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"The flames that leave a burn on the soul are not those of fire, but of passion."

-darkalbino

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xxxChapter 9: Revelationsxxx

Sasuke hadn't the slightest clue as to where Naruto was taking them. All he knew – and it was making him rather uncomfortable – was that they were driving farther and farther away from the city.

He had been a bit iffy about letting Naruto drive his car, but then Naruto pulled out those damn eyes and that irresistible pout that made him that made him feel as though he'd done some horrible wrong against humanity, and what else could Sasuke do but give in?

"I would appreciate it if I had a hint as to where in the hell we're going, Naruto."

"It's a surprise, teme. But I'm willing to bet it's someplace you never go."

Sasuke gave a light scowl. 'Well obviously, if it's out of the city.'

Naruto caught his look and chuckled. "Don't worry; I wouldn't be taking you if I wasn't sure you'd like it."

Sasuke nodded and looked out the window into the clear blue sky, but quickly looked away when it pulled up the image of Naruto's eyes on his sun kissed face. He glanced at the driver, whose attention was being held by the road, one hand on the wheel, and one on his lap. Without a second thought, Sasuke reached over and laced his pale fingers with slim tan ones, taking in Naruto's shocked features before pulling their entwined digits to his lap and looking back out the window.

Naruto frowned and gripped the steering wheel harshly. "...Sasuke-"

"Don't...please, just let me," he murmured.

Naruto felt warmth seep up through him from the contact, and once again felt himself torn. He thought for a moment before deciding to let it go this time. He gave Sasuke's hand a gentle squeeze and a small smile before turning his attentions back to the speeding pavement.

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About an hour later, Naruto parked the car on the side of the road and got out, Sasuke following him and watching with an amused smile as the blond clumsily took off his shoes and socks, rolling his jeans up to his knees. He took off his own shoes and glanced to his side. "The beach huh?"

Naruto nodded excitedly. "Yeah! I love it here! It's been a while since I came and I figured since we didn't have anything better to do, why not come today?"

"Hm."

Naruto frowned and came into his view. "What's the matter?"

Sasuke shook his head. "Nothing...it's just been a while for me too, that's all."

Naruto smiled and hopped onto the sand, digging his toes into the grainy warmth before running out onto the wet part of the shore.

Sasuke followed him and remembered the shades in his pocket. He pulled them out and handed them to the other boy, who was watching the water wash the sand off his feet with a calm expression. He raised his eyes and smiled at the shades, taking them out of the pale hand and flipping them in his own before suddenly reaching back his arm and chucking them into the ocean with a huge grin.

Sasuke's jaw dropped. "The hell Naruto!"

Naruto turned back to him with closed eyes and a bright smile. "Changed my mind, I don't want them after all."

"You idiot!"

"I just wanted to see if you'd really take them."

"I stole those for you!"

"And wasn't it fun? I mean damn, you got a boner from it," he said playfully.

"Agh! You fucking..." Sasuke looked down and smirked. "You dobe." He abruptly kicked his foot upward and splashed water all over Naruto's clothes, soaking him.

"H – hey!" Naruto raked his eyes over his drenched self and scowled at Sasuke, kicking up his own foot to wet the boy back.

Sasuke sputtered and frowned before crouching down and gripping a fistful of wet sand, grinning at Naruto, the threat clear.

Blue eyes widened. "You wouldn't dare." He yelped when the cluster of grains struck him square in the chest. "You – you son of a bitch!" Naruto tackled Sasuke to the ground in a fit of fury and straddled him, grabbing his own fistful of wet grains and then proceeding to smother it all in Sasuke's hair.

"Ha! Not so pretty now, are you teme?!"

Sasuke abruptly sat up and fisted Naruto's shirt, yanking him close and touching their noses. "I don't know dobe...am I?"

"Ah..." Naruto flushed, and Sasuke felt muscles tense above him. He smiled and let go of the boy, then pulled at one of his blond bangs."Get up, baka."

Naruto remained still for a moment before nodding and standing up. He pulled off his wet shirt and watched as Sasuke scooped up a handful of water and washed the grime out of his hair, then stood up as well.

They walked together to the drier portion of the empty beach and sat down opposite of one another, Sasuke's back to the ocean and Naruto facing it.

It was quiet for a while, both basking in the sounds of the crashing waters and rippling winds.

Naruto glanced at Sasuke before scooping up a handful of sand and watching it slowly cascade through his fingers. "...Sasuke?"

"Hm?"

Naruto narrowed his eyes as the last bits of grain slipped through. "Why do you hate your brother so much? It can't just be that he's a manipulative bastard, is it?"

Sasuke flinched, caught off guard by the question. He relaxed and stretched his legs out in front of him, leaning back on his hands. "Naruto...you're the only person I've ever allowed to be so close with me. I've spoken and done things with you that I know I wouldn't be able to do with anyone else. And I want you to know that by talking about my family, Itachi in particular...it means that I trust you completely." He locked gazes with the other boy and smiled. "I actually trust you more than anything else in my life, you're very important to me."

Naruto flushed red and cast his eyes down, nodding for him to continue.

Sasuke chuckled and sat up, pulling off his wet shirt as Naruto had done earlier and dropping it next to him before lying back down on his side and propping his head up on his elbow. Staring directly at Naruto, he took a breath and opened his mouth. "Itachi used to abuse me."

Naruto jerked with shock. "He hit you?"

Sasuke looked down and combed his fingers through the sand. "...Sexually."

Naruto's lips parted, astonished. "Holy shit...Sasuke..."

Sasuke shrugged. "It was a long time ago; he took advantage of me when I was younger."

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Nine-year-old Sasuke ran up the stairs of his house and stopped in front of his brother's room. He opened the door quietly and tiptoed in, seeing Itachi reading on the bed, unaware of his presence.

A grin spread out on his tiny face, and he stealthily toddled his way to the bed, crouching down low so he could surprise his brother.

Just as he was about to pounce, Itachi spoke: "Having fun are we?" He asked in a monotone voice, book still poised in front of his face.

Sasuke stumbled and gave a smile. "You always catch me, but I'll get you one day aniki!" He laughed and climbed onto the bed, straddling his brother's stomach.

Itachi deprived his features of any emotion and slowly put the book down, flinching when Sasuke suddenly jumped and pounded his small fists on his chest. "Oi Oi! Aniki guess what! Father said that when I'm older, I'm going to inha...inir..." He pouted.

"...Inherit?"

