Naruto freaked out all the way back to his condo, wondering if his back up plan was going to be alright. He had had all the evening planned out before, Lee, one of his good friend, had agreed to loan him his racetrack for the night. He had been pretty confident with this idea since Sasuke owned - had owned now that he had probably wreck it in his accident - an amazing car. You couldn't not love driving fast when you were driving such a car. After the accident though, it felt a little awkward to bring him there. Maybe Sasuke would feel self-conscious or maybe too nervous to drive one of Lee's car full speed.
This back up plan of his could only work if Sasuke was really interested in his future book subject. He had thought of it when the set of keys had fallen from his car's ceiling. The keys where of the old Kingston penitentiary*, the former maximum security prison that had closed in 2013. He'd stolen them from his godfather a bit after that and had never thought about giving them back, they had spend the last 4 years in his car completely forgotten.
That was kind of a last minute idea but it could work, he had asked Chouji to prepare him some stuff that could be eaten cold so he could bring it. There was no lounge at the prison like there was at the racetrack but they could always eat on the rooftop. A picnic on a rooftop under the stars was romantic no matter what type of building it was on, right?
When Naruto parked his car near his condo he had only 30 minutes left to get ready - it was a 15 minutes car ride to Sasuke's place and no way was he going to be late. He ran up the stairs as fast as he could and almost dislocated a shoulder trying to force open his door, forgetting to unlock it before attempting to open it.
"Come on, Naruto, get a grip." He whispered under his breath as he fumbled with his key for a couple of seconds.
He let out a loud exhale when he finally got the door open and ran to his shower, really thankful that he had set up his clothes for the night on the chair in his room before leaving for Millhaven this morning.
He was finally ready and halfway down the stairs when he realised that he could bring something else to make it interesting. He looked at his watch, and deciding that Sasuke could probably wait for him two minutes - or that he could run a red light or two on his way - he climbed back the stairs to go fetch something in his closet.
Sasuke had been waiting in the entrance hall for five minutes when a car finally pulled up in the driveway. Itachi, Kakashi, and Suigetsu all turned their head towards the door as the car's lights shone through the window.
"I don't want to see any of you looking through that window when I close the door." He said to them, noticing that Suigetsu was about to get up from his stool at the kitchen island.
"Way to ruin my fun, Sass'." Suigetsu sighed. He sat back on his stool and added, looking hopeful. "Tell me his name so we can stalk his facebook profile while you're gone."
Sasuke rolled his eyes and went out, not deigning Suigetsu with an answer. He walked slowly to the old Mazda 3, not wanting to look too eager and smiled a little when he saw Naruto waving happily to him through the windshield. How he had ended up going out with someone as genuine and happy as Naruto was still a mystery. A great mystery, he thought as he opened the passenger door and sat next to Naruto.
A quiet mystery, he thought after 10 minutes in the car without them talking to each other. He was definitely not a talkative person himself, but Naruto had looked to be one on their last encounters. The silence was only broken 5 minutes later when Naruto started chuckling nervously.
"Sorry, when I'm nervous I either never stop talking or shut up completely." Naruto said as he finally parked the car in a huge parking lots. "We're here."
Sasuke looked around, and except for the light coming from a lamppost in the street several meters away, there was nothing to see.
"Where are we?"
"It's a surprise!" Naruto opened his door, and smiled to him, trying to give himself a little bit of courage. "Come on, I'll show you!"
Looking at the dubious look on Sasuke's face, he put his right hand on his heart and said. "I swear on my honor that I'm not going to kill you and ditch your body in the river."
Sasuke smirked and finally got out of the car. "You can count me reassured then."
Naruto laughed a little and went to the back of the car. He picked up what looked like a picnic basket and handed it to Sasuke.
"Are we having a picnic in a creepy deserted parking lot? 'Cause that would be a first for me."
"Maybe another time. For now we're going this way." Naruto pointed South, towards the river. "A five minutes walk and we'll be to our final destination."
"I take it back, I'm not reassured at all."
