disclaimer: dont own naruto but masashi sensei does. if i did though sasuke and naruto would have lotsa uzu-uchiha kits lol

warnings: yaoi, mpreg , oocness and really crap unbeta'd writing. again if no likey, no readey. all constructive critism most welcomed

He was finally back...

As Konoha's impressive walls and gates came within sight of Sasuke and his four ANBU captors , his eyes were instinctively drawn to the bright orange clad, blond haired boy who stood out from a small crowd gathered by the gates.

Although he was still too far away to see his face or those of his companions, Sasuke knew the dobe most likely had a goofy grin on his face.

Dobe...

He hadn't called anyone dobe in such a long time, he thought to himself in amusement, a small smirk forming on his face. A warm feeling spread throughout his body...

And then he sensed someone watching him and turned to only realise, too late, that one of his ANBU guards, a female whose face was hidden behind a cat's mask, was staring at him curiously.

Sasuke inwardly berated himself for letting his guard down, forgetting himself and where he was.

He immediately hardened his face, putting on his usual impassive and arrogant expression and then proceeded to ignore the ANBU.

Damn that usuratonkachi.

The idiot always found a way to invade his thoughts, especially now he'd seen him - and it annoyed Sasuke immensely.

He couldn't afford to get distracted... especially by that half wit!

The woman, who he guessed to be quite young, perhaps two or thee years older than him (which he grudgingly acknowledged since it was not an easy feat for someone so young to attain ANBU status), continued to stare at him for a while but quickly gave up when he remained impassive.

ANBU or not, that's all you're going to get, he thought smugly.

They soon drew up to the village gates and Sasuke realised, to his astonishment, though he remembered to keep his stolid expression in place, that quite a few more people than he'd anticipated had turned up for his homecoming.

He obviously had expected members of his old genin team to be there, Sakura's tears and all... lord knows they'd chased after him relentlessly and long enough that he would have been astonished if they hadn't turned up... but the rest ?

Shikamaru , Chouji, Kiiba, Shino and the weird blonde girl that used to follow him with Sakura everywhere he went and whose name he couldn't place were all there...as well as Lee, Ten-ten and the hyuuga, Neji ,who had all been his senpais at the Academy.

Even the hyuuga girl- Hinata had come, though he knew he'd never spoken to her before.

There was an undercurrent of animosity coming from that group, which was not surprising to him- and frankly he wasn't at all fazed; but still he couldn't understand why they'd bothered to come in the first place. He definitely wouldn't have if the roles had been reversed .

It's not like he'd ever been very friendly with any of them to begin with .

His mild astonishment,however, did not overshadow the vast emotions that instantly tore through his being , when his cold hard black eyes met dazzling blue ones. Sasuke could almost swear he'd sensed something akin to an electric current pass between them as their eyes locked together. The unconcealed joy and questions in those innocent and naïve sky blue orbs threatened to break down his resolve

The intensity of those feelings had him immediately look away from Naruto and the group that now stood beside his, resorting to staring ahead as the latter stopped by the gates and two of his guards left to sign them in.

"Sasukeeee ..."

The happy cry made Sasuke wince and his heart race...

...and it disgusted him. Not even two seconds into the dobe's company and he was already jumpy and he couldn't understand why.

He did not respond

"Sasuke teba!"

This time he could hear the shuffling of feet and the crunch of gravel as the owner of the voice rushed towards Sasuke and his group. The Uchiha had to fight the urge to turn towards the sounds and Naruto, as something unidentifiable screamed for him to do so.

He did not turn, however, resolved to stoically staring ahead ; he was a man a mission and he'd be damned if he let something as trivial as emotions get in the way.

Soon enough Naruto stood before him and Sasuke felt something in his chest clench. The blond's eyes were watery with what Sasuke suspected were tears, only held back back by Naruto's sheer determination not to cry in front of his peers .

The expression on Naruto's face vaguely reminded Sasuke of their first high ranked mission, in the Land of Waves, when Naruto had bawled his eyes out to having to say goodbye to Inari. Whilst it had amused Sasuke at that time, this time it made him uncomfortable.

