So very near the end my dears! This story has turned out to be much longer than I originally anticipated, so thanks for sticking with it! Warning: Lemons ahead (it's about bloody time)
"Morning, Hidan –I thought you weren't due here for another hour –"
"Why the fuck was Neji fucking making out with my Deidara?"
Itachi sat there in silence for a long moment, coffee half raised to his lips. Slowly, he lowered it back to his desk, frowning slightly.
"…Come again?" he inquired flatly. Hidan's eyes flashed.
" –I saw Deidara pashing Neji in the car park last night!" he snapped angrily, "Tell me, Itachi; what the fuck is up with that? I thought you were trying to fuck the Hyuuga?"
"…That was your idea," Itachi rolled his eyes, "I was having no part in it."
" –Whatever," Hidan growled, "Who does Neji think he is, just fucking waltzing in and literally snatching Deidara out from under me!?"
"I'm sure there's some kind of mistake…" Itachi tried to reason.
" –I know what I saw; and I saw Deidara's tongue down Neji's fucking throat!" Hidan growled, letting loose a violent string of swear words. Itachi felt his heart sink at these words and scowled. Could he have been wrong? Neji and Deidara of all people? Had he been misreading the signs from the Hyuuga?
He was jolted from his thoughts by the sudden sound of his office door slamming and he spied a certain, long-haired blonde entering the lab. With a heavy sigh, he headed over and pulled the blinds of his office, not wanting to have to deal with seeing Hidan explode.
…Or look at the guy that Neji was supposedly into. It stung a little –and was a wound to his ego –that Neji had chosen Deidara over him.
Wait, what? Itachi berated himself for the thousandth time –he was the man who didn't get involved with co-workers! It was a terrible idea! He didn't let himself get too attached to said co-workers! And he certainly did not get jealous upon hearing that a certain co-worker made out with another!
Who was he kidding? He was jealous. Sure, Deidara was…a good-looking man…Itachi had never really been keen on blondes –but he'd always thought that maybe, he and Neji connected on a more…more intellectual level as well…
There was a sudden knock at the door and Itachi found himself very suddenly confronted by the object of his confusion.
"…Hidan just dragged Deidara out into the hallway, so I presume that he knows that I kissed Deidara," Neji remarked flatly.
"Indeed," Itachi replied stiffly as Neji shut the door behind him and took a few steps forwards, "…You and Deidara…"
" –It wasn't real," Neji blurted out, and for the second time in practically as many minutes, Itachi's coffee stopped halfway to his mouth and he stared.
What?
The brunette averted his eyes guiltily, "…I mean…It was a real kiss…but I'm not interested in Deidara; not at all."
"…Explain…" Itachi remarked, placing his coffee down and accepting that maybe he just wasn't going to get to drink it this morning. He didn't allow himself to get his hopes up quite yet –NO; he wasn't meant to be getting his hopes up at all!
"…It's all fake," Neji explained with a sigh, "This 'Eren' guy that Deidara's been texting? It's Naruto on a different phone. It's all been some elaborate scheme to make Hidan jealous and get him to commit. They asked me –as a favour –to kiss Deidara." Itachi just stared for a long moment, wondering how to best respond to this.
"…This was Naruto's idea?" he finally responded disbelievingly.
"Apparently so," the brunette answered, "I just…thought that maybe you should know…"
"Why would it matter that I know?" Itachi asked indifferently, getting up to casually rearrange some of his files.
"Well, I believe that Naruto has somehow gotten it into his head that we should sleep together," Neji replied bluntly. Itachi allowed himself a small chuckle and let the walls of denial crumble.
"…I had noticed," he admitted with a heavy sigh, turning to face the Hyuuga with a small smile, "He's really not that subtle, is he?"
"Not in the slightest," Neji answered flatly, licking his lips, "So…in the event that maybe you agreed with Naruto at some point; I thought it would be advisable to notify you that I actually have no interest in Deidara." Itachi raised a sly eyebrow suddenly, eyeing his co-worker carefully.
"…So you're saying that you have an interest in me?" the Uchiha remarked conversationally.
"Oh, I would never…" Neji replied, in a slightly playful, aloof tone, "…After all; you are my boss…"
"Of course; so inappropriate," Itachi agreed with a nod, "And relationships at work just don't seem to work, do they?"
" –Sasuke and Naruto work," the Hyuuga reminded him.
"They fucking do," Itachi remarked, mostly to himself, and then stalked forwards and slammed his lips down on Neji's, instantly wrapping his arms around the smaller man and running hands through his luscious brown hair. Without a moment of hesitation, Neji kissed back; letting out a low moan as the elder man's tongue slipped into his mouth to ravage it.
