Chapter 1

Blue berry pancakes

8 years it had been since they were assigned to there squads. They had been through so much together no one saw this coming...

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It was late one night sasuke, naruto and sakura had just finished there last mission. Sakura had left them to go home to her own house. Naruto was only a short walk to his apartment; sasuke's apartment was on the other side of the village.

With a drawn out sigh sasuke turned around and started walking home.

"Wait!" Yelled naruto looking at the tired, bloodied sasuke "come and stay at my apartment tonight, you look really tired and can sleep on my couch."

"No I don't want to be a burden." Replied sasuke silently regretting what he said. He would have liked to stay at naruto's instead of trudging home with wounds bleeding and mud up to his knees

"It's ok I don't mind I'll heat up some extra ramen." Naruto said looking at sasuke with a big smile.

"Fine." Said sasuke, giving in to naruto's smile.

Naruto showed sasuke up his buildings stairs into his apartment. When they got into his apartment naruto rubbed the back of his head shamefully looking at the all the ramen cups, ninja books and weapons which was scatted over his floor along with a variety of rubbish.

"Sorry about the mess," naruto said apologetically picking up random bits of rubbish and putting them in the bin "I was going to clean up but missions get in the way"

"It's ok." Sasuke whispered feeling quite sick from blood loss in the wound in his shoulder he had got from a stray shurican.

"You don't look so good!" exclaimed naruto looking at sasuke swaying

"No, no I'm alri…" sasuke started before everything went black and he fell to the ground

"Oh shit!" cried naruto leaping forward to catch sasuke before he hit the ground, lifting him up naruto carried him over to his bathroom. Sitting him on the floor with his back against the wall. Naruto went over to the bath and turned on the taps until they were a good temperature and leaving them to run. He returned to sasuke then stripping him down to his drawers and looking over his wound. The wound was deep and slowly leaking blood. Know wonder sasuke had fainted he had got that wound over 4 hours ago.

Now naruto lifted the half naked, limp sasuke over to the bath and paced him in and turned off the taps. Now naruto set his mind to cleaning sasuke's wound and the rest of his body. Naruto leaned sasuke forward to wash his back, sasuke's head lolled forward onto naruto's shoulder. Naruto could feel his hot breath on his neck and remembered when he and sasuke used to fight and be very competitive, until they got older and soon lost interest in there childish ways and learned how to finally be a team.

"Err…" sasuke groaned regaining conscious finding himself wet and cleaned leaning on naruto's shoulder. It was then that he realized were he was and sat up straight looking in the face of naruto. Sasuke looked at the blonde haired ninja; naruto's big blue eyes looked back in amazement at sasuke's sudden movement and sasuke realized how attractive naruto was, how had he not realized before? He had bid blue eyes, spicky blond hair, lean muscled body and six strips that ran alone his cheeks. Slowly sasuke silently leaned forward and kissed naruto on the lips.

Naruto was taken aback by the kiss and firstly struggled away but the more he would struggle the tighter sasuke held him. Groping towards the wall on the other side of the bath to steady himself naruto found his other hand grasping the middle of sasuke's back. The kiss seemed to go on for ever until sasuke again fell unconscious slipping out of naruto's grip leaving naruto gasping for air.

Slightly confused naruto slowly stood up and walked over to his cupboard fishing out a clean towel. He carefully picked up sasuke wrapping him in a towel and dressing him in old clothes of naruto's and laying him on his couch and laying a blanket over him.

Naruto now too tired to wash or change his clothes walked over to his bed and flopped down falling asleep almost straight away.

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The early morning sun woke naruto up as usual. Slowly he sat up and remembered what had happened last night and crept silently over to his couch to find sasuke still sleeping. Naruto looked around his small apartment at all the rubbish and weapons that covered his floor and decided he needed to clean it before sasuke woke up and thought that over the many years sasuke had known him he still had'nt changed, it was not true it was just didn't have time to clean.

So naruto set to work cleaning up the rubbish, putting away his books on his smallish bookcase and storing his spare weapons in his wardrobe. Sweeping up the last of the dirt he looked happily over his work and moved in to his kitchen to start preparing breakfast for his guest.

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Sasuke woke in a daze to the smell of blueberry pancakes. Slowly he sat up and cleared his head with a shake. All of a sudden he remembered last night and smiled. He stood up and silently walked over to naruto's kitchen to where naruto was leaning over a stove and slid his hands around naruto's waist

"I see you've cleaned," he whispered in his ear

"I hope you like pancakes." Naruto said softly brushing his lips against sasuke's and gesturing to a plate full of blue berry pancakes. He added the one he was cooking to the plate and carried it over to the table where he had two glasses off orange juice, plates and cutlery. He placed the plate in the middle of the table and sat down opposite sasuke who was already helping himself to the pancakes.

"Did you sleep well?" naruto asked stuffing his mouth full of pancakes.

"Yes very well your couch is very nice," sasuke replied "naruto, about last night…"

"I wouldn't take anything back even if I wanted to," naruto said through a mouth full of pancake, swallowing it all with a gulp of juice.

"Thank you," sasuke quietly said "these are very good pancakes naruto!"

And so the conversation went on like that till all of the breakfast was gone and then sasuke got up.

"I had better go now, my land lord is coming to collect the rent." Sasuke said walking towards the door

"Wait a second!" yelled naruto leaping up from the table "when will I see you next?"

"How about tonight at my house?" replied sasuke "I'll cook?"

"yes ok I would like that," whispered naruto coming closer to sasuke and holding him tightly in his arms kissing him lightly on the lips "I'll be there at seven," he finished, breaking away from sasuke watching him walk out the door.