My Lover's Keeper

Kakashi entered the house.

Silence greeted him; never a good sign.
"Naruto?" He called walking to the boy's room, then he checked Kurama's, their own room, the other guestroom and even Sasuke's before searching the rest of the house whilst calling for him.

There was yet again, no note there for him. So he called him, thinking maybe he went to visit his classmate.
His phone rang, he followed the sound of the ringtone till he found the phone under the pillow.

The bed was messy.

That made his heart rate double. He called Iruka.
"Hey baby, are you-..."

"Please tell me Naruto is with you" he desperately asked.

"No...he didn't come" Iruka walked out of the room not wanting to trouble Sasuke "he's probably in the cemetery if he didn't leave a note"

"Okay, I'll go look for him" he hung up not wanting to tell Iruka knowing he'd freak out more. He saw Naruto's scarf and coat knowing his son had left without proper warm clothes.

At the Genkan, he could see the car keys. Further solidifying his theory that Naruto was indeed asleep. He thanked god his son had dropped it, it would have been a worse disaster if he were driving while asleep.

Kakashi got in his car and drove off. The cemetery had no Naruto, no one around there had seen a boy with those descriptions.

He had went to all of Naruto's hanging spots, even all the way to the Hokage mountain.

Then it clicked, the one place he thought was impossible perhaps wasn't all that impossible.

Hashirama memorial hospital.

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"Stop the car!" A voice ordered as he saw the underdressed blond walking on the side of the road.

He couldn't believe it at first but no doubt this was his classmate. Wearing his slippers and light orange pyjamas and evidently nothing else underneath.

"Naruto" he got out of the car, being ignored wasn't exactly new to him. He and the blond have never been friends. "I'm talking to you, Dickless" he held the boy's wrist.

The pale teen was surprised by the counteraction that Naruto twisted his arm and moved on to high kick him in the face. Only he was quick to block the kick.
"What the heck was that for?" This was the first time he actually felt confused. The first time he actually felt anything akin to anger.

But upon further inspection, he deduced that his blond classmate was asleep.

How do you deal with a hostile sleepwalker? He didn't even know how to deal with normal awake people.
When he raised his hand up in defense signalling he was not fighting, Naruto simply turned around and continued walking.

Any other day he'd have snapped a photo and sent it to Neji. But not today.
"Naruto, where are you going? I can give you a ride....I guess" he mumbled the last couple words. Neji would be furious if he found out that Naruto was not helped.

The words seemed to stop the blond who turned around. The same blank look on his face, his eyes semi closed.
"Hashirama memorial hospital" he muttered.

Although the dark haired teen did not catch the name, as he had no intention of actually taking Naruto there, he still nodded telling him to get in.

The sleeping blond did so, his eyes were fixed on the window and soon enough felt heavy as he fell to the side on his classmate's thigh.

The pale teen tensed up and would have yelled if he hadn't noticed the rhythmic breathing of the blond as he was back in a deep asleep.

They arrived at his home. A normal enough looking house in the suburbs.
He allowed his driver to carry the sleeping Naruto to the master bedroom and followed behind.

He sat in front of his easel and started painting as usual. Although, all day long his eyes travelled to the bed to look at Naruto. Then a devilish smile crept on his face as he took his phone and snapped a picture of the blond.

"Guess who's sleeping on my bed" he sent the text first.

"We oll no ur a slut 🤣🤣" Kiba replied first. Of course he was first to reply, the mutt loving asshole has nothing to do in his life.

"The word is playboy but you have two brain cells I blame them for your ignorance" he replied back.

"Sai, don't be sour. Is it someone that goes to our class?" Sakura jumped on the conversation always eager to know all of the gossip.

"Yupe." Sai smiled.

"Is it Sasuke? That guy's a whore if I've ever seen one 🙄🙄🙄" Neji seemed to be still angry about what happened in class with him.

