Women
“Pull down your hood. You look like some sort of criminal like that.” Sasuke hissed.
Ironic, coming from the guy in a dark jacket and black sunglasses.
They were both dressed and acting like nosy neighbours who wanted to know what all the commotion was about, when in reality they wanted to know what they would need to do.
“Worst case scenario, we attack some officers, take their uniforms, and tamper with evidence. Shouldn’t be too hard.”
Great, commit more crimes. Well I’m already an assassin, so I could just add it to my list of sins. He thought humourlessly.
As they were walking they heard a voice that made them both freeze temporarily. “Sasuke? Naruto!” turning around they saw the other blonde who had the lower half of her hair dyed red, who was buying some sort of bread.
Ino. The gossiper. They both groaned internally.
Sasuke grabbed Naruto by the elbow and started to drag him said, “Keep moving.”
“Well what’s this? The two of you, out together? Out on a date?” she asked once she reached them in a somewhat teasing voice.
“Business.” Naruto replied.
“And rather important business, so we should get going.” Sasuke added.
Internally both were wondering how the other knew the girl. Recent friend or long term friend?
“Well, in either case, if anyone saw you they’d have a field day and request having their eyes examined! Naruto and Sasuke in the same vicinity of each other and taking a stroll about town together, no less.”
“Yeah, really interesting Ino. We’ll see ya’ later ‘kay?” Sasuke paid no attention to what she was saying and carried on dragging Naruto.
The blond thought it’d be a good idea to grab hold of his hand and whispered to him, “Cool it. Remind me which of us is the impulsive one?” before Sasuke could reply they saw some officers and both decided to run.
Two civillians, near a crime scene, running? Not suspicious one bit.
They left the blonde, standing there gaping at the two of them.
Uchiha is just a sore loser who’s just jealous of my strength and strategizing! And the fact I have more friends than him!
Uzumaki is a blond headed idiot who chooses brawn over brain and talks way too much.
No one would have expected their top two assassins to have ever met, Naruto working at nights and Sasuke working in the day.
“How come the ambulance isn’t here? They should have come by now!”
“We wouldn’t have missed them.” Wait a second, “Naruto look closer. What do you see on the floor of that apartment you shot at?” Sasuke relaxed slightly after getting a closer look at the blood around the body.
Squinting her eyes she tried to see what Sasuke was pointing at but with not so perfect vision was once again proving to be quite the problem. Ever since rooming with Sasuke she had been quite more aware of her eye sight and she wasn’t happy about that. She hated thinking about it.
“I see a body on the ground and that’s it. I don’t have the best vision ya’ know.” She mumbled the last sentence and by the look Sasuke shot hwe, he had heard and was curious.
“Well… The body on the floor is very much a person. The blood around the person, is not. It’s paint. The scream was probably from someone nearby or even inside the apartment you shot through. But in the end, you didn’t kill anybody. The person feinted.”
At hearing the news Naruto physically relaxed and mentally noted to never again try sniping unless she was very far away from humanity. She didn’t want to end up really shooting a human this time round. However she doubted she would do it on her own volition.
Sighing Naruto decided to break through the invisible ice and said, “Why don’t we go out for breakfast? Ya’ know, since we’re already out and all, ‘tebayo.”
Quirking a brow and checking his watch Sasuke replied, “It’s 11:34AM. That makes it either an early lunch or brunch.”
Naruto blinked in response, clearly not caring about the technicality. She wanted food, and she would get it.
“How about the two of us race over to that new café a few blocks away and the loser pays.” There was a mischievous glint in Narutos eyes as she suggested the wager and Sasuke was not against the idea and had agreed. However he did allow the blond to have a thirty second head start considering her leg wound was likely to slow her down quite a bit.
They both had arrived at the café at the exact same time, neither quite out of breath but taking a few large breaths here and there.
Due to the unexpected tie they had decided to play a game of rock-paper-scissors to decide who should pay but that continuously, ended in ties as well.
To say the waitress wasn’t amused was an understatement. While she did find the whole thing to be quite adorable and amusing, after fifteen minutes she was getting impatient and hinted that they should just pay for each-others bills.
They both blinked upon seeing her, clearly they had forgot she was there, they both wore sheepish grins and agreed with her.
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Meanwhile both neighbours were completely unaware of the eyes that had been watching them throughout the whole thing and to say those eyes had been surprised was an understatement.
