Title: Thousand-Piece Puzzle
Author: Scann
Pairing: Kakashi/Sasuke, Itachi/Sasuke if you squint
Rating: PG-13 for non-graphic sex.

Disclaimer: Naruto and its characters belong to Masashi Kishimoto.

Thousand-Piece Puzzle

Kakashi knows that Sasuke is fragile. Not fragile like glass, bound to crack into a crystalline spiderweb at the lightest touch; nor like ice, shattering into thousands of shards just as easily. Sasuke is like a thousand piece puzzle; complicated, untouchable lest you risk reducing him to scattered remains of a soul once more.

A masterpiece of nature, really, this boy is.

Kakashi knows who is to blame for reducing an unparallelable beauty into a forever unfinished puzzle, a broken artwork that can never be returned ot its former beauty or glory ((He had met Itachi once.)) And Kakashi knows that Sasuke has spent every living moment since that night his brother broke him to reclaim each fragment of his broken soul.

So when Kakashi lets Sasuke pull him down over his small body on the sheets, Kakashi knows he must be gentle with this incomplete puzzle, even as he marvels how perfectly the boy's body fits beneath his own. Sasuke is already moaning his teacher's name into the kiss and clawing at the jounin vest even though it has been less than two minutes since Kakashi came in through the apartment window.

The boy is surprisingly submissive. Kakashi would have expected him to at least attempt to gain some dominance with the aggressiveness Sasuke shows on missions ((When he first met his team of genins, Kakashi thought that Sasuke could have topped Naruto, even though he tries to keep his mind from following a train of thought similar to those of fangirls.)) Kakashi never expected the boy to melt into his touch, to be utterly complacent beneath the other man, fucked slowly into the sheets. He is surprisingly experienced their first time, knowing exactly how to bring pleasure to the both of them, although Kakashi has a hunch this has to do with the genius passed down from his family ((This is not the first time Kakashi has made love to an Uchiha.))

As he watches the boy catch his breath and move uncomfortably, unsure of what he should be doing while covered with their sticky whiteness despite that this is far from the first time he's been coated with it, Kakashi can't help but smile. The boy may be fragile, but he is still beautiful, still innocent ((to Kakashi, at least)) and still the Sasuke he imagines, a boy who he pretends was not forced to carry the heavy weight of vengeance.

When looks with calm gray eyes into Kakashi's one black eye one last time before falling into a peaceful slumber, Kakashi wraps his arms around Sasuke and vows to protect his beauty until Sasuke finds the last piece of the puzzle to his soul.


This is my first yaoi piece and my first piece above the rating of PG. dies I hope it's not too bad. Anyways, I have a bad habit of writing run-ons, and I will love and worship anyone who can beta this for me.

I think I might write an Itachi-POV sequel to this. After all, the psychopathic older brother just can't be happy with someone touching his property.