Outside the door of the studio apartment, Naruto knocked twice and shouted inside at the top of his lungs.
"Little bunny, be good and open the door! Hurry up and open it, Daddy's coming in!"
With a bang, the door flew out of its frame.
Sasuke's face went completely dark. Gripping the door he had torn off, he forced a few words through clenched teeth.
"Are you tired of living?"
He flung the door aside and glared at Naruto.
"What are you doing here? And what the hell is going on outside?"
Naruto grinned and pointed at the orange eyeshadow around his eyes.
"Just looking at these eyes, I'm qualified to be your dad, right?"
Sasuke's expression twisted into an emoticon flipping him the middle finger.
"If you're looking for a beating, get lost. Stop wasting my time while I practice Sage Mode."
Over the past few days, Sasuke had poured every moment apart from eating and sleeping into staying indoors, wholly focused on integrating Senjutsu Chakra into his body.
He had paid absolutely no attention to what was happening outside.
He had not even caught a whisper that his oniisan had just wreaked havoc in Konoha before drifting away without a care.
Naruto walked around him into the room and dropped onto the sofa.
"This apartment of yours is way better than the dump I used to live in."
He looked around the room, a trace of feeling in his voice.
Naruto's assigned residence had been crammed into a rundown slum in the city center. Its layout was as cramped as an alley in an old district of Shanghai; even turning around was difficult.
Sasuke's place was an entirely different sight.
It was not large, but its floor-to-ceiling windows connected to a balcony and let in plenty of light.