Naruto didn't say a word, he just shook his head and took a long and quite large black case out of the trunk.
"That thing looks awfully like a gun, Naruto."
Naruto smiled, picked up a huge backpack and finally closed the trunk of his car with a bang. "Shhh, you'll ruin the surprise! Follow me." Naruto started walking, followed shortly by Sasuke.
The thing that look awfully like it could contain a gun, did in fact contain one. A Colt Canada C7 Service rifle to be exact. Naruto had told him after seeing his concerned face all the way to whatever place they were going. He had even offer him to take the gun case to made him feel more comfortable - and less about to be murdered - but Sasuke had refused and just said that he would not walk in front of him, making Naruto laugh.
When they finally reached the top of the little hill they were walking up to, Sasuke could finally see the very large silhouette of a building - more like a group of buildings - near the shore. There was not a lot to be distinguish since no light illuminated it but he figured out soon enough that this was an old prison - huge fences all around and all.
"What the hell?" Sasuke asked. "Are we breaking and entering?"
Naruto smiled, jingling a set of keys in his hands. "Is it illegal if I have the keys?"
"That depends on how you got them."
Naruto stayed silent, thinking that stealing them was indeed illegal, but except for some teenagers trying to scare themselves no one came around here anyway, unless they were doing something illegal themselves.
As they got closer, Sasuke started discerning more details, they were almost to the door of the fence when Naruto putted the gun case down, and kneeled on the ground to take something out of his bag. He handed a huge lantern for Sasuke to hold by the handle, before turning it on. The light was bright and they both blinked several time to get accustomed to it. It had a range of about 5 meters, which was pretty good, and Sasuke could now see all the holes that had been cut in the fence nearby. "You look like the perfect adventurer." Naruto said smiling.
Sasuke smiled a little in answer, with a picnic basket in one hand and a huge lantern in the other he probably looked a lot out of place. "You're sure there's not gonna be anyone inside?"
"Inside the fence? Probably, no one inside the buildings though. There is no real security since the electricity is cut around here, but there are still bars at each window with reinforced glass, same for the door. It would be hard to break in without making any noise that alerts the authority. "
Naruto lead them through one of the biggest hole in the fence, he probably had the key on his set but he didn't feel like trying them all to go in, he only knew for sure which key open the main door, and out of the 20 keys on the ring only some were identified with name like "bloc A","Armory", and "Cafeteria".
They walked the stone path to the entrance in silence, Sasuke was looking around a little bit nervously. There were beer cans, snack papers, and several cigaret butch everywhere he could look at.
When Naruto placed the gun case on the floor to free his hands and open the door. Sasuke was even more nervous, like someone would run out of the shadow and steal it before gunning them down.
He jumped when he heard the click of the door and Naruto opened the door. He was almost surprised that the key had worked. "After you." He entered, follow swiftly with Naruto, who hurriedly closed the door behind him and locked it again - he didn't want anyone following them inside.
Everything was grey inside, it was dull and cold, but the shiver Sasuke felt coming down his spine was one of excitement. As Sasuke was taking everything in, Naruto took the huge lantern from Sasuke's hand to put it back in his bag, and got two small flashlights out. He handed one to Sasuke and laughed at the incredulous look the other gave him.
"You had those from the beginning?" He asked.
"Yup, but seeing you with that huge lamp was hilarious."
Sasuke frowned but didn't say anything. "Alright so we'll find the generator room and everything will be a little less creepy."
"I thought that they had completely cut the electricity."
"Yes, but if the generator was completely charged when they did, we should be able to have some light at least for the night. The camera are not on that circuit so we'll be fine for that, only the electric doors and emergency lights will be activated." Making sure that the door was well locked and picking up all his things, Naruto started walking with Sasuke by his side.
"We just have to walk upstairs, it'll be one of the first door we'll see."
"How do you know all of this?"
