.
Clearing his mind, he began thinking, since that always resulted in something logical. He knew that Sasuke had always been asexual as a young adolescent, so maybe, finally jerking a couple off had relieved him of his up-tight, snobbish tendencies?
His suspicions solidified when he saw Sasuke slide his fingers through his dark, blue hair and bite his lips.
Alright then! He was just about escape back to his own home to get in a shower before dawn (he was even considering taking up Ino's claim that cold showers help trim flab! Because of course, trimming flab was the sole reason why he needed to have cold shower...), when he heard something.
Sasuke growled, almost sounding feral, as he wrapped an arm around his own waist. Naruto's blue eyes widened as he found himself paralyzed, one foot precariously tip-toeing the ledge and one foot in the air. He stared at the book laid open on the bed. The pages were filled with a neat, perfect hand-written script so Naruto figured it was probably a rare, porn book.
Suddenly, Sasuke fell backwards, hitting his head on the headboard as he let out a deep sigh.
A really good, rare porn book.
Maybe Naruto would stick around and watch him finish off, only to see if the book was worth a read, obviously. It's not as though there was any unresolved sexual tenses or all-consuming passion between the two...
"Nii-san!" ground out Sasuke through grit teeth, doubling over so his bangs covered his panting face.
Naruto whipped his head around. His jaw dropped to reach the floor and his eyes widened to the size of dinner plates. Was Sasuke reading his dead, older brother's erotic writings! What the fu- OH SHIT!
A/N: You know what I've always wanted to see? Someone's thoughts as they read each chapter of this story, since there's really quite a lot of twists and turns in the plot. So you know... If you have the time and uhm... something to say... then, why don't you... review?- BUT, NO PRESSURE THOUGH. PEOPLE WHO 'ALERT' AND LEAVE ARE COOL TOO.