"If anything it's Naruto that's a whore 😡😡" Sakura defended her crush. Didn't she used to have a crush on Naruto right before Sasuke joined school?

"Can't believe ur crushing on such a loser" Neji rolled his eyes at his phone screen annoyed by the pinkette. Still, Neji preferred her liking Sasuke over coming after his blondie.

"Ur one to talk" she shot back.

"Listen billboard forehead, I get that u like that duck butt so much but he's batting for my team if ya know what I mean 😏😏" he smirked. He was typing some more when Sai's picture just popped in the group chat.

Then there was silence as Sakura gloated with a "Ha!" As if saying told you he was a whore.

"That's not Naruto" Neji wrote quickly. It was taken from afar, the only thing that could be seen was the blond hair.

But he swallowed his words when the next picture was a closeup of Naruto's face. Sai typed afterwards: "You were saying?"

Anger, sadness, but mostly anger took over him.
"Cat's gat ur tong?"

"Kiba, go read a dictionary" Sai shot back as nothing bothered him more than the stupid typos of the Inuzuka idiot. He'd have forgiven them if they were made on purpose but no...Kiba really was just bad at writing words.

Neji got out of the conversation calling Sai immediately. "What. The. Fuck?!"

"Relax...I just found him in the street on the way home." Sai looked at his nails entertained by it all.

"Relax?!" Neji shouted "found him my ass, Sai. He's not some stray dog!"

"Of course not," Sai smiled, "he's more of a stray kitten. Adorable" Sai ran his hand on Naruto's cheek earning a soft moan from the blond who gently opened his eyes. He didn't fail to notice the abnormal warmth of his classmate's cheek.

"I swear to god you lay a finger-..."

"Oh you're finally waking up, princess?" Sai's last word was meant to enrage Neji. He smirked hearing all of the curse words thrown his way. He ignored his friend on the phone, hanging up on him.

Naruto was confused, the male voice took a minute to register and he realized he wasn't in his own bedroom. He looked towards the body in front of him.

The panic rose to his chest as he saw Orochimaru for a second, his memories unclear.
"Yasha-san" he called in an uncharacteristic fearful tone. He could swear that Orochimaru was dead and that he made it back home.

"Who's Yasha-san, Dickless?" Sai raised an eyebrow. "You are awake, right? Not sleep talking.."

Naruto blinked his eyes a couple more times, the image resting on his classmate. "Sai?" He held his head. He didn't remember leaving home, meeting his classmate or anything else. "Was I sleep walking?" He asked, knowing the answer. "What time is it?"

"Yeah," the pale teen saw the calm demeanor of his colleague. An indication this wasn't somehow a first occurrence. "It's midnight."

"Midnight?! Can I have your-..."

Sai handed the boy the phone he knew he wanted. He heard a soft thank you coming from the blond's lips.

Naruto fumbled to type in the house phone number. He was sure they were worried sick about him.
"Naruto is that you?!" Iruka's panicked voice answered the phone.

"Haa, Kaasan" he cleared his throat. "I'm okay. I'm at a friend's house"

"What do you mean at a friend's house?! We were so worried about you and you just disa-..."

"I was sleepwalking"

"Bullshit, Naruto" Iruka would rather believe it was a lie than think his son was in grave danger. "Where are you?"

"I don't know. Sai, can I have your address?" He asked and the pale teen simply extended his arm asking for his phone back. Naruto hesitantly gave it back.

He watched as the teen plastered a fake smile on his face.
"Ōkaasama, I don't mind having Naruto-kun spend the night with me. He's a bit flushed and I don't doubt he's got a fever. After all, I found him walking with only his Pj's on the way out of Konoha city."

"Your name and address" Iruka said in reply, coldly. His tone was no joke, if he could he would strangle whoever was on the other end.

"Hino Sai," he took a deep breath giving him the address. He wanted that to remain a secret. Where he was living was his own business.

Naruto seemed to be surprised he was in the city two hours away from Konoha, where Hashirama's memorial hospital was....in other words, where his brother was.

