Muaha! Yesh... the long awaited shounen ai chapter. Hahahah. *SMOOOOOOCH*
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Chapter Title: 29. One Little Kiss
That evening, Sasuke and Naruto had rented themselves a small room in an inn for the night, and both were lying side by side on the large king size bed chatting. They had slowly started on the topic of Naruto's relationship with Sakura, again, and it didn't take Sasuke long to figure out that Naruto was trying to bait him into attacking again.
"Naruto, stop trying to provoke me." He whispered when there was a pause in the conversation.
"What are you talking about?" came the reply, angrier than it should have been.
"Don't be an idiot. I'm not going to let you start a fight. We should be working together, not against one another."
"Don't give me that righteous crap. You know you're just itching for a fight." Naruto sat up and smacked Sasuke's leg which had been right beside his head.
"Get lost, dobe." The Uchiha ignored the swat for the time being, but the blonde smirked, wondering how far he could go before his rival snapped. He hit the leg again, harder this time. Sasuke kicked back.
"Oi, watch where you aim that thing!" Naruto yelled and pinched the offending limb.
"Naruto!" Sasuke sat up, curling his legs away from the boy. "Stop!" He demanded, his voice was low and commanding.
"Or else what?" came the equally low taunt. "You wouldn't hit poor innocent me, would you?"
"You're anything but innocent."
"Yeah, Orochimaru made sure of that one didn't he." The blonde snarled and launched himself at his rival, knocking them both out of the bed. They tumbled around on the floor, trying to gain the advantage, while ignoring the fact that there were people below them. Sasuke got in a couple of punches before being thrown onto his back, arms pinned to the floor.
"You owe me a rematch, Uchiha." The fox-boy smirked down at him. "I want a real fight." Sasuke narrowed his eyes, and with the speed learned from copying Lee's Taijutsu, pulled his hands out of Naruto's grasp and knocked his rival off of him.
They alternated between fists and feet, until Naruto pulled a low trick and bit down on the dark-haired boy's shoulder, hard. Cursing, Sasuke used the same shoulder to knock the boy off his feet and pinned him to the ground. They could both hear voices on the other side of the door, but all that set in was the pounding of their heartbeats and their panting breath. Sasuke turned his head slightly, registering the pounding on the door and the turning of a key in the lock, and quickly performed his jutsu to avoid any questions. Just as the doorknob finally turned and the door opened, Sasuke returned his gaze to Naruto who leaned up and whispered 'That's not enough,' wrapping his arms around his rival's neck and pulled him down into a kiss.
At first they were both surprised at the soft contact, but the owner of the inn had just walked in, wondering what all the noise was about and they knew that seeing them in such a compromising position answered any questions he had for them. Naruto was the first to close his eyes, putting a little bit of feeling into the kiss, hoping that the owner would leave sooner rather than later. Sasuke's lids slid shut soon after, finally getting over the shock of the spontaneous action and realising what Naruto was trying to achieve.
He gradually relaxed his body and threaded his fingers between his rivals and moaned softly, and he couldn't tell if it was for effect or whether it was real, but he didn't care to think about it too hard. As soon as they heard the door click shut behind the flustered manager they broke apart, still gasping for breath, only now for a completely different reason.
"Well, it was better than the first one." Naruto spoke up after a few moments of silence. They'd both moved away from each other slowly; the tension in the air thickening all around them. Sasuke turned to look at the blond, a bewildered expression on his face. He nodded slowly in agreement. Naruto blushed, realising what he'd just said and waved his hands in front of himself to correct his meaning.
"I mean, at least this time one of us was a girl, ne?" He chuckled nervously, eyes closing in a familiar vulpine grin. He sat down on the solitary bed and looked u at the ceiling.
"It was still you and me." The fox-boy didn't think too hard about there being any meaning behind Sasuke's softly spoken words. They sat in an uncomfortable silence for a couple more moments before the tension finally got to the normally loud-mouthed ninja.
