Universe: Real world, no ninja.

WARNINGS:

YAOI, will have very mature situations eventually. 18+

Love Me, Save Me

Chapter 10

Foul: A violation of football's rules by a team or player, punishable by a penalty.

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The butterflies in his stomach from them were nothing compared to the sight of Naruto's parents sipping champagne and laughing with the owner. Kakashi Hatake was a former player until his on-field eye injury retired him. He was also the reason Naruto was so close with the owner and his wife and why he felt comfortable calling them The Perv and Granny. Kakashi had played Quarterback for Jiraiya when he'd bought and renamed the team almost fifteen years ago.

"Shika!" Iruka looked past Kakashi's head to see her son's oldest friend coming down the stairs of the inside box. Iruka excused herself from the others to come give the brunette a hug.

Shikamaru felt really awkward and nervous because she just knew that Naruto had no idea his parents were going to be there or he would have prepared Sasuke or had him wait to come.

"Naruto didn't say you'd be here." Shikamaru said pulling out of the hug trying to sound conversational and not nearly as nervous as she felt.

"We flew in very early this morning to surprise him. He gets nervous when he knows were in the stadium, so we didn't say anything." Iruka said and reached out to kiss checks with Chouji.

"Ma'am..." He said respectfully as Iruka turned to look at the petite dark haired boy waiting and softly smiled waiting for an introduction to him.

The corners of Shikamaru's mouth turned down before she finally gestured towards her companion. "Iruka this is...uhh, Sasuke. Sasuke, this is Naruto's mother Iruka Hatake."

"Nice to meet you…" He said looking ill.

"Oh, hello…" Iruka said a bit bewildered as to what he was doing there.

"Hello." Sasuke murmured under his breath nervous as hell as Iruka looked him up and down and at his jersey. It was his new one of course and Sasuke nearly wanted to weep as he saw the woman's lips read his shirt. 'To my Sasuke, Your Naruto' she mouthed and the women suddenly looked very steely and calculating her narrowed eyes bolting Sasuke to the spot.

"How exactly do you know my son?" Iruka asked in a voice that sounded very much like someone who could crush Sasuke like a bug.

He turned bright red and Shikamaru frowned and blushed a little herself. We live together? We sleep in the same bed? He's my life right now? I think I love him? What should he say?

"Sasuke is Naruto's..." Chouji listed his fingers with bunny ears slowly stating. "Special friend…"

"Chouji…!" Shikamaru elbowed him.

"What? She'll find out they're living together when she comes home with us after the game." Chouji scowled rubbing his ribs that he was sure were bruised by Shikamaru's pointy elbow.

Sasuke's face flamed bright red as Iruka's eyes bore into him completely unaware her husband had moved behind her. "Who's this?" Kakashi asked politely, placing his hand on the back of his wife to calm her having already overheard the conversation.

Iruka was scary when she was upset, Shikamaru had seen it plenty of times growing up side by side with Naruto but this was a whole another level of scary mom vibes. "Someone our son is sleeping with apparently." She snipped.

"Iruka…!" Shikamaru cried out. "Well that's not fair! If your upset you don't know he's in a relationship then it's Naruto's fault not Sasuke's!"

The poor boy looked humiliated and Kakashi quickly lead her away from them into the corner to save the three from his wife's wrath. Shikamaru took him to sit down in the front on the other side of the room as Sasuke was trembling with nerves.

"She's very protective over Naruto… she means well though, she does." Shikamaru told Sasuke as they ordered drinks. Iruka was stewing with her non to amused husband on the other side. They kept away from each other and it served to ruin the fun of the day for Sasuke who was pale and withdrawn. Shikamaru kept cursing to herself and half wanted to flip Naruto off for letting this happen.

After the game Sasuke practically ran out of the room and Shikamaru and Chouji lead him down to the tunnels were they usually waited for their friend, Iruka and Kakashi were entering the tunnel when Naruto came bursting out of the lockers with lots of energy the trail of enthusiastic voices of his teammates trailing behind him until the door shut.

