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Warning: This is a gay fan fiction, people, about man-on-man action. This chapter is rated MA (Adults only). You have been warned!


Love Bugs 4: For Love

Naruto woke up with a mental jolt. Oh...The memories didn't even wait for him to register his own consciousness before they crashed into his skull like a deluge. He took a shaky breath, not daring to open his eyes yet.

He stretched a leg across the mattress slowly, and was met with cool sheets. He did the same with his other leg, in the other direction…same results.

He was alone in bed, after having his brains screwed out the night before. Well…it had actually been morning, hadn't it? Noon at the most. Anyway, it had been a hell of a way for his virginity to go, and he would have been a lot happier to be rid of it if the one who'd ended it was there the morning (afternoon? Evening?) after.

He cracked his eyes open and blinked blearily, looking around his bedroom. The curtains were drawn, but the little light that seeped under them was weak and tired…Early evening then.

Feeling insecure, and not a little mortified by the memories, he rolled to the side of the bed and sat up. And yelped. "Shit!" he cried in a mixture of horror and embarrassment. Holy hell, his ass hurt! Not really much pain there anymore, but…tenderness. An embarrassing amount of tenderness. As a result of Sasuke riding him for the better part of an hour.

Gulping, he stood up slowly, feeling his legs tremble. Was that because of the sex or his nerves? He didn't know.

"Are you okay, Naruto?" a cool voice interrupted his thoughts, shocking the hell out of him, and making him realize that he was naked.

Still refusing to cover himself like a shy virgin, he looked sharply to his friend. Sasuke was standing at the door, looking fresh, relaxed, and fully dressed.

"Fine," he grumbled, looking away instantly. He didn't want to think 'what now?', he really didn't. And so, that's exactly what he did for a second before he stifled the thought.

"How's your ass?"

Naruto choked and looked at his smirking teammate in outrage. "I'm taking a shower," he said instead, and walked slowly to the bathroom. His ass really was tender. He could still feel the way Sasuke had- Oh, shit, no! He wasn't going there yet. Too soon. Too embarrassing! And Sasuke was acting so cool about it Naruto wanted to hit him.

"I cleaned you up a little when I woke up. I thought you wouldn't appreciate waking up with both our come on you."

Naruto only stumbled a little. He got into the bathroom and slammed the door shut. Teasing bastard. He was embarrassing him on purpose!

He turned on the water as hot as he could stand it and stepped under the shower. He sighed contentedly, relaxing at last. He washed himself quickly and systematically, and flinched when he got to his ass.

His ran a finger over his entrance and let out a soft moan. It felt kind of good, but not because he was touching it then. It was more the memory of sensation, and how sensitive it was. An echo of pleasure.

He still couldn't believe how good it had felt. How wild and wanton he'd acted. It had been so good that he'd been out of his mind with lust. He'd…

Told him he loved him.

Naruto froze, flushing all over in a mixture of humiliation and excitement. How had Sasuke understood the satisfaction-slurred words? Did he take them literally, the way Naruto had meant them? Or did he dismiss them as sex talk.

"I'm coming in."

Naruto barely had time to shout in offense, as Sasuke hadn't even bothered saying this from outside. He was already in the bathroom and stepping into the shower.

"Sasuke, what the f-?"

"I need to check on you. Unless you can check out your own backside?"

Sasuke was naked, his skin dry and only now starting to bead with moisture as a result of the steam. Naruto stared at him mutely, not comprehending. Refusing to comprehend. He couldn't mean-

"I need to see if you're all right. Make room." Not waiting for room to be made, Sasuke stepped in, crowding Naruto against the wall.

"It's not exactly spacious in here, Teme," grumbled the blond, finding his voice at last. This was cool. Just two pals taking a shower together. So what if they'd had sex a few hours ago? They were still best friends first. Holy shit. "And I feel fine! Super-fast healing, remember?" He looked down.

