-Chapter 7-

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Sasuke motioned for Naruto to come to into the hallway. For a few seconds Naruto stared in disbelief.

"No way, I am not doing it in the front hallway. Halls do not count as rooms. You know what, I've been cleaning all evening and I'm not even in the mood anymore" He watched Sasuke shrug and remove his shoes then proceed to pass by him. Naruto sighed and chased after him through the house while removing the apron he had been wearing "Can't we do it somewhere with a nice soft bed? Why can't you have kinky fantasies of having sex in your parents room or something?" the corridor seemed a lot longer then it previously had as Sasuke continued to move through it two paces in front of him.

"What does it matter? You're not in the mood." Sasuke said as Naruto's mouth formed a wide grin. There is hope for him yet.

"You could at least let me stay for tea. I did you that courtesy when you were at my place even though you weren't putting out."

"I was bleeding."

"Excuses, excuses."

"Fine, you can stay for tea." Excitedly Naruto grabbed onto Sasuke's arm and dragged him into the nearest room which was filled with pictures of member of the Uchiha Family all of whom Naruto knew to be dead.

"This is way better than your parents room. We can do it while your entire dead clan watches from beyond the grave!" Naruto said as he let go of Sasuke's arm

"I thought you just wanted tea."

Naruto leaned in close to Sasuke as if to whisper something "come on, everyone knows tea is a euphemism for sex." Sasuke's whispered reply sent shivers down his spine.

"I thought that was just coffee."

"All beverages really." Naruto said as he took a step back returning to his normal tone.

"That might explain Ino's peculiar behavior after I asked her over for orange juice." Naruto unwillingly felt a pang of jealousy hit him. Was that a joke or was he being serious? Of course Sasuke is trying to get involved with woman, he's wants to revive his clan, that's something I can never do for him. Naruto looked up and realized that Sasuke was staring at him as if trying to read his mind. "This room is too creepy." Sasuke finally said, breaking the silence. "I think the hall was a much better idea."

"It hurts."

"Excuse me?" Sasuke asked as if he hadn't heard.

Naruto started rubbing an invisible pain in his back. "It hurts to be slammed up against a wall over and over again."

"You're a ninja. Can't you suck it up?"

"I like to view pain as being an unavoidable consequence, this particular pain I feel I have sufficient influence to prevent."

Sasuke stood there blown away for a few seconds. "We are keeping you away from books."

Naruto smiled in triumph "what was that, was the great Sasuke Uchiha just impressed by my amazing political persuasion?"

Sasuke acted as if he hadn't heard Naruto gloat instead choosing to stare at all the photo's hanging in the room. "We don't have to do it in the hallway but we are definitely not doing it in here." Sasuke caught his eye and they stared as each other for a few seconds before they both started to grin. Confident that the other was thinking the same thing, they both spoke at the same time.

"Itachi's room."

They both started laughing. Naruto contained himself for a few seconds to watch Sasuke let out a genuine laugh but the moment was stolen from him when the dark haired boy realized he was no longer laughing. "Try to keep up." Sasuke said as he ran out of the room toward the side of the house. As he watched his best friend ran ahead of him along the covered outdoor passageway he imagined a much younger Sasuke doing the same thing. He stopped himself from thinking such innocent juvenile thoughts when he realized he was about to let the man he had just pictured as a child screw his brains out.

He was a little disappointed at Itachi's former room. There was nothing embarrassing like pink walls or kitten posters; in fact the room was incredibly sparse. Sasuke on the other hand was overjoyed wearing the most maniacal grin Naruto had ever seen. The fact that Sasuke was getting so excited over a simple change in geography just about confirmed Naruto's theory that the Uchiha lead a very dull life.

"Are we doing this or what?" Sasuke said from across the room, already beginning to undress. He could tell by the look of aggression or Sasuke's face that this was not going to be easy on his ass.

Maybe the hallway would have been better. He put his thoughts aside to stare across the room at Sasuke who now sat on the floor leaning against the bed completely naked. Did I space out for that long?

