So he hadn't told Naruto that night. Yes, it had been the perfect timing, and he really should've done it. Why hadn't he done it? Well for one, Sasuke had only just come to terms with the fact that he was in…that he felt strongly for…that he desperately wanted to be with…with the fact that he had special feelings for his best friend.

But as he sat at the breakfast table, watching Naruto drink adorably out of his mug, he wished he had. By the way, only Naruto could drink adorably.

"So I've decided." Naruto said with finality. "I am through with guys. I will officially be…asexual."

Sasuke was glad that he'd gone though years of hiding his true feelings, or else he would've probably broken down and begged Naruto to change his mind. "Idiot." He instead said sharply, bitterness creeping into his voice because of Naruto's oblivion to his feelings. Then again, he hadn't noticed them for a good while himself.

Naruto eyed Sasuke curiously. "You tell me all the time that guys do nothing but hurt me. I don't need to get into a relationship anyways. I have you don't I?"

"I'm not your damn dog!" Sasuke yelled. He wasn't mad at Naruto, but rather the fact that it had never crossed Naruto's mind to think of Sasuke romantically. Sasuke's chest heaved as he basked in the upsetting afterglow of shouting after his best and most cherished friend.

Naruto blinked.

"I'm not your dog or your brother and I'm not going to be there for you every singe time you need me!!" Sasuke continued. 'I don't want to be those things to you anymore. I want to be much more.'

But of course Naruto wouldn't be able to understand the inner turmoil Sasuke was going through. He just couldn't believe that Sasuke had yelled at him. The place became uncomfortably silent and then Sasuke heard the soft dripping sounds of tears falling to the wooden counter. Naruto was leaning over, his hand still on his mug, and silently crying.

Sasuke's stomach literally twisted with guilt and pain. He got up and moved over to where Naruto was sitting, wrapping his arms tight round Naruto, holding him close as he tried to convey his feelings through the passionate strokes he gave to Naruto's cheek and hair.

"Shh." He whispered, feeling as if he was going to tear up too. "I never wanted to shout at you. I'm so sorry Naru. I didn't mean to hurt you."

Naruto wasn't looking at him, he hadn't moved, and a million panicked thoughts flung themselves at Sasuke's brain all in one go.

'What if Naruto doesn't trust me anymore now? What if he closes himself off from me?'

"I'm so confused." Naruto whispered, tears blinding him. "I can't find a boyfriend and I make you feel like a dog…what kind of sick person am I? Becoming asexual isn't enough; I think I should just die instead."

Sasuke held Naruto tighter, wanting him to know, just to know. He rubbed his nose against Naruto's slender neck. "Don't talk like that." He whispered. "I feel guilty enough as it is."

Naruto turned to Sasuke, wrapping his arms around his neck, letting himself be pulled into Sasuke's lap, and into his embrace.

He cried with a sort of resigned depression, as if he knew the rest of his life would be horrible, and he was just getting all the tears out with.

Eventually he laid his head against Sasuke's chest, cooing and cuddling softly, feeling weak and itching to be held.

Sasuke did hold him, knowing that if he told Naruto now, it would only confuse the boy. 'If I say anything weird, his heart will only be more broken.'

Sasuke decided he could keep it to himself for a while longer, as Naruto sweetly drew in his scent. He could keep it in forever if that was what Naruto needed.

The doorbell rang and reluctantly, Sasuke got up to get it, while Naruto changed for early classes at school. Have you ever been greeted by Gaara moving towards you and kissing you passionately, holding you tightly, one arm around your shoulders, one round your waist?

Well neither had been Sasuke. Till now.

"I love you." Gaara declared passionately. Naruto was watching at the door with an unreadable expression on his face, leaning up against the wall with his arms crossed.

"Bye you guys." He said monotonously, pushing past Sasuke. "I'll be late I don't go now."

Sasuke was too shocked to say a word of protest. "What?" he whispered.

