After what feels like many years, I finally got around to getting a tumblr. I have a lot of time right now cause all my exams are done and I'm on vacation. The only thing keeping me from writing is… well… tumblr and K-Pop. But mainly the sucky internet connection in our hotel room in Bali, causing everything to take longer than usual. So since I've already started attention whoring, why don't you just go to my tumblr that conveniently has the same as my FFN profile: Murasaki B. There's a link on my profile in case you can't find it.

I don't own Naruto or any of its characters. Both belong to Kishimoto Masashi.

Chapter XXV
– Asphalt Bottom–

The group of friends surrounding Naruto were on their way to downtown Konoha, where most of the fun places were. It had been a few days ever since the announcement of Asuma's death and everyone was only slowly able to properly process what had happened. Not just the death of their homeroom teacher, but the way he had died would be something to gnaw on for a long time. Many What if's would be plaguing them and following them their entire life. They were intelligent. They knew the pain wouldn't just go away after some time. It would always stay with them. Like a scar. Only the intensity of the pain would fade, but never the scar itself. The death of a dear person is the kind of scar that will always hurt when touched. Forever.

Kiba had suggested to spend some time just going out to get everyone's mind out of the gutter and to lift the general mood, so they were currently entering a small karaoke box. A bell chimed above their heads as they pushed the door open and entered.

"Good evening," the rather short owner of the karaoke box softly greeted them from behind his reception counter. "Would you like to rent a room?"

The first to arrive was Kiba, so it was him who stepped up to the counter. "Yeah. Is it okay to go in with nine people?"

"Of course." The elderly owner nodded with a kind smile. "Then please go to room number one. It is the first one to your left."

A chorus of many thank-yous sounded as everyone finally came to stand inside. The smile on the owner's face widened, but the teens soon noticed something strange about the man. He never looked at any of the teens directly. Apparently he was blind.

"The first room has two sets of equipment," the owner continued, "so the four girls can use one, while the five boys can use the other."

Murmurs of "Awesome" and "This is gonna be fun" broke out, before Shikamaru spoke up with a frown on his face.

"Four girls? We only have three, Sir."

Despite being blind, the owner now trained his unseeing eyes on the brunet, looking as though examining him. "Well there's her," He pointed towards Sakura, "her," His finger moved to Ino, "her," Now he pointed at Hinata, "and her." To everyone's surprise, the blind karaoke box owner was now pointing at Naruto.

"What? Me?" the blond screeched in incredulity. "I-I'm sorry, old man, but I'm a guy."

A frown formed on that wrinkled forehead as the owner shook his head. "No. I've been blind for a very long time now and I can clearly hear that that voice is that of a girl. I admit it is quite low and rough-sounding, but judging from the pitch it is definitely female. Are you perhaps a girl posing as a boy?"

Heads now turned to focus on the shocked blond, who only after a while noticed the questioning looks and raised eyebrows. Naruto just kept shaking his head and flailing around his hands. "I'm not a girl!"

"I have to admit…" Shikamaru was stroking his chin as if in thought now, "if I listen carefully, his voice does sound a bit girly."

"What!" The screech that erupted from Naruto's throat only made the assumption even firmer. He was dragged to the karaoke room as he kept ranting and yelling that he did not sound girly at all. No one would believe him, but of course he didn't see the hidden grins or hear the low chuckles.

At some point, the nine teens finally settled in a room and quickly spread over the couches along the walls. The centre floor was wide and free of any obstructions, equipment set up in the very front. Despite it being a small establishment and the equipment in the room being a bit old, the room was large and emitted a homely warmth. The first two daring enough to begin were Sakura and Ino, who chose a cheery duo to sing. Of course they weren't experienced singers, but they still sounded good enough to fire everyone up and chime in a cheerful mood, improvising a choreography to go with their singing.

"Now a guy!" Ino yelled when they finished their song.

Sakura of course chimed in immediately. "Right, right!"

Both girls then proceeded to push Kiba to the centre, but the brunet refused to sing unless someone joined him. And so Shikamaru was forced to participate. Kiba's singing was off and Shikamaru probably would have sounded good, had he bothered to open his mouth far enough to actually produce proper sounds. Their performance still elicited laughing and giggles. The one laughing the loudest after Kiba's and Shikamaru's performance was Naruto, prompting Kiba to grab the blond's arm and fling him towards the centre of the room where the microphone stood, yelling for him to sing if he thought he was so much better.

