I don't own Naruto.
( Tonbo - dragonfly )
Roommates
Dragonfly
Naruto had never had a pet before. His brother, Kyuubi, had had a dog when they were teens, and once they had taken care of a guinea pig when their neighbours had went on a trip to China. But he had never had a pet of his own.
It was hard to decide, Naruto noticed, as he looked down on six different kittens asleep before him. Sasuke was standing behind him, looking slightly bored as he stared out through the window. Naruto's eyes didn't leave the kittens as the shop owner walked out to them.
"See anyone you like?" The man asked, smiling.
"I like all of them," Naruto said, pouting slightly. The shop owner kneeled down next to him, reaching out a chubby hand and patting a one of the greyish kittens.
"They are damn cute, they are," the man agreed. Naruto looked the kittens all over again, noticing that one of them were staring at Sasuke, the green-yellow eyes never leaving the tall figure that was Naruto's boyfriend. Naruto looked up, seeing that Sasuke was glaring down at the kitten.
"That one," Naruto smiled and nodded toward the kitten that was staring up at his boyfriend. "He seems immune to Sasuke's glare."
"He does," the shop owner smiled. "So you're taking him?"
"Mhm!" Naruto nodded.
UAUAUA
Sasuke cursed; he had just found what he wanted to watch on the TV. Naruto was sitting on the floor, playing with his new kitten, which still didn't have a name. But he stood up and walked out to the kitchen, gripping the yelling phone.
"Hello?" He answered, his tone deadly and dangerous. He had wanted to see that movie for ages, but hadn't been able because of the project in school.
"Is Naruto there?" A soft, female voice asked. Sasuke wondered if it was that Hyuuga-girl, because she was the only female he knew having such a warm voice. He felt slightly bad for sounding so rude.
"Actually he is. Hang on a second." Sasuke walked back into the living room and handed the blonde on the floor the phone. Naruto looked at him questioningly, but Sasuke shrugged and sat down in the couch to continue watch his film.
"Hello?" Naruto answered. Sasuke glanced at his boyfriend. "No, mother." Sasuke's eyes widened in surprise; so he had talked to Uzumaki Kushina. "Thank you." Now he understood from where the dobe had gotten his calm side. "I don't know. I haven't talked to him since Christmas last year." Sasuke became a little curious; but only a little. "I don't want to talk with him!" Sasuke almost jumped a little in surprise when Naruto suddenly sounded so harsh. "Goodbye, mother."
Sasuke didn't bother to hide the fact that he had been listening. Naruto ignored him, scratching the happy kitten behind his ear carefully, making it purr.
"Naruto," he said carefully. "Are you ... okay?"
"Yes," the blonde muttered. "You think you can go and get the telephone catalogue?"
Sasuke frowned, he - like most people - hated being left in the dark. "Sure." He stood up, ignoring the fact that he had already missed the intro and the beginning of the movie. He walked to Kiba's room, scrunching his nose at the wet dog-smell and the dog hair everywhere. He walked over to the unorganized desk and opened the drawer. He picked up the fat catalogue and walked back to the living room.
The kitten was now lying in Naruto's lap, purring for all he was worth. Sasuke handed Naruto the catalogue and sat down in the sofa again. "Care to tell me who you're going to call?"
Naruto was silent as he flipped through the pages, until he found the page he searched. His slender finger ran over the names and numbers until it stopped. He sighed, dialling the number on the phone. Sasuke narrowed his eyes, trying to see whom Naruto was calling.
"Uhm, hi, Kyuubi. It's Naruto."
Sasuke could actually hear a loud, rough laugh on the other end, and was a little taken back. If that was Naruto's brother, the blonde certainly took after his mother. Not that Sasuke knew how she looked or anything.
"Thank you," Naruto said, his voice dripping with sarcasm. "I would agree with you, if I didn't know better."
Sasuke's ears itched; he wanted to know what Kyuubi was saying. The rough laughter could be heard again.
"I'm not a kid, Kyuubi. Mother was wondering if you cared to show up on her sister's birthday in November."
Sasuke had no idea that Naruto had an aunt, now that he thought about it ... he had no idea how Naruto's family looked. If it was big and happy, like Kiba's family. Or if it was small and quiet, like Gaara's. He knew more about Gaara's family than about Naruto's, and it embarrassed him.
"No, I'm not going. Never liked her." Kyuubi's laughter could be heard again, and Naruto actually brought the phone a bit from his ear this time. "I don't want to talk to you anymore-" Naruto bit his tongue, listening to what his brother had to say. "Don't show up there. Bye."