“And you wouldn’t believe my when I told you he went on a date with Naruto.” The blonde said.
Shikamaru groaned, “And just the other day we were talking about him dating someone just as dangerous as him. Naruto Uzumaki was not who I had pegged Sasukes secret lover to be.”
The two watched as the two they had been spying on left the café together and followed them, and saw them both enter, what seemed to be Narutos apartment as he had taken keys out of his pocket.
They both blinked and Ino was the one to break the silence, “What… do you think they’re doing-”
Shikamaru cut her off by saying, “I really, really don’t want to know what my team leader in doing in that room, with his lover. Seriously. Especially since I have to see both of them soon.”
At 6:34PM that evening Sasuke was laying down on his neighbours sofa. They had both had their dinner and after that Naruto took a shower.
Earlier when the two had returned from their brunch, they were quite smelly and sweaty so Naruto had called dibs on the shower first, even though it was Sasukes shower. She used the excuse that she didn’t get to have one in the morning and Sasuke had just grunted, letting the blond go in first.
“Saaaaasuke!” speak of the devil. Except here she didn’t appear. He did notice that the voice seemed to be a bit… frightened.
He decided to ignore his annoying neighbour for now, he really was in a foul mood.
“SASUKE! Seriously! I need help here!”
He continued to ignore her and turned the TV volume up. Somehow he knew they were going to get some complaints about noise tomorrow even though they were the only ones on this floor.
“Sasuke! I seriously need your help! AAAGH!” he heard a crash and ran into his apartment bathroom, gun in hand, only to see the curtain wrapped around a naked and wet Naruto.
Not that he could see Naruto, because he couldn’t. What he could see was that, whilst wet Naruto had much longer hair and her shoulders were quite thin.
Scowling he masked his nervousness with annoyance, which wasn’t all that fake, and said, “What do you want? I thought there was something here trying to kill you but apparently not.” He was about to turn and leave when Naruto started talking again and he stared at what the other was doing with his leg, which was very thin even for a female.
“Wait! There’s a- a huge ass spider over there!” she stuck her left leg out from the curtain and pointed to the wall across the bath tub and he saw a spider there. Sasuke had very sharp eyes and could see a small tattoo on his neighbours’ ankle but didn’t look long enough to tell what it was.
“And what do you want me to do about it?” he smirked, leaning against the door frame, enjoying his neighbours discomfort. They both knew he knew, but he was a sadistic bastard who wanted the gratification of hearing it from the blond.
“I want you to get rid of the fucking thing! Now!” she replied, quite annoyed about the whole thing.
Rolling his eyes he left to get a cup and paper to get rid of the spider, he opted out for teasing Naruto any longer. The female seemed to be quite agitated about the whole thing.
He came back into the bathroom to ask if Naruto wanted anything else and the blond had said she did. Waiting a bit for a continuation he was quite shocked to hear what his neighbour had to say. “I need- could you- um I mean-”, he took a deep breath before continuing, “-Could you please get me one of your shirts to wear? None of my other shirts are clean. I was going to wash them all today but I didn’t get the chance.”
Sasuke blinked a few times before flicking a finger through his ear and asked for Naruto to repeat what he had said. Nope, he had heard correctly.
It took a lot of self-control on Sasukes part not become quite as red as a tomato, like how Naruto currently looked.
He walked into his room and grabbed a shirt he was sure would fit the blond and wordlessly passed the shirt over to her.
Soundlessly he re-entered the living are of Narutos’ apartment and sat on the sofa, playing the show he had been ‘watching’. In all honesty he wasn’t paying an ounce of attention to it.
All he could think about was what had happened at work yesterday. He felt a need to apologize for the actions of his team. He also needed to talk to them all. He may not like Uzumaki but rules were rules and he had been team captain at the time, meaning they should have followed his orders to a T like they did with him.
Sasuke blinked when he saw a wet and barely dressed blond in front of him.
Naruto.
She was wearing Sasukes black shirt that had his family’s crest on the back and a pair of black shorts. She was also wet.
Very wet.
The shirt itself seemed to be quite big on the other, to be exact on the shoulders and kept making the shirt fall down giving him a clear view of her bare shoulder and another tattoo that he hadn’t know the other had.
Naruto decided to sit next to Sasuke on the sofa with one leg down and one braced upwards as he dried out his hair.
