A/N: Golly-gee...I finished a fanfic. About fuh-reaking time, huh? I am REALLY sorry about the slow updates, I know how annoying it is when I saw I will update fast but I end up taking months. Believe me, I did not know what was to happen in my life that would change me forever. I would rather let it effect my pace in updating than my actual writing. Again, I feel ashamed for being slow.

Enjoy the last chapter.

"I can never tell you what I really feel no matter what words I use...
...If there is a realm where we can fully understand one another...
It must be a realm that exists when we hold on to each other."
-A SasuNaru doujin that I could never remember

Chapter Seventeen: Heaven's Garden

Run to him.

At this point there was absolutely no air in his lungs. But even that couldn’t stop him from reaching Sasuke. There was no way it would. Even swarming fan girls couldn’t stop him as he crawled onto the floor, getting kicked and pushed as he made his way towards the front.

“Sasuke!” He called.

The Uchiha stopped in his tracks upon hearing his name.

“What is it?” Itachi asked. Sasuke only shook his head in reply. “Hurry…our ride is leaving.”

Naruto mumbled curses under his breath. He suddenly felt a high heel deepen in his butt. He let out a yelp getting himself knocked down to the front of the crowds and into the arms of a security guard. “H-eh…” He chuckled nervously as the seven foot men only stared at him.

“Please let me through! I need to see Sasuke!” He yelled. The two looked at one another and only burst out laughing. Naruto stared at them, puzzled at what they had been laughing at until one of them spoke. “Do these people get fan boys too?”

Naruto fell.

“I’m not a fan boy!” He growled. One of them suddenly threw him down on the floor, adding more pain to his bottom. He looked up to see an opening.

Tackle him.

For once the blond had been grateful for being so short and crawled his way between the man’s legs. It wasn’t until Naruto had completely gotten past by that the two noticed. “Hey you!” They called. Naruto sweat dropped, running quickly towards Sasuke who was turned, absolutely oblivious to what was happening.

“Sasuke!”

‘I knew it…it’s-’

Sasuke turned quick enough to catch Naruto in his arms. He immediately held the blond tightly, scared of letting him go. “Moron…” He whispered. The blond smiled weakly before passing out in his arms.

Part I

“Finished!”

Naruto took the moment to rest on his luggage, wiping the sweat that began to run down his forehead. It seemed as if the day only grew hotter not allowing any mercy to even the air conditioned building. Just thinking of how hot it was caused the boy to sweat.

Unable to bear the heat he removed his shirt before it could be stained with sweat. After recovering from the heat he swore under his breath, promising himself that he would have to kick Sasuke’s ass for his lack of assistance. But then again all Sasuke ever wanted to do was get inside his pants.

He breathed hard, gripping hard on his muscles that grew tense after moving so much furniture.

Had Naruto not been so sleepy he might have noticed Sasuke walk in the room with a grin on his face, closing the door softly behind and walking towards him. The raven-haired beauty placed his hands on his lover’s shoulders, massaging them softly at first.

Naruto’s head shot up at his touch. “When did you get back?”

“Hn…just this morning.” For the first time Sasuke had noticed how empty the room was and smiled. “I see you cleaned our room, you have my gratitude.”

“How about some payment instead of your gratitude?” Naruto asked.

To make things clear Naruto had been talking about money but Sasuke had other kinds of ‘payment’ in mind. The thought caused a smile on his face, lifting the smaller boy from the ground-much to Naruto’s dismay, and carried him off to the bathroom where he slowly began undressing him.

“One last bath?”

The corners of Naruto’s lips fidgeted. “Make it cold!”

Sasuke took a mental note of it.

Naruto took it upon himself to jump into the small bathtub without thinking. His knee hit the tub hard, causing him to yelp and cause Sasuke to jump slightly.

“Moron…it wasn’t even full yet!”

Naruto looked at him like a child would to his mother after being scolded. Sasuke’s expression softened upon seeing this and joined him in the tub, pressing his lips against the bruised knee.

“Do you think we’ll see each other again?” Naruto asked.

The question caught Sasuke off guard.

“Of course, you moron.” He answered it with doubt but quickly changed the direction of the conversation. “No one has been bothering you right?”

