Hey everyone,

Sorry for the long wait. I tried to make this chapter longer than usual to make up for it. Anyway, there is a poll on my profile to see if you want me to continue with the side story (The Gaara, Lee, and Shikamaru love trainable). Please let me know what you think?

Back to this chapter, I tried to make it a bit lighthearted at parts so it doesn't turn into a sob fiction. Tell me if you like it this way more or not.

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Chapter 4 part A, "Slips"

The raven smiled softly, brushing the sleeping blonde's hair away from his eyes. He poked the tanned nose, and immediately Naruto scrunched it cutely. He was so beautiful, Sasuke's heart almost broke.

It wasn't even nine, and the boy was deep asleep. The Uchiha was done tidying up the house, which he had done despite Naruto's objections. He had been the reason Naruto was confined to bed after all.

He had nothing to do for the rest of the night. He sighed making his way to the bathroom. Inside, he splashed his face with chill water trying to regain his composure. He recognized the hole he was digging for himself, and he dreaded it. Yet, something was too irresistible about it. About Naruto. He couldn't quite put his finger on it, and he refused to call it love at the first sight. Sasuke didn't believe in such a fallacy. However, how else could he explain it?

He sighed once more making his way to the kitchen. He had forgotten to prepare himself food, although he had cooked Naruto some warm dinner. He found only a box of cup ramen stocked in the blonde's kitchen, urging him to sigh yet again.

As he sat blowing cold air at the noodles, he started scrolling through the missed calls.

Eleven missed calls from Neji. I should call him...

Had brushed away the guilt that had been discouraging him from calling his lover, and started dialing.

"Neji."

"Sas-Sasuke?" A beaten down voice answered. It was as if the boy had no fight in him any more.

The raven swallowed in distress. "Are you okay? Did he do something else to you?"

"He is not letting me eat... I think I fractured my thumb blocking his... He doesn't want me to see a doctor."

"I was just at the hospital today..." He just wanted to get it off his shoulder. He didn't want to bottle up everything. "They were-"

"Are you okay?"

"I am fine. I was there with a friend; He fractured some ribs."

"Oh... that's why you were busy..." Neji felt a tinge of pain in his heart. He couldn't understand why Sasuke would prefer a friend over him.

"I have some connections there. I can get them to treat you without adding anything to your medical record, if that is what he is worried about."

"Sasuke, was it someone I know?" He ignored Sasuke's last comment.

The raven paused debating if he should admit to who it was or not. Although he hadn't cheated on Neji in a physical sense, he was feeling guilty for favoring Naruto. "It was Naruto Uzumaki. He is better now."

"Naruto... I didn't know you were close to him. He is not really in our click."

"Don't be condescending," Sasuke pounced on Neji as a defense mechanism.

"I- I didn't mean to. It's just that... that you didn't even know who he was although he went to our school for years. Don't be upset, okay?"

"Hmph."

"Am I going to see you tomorrow, baby?" Neji tried to sweeten his voice in order to get Sasuke to be more loving towards him. "I miss your touch..." The cane had hurt his body, and he needed his baby to take the pain away. Just a hug.

"Fine. Ask your cousins to sneak you some food."

Once he had turned off his phone completely, he heard Naruto call out for him. He took fast steps towards the room, trying not to look too eager.

"Yes?"

"I need water," Naruto pursed his lips cutely.

"Fine."

The water bottle was over the bed stand, so even in Naruto's condition, it wasn't hard for him to grab it. Sasuke didn't mind however. Maybe he didn't see it, he figured.

Naruto chucked down the liquid before calling Sasuke in a husky but seesaw voice, "More water, pleeeeease."

Sasuke glared at him, pouring more water into the cup until Naruto signaled enough to him. Naruto drank it again, and then wiggled his cup for more.

"All this water will keep you up all night."

"I know," Naruto whispered to himself smirking. "It will keep you up too. Maybe that will teach you to butt out of my business."

He wiggled the cut again.

"I am cutting you off before you burst."

"But Sasuke, I am thirsty. The doctor said it's a side effect because of all the meds I am taking for my arm and rubs."

The raven sighed filling the cup half way up. Again, Naruto was playing the guilt game. "Anything more?"

"Well... since you are here... and you promised to take care of me..." Naruto stalled.

"Just spit it out."

"My feet are so sore-"

"Why? Have you been standing on them all day long?"

"That's mean even for you, Teme!"

"Well, I am not your slave. I am not going to give you a foot massage."

"Back massa-"

"Don't even think about it!"

"Fine, I will just up my pain killers. I hope I don't get addicted... But don't worry; I won't tell anyone it's your fault."

The raven shrugged the guilt away. His ego and pride outweighed the remorse after all. But then it hit him; he was going to be touching Naruto. Touching him all over. That outweighed his ego, pride, and guilt for almost cheating on his boyfriend.

"I am only going to do it once." He raised one finger to make a point. "Don't complain."

Naruto grinned as Sasuke sat down pulling the feet onto his lap. He sunk into the pillow savoring his massage and Sasuke's sweet sweet humiliation.

"You're good. Do you massage a lot of feet, Uchiha?"

Sasuke glared at the blond, hands moving towards the other's knees, kneading the skin and the muscles. "Does it hurt a lot?"