"I never said I was better!" Naruto protested as he glared with a frown. "I was just laughing at how desperately you were trying to get it right."

"That's exactly like saying you can do it better!" Kiba's retort was accentuated by him flailing around his arms angrily.

An insulted glare remained on the blond's face until he sent a questioning glance at Sakura. As she understood the unspoken question, she sighed, before standing up and walking to Naruto's side. With inquiring looks being sent their way, she picked up the large remote and chose a song without hesitation.

The room was suddenly filled with drum rolls, before all of a sudden a rapid techno track played, mellowing out into a just as cheerful tune. Naruto began to sing without hesitation, almost as if he had done so many times before. Sakura raised her voice as soon as the blond silenced and as the music picked up, they both sang together in a weird harmony, where Naruto's rough voice matched the girl's soft one. They continued this way, taking turns, singing together and performing a choreography matching the song as if they simply belonged on a stage. Naruto still was clumsy and they bumped into each other or messed up their notes, but they still seemed like they knew exactly what they were supposed to do. Once the music stopped and Naruto and Sakura both lowered the microphones from their lips, a shit-eating grin spread on the blond's face and he turned to survey the astonished looks on the faces of his friends.

"That's cheating!" Kiba yelled, pointing an accusing finger at the pair. "Don't you know that song a bit too well?!"

Sakura's features then gained an apologetic expression and a sheepish laugh passed her lips. "We used to go to a karaoke box a lot a few years ago and we often sung that song together."

"Yeah," Naruto continued, "we sung it so often we even started to practice that choreography, just for fun. Neither of us can really sing though."

"Are you kidding?" the Inuzuka declaimed. "I can't believe I'm saying this, but you were actually on par with Sakura and Sakura is good."

Before Naruto could reply with a cheeky comment, Shikamaru released a small grunt that gained everyone's attention. "Is it really that much of a surprise? With his obnoxiously loud voice he could probably even wake the dead. It's actually no wonder he can somewhat sing."

"Somewhat…" the blond repeated dejectedly.

"And remember what the old man said…" A taunting smirk suddenly appeared on Sasuke's face, "the pitch of Naruto's voice is very feminine, so of course his voice matches Sakura's."

Three people had to hold back Naruto, who was furiously trying to get to the Uchiha. Everyone else was too busy oooing at that sick burn.

"LET ME JUST TEAR OFF THAT DUCK-BUTT HAIR OF YOURS AND SHOVE IT UP YOUR ASS FAR ENOUGH YOU'RE GONNA SHIT EGGS THE REST OF YOUR LIFE!"

More ooohing, followed by a hand being clamped over Naruto's mouth, several arms wrapped around his torso.

"We're not alone in here," Kiba hissed as he whacked the blond over the head. "Do you want to give the shop owner a heart attack?"

Sighing loudly, Naruto was released. Immediately, he snapped his head away from where Sasuke sat. "He's not that old."

After that, everyone got their turn singing and occasionally dancing. As time passed by, everyone became more daring and at some point, whoever was singing was singing with the entire group. And when all of them thought they had sung enough, they left the small, cozy establishment. It had gotten completely dark outside when the teens wandered the streets in search of their next destination. They had headed out with no plans of where to go and now they were simply hoping to find something to occupy their time with.

After a while, they stumbled over what looked like a club where people their age and older were entering. They got in fairly quickly, most likely due to all the girls among them. Most guys trying to get in were by themselves, so apparently bringing girls equaled an automatic ticket to get in. Inside, many differently coloured lights flashed brightly and it took the teens a bit to adjust. The layout of the club was quite simple with a small, yet packed dance floor with coloured tiles right in the middle and a DJ with his equipment in the back. Surrounding them were several bars, walls where people gathered to talk and doors to more rooms. Stairs lead up to a second floor where red velvet couches and chairs standing in front of slim silver-coloured tables offered a place for calm chats, people sitting there casually holding bottles of beers and glasses with cocktails. Seeing this, it didn't take long for the teens to enter the dance floor and mingle, swaying and dancing to whatever was put on by the DJ. The ones not dancing simply spread over the more places, Sasuke in particular far away from the rest. What no one noticed was the way the dark-haired teen watched a certain blond goofing around on the dance floor. People were already watching the idiotic behaviour of the teen grabbing the hands of his friends, twirling them around as though they were kids again. Especially those that were trying to have some quality time with their dance and possibly bed partner for that night were sending them disdainful glares.

