Hey guys E.L.Y here again ^^ It's Thursday and yep you guessed it, Chapter 4 is here! :D Aha, I did tell you guys this chapter was going to be longer and yes I did keep my word. Oh and before you get into reading I'll like to give an early notice that next chapter will be short. I'll explain why at the end of this chapter cause i don't want to spoil anything of this chapter. D= Anyways without further a due I present to you... Chapter 4!
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Chapter 4: How much longer can I last?

Eventually the two caught up to their other 2 teammates and all 4 of the ninja's were now walking together, they had already walked out of the main gates of Konoha and they were now walking down an off road path, trying to take a less busy and quicker root to Sunagakure. Sakura looked over at Naruto and blinked. "Erm, Naruto... Where's your bag? Your stuff?" Naruto laughed and rubbed the back of his head. "There err... Wasn't enough time to pick my stuff up, so I have to wear some of Sasuke's clothes."

Sakura blinked a few times. "What do you mean not enough time?" Sasuke suddenly looked over at the Blonde a little wide eyed, he wasn't really going to tell her... Was he? "Well ermm, I went round Sasuke's house and I left my bag there." He said, trying to make it as believable as possible. Sasuke looked from Naruto to Sakura a little nervously, will she buy it? Sakura raised an eyebrow. "Why was you two together this morning then? You both were late... Together. Not to mention this is the first time Sasuke has actually ever came late, even Kakashi-sensei got here before him."

Sasuke's eyes widened a little more. Damn she's pretty smart. Not that he hasn't noticed that before. Naruto blinked a few times, he had no response what so ever, clearly no excuses would work on her. "It's a long story." He let out a long sigh. Trying to make it seem it really was too long to tell. Sakura just continued to look at Naruto with a not-so-confessed facial expression. She sighed and turned her attention back in front of her. "Well whatever then..." Kakashi-sensei was awfully quiet, surprisingly he didn't even ask any questions even though he heard the whole conversation.

When the Blonde saw his pinkette teammate turn her attention back forward. Naruto smiled and turned his head a bit to look at Sasuke. He gave a wink before turning his attention back in front of him. Sasuke saw this and smiled before also turning to look back in front of him. The four ninjas surprisingly walked in silence for a few minutes. No one even saying a word. Naruto felt a little awkward, he wasn't one that enjoyed a quiet walk so he decided to break the silence. "Ne Kakashi-sensei. You haven't told us the details about the mission yet..." The other 2 Genin nodded and look up at their Sensei.

"Oh yeah!" Kakashi paused for a bit. "We'll be going to and staying in Sunagakure for 3 days. Recently, a lot of Suna's high ranked Shinobi have left to fulfill a personal duty they don't want to further discuss about. So our duty is to pretty much just guard the Village. We won't get there before night so we're gonna have to pitch a tent soon. Once it starts to get dark." The Jounin smiled, not taking his eyes off of in front of him.

"Will... Gaara be there?!" Naruto asked excitedly. Gaara was a close friend to Naruto. He was also a Jinchuuriki so he knew what pain Naruto went through growing up. He is also the one that got Gaara to change his evil intentions and see the light. Which is why to Gaara, Naruto is like his brother. Kakashi smiled and looked down at his Blonde student. "Yes he will. Both Temari and Kankuro as well." "Awesome!" Naruto replied. It's been quite a while since the two have seen each other. Since they live in different villages, it's hard to keep in contact.

The group of Ninja's continued walking, eventually reaching a very small village, it looked like the population was about 10-20 people. "Kaka-sensei! Can we look around this village for a bit before we carry on?" Naruto asked with a grin on his face. "Sorry Naruto we can't, it's going to get dark soon." He looked up at the sky to prove his point then looked back down at the Blonde knucklehead once again. "Maybe on the way back."

Naruto sighed and crossed his arms. "Fine." He huffed out. Sasuke looked up at Naruto and chuckled a little to himself, making sure it was quiet so that only he could of heard it. The 4 ninjas walked along the side path of the village and into the opposite direction. They than cut off away from the path and began walking through a forest, looking for a nice flat surface to set camp. It took them a good ten minutes before finding a fairly decent sized area to pitch their tents.

"Alright, this spot seems to be pretty good." Kakashi preformed a few hand signs. "Kuchiyose No Jutsu!" The silver haired Jounin summoned 4 tents, and 4 sleeping bags for each of them. Kakashi smiled and picked up his tent. "Grab your tents and pitch them up." "Wow cool!" Naruto grinned and ran over to pick up his tent/sleeping bag. Followed by the other 2 Genin that made their way to each of their tents and picking it up. They then started pitching up their tents, getting it fully built up in about no more than 30 seconds.

Kakashi turned to face his three students. "Alright, get some rest. We walked for quite a bit today so make sure to get a nice long rest and be prepared for the journey tomorrow." With that being said the silver haired man turned around and walked into his own tent, zipping it up behind him. Sakura walked into her own tent and zipped it up, followed by Naruto, and last was Sasuke, he took a long stare over at Naruto's tent before going in his own.

