Hello! Welcome back to another one of my stories! This is an idea that I've been playing around with in my head for a few months now and finally decided to give a shot. I'll see what sort of response it gets and then work from there. Enjoy!

Full summary:

There are two different worlds. Naruto and Sasuke are in love, happily living together in an apartment in Osaka. Naruto and Sasuke, the two shinobi of Konohagakure, have lost the bond they once shared and are drifting further and further apart. One day the two different Naruto somehow switch places and end up in each other's clothes in two new, unfamiliar places, having to face two very different raven's from what they are used to.

In another life
Prologue.

It was in the middle of the night and a faint breeze tentatively slithered between the trunks of the many trees in the silent, dense woods. The dim light of the moon was prevented from reaching the ground by the heavily clouded sky, and thus the landscape lay in shadow.

There were no sounds of animals, and only the tiniest rustle of leaves was brought along by the drifting wind.

There was nothing to indicate any sign of life, but one was not to be fooled.

Concealed by the darkness, people swiftly moved about, their feet soundless and their movements precise and polished. Sharp weapons shone dully as they caught a stray beam of the moonlight from between the clouds, and hands weaved in codes, signaling as the different groups advanced between the trees.

The air was thick with anticipation, the silence tense and telling of the clash that approached with every passing minute.

As the wind rose and journeyed between the branches it caught blonde strands of hair with it's dancing fingers and gently pulled at them as it passed by. Blue eyes closed and the man tilted his head back as he let nature caress his face.

He could almost feel the vibrations of the air against his skin, his ears picking up the imaginative sound of the many hearts thrumming inside the chests of his foes as well as his friends scattered about in the night.

He did not have a nose as keen as the Inuzuka clan, but he could pick up the tiny traces signalling that summer was approaching in the fire-country from the smell of the wind.

The thought wasn't as comforting as it was distracting.

Opening his eyes once more, Naruto stared at the clouds above him.

Any minute now.

He readied himself for the bloodbath to come by clearing his mind completely, carefully subduing his mentality like they all had learnt throughout the many years of fighting and killing, shutting off any distracting or doubting thoughts and relying solely on his own abilities and the instincts engraved into his bones from years of training and experience.

He took a breath through his nose, and after holding for three seconds let it out through his mouth.

It was another mission, another enemy, another night.

He'd done this so many times now, eradicating any obstacle hindering the completion of his missions. Tonight would be no different. The blood about to coat his hands were for the village: for the future.

For the future.

Those were the words he told himself to keep the guilt in check before as well as after his missions.

Naruto picked up on a small shift in the air on the ground beneath the tree he was currently standing in. The hair on his arms stood and he readied himself, shifting soundlessly into a battle-ready position, bending his knees slightly.

Any second now.

The earpiece in his ear sparked to life, the voice of the mission's captain ushering the urgent command in a quick whisper.

"Now."

And Naruto jumped into action, the point of his blade cutting through flesh only moments later.

The bar was crowded now, tons of different groups and different people chatting carefree amongst each other with different glasses of different alcohol in the many different sets of hands. The glasses clinged as they met in cheers or by accident, the sound ringing brightly through the pub's music playing from the old speakers. Laughter flitted through the air and added to the hospitable and folksy feel of the small place.

Alongside one of the pub's walls, in one of the small stalls at the far side from the entrance, sat a stunning raven-haired man with one of his legs neatly crossed above the other, attentively watching the blonde man across from him with slight amusement.

One could easily tell that the blonde was highly intoxicated from a single glance – not only by the amount of emptied glasses standing proudly in front of him on the small table (compared to the single, unfinished glass of his company), but also from his flushed cheeks, lack of composure, tousled hair, the idiotic, wide grin on his face, and the way his words slurred as he spoke.

"Sss'ke, A… Another!"

He laughed, the sound bubbly and warm, as he ungracefully leaned against the table. The raven across from him laughed quietly, eyening his companion's state with doubt.

"No, Naruto. I think that's enough for tonight." He said, a soft smile adorning his lips.

"Wass'sat?" The blonde abruptly exclaimed as he straightened up with a small frown, trying to fix the man across from him with a stare, but failing miserably.

"'M celebrating th' ssstart 'f m'… veccation! I can… drink how much I'd like!" He waved a finger towards his friend, barely avoiding toppling over any of the glasses in front of him. The onyx eyes were shining amusedly as they looked at his uncoordinated actions, finding his state highly entertaining.

"I'm not buying you more." He stated simply. "Besides, don't you want to finish the glass you have already?"