"Okay, Sai-kun..." Iruka relaxed when Kakashi told him it was Naruto's classmate. "Sorry for being mean, you really don't mind having him over for tonight?"

"I understand. No, not at all. He's like he said....a friend" Sai's eyes curved at that word forming the most disenginuine smile Naruto had ever seen.

"Okay...I'll come come pick him-..."

"That won't be necessary. I can drop him off, I normally arrive at Konoha around 8 in the morning." Sai kept that fake friendly tone.

"Okay..." Iruka sighed defeatedly. "Can you hand him the phone?"

"Hai," Sai handed the phone back to Naruto.

"I'm sorry, Kaasan" the boy apologized as soon as he had the phone.

"Naruto, did this happen last time? When you didn't leave us a note."

"I don't know" the boy replied.

"Do you remember getting to the cemetery?"

"Sort of" Naruto bit his lip. He just woke up there, in front of his parents' graves. He didn't really think much of it at the time, thinking he was just deep in thought on the way to the cemetery.

"That's a yes or no question."

"No, I don't remember how I got to the cemetery. I just was there"

"We're going to see a doctor tomorrow, you're getting-...."

"They'll give me sleeping pills. They don't help" Naruto argued, they stopped helping a long time ago.

"We're going. End of discussion. Just take it easy for tonight. You don't have your meds with you...so take it easy"

Naruto heaved a sigh. "Haaii"

"I love you"

"I love you too, Kaasan. Goodnight." He hung up afterwards. "Thanks, Sai"

"Don't mention it." The same plastered smile was flashed to Naruto.

"You don't have to fake a smile for me" he sat up in bed. "Do you happen to have a thermometer?"

Sai eased his expressions to become emotionless. He walked to the cabinet in his bathroom and grabbed the thermometer, cleaning it. He also took over-the-counter meds for the fever. "Here you go. It's an oral one. Haven't used it in ages, I don't get sick often"

Naruto nodded and just plopped it in his mouth. He really felt awful, the chills were the worst part. But if what Sai had said was true, he should be thankful chills were the worst of what he was dealing with.

Hino took the thermometer once it beeped. "38.6, it's mild. Here I got some ibuprofen. It'll help...hopefully stop your shaking too." Sai didn't say more than was needed, he had heard the other half of the conversation from Iruka. That's why he wasn't fazed by hearing the male voice when clearly Naruto said mom.

The blond just laid back on bed after drinking the pill, closing his eyes.
"You've been asleep all day, Dickless..don't tell me you're falling asleep again"

"I'm awake...dumbass. my eyes get uncomfortable, I don't have my glasses"

"So where were you going?"

"I don't know" Naruto held on to the covers tightly. Whatever he told Sai he knew would eventually reach Neji and subsequently the school. So he kept to himself things he minded sharing.

He sighed, It would be half an hour at most before the pill works, until then he just have to bare with the feeling of cold.

Sai looked at his phone, entertained by the texts he received from Neji. He left him on read knowing that would further infuriate his friend.
"I hope you don't mind sharing a bed, it's a two bedroom house and the other room is occupied"

"I'm fine with it" Naruto softly replied. The bed was big enough for them to sleep without even touching.

Sai didn't know but the fact that Naruto wasn't uncomfortable sort of made him annoyed. So he got real close to Naruto that the latter could feel the hot breaths on his face.

He opened his eyes and looked his weird classmate right in his dark orbs that sort of sparkled in the light.
"You're not threatened by me"

"Why would I be?"

"Because we're both gay guys, sharing a bed."

"Correction, you're gay and I'm pansexual." He closed his eyes. "Trust me, you're not my type"

"It seems you like Sasuke, we're both dark haired, have black eyes, pale, slender form...I say we're pretty alike, dickless"

"I'm not attracted to looks, dumbass"

"So you do like him." Sai retorted. "I don't get it, if you like him why are you taking Neji out?"

