A/N: This was later than I had expected, so sorry about that. I Had some work in real life. And thank you for all the reviews/favorite/follows, including the guest reviews :)
Crucifix HiME had once mentioned that the new Sasuke is a lot like ROAD TO NINJA Sasuke. I saw one clip of that Sasuke online and well... I didn't expect that. Hope you still this Sasuke though.
Dragon77 wanted more of Sasuke's little buddy. Here you go.
Thank you Rosebunse for your continued encouragement. You were my first ever reviewer and you're awesome.
Also, I am dedicating this chapter to Necro Floodwaters as proof that I think that they are a very nice person. I really hope this is sufficient and that you like it.
Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto.
warning: Foul language, extreme deviation from plot, first time fic.
He was fucking furious. Sasuke was still slumped on the floor, completely out of it. Naruto narrowed his eyes at the unconscious form of Sasuke Uchiha. Former missing nin, now drunk and blacked out on his floor.
Un-fucking-believable.
When Sasuke had told him that he had something important to say, Naruto's heart had beat faster. He thought that maybe, the other man had remembered something from before. Some treasured memory from their life from long back. Or at least that he –
Naruto shook his head. No, he so was not going back there.
Instead, the Uchiha had gotten drunk and woken him up in the middle of the night to tell him that he wanted to dick him.
Naruto grit his teeth and glared harder at Sasuke.
Sasuke groaned at the infernal pounding inside his head. Sitting up gingerly while holding his poor head with both hands, he looked around.
The last thing he remembered was drinking with Neji and Shikamaru. Then – He braced himself against the pain in his head and thought harder.
He had gone over to Naruto's. Uh oh. He really hoped that he hadn't done anything stupid. And since he was still alive, he guessed he didn't do anything bad enough to make the blonde decide to kill him.
So then, what did he do?
Naruto's beautiful face. He was looking at him. Big eyes, soft lips.
'I really, wanna do you'
Sasuke groaned again. Just when Naruto seemed to be slowly getting closer to him, he had to go and do something like that.
He opened his eyes and looked around again. Although, that didn't explain how he ended up in the street in front of his own house.
An old man walking on the road stepped around him, giving him a strange look and muttering about, 'brats these days'
Sasuke noticed that there were a lot more people walking around. All of them were looking at him with mixed looks of amusement, irritation or suspicion. He also noticed an insistent poking on his left shoulder.
He slowly, very, very slowly turned his head in that direction, to see a kid with a mop of dark hair poking him with a stick. Sasuke narrowed his eyes, thinking hard. He knew the kid.
"Ryumu"
The kid gave him a vicious poke and hissed, "Ryuga"
Sasuke merely grunted and made to lay back on the ground. Sitting was so exhausting. He winced when the brat nearly screamed near his ear, "HEY"
He growled back, "What?"
The kid had the audacity to smirk at him, "You should get inside if you don't want to get arrested for being a nuisance"
Sasuke muttered, "You're a nuisance" and turned his back on the kid. He sighed and got up when he saw that more and more people were starting to look pissed off.
Feeling the whole world tilt on its side, Sasuke stumbled inside, all the while ignoring the kid's sniggering.
He groaned for the umpteenth time trying not to make any jarring movements while trying to lay down on the mattress. Sasuke closed his eyes, trying to sleep off his headache. There was a lot of trying involved and he needed some peace and quiet. And of course, the world had to ruin that.
"Man, I didn't know you were such a pervy old guy"
He whispered back, hoping the damn brat would get the hint and do the same, "The hell're you talking about?"
"Naruto was trying to get you into your house. You were no help, he had to hold up your entire weight"
Sasuke couldn't stop a small smile from creeping up. Naruto was truly something else. He even had been willing to take his drunken ass back to his place. Even after the way I behaved.
"And then you grabbed his butt."
Sasuke snapped his eyes open. So that's why he was dumped in the street.
He groaned again.
Neji and Shikamaru had visited him when he had been comatose on the bed, with the kid again poking him. They said that they had made a bet to see if he was still alive and had come to see who won. Sasuke knew the truth though, they were worried about him. He was touched. That feeling dimmed a little when he saw Neji grumble and hand over some money to Shikamaru.
Before leaving, they told him about his new duties as a part of Team 7 under Kakashi's command. They told him the location and also that Naruto looked very angry and was very likely to kill him. And if he did, Neji would win since the timeframe for the bet was a week.
It took him three hours to get ready for his first real mission. Three hours for his headache to subside to a tolerable level, for the water to clear up, and to kick out the brat who still wouldn't stop calling him a pervy old man.
When he reached the bridge, the first thing his eyes landed on was Naruto and Sakura. He sighed and rubbed his face when he saw Naruto's dark expression. He walked over and opened his mouth to say something and shut it as soon as the blonde shot him a glare.
He wasn't going to back down though, "Naruto I'm sorry"
The blonde pushed himself off the railing and started walking away. Sasuke hadn't been expecting that and followed him. When the blonde refused to stop even after Sasuke had called his name out several times, the Uchiha reached out and grabbed the blonde's arm.
Naruto whirled around and leveled Sasuke with a glare to end all glares. Sasuke tried again, looking Naruto straight into his eyes, "I am sorry. I really am."
Naruto rose one eyebrow and quoted Sasuke from last night, "You want to do me?" Sasuke flinched. Hm, yes. Not one of his finer moments.
