Naruto was woken up by a slight movement next to him. He took and deep breath and and turned to his side, his eyes squinting open in confusion when his nose bumped into something. It was…a chest? He looked up, his eyes still groggy, and found the prince looking down at him.

Oh right. They had spent the night in their room. Last night's activities came flooding in into his memory and he blushed brightly. It was still not bright enough, so he hoped the prince hadn't noticed the blush.

'I have to go to the training grounds.' The prince said softly, his voice deeper than usual.

'So early?' Naruto didn't try hiding his disappointment at all. It was just before dawn. Sasuke's chest rumbled with a deep laughter. Naruto decided he loved the sound.

'I've neglected my squads long enough.' The prince explained. Secretly loving the fact that Naruto wanted him to stay longer. He didn't want to leave either. In fact, he was hoping he could have a repeat of last night and kiss his bride some more. But, duty calls.

'I understand.' His bride nodded obediently. 'Can I come see you later?'

Sasuke 'hn'ed' in approval. 'Please go back to sleep.' He leaned down and kissed him deeply, tightening his embrace around Naruto, who angled his head for him. He pulled back and gently pulled his arm from under his bride.

Naruto watched the prince get out of bed, put on his outer robe and walk out of the room. But not before he paused at the door, looked back and gave him a smile and nod.

Naruto flopped back into the pillows and smiled widely. His head all giddy with the kiss, and his body feeling light enough to float. He couldn't possible go back to sleep now.

He got out of bed and decided to ask for tea. He would then get washed and dressed and head straight to Iruka.

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Itachi rolled from on top of Deidera to lie on his back, easily pulling the blonde to lie on his chest instead. The blonde, having no energy left in him, allowed himself to be gently pulled by his lover. He placed his head on Itachi's chest, trying to catch his breath, as he brought his hand to rest there. Itachi buried his nose in his hair as one arm held Deidera close to him, his hand on the blonde's waist, while the other hand went to hold the hand on his chest.

Itachi gave Deidera some time to catch his breath, kissing the top of his head and running his hand up and down the blonde's lower back in a soothing manner. His blonde was a shinobi, but Itachi was far stronger than him, and it sometimes worried him. There had been times when Itachi would get carried away in bed, and Deidera would have to remind him to stop because he couldn't keep up.

It was a herculean task for itachi to hold himself back when it came to Deidera, but he tried. God knows he tried, and yet his control slipped away at times. The blonde drove him crazy.

'mmm' Deidera hummed in appreciation as the large hand now came to rest on his smaller back. His breathing now returning back to normal. His placed a kiss on Itachi's chest and smiled. Itachi had been amazing just now, sending him over the edge more than once. The scratch marks on Itach's upper arm were clear evidence of that.

His back must look worse.

He guiltily winced. This was too much before breakfast though. He would be drained before the day even started.

'Did something good happen?' Deidera asked, his throat completely dry.

'hmm' Itachi hummed into his hair. Deidera knew him too well.

'I'll take that as a yes.' Deidera chuckled. 'So,' He said sweetly, 'Lifting his head to rest his chin on Itachi's chest to look at up his face, 'What is it?'

Itachi smirked. The blonde was trying to coax it out of him.

He thinks he's so clever.

The blonde lifted his slim leg slowly to slide on top on Itachi's.

And he is.

'Sasuke spent the night at his quarters, with Naruto last night.' He blurted out.

'Oh?' The blonde raised his eyebrows, intrigued. 'But we don't know what happened…' he trailed off frowning at the the knowing smile Itachi gives him. 'Itachi !' He gasped, smacking the raven on the chest. 'please tell me you have not been using your crows to spy on them!'

'of course not.' Itachi laughed, sitting up, pulling the blonde with him without releasing his embrace.

'Then, how do you know?' Deidera looked at him suspiciously, earning another laugh from Itachi.

'Miko-san makes the bed. Naruto didn't sleep alone last night.' Itachi explained, kissing the frowning blonde on the cheek. All these years with Deidera, and he still thought the blonde was the cutest thing he'd ever seen.

'And how do you know this?' Deidera asked, still suspicious. 'You've been with me all night.'

'Alright,' Itachi shrugged, ' I sent a crow-.'

'Itachi !' He earned another slap on his shoulder.

'-but only when Miko-san entered the room.' He quickly explained.

'You have a problem.' Deidera glared at him. 'You Uchihas have a big problem.'

Itachi laughed earning another slap on his shoulder from his blonde.

—-

'So, Naruto-kun.' Deidera gave Naruto a knowing smile. 'How did you sleep?'

Naruto squirmed under Deidera's stare that was accompanied with a wide smile, finding it very difficult to swallow the food in his mouth. Itachi sipped his tea as he went through some scrolls in front of him. If he noticed the older blonde's amusing behaviour, he ignored it. Naruto wished Iruka had joined them for breakfast, his sensei would've helped with this current situation. He had decided to visit Iruka this morning but couldn't find him in his room. When he had asked the maids, they had informed him that he had left his room sometime around dawn.

'V-very well, thank you.' Naruto forced himself to swallow.

'I'm glad!' Deidera nodded. 'Here, you'll need more energy after last night.' He said as he happily served an extra egg on his plate. 'Uchiha's have a lot of energy, you need to keep up.'

Naruto titled his head in confusion, but muttered a soft 'thank you'. He liked eggs.

Itachi shifted his attention another scroll.

'And I'll ask Miko-san to prepare some chicken for you for lunch. The soup gives you a lot of energy.' Deidera's eyes brightened at the wonderful idea.

'Thank you.' Naruto cluelessly muttered again, noticing that Deidera had not touched his breakfast yet. 'will you not have some Deidera-san?' He asked.

'I will.' Deidera nodded. 'I'm waiting for Iruka-sensei to join us. I had sent him a message asking him to join us for breakfast today.'

'I see.' Naruto smiled. 'I'll get to see him then.'

'you have been quite busy, haven't you.' Deidera said, thoughtfully. 'You haven't spent much time together recently.'

'I briefly had a chance to meet him last week.' Naruo explained. 'But I wasn't able to give him much time. Would you know if he is occupied with something Deidera-san? He wasn't there this morning when I went to meet him.'

Itachi looked up from his scrolls.

'Maybe he went to the common bath.' Deidera guessed. 'He mentioned that he liked our common bath more than his private one.'

'I see.' Naruto nodded and went back to his breakfast.

One of the guards at the door walked over to Itachi's side, keeping a distance of a metre away from him, bowed low and handed him a scroll. Itachi took it and gave the guard a slight nod, who returned to his position the door. Itachi opened the scroll and read it with an expressionless face.

'It seems we are to have a visitor.' Itachi said, placing the scroll on the table, and going back to his tea.

'Oh?' Deidera poured himself some tea and offered Itachi a refill, who declined with a 'thank you'.

'King Haruno's daughter.'

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Thank you for your reviews. I'm trying my best to complete the story, as promised. It's not as easy as it was before. I'm so much older than when I first started this, and I've outgrown my obsessions. The only reason why I'm pushing myself to complete this is because of a handful of you are still reading this fic. I hope you'll be with me until the end of this fic, which we are nearing, by the way./span/p