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I have a lot of stuff I have to do this week and weekend so IDK if I'll be able to post as fast.

Sorry for the shortness of the chapter.

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Chapter 9: Take Me Away

Sasuke and Naruto walked into first period, a few people started at them, still wondering if the rumors were true but most were pretty sure it wasn't. "People are still staring at us," Naruto said nervously.

"So?" Sasuke asked.

"It's weird," he said.

"You're paranoid," Sasuke replied.

"Are not," Naruto yelled, getting people's attention.

Sasuke sat down and mentally laughed at his blonde idiot, "Yes you are."

Naruto collapsed into his chair and looked at the people staring at him. "If you continue to look paranoid people will only wonder more," Sasuke pointed out.

Naruto put his head on the desk, "Shut up."

Sasuke was about to respond, but then Karin came and sat next to him, "Hey Sasuke."

"Hn," he responded.

"You broke up with me and I try to be nice and just say hi and all I get is a hn!" she huffed.

"Didn't you know? He's in love with me now," Sakura said from behind her.

"What!" Karin yelled, attracting even more attention to them, if that was possible by this point. "You're dating her!"

Sasuke was about to respond when the teacher came in and said, "Everyone sit down and be quiet."

Sasuke just sank into his seat as rumors of him dating the pink haired annoyance were starting. Naruto started to get mad. He didn't want everyone to know that they were dating, but he certainly didn't want people thinking Sasuke was dating someone else.

"Listen, this class has been chosen to be the class that has to participate in the talent show," the teacher said. The class let out a groan of displeasure.

"You don't have to perform, but you do have to be involved. We are trying to students to participate and we see this as an appropriate way," he explained.

"But it's always students who participate," Naruto whined.

"But not enough peopled have signed up, so deal with it," he replied. Naruto sighed in defeat as the teacher went on to discuss the next chapter.

After the bell rang, Sasuke turned to Naruto, whom was still sulking, "What's your problem?"

"Well, one, the talent show," the blonde said.

"And two?" the other asked.

Naruto looked around to see there was no one in hearing range, "My boyfriend is now rumored to be going out with my ex."

Sasuke rolled his eyes, "You know it's not true so why do you care?"

"I don't know it still hurts to hear though," Naruto sulked.

Sasuke rolled his eyes, he saw Naruto had his things packed up, so he grabbed his arm and pulled him out of the class and into the empty classroom next door. "What the fuck?" Naruto said, startled by the sudden action.

Sasuke just smirked and pulled Naruto into a kiss, which the blonde deepened. Naruto's tongue once again explored Sasuke's mouth; he always loved the feeling of his tongue against Sasuke's, not just because of the passion but also because of Sasuke's tongue ring.

As Naruto's mind started to wander off to naughtier things the tongue ring would feel great with, the minute bell rang. Naruto pulled away and said, "We'd better get going."

Some questions were raised as Sasuke and Naruto both entered second period late, but since the rumor of the raven and pinky were still going around, people didn't think much of it.

Lunch rolled around and Sasuke was busy looking for his blonde when a certain pink annoyance found Sasuke. "Hey Sasuke, or should I say honey," she giggled.

Sasuke glared at her, "What do you want?"

"That's no way to talk to your girlfriend," she smiled.

"You're not my girlfriend," he said bluntly.

"Then why didn't you deny it earlier?" she asked in a flirty tone.

"The teacher was talking; unlike some annoyances I don't interrupt teachers," he said with a glare.

"Oh I know, you mean Naruto right? He's so annoying; I'm not sure why I ever went out with him," she said.

"You are actually the annoyance I was talking about, he's actually bearable, unlike you," he said, trying to find a way to get away from the girl.

"But…" she tried.

He cut her off, "Listen Sakura I don't like you, never have, and never will, so leave me alone."

Sasuke saw his blonde sitting at a table with Kiba; he tired to make his way over, but instead was stopped by Ino. He mentally groaned at the sight of the girl. "That was fast," the girl said.

