New story time! hope you're excited! I think i started this story a year ago... yeah. i'm hoping by posting it here it'll motivate me to finish it.

DISCLAIMER: I don't own Naruto
WARNING: Yaoi, violence, language, lemons, etc.


Sasuke sighed as he limped over to his car. The flames from the engine exploding had died and the body was just sizzling. He saw a scrap of the red fabric from his tie melted into the leather of the back seat, the black jacket completely unseen in the charred remains of his Porsche. With another sigh he popped the trunk open and smirked at the fire-proof lining. At least he could change out of the bloody shirt before he had to go home. In a quick movement he was out of his old shirt and pulling on a new one. He pulled his cell out of his pocket and hit the speed dial before holding the phone between his shoulder and ear as he buttoned up his shirt.

"Little brother." Itachi's smooth voice came through the speaker as he answered.

"Hey, my car blew up, I need a ride." He said calmly as he pulled out a mirror to make sure he didn't have any blood on his face.

"There were problems?" Itachi's voice was cold.

"Yeah, he knew I was coming and ambushed me. It took me a few minutes longer than I would have liked, but I handled it." He explained. The older Uchiha sighed.

"And you?" He asked mildly concerned.

"Black eye. Figured saying you hit me would be believable." The younger smirked. The older laughed softly.

"I'll be there in five minutes." He said and hung up. Sasuke gathered everything out of the trunk of his car and walked away from the warehouse knowing someone would be coming soon to make his car and the mess inside disappear. Itachi's sleek black SUV pulled up next to him as he stood in the McDonald's parking lot.

"Need a lift?" Deidara smirked as he leaned out the passenger window. He glared at the blonde as he opened the back door and climbed in. "Heard you got into some trouble."

"Nothing you need to concern yourself about. As I told Itachi earlier, I handled it." He sighed as he leaned back, the black leather seats squeaking under his weight.

"The shiner is pretty bad." Itachi commented, looking his brother over in the rear-view mirror. Sasuke just nodded and let his head fall back, watching the sky scrapers pass by through the sunroof. He recognized the Uchiha office building as they passed it, Itachi turning right at the corner to go to the Uchiha house.

"Hey, can you turn around and just take me home?" Sasuke asked.

"What about a car?" The older raven asked.

"Can you take me to get one tomorrow?" He heard his brother sigh and noticed they had turned around. A small twitch of a relieved smile came to his lips. It was another five minutes before the car stopped.

"We're here." Itachi announced.

"Thanks, Itachi." Sasuke nodded as he got out.

"You need a ride tomorrow?" Itachi called out his window.

"No, I can walk." Sasuke waved as the doorman opened the door for him.

"Welcome back, Mr. Uchiha." The doorman greeted.

"Thanks, Izumo. Has Naruto gotten back yet?" He asked.

"Not yet, sir. Should I stall him?" Izumo asked.

"Only if he gets back in the next ten minutes." Sasuke nodded before swiping his key card and typing in his password for the penthouse apartment. The elevator door opened and he waved at Izumo as he entered, the brunette saluting in return. He tapped his foot impatiently as the elevator slowly moved up to the top floor of the thirty story building. Naruto had changed the elevator music again to some obnoxious instrumental rendition of old pop songs. He'd have to get Izumo to change it back to his classical music. The doors opened and he stepped into the apartment he and Naruto shared. He quickly ran to the bathroom and turned on the shower. He got undressed, noticing the dried blood he had on his arms and chest, and the cut he had on his thigh. "Damn." He sighed, the cut was too big to explain away if Naruto saw it. Meaning he couldn't play with his little blonde tonight. He showered quickly, bandaged his leg and pulled on a pair of sweat pants and a tank. He picked up the phone to the front desk and hit the 'call' button, it rang a few times before Izumo answered.

"Front desk." He answered.

"Izumo, it's Sasuke. Naruto can come up now." He said. He heard the brunette smile.

"Perfect timing, his car just pulled into the garage. How shall I explain your missing car and the black eye?"

"Tell him Itachi and I had a meeting and Itachi dropped me off on the way home."

"Very well sir." Izumo hung up. Sasuke went into the kitchen to figure out what to make for dinner. He was digging through the fridge when the elevator doors opened.

