The Arrangement

Coming Home Part VII

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Notes:

To clarify something about how I viewed the last chapter. Heats in the ABO universe are usually used as fun ways to make characters have sex (which, hell yes) but I also see them as a serious medical condition. The sex scene between Naruto and Sasuke wasn't detailed/explicit because Naruto is ill. It wasn't meant to be sexy or fun.

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     Kakashi is a sentimental fool. Some people know this, but most of those people are dead. He's used to grieving alone and not even his Anbu, who are currently guarding a shadow clone he left behind as a decoy, know about his sad habit.

     It's just before sunset and Konoha hasn't yet been totally blanketed by darkness. The air is chilly, though, and it feels like winter will come early this year. Kakashi laughs at himself, pondering the change in seasons while he walks around the Third Training Grounds. What else can he do? Tonight Naruto is in heat and Kakashi isn't there.

     He feels restless. This isn't surprising, considering what he knows must be taking place between his two students, but something else is under his skin. For the past few hours a sense of deep unease has been rising. His equilibrium is off center and he can't chalk it up to jealousy or a broken heart. It feels like he's a ship on choppy waters, soon to capsize into an icy, dead sea.

     Reflection isn't getting him anywhere. It's been eight years since he brought his genin team to this exact spot and Naruto got tied to a wooden pillar. It's been six years since his students absolutely destroyed the landscape and gave their teacher a run for his money. It's been three years since the near-end of the world. It's been one year since he first took Naruto to his bed and it's been three days since Sasuke returned.

     Kakashi stops walking and withdraws his hand from his pocket. He's holding two, small, silver bells. Only two could pass by his own rules. It seems that has come back to bite him in the ass.

     He might have allowed himself to cry then, but he doesn't get the chance. He feels it first, an intense rage and fear like the day Rin died on his arm. It makes his head swim and his inner alpha growls at the bare night. Then, the atmosphere fizzles and bends, warping like too hot air over a fire. He smells burning ozone, and Sasuke darts out of spinning nothingness.

     Kakashi doesn't stop to think why this is happening or even try to evade. Sasuke emerges angry, oozing fight, and charges at his former teacher with a terrible sound. They collide like riptide waves over jagged rocks, two forces of nature hell bent on breaking and stopping the other. They tumble to the cold dirt, snarling and clawing at each other like beasts. This isn't a practiced fight between ninja, this is a battle between alpha's and Kakashi has been champing at the bit for days.

     The younger alpha snaps his teeth, looking as unhinged as the day he lost his arm. Both eyes are furious and activated when he pins his former teacher on his back. "Did you bite him?!" Sasuke accuses, voice furious.

     This close Kakashi can smell blood on the other alpha's teeth—Naruto's blood. Kakashi's chakra flares, as dark and lethal as the last Uchiha above him. "What did you do?" He grabs Sasukes collar with one hand and punches him across the face.

     The raven-alphas head snaps to the side from the strike. He snarls and turns his head back, but Kakashi hits him again. After the third blow he roars, and catches Kakashi's fist around his jaws to keep him pinned.

     The silver alpha pulls his hand back and Sasukes teeth shred his gloved palm. Before he can circle back for another attack Sasuke grips his collar and shakes him violently.