The boy's eyes glowed. "Yeah! That! I'm going to do that with you to the company! He told me today! Isn't it great?"

"Hn, I suppose."

Sasuke frowned and leaned in just a bit, concern evident in his small frame. "Aniki? What's the matter?"

"My day wasn't entirely pleasing," Itachi grumbled.

"Ah, Aniki had a bad day? Is there something I can do to help make it better?"

Itachi rolled his eyes before stilling and allowing a smirk to stretch his face. He sat up and looked down at his innocent little brother. "Actually, there is something you can do to help."

Sasuke brightened up immensely at a chance to help his brother. "How?"

The older boy sniggered and slipped his hands under the other's shirt, causing dark eyes to widen. "Just be quiet and relax." He pushed the boy down onto the bed and slipped it off, running his hands along the smooth, soft skin, until he reached the hem of the jeans that hugged slim, pale hips.

Sasuke blushed and gave his brother a confused look. "A-aniki? Wh...What are you doing?"

Itachi yanked down the jeans, along with the boxers, then pulled down his own pants. "Relieving myself."

"R-relieving?" Sasuke's flush deepened as he saw his brother's half hard erection spring out.

"Just be quiet." The open door caught his attention. He stood up with a frown and closed it, locked it, before going back and sitting on the bed, then ordering his younger brother to sit on the floor in front of him.

Sasuke, already as confused as he was, didn't question the command. He got up on shaky legs and kneeled in front of Itachi, his arousal staring him in the face.

The older Uchiha moaned, dick twitching with pure sadistic excitement. "Put it in your mouth."

Sasuke's eyes widened. "W-what?"

"Do it," he snarled.

The small boy flinched and glanced at the door. "A-Aniki...are you sure we're allowed to be doing this?"

Itachi growled with impatience, then put up a strained smile. "You want to help me, don't you otouto?"

Sasuke's head snapped up in a quick nod. "Yes!" Of course he wanted to help Itachi. "...This will really help you?"

"Very much so, now put it in your mouth."

Sasuke frowned and stared at the erection, then gulped and licked his lips. "O...okay...I want to help you."

Itachi smirked. "Good."

Sasuke, unsure of what to do, wound a tiny hand around the member and slowly wrapped his thin, quivering lips around the head. Itachi shuddered above him. "More."

'More?' Sasuke exhaled through his nose and took a bit more into his mouth.

Itachi grunted and fisted the boy's hair, pushing the small head down until Sasuke coughed from having the back of his throat brushed. He snorted at the fact that his penis wouldn't completely fit in the moist cavern of his otouto's mouth.

Sasuke's eyes teared; the taste of bile rose up in his throat as his tongue reflexively pressed against the bottom side of Itachi's manhood.

He'd never felt so awkward. He didn't like this at all; it felt like he was going to choke.

Innocent black eyes looked up and were met with the sight of Itachi with his head tilted back and eyes screwed shut, mouth parted slightly.

He frowned around the member when his brother's voice reached his ears: "Suck."

Sasuke breathed heavily, the urge to pull away building high. 'But it will make aniki feel better...' Sasuke loved his brother; he'd do anything for Itachi, because he was important to him.

After a moment of hesitation due to fear, Sasuke gave a small suck and flinched when Itachi let out a soft whine. He repeated the action, and again received another whine. The fingers in his hair tightened and began forcing his head to bob up and down, Itachi's now hoarse voice croaking out for him to continue sucking.

Sasuke did as he was told while trying not to choke or flinch back whenever his throat was hit.

He wasn't enjoying this, not in the least. But if it helped his brother...then he didn't mind. He loved his aniki, with all his heart, and would do anything to make him happy.

After all, isn't that what brothers are supposed to do for each other?

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"That was the first time he did it, but it wasn't the last. I'd say it was about a year before I realized exactly what he was doing to me. And when I got older, near my eleventh birthday, I told him it was enough."

Naruto's eyes were wide. He'd never expected perfect little Sasuke to have gone through such a horrible thing. "Sasuke...I... God, why didn't you tell anyone?"

Sasuke gave a dry laugh. "I did try; he kept coming after I told him to stop. So I told my father, but then Itachi just manipulated the situation and made him believe that I was making up a bunch of bullshit stories just to get attention, because I was jealous of him."

"You should've gone to the police!"

"I thought about it, but he would just pull off the same stunt. Itachi's word is always chosen over mine."

Naruto bit his lip and raked his fingers through his hair, glancing sideways at the other boy. "...Is that the real reason you want to go away to college?"

Sasuke frowned. "After what he did to me, and after my parents took his side over mine, even though I was the one telling the truth, I didn't want much to do with my family anymore. I didn't want the company, so my father became pressed on that and now won't leave me alone about it. I still don't want it; I want to go and become something that I know will help people and make a bit of a difference in their lives for the better, you know? So I guess, in a way, Itachi was the cause of all that, and in me wanting to leave, yes."

"Fuck, Sasuke...I'm really sorry, I had no idea you went through something like that."

Sasuke shook his head. "It's okay. Like I said, it was a long time ago. And I'm more than capable of holding my own against Itachi now. But I prefer to stay away from him, because sometimes he still knows how to control me with my emotions, like how he did with the drug. Only that time he used the feelings I have for you instead of the ones I had for him, which don't exist anymore." Or perhaps...they had just been redirected.

Naruto frowned and gave a forlorn look to the sand...Sasuke had just shared something extremely personal with him, and he felt bad for probing in the first place. "...Ask me something," he offered.

Sasuke stared at him. "What?"

Naruto nodded once, then two more times. "Ask me something you want to know about me, it's only fair."

"You don't have-"

"I want to." Naruto assured.

Sasuke blinked before sitting up slowly and flicking his eyes over azure ones. "I know it's a delicate subject, and you don't have to answer if you don't want to, but I do want to know...what are the marks on your face?"

Naruto flinched and brought a hand up to his cheek, as if he had forgotten the lines were even there. His eyes narrowed.

"Naruto, you don't have to."

"No, it's okay, you shared something hard, I don't mind telling you... Besides, I can't let myself be outdone by prickly temes." He laughed, but there was no joy in the sound.

And Sasuke caught that, "But it's hard for you."

Naruto smiled and drew his knees up to his chest, resting his arms over them and placing his head in the crook of his elbow, staring at his friend. "Much as it kills me to admit, and as much as I don't want to...I trust you too, Sasuke."

Sasuke felt his heart jump and he gave a slight nod.

Naruto sighed. 'Guess there's no avoiding it now.' He made sure Sasuke was looking at him before he spoke. "...I made them."