For some unknown reason he didn't like to see Naruto cry, especially when he knew he was the one that caused it.

He could not look away from Naruto's gaze, even when Sakura, Kakashi and another dark haired boy joined them.

"Sasuke..?" Naruto started again, his voice cracked with so much emotion and his watery eyes swimming... full of questions he could not and would not answer.

Sakura wore a puzzled countenance as she looked from one boy to the other as they stared each other down, whilst Kakashi and Sai's expressions remained unreadable as usual. No one else, including Sasuke's ANBU guards, said anything as everyone watched the interaction between Sasuke and Naruto intently. They seemed to be waiting for something and no one knew what exactly that something was.

The blond opened his again mouth as if to say something else but hesitated when the other two ANBU, having finished signing in, rejoined the group-

almost to Sasuke's relief

"Uchiha-san it's time to go meet the Hokage", said the taller of the said ANBU pair.

Sasuke tore his gaze away from the Naruto's now pleading one, and forced himself to move forward and away from the blonde.

"Sasuke-kun.."

"Teme..."

Both Sakura and Naruto made to stop him but a slight hiss of warning from Kakashi stopped them, and Sasuke carried on walking, not looking back even once.

He was glad to get away...away from the questioning eyes , the scrutiny and animosity he felt from some of his peers

But somehow when he walked away from Naruto, his chest tightened...


Seeing his retreating back, Naruto almost ran after Sasuke. It was just like the nightmares he'd been having for the past three years. Always he saw Sasuke's back- always Naruto ran after him but he could never catch up- and it was happening all over again. But before he could move, he felt a strong grip on his shoulder. He turned to look up to the soft kind eye of the copy ninja. He blinked in surprise, as he registered that there were other people there with him. The moment he'd seen Sasuke arrive, everyone else had ceased to exist for him, which made him feel sheepish when he saw the concerned looks on his friends' faces when they moved in closer to where team seven now stood alone, after Sasuke and his entourage's departure.

"Give him time Naruto" advised Kakashi, in a soft reassuring voice, different to his usually sardonic drawl, as he gave the boy an encouraging squeeze, "Sasuke is not going anywhere and they'll be plenty of time for answers."

Naruto knew he was right, but couldn't keep the panicky feeling that Sasuke was going to leave from welling up inside of him. Still he nodded his acquiescence and forcefully tried to pull himself together. He turned to his right, to a sniffling Sakura and held both her shoulders in his his hands in a strong but careful grasp , crouching slightly to bring himself to her eye level and forcing her to look at him. He could read the mixed emotions in her eyes that mirrored his own- delight, confusion, anger,fear, disbelief and wonder- at the thought of Sasuke back in the village. He gave her one of his brightest and most dazzling smiles that lit up his face like the golden sun, taking Sakura and everyone else around them, momentarily, aback

"It's over Sakura-chan...he's home now"

As the reality sunk in for Sakura, Naruto, himself,was rewarded with Sakura's own dazzling smile before she launched herself into his arms... crying and laughing with complete and utter joy . Soon Naruto joined her , hugging and laughing whilst their friends looked on with a mixture of emotions.


Tsunade studied the young man who stood before her in her office, flanked by two ANBU guards on each side. So this was the boy that had had Naruto and Sakura in a tizzy for the past three years. He was an extremely good-looking lad, she assented begrudgingly, to herself and could see how Sakura and the rest of her protégé's female peers had fallen truly, madly and deeply in love with him. He had an unblemished milky white complexion that was the envy of many a damsels, a face chiselled to perfection and the body of a god that was clad in a long sleeved white shirt tantalisingly opened all the way down to his navel. The boy was the definition of sex on legs. No wonder half of Konoha's female population had gone into mourning at his deflection , she thought with a smirk

It was his onyx eyes, though, that both fascinated and repulsed Tsunade.

When she looked into his eyes she couldn't help but shiver slightly from what she saw there.