He put the phone away and moved to stand up. The kitten jumped off his lap, letting out an annoyed mewl. The blonde walked over to the sofa and sat down next to Sasuke, snuggling into his boyfriend's chest. "Hug me, Sasuke."
Confused, Sasuke embraced his lover and moved him to sit in his lap. The grey kitten glared at Sasuke.
UAUAUA
The days went in their normal pace, and Naruto was spending a lot time at the big local where TAD's yearly gallery was being held. At first, the blonde hadn't wanted to leave his new kitten, Tonbo, all alone. But Sasuke had talked him out of worrying. Shikamaru was home every day except Mondays, and Akamaru and Tonbo were getting along pretty well.
Naruto looked around in the local, smiling as he heard Sasori and Deidara yell at each other for the fifth time that day. The paintings had yet to be put up on the white-blue walls. They had fought with getting in every sculpture that was to be showed.
He was staring at the naked female that was done with only glue and old magazines. It was pretty cool that someone could manipulate paper that way. And Sai walked up behind him, putting an arm around his shoulders. "What's up, Naruto?"
"Who did this?" Naruto asked, pointing at the woman.
"Haku did it. Here," Sai handed him a bunch of metal plates. "These are the name signs, put them under the sculptures."
Naruto nodded, looking at the first plate as he walked to put it under the right statue.
UAUAUA
The eighteenth October reached Tokyo faster than Naruto had expected, and soon the local with glass ceiling was to be opened. Naruto was there seven o'clock, helping the teachers and older students as himself prepare and correct whatever needed to be fixed.
Sasuke, Gaara, Shikamaru and Kiba wasn't going to come until sometime during the afternoon, like most people, and the people that was interested in buying art was coming after nine o'clock, like they had done all years. Naruto had never been allowed to sell his art before. But now, when he was finishing school in one and a half year he was allowed to do so. Though, he didn't count on anything being sold.
"Oi, Naruto!" Deidara yelled out. "Come over here and help, un!"
UAUAUA
Four o'clock was when Gaara, Shikamaru, Sasuke, Kiba and his new girlfriend arrived. Naruto was then explaining to an elder woman how he had gotten the lines so sharp, since she had asked so nicely. Or more like demanded an answer how he was able to make such an outstanding picture when the motive was so simple.
Four o'clock was also when Neji, TenTen, Rock Lee arrived with some of their classmates. And Naruto wasn't sure, but he thought he could see Konohamaru with his friends by the entrance.
"It's really simple," Naruto said, wishing the dark-haired lady would understand soon. "I just used a straw, you know, the ones you drink with. And blew."
She raised her eyebrows, huffed, and looked at the painting again. Then she huffed again and walked away to watch something else. Naruto sighed in relief. Sai walked over to him. "Your boyfriend and your friends are here," the pale artist said happily.
"I'll let them watch themselves." Naruto nodded. "Oi, Sai, what's that?" He nodded on a scroll that Sai was holding.
"This is your delayed birthday present. It wasn't finished until the tenth, like I had counted it to be." He unrolled the scroll, showing Naruto one of the most detailed picture he had ever seen. "I went through your wallet and found one of those small stickers you have, with you and Sasuke on it. So I thought I'd make it bigger and better."
Naruto practically threw himself at Sai. "Thank you, Sai!" The older artist chuckled, and hugged back. "But if you ever go through my wallet again, I'll kick your ass!"
They let go off each other, and Sai gestured for Naruto to go to Sasuke. "I'll put this in the back room with your stuff."
"Thank you," Naruto smiled and then walked over to the raven-haired Uchiha. "Hi, sweetie." He took Sasuke's hand, entangling their fingers.
"Care to show us around?" The Uchiha asked. Naruto nodded and they started from the entrance. He told them a little about the artists, his classmates, and the artworks. Kiba commented almost everything, while Hinata blushed as soon as she saw something that was naked. Soon they reached a line of big oil-paintings.
There was one person on each canvas. A grinning Kiba, with his brown hair ruffled and sharp teeth showing and red tattoo scrunched with his cheeks. A smirking Gaara, his jade eyes looking like they focused on something far away, and the ai-tattoo on his forehead visible through red strands of hair. A tired, though happy looking Shikamaru, his brown eyes half-lidded and his brown hair put in his usual ponytail. And then there was a smug-looking Uchiha with styled, raven hair and a sexy smirk.
"These are amazing! I look so hot!" Kiba yelled out, earning a few glances from the people around him. Hinata blushed.
