Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto (wish I did). The only thing I own is the fire calls and the plot.
Summary: Being a firefighter is a tough but rewarding job. On one particular scene, Naruto saves a man who worms his way into Naruto's brain and he can't stop thinking about him. As a thank you, Sasuke takes Naruto out to dinner, what will happen next?
Warnings: AU, boyXboy, SasuNaru, NaruSasu.
Onto Chapter three! :D
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3 am. It always happened at 3 am. The tones went off loudly in the building.
"Engine 22, Ladder 15, Engine 25…Engine 22, Ladder 15, Engine 25…Respond to the area of 134 Langdale Road. Reference 10-50."
Naruto groaned as he got out of his bunk and made his way to the truck after grabbing a 5 hour energy from his locker. Once in the truck, he and the others put on their gear and prepared to get to work. They knew that the fire was burning but what they didn't know was what type of building ways burning and if there was anyone inside.
They arrived at the scene a few moments later, after announcing their arrival and taking command, Naruto and the others panicked slightly. This wasn't a normal fire; it was a lumber yard fire. Everything was burning...and by everything, they meant everything. The flames exploded into the sky. The wind caused the flames to grow higher and spread quickly around the lumber yard. Miscellaneous curses were heard from all of the guys on the scene.
"Fuck...This is going to be an all night thing." Naruto sighed as he went to the back of the truck and began to pull hose (1). Soon after, he and some other guys were getting ready to start the primary attack when one of the other trucks on scene blew their horn three times (2). "Shit, shit, shit! Get back!" he yelled as they and the others moved away. A large explosion shook the ground. "What the fuck was that?!" No one knew. All they knew was that this fire was getting out of hand fast. The heat from the fire was causing the paint on the trucks to begin to melt. [A/N: this actually happened at a lumber yard fire once] Once they were able, the trucks pulled away a little. More ladder trucks and cherry pickers (3) were called in to help with the fire. If they couldn't go in, they would go over and work on keeping the fire contained. The biggest concern at that time ways keeping the fire from spreading to the neighboring businesses.
Naruto and Kiba were in charge of going up in a bucket and working of decreasing the heat and potentially extinguishing the flames. "You ready?" Naruto asked as they put on their ladder belts (4). Kiba nodded and patted Naruto on the shoulder telling him silently to ascend the ladder into the bucket. The pair made their way up the ladder and began their task. The flames were really too close for Naruto's comfort while they were in the bucket but he couldn't do anything about it other than point the nozzle at the flames and hope they could do something about it.
"Naruto! Something isn't right!" Kiba yelled through the mic in his face mask (5). Naruto looked at him for a moment before the panic in his friend's face. Before he could say anything he felt the bucket getting really hot. He looked over the lip and cursed loudly. The fire had moved to under where they were and had risen to meet the bottom of the bucket. "Naruto, we need to bail!" Rather than saying anything, Naruto pushed Kiba towards the ladder.
"GO!" he yelled as the flames licked higher and higher. "Kiba! Slide down the ladder! Go on!" With a scared look on his face Kiba nodded and bailed out of the bucket and slid down the ladder face first (6). Naruto waited until Kiba ways clear before he went to do the same. Sadly for him, the flames had already caused the metal of the bucket to become so hot and weak. He tripped on the way over the lip and went down the ladder the wrong way. During his tumble, Naruto felt his jacket burning on his shoulder. A stray burning piece of lumber had landed on his bunker gear and burnt through (7) burning his shoulder. He grunted in pain as he stopped abruptly. When he stopped a loud pop filled Naruto's ears and a pain shot through his arm. "FUCK!" he yelled as he held his arm to his body. Kiba was beside him in a moment.
"Naruto! Come on! We have to move!" Kiba said helping his friend to his feet. Once they were on the ground, Kiba took Naruto over to the ambulance that was on standby. At first Naruto tried to tell Kiba that he didn't need to go to the ambulance but Kiba laughed. "Dude, you are nursing your arm. And you got burnt. Just get looked at. It's probably just a bruise." he said sternly. Naruto sighed after a moment.
"Yeah, your right. It's probably nothing." he said as he took off his helmet and sat down on the back of the ambulance. Sakura came over and checked out the burn and his shoulder.
