.::WARNING::. – BOY X BOY – SasuNaru Pairing! Future SEX SCENES!

DISCLAIMER - I don't own the characters introduced all rights belong to Masashi Kishimoto.

SEXUAL THEMES – BAD LANGUAGE – EMOTIONAL ABUSE

Future EXPLICIT. 18+ YAOI. Not appropriate for younger audiences.


Defying Gravity

Chapter Two – Writing on a Napkin

Naruto had fallen asleep on the floor with his iPod still playing. He hadn't realised how exhausted he was. His insomnia had got so bad that he wasn't even sure what tired felt like anymore. The feeling of emotional and mental exhaustion had just taken over him.

Gaara came home to find the apartment quiet and still. Naruto had stopped replying to his text messages and he wondered if he went against his word and left without telling him. He called out to him but there was no response. About to get angry he opened the door to the bedroom and saw the blonde sleeping on the floor.

"Idiot" he said as he nudged him. "Get up. Why are you sleeping during the day?" he asked receiving no response from the blonde. He was about to shake him awake when he noticed the earphones dangling from his ears. He pulled them out and took the iPod in his hands. He had never seen this before. Scrolling through it, the iPod was full of show tunes and musicals. Gaara frowned. He thought Naruto got passed this stupid fantasy.

"Get up!" he shouted as he shoved him with his foot. Naruto moaned unappreciatively at the sudden disturbance and rubbed his eyes. "Naruto!"

"WHAT!" he shouted. Not knowing who exactly was disturbing him from a deep slumber. He opened his eyes to see a pissed off Gaara looking down at him. He sat up rubbing his eyes again trying to gain clear vision.

"Have you been sleeping all day?" He said as he began to change his clothes. Naruto leaned against the wall still sitting on the floor.

"I guess I just fell asleep" he said, wondering why he was angry at him sleeping. Does everything he does piss him off?

"Where did you get this from?" Gaara said waving the iPod in the air, avoiding eye contact with the blonde.

Fuck. Naruto thought. It may sound silly to anyone else who doesn't understand but, his iPod was the only thing that was his. The only thing he had to hold onto when he was having a bad day. Something Gaara couldn't take control of. "I've had it since High School"

"How come I've never seen you with it?"

"I just… don't use it that often"

"Well then you won't miss it will you" Gaara said in a cold voice, feeling annoyed that the blonde was hiding things from him.

"What do you mean?" the blonde replied, standing up.

Gaara dropped the iPod onto the carpet. "This iPod is full of that nonsense you daydream about?"

"It's not nonsense I like it" he said pouting. "People can like different types of music you know"

Gaara stepped on the iPod.

"Gaara don't do that, please!"

"Why? You don't use it that often. Besides, shit like this fills your silly little mind with all sorts of ideas! It's time you grew up Naruto" he said as he proceeded to break the iPod into tiny pieces with his foot.

"Why would you do that!" Naruto said, almost reduced to tears.

"You're pathetic. Crying over something like this? I'm doing this for your own good"

"What the hell is wrong with you! You never used to be like this!"

Gaara picked out a shirt from the wardrobe behind him, ignoring the blonde's last comment. He thrust the shirt into Naruto's arms. "We're going to dinner with my family, get changed". Gaara said as he left the room. Naruto ripped the shirt in his hands. He was so angry and so fed up of all of this.

Gaara walked back into the room to find Naruto still standing in the same spot holding a now ripped shirt. He didn't understand what was so bad with this life. Gaara had given him everything. A relationship, a family, a home, a stable job and income. Most people would be grateful. If he had his own way the blonde would've been trying to make ends-meat paying off a college fees from taking a performing arts degree. He would never be able to support himself. He took the shirt from his hands and threw it in the trash.

"You're going to make us late. Please just, get changed okay?" Gaara asked trying to get a response out of Naruto. "I love you" he said, still receiving no response from him. "Are you seriously going to do this now?"

"I don't want to go"

"Well you have no choice, my father will be upset if you don't go. Do you want that?"

"N-no of course not"

"Get changed, then" he said handing him another shirt.

"I don't like that one"

"You're acting like a child Naruto". He said as he grabbed the blonde by the wrists, tightly. "I'm trying my best here, don't you see? My family just want to spend time with you, it's not as if you have any of your own now is it?"