He ran a hand through his hair. "About yesterday, I came to tell you that I like you" He got a little hopeful when he saw Naruto's expression turn thoughtful and serious.
"Why?'
Sasuke blinked at the question, "Why?"
Naruto nodded, "Yes, why do you like me?"
"Err. You're hot –" Sasuke hurried along with his reply when he saw blue eyes narrow.
"You're a nice person. I don't know. I really like you."
Naruto gave a soft sigh and asked in low voice, "Do you remember anything about me from before you came back?"
Sasuke frantically racked his brain to come up with something; he had a feeling that saying no would be disastrous.
"The rat"
While he was glad that he did in fact come up with something, he was also trying to get the blonde to react – To get him angry, to get him to hit him, anything other than this blank serious face. He didn't know how to take it when Naruto let the comment slide.
"That doesn't count. Even the real Sasuke didn't remember that."
Now, that pissed off Sasuke, "The real Sasuke? I am the real Sasuke"
Naruto shook his head.
Fuck. Not this again. His grip on the blonde's arm became tighter.
"Damn it Naruto. There's just one Sasuke. And that's me. "
Naruto shook his head again. "He's the one I love"
Sasuke grit his teeth. He couldn't believe what he was hearing. Things were going fine, fantastic even, and now this.
"Is this just because I got drunk and told you that I want to sleep with you? Didn't I make that clear right from the beginning?"
Naruto spoke in a level voice and that made Sasuke even angrier, "That's just it. You don't remember anything. The real Sasuke- "The blonde paused and rephrased when the grip on his arm became close to crushing, "The old Sasuke hated me in the beginning. You met me and just out of the blue you like me?"
"What the fuck does that even mean? You don't like me coz I didn't hate you?" Sasuke asked incredulously.
Naruto closed his eyes while shaking his head and tried to remove Sasuke's hand off of him.
Sasuke grit his teeth and hissed, "What the fuck do you people what from me? You hated the way I was before. And you hate me now."
When Naruto spoke, his voice came out tired, "I don't hate you. It just won't work out between us."
Sasuke pulled Naruto close against him, "That's only because you won't let it." He grabbed the blonde's shoulder with his other hand and pulled him into a bruising kiss, punishing the blonde for doing this to him. For making no sense. For driving him crazy.
Naruto struggled against him. But Sasuke held on, his grip tightening. He knew that he was probably hurting the blonde, but didn't stop. When Naruto bit his lip hard to get him to let go, Sasuke figured that he probably deserved it. The blonde pulled back, panting hard and Sasuke was distracted looking at swollen pink lips, paying no mind to his own bleeding ones.
"Trouble in paradise?"
Both of them flinched. Kakashi jumped down from a nearby tree. Naruto took advantage of Sasuke's distraction and used the chance to break free from his grip.
Kakashi pocketed his book and looked at them, taking in Sasuke's bleeding lips and Naruto's own disheveled appearance. He smiled at his students. Naruto glared at Kakashi and Sasuke one last time before leaving.
Sasuke ran a hand through his hair and glanced at Kakashi before turning his eyes to Naruto. Kakashi was still smiling and also looking at the disappearing blonde.
"He likes you"
That single sentence got Sasuke's attention. He looked at the white haired man questioningly, not voicing it out just in case he had in fact imagined it.
"You just need to make him accept it"
"How?'
Kakashi shrugged, "Woo him"
"How?"
Kakashi then turned fully to Sasuke and placed his hand on his student's shoulder, "I will teach you."
"And I'll help", chimed in Ryuga from the bushes. Sasuke was surprised at the boy's presence while Kakashi seemed hardly phased. Being as engrossed as he was with Naruto, he hadn't even noticed Kakashi or the kid. And speaking of the brat, Was he stalking him?
He turned toward Sakura who had just joined them after seeing the whole thing from a distance. She shrugged, "Hey, don't look at me. Naruto will kill me if I help you. Besides, I really don't want to know what Kakashi's idea of wooing is"
Sasuke followed Sakura's pointed look at the porn sticking out of Kakashi's pocket.
He looked at the sky for help.
Naruto squeezed his eyes closed, refusing to let his tears escape.
He didn't want to get hurt again. He was still picking up the pieces after Sasuke had left him. He didn't want to start a relationship with a man whose affection was based on some residual feelings from a previous life. When the real thing couldn't hold them together, how can secondhand feelings be enough?
It didn't help that he had felt guilty when he let Sasuke kiss him the other day. This guy was so different from the Sasuke that he knew that he seemed like a completely different person. He felt like he was cheating on Sasuke. With Sasuke.
Naruto gave a frustrated sound and pulled the covers over his head.
He fell into a fitful sleep, hoping his dreams would give him a clue about what to do.
They were naked and in Sasuke's bed. Naruto was nearly lying on top on Sasuke with the side of his face pressed against the dark haired boy's chest and his eyes drooping. He was so tired. And so sore. He heard the other boy's heat beat, letting it lull him into sleep. He felt so warm. So safe.
Long fingers were threading through his hair and the other hand was caressing his back.
He wanted to stay like this forever. He wondered if Sasuke felt the same.
Right at that moment Sasuke placed the hand previously on his hair against his face and lifted it up to face him. The dark haired boy simply looked at him for long moments which felt like hours. Naruto forgot to breathe on seeing the emotion swirling in those dark eyes.
Then, Sasuke kissed him. It was gentle and chaste. A promise.
He felt the same.
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