"Honey, I'm home." Naruto called loudly. Sasuke scoffed as he continued looking for something to eat. "Sas?" Naruto called slightly worried when there was no response.

"In the kitchen." Sasuke called.

"Anything good?" Naruto asked, walking his fingers up Sasuke's spine causing the raven to shiver in delight.

"How about pasta and that alfredo sauce with the mushrooms and tomatoes?" Sasuke asked, straightening up. Naruto gasped and whipped Sasuke around to face him.

"What happened?" He asked looking at the black eye nervously.

"I pissed Itachi off. Fortunately he did have the good grace to punch me after the meeting was over." Sasuke smiled.

"Yeah, Izumo told me about the meeting." Naruto smiled. "You already took a shower?" He pouted when he noticed Sasuke's hair was damp.

"Yeah, the guys at the meeting were smoking so I just smelled like a bunch of smoke and it was gross."

"But I wanted to take a shower together." The blonde pouted so cutely that the raven couldn't resist sucking his protruding lower lip. Naruto moaned softly and Sasuke was devouring his mouth. He pulled back and pressed their foreheads together.

"I'm sorry, babe. How about you take a shower while I make dinner? We can eat out on the balcony." He smiled. The blonde smiled tiredly and nodded.

"Sounds great." He said kissing his lover one last time before going to the bathroom. Sasuke sighed heavily as he leaned on the counter, sometimes the blonde was too delicious for his own good. His cell started ringing, he sighed when he saw the caller ID.

"Uchiha." He answered.

"God damn it, Uchiha. I look the other way on a hell of a lot of things but this is just asking for it." Asuma shouted angrily.

"First, why the hell are you calling me right now when you know I can't actually talk about this stuff at home? Second, what the hell are you talking about?" Sasuke snapped annoyed.

"I'm talking about ten men dead and five boxes of automatic weapons in one of the Uchiha warehouses." Sasuke was quiet for a moment. He'd only killed three men today and wounded twelve, all in a warehouse he didn't own filled with what should have been fifty boxes.

"I'm happy to say that it wasn't us. How'd you come by this information?"

"We got a call from someone saying they had heard gunshots coming from the warehouse. You're saying that you had nothing to do with it?" Sasuke heard the bathroom door opening and winced.

"I'm saying we were set up. I have to go, I'll call you tomorrow, officer." He said and hung up before Asuma could say anything. As he snapped his phone shut, Naruto came out of the bedroom.

"Did you say something, babe?" The blonde smiled as he skipped across the living room into the kitchen.

"I was just on the phone."

"Business?" The blonde's eyes saddened causing Sasuke to wince.

"I'm going to be busy tonight, sorry." He apologized. He hated the way the blonde's body sagged at the information.

"Sasu," He pouted, whining softly.

"I know, Naruto, I know. Tomorrow night, okay?" He brushed blonde bangs out of his lover's face, kissing away the tears that were forming. Big teary blue eyes looked up at him. "Just cause you cry doesn't mean I'm going to spoil you." He smirked. Naruto laughed brightly and Sasuke smiled. He'd discovered early in their relationship that Naruto's laughter was like a healing balm at the end of a rough day.

"I thought you said you were going to make dinner."

"I started the water." Sasuke pointed at the large pot on the stove. "And the bread." He added as he stuck the breadsticks in the warm oven. The blonde laughed once again. He opened the fridge and began pulling out stuff to make a salad, giving the raven a great view of his ass as he bent over. The baggy orange sweats the blonde wore sagged slightly as he straightened up and the raven could see he wasn't wearing anything under them. Sasuke groaned as he forced himself to look back at the ingredients for the sauce he needed to be preparing. He began making the sauce, listening as Naruto hummed to himself as he chopped vegetables for their salad. Sasuke growled softly and turned to attack the blonde but he found a tomato slice pressed against his lips and amused cerulean eyes sparkling at him.

"You do this every night, Sas." He answered the unasked question in Sasuke's eyes. "The water's boiling." He added before turning back to the salad.

"So I'm not allowed to even kiss you now?" Sasuke asked as he dumped the pasta into the water.

"I'd hate to distract you from work." Naruto answered cheekily.

