I suck at not finding time to reply to reviews v.v. Let's see... what else... OH YEAH! So I was watching Yu-Gi-Oh last saturday and I watched the original which ALWAYS sparks my interest in yamixyugi and then I watched Yu-Gi-Oh Zexal... I only like one character from that show and that's Astral o.o. HE'S LIKE, SARCASTIC AND STRAIGHT TO THE POINT AND HE DOENS'T EVEN HAVE TO TRY XD. THAT'S JUST HIS CHARACTER! Also I watched Little Kuriboh's new movie and died from the hilariousness-ness-ness...
Sorry for the unrelated topic... I just felt like sharing that c:
WARNING: Filler with a slit smutty-ish-ish scene in the beginning... this chapter was so random o.o but eh, we'll throw it in there because it'll lead off to the next chapter c:
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Chapter Fourteen: Kisses with Closure
Defiled, marked, bruised and burned.
Sasuke's arms tightened around Naruto's waist. His eyes were glued to the full-length mirror before him. A bloody black swirl that seemed to consume Naruto's stomach; it was gruesome. He couldn't lie about that. Naruto's body shook—trembled—against his, and the impulse to protect his blond came back stronger than ever.
He whirled the boy around and kissed him—long and hard. It was searing and hot. It left Naruto's knees shaking, his heart racing, and his stomach hurtling. Their bodies were closer together, it seemed. Sasuke and Naruto's hearts were stitched a little closer even when their lips broke apart.
"Aren't you going to freak out or something?" Naruto's face was still a horrible mess of blushes as his heart rate tried to climb back down from the exhilarating kiss. It was like Sasuke had opened Naruto's mouth wide open only so he could receive the mountains of emotions that couldn't be put into words.
Smirking, the raven placed a softer kiss on Naruto's lips that weaved a path down to Naruto's collarbone. His hands traversed up the blond's shirt, feeling and massaging the marked skin with the upmost care. "I told you before, didn't I? Do I really have to repeat myself?"
Naruto pouted, "It would be nice, you know, for closure."
Sasuke shook his head in mock disbelief, "Naruto Uzumaki… you are truly something else. But it's because of that why I find it impossible to be without you—despite the insecurities."
'Wow,' Naruto smiled goofily, he even chuckled. The space between them got a little lighter. His stomach unclenched and the burning slowly subsided. "Why are you so good to me?" he still couldn't believe how lucky he was. How life could throw him the most unexpected person he everthought he'd end up with, and turn it so that Sasuke was everything he could want, and more.
Sasuke attached his lips back to Naruto's neck. He was addicted to the taste of his blond. "Because you deserve it."
And somehow, someway, those words were the keys that unlocked some locks and made Naruto feel like he could give Sasuke anything.
It all started with a kiss to the neck.
Then somehow Sasuke's lips ended up on Naruto's belly where he kissed, and touched, and loved the skin that Naruto always viewed as ugly, repulsive, a burn from his past. Tremors rocked his body as that skillful tongue mapped the way from his belly button up to a brown nub—and bit on that nub hard.
Naruto's jaw went slack. His eyes fluttered close. His heart nearly died. How they got to this moment in time, where Sasuke was literally ravishing his torso in the bathroom, Naruto couldn't figure it out. But was he really complaining about the turn of events…? Not really.
"W-What are you doing?" oh, Naruto knew of course, but his brain was having a hard time catching up to his mouth—it was currently panting and moaning like a dog, right now.
Sasuke smirked, and just because he could he bit down hard on Naruto's other nipple. The small scream he was able to rip out of his blond's mouth made his pants constrict even tighter. "I'm kissing you," he said plainly, though there was a devious spark in his eyes.
His kisses trailed fire all the way back to Naruto's stomach. He wanted to make Naruto feel… beautiful. It was the only word he could come up with at the moment that perfectly played to the tune of his feelings. Sasuke flicked his tongue in and out of Naruto's navel before carefully tracing the mark with his pink appendage. Naruto's body shivered and trembled and bit back all the moans that wanted to tear out his throat.
