A/N: Heyo, I mightn't be able to update in a bit simply because I won't be able to work so much on this. I've just started school but instead of it being all chill and getting assessments in later weeks, I've gotten everything practically due by the end of the week! Plus, I'm in charge of making the end of school video and all of that shitty shit. _ So, I'm quite busy. I'll spend any of my free time writing, however!

To Rosetta Violette: You can keep forcing me if you'd like to! I'm a HUGE procrastinator so I tend to be lazy whenever I have free time. 'o' So sometimes I need that assertiveness in my life! :') Anyways, I'm planning for some shit to go down soon, so get ready. xD

To tTracee: Thank you so much! I get super anxious with writing because it tends to differ so much from other writers. I'm so glad you like my writing though!

To ForgetMangoes: Itachi is just that brotherly figure everyone loves! I'm so glad you loved the way I perceived him, though. xDD Oh, regarding Sasuke… that's so true! He ought to just hurry up already and—then again, I can't be annoyed with him, I'm making him hold back. I'm sorry!

Thank you to everyone else who reviewed! (I'm sorry if I don't reply. I promise I read them and get super excited over them!) You're all so nice to me and that's just very reassuring.

Now that's done and done, here's the 10th chapter. c:

Naruto had no idea what Sasuke meant by 'clearing it up' for him. Clear what up, exactly? Honestly, he was still so damn confusing; it hurt the blond's brain. He had almost wished he never gotten involved with that raven in the first place.

Then again, when he was thinking about it, the most likable reason would be clearing up his… 'situation'. Was it his sexuality or his acceptance of his sexuality or the fact that Naruto, in a way, played him? He didn't know. He couldn't read the raven. In fact, he couldn't read the Uchihas at all. That annoyed him a lot.

"So… tell me why you're going out again?" Jiraiya asked, entering Naruto's bedroom with a few folders in his hands – most likely reports. The older man wasn't as focused on the whole kidnapping situation as his partner. The blond was more useful in his case. So, he did the reporting for Naruto and would also often just look into other cases. He was like… the man that sat behind his desk with fifty plus security screens, watching every agent's move. That's what made him so reliable, Naruto guessed.

"Sasuke told me to come," Naruto finally replied, breaking his gaze away from his full view mirror before looking at his superior whom had, as always, taken the initiative to sit at his window sill. "Don't ask why, because even I don't have a clue."

"Since when do you take orders? Last time I checked, you didn't even listen to me," the older male joked, earning a soft laugh from the blond before him. However, soon Naruto's smile faded, and he looked back at his reflection. "Are you okay, Naruto?"

"Yeah, I'm fine," the blond said unconvincingly, but soon rubbed the back of his head and smiled his usual Uzumaki smile, to try and come off as 'fine'. Jiraiya knew him though. "I'm just thinkin'."

"About…?"

"The meanin' of life."

"Hah! The Naruto I know wouldn't get himself involved in such philosophy," Jiraiya laughed, resting the folders in his lap as he retrieved a cigarette and lit it up, only to take a draw. Naruto didn't even bother scolding him for that anymore. "So don't tell me you're thinking about such things."

"You never know, ero-sennin," Naruto replied, teasing a little. "I'm not as simple as ya think."

"I know that. But you're definitely talking simpler."

"Whaddaya mean?"

"You're speaking with sloppiness again."

"…oh," the blond hummed at the back of his throat for a moment, finally shrugging his shoulders and moving his way to his bed, where he took a seat to finally put on his shoes. "Sorry."

"I didn't say I disliked it, kid," Jiraiya laughed, blowing out a grey cloud of smoke. It dispersed, like a ghost being seen. It was quite the sight, actually, and Naruto was quickly growing accustomed to the smell. "I'm not used to you speaking so sophisticated."

"That's an insult," Naruto replied, also laughing, before flopping himself backwards so he was lying on his back, staring up at the ceiling. It was getting late. The night was dark and the air was cold. Without the lights of his bedroom on, all that was giving them light was the streets and cars from outside and of course the blaze of Jiraiya's cigarette. It was a serene picture, though.

"Sasuke's here."

"What—?"

There was a knock at the door, and soon Jiraiya got rid of his cigarette by tossing it out of the window carelessly, before standing up and looking down at Naruto once more. The blond frowned a little, sitting up from his spot on the bed, "Ero-sennin—" he began, but cut himself off when the fair-haired male left the room to, obviously, greet Sasuke for the first time, "Ero-sennin!"