Sasuke didn’t wish to voice any of the thoughts going through his mind and if he didn’t say something, anything, he would be having very, very, naughty thoughts that would go be very out of control.
“What are your tattoos of? You know the ones on your shoulder and ankle.” He asked, they seemed like an okay topic to bring up.
Naruto froze and slowly looked up at Sasuke before replying. “The one on my shoulder goes onto my back is… Basically a nine tailed fox. The one on my ankle is one that all workers have to have. It’s- just a swirl that had a stick pointing out really.” She shrugged and went back to drying her hair. “Do you have any?”
Sasuke paused before answering, “I have two like you. One on my ankle, similar to yours really but there’s no stick. It’s just a line going down that opens into a swirl. The other is on my shoulder and back, like yours, except it a sort of red and black fire with three tomoe in a circle of sorts.”
There was a silence that was taken in two different ways. Sasuke thought it was an awkward silence and Naruto thought it was no different from the silence they had had previously yet again her mouth didn’t agree with her.
“You have a nice smell.” The moment the words were out of her mouth she turned beat-root red and Sasuke didn’t look much better. Dropping the towel she started waving her hands in front of him franticly, “I- I didn’t mean it like that! I meant- well –your- your shirt! It has a nice smell and all! And it’s really soft! Like a blanket! B-But, I didn’t mean the smell comment in a creepy way or anything!”
She was a bundle of nerves and stutters. Her colour didn’t seem to want to go and right now she was sure she was acting in a way that would have put one of his friend’s to shame. Hinata. She was always blushing slightly but as soon as someone talks to her she completely turned red and no matter if she was talking to strangers, friends or family, she always stuttered.
Sasuke was having the same train of thought, comparing Naruto to the blushing dark haired night afternoon/evening assassin that never seemed to change, despite how many years he’d known the woman, Hinata Hyuuga.
Instead Sasuke raised an eye brow and said he could keep the shirt if he wanted. It wasn’t like Sasuke didn’t have many of the exact same shirt anyway.
He closed his eyes for one moment and the next he could feel warm breath near his face so he opened his eyes to see Naruto in front of him.
Sasuke blinked as Naruto put a hand to his face and asked, “Do you have a fever? You’re all red and warm.” she mumbled the last part as she put a hand to her own forehead and noted the slight difference between them.
She removed her hands but kept her face near Sasukes. The dark haired male prayed no one would walk in to see this.
However, luck was not on his side as his god mother chose that exact moment to enter.
He didn’t notice her at first, she came in mumbled about something however it was her shriek that he noticed. Turning both of their faces they looked at the red face of their blond haired landlady. The shade of blond was a lot duller than Narutos but then again she did have unnaturally shocking blond hair.
“I- I- wha- what are you- I mean- what the hell- his- you- k-kiss-!” she yelled yet stuttered at the two of them pointing a finger that kept going between the two males.
Naruto who seemed to be quite calm in the current situation, despite the fact that Sasuke was usually the calm one and Naruto the not-so-calm one, said whilst having a mischievous glint in his eyes, “What is it? Can’t take the sight of two people about to make out granny? Well no need to worry about that! We weren’t gonna. At least not with you here. No I was just checking to see if Sasuke had a fever and it seems that my lovely workaholic roomy here has got one just because he didn’t go work and has been brooding all day about said fact.” She continued to tease the lady as she gripped Sasuke’s head and placed it between her breasts, causing him to blush further but did not move.
Sasuke ignored the granny comment. Everyone in the building called Tsunade different things. Aunty, granny, sister. The endearments varied and she didn’t mind.
If at all possible Tsunade’s face went even redder and the blush went even further down to her neck. She continued to mumble and stutter out sentences neither of them could make out.
Sasuke decided to have a little fun with the current situation and placed his left arm around Naruto’s waist and said, “Can you get on with whatever it is you came here for aunty. We’d like to get back to what we were doing.” To add affect he shifted Naruto even closer so she was sat with her legs either side of his own.
Sasuke knew he’d regret doing this later but for now, consequences be damned. He never gets to annoy his godmother so it’d be a nice change.
Tsunade closed her eyes and took a deep breath but when she spoke she did, her eyes remained closed. “There was a shooting earlier today not far from here. No one was hurt but everyone has to be made aware. I know the both of you can look after yourselves but still, be extra vigilant. Especially you Naruto, since you work at night. That’s all I had to say.” Despite her bravado she was still red but not quite as much. She turned around then opened her eyes to leave the apartment without another word.