"What was?" he asked.

"You hooking up with Sakura the day after you dump him, so were you and Sakura together than too?" she asked teasingly.

"Sakura and I are not dating," he said, getting annoyed with her.

"Unlike you and Naruto?" Ino smirked.

"Ino?" he said.

"Yes?"

"Get the fuck away from me," he said harshly. With that Sasuke walked away and went over to Naruto and Kiba. Sasuke sat next to Naruto. Naruto smiled and Kiba just rolled his eyes.

"You two aren't going to kiss right? I don't mind two girls doing it, but two guys is really not something that I want to see," he said.

"Of course not," Naruto said reassuringly. His tone made Sasuke frown a little.

Naruto saw the look and added, "Not yet at least." This made Sasuke give a quick smile. Kiba again just rolled his eyes and went back to eating his food like he had been before Sasuke came over.

After school Naruto and Sasuke were walking to Naruto's house when Naruto stopped walking suddenly. "What's wrong?" Sasuke asked.

"Nothing, I was just thinking…" Naruto's voice trailed off.

"I thought I told you that isn't a good thing for you to do," Sasuke teased.

"Shut up, teme," he mumbled.

"Dobe, you're so easy," the raven teased.

Naruto pinned Sasuke to a wall, the street was empty so he didn't worry, "Now who's the easy one?"

"Still you," he smirked.

"And to think I was going to ask you out," Naruto said with a fake sigh.

"We're already going out genius," Sasuke pointed out.

"Forget it," Naruto said pushing himself away from Sasuke.

Sasuke sighed and pulled the blonde back to him, "Sorry."

"I'm not talking to you," Naruto said playfully.

Sasuke rolled his eyes, "Please just stop."

"Fine, I'll stop," the blonde said.

"Thank you," Sasuke said.

"If you stop."

"Stop what?" Sasuke asked.

"The whole polite thing, it's weird," Naruto said.

"Whatever, what were you going to say?" Sasuke asked.

"Well," the blonde paused to think of how to phrase it. "We've never been on a real date…so I was wondering if tonight if you'd want to go out on a date."

Sasuke smiled, a real smile, one of the smiles Naruto loved and said, "That sounds great, dobe." Dobe and teme were more like pet names now than insults; there was no bite to them.

They hung out for a while at Naruto's house, just a watching movie, studying and making out.

At five thirty Naruto had gotten ready; he wore a blue shirt that matched his eyes, a dark faded jean, and some black converse. It wasn't a dressy look but he definitely looked good. He walked out of the bathroom and Sasuke smiled.

"What are you smiling at?" Naruto asked.

"Nothing," Sasuke said. "Let's go to my house so I can get ready."

"Not until you tell me why you were smiling," Naruto said.

"Why does it matter?" the other asked.

"I like it; I want to make sure it comes around more," the blonde said.

"I don't think you have to worry about that," Sasuke assured him. A grin spread across Naruto's face as he pulled Sasuke out the door.

They walked into Sasuke's house to find no Orochimaru, much to their pleasure. "Hey the ass isn't here," Naruto said.

Sasuke just nodded with a slight smile as he headed upstairs. Naruto followed his raven up the stairs. Once in Sasuke's room Naruto set the alarm to go off for when they needed to leave by and then flopped onto the bed, "Man your bed is so much more comfortable than mine."

Sasuke was in his closet and he looked out to see Naruto feeling the soft blankets. He chuckled, "I think you like my bed too much." Sasuke walked out of the closet with tight black jeans on and a red shirt in his hand.

Naruto bit his lip as his eyes wandered over Sasuke's toned, yet bruised, body. He got up and before Sasuke was able to put his shirt on, Naruto pinned him to the wall and had stolen his lips in a kiss.