He was surprised about how shamelessly Sasuke sat there riffling through the pants he had removed pulling out a pack of cigarettes. Not on my watch. By the time he made it across the room Sasuke had already lit it. Naruto's bright solution was to mimic the actions of Sasuke the other day. He pulled it out of the Uchiha's mouth and put it out on his hand. That was a mistake.

"AH Fuck! Why the hell would you do that?" Naruto said clutching his hand in pain.

"The trick is not to mind." Sasuke replied in a monotone.

"Well I mind, in fact I have half a mind to..." He paused when he felt Sasuke reach for his hand to inspect it.

"Suck it up, the burn isn't that bad." Naruto finally looked down at his own hand where a blister was already starting to form above the scar from the cut Sasuke had made. He nearly jumped when he felt coldwater on his palm. Immediately he withdrew his palm.

"What the hell are you doing?"

"You have to run it under cold water, trust me I treated a lot of burns as a child."

"Where did it come from?"

"Kitchen."

Naruto was skeptical. "How did you get all the way there and back?"

"Quickly" If that was true than Sasuke's speed had improved. He found himself longing to train with Sasuke again to see how much just how much he had improved. "Would you rather I licked it?" Sasuke asked sarcastically.

"I want to fight you."

"What, right now?" it was then that Naruto remember that although he was still fully clothed Sasuke was naked.

"No, not right now! We're about to have sex now, we have to fight later." He reasoned.

"Deal." Sasuke said extending a hand to shake that he took but as soon as did Sasuke pulled his hand to his face and licked his palm over the blistering wound. Naruto responded as any ninja would with a swift kick aimed at Sasuke's temple, which, unfortunately, was easily dodged sending the Uchiha into a short burst of evil laughter.

Naruto wasn't exactly how that moment lead to him being pinned against a wall and stripped but there he was. Why is it always the wall? "Fucking first, fighting later." Sasuke whispered against the shell of his ear causing both a pleasant and disconcerting shiver down his spine. How does he do that? Being the determined ninja that he was he managed to turn the situation so that instead of being pinned against a wall he was now being pinned to the mattress of the bed. Finally no walls or futons.

There was something not quite right about the situation. It might have been the smell or their rather uncomfortable orientation, or the fact that neither of them had remembered to take off their heads band so whenever they got close enough he would feel the cold metal or hear it clink against his own strip of metal. What Naruto finally observed was that cause of his discomfort was that fact that the spiral seal on his stomach had for some reason decided to reveal it's self.

Sasuke took a much more lighthearted look at the situation. "Am I having sex with you or the fox today?"

"Me." I hope.

"Good" he didn't know why it was comforting to hear but it was. Sasuke had backed off him a little so in order to see what was going on Naruto leaned his head upward. One second he was there, then as soon as he blinked Sasuke was sitting there, headband less, fussing with a tube of some sort. Damn. He's quick.

Naruto attempted to reach up and undo his own headband but before he could the dark haired boy pinned them down. So much for tha.. "Aaaa" without warning Sasuke had spread his legs and push into him. In order to make the whole thing more comfortable he wrapped his legs around the other boy.

He struggled for a few seconds to free his hands but Sasuke only tightened his grip on them. Clearly the feeling of his best friend within him was clouding his judgment because somehow he reasoned the best way of getting Sasuke to free him was to gnaw at on of the wrist that was holding him down. The Uchiha ignored it, if anything it excited him more. So apparently kissing was out but violent biting was in, he was getting the hand of this. They went on like this for a few more minutes, Sasuke thrusting and groaning, Naruto writhing and gnawing, until Naruto felt his limit approaching. He felt Sasuke's warm release in him, which made him give one final bite puncturing the skin. Simultaneously he tasted Sasuke's blood and let out his own release on his stomach.

Sasuke rolled off him panting for a few seconds before speaking. "We better clean this up." The moment happened in slow motion. Sasuke sat up and reached for Naruto's shirt then leaned toward him wiping up the vestiges of their intercourse.

"Noooo!" Naruto yelled but it was too late the deed was done.

"What?" Sasuke asked.

