Chapter 3
Naruto decided that moving in with some random girls wasn't all that odd, or was it? He didn't have to go back to the spot where he was living temporarily because he kept all of his stuff in his old backpack. After all, he was constantly on the move always looking for a new place to stay.
"Let me show you around." Hinata grabbed Naruto's arm and led him away from the somewhat angry pink-haired girl.
"So this is our kitchen, nothing too special but it does the job." The woman gestured toward an open archway that led them to the kitchen. It had linoleum floors that were kind of stained and scratched up, "Listen I tried my hardest getting the stains out with what we had and nothing worked." The woman sighed noticing Naruto's lingering eyes on the floor. All of the appliances looked pretty old but were all in working condition, the counters were a weird brown color but was fairly neat and clean. "This is a lot nicer than I thought it would be."
Naruto couldn't believe he was going to be staying in an actual house after years of being kicked out of his orphanage. "It took a bit of time to get it to look this.. decent" Hinata chuckled. "Ok next room!" Hinata pulled Naruto all around the seemingly empty house showing him all the rooms. The house was hidden by many trees and looked fairly small on the outside, but when you walked in the house was a lot bigger than one would expect. The home wasn't anything to marvel at of course ('I mean it was abandoned' Naruto thought to himself) but it was better than sleeping on the street.
Although the rest of the house had been nice, the three bedrooms were insanely cramped and Naruto was grateful there were only three people in the house. Hinata spun around to talk to Naruto "Well that's it, which room do you want?" "Oh, I can choose?"
Naruto thought he was going to be in the girl's debt forever but as it turned out they were pretty nice. "Of course this isn't an orphanage" Hinata replied.
Naruto winced at the word "Oh.. um- yeah I suppose not." Hinata caught the flicker of pain in his voice in an instant "I apologize if I said something rude I didn't mean to." Naruto noticed she was being sincere and that was enough of an apology for him. "Eh, it's fine I used to stay in an orphanage is all." Hinata visibly faltered, "Oh i-i'm so N-Naru-" Naruto didn't want to fuss over it for too long and waved her off with a slight smile. "I'll take the room down that hall it's the one closest to the bathroom" He conversed.
"Hey, where do you guys sleep?" Naruto was curious once he noticed that none of the bedrooms looked lived in at all. "Well um, there is this weird basement room that is pretty huge and leads right outside so it's an easy escape. Sakura and I usually stay in there, I could show you later if you'd like." Hinata knew she was rambling but she couldn't help but feel bad about the comment she made earlier.
"Sure, uh I want to take a shower you guys got soap and stuff?" Naruto asked "Not much but just enough, it might be on your list you get from Sakura." Hinata winked and left the boy to his devices. Naruto doesn't remember the last time he's taken a shower with warm water and hand soap that hadn't been stolen out of the men's bathroom of a Burger King.
He walked into the bathroom and closed the door behind him, he was honestly surprised the house had running water. He turned the knob to the 'H' symbol waiting for the water to turn warm enough for him to get in. 'This whole thing wasn't a bad idea' Naruto thought to himself, and maybe they could all be friends in the future. He had been all by himself for years and meeting new people was so... refreshing.
He reached out his hand to touch the water and it felt like it could burn his skin off.
Perfect.
After a considerably long time in the shower, he got out and used the towel Hinata left for him to dry off his body. He opened his backpack and looked for some relatively clean clothes to put on. He decided on his favorite orange shirt and his loose-fitting black joggers, it was the always first pair of clothes he washed when he went to the laundromat after finding just enough quarters lying around on the streets.
He put on his clothes and decided on looking around the place a bit more before bothering the girls. Naruto had chosen the biggest bedroom compared to the other two that were right next to his own.
After a minute of snooping, Naruto decided it was time to ask if the girls needed help with anything, preferably dinner. He walked towards where he thought the kitchen was but wound up right at the front door. "I thought this was the way to kitchen" Naruto needed to get used to his new space.
As he turned around he thought he heard something. He walked closer pressing his ear on the door hoping the sound was just in his head. 'It sounds like its getting closer' Naruto opened the door a sliver and he knew instantly what the sound was.
It triggered everything in his body.
Sirens.
He opened the door seeing red and blue flashing in the darkness of the light.
'Fuck fuck fuck' was all Naruto could think. 'It's only been an hour and I'm already bringing trouble' to his surprise the girls didn't come from wherever they were in the house. "Was this a setup?" Naruto instantly saw red. This house was far away from any police station or where any crime could take place. This was a fucking set up.
Naruto took deep breaths and tried to focus 'What do I do now? Run? Hide?' he didn't know the area well let alone the house, he knew it was the end for him. All of the things he's stolen over the years had to get him caught eventually. Today was the day and he couldn't believe he got tricked by two random girls. He wondered how much money they got from ratting him out. The sirens got closer and closer and Naruto just prepared himself for the worst.
But then, he heard something were those footsteps? Somebody was running towards this house and super fucking fast.
Maybe the sirens weren't here for him, they might be chasing the guy that's running. 'How are they outrunning a damn police car' Naruto thought to himself. Naruto heard the sirens make some sort of turn away from the street that the house was on. But he still heard the running. Maybe he could save them?
Who was he kidding he wasn't a hero in any way shape or form. But he had a feeling, and he never doubted his feelings.
He opened the door and walked out into the darkness hoping to catch whoever was running. Naruto made quiet steps cursing himself for not putting on shoes as he stepped onto the wet grass.