"You know, me and Sakura have never kissed yet?" He exclaimed. "Well, at least, not on the lips. I've never really felt ready to do it... and she's never one to start something." He shared another nervous laugh, looking up to find Sasuke watching him from the other side of the bed. There was a strange look in his eyes that Naruto just couldn't seem to place. He looked slightly confused and smug at the same time. It was an odd combination.
"You're not ready to kiss Sakura on the lips," The Uchiha repeated slowly, as though testing the feel of them on his tongue. "And yet you were still ready to kiss me?" This drew a startled gasp from the other boy whose shock quickly faded into frustration at the implications Sasuke was making. He frowned deeply.
"This was different." He argued. "This was a life or death situation."
"But you could have thought of something other than kissing me, right?" Naruto was getting upset; things weren't looking as black and white as he used to see it in his head, and Sasuke seemed to want to keep making him question himself. He snarled under his breath and stood up, ready to challenge the older boy when Sasuke sighed and waved his hand dismissively.
"Just give the fighting a rest for now. I want to sleep." He shook his head as though to dispel whatever he may have wanted to say at the time and pulled off his clothes until he was left in his boxers. He climbed into the bed beside Naruto and rolled over so that his back was to the boy and he promptly fell asleep.
Naruto stared at the pale skin for a few moments, watching his rival's back move up and down slowly, the moon casting ghostly silhouettes across the pale surface. He blushed furiously and slammed his fist into the pillow at the obvious snub. True, they did only have a day and a half left to gather information, and they might miss something if they didn't get an early start, but Naruto didn't want to drop it. He was confused. He wanted Sasuke to explain where the questions were coming from, but the gentle rise and fall of the other boy's side told him that Sasuke was not going to indulge in Naruto's little desires that night, if ever.
"Maybe it's because I'm dating Sakura." He went to his fall-back excuse. If anything about Sasuke's behaviour couldn't be explained, that was the reason. "He's just jealous."
***
Back in Konoha Village, Lee was trying to convince Sakura to throw Sasuke and Naruto a welcome back party. He'd thought of everything (in between training sessions) and was pleading with the girl to help him.
"Onegai, Sakura-chan!" He cried, pulling on her arm, hoping to annoy her enough to submit. She cocked an eyebrow at his efforts before a small smile crept onto her face.
"Hai, Hai. I'll do it, just let go of my arm, baka." She laughed, sliding her arm out of the boy's grasp. "My parents are away from the village for a couple of days anyways, so we can have it there." Lee jumped up and clenched his fist heroically.
"Then it's settled. I'll do all the preparations, and you can invite everyone!" He grinned. "Everyone needs a good party to liven the place up a little bit." His shoulders slumped at the thought of the rest of the village's depression and despair. They hadn't been truly right since Orochimaru had been killed nearly half a year ago. Naruto was normally the one who caused mischief enough to keep the spirits of the village high, but with him sinking slowly into a depression of his own, and the village's general hatred for the demon rising, there had been no time for fun of any kind.
"It'll be a surprise for the two of them when they get home." Lee grinned, snapping quickly out of his sombre mood. "It will be one that neither of them will forget... EVER!! They'll never know what hit them." Sakura smiled briefly, following Lee down the street and listening to who he wanted to invite... basically he wanted everybody there.
***
In the morning, Naruto woke to the peaceful twitter of the birds, or, so he would tell everyone when he got home. He didn't want to tell anyone how he REALLY woke up. He shivered at the memory; waking up curled against Sasuke's bare chest, one arm pinned beneath the older boy's body and turning slightly blue, the other resting casually on the Uchiha's hip. It took him ten seconds to fully waken and another twenty to react to the fact that he was also staring up at narrowed black eyes. Naruto screamed and jumped backwards, cursing the bemused look that had settled on Sasuke's face.
"Am I really that disgusting that you'd scream upon my face being the first thing you look at in the morning?" He stood up and gracefully strode to the bathroom, intending to have a shower before they left. He paused at the door, turning his head slightly. "*After* you gave my body the once over of course." He added thoughtfully, an obvious smirk evident in his voice.
