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"Inside out"

by: solstice rhapsody 09

Warning: chara's OOC-ness, language, yaoi/shounen-ai, non-beta, blah blah blah.

Disclaimer: This fic is MINE, the plot is also MINE, the characters are also MINE, bwahahahahahaha- ok, reality check, the original ain't mine. BUT, this Naruto here belongs to- Sasuke?

Chapter Six: "My butterfly"

I was eight when I first set my eyes upon a pair of cerulean eyes; I was mesmerized. It all started when one afternoon after class, Aniki was supposed to fetch me and I waited that whole afternoon but he didn't came early. It looks like I'm wasting time waiting because he's going to be late.

My hands hardened its grip on my backpack.

And so I decided to wait inside the school...it's too dangerous outside school waiting and I'm sure Aniki knows where to look for me.

I was on my way contemplating as I walk in the lobby when I bumped into someone. I was easily angered, maybe it's because I hadn't have time for something like that to happen.

"I'm sorry," he said, offering his hands and pulled me up.

I grabbed his offered hand and stood from where I was knocked down and dusted off my backpack for any dirt that threatened to grasp my belonging. I scowled...

He scratched his head and apologized a dozen times, "Are you okay?"

I looked up from my backpack to him and met his eyes- there were tears threatening to fall from those deep blue embedded marbles. They were so beautiful I find myself spacing out, but I quickly shrugged it off and started to wonder why he seems to be crying.

"Are you okay?" I returned the question to him; he was rubbing the tears away.

"Mm," he nodded and shone a bright smile at me, "I'm okay."

I was struck, he smiled so honest and innocent...it was nice to see someone who doesn't seem to know me as an Uchiha or Sasuke or even Itachi's little brother but as a kid who he bumped unto- a complete stranger.

"You should look to where you're heading towards unless you want to bump unto everybody," I seem to be scolding him and scowling, well it wasn't my fault his eyes and smile were cute...it's his fault.

There came a normal silence, he just stood there smiling and scratching his head.

More silence came when somebody broke it. A hand patted my left shoulder, I turned around to see Aniki and he smiled at me. He apologized and asked me to go home, I nodded in silence, I seem to forget that I was supposed to run back in the classroom and wait for Aniki to fetch me. He directed his look to the blue marble ones, Aniki smiled at him.

"So you're my little brother's friend," Aniki smiled at him, "well, we have to go home now, you'll just have to play with him some other time, okay?"

He seems to be confused but nodded instead. Aniki took my hand and as if on cue, we started to walk home...I turned around to have a last look at him...I smiled and he returned one too.

The next day, I find myself longing to see him once again but I never did. I wished I knew his name or classroom back then, if only I asked him...but it's too late now. Yet still, after two years I still find myself remembering our meeting and hoping that someday we'll meet again...

>>2 years later...

It's past two years now and I'm already ten. I set my hopes aside to meet 'him' again and focused on studying hard, becoming better and surpassing my big brother. It was a fair day and the morning breeze gives me the good vibes...well except for the annoying hordes of fan girls, which is.

It was the first day of school and everybody seems to be very busy talking and greeting each other. Some of them seem to recognize me and started mumbling something to the person next to them and glimpse at me once in a while, I recognize a certain pink haired girl...she seems to be my classmate before too. As far as I remember, her name was Sakura and she keeps on bugging me every time...it's pretty annoying really. I have a very high tolerance to fan girls like her but my patience is very thin when it comes to stupidity and there is one particular person that really gets into my nerves; namely Naruto.

He's annoying, stupid, thick headed and loud mouthed...and he's my best friend. It looks like two people such as us looks completely impossible to get along, but we eventually did.

I didn't really noticed him at first though, even though he's always attracting some attentions from everybody inside the class, he'd often gets scolded by teachers coz of sleeping while class is on going, sometimes he's just too loud and sometimes he's just the laughing stock of the class. I happened to meet him one afternoon, everybody has gone home and I happen to pass by our classroom, the door was half opened and I know somebody was there. It was my curiosity, what would somebody be doing in such an hour? I stepped inside the dead room, I peered inside and there he is, erasing the blackboard all by himself. I know he's doing some cleaning duties but it's not his turn yet- it's somebody else'.

"What are you still doing here?" he was surprised and quickly turned around, the blonde smiled at me.

"I'm cleaning you see," I frowned, of course I knew he's cleaning.

"But your cleaning duties is not today,"

He just smiled at me and scratched the back of his head, I frowned. It was a little bit annoying when he smiles, reminds me of someone. "And what are you still doing here?" it was his turn to ask me.

"None of your business," I quickly replied as I squinted at him, the rays of the dawn are killing my sight.

"Still the same old grumpy Sasuke, huh?" he came to me closer so I could take a better look at him.

"What do you mean?" I was confused from what he said; I headed for the window and closed them partly.

"Thought so you'd forget it someday," he looked at me straight to the eyes and mine widened in disbelief.

The deep blue marbles that I was searching for...had just been there all this time.

