The first time I saw you

All Naruto could think about was beautiful. The boy beneath him looked like a flower, and he felt scared to touch if, if his big, clumsy hands would break it. Carefully Naruto let his thumb stroke the reddening cheek, and he felt the same red and pink colour turn up on his own.

When Naruto looked at the boy, he was reminded of a story about knights and princesses. Sasuke looked like he had stepped out from a fairytale, only to save Naruto from his miserable life.

Naruto smiled and let his lips meet the others once more.

First, Naruto hadn't had a thought about telling the last Uchiha how he felt. He smiled into the kiss, and he Sasuke smiled at him. Such a beautiful smile.

Sasuke had never seen a creature so handsome as Naruto. When Sasuke was thin and sharp, Naruto was strong and healthy, and he hadn't that perfect skin as Sasuke, but still he thought the skin looked more delicious. Naruto was pale though, something he had seen the first time he saw Naruto's hand. The man over him had three marks on each cheeks, and if Sasuke hadn't known better, he would have thought it was scars. The dimples in each of the blonde's cheeks looked so cute he felt a smile come up his lips.

And the hair. The sunshine, golden hair. Sasuke roam through it, and he wondered how it could be so soft, and at the same time so strong.

Naruto still hovered over Sasuke, and both of them didn't know what to say. They didn't need to say a thing, not yet. Now they could only breath each other in.

Sasuke let his hands trace down, feeling Naruto's untrained muscles under the white yukata, and he wondered how they would feel once Naruto would be able to train enough again. He had understood, in the apartment of Naruto's, that Naruto probably was a very skilled ninja. Naruto had said that he used to be a ninja, but they way he had told Sasuke, made Sasuke know that the blonde really missed it.

He wondered what dreams Naruto had had.

Naruto chuckled, a deep, bubbling laugh, and he saw Sasuke trembled underneath it, just as Naruto trembled underneath Sasuke's wandering hands over his chest. Naruto smelled Sasuke, and as he had smelled earlier, he felt the scent of freshness, though Sasuke had probably run or something, making a small smell of sweat make it's way into Naruto's sensitive nose. It wasn't much, and Naruto found himself liking the way a trained Sasuke smelled.

He heard the dark-haired boy with night eyes gasp under him as he smelled into were his neck and shoulders met.

"Sasuke..." he whispered.

"Naruto," came the answer as quiet as his.

Naruto sat up, pulling the Uchiha with him, and smiled a wide smile. Sasuke looked in fascination at the smile, wondering how a mouth could looks so beautiful. The white teeth glistened, and the beautiful blue eyes was glittering. The Uzumaki looked like the most beautiful day itself.

"We have to get out of here," Sasuke said when the reality hit him, hard. Naruto's smile faded, and he shook his head.

"Not we, Sasuke. I." The Uchiha flinched.

"What?"

"Sasuke, I can't take you with me. I'm dangerous." The smiling lips didn't reach the sad eyes. "Sasuke, if you come with me on my run, you also will be hated, and you have to run, and people will try to kill you. I can't do that to you." The voice died down, and so did the eyes, looking down in his knees. But all Sasuke could look at was Naruto's face. How could he say something stupid like that?

"Dobe, I will not leave you. You are idiot if you believe things like that. i don't care if they chase me, as long as I can be with you."

He watched Naruto's head turn up, eyes tearing and a smile tugging at his lips.

"Thank you," he said. "But you can't. You don't know anything about me or how dangerous I am."

"I don't care."

"You do."

"No."

"I was the one making Itachi die."

The silent fell over the forest, and Sasuke could heard the crowd of black birds fly to the sky. Soon it would be winter, and the birds where heading south. Sasuke cleared his throat.

"What?"

"I was the one who made Itachi die."

Sasuke had to think it through. Naruto had been the one making Itachi go executed. Was he angry?

"So what?"

"What do you mean so what?!" Naruto yelled, suddenly really upset. "He was your only brother!"

"Like I care when he killed my whole family!" Sasuke yelled back. Sasuke was not a human by nature who yelled, but he was just as upset as Naruto. How could the man believe this mattered, and their days together didn't?

The silence fell over them again.

Sasuke sighed and drew a hand through his hair.

"Naruto, Itachi killed my family when I was eight, and ever since then, I have trained to kill him. When he was executed, sure, I was mad as hell, but I don't care. It was five fucking years ago, and I'm sick of thinking of him."

"But," Naruto began, but was interuppted.

"But nothing." Sasuke said. He let his eyes wander to the blue sky. It really was the same colour as Naruot's eyes. "Just tell me what happened," he whispered.

Naruto hesitated. And then he sighed, leaning his back to a branch.