Ugh! Naruto ripped his eyes away from the sight of his friend's penis. It was semi-hard and…pretty impressive in size, even then. The bastard.

"Turn around." Once again, the raven didn't wait for compliance, just gripped Naruto's shoulder and spun him about.

"Stop fucking manhandling me!" Naruto growled, tensing at feeling Sasuke crouching behind him. "Urgh!" His ass was being split open, and Naruto immediately tried wiggling away. This was ridiculous! He was fine and he didn't need anybody looking at his asshole. "Ah!" he cried out and stiffened. And Sasuke stiffened behind him. That finger swiping across his entrance had felt a little intense.

"Does it hurt?" Sasuke asked carefully. He was holding his hip in place with one hand and exposing his entrance with the other. The shower was still running, and Naruto could feel the water going down his back and ass, caressing that place Sasuke felt he needed to examine. No, it didn't hurt. He wished it did.

He felt Sasuke warm breath on his wet back. Another swipe of fingers, gentle, experimental.

"It's fine," Naruto choked out, pressing his face into the wall to try to calm down. He was getting hard, just because Sasuke was touching him there, looking at him. "It's just sensitive," he dared to say. I can't believe I'm discussing the state of my asshole with him, he thought in a mixture of annoyance and arousal.

A noncommittal grunt sounded behind him and he gasped, head coming away from the wall at a feel of a finger breaching him. "The fuck are you doing?" he said angrily but didn't move away. Oh, fuck! That was…

He clenched his ass when the finger thrust slowly, and heard Sasuke groan behind him. "Sasu…ke?" He could hear the breathlessness in his voice. They weren't event doing anything! A butt-fuck slut he was, then. But was all this a precursor to his being fucked again? He groaned loudly as one finger became two and scissored inside him. He wanted it, God help him.

"Yes, Naruto?" Sasuke was breathless, too, his voice husky, deep.

"Again?"

Naruto wasn't sure if he was asking if Sasuke was planning to take him again, or if Naruto was asking him to. It was both, probably, and he jerked and growled as the fingers slid over his prostate deliberately.

"Yes," Sasuke answered both questions and leaned down to kiss the inside of Naruto's thigh. "That would seal the deal."

Deal? Naruto thought hazily as he arched into every thrust of fingers. What deal?

"You'll be so wrapped up in my scent the kikaichu won't find you again."

Oh. That deal. Naruto frowned in disappointment. "I don't give a fuck about the bugs right now," he grumbled, unthinkingly arching into the next stroke. "But whatever. If you say so."

All movement stopped, and Naruto cursed under his breath. He whipped his head back to demand the raven continue, and froze.

Sasuke was looking up at him with a strange expression on his face. Naruto recognized the heat, confusion, and a question in those dark eyes. "What?"

"You want to have sex with me?" Sasuke asked carefully.

Naruto's mouth dropped open. "You think I'd have let you take my ass if I didn't?" he growled angrily. He started to turn around to face his friend properly, but Sasuke held him there, twisting his fingers inside him and making him yelp.

"Even without the Kikaichu," Sasuke explained. You wanted me anyway, he was asking, Naruto realized.

The blond blinked once, suddenly embarrassed, vulnerable. What would it do to their friendship if Sasuke found out that Naruto loved him like that? That he always had, but had only recently sexually been aware of him. "Yeah," he said simply, throat suddenly dry. "No biggie. You know everyone thinks you're hot." He laughed uncomfortably, now very aware of the fingers inside him. Well, this was awkward.

"You think Sakura's hot, too."

Naruto blinked. Why was he bringing her up now, when they were like this? "Er…yeah."

"You wanted to sleep with her?"

Ew. Okay, what the fuck? "No," he growled, and wiggled his hips to try to dislodge the fingers in him. Sasuke hooked the latter and Naruto cried out with sensation.

"Why not?" There was something dangerous in that voice, Naruto could hear it. He couldn't say why he thought so, but Sasuke was digging for something important to him…something in Naruto's answers. What the hell that might be, he couldn't guess. Was he trying to expose Naruto's feelings and stop things before they got more emotionally involved? Well…too fucking late.

