Sasuke would not let his eyes shut. no way, he was not trusting this idiot drive through the desert in the middle of the night without killing them both. It was only like 3 hours to the border of california anyways, he could make it couldn't he?

for the first time in sasuke's life, he was wrong. he was out like a baby in about 30 minutes flat.

Naruto was not surprised, if he hadn't been prepared to drive all night long and slept for 18 hours the day before, he would have been in the same position as sasuke:Face down on the dashboard sleeping like there was no tomorrow. in some weird way it brought a smile to naruto's face, just knowing that a jerk drug lord could look like a kid fast asleep in the seat next to him just like any other good guy out there. In fact, he looked kind of cute.

Wait...WHAT!?

Naruto's eyes threatened to explode out of their sockets in response to his thoughts. He physically shook his head to shake these strange thoughts away. It must be the effect of being cooped up in the car for so long. He was never one for sitting longer than 15 minute periods.

Naruto turned his attention back to the open road as the moon started to fade away and dusk soon approached.

...

The next thing sasuke remembered waking up to was the sun. Glaring rays pierced his eyes when he gained consciousness. What the?...shit! I fell asleep. Well at least i'm still alive, where am I anyways?

Sasuke began to assess the situation he was car was stopped and to his right he saw a quaint little dinner busy with customers. One of it's blond hair and blue eyed customers walked outside with what looked like a doggie bag and two coffees in his hands.

"good morning!" naruto practically sang and did a slight jog over to his mustang.

"I got you some breakfast" naruto handed the box and coffee over to sasuke and jumped into the driver's seat.

"I hope you like it, today's special was blueberry pancakes. I couldn't get the syrup to go, it would be too messy in my car, you understand right?"

"hn" better check for poison. He smelt the delicious aroma. blueberry pancakes were sasuke's favorite. His mom used to make them for him when he was younger. but there's no way naruto could know that, and he didn't like syrup anyways, too sweet for his liking.

He glanced at the blond boy who was currently inhaling his pancakes, and then stared at the desert blankly, "my mom used to make me these when I was a kid" naruto froze at the sound of sasuke's voice. "thanks" sasuke finished his thought still staring off at nothing in particular.

"mmm" naruto looked at the stranger confused "what a nice mother. No wonder you're such a stuck up prick, she spoiled you rotten" bad. Idea. Very bad idea.

Sasuke whipped his head to look at naruto before he had even finished his sentence. And naruto swore he saw blood red eyes that would surely kill him.

"woah woah, I was just playing" naruto really regretted his big mouth at times like these. Everyone knew that the Uchiha family was killed all except for sasuke and his older brother. It was all over the news ten years ago. Naruto couldn't imagine the grief the boy had gone through, being an orphan. He should have known family was a touchy subject to the boy sitting next to him, glaring daggers.

Sasuke finally spoke,

"Don't you ever speak of my family again. You know nothing."

"right, um. Sorry" naruto busied himself with starting the car and getting on with the trip. So much for starting the day on a good note.

"that was really uncalled for. It's a touchy subject for me, I've been an orphan all of my life and never knew my parents. I guess you could say I'm jealous of anyone that had parents to spoil them." Naruto was speaking straight from his heart. Why am I opening up so easily to this guy, I just felt so bad after what I said. He must have been so alone once they were gone.

"hn, dobe"

Neither of them made eye contact, but sasuke glanced with his eyes. He was alone, just like me.