Naruto quickly jumped to his feet, following the other out. However, he didn't get to pull the old man back in time, when he had opened the front door and introduced himself. Naruto could just die right now. He didn't know why he was so embarrassed, but he just was.

"Have a good night," Jiraiya said, allowing Sasuke to walk past him inside. "Have Naruto home tonight at least."

And, with that, Sasuke nodded before having the other close the door and make his way to wherever he was headed too – mostly like home to write some stuff or to some strip club, Naruto didn't know.

However, the blond wasn't even too concerned with that. He simply turned his blue eyes at the slightly taller male who was looking at him. His cheeks were pink. Whether it is from the cold air or the blood pumping through his veins, or both, Naruto noted that he always looked so gorgeous like that. His heart skipped a beat.

"Naru…to," Sasuke said, emphasising the 'to' of the blond's name. The Uzumaki swallowed the lump at the back of his throat, nodding slightly as a form of greeting, before replying, "Sasuke."

"Hn, you dress like a dork."

Naruto's eyes widened, before a blush crossed his cheeks and his eyebrows furrowed.

"Shut up," he demanded, turning his gaze away. "That's no way to greet your date."

"Who said we were going on a date?"

The blond didn't reply just yet. Instead, he heard Sasuke's footsteps as he approached him. The raven stopped just in his presence, and that's when Naruto's facial expression went blank, before he turned his head to look at the raven before him. He was definitely growing used to the height difference.

"I did," Naruto replied, in which Sasuke smirked that usual Uchiha smirk – the one that pissed the blond off as well as intrigued him.

"This is cute though," Sasuke teased, tugging on Naruto's collar that practically covered his neck – button-up's were sort of the blond's thing – before he undid one button that soon began to reveal his skin. "It covers up your hickeys."

"Sasuke," Naruto said assertively, swatting the other's hands away and redoing the button of his shirt. "I actually had make up at disposal, so…" he broke off for a moment, looking at the other's own pale skin. He was wearing a V-neck shirt, with his fragile-looking collarbones protruding so greatly that even teenage girls would get jealous. "…it's obvious you don't care about hiding yours, though."

Sasuke shrugged. "They're just hickeys."

"Oh, that's right, I forgot you were you. You probably get lotsa them."

"Hmm… nope," the raven replied. "I'm not the slut you make me out to be."

"And yet you'd make out with the neck of someone you're not even datin'."

"The same goes to you."

Naruto was the one to smile this time. He looked at the other challengingly, before opening his mouth to speak once more, "Do ya lip-lock with strangers too?"

"Do you?"

"I don't get the time to," the blond joked, although with contradicting seriousness.

"We have time now."

"You're not a stranger."

"Then pretend I am," Sasuke's voice was a whisper at this point, and Naruto's knees began to feel weak again. Why did everything feel so wrong to him? Did Sasuke purposely aim to make the blond feel so small and inferior? It was like he was sucked into a whole into world each time, and he was left dazed.

"What is that even supposed to mean…?"

"I just want to see something."

"See what?"

"Let me kiss you," Sasuke said, all traces of solemnity embedded in the webs of his monotone, grey voice. Naruto looked up at him, instantly feeling heat arise from his already pink cheeks as he grew a deeper shade in colour. They had a party to go to.

"We're gonna be late if we muck around, teme," Naruto reminded the other, wanting to also 'see something' by allowing the other boy to taint his… well, virgin lips. He's never kissed anyone before. But, really, if Sasuke was going to make him get all dressed up for a damn party, then a party they're going to attend. He coughed, before continuing, "…So no kissy-kissy. Not until you've cleared up whatever you needed cleared up."

"That's why I wanted to see something, dobe," Sasuke insisted. The blond's palms were sweating at this point. He wanted to get out of this situation but at the same time… he wasn't too against it. If it was going to please the raven, then he might as well. It wasn't like it was going to displease Naruto or anything.

"…fine."

Naruto fluttered his eyes close and all he could feel was Sasuke's presence right in front of him – the warmth that his cold body radiated. Like this, the blond sort of wanted to just reach his arms out and hug the other boy, but he didn't. Instead, he leant into the feeling of a hand caressing his cheek, softly cupping it whilst the thumb made a soothing pattern upon his blushed flesh. Sasuke's hand was rough. But it was slender. It was cold. It was like heated iron being dipped into water, Naruto's cheek against the raven's hand. But, he couldn't even keep his thoughts like that all together when he felt Sasuke's presence come closer. His heart was beating hard at this point – making heavy thumps in the small of his chest. He was excited; nervous. Naruto had to remind himself to breathe. But he couldn't. He simply held his breath when he felt lips pressed against his. His body tightened and lungs felt small. The hands that laid by his side now gripped the hem of his shirt so greatly his knuckles turned white. His knees were shaking and his lips were quivering, but they were able return the kiss.