"It was my first week at the prison, when he saw me. Of course I knew who he was, he was rather famous. I just didn't think you would hate him. The other prisoners really looked up to him, but when I tried to talk to him, he attacked me." Naruto sighed. Itachi had been one of the stronger ninjas he had fought, and the memories from the fight was not beautiful. "He attacked me, and of course, it had to do with Kyuubi. He had searched for me in years. Did you know he belonged to the Akatsuki?"

Sasuke nodded. He knew - he still had the cloak from the brother at home. A hundreds of times he had tried to burn the clothing, but he didn't dare.

"Kyuubi...Kyuubi liked the idea of fighting with someone who had searched for him, and afterwards, the prison looked like hell. Tsunade and Jiraya fought for me, and made me live, cause you know, I wasn't the one to start the fight, but since no one protected Itachi or stood up for him, he was executed." Naruto's voice faded away. He felt the shame roll over him. He looked at his hands. And the claws that was turning back to normal nails.

He was a monster.

Sasuke shook his head, crawling forward to Naruto and laid his head on the hurt mans chest. He closed his eyes, and let his arms wrap around the other's body.

"Naruto," he said, muffled into the white yukata and the beautiful chest. "Are you aware of what you are saying?"

The blonde haired boy looked down at the sight of the other leaning into his breast. Why? He wasn't worth this kind of attention. Sasuke should hate him. Sasuke should put him back in prison. He saw his filthy, bloody hands lay themselves on Sasuke's back, stroking. It felt so good, to have someone close.

Naruto was usually scared of human contact. The few times Tsunade and Jiraya hugged him made him tremble, and he couldn't take it. He wasn't used to the feeling of being taken care of, that someone or someones what gentle to him.

When he was small, all contact he got was from the fights with his few friends and on his missions and from the hateful villagers. He had killed their family's, and he had killed Sasuke's last family member.

"Wh...What?" he managed to say. His blonde hair fell in front of his eyes. His heart tingled as he felt the Uchiha laugh a loving laugh.

"You are not the one to blame. Itachi attacked YOU, and he made YOU imprisoned here, where no one could ever find you," Sasuke said. "Itachi have made so many hurtful things, and I can't forgive him for one. Naruto, I promise you. We have to leave. We. You and me. I will never leave you, and I will never turn my back against you, and I will never walk away. Even if we fight I will stick with you, cause I know, that is the right thing to do. And I promise you, it is not a gesture of pity, no Naruto."

"Then why?"

"I love you."

And Sasuke knew, although Naruto was not able to make words of his feelings, he knew the young man felt the same about him. It was all written in the sunshine eyes, and the sunshine smile, and the tears that reflected the sunshine from the real sun. Which now that was.

"Now, let's get out of here," Naruto finally said, and they dashed to the village.

Once they finally made it to the gates, Naruto spoke up.

"Let us meet up here when he got our things." Sasuke shook his head.

"I will not let you out of my sight." He said. He looked at the taller boy. The fact that the other one was taller had came clear when they had made it out from the leaves and branches from the big tree, and Sasuke had felt slightly annoyed. He was tall, yes, but Naruto was taller. Hell, the man had to be some numbers over 6,7 foot tall. Hell, the man was a tree. It would be hard to not see the dobe.

"Teme," the Uzumaki said, as If he had heard Sasuke's mental assault. Sasuke smirked. No, he would not leave Naruto's side, not even now. In the village there was so many dangers, and Sasuke would never forgive himself if it happened Naruto something when he was away.

If something happened, he would kill himself.

"No," he said. "We go together. In that way I can protect you if something happens."

Naruto smiled at him, and they both knew that Naruto was so strong that he didn't need any kind of protection.

"Okay," he said, and they went to the Uchiha district.

Sasuke realised that he didn't have so many things to take with him. He had his weapons, and his clothes, though he really needed to buy some new ones. He looked into the mirror, and after a second thought he packed that one too. Sasuke didn't know where they where heading, and if he couldn't make himself handsome for Naruto, then...He blushed. He sounded like a little girl in his very own fanclub.

But the mirror was packed down in his bag.

Sasuke knew Naruto was waiting outside the house, but he still took the way in front of Itachi's old bedroom that had stayed untouched. He opened the door and stepped inside. Probably this would be the last time he saw the room, and he felt weird at that thought. Even after Itachi's dead he had only thought about the older brother. And now he knew why the man was executed, and he felt...free.

Like a chain disappearing from his ankles.

He smiled at the room, before walking out, out to his sunshine.

"I'm ready," he said, and Naruto nodded, and they took of to Naruto's home. It was still pretty early in the morning, so they hadn't so many villagers to hide from. Soon they where in the scabbier parts of the hidden village, and Naruto let out a sigh when he stood in front of his building. Sasuke saw the uncertain look on his love's face, and he grabbed Naruto's hand and squeezed it gently. Naruto gave him a thankful smile, and they both went inside.