Both meighbours remained still for a minute before both of them started laughing. Stomach clenching laughing. Sasuke lost his composure and they both tumbled off the sofa, Naruto on the ground and Sasuke on top braced on his arms.
The laughter died out after that but the smiles remained, and once again their face turned pink from the close proximity. Sasuke was the one to break the quite, “That was… fun. I don’t normally get to tease aunty like this. She’s fine seeing couples usually, but if they’re a couple she didn’t expect or they’re doing too much PDA, she goes as red as an apple.” They both chuckled.
Sasuke got up and helped Naruto up as well who hadn’t completely finished laughing. They both sat next to each other again when Naruto spoke up, “Granny has always had a mean streak so this was the perfect revenge. I used to prank people all the time in school.”
Raising a brow Sasuke asked teasingly, “And why’s that? Teenage rebellion?”
Naruto was quite for a moment and hugged his legs to his chest and replied, “Not really. I stopped pranking quite a bit as a teenager. I pranked mostly when I was younger to get people attention. My parents were killed when I was six so my godfather raised me and my aunt together. My aunts just a few years older than me. But he was always working and adults around me didn’t have much time to spare when they all had their lives to get to. So to get attention I pulled pranks all the time. I guess not having had many friends was another point. But when we moved I changed schools and had a lot of new friends and now we all work together, sort of. But I still pulled pranks just not as much. I guess I kinda matured out of it as well. Ha-ha.” She got nervous towards the end, not meaning to say quite as much as she had.
Sasuke sat dumbfounded about what he had heard. Naruto was always bright and cheerful and often reminded him of the sun. Heck, his apartment was bright colours and the blond hardly ever closed the blinds nor curtain, the exception being the bedroom at night.
It was that moment Sasuke noticed that he didn’t know anything about his neighbour. He didn’t know about her family, school, friends or personal life and for some reason that bothered him. They had lived next door to each other for just over three years, and knew a lot about her personality and habits but nothing else. Somewhere in the back of his mind he knew he shouldn’t think he needed to know any more than that. The life of an assassin is dangerous and anyone close to you is always in danger as well.
Little did Sasuke know that Naruto was having the exact same thoughts however he was going to voice these things out loud until Sasuke started to speak, “My parents were killed as well. But I was seven when that happened so my godmother raised me. Not really much else to say. I grew up relatively normally, a bit like you but I chose not to have any friends. But the people I went to school with work with me and we all get along just fine.” He didn’t know what to say. He was never the type to open up to people. His teammates would never get this much out of him yet he knew what he had said wasn’t very much. He didn’t say anything about his brother and before he could rectify Naruto decided to make himself comfortable on his lap.
Looking down a mop of blond hair was scattered around his lap and piercing blue eyes started into his own dark ones. “I won’t say I’m sorry about your loss because I know how irritating it is to hear it, especially from people that never knew them. So instead I will say, I wish they were here to see how much of a workaholic their son is. I didn’t know them but if they were anything like you, then they were good people.”
Unconsciously Sasukes hands started to run through Narutos hair and the blond started to relax. Neither having realized she was tense to begin with.
After a few minutes of calm silence Sasuke was about to speak when his phone started to ring and he froze by the ring tone.
Itachi.
Turning his head round he saw he left it in the kitchen, he wasn’t sure how it got there since he was sure he hadn’t gone near there today. Getting up he replaced his lap for a pillow when he noticed Naruto was starting to fall asleep and made his way to get his phone.
Picking it up the phone he answered and spoke quietly, “Big brother? What’s up?” Naruto had raised her head from the pillow to look at Sasuke instead with an eyebrow raised, eyes squinted for having her short nap ruined.
“Nothing much Sasuke. You took your own sweet time getting the phone. Was it not next to you or were you busy.”
Sasuke never knew why his brother was so obsessed with his personal life.
“No. I didn’t have any work today so of course I’m not busy.”
“Hmm so you’re free, just as I had expected.” He muttered more to himself before saying a bit louder, “Well aunty rang me earlier but I could hardly make out her words but I heard your name there a few times so I decided to come over. Right now I am outside your apartment complex, with food and-”
Sasuke did the only things he could think of.
He hung up.