Thank you everyone for the feedback! This work has a more leisurely writing style, so I'm able to update more often. This is the last chapter of the simulation arc where Sasuke and Naruto meet. This first week was just to set the scene. This is a story over years.

I have also posted a yaoi version of this story on my profile in case you're interested in that.


Chapter 5

Posted on July 29th, 2021


Gaara wakes up from a rustling sound. He looks around to find Naruto putting her clothes on in a hurry. He raises himself on his forearms and squints in the daylight.

"Naru… what's with all the noise?"

Naruto jumps startled at the voice. She looks at him apologetically, standing in front of the dresser, pulling a top down and brushing her teeth at the same time.

"Sorry. I forgot I needed to drop off the play scenarios at the college before heading to the medical students and I didn't set my alarm for early enough."

She looks frazzled and Gaara glances at his phone to look at the time. It's early but not early enough for her to be able to make that whole trip and be at the college of medicine on time.

"I'll drop them off before I head for the airport. Don't worry about that."

"No, I'll do it mysel-"

"No. Naru. I'll do it. Relax." Gaara gets up and follows the blond into the bathroom to brush his own teeth.

"Are you sure? They have to be there by 9."

"Mhm," Gaara lets out, washing his face. "Plenty of time." He dries his face with a towel. Gaara is completely naked and completely comfortable in her company. He leans in to kiss her gently and their lips linger. He withdraws and cups her face to push golden hair to the side.

"I'll take care of it, so you don't have to rush now. You have a few extra minutes." He leans in for another kiss and backs her into the bed. Gaara crawls to her and kisses down her body until he parts her legs. Gaara has always been excellent with his tongue and Naruto spends the early morning fisting the sheets, legs shaking and screaming as Gaara licks her little clit and fingers her until she cums all over his tongue several times.


Gaara is pouring hot chocolate in a to-go cup for Naruto when she comes out to join him in the kitchen. The redhead puts a bunch of whipped cream on top and Naruto accepts the cup happily. She stuffs a few more things in her backpack and leaves a stack of folders on the counter, instructing Gaara again that they need to be at the proper place by nine. Then she goes to hug him and he returns the embrace genuinely.

"I'm going to miss you so much," Naruto mouths into his shirt. Gaara withdraws and kisses her forehead.

"It's just for less than a month. I'll finish the shoot and then I'll have a few weeks off unless something comes up. I'll see you at that play we have together when I come back."

"I know, I'm so excited for you. This is huge! I'm so proud of you! You are my best friend and I've seen you grow so much. Starring in a big screen movie now!" She bumps his shoulder in a playful manner.

Gaara smiles a genuine smile. "You'll be a way bigger star than me. Just focus on your schooling and take care of yourself when I'm away. Don't get in too much trouble. I know what your diet consists of when I'm not here to nudge you to eat better. I even asked Deidara to watch over how much ramen you eat."

Naruto pushes him away and crosses her arms, offended.

"There is nothing wrong with ramen, dattebayo." She keeps the sulking expression for a little bit before laughing and sighing. "Seriously, Mr. Big Shot. Be safe and we'll catch up when you get back."


Sasuke wakes up and the memories of the lewd act he committed last night rush to him. He's embarrassed at his unadulterated reaction. He didn't understand why he felt such a pull for the physical all of a sudden. It was one thing to have the hots for someone and a different thing to jerk off to their picture on social media at midnight. Sasuke felt somehow that was below him and he wanted to get his composure back.

Along the way, Sasuke has acknowledged that he was very attracted to the blonde. He made his peace with it. Instead of trying to fight it anymore, he now decided that he just needed to get her out of his system and go back to being focused and calm and collected as usual. This girl was distracting him way too much and he couldn't afford to be distracted. Maybe if he just did the deed with her, he would be able to get back to normal. Uchihas dealt with distractions quickly and efficiently.

She had clearly shown some interest in him. Why else bother to go on teasing matches with him? Sasuke hadn't heard her speak to any of the other students like that. He had overheard her speak to the other students in a cheerful and fun way. And that first day, she had admitted she thought Sasuke had good looks.