"Gaara, let go it hurts"

"Are you going to get changed?" he asked tightening his grip on his wrists.

"FINE ILL GO JUST LET GO!" he screamed as Gaara let him go.

"Good. Now hurry up, we are already fucking late"


Sasuke filled out the application form for the internship. He waited in reception for someone to collect it. As he was waiting his thoughts couldn't help wander to the blonde he met yesterday. It had been a while since he was attracted to someone. Sasuke wondered if he was alright and why he was so upset.

"Do you have your application sir?" the secretary asked.

"Oh, yeah here" he handed her the application. "Actually do you have a spare copy? A friend of mine wanted to fill one out"

"Sure, here you go" she handed him a blank copy of the application form. He thought it would be awesome if he got an internship with one of his friends. Trouble is neither Karin nor Jugo were interested. So that just left Suigetsu. That guy is always so unsure with what he wanted to do with his life. Not that he needed to work a day in his life as he was a trust fund kid. That doesn't mean he wouldn't at least apply with him.


Naruto walked down the street with holding hands with Gaara. They were on their way to the restaurant a few blocks down to meet Gaara's parents for dinner. Naruto was in a state of unconsciousness and felt he was running on autopilot. He had no more fight left in him, none at all. He just walked along the path like a good little puppy on a leash. He watched from the sidewalk as the cars were speeding past through the streets. Just one step and it could all be over, he thought.

They stopped at a convenience store before they arrived at the restaurant. "We're out of condoms, so I'm going to buy more okay? Wait here" Gaara said leaving Naruto outside.

Condoms? The thought of sex didn't even cross his mind. He could never get in the mood with Gaara anymore, he is far too dominant. All he likes is a quick fuck and then it's over. No foreplay, no affection, he doesn't even talk afterwards; just either leaves the room, showers or goes to sleep. Naruto couldn't remember the last time he was satisfied during sex, if Gaara came, that was it, over.

Naruto stared in the window where displayed a notice board. It had current job vacancies in the area, lost dogs and things like that. He recognised a post which had read an advertisement for two internships available at Media City. Naruto read it as he remembered the group from the coffee shop yesterday was talking about it. Putting his hand on the glass, he wondered what it would be like to even have the chance to apply for something like this. But without a college degree would it even be possible? He was distracted by his thoughts when someone had tapped him on the shoulder, startling him.

"Oh, sorry I didn't mean to frighten you!" Sasuke said, smiling at the familiar face.

"You're… the guy from yesterday" Naruto said, with a slight blush.

"That's right, are you feeling better" the raven asked, sending another friendly smile.

"What do you mean?"

"You were upset, I was just wondering if everything was alright"

"O-oh. Yeah… sorry about that… I just… um…"

Sasuke laughed at the blonde. "Hey, you don't need to apologise to me, it's all good. I'm just glad you're alright!"

"Thank you."

Naruto turned back to face the advertisement he was previously reading before Sasuke had turned up.

"You are looking for a job?" Sasuke asked, not wanting to stop talking to him.

"Oh, no I have a job I just… was just reading"

Sasuke glanced over at the post he was reading from. "Hey, I just applied for that"

"Oh yeah? You must be really smart to apply for a good internship like that"

Sasuke smiled. He was nowhere near as smart as he was suggesting, but he was going to take the compliment either way. "Thank you. I like to think I know a thing or two" he laughed.

Naruto looked at the way this man was so relaxed talking to him. It had been a while since someone had given him time to converse.

"You look like you're interested"

"Interested?"

"The job. You should apply"

"Oh, no I couldn't" Naruto said not taking his eyes off the advert.

Sasuke checked his phone realising he was late for dinner with his friends. "Hey, you want to get a drink sometime?"

Naruto panicked. Gaara would for sure find out if there was a name in his phone that he didn't recognise. Then again he could rename it as someone they know.

"It's… alright if you don't want to by the way" Sasuke smiled, "You can say no"

"I can… say no…" Naruto repeated. He hadn't known what it felt like to say no to anything. Whenever he refused something from Gaara he'd get mad.