She sighed and shook her head. "Naruto, the burn isn't terrible, it will probably leave a small scar, but your shoulder, your shoulder is dislocated. I need to relocate it and then you need to put it in a sling." she said softly.
"Are you serious?" he groaned when she told him about his shoulder. She nodded and he sighed. "Fine. do it." he said letting his turnout coat fall to his wrist. With a quick motion, another loud pop and a grunted/yelled curse, Naruto's shoulder was back in socket. "Fucking hell that hurt!" he yelled as he held his arm again. Sakura laughed and handed him a sling.
"Looks like you are stuck at the truck." she laughed. Kiba laughed at his best friend. Naruto sighed and made his way over to the truck to find Iruka. The rest of the night, Naruto helped Iruka.
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8:25 AM. Naruto sighed as he sat in his truck. He had texted Sasuke that he was on his way. He wished that he had had time to shower but he didn't want to be that late, so he just washed his face, arms and hands. They hadn't put the lumber yard fire out until 7:45 that morning. Naruto was exhausted and excited all at the same time. He took one final deep breath and made his way into the coffee shop. His shoulder was throbbing slightly as he stood in line to get his coffee. He looked around for a moment to find the raven, but didn't see him. He sighed as he got his coffee and found a table in the back away from the nosey people.
8:35 AM. Sasuke still hadn't shown up. Naruto was nervous. He looked at his phone, no texts, no calls. He sighed and decided to continue to wait.
8:50 AM. The bell on the door rang as a rather irritated raven haired man entered and got in line to get a cup. Naruto saw him and smiled softly. Sasuke had shown up, although he looked a little upset. Waiting a minute for the other man to get his coffee and sit down, Naruto fiddled with the strap on the sling. It ways itchy and annoying in his opinion. Finally Sasuke sat down at the table. Before Naruto could greet the other man, Sasuke looked at him with hurt and anger in his eyes. "What happened?" was all the raven uttered. Naruto chuckled nervously.
"It's nothing major." he said trying to divert the questioning away from him but Sasuke wouldn't let up.
"Naruto, what happened?" he growled out. His eyes moved to the sling that ran across the blond man's chest and held his arm. Naruto sighed.
"I dislocated my shoulder. Like I said nothing major." he mumbled before taking a sip of his coffee. "So, Sasuke," Naruto said softly, "Why were you late? You didn't look very happy." he said looking down at the cup of coffee. Sasuke sighed and ran his pale hand through his hair.
"My company owns that lumber yard." he said looking at Naruto. "We had a 100 percent loss due to it." He sighed again. "Since I am the head of the finance department, I took all the heat from the CEO, my dear brother." he said with a scowl. Naruto chuckled.
"So that is how you heard about it without seeing my arm." he smirked. "I want you to know, we did everything we could to save it." he said leaning forward to get a better look at Sasuke. The raven nodded and smiled softly.
"Let's not talk about work." he suggested softly. "Tell me more about your hobbies. We didn't get to finish that conversation last time." he said as he leaned forward to rest his head on his hands.
"Ah, well, when I am not at work, I like to visit my godfather and godmother. I also like to work out, gotta stay sexy," he teased, "I also do some construction as a second job." Naruto smiled and asked "What do you do, for fun, I mean." Sasuke didn't answer him. His eyes were glazed over and a soft blush ran across his face. "Uh, hello! Earth to Sasuke!" Naruto laughed as he waved his hand in front of Sasuke's face.
The other man jumped after a moment. "Huh? What?" he muttered feeling flustered. The blond laughed.
"You were totally fantasizing about me weren't you?" he teased. Sasuke looked away with grunt. "What were you thinking about? Me in my bunker gear without a shirt? Or me doing construction work, getting all hot and sweaty?" he laughed and wiggled his eyebrows.
"Tch, dobe. I am not going to answer that." Sasuke said shaking his head. "To answer your other question, I enjoy reading. I don't get a lot of free time but when I have it, I read."
"You read for fun?" Naruto asked flabbergasted. The other man laughed and nodded. "Sorry, it's just that my godmother reads and my godfather is an author." he said trying to keep from laughing. "I never saw reading as something that younger people did for pleasure." Sasuke shook his head in disbelief.
