Timely Magic

They just stared at each other for a long while, mouths open in shock. They were royally fucked without any clear way out. Of course, if Sakura looked Sasuke in the eye he could put her under a genjustu and this will have never happened in her experience. But she wasn't looking him in the eye, green orbs darted between the roughed-up boys, she almost looked horrified.

They were frozen for a good minute before the pinkette whispered, "What the fuck, how- how are you guys not dead? How did you do all of that??"

Sasuke tried to throw her into an illusion but she wasn't looking at him, her eyes were brimmed with tears and she was running her orbs over his and Naruto's injuries... She looked......

worried

"Haruno-chan, why are you here??" the ocean eyed male asked with apprehension, it was obvious he didn't know what to do. She looked surprised by his clear anxiety and Sasuke's hostile stance, "I couldn't sleep so I decided to walk through the woods like I normally do, but then I heard a noise so I followed it. When I reached the source of the noise you two were fighting, then you charged at each other with whatever that was. You didn't move for a minute, I almost thought you killed each other..."

She was shaking, but it was obvious she was trying to hold herself together. Sasuke didn't understand why the fuck she was so scared?? Sure, he was an Uchiha and Naruto was an Uzumaki and the kyuubi-jin, but then he realized 'She's never seen chakra before, how could I have forgotten??' 

He eyed her suspiciously then turned to his friend, they looked into each other's eyes, communicating silently. After a minute Naruto turned towards their unwanted guest, "Haruno-chan, if you'll sit down, I'll explain everything. But you can't tell anyone, got it??" Naruto shakily responds. She slowly nods and wipes her eyes before she sits down.

Sasuke huffs and leans against a tree while Naruto sits next to Haruno, "Aren't you going to sit, Sasuke?" he looks at those pleading eyes, begging him to sit next to the blond. But he simply tsked and avoided eye contact, knowing he'd give in if he saw those blue orbs again. He was scowling, bottom lip pushed forward as he glanced up at the sky.

He could distantly hear Naruto talking to Haruno, but he didn't care about that. He focused all of his senses on his surroundings, looking for movement, listening for something besides the forces of nature and the two pre-teens chattering, sensing if anything was wrong.

After a minute their voices died down, chancing a glance he noticed that Haruno's green eyes were down cast and drawn in contemplation. After a minute she began, "So, let me get this straight. You guys have magical abilities that were very common where you're from, which was 5,000 years ago..."

"Er, yes" Naruto fidgeted nervously, knowing that if she told anyone or reacted badly Sasuke was not going to go easy on her. It wasn't like Sasuke disliked her, it's just that he's very cautious and doesn't want to take any chances.

"And you guys were just sparing and not trying to kill each other?"

"Yes, we purposely lowered the concentration of chakra so we wouldn't kill each other."

"That's-"

Naruto inhaled sharply while Sasuke reached for a kunai, tensely waiting for her response.

"So cool! I wish I had abilities like that, but that does sound kinda sucky to be sent so far into the future that no one you know is alive anymore..." she rambled on, hands clasped together. Naruto visibly relaxed, 'She's ok with it, we don't have to put her in a genjutsu'... Sasuke, however, didn't move from his hostile stance, "You're not going to tell anyone, right?" he hissed, he was practically growling. She stopped talking and looked at him, "Why would I?? You guys asked me not to so I won't, besides, it's not like anyone will believe me anyway."

Sasuke sighed, reluctantly dropping his aggressive stance.

"If you tell anyone and they believe you, I will put them a genjutsu then torture you slowly before killing you." Sasuke hissed through his teeth, purposely towering over her to look more threatening.

She blinked slowly, eyebrow raised, "I have no idea what a genjutsu is, but being tortured then killed is not something I want to experience."

She stood up and started towards the village, after about 10 steps she pauses and turns around. "You coming??" The two boys looked at each other before nodding, Naruto stood up and began to follow her. They walked together in silence for a while, before the pinkette turned to them, "If you ever need to know something, let me know and I'll help you so you won't make anyone suspicious."

