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SasuNaru, yaoi, OOC and unbeta-read

Co-authored by XKunoichiofthePaintbrushX

Ebony hair, dark eyes and aristocratic nose, all similar to those of his lover and the blonde knew who was standing at their door - his lover's mother. He mentally shivered. What was her purpose for coming here?

The lady of the Uchiha house stared her nose down at the blonde letting her sharp eyes roved him from head to nose and back. Those pictures of the blonde sent to them did no justice to his striking beauty and charm. He was beautiful and if he was only a girl, she'd over look the fact that he was beneath them and support their relationship.

"I'm sorry, but your son had stepped outside for awhile," the blonde said politely and respectfully.

The woman smiled. "All the better. I came here to speak with you." And she was pleased with the flicker of fear on those beautiful sky blue eyes.

The blonde led her to their small living room and sat down across from her because she refused his offer of refreshment. She looked at her surrounding before she bore her gaze into his. "My son has really a taste for beautiful things, hasn't he?"

Wary and confused, he nodded.

"But such beauty is ephemeral and sooner or later, he'll abandon them... and you are not an exception."

"Eh?" And he told himself to be firm. What did this woman knew of her son's commitment, anyway?

"You are beautiful, I admit that. But it will fade to give into the markings of time and age. And it will disappear quickly if something bad happens to you... like accidents." Although her voice was calm and void of emotions, her eyes were glinting with eerie malice.

The blonde scowled. "Are you threatening me?"

The other occupant gave a fake horse laughter. "Accidents happen and I can say anything I want because it is my son who is paying the rent. Or are the reports mistaken?" She looked triumphant when the blonde hang his head.

"But he insisted that I shouldn't pay." Wait! Why was he explaining things to her? It wasn't her business.

"Of course. As long as you welcome his touches and wantonly warm his bed, you can have anything you want from him!"

His eyes turned a dark, icy hue and he glared at her. "I am neither a gold digger nor a whore!"

"Then stay away from him. He has a brighter future than this and he can marry a girl perfect for him and our status." She looked at him haughtily. "You are beneath us. You should know your place!"

"And what if my place is beside your son?" he asked just to provoke the woman who immediately scowled and in a scathing voice, she retorted, "Nonsense!" And she quickly gathered her things and made her way towards the door. She was about to open it, when his son beat her to it.

Unmindful of her son's surprised look, she ordered, "Get rid of that filthy blonde!" Then she left, leaving a heavy silence behind her.

Chapter 19: Busted

Sasuke took his time in undressing his present writhing beneath him. He kissed, sucked and licked the smooth tanned skin exposed to his appreciative eyes. Damn, Naruto really was sexy and he was his... all his.

"What are you evilly chuckling about?" Naruto asked between pants while pulling Sasuke down, their bodies pressed deliciously togehter.

"Secret," the other teen whispered huskily making the blonde shiver. Their lips merged again and their hands continued their exploration.

Sasuke's hand snaked into Naruto's boxers, past over the blond coarse hair and wrapped around the hot rod that was causing a tent in the blonde's boxers. He heard Naruto gasped into his mouth, felt him tremble and Sasuke never felt as triumphant as before.

Naruto, he observed, was so hot, hard and wet and he couldn't stop his hand from moving up and down and from squeezing. It was hypnotizing. He gave a breathy moan when he felt Naruto's hand wrapped around his own pulsating member.

He found the blonde staring at him with eyes clouded with desire and need. "I want you in me," was his seductive whisper. Blood rushed to his groin and it made him paused from his sweet torture.

Sasuke knew what happen between a man and a woman during sex because it was part of any Biology class and sex education but between man and man? He had no idea except that he was going to put it into there. He realized he wasn't ready and that he was incompetent which was a big blow to his Uchiha ego.

"What's wrong, Sasuke?" he heard Naruto asked with a poorly hidden amusement in his voice. "You're flagging."

Sasuke froze and felt cold all over when he realized that Naruto was laughing. He was mocking him at his incompetence and naiveté. And he couldn't help but open his eyes.

It took a moment for him to realize that it was only a dream and when he did, he sighed in relief. It had been so vivid that it felt and looked so real. Damn it!

Not wanting for his wet dream-turned-into-nightmare to become a reality, Sasuke made a decision. Thus, for the rest of the night, he researched about homosexual relationship on his laptop. Damn him if he was going to make love with his blonde without proper knowledge.

