Thirty-five thousand feet later, the plane had settled into a comfortable and stable cruise and the lights in the cabin turned off. The pilot wished those who would sleep on the flight a peaceful rest, but unfortunately for Sasuke, he wouldn't be one of the lucky ones. Instead, he pulled out his tablet and turned it on. Dimming the screen's brightness so that it wouldn't be much of a disturbance to the other passengers around him, he opened up his email. Or at least, tried to.

'Shit, wifi.'

Looking up, he pressed the call light and waited for his newly deemed favorite flight attendant to come help him out. Sure enough, Naruto found Sasuke and offered his services to the man.

"Yeah, I just need to get into my email and download a pdf. There's wifi on this flight, right?" asked Sasuke, flashing the blonde his unconnected tablet.

"Yeah, but there's a charge. Like a buck a minute or something, it's all in the pamphlet in the seat," he offered, pointed towards the flap in the seat.

"Fuck me, a dollar a minute? "

"It's dumb, you gotta pay for a time frame too. You can't just log in, do your thing, then log off," Naruto informed Sasuke. With a glance back and forth, Naruto leaned closer to the raven haired man. "What's the document called?"

"Excuse me?"

"The PDF, what's it called?"

"I don't know, I can't get into my email yet."

"Tell you what, gimme your tablet and I'll take it in the front for a second. We have free wifi up in first class and I'm sure they wouldn't mind me using it just to download something for you."

"Are you... are you serious?" balked Sasuke, reluctantly handing over his tablet to the smiling blonde.

"Yeah dude, trust me, I'll be back before you know it."

"It's, um... I don't know what it's called but it should be in the most recent email, from someone named Kakashi."

"Alright, I'll just be a minute then," assured Naruto, reaching his hand in front of Sasuke, silently awaiting the tablet.

"I swear to god you steal it I'm coming after you."

"Where would I go? We're on a plane," replied the blonde, giving Sasuke a trustful wink.

"Shit I don't know, somewhere hidden? I read somewhere that some planes have secret areas just for flight attendants to stow away in and relax."

"Well if you find one, let me know, I could use some relaxation," laughed the blonde.

"Come back with my Ipad and maybe I'll find one for you," Sasuke offered flirtatiously, gesturing to the seat to his left. The blonde simply laughed and straightened up his posture, much to the dismay of several of the other passengers trying to get some sleep on the redeye flight. Sasuke grinned up at the blonde, mentally adding that this was now his new favorite laugh. It was infectious, a kind of guttural laugh with hints of a higher tone, just peaking at the right moments in between diaphragm contractions. The kind of laugh a good friend has, a friend that doesn't try too hard to make it known something was funny. A genuinely warm laugh.

Sasuke watched the blonde walk slowly towards the nose of the plane, fiddling with the tablet and disappearing behind the drawn curtain separating the two classes. A moment later the blonde returned, smiling with the tablet in hand. "Here you are," Naruto said with a smile, reaching across the row and handing the device over to the raven haired man.

"Thanks Naruto," Sasuke replied, grabbing hold of the piece of electronics.

"Is there anything I can do for you right now?" the blonde asked. Sasuke filtered his thoughts through anything that was even remotely dirty and ended up coming up dry.

"No I think that's it for now, thanks," Sasuke replied, fishing out his reading glasses from his satchel from underneath his seat. He'd yet to move it to the seat next to him as a silent and oh-so subtle invitation for the blonde to sit next to him. So far, it wasn't working.

"Awesome, well I'll be around to take drink orders, from judging by the crowd I'm sure it's just going to be you and the lady three rows back."

"Well can I place mine now?" asked Sasuke.

"Yeah, sure, I don't mind. I might as well take her's too."

"Just a beer. Your cheapest beer, pretty please."

"Alright, piss water it is," smiled Naruto, which in turn caused Sasuke to smile back at the blonde.

"No no no, not piss water. Fine, how about the most expensive beer?"

"Oh now you're mister moneybags?" jokingly asked the blonde.

"I'm feeling luxurious tonight," grinned Sasuke, flipping down the table and turning on his tablet.

"Alright, I'll be back with your drink in a little bit," said Naruto. Sasuke nodded, put on his reading glasses, found the document Naruto had just downloaded to his device, and opened it. Naruto took a couple of steps towards the lady three rows down, paused, and circled back over to the Raven's row.

"What's your name?" he asked innocently, his hand rubbing the back of his tan neck. Sasuke looked up at Naruto and smiled, opting for a more flirtatious response than just simply giving away his name.

"Why do you ask?"

"I mean you know mine, I figure I ought to know yours," Naruto asked shyly. Sasuke almost detected a bit of a voice crack and a blush on the blonde's cheeks.

'Way way way too cute.'

"It's Sasuke."

"It's nice to meet you, Sasuke," Naruto said with a warm grunt, his hand reaching across to shake the other man's hand. As Sasuke gripped the hand, his fingers rubbed the other's skin, feeling the absolute softness of it. It felt as if it was recently lotioned, but without the oily feeling to it, Sasuke assumed it was just how the blonde's skin was. Naruto smiled and ended the shake, turned around, and strolled to the only other person awake enough to want something to drink. Sasuke turned slightly to look in his peripheral and the fleeing blonde.

'Maybe later.'