Itachi's hands automatically slid down through Neji's hair to grip his ass and pull him closer; their bodies connecting deliciously and igniting the lust that both had been trying to ignore for so long. Kisses were exchanged ravenously as Neji pushed Itachi back down onto his chair and straddled him, deepening the kiss and seductively grinding his hips into the Uchiha's crotch. Itachi clutched at Neji's strong thighs and, breaking the kiss, latched his lips onto the pale throat before him.
"…Oh god….Itachi…" Neji moaned, hands threading through dark black locks as he felt arousal coursing through his system at the feeling of his boss's tongue on his skin and hardening cock against his ass, "Please…god, I can't take it anymore..."
"I didn't think you'd be the kind of man to beg, Neji," Itachi remarked in a sultry tone, breathing Neji's name into his ear and reaching down to cup the Hyuuga's growing erection through his pants. Neji, in response to this, just rolled his hips again and clutched at Itachi's face to kiss him deeply again; moaning throatily.
"Fuck…I tried so hard to not be attracted to you…" Itachi murmured, pushing Neji from his lap and spinning him around as the Hyuuga fumbled with his belt. He bent Neji over the desk as his pants fell to the ground, sucking on two of his fingers, "This is so wrong…" And yet, as he began pushing a digit into Neji's entrance; it felt too right. He felt Neji's muscles greedily taking up his finger and pressed a second in to stretch him.
"More…" Neji moaned, gripping the desk tightly and stroking his own cock until it was hard, "…Itachi…fuck…More…"
"I don't do this…" Itachi murmured, forcefully pumping his fingers into Neji's tight hole and hearing the other man quiver and moan with satisfaction. The Hyuuga began grinding back against his penetrating fingers and moaned loudly, biting his lip when Itachi's digits pressed hard against something inside him.
Suddenly, Itachi found himself back on his chair again, Neji on his knees and undoing his pants; dragging his semi-hard cock free and beginning to pump to full hardness.
"N-Neji…" Itachi moaned, bucking his lips a little when he felt a tongue trail across the tip of his cock before a warm cavern completely encased him. Pale Hyuuga eyes gazed up at him; glazed with lust as Neji began expertly bobbing his head up and down upon the raven's cock; gripping at Itachi's legs and rubbing sensual circles against his inner thighs. Itachi couldn't help but thrust up against Neji's mouth; incredibly aroused by the way Neji closed his eyes as though savouring the taste and the feel of the other man against his lips. A low moan escaped the brunette's throat and the vibrations caused Itachi to groan, gripping at the back of Neji's head to force him down a little harder. Again, Neji let out an indulgent moan.
"…Keep moaning like that and I'm going to cum…" Itachi growled, dragging Neji away from his cock reluctantly and pulling him into his lap so that the Hyuuga's back was to him. Body quivering and shaking in anticipation, Neji straddled Itachi and slowly began to push himself down on the Uchiha's thick cock. The raven wrapped a hand around the brunette's cock and the other around his stomach while his lips busied themselves with kissing his neck fervently; absorbed in the feeling of Neji's tightness surrounding him.
In a few moments, Itachi was completely sheathed within Neji, and the Hyuuga obligingly began rising and falling, moaning as he felt that thick cock penetrating deep inside him. Bracing himself against Itachi, he thrust himself downwards again and again; each time harder than before; the blunt head of Itachi's cock abusing his prostate and sending waves of pleasure rippling through his entire body.
Itachi moaned in a low tone, eyes closed in ecstasy every time Neji's inner walls clamped hard around him. He thrust up as best he could, but the Hyuuga seemed more than happy riding him. Determined not to make him do all the work, Itachi stood, bending him over once more and taking pale hips in both hands, began to pound into the other man relentlessly, enjoying hearing Neji's breath hitch dramatically as he was swept closer and closer to orgasm.
"Harder…" Neji managed to groan, hands gripping desperately at the desk and his hair falling across his face as he struggled to remain coherent. Itachi immediately complied, shifting to a better angle so that he could pound against Neji's prostate.
The shift immediately had Neji in a mass of groans and broken moans of Itachi's name, and his hole began to tighten as he rapidly approached release. Itachi, panting heavily and his own hair wildly splaying across his face, reached around and gripped the brunette's cock; pumping it rapidly as he picked up his pace.