"My clothes." He said pulling the shirt out of the dark haired mans grip but he knew there was no going back. He looked over at Sasuke who clearly didn't understand the magnitude of his actions because instead of acting concerned he had flopped next to him attempting sleep. Naruto sighed and threw his shirt aside. No use worrying about it now. He turned to look at his best friend lying there between reality and dreams. He attempted to reach out and brush a hair but got his hand smacked away. Baby steps. He thought as he sighed and closed his eyes.

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When he woke up he wasn't surprised to see that Sasuke was already up. He let out a groan as he stood up and began sifting through discarded clothing. He noticed his clothes were still a mess from last night so he settled on slipping on a pair of boxers. He slid the door to the room and yawned as he walked through the house toward the kitchen. Sasuke was already there eating breakfast while casually flipping through a book.

"You should really put on more clothes before you eat." Sasuke said barely acknowledging his presence.

"I would, but someone had to go and ruin the last of my clothes."

"You can find some of my old clothes in the futon cabinet." Sasuke said with his nose still buried in the same page. In fact all page turning had stopped since he had entered.

"Like hell I'm going to wear any of your clothes."

"Then you're not going to eat."

"Fine!" Naruto replied indignantly. His stomach groaned involuntarily which caused Sasuke to smirk. Finally Naruto sighed "Fine."

When he reentered the kitchen he was wearing black shorts and a white shirt with a gigantic Uchiha symbol on the front. "I feel so violated." Naruto said scratching at his stomach as though the shirt were giving him a rash.

"So when we have sex you're fine, but when you wear my clothes you feel violated?" If Naruto hadn't known better he would have thought Sasuke sounded offended.

"Not unless your sperm has little tiny Uchiha symbols on it." Naruto said pitching his pointer finger and thumb together to indicate the size.

"It might as well. I don't see what the problem is you were fine wearing that apron yesterday."

"Desperate times call for desperate measures." Naruto concluded, taking a seat across from Sasuke at the table. "Now pass me the cereal and never mention that again." Sasuke did what he was told and returned to reading. They sat there for a few minutes in silence before Naruto noticed Sasuke still hadn't turned the page. What could be intriguing him so much? "Hey Sasuke?"

"Hn?"

"What are reading?

"It's a poem." Naruto began to laugh out loud.

"Aaaaaw is little angsty Sasuke reading emo poetry?" Sasuke didn't respond to the teasing. "Let me see this." Naruto pulled away the book away and cleared his throat and putting on the best dramatic voice he could.

"Turning and turning in the widening gyre

The falcon cannot hear the falconer;

Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;

Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,"

Naruto looked up from the poem to laugh a little. "This is turning out to be pretty emo."

"The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere

The ceremony of innocence is drowned;

The best lack all conviction, while the worst

Are full of passionate intensity."

By the end Naruto had dropped the dramatic voice. "The page is ripped there, was there another stanza?"

"Yes." Sasuke replied simply prying the book away from him.

"What does the rest of it say? Where is the rest of the page?"

"It doesn't matter, I only liked the next two lines anyway."

"I bet they're just as emo." Naruto said grinning trying to pull the book back but Sasuke had a good hold on it.

"You just don't understand it, that's all." Sasuke said indignantly as he slammed the book closed on Naruto's fingers.

Naruto waved his stinging hands "why did you take it out to read it?"

"You just had me thinking of it, that's all."

"In a good way, an annoying way, an extremely kinky way, or a bad way?"

"I just compared you to the apocalypse." Sasuke said raising his eyebrows slightly.

"Mmm, I see, you really are extremely perverted Sasuke."

"Usuratonkachi" Sasuke muttered as he rolled his eyes and stood up taking the book with him.

"I have a much better poem!" he called after Sasuke who was re-shelving the book in the next room.

"Oh yeah?"

"There once was a man from Nantucket whose dick was so long he could su…"

"Don't finish that limerick!" Sasuke shouted

"Sorry wouldn't want to violate your poor virgin ears" Naruto called back while sneaking food off of Sasuke's plate. "Oh wait wasn't it just 8 hours ago that you had your dick up my a…"

"Stop talking and stop stealing my food"

"But you don't have any milk and your food tastes so much better." In defiance Naruto took another bite off the other's plate but unfortunately the dark haired male reentered the room at the exact time Naruto had his fork in the eggs. They both stood there frozen for a second.