Then there was the problem of the exchange with the red-haired man Sauske witnessed yesterday. The exchange the young Uchiha had observed, coupled with the guy's social media where there were pictures of Naruto over years, led Sasuke to believe that they had some type of relationship that was different than the relationship between Naruto and the other actors. There was nothing that Sauske had found or seen that concretely indicated they were in an exclusive relationship. Maybe Sasuke had read too much into the exchange he observed and they were actually just close friends? Relatives? …But that one actor had asked Naruto if she was with Gaara on the first day… Sasuke needed to find a way to know for sure. If she was single, that definitely made getting her out of his system more plausible. If she wasn't, Sasuke may end up with a bad case of blue balls and seek release somewhere else, although the thought alone repulsed him.


Sasuke walks in only to see Naruto and some of the other actors walking in from the other end of the hallway. The raven notices she is holding a cup again, a different one today, and he frowns when he concludes it must be hot chocolate again and where the beverage must have come from. As they walk in, their eyes linger on each other - there's a challenge in her eyes again, like she's provoking him and testing him. She can't possibly be looking at the other students that way, could she? Was Sauske losing his mind? Surely, she didn't look at Suigetsu or any of the others like that, there was no way…

Speaking of Suigetsu, suddenly an arm wraps around Sasuke's shoulders and someone leans on him. Sasuke frowns and pushes Suigetsu off of him, scolding him for invading his personal space like that. Suigetsu laughs it off with his one sharp tooth out and continues to chat Sasuke up. Karin and Juugo come and greet Sasuke and Sasuke finds out again that he gets over his annoyance of them pretty fast which is a big surprise. Somehow, they're engaging but at the same time don't overwhelm Sasuke. Suigetsu keeps most of the conversation going and Sasuke doesn't feel that they take anything away from him or depend on him.

He feels eyes on him. With the corner of his eye he sees Naruto, observing him interacting with the group. There's surprise in her eyes and when she realizes that he is watching her, she smiles and waves at him. Sasuke can swear that he sees something akin to pride? relief? in her eyes.

Sasuke notices that a pink-haired girl has approached his group – wait, since when does he think of them as his group? – and introduces herself as Sakura. Sasuke fights the instant urge to walk away and be on his own but instead he politely introduces himself too. Fortunately, Suigetsu swoops in and engages her in a conversation about school. Sasuke adds in here and there.

His eyes drift to where Naruto is again. He was undoubtedly attracted to her the before be now he can't look at her the same after seeing those photos and especially after jerking off to them. He had acknowledged her physical attractiveness before and the sparks between them, but now that he had painted his bedsheets in cum looking at her tattoo and exposed skin, Sasuke didn't think he could get within 15 feet of her without getting a hard-on and his mind conjuring all the lewd and perverted things he wanted to do to her, especially to her mouth. It was a problem he had to find a way to control and fast because Naruto was now walking toward him.

"Hey, Teme," she greets and Sasuke is happy she's done with the damn hot chocolate. She stops a couple of feet in front of him and her hands go to tuck in the back pockets of her jeans. This position accentuates her breasts and Sasuke tries really hard to not look down and see if her top is lifting to show off her tattoo. That tattoo - he wanted to lick all over her flat belly and tattooed, smear his cum all over it in a primal sign of possession… Sasuke shuffles on his feet, stilling his mind and summoning his Uchiha self-control.

"Hn. Dobe."

"That's cute." Naruto grins at the nickname. "Anyway, I wanted to see if you're okay? You seemed pretty distracted yesterday, I thought maybe you got an A- and were going into an existential crisis. But you seem better now… and you're making friends?" She glances over the small group sitting behind Sasuke and when she looks back at him, there is a genuine smile on her face. She had wrapped her question in a playful tone, but the undertone was clear to Sasuke – she had noticed him being off today and was genuinely pleased that he looked better today. Sasuke blinks at her and just when he thought he couldn't possibly be more attracted to her, his attraction to her skyrockets again. He really, really needed to get her out of his system.

Sasuke fights the urge to correct her, they're not his friends, but he sees that she feels some genuine emotions at seeing him socialize. It was one of the things she pointed out to him the first day in a not-so-gentle way… and one of the things Itachi had been pointing out for years in a gentler way. Sasuke couldn't help but wonder if he was more accepting of Suigetsu because Naruto had pointed him out to Sasuke as someone worthy of his attention that first day.

"Hn. I'm okay."

"Cool. How's your brother?"

Suddenly, Sauske feels annoyed at that, remembering how Itachi was all over her when he visited. He frowns. Naruto sees this and puts her hands up.

