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Bold dream state or flashback

Naruto had no idea what was going on. One moment he's talking and next, he can't move due to something on his mouth. It was soft and was pressing lightly on his lips. The thing he enjoyed the most and couldn't get enough of was the taste, vanilla and a trace of cinnamon.

Opening his eyes that he didn't remember shutting, everything came back to him and he started to panic. He was there at Sasuke's apartment, talking to Sasuke, and Sasuke was the one kissing him.

Putting his hands on the raven's chest, he did something he wasn't expecting to do. The blond pulled Sasuke closer, ravishing the taste and wanting more, but not willing to break the gentleness of it all.

It all felt too short when Sasuke pulled back, needing air, but then again so did Naruto.

Finally, the severity of what just happened settled in and Naruto began to panic again. Sasuke just looked down right uncomfortable, when really, he felt guilty. He initiated the kiss, probably stealing the blonde's, and his, first kiss.

Without even thinking, Sasuke apologized and ran back into the apartment and into his room, locking the door; the bird's song entrancing a stunned Naruto. All he could do was stand there and touch his fingers lightly on his lips like the girls in the romance movies.

His heartbeat slowed with the fading of the floor's sound. Sighing, Naruto turned to gaze back at the sky that had lost most of its clouds. Sitting down in one of the chairs, he watched the clouds pass by; letting his thoughts wander. Not about Sieto this time, this time they were about Sasuke and losing his first kiss.

Naruto stood staring wistfully at Sasuke's white door. The sun was now setting, halfway below the horizon and turning the sky a hue of reds, oranges, and yellows. Ever since the incident, Sasuke hadn't come out of his room at all. Naruto was worried, he wouldn't say he didn't like it, in fact he loved it. But Sasuke….

The blond admitted it when he pulled Sasuke closer to him; he had affections for the raven. The thing he was confused about was, why and when did he get them?

Bringing a clenched hand up to hover in front of the door by only a few inches, Naruto prepared to knock, but didn't. Bringing his hand to lay back down by his side, Naruto walked to the kitchen to eat dinner. By himself.

Sasuke sat slouched on a chair, looking out the only, and opened, window in the room. He stayed there just staring out at the sky that turned from cerulean blue to scarlet red; some random birds flying into his vision time to time.

'Why did I do it?' he repeatedly asked himself but every time he did, he came up with the same answer. 'Because I wanted to.'

But that answer only made more questions come into his head, each one seemingly harder to answer. 'Why did I want to?' That was the only question though, he couldn't answer. Why did he want to kiss Naruto so bad?

Sasuke let his mind rewind to what happened earlier to find out exactly why he wanted to. He remembered Naruto's speech that just didn't seem like it could come from someone radiating that much innocence. Through the past events of the last two weeks, Naruto seemed so depressed and broken, and when he was talking, he looked peaceful, happy….and down right beautiful.

Damnit, since when did Sasuke start thinking of the blond as beautiful.

The Uchiha groaned in confusion as he rested his elbows on his knees and his face on his two palms. The last of the suns rays disappearing revealing the darkness of the night sky; the little specks of light all across the sky from the stars.

Naruto cautiously opened the door of his temporary room and gazed out of the apartment. The coast was clear; Sasuke had just left moments ago for school. By the raven's standards, the blond still couldn't go to school but Naruto wanted to see everyone.

Opening the door completely, Naruto went into the kitchen, grabbed a piece of toast and left the apartment making sure to lock the door behind him. As much as Naruto didn't want to walk alone, he wanted even more to go to school. He'd just have to put up with it, he decided than ran a little, till the back of Sasuke was visible. That was able to give him some bit of comfort.

Fixing his bag that was thrown over his left shoulder, Naruto once again ran a little so he was able to keep Sasuke in his sight. Even though he thought that would help his paranoia, it did the opposite. Sasuke was so far away and that just made Naruto's emotions run even wilder.

Turning his head to look behind him the blond picked up his pace to a fast walk. He just felt like someone was following him, but there was no one behind him. Looking behind him one last time, he didn't see the person on front of him until they hit. Forehead connecting with the back of a head.

Grunting out in pain, Naruto rubbed his now sore forehead. When the pain subsided to a dull throbbing, Naruto re-opened eyes he closed during the impact to look at who had hit who had turned around to see who had hit them.

"Temari!" Naruto screeched loudly, almost blowing out the blonde girl's ear-drum.

