Ah I'm so excited for the fourth chapter! I'm surprised I've gotten through three chapters, but I just love this pairing so much! Anyways, right now its 12:21 A.M. and I'm suuuper tired from being up all night from the partying that comes with the Fourth of July but I felt really bad about not being able to post up another chapter on an important holiday! I hope you guys enjoyed the third chapter I posted up just a day ago and here comes the fourth one! Please review and thank you very much for reading!

Saturday had come and gone in such a flash, Naruto almost regretted that he had to work to spend time with Itachi rather than actually go out. It was such a shame that it had come to ends like this, but if it was with Itachi, then he would suffice for working at the library, as long as it meant seeing him.

"Naruto, are we almost closing?" Itachi asked, looking slightly rumpled from the long day of constantly talking to the people and helping them out around the library, but other than that, he seemed to be just fine. "Yes, thank god. We're closing up in about twenty minutes." He chortled, only imaging what was going through Itachi's mind. He was probably thinking he wouldn't come do this another Saturday again or even come tomorrow for anything else, but it was worth a fun run. Naruto was expected to loose Itachi now, as much as he knew it would hurt him. A sad smile came upon his lips, wanting the busy day to come back again as torturous as it was just to have more time with Itachi.

"Are you alright?" Itachi questioned, watching his upbeat smile suddenly take a downfall. His smile was still there, but it seemed lonely and almost sad. Not in the way Sasuke was all the time, but genuinely somber to the point where it was heart wrenching to Itachi. He must have not heard him at all, for Naruto kept going on with sweeping the floors and staring at the broom absentmindedly. Itachi walked over, placing his hand on his shoulder gently. "Naruto," His whispers brought Naruto crashing down from his imagination and his thoughts to where Itachi was with him now. I shouldn't be so gloomy, after all, I still have some time left with him.

"Ah, yes?" His smile came back to his face. He finally felt a semi heavy presence on his shoulder, his eyes flickering over to see Itachi's alabaster hand placed on his shoulder. His face turned a bit scarlet, although he managed to keep most of the red colors out of his face to face the raven. "I asked if you were alright. You seemed spaced out." Itachi kept his grip on his shoulder, knowing it was as close to Naruto as he could get for right now at least. He didn't want to scare away the little blonde after all. He had gotten this close…

"You did? I'm sorry, I'm just tired." He chuckled, Itachi paying close mind to the blonde. He took in how close he was to the work of art he didn't believe DaVinci could create from his own hands. His sun-kissed skin was driving Itachi wild on how luminous it was in the light and even at a sunset like this, putting the beauty of the sky to shame. He looked at his eyes, full of despair but a smile nevertheless trying to cover up for that. His scratch marks on his cheeks made Itachi want to go and trace over them with his thumb, but he resisted. Even his smell of a sort of fiery, almost spicy smell was intoxicating to the elder raven. If the door wasn't open to the library, he knew what he would have done right then and there.

"Maybe you should go on home and I'll finish up here." Itachi offered automatically, not wanting him to be even more distressed. Naruto quickly shook his blonde head no. He didn't want to lose any time with Itachi. "I'll be fine!" As long as I have you here with me, he finished in his head.

Itachi was a bit relieved, seeing as how he didn't know much about the library still; nevertheless, being an Uchiha, he would have figured it out. "Is there anything else that needs to be tended to?" Itachi asked, glancing over once more at Naruto, his hand removed from his shoulder. Naruto's face seemed a bit crestfallen as well as his heart, but he picked back up the tempo. "Not really much! We just need to count the profits for today and we can leave home. I just got done cleaning up so we're almost ready to go!" Itachi smirked at the usage of 'we'.

"Naruto, are you doing anything tomorrow by any chance?" You could hear the calmness in Itachi's voice, coming out just as he had planned it to, although he was smirking and anxious beneath this skin.

