Ok so this was waaaaay longer then I thought it would be…and my original idea was only in a small portion of this fic. I'm not to confident with this story but I would greatly appreciate reviews so that I can improve my writing=]
The Phone Call
The air is crisp, bare tree branches are shaking in the cold breeze, and everyone is putting up decorations in preparation for the Christmas holiday. However, one teen had no plans of celebrating the holidays…until The Phone Call.
Sasuke blinked open his eyes and glared in the direction of the sleep disrupting phone. As it rang again he slung his right arm over his eyes, deciding whether or not to answer. After another infuriating ring, he let out a defeated sigh and grabbed his phone, never removing his arm that covered his eyes. Not bothering with checking caller ID, he answered with a harsh "what?"
"Well hello to you too, teme!" Came an annoyed voice through the phone.
Letting his arm slide from his eyes to above his head he sighed again. "Geeze dobe, what do you want?"
"I want you to come over and help me put up my Christmas tree!" Naruto blared in his ear, the earlier annoyed tone now replaced with the usual overly cheerful one.
"I'm in the middle of something more important."
Sasuke could practically hear Naruto roll his eyes as he gave his reply of "But Sasuke, this will be so much better than what you were doing! You were just sleeping anyways!" Ok, so it was a little weird that Naruto knew what he was doing, but he just brushed it aside while he tried to think of something to say
"I wasn't sleeping, I was napping." Sasuke pinched the bridge of his nose and squeezed his eyes shut as he realized how stupid of a reply that was. Then immediately knowing what the blonde's reaction would be, he mouthed the words along with him.
"THAT'S THE SAME THING!"
He opened his mouth to start a shabby defense but Naruto cut him off. "Oh come one, It'll be fun! We can even get some dinner afterwards and maybe watch a movie together! Hey, you should spend the night and we can play video games!"
The thought of annihilating Naruto in video games all night was appealing. Yet another sigh escaped his lips before he gave his answer. "Fine. But I'm sleeping another 30 minutes before coming over."
"Ok that's cool, see you later! And HA! I told you they were the same thing! -click-"
"Damn…" Sasuke tossed his phone on his bed, rolled over, and went back to sleep.
Sasuke stepped up to Naruto's door and raised a hand to knock when the door flung open to reveal the blonde, a beaming smile plastered on his face and releasing a shout of "About time! Now get in here!"
He walked through the door, removed his shoes and followed his friend to the living room where a large rectangular box lying on the floor caught his attention. "Where are we putting this at?" questioned Sasuke.
"Huh? Oh yea right, ummmm." Naruto started to stare at the ceiling as if the location was written there. After glaring at the blonde for a few seconds, he cut off Naruto's pondering by snapping out the question "You don't know do you?"
"Of course I do teme!" A slightly tanned hand pointed to a corner in the room. "Right there by the window and couch! That's where it goes!" Naruto then proceeded to place his fists on his hips and smiled like the answer he just gave solved all of the world's problems. Sasuke figured Naruto was trying to act like he knew where the tree would go all along.
Sasuke pushed the box containing the tree closer to the corner and began opening it while Naruto decided to defend himself. "Yea I knew where it would go! I just kind of forgot…" Sasuke just shook his head.
"Hn, I was right."
Naruto crossed his arms and looked at his friend like he was crazy. "Uhhh, right about what?"
"Nothing dobe just put this up." He handed over the tree base and stem that the branches connect to and started to sort the individual branches into piles on the floor
"Hey Sassssuke! I put up your poleso why not put on a little Holiday show?" Naruto wiggled his eyebrows trying to be suggestive.
Sasuke looked over at the blonde who had one hand on his hip and the other gripping the tree's makeshift trunk, grinning like he just made the cleverest joke. Feeling uncharacteristically playful, he decided to go along with it. "Oh but Naruto, I was saving that for your Christmas present." Blue eyes widened, leaving the whiskered face with a surprised expression. Sasuke smirked. "It was a joke."
Naruto waved his hand dismissively. "Duh, I knew tha-ah! Teme! You just threw a tree branch at me!"
"I was tired of you talking, and I thought you wanted this tree put together."
Naruto placed the thrown tree branch in its spot on the tree while muttering "Yeah, yeah, yeah. Bastard."
The two had finished the first row of branches when the blonde announced he was getting a drink and asked if Sasuke wanted anything. He declined and continued placing the branches in their designated places.