"Oh, true." Naruto put his free hand in his hair and laughed awkwardly looking sheepish. "I do look suspicious. I've been here several time when I was younger, my godfather was the warden of this place and he'll bring me here often. Also, I was there when they discuss the security of Millhaven and it's pretty much base off of this one so..."
Naruto talked about the prison all the way to the generator room while Sasuke was taking everything in. This was definitely not the type of date he had been expecting, but it was great so far. Naruto was good at telling story, making Sasuke drink in every words he said effortlessly and it was really interesting.
When they got to the room, Naruto had to try half a dozen keys before he got the good one. Luckily for them the generator was indeed charged and the inside of the room was lit up in a dim light. Naruto put his backpack and gun case in one of the corner, only keeping the keys and flashlight with him.
"Alright so we can look everywhere you want to satisfy your curiosity then we'll go eat, good plan?"
"Great plan."
They spent the next hour walking all around the prison with Naruto telling stories and Sasuke asking questions. After a little while though the subject dropped from their environment to something a bit more personal. Sasuke mentioned how he became a writer - omitting to mention that all the darkness was due in part to his parent death, he didn't want to scare Naruto off the first night with his drama.
They shared a lot about themselves, and finally Naruto led them to another locked door. He found the key pretty fast for this one since it was inscribed on it. The door open only to a set of stairs and Sasuke started climbing them without questions, trusting at this point of the night that it was safe to walk in front of Naruto.
Another door - this time unlocked - was at the end of the stairs and Sasuke opened it and stepped through. They were on the huge roof of the prison.
"I didn't even noticed that it was a full moon tonight." Sasuke whispered.
"It looks really close from up here." Naruto indicated the basket that Sasuke was still holding. "Let's settle in."
They took out a red and white plaid blanket from the basket and Sasuke laughed. "I should've seen this coming."
"It's a classic!"
They both sat down, the basket in the middle of them. "What are we having for dinner?" Sasuke asked.
Naruto started getting all the dish and plate he had packed and answered. "I have no clue, I ask a friend of mine for something that doesn't need to be reheat - he's a cook - and I just threw everything in the basket with an ice pack. Let's find out."
There were three completely opaque tupperware containers, Naruto handed one to Sasuke and took one of the other.
"I've got sushi here." Sasuke said.
"I'm not sure, it looks like some sort of salad, there's greenish stuff in this."
Sasuke took the bowl for him to look at it better. "It's a tabbouleh salad, pretty good." Especially considering that there were cherry tomatoes inside of it.
The last container contained cheesecake which made Naruto squealed in delight. They split the sushis and the salad in the plates Naruto had added to the basket, and when they finally got to dessert they dug right into the bowl.
Afterwards, Naruto put everything back in the basket - except for the blanket - and putted it aside. He then laid down, close to Sasuke but not quite enough to touch him, and Sasuke did the same.
After a couple of minutes, Naruto broke the silence. "Do you know stuff about stars? I've always wanted to learn about constellations."
Sasuke scooted over a little and they were touching at the level of the elbow. He turned a little towards Naruto and pointed towards the sky. "You see the seven stars there that forms a pattern? That is Canis Major. It's brightest stars is name Sirius and it is the star closer to our sun. It is also the brightest star in the sky."
"Oh, but I thought that the brightest star was the Jesus one, you know the one in the North."
"You're thinking about Polaris. It's not even in the top 10 of the most luminous. It's the brightest star of its constellation though. Right there," he directed his finger a little more to the North. "In Ursa Minor. We can usually find the constellation Draco a little bit to the West, but it's not clear enough for us to see it tonight."
"That's awesome." Naruto murmured.
"If we were at a higher altitude there's a couple more that I could show you, but from here that's all I can do." Sasuke dropped his hand back on the blanket and it rested on top of Naruto.
"We'll get higher someday and you'll tell me." Naruto turned his hand to grip Sasuke's in his own. Sasuke only hummed as they kept looking at the stars in silence.
It was about an hour later when Sasuke remembered to ask again what Naruto had brought the gun for.