"Teme!!" Naruto called after him, more concerned with snapping back at the obvious slight as opposed to stopping to figure out what he was saying. It was a reflex response with Naruto now. The moment he heard that hint of sarcasm or amusement at the blond boy's expense, he was all teeth and claws, ready to defend himself. He knew Sasuke probably didn't mean much by it, but he enjoyed keeping the rivalry up.
Frowning, he wondered about all the times he'd taken things too far while he was dating Sakura. He knew he was constantly pushing Sasuke's buttons, but he couldn't even tell himself the reason. He sighed, hearing the shower turn off and shoved the thought away. He didn't really care.
Sasuke opened the door, dressed in a pair of shorts, his hair a mess under the damp white towel and smirked at Naruto again, knowing full well the reaction he'd get. Naruto stood up and became entirely ruffled, his face taught with a barely suppressed growl. It was always funny for Sasuke to be able to rile the boy up without saying a word. It was so easy.
"You better have left me some hot water, you jerk." Naruto spat lamely. It was the best he could think of on the spot. He brushed past his rival and slammed the door shut. Sasuke snorted.
"Of course, I'm not a hog like you." He called through the door, knowing exactly the faces Naruto was pulling on the other side.
"You're worse!!" The kiss from the previous night was no longer the first thing on either boy's mind as they prepared for their mission.
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Well... I can't believe I finally got that done... I actually lost the sheet that had my notes for this chapter on it... panic attack. But I found it and I finished it. I know this is probably not the kind of action some of you were looking for, but do you really expect them to jump into bed immediately? NUU! It wouldn't be as believable... this way, you get to see them evolve together.
And now Naruto has had his fist kiss with both another boy and a girl... both of them being Sasuke. Hee heh... you know I'm going to torture Naruto with this later... I almost feel sorry for Sasuke... well... almost. I still think he's a lucky bastard. (Damn... this story still hasn't gotten to an R rating yet... oh well... we're getting there... slowly)
Till next time.
Chapter Title: 29. One Little Kiss
That evening, Sasuke and Naruto had rented themselves a small room in an inn for the night, and both were lying side by side on the large king size bed chatting. They had slowly started on the topic of Naruto's relationship with Sakura, again, and it didn't take Sasuke long to figure out that Naruto was trying to bait him into attacking again.
"Naruto, stop trying to provoke me." He whispered when there was a pause in the conversation.
"What are you talking about?" came the reply, angrier than it should have been.
"Don't be an idiot. I'm not going to let you start a fight. We should be working together, not against one another."
"Don't give me that righteous crap. You know you're just itching for a fight." Naruto sat up and smacked Sasuke's leg which had been right beside his head.
"Get lost, dobe." The Uchiha ignored the swat for the time being, but the blonde smirked, wondering how far he could go before his rival snapped. He hit the leg again, harder this time. Sasuke kicked back.
"Oi, watch where you aim that thing!" Naruto yelled and pinched the offending limb.
"Naruto!" Sasuke sat up, curling his legs away from the boy. "Stop!" He demanded, his voice was low and commanding.
"Or else what?" came the equally low taunt. "You wouldn't hit poor innocent me, would you?"
"You're anything but innocent."
"Yeah, Orochimaru made sure of that one didn't he." The blonde snarled and launched himself at his rival, knocking them both out of the bed. They tumbled around on the floor, trying to gain the advantage, while ignoring the fact that there were people below them. Sasuke got in a couple of punches before being thrown onto his back, arms pinned to the floor.
"You owe me a rematch, Uchiha." The fox-boy smirked down at him. "I want a real fight." Sasuke narrowed his eyes, and with the speed learned from copying Lee's Taijutsu, pulled his hands out of Naruto's grasp and knocked his rival off of him.
