Ok, sorry I took so long to update this, I had a big school project that was due last week, so I wax spending a lot of time on that. Even normally, I probably will only be able to update once or twice per month.
Warnings for this chapter: A lemon at the end. That's about all.
"Because… I love you."
Naruto could barely believe his ears. As Sasuke leaned down and their lips gently touched, he wrapped his arms around the taller boy, pressing their bodies tightly together. Naruto's lips were surprisingly soft and smooth, and Sasuke couldn't get enough of their sweet taste. After a few minutes, Sasuke gathered the wet, shivering blonde into his arms and they lay at the edge of the pond for a while, enjoying the closeness of their bodies.
"I love you too, Sasuke-kun." A rare smile appeared on the dark-haired boy's face as Naruto murmured into his chest. Both were exhausted, wet, and cold, but Sasuke had never been happier, and he sensed Naruto felt the same way. Sasuke felt like he could just fall asleep right there, with Naruto lying half on top of him, but he was abruptly jerked out of his happy place when the smaller boy was shaken by another spasm of coughs.
"We should get you back to the village and have a doctor check you out; you swallowed a lot of water."
"I don't want everybody to know, though…" whispered Naruto, "what I tried to do to myself, I mean."
"Don't worry about it, we can just tell them that you fell in on accident."
"Thanks." Naruto paused for a second. "So what caused your sudden change of heart, anyway? I thought you hated me."
"I thought you hated me! I was putting on the act of not wanting anything to do with you because I thought you'd never love me back."
"I just wanted your respect… Maybe your friendship. I never really thought you'd ever feel the same way about me… that you'd love me too."
"Oh, but I do love you." Sasuke smiled and kissed the shorter boy again.
As they walked back to Hidden Leaf Village, Sasuke smiled and wrapped his arm around Naruto. Today had turned out far happier than he expected.
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Sasuke floated back home in a joyful haze. I kissed Naruto! And he kissed me back! The mischievous shinobi had needed to spend the night in the hospital after his suicide attempt, but he was supposed to be feeling better by the next day.
"Hey, Sasuke-kun!" Sakura had spotted him from down the street.
"Sakura-chan." Sasuke wiped the uncharacteristic grin off his face in a hurry, replacing it with his usual curtain of disdainful hostility. He squeezed as much disdain as possible into those three syllables, but she didn't seem to notice.
"So, why were you looking for Naruto-kun earlier? And why are your clothes all wet?"
"It doesn't matter, he… er… he just stole some of my stuff, and I wanted to know what he did with it, OK? Why do you care anyway? It's not really any of your business."
"That idiot! He probably just did that to annoy you, he's obviously jealous of your superior ability." As usual, she was willfully ignoring half of what he said.
"Just shut up. You have no idea what you're talking about. He does stupid stuff like that because he wants attention; nobody ever pays any attention to him except to treat him like he's not even human. You all do it, you're cruel to him for no reason and all he ever did for you was save your lives!" Sasuke was nearly shouting by the end of that little tirade. Sakura looked at him for a second, and then ran off in tears.
Sasuke walked on, surprised by his own protective reaction when she abused Naruto. I probably should start being nicer to people in general, he mused, but people in general should start being nicer to Naruto first. He reached home and walked into his room, then shed his saturated clothes and put on a dry shirt and pants. Suddenly, the Uchicha heir was overwhelmed by emotional exhaustion, and flopped down on his bed. He laid there, thoughts of Naruto running through his head.
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Sasuke woke up, feeling refreshed. He'd drifted off without realizing it. He glanced at the clock on his bedside table. 4:00, it read. Where did the day go? He'd been asleep for at least a couple hours. The dark-haired boy got up, stretched, and saw Naruto's diary lying on the table.
I should return this to his house before he gets back from the hospital. If I'm lucky, he won't even notice it missing. He picked the notebook up, tucked it under his arm, and headed out the door. Weary of another unpleasant encounter with Sakura, Sasuke took back alleys and rooftops in order to get to Naruto's house.
The dark-haired shinobi leapt through the upstairs window once again, quickly making his way through the house to his erstwhile rival's bedroom. He placed the diary under Naruto's bed, then leapt back out the window, closing it behind him. He walked home slowly, and then collapsed on his bed again. With nothing better to do, he read until he fell asleep, wanting nothing more than for the next day to come so he could see Naruto again.
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The following morning found Sasuke walking in the woods outside the village. He was determined to avoid Sakura, and anyway, he enjoyed the sun shining through the forest roof, the birds singing, and the feeling of quietness and being one with nature. It was probably as close as he got to a religious experience. Sasuke was militantly atheistic, and abhorred anything remotely related to the devout Shinto practiced by most of the village's older inhabitants.
His real reason for walking in the woods, however, was that he was nervous about meeting Naruto. The certainty he had felt for a few hours yesterday seemed to have disappeared with the diary and its physical proof of Naruto's love for him. Sasuke wasn't completely sure he hadn't dreamed yesterday's events, actually. But he figured he would find out soon enough; he was approaching Naruto's house, and if he hadn't dreamed what happened the previous day, the other boy should have been getting out of the hospital right then. If he was, then he would be coming home in a few minutes. Sasuke stood casually across the street from his supposed rival's house, one eye on the street. After about five minutes, the Uchicha heir saw an orange blur out of the corner of his eye. He raised his arms reflexively to a defensive stance, but Naruto was too fast for him.