The teens only noticed the man approaching them when he was right next to Naruto and leaning down to whisper something in his ear. The blond couldn't see who it was since his back was turned to whoever it was, but he quickly recognised the voice and his eyes widened in realisation. He could feel the other's breath on his ear and neck, the sensation sending goosebumps all over his skin, and not in an entirely unpleasant way. His friends watched in surprise and shock when Naruto remained motionless as the man's hand settled on his arm, then wandered lower to grasp his hand and slowly pull him away. Only then Naruto turned and looked up at the redhead.

"Can they come with us?" he pleaded lowly, worrying his lower lip. "I just… I'll… come with you once I'm done. But I can't just leave them like this."

The man stood so close to the teen that Naruto could feel his body heat radiating off of him. "Fine by me. I'm a very patient man."

Letting a smile settle on his face, Naruto turned to his friends. "Let's go sit down somewhere. I'm feeling kinda tired after all that dancing. Come on!" Without even waiting for an answer, he ran off. It was to get away from that weird atmosphere as well as to flee from the newcomer now staring at him intently. He quickly bolted up the stairs and waved the others over, soon settling in one of the fluffy couches. Everyone quietly followed and spread over the various chairs and couches. Even Sasuke, Shino and Hinata joined one by one.

"So… Naruto," a slightly tipsy Ino started once everyone had settled down somewhat, "who is this, if I may ask?"

"Um…" The blond scratched the back of his head as he desperately tried not to remember under which circumstances he had met the man. "This is…"

"My name is Nagato," the redhead declared with an unreadable smirk that sent shivers down a few spines. "I met Naruto a few weeks ago when I was on a business trip here in Konoha and I have… taken a liking to him. So I came to meet him again."

It just sounds so wrong in so many ways, even if what he's saying is true! Seeing the suspicious looks on his friends' faces, a frustrated Naruto nervously tapped his foot against the floor.

Ino, a few drinks already flowing through her system, suddenly giggled. "Oh, that gives me all the wrong ideas."

"Who knows," Pain drawled in his sultry voice, "maybe they're accurate. Don't you agree, Naru-chan?"

A blush quickly tinted the blond's cheeks. "Na-Na-Na… Naru…?" At some point Naruto's jaw remained dropped without the blond ever finishing his stuttered attempt at a sentence.

This only sent Ino into a much heavier giggling fit and even Sakura couldn't hold back anymore. The boys didn't get what was supposed to be so funny, but they guessed they simply weren't drunk enough to understand it. The workings of a drunken female's mind…

Naruto's face heated up to a temperature where he thought his skin would melt off when Pain lightly grasped his chin and pushed his mouth shut with that aloof expression of his.

"Now, now, who knows what's going to fly into your mouth if you keep it open like that." Savouring that look of shocked embarrassment, Pain waved over a waiter and ordered drinks for all of them, saying it was on him, a chorus of cheers erupting immediately. It didn't seem like a problem that everyone except for Pain was underage.

When said drinks were brought, Naruto was at first hesitant to try his, but soon gave in to temptation. The taste wasn't what he had expected, but he still found the effect surprising. The heat spreading throughout his entire body was calming and thrilling at the same time. Before he could even comment, Pain ordered a round of shots. Naruto didn't know a lot about the effects of alcohol, but seeing Kiba and Chouji gulping down the shots and afterwards cheerfully praising said shots caused him to do the same. The tipsier he got, the less he noticed and so he didn't mind when an arm settled on the couch, right behind his head. Looking to his side, he found Pain sitting so close to him that he could see the other's strange eyes up close. Narrowing his eyes, he suddenly inched closer to take a better look, but in the light still couldn't decide what colour they were. His eyes then roamed over the man's face, stopping at Pain's lips. "You're a really handsome guy," he suddenly blurted, gaining everyone's attention.

Heads snapped to the blond, but he barely registered that he had said anything at all. When he did, Kiba leaned over the table to also take a closer look at the man with the orange hair.