"Naruto Uzumaki you have crossed the line." At the same time he heard Sasuke say it he noticed the others hand curl into a fist which moments later was sent toward him. He caught the punch easily returning it with one of his own which was caught by Sasuke's remaining hand. Suddenly they started throwing kicks and as soon as they released each other's hands the punches started again. Soon the plate of food and Naruto's dry bowl of cereal were sent to the floor with a loud crash completely forgotten.

Naruto loved moments like this, sparring with Sasuke early in the morning really got him hyped for the day. They caught each other's fists again leaving them standing mere inches apart sweating and panting. "Sasuke I need to go to work now."

"I'll be around so you don't have to break-in" Sasuke said as he released Naruto's fist which gave Naruto one final clear opportunity for shot at the dark haired boys head that he took. Unfortunately the punch didn't land; Sasuke once again avoided it by moving his head. "Go to work already." With a humph Natuto left. It wasn't until he was halfway to town that he realized he was still wearing the Uchiha shirt.

Before he entered into the room where his first meeting was to take place he was stopped by a young ninja whom he knew to be one of the Tsunade's minions. "The Hokage wants to see you before the first meeting, something about dumplings?" He couldn't help but to roll his eyes, he knew this was coming.

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"Naruto did you solve the Dumpling issue by using physical force?" the Hokage asked to which he nodded. "I was tired of hearing about it. You did exactly what needed to be done, good work." Naruto stood there in shock trying to process what had just happened. "You may go now, but you may find it worth while to stop by the hospital to see if Sakura has any extra clothes for you." he looked down at the offending shirt remembering the big fuss they made when he was in his own casual clothes. What would they say about someone else's?

"Yeah, I think I'll go do that."

"Good man."

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Sakura was happy to see him, and even more pleased to see the clothes he was wearing. "Oh Naruto, the walk of shame! You really are the woman in the relationship."

"I thought the point of a gay relationship was that no one was a woman." Naruto quipped.

"Yep, definitely the woman."

"Please don't compare me to a woman, I don't trust anything that can bleed for 8 days without dying."

"Oh please, when have I ever proven myself un-trustworthy." Sakura asked.

"I heard from Kakashi sensei that you told him about me and Sasuke, I thought we were going to keep that all hush, hush."

"You never told me not to tell anyone." Sakura said pulling clean clothes from one of the medical closets.

"It's common sense! I'm working towards becoming the future Hokage while I happen to be having gay sex with a former missing nin, you didn't stop to think having that spread around town would be bad for my reputation?"

"The demon fox already has that taken care of, besides, you should be happy, every woman is jealous you got the catch of Konoha."

"You mean would be jealous right?" Naruto said as Sakura started laughing uncomfortably. "Right?"

"It's not like they believed me, though they might if they saw you wearing that." Naruto started rubbing his temples trying his hardest not to attack the innocent pink haired girl.

"Sakura, I would appreciate it if you didn't mention anything about me and Sasuke to anyone anymore. Our relationship is, well it's…"

"What?"

Finally the word came to him. "It's delicate."

"Good word choice." Sakura complimented

"Thank you, I…" he stopped himself before he got carried away. "I see what you're doing but your flattery won't work on me! I'm still mad!"

"What ever you say." Sakura said leaning forward to rest the clothes in his arms and plant an innocent kiss on his cheek before hopping away.

"That feminine charm won't work either!" Naruto yelled as she turned the corner "I'll get you my pretty and your little dog too!" Naruto looked down at the clothes in his hands. "These had better not be woman's clothes!!"

Luckily they weren't, unfortunately it was something worse, a clean set of medical scrubs. Naruto weighed his options for a moment and signed before deciding on the scrubs.

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If walking going to a meeting in a t-shirt and shorts was unorthodox than coming in during the middle of a meeting in scrubs was unheard of. To make matters far worse there was only one chair left at the far end of the room. Calling it a chair was perhaps giving it too much credit, it was but more of a stool one had to perch on.

He sighed and made his way across the room towards it. All he could hope for was a short meeting. He looked down at the agenda that had one sentence written on it. "Achieving peace in Konoha" oh boy. He could tell that this was going to be the start of a terrible day.