After regaining her ability to hear and think, Temari looked at the grinning blue-eyed boy giving a smile of her own. "Naruto you're back!" she welcomed before irritation of what just happened settled in. "Hey blondie, watch we're you're going!" she yelled.

Naruto only laughed at the insult. "That's fine for Kiba to use, because he's not blond himself!" he shot back and laughed at the pissed look on Temari's face.

"Whatever, just come on, at this pace we're gonna be late for school." She gritted out and turned around walking away soon followed by Naruto.

After they walked at least a block from where they met, Temari decided to ask the question that had been bugging her the whole week Naruto was gone. "What happened, why were you gone for a week?" she asked quietly.

Naruto blinked a couple of times, Temari was never really one to break silence but the question was a good one. Well, in Naruto's case, it was the worst one they could ask as he realized that he really hasn't come up with an excuse for that.

"I got a cold!" he blurted out of nowhere, mentally hitting himself. He really needed to learn to think, and then re-read what he was going to say before he said it.

Temari gave him a stare that looked right into his soul. After about a minute of staring she looked away. "I guess that's reasonable, you aren't exactly the smartest eater in the world, so your immune system may not be the best." Naruto smiled, letting out a silent sigh of relief. "But, then again it is spring, close to summer so…" she finished once again glaring at the now panicking boy.

"Um…w-well…y-you see….um…" swallowing and taking a deep breath, Naruto calmed himself. And with calmness, comes mental sharpness. Naruto remembered that just before he was admitted into the hospital, it had been raining non-stop for a week. With more confidence in his excuse this time, he restarted his sentence. "You see, I had to walk home from school on Friday when I got a rip in my shoe," he explained pointing to an already existing hole in his shoe. "The water seeped in and walaa, I got a cold!" he explained with a smile.

Temari still glared at him suspiciously as they arrived on the school grounds. "I st…" The rest of her sentence was cut off as the school bell went off, ringing in the air outside and inside the school.

"Sorry got to go don't want to be late, see you later Temari!" Naruto said, quickly jumping at the opportunity of escape and ran inside the doors and to class.

Naruto really didn't want explain to Temari what really was going on. She'd do one of two things, one: she'd be like Sasuke and demand that they find him right away and put him on death row; or two: she'd be pissed at him for not saying anything earlier. Then again, there was the chance that she'd do both one and two.

Sighing, Naruto walked slowly to first block, he was already late so why be in a hurry to get there. Reaching the door, he was about to pull open the door when he realized, this was the day where he had every single class with Sasuke. Blushing, he tried to think of something to do, or more like what would happen due to last night.

His train of thought was interrupted though when the door handle was yanked away from him. Looking up he came eye to eye with the startled gaze, but it soon turned into annoyance, of the teacher there.

"Thank you for re-joining us, have a nice break?" he asked.

'What, am I that much of a trouble maker that you think I'd skip out of school for a week? Oh wait, I have….well I had good reasons just none that I could share with you….' Once again Naruto's thoughts wandered off and once again they were broken by the teacher.

"You are joining us aren't you?" he asked after an irritating minute of the blond not responding to him.

Quickly nodding, Naruto walked into the class room and went to sit in his seat, next to the raven. For a second, Naruto saw the raven's eyes look at him but quickly looked away. His posture showed that he was relaxed but his eyes showed minor shock and….fear. Sasuke was scared to be near him, was that it?

Maybe he had looked wrong because as he sat down, Sasuke remained the same.

Coming back in and taking a calming deep breathe, the teacher started the announcements for today's class, some though had to do with the school. The announcements having to due with his class though ran along the lines of that their project was due in a week.

Both Sasuke and Naruto both thought the same thing. 'Shit!'

Sasuke walked on the sidewalks as he headed home from staying after school to finish up a project. He would have finished it in class but his mind kept replaying last night's kiss, and the questions that arose with it.

Before he knew it though, Sasuke was standing in a little ways from his apartment door looking at a sleeping Naruto. Was the boy an idiot, sure it was spring, almost summer but to just fall asleep outside an apartment in which people walk by everyday.

Kneeling down in front of the blond, Sasuke felt the same tightening in his chest that it did the day before. Naruto had that same, if not a more peaceful expression on his face as his eye lids lightly covered those sky eyes as blond hair fell just below the eye bone to the left side due to his head resting on his left shoulder for support.

Without thinking, the raven lightly stroked a whisker scared cheek; the tan skin smooth. Sasuke was amazed that with all the beatings Naruto received, his body still held a baby complexion.

Snapping out of it, Sasuke quickly moved his hand to Naruto's right shoulder and gently shook him awake.