Naruto's mind was a puddle of mush by the time Sasuke's face met his clothed erection. A rabid blush completely consumed his face when Sasuke had the audacity to... to...
"D-Don't bite it!" Naruto nearly whined. Though his body was definitely screaming: "Bite it again—this time harder!"
That devious spark in the raven's eyes only grew brighter as the urge to have Naruto turn into jelly at his hands grew stronger and stronger. He bit at Naruto's clothed erection again, enjoying the moan that reverberated and bounced off the bathroom walls. By now, he was being purely driven by instinct. Instinct, lust, want... just to name a few ingredients currently being pumped in and out of Sasuke's blood stream, at the moment.
His teeth had already hooked into Naruto's zipper. The blond's heart shot up to his throat. 'Toofar,'his hands came to rest on Sasuke's shoulders, ready to pull him off when the bathroom door opened and in walked Itachi looking very... bemused.
"Oops," he said with a smile on his face that proved he wasn't sorry one bit. Leaning against the door frame looking far more casual than any human being should after walking in on an... intimate moment, Itachi said, "Phone for you. It's Father."
Father. The word made Sasuke shoot up like a rocket and turned his body as rigid as ice. His eyes instantly steeled over. His fists clenched. And a nasty little snarl was painted on his cheeks. All because of the word Father.
"What does he want?" he sneered. "Don't tell me he wants to send me off again. It's not my turn this week."
"Surprisingly this isn't one of Father's schemes to ruin our lives any further. Ah," he held up his pointer finger, "hold on." he pressed the phone to his cheek, mocking whatever his father was yelling for at him in a way that left Sasuke's eyebrows cocked sky high and Naruto awkwardly laughing wondering when in the world he'll just disappear off the face of the earth. "No, Father, of course I don't think you're ruining our lives by shipping off to your companies to 'gain experience'. Why would you even guess that? What? You'd like me to stop yapping and hand over the phone?" Itachi grinned evilly. It left both Sasuke and Naruto's blood cold. "Sorry, Sasuke can't answer the phone right now. He's a little preoccupied with a nasty little zipper he can't get off—"
"Give me that!" Sasuke snapped, ripping the phone out of his brother's hand. He slammed his palm over the speaker. "You," he narrowed his eyes towards his brother, "go downstairs and actually act human. And Naruto," his eyes became warmer directed towards his blond, "you can go wait in my room. This won't take too long."
"Uhh... yeah, sure." Naruto was already busy fixing and adjusting himself so it looked like he wasn'tjust being ravished in the bathroom or anything... He gave Sasuke a fleeting look before walking out of the bathroom only to be stopped by Itachi. "Gah!" Naruto clutched his frantically beating heart, "Don't do that! My heart can't handle the surprise!"
"You and my otouto were about to do it, weren't you?" Oh, ho, ho Itachi looked so sure of himself at the moment...
And here comes the blushing cavalry to dominate Naruto's face again. "N-No! He was just... We were... No! Sasuke and I were doing nothinglike that!"
Itachi gave Naruto a look that clearly screamed, 'You honestly think I'll believe such a stupid lie?' and shook his head in mock shame. "So you're assuming I should believe Sasuke was having a very special talk to your crotch?"
"It was feeling worthless and needed cheering up," Naruto deadpanned.
"With Sasuke's mouth," Itachi smirked.
And just like that, Naruto was the loser.
"Anyway," Itachi drawled, highly amused by how spastic Naruto could be—the blond was slamming his head against the wall, at the moment, and it was quite a sight to see—and gently ushered the blond to Sasuke's room. "Will you be staying for dinner tonight? The chef's making lobster."
"Lobster?" Naruto's eyes shot off like fireworks. All Itachi had to do was nod and Naruto's motor mouth was kicked into overdrive all the way up to Sasuke's room. By the time they had got there, Sasuke was sitting at his desk with a book in his hands and a not-so-happy look on his face.
"Rough call?" though Itachi already knew the answer to that one.
"Hn," Sasuke sighed and rubbed his aching temples. "Father's coming home for dinner..."
"When?"