His eyes were cold and hard but what frightened her the most was that they reflected nothing. They were dead and empty

It was like staring into an abyss and that chilled her to the bone.

Somehow Tsunade couldn't shake the feeling that something was amiss but couldn't quite place a finger on it.

However, she knew that this one needed to be kept an eye on and that the following weeks if not months were going to very difficult

Little did she know how right she was...


Onyx eyes scanned their surroundings in disgust and disdain. To say Sasuke was nonplussed and more than a little bit miffed to be standing in Uzumaki Naruto's living room cum dining room cum kitchenette was a gross understatement.

He was most put out.

This was the last place he wanted to be- for many reasons especially emotionally, mentally and hygienically -as a big fat roach crawled over his foot and into a dirty ramen pot that lay on the rubbish littered floor.

He knew he shouldn't and couldn't be here and – if it he was truly honest with himself-what worried him the most was that deep down he knew it wasn't the filthy state of Naruto's apartment that had him worried (he was a bit of a clean freak) but Naruto himself and he couldn't figure out why.

He had acknowledged that out of everyone he'd encountered since the day he lost his family, Naruto had been the only one to really touch him deep down and he'd quickly, and reluctantly on Sasuke part, become Sasuke's closest person and greatest rival. The blonde boy had understood the meaning of true loneliness and had shared some of Sasuke's pain.

But that had been a long time ago and Sasuke believed that he'd put that time in his life behind him- but much to his astonishment and annoyance, his reactions to Naruto earlier had him questioning the validity of that assumption.

He had hoped to find some quiet time , perhaps in his prison cell, to think about it and make sense of everything before he had to meet the blonde again. In addition he knew he'd soon be put on trial before the council and elders of Konoha and he really needed to be on form, mentally and emotionally, for what he knew was the first crucial point in his plan

Unfortunately , the Hokage had had a different idea. After hearing the testimony of one of the ANBU, the tall one who'd spoken to him at the gate earlier that day and was clearly the captain, on how Sasuke had voluntarily handed himself in, contrary to popular belief that he'd been captured (as if)- Tsunade had , ironically, decided to reward him by ordering him stay with his 'closest friend' , as she had put it, instead of a prison cell; albeit with double the ANBU guard, considering he was a dangerous convict.

Tsunade had been shocked and almost relieved to see a range of emotions play on the stoic young man's face when she had given that order, strengthening her belief that her decision had been the right one.

To be honest, Tsunade had, as a last ditch attempt to try and glean some emotional response from and understand Sasuke, decided to send him to Naruto. If anyone could draw emotions out of a stone it was Naruto

In addition Naruto and Sasuke had history and unfinished business to sort out and she knew Naruto desperately wanted to see Sasuke, and she wasn't above using her position as hokage to make sure her favourite blonde baka had his wish. Naruto was the nearest thing to family Tsunade had left.

Gauging Sasuke's reactions to her order and witnessing his internal struggle as he tried to keep his feeling in check and maintain his Uchiha countenance, Tsunade's had felt a heavy weight lift from her ample bosom.

Yes... Sasuke staying with Naruto was the best solution.


Now he found himself in Naruto's apartment with the said blonde bent over in front of him, flustering about in a pathetic attempt to tidy up as he picked random bits of garbage and clothing on the floor and stuffing them in a big black bin bag. Sasuke had not and refused to move from the spot Kakashi had left him, when the latter had escorted him to Naruto's apartment. He was grateful that his former teacher had not felt the need to talk, so they'd both made their way to the dobe's place in silence. Even when they'd arrived , Kakashi had not felt the need to stay and had merely nodded his goodbye to Sasuke before he disappeared in a poof of smoke.

Apart from the ANBU guards, that were now posted around the perimeter around Naruto's apartment, and Kakashi of course, it was a secret to all that Sasuke was to stay at Naruto's and if it had been different circumstances, Sasuke would have been amused at the gob-smacked, ramen drooling reaction Naruto had had when he'd answered the door.

