chapter 4. DO NOT OWN. yaoi. sasu/naru. Gaa/Naru in this chapter.

"It looks good." Sasuke said looking at the staircase that was now set up properly in the house.

"Hell yes it does." Naruto smiled climbing up the stairs. "I built them specifically for this house." Naruto said. Sasuke smiled as he also climbed the stairs. The men were finishing laying the grey stone tiles that covered the floors of the entire house. Naruto went into his bedroom and looked out the large window. He sat in the window seat and Sasuke joined him.

"When do you think you'll move in?" Sasuke asked.

"I don't know." Naruto said still staring out the window.

"Your furniture is still being finished. It was a large order and probably won't be finished for another few weeks." Sasuke said. Naruto shrugged.

"That's okay, you can just live in the house until all the furniture is finished and moved in." He smiled. Sasuke nodded. "Hey, how about we spend the night tonight? You know kind of to celebrate the house being finished?" Naruto asked excitedly.

"I don't know if that would be a good idea." Sasuke shook his head knowing that if he spent the night with Naruto he would do something stupid.

"Please? It'll be fun. We can get your TV out and watch some movies and then I have my sleeping bag and I'll just sleep on the balcony and you can sleep wherever." Naruto said. Sasuke inwardly grimaced. Something had changed slightly. He had only known Naruto for a few weeks but he knew that if it had been a couple of days ago Naruto would have said 'we could sleep...' Sasuke was slightly afraid to know what had changed and so said nothing about it.

"I guess. I can always set up my bed in the bedroom." Sasuke shrugged. Naruto smiled happily.

"Really? That's awesome!" Naruto smiled. "Thank you so much, Sasuke." He said happily. Sasuke knew there should have been a hug in there somewhere. Now he was really scared to know what had changed between them over that one day apart. Sasuke smiled and nodded. The workers got out Sasuke's bed for him, well really just the mattress because Sasuke didn't want to set up his whole bed if he was going to be moving out in a few weeks. The TV and couch was also pulled out. Naruto made dinner in the new kitchen and they watched a few movies before going to sleep. The next morning a low rumbling woke Sasuke up. As the rumbling got louder he heard Naruto squeal excitedly. He made it too the hall to see Naruto running down the stairs to go look out the front windows.

"What are you so excited about?" Sasuke asked walking down the stairs.

"That's Gaara's car I would recognize the sound anywhere." Naruto smiled. A very expensive blood red car pulled up in front of the house. Naruto jumped up and ran out the front door. Sasuke got to watch as Naruto ran into Gaara's arms and then as they made out on the front lawn. He grit his teeth and after a few minutes he opened the door.

"Hey, don't you want to show Gaara the new house?" Sasuke called. Naruto and Gaara looked over at him.

"Sasuke Uchiha, what are you doing here?" Gaara asked as he set Naruto on the ground and took his hand. Naruto latched onto Gaara's arm and bounced excitedly at his side.

"This is my house." Sasuke shrugged.

"Is it? What a coincidence." Gaara said in a somewhat bored tone. Naruto pulled Gaara towards the house.

"Look, look. Come see all that we've done." Naruto smiled excitedly as he pulled Gaara into the house. "Now, there isn't any furniture so you'll just have to imagine it. We got these cool gray stone tiles for all of the floors except my work area. We're going to get rugs and stuff soon though. Me and Sasuke designed all the furniture and everything. The coffee table, the dining room table and the dining room chairs are all the black iron like the staircase. The table tops are going to be glass with swirls carved into the corners. We have kind of a swirl-theme going on." Naruto said. Gaara nodded and looked at the staircase.

"You made this, Naru?" Gaara asked. Naruto laughed and nodded his head.

"Yeah, me and Sasori built it in his workshop at the detention camp. I didn't have much room in our apartment." Naruto said. Gaara nodded. He also knew Sasori and Deidara from high school even though they were a year older than him.

"That's great." Gaara said smiling slightly at him.