"Neji told me…he told me he loved me last night! And it's all thanks to you." Gaara bubbled. "He told me that I was beautiful and that he was sad that it took him so long to realize that we were perfect for each other."

"Oh Gaara! That's great!" Sasuke said, hugging him tightly. "I can't believe it's finally happened. He smiled because he was truly happy, but the sight of Naruto watching them from the doorway made him uneasy.

First Naruto had caught him with Neji, and now with Gaara. 'He must think I'm doing everything I can to break them up, plus being a two-timing slut.' Sasuke thought mournfully as Gaara went into disturbing detail of his and Neji's first kiss, and how talented Neji was with his tongue, and other things not fit for a T rating.

"I have to get back to him." Gaara said excitedly after a few minutes. "I miss him already."

As soon as Gaara left Sasuke felt his cell phone vibrating. Flipping it open he saw that he had a message from Naruto.

"You dumped Sakura for Gaara?" It said, and he could almost see the accusing glare Naruto would be giving him if he were there.

"No." he hurriedly wrote. "He was thanking me for hooking him and Neji up."

Sasuke stormed around in the living room waiting for an answer, nearly falling off the couch when his phone next vibrated.

"Hn. I'm watching you Sasuke..." It read. Sasuke sighed in relief, knowing the message was playful.

"Why you worried someone will snatch me away from you?" Sasuke found himself typing with a new-found boldness.

"Yeah." This message came a lot faster than the last, meaning Naruto hadn't needed time to think about his answer. For some reason Sasuke felt himself blushing. 'I've waited longer than I've even known for him. I should…now should be the time to go for it.'

With trembling fingers, Sasuke silted his dark eyes and typed, "G2G Naru, see you soon," and shut his phone down. He couldn't wait any more, not a second longer.


Naruto closed his phone after Sasuke left that abrupt message and tried to focus on his class. Most teenagers had problems with their dating lives, so maybe he was being a bit hasty for saying his was going off boys. But as Naruto put his head on the desk, he really didn't think he could handle any more stressing romances, much less another heart break.

Usually he was pretty focused during classes, he had to be. From he was a child Naruto had had to struggle through school, work his way to the top. But today there was no help for the distraction that kept overbearing him. A certain onyx-haired boy was on his mind.

It couldn't have worked out with Riku anyways. Even if they had been romantically compatible it wouldn't work. Because when Naruto was absolutely honest with himself, completely honest with himself, he knew that he was already in love and nothing would change that. There was rarely a time when he was completely honest with himself however, and so he'd been hiding from his own feelings for quite a while now. But they were there, a fraction of an inch beneath his skin, a quarter of an eighth beneath his soul, feelings, wild, unencumbered feelings, bowling over each other, fighting to get out into the open.

He began feverishly tapping his pencil on the table. There was really no point, he couldn't even hear the teacher anymore.

"Naru…pssst." A voice came from the back of the classroom. Naruto turned in his seat, only to see the object of his distraction peering through the door.

"Sasuke?" He whispered back, glad he was at the back of the classroom. "What are you doing here?"

"I need to talk to you. Really badly." Naruto didn't remember a time when Sasuke had been this flushed.

"I can't leave. Not unless it's an emergency." He whispered apologetically, leaning more towards Sasuke. "I'd get killed."

He glanced back at his lecturer, who continued to waltz up and down his platform, lecturing at the front of the class.

"But it's really important." Sasuke murmured.

"Then just say it. "Naruto said.

For a second something flickered in Sasuke's eyes that Naruto had never seen before. Fear? Doubt? Concern? No, Sasuke was just flat out nervous, beautifully perfect brows draw together with adorable self-consciousness.

"Go on." Naruto prodded, curious. "Go on, I'm listening." Sasuke had never come to one of his classes before, much lass stand at the doorway with fear etched across usually serious features. It had to be something important.

Sasuke's lips parted and he said something that Naruto couldn't hear. "I'm sorry Sasu." He whispered. "Can you say that again?"