Somehow, he didn't really know how it worked out this way or how he let it work out this way, but somehow he finished the entire tree himself while Naruto sat on the couch, after getting a drink, blabbing away.
Naruto stopped his rambling and looked from the finished tree to Sasuke. "Oh hey! You finished the tree! That was fast…..Why are you glaring at me?"
"Hn." He walked over to the couch and sat next to Naruto. "So why exactly was it so important that I help you with your tree this year?" he asked with a slightly irritated tone.
"It's my first tree!" Naruto replied excitedly as he twisted towards Sasuke and crossed his legs on the couch.
A black eyebrow rose. "You've never had a tree?"
Naruto lowered his gaze to look at the space of couch between him and his raven haired friend, and for some reason, wishing it wasn't there. "Well I mean, I've had those tiny trees that can just be thrown wherever, but this is my first time having a tree that actually has a presence in the room, something worth looking at. I've never really had a festive Christmas." Blue eyes looked up to meet black. "And since I think this is pretty special I wanted to share it with you because you're my best friend." Sasuke felt his cheeks ever so slightly heat up so he turned his head to the side.
"Well since it's supposed to be 'worth looking at', shouldn't we decorate it?" He glanced over at the blond.
"Oh crap!" Naruto jumped off the couch causing Sasuke to slightly jump at the sudden outburst. "Decorations!" A cerulean gaze met the carpet. "The tree cost so much that I won't be able to buy much." His teeth began to nibble at his bottom lip in concentration as he tried to calculate how much he could spend on ornaments.
Sasuke felt a twinge in his heart at the depressed look Naruto was directing at the floor. He looked over at the tree and got an idea. Standing up, he headed towards the door. "Hey dobe, I'll be right back." He could hear Naruto follow him to the door.
"Wait, where are you going?" Sasuke put his shoes on and walked out the door, but before he closed it behind him, he turned back around. He gave a small smile, leaned in close to Naruto's ear and whispered "It's a secret." With that, he shut the door on the blushing blonde and went to acquire the surprise.
As he walked back to Naruto's, he still couldn't figure out what the hell possessed him to whisper in his ear. When he got to the door, it was once again opened before he could knock. He walked into the living room and placed the large box he was carrying onto the floor. "What is in there?" Naruto wondered out loud.
"Decorations." He then knelt down and began opening the taped up box. blonde hair was hanging in his line of vision as Naruto lent over his shoulder trying to peer inside.
"Wow! Where did you get all of these?"
Pale hands began pulling out various ornaments and placed them on the coffee table. "I brought them from my house. I won't use them because I haven't decorated for anything in about 3 years." Since there was never anyone to celebrate things with, Sasuke just decided to give up on holidays.
"Man, there sure is a lot in this box. Lights, bells, ribbon- ooo! Fake candy canes, that's cool!"
"You better help this time; I'm not doing this by myself again." He shot Naruto a glare, referring to himself putting the tree up alone.
"Of course!"
"Hey Sasuke, this snowflake is different from the rest." Midnight eyes fell on what the blonde was holding. Unlike the other plain white snowflakes with some glitter thrown on them, this one was larger and made with crystal like beads that seemed to glow from the different colored lights on the tree shining through. "This one is really pretty."
"I made that when I was younger."
"Really?" Naruto stared at it a little longer and then put it on the front of the tree so it would be easily seen, then began to put all of the other snowflakes back in the box. He looked up and saw Sasuke's questioning gaze. "I don't want any other snowflake on the tree but that one. You made it so it gets to stand out."
"Hn." Sasuke tried to busy himself with something else so he wouldn't think too much about it.
The two took a step back to admire the finished tree. Sasuke looked over to Naruto and noticed the over joyed expression he wore causing himself to done a softer expression as he turned back to the tree.
"Thanks for the decorations Sasuke."
"Whatever, I wasn't gonna use them." Sasuke mentally slapped himself because of how harsh that came out when his friend thanking him all sincere like.
"You wanna go get something to eat now?" Naruto asked, jerking a thumb towards the front door.
"Sure. What do you want?" He doesn't really know why he asked that because he already knew the answer
"RAMEN!" The blonde shouted while bounding towards the door, Sasuke following. They put on their shoes and left to go to Naruto's favorite ramen shop. Once there, Sasuke opened and held the door for the ball of energy that was practically skipping down an imaginary yellow brick road. After they were seated they had a person ask for their order.
