It Started with a Kiss
DG32173
Sarah: um, here's chapter 5. It's not gonna be all that long … I don't think it will be, anyways. But I hope you like anyways. I don't own the Naruto anime, manga, or cast. Thank you.
GENERAL REVIEW REPLIES
Ooh! I'm gonna have a dual shoutout. I couldn't decide between two reviewers, so I decided to choose both.
SHOUTOUT 1: Dreadnaught: yeah, I'm not really fond of Sakura either, but I don't hate her that much. I do have a couple of Sasu/OC, Naru/Saku in the wings. I'm glad you like. And did you write that quote from memory or something? Or did you just copy/paste it? Eh, either way, I'm glad you thought that part was cute; that was one of my more favorite parts of last chapter.
SHOUTOUT 2: Black Wolf49: yeah, I was also thinking about the handcuffed Naru thing, but not to the bed … I might do that in a separate fanfic. But that would be rather cute if Naru were handcuffed to Sasu's bed … and Sasu also handcuffed to said bed! Hehe, the almost infinite possible turnouts of that predicament bring in some hell of a lot of funny mental images.
I didn't mean to insult you with the perfect comment: seriously, that wasn't an insult! I didn't mean it to come across that way! It's just that if you spend a few hours with me, you might start rethinking that opinion. And I've started nearly six hundred incomplete fics, both original and fanfics, total, not including ones that were deleted for various reasons. Oh, and why'd ya change your penname? I liked the other one better.
Discovered this after reading 'Sexy-no-Jutsu Gone Wrong': I don't really care how you found the fic … I'm just glad you read and reviewed. So many people don't review for some stupid reason … I DO ACCEPT ANONYMOUS REVIEWS PEOPLE! So you have absolutely no excuse for not reviewing except for pure laziness … and if you've read the story, then you aren't as lazy as you like to seem, cause just clicking the little button and typing up a few words, whether flame or praise, isn't all that much more work. You can even write 'I like' or 'I hate'. Just type up at least two words in a review. Oh, and sorry about getting after folks in your reply, Dreamer516. I'm just trying to make a point.
NOTE
(Author notes)
"Talking"
'Thinking'
'Inner "person" talking'
Scene change
POV change
– the number signifies which number to look at in the 'notices' area below for a bit more information on what was directly before the number.
MemoryScene change in memory
INDEX
Ohayo: good morning informal
!NOTICES!
1 – Sasuke's birthday is July 23rd from what I've found out
2 – the cave from chapter 3, peoples
Chapter 5
A Day Off
Sasuke slowly wakes up, feeling his arm wrapped around someone who has a firm muscular waist bare of any clothing. He slowly opens his eyes and sees Naruto's sparkling blue eyes watching him cheerily. "Ohayo, Sasuke," Naruto murmurs.
"Ohayo," Sasuke responds softly. He slowly pulls his arm from around Naruto's waist so the blonde can get up. Naruto has spent the night at Sasuke's house quite often when they get done with a long day of very tiring training or very boring missions and they have often waken up in very 'questionable' positions. Sasuke watches through lidded eyes as Naruto grabs a change of Sasuke's lesser used outfits and heads into the bathroom connected to Sasuke's room to shower, thankful the younger boy doesn't close the door. He watches as Naruto strips and gets in the shower, admiring Naruto's well-toned muscles.
When Naruto closes the shower door, Sasuke decides it's time to get up and straighten up the room a bit. Both boys had taken off their shirts, pants, and shoes last night before getting in bed, tossing the articles of clothing to the side so as to sleep only in their boxers. He has the room straightened and is dressed in his usual dark colors by the time Naruto steps out of the bathroom in Sasuke's clothes. "Ah, a nice warm bath to start the day," the blonde says happily, stretching. Then he turns to Sasuke. "So, what are we doing today?"
Sasuke shrugs. "Kakashi-sensei says that we can have the day off," he replies. "So I guess we're allowed to do whatever we want."
Naruto's face lights up in a grin. "Okay!" he says excitedly. "Let's go get ramen for breakfast! And then go out and explore the forest!"
"Ramen for breakfast?" Sasuke asks, raising an eyebrow at his teammate and friend.
"Ramen is good any time!" Naruto says, defending his favorite food.
Sasuke shrugs. "Eh, whatever. But you're buying since you suggested it," Sasuke teases, smirking at the look of extreme shock on Naruto's face. "Just kidding," he says quickly. "I'll help pay for it."
Naruto sighs in relief. "That's good," he says. "I wanted to save my money since Christmas is just another month and a half away."
Sasuke nods in understanding. Naruto likes to save his money for the holidays and birthdays so that he can go and blow it on great gifts for his friends, including Sasuke. Sasuke has no idea how the blonde found out, but he knows the date of Sasuke's birthday (1) when all those fangirls who chase the dark-haired boy all over haven't even a clue about what season his birthday falls under, much less the month or day. Naruto takes Sasuke's hand, causing the older boy to blush slightly which, thankfully, Naruto doesn't notice, and the blonde leads him out of the manor. Naruto lets Sasuke's hand drop when they get outside so that nobody will attack Naruto for 'trying to turn Sasuke gay', which had happened the first time a girl had noticed Naruto and Sasuke holding hands, despite Sasuke also having his hand clasped around Naruto's as well, which in turn resulted in Sasuke telling the girls to go away and leave them alone, or else he'd tell their parents little bits of blackmail he had dug up on them, which in turn resulted in Naruto almost glomping Sasuke, which Sasuke had just barely avoided. (Wow, that's a 94 word sentence that is grammatically correct. But one of my friends made a 100-something word sentence that is grammatically correct, so I haven't outdone her yet. But I'm sure gonna try.) Sasuke feels his heart sink slightly at the loss of contact, but tells himself it would be better not to get that sort of attention directed at them again for a while.
Sasuke follows Naruto silently as the blonde leads him to the nearest restaurant that serves ramen. When they get there, the two sit down at the counter and order their ramen. Ten minutes later, the two leave the restaurant after eating about five bowls of ramen each (for those who can't do math, that's about one bowl in two minutes each). "I told you ramen for breakfast is just as good as any other time!" Naruto says, grinning triumphantly.
Sasuke shrugs. "What gave you the idea I didn't believe you the first time?" he asks curiously.
Naruto shrugs. "Just saying," he says. "Let's get to the forest before Kakashi starts to rethink the free day."
Sasuke agrees wholeheartedly. Kakashi has a knack for rethinking free days when he can get his three students all in one place. So, five minutes later finds the boys deep in the forest, intent on some exploration. Suddenly, after four or five hours of exploration, a heavy rain shower starts. Neither boy had noticed the rain clouds fill up the perfect sky that they had awoken to. They quickly run for a nearby cave to get out the rain. When they get in the cave, they realize it is the same cave they had taken shelter in several weeks ago (2).
The boys watch the rain fall soothingly outside of their shelter, thankful that they were so close to the cave. As the rain falls they talk softly about various subjects … pointedly avoiding the rather strange things that have happened in the past few months, like the accidental kiss and waking up in those compromising positions so often. As they talk they subconsciously move closer to each other until Naruto's head is laying gently against Sasuke's chest.
Slowly, with the gentle rhythm of falling rain and the soft sound of each other's breathing as a lullaby gently prodding them, they drift off to sleep. While sleeping, Naruto's body maneuvers it's way into Sasuke's lap while Sasuke's arms wrap around Naruto's waist. Almost as if their subconscious minds know how 'right' they would be as a couple …
Sarah: okay, that's it for chapter 5. Chapter six will come out before August … hopefully. Later all.