With a long moan, Neji came explosively against the edge of the desk, immediately collapsing forwards onto it as his orgasm overtook him and pleasure coursed throughout his body. Itachi managed only a few more thrusts before the clenching of Neji's inner walls sent him reeling over the edge and he came deep inside the other man.
Shaking, he pulled back slightly as Neji turned around and reached up for another hot, passionate kiss. Itachi looked down at the other man; still half-clothed but looking thoroughly ravaged. His usually well-presented hair was a complete mess; matted with sweat. His cheeks were flushed and eyes still glazed in post-coital bliss. Itachi let out several long breaths and kissed him again, running his hand through those soft brown locks.
"…Well, that escalated quickly," Neji commented, not wanting Itachi to move from the spot between his legs; knowing that walking was going to be a real pain very shortly.
"Oh my god, we just had sex at work…" Itachi remarked flatly, eyes widening and then his mouth curling into a smirk as he kissed Neji's neck again, "…I see why Hidan and Deidara do it…" He chuckled and looked down at the flushing Hyuuga, before pulling back and fastening his pants. He ran a hand through his hair to try and make it look a little more presentable.
The two of them maintained eye contact while Neji reclaimed his pants. "…Is it acceptable for me to now mention that I am very attracted to you?" Neji inquired.
"…Now is a perfect time for you to mention that," Itachi admitted, "…I'm very attracted to you too…which I think just became very obvious."
"Indeed," Neji agreed breathlessly, wincing as he experimentally took several steps. "…Well, we have accepted mutual attraction…so where do we go from here?" Itachi pondered for a moment. Damn. He had never wanted work relationships or anything, but he had been so drawn to Neji –and the fact that Sasuke and Naruto seemed to be functional –so…well, fuck it.
"…How about dinner?" Itachi inquired with a raised eyebrow.
"Perfect," Neji admitted with a small smile and then his eyes widened, "…Oh my god, I just fucked my boss!"
"…I just threw away the only solid belief I had revolving around the workplace," Itachi snorted, leaning over and planting another kiss on the Hyuuga's lips, "…God…I have wanted to do that ever since I first saw you…"
"Should we thank Naruto for his obvious ploys to force us into sexual-tension filled situations?" Neji inquired bluntly.
"Ahh, so you noticed that too…" Itachi sighed, "No –let's let him think that his plans were very clever. Although I should probably give Kakashi E. coli for going along with it…" He smirked, "…Though it did give me a wonderful opportunity to see you shirtless, Neji…" Neji smirked, running a sly hand down Itachi's chest and then wrapping his arms around his neck.
"…There's hopefully plenty more where that came from…" he murmured slyly, pressing his lips back against the Uchiha's once more.
While Itachi and Neji resumed their carnal activities, Deidara was in the hallway with a fuming Hidan.
"What the fuck…fucking hell…Dei what the actual fuck?" Hidan exploded, unable to really form sentences. Deidara just folded his arms coolly and raised an eyebrow, "Neji fucking Hyuuga?"
"I told you last night, Hidan, yeah," he snorted, "I was sick of you being a fucking jackass and so I found someone who wasn't. And I might add that you have no fucking right to be jealous, yeah."
"And why not?" Hidan snapped, before clamping his mouth shut angrily at the admittance that he was, in fact, jealous.
" –Because this is exactly what you did to me," Deidara growled angrily, and Hidan's lips tightened, "You just always went running off with whoever would fuck you, and only came back to me when you were done with them. How do you think I felt, Hidan? I was fucking in love with you, and you would just treat me like shit!" His eyes widened as he realised what he had just admitted.
"…You were in love with me?" Hidan inquired flatly, "…Why?"
"I don't know," Deidara snapped irritably, annoyed and embarrassed that he'd blurted out his true feelings for Hidan.
" –Why didn't you ever say so, blondie?" the elder man asked in confusion, his voice suddenly a lot softer.
"…Because I knew you would leave," Deidara growled, "I knew that you'd freak out and run –like you always did! I decided that I would rather have you using me for sex than you not being around at all, yeah!" He brushed his hair out of his face, only for it to fall straight back, "…But that's changed now. I want to be happy. So stop bothering me, Hidan; what I do is none of your business."
And on that note, he stuck his nose into the air and stormed back towards the lab, leaving Hidan standing there in the hallway, completely unable to fathom what he'd just heard. He had a half mind to head back after him, but instead he just backed up to the wall and slid down it until he was sitting on the floor. He was still sitting there when Naruto arrived for work half an hour later.
"…Um…Hidan?" he inquired with a frown, looking down at the solemn man hanging his head. Hidan just looked up at him with sad eyes.