Thankfully, after what seemed like an eternity in lip-lock with nil movement from both males, Sasuke soon pulled away and Naruto was finally able to exhale greatly. His breath was shaky when he breathed out. In fact, his body as a whole was shaky.

Sasuke didn't pull his hand away though.

When Naruto slowly opened his blue eyes to look up at the male before him, all he saw was the Uchiha lean down once more. That's when his lips were occupied again, but this time it didn't feel so foreign, it felt… warm. Like warmth had been lit at the bottom of his stomach and his heart was being thawed out. That's when he closed his eyes once more.

Sasuke pushed against him, running his hand down Naruto's face as their lips parted the slightest. They pecked each other with an open mouth; simply littering their lips with small, quick kisses. Subconsciously both male's heads had tilted to the side the slightest to deepen the kiss as their lips moved against each other in haste. Bravely, the blond reached his arms up to wrap around Sasuke's neck, holding him close, as the raven held him tightly by the hips. Through pants, whenever their lips parted only momentarily, the sound of cars driving past sounded off into the distance. The background noise was blurred to their ears, though, and all they were concentrating on the shift in each other's breathing and the beating of their hearts echoing in their heads. That was when Naruto felt a moist organ trace his bottom lip – Sasuke's tongue, obviously awaiting permission to taste him more vividly.

However, just as Naruto widened the gap of the folds of his lips, the front door was suddenly opened and the two pulled away from each other as if they had just touched something extremely hot. This seemed like deja vu to Naruto, actually.

"Ero-sennin," the blond said, stuck in a post-make out daze. "What are you—?"

"Forgot my phone," the older man said, making his way over to the table where it was littered with junk, before retrieving the device and holding it up to show the two males. He soon pocketed it, though. "I've seen this scene many times before; don't act like you two weren't just up to something."

"It wasn't so sinister, I assure you," Sasuke cut in, Naruto noticing the smirk on his cheeky face and suddenly gaining an urge to just slug him in the jaw, "Just a friendly gesture."

Yep. Naruto definitely wanted to kill him now.

Jiraiya hummed at the back of his throat, before a perverted – or that's at least what it seemed like – smirk crossed his features, and he soon replied with, "I'm not against you two doing… kissy-kissy or whatever, just nothing so… sexual."

"Ero-sennin! We were just leaving!" Naruto yelled, grabbing a hold of Sasuke's hand and tugging the raven as a gesture to finally depart. However, the Uchiha didn't budge, and simply rebutted against Jiraiya's remark, "I'm quite well-educated with sexual doings, so don't worry your pretty little head."

"You're a teenager."

"Young-adult."

Jiraiya paused for a moment, obviously thinking, before he came up with the words he was looking for, "I'd rather teach you two young boys about sex before anything happens—"

"Ero-sennin, you creepy old man! You don't even like men so how would you know anything about gay sex?!" Naruto cut in, yelling once more. That's when both Sasuke and Jiraiya looked at him with what seemed like surprise.

"So you admit—"

"I'm not admitting anything!" Naruto's voice almost broke at this pitch, and so he pulled Sasuke along more forcefully, past Jiraiya and out. However, as he left, he ordered for his superior to lock up behind him.

"Naruto," Sasuke said, almost on the verge of laughing, as he was being tugged along to the exit of the apartment building, "Naruto! Wait up!"

The blond didn't listen though, not until they finally made it out of the building and he let go of the raven. There, he finally said something, "You're unbelievable. That's my superior, teme!" Naruto turned to look at Sasuke, frowning defensively, before continuing, "You can't just imply stuff you damn whore!"

"I'm not a whore—"

"Oh, 'Hi, my name's Sasuke Uchiha and I'm quite well-educated in sexual things!' Because that doesn't make you sound like a fucking whore!"

"Tch, even if I was, what's the big deal to you?"

"Well, when you fucking kiss me like that! I…," Naruto broke off, turning his gaze elsewhere as he felt the impending blush beginning to make its way upon his cheeks. "…I've never done this before; I don't want to get with someone like that. Fuck, Sasuke, I'm supposed to be focusing on the damn case not this teenage drama bullshit."