Sasuke grabbed the shampoo nearby that Naruto had neglected to pack and began to ‘groom’ him like a dog. Naruto only shook his head, obviously thinking of how to redirect the conversation. However Sasuke knew better than to avoid something with Naruto.

Sasuke suddenly grabbed his lover by the hips, gently moving him up on his lap. Naruto grabbed the locks of Sasuke’s hair and planted a kiss on his lips. After a moment the two separated. The silence hurt like a dagger was slowly being pushed into Naruto’s heart.

"No..." He finally answered.

Unable to hold it anymore Naruto began to sob on his lover’s shoulder.

“Ah…” Sasuke’s heart broke as the sound of his boyfriend’s cries echoed in the room, which was able to beat the sound of the tub still running. Sasuke’s inability to sooth him only confirmed Naruto’s thoughts.

Just then Naruto pulled away, attempting to leave. However Sasuke grabbed him by the wrist, causing the blond to slip back into his arms. “Leave me alone!” He screamed. His struggling was futile since Sasuke was not only bigger but stronger than he was. In the end he ended up being pinned to the bottom of the tub with Sasuke on top of him.

Uchiha Sasuke was a deceiver, rich, a bit arrogant, and mean. But he was no lair.

His hands flew to his cheeks, their eyes connecting.

“I love you.”

Naruto’s open dropped.

“W-What?” He attempted to look away but Sasuke pulled his face closer to him. Sasuke hated the fact that he had to be a little rough with the blond to catch his attention but he did so anyway. He sat him up from the tub, finally closing the running water so that Naruto might hear him.

This kind of moment was something Sasuke’s fan girls would imagine.

Naruto shook his head, wondering if he heard of him correctly.

“Before you came into my life I never really…thought about anything but studying and trying to prove myself to my parents. My goal here was to pass higher than Itachi. I thought maybe then they would make me in charge of our estate instead of Itachi.”

Sasuke turned Naruto around, soaking a sponge nearby with a body wash scented cherry. He wondered why they had such a thing; instead he ignored it and continued.

“Friends were the last thing I needed.” Naruto attempted to turn but was cut off with a light shove. “And yet we became friends. I began to care for you, and eventually love you.” He rubbed the sponge softly against Naruto’s back, who sighed in relaxation.

“Sasuke-”

“I’m not done.” Sasuke growled. Naruto jumped and decided to keep his mouth shut. “I abandoned all hope for my family’s estate…actually, that’s why I had to meet with Itachi.”

“…and…?” Naruto asked.

“I’m moving to China-”

“-but it’s still not Japan!” Naruto turned to face him, an angered expression placed on his face. Sasuke looked down, for once unable to look straight at him. He sighed.

“I know, Naruto…god knows I do!” He held Naruto who struggled to wiggle out of his grasp. With all the splashing it was no wonder that half the tub was already empty.

Sasuke managed to grab hold of him. “I’ll visit you every weekend and stay over every holiday.”

“I don’t want that-”

Sasuke shut his eyes. “I’ll call you everyday-”

“Please leave me alone. I don’t want this-”

And for once did Naruto wish he could crawl into a hole and stay there. He stayed silent in the half filled tub as Sasuke stood, grabbing a towel nearby and his clothes before leaving the blond alone.

For once Naruto hated himself.

And for once…he hated Sasuke for listening.

Part II

Iruka mentally promised himself to brush his teeth two hundred times when they get home. Not only was he throwing up every hour or so, but Kakashi made it impossible for him to try and enjoy the flight home. Not only did Iruka end up throwing up expensive peanuts but Naruto ended up throwing them up as well.

“Will you two stop throwing up?” Kakashi asked. “You guys are worse than morning sickness.”

The two glared at him.

“Excuse me it’s not something we can control.” Iruka answered. Naruto quickly got himself up and ran to the bathroom as other passengers tried to ignore the loud vomit noises. Kakashi mumbled an apology, planting a kiss on his love’s forehead before withdrawing quickly so that Iruka could vomit.

plit.

Naruto stared at the toilet water.

Closing his eyes tightly the blond opened his mouth as a finger went in his mouth, touching his uvula. He bent further down to the end of the toilet, throwing up of what remained of his stomach.