Sasuke laid down his sleeping bag down on the floor of the tent and and got in between the thin sheets. He laid on his back and looked up at the ceiling in deep thought. He... For some reason... Wanted to sleep in Naruto's tent... With him... Beside him. He shook his head a few times and moved his body so he was laying on his side. Still he just couldn't get the Blonde out of his head... So many different images of him kept popping up in his head. After about 10 minutes of relentlessly trying to free himself of the images and trying to get some sleep he gave up.

Sasuke raised his back off of the sleeping bag and slowly got to his feet. He quietly made his way to the entrance of his tent and slowly unzipped it, trying to make as little noise as possible. Once the tent was unzipped the Raven slowly placed light footsteps across the forest floor and over to Naruto's tent, which conveniently, was next to his. Sasuke took a deep breath, he was starting to feeling a little uneasy and reluctant. Maybe he should turn back now? No, it was too late for that. With a deep breath, the Raven took a few moments of hesitation before raising his hand up to the zip of the tent, he began slowly pulling the zip so the tent entrance was slowly opening with every inch of pulling. He continued this action, very slowly and gently so he didn't end up waking the Blonde, if he was asleep that is.

When the tent was fully unzipped, Sasuke took another deep breath before putting one foot inside the tent, followed by the rest of his body. "Naruto?..." He said in a low voice and looked over at the Blonde, only to discover his light snore and closed eyes. The Uchiha slowly walked forward so that he was at the foot of Naruto's sleeping bag. The Raven took one last look at the Blonde's face before getting down on his hands and knees. He slowly began walking on his hands and knees up above Naruto's body, his arms and legs being either side of Naruto's chest and legs so he could use the ground to crawl up his body.

Sasuke kept on crawling till he eventually made it to Naruto's head. His face was looking down at Naruto's, direct contact between opened dark black eyes and closed ocean blue eyes. The Raven just stared, his eyes being so intrigued with Naruto's closed ones. The Raven noticed a strand of Blonde hair hanging off of the front of Naruto's head so it was hanging over his face a bit. Sasuke smiled a little and raised his left hand to the other's face.

He took the strand of hair in between his fingers, god even his hair was so soft and perfect, and gently tucked it away to the side of his head, past the Blonde's ear. He smiled a little but quickly lost it and got into a more serious look. He... Couldn't take his hand away... Without barely even noticing the Raven slowly moved his hand from the Blonde's hair down to his cheeks. What was he doing?! Why couldn't he let go?! Sasuke traced his fingers over the whisker like marks on the Blonde's cheek.

It wasn't long before it was quite easily noticeable that the Uchiha was now cupping the Blonde's cheek with his hand. The Raven felt his heart fasten, this was way too much... What if he gets caught right now by Naruto? With him hovering his body on top of him and cupping his cheek? Though in all honesty, Sasuke didn't really care at all. The Raven slowly lowered his face to Naruto's, their eyes and lips being only center meters apart, while Sasuke was still cupping the Blonde's cheek.

The Uchiha felt his breathing go a little heavy and pace up, he was breathing hot breath against the Blonde's lips. Sasuke gave a few more seconds of staring into the Kitsune's closed eyelids before moving his face a little over to the right. He gave Naruto's cheek a small peck and pulled back a little. Though for some reason he couldn't pull back all the way. With not even 2 second after pulling back, Sasuke pushed his lips back down to the Blonde's cheeks again and gave another kiss, he then swiped his tongue against the Blonde's cheek a little. Even Naruto's taste was amazing!

He licked up the Blonde's cheek a bit more and he slowly started to travel down the sun kissed skin, getting closer to his neck. Suddenly Sasuke's eyes became wide and he quickly pulled back, releasing his hand from the other's cheek. He just now properly realized what he was doing. The Uchiha's eyes remained wide as he looked down at the still sleeping Blonde. This was wrong... He can't do these type of things to Naruto when he's asleep... Especially when he's your best friend and long term rival. But Sasuke didn't know how long he could last, how long he could take loving the Blonde whilst the Blonde, assumingly, didn't love him back.

He moved his body off from on top of the Blonde's and laid next to him, staring at Naruto's sleeping face from the side. The Raven's eyes slowly starting to open and close. Shit this ain't good, if I fall asleep here... Sasuke was interrupted from his thoughts as his eyes went shut completely and he fell into a peaceful, not so cozy, sleep.
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Thank you guys so much for reading Chapter 4! i hope you guys are enjoying the story so far! I certainly enjoy writing it. ^^ Oh about next chapter! The reason next chapter will be short is because it will be mainly based around them travelling to Sunagakure so y'know, it'll be pretty boring if I longed out the travelling scenes. So it's going to be a bit short. Anyways I hope you guys enjoyed reading! Some feedback or even some ratings would be nice. But I'm not going to force you to. I'll see you next Tuesday with a new Chapter!
Much Love.
~EverLastingYaoi