-SasuNaru is love-

Naruto stared at the door when Sasuke pressed him against a wall. "Anybody can come in anytime," he warned. Rather than pushing his boyfriend away, he tilted his head to give more room to that wicked mouth while he automatically wrapped his arms around Sasuke's waist.

Truthfully, Naruto wasn't really worried knowing they could pull away quickly and pretend nothing intimate was going on between them. He had nothing to worry because when one stole and shared few dark and deep kisses behind doors and in niches, their reflex and acting skills improved greatly much like his and Sasuke's.

Sasuke eyed the fading mark before placing his mouth to renew it. He used to mind Naruto's quick healing but realized that it was a bonus for him. The faster the marks disappeared, the shorter the time there was before he'd leave kiss marks again.

Naruto didn't protest when he felt nimble fingers untied his necktie and unbuttoned two buttons. He breathed his boyfriend's name as if in encouragement while savoring the hot sensations running through his veins. He pulled Sasuke close while moaning appreciatively.

"Sasuke," he breathed dazedly and urgently, "anymore of this and you'll have to carry me." He wasn't kidding. Lately, his knees' endurance to Sasuke's passion was decreasing rapidly to the point where he thought it was dangerous to have a heavy make out session without a proper support.

Sasuke just 'hm'ed because he was too engrossed with the task at hand. A second or two later he was drawn for a lazy and deep kiss while one tanned hand dug into his mop of black hair. And while their tongues were busy, Sasuke righted Naruto's tie and shirt so when they pulled away, Naruto looked just as he walked into the restroom. Well not exactly because Naruto was breathless and flushed just like him. Sasuke smirked before he quipped, "Let's go and meet Gaara before he turns into a bitching raccoon."

Naruto scowled. "You never spare anyone with your caustic tongue."

"The same tongue that makes you weak and that you love to suck," the dark-haired teen retorted. Naruto opened his mouth for a comeback but realized there was none because his brain was busy sending images of Sasuke's tongue at work. What a treacherous brain! And that was why when the two left the restroom, Sasuke was smug while Naruto muttered curses.

-SasuNaru is love-

A sound of clutter broke the silence reigning over Sasuke's room as two boys lunged at each other then a second later, a breathless moan followed.

Sasuke slipped from the bedside to the floor taking the blonde with him. He nipped the blonde's lower lip to tell him that he liked what the blonde did- straddling him. He let out a small growl when tanned fingers dug into his scalp as their owner tried to tame the ferocity of their kiss. How ambitious! As if he could! Sasuke had long understood that when they came together it would always be like that of an angry storm or a raging fire or furious waterfall, forever uncontrolled and almost uncontained.

Naruto tightened his arms around Sasuke's neck when he felt his fingers slipped under his shirt and started exploring. He could feel the slightest brush of those fingers which always left a trail of lava slowly burning his skin. "Sasuke!" he gasped when his right nipple was pinched. When the other teen tugged his shirt, he obediently pulled away and raised his arms. He blushed at the way Sasuke hungrily gazed at his exposed chest. Their eyes met and he liked how those dark orbs glittered like black pearl when his boyfriend smirked.

"I like your eyes," he blurted out as he leaned down and nipped Sasuke's right earlobe. He pressed closer to him, his erection digging into a pale stomach just as Sasuke's was poking his butt in a most wicked way. Feeling that pulsating shaft, the urge to absorb it into his body was rising and leaving him thrilled at the same time uncomfortable. He cupped Sasuke's face and drowned the teen with a long and powerful kiss before his hands moved to unbutton his shirt.

A fine black eyebrow arched when Naruto pulled away with a frown on his flushed face. "What's wrong?" Sasuke asked huskily while his hands didn't stop their caresses. What would it be like if...? He didn't finish his thought. Why wonder or thought when he could do it instantly? He leaned forward and gave a long lick on Naruto's chest. God! Not only was Naruto's scent driving him crazy but also his taste. He could feel himself getting bigger and harder. He tilted his head backward and looked at the silent blonde. "Dobe?"

"You wear a shirt too many," Naruto told him while disdainfully looking at Sasuke's t-shirt beneath his linen shirt.

Sasuke smirked. "That's the challenge."

"You won't say that if I'm in that same state."

"I'll just rip them off."