6 hours later the meeting took a recess because everyone was starting to feel the effects of hunger. Feeling as though Sakura owned him lunch for the embarrassment he had faced all day so far he headed over to the hospital.

He found Sakura looking over a complicated medical document in the staff room. She looked up and started laughing. "Hey there Mc dreamy."

"Shut up."

"Come on, don't be mad at me! I didn't think you'd actually wear them."

"You owe me lunch."

"Fair enough. Wait for me out in the hallway while I go change into street clothes." Sakura said rolling the scroll she had been reading.

"Do I get a costume change?" Naruto asked hopefully.

"And miss out on all the amusement I'll get when we go out in public? No way." Sakura head off down the hall leaving him alone in the hallway.

"Bitch." He muttered.

"Who?" asked a deep voice from behind him. He turned to see Sasuke standing there coolly.

"Sasuke! What are you doing here?" As Sasuke held up Naruto's clothes he saw a bandaged wrist that made him smile.

"I thought I'd bring by your clothes, it looks as though it's a good thing I did Dr. Uzumaki." Two could play that game

"Having erotic fantasies about doctors now?" Naruto asked as he stepped closer to the dark haired male in an attempt to be seductive.

"Can't say I am." Sasuke said but Naruto wasn't listening.

"You really are a pervert. How did you find me anyway?" Sasuke reached a hand under the scrub shirt to trace a spiral around his navel.

"You leak chakura like a cheap faucet." It was at that moment Sakura came barreling down the hall completely oblivious to Sasuke's presence.

"You have no idea how annoying it is to undo the seals on some of these… oh" She had finally looked up to see Sasuke standing there. The hand had been removed from under his shirt, but it didn't make the situation less compromising. "Sorry I'll leave so you two can fulfill your erotic doctor patient fantasies."

"Sakura knows?" Sasuke asked completely levelheaded.

"You never told me not to tell anyone?" Naruto offered to which Sasuke shrugged.

"I was just going. Sorry to disturb." Sasuke said turning to go but Sakura grabbed his arm.

"You should come with us." She said smiling sweetly. Sasuke didn't have time to reply; yet another person turned the corner into the hallway.

"Naruto! I'm glad I ran into you." It was one of the younger ninja's who had been present at the meeting whose name he couldn't remember. "I wanted to ask you about some of the positions you took during the meeting." Oh great, I'll never get food. "I was wondering why you thought we should tighten border restrictions if we're trying to achieve peace?"

"If we opened our borders we'd get a large influx of immigrants from less stable areas, it's not that I want to support them, but Konoha's economy couldn't handle it. So many surrounding area's economies are based off of ours so if we went into recession it would cause problems."

"Then why not just isolate our economy?"

"I'm sorry I thought we were talking about achieving peace, not starting another war."

"I don't get it" he heard Sakura mutter to Sasuke.

"Naruto's a Leninist." Sasuke replied.

"Anyway, each country possesses different resources. If each were to isolate it's self we would be fighting over the same resources to achieve more capital gain"

"Why are we listening to this?" He heard Sakura ask Sasuke.

"Because it's probably the most intelligent argument Naruto will make in his life." He heard Sasuke whispered back. Naruto kept himself from lashing out at Sasuke by turning his full attention to the ninja before him.

"Interesting prospect do you think you'll be coming back for round two? You were quite a trooper sitting in the stool of shame all morning." The ninja replied.

"Yeah, my ass hurts."

"But that might be completely unrelated" Sasuke muttered to Sakura just loud enough so that Naruto heard and turned slightly pink.

"I think I'll try to make it back in the afternoon after I change."

"How disappointing, I've started to look forward to seeing your costume at each meeting." Unfortunately everyone else does too so I can't do Sudoko while I pretend to give a shit.

"Don't expect anything to exciting in the future it's doubtful my friend will be this mean twice." He said glaring at Sakura.

"Anyway I'm glad I understand your argument. I do worry about crossing you and getting punched in the face."

"Naruto hit someone?" Sasuke leaned toward Sakura to ask. She responded with a nod.