Sasuke's eyes widened. "You inflicted them on yourself?"

Naruto nodded. "With the pocket knife Kiba has, I gave it to him after I did it."

"Why did you do that to yourself?"

Naruto bit his lip. "I...I lost three people...who were very important to me...three are for them."

"Who were they?"

"My mother, my father, and my best friend."

"They all died?"

"...Yeah."

"What happened?"

Naruto cast his eyes down and let out a shaky breath. "...My father killed my mother."

Sasuke blanched.

"He used to abuse her, and she never tried to stop him. She just took it, but one day I guess he just…lost it and…took it to the point where… it ended up killing her." He blew a bang out of his face with a frown. "I'm not sure if something was wrong with him or if he just snapped, but either way, he killed her."

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Seven-year-old Naruto let out a small whimper and screwed his eyes shut as tears leaked out of their corners. Another scream erupted from outside his door, causing his hands to fly up and clamp over his ears, a reaction normal from hearing the cries of you own mother.

'Father is hurting her again' he thought helplessly. He jumped as something smashed and broke against his closed door, then flipped on his bed and pressed his face into the mattress, allowing his tears to seep out. A hard slap reached his ears and he heard a body thump to the floor, then…silence. An unnerving silence draped itself over the house and his body quivered in fearful anticipation.

He wanted to go out, see if his mother was alright but the silence was frightening and his legs were numb with fear. A tiny sob broke past his lips before he relaxed best he could and closed his eyes, forcing himself into an unpleasant sleep with menacing red shadows.

When morning came, Naruto woke up and did his daily routine to get ready for school. He got dressed and quietly left his room, picking up his bag by the door and proceeding to walk over to his parent's room.

The young blond pushed open the slightly ajar door, poking his head in to find his mother lying down on the bed with the covers pulled up right beneath her chin. His father was sitting next to her, stroking her hair with unfocused eyes. Naruto tilted his head at his father's face, so very similar to his own. It was slightly red and his eyes were puffy, eyelids swollen.

He'd been crying.

Naruto slowly walked up to him and placed his small hand over the larger one, causing the man to flinch and snap his head at the boy.

Naruto gave a small, uncertain smile. "Morning Daddy," he murmured, then looked to his mother, "why is Mommy still sleeping?"

His father's frown deepened before he smiled slightly at his son.

"Naruto, your bus will be here soon, shouldn't you be going? You don't want to miss school now do you?"

"Oh!" Naruto grinned, "Yeah, you're right." He picked up his father's hand and kissed it sweetly, "Bye." He then looked at his mother and leaned down to her cheek, kissing it as well. But the second his lips made contact with the skin, he jumped back and frowned, glancing at his father curiously.

"Why is she so cold? What's wrong with her?"

The man's smile fell away and cupped his wife's pale cheek.

"She…doesn't feel well."

"Oh…" Naruto sighed and nodded. "Okay… well she'll get better right?

"Of course Naruto..."

The boy brightened up. "Okay then! I gotta go! Bye!"

He gave each his parents another quick kiss before leaving the house, completely unaware that this would be the last time he saw them.

When his bus dropped him off from school later that day, Naruto found himself surrounded by police cars with spinning red and blue flashes of lights parked on the expanse of his yard, and ominous yellow tape wrapped around his house.

He felt his heart pick up speed as an officer approached him.

"This area is closed off son; I'm going to have to ask you to leave."

"Where's mom and dad?" He blurted out.

The man blinked "What?"

Tears stung his eyes. "Mom and dad! Where are they?!"

The officer's eyes widened and he pulled out a notepad, flipping it and reading before looking back at the boy.

"Are you Naruto? Uzumaki Naruto?"

Naruto flinched. "Y – yeah."

The officer's face saddened visibly. He kneeled down in front of the boy and placed a hand on his shoulder. "Naruto…about your parents,"

The tears began streaming out. "Where are they?"

The man took a deep breath and exhaled it slowly, squeezing the younger's shoulder gently. "I…you're parents are dead kid, I'm sorry."

Wet blue eyes widened. "Wh...what?"

The cop sighed and pulled the boy into a hug, "I'm sorry..."

Naruto couldn't breathe, his heart was hammering in his chest. His lungs felt like they were on fire. "What do you mean? You're lying! They're not…they're not… I saw them this morning! You're lying to me!"

"I need you to come with me."

"No! Where are mom and dad?! Tell me!"

The man frowned deeply and picked the boy up, allowing him to sob into his shoulder. He walked over to another cop and sat the child on the hood of one of the cars, and then turned to the man, who raised a brow at the boy. "Who's this?"

"The son."

A surprised look crossed his face before it went solemn. "I see…Well Tsunade should be here soon, she'll tell us what to do with him." The other officer nodded before nearly jumping out of his pants and yelling a 'Christ!' at the sound of tires screeching against pavement.

"Speak of the devil." the other laughed.

Another cop car swerved around the corner and skidded to a stop. A young blonde woman with hazel brown eyes and a busty figure stepped out of the vehicle, spotting one of the officers next to Naruto and walking over to him. She eyed the boy for a moment before turning her attention to the man. "And what in the hell, if I may ask, is a CHILD doing at the scene of a crime?"

"He's the son of the victims, Chief, got back a while ago from school I'm assuming."

The woman's lips pulled down to a frown and her eyebrows bunched together. "Why didn't anyone pick him up earlier? You don't leave children at school during a situation like this!"

"There were no contacts ma'am; we only know he's their son because of photographs and evidence in their home."

Tsunade placed a finger under her chin and made a pensive sound. "Hmm…do you know exactly what happened here?"

"Pretty good idea, everything matches the assumptions."

She nodded. "Tell me."

The officer glanced back at Naruto before gripping the woman's arm and leading her away. Naruto was still in shock, sitting on the front of the car with a blank look on his face. He only caught snippets of the conversation happening a few feet away.

"Suspected abuse – bruises, cuts…blow to the head, killed her, so she was dead already when we got here. Over ten hours…felt guilty, we think…multiple stab wounds in his chest and stomach, knife was in his hand…suicide…around this morning, shortly after school would start…"

Naruto pieced together the information and began crying uncontrollably, remembering how cold his mother had been this morning and how his father was stroking her and crying.

They'd left him all alone.

Tsuande's head snapped up at a loud sob and she locked eyes with the child. Her heart sank at his tear stained face and broken sobs. She walked over to him and picked him up, pulling him into a tight hug. "Shhh…it'll be alright."