"It was you!" I grabbed his shoulders and took my time to further proved it, I had so many questions running through my mind that I didn't' know how to start it, "why didn't you told me that it was you? After all this time?"

I was a bit angry, he knew I was the kid that he met two years ago, he knew I was his classmate and he knew I was just inches away...why the hell would he keep his identity to himself and not tell me about it?

"I was scared, you were always surrounded by every girl in the class...how the hell am I going to be noticed by someone like you?" those blue marbles looks sad again like last time, "besides, there's not much meaning if you ever found out who I am."

"Dobe," I frowned, "that's a pretty lame excuse."

"Yeah, I guess."

He returned the long gone smile to me for the second time.

>>2 years later...

It was a fair night, nothing special in our house except that Naruto is here tonight for a sleepover and I think Aniki is trying to spill the beans to Naruto that I had a lecherous smile all day long because Naruto said yes when I asked him to sleep in our house these saturday. Aniki is having a little chat with 'my' Naruto...and now what? Naruto is blushing? I'm going to kill Aniki later--damn him for trying to be friendly...and cute.

Sasuke was pissed by the kind gestures that his older brother is showing towards his friend. He couldn't bear see Naruto smile or blush by his Aniki's remarks, his older brother asked him to fix Sasuke's room so his 'cute blonde friend' can get some rest later on and Sasuke was pissed when he got back to the living room where he left Naruto.

The younger Uchiha stormed through the living room and glared at his older brother sternly before dragging Naruto's hand and muttering that they have to sleep now and that it's late.

"See how aggresive my little brother has become?" Itachi teased, "Naru-chan?"

Sasuke stopped dead from his tracks and turned around to glare at his brother, "Don't call him Naru-chan ever again."

"But your little friend seems to be fine with it," Sasuke's eyebrow twitch from Itachi's response.

"Let's go." Sasuke uttered dropping the argument and dragged his blonde friend upstairs to his room.

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"Why do you have to be such an ass?" Naruto asked Sasuke under the covers.

Sasuke glared at his pillow that he was bear hugging, "What? I didn't do anything."

"You were mean with Itachi-kun back there," Naruto turned his head around to look Sasuke's way, "you were brothers, right?"

"Stop thinking too much about it, okay?" Sasuke reached over Naruto's blonde unruly locks and ruffle them softly, "it's just a healthy fight."

"A healthy fight?" Naruto asks, sitting up from the bed.

"Aniki always teases me and I end up getting pissed off, that's all. Nothing unusual," Sasuke explained laying down his head to the headboard, "it's nothing bad, like I said- a healthy fight."

"I still don't understand," Naruto mumbled and laid his head down beside Sasuke.

"Dobe," Naruto glared at the remark, "it's your entire fault why Aniki teases me."

"Nani?" the blonde directed his eyes at Sasuke, "what did I do?"

Sasuke glanced down to his friend and dyed his cheeks a tint of crimson when he noticed Naruto staring at him, he quickly averted his look and climb off the bed and headed towards the light switch turning them off.

"Go to sleep," Sasuke uttered in the darkness.

"Will you sleep with me?" Naruto sounded more pleading rather than asking, "I'm kind of uncomfortable...this room is huge compared to mine."

Naruto's words rang a bell to Sasuke, that's right! Sasuke's supposed to sleep with Naruto tonight (literaly speaking guys, not the perverted double meaning). The blonde could sense Sasuke smirking in the dark and from the utter silence he could feel the disturbance in his bed that only meant Sasuke making a suave motion climbing over the bed. The young Uchiha slip under the covers motioning Naruto to tag along, the blonde giggled meekly as he joined his friend.

"What are you laughing about?" Sasuke asked smirking, looking at his friend within the darkness.

"Nothing," Naruto fondly answered and snuggled a pillow, burying half his face in, "hey, tell me a story again. Pleeease?"

Sasuke half smiled, his little friend really loves tell tale stories, "How about the story of the child and the caged butterfly?"

"What's the story all about?" Naruto asked enthusiastically like a child eager to listen to another fairytale story.

"Once, there was a child, he was alone when everybody else is playing together. He would cry when no one sees him because nobody would want to play with him...everybody else has their friends to play with but all he had was himself," Sasuke started, "then one day, he found a butterfly that resided in one of his fingertips. The butterfly lustered an extensive blue wings that captured the child's interest, 'I'll keep you all by myself, now that I have found a friend' he says as he held the butterfly's wings so it won't fly away, he then hurriedly took a very small birdcage that could just keep the butterfly inside."

"Then?" Naruto asks with cerulean eyes eager to listen more.

"Then he would bring his 'precious friend' with him everytime he goes out. He would be happy just by staring at his friend flapping its wings, but then one day the butterfly flap its wings warily like it was tired,"

"The child thought butterflies get sick so he came into a clinic and a nurse came to him and asked, 'why are you here? Are you hurt somewhere?' but the child shook his head saying, 'my friend is sick' and showed the nurse the birdcage where the butterfly was imprisoned,"

"The nurse looks at him sympathetically and whispered something to the child's ear, she said 'the only cure for your little friend is to set it free', the child flinched, and he didn't want to lose his friend. The nurse whispered something again, 'If you love your little friend you should set it free, unless you want it to die. you don't want that, don't you?' the boy was saddened but he does love his only friend and doesn't want it to die, so he set the butterfly free in the fields of flowers where it truly belongs, he was teary-eyed but realizes that he has to do it for the better."