"You should try it sometime, dobe." Sasuke said sipping his coffee. He sighed "So I assume you are on leave until your shoulder heals." He said softly with a worried look on his face. Naruto nodded.
"Yeah, a minimum of four weeks or until I am cleared by my doctor. Guess that means I have more time to ask you out." He said with a flirting wink. Sasuke blushed and mumbled under his breath. "What was that?" Naruto asked looking confused.
"Nothing, dobe. Don't worry about it." Sasuke said shaking his head.
"No, you said something, what was it." Naruto demanded.
"It's nothing!"
"Tell me."
"No!"
Naruto threw his hands up in the air. Finally he resorted to the look that no one could resist his puppy dog eyes. He looked at Sasuke and in the sweetest voice he could said "Pretty please, Sasuke, tell me what you said."
Sasuke flinched. He sighed and ran his hand through his hair. He didn't want to say it out loud and he hadn't meant to even mutter it but he put himself here, and the blond man looked so cute, and that pout, made him want to lean over the table and kiss those plump lips. Lost in his own thoughts, and without thinking about it, Sasuke leaned over the small bistro styled table and placed his lips on Naruto's pouting ones.
At first there was no reaction. Then the pouting lips came to life and kissed the other man's lips. It wasn't a heavy kiss, just a sweet, kind, caring kiss. Naruto pulled away with a blush on his tan face, Sasuke had the same blush on his ivory face. "That is what I said, dobe." Naruto sat there in silence with his fingers to his lips. He was shocked, but in a good way. At least now he knew that Sasuke liked him, at least physically. Naruto smiled brightly. Sasuke cleared his throat and changed the topic of conversation, "So what are you going to do for four whole weeks?" he asked curiously.
Naruto thought for a moment, "Well I guess I can finally get my tattoo. I've been wanting one but with work every three days, it wouldn't have time to heal properly." He smiled. Sasuke cocked an eyebrow.
"A tattoo?" he asked chuckling. "What would this tattoo be? And do you any others?" he smirked. Naruto laughed.
"Wouldn't you like to know." The blond teased. Sasuke shook his head chuckling. He was having fun being around Naruto and he could only hope that Naruto felt the same. "But, no I don't have any, not yet at least." He said softly. "What about you? Do you have any tattoos?" he asked softly.
"No, I don't have any. I've considered getting one but I never found one I wanted bad enough." He said softly. "Hey, Naruto..?" he started softly.
"Yeah?"
"Would you like to get dinner sometime this week?" Sasuke asked trying to keep his blush away. Naruto smiled and nodded.
"How about you come over and I will make dinner for us. I mean, don't get me wrong, I liked going out but I felt like we couldn't really be ourselves in such a nice place." He said with a bright smile.
Sasuke stared at him for a moment before nodding. "That sounds wonderful, how about Friday?" he suggested. "I don't have to work Saturday so we would have more time to get to know each other." He smiled.
Naruto smiled his bright smile and nodded "It's a date!"
They continued sipping their coffee and chatting idly. After a while Sasuke sighed. "It's time for me to go back to work." He said standing and looking rather saddened. Naruto smiled and stood up as well.
"I'll walk you out." He smiled as he followed the raven out of the coffee shop and towards his car. "I'll see you Friday." He smiled as he placed a small kiss on Sasuke's cheek. Sasuke nodded, not trusting his voice and smiled. Naruto watched as the raven disappeared into his car and drove away. He sighed and made his way home. He needed to call Sakura.
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Pull hose: The act of taking hoses off of the truck and preparing them for use
Three Horn Blasts: This is the signal for a mayday or emergency, something is wrong
Cherry Picker: Some ladder trucks have buckets we call cherry picker buckets
Ladder Belts: These are special belts used to keep firemen safe when they are working on the ladder truck ladder
Face Mask: This is the mask that we wear in order to keep smoke and other toxins out of our lungs when we fight fire.
Ladder Slide: This is a bail-out technique, if done improperly it can lead to harm. This is used in emergency situations. I know a guy who dislocated his shoulder when he did the ladder slide improperly and slammed to a halt at the bottom of the ladder.
Bunker gear is not fire proof, it is merely fire retardant and resistant, it can and will burn
I hope these footnotes help to make sense of some of the terms that we use. Please leave a review and let me know what you think. You guys rock! Much love! Till next time!