"You heard what the doctor said."

"I mean... you legs. You had painkillers in your bathroom drawer."

"No..."

"Hn." The raven shifted a few times uncomfortable about the question he was dying to ask.

"They don't know... They don't know why it happened," Naruto murmured answering the other's thoughts. Suddenly, he started to laugh uncontrollably, "St-Ahhh-op it I'm t-t-t-icklish!"

The Uchiha blinked a few times before getting a grip on what was happening. "It's your knee."

"W-Ahh- My heart- Sasuke! S-stop!"

The raven kept tickling the back of the tanned knees enjoying how flushed and wiggly Naruto was, but soon he stop feeling a little pity for the poor Uzumaki. He examined the flushed boy with his eyes closely, forcing the other to blush an even deeper shade of read. "A lot of people are ticklish from their knees, Teme!"

Aiding Naruto to turn over, Sasuke pulled the shirt over the other's head. He gazed at the slim firm back, sun-kissed and delicious. He even had a tiny birthmark- almost a swirl's shape- up near his shoulder, just waiting to be kissed. Licking his lips, he rubbed his hand softly all over the flesh, grazing his nails along once in a while.

"Teme, what are you doing?"

"Nothing," He gulped, almost hard.

"C'mon. Do me!"

"D-D- excuse me?"

"Massage my freakin back!"

"Oh, okay."

He started rubbing the back staring at the erection in his pants. It was a good thing Naruto was looking the other way-

Naruto turned his neck around to look at Sasuke, urging the other to jump to the other side of the bed, kneeing the tanned back in the process. "Fuck! What the hell was that? Just say it; you want to ruin whatever of me that's still working!"

"I wasn't comfortable sitting there!" Sasuke snapped back, his voice a little shaky. Good, he didn't see it.

"Did you have to break my back doing it?"

"S-s-shut up!"

"Really eloquent, Teme"

"Do you even know what eloquent means?"

Naruto turned his head the other way, forcing Sasuke to switch positions again. "What the hell? What's wrong with you?"

"Nothing!"

"Are you hiding something?"

"Shut up!"

"Stop telling me that!"

"When you SHUT up, I will stop telling-" He knew he was being childish, but honestly he didn't know what else to say. If Naruto discovered his little –or huge, very very huge- problem, he was done for it.

"What's going on behind my back?" Naruto tried to push himself with one hand, but couldn't.

"I am not done with your massage, yet." Sasuke spoke quickly. "Stay face down!"

"Dude, that's not cool, okay. You don't tell another guy that!"

"I just don't like doing anything half assed. I said I will massage you. I have to do it properly."

"Well, thank you very much. I think you have done a good enough job, especially with your knee. Can you turn me around now?" He mocked.

"No, I will go get some hot oil."

"You're going to burn me now?"

The blond waited and waited for what seemed like eternity. When Sasuke came back, he was empty handed, yet completely stress-free.

"Where is the hot oil?"

"What oil- Oh yeah, I didn't find it," the raven smiled.

"Did you swallow some of my pills or something?"

"What? Why?"

"You seem to giddy... It's kind of freaky."

"Hn," the raven pretended to frown.

"Why did you take so long?"

"I was searching."

"Where did you search? I think I have some massaging oil in the bathroom locker."

"That was empty."

"Are you sure? I could have sworn it had a bit left in-"

"I dropped it in the sink," he coughed. If Naruto knew Sasuke as well as his brother did, he would have known that coughing was Sasuke's tell. The raven had used the last of that oil to lubricate something that day, and that 'something' wasn't the sink.

Naruto narrowed his eyes until they were slits, trying to figure out the other. Then he came up with a plan; Saying something outrageous that the raven would eagerly tell the truth in order to refute. "Were you jerking off in my bathroom Uchiha?"

Sasuke froze.

Suddenly, intense silence filled the room, erasing Naruto's smirk.

"Y-Y-you know, I always drop stuff into the sink as well," Naruto chuckled anxiously. "All the time."

"I wasn't jerking off."

"Good to know! I was just- Hahaha- Yeah..." Naruto bit his lip for a second. "I think I should go pee."

"I'll help you."

"You don't have to cum- Gulp- come with me. Y-You know-ehm- I don't want to anymore."

"You don't want to anymore?"

"It's another side effect of the drug. Hallucinations; I think I want to go but I really don't."

"Hn. I wasn't jerking off," He added with a stiff face, trying to convince the other.

"I know. You are probably asexual."

"I am not-"

"Or straight."

"Hn. Naruto, don't flatter yourself. Even if I was gay, you're not my type."

"Good- wait! Are you saying I am ugly?"

"No... You're just not my type."

"You snobby jerk. You know what; you're not my type either."

Sasuke shrugged his shoulder as if he wouldn't care, a bit glad that they changed topics.

"You just can't handle all of this," Naruto pointed at his body, finally managing to turn over all on his own.

Sasuke stared coldly, "I wouldn't want to handle this."

"Well, obviously, you're not gay! Any gay guy would kill for this."

"Now, don't go ruining the reputation of the gay community."

"I hate you!" He tossed his pillow at the raven full force.

つづく・・・