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Another chapter. Warning: this is where the story gets kinda weird.

Promises Not Made Are Promises Never Kept

Chapter Seven – The Hot Spring

"Gah, Naruto!"

Sasuke laughed and yelped at the same time as he was splashed, his hair pulled up into a ponytail.

"Don't be such a girl!" The blonde replied, laughing loudly as he chased Sasuke around the shallows. "C'mon – you're SURROUNDED by water where you live and I'm in deeper than you are! Get in here!"

It was a few hours after the noon mark now – Naruto had led Sasuke to the river where he had insisted they swim. They were both stripped to their boxers – Naruto's skin shockingly dark compared to Sasuke's – but Sasuke had yet to enter the water, instead wadding around where the river only reached up to his ankles. Naruto, being impatient, had begun to chase Sasuke around and splash him, trying to get him into deeper water.

"Nuuuuu!" Sasuke cried childishly, a grin on his face. "Stop! It's too cold!"

"Too cold?" Naruto demanded, splashing Sasuke heatedly again. "You're from The Village Hidden in the Mist! Don't TELL me it's too cold!"

Sasuke giggled.

"I can't help it!" He replied, hugging himself. "The ramen made me all warm and cozy inside! Let's just go to a hot spring or something!"

In truth, he didn't want Naruto to see what happened to him when he became immersed in cold water.

"Where's the fun in hot springs?" Naruto grumbled.

Sasuke blinked. HE could think of plenty of things one could do in a hot spring.

Pretty much all of which were morally questionable.

But personally, he liked them.

He doubted Naruto would think along those lines though.

He's still such a child…

Then again, fourteen wasn't that old in the first place, and even though Naruto was older than him by a couple of years, he doubted the blonde had any experience with that certain subject.

"I'm sure we could find something," he replied, his mind somewhere else entirely as he gazed at Naruto, soaking in the other's physique.

He had to be truthful – he wouldn't mind doing things with Naruto. The boy's body had grown, matured into something strong and firm.

I'd tap that.

The thought made Sasuke giggle a little. Then he wondered if the blonde had done anything with that Sai character.

It made him scowl.

He better have not.

Then he wondered if the blonde still had a crush on Sakura.

"-ke… SASUKE!"

He blinked, looked up at Naruto, who had apparently been trying to get his attention for some time.

"Yes?"

Naruto scowled at him.

"I was telling you that yes, we could go to the hot spring, IF you agree to try something with me first."

Sasuke blinked, his mind still in the gutter.

"Try… something…?" He shrugged. "All right."

"I can't believe this is what you meant."

Naruto glared at him.

"Oh shut up! You can't tell me you're not interested."

Sasuke gazed at him blankly, with just a little bit of impatience.

"Well, I admit, I AM bisexual, but who needs to do something like THIS when you've got a chick like Inaré on your team?"

Naruto stared at him – suddenly in awe.

"You mean you've DONE stuff with her?"

Sasuke blinked, blushed a little.

"Uh, well, yeah," he admitted, stammering. Naruto stared at him.

There was tense silence between them for a moment, then Naruto looked away to gaze at their target.

"Lucky," he muttered, making Sasuke mentally sigh in relief. "I would do ANYTHING to able to feel those things!"

Sasuke blinked.

"What, her boobs?" He asked bluntly. Naruto's blush deepened.

"Yeah…"

Sasuke had to fight against a laugh. The irony of it all – Naruto was two years older than him, but he had a countless amount of experience over the blonde.

It was too funny.

"They're not such a big deal," he replied, shrugging. "We both agree boobs are for nothing useful except to look good in a shirt and to make really nice pillows."

And toys, but that's for another conversation. Sasuke added mentally. Then he thought of something.

"But wait, what about that Sakura chick?" He asked the blonde next to him. Naruto shrugged.

"What about her?"

"Well, don't you have the hots for her or something?" He asked. The blonde blinked.

"I used to, but no, not anymore, I think. She's still a great friend and teammate, but I don't see her like that anymore. I haven't for a few years."

Sasuke 'oh'ed, and nodded, a little relieved. Naruto looked at him.

"So, are you ready?" He asked the raven. Sasuke gazed at him, scowling a little.

"As ready as I'll ever be, I guess," he replied. "Let's just get this over with. But, for God's sake – change out of that stupid jumpsuit!"

"Don't make fun of my jumpsuit-!"

"Can we just get this over with?"