"Tonight," there was acid on that word, so much so Naruto felt like his ears were going to fall off just from hearing it.
Itachi's eyes widened for a fraction of a second before dulling down again. "Huh. That's quicker than last time he decided to pop in. He must think someone's trying to take down his main branch again."
"Wouldn't surprise me..." Sasuke scoffed, but Naruto knew to look behind the front and dig a little deeper for the hidden truth just beneath the surface. Then he smiled.
'He's becoming easier to figure out,' it was a pretty cool revelation, to be honest.
"You Uchihas are all the same," Naruto sighed in fake frustration and stood against the wall. "You act one way when you're really feeling something else instead. I don't see why you're not honest with yourselves."
"What are you talking about?" Itachi asked, offended.
"We've never been dishonest," Sasuke added in.
Naruto couldn't help but scoff and roll his eyes, "Yeah. Sure. Says the guy who sent me roses and promises for a month leadingme to believe it was from Sakura and not you."
"Dobe," Sasuke glared, "youwere the one who got the ridiculous notion that it was Haruno sending you those flowers. I never put that into your head."
The blond sputtered, scrambling to catch onto his words. He knew Sasuke was right, he just didn't want to acknowledge it. "Stillif you would have been truthful and honest in the beginning, our relationship could have come across much faster!"
The Uchiha brothers both exchanged knowing glances that only siblings could share.
"He's an idiot," older eyes shared.
"I know," younger eyes admitted reluctantly.
+I Promise+
Somehow, Naruto was convinced, weaseled in, and then bribed to stay for dinner that night despite his best intentions to not stay.
"But you guys need the chance to reconnect!" Naruto defended.
Sasuke would have none of that and kept his position on top of Naruto firmly in place. "Bull crap. My father doesn't even know the definition of 'family'. Besides, he needs to know sooner, not later, that we're together."
Naruto shook his head wildly, "No way, Uchiha! I'm not sparking up conflict between your dad, the richest man in like... the worldjust because you have to be childish!"
Itachi was casually flipping through a book, choosing to dress in a nice pair of jeans and a black shirt since this wastheir father they'd be having dinner with shortly. He peered over the rim with bored but calculating black eyes. "Suigetsu has brought to my attention that your endurance is still lacking during practice. I wasthinking of giving you easy bits of training to slowly work up your endurance but I've just read of a great and extremely rigorous way to build up your stamina in a matter of days." an evil spark danced in those onyx pools of his, "What do you think of that, hm?"
"I think I'd love to join you for dinner," Naruto answered quickly. And that's how he found himself sitting beside Sasuke... at the dinner table... with Sasuke's father... at the dinner table... and Sasuke's mother... at the dinner table... Oh yeah, Itachi was there too... at the dinner table.
'Fuck me, fuck me, fuck me, fuck my life!' Naruto looked back and forth for an exit to the "bathroom". Sad thing was... he didn't remember whereto get to the bathroom. The Uchiha house was pretty massive. He awkwardly pushed his food back and forth, back and forth, around his plate—refusing to make eye contact with any of the Uchihas. Though Sasuke was making that rather difficult seeing as every five minutes a hand would somehow manage to wiggle onto Naruto's knee... or lap... or crotch.
"Sasuke!" Naruto hissed, barely glancing at the nonchalant-looking raven beside him who had the damn nerve to act like it was Naruto bothering him.
"Yes?" oh how Naruto wanted to just rip that "innocent" looking grin off the raven's face and stomp on it until it meshed with the carpet...
"I hate you."
"Sure you do."
Even though there was some awkward banter going on between the two... Naruto realized something very profound: 'Their dinners are so...awkward.' Aside from the random updates on business and the customary questions parents ask their kids, their dinners were pretty quiet. Unlike the dinners Naruto was used to at home where he had to watch Kakashi shove his tongue down Iruka's mouth, or when Kiba and Gaara would randomly pop in because they were "orphans in need of some good food and a warm home".
'Wow.. this is kind of... sad.'
And if the awkward silence didn't make things worse, then it was the fact that Sasuke's father hadn't stopped looking at him the whole time since dinner started.
