Naruto in the Alps 2

Second installment to NITA, and hopefully this one's a little longer. If not, well, that just means more chapters.

Hope everyone's liking it, though I haven't gotten as many reviews as I would've hoped, but eh, that's story writing for you. Oh, and sorry if anyone's out-of-character. I'm trying to write them as best I can, so hopefully there are no problems with that.

Not much else to say except the usual. Oh, and go read ClownBoy's stuff, it's pure brilliant. I know, I'm such a kiss-ass.

Haha, onto better things!

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Chapter 2

Sasuke huffed silently while Naruto walked along his side panting loudly. The rest of the crew was started to get annoyed.

"Naruto, are you that out of shape that you can't even scale a mountain properly?" asked the irritated Sakura.

Naruto squinted at her, "Think of what you just said, Sakura; a MOUNTAIN!!!"

She responded by shushing him. "Naruto, shut up! Do you want an avalanche to happen?"

"If it'll keep you from bitching, at me yes-!"

Naruto flew twenty feet backwards.

"Oww…" he whined, rubbing his now pained head. Sakura shook her head and Kakashi shrugged, but Sasuke actually started walking towards him. When he reached the fallen boy, he held a frozen hand out. Naruto stared shocked for a moment; was Sasuke actually helping him? He wasn't smiling, so he must be serious. Naruto brought a shaking hand up and grabbed a tight hold onto Sasuke and was pulled up.

"Thanks." Naruto mumbled, looking to the ground and blushing.

Sasuke shrugged nonchalantly. "Don't mention it. He turned briskly and carried on walking up to where Sakura and Kakashi waited with Naruto close in tow.

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Naruto stood glaring at the snow-covered cabin in front of him. It was small and ramshackle, nothing of much value or worship. It didn't look very warm either, like it would freeze you to death in your sleep, like suffocate you or something. He hated it.

"Man, why'd Kakashi-sensei have to give us this crap-shack?!"

Sasuke shrugged.

"I swear, we got cheated somehow…and to think, I got paired with you!" Naruto pretended to seethe while secretly, he was doing mad jumping jacks in his head.

Sasuke shook his head with close eyes and close-furrowed brows. "It's not like I wanted this either." Unknowingly, he was thinking the same thing as Naruto, just more low-key.

Nevertheless, the two 'ninjas' walked to the door and opened it up, stepping inside. They took in their surroundings and frowned simultaneously. It wasn't much better than the outside. The room was dusty and dark from lack of use and the single bulb in the middle of the ceiling didn't look like it would provide much light anyway. At least there was a fireplace for warmth. The furniture looked old and creaky, much like how the floorboards sounded. The walls and their framed portraits were faded. There was a particular portrait of some German Kaiser or whatever that Naruto found especially grody. He glared at it with his lip curled.

"What are you snarling at?" Sasuke asked, breaking the staring match off.

"That stupid painting there; it's ugly and creepy." He pointed at it.

"Ah. Well, regardless, let's just make the best of a terrible situation, alright?" Naruto nodded and sighed in an exaggerated manner.

They stepped all the way in and Sasuke closed the door behind them, cutting off the cold air that had begun to seep in.

Naruto set his belongings on the ground as did Sasuke and stretched, his back popping loudly. Sasuke challenged by cricking his neck.

Naruto broke the silence, walking towards one of the frosted windows. "It's almost night," He said, looking out, "Kakashi and Sakura probably won't be bothering to come around anytime soon…"

Naruto gasped and his eyes widened when he felt a pair of strong arms encircle him. His heart beating fast, he leaned back into the touch, feeling Sasuke's warm breath on his ear. He closed his eyes and smiled, giggling slightly. "Sasuke…what are you doing?"

"Standing here watching you."

"You're holding me."

"I'm aware." Sasuke leaned down and licked the shorter male's cheek.

Naruto giggled.

"Naruto, what are you laughing about?" Naruto's eyes snapped open as he was suddenly thrown out of his daze.

"Huh??"