Naruto sat up slowly, letting go of Sasuke's hand. "Oh yeah, I was about to forget about that. You remember that first time we had coffee together? Well you were working and I rudely decided to join you. I told you about the gun they used in prison and how it's special because the recoil is directed backwards instead of upwards?"
"I remember."
"Well if it does not make you uncomfortable, I wanted you to experience it yourself. I know it is way easier to explain something in word when you've tried it for real."
"I've never fired a gun but I'm willing to try."
Naruto jumped on his feet and extended his hand to help Sasuke up. He quickly rolled up the blanket and pushed it in the basket with force.
The way back to the generator room was done pretty quickly. Naruto picked up all the stuff he had left there and lead them to a small corridor that connected the large building to a smaller one.
"There's a place for practice shooting in the far back."
Several targets were still hanging around the practice room, most of them already filled with hole. There was, luckily for them, 2 emergency light in this room which make it easier to show all the necessary tricks to Sasuke. Naruto showed him how to load the gun, and where to place it on his arm as to not be harmed too much by the recoil.
"I'm going to shoot a couple of time just to help you see the movement of it, it won't be that noisy but don't stand too close. "
Naruto shot three fast consecutive shots, and when he was done they both looked at the target. Sasuke's eyes widen and he whistled when he noticed the 3 new holes on the target, 2 in the chest, 1 in the head.
"Impressive."
"Still wanna try?" Naruto asked giving the gun to Sasuke.
Sasuke only nodded and Naruto gave him the gun, making some adjustment on his posture once Sasuke thought he was ready. The first shot completely surprised Sasuke and he almost dropped the gun.
"Shit!" He cursed.
Naruto chuckled softly. "Try again now that you know what to expect." And Sasuke did, he shot several time before he first hit the target, but it was right in the heart.
"This is exhilarating."
Naruto just laughed and as he was about to hand Sasuke more munition to keep firing all the lights turned off. The generator was completely dead now.
"I think it's a sign that we should pack up and go home." Naruto said a bit disappointed.
"Yeah, unfortunately."
"This is definitely cliché but I've been wanting to do this all night - well except for the 5 minutes where I thought that our final destination would be death." Sasuke said with a smirk slowly leaning over the shift stick of the car.
Naruto leaned in too and stopped about halfway, waiting for Sasuke to make the last movement.
Naruto felt like his body was being electrified, even if it started only as a slow touch of lips. He pressed in a little more, seeking this amazing sensation and Sasuke pressed back, sucking Naruto's lower lips softly. Unable to contain himself anymore, Naruto brought his right hand up in Sasuke's hair, pulling him even more to him turning the exchange into a full on fiery and passionate open mouthed kiss, eliciting soft moan from Sasuke. In this moment they both felt like never letting the other go, living in that moment forever.
The kiss ended with both of them a little out of breath, huge smiles across their faces.
"That was… really awesome." Naruto said in a whisper after a minute of silence. Sasuke chuckled a little and was about to go in for another kiss when Naruto added, "Not to ruin the mood but… is someone spying on us from the window?"
Sasuke sharply turned his head towards the house and groaned, "Suigetsu."
Naruto laughed a little, guessing that the man was either a friend of Sasuke or a member of his family. "Do you think he can see us?" He asked.
"Only one way to find out." Sasuke said before raising his middle finger in direction of the house. The curtains were closed abruptly and the silhouette disappeared from the window. "Sorry about this."
Naruto guffawed, slapping the steering wheel once or twice. "Dude, no problem. I know everything about nosy friends. My two best friends have probably been waiting for me in my living room for at least 2 hours." Naruto kissed him softly on the cheek and added. "I guess I should let you go now, before he decides to come watch us from the backseat."
Sasuke smirk and opening the car door stated, "I hope I'll see you soon."
Naruto beamed as Sasuke left his car.
When Sasuke got to his room, Suigetsu was laying on his bed, both arm behind his head with the creepiest smile on his face.
"What is that awful smile about?"
Suigetsu never wiped the smile from his face as he answered. "You just make me feel really special."