"I guess he is," the Inuzuka admitted drunkenly, eyes narrowing in thought.

The next round of shots arrived and some of the teens were reasonable enough to quit here. They hadn't come to get hammered after all and they didn't need to be so obviously drunk that they would end up getting in trouble.

Now used to the burning of the alcohol, Naruto downed the new shot in one go and messily slammed the glass down onto the table. He drunkenly swayed a bit in his seat and ended up leaning on Pain for support. Shifting his drooping head, he soon looked up at the older man and leaned up. The teen leaned further and further into Pain, his head eventually on the man's shoulder. "D'ya think my voice 's girly too?" he slurred, drunkenly looking up at the orange-haired man.

That expressionless face never changed, but amusement could bee seen in those mysterious eyes. "Your voice sounds rather normal to me." Pain tilted his face towards the blond's just enough so that with Naruto's next slight movement, their lips met. The older man soon reached for the blond's hair to pull him even closer, Naruto letting himself delve into the kiss since it felt too nice to stop.

A slick tongue made its way into Naruto's mouth and the taste of alcohol on it only made him dizzier than he already was. His head was swimming as he felt roaming hands on his body and the grip on his hair tightening. Heat began to pool in his stomach and he released a tiny moan as he felt his lips stinging with upcoming bruises.

"Naruto!"

Something hard suddenly whacked the blond over the head, but he only slowly snapped out of it. When he did, he dazedly glanced around to find a furious Sakura glowering at him with a blush on her cheeks. Next to her, Ino was madly blushing while also stifling giggles. Meanwhile, the others were merely staring in shock. Besides Sasuke of course. He looked calm and aloof as ever. On the outside at least.

"You can't just… just… kiss someone."

Dazed eyes slowly trailing away from the girl's face to Pain's, Naruto smiled goofily like the drunk he was. "But it's fuuuuun." Still smiling like an idiot, Naruto pecked Pain on the lips without noticing the predatory glint in the man's stony eyes.

Sakura seemed about ready to lynch her best friend. Furiously, she searched around for some solution, before her gaze focused on a certain brunet. "Kiba! Do something! You're responsible for Naruto's libido!"

"What?!" Realising that yes, out of everyone present, he probably was the only one capable of handling this situation, Kiba begrudgingly rose from his seat to quickly get to the blond's side. He carefully pried Naruto off of Pain, but as he did so, a shiver ran down Kiba's spine when he noticed the man's empty eyes on him. He stepped back with confusion and fear in his eyes, looking at Pain with barely masked wariness. "Somethin' wrong?"

Not a muscle on Pain's face moved until he spoke. "I too think Naruto has had enough to drink."

"Eeeeeh?" came Naruto's indignant whine. The blond squirmed around in Kiba's grasp until finally, he roughly tackled the brunet to the floor with loud laughter shaking his body.

"I will take responsibility for bringing him home, seeing how I'm the only adult," Pain suddenly said, a disconcerting smile on his face. "I also have a car, which makes this easier."

Doubt and worry flashed across Kiba's face, before being swept away in his mind clouded by alcohol. Sakura also seemed uncertain at first, but eventually nodded in agreement when she couldn't find a reason to protest. This Nagato person didn't seem like someone she could trust fully, but she didn't think he would hurt Naruto in any way, since the blond usually avoided people who would. At least her feeling told her so.

"Then we'll make our leave." Nodding at the teens in farewell, Pain pulled Naruto up from his seat and guided the drunken teen out of the club. He always kept a hand on Naruto back as they both walked to the back of the club.

Despite the way he had been acting before, Naruto now seemed very dormant. He stayed silent, walked straight and kept his head low. Knowing what was to come, he tried to prepare himself mentally. He still had doubts about whether or not this was actually part of his job at Akatsuki, but he knew that Pain would pay him well, no matter the circumstances. And money was what he needed right now. He didn't want to leave Iruka to live with someone else without ever paying him back. Iruka was starting to accumulate debts he needed to pay off and Naruto couldn't just leave him with those. Maybe this one job, this one client, would finally set him free.

"You are quite the talented actor." Pain lightly ran his lips over Naruto's cheeks the moment they stopped in a dark area behind the club, his fingers wandering along the hot skin of the unresponsive teen. "You remind me of myself very much."