"And see this awesome view?" Naruto asked pointing out the front windows. Gaara nodded and wrapped his arm around Naruto's waist. Sasuke glared. Even though he knew Gaara wasn't doing it to show off, he still didn't want to see it. "So, yeah, we tore out all the walls here and made the downstairs a big open area." Naruto said motioning around them. "The couch and chairs will go here and the Entertainment center will go here. All this other room will be for my statues and stuff, right?" Naruto asked pointing out where everything was supposed to go.

"Of course, Naru." Gaara nodded. Naruto smiled and tightened his grip on Gaara's arm.

"The couch and chairs and the cushions on the dining room chairs are all the same pattern. It's going to be white with black stitched in and then orange and green and blue swirls stitched in. Accent pillows for the couch and chairs are going to be big black pillows and small orange, blue and green pillows. It'll look really cool, don't you think?" Naruto asked.

"I'm sure it will look great." Gaara nodded.

"Yeah, well Sasuke here is an awesome designer. I just kind of told him what I wanted and he made it." Naruto smiled.

"Wow, that was very kind of you, Uchiha." Gaara said giving Sasuke a suspicious look. Sasuke shrugged.

"I needed to design a new line for the company so really it just made my job easier." Sasuke said. Naruto smiled and nodded.

"Come and look upstairs." Naruto smiled pulling on Gaara's arm. "It's not really much." He said walking up the stairs while still holding Gaara's hand.

"So this is your new work space?" Gaara asked seeing the balcony. Naruto looked ecstatic.

"Isn't it awesome?" Naruto asked. "The guys treated the floor so that it would be easy to clean all the dust and dirt off. And also if I drop something heavy it won't mess up the floor. Then I have this huge bathroom to do clay and papier-mâché in so I don't have to get out bathroom all dirty." Naruto smiled. Gaara nodded.

"That's wonderful, Naru." Gaara kind of smiled again. Naruto pulled him to the next room.

"This will be your office. It's the biggest room up here now so you'll have plenty of room for all of your stuff. But mow you can have your in home office so you can stay home with me more." Naruto smiled. Sasuke had stayed downstairs and was thankful because when he had heard that he let out a soft sob. Gaara was Naruto's boyfriend. He had known it the whole time but now that Gaara was here it really hurt to see them together. Naruto then moved to the room in the back corner of the house.

"What is this room?" Gaara asked.

"That's my room. Sasuke is designing it for me and I'm not allowed in until it's done." Naruto said. Gaara frowned at the thought of Sasuke designing a room for Naruto. Gaara knew that Naruto still kind of had feelings for the older Uchiha brother and didn't really trust Naruto forming a relationship with the younger one. "Look at the bathroom though." Naruto said excitedly. "We got a two person bathtub and a glass shower." Naruto smiled. Gaara smiled and kissed him softly.

"We'll have to put those to good use then, hmm?" Gaara asked. Naruto laughed.

"Oh, and the bedroom." Naruto said going into the front room. Gaara tightened his grip on Naruto's hand when he saw the mattress on the floor. "Sasuke is staying in here till the furniture is finished and put in cause it's still technically his house. But we're gonna get a four-poster queen bed in here. And then we can lay on it and look out the giant windows at the city and it'll be so cool." Naruto smiled.

"Where did you stay last night?" Gaara asked.

"Hmm? Oh, I slept in my sleeping bag on the balcony. I was really excited about it, you know?" Naruto smiled. Gaara sighed and nodded. "Well, that's it. We should probably get going, I'm sure Sasuke has things he needs to do." Naruto said pulling Gaara back towards the stairs.

"Yeah, I'm sure." Gaara said. Sasuke was standing at the front door waiting for them. Naruto smiled at Sasuke as they passed.

"I'll see you later, Sasuke." Naruto said. Sasuke smiled.