" –Deidara said that he used to fucking love me," he informed Naruto miserably.
"Well of course he did," Naruto scoffed, "We all knew –well, everyone except you, coz you were too much of a jackass to pay attention to him…"
"He should've told me," Hidan scowled.
" –Would you have treated him better?" Naruto exclaimed, "Hidan, you hooked up with a new person every other week –if not more frequently –leaving Deidara clinging onto hope that one day you were going to commit to him!"
"I…" Hidan muttered, casting his eyes to the floor, "…I was fucking scared, okay? I don't know how to fucking do relationships! Fuck! I just didn't know…I know I treated him like shit…and fuck, he didn't deserve that –I don't deserve him…But now that he's with Neji…"
"…You want him back?" Naruto guessed. Hidan nodded once, as though not wanting to admit it out loud, "Well, then get off your ass and show him how you fucking feel. Jeez, Hidan; it's not that complicated!" With a heavy sigh, and a lack of sympathy, Naruto stalked off into the lab to see how Deidara was coping with the whole situation.
Hidan sat there for a moment longer, lost in his thoughts. Deidara had loved him? Hell. He'd had a thought, just once –that maybe…possibly…he could love the blonde…but that thought had terrified him! He'd never had a relationship that was even slightly functional; his parents had never been stable, and so Hidan had never wanted to get involved…and so he'd distanced himself from Deidara –not just for himself…but for the blonde as well.
Because he cared, he hadn't wanted Deidara to end up attached to a broken asshole like him.
And yet, his actions had had the opposite effect; and now that the blonde was gone; Hidan missed him terribly. He wanted him back; he wanted him beside him –he wanted to admit, finally…that maybe; potentially; he possibly definitely loved Deidara.
"Thanks for this, Sasuke," Naruto remarked gratefully later that night as he clambered into the raven's bed. Sasuke made a noncommittal noise that indicated that this arrangement was definitely not his idea and that he wasn't happy about it.
Earlier that day, Naruto had received a call from one of his neighbours, telling him that water was leaking out from under his front door. When he had rushed home to investigate, he discovered that somehow, one of his taps in the kitchen had broken and had practically flooded his entire house. He'd angrily headed back to work to rant about having nowhere to stay, and of course, instead of offering him a place to stay, Deidara had suggested that he stay at Sasuke's.
They were, after all, in a 'relationship', right?
And so there he was, lying shirtless in Sasuke Uchiha's bed. He knew women that would kill to be in his position right now; watching as the raven pulled off his shirt and pulled on a pair of sleeping pants. He couldn't help but let his gaze wander across his pale skin; across strong shoulders and defined muscles.
" –Quit staring," Sasuke remarked in slight amusement, turning around and finding Naruto looking away with a distinctly guilty expression plastered across his face. Sasuke stood at the side of the bed, hands on his hips, and Naruto found the sight of that pale, toned chest to be a little too distracting.
" –That's my side," he remarked flatly.
"What?" Naruto inquired.
"My side of the bed," Sasuke explained, "Move over."
" –I thought you were taking the couch…" Naruto squawked.
"In my own home? I think not," Sasuke snorted, "Now either move over or you go to the couch." Naruto stared at him for a long moment before realising that the raven was utterly serious. With an annoyed noise, he rolled over to the other side of the bed and Sasuke got in under the covers.
They lay in silence for a long moment, both staring up at the roof. Their minds were both wandering back to the kiss they had shared the night before. It had been on their minds all day; not quite understanding what had happened; why they had lost control. Naruto frowned, licking his lips a little.
"…Do you think…they expect…" Naruto frowned, breaking the awkward silence.
"…Shut up and go to sleep…" Sasuke sighed, rolling over and turning his back to the blonde.
" –Do you really think Itachi believes that we're together?" he inquired.
"He has no reason not to," Sasuke grumbled in response, "Why?"
"…I just…I don't know…" Naruto admitted with a frown, "I mean, does he have proof…" Sasuke let out another heavy sigh and turned back to face him, propping himself up on an elbow.
"Come here," the raven murmured in a low tone that sent a shiver up Naruto's spine. Hesitantly, Naruto inched a little closer, and his breath caught in his throat when Sasuke's head dipped to his neck and attached his lips to the skin.
Slowly, the raven pushed Naruto to his back, and hovered over him, sucking and kissing at the spot on Naruto's throat. The blonde quivered beneath him; his breathing becoming laboured as he felt Sasuke's tongue press against his skin. He bit his lip as his back automatically arched and he withheld a low moan; feeling raven locks brush against his face.