"I gave him my word. A man honours his word"

"A man? You? Darling don't fla-..." Sai's words were left unspoken as he found himself tackled on bed.

Naruto was on top of him, one hand on his neck, the other pinning his two hands down and his position was so good Sai knew he couldn't wiggle out of it.

Where was this strength coming from? Sai didn't know, but he liked it.

He found himself smiling, a genuine smile.

Naruto was taken aback. Every time he had seen Sai it was with that fake smile. He cleared his throat and moved away letting Sai go. "Why are you smiling like an idiot?"

"You just reminded me of another Dickless I know." The dark haired teen fixed himself. It had been years since he smiled like that. "Go out with me, tomorrow after class"

Naruto chuckled "no, no way. I can't even wait for that disaster of a date with Neji to pass...and you my friend have a bad reputation amongst guys"

"Not my fault. I make it clear I don't want a relationship beforehand. They lie to themselves thinking they can -...."

"Why do you want to take me on a date? Neji is your friend" Naruto pointed out.

"I'm not really friends with anyone in that school" Sai walked away. "Anyway, people seem to like you a lot. I mean even with all the rumours...you have no idea how many fantasize about you. I wanna know why. What's so intriguing about Uzumaki Naruto?"

Neji spread the rumours about Naruto on purpose. If he makes people fear the blond then he wouldn't get approached by any crushes. The plan worked so far, but ever since Naruto's father's identity had been public he wasn't so scary anymore.

Kakashi might be a closet pervert but he was strict and there was no way a son of his would be getting in any sort of trouble. Yamanaka Ino, the hottest girl in school and Hyūga Hinaya, the cutest girl were also seen hanging out with Naruto and that only made him seem more approachable.

"Did Neji put you to this?" Naruto asked.

"Oh honey trust me. He's losing his mind knowing you're here. If you say yes, I'm not stupid to tell him" the boy had gotten ready for bed and got in under the covers.

"Okay, Sai....one date and you're not getting in my pants"

"Wasn't planning to, Dickless" he rolled his eyes.

Naruto laid back down on his side of the bed and closed his eyes falling asleep.

He didn't know what time it was, just that he wasn't in bed anymore. He held on to the long light brown faux fur coat around him.

The dark leathery interior was all he needed to know he was in a car. "Sai, why didn't you wake me?" He sat up.

"I tried" he shrugged "we're almost at your place. I called your mother for the address, sleeping beauty" he smirked. "How are you a sleepwalker when you are such a heavy sleeper?"

"I'm not always a heavy sleeper." He looked out the window. The familiar streets of Konoha were in view and soon was his home.

He got out and was immediately hugged by Iruka.
"Kaasan" Naruto sort of blushed as he was being babied in front of Sai.

"Don't" Iruka bit his lip "I couldn't sleep all night. I was worried, very worried...so where this Sai-kun?"

"Sai, come on out" he looked back in the car where his classmate still sat.

The teen walked out, a good six centimeters taller than Naruto. He smiled politely and bowed.
"Ōkaasama"

Iruka felt weird about anyone other than his sons referring to him as mother. But being the kind man that he was, still accepted the polite gesture.
"Please call me Iruka-san, thanks for looking after Naruto for me"

"My pleasure." He kept that fake smile on his face that somehow flew over Iruka's radar. His eyes landed on his sensei and bowed to him too "Kakashi sensei"

"Hey" the grey haired man greeted "why don't you come in? Breakfast is ready.."

"Oh right the Omelettes!" Iruka's eyes widened letting go of Naruto.

"I turned off the stove...they're saved" Kakashi chuckled.

"What would I do without you" Iruka hugged his husband.

"Eat burnt omelettes for breakfast, obviously" Kakashi joked getting a kiss from his husband. He kissed him back passionately not caring that one of his students was right there.

Sai felt something though he kept that smile on his face. A feeling he couldn't explain because he had never felt it before.

Jealousy.