Eye lids slowly opened, revealing those orbs that told Naruto's feeling openly. Once they were fully open, he looked up then side to side, finally catching the image of Sasuke unlocking the door to his apartment and walking in.

Still partly dazed, the blond stood up and entered the apartment as well, stretching his stiff muscles. When he was done he threw his bad down on the ground but then quickly picked it back up, remembering that it wasn't his place.

"It's fine, leave it there." Naruto looked up to Sasuke looking at him, and then turned to walk into the kitchen. Those were the first words, he had said to him all day and they were so soft that he could barely hear them.

Giving a delayed nod to no one, Naruto threw his bag back down on the ground and followed Sasuke into the kitchen. He couldn't help but laugh quietly as he saw zed raven shoulders deep in the refrigerator, moving stuff from side to side in search of food.

At the sound of laughter though, Sasuke removed himself from the refrigerator's expanse and turned to glare at the blond. "What?" he murmured a piece of ham already in his mouth.

At this the blond couldn't help but laugh out loud even more. His laughing came to a halt as he felt a hand cover his mouth. "What…?!" Sasuke asked again, the piece of ham gone, probably already eaten. The only reminisce of it was a little piece that was stuck on Sasuke's chin.

Naruto felt the heat rise up into his cheeks making them pinker at the thought of licking that piece right off his porcelain skin. Frantically shaking his head 'no', he stepped away from Sasuke as soon as the raven released him.

Sasuke's eyes all narrowed at this, he was sure he saw the blonde's cheeks flare up in color but at what? His question was answered when he felt the stray piece of ham on his chin and quickly grabbed, sticking it into his mouth; then walking back over to submerge himself into the confines of the refrigerator that held food.

Seeing as Sasuke was too busy wanting and getting food, Naruto turned to the family room and turned on the television. Not long after Sasuke came into the room but didn't even look at him as he passed the blond and went into his room, a sandwich in hand.

Watching as the raven boy's back was covered up by the door. Turning back to the television he saw that the news was on. A female reporter saying that a meteorite shower was going to happen tonight, a picture of the night sky with shooting stars raining down in the corner of the screen.

With this newly acquired information, Naruto came up with a plan to answer the questions that had been circling in his head all day, and possibly clear the awkward air that surrounded him and Sasuke, but there was also the chance that they would never talk to each other again.

Naruto though was willing to take the chance.

Sasuke reread the note one more time from the confines of his room. He sat on the bed; a plate covered in crumbs from his long ago eaten sandwich lay in front of him. His eyes narrowed as he read the scribbled message on the paper for the eleventh time in the past two hours.

Sasuke

We need to talk. Meet me out on the veranda at midnight. You might like it.

The note wasn't signed but he knew from the awful hand writing that this was all Naruto's idea.

Sighing Sasuke looked at his digital clock that read 11:30 before letting his chin fall to his chest. What was he going to do? What did Naruto want to talk about? There was only one way to find out.

Sasuke looked out his window, waiting for it the time to turn to midnight.

Naruto looked at the starry night sky, not a cloud in the sky, and then looked down at his watch. It was almost midnight and he was starting to have second thoughts about his little plan.

Since he placed the note under the door, he hadn't once thought of what exactly he was going to ask Sasuke, wasn't that a smart thing? Looking back up to the sky, he was caught by surprise when he heard the door slid open and the nightingale floor come to life as Sasuke stepped out onto the veranda.

"What did you want to talk about, dobe?" he asked softly, calming walking up to stand by the blond.

Naruto looked down at his now twirling thumbs, still thinking to himself of how to say this to Sasuke. He guessed he really didn't have to think about what to say, the questions have been on his mind for more then twenty-four hours now.

Sasuke looked side-ways at the blue-eyes boy who wasn't answering his questions. He would have questioned again but he was stopped by the sight of a slight blush across Naruto's cheeks. It was obvious Naruto was struggling with his words but he'd get it eventually.

Turning his eyes back to gaze at the sky, Sasuke waited patiently for his answer.

'Crap! Come on now just ask it already, it's not that hard of a question!' Naruto thought angrily at himself. It was true his question was easy to ask…

"What is love?" but not easy to answer.

Sasuke sighed in relief and new found frustration. It wasn't the question he was expecting and he was glad but this question was probably harder to answer. "What do you mean by that?" he asked trying to stall the inevitable.

"Like…you know how planets pull stars and moons towards them, then, what pulls people to each other? I want to know if even the thunderous howls of the gods, who walk in the fields of heaven, separate two in love." Naruto asked quietly.

