Sasuke sighed as he fastened his pace back to his house. He had no idea how to handle things—Iruka said 'be honest'. But what was the truth then? That he wanted to have his way with the blond dobe? Or that, in truth, he really wanted to be with Naruto forever.

The last one really sounded very attractive in Sasuke's ears. So then, was he really in love with him? Sasuke had never been one to deny what he wanted, but being in love was so inconvenient for him. He was an Avenger, not a 'loverboy' as Kiba liked to call him (side note: Sasuke was still plotting his demise). Besides that, didn't he want to revive his clan? That was his other goal, whether it was with someone he loved or not.

If he would stay with Naruto forever, it would be the end of the Uchiha-clan (side note: since Sasuke swore that he would never let the spawn of Itachi live), that much was certain.

Then again, didn't Naruto have that horrible 'Sexy-no-Jutsu' technique? Perhaps that would also make him able to actually carry—

He quickly shook his head with an amused smirk on his face. It was too early to think about children.

He let himself wonder over to the biggest question he had asked himself in his entire life: was he in love or not? Certainly having the dobe in his house was nice—it gave his house a feeling of 'home' and he found that whenever he went out to train, he was excited to get back home knowing that there was someone waiting for him there. Plus, he did have a certain possessiveness over the dobe which he only had whenever someone touched his property. And Naruto was the only person he could truly stand and forgive for whatever annoying things he was doing…

He unconsciously brought some more chakra to his legs, enabling him to run and jump faster. He didn't know for sure yet, nor did he know for sure whether or not he really wanted to have a 'relationship' with the blonde, but he would find out. He didn't like mysteries and uncertainties after all—he would find out.

"Sasuke, you're home!" Naruto said happily, welcoming him home. The first thing that popped into Sasuke's head was: Good God, he looks so cute in that apron. The raven-haired boy mentally shook his head as he started to have thoughts about Naruto… wearing nothing but the apron. "Eh, Sasuke?" Naruto questioned, confused. Sasuke looked up and stared into his dazzling blue eyes and swallowed the lump forming itself in his throat. "Are you alright? You're not having a fit or something are you? You were drooling just know…" Naruto drew his eyebrows together as he started to think, before he gasped. "Oh my God, Kiba didn't bite you, did he?! I told him he shouldn't, he could get other people rabies!"

Ah, still so innocent and pure… heh, well, I'll take care of that, Sasuke thought, smirking. He stopped immediately when he felt a warm hand pressing against his forehead.

"You alright Sasuke? You don't have a fever," Naruto observed. "Well, maybe you just need some healthy ramen!" he exclaimed happily after a second.

"I hardly think ramen is healthy," Sasuke said lazily, finally able to use his voice again. Honestly, why was he getting so flustered? It must've been the heat. "Especially the amount you've consumed in your life. I'll order us something healthy, I'm tired of ramen anyway," Sasuke decided as he walked over to the phone. He stopped midway, remembering Iruka's words about being honest and his determination only five minutes ago.

If he didn't do it now, when would he tell Naruto?

"You're so mean, Sasuke!" Naruto whined and pouted, but took off the apron anyway (why he had been wearing it to make instant ramen in the first place was still a mystery to Sasuke, but I digress) and flopped onto the couch, humming a random tune. Sasuke dropped the hand he had lifted to grab the phone and slowly turned around, his mind screaming 'Don't do it! Think of you're pride as an Uchiha! Uchiha's do not confess! Uchiha's do not make the first move! UCHIHA'S DO NOT WANT TO BE SEXUALLY ACTIVE WITH ONLY ONE PERSON!' but he ignored it firmly (it sounded too creepy anyway—way too much like his brother's voice) and slowly walked over to Naruto who had closed his eyes, still humming something. It sounded awfully a lot like the Pokémon theme song, but Sasuke honestly didn't want to know.

"A-actually Naruto," Sasuke stuttered, ignoring the same little voice that was now screaming 'Uchiha's do not stutter Sasuke!' and went on. "I n-need to tell you something." Naruto opened his eyes, curiosity reflecting in them.

"Oh?" he asked. Sasuke swallowed.

"I-I like you, Naruto," he said, after a long pause. He then continued to mentally slap himself silly. 'I like you'?! The hell! Good going, Uchiha, you sounded like a giddy little school girl! What the hell is wrong with you! the same stupid voice of Itachi screamed in his head. And for once, he had to agree with it. Naruto, though, blinked confusedly, before his face broke out into a grin. Sasuke let out a breath he didn't know he had been holding.

"Gee Sasu-chan, I like you too!" he exclaimed happily. Though when Sasuke was about to open his mouth (he wisely ignored the 'Sasu-chan') to ask him if he wanted to go out, Naruto continued. "You're my best friend after all!"

Sasuke immediately shut it, asking himself what it was that he saw in Naruto.

It all became clear when Naruto stood up, his shirt riding up slightly and revealing a little bit of tanned stomach.

Oh yeah, that's what.

