The Konoha AUs- The Konoha Gymnasium
Extra for Takara's Birthday (Part 3)
500 words

Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto. Or well, really I just don't own Itachi. There's not much actual Naruto stuff in here

So, you could probably skip this if you wanted to get on with the massage already, it's in the next section. This is Takara being sleepily contemplative while she waits for Itachi to join her. It's basically the longer explanation for how this isn't about them going at it like rabbits.


Takara obeys, stretching out happily on the bed. An all-around gold medal and plenty of cuddling with her boyfriend makes for a very happy redheaded gymnast.

She thinks about the boy in the other room, who clearly wants her but is controlling himself, calming down so he can keep the promise he made to her.

Once they'd revealed they were attracted to each other, they'd ended up revealing that attraction went deep for both of them, far beyond the physical. Years of respect, physical attraction, and a chance to finally get to know each other had culminated in a solid foundation for a relationship. Love… Takara didn't know if she was willing to call it that, but she knew that it could be with time.

If they'd gotten together at any other point, they probably would have had sex already. The kissing they'd done, the touching and exploring they'd done in their enforced downtime during training camp; it had all been wonderful and Takara is curious what having proper sex will be like. Itachi's already figured out how to push her over the edge just with his fingers (that had taken a little while, but the process of figuring things out had been fun) and she loves the way it feels to have her body wound up by his touches only to have everything just let go. She loves the way he looks at her, showing his adoration with his eyes, whether she's naked and exhausted or fully clothed and jumping around. And figuring out how to reciprocate, how to make him lose control… that had been fun as well. She'd used as much that knowledge as she could to show her pride in him after his All-Around win last night.

Yet they hadn't gotten together at a different time, they'd gotten together right before one of the biggest events in their lives, something they'd been working towards since they were toddlers. And while sex would be less of a distraction and more of another way to relieve some of the tension, they were both virgins. And while it was unlikely that having sex would leave him sore, almost everything either of them had ever read or heard about the act suggested it would be that way for her.

She's sore enough from practice and competing that adding the soreness and potential pain from having sex for the first time didn't seem like a good part of the recipe for a successful Olympics. But once she's done competing? Fuck yes. If all she does after her part in this Olympics is over is figure out how to have the most pleasurable sex possible with her boyfriend, Takara will be okay with that. More than okay, actually.

Takara reaches out and pulls her pillow down so she can wrap her arms around it, yawning and nuzzling the pillow. If he doesn't come out here soon she's going to fall asleep, and she wants that massage he promised first.

"Are you ready?"