"Sasuke-kun!" The blonde-haired cannonball slammed into the chocolate-eyed youth, putting him on the ground. Suddenly, Naruto was half sitting, half lying on top of him, his body firm and warm. Sasuke recoiled as the shorter boy attempted kiss him.
"Not here!" He said through clenched teeth, glancing around at the few people on the street. They were all staring at the two boys.
"Why not?" Naruto looked confused, but he reluctantly got off from on top of Sasuke.
"We're both guys. Do you want to get us lynched? Come on, let's go somewhere quieter." He got up and started walking off into the woods.
"Uh…sure." The blue-eyed boy grinned and followed him. They walked for a while, until they reached a clearing out of sight of the village.
Suddenly, Naruto pounced again. Sasuke laughed as he found himself on the ground beneath the other boy once more, and this time, when Naruto tried to kiss him, he didn't turn away. The blonde's lips were surprisingly soft, and he tasted like ramen. No surprise there, thought Sasuke to himself. He buried his hands in the other boy's hair, pulling him deeper into the kiss. The feeling of the smaller boy's body pressed against his made him shiver with arousal. Naruto's tongue was teasing at his lower lip, begging for admittance, and he was more than happy to let it in. He moved his hands down the other boy's back to slowly massage Naruto's firm, tight ass as their tongues brushed against each other in a hungry, sensuous dance.
Sasuke arched up, simultaneously pulling the shorter boy's pelvis down to grind their hips together. By now, both their cocks had become erect, stretching the fabric of their pants taught. Naruto squirmed, pressing their bodies even tighter together, which caused Sasuke to make a happy sound into his mouth. The taller genin began undressing his partner, pulling off his trademark orange jacket, then the tight blue t-shirt underneath. He felt Naruto's hands tugging his shirt up, and he raised his arms, allowing the blonde to pull the unnecessary garment off over his head.
The kyuubi-boy's skin felt better against his own than Sasuke had ever imagined it would, warm and smooth and vital. He pressed Naruto into another kiss, hungrier and deeper this time, simultaneously kicking off his sandals. The smaller boy had lost his at some point too. Sasuke's hands moved from his erstwhile rival's ass to pull down the other boy's trademark baggy orange pants. He felt Naruto break the kiss, but was taken by surprise when the blonde pulled off his shorts and boxers in one fell swoop, and even more surprised when he felt the tip of his erect cock sucked into the other boy's warm, wet mouth.
"Is everything all right, Sasuke-kun? Are you sure you want to do this?" Naruto must have him tense up, because he had stopped sucking and looked up.
"Uh… yeah." If only you knew how long I'd been waiting for it. "Actually… er… I want to give you pleasure like that, too."
"Okay." Naruto grinned. He stood up, and then stripped off his boxers with only the smallest hint of self-consciousness. Sasuke took the time to admire the other boy, who was just as beautiful as he'd remembered. He had smooth, lightly tanned skin, broken only by the spiral-shaped scar near his navel, and his cock had gotten broader since Sasuke had glimpsed it the previous summer. Wiry muscles from years of ninja training were evident in his chest and arms.
When Naruto lay back down, he moved so that his crotch was above Sasuke's head, but mouth was still hovering over the taller boy's tense, hard cock. The blonde ninja wasted no time and quickly resumed pleasuring Sasuke, licking, sucking and teasing. Sasuke, however, was a bit unsure what to do with the not-exactly-tiny organ hanging in front of his face. He was extremely conscious of the grass beneath him, still slightly slick with dew, and the shivers of pleasure caused by Naruto's mouth on his cock. He wanted to give the other boy that same pleasure, but he wasn't sure he knew how.
Eventually, Sasuke screwed up his courage and just put the whole thing in his mouth, sucking as hard as he could while being sure to keep his teeth out of the way. He reached up and grabbed Naruto's ass again, pulling the shorter boy's crotch down towards him. Even the other boy's cock tasted good, sweet and salty. It felt very warm as it filled his mouth. The fine golden hairs around his cock and balls tickled Sasuke as they brushed against his face. He could feel them both tensing up as Naruto started massaging his balls with his hands, and instinctively sucked harder.
Finally, Naruto took the entire length of Sasuke's manhood into his mouth and swirled his tongue around it one last time, making the brunette's vision white out as he arched up and came in the other boy's mouth. A few seconds later, Naruto also came, flooding Sasuke's mouth with warm, thick, salty-tasting fluid.
As every muscle in his body relaxed and he lay on the ground in a post-orgasmic daze, Naruto rolled off him and crawled around so that their faces were again close together. Sasuke wrapped one arm around the smaller boy, and they exchanged a few sleepy kisses before drifting off to sleep.
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Soon after that, Hatake Kakashi woke up from an outdoor nap sitting in a tree. He moved through the treetops towards the village, skirting a certain clearing a few hundred yards from his destination. A chance look at the forest floor revealed a site that almost shocked even the renowned pervert-sensei; Sasuke and Naruto, lying on the ground cuddled up together, both stark naked and evidently asleep.
Well, that's certainly interesting, thought Kakashi; I wonder what Iruka would think of it?
Well, what do you think? I still don't have a beta, so if anybody'd be willing to do that, it'd be a great help. If you don't want to, reviewing and just giving constructive criticism, or just pointing out typos and grammar mistakes would be very much appreciated .