“…This can’t be healthy.” Naruto mumbled sorely. He crawled to the sink, rinsing his mouth of any remaining puke on his tongue. The thought made him wanna vomit again but his empty stomach prevented him from doing so anyway.

He shut his eyes as tears threatened to fall.

plit.

He quickly dismissed them as a knock came onto the door.

“Oof!”

Naruto yelped as he landed hard on the floor. The woman gasped as if she had done wrong and lifted him up. Naruto dusted his pants off as she began to walk past him, obviously in a rush. “I’m terribly sorry! Excuse me!”

‘Geez….what a clumsy girl.’ He thought.

The woman quickly rushed to first class, handing the business men each papers. “This is a copy of our agreement. I will give a month until your decision of whether you will leave my parent’s estate and join mine.” The voice was familiar, dark, and cold. It sent absolute shivers around the group. “This contract is legit until Sasuke hits twenty-one years of age and takes over. Until then, please make yourselves apart of my branch and enjoy the food.”

Itachi stood, slightly bowing before leaving the group in their discussion.

“How long until we get there?”

Itachi stared at the boy in annoyance, taking a seat beside him to his little brother’s dismay. “A little bit whiny today aren’t we?” His arm extended out to Sasuke and poked his forehead roughly just as he did years ago. Sasuke glared at his brother, rubbing the sore spot. “We will get there in a few hours.”

“Why?”

Itachi raised a brow. “Well because I didn’t want to get an earlier flight-”

Sasuke cut in. “I mean…I just cant believe it. All my life I thought these people were my parents. In less than a month I find out that I’m adopted? Now I’m moving away from home to China? How am I supposed to handle this?” Sasuke asked. “Why didn’t you tell me sooner?”

“You wanna know why, hn?” Itachi sat back and sighed, it was just not easy being a big brother. “You were too young for me to tell you. Our ‘parents’ sent me to London to keep my mouth shut when I found out. I even tried to get out of the whole adoption thing by trying to drown you.” Itachi explained. “I only got sent to different boarding schools to keep me away from you. And then you eventually hated me and never spoke to me. I needed to take you away from those people. Do you understand me now? I barely remember but our real parents died a little after you were born.”

“What about that dumb Akatsuki?” Sasuke asked. “You killed…”

“Akatsuki is my past. I killed to get them out of our way, Sasuke. I did it so they wouldn’t take you away.” Itachi held on to his brother. “They wanted to corrupt you. I wanted you to be free. The way I promised our real mother and father you would be.”

“Our parents…” He growled. “You would kill for me?”

“I will dirty my hands to keep yours pure.” Itachi cut in.

There was silence between the two as Sasuke digested the news all over again.

His own brother who wanted Sasuke to cease from existing…wanted to protect him? It wasn’t a shock but it also didn’t make any sense.

Brotherly love was so confusing.

“I’m sorry to interrupt…” The two looked up as a flight attendant bowed in apology. “Unfortunately a few of our passengers have food poisoning including our captain. We need to make an emergency stop in Turkey to switch planes.” She explained.

Sasuke looked at his older brother who only nodded in reply.

I wanted you to be free-Itachi said.

Sasuke looked out the plane.

Exactly when would he truly be free?

…

‘I’m in the middle of nowhere, thinking about you and wondering what you’re up to.’

Naruto watched planes land as rain poured outside. Not only was Iruka stuck with food poisoning and barfed every hour or so, but they were also stuck in a whole knew world otherwise known as Turkey.

“Aw this sucks!” Naruto growled, kicking the floor. Beside him sat Kakashi who attempted to hold Iruka’s hair as he puked in a bag. Kakashi made a disgusted face and quickly handed the bag to Naruto, who jumped in surprise. “What the hell!” He shrieked.

“Throw it out.” Kakashi pointed. Iruka glared at Kakashi for making the poor boy do the work. He was quickly cut off with another wave of puke, covering his mouth and rushing to the bathroom nearby. Kakashi sighed, trailing behind.

Naruto quickly threw the bag into the garbage in disgust. ‘Man…I had the same thing Iruka did but I’m feeling a whole lot better.’ He clenched his stomach, grateful that he didn’t eat too much of the air plane food. Kakashi was cruel enough to give Iruka the rest of his.