This hadn't been the question Naruto expected. He took a double glance at Itachi and blinked a couple of times. Was this a beginning of asking him out on a date? Naruto himself had picked up a few guys with something similar to this but he had never expected Itachi to use it. "No, why?" Naruto asked with a hint of curiosity to his tone. Itachi frowned; he sounded almost scared.

"Hn, so we can go out. I thought it would be nicer to know you better. After all, I'm going to be working with you for quite a while." Naruto sighed, relieved. He could have started crying right then and there, knowing he was getting Itachi longer and now, it seemed as if he were interested. Or maybe he was really just trying to be nice because he was employed under him. "I don't mind going somewhere! Where did you have in mind?" He would have to blow off Temari and Kankuro on a day out with Gaara, knowing that his redheaded friend would understand for a fact. He would probably get the wrong message as he usually did, but he would know what was going on, for the main part at least.

"I'll make it a surprise." Itachi was relieved himself, seeming as if some great weight had been lifted up off the air. He felt more at ease with Naruto now, knowing he had the cute blonde right where he wanted him. He wanted to make it special for Naruto, seeing as how it would be considered their first date, although it didn't seem like it now. What would the blonde like to do? Well, at least Sasuke would be good for something. Not unless he called up that redheaded man Naruto had called his friend or maybe Sakura….?

It would be a day in Hell if he had even thought about calling that pink headed monster.

"Alright! Should I bring something then, like make us lunch?" Naruto assumed they were going to be out for the day. He hoped they were, because if it were after lunch, then it was official; it was a date. Itachi apparently wasn't aware of the rule and shook his head. "I'll be taking care of everything." He gave away no hints, leaving Naruto disappointed for a slight second, then became cheerful once more when he remembered that he was going out on a day with Itachi. Then again, tomorrow was Sunday, so what would there be to do? Go to a museum? Surely Itachi wasn't a person of that boring of a nature, surely. He hoped –no, prayed- that Itachi knew what he was doing on where to go.

***

'Maybe the museum would be nice.' Itachi thought quickly as him and Naruto were closing up the shop after counting the money. "Itachi! Are you almost ready to go?" Naruto asked, waiting by the door with his bring orange messenger bag slung around his shoulder and hugging his chest, showing off his toned body even more behind the t-shirt that was now constricting around his muscles. "Yes, I'm going." Itachi answered, grabbing his sweater he had brought. He walked out towards the door, leaving Naruto to swiftly shut off the lights and lock the door behind him on his way out. Right when Naruto had finished turning the key within the lock and pulling it out, he turned around to face Itachi's well built chest. He looked upwards at his midnight eyes that could have gotten lost within the sky and been mistaken for it as well, watching his gaze carefully as a smile grew on his lips.

"Good night Itachi! Thank you for your hard work today." With a swift movement, Naruto gracefully and quickly placed his lips on his cheek. It had all happened so fast to the world, although to the two men, it seemed as if the whole motion had been played in slow motion, from Naruto's growing smile to Itachi's expression from the fact that Naruto's lips were on him. Naruto waved goodbye, turning around and walking towards the other way Itachi was, a big grin planted on his face. Itachi stood there, un-Uchiha-like in every manner to where he was dumbfounded for once in his life and in shock at the same time. The world had seemed to stay still for him just at that time and at that place, his hand going over his cheek where Naruto's perfectly shaped lips had been. He closed his eyes with a sigh, giving a brief smile, and walking the other way Naruto had been heading towards his car in the parking lot, his grin still inside of him although it melted away from plain view to show the world he was still an Uchiha, even though he had been treated as if he were an uke in a quick motion.

***

Sasuke jumped at the sound of the door opening and shutting rather quickly, already knowing it was his older brother. He got up off his bed and walked out of his bedroom –it was actually the guest bedroom but it was considered his for the time being due to his renovation problems- and into the hallway, watching his brother place himself on the couch and sit in the dark quietly for a moment.

'What the hell is his problem?' Sasuke wondered.