In his hands he carried the winning ball. Naruto rarely kept them but always gave them to his mother in tradition at the end of a big game. Iruka looked at it expectantly but Naruto only had eyes for one person in the tunnel and rushed Sasuke up into his arms. Lifting him up Sasuke wrapped his arms around his neck, kissing him as he spun him around.

"I want you to have it." Naruto told him. "You're my good luck charm."

"You hardly need a good luck charm." Sasuke said happily.

Finally his parents caught his eye as he looked over Sasuke's shoulder. They were just coming up behind Shikamaru and Chouji who were frowning with worry. "Mom, Dad! What are you doing here?!" He was blushing now, looking like a child caught with his hand in the cookie jar.

"We came to see you play of course." Kakashi said hands in his pocket; Iruka's face was turning several colors.

"Oh!" Naruto's stunning beaming smile appeared and he put his arm around Sasuke's middle pulling him tight.

"Mom, Dad...there's someone I want you to meet. I was planning on making it a thing at the Super bowl...something special to remember it by...but this...this is MY Sasuke." He said proudly, looking so pleased with himself. "He's...very special to me." Naruto said tenderly looking at the cringing boy.

"It's...very nice to meet you Sasuke." Kakashi said diplomatically while Naruto looked expectantly at his mother. She looked strange and didn't greet Sasuke at all or meet anyone's eyes as if annoyed.

"Mom...?" Naruto asked.

"We've meet." Sasuke said a bit stiffly not looking anyone in the eye ether.

"Your mom got a bit rude and testy in the owner's box when she found out." Shikamaru explained and got a dirty look from Iruka and she shrugged. "He'd find out eventually don't look at me like that."

"Mom…!" Naruto gasped. "How...how could you? What's wrong with me having someone special to share my life with? I thought you'd be happy for us."

"You didn't even tell me!" Iruka finally got out. "How am I supposed to know if he's important or special or if you're just fucking him?!"

Naruto had never in his life heard his mother use that language or be so vulgar and Sasuke shuttered upset under him arm. "Mom…!"

"Iruka…!" Kakashi hissed.

"Well that was uncalled for." Shikamaru murmured.

"I can't believe you would treat Sasuke like this." Naruto murmured grabbing his lovers hand. "I'd expect this from some small minded idiot like the ones I went to school with...but not you... not my mother." He hissed and then jerked Sasuke along after him down the tunnel.

In his car he kept apologize, over and over again. "She's never done this before... she's never said anything like that before...this isn't her." He kept saying. "She's usually such a warm, accepting person...she's the first person I told I was gay and she was completely okay with it... she made me feel that way anyway."

"How has she been with your other boyfriends?"

"I've..." Naruto blushed bright red. "…Never really had anyone important like you are."

Sasuke grinned and felt happy. "Oh." Sasuke took a deep breath "…maybe she's not as okay with it as she told you she was."

"Maybe…" He murmured his inside hurting.

They went home and had a nice dinner Sasuke made and then they crawled into bed and cuddled, kissing and gently nuzzling. Naruto was whimpering by the end of it and Sasuke felt like a tease but he was still so nervous to do more. In the morning Naruto was still asleep as Sasuke showered, dressed, blow dried his hair with his product before sneaking downstairs holding his shoes to get ready for work.

There was movement in the kitchen and Sasuke didn't even think twice about it as Chouji usually meet him there for work.

"Shikamaru I have some laundry to do, but I don't know where the laundry room is. If you can just point me to the direction I'll do Naruto's as well, lord knows you do enough for him..." He froze in the doorway to the kitchen hearing another woman's voice.

Chouji was there but so was, Shikamaru and Iruka. Kakashi was at the large nook reading the sports page in the newspaper. He glanced up but then back down sipping his tea completely staying out of it.