Naruto shook his head rapidly and felt slim fingers run through his hair, stroking it softly.

He cried harder.

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Naruto snorted and rubbed the heel of his palm against his eye. "I don't… know exactly why my dad used to abuse mom. But I do know, despite the abuse, he loved her…he loved her a lot. Every time he hit her, he would cry, every damn time. I don't even think he knew why he did it himself. And the guilt of having her blood on his hands...that was what drove him to kill himself."

"Naruto…"

"After that, they put me in a foster home, but the people there didn't like me too much. Said I was the son of a crazy person and could turn out to be one myself. They barely fed me, just enough to stay alive and kept me in a closet, my room. After about three years, enough was enough and I ran away. They didn't care, didn't even report me and the cops, I guess they just didn't care either. I remember wishing that the blonde cop I had met, Tsuande, would adopt me but I never saw her again after that day." He bit his lip and looked down, drumming his fingers on his knees.

Sasuke tilted his head and tucked a lock of blond hair behind the other's ear. "Do you want to stop?"

Naruto shook his head. "No…"

"This is where the third line comes in?"

"…Yeah."

"Your best friend, right?"

Naruto nodded, his mouth twitching up into a half smile "…Kyuubi."

Sasuke blinked and scooted closer him, crossing his legs loosely and taking one of Naruto' hands off his knee, holding it between his own hands and placing them on his lap. "Tell me."

Naruto kept his gaze on their hands and sighed softly.

"I was ten, and there's not much a ten year old can do to fend for himself, so I was living on the streets. I stole food and sometimes people who felt sorry for me would give me money. I was still going to school though, and I started stealing clothes off hanging lines when kids made fun of me for wearing the same ones all the time. I didn't have any friends, I was alone all the time. It was fucking miserable." He paused and Sasuke felt his heart clench with pain at hearing how much the other had gone through.

Naruto smiled. "But then I met Kyuubi. I was at the park one day sitting on the swing. I always liked the swings, because you never needed anyone else to play on it. I always sat on a firm wooden on that was tied to a big tree with two ropes. I would just sit there and watch the other kids play until one day, this kid comes up to me and grabs the ropes. He was really good looking, long red hair pulled back in a high ponytail with a few strands hanging loose, really green eyes, he was like a prettier version of Gaara, I guess would be a good way to put it. Of course, I had stopped being social after my parents died, so I was a bit of an ass to him when he first spoke to me."

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"Hey, what' cha doing?"

Naruto frowned and crumpled his eyebrows at the other boy. "What does it look like I'm doing?"

The boy smiled and leaned down to Naruto's face. "…You're really pretty."

Naruto sputtered and blushed. "Hey! You don't say that kind of stuff to other boys!"

The red head laughed. "I can say whatever I want, and I think you're pretty, it's a compliment."

"Hn..."

"I'm Kyuubi, what's your name?"

"…Naruto."

"Why are you here all by yourself, Naruto?"

"Why do you care?""

Kyuubi shrugged. "You look sad; wouldn't you be happier if you were over there?" He flicked his thumb over his shoulder and pointed to the playground.

Naruto lowered his eyes slowly and tightened his grip on the ropes.

Kyuubi frowned and placed his hands on his knees. "Hey, you don't have anyone to play with, do you?"

"I don't need anyone!" Naruto snapped.

"Well that's not right, you gotta have friends…"

Naruto glanced at the boy with a mournful expression. "I don't...have anybody...my parents died, and I have no friends, so just go away."

Kyuubi closed his eyes and laughed softly. "Oh that's not true, I'm your friend."

Naruto snorted. "I don't even know you."

"Well we have a lot in common! My parents are gone too, I live with my aunt and her husband, and I know what you're going through, I've been there. Trust me; friends are a huge mood lifter."

Naruto continued frowning.

Kyuubi tilted his head and tapped a finger on his chin, then smiled. "Okay, how about you come play with us?"

Naruto's head snapped up. "What?"

"Yeah." He pointed back to the playground, at another red head and a brunet boy. "That's Kiba and Gaara, he's not much fun, but Kiba will play, come with me."

"You… want me to play with you guys?" The little blond asked, hope brimming along the edges of his words.

Kyuubi grinned and grabbed Naruto's hand, yanking him off the swing. "Sure! Why not? C'mon!"

And Naruto, for the first time in a long time, felt a true smile play on his lips as Kyuubi pulled him to the playground.

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"I was so happy that someone wanted to be friends with me. And from that day on, we were inseparable. We did everything together. He even got me an apartment; he aunt was pretty well off and he had connections. Kyuubi was everything to me. My first real friend, my first bond with someone other than my parents, even my first kiss. He was the brother I never had and even though he wasn't really…blood couldn't have made us closer."

Naruto licked his lips and breathed shakily before continuing and Sasuke knew things were going to turn here.

"I…thought it would be that way forever, five years together is a long time…but that's not how things turned out. When I turned fifteen, Kyuubi asked me to come home with him, live with him. But I said no, he had done too much for me already. He told me to think about it, so I said I would. We went out that night, snuck into a club, and that was the night everything changed."

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The music was pounding and vibrated through his body. He reached behind him and grabbed his bottle, pouring the clear liquid down his throat until the glass was empty and he threw it to some random spot on the dance floor where it shattered into a thousand fragments.

God, everything was swaying and…pulsing and… moving…was he drunk? No, Naruto? Drunk? Never. It was only…one bottle…or was it three? He couldn't seem to recall. He looked up and locked eyes with Kyuubi, who was walking up to him with…someone else.

"Hey Naruto, how you holdin' up?"

Naruto raised a brow very slowly and pointed to the boy Kyuubi was with. "Who da fuck is that?"

The boy smiled and wrapped an arm around Kyuubi's waist, pulling him close.

Naruto frowned as Kyuubi laughed and gestured to the other, "This is Kabuto."

"Who?"

"Kabuto, I met him a little while ago."

Kabuto flicked his white hair back and waved. "Hi."

Naruto scowled at him and grabbed Kyuubi's arm, yanking him down to his face. "Kyuubi…don't."

Kyuubi blinked and waved a hand in front of his nose."Whoa, are you drunk Naruto?"

"Don't Kyuubi."

"Don't what?"

"He's…no good."

"No good?" He glanced back at Kabuto curiously, then flicked his eyes to Naruto. "Do you know him?"

"Bad…feeling."