"Sasuke, come here for a moment." Itachi called out, hearing his brother's footsteps draw closer as well as his figure fade out of the dark into the moonlight, making his just as beautiful as his brother. "What do you know about Uzumaki Naruto?" He asked quietly, wanting to sound cooly and have his brother fall into this trap without any complications. "What about him?" Sasuke challenged, knowing something was obviously bothering his brother. Maybe the dobe had done something to his brother and that was what was setting him off.

"What can you give me on him?" Itachi slowly turned his head towards his little brother, nailing down the Uchiha stare. Even though they both were of the same bloodline and in some cases, Sasuke might have been considered more intimidating than Itachi, his brother had him shaking with those eyes. "He's stupid, has no common sense and he's so loud." Sasuke growled, already remembering his horrid memories of high school. "He's responsible I guess, but he's really obnoxious."

"Anything positive? More information on his character?"

"He's like a little kid; he gets excited over the smallest reasons or things, so he's not really complex." Sasuke chuckled. How wrong his brother was.

"Alright, thank you. That is all." Itachi waved his hand to shoo Sasuke away. He needed to think in a child's perspective for him, as pedophiliac as it sounded. "Why did you want to know?" Sasuke persisted, interested what on Earth anyone would want to know about that stupid, self-centered, small, insignificant blonde as a person. He merely shook his head, waving his hand once more and Sasuke rolling his eyes and sighing as he left back to his room. Come to think of it, he hadn't seen Naruto since they had graduated. He frowned deeply for a moment, pausing and going to pick up his senior year book from a pile of boxes, deemed with the name BOOKS on the side in neat print. He flipped open to his class page, his eyes scanning over the tiny, almost scrawny blonde that seemed as if he had gotten a bad tan and bad bleach on his head. He continued to stare at the picture all night until his dark eyes had rendered tired of looking at the blonde, his mind wandering to what he wondered he was doing at that very moment.

***

After about a half hour of researching within the confined area of his room, Itachi had figured it out. There was a carnival that was in town, that seemed fun enough for a kid. He had second thoughts on taking Sasuke's word, not just over the fact that his brother was a royal pain in the ass, but his definition of Naruto seemed completely different from the one that he knew. Naruto was responsible, he always knew what he was doing, and he was anything but loud. Maybe he had changed during his years since his brother had last seen him in high school. His conclusion could be verified with one of two things, one of them being held within his house: Sasuke's year book.

Regardless, he dialed in Naruto's number from the card he had gotten almost a week ago, wondering if it had been his cell phone or the office phone.

"Hello?" His cheerful voice chirped at the other end of the line. Yes, it was his cell phone.

"Hello Naruto," Itachi paused for the blonde's reaction. "I wanted to give you the location of where we're meeting for tomorrow."

"Oh yes! Alright, where?" Naruto sounded eager. Sasuke had been right about that part, thank goodness. He seemed even more anxious than Itachi himself, making him chortle.

"In front of Starbucks near the library. Is that alright or is it too far?" Itachi asked, his perfect manners in check and tuned.

"No, that's perfect, thanks! At what time, Tachi-san? Oops, sorry! I was chewing on an ice cube." He could already picture him blushing, flustered to the way Itachi had been right now. He thought Tachi sounded cute…

"Is nine alright?"

"That's good! Perfectly fine." Naruto's warm voice came through the phone, making Itachi want to curl up with the blonde himself.

"Good then. I'll see you tomorrow, Naruto-chan." He tried adding a suffix in order to make it sound cuter –even though the name Naruto by itself was already adorable- and succeeded.

"See you. Goodnight!" He chuckled, the other line clicking right before Itachi's ear. He stayed still for a moment, whipping the phone closed and shutting down his laptop he had been using. He knew Sunday was going to be a good day.

Hehe I'm so sorry for leaving a cliff hanger yet again! You'll have to see what happens on Sunday in chapter five! I do hope you enjoyed your Fourth of July and have a lovely rest of the day!

I'm updating soon so tune in for the next one! Thank you to all my loyal readers and the subscribers and again, Happy 4th of July! Please review! It means the world to me!

-Evan