Chapter 2- Wake up
Disclaimer: Nope, don't own...yet muahahahhahah! ...right, see this is what happens with too muc sugar and not enough sleep...
A/N sorry it took so long to update, but here it is! chapter 2 of 3! yay me! warning there is sex in here, male on male action yadda yadda, didnt really go into description...well not as much as some of my friends seem to like me to write, but that doesnt matter right now. Read and review and i'll try to get chapter 3 up for christmas along with a gaaraxlee story i wrote for xmas...in the middle of the summer...yeah i know im weird, so anywho read and review and i give you a shino cookie! (cause we all know shino rules!)
The throbbing pain that radiated through his body was not a new feeling to him. On the contrary- he knew exactly what the feeling meant; he had just been in a fight. However, what he couldn't quite place was exactly where he was at the moment.
His hazy mind could not quite process what was making the strange 'beeping' noises, or the itchy feel of sterilized sheets surrounding him. The air smelled strange, like medicine, but aside from the steady 'beeping' noise he had yet to identify, it was silent.
Even if he had wanted to drift off back to sleep, a nagging at the back of his mind would not let him, so curiosity eventually won out as he attempted to pry open his sleep crusted eyes.
Harsh bright lights blinded him, forcing his eyes closed as the throbbing in his head increased. The second time, he managed to open them all the way, waiting for the world to stop spinning so he could take in exactly where he was.
Without moving too much, he could see parts of a hospital room, white sterile walls and sheets, some sort of machine next to his bed that appeared to be a heart monitor.
Naruto struggled to sit up, only succeeding in collapsing back against his pillows as a voice echoed through his head telling him to 'settle down and heal'. Kyuubi! He realized with a start, that the fox demon had been healing him, meaning the jutsu had been broken. But did that mean they were back in Konoha?
It certainly looked like one of the hospital rooms from his village, but what he had learned over the years was that appearances could be deceiving. That brought up the question of, what had happened. How did he manage to get to a hospital? And where was Sakura?
He struggled to sit up, grunting in frustration when his legs became tangled in the sheets. He had to find his team-mate, needed to know if his friend was okay. Only problem was, was that he couldn't remember what had happened after collapsing to the ground- had someone helped them? There was no way the two of them could have made it on their own.
Naruto hissed when his bare feet hit the cold floor, but continued on, yanking off the wires attached to him and swaying slightly as the world decided to spin around him. The cold seemed to seep through his thin hospital clothes as he continued on, stumbling a bit, reaching for the door. He started to tilt forwards, grabbing onto the door for support, as it suddenly swung open.
The blond teenager fell forwards into something hard, bringing it with himself to the floor with a 'crash'!
Naruto lay still, attempting to catch his breath and soak up all the warmth the person below him was emitting. Because that's what it was that he had crashed into, a person wearing a familiar shade of blue that he couldn't quite place and if he tilted his head slightly, he could see pale arms coming up to rest on his back.
"Well, well, well- I see our patients finally awake." He grunted, glaring up at the silver haired man standing just outside the doorway, smirking down at him. "Not trying to escape already are we?"
"Shouldn't you be off stalking Iruka-sensei?" Naruto sighed, deciding on the best way to get up and off the silent person he was still using as a pillow.
"Sadly, no. Iruka promised me dinner if I left him alone today, which was fine since I've been assigned guard duty. I'm actually guarding the person you're currently laying on."
That caught his attention as he finally summoned the energy to lift his head and meet the obsidian eyes staring at him. Sasuke? Memories of the fight and how Sasuke had shown up and saved them hit him like a ton of bricks.
Sasuke was here? Here, in Konoha? He had fully expected the raven-haired teen to take off once he had passed out, but there he was, sprawled out under Naruto, staring at him with those guarded, dark eyes.
"Sasuke?" He barely noticed Kakashi slip away, down the hallway, leaving the two of them. Sasuke slid out from under him; tugging him to his feet, before leading the blond back to the bed and helping him back onto it. "You actually stayed."
"Hn. Dobe, I had to make sure you didn't try to do anything stupid." Naruto sank back into the pillows, a small smirk making its way to his face at the familiar insult. The smirk faded quickly however.
"Sakura! What happened to her? Is she okay?" Sasuke silenced him by placing a hand over the blond's mouth, waiting for the muffled ranting to stop.
"Sakura is fine; Tsunade healed her a few days ago. Her parents took her home yesterday." The blond teen watched as Sasuke glanced around the room, eyes fixating on nothing in particular, shifting almost uncomfortably.
"Sasuke, what-"
"NARUTO!" The door banged open with a start, interrupting his question. The sudden arms wrapped around his neck startled him, pulling him into a tight hug. "You're awake!" A flash of blond hair cried, before another set of arms, joined the hug, pink hair in his face.
"Ino? Sakura?" He managed to mumble, "Kinda can't breathe here." The two girls backed off, smiling sheepishly, Sakura with various bandages covering her.
"You were out for close to a week!" Sakura glared at him, looking tempted to hit him. "And Kakashi-sensei said that you tried to escape!"
"Hey! I was just making sure this was Konoha, sides, I ran into Sasuke on my way out."
The two girls seemed to finally notice the fourth person in the room, standing near the door, face a mask. Ino and Sakura glanced at each other, then back at Sasuke, confusion written on their faces.
"The rumors are true then?" Ino finally said, not running forwards to hug the raven-haired teen like Naruto had thought they would.
"You really are back." Sakura finished for Ino.
Naruto glanced at his friends, feeling like he was missing something important. Frustrated, he pushed his blankets to the side once again, swinging his legs off of the bed; he really was feeling much better now, with Kyuubi healing him. He stood, swaying slightly and clutching at the bed to regain his balance at the sudden head rush.