Naruto's blood was beginning to boil, the skin that Pain touched tingling with heat. Laboured breathing passed the blond's slightly quivering lips as he leaned against the cool wall behind him, his head dropping back. Now he could see those emotionless eyes on him, searching his features and observing him. He shut his anxiety-filled eyes as he saw the man's face inching closer. The kiss was a lot rougher and needier than before and only now Naruto noticed how much Pain seemed to let his guard down around him. Inside the club he had worn a smirk, but even that apparently had been fake. Usually, Pain was faceless and cold, but around him, he could live out something akin to passion. At least Naruto tried to tell himself this to make the whole thing less meaningless, to make make himself believe that there was something besides mere lust. A lust that dragged out Pain's hidden desires, letting him be as rough as he wanted since no one could hold him back.

"You may have noticed," Even after kissing as fervently as they had, Pain still wasn't even slightly out of breath, "but I'm a bit stressed out. I need something to vent. Managing an organisation as big as Akatsuki doesn't allow me a lot of freedom." To his statement, Naruto only nodded in response with his lips twitching in an attempt to smile. "Tell me if you feel like I'm forcing you."

This finally got Naruto out of his unresponsive stupor. "N-No. I'm just…"

"Just know that I don't want to cause my fellow apprentice any pain."

"Fellow apprentice?" A chuckle sounded right beside Naruto's ear, causing a shiver to run down his spine.

"I forgot," Pain mumbled, "Jiraiya probably hasn't taken you under his wing yet."

Naruto was about to ask what exactly the man meant, when he heard the zipper of his pants being pulled down. Suddenly, he was turned around and pushed against the rough brick wall.

"Maybe one day he'll tell you about your parents."

The shocked blond remained silent, simply standing there as he listened to the shuffling of clothes and belts. He pressed his forehead against the wall and let the coldness soothe his mind and cool down his feverish skin. He gasped in surprise when he was suddenly turned back around again to face the orange-haired man. "What do you want from me?" he blurted out before he could stop himself. But it really irked him. What was the reason for a man like Pain to want someone as tainted as him?

"I want you to give yourself to me." The man's fingers, that had been running all over Naruto's body, now stopped at his face and remained on the blond's cheek. "Your body, your mind. Even if it's just for a moment, I want you to genuinely give yourself to me."

The fingers lightly running over his skin, barely touching him, the lips hovering around his, it all turned Naruto's mind into a mushy goo that wouldn't form any coherent thought.

"Could you do that?"

For the first time in his life, Naruto was given a choice. He wasn't just going to be pushed down and used, dirtied, defiled. No. Now he could say No and go away. He had the chance to refuse and walk away. But those strange eyes looking at him with something akin to kindness gave Naruto a sense of trust. He trusted Pain.

The blond nodded.

Lips clashed, zippers were pulled, clothes shuffled. Naruto was turned around and groped, kisses raining down on his skin, covering every inch possible. He quickly lost his breath in the sudden excitement and the rush of adrenaline. A body pressed against his back and he could feel the warmth from Pain's body seeping through this clothes. Opening his eyes a slit, he saw the steam coming from his mouth for the first time, indicating how cold it was. In the heat of the moment, he hadn't even noticed before. He turned his head to the side when he felt arms wrapping around his waist and Pain's hot breath fanning over the back of his neck. He was hungry for the kiss that the man then gave him and didn't care that he was making sounds he usually would have felt ashamed for. The effects of the alcohol were slowly kicking in, resulting in Naruto slowly losing control over his motor skills, colours beginning to wash away in front of his eyes as he felt fingers enter him. They left almost as quickly as they had come. Soon, he felt Pain's slickened cock pushing into him and the man quickly falling into a steady rhythm. It was painfully slow in the beginning, the pace only slowly picking up. When it did, Naruto waited with each thrust for Pain to hit that spot within him. The man often briefly brushed against it, but never reached it and it frustrated the blond. It frustrated him to a point where he thought Pain was missing on purpose.

All of a sudden, the orange-haired man hit it dead on. He did with each following thrust as well. It felt like Naruto was being shot into white hot paradise, worries and doubts and fears dissolving, shattering into dust and dispersing. He felt like he couldn't be any more content than in this moment. This bliss suddenly faded after a particularly hard thrust, the thrusts weakening more and more, until they completely stopped.