Because the house was so hidden in the trees he had a chance of seeing the runner before they saw him. He reached the makeshift driveway and peeked around a tree to see who was running down the street. Naruto strained his eyes to see in the darkness after a minute he couldn't see anyone and decided that the person probably ran off somewhere else until something flickered in the corner of his eye.
He quickly turned back around to see a pale dark-haired man running at the speed of light. 'He's cute' Naruto shook his head violently 'Not the time Naruto' he lectured himself. He peeked around the tree again to see the man considerably closer to Naruto.
And then he heard it again.
The horror in both the men's eyes hit when the sound of sirens and colored lights turned to their street. The colored lights getting closer and closer to the runner and closer and closer to the tree Naruto was hiding behind.
Naruto saw the man shut his eyes tightly probably predicting what was going to come next. The runner was inching closer and closer to the tree as the sirens were biting at his coattails. And then Naruto did something he didn't think he was going to.
He reached his hands out and caught the runner with as much force as he could and pulled him back. The dark-haired man opened his eyes suddenly ready to strangle whoever was grabbing him. Naruto twisted him forcefully to lay on top of his lap as he hid both of them behind the tree.
"You-" the man started.
Naruto quickly clamped a hand over his mouth waiting for the sirens to pass. He noticed the man was incredibly sweaty 'He had to be running at an Olympic level' Naruto thought. The sirens and lights passed them both and Naruto waited until he didn't hear the sirens or see the bright lights anymore.
He finally let the man go who was struggling the whole time to get away from Naruto's grasp.
"What the fuck was that" the man's eyes were darkening by the second.
"Hey! You were on the run from the fucking police and you're mad at me for getting you out of that mess?" Maybe saving this ungrateful guy was a mistake. He saw the man's eyes lighten and take slower breaths "Y-you're right I'm sorry, thanks by the way" the man didn't look at the blonde when he made his apology.
Oh.
He was one of those types.
"No problem, I'm Naruto you?" He held out his hand "Sasuke" and Sasuke shook it. Sasuke broke the silence quickly "Why did you help me? You realize that if police are chasing me I'm a criminal right?" Sasuke said coldly.
"Of course I realize that I don't have such a clean record myself." Naruto laughed
Sasuke's face twisted into a different emotion and soon Naruto was being held by his neck with a knife to his throat. "Hope you don't plan on killing me because I will gladly do it first." There was venom in his tone but not in his hands.
Naruto swiftly grabbed the knife and slid under Sasuke's grasp. "I wasn't planning to but thinking you can kill me first is a bold statement Sasuke." Naruto spits out the comeback with a smile.
"Then why isn't your record so clean." He grabbed his knife back so fast Naruto hadn't even seen the movement. "I've had a rough life, stealing, pickpocketing, and the occasional fight is all that I got into criminally, I'm wickedly good at stealing though."
Sasuke let out a breath of laughter wondering why he thought this man was threatening. "Hey wait where are we walking?" Sasuke let his guard down too fast as his brother always told him.
"Um, well I'm living at that house up the road with these random girls who are also petty criminals like me." Naruto bit back his laugh knowing how ridiculous he sounded.
"I hope you know I'm not interested just because you saved me or whatever," Sasuke said pretty matter of factly. "Wh- I didn't even imply-" Naruto responded. And he had got a smirk back from the man "You are basically on the run from the police, it's best if you stay here for a while to just fly under the radar for a bit." Naruto said more clearly than his last response.
"True" Sasuke nodded along but he knew that the whole thing will blow over in a week or so while his brother... handled it for him. But, he did still need to fly under the radar for a bit just to be safe.
The boys finally got to the front of the house and went in. As soon as Naruto opened the door he saw a frantic Hinata and a look on Sakura that said: "I told you so." "Naruto!" Hinata said a little too loudly and ran to give him a quick hug.
Naruto had only known the woman for a day and she was already worried about him. "Where have you been," Sakura said. "Well-" Naruto began. Sakura stopped him quickly finally noticing the man standing next to Naruto
"And who the fuck is this?" Sakura stepped up to Sasuke eyeing him like crazy. Sasuke wasn't one to be intimidated but the way the woman's biceps looked he wasn't so sure he could hold her down for long.
"This is Sasuke he was running from the cops and I may or may not have saved him." Naruto pushed out a laugh out and scratched the back of his neck.
Sakura sighed her way to the old couch that was sitting in the living room "Jesus fucking christ."
Hinata's eyes kind of lit up "You were running from a police car?" Hinata hoped Sakura would be open to letting one more criminal into their home.
Sasuke cleared his throat "Um, yeah I had gotten into some shit and this blockhead here pulled me away before the police were going to catch my ass. I'm not here to call this my new home or anything I just need a week to stay somewhere under the radar." Sasuke wasn't really worried about finding a place to stay but if they said yes it made the job so much easier.
"You aren't a murderer or anything right?" Hinata asked
Sasuke laughed at the thought of that considering his family's background "Nope, not my kind of scene." Hinata basically had a superpower of reading people and she knew for certain that this man wasn't lying. ('It had to be something in those pale purple eyes' Sakura always thought.) Hinata looked at Sakura with those puppy eyes that somehow let Naruto stay.
"No Hinata, the house is already full and we have no food or money" Sakura made sure she wasn't looking up at Hinata when she said this.
"Oh come on Sakura you know the more people in the house the more shit we can steal and get done and we have three whole bedrooms." Hinata did make a point getting everything they needed to live had been proven difficult lately.
"Oh for fuck's sake.. fine"