"I just…don't see her as that kind of hot," he explained warily, looking back at midnight black eyes that were drilling into his blue ones. He shivered.

"What kind of hot do you think I am?"

Oh, fuck. Now that was a question for the ages. "I…" What? What? "I love you differently."

Sasuke reared back, a controlled kind of shock written all over his face, like he hadn't wanted to react, but couldn't help it. Naruto was surprised himself, as he'd never used the word 'love' to describe how he felt about him before. "Differently how?"

Naruto turned away and closed his eyes. Why was he asking that? Couldn't they have sex one last time and get on with their lives, however they might turn out after this?

He just shook his head. The only answer to that would expose him totally. How else, idiot? I love you in a way that makes me want to have sex with you? What other kind of fucking love could it be but the love? But he hoped to hell Sasuke didn't figure that.

Naruto cried out, three fingers suddenly pumping inside him, making him ache deliciously, and then Sasuke was climbing his body, his muscled chest covering Naruto's arched back. A hand slick with lube reached around to cup his face, and then turned it slowly sideways until he was staring into a pair of burning obsidian eyes.

Naruto was panting, eyes unfocused as those wicked fingers kept up a relentless attack against his prostate. "I'm gonna come," he wheezed, biting his lip and trying not to do just that, not when nobody was touching his cock, and not so fucking soon! And not when Sasuke hadn't even gotten inside him yet. He wanted to feel that again. That open, vulnerable sensation of being so close to his best friend it felt like they were one person.

And the fingers were gone, and a hot mouth was covering his own, a tongue thrusting into his mouth just as Sasuke slid inside him in one unforgiving push.

Naruto screamed, body going rigid with the most intense orgasm of his life. Sasuke swallowed his cries and screams, held still behind him as Naruto shot against the shower wall, legs twitching and shaking, hands twisting the shower handles until they creaked and bent out of shape. Oh, fuck, oh, fuck!

The world was a blinding white canvas, with little explosions of color everywhere, and Naruto felt like a little piece of lint floating in the endless space, drowning in feeling so intense they made him want to cry. And he knew without a doubt…it was like this because it was Sasuke. Sasuke…

Naruto came back to himself slowly, to soothing noises and gentle touches. The hand Sasuke had used to open his body was caressing his belly soothingly, and the mouth that had sealed his was raining kisses over his neck and shoulder, nibbling on his jaw. "I've got you, I've got you," he kept whispering to him, gentling him down from his crippling orgasm.

Naruto realized he was crying. Not consciously. He wasn't weeping or anything, just had big, fat tears streaming down his face. He would have been a lot more embarrassed about the emotional breakdown if he wasn't still shaking with his climax, and Sasuke wasn't still hard and full inside him. Oh, God. He didn't think he could take another round right now.

"Sasuke…" he began weakly, not wanting to tell him to give him a break until his world was right-side-up again, but unable to take any stimulation when his body felt so sensitive all over. It wasn't fair that he'd come alone, but fuck!

Sasuke kissed his shoulder and rested both hands on his hips. "I'll take you to bed," the raven whispered into his ear, making him shiver pleasantly.

There was something in his voice, Naruto thought dizzily. Something gentle…reverent. He nodded once, and shivered, this time with cold. The water spraying over them both was now cold, and it felt like icy pins and needles were beating down on his head and shoulders. Sasuke took care of that, reaching forward and removing Naruto's hands slowly to close off the flow.

Sasuke put one hand on his belly, angling him up toward him and moved him slowly away from the wall. They stepped out of the stall carefully and Sasuke moved them both to the bedroom.

"You're not getting out of me, are you?" Naruto asked tiredly, not resisting as they got to the edge of the bed, and Sasuke bent him over slowly and slid them both up the bed, still deep inside his body, his front flush against Naruto's back.