Pain was done with him.

"See this as compensation for making me sit around with children." Pain remained standing where he was, chuckles slipping past his lips when he felt Naruto squirming impatiently. "I'm offering you a deal, Naruto. I can give you freedom. Just come with me and I'll give you freedom. Stay with me and you won't have to have a care in the world anymore. Think about it." The man pulled out, released his hold on Naruto and didn't even stay long enough to see the blond bonelessly slide down the wall. The sound of Pain's steps echoed and ricocheted from the walls as he left.

Once everything was silent again, Naruto's heavy panting was the only thing filling the alley behind the club. The only thing running through his mind was the desire for release. For release from the pain of not being allowed to reach that peak.

Little did Naruto know of the ears listening to the music that were his pained gasps and wheezes.

The blond sat up and leaned against the wall at his back, feeling goosebumps forming all over his skin at the coldness attacking his naked ass. After a while it was too cold to bare, so with some effort, he finally pulled up his pants, scrunching up his nose at the gooey liquid being mushed all over his legs. The action of dressing himself took all his remaining energy, causing Naruto to weakly slide onto the ground, his face mushing into the dirty asphalt. One hand on his stomach, the other resting on the frigid ground, Naruto stared up into the dark night sky. At first, he couldn't make out a single star. But with time passing and his eyes adjusting, he could make out more and more of them, though the brightness of Konoha was obscuring the glimmering of those usually brilliantly blazing orbs. And despite the cloudy daze creeping up on him like a dose of morphine, he couldn't banish the heat of arousal from his body. Tears prickled the back of his eyes when he thought about how he had been used. But seeing that it had been Pain, he couldn't help but think that he had deserved it. He had forced the man to do something he hadn't come to do. Somehow he couldn't get himself to be mad at Pain for this situation, only at himself.

All of a sudden, Naruto could hear someone approaching. He closed his eyes, hoping it was Pain showing at least a bit mercy, but deep down he knew that hope was probably futile. Listening to the sound of shoes hitting the ground growing louder, he kept his eyes shut and waited. The tight feeling in his aroused body remained.

The person stopped right beside the blond, but Naruto didn't dare to look up, not wanting to see the person's reaction to his disheveled appearance. By now he was sure it wasn't Pain. He could hear the shuffling of clothes as the person apparently knelt down beside him. The person was watching him. And it wasn't helping the arousal to disappear from his mind and body. Eventually, he grew sick of being so blatantly stared at. Naruto slid an eye open to see someone wearing dark clothes looking down at him with a neutral expression. His sight hazy, it took Naruto a while until he could identify the person. "Sasuke?"

The other teen at first didn't reply, instead turning his head away. "For a moment I thought you finally bit the dust." Naruto merely hummed in response, surprising Sasuke with the lack of an angered comeback. Silently, he watched as Naruto quietly sat up, sleepily rubbing his face. The Uchiha quickly noticed the flush seeming to never vanish from the blond's skin and carefully eyed Naruto.

"Sasuke…"

Something of a choked gasp sounded from Sasuke when Naruto suddenly ended up in his arms. "You–"

"It fucking hurts," Naruto growled out somewhat grumpily.

"So?" Sasuke shot back with a deathly glare, about to shove the other teen off. "What am I supposed to do about it?" He turned his head away when Naruto lifted his head to look up at him and ended up getting their faces dangerously close to each other.

The blond weakly shrugged as he inched even closer. "Dunno. Fuck me or something."

"Idiot. As if–" Lips covered his before Sasuke could finish his sentence and the Uchiha remained stunned for a moment. When he realised what was going on, he punched Naruto's chest to throw him off, but the other having a tight grip on him, it only resulted in them falling over and ending up underneath the blond, Naruto fervently reconnecting their lips after they had been severed. At some point, Sasuke was able to get a good grip on Naruto, but somehow couldn't find the strength to create more distance between them. It was as if something in him didn't want to move away, even though he was horrified about what was happening. Then a thought hit him. Moreover, a question crossed his mind. Had Naruto approached Kiba in this way too? Back then, knowing about it, Sasuke had been frustrated and angry for some reason. Not at Naruto, but Kiba. Why, he didn't understand. Perhaps it was jealousy, but Sasuke couldn't find a logic explanation as to why he would feel that way because of Naruto of all people. He didn't understand why he felt almost… gleeful to be kissed so heatedly. Sasuke simply gave his hormones the fault. He also gave his hormones the fault for making his fingers roam over Naruto's heated skin and ending up pulling the other even closer.