They alternated between fists and feet, until Naruto pulled a low trick and bit down on the dark-haired boy's shoulder, hard. Cursing, Sasuke used the same shoulder to knock the boy off his feet and pinned him to the ground. They could both hear voices on the other side of the door, but all that set in was the pounding of their heartbeats and their panting breath. Sasuke turned his head slightly, registering the pounding on the door and the turning of a key in the lock, and quickly performed his jutsu to avoid any questions. Just as the doorknob finally turned and the door opened, Sasuke returned his gaze to Naruto who leaned up and whispered 'That's not enough,' wrapping his arms around his rival's neck and pulled him down into a kiss.
At first they were both surprised at the soft contact, but the owner of the inn had just walked in, wondering what all the noise was about and they knew that seeing them in such a compromising position answered any questions he had for them. Naruto was the first to close his eyes, putting a little bit of feeling into the kiss, hoping that the owner would leave sooner rather than later. Sasuke's lids slid shut soon after, finally getting over the shock of the spontaneous action and realising what Naruto was trying to achieve.
He gradually relaxed his body and threaded his fingers between his rivals and moaned softly, and he couldn't tell if it was for effect or whether it was real, but he didn't care to think about it too hard. As soon as they heard the door click shut behind the flustered manager they broke apart, still gasping for breath, only now for a completely different reason.
"Well, it was better than the first one." Naruto spoke up after a few moments of silence. They'd both moved away from each other slowly; the tension in the air thickening all around them. Sasuke turned to look at the blond, a bewildered expression on his face. He nodded slowly in agreement. Naruto blushed, realising what he'd just said and waved his hands in front of himself to correct his meaning.
"I mean, at least this time one of us was a girl, ne?" He chuckled nervously, eyes closing in a familiar vulpine grin. He sat down on the solitary bed and looked u at the ceiling.
"It was still you and me." The fox-boy didn't think too hard about there being any meaning behind Sasuke's softly spoken words. They sat in an uncomfortable silence for a couple more moments before the tension finally got to the normally loud-mouthed ninja.
"You know, me and Sakura have never kissed yet?" He exclaimed. "Well, at least, not on the lips. I've never really felt ready to do it... and she's never one to start something." He shared another nervous laugh, looking up to find Sasuke watching him from the other side of the bed. There was a strange look in his eyes that Naruto just couldn't seem to place. He looked slightly confused and smug at the same time. It was an odd combination.
"You're not ready to kiss Sakura on the lips," The Uchiha repeated slowly, as though testing the feel of them on his tongue. "And yet you were still ready to kiss me?" This drew a startled gasp from the other boy whose shock quickly faded into frustration at the implications Sasuke was making. He frowned deeply.
"This was different." He argued. "This was a life or death situation."
"But you could have thought of something other than kissing me, right?" Naruto was getting upset; things weren't looking as black and white as he used to see it in his head, and Sasuke seemed to want to keep making him question himself. He snarled under his breath and stood up, ready to challenge the older boy when Sasuke sighed and waved his hand dismissively.
"Just give the fighting a rest for now. I want to sleep." He shook his head as though to dispel whatever he may have wanted to say at the time and pulled off his clothes until he was left in his boxers. He climbed into the bed beside Naruto and rolled over so that his back was to the boy and he promptly fell asleep.
Naruto stared at the pale skin for a few moments, watching his rival's back move up and down slowly, the moon casting ghostly silhouettes across the pale surface. He blushed furiously and slammed his fist into the pillow at the obvious snub. True, they did only have a day and a half left to gather information, and they might miss something if they didn't get an early start, but Naruto didn't want to drop it. He was confused. He wanted Sasuke to explain where the questions were coming from, but the gentle rise and fall of the other boy's side told him that Sasuke was not going to indulge in Naruto's little desires that night, if ever.
"Maybe it's because I'm dating Sakura." He went to his fall-back excuse. If anything about Sasuke's behaviour couldn't be explained, that was the reason. "He's just jealous."
***
Back in Konoha Village, Lee was trying to convince Sakura to throw Sasuke and Naruto a welcome back party. He'd thought of everything (in between training sessions) and was pleading with the girl to help him.
