Thanks Panda and Itooshii--I'm glad you like the lime..Tyrell—sorry it was unexpected I told Sasuke that it was too soon but he disagreed, said he hated doing the expected and there you have it. *mumbles 'stupid Sasuke'* Still glad you thought it was good.

Here's the next chapter!

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Her heart was pounding in her chest like she had just run a marathon. Naruto lay with her eyes closed and tried to bring her thoughts, her feelings under control. Her body was still suffused with pleasure, continuing to spasm sending spikes of delight throughout the nerve endings and pushing a moan to her throat, which she refused to allow out.

The ringing of the phone suddenly brought her out of the trance that she had dropped into and her eyes widened in horror.

"Shit! I forgot to call Neji!" She scrambled pushing Sasuke away and crawling over to the table to grab it from its resting place next to her laptop. Breathing harshly she tapped the talk button then pulled her shirt down and ignored the bra that dangled awkwardly from her shoulders.

"Where the HELL have you been?" Iruka shouted into the phone.

Naruto instantly pulled it away from her ear. "Hi, Uncle Iruka, um…I was…"

"No, don't tell me," he growled in a good imitation of a dog protecting a bone, "you went to your friends even after I told you not to."

"Good guess," Naruto looked at Sasuke then whose eyebrow had lifted as he reclined of the floor. He smiled sensually at her and lifted his hand back to his mouth. His tongue appeared and he swiped it over a digit watching her the whole time. She flinched slightly, closed her eyes, and turned away from the seductive Uchiha.

"Girl, I wouldn't continue pushing my luck, if I were you," Iruka was saying. "I was worried sick about you when I couldn't get a hold of you after my meetings. I have been wasting my day trying to call you!"

"I'm sorry, Uncle Iruka," Naruto said in her most contrite voice as she tried to sooth him over the phone. "It's just that I haven't seen them in over a month and, well, after yesterday and all…I…" Naruto broke off, unable to express her feelings in words.

"You…What?" Iruka demanded, though his tone had softened greatly at the reminder that he had nearly lost his niece.

"I was feeling homesick," she rushed to say though the words were run together.

Silence greeted her over the phone and Naruto thought that she had over shared a little too much and caused her uncle to have a heart attack.

"Uncle?" she asked hesitantly.

"Naruto, I am sending a car over to pick you up. My schedule has been cleared as we will spend it together." He wasn't asking and Naruto knew better than to argue when he was like this. She had never won and neither had anyone else for that matter.

"Okay," Naruto whispered. The phone went dead without even a goodbye which was just like her uncle so Naruto pushed the off button and set the phone down only to pick it back up and dial Neji.

"Where have you been?" Neji demanded as soon as he answered.

"Um…talking with my uncle who asked the very same question not five minutes ago."

"What about the half hour before that when I was expecting you call and didn't get one?" Naruto could see him in her mind standing in his room with a hand on his hip.

"I was having dinner at a lovely restaurant," Naruto said in her best haute cultured voice.

"With Uchiha?" his was a little better than mine since he has had more practice.

"Yes."

"Where is he now?"

"He went home."

"Lie." Naruto had never been able to figure out how Neji knew that she was lying especially over the phone.

"Fine, he is still here," Naruto began to pace still not looking at Sasuke who had picked himself up off the floor and was leaning against the wall where he was first started his seduction.

"Why?"

"Does it matter, and the monosyllables are beginning to get annoying."

She hear Neji blow out a frustrated breath then ask, "Are you okay?"

"Yes."

"Did he…?"

"Yes." Naruto swallowed and closed her eyes.

"Do you want me to come over?" His voice became gentle and concerned.

Naruto felt the prick of tears against the back of her eyelids but refused to let them fall because then Neji would hear and he would think that Sasuke had hurt her when it was just her own hormones and emotions that were to blame. "No."

"Lie."

Naruto took a deep breath before trying again, "I'm fine, Neji, really I can handle the consequences of my actions."

"Did you at least use protection?" Neji asked.

"It didn't get that far," Naruto said stressing the 'that'.

She hear a sigh of relief and shook her head.