Warmth flooded through Naruto as he lay there, feeling harsh lips sucking at his skin and he felt his cock twitch in his pants with arousal. He gripped the sheets tightly, willing his blood to flow anywhere but southwards, and his prayers appeared to be answered when Sasuke pulled back.
The raven looked down at the panting blonde who was blushing like a schoolgirl, with a nicely forming hickey clearly visible even in the dim light. He shivered, finding himself longing to descend upon those lips and claim them again –he could feel warmth radiating from Naruto, and it took all his willpower to roll over again and not succumb to temptation.
"Happy now?" he managed to snort out without his voice shaking as he curled up a little to try and douse the arousal that was threatening to ignite, "Now Itachi has 'proof'." Naruto said nothing, just rolled over in silence and tried to ignore the urge to grab Sasuke and drag him on top of him.
Several times in the night the two of them woke –always at different times, and discovering that in their sleep, they had ended up rolling together. More than once, Sasuke discovered that there was a blonde head nestled against his chest or a tanned back pressed to his chest. Naruto had woken to discover a pale arm draped around his stomach; fingers intertwined intimately. He'd felt the soft, even breathing of Sasuke's upon his neck, and had noted to himself how strangely comfortable it was.
When he woke up, Sasuke was already awake, and there was the smell of eggs drifting into the room from presumably the kitchen. With a yawn and a mental note of how well he'd slept, Naruto clambered from the bed –noting that he was on Sasuke's 'side' –and headed down to see what the raven was doing.
"Morning," Sasuke greeted from the kitchen; still shirtless and pants hanging low on lithe hips. Naruto came up beside him and took the coffee that the raven was gesturing to.
"Morning," he replied, automatically reaching up to kiss Sasuke on the cheek. Lips connected to skin familiarly, and Naruto found himself blushing as he wandered over to the kitchen table.
"We're not at work; we don't need to act like we're together," Sasuke reminded him flatly, bringing over breakfast for the two of them; bacon and eggs with roasted tomatoes for himself.
" –And here you are, bringing me breakfast like a good little wife," Naruto teased, sticking out his tongue. Sasuke just glared and prodded him in the neck.
" –You're the one with the hickey," he replied flatly, sitting opposite him at the small table and taking a sip of his coffee as Naruto glared at him, "I suppose you want a ride to work today?"
"…Please...And could I maybe borrow some clothes…" Naruto inquired awkwardly, "I um…forgot to go and get some yesterday…" Sasuke just rolled his eyes.
" –I'll find you something after breakfast," he muttered, rubbing his eyes blearily. Naruto gave him one of his brilliant grins and the raven just had to offer up a small smile in response. He had to admit to himself that these days there was some kind of brightness about Naruto that made it impossible to be mad at him for too long. But, in the back of his mind, he wondered why he was so comfortable with him. In his mind it seemed to make perfect sense that he was making Naruto breakfast; it made perfect sense for Naruto to come down from sleeping in his bed and greet him with a kiss on the cheek.
It seemed too easy; too comfortable…too normal for a fake relationship. Hell, he'd even thought that giving Naruto a hickey wasn't pushing the boundaries of real and fake!
In any case, Neji and Itachi would hopefully be together sometime soon and this whole charade could end. Was it bad that he was a little disappointed? He'd grown to kind of enjoy the arguments, and taking Naruto out; even the holding hands with him was cute…(he did not just use the word 'cute' to describe himself with Naruto…) Not to mention the way kissing him made him feel…
As Sasuke toyed with his food, Naruto was covering up his nerves by eating with great gusto. It had just seemed completely natural to him to kiss Sasuke on the cheek. He'd enjoyed sleeping in the raven's arms; feeling skin against skin; feeling his soft breathing against his neck. He kind of liked being spoiled, no matter how much he complained about never getting to pay for anything.
They worked together, they went out for dinners and lunch, they held hands; argued and teased; Sasuke had made him breakfast and brought him coffee; they'd even once or twice gone shopping together –mostly because Naruto didn't own food and he'd promised to bring Sasuke lunch the next day…
Both were lost in thought, but neither really stopped to wonder how real their fake relationship actually was…
Hope you enjoyed the new chapter; first time writing an ItaNeji lemon; actually, first time writing Itachi as seme (I personally prefer him as Kisame's uke if I'm being completely honest xD ); so I hope it was okay!
So Itachi and Neji, clever boys as they are, noticed Naruto's plans! And finally, admittance of mutual attraction! Where will Hidan go from here? And what will Sasuke and Naruto do?
Last chapter will hopefully be done soon!
xx K