"Onegai, Sakura-chan!" He cried, pulling on her arm, hoping to annoy her enough to submit. She cocked an eyebrow at his efforts before a small smile crept onto her face.
"Hai, Hai. I'll do it, just let go of my arm, baka." She laughed, sliding her arm out of the boy's grasp. "My parents are away from the village for a couple of days anyways, so we can have it there." Lee jumped up and clenched his fist heroically.
"Then it's settled. I'll do all the preparations, and you can invite everyone!" He grinned. "Everyone needs a good party to liven the place up a little bit." His shoulders slumped at the thought of the rest of the village's depression and despair. They hadn't been truly right since Orochimaru had been killed nearly half a year ago. Naruto was normally the one who caused mischief enough to keep the spirits of the village high, but with him sinking slowly into a depression of his own, and the village's general hatred for the demon rising, there had been no time for fun of any kind.
"It'll be a surprise for the two of them when they get home." Lee grinned, snapping quickly out of his sombre mood. "It will be one that neither of them will forget... EVER!! They'll never know what hit them." Sakura smiled briefly, following Lee down the street and listening to who he wanted to invite... basically he wanted everybody there.
***
In the morning, Naruto woke to the peaceful twitter of the birds, or, so he would tell everyone when he got home. He didn't want to tell anyone how he REALLY woke up. He shivered at the memory; waking up curled against Sasuke's bare chest, one arm pinned beneath the older boy's body and turning slightly blue, the other resting casually on the Uchiha's hip. It took him ten seconds to fully waken and another twenty to react to the fact that he was also staring up at narrowed black eyes. Naruto screamed and jumped backwards, cursing the bemused look that had settled on Sasuke's face.
"Am I really that disgusting that you'd scream upon my face being the first thing you look at in the morning?" He stood up and gracefully strode to the bathroom, intending to have a shower before they left. He paused at the door, turning his head slightly. "*After* you gave my body the once over of course." He added thoughtfully, an obvious smirk evident in his voice.
"Teme!!" Naruto called after him, more concerned with snapping back at the obvious slight as opposed to stopping to figure out what he was saying. It was a reflex response with Naruto now. The moment he heard that hint of sarcasm or amusement at the blond boy's expense, he was all teeth and claws, ready to defend himself. He knew Sasuke probably didn't mean much by it, but he enjoyed keeping the rivalry up.
Frowning, he wondered about all the times he'd taken things too far while he was dating Sakura. He knew he was constantly pushing Sasuke's buttons, but he couldn't even tell himself the reason. He sighed, hearing the shower turn off and shoved the thought away. He didn't really care.
Sasuke opened the door, dressed in a pair of shorts, his hair a mess under the damp white towel and smirked at Naruto again, knowing full well the reaction he'd get. Naruto stood up and became entirely ruffled, his face taught with a barely suppressed growl. It was always funny for Sasuke to be able to rile the boy up without saying a word. It was so easy.
"You better have left me some hot water, you jerk." Naruto spat lamely. It was the best he could think of on the spot. He brushed past his rival and slammed the door shut. Sasuke snorted.
"Of course, I'm not a hog like you." He called through the door, knowing exactly the faces Naruto was pulling on the other side.
"You're worse!!" The kiss from the previous night was no longer the first thing on either boy's mind as they prepared for their mission.
~~~~~~~
Well... I can't believe I finally got that done... I actually lost the sheet that had my notes for this chapter on it... panic attack. But I found it and I finished it. I know this is probably not the kind of action some of you were looking for, but do you really expect them to jump into bed immediately? NUU! It wouldn't be as believable... this way, you get to see them evolve together.
And now Naruto has had his fist kiss with both another boy and a girl... both of them being Sasuke. Hee heh... you know I'm going to torture Naruto with this later... I almost feel sorry for Sasuke... well... almost. I still think he's a lucky bastard. (Damn... this story still hasn't gotten to an R rating yet... oh well... we're getting there... slowly)
Till next time.