"Okay, Okay, jeez. Chill, I won't ask your about him and trigger your big brother issues." Sasuke wants to tell her that she got it all wrong and it's not brotherly jealousy that made him frown. It was Itachi flirting Naruto up. But he can't say that.

Maybe now that they're talking, he can change the subject to asking her if she's single and possibly asking her out. Sasuke opens his mouth, intent on asking her more about her sphere of practice and maybe finding out in a roundabout way if she is involved with her fellow actor, but Tsunade starts speaking then to start the day. Naruto waves at him again, see you later, teme!, and goes back to her group of actors. Sasuke feels awkward – an emotion unknown to the Uchiha. He looks to the side to see Suigetsu shaking his hand as if to gesture that he'd been burned, undoubtedly having heard the tense exchange.


The day passes quicker today, too quickly even. Sasuke hasn't had a solid chance to talk to Naruto alone yet. He feels annoyed at being a slave to such trivial things now and getting distracted. Undoubtedly, he was acing his scenarios, but was failing in effectively approaching Naruto. She was always in the company of someone and Sasuke was too prideful to pull her away and create a situation that didn't happen organically. No Uchiha wanted to appear as needy or desperate or hung-up on someone.

At lunch break, Naruto goes off somewhere and doesn't return until almost the end of the day. Sasuke doesn't get a chance to have a scenario with her because, once again, he had drawn a lower number at the beginning and had to go through all the other scenarios before reaching number seven. He hopes that she'll be back on time by the time it's time for him to have his scenario with her, but when he walks in the booth, there's another actor waiting for him there.

Naruto returns almost at the end of the day and gives Tsunade something, clearly having been instructed by Tsunade to go run an errand instead of stay here. Why would she need Naruto to run her errands? Why not Shizune? Sasuke finds himself annoyed with the Director - clearly she's the reason he hadn't had a chance to talk to the blonde.

A few minutes after she'd come back, she goes out again and Sasuke is prepared to not see her anymore today. They finish up the day and Tsunade instructs them that tomorrow they will have a beginner's simulation into ACLS and code management with the simulation mannequins and that would count only for a small part of their grade since it's fairly new material. Sasuke's classmates rush home to go over ACLS protocols. Sasuke goes out, very annoyed with the lack of outcome today. He is almost at his car when he realizes he had forgotten his phone. Sasuke curses his lately scrambled mind, undoubtedly plagued by the blonde and his bad luck at talking to her today.

When he goes back in, Tsunade and Shizune and a couple of TAs are left there, visibly preparing the room for tomorrow. Sasuke hears Tsunade giving instructions on wheeling the mannequins out of storage so they could test them and set them up for tomorrow. He grabs his phone and is almost at the door when he hears it – Shizune mentions that she'll go to the east wing since Naruto is already retrieving the two mannequins from the west wing. Sasuke grips the strap of his backpack tighter and without even knowing it, he is in front of the storage closet in the west wing.

The hallways are empty since it's late in the evening. The heavy door reveals that it's dark inside the storage facility save for a small dim light. Sasuke hears rustling. He walks in to find Naruto with her back turned to him, on her knees, reaching under the stretcher the mannequin was on, cursing under her breath, probably trying to find the right cords for the device to be fully functional.

"Dobe." Sasuke makes his presence known in a soft voice and Naruto jumps, almost hitting her head on the stretcher. She turns around and curses Sasuke right off, calling him a teme several more times than needed and waving her arms around in frustration.

"Don't just walk in behind someone like that teme!"

"I'm sorry," Sasuke finds himself genuinely saying and Naruto blinks up at him. All frustration is gone from her face and a familiar smirk forms, followed by a gleam in her eyes.

"Look at that. I didn't think you were capable of saying something like that. But then again, I thought you were an arrogant douche that would stay antisocial forever, but you were making friends today. You surprise me, Sasuke." Sasuke can tell that she means that. He understands that this is a moment where she changed her opinion of him somewhat, just like he had changed his opinion of Suigetsu the other day. The realization elevates him in a way.

"I heard you were in here trying to get the mannequins to the hall. I can help."

Naruto's eyebrows raise. "You're full of surprises today, aren't you?"

