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Chapter Ten

Sasuke P.O.V

"I can't believe I just did that." I groaned, burying my face in a pillow. I was lying face down on the bed, barely covered by my sheets. Naruto was beside me, and I could feel the victory glow just emanating from him like a bad smell. Well, bad for me. "I'm so pathetic. I can't believe I let you tell me what to do."

"S'not my fault you're a pervert." Naruto chuckled, lying on his stomach. "That was really good, you know."

"Oh, gee, thanks." I grumbled at him. I felt so debauched by this. But it had been the best sex I'd ever had with Naruto, and that made me feel any worse. I was a pervert. I was a sick, evil pervert who was taking advantage of his best friend, and the stupid idiot didn't even care.

"Hey." Naruto was saying, seemingly carefree. "You know…you're supposed to be taking care of me for the next few days…" He trailed off with a cheeky grin and for a moment I wondered if I'd woken up to a new beginning.

I couldn't tell you exactly what happened in those few days, but something between us changed.

Somewhere between the sex, Naruto's epiphany, more sex, me teaching Naruto how to cook, more sex, Naruto intently watching me shave every morning (and not admitting his embarrassment that he only had to do it every other day, the hormone deprived child that he was) even more sex, and loads more stuff that would seem trivial to most people, but was somewhat special to me, somewhere there had been a transformation. It was as if a dam had broken between us, and now everything was able to flow again.

"Oi, stupid, do you want ramen for dinner again or are you going to let me cook some real food?" I yelled at him from the kitchen.

"Hey, bastard, what're these tapes?" Naruto called back from the other room, totally ignoring my question.

I leant back to look through the doorway at him, and saw him rooting through a drawer near my T.V. So…he'd found my collection.

"Jeez, Naruto, I thought you of all people would recognise porn when you saw it."

"P-p-p…" Naruto stared at the tape as if it had tried to bite him, and dropped it like a hot potato.

"Porn." I completed, "God, you're starting to sound like Hinata."

"But there's so much!" He cried, waving at my (okay, I'll admit it) rather immense selection of videos.

"I am a man, you know. Just because I'm stoic, it doesn't mean I don't have needs." I explained calmly to Naruto as he sifted through the collection.

"Oh, yeah, I forgot you were a notorious pervert." Notorious? "I can't believe I never realised…how long have we been best friends?"

Too long. I snorted. "Depends when you think we started being friends."

He thought about this seriously. "Uh, sometime before you tried to kill me."

"Which time?" I couldn't help but smirk.

"Every time." He grinned back at me. "Man, we were so stupid back then."

"You're still stupid." I chuckled, ignoring Naruto's indignant cry. "But you're right. We…I was especially stupid. And those clothes, what was I thinking?" Just the memory of the ass-bow made me wince in shame. And I was never going to live it down. Sakura liked to mention it frequently, just to make sure I didn't forget. And Sai had, at some point, drawn a picture of me in the hideous outfit that the two of them enjoyed whipping out at random points of conversations.

"You can say that again." Now, Naruto snorted. Not that he could talk. At least I'd abandoned my ass-bow; the moron still wore orange.

"No thanks," I retorted, "admitting it once was bad enough."

We fell silent. Not an uncomfortable silence, but not wholly un-awkward either.

"So…" After a few minutes, Naruto (inevitably, being Naruto,) broke it. "…you wanna watch one of these?" I let out a rather undignified guffaw as he waved a video at me, and then seemed to take offense. "What, don't you think I'm man enough for it?"

I laughed at him again, waving him down. "No, no. You're definitely man enough." I wonder if he caught my mocking tone, "I was just surprised you picked one of my personal favourites." Ah, well. I thought I might as well play up the pervert act if that's what he presumed anyway.

He studied the tape, "Beauty and the Beast? Doesn't sound like porn to me."

I smirked at him, and took the tape off him, putting it into the VCR. He watched me with an intense curiosity that I couldn't quite understand,

And then the tape started and his face contorted into a mixture of pure horror and confused arousal.

"…This is gay porn."

"Yup."

"A-are those tails?"

"Yup."

"And he's not going to…oh my god."

"Yup."

"Is that even possible?"

"Dunno. Want to try?" I leered at him and received a smack on the head, Naruto slowly backing away from me.

"You…you pervert!"

"I thought we'd already gone over that one."

"How long have you been like this? How the heck did I never notice?"

Well, gee, I don't know. How long have I been a lonely lecher? Sometime after being host to the perviest old man (besides his teammate) ever to live? Sometime after returning to find myself replaced with a totally hot clone of myself (but not as hot as me)? Sometime after realising that you weren't gay (oh, how wrong I was) and that I would definitely never ever have you? Sometime after I ran into Kakashi at the adult entertainment store and ended up taking his advice on which gay porn was the best (that's what teachers are for, right?)?

Wow, I am a pervert.

"Hn. Well, I didn't even know you were gay, so I guess we're even." I replied, not looking at Naruto who, I had no doubt, had turned fuchsia pink by now.

"I am not gay."

I snorted at him again. "Could have fooled me."

"I'm bi, thank you very much."

I laughed at this, wondering briefly when it became so easy to laugh again, "Bi," I said, all philosophical-like "is just a euphemism for gay and desperate."

Naruto spluttered, and hit me on the head again. A habit I imagine he picked up from Sakura. "I'm not…just because I was a virgin…I had offers, you know!"