Whatever indignant reply had, it was deliciously swallowed by Sasuke's too eager mouth but Naruto wasn't complaining. He felt Sasuke shiver when he slipped his hands under his shirt and mimic what Sasuke did to him awhile ago. He trembled and gave a throaty moan when nimble fingers unbuttoned his jeans. It made him wonder what they'd do. Would it be a fellatio fest or handjobs?

It was uncomfortable to have someone even as light as Naruto to be sitting on his erection, Sasuke thought, but when the blonde started gliding backward and forward, there was only one word that flashed through his mind- fuck!

He wrenched his mouth from the kiss to attack tanned nape while his hands continued touching without his instruction. Naruto was driving his hormones wild and the way he now moaned his name gave him the urge to rip his skinny jeans and take him right there and then... raw and hard.

Naruto threw his head back and surrendered to pleasure and lust. His eyes fluttered close and all he could do was to relish his boyfriend's mouth as it moved along his neck in that sinful manner… in a way that made him want Sasuke more… in any way Sasuke want him to want him. It no longer mattered to him what they'd do as long as Sasuke would fill the big hollow within him... a hollow his desire awakened and intensified.

When he opened his eyes and stared ahead, he met obsidian eyes that were filled not with desire but with apathy and aloofness and their owner was standing at the doorway.

"Itachi?!"

At that name, Naruto's ascend to heaven halted abruptly and he crashed down to earth together with his world. Cold fear and embarrassment immediately made his shaft limp and he jumped away from Sasuke who growled at the loss of pressure and pleasure.

"It's not what you think," Naruto blurted out lamely while wiping the saliva trail from the side of his mouth. Panic was evident in his blue eyes. He felt like he was going to hyperventilate if Itachi would continue looking at him with an unreadable expression. Was Itachi that shock or was he disgusted beyond words?

Sasuke turned then scowled. He would never admit that panic had exploded within him the moment he laid his eyes on his brother.

Itachi took in the sight in front of him with practiced calmness. Sasuke and Naruto were disheveled beyond for him to believe that they were fighting. Fistfight didn't include latching one's mouth on one's opponent's neck or rubbing one's crotch against the other's. And he would be damned if he'd believe that they were studying because their books and notes we scattered on Sasuke's desk and floor forgotten, ignored and abandoned in favor for their peccant behavior.

"Don't you know how to knock?" Sasuke demanded.

Instead of admitting that he did knock, Itachi retorted, "Don't you know how to lock the door?"

Sasuke looked miff while Naruto became more embarrassed. The tension between brothers was so heavy and palpable that it rendered him immobile and he stood there half -naked while waiting for the tension to suffocate him to death.

He instinctively backed away when Itachi's gaze was on him. Then gulped audibly when the older Uchiha said, "I need to speak with you, Naruto-kun." Both he and Sasuke knew that it was an order.

"Hell no!" Sasuke protested and stood in front of the blonde, hiding him from Itachi.

Itachi just arched an eyebrow. He knew the reason behind his brother's action. With their relationship a secret and against social norms, he considered everyone a threat to their world and the urge to protect was strong. How pathetic of him! "You have nothing to do with this, little brother."

Before Sasuke could say or do anything, he felt a hand on his shoulder. "It's okay, Sasuke. Just wait outside." He was about to protest when Naruto shook his head. "Just go," the blonde told him and he hesitatingly obeyed.

"Hurt him and I'll kill you," Sasuke coldly whispered to Itachi as he passed him by. The latter didn't give any reaction because the threat didn't deserve any.

Naruto quickly donned on his shirt and followed the older lad to Sasuke's walk-in closet.

"W-what do you want to talk about?" he asked. He placed his hands behind him to hide the fact that they were trembling.

Itachi gave him a cool gaze. "So you jumped into the wagon?" he stated in a voice that was tainted with disappointment.

Naruto scowled. "Meaning?"

Itachi drily chuckled. What did he expect anyway? The two were always doing things together or one would always follow the other but... "This isn't a game anymore," he said in a sharp tone. "You're no longer kids whose actions are viewed as innocent and cute."

"I know and I'm not playing. Neither is Sasuke!" And his eyes were blazing with emotions which the young man could only name a few. Gone were the blonde's fear, panic and embarrassment. He certainly want to fight to protect and to defend the bonds that mattered to him greatly.

"Then I can assume that you know the consequences of this?"

