Hoho. I have found a way to keep Kakashi in this story. I hope you approve! -shiver- And Shika is in here. I think I made him a little too sassy.. well. Let me know.
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"And so he said after TWENTY MINUTES of it, they both felt awkward and just left. Without a single word." Ino finished her story with a nod.
Her sweatshirt-clad companion could only stare at his girlfriend in disbelief. "Uh huh. So your band is full of queers."
"Shika!" She scolded. "Be a little more sensitive. These are two of my closest friends and one of them is very confused and ashamed right now."
Shikamaru, Ino's boyfriend, shook his ponytailed head from across the café table. It was morning still. Just as the early rush was beginning to die down. He had just gotten up from a grueling night of 'studying' with his friends and his head was pounding. He didn't really feel like explaining himself to Ino, but he felt even less like hearing her shriek at him.
"I never said it was something to be ashamed about." He drawled. "I'm just saying... Having romantic relationships within work environments ultimately cause problems. Especially when it involves two GUYS."
"Where'd you hear that, college boy? Human Sexuality 101? And how exactly would a relationship between two GUYS differ from, say, ours?" She commented coyly.
He smirked and readied his reply. He leaned over the table and remarked, "If WE were both guys, I'D get to be on top at least some of the time."
A grin nearly exploded onto Ino's face. She fought to contain her braying laughter because she knew he reveled in it so much. However, one more glance at her boyfriend's smirking face did her in. She was inconsolable.
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Sasuke woke up and turned over, groaning and stretching languidly as he did every morning. But he also felt a pop and a creak in his hips- which only happened the morning after he had-
"..shit." Managed to escape his hoarse throat.
"Shit!" Again, upon discovering that his voice was, indeed, hoarse.
'I wasn't... I'm not... I didn't...' He thought desperately while rubbing his sleep-filled eyes. No, it was undeniable. His hips ached that familiar morning-after-sex ache, his throat was raw from screaming, this wasn't his bed and the body next to him wasn't Naruto.
Wait. What was that thought? Before he had the chance to panic even more, he body next to him awoke, rolled over, and hovered over the terrified boy.
Sasuke nearly fainted. Here he was, in a strange bed, staring up at a very unapologetic half-naked man. Who also happened to be his boss.
"Sasuke?" Kakashi said curiously. The boy shivered in response.
"How are you feeling?" Kakashi's tone made him cringe.
'Oh god.' He thought. This couldn't be real. This wasn't happening.
"Whatever you're thinking- it didn't happen." The man's voice broke through his thoughts.
Sasuke froze. "It... didn't happen?"
Kakashi grinned and yanked the covers off his companion. "See? Fully clothed."
Well, minus the shirts, but that was just a comfort thing. "But..." Sasuke stammered.
"Don't you remember? Last night after you confessed your love for your bandmate you insisted we go out and get drunk. So we did."
"That's all?"
"That's all."
After exactly one moment of relief, realization struck again. "What did I say about Naruto!!??"
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Naruto lied in bed for a long time that morning. The previous eight hours had been filled with fitful bouts of sleep and incomplete dreams involving certain people. He didn't want to admit who those people really were quite yet, as he was free to do so at his leisure.
Dreams mask true physical identity after all. But there was no mistake that it could be only one person haunting his dreams. It was the same person who had haunted his conscious thought the prior evening.
"God damn him." Naruto mumbled softly to himself. He felt his heart begin to pound in his chest faster and faster and he didn't know why. His stomach clenched and unclenched and he shut his eyes and tried to block these feelings but...
"Mother FUCKER!!" The sleepy blond yelled as the alarm clock smashed against the opposite wall. He seethed. He did NOT enjoy that smug bastard interfering with his precious sleep. Ten am was far too early for Naruto to be up. He didn't appreciate this one bit and as soon as he got to the flat was Sasuke going to get it-
A definite fear ran down the blond's spine. "Damn." he whispered. He admitted it. To himself. It was Sasuke. Sasuke had been giving him the nightmares and the high blood pressure and the... godDAMNED butterflies that wouldn't go away!! And he hated it!! His head fell back into the pillows.
Naruto had to get up. He had to get up! Get up! Face this! It was either now or eventually. And Naruto preferred NOW to most anything. He couldn't run away. The feelings were undeniable. Since the 'incident' Sasuke made his blood pressure rise. Sasuke made his breath quicken. Sasuke made his skin feel clammy. Just thinking about his brooding bandmate now made all his abdominal muscles tighten painfully. He hated this feeling, so he had no choice but to admit it.
"I'm fucking crazy for Sasuke."
"...Really?" Came a semi-interested voice from the hall outside Naruto's bedroom.