Now this surprised me. "Who the hell would want to sleep with you?" Apart from me. And the guys that raped you. Both times. Hm, maybe Naruto was as appealing to other people as he was to me…

"Well, Hinata once confessed her love for me! And…and Sakura said she liked me…and…" I was overcome by an immense desire to kill both females. "Mmnph…" He gave a half-whimper, half-mumble that I couldn't decipher.

"Who was that, idiot? Tsunade?"

"No!" He yelled indignantly. "If you must know," He wasn't looking at me anymore. "It was Konohamaru."

For a moment, I fell silent. And then, when I could control myself no longer, I burst into hysterical laughter, which must be marked as a rare occasion.

"Bastard! It's not funny!"

"No, it's not." Suddenly, I leant over him, hands poised into a hand sign, and then poof! The little brat was leaning over him, his revolting green scarf strategically placed.

Naruto had the decency to look utterly horrified as I started to caress him in the body of his young worshipper.

"Bas –" I forced his words to a stop with my mouth, and was almost relieved to see him clamp up completely. "-tard! That's disgusting!"

"Is it now…" I leant back, and poof! Hinata sat straddling him, blushing in only tiny panties and hands clasped over her breasts in some attempt at dignity. "N-n-naruto…"

No reaction, apart from more of a struggle from the blond as I kept him firmly pinned.

"Sasuke! Stop that right now or Kiba will have my ass!" I felt my mouth curve into a grin as Naruto's eyes widened when suddenly Kiba was chewing on his ear.

"Sas…" More of a reaction. So Naruto had a thing for Kiba, eh? Or…I realised, as Naruto's eyes remained closed, perhaps he had a thing for ear biting.

"Stop it!" He screeched at me, "Oh, god, I'm never going to be able to look at Kiba again…" he paused. "Whoa, is he really that big?"

I let slip my 'ku ku ku' laugh and felt my mouth stretch into a smirk. "No, that's all me, idiot." He raised an eyebrow.

"Oh, well in that case, it's alarmingly small." He pouted. I kept on smirking and changed to the form of Sai. Who better to insult Naruto's nether regions?

Not, of course, that there was anything wrong with Naruto's nether regions. Well, perhaps he wasn't the most well endowed guy out there, admittedly, but they do say that it's not the size that counts, but rather what you do with it. Not that I have that problem, since Uchiha are naturally talented in everything and that extends to our looks and proportions too.

Ah, where was I?

"Then what does that make yours?" I said, perfectly mimicking Sai's dire attempt at a smile. Another talent I owe to the Uchiha clan.

He spluttered again, and then his expression changed as I released the jutsu, returning to my original form, into a serene, blank face.

"So, nobody else in the whole of Konoha you want then?" I asked, and he simply smiled at me mysteriously.

"There's only one guy for me." He said, all cheesy-like, and I couldn't help but laugh, when my mind was internally begging the 'one guy' to really be me. Pathetic, I know.

"Let me guess…Kakashi!" I smirked at him and he put on an expression of mock surprise.

"How did you know?" He said, his voice feigning shock. I kept my smirk on as I transformed into Kakashi and he raised an eyebrow at me.

"You know, I wouldn't say no." He murmured, almost as if pondering it. I snorted at him, and began to caress his bottom lip gently with my index finger.

"Only 'cause you want to see what's under his mask."

"You read my mind!" He grinned, but his face had a slight unsure quality to it. "Can you change back now? This feels somewhat illegal."

I laughed softly and released the jutsu.

It was then that I was about to make a snarky comment when Naruto's hand gripped the back of my head and pulled me into the kiss-to-end-all-kisses. Even I couldn't help but moan as our tongues twisted and fought for dominance. It was almost surreal, the way the whole world just seemed to fade as we connected. I could practically hear the corny music in the background.

I can't say how long the kiss went on, but we were both panting hard when it was over. Which was pretty impressive, since as ninjas we're trained to be able to hold our breath three times as long as the average person.

"Hey, Sasuke." And then he was leaning over me. I could feel his breath mingling with mine. He pushed his lips against mine again and I received him gently this time, awkwardly. We pulled apart, and rested our foreheads against each other. "Do you think…you and I…" I could feel him blushing, the blood rushing to his face.

"What about us?"

"Do you think we could ever be…you know. Like Asuma and Kurenai were?"

"…are you trying to say you want to have my baby?" I snorted at him and he hit me with a pillow.

"No!" He shouts. "Do you think we could ever be a couple? There. I said it." I laughed at him. And then my smile died on my face as I remembered why all of this was happening.

The jutsu.

"I doubt it." I murmur, and he looks at me like I just kicked him. "Remember the jutsu? You're not going to want anything to do with me after it's gone."

He looked like I just told him that the Fourth Hokage was a fictional character, or that all the ramen in the world had mysteriously vanished.

"Oh." He whispered. "Yeah. I forgot about that." Then he paused. "You know, Sasuke…I don't really know how to say this. I'm not so good with the whole romance thing…"

"What?"

"I love you." He said, looking as shocked as I felt. "Oh." Obviously that wasn't meant to come out. "I wasn't supposed to say that."

"Hn."

"Well?" His face was hopeful, albeit confused at the same time.

"Well what?"

"Don't you have any response?"

I thought about it. Did I have a response? Did I want to tell him I loved him too, and throw my arms around him and kiss him and live happily ever after? Of course I did. But that wasn't going to happen.

I kissed him anyway.

"Yeah, I have a response." I kissed his face, his nose, his eyelids, his forehead. "I –"

And then someone burst through the door, and I had to use all of my self-discipline not to leap up and chidori them.

"I found it." Tsunade said, smiling at us, "I found a cure."

Oh, sorry, did I not mention the horrible cliffy? *runs away*

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