"Thanks Sakura-chan!!" the blond chanted before realizing he just called her 'Sakura' when she hadn't given him permission to. "Wait- I mean-" "I'm assuming in your time calling people by their surname is weird, huh?" she said as she stopped and looked at the two boys. "Well, in our time you never say your last name unless you're close to that person or their ally, cause that's a dead giveaway to what clan you're from, cause our clan names are our 'surnames’. Which is why we only said our first names when we met you." he laughed nervously while scratching the back of his head, it was one of his nervous tics that's he's had since they were kids.

"If that's the case," she smiled with a giggle "you can call me Sakura if I can call you by your given names as well."

Sasuke sighed as Naruto smiled like an idiot while clutching his hands together and nodding his head so fast he got dizzy, he stumbled but Sasuke managed to grab his arm before he fell over.

"Careful idiot" he said with fake annoyance, in reality he loved the physical contact between them. Naruto felt warm, and that alone made Sasuke want to curl up next to him and doze for eternity. But his pride would never let him, if he gave in Naruto would probably know about his feelings, he could always read Sasuke like a book, and he'd feel weak for needing comfort. He hated to admit it, but he's had trouble sleeping since his dad died. He can remember watching that man cut him down with a blade, he could still smell the blood, could feel it on his fingertips.

He can remember crying and screaming in horror till his throat was raw, can remember him...

"Sasuke?" that soft voice snapped him out of the past, those worried blue eyes filled him with sorrow. Sorrow for worrying the blond, sorrow for everything he had done to the blue eyed angel.

"Sasuke" he whispered again, eyebrows knit together in concern. "I'm fine. Let's go..." Sasuke muttered, pushing his way past. He knew he was running away, but he didn't care. He was feeling too many things right now, and he hated it.

He was always trying to kill his emotions, cause they only ever hurt him. He knew that he would probably break down at any moment, the past finally catching up to him.

He'd probably never see his mother or nii-san again. Never again would Itachi tease him, he wouldn't ever mum's cooking-

He covered his mouth, the need to puke arising. His eyes stinged from unshed tears that were threatening to overflow. 'Don't cry, a shinobi never cries... Besides, you don't want to worry Naruto anymore...'

He silently tried to get his breathing under control, trying to stop shaking. 'Be strong, for him... For the only one who knows my heart.' His vision was wavering, like he was going to pass out. But he pressed on, knowing the blond would probably freak. Sometimes, when Naruto thought Sasuke was asleep he'd rest his head on the raven's chest. Listening to his heartbeat. To convince himself that the Uchiha prince was alive.

The reason this thing started was cause last year they were on a mission with Kakashi-sensei, when they were attacked by rogue-nin, Zabuza and Haku. Kakashi-sensei fought Zabuza while he and Naruto fought Haku, long story short Sasuke was stabbed in the neck, as well as other places, several times by senbon, causing him to pass out from blood loss. He thought he was going to die, so he said some things to Naruto he ended up regretting. But Naruto thought he had died and lost it. He was enraged and unleashed the fox, every time he used the kyuubi's power before then he had control, but this time he handed himself over to the fox. Letting himself get lost in rage, in chakra…

He had almost killed Haku and Zabuza, luckily, Kakashi-sensei managed to stop him in time. They escaped with their lives, and promised to repay them for sparing them.

Afterwards, Naruto was by Sasuke's side till he woke. Refusing to leave him for a moment. He was so relieved when Sasuke's eyes fluttered open, and held the onyx eyed boy close. They never spoke about it again, but Sasuke knew it was always in the back of Naruto's mind. Heck, it was always in the back of his mind too.

His head ached, like someone had hit him over the head. He took a sharp turn into the woods, off of the path. 'Hopefully Naruto will forgive me for disappearing...'

He stalked through the forest, concealing his chakra so he wouldn't be found. After a few minutes he slumped down against a tree, hand still over his mouth. He sat on the forest floor, trying to gain control over himself. His vision was fading in and out, his eyes were unfocused. And before darkness overtook him, he swore he saw someone watching him.