"Hello, what can I get you?" She asked with a cheerful smile. Sasuke noticed she was particularly addressing Naruto, which is odd because normally he can't get girls to stop staring at him. Truthfully, he greatly disliked both. He didn't like the attention, and for reasons unknown to him, he didn't like Naruto getting ogled by others. OH NO! Sasuke mentally screamed. He didn't want to think it, but maybe he was jealous.
"Miso Ramen!" The blonde answered
"Oh that's my favorite!" she exclaimed too enthusiastically if you asked Sasuke. "Oh yea, and what do you want?" She asked Sasuke, as if she forgot he was there.
Sasuke glared at her. "I'll just have the same."
"Ok, I'll be back with your orders!" she turned on her heel and walked away.
"She must be new, I haven't seen her before, but I like her, she's nice!"
Sasuke rolled his eyes and leaned back in his seat. "Hn."
"What? You didn't think she was nice?"
Sasuke just gave another "Hn," and rested his chin on his fist
A few moments later their food came. "I hope it didn't take too long, I didn't want you waiting." She winked at Naruto and Sasuke glared again. Naruto just grinned and began stuffing his mouth full of ramen.
Later the girl came back, rested against the table with her back turned towards Sasuke. "How is everything? Looks good from where I'm standing." Sasuke tried to hold back a laugh and almost choked on his food. The girl ignored him and waited for Naruto to reply. When he didn't, she blew out a breath of air in disappointment and walked away angrily, mumbling to herself.
After their meal, they headed back to Naruto's. Unlike going to the restaurant, leaving it wasn't filled with Naruto's pointless rambling. He instead slipped into a rare serious mode and asked Sasuke a question. "Where you jealous or something?"
Sasuke stopped walking and looked at the blonde. "huh?"
"You kept glaring at that girl because she was paying so much attention to me right?" This shocked Sasuke because he thought Naruto was completely oblivious; maybe he isn't that slow. "You can't have every girl like you; I'm just as hot as you so it's not that surprising that she liked me better." Sasuke immediately took back his previous thought. Wait….does that mean Naruto thinks I'm hot…the raven haired teen thought. He immediately stopped that line of thinking.
"That's not really why."
"It isn't. Then why?"
Sasuke wondered what he should say, but decided on part of the truth. "She was unbearably annoying." He then began walking again.
The walk back was pretty silent. When they got back and were seated on the couch, Naruto broke the silence by asking, "You wanna watch a movie?"
"Whatever's on TV is fine."
Naruto flipped on the TV and found a show he deemed watchable. After a few seconds, Sasuke realized what they were watching. "We are not watching this."
"Why not?" Naruto wined
"It's stupid."
"My house, my television, so we watch what I want and I say we are watching Will & Grace! I bet you never even watched it before!"
Sasuke slouched in his seat. He has too watched it, and he found it slightly entertaining, but he really didn't want to watch Will and Jack flaunt their relationships with men when he just had those confusing thoughts at dinner. He was trying to not think about them.
The more the show went on, the more Sasuke's thoughts strayed to the blonde next to him, and by the end of the episode he decided he didn't like others ogling Naruto because he only wanted himself gazing at him. And that he might have a crush on his best friend. But that's only a might.
Episodes later, apparently it was a random marathon, Sasuke and Naruto were tiredly slumped together, shoulders pushed together.
"Soooo, I'm going to bed."
"Hn." Sasuke grabbed the remote and turned the TV off.
"You can use my bed, I'm going to sleep on the couch."
Sasuke got up and started walking towards the blue eyed boy's room but stopped before reaching the doorway. "Wait. Why?"
He went back to find Naruto turning the couch to face the lit tree. "You want to sleep on the couch so you can be by the tree." It was more of a statement then a question.
Naruto sheepishly rubbed the back of his neck and gave a small laugh.
Sasuke just shrugged. "Got anything I can sleep in?"
"Oh! Of course!" The blonde jogged to his room and came back with a pair of blue pajama pants and a white t-shirt. "Here." Sasuke took the clothes and headed to the bathroom as Naruto went to his room to change.
Leaving the bathroom, he went back into the now dark living room, only being lighted by the tree, and sat next to Naruto, who was only wearing orange bottoms. He snatched half of the blanket the blonde brought. Black eyes daring him to say something.