She steps closer to him then, looking up at him from under those dark lashes. The air around them shifts. Their position reminds Sasuke of the other day when she had stood before him and taken off his doctor's coat. The lighting is obscure, but her eyes are still somehow shining so brightly. She is so close to him now and her cheekbones stand defined by her smirk.

"Why are you really here, Sasuke?" She almost purrs in a low voice and raises her chin to look at him better. Sasuke steps closer to her, drawn in by the radiant warmth of her body. It's as if she's pulling him in, making him gravitate toward her. He holds her gaze for a long time, watching her eyes darken more, and he's sure that his own eyes are pitch black now with the thought of exactly what he wants to do to her.

Her eyes are burning.

"You didn't really come here to help me log those things around. You came to surprise me more today? Show me you're better than I thought you were?" Everything about her – her tone, her gaze, her body language, is a challenge.

Sasuke can't possibly hold back any longer. He dives down and draws her lips to his. Before they even make contact, Naruto is already responding and drawing him in too. Sasuke is gripping her jaw with strong hands and she is clutching tightly at his scrubs. Sasuke grabs her lower back and draws her warm body to him and Naruto presses against him as if on command. He can feel her warmth and texture and shape against him, and his jaw almost goes slack. Naruto licks his bottom lip and when Sasuke opens his mouth, her tongue darts inside to rub against his. Sasuke is immediately drunk off her taste. He groans at the experience of tasting her and she swallows the sound readily.

As with everything, Uchiha Sasuke is a fast learner and soon seizes control of the situation. He'd let her have enough fun by leading the kiss. Before Naruto could say anything about it, he grabs her hips and lifts her up on the stretcher, his body readily fitting between her open and inviting legs. He withdraws slightly to look down into her eyes for moment. He sees raw unadulterated lust, undoubtedly mirrored in his own eyes.

His strong hand grips the back of her head and he draws her mouth to his, taking complete control of the kiss before she even has a chance to oppose. Sasuke feels the need to dominate. She does decide to be defiant though and bites his lip. On instinct, Sasuke pulls the hair he is fisting at the back of her neck slightly and the moan she lets out at the action catches Sasuke off guard. That moan is like electricity and it shoots right down to his dick. Her reaction pleases something in him and gives him a sense of power. He tugs on her hair again, harder this time, and grips her jaw to keep her mouth open. He looks at her face – lips wet and puckered from kissing, eyes cloudy and hazy with heavy lashes covering them but still shining in the dark, still challenging him.

Naruto apparently does not appreciate the pause. She digs her nails into the strong biceps and hooks a leg around his hips to draw him in closer. They both hiss feeling their warm sexes make contact through their clothes, "fuuuuck, Sasuke", and they look down. Sasuke is so obviously tenting his scrub pants, it's obscene. Naruto fists the front of his scrubs and draws him closer again to press and rub against him. Sasuke thrusts against her, making her head loll back and eyes roll back into her head.

Sasuke seizes this opportunity to lap and bite at her neck, his hands moving down her sides. He grips her waist to draw her in closer and thrusts against her. The sounds and groans they're both letting out at the contact in the dark storage facility are entirely inappropriate for the elite institution they're in. Whatever Sasuke thought this would be like, it is a million times better, and the tight string of control he had wound up his whole life is very seriously threatening to snap.

But Sasuke does still have some control left and has complete clarity now where he wants this to go. He wants to take her, fuck her, do everything that his dirty mind conjured to her sultry body. He stills his thrusting hips and withdraws from her enough to look at her face again. Her eyes are clouded and dark and she is breathing heavily.

"Come to my place. Ditch this and let's go. Now." He goes in for another kiss, sure of the outcome, when Naruto averts her head and instead Sasuke laps at her neck again. She whimpers and grips his shoulders, trying to clear her hazy mind, despite the pleasurable assault to her neck.

"No." Sasuke doesn't hear her at first or doesn't want to hear her until she shoves at his shoulders harder. "Sasuke. No."

Sasuke takes in a deep controlled breath to steady his breathing and pay control to the situation. She's saying… no? No? After she had spread her legs and accepted his thrusting hips, she was suddenly rejecting him?