It was barely a whisper, and Naruto had to lean out of his chair to the point where he nearly fell out to hear Sasuke. But he did.

"I love you."

Sasuke had wanted to say something witty about how cheesy what he was about to say or something, make a cynical comment about just wanting to see Naruto's reaction. But he couldn't get anything but those three words past his lips. Everything after that got lost n his throat. He'd said it, and there was absolutely no going back now.

Sharp, discerning blue eyes shimmered with confusion, pale red lips parted with thought. Naruto briefly looked like a blank slate, lost in a world of words he'd literarily never heard said to him before. Never in this way.

When most boy's had fantasies, they were usually whip-creamed induced, or about having sex in ridiculous positions and in rapid succession, or even doing it in public or something else equally shadow. But Naruto's main fantasy had always been Sasuke kneeling on the ground in front of the doorway and whispering "I love you" on heated breath.

Well, maybe not exactly. But it had been hearing a boy say those words to him. And say them with the very look that Sasuke had in his eyes. That very 'I'm -very- nervous- about- this- right -now-and- I'm- not –sure- if -I'm- doing- this- right' look that showed how sincere he really was.

Naruto breathed in through his nostrils and then there was the scuffling sound of a chair being pushed back with uncaring force and falling over as he got up and stumbled over to Sasuke, practically collapsing in his arms.

There was a brief second where the boys locked eyes and then like any horny teenage boys with hormones they grappled at each other's mouth's hungrily for a couple minutes, Naruto pushing himself closer to Sasuke, pressing their bodies together as much as he could.

Sasuke ran a gentle hand through Naruto's hair as they both sat there making out while crouching uncomfortably on the floor. "C-can we go now?" he asked, smiling.

"Yes, this is definitely a special situation." Naruto breathed out, grabbed his knapsack and quietly leaving the room with Sasuke.

Before he'd even closed the door behind himself Sasuke was kissing him all over again, and Naruto nearly wept with relief at finally having Sasuke's body pressing him into the wall like this.

Sasuke kissed him desperately at first, making it hard to breath for both of them with the way the boy's noses were pressed to each others, and then calming down and becoming more passionate, closing, rater than squinting his eyes. "I'm sorry." He said, pulling back. "That's just years of lust that I've had bottled up for you coming out."

"You're going to have a long time to get all that out." Naruto said gently, stroking the softly curling hair's at the back of Sasuke's pale neck. "Because I'm never letting you go."

Sasuke looked hopeful. "So you…feel the same way?"

"Baka." Naruto scoffed, pulling his hand from around Sasuke's neck to lightly slap his cheek. "Of course I do. I love you Sasuke."

Sasuke, in a moment of pure mush, wrapped both arms around Naruto's slender waist and rubbed noses with him.

"I just don't know how this is going to work with the whole me being asexual thing." Naruto grinned cheekily.

Sasuke looked seriously worried for a second though, making Naruto have to laugh.

"Seriously though Sasuke." Naruto whispered. "You're all I've been waiting for. I know you aren't going to hurt me and I feel comfortable with losing my virginity to you."

A ripple went up Sasuke's back at the mention of intimacy. "Hold up cowboy." He whispered back." You're going to have to wait till tonight to discuss anything in relation to virginity.

Naruto held Sasuke tight. "I don't think I can wait that long." He whispered kissing Sasuke. "I don't think I can wait for you much longer. I love you so much."

Sasuke bit his lip, overcome with emotion. "I love you too." he murmured, kissing the top of Naruto's head.

The details of what happened that night between Naruto and Sasuke can not be disclosed in this T rated story. However it can be said that they both had a very enjoyable night, and succeeded in getting closer than most best friends ever would.

Afterwards it was almost like being best friends. With major, major perks. Gaara and Neji were shocked to hear, as were many other students, and the road wasn't exactly free of bumps after they got together.

But that, all that is another story.


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