Chapter 8 Recap:
"So when do we tell them?" Kiba asked. Neji and Gaara looked right at the Burnett, knowing he didn't know that Sasuke's and Naruto's relationship started way their freshman year of high school, they just never knew it or made it official.
"Kiba, your in idiot." Gaara added before turning to Neji's car and got in his passenger's side.
"Wait…what? How am I an idiot! It was a fair question!" The group just shook their head, leaving Kiba out in the dust to wonder what made him an idiot. Ignorance sure is blissful.
Chapter 9: Secrets Out
Naruto slipped into Sasuke's car and almost in an instant, Sasuke peeled out of the theater's parking lot, heading the opposite direction of either of their homes.
"Ahh Sasuke, Our homes are the other way."
The car was silent, no music was playing nor was Sasuke responding to Naruto's obvious statement.
"Sasuke?"
hands began gripping the steering wheel tighter, his knuckles turning white and his gaze never leaving the road. He was mad but he wasn't sure why he was. A tear in pants were nothing, it could be easily fixed or he could buy a new pair. No, that wasn't his problem. Then it was probably Kiba and Naruto play fighting but why did that make him so upset. He had seen them jump on each others back when they walked down the hallway at sch Sasuke's ool and even in gym class, Kiba would roll up his towel and smack Naruto in the ass and he wasn't ever mad before. Well, that was before they started to date. Why was he feeling so upset? All Sasuke knew was that he needed to go "there", to the one place that he liked to go to and sit and think about everything troubling him.
Naruto didn't try to say anything more as he sat in the passengers side, watching the scene change from inner-city to suburbs and now they were a good five miles out of town and the scenery began to be more beautiful. They passed over Kohona River and began to go up the forest covered hills. Naruto had only been outside the city limits when his classes went on field trips but he never left because he never owned a car. The blonde sat at the end of his seat, watching the branches overhead flash by and the sun was beginning to set. After another ten minutes, Sasuke pulled down into a dirt covered road and when he reached the end, it curved into a loop. As soon as Sasuke stopped his car, he placed it in park, unbuckled his seat belt, grabbed his keys and got out of the car. Naruto had no idea what was going on but he knew Sasuke was leaving him behind and he was not going to be ignored, especially in an area he had no idea where he was.
Quickly getting out of the car, Naruto chased after Sasuke.
"Hey Bastard! What the hell! I ask you questions and you ignore me. Why wont….you…"
Naruto finally caught up to the raven and all his argument slipped away as he saw the sight before him. Sasuke had drove them up to the tallest hill in the area, overlooking the city. The sky was turning a orange pink color as the sun was setting behind some hills and clouds in the background.
"Wow. I, never seen the city from up here before."
"My brother use to take me here a lot when I was younger." Sasuke stated, sitting down in the grass and Naruto followed.
"Why?"
"When ever my brother was to have a one on one talk with me, he would drive me here. He said he's had some fun experiences up here but lets not to into that detail."
"Wait what? fun experiences? In a seclusive place like this? Oh…haha! I got it." Naruto blushed a bit.
"Dobe."
"So why are we up here?" Naruto asked, grabbing a handful of grass and pulling it from the ground and tossing it in the air.
Sasuke didn't answer, instead he laid back and placed his hands behind his head as if he were going to take a nap. The blonde figured he would wait for the raven to respond instead of asking the question again. He was quite satisfied with the view before him as a light breeze blew across his face.
"I needed to think." Sasuke simply said, his eyes closed and his facial expression at rest.
"Think? About how you were just a protective bastard back at the theaters parking lot?"
"Hm."
The sound between them died down as Naruto was thinking about school and what homework he was putting off to the side that he had to do when he got home.
"I usually go here when I feel upset. I think about the past talks I had with Itachi and think that whatever I am upset about now isn't so bad. Itachi usually brought me here when he had something important to say to me. It was here when I found out that I was going to be an uncle and when…"
Naruto turned slightly to look over his shoulder at the raven. Sasuke's position moved and his head was no longer looking up at the sky, but away from Naruto.
