Woe… I'm Life's Whore

Woe… I'm Life's Whore

Naruto discovers some funky feelings. A LOT of drama ensues. AU SasuNaru, plus other pairings (surprise ). Some possible OOCness.. plot-line a little more serious than the title.

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Chapter Four: How to Expect the Unexpected

Naruto jumped onto the front of the sledge and squinted hard, pouted his lip and lowered his head, like a two-year old pretending he was about to start a grand-prix. Sasuke snickered at him and Naruto shot him a dirty look, squinting, angry and still pouting.

"You can't be serious," Sasuke said, climbing on behind him.

"Shut up," Naruto said, suddenly becoming very, very aware of the presence behind him.

He had never noticed, but Sasuke's body was delicately muscled, enough to look good without standing out to extremes, and still felt soft to touch. He began to arch back, giving into a sudden impulse to … feel. He reminded himself where he was, and who he was with, and what he was thinking, and it all clicked. His muscles became taught, tightening his defence, whatever happened before, wasn't going to happen again.

Yet, Sasuke slid one leg around his left thigh, lowered himself into place and slid the other around his right. He felt Sasuke's strong body and swayed into a rocking sensation, despite the fact that he was quite stationary. Regardless of Sasuke's seemingly cold exterior, he emanated a warm fuzzy glow which Naruto found himself quite lost in. He just wanted to get closer, skin on skin was tingling his sensations and driving them wild.

"Sasuke," he murmured subconsciously. Snap. He was back again. Rigid, and heightened defence, and kind of confused. What was that? 'Whatever it was, it can't happen again.' His arms were tight by his sides. Nothing happened.

"What?" Sasuke asked.

"What?"

"Your arms, dobe. You saw the picture."

Naruto looked down. He felt a bit stupid, but he unlocked his arms and lifted them up slightly, putting them on his knees.

He felt strong arms wrap themselves around him, a finger brushing down his abdomen as it went. Sasuke's breath was on the back of his neck. His sensations flew into frenzy once more, and he was lost in them again. A moment passed, which seemed like never-ending bliss, and then all too soon he was hurtled towards reality.

"Oi, dobe, ready?"

Naruto felt his ears burning with embarrassment… but he didn't want it to stop.

What was happening? Why was it happening? Naruto kept thinking of the same answer to everything. Sasuke.

He put all of his focus into the ride, the ride, damnit. He jerked forward, forcing the sledge to connect with the tube. Water was gushing over the sides of the sledge, which was starting to get caught in the tide and was being slowly pushed down into the darkness.

"Woooooooooo!!" Naruto hollered down the tube.

-

They emerged from the bottom of the tube at break-neck speed. SNAP. Skidding across the water, they came to an eventual halt half way through the pool.

"You guys got stuck together! Who'd have known!" Ten Ten giggled.

"Its not my fault, Ten Ten," Naruto said, hurriedly getting off the sledge, "you stole Hinata, I was 'sposed to go down with her!"

"Oh, she would have preferred to go with me over you any day,"

"No way! Hinata?"

"Well, I didn't mind… uh… you're both… uhm, great," she blushed and looked away.

"I am great," Naruto said grinning.

"And modest," Shikamaru rose an eyebrow, everyone laughed.

They all waded their way to the edge of the water, slipping around on the wet tiles and concrete.

"So, guys," Ino said, checking her watch, "What d'you want to do for the last hour?"

It had taken so long to eat lunch and get up the ride that the park was going to hit closing time soon. Ino was a smart girl, so she took changing and the group's unpunctuality into consideration.

Naruto's step faltered slightly as he flashed back to the strange feelings Sasuke was giving off. Hey… maybe it was Sasuke doing all these weird things to him. It was an entertaining thought… but not really likely.

He felt eyes on the back of his neck. Naruto pivoted quickly.

"Naruto! Jeez! C'mon!" Ino yelled from the edge of the pool.

"Yeah!! I get distracted easily! Let up!" Naruto yelled back.

Ino groaned and rolled her eyes, "Duh!"

"H- how about we all ride around th- the whirlpool?" Hinata suggested.

"Sweet idea, Hinata!" Kiba said, giving her a gentle elbow-of-congratulations. She blushed.

-

Everybody had jumped in the water and was relaxing, letting the current take them round. Giant rubber blow-up tubes were floating around the whirlpool, and most of the gang had grabbed one and was now lazily enjoying the gentle ebb and flow.

Naruto squinted down at the line of friends disappearing round the bends of the river that essentially winded around the whole park. He was sure Sasuke had already gone, one of the first, so he was safe from Sasuke's touchy-feely-mood-enducing-ness.

He walked into the waist-deep water and dived under, surfacing in the middle of his tube, dangling his arms over the side and resting his chin on the sun-warmed rubber, lifting his feet off the ground and getting swept away.

It was so relaxing, the water caressing his sides, drifting him off into a lazy stupor. Shikamaru must be loving this…

He found himself drifting off in the gentle ripples the water made, and the light dancing on the bottom of the canal, his eyes fell slowly shut. Not sleeping… just… resting.

It was because of his resting, that he didn't notice the short tunnel up ahead.

The first thing he realized was that the sun's melting heat disappeared.

The second thing he realized was that someone had come up into his tube, was slinking their arms around his waist, and had forced their feet to the ground, bringing his drifting to a halt. Naruto tried to wriggle out of the embrace, turning around to face his attacker.

"What th-hn!"

Naruto's cry was cut off with a rough pair of lips crashing down upon his own. This was no girl assaulting him. At first, Naruto resisted, nearly yelled out at shock, but the lips were persistent, determined. He felt a tongue lick across his lips, demanding entry. Naruto pressed his own lips together firmly, but soon felt them comply. The tongue was rough, kind of dry, hot. It tasted every corner of his mouth, and he did some exploring of his own. He felt hands swirl down his back, pushing him in harder, and he wove his own hands through wet hair.

Feet shifted under the water and Naruto felt himself being dragged along with the current once again. The hold was released, and Naruto felt hands unwind themselves, the sound of a head submerging, followed by a drawn-out stroke down his chest, abdomen… and Naruto winced as the stroke followed down and disappeared.

The next thing Naruto saw was bright, bright light, the tunnel had come to a rather abrupt and painful end. Naruto squinted and shielded his eyes, trying to make out his escaping assailant.

Then, he saw him. Standing underneath the exit to the tunnel, there was no way it could have been anyone else, Naruto was sure.

Gaara.

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First of all… I'm sorry!! What have I done?! Noooooo!!

Sorry about Gaara. o-o