"Yeah," the young teen replied quietly.

Itachi doubted they really did. Judging from what he had seen they were too intoxicated with what they found to really be aware of things. "I'm not your ally or your enemy so if you need a reality check, I'll give it to you... hard and raw."

Can't you be happy for us? he wanted to ask the closest thing he had for a brother but he didn't. This- the offer of reality check was the best thing he could have from him. Besides, he didn't want to be a burden on him. Itachi, he knew, had his own burden to carry. He nodded his head, smiling.

When he was about to walk past Naruto, Itachi stopped. He stared at him for a second before leaving. Just as he guessed, Sasuke was waiting at the hallway with murderous eyes. His brother gave him one last glare before he slipped into his room. The older Uchiha sighed. Sasuke's hatred towards him was the reason why he chose to talk with Naruto.

He mentally shook his head to forget the disturbing images of the scene he had walked in. He never expected to see his brother making out with mindless abandon nor imagined that he would see the blonde like that so wanton and sexy. He stopped himself from thinking on things that weren't related to his dream... to his freedom. He looked at the brown folder in his hands and a sadistic calmness settled within him. Now, he was going to the company to hand it over to his father.

"Shall we continue where we left off?" Sasuke inquired after Naruto told him of the latter's conversation with Itachi. His brother's words baffled him but it was always like that and it annoyed him. If his brother wasn't their friend or enemy did that mean that he approved of their relationship? He mentally shook his head. If there was one certain thing he knew about Itachi, it was that the latter was past caring anything mundane. Therefore, it was Itachi's way of saying 'I don't give a damn about you, my foolish little brother and your bonds' That was it! But if he didn't care, then what about his offer of reality check? At this, Sasuke frowned. He had no answer so he concluded that Itachi was just playing with them. That asshole!

He looked at his companion.

"Yeah," Naruto replied shyly. The two started picking up the fallen books, notes and pens before they resumed studying.

-SasuNaru is love-

"Isn't this a surprise?" Itachi heard a sarcastic voice say before he saw its owner. "You were expected to arrive a minute ago."

"Is that why you are in this part of the building, Orochimaru?" he asked coolly. He didn't even return Kabuto's greeting.

Orochimaru- a member of his father inner circle of friends and the company's general manager chuckled lowly. "I'm just looking for lowly employees to bully before attending a meeting."

"Because you won't feel important unless you see them cowering," Itachi countered, "Or you've forgotten how to get to the west wing conference room."

There was a flash of annoyance on Orochimaru's eyes but he covered it with calmness a little too late. Was Itachi implying that he was now senile?

The Uchiha looked at the young man standing behind Orochimaru. "Why don't you guide him, Kabuto?"

"You're as rude as ever, Itachi-kun," the oldest of the three commented. Itachi just gave him a cool look before walking away.

"Shall we go, Orochimaru-sama?" Kabuto asked then cringed when the man glared at him.

"Don't forget who you're working under!" the man snapped as he started walking.

Kabuto adjusted his spectacles as he followed his boss. "Of course, I'd never," he replied. But in the face of the silent Uchiha heir, a gripping fear never failed to make its presence known to him. Yes, he was scared of Itachi because he didn't know what to expect from him. Itachi's face was always devoid with emotions and his voice was consistently calm. He was like a dormant volcano just waiting for a time to explode and scorched the ground where plants, animals and people thrived.

-SasuNaru is love-

"I'm sorry for my tardiness, shachou," Itachi said and bowed. "The streets were crowded than usual."

Fugaku nodded and waited for Itachi to continue.

"I came up with three feasibility reports after reading the managers' reports and doing few researches," Itachi explained. "All of them are long term and have our customers' in mind without forsaking the company's needs." He placed few folders on his father's table.

Fugaku was pleased. He always admired Itachi's intelligence and initiative. He glanced down at the folders. "I'll review them later on." Although Itachi believed in his skills, there was still a sliver of nervousness in him. What if his father would find out about those little loopholes he left that would be the downfall of the Uchiha empire if Itachi wished it so? He quickly assured himself that those inconsistencies won't be found even by someone as sharp as his father because those extra researches he made was for this purpose.

When Fugaku dismissed him with a nod of his head, he bowed and quietly left with a feeling that it won't be long before he'd become the master of the game and when he could finally fly towards the horizons he always dreamed about.

TBC

Author's notes:

Shachou company president