Ok so here goes nothig this is the first chapter of something that's been going in my mind for quite a long time now, so I thought about writting t and see what comes ot of it
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栄光 Glory (eikou)
When he woke up that morning, he still felt tired.
Why was it that lately he felt tired most of the time? He didn't do much besides repeating the same routine from Monday through Friday; Saturdays and Sundays were the days he got to rest the most actually. There were times when he wouldn't even take that stupid psychedelic kind of looking pajama off and 3 in the afternoon will surprise him with that weird looking thing still on.
And there he was again, 3 in the afternoon and the ridiculous pajama was still on. Naruto was dozing in front of his computer and the sound of the playing music wasn't helping at all. And he would have let Morpheus embrace him and take him directly to la-la land if it hadn't been for that annoying noise that came from his door, something that sounded like "toc, toc, toc" and that was unnerving the hell out of him. He could have ignored it and let it slip if it wasn't for the small fact that it seemed to be the only thing that was stopping him from surrendering himself to sleep.
"WHAT!?"- he practically yell at the person outside his door, angry at the fact that this same person was to blame for the interruption; but when his eyes met the newcomer' ones various things were taken in by that doze off head of his.
The first realization that he came to have was that he still was wearing that hideous pajama, he still hadn't taken a shower and that very likely he smell because it was 3 in the afternoon and he had that I-just-woke-up kinda look going for him. And as if waking up from a nightmare came the last hit of reality: standing in front of him was the man, yes the MAN, that he had secretly love for the almost past 6 years of his life.
-"The pajamas maybe 20 bucks"- the other man said while he let his eyes run over Naruto's appearance: -"the bunny slippers another 20 bucks I guess"- and lifting an eyebrow he said: -"but that expression in your face is priceless"- and he plastered a smirk on his face that Naruto have come to associate with kinky, dirty, sex related things he could do to him.
Naruto was still looking at this person, that was no other than Sasuke, and his gaze held a tint of anger, surprise and… 'What is that glow in his eyes?'- Sasuke thought to himself –'Could it be lust?'- He wondered, but immediately discarded it, it was impossible for him to conceive that coming from Naruto.
-"I bet you were watching those yaoi animes you watch, right?"- Sasuke asked peeking his head trough the door to confirm his statement, but without realizing it this brought him closer to the blonde.
-"Of course not!"- said Naruto in something that came out more like a shriek that anything else, and that had nothing to do with the comment and more with the personal-space-invading-distance between the two of them. He flinched and backed away a few steps and Sasuke decided to interpreter that as a come on in kinda gesture.
Sasuke rarely, if not ever, came to such a close distance and if he ever did was under special circumstances and trying not to "invade personal space" as he often refered to it.
To Naruto "personal space" was ones of those terms that weren't a part of his dictionary, so it was really hard for him learn to respect this about Sasuke.
-"Then what is that glow in your eyes?"- asked Sasuke making himself comfortable in Naruto's favorite armchair.
Naruto immediately felt himself blush and looked away trying not to think of the drop-dead gorgeous man sitting right in front of him.
-"What glow?"- asked Naruto desperately searching for something to help him change the subject. The curtains were drawn open and he could see the people walking outside; he focused on a couple walking up the street holding hands, they stoped to share a brief, but very passionate kiss, and kept on walking to whatever destination they had, but Naruto suspected that wherever this destinations might be, surely they were trying to get there to share something more than a brief kiss. Or maybe that's what he wanted to do…
-"That glow… right there, in your eyes"- Sasuke whispered almost in Naruto's ear.
Naruto, that had been so absorb in his observation of the passing couple, didn't notice when was it that Sasuke has decided to come to such close dangerous distance, well at this point any distance was dangerous between the two.
Naruto shrieked in a very unmanly way and restore the distance between them.
-"Why are you doing that?"- Sasuke asked as he walked back to the armchair and sited himself with the grace that Naruto have come to associate with each and one of Sasuke's movements and gestures.