"It was here when brother told me about mother's cancer."
There wasn't much Naruto could say, he never had a mother or a sibling to have moments like this with. He's only learned to be on his own and never had much places he went that reminded him of someone close like a relative. He knew this was a special place for Sasuke and he probably just needed to get away from people. But why did he bring the blonde along. That was what Naruto was trying to figure out. And why he was so protective.
"So, what are you thinking now?"
"Hm?" Sasuke responded, not looking towards Naruto.
"You said you come here to think. What are you thinking?"
"a few things."
"Like?"
"My mother."
Not that Sasuke knew Naruto knew about the situation so he figured he would act like he didn't know. Besides, he wanted to hear this from Sasuke himself…not Neji.
"What about your mother? Isn't she getting treatments?"
Naruto heard shifting next to him and say from the corner of his eye Sasuke sitting back up, crossing his legs Indian style and picked at some grass as Naruto did.
"She's dying. I can see her getting weaker every day that passes. Six months ago, she had enough energy to do almost all the housework. Now she has a hard time doing half of them. That's why we hired a housemaid to clean up on weekends because mother doesn't have time or the energy. And...father…he just acts like nothing is wrong or that mother is dying."
"Do you have something against your father? You sort of tensed up when you said the word 'father.'"
Although Naruto was oblivious to some things, when it came to other people's emotions, he caught every little hesitation in the voice. Sasuke all but looked away, not wanting to say much more about his father's abusive actions. Thinking about that, Sasuke pulled his long sleeve up to look at the bruise he got last week from his father on his arm. The bruise was gone for the most part, all but a yellow and purple spot shown but it was almost all the way healed. He pulled his long sleeve down over his arm again and began to scratch his arm over the thin material.
"Sasuke?"
"I just don't like him. That's all."
"Why? Is he mean to you or something?"
Sasuke has never been so open to anyone before but there was something about Naruto that seemed sincere, a person that made him want to trust himself to him.
"He…" Sasuke didn't know if he wanted to say anything. They did just start dating, not like he needed to know anyways. This was between him and his father…no one else. Well, that is what his father said. "It's nothing. Lets just drop it."
The Blonde felt unsatisfied. He knew something was happening but he didn't know what it was, not yet anyways. There was always Neji.
"So why were you so upset back at the theater?"
"Heh. I guess I was just annoyed. That's all. That movie we watched. the one character reminded me of myself only, my parents weren't killed by my older brother but the whole wanting acceptance from my father, it just." Sasuke stop in mid sentence, scratching the back of his head and took a deep breath. "It just hit me hard. It always seems my father wanted my older brother to be perfect and because my older brother got a girl pregnant, he was disowned and all of my older brothers expectations were pushed off him and placed on me. But I never seem to make him happy no matter how hard I try. If he found out about us, I have no idea what he will do. And I guess just attaching Kiba and you. Gah, it's hard to explain."
"It seems like you have a lot of responsibility and issues in your home. I can see why you have a thinking place away from your home."
"Yeah."
The two boys sat there in silence until the sun was set and the city lights illuminated the sky. That was when they decided that it was time to head back home and actually do their homework they have been putting aside.
The next couple of weeks consisted of frequent visits to Sasuke's house to finish the project and when the day came to present, their presentation went through like a breeze and Naruto was surprised to see such a high grade. Sasuke decided that since their presentation was such a success for Naruto and bumped his grade up half a grade, Sasuke agreed to take Naruto out for some ramen and then watch a movie back in Sasuke's room with popcorn. Of course, Naruto ate about five bowls of ramen which surprised Sasuke that Naruto even had that much room in his stomach but let it go when he saw Naruto's contentment and finally seeing a few pounds added to the boy since he first meet him. His cheery smile is what Sasuke longed for and if that meant to spend $15 for ramen, then he would gladly spend double. It was a Friday and they arrived at Sasuke's house, heading up to his room to watch the movie but not before they ran into the kitchen to start the popcorn and Sasuke gave a small kiss on his mothers cheek.