Countless tiny rocks were digging into the flesh of Sasuke's back and were probably scraping it open, but for now the teen didn't care. For once his logic mind was overcome by whatever was happening to him, by something the teen couldn't or didn't want to explain. Feeling his body also heating up, Sasuke let his hands wander lower until they reached Naruto's hips, which he gripped tightly. He could feel the other grinding against him and heard Naruto moaning into the kiss as if he had been deprived of such a thing his entire life. A low growl forming in his throat, Sasuke dug his fingers deeply into the flesh beneath his hands, breaking the kiss to connect his lips with Naruto's neck instead. He could faintly smell a foreign scent on the teen, probably that man's scent. It irked him. It was distracting. It was so annoying that Sasuke angrily pushed his teeth into the skin. Only when the smell of blood covered up any other scent was he satisfied.

Meanwhile, Naruto was close to bursting, constantly teased, moaning, gasping for air, cursing under his ragged breath. "I won't ever be free… will I?"

Sasuke immediately ceased any movement to look up at the other, only now realising that the blond had been dominating him the entire time. It sent a disgruntled scowl onto his face. "What did that guy say to you?" The teen hovering above him merely turned his head away, not showing him anything but the frown marring his face. A closed off frown the Uchiha knew all too well. It annoyed Sasuke. Suppressing a growl, the older teen flipped them over so that he was now on top of the blond. He took a firm hold of Naruto's arms and pushed him down, preventing him from escaping. "Tell me."

"He…"

Smirking, Sasuke chuckled to himself, before he gripped both of Naruto's wrists in one hand and held them in place, snapping his other hand down the other's body to his crotch, squeezing and making Naruto squirm and moan much louder than before. He kept his hand there no matter how much the other resisted. In an almost sadistic way, he seemed to enjoy the look of anguish and pleasure on Naruto's face coupled with shame. Still hearing no response, Sasuke only tightened his hold, rubbing Naruto through the fabric of the jeans covering his crotch.

"He offered me… a deal," Naruto quickly forced out. When Sasuke stopped squeezing him, the blond used that chance to catch his breath and continued talking before he could be reduced to a panting mess again. "H-He told me he would give me freedom if I went with him."

"Freedom from what?" Sasuke's voice was cold, his tone aloof, almost as though he wasn't molesting his classmate and rival at the moment.

Not wanting to answer, Naruto turned his head away again and found another brick wall in his sight, trash cans overflowing with garbage standing in front of it. Could the scenery get any more cliché? He, the teen prostitute, had been fucked by a pseudo-customer in a dark and filthy alleyway behind a club. And he hadn't even gotten paid. What a lousy prostitute he was.

"From Akatsuki?"

Naruto's head snapped back to meet Sasuke's eyes again, the blond now wearing an expression of shock, his horror poorly masked. "How…"

"Don't group me together with those oblivious friends of yours." Sasuke's voice was even, in no way indicating that this situation was unsettling him at all; very different from the way he had been only a minute ago. "Madara, that shithead. Doing as he pleases as always."

"Y-You know… him?"

Expression calm and nonchalant, Sasuke suppressed the urge to shrug. "That's only natural, since he's a distant relative."

Are they alike? Naruto asked himself as he stared up at Sasuke, noticing the sweat forming on that pale skin. He tried to see the hidden malice in those obsidian eyes, the same malice he could sometimes see in Madara's. He saw nothing. Unconsciously, he lifted up a hand to cup Sasuke's cheek and pull him closer, to see his eyes more clearly. Maybe they held an answer. But before he could get his answer, a bullet of bliss shot through his body as Sasuke squeezed him again. This time he gave up on maintaining his composure and simply gave in, letting all those moans pass his lips, slowly tilting his head back against the ground, arching his back. His chest was rapidly rising and falling, shaking even. He wanted to yell at Sasuke for frustrating him even more and causing him that kind of pain.

"Tell me more."

"Am I interupting?" a familiar voice suddenly cut in casually.

