Warnings: swearing, shounen-ai, mentioning/overhearing of sex

Disclaimer: Naruto (and all of its characters belong to Masashi Kishimoto and not me)

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Chapter 7

Naruto lay sprawled across the bed when Sasuke finally made his way back home. His brows were furrowed and he muttered a stream of stream of unpleasant curses in a language Sasuke didn't understand. He was pretty certain he caught Kyuubi's name popping up a lot, though. Sasuke and Itachi had had a long talk on their way home (after spending 45 minutes finding their car, that is) and had shared their experiences with the elves. As it turned out, Kyuubi had showed up at Itachi's workplace a few weeks before, claiming to have watched Itachi for weeks. He'd said he was there to relief him of some of his stress and had forced Itachi to take time out of his schedule at least three times a week to be with him; to let him show Itachi a good time, he'd said.

Apparently it had escalated fairly quickly which led Itachi a bit apprehensive about Naruto having stayed with Sasuke, in his room, in his bed.

He'd blushed then, forcefully denying his brother's ideas and hurriedly explained their actual situation, yet as he watched the elf now, lying so carelessly sprawled out on his bed … well, it looked quite enticing. He made his way to the bed and sat down next to the blonde.

"You' alright?" he asked as he ran his fingers tentatively through the elf's blonde locks. Naruto looked up at him and did his best to flash him a reassuring smile. He failed a bit around the edges, though.

"Yeah, I'm fine," the elf answered. "Kyuubi just always gets to me, I guess."

Sasuke nodded and continued to stroke Naruto's hair, smiling as the elf leaned into the touch with a content sigh. "But at least we found your brother!" Naruto grinned. "I'm just sorry we had to find him with mine."

"Kyuubi's your brother?" Sasuke asked the blonde incredulously. Said blonde whined when he stopped moving his stroking hand in his astonishment, so he resumed his actions.

"He is," Naruto nodded, voice almost reduced to a purr. "Though admittedly, I don't see him very often. I honestly don't think we see each other more than like once a decade."

Sasuke frowned a bit. He'd never really thought about Naruto's background. As far as his mind went Naruto had just started existing one day and started helping people the next.

"Naruto, how old are you?"

"I'm 223 years old," the blonde answered promptly and watched Sasuke's face closely for his reaction.

"And you've been a Do-Gooder always?"

"No. We won't work when we're kids. That would just be wrong," the blonde laughed. Then he saw the look on Sasuke's face. "Yes, I've been a kid once. We're not immortal, Sasu-chan. We just age really slowly compared to humans. You humans grow far too fast for my liking."

Sasuke was about to ask more questions, every question he could possibly think of regarding elves, but was rudely interrupted by the sudden "OH GOD!" coming from across the hall. He quickly recognized it to be Kyuubi's voice. Were they in trouble? He was just about to go check when Naruto caught his wrist.

"You really don't wanna go there, Sasu-chan. I would be very bad at keeping you from any psychological issues if I let you walk in on them," the elf said as he dragged Sasuke back to the bed and snapped his fingers to make the door close by itself. Walk in on them? Sasuke was confused but then blushed as he remembered Naruto accusing Kyuubi for sleeping with Itachi – and apparently not in as literal a way as Naruto slept with Sasuke.

Another loud moan sounded from across the hall, this time from Itachi, and Sasuke felt like torching his own ears at the noise.

"Once again, I'm really sorry that my brother turned out to be involved," Naruto sighed and sat up as it seemed Sasuke was too frozen in his shock to continue the stroking of his hair.

"OH, FUCK THAT'S GOOD!"

"NARUTO, MAKE THAT STOP! PLEASE!" Sasuke pleaded and the elf instantly shot up and pointed a glowing finger at the door. The noises disappeared instantly, like they had when Sasuke had been a little kid and wanted to escape his family's fighting. He muttered his 'thanks' to the elf before letting himself fall backwards to lie on the bed.

"You'd think the distance between our rooms would save me from that kind of trauma," Sasuke groaned and clawed at his hair in an attempt to erase the mental images of his brother having sex with Kyuubi. Naruto smiled in understanding and lay down next to him. "Please, tell me that your brother's leaving soon?" Sasuke tried desperately. Naruto just shook his head sadly.