-"Do what? Yell at you?"- retorted the blond, trying to sound as offended as he could muster; that was the only way he could think off to avoid the issue at hand and at the same time trying with all his might to push aside all the thoughts and feelings that were making themselves present in that little head of his.
-"Moving away"- said Sasuke with a very serious tone: -"You've been doing it a lot lately… that's why I came over"- and he looked eyes with the blond with the intensity Naruto thought only Sasuke's eyes could have.
What was he to say now? He could picture it: 'I move away from you Sasuke because you do strange things to my head, my heart rate sky rockets to heavens every time you come near me, and I know that sounds corny and cheesy, but I don't know what to do with this feelings I have and been having for the past 6 years'. Yeah, that would go terrific, wouldn't it?
Sasuke kept on staring at him and Naruto knew he couldn't let this question slip and not answer it and pretend that there was no answer to that.
-"I'm not moving away"- Naruto answered looking at everything else that wasn't Sasuke's eyes and started walking towards the open window which was the fardest away he could allow himself to go.
Sasuke watched him make his way through the living room and arrive at the window frame in utter silence, and definitely silence wasn't one of Naruto's traits, so he found it odd. Maybe he had done something that could have upset Naruto? He mentally went through the last couple of weeks, but couldn't think of anything that could have unseated Naruto.
Naruto was still lost in his own appreciations of how mean God was being to him these days.
Sasuke, on the other hand, was observing Naruto, and looking at him like that, bathing under the afternoon sun light and his look lost in a memory that most likely he would never share with him, he notice that Naruto had bags under his eyes. Why hadn't he notice this before? Why did Naruto seem to be hiding things from him lately? 'I bet he's not sleeping well'- he thought: -'it most be the insomnia again'-.
When had cheerful, bright, all-smiles, perky Naruto had gone to? He seemed to be quite distant these days and of late suffered this weird and inexplicable insomnia.
-"Are you not sleeping well?"- asked Sasuke, but to Naruto it sounded more like an affirmative statement than a question so he didn't bother in answering; it felt as though as if Sasuke had already answer for him.
-"Is kinda difficult to have conversations with you if you're not gonna answer?"-said Sasuke trying to bring the blond back from whatever place his mind was off wandering to, but Naruto was still unresponsive.
-"Naruto…"- said Sasuke in a whisper; for a strange reason unknown to both of them, they avoided at all cost to call each other by their given names; so it was rare when Sasuke uttered Naruto's name and it was even more rare when he did so in such a serious manner. So he had said it and in an impossible even lower whisper he said: -"…blue"-.
This was a ridiculous pet name they had come up with the first time they had met, and Sasuke only used it once… exactly that first time…
Naruto immediately turned towards Sasuke surprised by the gesture, not only for the rarity of it but because he had just realized how beautiful his named sounded when it was him the one calling for him.
'That's so corny!'- He thought to himself.
-"Red…"- Naruto answered back with a playful and mocking tone in his voice; Sasuke's gaze always evoked in him the color red… it was as well that secret pet name they had given each other that first night…
They both smiled to the memory not really knowing why; maybe it was that feeling of conspiration, of knowing that only Naruto could call him Red and only Sasuke would understand.
-"My mother put a lot of effort on finding me a name, it would be good if you use it every once in a while"- said Sasuke mockingly standing from the armchair, but still not making any movement to approach Naruto, at least not yet.
-"I don't wanna over use it Sasuke"- said Naruto making a special emphasis on the name to let him know he was also compromising and was calling him by his name.
They looked at each other in silence for a while, until Naruto realize he was staring quite intently at Sasuke so he tried to take his eyes away only to realize that Sasuke was also staring.
-"If you keep staring at me like that I'm gonna wear off"- said Naruto playfully, trying to take importance out of the fact that they been staring each other rather insistently, but Sasuke just kept on staring making Naruto impossibly nervous: -"Why are you looking at me like that?"- said Naruto and his voice sounded a little bit off.
-"I just realize something"- said Sasuke and started moving towards the blond.
-"Ah… And what would that be?'- asked Naruto feeling himself tensed when he came to notice that there was only 5 steps between him and Sasuke.
TBC