"Did you have dinner Sas?" His mother asked politely, drying her hands from just finishing the dishes.
"Yes. Naruto and I went out to eat. We are gonna watch a movie in my room now."
"Make sure the sound is not too high, your father is working in his office."
"Again?" Sasuke signed.
"You know how he is. Running the company and he recently lost one of his managers and so he's calling people who applied for the new position."
Sasuke sneered when he heard the news from his mother. "Yeah well, maybe if dad actually treated the people who work under him like people, maybe managers wouldn't me leaving all the time."
"Sasuke! Your fathers just rough. You know that. He expects the best out of everyone while they are at work."
"Yeah but people can have bad day's as well and dad doesn't have to get all prissy when someone is having a slow and bad day."
His mother gave Sasuke a look that made the conversation drop from then on. The microwave beeped and Sasuke's mother went to open and grabbed the popcorn. She opened it and took a couple of pieces before grabbing a bowl in the cupboard and pouring the rest of it's content.
"Did you want anything on top of it Naruto?" Sasuke asked.
"I prefer a lot of butter but other than that, I like it straight out of the bag."
Sasuke's mother then turned to the fridge, grabbing half a stick of butter and placed in in a cup and placed it in the microwave, melting the butter and pouring it on top of the batch and handed it to Sasuke. "Have fun you two! Make sure to watch something lower than rated "Adult" ok? No porn either." She chuckled.
Naruto went wide eyed when his mother had said no porn. Not that he was planing on watching porn but she just freely porn like it was used everyday.
"She's walked in on me and my brother before, in our rooms. She says that to keep the embarrassment from happening." Sasuke stated before turning and headed up the other set of stairs that were next to the kitchen, towards the garage.
"Walked in on you and Itachi? Doing what?"
Sasuke smirked but blushed at the same time.
"Wait, you don't mean?"
"She's walked in on both of us on separate occasions looking at porn and masturbating."
"That's what I get for having two boys!" His mother yelled from the kitchen.
When they arrived in Sasukes room, Naruto quickly asked the question he was waiting to ask but didn't want his mom to hear him. "What kind of porn did your mom catch you looking at?"
Sasuke turned from setting the bowl of popcorn down on his night stand and headed towards his entertainment center. "What do you mean? Porn is porn."
"like..straight or homosexual porn?"
"Straight. She doesn't know my preference yet. I hope to keep it that way."
"But, if your….well prefer me…which I am a guy…why were you looking at heterosexual porn?" Naruto asked, jumping on Sasukes bed and stretched crossed it on his stomach before crawling to the edge to look at Sasuke's DVD collection.
"Just because I am dating you doesn't mean I am Homosexual."
"Then what does that make you?"
"Bisexual, like you." Sasuke watched Naruto's eyes float to his with a questionable look. "I know you like women as well. You had a crush on Sakura for the longest time. Everyone in the school knew about your failed attempts at asking her out."
"Hey. It was only because of you. If she wasn't attracted to you, she would have been all over me."
"Hmm."
"Hey Sasuke?" Sasuke finally turned on the TV and the DVD player and walked over to Naruto's side and sat down, looking at his list of DVD's as well.
"Hmm?"
"Why didn't you ever date anyone? I mean, all the girls wanted you. I am sure a couple would have gave up their own life to even get you to kiss them. Actually, they would probably kill just to have you look at them."
The Raven all but snorted at the thought of all his fangirls that followed him around like lost puppies. He was annoyed enough sitting at lunch with Ino and Sakura, they were the two leaders of the Sasuke fan club.
"I don't like any of them."
"Have you ever?"
"No."