"No," the Uchiha answered simply, and started kissing the back of his neck, sucking gently on his shoulder, stroking his hands down Naruto's sides and legs like he couldn't stop touching him.

Naruto lay there, flat on his stomach, his legs spread and cradling Sasuke's hips, his ass tilted just enough to keep the raven from slipping out too easily. He moaned low in his throat, enjoying the stillness combined with the sensual touches. His body still hummed with pleasure, and the gentle caressing accentuated the feeling without overloading him.

It felt good.

"Tell me, Naruto," Sasuke whispered into his ear, still rubbing his sides. "How do you love me differently?"

Oh, shit, they were back to that? "I just do," he dodged.

The cock in him moved slightly and his breath hitched. Sasuke was leaning over him, his face alongside his. Naruto looked into his eyes warily, lips pressed against foolish confessions.

"What if I told you that I love you differently from anybody else, too?" Sasuke's gaze was direct, unforgiving, burning into his soul. Naruto's mouth opened in surprise.

"H-how differently?"

"You first." Sasuke smirked, leaning in to lick the stripes on his cheek. Naruto moaned and arched unconsciously, making them both gasp.

Naruto turned away, burying his face in the pillows. "Why do you want to know this? It might make things weird between us, Teme! I don't want that." He raised his head, glaring at his friend. "You're my best friend. Having sex complicates things enough, don't make it worse."

"I'm trying to make things simpler. I don't like complications either."

"And what do you call this?" Naruto snapped, bumping his ass back against him and biting his lip to keep quiet. The bastard hadn't gotten any softer yet. In fact, Naruto's cock was starting to wake up too, and that wasn't good for his concentration. Not that having a cock up his ass was much help there either.

Sasuke took hold of his hips, glaring back. "That's me inside your body, claiming you. And that is why I need to know." Naruto stared, feeling like there was a hidden meaning in those words, something important that he wasn't grasping. "Do you love me?" he asked directly.

Naruto reeled back, or tried to. He almost dislodged Sasuke from his body if the raven hadn't lunged forward and clutched him to his chest. Naruto tried to wriggle away, feeling suffocated.

"Naruto, stop!" the Uchiha snarled, holding onto him like a lifeline. "Calm down!"

"You know!" he cried accusingly, wrenching the strong arms from around him. He moved farther up the bed, trying to get Sasuke out of him, but the Uchiha followed, making sure they stayed connected. Oh, fuck, but it felt good. The way he moved and Sasuke followed, he was unwittingly thrusting inside him, making his knees weak and his cock stiffen right back up.

"What do I know?" Sasuke demanded, still coming after him. They were now up against the headboard, Naruto on his knees, arms braced against the wall and Sasuke stuck against him, the Uchiha breathing harshly into his ear and the side of his face.

"Don't fuck with me," Naruto growled, trembling with temper and nerves.

Sasuke sighed against him, head dropping to rest on his shoulder. "I'm not fucking with you, dobe. I'm trying to find out if you love me the way I love you."

Naruto went still, eyes wide and mouth gaping. That wasn't right. He didn't just hear the words he'd been secretly hoping for. Life just wasn't that good to him. Or had he misunderstood? "Are you saying you love me?" The words came out strangled and weak, and that was okay, because if he had heard wrong, then it didn't matter that he sounded so desperate for a confirmation. Sasuke knew how he felt, and that was humiliation enough.

Sasuke raised his head, dark eyes staring into Naruto's, unflinching…and soft. "I've been in love with you for fucking years," he said calmly, and gave Naruto's stripes another gentle lick.

"Really?" That came out a shocked squeak, and he didn't care. Something big and bright was blooming in his chest.

"Yes. Been wanting to fuck you since we were sixteen. Clueless moron," he grumbled, the twinkle in his eyes softening the insult.

"Oh."

"Finally got you."