He sat, resting his face in his hands as sleep threatened to take him over. There was no telling how long it would be until they would be able to go to Japan. Iruka estimated a day but even the three wouldn’t be able to last in Turkey for a whole day. None of them knew the language!

“Maybe I can find a translator…” Naruto mumbled. His attention then turned to a girl who carried a basket of fruits on her shoulders, wiping the sweat from her forehead she turned to the younger girl.

“I heard Uchiha Itachi is here…” The younger girl looked at her in surprise.

The blonde’s eyes widened surprised to see English speaking people in Turkey but more importantly people who knew who Uchiha Itachi was. If Itachi was really here…then Sasuke must be here too, right?

“Is that why there’s a huge crowd down there?” The other girl replied. Naruto looked to where the Turkish girl had pointed.

Fate was cruel enough to let the two meet.

“We booked a hotel for you both; I hope you enjoy your stay there Mr. Uchiha.” The flight attendant nervously smiled and bowed at the not so happy Itachi. Sasuke was only satisfied that Itachi’s stuck up business partners were gone. Unfortunately he had fan girls in Turkey too.

“This kind of thing never tires out does it?” Sasuke asked. Itachi shook his head, leading his brother in front of him as he motioned a couple of body guards to move behind him.

“Sasuke!”

Sasuke stopped.

Itachi came to a suddenly stop. “What is it?” He shoved his little brother slightly. “Hurry…our ride is leaving.” Sasuke was unable to look back and only shook the voice off. He might have been hallucinating because the voice sounded a lot like…

“SASUKE!”

There was no mistaking it.

Sasuke turned around in time to catch the flying blond into his arms. Suddenly the world seemed to get clearer as the two embraced. Naruto smiled brightly almost too loss for words as Sasuke was too. Sasuke suppressed a smile and muttered the only word he knew.

“Moron.”

Naruto smiled, muttering softly in his ear as he blacked out.

Amazingly enough it was not the thunder striking that had woken him up.

Sasuke’s arms had moved him closer to his chest and even then Naruto did not wake up. His ear was pressed against Sasuke’s firm chest, listening to his faint heartbeat and even then he did not wake up. Nor did Sasuke’s soft breathing wake him.

“Naruto.”

It was his voice that managed to awake him; it was soft and sincere almost unlike him. Naruto twitched upon hearing his name, whimpering softly as Sasuke’s fingers brushed his hair away. He slowly opened his eyes to be face to face with Sasuke, who in return said nothing.

“Where do we go from here?” Naruto wondered tiredly. It was not the best time to talk about it but curiously struck him all of a sudden. Sasuke was surprisingly not thrown off by the question for he had stayed awake thinking about it. “You’re going to China right? I’m going to Japan…”

“I know.” Sasuke replied.

Silence.

“I’m sorry about what I said.” Naruto began. He attempted to sit up but Sasuke gently pushed him back down. “I don’t want to spend life thinking about what could have happened if we stayed together. I’m okay with a long distance relationship…and you visiting holidays-”

“And weekends.” Sasuke added.

“That too. If you cheat on me I’ll personally cut your balls off though.” Naruto threatened. Sasuke didn’t really know if he was being serious or not and was not willing to test the theory out. He only grinned, pressing the blond down against his back before pulling the covers over him.

Sasuke locked his eyes with Naruto’s.

“I promise.”

Part III

Naruto rushed downstairs.

“Fuck!”

He tripped on the floor nearly colliding with Iruka who quickly got out of the boy’s way. The blond mumbled an apology before rushing to get his shoes on and headed out the door with a quick good-bye. The brunette looked at Kakashi who smiled.

“I never thought I would see the day that Naruto would rush for a day of school.” He said. Iruka smiled.

“Well he is an hour late.” Iruka pointed. Kakashi suddenly dropped his chopsticks. “And you will be too if you don’t move along.” Iruka finished.

Even after all this time…

“Shit! I’m always late!”

In a sick twist of fate Naruto’s alarm clock had suddenly stopped working. Not only was it new but there was no exact reason to why it suddenly stopped. And it happened to be a present from Sasuke! Not only did it freak Naruto out but now it got him paranoid.