"That's a lie! Even I have had dreams of Sakura's nice breasts bouncing around while cheering me on the sideline during basketball games." A loud thump was heard as Naruto landed on his shoulder, right off the bed from Sasuke's push.
"Teme! What the hell! You didn't have to push me!"
"You were giving me nightmares. Besides, Hinata's breast's are bigger. You should have dreamed of them instead."
"But Hinata is dating Kiba!"
"Exactly. She's taken. You'll be dreaming of the unreachable. I am fine with that."
"You know." Naruto whispered as he sat back up on the edge of the bed, placing both feet firmly on the ground just in case Sasuke would push him again. "Your rather protective and possessive of me. I know all the girls want to jump me and take a ride on my disco stick but dang, you can't put me on a leash yet."
"I'll put you on a god damn leash if I want to. We are dating so I don't appreciate you talking about other people like that."
"Ok ok. Let's just pick a movie shall we?"
"Fine. You pick then. I seen all these movies before anyways. Pick something you haven't seen yet."
It took Naruto around ten minutes to finally pick a movie that they both would enjoy and finally settling down on Sasuke's bed munching on popcorn. About twenty minutes into the movie, Naruto had ate a majority of the popcorn which lead Sasuke to pause the movie and head back down to make another batch.
When Sasuke arrived back in the room, he noticed Naruto was dozing off and didn't know if he should wake the blonde boy up, pause the movie or just let it run. Deciding on just getting in the bed to see if Naruto would be awake after Sasuke's body weight dipped in the bed. Sasuke sat down with his back against his pillows and noticed Naruto didn't even flinch when he sat down. Before the raven decided that auto was asleep and he was going to reach for the remote to turn the DVD off, he felt an arm sliding across his stomach and a small whimper from the Blonde as he curled up closer.
"Naruto's probably out of it." Sasuke thought to himself and decided to let Naruto curl up as close as he could. Naruto's blonde spikes made it to Sasuke's chest and Naruto's right leg made its way between Sasuke's legs, wrapping it around Sasuke's right leg as well.
"Sasuke?"
"Hm?"
Pressure was slightly adjusted from Sasuke's stomach to his left side, next to the bed. The blonde moved his body over Sasuke, staring right at the onyx eyes and making a lustful and icy glare, his face moving slowly closer and closer until the blonde's lips were touching Sasuke's, who's breath hitched.
"Sasuke" Naruto moaned seductively, almost daring Sasuke to make the next move. Sasuke accepted the offer and moved right into a deep kiss and Naruto moved his hands up to stroke Sasuke hair while Sasuke's hands traveled down Naruto's body and back up under his shirt where Naruto shuttered under the very cold touch of his hands. Sasuke moved his tongue across Naruto's lips, asking for permission and immediately dove into his mouth when Naruto opened. Neither of them had ever had a kiss like this before, well if you don't count elementary kisses and mommy kisses, then neither of them had ever kissed another person. So many girls dreamt of being Sasuke's first kiss, none of them expected Naruto to be his first and Sasuke was planning on Naruto being his last as well.
They broke away when air became desperate and pressed their foreheads together, panting and taking in deep breaths, taking in the scent of the other at the same time.
"Naruto. I lo…"
"Sasuke?" A feminine voice was heard at Sasuke's door. They both had been wrapped up that they didn't even notice the door opening and the hallway light fill the room and now, Sasuke's mom was standing and staring right at them both, on Sasuke's bed.
Naruto jumped from on top of Sasuke to at his feet, sitting nicely on the edge of the bed towards Sasuke's mom. Sasuke himself moved to the edge of his bed and sat on the edge, messing with his hair so it wasn't too messy from the blonde.
"Sasuke, why didn't you tell me?" his mother asked softly and closed the door behind her. She made her way into the room and sat between both of the boys to which both were trying to avoid her gaze. She she noticed neither of them were speaking and were probably embarrassed and scared, she herself giggled and placed a hand on each of the boy's and pulled them to her chest, while looking at Sasuke.