"Yeah." Sasuke nodded. He of course knew Gaara probably wouldn't allow it though. Gaara gave Sasuke a look and Sasuke said nothing. The two left and Sasuke sighed heavily. He sat down and leaned against the front door. He sat there all day. Around five that night it started to rain and he moved to sit in front of the large windows and just watch it raining. A few hours later he saw something moving through the rain. It was bright orange and immediately he knew who it was. Sasuke went to open the door.

"Can I stay here?" Naruto asked. Sasuke looked at Naruto. He looked pitiful standing there soaking wet in his giant orange poncho. But Sasuke could see tears in his eyes and stepped aside to let Naruto into the house. Sasuke could tell Naruto was holding stuff under the poncho and so took it off for him.

"What happened?" Sasuke asked softly. Naruto stood there in a black t-shirt and green boxers and flip-flops. He held a stuffed fox and a black book and his paintbrush against his chest.

"Gaara cheated on me." Naruto said softly. "I grabbed these things and left." Naruto said. Sasuke put his arm around Naruto and lead him to the couch.

"I'm sorry, Naruto." Sasuke said.

"Neji." Naruto scoffed.

"What? It was Hyuuga?"

"Yeah, Gaara went there to settle business deal and obviously it went well." Naruto growled. "I know they went out in high school and even in college. But him going back to Neji would be like me going back to," Naruto stopped.

"Itachi?" Sasuke asked. Naruto flinched.

"You knew about that?" Naruto asked softly.

"Sasori and Deidara are Itachi's friends from high school. I always had my suspicions and then Itachi accidentally told me the other day." Sasuke said.

"I didn't want you to get mad about it. That's why I never told you." Naruto asked. Sasuke looked confused.

"Why would I get mad?" Sasuke asked.

"Because you loved him and I took him away from you." Naruto said. Sasuke's eyes widened in slight horror. "Don't worry, I'm not going to think your disgusting or anything." Naruto told him.

"It seems stupid now but I was so desperate for his attention and affection that I didn't care if it was wrong. I couldn't help but to love him for it." Sasuke muttered.

"I understand. My mother died while giving birth to me and people decided to blame me for it. The always gave me cold looks and I could see blame and hatred and disgust in their eyes. After growing up with that when someone finally looks at me with love and kindness I can't help but to cling to them." Naruto said. "Sai was the first person to ever say he loved me. Then Itachi came along and I wanted to see why he thought his love was better than Sai's. Then I wanted to see why Gaara thought his love was better than Itachi's."

"So it's always been about Sai?" Sasuke asked. Naruto laughed and shook his head.

"It's never been about anyone other than me. I knew what I felt when I was with all of them and why but I've never found the 'who.'" Naruto said.

"What do you mean?" Sasuke asked.

"What I felt was love. Why I felt it was because someone loved me. But it was always that, just someone. It was never because Sai loved me or because Itachi loved me or because Gaara loved me. I want to find that one person who makes me feel love because it is them that loves me." Naruto said.

"I can understand that." Sasuke nodded.

"I want to find that person who completes me." Naruto said.

"Someone to fill that hole?" Sasuke asked. Naruto nodded. Sasuke yawned. "We should get to sleep." Sasuke said.

"Can I sleep with you? I don't like storms." Naruto said. Sasuke sighed and nodded.

"Sure, come on." Sasuke said. They walked up to the room where Sasuke's mattress was and they both laid down. Sasuke laid on his back and Naruto laid on his side facing away from Sasuke. Naruto reached back and pulled Sasuke's arm around him. "Naruto?" Sasuke asked softly.

"It comforts me. I get scared in storms." Naruto mumbled. Sasuke's body moved on it's own as he wrapped his arms around Naruto's waist and spooned against his back. "Thanks, Sasuke." Naruto whispered.

"Go to sleep." Sasuke told him. He looked over Naruto's shoulder to see him clinging to the fox and biting its ear. The paintbrush and photo album sat on the floor by the bed. "Did you really just grab those things and leave?" Sasuke asked. Naruto nodded. Sasuke sighed and tightened his grip slightly on Naruto.