Kyuubi sighed and ruffled his friend's hair. "Naruto, you're drunk and you're being paranoid, there's nothing wrong with Kabuto." He tried to pull away but Naruto held tight on his sleeve.

"Kyuubi no."

Kyuubi frowned and pried the hand off. "Okay I think that's enough, we're leaving Naruto."

He turned back to Kabuto and shrugged, "We'll have to pick this up again sometime." He pulled out a pen and grabbed Kabuto's arm, scribbling his cell number across the skin. The light haired boy nodded with a smile and left.

Kyuubi grinned. "Alright drunkie McGee, let's go."

Kyuubi turned around to find Naruto with a heavy scowl on his flushed face.

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"I was always a good judge of character, and I was right about Kabuto. They started hanging out together and he dragged Kyuubi into some fucked up shit. I was always trying to get him away, make him leave but pretty soon they became lovers, or at least Kyuubi thought they were lovers. Kabuto worked for a drug dealer…Orochimaru, and got Kyuubi into it. He promised him it was nothing and Kyuubi trusted everyone, was kind to everyone, so he went along with it. Everything came crashing down after that and one day it went too far."

XxXxXxXxXxXxXx

The door swung open and Naruto jumped, smiling as Kyuubi walked in and began searching the small apartment.

"Forget something?"

"My black jacket, have you seen it Naruto?"

Naruto frowned. "You're not going out with Kabuto are you?"

"Naruto, he's my boyfriend, of course I'm going out with him."

"But…Kyuubi-"

"We'll talk later, I'm gonna be late."

"Kyuubi it's important."

Kyuubi paused in his search and stared at the blond. "Important?"

"Yeah."

He nodded. "Alright then." He sat on the couch and gestured for Naruto to sit next to him.

Naruto obeyed and took the other seat, rubbing his hands on his knees before speaking softly. "I …thought about your offer to come live with you."

Kyuubi brightened up considerably and grabbed his friend's hands. "Naruto! That's great! You'll come!"

Naruto bit his lip. "Only…only if you stop seeing Kabuto."

Kyuubi flinched and dropped the other's hands. "What?"

"He's not good for you Kyuubi! Look at the things he's making you do!"

"He's not making me do anything!"

"Kyuubi he works for a fucking drug dealer!"

"That doesn't mean anything, Naruto. You of all people should know better than to judge by appearances or what someone does to make ends meet."

Naruto shot up angrily. "I don't trust him and neither should you! It's like a rat working for a snake!"

"Don't call him that! I love him!"

"Kyuubi! He doesn't love YOU!"

Kyuubi stood up as well. "How would you know?"

Naruto was on the verge of tears, desperate to save his friend, make him understand that Kabuto was not a good person. "Because I love you! And the things he does to you...Kyuubi, that's not love."

Kyuubi sighed and gripped Naruto's shoulders, pulling him close and touching their foreheads together. "I know you love me, I love you too, and I know you're just looking out for me… But Naruto you have to understand I want to be with Kabuto and I need you to accept him like I do. Can you do that for me?"

"Kyuubi…Kyuubi, he's not-"

"Please? For me?"

Naruto sniffed and pulled his friend into a full hug, holding the other close. "Just…be careful, please Kyuubi. God, be careful with him."

Kyuubi nodded and hugged him back. "Don't worry about me so much, and I'm so happy you're coming to live with me! You are still coming right?"

"If it makes you that happy…then yeah, I'll come."

Kyuubi smiled huge and lost his fingers in blond hair, locking green eyes with blue ones. "When I come back, we'll go and celebrate, just you and me."

Naruto nodded and lightly gripped the other's wrists. "Okay."

Kyuubi planted a small kiss on Naruto's forehead before leaving the apartment.

He never came back.

Naruto opened his eyes groggily and looked at his bedside clock. 2:47 am.

Kyuubi should have been back by now.

He frowned and got off the bed. He was still dressed, so he grabbed a jacket and walked out the door.

Kyuubi was probably at that warehouse, where they had met Orochimaru. A shiver ran up his spine at the memory, how the man's odd golden eyes had raked up his body, not bothering to conceal the obvious lustful intentions they held. Kabuto was no different. His head hung down and he stared at his footsteps walking one in front of the other until something caught his attention.

He stopped walking and felt whatever air was held in his lungs seep out.

Police. Everywhere.

Yellow tape. Closed off.

Flashing cars. Parked.

Scenes like this one were never a good thing for Naruto; they tore open the wound of that day.

As much as he wanted to get away from here, it was the only way to reach the warehouse, he had to pass through.

Naruto forced himself to step forward and stopped when an officer approached him.

"This area is closed off son; I'm going to have to ask you to leave."

'Oh God.'

Naruto swallowed the lump that had just formed in his throat, "I …I just need to pass through…to get somewhere."

"I'm sorry, I can't let you pass. Regulations, you know?"

Naruto nodded and his breathing increased when he spotted two men spraying the ground with pressurized water, the same method they use to wash away blood. He placed a hand on his chest in an attempt to quell his racing heart.

"What happened here?"

The officer gave him a skeptical look. "Why do you need to know?"

Naruto flinched. He had to think of something…maybe he could mention that woman? Tsuande? Did she even still work for the police force? …Well it was worth a shot.

"I'm…Tsuande's um…nephew?"

The man blinked. "Tsuande has a nephew?"

"Uh...of course she does?"

"Oh, did she send you down here?"

"Um…yeah, sure."

The cop nodded and pulled out a notepad. "We got a call about a body, a boy, fifteen years old."

'No.'

"Found him in this alley, naked, bloody, gunshot wounds in the chest."

'Oh god no…'

"Raped repeatedly, witnesses saw four men leaving the scene, two were identified."

'He can't be…'

"Wanted men, Kabuto and Orochimaru, he was seen holding the gun. We've sent several squads out to track them down but nothing's come up yet."

He pulled out a plastic bag with a license inside. Red hair, green eyes. Kyuubi Monosuke.

"We're assuming this is the boy, found the license in his pants that were thrown across the alley. They shot him and left him to die."

Naruto's pupils dilated as he fell on his hands and knees, retching violently on the ground. Tears coursed down his face as he continued emptying the contents of his stomach, vaguely hearing the officer yell a curse and crouch down beside him.

When he finished vomiting, Naruto stayed still, not aware of the man next to him asking him if he was alright. All he could picture, all he could think of was Kyuubi…his best friend, his brother was dead…

The urge to throw up rushed back, but there was nothing left to get out.

He shot up from the ground and ran back to his apartment, the yells of the cop drowned out by the pounding of his heart in his ears.