Naruto continued to chatter about as he made his way to the kitchen, talking about things like 'we're a team!' and 'I'm gonna make some ramen for my best friend!'. Sasuke didn't pay attention to him however, as his mind kept on wondering how he was going to tell him. Speaking the three words 'I like you' had almost given him a heart attack, so how was he going to say 'I'm so fucking in love with you, let's have wild passionate sex now'? He shrugged as he unconsciously followed Naruto into the kitchen, where said blond dobe was busy looking through the cabinets for instant ramen, muttering some random things to himself.

Sasuke watched mildly amused as Naruto accidentally pulled a bag of flour (he also wondered where the bag of flour came from) along with the ramen. It fell right on top of the blond, and with a loud 'poof!' a white cloud of flour emitted from the bag.

"Dobe," he muttered softly, smirking when he saw the white Naruto yelling various obscenities while throwing around the packages of ramen in rage. And then, when the smoke cleared and only revealed a Naruto with white hair and some blotches of white flour on his cheeks, it felt to Sasuke as if he were in a trance.

As if someone else was controlling his body, as if he was watching himself from above, he walked over to Naruto, who was still muttering angrily. But Sasuke didn't notice it, because when he leaned in and licked some flour of the blond's face, the latter froze and tensed up completely.

And again, Sasuke didn't notice it and continued to lick everything off his face while muttering random things, a hunger in his eyes that Naruto had never seen before. And it scared the shit out of him.

"S—Sasuke?" he asked hesitantly. Sasuke briefly looked up, his coal black eyes fixed upon blue and a smirk on his lips.

"You're so clumsy," he whispered. "But it's so cute; look at you, all covered in flour. It tastes so good," he continued to mumble, nipping at Naruto's neck, who was still frozen to the spot. Kyuubi however was laughing and encouraging Naruto to at least do something back, but Naruto couldn't, because all he could think about was that Sasuke was licking his cheek and—Oh God, that felt good. And when Sasuke started to whisper things in his ear and licking it he shuddered and hissed by the heat of it all. His hands grabbed Sasuke's shirt as if they had a will of their own and they pulled his body closer, because they wanted more—he wanted more. He felt like he was in a complete daze when he felt Sasuke's mouth slowly kissing his ear, then tracing light kisses over his cheeks, not yet capturing his lips teasingly.

And just like that, he was snapped out of it when he felt an intruding hand starting to crawl underneath his shirt and dangerously close to his pants. His eyes grew wide and the one thing he could think about was that he didn't want it—not yet at least. And so with one mighty push, he managed to get Sasuke away from him, who was looking as if he had just woken up as well.

"I—I think I should go," he muttered hastily, dashing away in a great, orange blur.

When Sasuke finally managed to comprehend what had happened, Naruto was already gone to the training grounds. He really needed to vent.

Crap, crap, crap, crap, was all Naruto could think as he fled from Sasuke's house, closing his eyes as he thought about earlier events. So, Sasuke liked him did he? So that was what he meant when he said that?

"Well, duh," Kyuubi suddenly commented, rolling his eyes. Naruto scowled; he really wasn't in the mood for the demeaning comments of the damn fox.

"I wanna be alone right now, got it?" he said. Kyuubi harrumphed, but complied and retreated to the dark cell he was kept in. Naruto sighed as he halted on a tree, which gave a nice view of Konoha. He sat down on the branch, before a true grin spread all over his face. So Sasuke did like him? In a more than friendly way? He felt as if his face was going to crack from the way his grin grew bigger and bigger as he thought about what Sasuke had done, before he immediately slapped a hand to his face.

"Oh God, what have I done! He must think I don't like him!" he cursed himself for being such a wimp, repeatedly started hitting his head against the tree, before he stood up. "I'm gonna go back there.. and… and," he paused, trying to think of something.

"Fuck him senseless?" Kyuubi offered. Naruto immediately pumped a fist into the air.

"Yeah!"

"Finally."

Sasuke paced around his room, scowling, muttering obscenities and pulling his hair. Damn it, so the dobe really didn't like him! He obviously had panicked and had left him… what if he would never come back? What if even their friendship would be over?

What if he hated him now?

He cursed himself some more as he kicked the wall, making a pretty big hole in it. Why did he have to be so stupid?

"Sasu-ke-kun," he blinked as he heard someone call his name from the back. It sounded like Naruto, but instead of turning around, he started pounding his head against the wall; his mind was definitely playing tricks on him. "Oi, Sasuke-teme, what are you doing?"

This time, he did turn around.

"N-Naruto?" he stammered, looking at the blond who was sitting on the windowsill, a confused look on his face. "Naruto, about earlier, I'm-" He was interrupted when Naruto quickly appeared before him and had placed a hand over his mouth, his face pretty close to Sasuke's.

"You know, I kinda like you too," he said, grinning, before releasing Sasuke's face with his hand, and instead kissing Sasuke full on the lips.

The Uchiha mentally whooped in joy.

AN: Bahaha, finally an update. Sorry to have kept everyone waiting! The next chapter might be the final one, since there'll now only be lots and lots of mushy stuff. I'm not sure yet D: Next chappie a lemon though, for all of you who waited so long for an update x3. Hope you enjoyed it!