"Hn." Sasuke smirked as Naruto laughed softly. Naruto continued humming as he prepared the salad in the big glass salad bowl. He pulled out two bowls from the cabinet and stuck them in the fridge before turning off the oven and putting two plates in to warm up. Sasuke continued stirring the pasta and the sauce as Naruto went to their wine cabinet and began looking through the bottles. "Nar, try this." Sasuke said holding out the pasta spoon with a long string of fettuccini hanging off it. The blonde carefully blew on the pasta before pulling it off the spoon and eating it, slurping the noodle and enjoying the low growl from his lover.

"Perfect." He smiled. He didn't even have time to move before Sasuke's mouth was on his. He indulged in the feel of his lover's demanding lips against his for a moment or so before he pushed the raven away. "You said you had too much work to play tonight." Naruto gave him a stern look.

"I hate it when you use your teacher voice on me." Sasuke sighed.

"You need to drain the noodles or they'll be over cooked." Naruto warned. Sasuke sighed and did as he was told as Naruto pulled out the bread and the plates from the oven. Sasuke served the pasta as Naruto put the bread in a basket and pulled out the bowls from the fridge. Sasuke carried the plates, bread and wine bottle as Naruto carried the bowl of salad, the chilled salad bowls and the wine glasses. They set everything on the table, Sasuke turning on the Christmas lights Naruto had hung across the ceiling when he first moved in and the stereo as Naruto made the table look pretty. They both sat and started eating.

"How was your day?" Sasuke asked after a few moments of silence. A blonde eyebrow raised as crystal blue eyes looked up at him.

"Well, first I wake up to an empty bed. Then I have nothing to wear because of that bonfire incident a few weeks ago so I had to wear your clothes. And don't smirk like that, asshole, I seriously hate wearing your clothes because all the kids are scared of me and all the moms hit on me. So then during class one of the kids got sick throwing up all over me and your t-shirt. It was that black one with the silver skull on the side that you like so much. Thankfully Kiba had some extra clothes for me to change into. One of the girls fell when we were playing outside and busted up her face so I had to deal with her furious mother as she yelled at me for not watching her child closer. Then one of the boys started throwing food today at lunch. During nap time one of the boys had a nightmare and I had to hold him while he got snot all over me because he couldn't calm down. Finally I come home to find out you have work to do even though it's been almost three weeks since the last time we've had sex. And that was my day." Naruto huffed.

"You let some brat ralph on my favorite shirt?" Sasuke glared as if it was the only thing he'd gotten out of the whole story.

"Quite honestly I think you deserved it." Naruto said defiantly and then narrowed his eyes at his lover. "Is that seriously the only think you heard out of my entire story?"

"No, I also realized you were strongly hinting at the fact that I'm a terrible lover."

"I never said that." The blond smirked as his eyes sparkled with amusement.

"I'm sorry you had such a bad day. And I'll take you shopping this weekend to get you some new clothes."

"Well if someone hadn't burnt half of my clothes in the first place I wouldn't have had to wear his favorite t-shirt to school."

"No one should have that much orange in their wardrobe." Sasuke shook his head as Naruto laughed.

"I did wash your shirt, bastard. I'm not as big of a moron as you say I am." He smiled, leaning on his elbow as he looked at his broody lover across the table. Sasuke was silent for a moment before he smirked.

"Hn." He sighed as he leaned back in the chair, letting his head fall back so he could stare up at the lights on the ceiling.

"Sas?" Naruto called somewhat worried.

"Sorry, I'm just tired." He sighed again, running a hand over his face.

"Busy day?" Sasuke laughed.

"You have no idea." If they were comparing bad days, Sasuke was pretty sure he had won by a landslide.

"Well, how about I do the dishes and get dessert while you start on your work, okay?" Naruto smiled.

"You're too good to me."

"Don't I know it." Naruto laughed as he began gathering the dishes. Once everything was inside Naruto began doing the dishes. Sasuke sat on the love seat on their balcony and glanced over his shoulder at the blonde before pulling out his cell and hitting the speed dial.

"Sasuke?" Neji asked somewhat confused as he answered his phone.

"I need you to do me a favor first thing tomorrow, before Itachi gets in."

"Does it have to do with today? I heard about you being ambushed."

"I have a feeling that some boxes were missing. I don't like being cheated."

"Yes sir. I'll do it first thing." They hung up and Sasuke hit the speed dial again, this time for Itachi's phone.