Naruto frowned and squeezed the pillow tighter, "Why does it have to have a sad ending?"

"Outside the windowpane, the butterfly that lustered blue came back to visit, it was waiting for the child to reach out his fingertip." Sasuke smiled when he saw Naruto's expression turned better.

"Did the butterfly really come back for his friend too?" Naruto frowned, "or did you made the last part up?"

"Don't ask me," Sasuke replied, "ask my Aniki, he's the one that told me that story, so ask him if he made it all up."

Naruto smiled at his friends gesture, out of the meek silence the blonde reached out its hands and pinched his friends' cheek, "If I'll be the butterfly and you'll be the lonely kid, I'll definetly come back!"

"No," Sasuke smiled, "you'll be 'my' butterfly and not 'the' butterfly, understand?"

Naruto pouted and stuck his tongue out to Sasuke, the young Uchiha seem to know what the blonde was actually gesturing at him and pinched his cheek hardly, Naruto uttered an 'ouch' and Sasuke let go.

"Why do you have to be so possesive? Everything should have the word 'my' instead of 'the'...you're mean Sasuke."

"I'm not mean and you're just too kind."

Everything went into a long silent moment.

Sasuke stroke his thumb unto the blonde's right cheek fondly trailing down to his lips, he let out a genuine smile, Sasuke knows his lucid smile is unseen in the darkness but he also knew his 'precious butterfly' can feel it and see it...his precious Naruto can see him inside out...his inside out.

"Some day, this moment will become nostalgic," Sasuke beamed another smile.

"Sasuke, what's nostalg-" Naruto's words were abruptly paused; the young Uchiha sealed the gap between their lips.

Naruto could feel his cheeks burn in a weird feeling, he closed his eyes despite the darkness that the night had shone them. Sasuke took the advantage of the blondes' submissiveness and pushed his lips harder, Naruto grasp his pillow for dear life as he explored a new sensation rosing over him. It wasn't long before Sasuke's tongue pleaded for entrance in Naruto's mouth, the blonde obliged without much hesitation at all and let his aggressive friend take responsibility...it excited Sasuke in some way and got more aggressive exploiting the blonde's mouth, teasing Naruto's tongue and taking the kiss deeper.

And it was just in time that Naruto pushed Sasuke weakly, his friend parted their lips even if both seem like they didn't wanted to, but they had to because the blonde was already out of oxygen. Naruto died in embarrasment as he hide his burning face under the pillow, "what was that for?" he mumbled clearly, enough for Sasuke to understood what he was saying.

Sasuke smirked and forced the pillow down to expose his friends' flush face, "Ba-ka," he teased, "it was a goodnight kiss."

"Liar," Naruto meekly opposed his friend's answer.

It went on silent once again till a disturbance was heard at the door, it creaked open as a tall figure came suddenly switching on the lights that threatened to pierce their eyes, Sasuke shove the blanket away that was completely covering them awhile ago, he blinked as he sees his older brother looking at them leaning behind the door with a meaningful smirk.

"Why are you here?" Sasuke asked in annoyance as Naruto waved happily at Itachi not noticing Sasuke's fury.

"I was just checking on my little brother and our guest tonight," Itachi teases, "making sure they sleep tight, I didn't know you were now this aggressive Sasuke...hiding under the covers."

Sasuke almost died in embarrasment, luckily Naruto butted in, "Ne, ne, Tachi-kun, Sasuke told me the story of the butterfly and the child...he said you told him that story!"

Itachi smiled half heartedly at Naruto, "Yes, I did tell him that story way back."

"It was nice,"

The older Uchiha returned a smile to the blonde and uttered a goodnight and left the two in peace as he switches off the light and the small door made a sound of its closing.

Sasuke and Naruto went back to bed; the Uchiha couldn't sleep so he stared off at the ceiling to lull himself to sleep. It was silent once again, a rustling sound came and Sasuke found Naruto snuggling over him with eyes closed and a snoring sound coming out of the blondes' lips; Sasuke smiled and finally went to sleep as he held Naruto close to him.

"Then I guess..." Sasuke thought, "I'll just have to have you for myself instead of letting you fly away."

-To be continued-

Naruto: the authoress almost killed us off for almost one month!

solstice: Gomen! I didn't mean to! but at least this chappie is longer now?

Sasuke: Still, it doesn't make up for your slump and not updating for ONE month! -points mighty finger-

solstice: it doesn't? who the hell wrote your butterfly episode! it's me! ME! so you better thank me!

Sasuke: In your dreams...

Naruto: Yeah, in your dreams!

solstice: why do you guys hate me...-.-

Gaara: then again, you didn't wrote me down. -glares-

solstice: -whistles and runs away-