"Yeah, of course you can"

Naruto smiled, for the first time in forever. He raised his hand and scratched the back of his head feeling embarrassed. Sasuke returned the smile, feeling very flush at how damn cute this blonde was. Before he said anything else he noticed visible purple bruising that was very large peeking out of the blondes sleeve as he raised his hand. He recalled yesterday when he helped the man by taking him by the wrists to stop him from cutting himself on the smashed coffee cup. But he knew fine well he never even gripped him, he lightly lifted his wrists, almost light as a feather. And he definitely did not have those marks on him yesterday.

"Are you okay?"

Naruto looked at him confused. Why was he asking this all of a sudden? "Me? Yeah?"

"It's just…" Sasuke pointed subtlety not wanting the man to feel uncomfortable at the discovery "Did someone… hurt you?" he asked with concern.

Naruto looked at his wrists. Gaara had grabbed onto him too tightly earlier on when he refused to change for dinner. It was the first time he had done something like this so he didn't know he was going to bruise so easily.

"You should go" Naruto said coldly turning away from him. He was panicking about Gaara exiting the store and seeing him talking to a handsome stranger. He would get too possessive.

Sasuke frowned. He didn't know this man so it wasn't his business to pry. Although there was no way he could leave him today without checking if he was still okay later. Sasuke took the blank application form out of his pocket and slipped a card with his number on in the middle of it. He walked by the blonde and put it in his arms.

"Here, it's an application form for that internship. There's no harm in applying right? Take care, gorgeous". Sasuke smiled. As he walked away he bumped into Gaara who had hurried out of the door. "Ooh sorry! I didn't see you there".

Naruto quickly stuffed the application form into the inside of his jacket, hoping Gaara wouldn't notice it. He frowned as his boyfriend continued to look back and forth to Naruto and this stranger.

Sasuke felt the tension. "Is there a problem?" he asked before leaving.

"Who the fuck are you?" he snapped.

"Excuse me?"

"I said who the fuck are you"

"Listen, I'm sorry I bumped into you, it was an accident so calm down"

"Naruto. Were you talking to him?" Naruto didn't answer and just shook his head and stared down at the ground. Sasuke was confused, why did this Naruto just lie right in front of him.

"Listen asshole, don't fucking talk to my boyfriend you bastard"

"I can talk to whomever the fuck I like!" Sasuke replied, angry at this man's attitude. The way the blonde hesitated to get involved was strange, but he started to put two and two together. Vulnerable blonde? Possessive boyfriend?

"Is this who you're fucking instead of me, Naruto?"

"Stop! I don't know him!"

Sasuke barged passed Gaara, nudging him with his shoulder as he did. He stormed down the street feeling very pissed off. He glanced behind him as he walked, concerned for this Naruto. He watched as the man grabbed the blonde by the hand and led him towards the same direction.


Sasuke reached the restaurant where his friends were already seated.

"Sasuke! What took you so long?!" Suigetsu shouted from across the restaurant. He wondered why all of his friends felt the need to shout for him so loudly in public places.

"Sorry, I bumped into an asshole by mistake and he was kind of a jerk about it"

"Did you beat him up?" Karin asked with a straight face.

"No, Karin. I don't agree with violence.

"Boring!" Karin laughed. "Let's order I'm starving!"

Karin was very embarrassingly waving for the waiter's attention when Sasuke saw Naruto and his boyfriend enter the restaurant. They were seated a couple of tables away with an older couple. Sasuke watched as Naruto looked as though he would rather not be there. Something wasn't right with the way he was acting. That guy with the red hair claimed to be this blonde's boyfriend, yet he was treating him like shit. Was he the one that gave him those bruises.

"Sasuke!" Karin shouted trying to get the raven's attention.

"Karin! How many times do I have to tell you to stop yelling when I'm right here!" he said feeling slightly annoyed.

"I tried to get your attention calmly but you wouldn't listen. The waiter wants your order" she said feeling slightly concerned at his friend's annoyance.

"Oh. Right, sorry. I'll just have the Tomato Pasta" he said as he handed his menu back to the waiter.

"Is everything alright, Sasuke?" Jugo asked feeling also concerned for his friend. "You seem distracted"

"Listen, if I tell you something will you promise not to look or say anything too loudly?" Sasuke asked, needing some serious advice.

"Of course!" Karin shouted. Sasuke put his hand to his face. "Oh, I mean, of course" She repeated whispering.