Seeing that his cleaning was not getting anywhere, Naruto decided to abandon it all together and resorted to steal shy glances at Sasuke , who still stood rigidly in the middle of the room scowling at the wall facing him and arms crossed over his chest, whilst pretending to straighten out the cushions on his sofa. Upon intervals he'd stop as if he wanted to say something, but would catch himself and continue with his pretend fluffing.

It was beginning to wear on the raven's already thin nerves and after one particularly long pause in which he knew the dobe was staring at him, Sasuke turned to face him sharply

"What?" he snapped irritably

Blushing furiously at being caught staring , Naruto scratched the back of his head sheepishly

"Er... w-would ya … er..." he stammered shyly, squirming under Sasuke's intense glare

Sasuke narrowed his eyes in impatience.

Since when did Naruto blush and stutter?

Noticing Sasuke's growing annoyance, Naruto forced himself to speak once again , a little bit puzzled by why he was behaving like Hinata

" W-would you...er like something to drink...?

Sasuke's s gaze turned to the suspicious looking kitchen. As if reading the hesitation in his eyes, Naruto quickly interjected

" I do have clean glasses and cups-"

At Sasuke's sardonically raised eyebrow and to the raven haired boy's amusement, Naruto had the decency to blush sheepishly when he followed Sasuke's gaze to his overflowing sink.

"I wasn't expectin' company so I didn't tidy up... but I do have clean glasses" he pouted slightly as he made his way to the kitchen and opened a cupboard that indeed had clean mugs and glasses, "so what do ya want to have?"

"Nothing" came the curt reply

All Sasuke wanted was to be left alone.

"That's not an option teme" shouted Naruto, finally fed up with Sasuke's cool demeanour, startling the raven momentarily out of his stolid clearly had not been expecting the sudden outburst , especially from the blushing and stuttering Naruto. He turned towards the kitchen, only for his eyes to meet blazing blue ones that were clearly raring for a fight . Feeling his energy drain , Sasuke decided to let this one go. He'd had a long journey and was exhausted therefore he was not going to waste his strength arguing with the blonde idiot over whether he wanted a drink or not. Besides, it was also beneath his Uchiha pride to do so. So with a resigned sigh he asked for whatever the blonde had available. To his surprise and what suspiciously felt like pleasure, though he would emphatically deny it, Naruto gave him one of the most brilliant and blinding smiles ever.

Somewhere in the deepest recesses of his being, Sasuke was almost glad he'd conceded to the brash blonde's whim.

"Why don't ya sit down and make y'self comfortable" Naruto called out from the kitchen and Sasuke found himself twirling about the room in exasperation then resorting to sitting on the old worn sofa that Naruto had patially cleared , it being the only place in the dump of an apartment that looked safe enough to sit.

If he was ever going to stay here longer, there were definitely going to be some changes


-A month later, Naruto would agree that what he'd done at that moment in time had not been one of his cleverest ideas ( not that he had ever been accused of having many clever ideas in his entire life, Sasuke and Kiba would argue). However at that moment , Naruto , never really being a patient one , had been so desperate for answers from his closest friend, and rival- wanting to to crack the impenetrable , hard cold wall that Sasuke had put up about him. - that he did the only thing he could think of.

He spiked Sasuke's drink.

When he thought of what the raven would do if he ever found out what he'd done , he shuddered . A vision of a chidori induced gaping hole in his chest made him wince. However that did not diminish his determination. One way or another he and Sasuke were going to talk whether Sasuke liked it or not!


Sasuke felt funny. The air was buzzing and he felt like he was flying. Up in the air like a tiny little bird. He took another sip of his drink -it was delicious- and turned to the blonde sitting beside him.

Damn was Naruto hot!

Three years had worked wonders on Naruto and it felt like it was the first time Sasuke was truly seeing the blonde, although he'd met at him at Orochimaru's hideout a few months prior.

His face had thinned with age, his jaws more defined and solid. Gone were the chubbiness and cuteness of youth, replaced by the chiselled good looks, hard and defined lines of mid-adolescence.

Naruto had grown to be quite handsome indeed.

