Disclaimer: I forgot the first chapter but this applies to that too. I do not own Naruto, or obviously there would be a different twist to the story. Oh and Kyuubi is a girl in this just to let you know.
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Naruto wakes up the next morning surrounded by warmth. This isn't something he's used to by any means and he finds it especially nice. He glows until he remembers exactly what lead up to this point. 'I cannot believe that I've been in love with Sasuke without even knowing it,' he marvels. 'It's so unreal.'
"You smile beautifully, sleepy-head," Sasuke says to him quietly. "It really makes staying here watching you sleep worth the effort of trying to stay awake." Naruto stops him from saying anything else by throwing himself at Sasuke and squeezing him tight while nuzzling his neck.
"I love you. I really, really love you," he tells Sasuke with happiness in his voice. "I am so happy that we get the rest of the week off because of all the planning we did for the party."
"Me too, Dobe; now we can spend more time together. Just the two of us," Sasuke emphasized. Naruto completely missed his double meaning and just nodded eagerly.
"Yep! I can't wait. We can go outside and play, stay inside and play, go out to eat, whatever we want," he says excitedly looking at Sasuke with a grin.
Sasuke smiles a feral smile back at him, "I like the sound of 'playing' inside," he tells his new boyfriend.
Naruto understands this innuendo and blushes before bravely says, "It does sound nice," to Sasuke's face, though bashfully. Sasuke smiles at his dobe before picking him up the same way he had last night. This makes Naruto squeal and cling to Sasuke so as not to fall. He turns his head to smile up at Sasuke and their faces are just an inch apart from each other. Naruto's breathing calms and Sasuke kisses him the same way as last night. Gently; the only difference is that this kiss contains more desire in it. A desire that frightens Naruto even if he had just joked about it.
Sasuke stops the kiss as soon as he feels Naruto's fears. He looks at his teammate and best friend and boyfriend with understanding. "Hey," he asks him softly, "you know I won't do anything you won't like, don't you?"
Naruto is still scared but not as jittery now that Sasuke has said that to him. He trusts Sasuke explicitly with all of himself…including his body. "I know. I'm just scared," Naruto looks up at his wannabe lover with sad eyes and tells him, "I've never really…dated…or anything else with…anyone."
Sasuke leans down and brushes their noses together. "I will take this as slow as you want, Dobe. Like I said, I love you."
"I love you too;" Naruto smiles at Sasuke.
They probably would have had more heart-felt moments if Sakura didn't knock just then. They both looked toward the downstairs then at how Naruto was dressed. Sasuke set him on his feet with a sigh, "Go get dressed. I don't want any girl looking at my Naruto even if she does have a girl of her own." Naruto smiles as he turns to go into his usual bedroom. Sasuke had called him "his." The young fox was euphoric over that all through getting dressed (into jeans and a loose t-shirt) to going downstairs and getting hit by Sakura.
"Will you pay attention already Naruto? Sheesh, you could at least try not to have that I-just-got-deflowered look." Naruto really gets woken up by that comment and blushes as red as a tomato."
"We haven't done anything like that, Sakura," Sasuke tells her coolly. "We're going to wait for Naruto to be ready before taking that step."
"Oh really?" Sakura inquires fakely, raising her eyebrows. "Ino and I said the same thing as I recall and we took it up a notch the very first week."
Sasuke would of given a proper response to that but Naruto looked like he was cooking his brain with all the blushing so he switched the subject, "Sakura why are you here anyway?" he asked her. "Shouldn't you be with Ino this morning?"
Sakura answers him mildly while walking in the general direction of his kitchen, "She was dragged off by Choji to talk with Shikamaru because apparently Neji was being a jerk last night."
"What did he do?" Naruto asked, right behind her.
Sakura doesn't answer until she'd done rifling through Sasuke's refrigerator for eggs, peppers, onions, and, in the freezer part at the top, breakfast sausage. "He decided it would be a good idea to get drunk and start kissing random boys."
"That asshole! How dare he? I hope Shikamaru breaks up with him."
"Me too, but we both know he won't."
"yeah," Naruto said gloomily.
"In any case I'm making breakfast and packing a lunch so the three of us can go on a picnic. I figured we'd go to the old training grounds."
"Sounds great," Naruto answered with a grin. "Doesn't it Sasuke?" he asked turning around.
"Whatever makes you happy Dobe."
"Yay! We're goin' on a picnic, we're goin' on a picnic."
"Not if you don't stop dancing" Sakura told him. "Sasuke, come over here and cut the pepper up; Naruto, you get out while we cook, you'll burn something."
"But--"
"No buts. Get out," she cut him off and he complied pouting very cutely.
"I'll be leaving; probably right after I get things set up at the training ground so the two of you can enjoy."
"Thanks."
"Anytime."
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Later that afternoon Sakura stuck to her word and went left on a "medical emergency call." Looks like it's just you and me Sasuke," Naruto says smiling. "This all looks so good." Before leaving Sakura had laid out ramen, sushi, hamburgers, etc. onto a table cloth on the ground.
"Let's dig in, then." About 30 seconds later half the food was gone. "Slow down, Naruto," Sasuke says trying not to laugh, really hard.
"I can't help it. Sakura is a really good cook."
"Yeah. She is."
The two sat and ate there for an hour before moving back to Sasuke's place where Naruto curled up on Sasuke's bed without even asking and fell asleep. Sasuke looked at him while lying beside him and smiled until he too, drifted to sleep.