Two plumes of smoke resulted and – after forcing Naruto to change into something else – they were ready.

As older, teenage women, Sasuke and Naruto strode into the female hot spring, Sasuke rolling his – now her – eyes and Naruto grinning from ear to ear.

It worked surprisingly well. Sasuke had been right to make Naruto take off the jumpsuit.

"This is stupid."

"Why?"

"Because. It's not like anything interesting is happening."

"Don't be like that."

"I WILL be like that! Can't we just go over to the other one? Unlike you, who apparently has some experience with this sort of thing, I am NOT comfortable!"

"Awe, why…?"

As a female, Sasuke blinked from where they lounged in a pool of steaming water, towels wrapped around their torsos as Naruto rested against a rock and Sasuke sat on the edge next to her, only her legs in the water.

They had managed to get in easily, passing off as twins with different hair colors – Sasuke had pulled Naruto's hair into a ponytail as well before they had entered.

The hot spring was relatively empty save for a few girls, and even they were talking about leaving soon.

Sasuke scowled.

"Did you think there was going to be a massive lesbian orgy or something?" She snapped quietly, irritably, to the blonde as the last of the women left. Naruto glared and looked away, and Sasuke rolled her eyes. "You DID, didn't you-?"

"Shut up!"

"Ugh."

Shaking her head, Sasuke slid a hand across her forehead, sighed.

"Idi-"

Her sharp hearing caught something moving behind the fence and she stilled, listening.

She grinned.

"Well well well…" she breathed, smirking and making Naruto give her a strange look. She shifted to move closer to the center of the spring, in front of Naruto. "Looks like you're not the only one who likes to eye women."

Naruto blinked.

"What on earth are you talking about?"

Sasuke looked over at the blonde, smirked. Whoever it was lingered behind the fence at Naruto's back.

Reaching up, Sasuke took her towel in one hand.

"Should I?"

Naruto's eyes went wide, and she blushed widely.

"Oh God, what're you doing?"

"Take off your towel," Sasuke ordered, her eyes twinkling in mirth. "C'mon – you know you wanna…"

The blonde swallowed, moving away from Sasuke.

"What… what're you doing…?"

Sasuke giggled, and the grip loosened.

"C'mon…"

A mischievous part of him now in control, Sasuke wadded over to her.

"Awe, now c'mon sister…" she breathed, smirking. Reaching up, she slid her feminine fingers across Naruto's jaw line. "Where's your sense of fun? C'mon – there's no one else, we're all alone – give in to your naughty side…"

Like a completely different person, Sasuke moved to straddle Naruto, naked beneath the towel and said towel pushed up to her hips.

Naruto was beat red by this time.

"N-no – stop!" She stammered as Sasuke's hands moved, nails scratching skin, fingers sliding beneath cloth. "Stop – what're you doing?"

"I'm doing what you want me to do…" Sasuke breathed, his eyes flashing. "Now c'mon – take off your silly little towel. Let's have fun."

The last word was breathed hotly into Naruto's ear, teeth nibbling on the lob, fingers trailing.

Naruto swallowed.

"S-sasuke…" he choked out, frozen beneath the other. "S-stop…"

"Why?" The raven breathed, gazing down at him. "This is what you want, isn't it? Why fight it?" His eyes flashed again. "Give IN."

One hand's fingers went to Naruto's throat, the other to her towel.

"I know you want to."

She yanked off Naruto's towel just as their lips locked, pressing their bodies together though they were still separated by Sasuke's own cloth, tossing it somewhere into the water.

"C'mon, Naruto…" she breathed into his lips, the other unresponsive beneath her. "Touch me."

That order seemed to knock some sense into the blonde, and she leaped up, knocking Sasuke away.

"This is…" she stammered, yanking her towel to her, covering herself. "This is madness!"

Turning, she leaped out of the spring and dashed into the building, leaving Sasuke by herself.

Blinking, she stood up in the center of the water, her mind blank with shock.

What on earth had just happened?

Then she sneaked a peak beneath her towel, and gasped.

"Oh God…" she breathed. "Oh God, oh God…"

She turned as well, and fled.

The person that had been watching them had seen what they wanted to see, yes.

But not in the way Sasuke had thought.

End Chapter Seven – The Hot Spring

Yes, yes, I know. The story just kinda ran away from me at this point.

Don't worry; the next chapter's even weirder.

But first! To write up a flashback...

Thank you. All of you. You all are lovely.

Love you guys!

DDB