Lily: sweet bejesus, i've been on a naruto yaoi binge and had some of my own coffee concoction(coffee, half and half, hazelnut syrup, white wine) and now i'm ready to write. i declare that Sasu/Naru and Iru/Kaka are the best naruto couples!
Phantom: leaves Sakura free for me!
Aishiteru, Naruto
Chapter Four
Twisting
Naruto and Sasuke walked down to the bath house in that final blaze of glorious summer day. The deliciously warm air swirled around their limbs making their skin feel like silk and their hairs prickle. The setting sun scorched the air with a strange but beautiful combination of orange and purple.
Sasuke allowed himself a rare smile. In this dusky light Naruto's looks were rivaling his own. The orange light tinted Naruto's pale hair a deep lustrous gold, a gold sheen covered his blue eyes and the shadows on his flesh had turned to a dusty blue-gray, giving his skin a strange, but elegant milkish appearance.
Oh, Sasuke,' said the voice in the back of his head, you are checking out a boy, you know.'
Sasuke gave a quiet yelp, causing Naruto to look at him oddly, but he turned back to watching the road in front of him. The rest of the way, they walked in companionable silence. When they reached the bath house Naruto turned to Sasuke,
Hey, let's go use the out doors bath, cause it's so nice outside.
The two went into the boys' half of the bath house and began to strip down. There weren't many other people around, seeing as it was summer and most people considered it too damn hot to get into some humid public bath. The quiet swish of cloth against skin echoed in the almost empty changing room.
Naruto glanced over at Sasuke, who was beginning to undo his belt's buckle. Oh, he looked nice. Naruto was so engrossed in watching Sasuke that he didn't even register what he had just thought. Sasuke had long thin arms, with the palest traceries of muscles on them, belying the strength that lay within. His chest was delicate looking, despite his finely defined abs, and his hip bones were angled sharply. He looked so strangely delicate that Naruto wanted to hold him as tightly as he could, to protect that fragility.
Naruto certainly registered that.
Damn Sasuke for making Naruto think that he might be queer. Shit, for all Naruto knew, it was really some new jutsu that Sasuke had designed to embarrass him with. Naruto grumbled, taking off his sandals and beginning to fiddle with the snap on the front of his pants.
Naruto was so concentrated on ignoring Sasuke that he didn't notice Sasuke concentrating on him. Sasuke was staring at Naruto, slightly perplexed. He thought he had seen a tiny spiral or... something on Naruto's stomach, but naruto was bent over now and Sasuke couldn't see what it was. Determined to find out what it was, Sasuke took a step forwards, not noticing the soap bar that had been left on the slick, tile floor.
Naruto hardly had time to glance up before he smacked his head on the floor. Naruto blinked. Sasuke. That was Sasuke leaning over him. Ow, what was that weight on his stomach? Oh. Sasuke was sitting on him, his butt resting on Naruto's pelvis and his knees on either side of Naruto's legs. Naruto looked up into Sasuke's face and was startled to see that he was blushing. Sasuke, blushing?! No way! Naruto knew that he was blushing, but that was normal, Sasuke never blushed. But right now there was the more pressing fact that Sasuke was sitting on Naruto and they were only in boxers and Naruto did not like the way that was making him feel at all.
Um... Sasuke?
Could you get... um... the hell off?
Oh! Um... yes.
... Sasuke?
You're still on me.
Sasuke scrambled backwards. Naruto shakily stood up. That was really weird. Sasuke wrapped a towel around his waist and pulled his boxers out from underneath, Naruto did likewise.
The two walked out and sunk into the soothingly hot water. Sasuke sat opposite Naruto and watched as the boy began to comb shampoo into his hair. Naruto flipped his hair backwards, waiting for the shampoo to sink in.
Sasuke tried not to obviously stare at Naruto's stomach, but he still didn't know what that thing he had seen was. Sasuke's efforts were rewarded when Naruto stood up completely and Sasuke could get a good look at his stomach. Where there should have been the indentation of a navel there was... a dark red spiral, about the size of quarter. Naruto didn't have a bellybutton... but that meant he hadn't had an umbilical cord, which meant that he wasn't born... but that wasn't possible. And what did the spiral mean?
Naruto plunged his head under the water and scrubbed furiously at his hair. When he came back up his hair was in a wet rat's nest that alternately stood up and lay flat all over the place. Naruto noticed that Sasuke had also washed his hair and was now trying to get his sodden bangs out of his eyes. It was rather entertaining to watch, because they kept flopping back in his face and he was getting more and more exasperated.
The two didn't speak as they climbed out of the spring, got dressed, trying not to look at each other, walked back to Naruto's and climbed the rope ladder, going to their respective beds.