Naruto threw open the door to his home, screaming. He hit the wall with a fist with violent force, knocking a picture down, then threw over his table and fell to the floor in a heap of limp flesh, still screaming. He screamed until his throat was dry and his voice hoarse. His breathing was erratic and the tears still hadn't stopped flowing. He lay on the floor, his screaming dwindling down to quiet sobbing.

It was so unfair…what the fuck had he ever done to deserve this kind of pain? What had Kyuubi done? Nothing. Absolutely nothing. Then why did they rip Kyuubi away from him like that? And God…in such a disgusting way. Those bastards…they were the ones that deserved to die that way.

Why did everyone he love have to be torn away from him? Kyuubi…his parents…God, why? What had he done? Why the people that mattered to him the most?

Naruto let out another sob before wiping his nose and standing up. He stumbled over to his dresser and gazed at himself in the mirror.

His teeth gritted at his own reflection. This pathetic thing that had lost everything it loved. He sniffed and opened a drawer, pulling out a small pocket knife and flicking the blade out.

He stared at it impassively.

Well then, maybe it was better not to love at all. He lifted the knife and placed it against his cheek, then ran it across, forming a straight bloody line, his eyes watching every movement in the mirror.

He paused. Watching as the drop of blood trickled down his face. "Never again…" he croaked out. He wouldn't lose anymore loved ones because he wasn't going to have anymore loved ones to lose. Love would be foreign to him.

But he wouldn't forget the ones he had loved that were torn away by death.

He looked at the line again.

Mother.

The knife lowered, slicing in another line.

Father.

And down again to mark the third line.

Kyuubi.

Every time he saw these marks, they would stand as not only symbols, but reminders. He moved the knife to the other cheek, trailing another even line, mirror image of the one for his mother.

He would never allow someone he loved to take advantage of him.

Under, across, more blood spills.

He would never hurt those he loved.

One more…for him.

He would never be as trusting with people as Kyuubi was, or as loving.

He dropped the knife and stared at his reflection, watched as the tears mixed with the red liquid making it seem as if he had been crying blood. All these vows could be kept and tied together by one simple promise.

Uzumaki Naruto would never love again.

A weight fell off his shoulders and he felt lightheaded. He smiled as he collapsed to the floor, watching with blurred vision as the door flew open and a red headed boy crouched down and cradled him.

"Naruto! Are you alright? Kiba! Call an ambulance!"

Naruto's eyes widened slightly and his smile broadened.

"Kyuu…b…" was all he could manage before he was drawn into merciful darkness.

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Sasuke frowned and pulled the quietly crying boy to his chest, stroking his hair softly. "Kyuubi was still alive?"

Naruto shook his head. "No, it was Gaara." he sniffed.

Sasuke nodded.

He knew it was cruel, but he couldn't lie. He was actually a bit glad that this Kyuubi boy wasn't around anymore. For Naruto to talk about someone so lovingly…passionately, it made him insanely jealous. He wanted Naruto for himself and he wanted to show him that loving someone won't always end in pain, despite the fact that he hadn't loved before himself.

"Fucking bastard." Naruto coughed out. He gripped Sasuke's shoulder "Making it so hard for me…" came out in a whisper, luckily Sasuke hadn't caught it.

Sasuke sighed heavily and placed a finger under the other's chin, bringing his head up slightly so their eyes could meet.

Cool black against wet blue.

He brought up his other hand and cupped Naruto's cheek, not uttering a word as he continued to stare at him.

He was in love with this boy…and he wanted him. But these boundaries and limitations Naruto had set for himself…they made it difficult for him.

He let out a breath that swept over the other's face and brought him closer. Their faces were mere centimeters apart and Naruto was deathly still while Sasuke moved forward cautiously. He hesitated for a moment before placing a small kiss on Naruto's forehead and felt him flinch.

Sasuke moved his hands to cup Naruto's face and pressed their lips together. A spark of delight coursed through Sasuke's body as his mouth moved against Naruto's. It was so much better than he had imagined. Naruto's lips were soft, mellow, full.

Sasuke let his eyes slip shut as he snuck his tongue in the other's mouth and ran it along his teeth. He wrapped the wet muscle around Naruto's tongue and sucked lightly, feeling blood pool in his groin when Naruto released a soft moan. The grip on his shoulders tightened as he pressed harder against the other boy, plundering his mouth like a forgotten lover. His hand snaked to the back of Naruto's head, fisting the golden locks firmly. He broke the kiss for air and pulled away a bit, breathing heavily.

Naruto was no different; he moved his hands to hook on pale wrists, their breaths mingling. He gulped and looked up, "Sasuke…wait-" he was cut off when lips descended on his again, desperate for a repeat.

Desire began spreading throughout his body as Sasuke pushed him down on the sand; he allowed his fingers to twine with raven locks.

The Uchiha was panting now, breaking kisses and quickly sealing them back. He laced one of their hands together, bringing them above Naruto's head. His other hand slid its way under Naruto, to the small of his back. He lifted him, pressed their bare chest against one another as he continued to massage the boy's mouth with searing kisses.

Naruto lowered the hand in Sasuke's hair down to his shoulder, gripping it softly and shoving his tongue into Sasuke's mouth.

Sasuke let out a ragged breath and placed a knee against Naruto's crotch, kneading it gently. Naruto gasped and arched up at his ministrations. Sasuke groaned deeply and held Naruto's mouth against his own, not allowing him to break away. He was excited and this had gone farther than he'd intended it too…not to say he wasn't enjoying it because he was, immensely, but still…after such a delicate moment with Naruto…it wasn't right.

Sasuke pulled away and stared at his friend, his heart jumping at the sight.

Naruto with both arms above his head, one hand still locked with his own, his gorgeous tanned body pressed down against the sand, marked face flushed from exertion and blushing lightly.

What he wouldn't give to see that face scrunched up in pleasure and whispering his name.

Sasuke bit his lip. "I'm sorry."

Naruto paused for a moment, blinked, opened his mouth, decided against it and closed it, leaving his response as a small shrug and a frown.

Sasuke sighed and sat back up, wincing as the bulge in his pants brushed against Naruto's leg. He cradled his head in his hands and began willing it away.

Naruto was still frowning. He looked to his side, raking his fingers through the sand, lost in thought.

Both boys sat silently, listening to the crash of the ocean and trying to quell the fight of morals within them.

x-X-0-X-x

Naruto sighed and drummed his fingers against his stomach, staring out the window at the moonlit sky. He sighed again and looked over his bed, down at the other boy on the floor. "Hey Sasuke."