Naruto opened the door with the keys Sasuke still had, and he walked in. Naruto watched the apartment where he had grown up. He had both good and bad memories from here. The only good was from when his friends had come to him. It had been his fourteenth birthday, and they had promised him that day, that from now he would get a birthday party every year, cause he had missed so many.

"Did you know, Sasuke," he said and let his finger touch the 10th October in his calendar, "that I was taken on my birthday?"

Sasuke nodded.

"I kind of figured that out," he answered. Naruto let his golden lock fall in front of his eyes, and he let out another sigh. He rubbed his eyes with his thumb and finger.

"I didn't do anything you know. They just got scared. Just because I happened to turn fifteen." He felt the arms of Sasuke sneak around his chest from behind, and he let his arms lie over them. It really, really felt good to have someone close, to have Sasuke close.

"We have to go."

And they left the apartment.

They run throughout he village, when Sasuke suddenly stopped. Naruto also stopped after a few metres. He turned around and looked at Sasuke. Did Sasuke change his mind?

"I have to say goodbye to Sakura and Kakashi," the night-boy said, and Naruto smiled. Never in the world he could deny Sasuke a thing like that. The time was the time when Sasuke had his training, so they quickly ran to the training-grounds. Sasuke saw the pink-haired young woman and the grey-haired man and he slowed down.

"Do...do you want to stay here?"

And Naruto gave him the weirdest look. First he looked really surprised, and then he smiled a wide grin.

"Nah, thought I say hi and good bye to them as well," he said, and before Sasuke could think about it, Naruto had disappeared and Sasuke saw him in front of his other team-members. He walked up to them.

"Oh, Naruto-kun, it's so good to see you!" Sakura squealed and hugged him, and Sasuke actually saw a smile through the mask that Kakashi wore all the time.

"Do you know them, dobe?" And to say that Sasuke wasn't surprised was a great lie. His question was directed to Naruto, but Sakura was the one to answer.

"Know him, Sasuke-kun? Who doesn't?," she said, smiling. Naruto looked a little nervous to still have her in his arms, but he had missed the girl. "Every soul in Konoha knows about this idiot," she continued, laughing when she was received a glare from Naruto at the insult. And then she turned to Naruto again.

"Where have you been all those years, Naruto? Suddenly you just disappeared, and Tsunade-sama said that you had moved?" Sasuke watched the painful expression on the other boy, but soon it was replaced with a smile.

"Missed me so much, ne Sakura-chan?" he said, smiling. And then he looked serious. "I really want to tell you guys, but Sasuke and I don't have time right now. I send you one of Gamabunta's children. And talk to Tsunade. She will tell you everything." And then he turned to Sasuke. "Say goodbye," he said, and walked away a bit. Sasuke looked fascinated on one of the other sides of Naruto's personalities. The man sure knew how to change.

Sasuke had never really med a person like that. Naruto was smiling, joking and the other second he was death-serious, and then he was sad, and angry, but always in the end Sasuke saw the smile on the boy, like nothing bad could ever happen in the world. Sasuke wondered how anyone could do that, who had been imprisoned in five years without anything except the hate of the villagers.

He also wondered why he hadn't heard of the mighty, fantastic Uzumaki Naruto before.

Sasuke looked up from his thought's and saw a tender smile on Sakura's lips.

"He is the one, isn't he?" She asked, but already knew the answer. Sasuke nodded, and was received another rare smile from Kakashi, who looked up from his red book. "I'm gonna miss you," she said, hugging him.

"We'll meet again," Sasuke said, slightly troubled. He could understand the nervous look in Naruto's face when Sakura had hugged him. Sasuke hadn't either grown up with the gentle touch of another human being.

"Of course we'll meet again, baka-Sasuke," she said, hitting him gently in his head. "Naruto said he send us a message, right?" Sasuke turned around to leave them, but then spoke up again.

"How do you know him?"

Sakura smiled, and laughed.

"Sasuke, only a person who have trained his whole life for revenge would miss Naruto completely. You know when someone painted the Hokage-faces? And when the Academy was covered with Ramen? And remeber when Konoha was attacked by the Sound, but suddenly was beaten? Sasuke, all of that was Naruto-kun's work." She laughed. "I'm sure he'll brag about it someday. He's a legend, you know."

Sasuke smiled at the both, and then he and Naruto run through the forest. All the time he saw the flying yukata in front of him.

It felt like he was chasing the blonde fox. Through the forest, and never really catching up with him. Naruto was free, and he could never be caged again. No one would ever put him in a dark, sealed room with no one to warm him. Naruto would always be free, together with Sasuke. And Sasuke too felt like he was free. Free from Itachi, free from Konoha, free from his own, dark prison deep into the forest. The birds sang for them, and he knew everything would turn out good. What little thing that would happen, they would make it through.

