Authors Note: Oki doki friends, I got a very well written lengthy review about my formatting, so I am going to attempt to break this up a bit more and make it more readable. Hopefully this is better 3 THANK YOU FOR READING!

Disclaimer: Obvi- I don't own Naruto otherwise I'd be living in a much nicer apartment

Chapter 3:

The town of Tacoma has much to offer in the Asian food department, which is one of the best things about living here. Being Naruto's favorite food apparently Sasukes which he found out after parking his bike and asking him what he wanted to eat. Downtown Tacoma is beautiful, old archaic brick buildings and the lazy waves that lap at the shores of the Pudget Sound, it's beautiful.

Naruto wanted to start learning everything about Sasuke, wanting nothing more than to attack him with questions he held himself back and started off easy "Did you grow up here?" Naruto asked has they made their way down the side walk

"Actually, me and my family immigrated here from Japan when I was a toddler" Sasuke said glancing up at Naruto as they walked

"Seriously? That's really cool! Do you guys ever visit? Do you speak Japanese" The blonde man asked him excitedly. Naruto couldn't help but finding that so amazing, as he himself had been born and raised in Washington State.

Sasuke chuckled and smirked "We visited a lot when I was a kid, but not so much as I got older, it gets expensive. And yes I do speak Japanese but you'll have to wait to hear that" He finished off ominously, leaving the blonde just a bit curious and confused but in a very exciting way.

They arrived at the restaurant of Naruto's choice, which was a Phở place that seemed to be more of a hole in the wall, which Naruto swore up and down was the best Phở in town. The waitress was probably the oldest, tiniest women Sasuke had ever seen, but she greeted Naruto very happily, and sat them at a booth in the back of the restaurant. Naruto sat across from his date, unable to believe that something he had fantasized about for so long was finally happening.

"Tell me about yourself Naruto" Sasuke said smiling just a bit.

Naruto grinned and started going on about college and his best friend Kiba who is "A bigger mess than I am", how he grew up in Tacoma and has always dreamed of travelling. He shut up when he realized he way over shared for the simple question Sasuke had asked and was now blushing and shutting up.

The waitress came and took their orders, two raw beef Phởs and Naruto also got a mango bubble tea while Sasuke stuck with just water.

"What about family?" Sasuke asked as the waitress walked away, watching Naruto's face seem to slightly falter from his seemingly constant happy deminer.

"Don't have any" Naruto answered shrugging, plastering his smile back on despite the sting that the common question brought to him, salt in fresh wounds.

Sasuke decided to leave it for now, storing the reaction in the back of his brain for questions for a later time.

The boys talked about school and work until the food came, Naruto finding out that Sasuke worked for a company doing web design, and that he went to EWU for schooling. They talked in between bites of food about seemingly everything, and they kept talking until the sun began to set and the food was long finished.

"Wanna go to my favorite dock?" Naruto asked him as he pulled out his wallet to pay for the meal, after convincing Sasuke to let him pay.

Sasuke obliged and they made there way outside and back down the downtown streets. Night time was a different type of aesthetic, the sky turning a yellow and orange sunset, and the old green street lamps illuminating the walk ways. Naruto wanted so badly to hold Sasuke's hand but for some reason that seemed almost to intimate and as badly as he wanted to rush things and fuck his date sideways, he saved it for later

Naruto had parked his bike in the parking lot that was across from his favorite dock, this was somewhere Naruto went often, when he needed to clear his mind. By the time they had walked there it was dark and the streetlamps and various light pollution lit up their path across the street and onto a dock that extended pretty far over the water. Next to them was a hotel and adjacent to that was a seafood restaurant, they walked to the end of the dock and looked over the waters of the Sound.

Naruto looked down at Sasuke who was leaning over the railing with his arms folded and resting on the weathered wood, the blonde smiled and found himself weirdly happy, something that didn't typically happen on normal dinner dates, although they never went this well. He found a seemingly deep connection within him and Sasuke and it was funny to him because honestly they really did just meet.

"Did you ever notice me before I introduced myself the other day?" Naruto asked him quietly, as to not disturb the peace that the beachy ambiance brought.

Sasuke looked up at him and smiled, but not the coy smile he normally put on. "I've seen you dancing in your kitchen when you were cooking"

Naruto's eyes widened and he threw his hands over his face and groaned loudly "Oh Jesus that is so embarrassing" laughing at himself.

Sasuke reached up with both his hands and pulled Naruto's arms down and out them back at his side, keeping a gentle grasp on the man's forearms. "You look amazing when you dance" he said surely.

What followed was something directly out of Naruto's fantasies.

He pulled his arms out of Sasukes grasp and put both his hands on the mans face, holding his cheeks gently with his big tanned hands. Sasuke's eyes widened but not out of fear, and Naruto felt Sasukes cheeks warm beneath his hands.

Naruto leaned forward and kissed him.

TO BE CONTINUED 3