"Good morning, Sasuke!" Shikamaru chocked and Sasuke wanted to just rush out and leave this behind him. This was the thing that terrified him the most. People that weren't okay with the love that Naruto and him shared. People that would treat him bad and make him feel like he was wrong.

"Hello." Iruka said slowly and Sasuke nodded.

"Hello."

There was just silence in the kitchen for a long time and Shikamaru quickly offered up a muffin she'd made and Sasuke buttered it as Chouji asked her if he was ready to go.

"Yes!" He practically blurted and hurried towards the door not caring he'd be early.

"Chouji…?" Iruka stopped him. "Do you mind if I take Sasuke?"

No! Sasuke wanted to shriek dramatically and his look said it as he pleaded with Chouji to tell her no. He looked worried, caught between them and he shrugged nervously as Iruka was not someone to mess with when she was having a fit.

She didn't seem aggressive or angry just superior and completely in control at all times. Sasuke felt like a lamb for the slaughter as he was put into Iruka's BMW and driven out the gate and towards his work.

"I wanted a chance to talk to you." Iruka said slowly. Always perfectly in control, or she sought to be. Sasuke said nothing so the mother continued. "I love my son very, very much. He means the world to me and we've always had a very tight relationship. I was the first person he came out to and for an adopted child they can tend to feel less worthy of love or that their love isn't as unconditional as a born child. That has never been the case with him. Kakashi and I we love him more than if he was our own, he was the child that was destined for us as we were for him. There was never any issue with us about his...preference. There was however deep concern and worry over the way the world would treat him."

Iruka continued. "His choice to be open and in sports was a very difficult one. It's widely known he was kicked off his university team when they found out, first benched, never played then eventually dismissed. He went through a very dark time but he came out of it, stronger and a better person...a better man then any other I've ever known."

"I think so too." Sasuke managed looking out the window and not at Iruka.

"My...lashing out at you yesterday was because I was hurt. This is his very first important relationship. I know he's had passing fancies but never anyone important enough. I was crushed he never told me anything and it hurt a lot to think my son didn't trust me or didn't want me to know."

"...I can't say why he didn't." Sasuke mused. "But my own mother doesn't know I'm seeing him. It's...I just learned a few weeks ago she knew I was...different." He murmured. "Naruto might have done it out of respect for me...I'm not exactly...as open as he is about...who I am." He slowly said red with embarrassment but wanting the relationship between the man he loved and his mother not to be harmed.

"You're still in the closet?" Iruka asked surprised looking him up and down a moment as if to ask, 'are you kidding? You're not fooling anyway.'

"I...don't really care for that term but yes I suppose you could see I am. I didn't have the support growing up from my family that Naruto did. I believe my father told me he'd see me dead before he saw me shame our family so...I'm a bit reluctant at best." Sasuke felt a strange pressure come off his shoulders so unexpected it made him dizzy. Had he ever told anyone that? Had he ever told anyone anything he was saying to Iruka?

Glancing over quickly he was shocked by the horror on Iruka's face looking back. "I'm...I'm sorry to hear that. I cannot image a parent not loving their child unconditionally."

"My father loved one thing and that was status." Sasuke mused. "My older brother was his pride and joy, I was just..." Sasuke felt his gut tug and he looked out the window away from her. "Naruto is the best thing that's ever happened to me. He's so kind, considerate, protective and loving. I never thought I could feel as happy as I do when I'm with him. I'm sure there's a reason why he didn't tell you about us and I'm even more sure it was because of my feelings. Please don't be angry with him, he loves you so much and talks about you all the time."

Iruka sniffled, surprising Sasuke who turned to look in surprise. She seemed like such a cold person at first but now he realized what it had been. Iruka was a lioness and Sasuke could easily see she'd scratch the eyes out of anyone who hurt her cub. It made him feel all the more guilty for even suggesting to Naruto that his mother might not be accepting of them.