"Do I really look that lazy?" Shikamaru leaned forward, looking better at the painting. "It's really good, Naruto."
All Gaara and Sasuke was doing was smirking proudly. "Good work, dobe." Sasuke murmured into the blonde's golden hair, hugging him tight from behind.
They were interrupted as they heard a loud, rough laughter. It would have reminded of Kiba's, if it hadn't been so deep and mean. While Kiba's rough laughter was contagious, this laughter told you that you had screwed up and this person was laughing at you.
Naruto paled. "Damn him." He growled. "He showed up anyways." He turned to his friends. "I apologize before hand for my brother, but will probably do it again later."
Sasuke and Gaara glanced at each other, while Kiba looked around for a blonde. But he found no other blondes than a few female guests, Naruto and that weird teacher. Instead, a red-head with dark brown eyes walked up to them. He was tall and had a well-built body, looking much like they would imagine a criminal.
"Yo, lil' bro! What's up?" The red-head walked up to Naruto, who didn't look at him. "Oi, Naruto!"
"Hi, Kyuubi." Naruto muttered. They almost dropped their jaws. This was Kyuubi? They had imagined Naruto's older brother blonde and blue-eyed with the same carefree and happy personality. This was not what they had expected.
"These are your friends? Not gonna introduce me?" Kyuubi flashed sharp teeth, looking like he had had a surgery to make them that way. They also noticed a tattoo sneaking its way up the older Uzumaki's neck.
"Uhm, this is my brother, Kyuubi. Kyuubi, this is Shikamaru, Gaara, Kiba and his girlfriend Hinata and this is my boyfriend, Sasuke." Naruto said.
"Boyfriend, huh. Finally. I never thought you would loosen up and let someone fuck you."
"Kyuu!" Naruto hissed.
Kyuubi shrugged. Then he looked at Sasuke. "Do you swallow, pretty boy? I've always told Naruto to swallow, it's rude not to."
Naruto looked at his friends helplessly, like he was ready to break down any minute. "You should go home," he said. "I'm sorry. I really am. He's not been the same since he got out of jail."
Kiba choked on his saliva. Shikamaru merely raised his brows, too lazy to show more shock. Sasuke and Gaara stayed stoic, trying not to show their surprise. They would never have guessed that a relative to Naruto would have been in jail.
"I'm not going home," Gaara spoke up. "I'm staying. I haven't seen all of your work yet."
"The more the merrier!" Kyuubi chuckled, moving to put a hand on Naruto's shoulder. But the blonde slapped it away. "Itai, lil' bro!"
"Go back to where you came from, Kyuu."
"Aw, you don't mean it. Besides, I don't have a car."
"Steal one then! Just go!"
The red-head walked away, probably to go and disturb some innocent ladies.
Naruto was biting on his lower lip, trying not to cry. Sasuke raised his hand and ran his thumb over Naruto's lips, smiling. "Let's continue dobe. Don't worry about him over there, he seems a little busy." They looked at Kyuubi, who was studying a naked, female stone sculpture.
Naruto took a deep breath.
"Yeah, don't worry, dude," Kiba agreed. "Though, you have to tell us why he was in jail."
Naruto frowned. "Can't we do that later? It's really embarrassing." His frown turned into a scowl when Sasuke kissed his temple, as if saying that it couldn't be that embarrassing. "It is, teme."
They continued to walk along the walls, Naruto presenting the artworks like before. Sai joined them after a while, much to Sasuke's dislike. It was already getting dark when Sasuke and the others decided it was time to go home.
"I'll come and get you with the car eleven o'clock, okay?" Gaara said. Naruto nodded, glancing at his brother, who was sitting on a bench, looking bored out of his mind.
When they had left, Naruto walked over to his brother. He stopped in front of the bench, and Kyuubi looked up, his eyebrows raised in a silent question. Naruto nodded, before sitting down next to his red-haired brother.
UAUAUA
When Naruto came home, he was tired and not in the mood to do anything. He played a little with Tonbo in the bed, before the little kitten became tired and fell asleep by the blonde's feet.
Sasuke walked into the room, looking worried. He laid down next to his boyfriend. "We'll talk tomorrow."
To Be Continued
Next Chapter: Ego
Lime: (Masturbation) someone kicked Sasuke's ego, so Naruto has to do all the work himself.
Why was Kyuubi in prison? Did he steal a car? Did he rape someone? Or maybe ... he killed a butterfly. In next chapter I also promise you that Sasuke will find out why Naruto dislikes his parents!