He pointed at the half-finished glass of beer right under the other's nose. The unfocused blue eyes zeroed in on the glass for a few seconds before the delayed reaction came.

"Ooh!" The blonde mused, amazed by the sudden appearance of the aclohol in front of him. "S'good I have you Sasuke." He stated, grinning shamelessly at his lover from across the table, causing the raven's heart to skip a beat inside his chest.

They'd been lovers for almost two years soon, but they'd been in love with each other since long before that.

Two years ago they finally clashed and confessed their feelings for each other in the middle of a fight, and when the blonde moron across from him had shouted that he liked him – and had liked him for a long time – Sasuke had thought he had been the happiest person on the planet.

Thinking back on the two amazing years they had spent together – laughing, crying, loving – Sasuke could testify that he'd been wrong back then. The blonde idiot had made him so ridicously happy on so many occations throughout their relationship that he'd lost count.

And they planned to keep making each other happy for many years to come.

Watching his boyfriend with his chin resting in his hand, Sasuke could feel his own cheeks heat slightly. He averted his eyes to the side, trying to calm his racing heart.

How the other man could still make his heart beat like a silly schoolgirl from the tiniest of things, he had no idea.

Looking around the bar, he took note of the growing mass of people. Soon the place would be really crowded – and sure, Sasuke had willingly joined the blonde on his trip to the cozy pub that evening, but he still disliked being around too many people. He decided it would be time for them to head home. Taking the blonde's high intoxication into account, it was probably for the best.

He'd had nowhere near as much to drink as Naruto and wasn't feeling the affects of the alcohol at all. He'd always handled alcohol better than the blonde, which was something he took a strange pride in. However, it also meant that he'd had plenty of mornings looking after a terribly hungover boyfriend, and by the looks of the blonde across from him, tomorrow would be another one of those mornings. (Although, in honesty, Sasuke didn't really mind them so much.)

Nudging the distracted blonde's leg underneath the table, Sasuke successfully caught his attention. Once the blue eyes were looking to him, Sasuke inclined his head towards the blonde's glass.

"Finish up, then we'll head home."

"Y'know, Sas'ke, 'm going on my veccation tomorrow!" The blonde repeated for the tenth time that evening, his words slurred and his tone slightly whiny. "I w'na c'lebrate! C'mon, pretty please could we stay?"

Sasuke avoided voicing that he thought Naruto had already celebrated enough, as proved by the mountain of glasses on their table.

Instead he tilted his head more to the side, letting his eyes bore into the endless, blue sky across from them.

"I know of a way to celebrate just the two of us." He lowered his voice, lacing his words with just enough seduction for the drunk to catch the hint. He loved the way he could see Naruto's pupils dilate slightly and his adam's apple bob as he swallowed from Sasuke's words.

"But for that –" He said, leaning back casually and crossing his arms. "We would have to go home." He fixed the blonde with a pointed stare, already aware that he'd won.

Suddenly very enthusiastic to leave, Naruto grabbed his final glass and downed it in one go, slamming it back onto the table once he was done. His blue eyes burned into Sasuke's with a hunger that sent a thrill down the raven's spine.

"Let's go." He said, his previously cloudy voice ringing strong and clear in a sudden moment of sobriety. Sasuke's lips pulled into a smirk as he reached for his coat.

"Let's go." He repeated and rose from the table.

It took a few minutes before Naruto noted that something wasn't quite right.

Suddenly the noises of the many colliding blades and shouts sounded morphed to his ears as they came drifting towards him between the trees. His heart was beating loudly in his ears and his body's movements felt slow and sluggish.

He'd taken down the group of rouge shinobi in his area without much struggle; he was, after all, one of Konoha's elite. The enemy would have had to be very formidable to give him a challenge. A few scratches and minor wounds, but nothing serious or lethal had hit him, or so he'd thought.

The nausea that had slowly crept upon him as he was heading towards the checkpoint set up by their captain where he was to await further orders had him swaying and almost coming to a halt.

When he almost lost his footing, he took support against a tree trunk and stopped. It was hard to breathe, and his entire body felt hot. Something was really wrong.

He tried to inspect his wounds further to see if there was something he had missed in the midst of the battle, but found his swimming vision making it extremely difficult to spot anything suspicious in the darkness.

His fierce heartbeat drummed so loudly in his head, causing it to ache and his thoughts to scatter, but he forced himself to concentrate.

A sudden possibility struck him. Could the kunais that had grazed him been poisoned?

