Timely Magic

Naruto was worried, like, really worried. That powerful chakra set him on edge, he was both glad and upset that Sasuke hadn't told him about it. Glad cause he was able to have peace for a while longer, and upset cause he and Sasuke were supposed to be a team, how could they be a team if Sasuke kept stuff from him??

No matter, they talked about it and he understood why he did it. Doesn't mean he's happy about it though.

"By the way." Sasuke glances at the blond "I think I should hang out with Hyuga, not today. But next week maybe, she's weird but I don't want to be rude." "How would not hanging out with her be rude??" Sasuke queries with a raised eyebrow. "I don't know, everything about this place is weird. I'm not sure if it's rude to not hangout with someone or not, and I don't want to take chances. Besides, maybe we can be friends." he sighs softly.

Sasuke didn't respond to that

Naruto knew that Sasuke wasn't too keen on the idea of friends, especially in this time. He was more focused on getting them home. But he also knew Sasuke wasn't going to stop him from making friends.

"Alright, but stay on guard at all times. We don't need something bad happening cause you weren't paying attention." he taunted with a smirk. "Oi!! I'll be careful, Teme."

They fell into silence once more after this. Naruto's thought wandered, he thought about his family, of his previous life, 'Will I ever see them again?' He missed them, a lot, and it hurt to lose them. He felt his eyes water and he rapidly blinked his eyes. He doesn't know why, Sasuke has seen him cry plenty of times, but he tried to hold in his tears.

Keyword tried

He felt the tears roll down his face and he rushed to wipe them. He knows Sasuke has noticed cause he hears him shift. After a moment he feels Sasuke sit right next to him, he's not looking at him. Naruto lays his head on his friend and crush's shoulder and sobs silently.

He barely registers the arm that wraps around him and the hand that is placed between his shoulder blades. He clutches the fabric of Sasuke's shirt tightly, eyes shut tight. When his cries died down, he realized he had somehow moved from Sasuke's shoulder to his chest, and that said boy was holding him. "Sry, S’ke." Naruto rasped, his throat was sore from crying. "You're fine, Dobe..." They just stared at each other for what felt like an eternity before Sasuke broke eye contact and looked down and to the side. "You wanna talk about it?" he mumbled almost inaudibly.

He shook his head, "No, I want to stop thinking about it."

Sasuke looked like he was debating something for a minute before replying, "We could, take a nap. If you want..." He just gaped at Sasuke, he had no idea what had prompted this. Also, Sasuke had already slept all day, surely he wasn't tired anymore.  "That sounds nice, but Obaa-chan was setting out lunch when I got here. We should go eat, but I don't want her to see me like this."

"Use henge then, she'll never notice."

"Alright"

They exited the room and, due to the henge, Hirano-san didn't notice that Naruto had been crying. They ate lunch in silence and Sasuke retreated to their room afterwards. Naruto went and sat in front of the tv and began to watch- something. He honestly had no idea what this was, but it was entertaining. He watched for a few minutes before going back into his room.

"S'ke" said boy looked up and made a sound of acknowledgement, "I want to train." He stared at Naruto for a few seconds before nodding. "Later, when Hirano-san is asleep." Naruto sighed before nodding, he wanted to train now, but he knew it would be better to train while everyone was asleep.

Naruto managed to convince Sasuke to watch tv with him. Naruto was staring intently at the screen while every so often he'd hear a scoff from beside him. They watched the thing until dinner time, where Naruto and Hirano chatted away while Sasuke ate silently.

They said their goodnights then went off to their room, they didn't sleep though. Instead, Naruto made sure to keep them both awake by talking in a hushed tone while playing with Sasuke's hair, he protested at first but eventually gave into the blond menace.

After a while they agreed that Hirano was asleep, they stealthily sneaked out of the building and made their way towards the forest they had arrived in. When they got there they took a sparing stance, they sprang into action.

He swung at Sasuke who easily dodged and kicked at Naruto's shin, the force of the kick was enough to make the blond stumble. He quickly recovered and slashed at the Uchiha's face, four lines going from his forehead over the bridge of his nose down to his jaw. He hissed and punched Naruto in the stomach, while he was distracted Sasuke also grabbed his hair and tossed him across the way.