"You're asking me a controversial issue. No one knows exactly why others love each other." Sasuke answered, wondering where exactly Naruto was taking this.

"Just answer the question you best you can, anything will do. I want to know what you think about this." Naruto asked, turning pleading blue orbs on Sasuke.

Sasuke turned his head down to look at the earth, thinking his answer. This question no one person could answer the same and you could only fully answer that question by looking deep in your heart. Unfortunately for Sasuke, he never really did that, he was a practical guy, always thinking that everything had a solution. "Are you sure you want to ask this question to me…?" Sasuke asked in a joking tone.

Naruto only replied with a glare and a serious tone. "Sasuke…"

Glaring back at the blond than returning his gaze to the ground, Sasuke tried to answer as best he could.

"Love is: a profoundly tender, passionate affection for another person; a feeling of warm personal attachment or deep affection, as for a parent, child, or friend; a sexual desire; a love affair; an intensely amorous incident; amour."

Naruto shook his head at Sasuke's explanation. "I don't want a dictionary definition; I want your personal opinion on this."

"Personal opinion huh…?" Sasuke said that closed his eyes to start thinking but soon reopened them when he felt a hand over his chest; over his heart. It was Naruto's.

"Yeah, you know, what your heart thinks love is not, not what a dictionary says it is." Naruto said after pressing lightly on his chest before retreating his hand to lay back down by his side. "It's a simple concept if you open up to me."

For some reason, Sasuke's eyes softened at Naruto's almost pleading posture and eyes and suddenly he had an answer.

"I think love is the feeling you get when a person around you gives you pure happiness. In fact, I think just the thought of that person can give you happiness. Even though sometimes you can find that person annoying as hell or depressed by some stupid you said to them, they still want to be with you. With that person by your side you feel like time could go on forever. Besides they say that true love never has happy endings, because true love never dies."

Naruto thought about it for awhile then smiled and started laughing,; soon after tears started streaming down his cheeks and falling down onto the railing of the veranda..

"Hey, wait, why are you crying?" Sasuke questioned, confused and worried at the blonde's sudden change of behavior.

"It's just that…," Naruto paused as he choked on a sob that raked throughout his body. "the things you said are…," another sob. "are the feelings I feel for you!" he said giving Sasuke a smile but the beauty of it was tainted by the salt water that came from his eyes. "So I guess that means I love you huh?"

Sasuke eyes widen considerably at Naruto's last statement as it kept repeating itself through his head. At this point his heart was beating so fast it was impossible to discern each individual beat. Before he knew what was happening he lifted a hand, gentle wiping away dry tears on the blonde's face with his thumb, while his four fingers lifted Naruto's chin and held in place.

After successfully making it so that no water was left on Naruto's face, Sasuke leaned in closer until he was staring at azure eyes, faces only a mere couple of inches away, the breathes already dancing with each other.

Shifting his weight forward, Naruto leaned up resting his hands gently on Sasuke's muscular chest. His eyes automatically starting to shut, somehow coming to a close as his and Sasuke's lips met once again in a gentle embrace.

Sasuke's hands somehow found their way down to take hold of Naruto's slim hips; Naruto's hands remaining lightly pressed against the raven's chest.

Becoming bold and wanting to taste more of the blond, Sasuke moved his lips down to suck on Naruto's bottom lip. Gasping slightly for air at the pressure now being put on his bottom lip, he felt Sasuke's lips move back up and stick his tongue in his mouth which Naruto was all to willing to accept.

The raven's tongue ran along the blonde's teeth and inside of his cheek before finding Naruto's tongue; loving the taste of lavender and roses within him. Neither tongues battled for dominance, both just danced with each other, enjoying the mixing of their tastes.

Finally breaking apart for air, both just stared at each other before Sasuke pulled his hands that were still resting on Naruto's hips, towards him, causing the blue-eyes boy to come with them into a hug.

"I guess I love you too." Sasuke answered quietly, tightening his embrace.

"Sasuke look…" Naruto said as he turned his head, along with Sasuke's, to look at the multiple meteorites now falling down from the sky. "The sky's crying."

Sasuke shook his head 'no', eyes still on the shower on stars. "Nah….it's just waving hello." Sasuke said taking Naruto's hand in his as he walked over to a near-by deck chair and sat in it, placing the blond on his lap.

The nightingale's song singing happy wishes to them as they watched the starry night sky rain down its happy wishes as well.