Sasuke does a double-take and doesn't like the way her eyes are clearing of that cloudiness now and how she softly pushes against him to get off of the stretcher. An Uchiha never begs for an explanation or reason but Sasuke finds himself confused by the outcome and his hazy, lustful mind isn't helping his assessment skills. He is almost over his pride (surely because his mind is so clouded with lust) and is about to ask why when there are steps from around the corner and voices. Several voices. Tsunade and Shizune and a TA are coming over, most likely to help retrieve the mannequins since Naruto had taken a long time.

Before Sasuke knows it, Naruto is out the door right before the others come in. Tsunade is asking him something but Sasuke can't listen right now. Later on when he sits in his car, Sasuke touches his lips. Kissing her had been… more pleasurable than he'd ever thought. Was it kissing her or would kissing anyone else be the same?


Sasuke has an uneasy sleep that night. The encounter had left him high and dry and yet again he Sasuke finds himself up late at night, shamefully thrusting in his hands, this time to the very lucid feeling of how she'd felt against him, how she had tasted on his tongue. Black hair sticking against his sweaty forehead, Sasuke yet again finds himself moaning into the pillow as his body spasms and breath hitches, the orgasm shaking his body.

The next day is Friday and the last day of their simulations (for this part of their studies at least). Sasuke has willed his mind to not even think about yesterday but his wounded Uchiha pride keeps rearing its head. It was unbelievable that Naruto had rejected him, with no reason given at all. The way she had reacted to his advances, the way her body had responded… clearly showed interest and attraction to him. And again despite his Uchiha pride, Sasuke finds himself wanting, needing to know why.

Sasuke walks in only to find Naruto missing and instead, there is another woman there. She is short and has dark hair and a bored expression. By the way the other actors are interacting around her, Sasuke can tell they know her. She seems familiar and Sasuke recognizes her from the group pictures of the Akatsuki.

Sasuke wants to ask Tsunade if Naruto is coming today but that would give him away and he is too proud to appear needy. He is considering asking one of the other actors in a roundabout way. But then the man with the slicked back pale-colored hair – Hidan? - begins on the topic. Sasuke pretends he is busying himself with something close to them with his back turned to them but is listening in.

"Aaaah, maaaannnnn, I wish Naru-chan was here. It's not the same without her plump ass around."

"Dude." A shorter blond guy with a ponytail shushes the first man, scoffing. "Gaara would literally kill you if he heard you, un." He scolds.

Hidan waves a hand in a dismissive manner. "I don't give a flying fuck. That redheaded bastard can't keep a hottie like that only to himself. He needs to share her."

"He does, just not with your perverted ass." The blond man looks around and adds in a quieter voice, "I think she used to have a thing with Konan."

But Hidan is not listening anymore as he spots Karin and follows her with his eyes, forgetting the conversation. He smirks, going out after her. Deidara rolls his eyes. He'd go out after him in a second to do damage control.

Sasuke again is confused by the information he receives. Is she really with that guy… even if she so passionately kissed Sasuke yesterday? Is that why she didn't want to go back to Sasuke's place – because it was a mistake, and she was actually in a relationship with the redhead? Did she… regret what they did? Something about that possibility offsets Sasuke in way he can't explain.

As time passes, Sasuke keeps glancing at the door at every sound before he realizes that she is not coming today for good. He feels disappointed and then worried that something might have happened. He realizes that he doesn't have any of her contact information, save for her social media. But he wouldn't contact her on social media, that's too cringy. That would make him look needy and desperate. If he had just asked for her phone number… or if he had asked her out yesterday instead of losing control like he did. Something about her just made him disoriented and drunk off a feeling he'd never felt before. Sasuke feels stupid over this newly discovered vulnerability, he had a reputation to upkeep. He grits his teeth and gets through the day.

Sasuke tries to make sense of what Naruto's relationship status seems to be, based on the information he had gathered over the last week but found himself unsure again. There was nothing concrete pointing one way or another. Whatever it was, two things were clear. One, Naruto had some sort of history with the redheaded man and two: she was undeniably attracted to Sasuke. Even if Sasuke would be labeled as a mistake. The way she had responded to him, the way she had provoked him, were undeniable proof even by Sasuke's lacking emotional intelligence. The Uchiha pride willed Sasuke to let this go but something inside him, deeper, told him this couldn't possible be over.


Whew, finally done with the simulations arc! Now the real fun can begin :) This first week was just to set the scene. I love hearing your feedback!

See you next time at the *hint hint* anniversary celebration that we mentioned during the last chapter.