"Sorry, Sasu-chan, but once he takes an interest in someone he tends to stay around for quite a while, hence why we only see each other once a decade."

Sasuke groaned. "Doesn't he have a job like you?"

"He does," Naruto snorted. "He's supposed to be a Guard at the gates of Yule Land but he ditched his duties like a century ago because he thought it was too boring. Apparently he wanted to 'find himself'."

Sasuke could see the obvious disapproval on the Do-Gooder's face. It clearly wasn't in Naruto's nature to just abandon his duties anytime soon. Then again, being a Do-Gooder sounded more awarding than being a guard on the North Pole.

Naruto curled up against his side and snuggled his head into the crook of Sasuke's neck. Sasuke turned and took the elf in his arms.

"Well, this sure is a bit 'roles-reversed' from when I was here ten years ago," Naruto chuckled and nuzzled further into Sasuke's neck. Sasuke smiled but also felt a bit odd about wanting that kind of intimacy from someone who pretty much used to babysit him. He pulled the blonde closer and closed his eyes as he inhaled the comforting scent of cinnamon.

"Haven't you ever done what he's doing?" Sasuke asked, silently fearing the answer.

"Left my job to fall in love?"

"Yeah."

"No, I haven't," Naruto answered and Sasuke's heart sunk a little. "I could never abandon my kids like that."

"Not even by doing like you're doing now? Off schedule?" Sasuke tried. The elf looked astonished at first, then appeared to actually consider it.

"… No. I hardly have time to schedule extra time for my past assignments as it is. If I had to fit in another person regularly I'd probably crumble under the stress. Not to mention that Accounting would surely find out," Naruto finally said. Then he paused. "I think they're done."

"How can you tell?" Sasuke asked, forcing down the disappointment from Naruto's previous answer. Naruto grinned at him. "Just because you can't hear past the barrier doesn't mean I can't."

The blonde snapped his fingers from his spot, curled up against his former assignment, and promptly Sasuke could hear a low conversation from outside his room. Sasuke felt like he should leave his room and at least try to be social – given the scare he'd had about losing his brother just a few hours earlier – but he didn't want to leave his comfortable spot on the large bed with Naruto. In fact, he could probably lay there for the rest of his life and be perfectly content – you know, aside from food and bathroom breaks. The decision was made for him, though; as the door was rudely slammed open by a shirtless Kyuubi, wearing Itachi's pants.

"If the two of you are done making out, we'll be going out for dinner since the house is freaking empty for food," the half-naked man proclaimed before leaving the two. Sasuke wanted to stay but Naruto had already left his side to head for the door. He looked back to Sasuke with an expectant look on his pretty face. "You' coming?"

Sasuke nodded and followed the other downstairs where Itachi was forcing a jacket on Kyuubi as he refused to be seen in public with someone who 'walked around shirtless in the December snow'. Naruto stayed even closer to Sasuke's side when in the room with Kyuubi, Sasuke noticed. He could practically feel the elf's breathing on him at every moment. Not that he minded.

Getting into the car, the orange-haired elf quickly claimed the passenger seat which appeared to soothe Naruto just fine as he was practically sitting on Sasuke's lap through the entire drive, eyes locked distrustingly at Kyuubi. Even at the fast food restaurant Naruto's chair was about as close to Sasuke's as it could possibly be.

"Geez, Naruto. If you wanna give him a lapdance in the restaurant, just do so," Kyuubi mocked, receiving a stuck out tongue in answer. Itachi lifted an eyebrow at Naruto's clinginess but didn't comment on it as he was busy sending Kyuubi a warning glare when the elf apparently tried to do something under the table. Sasuke was caught between wanting to shoot himself at whatever was going on under the table, and pump his fist in the air at the feeling of victory Naruto's closeness was bringing.

Several other guests at the restaurant were eying them critically at the sight of a shirtless guy coming on to the stoic older Uchiha until Naruto finally gave in and blinded them with his magic. Kyuubi's actions didn't stop and Sasuke felt like going for option Number One and shoot himself. Naruto soothingly took hold of his hand and entwined their fingers.

When they were finally done eating Itachi promised Sasuke he would leave some money for him to go grocery shopping the next day so they could keep their guests in the privacy of their home. Sasuke nodded gratefully and prayed Naruto would put the barrier up around his room for the rest of the night as well.