The twins knew they came off as rude when they said goodbye to their father. Naruto was watching them silently and there was no smile on his face. They knew that spelled trouble, but they couldn't find it in themselves to care. So, they looked once at each other, then at their father, and said, "See you later, Neji" before they took the other's hand and headed to Naruto's big brown hand-me-down truck. They didn't look back once.

"What the hell was that?" Naruto demanded of them once they were in the truck and on the road. The twins merely looked out the windows.

"What do you mean?" they asked. Naruto's hands clenched on the steering wheel.

"What the hell do you mean, what do I mean?" he shot back through gritted teeth. "You know exactly what I mean! What was that attitude for? Neji didn't do anything to deserve that." Keitaro sighed and deftly flicked a strand of messy black hair from his eyes.

"There was no attitude," he said. "That's just how we are." The car suddenly turned abruptly and jerked to a stop. Naruto was turning to glare at them fully over the seat.

"If that's how you are all the time, then we've got even more of a problem," he growled at them. "I didn't fucking raise you for three years to be assholes to the one man who stood next to me every single day I did." Soichiro and Keitaro suddenly turned to face him simultaneously, glaring as hard as their dad.

"You mean the man you left willingly for someone else?" they challenged. Naruto felt like he had just been punched in the gut. He suddenly felt all the anger slip from his body as he deflated into a frozen mass with no confidence. He found he couldn't look away from his two sons as they waited for his reply.

"I… I didn't mean to – do that," he said lamely. "I never meant it to…"

"Hurt him," they finished. "But you did." Naruto swallowed hard and tried to blink back the guilt that had never really left him alone.

"Wait a minute," he said as something flashed through his mind. "Then why aren't you being dickwads to me? Why are you acting this way to Neji? I hurt him, how is that his fault?" The twins turned oddly quiet and looked distinctly more nervous than when they began the trip to Naruto's apartment. Their hands held tighter together and they shared an uneasy glance. They should have known that Naruto wouldn't let it go. He had a one track mind like that. Especially when it came to people he cared about.

Keitaro looked at his brother and cleared his throat inaudibly.

"We don't want to move," he said seriously, but quietly. "Neji doesn't understand that." Naruto turned around and bit his lip hard, jerking the steering wheel around and roughly directing the truck back onto the road. His eyes began to sting and he recognized the presence of persistent tears behind them.

His kids didn't feel like their father understood them. They didn't feel as though Neji truly got what it felt like to be Soichiro and Keitaro. Where there used to be a strong connection between the three of them, there was now a severed cord that served no purpose but as a sick reminder of what had deteriorated because of Naruto's stupid mistake.

But it wasn't a mistake. Not to Naruto. He loved Sasuke, he truly loved him. He would never leave Neji for a stupid fling that didn't mean anything. If he'd had an affair with Sasuke, he would have up and told Neji immediately. He would have begged for forgiveness if he'd had to, just to preserve their relationship. But that's not what happened; Naruto had actually fallen in love with Sasuke and out of love with Neji.

But everyone was still suffering for it. Neji, himself, and now his sons too. Because they thought that Neji had forgotten about them.

And even though Naruto's very body burned to defend Neji, he just couldn't find it in himself to. Because he didn't know if Neji really did understand the boys. He didn't know what their life had become after the break-up. And he couldn't very well ask; he'd lost that right when he left Neji; he'd relinquished it willingly.

So, now, everyone seemed all for the worse, while he was selfishly reveling in his love for Sasuke. Perfect.

Naruto sighed and pressed his foot down hard on the accelerator. 50, 55, 60, 70 miles per hour. The twins watched him warily from the backseat, afraid to move.

As soon as the car pulled into the parking lot, the twins were ready with their shared bag of clothes. When Naruto parked the car and put on the emergency break, they were speeding out of the side door and into the apartment. They waited awkwardly for Naruto to let them in and didn't stay to greet Sasuke, or watch as Sasuke greeted Naruto.

It was really kind of bad that Naruto was attracted to smart men. Sasuke noticed immediately that something was wrong and looked at Naruto with an aloof yet expectant expression.

"What did you do?" Naruto only glared at him and let himself collapse onto their worn sofa. His head fell into his hands and his body slumped forward. There was only one word in Sasuke's mind as he watched the idiot in front of him: pathetic. Naruto honestly looked pathetic. Sasuke stuck his hands in his pockets and just waited.