The blond tried his hardest to dodge the morning rush (which was very difficult now that he lived in Tokyo), jumping out of people’s ways and nearly getting run over by cars. As tired as he was he was not about to miss his third period class, which was unfortunately gym and which unfortunately Anko taught now. If he was even a minute late she would make sure to give him hell-and he learned it the hard way.

Twice.

It’s been a hell of a long time…

“Uchiha Sasuke?”

Sasuke looked up upon hearing his name. He slowly stood and shook hands with the headmaster of the school. The headmaster smiled softly as she led him into her office, pleading him to grab a seat. It annoyed Sasuke that the headmaster would want to meet him personally. He wanted nothing but to enroll and hopefully go to school with everyday fan girls. But even in his current location it was near to impossible.

“Welcome. It’s not everyday that we get celebrities such as yourself in our school.” She started. Sasuke was quick to correct the headmaster.

“I am the brother to a celebrity and nothing more.” He cut in.

Pause.

The headmaster smiled and cleared her throat, pushing her glasses further to her eyes to read. She held his record in her hands, reading it slowly and occasionally picked up her cup of coffee to drink, leaving the cheap red lipstick stain on the cup. She slowly looked up and smiled lipstick on her pearly white teeth.

“There must have been a typo. It says your orientation is gay.” She read, handing him his file. Sasuke looked at it and frowned.

“My sexuality has no influence on my level of education or focus,” Sasuke began. “It’s no typo, it is fact.”

…you called me everyday,

Naruto panted loudly upon entering the building.

“I can’t believe someone so cool is in our school!” The young Japanese school girl expressed her enthusiasm by jumping up and down along with her group of schoolmates, adding to Naruto’s headache. “I heard he is very rich too!”

Naruto’s new school was not only filled with preppy school girls but with people all caught up in gossip. Just a month ago on his first day of school there were already rumors about him from his previous school. Luckily no one knew he was gay or else his friends today would resent him for it.

“You’re late again Naruto.” A young man of seventeen pointed to his watch. Naruto scratched the back of his head, muttering an apology. The young man rolled his eyes and quickly let him inside the gym. Naruto thanked him before sneaking inside the boy’s locker room to change.

The young man sighed.

“Everyone is so jumpy today because of the new kid today.”

He sighed once more.

“How troublesome.”

I called you everyday.

The headmaster coughed.

“Actually we had a policy about this kind of case. It brought such a distraction for our students-” She was cut off by a snort.

“Then I will tell no one.” He said. “Don’t get me wrong, headmaster. I can get into whichever school I desire. This one happens to be special.”

The headmaster raised a brow.

“How so Uchiha Sasuke?”

She leaned in as Sasuke grinned.

…but it was the same thing everyday. “How’s school?”, “How’s life?”

“This new kid is getting pretty popular.”

Naruto attempted to block all voices in his head, concentrating on how to raise money. No one really wanted to hire someone at his age and so scrawny looking, or at least that was what Kakashi said. But somehow Naruto would have to make enough to get a flight to China to see Sasuke for at least one whole day.

But of course making money was never easy.

“He’s pretty well known. He looks like an Uchiha, no?”

I never knew what to say.

The headmaster laughed.

“Is that so? Quite an adventure…”

Sasuke smiled.

“Am I welcomed or not?”

…you always had to cancel on me,

Naruto stopped in his tracks.

“Wait what?” He asked. The two young school girls looked at him as he approached them. They observed him from head to toe before completely ignoring him.

“Who is this new kid?” He asked. One of the attempted to answer until a ball smacked against the blonde’s head.

“Uzumaki don’t stop! Keep going!” Anko yelled.

I always cancelled to meet you because I was nervous.

The headmaster stood slowly, narrowing her eyes to Sasuke, almost offended like.

The two reached eye level.

…I thought you were tired of me,

Naruto rubbed his hard as he escaped the fifty laps Anko had wanted him to do. He breathed hard behind the wall, managing his way out of the gym and into the dull-lit hallways.

‘It’s can’t be…’

There was no way Sasuke would such a thing without telling him. But then again, Sasuke always did have a surprise in store for him.

I don’t want you to question my love for you.