"Thank goodness for small miracles," he stated, "Call me if you want me to come over, I'll wake Kiba and we will be there in ten."

"Thanks, but I'm fine, oh and I am spending the day with Iruka. Scary, huh?"

"Yeah, good luck with that," Neji was sincere in wishing me luck.

"Goodnight then, Neji."

"Sleep tight, Naruto."

We hung up.

I walked over to the counter where the base for the phone was and placed it in its cradle before taking a deep breath and turning to Sasuke. His head was cocked to the side as he studied my with his normal impassive face. His arms were folded over his chest while his shoulder rested against the wall.

"What just happened, you know, with the floor and all was a mistake," Naruto began as she gathered her courage and met the stoic onyx gaze.

"Did feel like a mistake," Sasuke smirked. His eyes took in the flustered look on her face and the red cheeks. "I think you're just embarrassed that your friend found out about it."

Naruto remained silent but her head dropped and she studied a brown stain on the carpet.

"Naruto," Sasuke said as he straightened and approached her, "I don't know what this is or will become but…" he pause as an unfamiliar tenderness grew, "I want to see where this is going to go."

She looked up and saw the tenderness in his eyes, confused and off balance she shook her head and folder her arms across her chest as if she were trying to hold in the warmth when the entire world had frozen over.

Sasuke reached out a hand to rub against her arm but dropped it when she flinched away. He sighed inwardly and decided that space would probably be for the best right now.

"I'm going to go now, it's been a long day and I'm sure that you're worn out. Enjoy your day with you uncle and if I don't see you before, I will see you on Friday." He turned and let himself out of the apartment.

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"Naruto!" The sharp bark broke into Naruto's thought drawing her back to the present. "I have been sitting here talk to you and you haven't heard a word I've said."

Iruka was sitting in a leather wing chair studying her with hawkish eyes. Between them was a glass and stone chess board where a game was in progress. Naruto absently studied it before making her move. "Sorry, Uncle. What were you saying?"

Iruka leaned back and watched his niece as she brushed a long strand of hair away from her face. It had been a while since he had sat down and played a game of chess with her and he was just now realizing how long it had been. His lips tightened with regret and a mild sense of wonder and he gave her his complete attention.

Naruto had grown into a beautiful young woman and she was fiercely headstrong. He could remember when she had been much younger, she had always been bouncing around the house getting into trouble and annoying the household staff daily. She had laughed brightly; just the sound had been enough to lift everyone's spirits. Her sunny smile had worked its way deep into his heart. Even the times when they had clashed hadn't deterred the girl's spirits.

He sighed and wondered if he had missed something along the way. These past ten years he had devoted most of his time to his business, at first gathering clients and then figuring out ways to keep them, when his main competition was Uchiha Industries. It had been a struggle to climb up to a position where his company was making a profit and compete with the dominant Uchiha's. But along the way he now felt that he had missed something vital. Raising Naruto.

"Uncle?"

It was his turn to be brought out of his reverie and back into the present. He shook off the nostalgia and reached out to life his knight and set it in front of a pawn. "Naruto, I have been thinking--"

"God forbid," Naruto interrupted then her eyes widened as she realized what she had just done. "Sorry," she mumbled the apology, ducking her head and waiting for him to blow up. Instead, to her utter amazement, her uncle chuckled.

"I get that sometimes," he remarked, "but still, I have been thinking that perhaps I was a little hasty in sending you to that school. And now with the house being so quiet I would like you to come home." He finished in a rush because he wasn't sure just how to say it to make her understand how he felt.

Naruto jerked her head up to meet her uncle's dark brown eyes. Iruka registered the confusion on Naruto's face and blew out a breath. Had it really been that long since he had held this dear little girl in his arms when she woke screaming from a nightmare? That she didn't believe he was capable of other emotions that anger and frustration?

"I…I don't know what to say," she breathed.

"Let me make a few phone calls and see if I can get you transferred back to your old school, okay?" Iruka said.

"Alright." She grinned up at him then back at the board. "Checkmate!" she said as she moved her queen in directly in front of his king.

Iruka looked down and saw that he was indeed in checkmate. "Shit!"

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