Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto.

Author: AlteredFire

A/N: First Naruto fic for me ^^ I never really thought of shipping Naruto characters before but after reading all the SasuNaru fluffy stuff I really felt that Sai needed some love! Please review, it keeps me going! And I'm not really sure If I wanna continue SaiNaru so it all depends on popularity?

Warning: Cussing. Will contain mature content in the future. This story contains homo relationships... SaiNaru.

Notes: -Anything between the dashi things are inner thoughts...-

This moment, this situation, could it get any worse? Naruto shifted his weight to his right leg, his elbow on the window sill and whiskered cheek resting on his palm. Being in a small space, Sai sat close behind him, unmoving, legs crossed.

This… this was awkward.

They were most definitely on a mission. Well, it was over now. They were sent to a rural area to protect the priestess during a ghost exorcism. Well, it was mostly a civil conflict in the local religion which put the priestess at a risk. The whole exorcism thing was just part of their religion, weather spirits were real or not wasn't proven but Naruto was sure shaken up with the whole ghost business. While on their way back, they had gotten lost. People in rural places tended to their own life, pretty much lived in their own world, and so getting lost was a high probability.

Yamato-taichou had built a small cabin as a temporary camp out. Team seven was then split into two groups. Sakura and Taichou: scout out, Naruto and Sai: stay behind. They couldn't risk splitting just to end up utterly lost and scouting in a group of four was pointless. Though Naruto's shadow clones would have been useful, his teeth were chattering at the night, thoughts still lost in ghosts.

The snap of a button and the shuffling of papers were followed by the soft scratches of pencil. Sai was drawing.

"Hm… bend over a bit more"

Naruto's snapped away from the grass fields outside and he stomped over to Sai.

"You little…" He tore the page from Sai and held it up to the light. It was stick figure with an unusually large butt and head, bent over in a suggestive position. The facial expression was intentionally deformed and the whiskers were un-even.

"What the fuck Sai!"

"Do you like it?" His voice was innocent in the creepiest way possible, "I forgot the dick though…"

"You can draw the most complex fucking animal in less than ten seconds for your stupid jutsu but you can't draw me without making me look like a doofus?!"

Sai flipped on his plastic smile, "Ah, thanks Naruto, but you are a doofus, making my drawing accurate."

Naruto clawed at his own hair in anger, "Agh! I can't fucking stand you sometimes!" Over the past few days Sai's taunts have only gotten worse. The blond crumpled the paper and threw is onto the floor, and then returned to his original post.

The blonde prayed for the remaining members to return soon.

Naruto moved away from the window and slid down on the wood walls. He was tired of trying his best to avoid eye contact or conversation with Sai but he was also tired of standing for hours.

Really, he would be glad to not socialize with Sai but this atmosphere, it was heavy. Sai had flipped to a new page in his sketchbook when Naruto had ripped the earlier one out. He might be running out of paper, for most of the pages were flipped to the back. He was currently scratching away at it, his face emotionless, neither dark nor light.

"Hey, let me see your sketchbook," he added a gruff murmur, "not like there's anything worth seeing…"

Sai glanced at Naruto with the usual imprinted smile, "Ah, go ahead"

Naruto crawled over to Sai on his knees and sat next to him, keeping a good distance between them.

Sai closed the spiral bound book and handed it to Naruto.

The blond traced the velvety green cover curiously with a finger and pulled it back to reveal the pages beneath. The first few had elaborate… lions? He wasn't sure what to call it. It was some sort of beast with designs embedded inside of its outline. The beast seemed to be snarling, sword like teeth bared. He continued flipping the page. An abstract? It was swirled with colors but none blended within each, rather, collided in harmony? He eyed it curiously and continued flipping pages; ah, he would never understand art but this was, reluctant to admit, impressive. Naruto concluded that the book was fairly new, seeing that majority were empty pages. But… earlier, it seemed that the book was full… Naruto turned to book over and decided to go backwards.

A pale hand pushed down on the back cover. "Ah, you don't want to see that" Sai smiled, his real intents hidden.

"Wow, you're damn suspicious…"

The artist pulled the sketchbook back before Naruto could attempt to flip a page.

"What th- oh," the blond smirked mischievously, "probably drawing some kinky stuffs back there, eh? It's ok, I won't judge. As a minor I was forced to read pornographic drafts for novels!"

"That explains."

"What! What's that supposed to fucking mean!"

A sudden wrapped on the door broke up the tension. It was Yamato and Sakura.

"I expected that you two behaved?" Yamato's dead eyes were steaming with a killing intent.

"Haha, yeeeeeeah…" The blond nudged his elbow into Sai who in turn agreed with him.

"Alright," Yamato entered the single room and sat down on the hardwood, crossing both arms and legs, "Sakura and I have somehow gather some info on directions."

Sakura spoke up as she leaned against the exit. "We were apparently walking northeast when in fact we should we walking directly east. Ha! Who knew?"

"As Sakura said. We'll be heading off tomorrow. Be sure to have a good rest." Yamato stood up rolled out his sheets.

"Aw yess!" The blond squealed in delight. He could smell the Ramen that awaited him at sweet home.

The cabin area was quite small, almost like a tent with a wooden roof, meaning they all had to sleep next to each other vertically.

"Yaaaamato Taiiichooo! Can't you make this any bigger?"

The captain glanced at the whiskered boy hopelessly, "I've been scouting the previous day and the day before, and each time we moved, I've been building a new camp site and destroying it. I can't just make infinite mansions pop up. My chakra reserve's pretty low…"

Sakura had begun placing her bedding as far into the corner as she could. Naruto edged closer to her, giggling, and quietly laid his bedding beside her before he was met with a fistful in the face, "What the fuck do you think you're doing! Stop invading a lady's space!"

No way was her strength like a lady's; well at least he still got to sleep next to her…. Naruto groaned, eyeing his other team mates. Yamato was in a corner of his own, but Sai, he was sleeping next to him. –Curse my luck!-

He watched the artist carefully as he stripped of his utensils and sword, "Hey, don't you dare try something funny!"

"Hm?" Sai just slathered a smile, "Like what?"

The blond growled, "Just, don't!" He looked back at Sakura who had at least two feet of extra space to herself. If only he could acquire and extra foot, but he didn't want a bloody mouth, again.

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