They curled up next to each other, similar to before with their shoulders pressed together, and admired the tree. Naruto was the one to disrupt the silence. "Today was fun, thanks." Sasuke sighed and stared at the snowflake he had made years ago. As if the snowflake was urging him to express his feelings, he decided to tell Naruto about his earlier thoughts.
"Naruto? When you asked if I was jealous earlier, well, I was,"
Naruto looked at him curiously.
"I was jealous because she kept paying attention to you and I'm pretty sure I like you."
Naruto slowly nodded his head, absorbing the out of nowhere confession. After a little while, Naruto still hadn't given any form of a reply, Sasuke muttered a "Forget about it," and went back to staring at the tree.
"No, wait. I'm just trying to decide how I feel about you." He thought back to all the times he smiled and had fun when they were together, all the times he may have stared too long or was too desperate for them to hang out. He recalled always having an extra bounce in his step when around the other and there was the fact that his heart seemed to beat faster when they got close.
"And?" Sasuke asked, bringing him out of his thoughts.
"And…I think I might like you too…" Naruto looked down at his fidgeting hands.
Sasuke placed his hand onto Naruto's tanner ones to still them. Grabbing one, he slowly brought it to his lips, softly brushing them across the knuckles. Blue eyes followed every movement with their gaze.
Sucking in a breath of air, Naruto let pale lips kiss his palm and glide over to his wrist, where they slightly sucked the delicate skin.
Sasuke's free hand came up to rest at the back of the blonde's neck; letting the tanned hand fall from its grasp, the now free hand gently rested on a whiskered cheek then guided them into their first kiss together. Both their eyes were closed, focused on the feeling of their lips together.
Naruto pulled away, his lips still tingling, "Ok, so it's not a 'I think I might like you,' it's a yeah, I definitely like you."
Sasuke gave a low chuckle and placed his hands on Naruto's shoulders to push him down on the couch. After settling in between orange clad legs, he traced the tanned jaw before him with the tip of his finger, ghosting over lips and down Naruto's neck, dragging his palm over a bare chest and toned stomach, then resting on a smooth hip. Naruto silently thanked himself for not wearing a shirt, loving the feel of bare skin coming in contact with one another.
Running his fingers through Sasuke's dark hair, he leaned up and sealed their lips in a second kiss. They awkwardly moved their mouths together, having no previous experience.
While both of their hearts were beating swiftly, Sasuke broke the kiss and rested their foreheads together. His eyes flickered over Naruto's face, noticing half closed eyes, a blush that was barely visible in the near dark room, and white teeth biting on his lower lip. Sasuke licked the abused lip, causing Naruto to release it, and grabbed it between his teeth, lightly tugging before kissing the blonde, hesitantly sliding his tongue in to the warm mouth.
Naruto, welcoming the strangely enjoyable intrusion, tried to shift his body to get more comfortable but accidentally pressed his groin against Sasuke's, making a gasp flow through their joined mouths. Squeezing his blue eyes shut at the jolt of pleasure, he removed his lips from the kiss wanting to indulge in that feeling again.
As if reading his thoughts, Sasuke repeated Naruto's previous action but with more grace and pressure, slowly grinding into the tan body. Small moans escaped parted lips. The sensation gave the blonde encouragement to kiss and nip at Sasuke's pale neck, sliding hands down to play with the edge of his white shirt.
Sasuke stood up onto his knees and removed his shirt, tossing it aside. He sensed Naruto's crystal blue eyes focus on his torso and lowered himself to hover over his admirer. Locking eyes, he went to lean in for another kiss but Naruto placed a hand on his chest to stop him.
"I think for my Christmas present, you should strip for me."
Sasuke furrowed his eyebrows in confusion. "What?"
"When you took off your shirt it reminded me of that joke earlier….so are you gonna do it for my present?"
He let out a defeated sigh, just like when he answered the phone earlier that day. "Fine, I guess I can." Sasuke once again lent in for a kiss and was once more stopped.
"Seriously!" Naruto beamed.
Sasuke smirked, whispered for his blonde to be quite and finally got that third kiss. As Naruto melted into the kiss he couldn't help but wish Christmas was waaaay closer.
So as they thoroughly enjoyed one another's company, they both gave thanks to The Phone Call.
I hope this fic was at least semi enjoyable;p even though I feel like I jumped around too much…I couldn't get it to flow right. Please don't flame me:*( I don't want to have to use them to roast your body=p