"Hm?"

"I was thinking…about you leaving...I wouldn't mind if you came to live here, so you could get away from your family."

Sasuke raised a brow and looked up at him. "Why the sudden kindness dobe?"

Naruto pouted and threw him a glare. "It's just a suggestion; don't get your panties in a twist."

The other chuckled and shrugged. "I'd have to think about it for a while."

Naruto cocked his head. "That's okay; I just want you to know it's an offer."

Sasuke snorted. "Will you still make me sleep on the floor?"

Naruto laughed. "If you're nice, I might consider buying you a little doggy bed."

"Tch, how sweet of you."

Naruto smiled and threw an arm over the edge of the bed. "Only for you, teme." He laughed again and lightly brushed his fingertips along Sasuke's side, flinching when he heard a surprised snort.

He grinned with delight. "What's this?" Naruto repeated the action and again received another soft, quick breath. Blue eyes sparkled with amusement. "Sasuke…Sasuke are you ticklish?"

Sasuke frowned and caught Naruto's wrist. "No."

"Are you sure?"

"Yes."

"I think you're lying."

"Go to sleep."

Naruto lifted his upper body off of the bed with his other hand. "Sasuke you cannot be ticklish!"

"I'm not!"

"Let me touch you."

"What?"

"C'mon, you say you're not, I want to see."

"No."

"I knew it! You are!"

"Naruto, drop it."

Naruto smiled mischievously and leapt off the bed, straddling Sasuke's stomach and yanking his hand out of the other's grip. He began running his fingers over every inch of space on Sasuke's torso. His sides, his stomach, every patch of pale skin he could touch, and he was rewarded when peals of laughter erupted from the Sasuke's throat. Naruto grinned as he drank in the sound and continued digging his fingers lightly into the taut flesh. "Not ticklish, huh teme?"

Sasuke couldn't stop. He tried closing his mouth, but his smile stayed and snickers broke through his teeth. "N-Naruto stop!" He threw his arms over his head and continued his bursts of laughter.

"Are you kidding me? I wish someone was friggin recording this!"

Sasuke clenched his teeth and mustered all the strength in his body before grabbing both Naruto's wrists and sitting up. He was breathing heavily and still had a hint of a smile on his face. He looked up at Naruto, still holding his wrists in the air on either side of them.

Naruto sighed softly and parted his lips the slightest bit, eyes held by Sasuke's face which was so close to his own. Before he even knew what he was doing, Naruto had closed the distance between them.

Sasuke's eyes widened when Naruto's lips touched his. He hesitated with surprise before relaxing and pushing forward, tightening his grip on the other's wrists. Naruto groaned and pressed his bare chest against Sasuke's, biting his bottom lip and eliciting a gasp from the older boy.

He released the lip and broke the kiss with a distinct 'pop', panting lightly.

Sasuke licked his lips and locked eyes with him. "Naruto…wait a minute-"

"I want you." Naruto blurted, quiet and desperate.

Sasuke flinched, his heart jumping from beating to hammering in his chest. He dropped the wrists.

Naruto's face crossed a frightened and unsure look at Sasuke's reaction to his words. He slowly brought a hand behind Sasuke's head and threaded his fingertips through his hair, then pulled him forward and closed his eyes, pressing their mouths together once more.

Sasuke moaned and grabbed Naruto's sides, pulling their bodies flush against one another. Naruto arched into him and ground down on his lap, lacing his fingers behind Sasuke's head.

Sasuke felt every sensation thrown at him. He pulled back and lowered his lips, brushing them across Naruto's jaw line and nipping lightly at the skin there.

Naruto shuddered and pressed harder against him, his hips rolling slowly.

Sasuke released a heavy, shaky breath before grabbing the blond and standing up to toss him on the bed. Naruto made an annoyed sound when his skull made contact with the headboard.

"Watch it." He growled, but Sasuke ignored the warning and climbed on the bed as well.

Naruto sat up and began grinding upwards when Sasuke grabbed his wrists again and placed them against the headboard on either side of Naruto's head.

Naruto moaned as heat pooled in his loins, knowing he would regret this later but these urges weren't something he could control or just ignore anymore.

Sasuke ground the boy down into the bed as an opposing force against the other's upward thrusts, creating a sweet and mind blowing friction that left them hungry for more. He trailed his lips down Naruto's cheek, flicking a tongue out every now and then to moisten patches of skin. When his journey downward was interrupted by the band-aid on Naruto' neck, he stopped.

Naruto made a confused noise when Sasuke let go of one of his wrist to trace the outline of the band-aid. "I know you're lying to me about how you got this, Naruto." He peeled it back, not surprised that it came off easily from being wet earlier at the beach. The wound beneath it was small now, a thin, pink line.

"I know that something or someone must have given it to you, but I don't know why you're lying to me about it." He placed his lips to the marked skin so they brushed against the Naruto's senses when he spoke, "But that doesn't matter, as long as they know you already belong to someone else." Sasuke whispered before taking the marred flesh between his teeth and giving a hard suck.

"Ah!" Naruto yelped and arched and yanked him closer with his free hand. "Sasuke…"

Sasuke responded with another suck and began a feverish rhythm, swiping his tongue against the captured flesh as well. When he felt his point was proven, he released the skin and licked his lips, smiling at the impressive red mark he'd left behind.

Naruto panted and fingered the spot, residue saliva smearing before his wrist was trapped once again against the headboard. Sasuke lowered his head to the Naruto's chest, smirking before wrapping his mouth around a pert nipple, still not releasing his grasp on the other's wrists.

Naruto groaned and drew one leg up; throwing his head back to bang against the board when Sasuke's surprisingly talented tongue swirled around the nub and let it go. He was burning inside, need growing. He tried to free his wrists but Sasuke held steady.

Sasuke smirked and leaned into the Naruto's face, flicking his tongue over the other's lips and tracing them with it. He gasped sharply when Naruto suddenly bucked into him, and he ground down reflexively. Sasuke panted quietly, falling lower until he pressed his mouth against the spiral on Naruto's stomach.

His tongue slipped out, the tip tracing the pattern until it reached the center and dipped into Naruto's navel, probing it.

When Naruto whimpered and thrust desperately against him, Sasuke went further. He removed the tip of Naruto's boxers with his teeth, then captured the head of Naruto's shaft in his mouth, circling his tongue and sucking.