Sasuke dropped the shirt and put his arms around Naruto's neck so that his hands were in the blonde locks. Naruto pulled Sasuke closer as he wrapped his arms around the raven's waist. Their tongues danced as they slowly made their way to the bed. They fell onto the bed with Sasuke ending up under the blonde. Tanned hands were roaming around the pale boy's chest gently, as to not hurt him. Sasuke's pale hand started to unbutton Naruto's shirt when the alarm clock went off.

Sasuke pulled away only to have Naruto start kissing his neck, making his words not a forceful as he would have liked, "Naruto, we have to get going."

"Why don't we just stay here?" he asked.

"Dobe," Sasuke warned. Naruto got off the raven and buttoned his shirt up to how it was. Sasuke got up and put his shirt and shoes on.

They arrived at a casual restaurant, many people went there for dates or just out with friends. They figured they could pull off looking like friends, even if they knew it was more.

They were sitting across from each other in a booth and Sasuke looked at Naruto, the beautiful blue eyes of his boyfriend staring at him. He realized that he and Naruto hadn't really been apart that day, except for a class or two.

Naruto wanted to pull Sasuke into a kiss, he could have if Sasuke was a girl, but he wasn't. Too many people they knew were there, people whom would talk. Nothing seemed to come easy with Sasuke, and for some reason Naruto found it attracting him even more toward the raven.

There they were in a restaurant, where people were around, and he wanted to kiss him. He just wanted to take the raven and run out right there. But he didn't it'd look suspicious. Plus he promised Sasuke a date and that's what's he was going to give him.

He always thought that love would be easy, but it was proving otherwise, but he didn't care. He realized he was falling in love with the raven and he was pretty sure the raven was falling in love with him as well. To Naruto that was what really mattered in the end. But that wasn't to say he was ready to tell people.

As the boys ate and talked, people in the restaurant were talking. That's when it really hit Naruto that going on dates and trying to keep it a secret didn't really meet ends. Why people couldn't mind their own business Naruto did not know. All he knew was that it was pissing him off.

Nobody seemed to understand homosexual couples in their town. Sure there were some, but it usually took people time to get used to it. Thus why Naruto wasn't ready, he wasn't like Neji whom had come out when he was in seventh grade, people wouldn't understand it. Naruto was the guy that always flirted with girls, now he was dating a guy, people wouldn't understand so easily.

They had finished eating, the check came and Naruto wouldn't let him touch the bill. "I'm getting it," Naruto said.

"Why?" Sasuke asked.

"Because, I asked you so I should pay," Naruto said. Sasuke rolled his eyes at the boy's safe answer, as he thought someone might here him.

After dinner Naruto and Sasuke went to the park and Naruto led Sasuke to a certain spot. There was a small hill, no trees to block the starry sky. Naruto grabbed the raven's hand and pulled him over to the hill.

Naruto had brought two blankets from his car and he laid the first one down on the hill. He sat down and pulled the raven down with him. He pulled Sasuke so that the raven was in between his legs with his back pressed to the blonde's chest. He pulled the blanket over their legs so it reached Sasuke's waist.

They sat there awhile just looking at the stars, talking and enjoying each other's company. "Hey Naruto?" Sasuke said.

"Yeah?" the blonde replied.

"Thanks," he said.

"For what?" Naruto asked.

"For tonight," the raven answered.

"Any time Sasuke," the blonde smiled. Naruto tilted Sasuke's head so he could give him a gentle kiss. Naruto lied down and Sasuke turned and laid his head on the blonde's chest. For the two of them it was a perfect moment of peace.

"I'm actually surprised you planned all of this," Sasuke said.

"I surprised myself actually," Naruto laughed as he thought of how it took him all day that day to come up with something he and Sasuke could do outside the house for a date.

What they didn't know is that there was someone closer than they knew and the person could see everything crystal clear.

TBC…

Song: Take Me Away by Fefe Dobson

There will be more about the talent show in the next chaptes I just felt like a date was in order after narutovixen mentioned it in a review so thanks to narutovixen for bringing it up :)

I feel that this was kind of a short chapter -.- you would think I'd have more Sasuke and Naruto making out on their date but oh well