"I said, what are you laughing about?" repeated Sasuke.

Naruto shook his head. "N-nothing, um, I was just dazing."

Sasuke snorted. "Figures. You were out for like five minutes; I was beginning to wonder if you were actually pondering for once."

Naruto huffed, and then wondered nervously, "Uh, I didn't say anything, did I?" Sasuke shook his head and Naruto sighed, relieved.

'Coulda blown my cover there, jeez…close call.'

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Naruto was blushing furiously, trying hard to look away as Sasuke pulled his shirt over his head. "Uh, what're you stripping for, Sasuke? Isn't it gonna be cold?"

Sasuke shrugged for the billionth time that day. Surely his shoulders were sore or something. "I dunno, just more comfortable, I guess. Besides, we've got a fire going, so we needn't worry about temperature."

Naruto took this as a good point and chose to take his shirt off as well. It was Sasuke's turn to blush now. He shook his head trying to rid of the redness. He backed up and then walked over to the ragged couch where he sat down. He sunk into the chair, much to his annoyance, but pulled out and moved towards the edge before he got stuck.

Sasuke rested his face in his palms and closed his eyes, thinking. He opened his eyes though, and looked down when he felt something lean in between his lower legs. His black eyes met the blues of Naruto looking back up at him, smiling slightly.

"Hey Sasuke."

"Um…hi. What are you doing?" he asked, hoping that this was a little illusion going on in his head. It wasn't.

"Oh, nothing much, just sitting with you."

"Oh."

Sasuke looked up towards the glowing fire but looked back down when Naruto spoke again.

"Um, hey, I know that this might sound like an odd, maybe even inappropriate request, but could you, uh, massage my head for me?"

Sasuke stared. "Are you serious?"

The blonde flushed and shrugged nervously. "That, uh, that is, only if you want to…"

"Sure."

"Huh?"

"I said, sure. Move your head forward."

Naruto grinned like a madman disbelievingly and Sasuke placed the tips of his fingers in his mane of spiky hair. As Sasuke slowly started to dig in, Naruto closed his eyes and resisted the strong urge to moan. He did lean in slightly, though, into the heavenly touch.

Naruto prayed to any god who would listen that he didn't have an erection.

The room was quiet until Sasuke, surprisingly, spoke through concentration (he was trying to make this as good as he could for Naruto). "Hey, Naruto, do you remember that one time in history class?"

"What time?"

"You know, that one time when we were having a glaring contest or something and one of the other kids pushed you onto me? And we accidentally kissed?"

Naruto's seemingly permanent blush deepened. "Yeh…why?"

"Umm…honestly, what did you think of it? You know, the whole situation and how it was with me?" He paused his actions for a moment and then continued.

Naruto stayed quiet for a moment, thinking. Thinking that Naruto was offended, Sasuke briefly apologized.

"No, no, don't be sorry, I was just thinking of what to say…hmm, can I get back to you on that?"

Sasuke looked off to the side, hopefully not letting his guard down in any way. "Uh, sure."

Silence again, and then- "Well, what'd you think of it?"

Sasuke paused again. "I'll get back to you on that."

They both grinned unknowingly to the other.

Ten minutes later, after Sasuke complained that his fingers were tired and Naruto agreed that his scalp was now numb; they stopped the whole massaging event. They chose to remain seated where they were (neither wanted to move from the other's company), and decided on just talking quietly to each other.

"And remember what happened to Sakura's hair?" Naruto laughed.

"Yeh, haha."

"Man, she was so pissed."

Sasuke and Naruto sighed simultaneously, both quite content with the situation. Both were also wondering what the others thoughts were on the earlier discussed kissing scenario. They kept their mouths shut about that though, and chose to ask again later, despite the feeling in their stomachs.

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This chapter was nicely longer and hopefully more entertaining then the last. I'm not moving things along to quickly, am I? Or am I leaving you all wondering, much like Sasuke and Naruto?

We'll see. As always, I…nonchalantly ask of you to R/R. Thanks.