"I keep telling you, I'm not like that. There's such thing as sexual education, you know."

"Ohhh, but have you had sex before? Do you know what to expect?"

"What sort of question is that, dobe? Of course I don't know what to expect."

"Don't act like you're Virgin Mary."

"I'm not a woman and neither am I pregnant. I'm a virgin, just not Virgin Mary," Sasuke said, and soon Naruto's frown disappeared and he laughed softly at the thought of Sasuke being pregnant. He'd be cute, extremely scary, girl. However, that laugh soon disappeared.

"Just… You're so inappropriate sometimes."

"I know."

Naruto paused. Suddenly, he was thinking about what happened between them just moments before. Not with Jiraiya, but when they were alone. And, so, he opened his mouth to speak, "Did… Did you get your answer…?"

"Hm?"

"When you wanted to see something, teme…"

"I did, dobe."

"Well?"

"Well what?"

"What did you clear up for yourself!?"

"I didn't clear it up. You did."

"Stop being so evasive!"

"Fine, fine," Sasuke replied, shaking his head a little as a smirk stayed accustomed to his lips. "I got my answer."

"And what was it?"

"I still like you regardless of your gender."

Naruto's breath caught in his throat then. The way Sasuke moved against him… his heartbeat thumping fast against his chest, lips almost shaking, fingers tightening into a fist… His kiss held so much passion in it, even though most of it was held back. The blond felt superior at this point – Sasuke fell for him. Well, it wasn't like he didn't fall for the other… But, for now, he didn't want to stand around and talk about 'feelings'. He'd rather just go to the party and forget this for now. It was way too embarrassing, anyways, and he was still yet to figure out things for himself. Plus, he had a job to do.

"Let's… let's go, before we miss the train," Naruto suggested, holding a hand out for Sasuke. The raven looked at him gently, before he took it, and the both of them made their way to the station where they received strange looks from all sorts of people. Sasuke ignored them whilst Naruto was oblivious to most. It didn't matter, though. They were human – humans who were so into each other that they didn't even care what they looked like from the outside anymore; that they didn't care if they received nasty remarks or not. They just didn't care.

Not even an hour had passed when the two finally arrived at the other side of the city, to where Ino's place was. She was pretty rich, that girl. Or, at least, her house was big enough for a party with at least one hundred people.

Naruto and Sasuke hadn't let go of each other's hands until they made it Ino's front lawn, where loud music was heard from inside and people were pouring in and out.

"Shit," Naruto said, reaching for the back of Sasuke's shirt as the Uchiha took lead and made his way inside. On the interior of the house, everything seemed even larger. People lining the staircase and hallways, with cups of alcohol obviously in their hands, singing away to the music or making out with each other, or… even touching each other. Naruto hadn't seen so much of this sort of thing in one place before.

"Sasuke-kun! You made it!" a familiar female voice screeched as they made it out to the back, where usually the friends of Ino's hung around. It was Sakura, and she looked absolutely stunning tonight. Naruto was almost taken back.

"Sakura-chan!" Naruto greeted the female excitedly, having the rosette look at him with a confused look on her face. That's when he remembered he wasn't exactly… Naruko, tonight, so he was a stranger to his friends all over again. "Oh, sorry, Sasuke told me about you…"

"He did? Sasuke, you're too sweet!" Sakura shouted in exhilaration, the raven simply nodding. "Well, as you know, I'm Sakura."

"I'm Naruto…," the blond replied, his grip tightening on the back of Sasuke's shirt. "I'm a friend of Sasuke's."

"Well then, Naruto, this is everyone else!"

That's when Sakura turned to her side, everyone else who were either still sitting about the small bonfire they had with cans of beer in their hand or standing up to greet him, smiling in response. He saw Hinata, Kiba, Ino… Tenten, Neji… Karen, Juugo and Suigetsu… Gaara, Temari with Shikamaru, Kankuro… there was even Sai and Lee, someone who he had met during gym class and converted into their friend group. Everyone was here, but they didn't look at him with familiarity.

That almost hurt Naruto's heart.

A/N: Finally got this done. ;_; I'm not very good at kissing scenes (if you hadn't already figured that out) but I tried my best! …I guess I'm more of a pervert and fare better at the frickity frack part of a relationship.

Anywho, thanks for reading, I appreciate it a lot!