Sasuke sighed. "Alright, you remember the young man from yesterday, who broke the coffee mug?"

"The hot blonde?" Karin suggested.

Sasuke laughed. "Oh Jeeze. Yes, the hot blonde"

"See Jugo! I told you that's the reason he stayed to help him. Sasuke has the hots for the blue-eyed hunk"

"Will you be serious for a second Karin?"

"Alright, sorry, carry on" She smiled.

"Thank you. Well anyways, I bumped into him just before I got here"

"He's the asshole who was a jerk to you?" Suigetsu asked.

"No, I had a nice conversation with him; it was his boyfriend who was the jerk"

"Oooh no, the hot blonde has a boyfriend?" Karin said with the saddest voice she could conjure.

"I saw bruises on his arms that I didn't see there yesterday. I think he's being abused"

"That would explain a lot" Jugo replied.

"Anyways, the boyfriend didn't actually see me talking to him, I just bumped into him as he was leaving a store and the man just assumed we were fucking"

"Wow psycho alert!" Karin shouted.

"Seriously Karin, keep it down. But yeah, you're right. He didn't even admit that I had talked to him"

"Probably because he was scared of what his boyfriend would do. Poor little bean" Suigetsu sighed, hating the fact people go through such abuse every day. He saw it happen to his mom and he despised his father for it.

"Here's the part where you don't all look at once alright?"

"What do you mean?" Karin asked, confused.

"They arrived at this restaurant 5 minutes after I did; they are sitting a few tables away, to my left"

Suigetsu, Karin and Jugo all turned to face Sasuke's left, causing the raven to do a major face palm.

"What did I just say guys!"

Karin laughed. "Sorry Sasuke, you didn't say who could look first!"

"Never mind" Sasuke said shaking his head.

Naruto hadn't touched his food. He didn't even like what was ordered, Gaara was the one who ordered for him, thinking he knew exactly what he liked. He was staring into the distance, his mind still on serious autopilot. His head was just… empty, emotionless. He didn't feel anything but numbness. He wasn't hungry, sad, angry, happy, just… nothing. He continued to stare off, stabbing a piece of lobster lightly, repeatedly over and over, drowning out the sounds of boring conversations about politics and cars with Gaara's parents. Gaara looked over at the blonde who was clearly not paying any attention as he spoke to his parents. He proceeded to run his hand from the blonde's knee up to his inner thigh causing Naruto to glare at him and push his hand away. Gaara tried several times to touch him under the table but Naruto felt uncomfortable.

"Stop it" he accidentally said out loud to Gaara, causing his boyfriend to uncharacteristically blush.

"Stop… what?" he laughed embarassingly glancing over to his parents who were looking at him confused.

"Nothing" the blonde stated proceeding to play with his food. Gaara's parents ignored the weird behaviour from the boy and continued their conversation. Gaara was raging inside at the rejection of his boyfriend. Naruto snapped out of his daze at the sudden enthusiastic scream from a few tables down. Those people again… that man. The raven who was speaking to him earlier was here too, with his friends from yesterday, and that noisy red head. The waiter was handing the table their food, and he looked over to the dark-haired man who had locked his onyx eyes onto his own.

Sasuke smiled, happy that the blonde had noticed him, he smiled again when it was returned. He wanted to help this man but he honestly didn't want to cause problems for someone he had just met. What if he got the wrong end of the stick and it was just an unhappy relationship or something simple? Then again, it could be the other thing too. He also probably couldn't even speak to the man with that boyfriend around. Then he had an idea. He looked back over to see the blonde had taken his attention off him. Taking a risk, he took a pen out of his jacket, wrote him a note and scrunched it up, throwing it towards the blonde, hitting him on the arm. Naruto looked to the floor to see what had hit him and looked towards the other table. He smiled as he saw the raven laughing.

What is he doing? Naruto thought as he continued to smile picking up the napkin. Unravelling it he noticed there was something written on it. Panicking he looked up quickly at the raven who was smiling at him, and back at his boyfriend who wasn't paying attention. He looked back at the napkin to read what was written.

This wine has gone right through me. Looking back up from the napkin, Sasuke motioned his hand, pointing discreetly towards the male toilets as to motion him to go. Seriously what is he doing? The man put his hand into a thumbs up and without thinking the blonde smiled.