She extended her hand towards Sasuke, smiling.

“I would be offended if you didn’t come here.”

…I know now…

“There he is!”

Naruto turned twirled around, rushing to the crowds in attempt to catch a glimpse of him.

I hope you know

“Well then welcome to the Japanese International Academy.”

Sasuke shook her hand and bowed slightly before heading out the door.

That you really do love me.

Naruto froze.

The group of girls smiled, forming their unofficial welcome committee and jumped at the new student.

“Welcome to Neo-Konoha High!”

That I really do love you.

Naruto looked down; feeling like his heart struggled to beat. He forced a smile, finding it stupid that he would think Sasuke would transfer from an incredibly great school in China to a lowly public school. He sighed, figuring he would have to do all those laps if he went back into the gym with a furious Anko.

But then again all his things were in his gym locker.

Shit.

He sighed, entering the gym and into his unavoidable death.

….

The day worsened.

Not only did he get to school late, feel disappointed, ran fifty laps for skipping class, and now he had to go through this crap.

Naruto tripped, falling flat on his face against the pavement. He looked at the brown shoes that stood right in front of him, figuring they belonged to the private school a few blocks away.

He shut his eyes tight as a foot slammed against his stomach, making him turn in pain. He bit his lip, unable to call for help as punches landed on his cheek.

“Had enough?”

It suddenly stopped.

Slowly and hesitantly Naruto opened an eye.

It was clear to him that this stranger was a friend and had scared the other boys away. Naruto’s vision slowly cleared, taking a closer look at the stranger who had helped him and smiled.

“You came…”

A hand extended out to him.

“Iruka told me you were here.” Sasuke bent down, slowly lifting Naruto into his arms. The blond reddened and had it not been for the numb feeling in his arms and legs he would have protested. He was too tired to even lift a finger.

Naruto rested his head over Sasuke’s shoulder as they slowly walked. “What brought you here in Japan?” Naruto suddenly asked. The boys from before obviously came from the Japanese International Academy so why was Sasuke dressed in the same uniform? “You weren’t supposed to be here for another week…”

“I came to surprise you but I see you take your time getting home.”

Naruto smiled.

“I just transferred to that International Academy.” He finally answered.

The blond snorted. “How will you go if you live all the way in China?”

A period of silence fell upon them.

Sasuke stopped himself from smacking the idiot. “Well I’m just going to have to wake up extra early.” He sarcastically replied. Naruto fell quiet, suddenly realizing his own statement. Sasuke only smiled at the blonde’s countenance.

They suddenly stopped in front of a building. Sasuke settled Naruto down on a bench gently as he pulled out keys from his pockets. Carefully lifting him up, Sasuke made his way into the building, pressing down a few buttons before being let inside. Naruto observed in amazement.

They stepped into the unoccupied elevator.

Naruto looked at Sasuke. “Where are we?”

Sasuke’s inability to answer was proof that he had a surprise for him.

“You’ll see…”

The elevator doors opened, exposing them to a nicely lit hallway and down to a door. Naruto swallowed hard as they approached the room, opening the door. Sasuke put him down on his own feet, letting him walk into the room.

The windows were wide for him to view the sun setting over buildings. Different portraits painted by Sasuke hung on the walls in the room, creating a mini gallery. Naruto looked over to Sasuke who leaned against the window, smiling.

“Sasuke…does this mean…?”

Sasuke approached him, wrapping his arms around his neck. “Itachi and I moved here a week ago. Our estate is doing very well in China so we opened one here in Japan too.” Naruto looked up.

“I…” Naruto smiled only able to force his lips on Sasuke’s to make up for his lack of words. Sasuke tightened his grip on the boy, pinning him against the window. Sasuke found himself wanting to make up for the whole month of no Naruto time.

He smiled, slowly removing his clothes.

Naruto blushed, thankful that it was too dark for anyone to see them from outside.

No one would have guessed that these two would ever end up together. Then again love is found in unexpected places.

(And people for that matter)

Their fingers slowly intertwined together as they slid down to the floor, promising each other over and over that they would be together.

This alone was Sasuke’s heaven.

A/N: This is the end. No sequel! Sorry! I hope you enjoyed. Please review!