"I'll let you get back to your break." The ninja said and continued down the hall.

"Who was that?" Sakura asked.

"He's either the guy I make out with during breaks, or the guy I jerk off under the table." Naruto joked but Sasuke looked less then amused.

"Naruto you're such a slut!" Sakura shrieked.

"He's joking" Sasuke said calmly before turning toward the door. "Are we going?"

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"I hate leaks," Sasuke stated as he poked at his ramen with a pair of chopsticks. "Why does he always give me leaks?"

"Mi'll ave mour eaks or oo." even though it was said through an entire mouth full of ramen Sasuke understood.

"Can I have your bamboo shots if I let you have my leaks?"

Naruto finally swallowed and responded. "I don't have to give you anything, you don't even want your leaks."

"Just let me have some of your noodles."

"No way!" Sasuke reached over into his bowl anyway and took out a clump of noodles. In response Naruto took noodles out of the dark haired boys bowl and shoved it in his mouth before Sasuke could stop him. He winced instinctively when Sasuke reached toward his face but instead of hitting him he removed a stray noodle from the side of his mouth.

"Dobe, when you eat fast you get food everywhere." He blushed and rubbed the edge of his mouth but while he was distracted Sasuke reached and took the largest bamboo sprout from his bowl.

"Teme, that was low." He heard a giggling coming from the other side of him; he had almost forgotten Sakura was there.

"You two are adorable."

They both glared over at her. "We are not adorable." They both cried out defensively at the same time, this only cause Sakura to break out into another fit of giggles. Naruto turned bright red but Sasuke choose to ignore it.

"Naruto, you should come by tonight. I'm being sent off again to tie some loose ends from the last mission."

"I heard the Hokage was sending an entire team." Sakura added in

"I'm the squad leader." Sasuke said in a completely normal tone as though he was talking about the weather."

"I thought you only wanted to do solo missions."

"The Hokage used some pretty convincing rhetoric." It was almost as though the Uchiha was trying to pass it off as a legitimate explanation but Naruto knew Sasuke well enough to know that no amount of rhetoric could convince the dark haired male to do something he didn't want to do.

"When will you be back?" Sakura asked before he could.

Instead of looking at Sakura the Uchiha stared straight into his eyes when he responded. "Some time."

"Say in a long time, that will be sooner. Some time is nothing." Naruto responded.

"Awwww." He heard Sakura squeal in the background.

"I have to go" Sasuke said while he stood and settled his bill. "I'll see you later dobe" Sasuke said avoiding eye contact with him.

As soon as he was a safe distance away Naruto leaned in toward Sakura and asked the question that had been plaguing him for the past 18 hours. "Do you know anything about Ino and Sasuke?"

"No, I don't think she's seen him since he's come back."

"Is there a possibility they could be meeting up in secret?"

"No, if Ino had anything to do with Sasuke I'd be the first one she would brag to. It's not like she'd want to get involved with him anyway I mean she…" suddenly Sakura was hesitant. Sure go spreading all my secrets but when it come to Ino's you suddenly get the yips.

"If you say she's in a relationship I might have to strangle myself. Why is everyone suddenly into this commitment thing." He looked over at the pink haired girl who was sitting there ignoring her ramen just staring at him. "What?" he finally burst out.

"I went down the same road you're on now. It's important to remember that Sasuke doesn't trust anyone; he's incapable of love. Can you really love someone who can never love you back?"

"I don't love Sasuke." Naruto replied but as he did so there was an uneasy turning in his stomach that he only got when he lied. Why now?

"Just be careful ok?"

"Why does everyone keep telling me that?" Naruto said pushing aside an empty bowl of ramen.

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A/N So you probably thinking Wensleydale your story is so awesome, what else makes you so awesome? Well I just so happen to be an amazing seamstress. This unfortunately meant I spent my spring break helping friends with cosplay costumes for upcoming Anime Boston instead of writing. The next chapter will be up soon. I have most of it written because it was originally going to be part of this chapter, but this time I opted for a split. I worked out some formatting issues in the other chapters… hopeful I'll work out the grammar soon. I also took out the warnings. You all knew what you were getting into.

-Wensleydale