"Excuse me, I'm going to the bathroom" Sasuke said to his friends who were engaged in a conversation about what is hotter, boobs or ass. He stood up, walking past Naruto's table, winking at him as the blonde didn't lose eye contact when he saw him disappear around the corner.

What could he want? "May I be excused? I need to use the bathroom" Naruto asked, not received a response from Gaara.

"Of course Naruto, take your time" Gaara's mother replied.

"I'll come with you" Gaara replied finally.

"What? I don't need you to hold my hand, I can piss on my own" he said startling Gaara's parent's at the language. His mother knew how "protective" and "obsessed" her son can get so she cut in.

"Gaara dear, let the man urinate in peace, sit down" she said, ordering him. Gaara pouted and sighed as he took his seat again.

"Fine. Don't be long; your lobster is getting cold"

"Don't be silly Gaara. Naruto, take your time don't listen to him" She said with a smile, causing Gaara to frown again.

Naruto smiled and walked around the corner, heading for the bathroom.

"Gaara, you need to stop babying him and let him do things for himself. You don't need to do everything for him; he is his own man you know"

"Yes I know mother, but I do not baby him"

"You do a little bit" she continued. "Why doesn't he see any of his friends? Actually, who are his friends?"

"Mom, that's enough"

"I'm serious Gaara, it's very unhealthy to spend as much time together as you do. Do you let him see his friends?"

"We have plenty of friends who we see plenty of times at work!"

"That's different, I mean outside of work. There's a world outside of the company you know Gaara. The amount of times I have to tell your father that!" she teased, looking over at her husband.

"She's right you know son" his father said as he smiled back at his wife. "Are you both okay?"

"We're fine. Happy! Don't get involved!"

"Alright sweety, calm down. We are just concerned that's all"

"Well don't be, its none of your business".

Naruto walked around the corner to see the man standing by the male toilets. The raven smiled as he saw him approach.

"I know that was risky but, I just wanted to talk to you"

"Oh? Is something wrong?" Naruto asked, not sure what this man wanted with him. Sasuke looked behind Naruto to see if there was anyone else there. "Don't worry, he's not following me" he smiled. Sasuke turned to go into the bathroom.

"Come in here". The bathroom was empty and more private than the corridor. Naruto felt a bit weird following a strange man into the restaurant toilets.

"Listen, I want to apologise for earlier, I didn't mean to get you into trouble with your boyfriend" Sasuke said, with an empathetic look on his face.

Naruto looked at the man. He was so beautiful, he hadn't properly taken it in before. "It's no problem, it wasn't your fault"

"Can I ask… about your… bruise?"

Naruto pulled his sleeve down so it covered most of his hand. He was so embarrassed. "It was an accident, that's all"

"Oh. Alright. You do know you can talk to me yeah? I know we've only just met but sometimes it's easier to talk to a stranger than it is someone you know"

"I-I have to go" Naruto said, not wanting Gaara to get suspicious, before he left he felt a hand on his shoulder.

"Wait. Please"

Naruto looked into his eyes. It was full of… emotion.

"Just call me, if you need to alright?" Sasuke said as he left the bathroom. Naruto stood there confused. Call him? How could he call him without a number? Who was this man and why did he care so much?


When he returned to the table he spent the next hour forcing himself to engage in conversation before heading off home. Naruto and Gaara walked home in silence. It had gotten dark and the blonde was worried his boyfriend was going to be pissed off at him for the rest of his life. What did he do wrong? They got the apartment and right after Naruto shut the door, Gaara pushed him into the wall. He kissed him, hard.

"Don't embarrass me in front of my parents like that again you hear me?" he said as he continued to kiss the blonde, not letting him come up for air. Naruto was over it, all of it. He had totally given up and just let Gaara do what the hell he liked, he didn't care anymore. What was the point? It wasn't going to get any better for him. He felt his boyfriend spin him around and press against him on the wall. Gaara pulled down his pants and pulled down the blondes in turn. Naruto stood there lifeless, emotionless, with his cheek pressed against the wall, whilst his boyfriend fucked him for 3 minutes. The longest 3 minutes of his life.

To be continued.