Sasuke was at his side in an instant, arm wrapped around his waist, keeping from falling over.
"Hn, dobe- sit down and stay down." Naruto stuck out his tongue as he was settled back onto the bed, leaning against the pillows. Sasuke stepped back only to be suddenly pulled into a tight hug.
"You're back." Sakura's voice hiccupped as she hugged him, making room so Ino could join in. Obsidian eyes locked on to his over the two girls heads. The blond boy grinned, his smile somewhat softer than his usual smirk. Sasuke was back…his Sasuke. He shook himself mentally, pushing the thought aside.
"Here it is." His apartment hadn't moved in the past few years, however he wasn't sure if Sasuke would remember where it was. Apparently he had, as the raven-haired teen headed straight for his door, using the spare key Naruto had so expertly hidden to unlock the door and help the blond inside. "I'm fine you know, Tsunade said so herself."
Sasuke ignored him, pushing him down onto the small couch Naruto had bout a year ago.
"I see you're still as messy as ever, dobe." Naruto flipped him the finger, feeling no real venom behind it, as his friend settled onto the small couch next to him, legs touching.
"Hey! I'm a lot neater than Kiba." He crossed his arms, sticking out his lower lip in a pout. Silence descended on the two, Sasuke glancing over the wall of pictures Naruto had accumulated over the years.
"How did you talk Kakashi-sensei into letting me stay here the night?" The raven-haired teen finally asked quietly, eyes still on the pictures.
"Bribed him with the key to Iruka-sensei's apartment." He muttered, shifting in his seat to get a better look at the other teen. "Sasuke…why'd you come back?"
Sasuke stood suddenly, without a word, heading into Naruto's small kitchen. "Do you have anything other than ramen, dobe?"
"Bastard." Naruto got to his feet, marching the four steps to the kitchen and forcibly spinning his friend around. "Answer my question!"
If it came to a fistfight, like most of their fights usually did, he wasn't sure that he'd be able to be much of a challenge. He was still recovering whether he wanted to admit it or not. Mostly he was just tired, he didn't want to fight Sasuke, he'd just come back and he didn't want to push him away again. So he pulled him close instead.
His friend went rigid in the hug, arms hanging loosely at his sides. "What are you doing Naruto?"
"What does it look like teme? It's called a hug, get used to it." The blond smiled into blue fabric as he felt arms hesitantly return the hug. "Why'd you do it? Why'd you come home?" He'd get an answer even if it killed him, refusing to let go when the other tried to pull away.
A sigh ruffled the hair above his ear. "There…are some things that a shinobi cannot do alone…" He hated half-truths, hated how no one ever said what they meant. But Sasuke was the exception. He understood, or at least he thought he did. "And there are some things that mean more then…revenge." If he hadn't of been pressed up against the other teen he would have missed the softly spoken words.
"I've been telling you that for years." The blond grinned pulling back, and busying himself with searching for something edible that was not ramen. "There should be some vegetables in the fridge that Iruka-sensei brought over."
"Naruto?" He glanced up; noticing for the first time that Sasuke had yet to move. "Kakashi-sensei said that you never stopped searching for me. Why?"
Naruto ducked his head, leaning against the counter. "I couldn't just let you run off like that." He grinned, the smile not quite meeting his eyes. "You're important to me, teme."
"Naruto-" The raven-haired teen trailed off, eyes locking with the others. The blond crossed the space between them quickly, bringing their lips together almost frantically.
"I missed you." Fingers gripped his hips painfully, pulling them closer together. The blond groaned as their tongues touched, stroking together. His jacket was pushed the floor, his and Sasuke's shirts joining soon after. The skin on skin contact fueled them further as they stumbled out of the kitchen down the hall to Naruto's room.
The backs of Sasuke's knees hit the bed as he fell backwards, using the momentum to pull the other down on top of him.
"Naruto." He panted, dragging the blond in for a wet kiss, breaking away to suck on the skin above his collarbone, leaving a mark.
"You're not aloud to leave again, teme." Naruto grunted, shedding his pants with some difficulty, dragging Sasuke's down, and tossing them over his shoulder. Pleasure shot through them as the ground together, Sasuke's legs coming up to wrap around the blonds waist. "Not," He kissed him, "leaving," his hand came between them, stroking them both. "again." The sound of the bed hitting the wall as their rhythm became erratic was rivaled only by the sounds of their panting, mouths meeting for a hard, possessive kiss.
He bit down on the pale skin of Sasuke's neck as he came, calling out his lover's name, his name on the raven-haired teens lips as he came soon after, the two collapsing in a sticky heap on the bed.
With his remaining strength, Naruto wiped them down, pulling the discarded blanket up and over them, before pulling Sasuke so he was flush up against him.
"Better be here when I wake up."
Sasuke laid awake, fingers idly running through blond locks, the smell of sex still strong in the room. The moonlight filtered through the half open blind, casting shadows in the dark room.
"Better be here when I wake up." He smiled softly, the fluttery emotion inside of him breaking through his cold mask. It didn't matter though, Naruto was the only one there to see it and the blond was currently dead to the world.
"Sasuke." Naruto grunted his name, shifting closer.
He wasn't sure if this would work out. Naruto was like a ray of sunshine, and he did not want to do anything to taint that. Although the other would probably argue that he was being ridiculous, but in the end it all depended on one thing.
His trial was in the morning. Where they decided what his life was worth, he hadn't told Naruto because he knew what the others reaction would have been. But as soon as the sun lifted into the sky, he would have to sneak away and while it pained him to do so, he would not be able to be there when Naruto woke up this time.
What happened after that depended on Tsunade and the village elders, but there wasn't anything he wished for more than to be able to wake up next to Naruto again.
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