"Is it normal to feel like shit this long after you end a relationship?" the blonde mumbled into his hands. Sasuke didn't respond.

"I mean, I know it's not a very long time when you compare it to how long the relationship was," he continued. "Six months to five years. It's like a fucking second to an hour! But…" He broke off and shook his head. Still, Sasuke said nothing. Naruto's hands began to shake.

"I was the one who broke it off!" he exclaimed in a weak parody of a shout. "I told him we were done! Why the hell am I feeling depressed? What the fuck!" His head fell even farther, now resting in the crooks of both elbows, while his hands hung like dead weights just above his wild hair.

"I've moved on," he mumbled. "I'm not in love with him anymore, but why – why the hell am I—"

"Shut up," Sasuke suddenly ordered. "Just shut up, you idiot." Naruto's head snapped up and wide slightly red-rimmed eyes gaped at him stupidly.

"What?" Sasuke rolled his eyes and crushed the urge to slap the complete idiot who was staring so perplexedly at him.

"I can't believe it," the Uchiha said. "You really don't get it." Naruto blinked and gave an expectant look; "do tell" it said. Sasuke shook his head and gave Naruto a small grin.

"You invested five years of your life in Hyuuga Neji," he said simply. "You loved him for five years as much as you love me right now – maybe even more – and you can't get rid of that in six months. If you could—" He broke off to shrug. "What the hell are we doing here?"

Naruto blinked again.

"So, you're saying—"

"Stop trying to sink yourself into denial, you ass. You're never going to completely eradicate Hyuuga from your life because you fucking can't. You care about him too much. Stop trying to fight it, you and I both know that you don't want to sleep with him anymore." Naruto could only stare in amazement at Sasuke. Sasuke could only hold his gaze steady. Slowly, a fragment of a smile began to show on Naruto's face. The sight of it turned the corner of Sasuke's lips upwards too.

"What the fuck," he said incredulously. "How the hell do you do that?" Sasuke had nothing to say to that, so he just smirked and leaned in to claim the kiss that Naruto hadn't given him before he left that morning.

"Marry me." Sasuke stopped dead.

"What?" He tried to keep himself composed, but his voice still came out as a croak. He pulled back and stared at Naruto and his stupid grin and that damned box in his hand. When the hell did he get that out?

Not for the first time in their relationship, Sasuke began to wonder if it all was some elaborate scheme; Naruto's angsting to get him off guard before the bozo went in for the kill.

Either way, all Sasuke could do was stare at the box Naruto held out to him with cautious black eyes as Naruto smiled.

"I said, marry me," the blonde repeated. Sasuke felt a shiver spread throughout his body at the words. Marry him? Naruto? He opened his mouth to respond and nothing came out. Naruto became suddenly flustered and pulled the ring back self-consciously.

"I didn't mean to do something for you that guys normally do for chicks," he apologized sheepishly, rubbing the back of his neck. "But, I figured that—" He didn't get to finish his sentence as he suddenly had an armful of Sasuke, whose lips seemed to be trying to shut him up as quickly as possible. He pulled back in his surprise and managed a "what—"

"Shut the fuck up, Naruto," Sasuke growled against his lips. "Yes." Naruto grinned and pulled his lover close, a relentless happiness spreading through every single inch of his body as the reality of a continued life with the man he loved solidified in his mind and world.

Yayz, chptr 2! Sorry for the length, this chptr was just supposed to show a little bit of Naruto and Sasuke's relationship and a bit of the twins' insecurities. Sorry if Sasuke was OOC. I tried but not that hard, I will admit. I couldnt' bear to make the chptr any longer because I really don't like writing SasuNaruSasu. I will say right now that I am not writing this fic for those two; I am writing it for Kiba and Neji.

Another important thing about this fic is that Naruto is not supposed to be the bad guy here. In the article I read, the guy who left his family was virtually beating himself up about it and I wanted to emulate that through Naruto. Besides, Naruto is the type of guy who wouldn't just stop caring for someone after he broke up with them. Especially not if they've had a happy and successful relationship together for five years. With effing kids.

Sorry if this chptr was terrible! It's not my favorite and is only, once again, supposed to give readers an insight into different characters' feelings, so I hope I did okay with that at least! I might edit it later... Kiba will be introduced soon and thus shall begin the true fun! :3 Look out, Neji!

I no own Naruto or the characters. And in the actual Naruto, Naruto would never do that to his significant other, he's too loyal. Just sayin'. Review! Or don't! Thank you for reading, either way! :D