"Sasukeeeee!"
The dark hair man whirled around in his chair, startled by the panic in Naruto's voice. And that's when he saw the object of Naruto's horror, the quite small brown cockroach in the middle of the floor, almost blending in with its surroundings.
Sasuke could not help but laugh inwardly, sure, he hate and rid any pest in his house, but the pathetic cockroach seemed to be cowering under Naruto's sheer size and here Naruto was terrified of the tiny insect, making the whole situation very amusing in his opinion.
He contemplated to just let Naruto deal with it himself when Naruto whined again.
"Sasuke, please help me...pretty please with sugar on top." Naruto plead, trying to keep one eye on the insect and the other on Sasuke, resulting in a weird but cute expression on Naruto's face.
Sasuke could not help but feel his heart melt at the cute Naruto, not to mention the whiskered boy was pleading him, standing on a chair and screaming hysterically.
Sasuke picked up a random piece of scrap paper and strode across the room before kneeling down to the insect cautiously, carefully slipping in a piece of paper under the cockroach. Balancing the insect on the piece of paper, he head towards the main door, he flung the cockroach out into the corridor before slamming the door of his house shut.
He turned around and smiled weakly at Naruto who was standing in the doorway, blushing furiously for showing his weakness to his arch rival.
"I will go and wash my hair...by the way...thanks..." Naruto mumbled under his breath before heading to the bathroom.
Sasuke felt strangely happy for getting rid of the pest and decided to continue his game.
Somewhere in another high rise building, two men snuggled against each other on a bed.
"Kaka-koi, are you sure they wouldn't try to kill each other?" Iruka asked, voice muffled in his boyfriend chest.
"Ah, don't worry about it. Don't you remember that we are together because we got trapped in a storm together like now?"
"Of course I remember, you save me from a cockroach too."
"And I got my first kiss from you as a reward. The good old times..."
"We are not that old yet Kaka-koi."
"But if that time we didn't get trap together, I guess we will still be mere colleagues who hate each other. Maybe Naruto and Sasuke can get together or at least more tolerant of each other."
"I hope so, guess we are ready to announce our relationship isn't it."
"Hai, now that our career are stable, perhaps we can announce it after the movie and 'NINS' debut album is released."
"Kaka-koi...aishiteru..."
"I love you too Iru-koi...I wonder what will be their reactions when they hear the news. So are you ready for some passionate love making?"
Iruka nodded shyly as Kakashi moved on top of the dolphin, kissing the other deeply as his hands fumbled with the buttons on his lover's shirt.
The stormy night melted into bliss as the lovers showed their love to each other.
Sasuke looked up from the computer screen which flashed a score of 35 for the song 'Eyes on Me'. He sighed, he was losing a lot of his concentration because of one loud mouth blond. But then again, that title did not exactly fit Naruto now, for Sasuke did not hear a single noise coming from said blond even though the sound of running water had ceased for a very long time, three hours to be exact.
He could not take this unnerving silence anymore. The pale looking man stood up abruptly, exiting the room to seek out the blond.
He did not have to look far, for straight in his sight was Naruto, damp hair covering his hair with a towel around his neck and curled up into a tight ball at the corner of the L-shaped couch. Arching an elegant eye brow questioningly, Sasuke cleared his throat.
"It keeps looking at me." Naruto did not even lift his head.
It was then the raven hair youth noticed a familiar brown insect, staying quite still...under a transparent plastic small vase, the flowers discarded on the ground. The trapped cockroach truly had his beady eyes on Naruto.
Sasuke chuckled as he alternate his gaze between Naruto and the cockroach.
"I don't find being trap on this couch very funny."
"You know, since it is trap under that vase, there is no way at all that it can touch you."
"But...its creepy eyes keep following me!"
"Aren't you glad that at least some living organisms are attracted to you?"
"It is not funny Sasuke...I am really scared, can you get rid of it...permanently?"
Sasuke felt himself softened again at the sight of Naruto trembling, the blond man must really have a serious phobia of cockroach.
"Alright..."
Sasuke went into the kitchen and came out with a plastic bag. Sliding a paper under the insect like before, he removed the vase and dumped the pest into the bag before quickly tying a dead knot. He walked out of the apartment, chucked the plastic bag down the rubbish chute and returned to the now uncurled Naruto sitting on the couch.
"That cockroach will never bother you again." The dark hair man prepared to return to his game when a tiny voice spoke up.
"Sasuke...thanks."
"You know, you are really not yourself. You haven't been this soft-spoken and not scolding me bastard ever since the cockroach event. I have never seen you so scared before."
"I didn't scold you bastard for these past few hours? Okay...I think I ask for your help...then...that count as a sentence too...so I own you...eight bastards. Here goes, bastard, bastard, bastard, bastard, bastard, bastard, bastard, bastard and bastard."
"That was nine bastards, dobe."
"I know, the last bastard is for the sentence before this one, bastard." Naruto smirked arrogantly at finally been able to outwit someone.
"Just go to sleep dobe, it is already about midnight. You can sleep on the futon I set up in my room." With that said, Sasuke sent a smirk in Naruto's direction before entering his bedroom.
After a moment, Naruto followed Sasuke's trail into the bedroom.
Light beams cast over the pale face of Sasuke. The raven hair beauty had been a real gentlemen, he was currently sleeping on the futon, leaving the more comfortable bed to Naruto.
Naruto studied the sleeping man before him.
The light beams of the lanterns hanging outside the window managed to shine brightly in the rain through the glass, falling upon the raven hair man's face, highlighting the ethereal beauty of the Uchiha. Long tresses of midnight blue hair framed the face of Sasuke, bringing out the breathtaking sharp features of the man.
Naruto noticed that the blanket had slipped off the Uchiha shoulder and the man was shivering a little. Naruto took in a deep breath then bent down to pull up the blanket, covering the figure.
"Thank you...you look very vulnerable, beautiful and peaceful when asleep...I think I like this side of you...you made me feel...secure, I never feel that before, because I lost my family when I just turned one." Naruto whispered, breath ghosting over Sasuke's ear.
The blond then stood up and climbed into the warm covers of the bed, slowly drifting off to sleep.
A dark figure bent over Naruto, brushing away the blond locks.
"You know...I think I am falling in love with you, I lost my family at four except for my brother...but what if you betray me like him, I guess I am cursed to never trust nor love again." Sasuke spoke softly, careful not to rouse the other from his sleep.
Eye lids blinked open, exposing bright cerulean eyes, a smile and the eye lids closed again.
Sasuke could not get rid of the tiny voice in his head as he finally fell asleep, having a peaceful sleep he did not have for a very long time.
'You know you want to love and trust again, it has been long enough, Sasuke, time to...forgive and let go...'
A storm will always be followed by a clear sky. Just wait for the storm clouds to disappear, revealing the rainbow across the soft blue skies.
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