Unlike one of his friends, Naruto didn't have much knowledge of medical-ninjutsu or symptoms of different kinds of poisons. Such rarely affected him because of the demon nestling within him's high tollerence and self-healing abilities. Which is why it was even more odd that he suddenly felt his body being slowly paralyzed.

Making a quick decision, Naruto decided he had to pull back and go into hiding. Poisoned, he was no good to his teammates and put everyone's lives as well as the success of the mission at a risk if he forced himself to engage in his current condition.

A little poison wouldn't kill him (hopefully), so his best choice would be to find a secluded place to wait it out, and once he felt better he'd make contact with the rest of his team.

Feeling his stomach twist and turn, Naruto forced his shaking legs to move. Just breathing took a lot of concentration, but even so he was determined to make it out of the mission alive.

"— g'nna swiiiiiiiiing from the chandliIEEr, fr'm th' chandliIEIEIEEEER! … IIIIIIIIIIII—!"

The blonde's loud voice rung in Sasuke's ear as he supported the drunken man while they made their way down the street.

He'd made a slight miscalculation of the blonde's state as he hadn't taken into consideration that they'd been sitting down the entire time while drinking, thus forgetting that once they stood up, the aclohol within his boyfriend's blood would suddenly have a very huge boost while flowing through his system.

Now he found himself frowning as he tried to steady the heavily swaying man to his left and keep him from collapsing completely.

"—'M g'nna liiiiiiiive l'ke t'morr'w doesn' eXIIST, like it – dsN'T EXIIIIIIST!"

It was a very hard task.

Naruto had lost every trace of composure and control after they had left the bar, the final glass hitting him hard and reducing him into a wasted, singing, slurring mess of a man. He failed completely at hitting the highnotes of the popular song, and Sasuke winced at the volume of the blonde's booming voice.

The blonde on the other hand wasn't bothered, a wide, drunken grin on his face as he hollored, his voice bouncing between the buildings and surely waking a few poor souls from their peaceful slumber.

"Naruto, try to keep it down." Sasuke warned, feeling somewhat ashamed of his partner's behaviour calling unneccesary attention by single passerbies. But at the same time, the drunk he supported amused him slightly. It had been a long time since Naruto had gotten this wasted. Oh, how Sasuke would tease him tomorrow when he was hungover and had the worst headache ever. The raven almost looked forward to it.

Naruto leant on him more heavily, causing them to steer off course slightly before Sasuke compensated for the extra weight to his side and regained both their balances.

Instead of listening to his boyfriend, Naruto sang even louder.

"IIIIII'M GONNa FLYYYYY LIKE A BIRD THROUGH TH' N'GHT, Feel m' TEARS AS THEY DRYYYYYY!"

Sasuke shot the drunk a glare, but couldn't stop his lips from twitching into a tiny smile as he saw the playfull glint in Naruto's eyes. Even drunk, Naruto enjoyed testing his limits and tease him. The blonde knew all too well that Sasuke couldn't stay mad at him for long, and threw his head back and giggled drunkenly at his own terrible performance.

To the raven's delight, his lover didn't finish the song, and instead tried to bury his face in Sasuke's neck while they walked (which as very awkward and made it difficult for Sasuke to walk, but he still didn't mind it.).

He could feel Naruto's hot breath against his skin, and his nose nuzzle into the small bend between his neck and his shoulder. The small, intimate gesture made his heart skip a beat.

"Mmmmm, Ss'ke…" Naruto mumbled into his neck, clealry very content being pressed against his lover's side. Sasuke could feel affectionate warmth spread from his heart into his very fingertips at hearing his name slip past the blonde's lips.

"'M so happy…"

The drunk's confession was nothing new, as the raven had heard the same words many times, but even so they still brought a smile to his lips.

"I… l've you."

Sasuke closed his eyes, tightening his grip around the blonde's waist as they walked, his smile growing further.

"I love you too."

He whispered back to the drunk idiot he'd fallen so hard for.

Naruto's vision swam before his eyes.

Everything was dark and omnious.

His breathing was raspy and quick, and his throat ached.

His heart was beating quickly – too quickly – within his chest, making him feel like it was about to explode.

Shaky hands grasped the fabric of his vest tightly, his knuckles turning white as another wave of nausea forced him to double over.

Everything hurt.

An intense surge of pain shot through him, and the last thing he felt before losing consciousness was a soft touch against his forhead, and then everything went black.

A/N: So what do you think? Is it worth continuing? Please leave a review with your thoughts! If I get enough, I'll continue it :) XOXO!