"Oh…" Okay, so he was so happy he was speechless. He grinned when Sasuke gave him a dirty look for his monosyllabic comments. "I've loved you for a long time, too," he said finally, enjoying the light that appeared in his lover's eyes. His neck was starting to hurt quite a bit. Maybe they should face each other for this? "Though I've been wanting you to fuck me for…two days?"

Sasuke laughed. "Shino should have tried to get his revenge a long time ago. I might have gotten into your pants sooner."

Naruto grinned, turning to rest his forehead on the wall. "Probably. All I had to do was start thinking about you that way and it clicked."

"You're slow."

"Hey!"

Sasuke chuckled softly, bringing his face against his and nuzzling his cheek. "Naruto…"

The blond closed his eyes, basking in the warmth of the man behind him, in the knowledge of being loved back, and in the sweet, warm breath fanning his face. "Hm?"

"Will you go out with me?"

Eyes popping open, Naruto turned slightly, looking into Sasuke's eyes as much as he could. "On a date?"

A flash of exasperation. "Yes, Naruto, on date."

"You want us to date?"

"I thought the words I used were pretty clear."

"But you don't do boyfriends. You've never dated anyone befo- OH!" Naruto choked out, convulsing with the shock of the hard thrust breaching his body. "Oh, fuck!"

"You're the only boyfriend I've ever wanted," Sasuke panted against his neck, and thrust again, making Naruto shout. "Say yes. Tell me it's what you want."

"Oh, fuck," Naruto cried at another thrust. "Yeah, yeah I want to be -Oh, God!- your boyfriend. Yeah. Just…" The blond spread his arms against the wall, not even bothering to brace himself properly. Sasuke held on to him, keeping him from slamming against the wall.

Naruto kept shouting, face pressed into the plaster, hands clenched against the sides of his face as his body shook and jerked with both pleasure and Sasuke's hips slamming against his ass.

"Mine," Sasuke growled, leaning in and nipping his jaw. Naruto groaned, lifting his hips to receive more. It felt intense. This was sex at its crudest, and he loved it! How could he have lived without touching Sasuke like this before? He didn't know, but he wasn't wasting any more time, not when Sasuke loved him back, wanted to be with him.

His best friend, his boyfriend…his love.

Naruto tensed, feeling his climax start deep in his ass and shoot down to his cock. "Sasuke!" he cried out, and for the third time that day, came without being touched. Sasuke gave a harsh laugh against his ear and reached around to help pump his seed from him.

Naruto squirmed, widening his legs and enjoying the way every thrust Sasuke made inside him intensified his orgasm. "Yours," he said, voice strangled, filled with pleasure and love and submission. For now. He'd get at Sasuke's ass, too, soon enough.

Sasuke moaned behind him, thrusting deep and coming inside him with several jerks of his hips. Naruto gasped, feeling him unload inside him and loving it. Hell, he would have come just form that if he hadn't just gotten off.

Sasuke collapsed against his back, gasping for breath. "Yours. I'm all yours, Naruto," he murmured, panting and nuzzling into his neck.

Naruto sighed, smiling. "I know."

There were still a lot of things they needed to talk about, to work through. But the most important thing was how they felt about each other. They could and would get through anything with the combination of their deep friendship and their love. With that combo, anything was possible.

Anything at all. Including driving Shino insane with a heartfelt thanks for his messed up plan that brought them together at last. Heh.

He didn't know about Sasuke, but Naruto really would be thankful for that. He might not have seen that coming when he was first stung by those freak bugs, but that didn't mean that he wouldn't cherish what they now had. Hell, if there was anything Naruto was good at, if was cherishing those important to him. And nobody was more important to him than Sasuke.

"I love you," he said again, when Sasuke had lain them both on the bed and wrapped Naruto in his arms.

He felt Sasuke smile against his forehead. "Mm. I love you, too."

Oh, yeah. Life was good.


The End…


I'm so happy it's done! Woohoo! Mostly. An epilogue follows. Stay tuned, though this is, in essence, over. Weep!

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