Naruto gasped and shuddered, fisting his hands and digging his nails into his skin as he held back a loud cry. "Ah...God.."

A grin spread out on Sasuke's face and he released the erection, then mashed Naruto's entire body between the headboard and his own, never letting go of the captive wrists. There were probably going to be red marks around his wrists but Naruto had more important things to worry about, like how he was going to get Sasuke to fuck him. Then again it's rather hard to think when your partner is trailing his tongue and multiple kisses all over your face, not to mention grinding you down on the bed and…sucking on all the right places and…oh God…the direct approach was always good. "Sasuke, enough with the fucking foreplay. I want you inside, I want it now." He demanded.

Sasuke paused in his ministrations and looked up at him. "You're sure about this?"

Naruto nodded quickly and wound his legs around the other's torso, pulling him closer. "Now."

"Naruto…I want you to be sure-"

"Damn it Sasuke-"

"Okay! Okay!"

It wasn't that Sasuke didn't want to be inside of Naruto, of course he did, more than anything. To feel the boy wrapped around him, swallowing him into what was sure to be nothing but pleasurably tight heat. The thought of it seemed like an impossible dream.

But he wanted Naruto to want it as much as he did, and he wanted it to be as important as it was to him. He slipped two of his fingers into his mouth and coated them thoroughly with saliva, then pulled them out and slid the middle one up Naruto's ass, his member twitching when the blond jumped and moaned loudly.

He moved the digit in and out slowly; releasing Naruto's other wrist so he could pull off his own boxers that were confining his erection and finish yanking off Naruto's.

Naruto's blue eyes widened a bit when he took in Sasuke's nude form… He was really beautiful. He felt heat rise to his cheeks from sudden embarrassment about his own body.

Sasuke cocked his head and rubbed his cheek against the Naruto's flushed one, then nipped at his ear. "What's wrong?"

Naruto bit his lip and shook his head, focusing on the finger moving inside him.
Sasuke smirked. "Don't lie to me." He chuckled softly and rammed the finger back inside, successfully hitting Naruto's prostate. A wave of ecstasy crashed over Naruto's body and he gasped loudly, "Ah! Hah…God again…"

"You like that, huh dobe?" He slid in a second finger and scissored them slowly, enraptured as Naruto's face was assaulted with different expressions. From pain to discomfort and finally, pleasure, when that bundle of nerves was struck again.

Sasuke continued moving the digits and abusing that spot until Naruto began moving with him; moaning and grinding down on the fingers, fucking himself. He growled and grabbed Sasuke's active wrist, forcing the hand deeper inside and throwing Sasuke a lust filled gaze.

"Sasuke," he breathed.

Sasuke nodded and curled the fingers inward, making Naruto hiss with delight. "Do you have something to…you know."

Naruto groaned and quickly opened the drawer to his nightstand, rummaging around for a moment before pulling out a bottle of lube and closing the drawer, and then held it out to the other boy. Sasuke stared at the bottle, "How long has that been in there?"

Naruto made a frustrated noise and banged his head against the headboard. "For Christ's sake, Sasuke we are not playing fucking twenty questions here!" He forced the bottle into the pale boy's free hand and demanded he hurry up.

Sasuke shrugged off the moment and pulled his fingers out, listening to Naruto's whine of displeasure and pouring a generous amount of lube in his palm. He rubbed his hands together and wrapped both around his rock hard erection, a shiver running up his spine from the cool substance coming in contact with his heated skin. He began pumping slowly, coating it. He glanced up for a moment and found Naruto looking away, he smiled and leaned down to his neck, kissing it sweetly, still pumping himself. "Why are you looking away?"

A plain as day blush flooded Naruto's cheeks, "This'll be finished pretty fast if I watch you do that to yourself." He flinched as something cool poked at his entrance and he gripped the other's shoulder, lips at his ear.

"Is that right?"

Naruto nodded, and then moaned when Sasuke's arousal slowly pushed inside of him.

A whimper fell from his lips when the other was fully sheathed; he drew both of his knees up in an attempt to widen himself a bit. Sasuke shuddered from the warmth surrounding him, just as he had imagined, better even. He pulled out halfway and slowly pushed back in, trying to get the other used to the feeling.

When Naruto started moving with him, he picked up the pace, his slow pushes increasing to needy thrusts.

Naruto groaned loudly and lifted his arms, gripping the top of the headboard with both hands and slamming himself down on Sasuke's cock, his own gleaming with pre-cum in the moonlight. Sasuke lifted his hands as well, placing them over Naruto's on the head board and using it as a support to put more power into his thrusts. He pressed against Naruto, the tan body moving up and down along with him as he continued slamming into the boy.

Naruto threw his head back with a loud "fuck" as the pleasure ripped through his body. He wrapped his legs around the other and moaned encouragingly. "Shit, Sasuke…"

Sasuke rubbed his lips and nose against Naruto's throat, leaving licks and love bites to mark the skin. He slowed down his thrusts from fast and quick to slow, deep, and sensual, the tip brushing that spot every time he pushed in and made Naruto groan in ecstasy.

The heat in his stomach was coiling, he knew he was near orgasm and he didn't think he was ever happier than at this very moment.

Naruto let out a warning cry that he was close as well and Sasuke whispered it against the Naruto's neck before he could stop himself:

"I love you."

Blue orbs went wide before quickly squeezing shut and Naruto let out a moan as streams of cum splashed on his and Sasuke's stomachs, feeling Sasuke's own seed release inside of him.

They slid down the headboard, bodies flushed and sweaty. Sasuke pulled out and rolled off the boy, his tongue dry from what he had just confessed. He took a chance and looked at him.

Naruto had a blank expression on his face, calm and panting lightly from the orgasm but not revealing any emotion. He looked at Sasuke, and the confusion and apprehension on Sasuke's face made his heart clench. Naruto forced a reassuring smile and traced the pale boy's lips with his fingers. Sasuke returned the gesture with a more relaxed smile and pulled the blond against him, stroking his hair softly and pressing a kiss on his forehead. Naruto frowned and buried his face in the other's chest, vaguely feeling Sasuke grab a pair of boxers off the floor and wipe them clean before tossing it back.

Sasuke…had said he loved him…but did Naruto…He flinched when Sasuke wrapped his arms around him and breathed heavily into his hair with a content sigh.

A small, genuine smile played on Naruto's lips as he wound his arms around the other too, allowing the warmth to comfort his spinning thoughts.

"Oh well…" he murmured quietly.

Those were problems better dealt with tomorrow.