His wild gilded sun kissed locks were slightly longer, some spilling over his eyes, glistening in the fading sunlight like spun silk. Naruto had taken his jacket off and the Uchiha swallowed hard, when he saw his lean well defined torso underneath his black t-shirt .Something in his gut clenched and he quickly averted his eyes back to Naruto's face when he sensed his eyes begin to travel further down Naruto's body, to unsafe areas.

But it were his eyes, Sasuke thought that were unchanged and also the most striking of Naruto's features. Those big round long lashed cerulean orbs had the power to draw people, in as they were doing to him at that very moment – full of innocence, naivety, purity .

He was trapped and he couldn't look away

"So beautiful..." he slurred , as he reached out to touch Naruto's face.

The blonde's eyes widened in surprise as the raven boy lurched towards him. Maybe his plan had worked a little bit to well. He had wanted to loosen the Uchiha up not render him totally incapacitated

"Ano... teme... are ya alright?" he reached forward and brushed Sasuke's bangs out of his face to look into his glazed eyeswith one hand as the other steadied him from falling face down onto Naruto's lap.

Maybe it should've been one teaspoon instead of the table spoon of powder he had given Sasuke, he thought with horror. He was further horrified when Sasuke hiccuped and let out a strange giggle (strange in the sense that he , an Uchiha, had giggled in the first place).

Naruto was so lost in shock that he did not notice when Sasuke stopped giggling and his body stiffened, a dangerous glint starting to grow in his eyes. It was only when the world begun to spin and he found himself on his back on the less filthy floor, since he'd cleared up a bit, his body pinned down by Sasuke's and both his hands imprisoned in a tight clutch above his head. He looked up in confusion and gasped in shock as his eyes met onyx eyes darker than night, hungry and full of a need so raw it was breathtaking.

Sasuke looked like he was about to ravish him and astonishingly enough, instead of fear Naruto felt a tingle of excitement build up inside him.

"Sasuke...?" he gasped in a cracked voice, weak with anticipation and his own surging feelings. Gone were any thoughts of having a discussion, of rebuilding bonds. All that was left was an aching desire for the raven that hovered above him ...

A desire so sudden and so strong that he found it hard to breathe. Where their bodies connected , Naruto felt like he was on fire and a powerful need to touch grew in him so much that he let out a whimper, so alien to him that it took him by surprise.

Sasuke seemed taken aback by the whimper, but as the blonde beneath him began to squirm impatiently a sly grin grew on his face. Naruto molten eyes read desire that equalled his own and any precautions that he might have had about his next course of action was thrown out of the window.

"Naruto" Sasuke growled, making Naruto shiver. Sasuke caught his reaction, and he chuckled in a deep husky voice that threatened to send Naruto over the edge. Sasuke leaned in towards Naruto as the blonde raised his head to meet his.

Their lips met with a crushing force, teeth clashing , lips bruising and tongues invading and probing new territories. Both boys fought for dominance as their tongues duelled and their bodies and limbs intertwined, desperately clinging to each other, and rolling all over the messy floor.

Sasuke regained his position as Naruto conceded to him body and soul. He didn't really care as long as Sasuke was kissing and touching him.

Clothes flew off so rapidly that within seconds they were both connected skin to skin, from head to toe.

Under Sasuke's passionate yet tender ministrations, Naruto was soon soaring through the throes of passion, clinging tightly to Sasuke as he went over the edge- Sasuke joining him soon after, filling him with his essence. Naruto felt like a fire had exploded inside of him at that moment deep within his core but soon all was forgotten as he rode the current of the pleasurable afterglow of their coupling.

Naruto felt so full and content, after, as he found himself nestled in Sasuke's strong arms- the raven's long beautiful callused finger tenderly stroking his hair. His face lay on Sasuke's broad chest and he could hear the gentle rhythm of his heart beat and feel the steady rise and fall of his breathing, so steady and sure. Soon enough he felt his eyes close to the sweet lull of sleep and the last thought he had before darkness called was how truly happy he was...

tbc ...