Leaving you behind...

Sasuke looked down at the picture that stood on his bedside table. With a fondness never seen in the eyes of an Uchiha, he stroked the faces of his soon to be former-teammates and let out a sigh of regret.

Light from the moon cascaded through a sliver of the partially opened curtain and shone on two reflective objects.

The gleaming objects upon his dresser were caught his peripheral vision, to which he then turned in its direction. The realisation of what those objects were had pain shooting through his heart.

There, standing on the farther side dresser, stood a picture of himself glaring at Naruto. If you looked close enough you could see a slight blush on his face. Behind him was Naruto, whose arms were tightly held around Sasuke, sat laughing at the other's facial expression.

Sasuke glanced at the object that lay before the framed picture. It was the necklace that held the Uzumaki Crest. He planned to leave it in his apartment with most of the things he would not need. All except for that one picture of the two of them together, which he took out of its frame and tucked it in his shorts.

He turned on his heel and walked back to the bed that he had shared some nights with Naruto, just cuddling or sleeping in each others arms when one or both of them had nightmares of their childhood in Konoha, and grabbed his backpack. He glanced around the room once more, opened his window, hid his chakra with ease and jumped out his apartment window, over the rooftops and avoiding Konoha's streets, heading for the West entrance.

He slipped through with great agility and sprinted through the trees, only stopping once he was at the meeting point. He arrived there only to find Tayuya, Jirobo, Sakon and Ukon dead on the forest floor. A few metres away lay an unfamiliar person with white hair and pale skin with two parallel red dots on his/her forehead.

Blood drenched the forest floor and the trees were splattered with the blood of Kidomaru who was still hanging in the trees. Sasuke froze where he stood unable to disturb this eerily silent and beautifully grotesque view. It reminded him somehow of the Uchiha Massacre, without the loving people who were now dead or the traumatising experience of almost being at the brink of death.

The sound of fallen branches snapping broke his reverie.

"So you think that you can just walk away from me and expect me to allow you to leave this village?"

Sasuke froze, his blood turning cold at the icy tone he was being addressed in. His eyes flickered into the woods and back after taking an audible gulp.

"You expect me to allow you to leave?" Shivers ran down Sasuke's spine. He knew who it was and his heart lurched and sped up, terror filling his body.

Slowly, almost inaudibly he asked with a lump in his throat, "Did you do this?" He knew that the person he had spoken to had heard him clearly. "They tried to steal what is mine You are MINE, you know that right,  Sasuke?"

The terror at hearing the voice had doubled at the answer he had received. In the back if his mind he heard Fugaku saying, "Uchihas are the most fearless shinobi in this world. We can never feel any emotion resembling that of fear or terror. We instill it in others." How wrong you are Father, he thought.

The malice-filled spoke again. "I did it for us, Sasuke. They tried to take you away from me and YOU-" Sasuke inwardly cringed, "You followed them...to go and be with that HEBEPHILE OROCHIMARU!"

Sasuke felt anger as well as killing intent aimed at him and it was stealing the air from his lungs.

"Sasuke, Sasuke, Sasuke...." The figure stepped out into the moonlight revealing a taller, bulkier and most of all feral Naruto. It was his expression that made Sasuke take a few steps back. It was sheer anger, betrayal, disappointment and absolute possessiveness all aimed at him.

"What was the first thing I told you when you accepted me as your boyfriend?" he asked, and when Sasuke did not immediately respond, he yelled. "WHAT DID I SAY?" Sasuke flinched and stuttered out, "Y-you said that I was your Mate and that I belonged to you as much as you belonged to me."

Naruto tutted and said, "Belong, Sasuke. You belong to me as much as I belong to you. I also said now you could NEVER. LEAVE. ME. and what did you say?"

When Sasuke saw the tears stream down Naruto's face; the blond haired Jinchuuriki sat down and curled into himself, shoulders hunched in. He looked at Sasuke, anguish marring his handsome face."WHAT DID YOU SAY!"  Sasuke dropped to his knees, his lips trembled and tears stung his eyes."I said that I will never leave, that no-one would ever be able to tear you away from me and if they tried I WOULD TEAR THEM TO SHREDS!"

A moment of silence ensued. Then Sasuke started to apologise profusely, " I'm so sorry Naruto I-" Naruto cut him off mid apology. "You nothing, Sasuke!!" he yelled, hurt and betrayal filled his voice. Naruto stood up and walked to Sasuke, put the necklace back on HIS boyfriend and spoke with a voice devoid of emotion.

"Go. Go to him Sasuke. All you'll ever feel is the pain of staying away from your mate for a long period of time. Nobody will be able to even touch you with the intent of making you theirs, because all it will cause is immense pain for both of you."

Naruto bent down to Sasuke's eye-level, now burning with jealousy, possessiveness and fury. " No-one will be able to fuck you," Naruto turned and walked away, but stopped at the tree line.

"Oh and Sasuke, " He looked over his shoulder and gave a murderous look " if anyone tries to fuck you, trust me I will know,  I'll search for you, I will find you, I will skip taking you slow and easy, then I will fuck you so that the only touch you will remember will be mine and no-one else's."

Naruto turned his head back and took to the trees in the direction of Konoha, his territory.

Moments passed until Sasuke stood up and turned took to the trees in the opposite direction. Feelings of trepidation grew with every step away from Konohagakure no Sato. Before he reached the Valley of the End, where he was met with the familiar face of Kabuto, he set his face in a stone cold expression and stowed away all emotion.

"A pleasure seeing you again, Sasuke-kun," Kabuto said, pushing his glasses up with a finger which was met with a stilted "Hn"

As Sasuke followed Kabuto, he shivered and thought bitterly, as they gained more distance away from the village, 'This is why I left you Naruto. No-one knows how menacing, possessive, strong and actually smart you are. You're smarter than Shikamaru. They don't even know how cold and calculating you are. Sometimes I feel as if you truly the embodiment of the Kyuubi no kitsune and he is just a name that was made up. I'm sorry Naruto, but you don't own me and you never will.'

Sasuke never realised how wrong he was.