"This better be important." Itachi full out snarled into the phone. Sasuke could hear noise in the background and knew he was interrupting something.

"Asuma called me earlier." There was a heavy sigh and the background noises faded as Itachi went to a different room.

"That is important. Did they find everything at the warehouse?"

"Worse. The found a setup at one of our warehouses. Five boxes of weapons and ten dead men." There was a soft growl. "Asuma said it was an anonymous tip. Neji's going to run the numbers tomorrow morning but I didn't tell him about what the cops found." Again there was another sigh. They'd been trying to get this deal done for over a month and was turning out to be more trouble than it's worth.

"I don't like getting screwed, little brother."

"The feeling is mutual."

"I'll have someone look into it." The phone line went dead. Sasuke put his phone back in his pocket before leaning back against the couch. It was a few seconds and he heard the distinct popping of fireworks in the distance. He knocked on the window and Naruto was outside in a second.

"Sas, you need something?" Naruto asked concerned.

"Nah. The botanical is still doing the fireworks show. I figured you'd want to see it." He smiled up at his nervous looking lover. Naruto sighed with relief and smiled softly before the popping could be heard again and he ran to the railing to watch the display. Sasuke just sat and watched the excited childlike look on his lover's face being illuminated by the fireworks in the distance. The show went on for ten minutes. Naruto sat down on the loveseat between Sasuke's legs and leaned back on his chest. The raven winced as Naruto's shifting put pressure on the cut on his thigh.

"I'm not really mad at you, you know." He said softly. Sasuke laughed softly, wrapping his arms around his lover and pressing his face into his neck.

"Yeah. I know. How about tomorrow we go out to The Hidden Leaf?" The blonde nodded.

"Sounds good." He sighed contentedly, relaxing in his lover's arms. "Oh!" He shot up. "Dessert."

"Yeah, let's go in. I need to start working." The raven nodded as the blonde pulled him out of the chair and into the apartment. Sasuke was handed a plate with a small slice of cake, Naruto's held a very large slice. "I'll be in my office." He sighed, kissing Naruto's cheek before moving to his office and sitting down at his desk. He turned on the computer and typed in his password. The mouse pointer turned into an hourglass and began flipping, Sasuke ate a bite of the cake. To any other person he'd deny it, but he loved Naruto's homemade cakes, they were the only sweets he would eat. He saw he had a new email from Zetsu and opened it.

You owe me big for this mess, asswipe. One day I'll tear your fucking heart out. –Z

Sasuke smirked before opening the pictures, making sure everything looked the same between when he left and when Zetsu came to clean up. Everything was fine, meaning the boxes were taken before he'd gotten there. Sasuke forwarded a few of the pictures to Itachi before pulling up some files to work on for the legal side of their business. Naruto came in half an hour later to take Sasuke's plate and refill his wine glass.

"Need anything else?" Naruto asked.

"No, I'm good right now." Sasuke smiled. The blonde kissed his head before leaving. Sasuke sighed and began working. He heard Naruto snickering. He looked up at the smiling blonde.

"You look like a mess." He laughed softly. Onyx eyes narrowed. "Your clothes are all rumpled, your hair's crazy and you have ink smeared on your cheek. What have you been doing in here?" The blonde smiled as he walked into the room. Sasuke glanced at the clock and saw he'd been in there for a few hours already. Tan fingers ran through disheveled raven locks, straightening them to their normal style.

"You need something?"

"No. I was just coming to tell you good night. How much longer you think you're going to be?" He leaned on the arm of Sasuke's chair, kissing his lover's temple.

"Hmm, still a few hours." The raven sighed, leaning into the warmth of the blonde man.

"Don't you have to be up early?"

"Don't you?"

"Touché." Naruto laughed, kissing Sasuke one last time as he stood up. "Good night, Sas."

"Night, Nar." Sasuke smiled as the blonde left the room. It was 2am before Sasuke finished everything and got in bed. He carefully crawled in next to his lover so he wouldn't wake the blonde, but he did.

"Sasu." Naruto mumbled sleepily as he pressed into Sasuke's side.

"Go to sleep, babe." Sasuke yawned, kissing the blonde and wrapping his arms around him. He was asleep instantly.


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