Growling, Naruto sprinted on all fours towards his rival. The older male shifted into a fighting stance, hand outstretched towards the oncoming jinchuuriki. He swiftly jumped out of the way way of his friend and into a tree. Both boys danced around each other's attacks for a few minutes before they decided it was enough and pulled out their weapons.

Shuriken flung recklessly towards the raven haired male, he dodged then tossed a kunai that lodged itself in Naruto's bicep. He sucked in a sharp breath from the pain but didn't hesitate to pounce. He could smell blood before he registered he had sunk his claws into the side of Sasuke's upper thigh. Said male jumped away, extending the gashes to right below his knee.

Sasuke hissed through his teeth, the recognizable sting of an injury and the smell of blood spurring him on. He managed to get Naruto into a headlock, but the blond kicked his feet right out from under him. He crawled on top of the youngest prince and swung and made contact with his jaw, he most definitely left a bruise, the male under him spit blood into his face before flipping them. He then hit the blond's forehead with his fist and slashed his chest with a kunai before leaping out of the way of the younger's claws.

Unlike before when only his claws were like the fox, the kyuubi-jin was now half shifted, his whisker marks were dark, his eyes were like blood, and his teeth were as sharp as kunai.

Sasuke decided there was no more playing around, he activated his sharingan both eyes trained on the youth before him. Said youth made hand signs, an indication he was readying his chakra. Sasuke took a defensive stance and made the familiar seals for one of his clan's signature techniques.

He spewed fire at the kyuubi-jin just as he summoned several shadow clones. The blond’s ran at him with determination etched onto their features, the raven prepared to counter them. He directed lightning to his left arm as the Narutos approached him, he ran it through them while he dodged several mud walls that sprang from the ground towards his body.

He managed to poof 2 of them but the other 3 came at him and he had to dance to not get hit. He summoned chakra for a water attack, he managed to make the rock walls that were left around turn to mud while simultaneously dodging the wind attacks sent his way.

Apparently, he miscalculated cause he felt a sharp pain in his back, he gasped at the unexpected feeling. Naruto smirked when his wind arrow hit the elusive boy, the blood spilling from the wound proving how effective his attack was. The gasp from the older male made enough of a distraction for the fox boy to grab him by the waist and flip him onto the floor.

He choked as the air was forced from his lungs from the impact with the forest floor. The blond grabbed the silky raven hair to the point it was painful and he slammed his fist into the Uchiha's ribs, causing a grunt of pain to slip past his kissable lips. Sasuke regained his composure quickly, grabbing Naruto by the neck hard enough that he momentarily let go of his hair, and that was all the time Sasuke needed to slam the blond's head to the floor.

Naruto's head throbbed from the sudden impact, he grit his teeth as the sly bastard sat on his back and punched in-between his shoulder blades. He led the kyuubi's chakra to his back and he heard Sasuke hiss before leaping off of him to escape the heat. The kyuubi's chakra could be used to heal, but if he wanted it could be used to harm.

He stalked towards his prey, watching his every move. Sasuke cursed under his breath before doing the hand signs to a jutsu he was taught last year, the sound of hundreds of song birds filled his ears as he completed the jutsu. Naruto smiled a feral smile, 'So, he want to play like that huh?' he brought up his hand and led chakra to it, a ball of chakra appearing when he finished.

They charged at each other without hesitance, and leaped before moving their attacks to the other's torso, carefully lowering the concentration of chakra at the last second to avoid killing each other. After the flash of light that engulfed their vision they found themselves laying on the floor next to each other, they were breathing heavily.

Sasuke looked at Naruto, he had blood coming from his head, there were bruises littered all over his body, his clothing was tattered and torn, there was blood running down his arm, his chest moving up and down disturbing the scabbed wound. Sasuke knew he probably wasn't any better off. He silently assessed his damages, scratch marks on his face, thigh bleeding heavily, bruises all over, head mildly bleeding, his back bleeding slightly.

He sighed, at least it wasn't as bad as the time they had to stay in bed for 2 weeks cause they beat the shit out of each other and exhausted their chakra.

They lay under the stars for a while, the only sound being their breathing. After who knows how long, Sasuke decided they were going to bleed out if they remained there. He sat up with a wince, maneuvering himself onto his feet. He held a hand out that the blond wasted no time in grabbing, he squashed the butterflies in his stomach. Naruto gave him a blinding smile and he willed the blush to go away.

They both turned towards the village only to stop immediately, there standing mouth ajar was none other than Haruno Sakura.