"I'm sorry for being so rude to you Sasuke or insinuating in any way that you were..." Iruka cleared her throat looking very embarrassed. "...well, a whore."

'A whore, that's a new one.' Sasuke thought brilliant red.

"Obviously you're very important to my son and what you do together behind closed doors in none of my business..."

"It's not like that!" Sasuke gasped completely erupting in embarrassment, so hot red in the face steam was coming out of his ears. "We don't do that!"

Iruka gave him this look like 'Yea, sure right. Have you seen my son?'. The mother smirked and looked forward. "Like I said, you're both mature consenting adults who are very important to one another. There's nothing wrong with it and it's none of my business..."

"We've never done anything!" Sasuke gasped panicked almost light headed now. "I swear!"

Iruka said nothing and it was obvious she thought Sasuke was lying. That only made Sasuke panic more because he didn't want this woman to think Sasuke was a liar when they were just starting to see eye to eye.

"It's not like he doesn't want to...I'm just a little unsure."

"Unsure?" Iruka looked worried, very concerned over at Sasuke now. "You're not sure if your gay or not? Are you playing with my sons emotions?"

Sasuke wanted to physically pull his hair out in frustration now and was almost hyperventilating. "NO! No, I love Naruto!" Sasuke gasped covering his mouth and Iruka's eye brows shoot up. "that is...I mean that...while I care for him very much I've never been in a relationship with another man and I'm...nervous about the physical aspects of our relationship."

"Oh," Iruka managed. "I see." Though she looked very worried because she was, If Sasuke was having doubts then it would end up hurting her tender hearted son in the end. Naruto put up a powerful exterior but he was just an unsure little boy on the inside scared to tell anyone he was attracted to other men.

"If you're unsure about living your life as a homosexual man then I implore you Sasuke...don't play with my son's heart. Be sure or leave." It wasn't unkind in fact it was pleading and sincere and it broke Sasuke heart to confess.

"I am sure, Mrs. Hatake. I'm sure Naruto's the love of my life and as long as he wants me in it, I'm going to be a part of his life. I just need to work on getting through my nerves concerning the physical intimacy. Lots of people take the physical aspect of their relationship slowly. It's only been two months since we started to see one another. I don't see why I should be sleeping with him just yet!" Sasuke insisted.

Iruka pursed her mouth considering that. Two months was a small amount of time but then again thinking back to her own courtship with Kakashi she'd been a bit of a prude when he'd tried to bed her as well. How long had she waited? She tried to think and thought of the very first time the meet and that amazing first night together. Two months she thought, a short amount of time by any means but Iruka had been sure that if she waited one more moment she'd die if she hadn't let Kakashi bed her.

"You are sleeping together though..."

"Next to each other, yes." Sasuke said. "I enjoy that very much." He admitted. "It's reassuring and it...well it makes me happy to be beside him."

"That's good." Iruka nodded. "I suppose I'm just surprised. I'm his mother but I'm not blind. He's quite the specimen of the male gender."

"O, yes." Sasuke admitted his eyes wide. "He is, no denying that."

Iruka grinned seeing the way Sasuke squirmed completely sure he was physically interested in her son. She wasn't exactly pressuring the boy to bed her son it was just surprising considering Naruto had always seemed a very physical person. He'd always been touchy feely, always hugging and connecting.

"Naruto I assume is behaving himself?"

"He's very respectful." Sasuke said. "He never pressures me into anything. Especially at the very beginning of our relationship when kissing freaked me out a bit. He would ask if it was okay."

"He'd ask permission before every time?" Iruka asked amused.

"Yes." Sasuke admitted. "Now...now it's comfortable and I like it very much. Well...I always liked it but I wasn't comfortable that I liked it."

"Well I'm glad he's being a gentleman." Iruka said.

Sasuke sighed as they pulled down the highway to his job. "Me too…" He admitted. "Me too…"

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