Naruto knew he was notorious for leaving his door ajar, but he was also usually a quiet sleeper. And his good-for-nothing bassist of a roommate usually wasn't so nosy. The blond groaned in dismay. Another thing he would have to explain to his shrieking, female bandmate.
"Yet another addition to the Sasuke fanclub. What are you- number 4673 or something?" Kiba mocked, stepping into the boy's quarters uninvited.
"Shut up, asshole. I don't need this from YOU. Hey! Don't sit down!!"
By this time, Kiba was seated comfortably amongst the discarded pillows and blankets at Naruto's feet. "Chill. For once, I'm NOT gonna break your balls over it." Kiba explained.
"...Why?" Naruto inquired softly.
"Because it's serious! I know, believe it or not. My family gave my sister a lot of crap for being a dyke. I mean, she was still the same person as she was before we knew. I loved her all the same, but... seemed like they thought it was a disease or something."
The boy laughed suddenly. "That is, until she married a doctor! Hahah! Money knows no gender I guess, heh. At least to MY family it don't."
"That's not it." Naruto said. "I couldn't care less what anyone thinks and I don't HAVE a family to appease. Just... why Sasuke?"
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Kakashi cocked his head to one side. "About Naruto?"
Sasuke slapped his hand over his mouth on reflex alone.
The older man smirked. "Who ever said anything about Naruto?"
Sasuke was milliseconds away from bolting to the bathroom to revisit his last meal when Kakashi laughed and smiled.
"I'm just kidding. You didn't say anything I didn't already know. You love him. You want him. You can't stop thinking about him."
"Enough! God! Just... Let me think for a minute okay?! Psycho." Sasuke slumped back into the pillow and tried to get his head back in some semblance of order. So at some point the previous night he had confirmed Kakashi's suspicions that he did indeed have feelings for his idiotic blond bandmate.
Meanwhile the man beside him just pouted. He knew for a long time that there was something different between these two boys. Neither would admit it, of course, and that had frustrated him. He was intent on playing matchmaker. But now that it was out, so to speak...
Well he'd grown rather comfortable having Sasuke under his sheets.
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omg what. Kakashi is turning out to be a lech! I hope you didn't think he actually took advantage of poor defenseless -cough- little -cough hack- Sasuke. Naruto needs to stop being so sensitive. But I like the idea of him and Kiba being roommates AND bandmates. Just another reason why they bicker so. This footnote is turning out way longer than I anticipated so next chapter- the confrontation!
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"And so he said after TWENTY MINUTES of it, they both felt awkward and just left. Without a single word." Ino finished her story with a nod.
Her sweatshirt-clad companion could only stare at his girlfriend in disbelief. "Uh huh. So your band is full of queers."
"Shika!" She scolded. "Be a little more sensitive. These are two of my closest friends and one of them is very confused and ashamed right now."
Shikamaru, Ino's boyfriend, shook his ponytailed head from across the café table. It was morning still. Just as the early rush was beginning to die down. He had just gotten up from a grueling night of 'studying' with his friends and his head was pounding. He didn't really feel like explaining himself to Ino, but he felt even less like hearing her shriek at him.
"I never said it was something to be ashamed about." He drawled. "I'm just saying... Having romantic relationships within work environments ultimately cause problems. Especially when it involves two GUYS."
"Where'd you hear that, college boy? Human Sexuality 101? And how exactly would a relationship between two GUYS differ from, say, ours?" She commented coyly.
He smirked and readied his reply. He leaned over the table and remarked, "If WE were both guys, I'D get to be on top at least some of the time."
A grin nearly exploded onto Ino's face. She fought to contain her braying laughter because she knew he reveled in it so much. However, one more glance at her boyfriend's smirking face did her in. She was inconsolable.
--
Sasuke woke up and turned over, groaning and stretching languidly as he did every morning. But he also felt a pop and a creak in his hips- which only happened the morning after he had-
"..shit." Managed to escape his hoarse throat.
"Shit!" Again, upon discovering that his voice was, indeed, hoarse.
'I wasn't... I'm not... I didn't...' He thought desperately while rubbing his sleep-filled eyes. No, it was undeniable. His hips ached that familiar morning-after-sex ache, his throat was raw from screaming, this wasn't his bed and the body next to him wasn't Naruto.
Wait. What was that thought? Before he had the chance to panic even more, he body next to him awoke, rolled over, and hovered over the terrified boy.
Sasuke nearly fainted. Here he was, in a strange bed, staring up at a very unapologetic half-naked man. Who also happened to be his boss.
"Sasuke?" Kakashi said curiously. The boy shivered in response.
"How are you feeling?" Kakashi's tone made him cringe.
'Oh god.' He thought. This couldn't be real. This wasn't happening.