Because, of course, like every little fairytale - they had each other.

And so Naruto felt Sasuke speeding up at his side, until they ran, shoulder against shoulder with only a centimeter or two apart them. Ducking under the same threebranches, jumping over the same roots, smiling the same smile, even when they didn't look at each other.

The sun shone through the leaves, lefting light marks on the ground. A yellow small leaf falled down from a more yellow tree, telling them that the autum was on it's way.

And Naruto stopped.

"Listen," he whispered.

And Sasuke listened.

"What?"

"Sshh."

Naruto let his legs take him to the direction where the sound came from. He had a guess what it could be. When he knew they where close enough he stopped Sasuke with a single handmove backwards, and they lowered their chakra-level, making no one feel them near.

In front of them, a whole army with ninjas were walking their way, heading to Konoha. The note's on their head-protectors told Naruto that they where from sound.

Sound had wanted Konoha for years, and the attacks never seemed to stop. Naruto had been a part of some of the wars with them.

"We have to stop them from attacking Konoha."

And before Sasuke could stop him, Naruto was already fighting.

Sasuke spit out a bone from a chicken on the ground and swore.

"How in the world am I suppose to try to protect you if you run into death like that all the time, dammit?" Yes, Sasuke was pissed on the blonde-haired. First he had been worried and looked at the cuts and wounds on Naruto's beautiful body. Beautiful I say, he thought. Not that he would tell Naruto that. No, he was really angry at him. Jumping in and fighting a whole army full af trained ninjas!

Stupid!

"Stupid!" he spat out. And he didn't feel better at the sound of Naruto's laughter.

"Aw, man, it was years since I trained like that." Naruto heard Sasuke snort, and the dark-haired man looked really angry. A small thing that also disturbed Sasuke was Naruto's strenght. Even a five-year period without proper training - Naruto had told him about the small training he had done in the prison - and still he was one of the highest level ninjas Sasuke ever seen. And when the super big giant frog had appeared, offering Naruto a drink, Sasuke's eyes had shot out from his head. Hell, he had been so impressed that when his brain finally registred that, hey, maybe you should join and save the damn village, everything was over, crushed under a giant frog-ass. It was ridicolous!

"Ridicolous!" he spat out. And Naruto were still laughing.

Naruto munched on a chicken as well. Sound-chicken, but who would waste perfect fine food?

When they had ate, they went. Sasuke still a little pissed.

After some hours of a quiet Sasuke and a chattering Naruto, Sasuke asked.

"Why did you save Konoha?"

"Look, a lake."

"Naruto." Sasuke warned him.

"Let's take a bath," Naruto said, smiling at him as he locked eyes with the other. Sasuke watched him let the Yukata fall down his pale shouleds, and gasped when he saw the unexisting underwear. Naruto was beautiful, and he watched the backside of the boy as he went down into the cold, grey water with orange, red and yellow shimmering in it. It was very near the sunset.

He saw Naruto swim a little before he took off his own clothes and followed. It was kind of cold, but it was freshing, and both of them needed it after a whole day of running, and for Naruto's part, a real good fight with a whole army.

"You know, " Naruto said, quietly, "I really love the village."

Sasuke's head jerked up. Stopping. He saw Naruto's shoulder blades over the water.

"Not all of the villagers is bad. Many of them in my age is my friends."

"But they never - - -" Sasuke begun, but was cut short.

"They didn't know. Not about Kyuubi, and not about prison. It was forbidden to speak of. But they still were my friends."

And Sasuke found his staring into Naruto breast. He closed his eyes, and let himself melt into the embrace of Naruto. In those strong arms.

After a couple of days Naruto stopped. Sasuke saw the sun in his hair and eyes. Naruto turned to the night in Sasuke's. The safe night that would never scare him.

They stood in the outskirts of a meadow, near a smaller lake, possible connected with the one they had took a bath in by a small river. A warm breeze flew through their hair, and Naruto smiled. Sasuke smiled. He would never grow tired of any kind of Naruto's smile's.

"Let's build a house here."

And the yellow leaf continued.

TBC

I'M SO SORRY. Not every said Sorry in the world will never make it up to you. This week was the last one at my work, and things has been very hectic. I hope you will forgive me. And I hope you like this chapter. I write TBC, cause it will, as said, be an epilogue. I probably have time to write it pretty fast now, cause I have a week from work and school now. Yahoo! Verywell, see ya soon! Oh, and when I remeber it. In the last chapter there will be the reason why I rated it M in the beginning. Yay, Lemon! NC17! M! Haha