The two teens' heads snapped towards the ray of light suddenly shining in their faces, squeezing their eyes shut at the sheer brightness. Still confused and disorientated, Naruto had problems figuring out who that voice belonged to.

"Kakashi," Sasuke murmured lowly, venom in his voice. Looking like he hadn't just been groping someone, he straightened up, but didn't part from Naruto who was still sporting an obvious flush and a bulge in his pants.

"Yo!" the white-haired man greeted them lightly, eyes curving with a flat smile hidden beneath that surgical mask of his. What made his entrance strange was his out of character attire and the grumpy man standing beside him nibbling on a metal needle. "Thought I heard something back here and came to check. And look what I found!"

Naruto finally managed to sit up after getting his body back under control. He pushed against Sasuke's chest and once the other was standing, he got to his feet as well, his back to the two newcomers. Sasuke was standing in front of him and blocking him from view.

"What do you want?" Sasuke inquired with poison lining his calm words. "And why are you dressed like a policeman?"

Kakashi's smile finally faded a bit, the man's features morphing into a look of surprise. "Why wouldn't I be? I am a policeman after all."

"So in the morning you work as a t–"

"I think I'll have to arrest you for public indecency," the man suddenly cut in with finality in his words, not allowing any back-talking. "Would you kindly come with me and my partner to the police station?"

The Uchiha clicked his tongue in annoyance, but complied. He slowly left the alley and made sure to stay in front of his rival, who stayed close to him and held his head low. He inconspicuously watched as Kakashi glanced up at the dingy building in which people were still dancing, drinking and doing who knows what. One of Sasuke's eyebrows cocked as he saw the man suddenly rub his chin and humming in thought.

"Seeing the place you apparently came from, I think I might just have to check on what you may be carrying around with you." Kakashi finished that sentence with his lips apparently curling into a smile beneath that mask.

Sasuke didn't like that gleam in the man's eyes at all.

Man, I love dropping off hints no one will understand. To me it's obvious what's gonna happen, though I think it's somehow… not that easy to find out what Kakashi's planning with just that sentence of his. And you finally got your SasuNaru fluff! Happy now?

And just as a side-note: I'm already thinking about what to write once this story is done (in a long time). I have several stories already started and lot of ideas for each, but I really can't decide which to concentrate on. And no matter how simple or initially boring they may seem, you guys know me as an author and my ability, so I trust that you'll be able to choose well and have faith in my ideas. So I'm gonna list my ideas here and you guys can go to my profile and vote for one. All stories will involve SasuNaru to different extents.

The first idea is a story with a zombie theme. The SasuNaru here will not be a main point – obviously, cause everyone's panicking over people coming back to life and trying to eat them – but still present. It'll be pretty gory and more on the shocking and scary side, but I'll also try to make it as epic and adrenaline-inducing as possible.

My second idea would involve my newest and currently biggest obsession: K-Pop, or J-Pop, in this case. I know it sounds like a weird story to write, but this would be a story with SasuNaru as the main focus, while them being in rivalling bands would be the theme. It would be a behind the scenes kind of thing, because ever since becoming a K-pop fan, I've learned a lot of things about the industry the average person probably doesn't know. This would be romance and drama full of tears! There will also be some supernatural things involved.

Then there's this other idea in my head. It's actually a story that I wanted to write instead of this one, but somehow I lost interest in it. The story would revolve around Naruto and Sasuke trying to break out of prison, after being put there for crimes they may or may have not committed. It would be SasuNaru, with both of them unaware of their feelings for each other for quite a while, but developing some kind of friendship.

Personally, I'd like to either write the zombie one or the K-Pop one the most, but the prison break idea seems interesting to me too. It's just that right now I get the most ideas for the first two ones. So help me decide and vote for whatever you want to read after this. I'll tell you the result as soon as I feel like I have enough votes to be able to decide.

Edit (08/28/15): Voting is closed and I've already decided on what I will write next. It's something I've been working on for a few years now that's not listed here. More on that in a later chapter. I'm still very fond of the above ideas though and I haven't completely given up on them yet. I might end up working on them again once Rewrite is done and I finally start publishing my next story. I tend to work on several stories besides the one that actually gets published, so it's likely one or two of the above will be worked on and published one day.

Next chapter: Maturity