"Whatever you're thinking- it didn't happen." The man's voice broke through his thoughts.
Sasuke froze. "It... didn't happen?"
Kakashi grinned and yanked the covers off his companion. "See? Fully clothed."
Well, minus the shirts, but that was just a comfort thing. "But..." Sasuke stammered.
"Don't you remember? Last night after you confessed your love for your bandmate you insisted we go out and get drunk. So we did."
"That's all?"
"That's all."
After exactly one moment of relief, realization struck again. "What did I say about Naruto!!??"
--
Naruto lied in bed for a long time that morning. The previous eight hours had been filled with fitful bouts of sleep and incomplete dreams involving certain people. He didn't want to admit who those people really were quite yet, as he was free to do so at his leisure.
Dreams mask true physical identity after all. But there was no mistake that it could be only one person haunting his dreams. It was the same person who had haunted his conscious thought the prior evening.
"God damn him." Naruto mumbled softly to himself. He felt his heart begin to pound in his chest faster and faster and he didn't know why. His stomach clenched and unclenched and he shut his eyes and tried to block these feelings but...
"Mother FUCKER!!" The sleepy blond yelled as the alarm clock smashed against the opposite wall. He seethed. He did NOT enjoy that smug bastard interfering with his precious sleep. Ten am was far too early for Naruto to be up. He didn't appreciate this one bit and as soon as he got to the flat was Sasuke going to get it-
A definite fear ran down the blond's spine. "Damn." he whispered. He admitted it. To himself. It was Sasuke. Sasuke had been giving him the nightmares and the high blood pressure and the... godDAMNED butterflies that wouldn't go away!! And he hated it!! His head fell back into the pillows.
Naruto had to get up. He had to get up! Get up! Face this! It was either now or eventually. And Naruto preferred NOW to most anything. He couldn't run away. The feelings were undeniable. Since the 'incident' Sasuke made his blood pressure rise. Sasuke made his breath quicken. Sasuke made his skin feel clammy. Just thinking about his brooding bandmate now made all his abdominal muscles tighten painfully. He hated this feeling, so he had no choice but to admit it.
"I'm fucking crazy for Sasuke."
"...Really?" Came a semi-interested voice from the hall outside Naruto's bedroom.
Naruto knew he was notorious for leaving his door ajar, but he was also usually a quiet sleeper. And his good-for-nothing bassist of a roommate usually wasn't so nosy. The blond groaned in dismay. Another thing he would have to explain to his shrieking, female bandmate.
"Yet another addition to the Sasuke fanclub. What are you- number 4673 or something?" Kiba mocked, stepping into the boy's quarters uninvited.
"Shut up, asshole. I don't need this from YOU. Hey! Don't sit down!!"
By this time, Kiba was seated comfortably amongst the discarded pillows and blankets at Naruto's feet. "Chill. For once, I'm NOT gonna break your balls over it." Kiba explained.
"...Why?" Naruto inquired softly.
"Because it's serious! I know, believe it or not. My family gave my sister a lot of crap for being a dyke. I mean, she was still the same person as she was before we knew. I loved her all the same, but... seemed like they thought it was a disease or something."
The boy laughed suddenly. "That is, until she married a doctor! Hahah! Money knows no gender I guess, heh. At least to MY family it don't."
"That's not it." Naruto said. "I couldn't care less what anyone thinks and I don't HAVE a family to appease. Just... why Sasuke?"
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Kakashi cocked his head to one side. "About Naruto?"
Sasuke slapped his hand over his mouth on reflex alone.
The older man smirked. "Who ever said anything about Naruto?"
Sasuke was milliseconds away from bolting to the bathroom to revisit his last meal when Kakashi laughed and smiled.
"I'm just kidding. You didn't say anything I didn't already know. You love him. You want him. You can't stop thinking about him."
"Enough! God! Just... Let me think for a minute okay?! Psycho." Sasuke slumped back into the pillow and tried to get his head back in some semblance of order. So at some point the previous night he had confirmed Kakashi's suspicions that he did indeed have feelings for his idiotic blond bandmate.
Meanwhile the man beside him just pouted. He knew for a long time that there was something different between these two boys. Neither would admit it, of course, and that had frustrated him. He was intent on playing matchmaker. But now that it was out, so to speak...
Well he'd grown rather comfortable having Sasuke under his sheets.
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omg what. Kakashi is turning out to be a lech! I hope you didn't think he actually took advantage of poor defenseless -cough- little -cough hack- Sasuke. Naruto needs to stop being so sensitive. But I like the idea of him and Kiba being roommates AND bandmates. Just another reason why they bicker so. This footnote is turning out way longer than I anticipated so next chapter- the confrontation!