Sasuke felt his mom grab his hand and when he went to look at her, she was starring at him with a smile and a soft giggle.
"What are you laughing about?" Sasuke asked, noticing Naruto was looking at his hand when he noticed Sasuke's mom had grabbed it and held it close to her.
"I just think your acting funny, almost ashamed that I know now."
She couldn't have been more right and the blush in Sasuke's cheeks proved it so.
"You know, I don't care who you are with Sasuke. As long as you are happy."
"Wait..what?" Sasuke thought and turned to look at his mom. She could tell he was shacked at her for accepting this.
She giggled a little bit more and turned to look at Naruto, who was looking at his hand stuck in Sasuke's mother's grasp.
"You picked a nice handsome young man too. Outgoing and loud. Your opposite." She stated, turning back to Sasuke. "And don't worry, I won't tell your father."
She let go of both of their hands and stood up to walk towards the door. Before she left, she looked back at the stunned boys.
"Just, don't be too loud, your father is down the hall."
She gently closed the door and smiled. She knew her husband would probably be very upset and who knew what he would do. She prayed for the best.
"Ahh Sasuke?" Naruto questioned, looking towards Sasuke who was just as shocked as he was. "What, just happened?"
"My mom…just found out that I am gay."
Naruto snorted and held back a laugh and received a death glare from the raven.
"Whoa! Calm down, Sasuke! It could have been worse?"
"Worse?"
"Your mom could have came in and seen her youngest son taking it up the ass."
"Wait, who said I was taking it up the ass?" Sasuke dared Naruto to respond to that.
"That's not the point. It could have been worse. Plus, you mom is ok with it."
"Yeah, but do you know how pissed my dad will be when he finds out?"
"Umm, no. I take it he will be mad?"
"He will be pissed! Probably not acknowledge me and kick me out like he did my brother! Fuck, I am not ready to be kicked out. I haven't even graduated high school yet."
"Anything else?"
"Huh?"
"That your dad would do?"
Sasuke sat there for a moment, scratching at his long sleeve, debating on saying anything to Naruto or not but before his mind ended that thought Naruto reached over, grabbed Sasuke's wrist and pulled the sleeve up. The raven tried pulling away but Naruto's grasp on his wrist hurt when he tried to pull it away.
"Naruto! Stop!'
It was too late and Sasuke knew it. Naruto's shock gave Sasuke an advantage and pulled his hand away and pulled his sleeve down. To say the least Sasuke was pissed. He didn't want anyone to know about the bruises and cuts on his arms.
"Sasuke? Who…did that to you?"
There was no way Sasuke was going to answer and he sent another glare at the blonde, grabbing his arm close to his chest. After a minute of silence, Naruto stood up from his spot, stopped in front of Sasuke and bent down so he was looking right at Sasuke.
"Sasuke. You don't deserve this." As Naruto went to touch his arm but Sasuke flinched, which Naruto ignored and rubbed his arm. "If your father hurts you again, leave. Don't let him hurt you anymore."
He knew he didn't deserve it but he also didn't want to loose what little trust his father had for him in the first place. Walking out on him would be asking for more problems, and that was what Sasuke did not want.
"Where would I go?"
"Well, you do have your brother right? And Neji. I would say you could cow to my place but it's not like I have much there in the first place. But if you ever need a place to go and don't know where, you are always welcomed at mine."
It was the smile that reassured Naruto's words and Sasuke leaned down and placed his forehead on Naruto's, slightly rubbing his nose against Naruto's
"And I love you too Sasuke."
Author's Comment: Sorry for the really really late update. This summers been crazy. I flew from Indiana and I am staying in San Diego for the summer. I also found out I am dyslexic so that would explain why my grammar and spelling is terrible as it. :p And thank you all who have added this to your favorite story and updates in the past couple months of me not updating. :) I appreciate it!