"Sasuke," Fugaku finally said, daintily dabbing the sides of his mouth with his napkin. "When are you going to introduce me to your... friend over there."
The raven looked like he was trying very hard to hold back a snide remark. Pride was always a tough emotion to battle against. "Father, Naruto. Naruto, Father." he was such a pro at introductions, too.
"Uh... N-Nice to meet you," Naruto bowed his head slightly. The supreme aura that Sasuke's father was radiating off like body odor scared the living rainbow colors out of him.
"Classmate?"
"You could say that," Naruto was having a pretty hard time making eye contact with daggers...
Fugaku raised a cool eyebrow, "What exactly could you be insinuating by that?"
Itachi took a looong sip of his water.
"Dear, don't bother your son's guest. It's rude." Mikoto gingerly tore into her lobster as if she wasn't about to devour the crustacean as we speak.
"I have the right to ask him a question, do I not?" Fugaku challenged. Mikoto only had to open one eye to have her husband step back—slightly. Naruto had to smirk at that.
'So whipped,' then his smirk disappeared when Fugaku's eyes landed on him again. 'So screwed.'
He could see the words formulating and culminating in Fugaku's mouth, just waiting to be fired when Sasuke's hand interlocked with his—fingers trapped tight and bounded together. He had half a mind to snap at Sasuke for being so rash in front of his parents, and the other half to whip out his phone and take a picture of Fugaku's face right now... it was pretty hilarious.
Dumbfounded and utterly shocked—a great combination.
"Father, Naruto's not just any classmate..." the blond could have sworn Sasuke was milking up every moment he saw a slight crack in his father's face. "We're dating. Boyfriend and boyfriend, and I thought I'd like to share that with you."
It was so silent, you could have heard a pin drop next door.
Itachi was looking as calm as ever, making various points of eye contact while sipping his drink. Naruto was pretty sure half of himself was just killed by Sasuke's abrupt bluntness (that he strangely found cute in a weird way...). Mikoto had stopped eating to give her son a very hard look. And Fugaku...? Well...
"Son," he started off sternly.
"Father," Sasuke shot back.
"You never told me you were gay."
"You never asked."
"It would be beneficial if you stayed home more, Father." Itachi added in, still sipping his drink like the calm little master he was...
Heavy silence again, and Naruto thought this time Sasuke's father would have gone up, walked over to Sasuke, and slapped him. Instead, he sunk back in his seat and looked like all the age stored up inside was pouring out through cracks and veins, ruptures and holes...
"Where did I go wrong in raising you...?"
Sasuke shrugged his shoulders carelessly, "Well rarely coming home and shipping us off to work on parts of your business could be the cause..."
"Sasuke," Itachi gave his brother a look that clearly told him to calm himself before things exploded out of hand.
Ha, too late.
Naruto was sitting through this all wondering when in the world the big boom would come. He was expecting Sasuke's father to flip out, throw the table, kick some chairs, throw a few curse words, make up a new word that could be called gibberish—something that was normal for this situation. None of that came. Instead, Fugaku calmly excused himself from the table and ascended up the stairs to his room.
'Okay... I didn't really expect that,' his eyes landed on Sasuke's mother who was strangely quiet through out the whole ordeal. Their eyes locked, and for a moment Naruto thought he was going to be fried by laser beams. He got nothing, to be honest. Mikoto simply went back to her dinner and that was that.
Naruto shook his head, hoping his heart wouldn't give out on him just for spite. "You're family is so fucked up, Teme..." Naruto whispered.
"Really? I thought all families interacted this way?" the blond didn't know whether to kick Sasuke in the shin for being sarcastic or look at him in... pity—confused as all get out, pity.
The blond shook his head and bit into his lobster. "You know what... this lobster is pretty good." he was feeling a little devious so he took the chance to strike up conversation with Mikoto again, "Give my compliments to the chef, okay?"
There was a brief pause of silence... and then, "I'll make sure to do that."
+I Promise: Uchihas Are So Unpredictable+
"You know something, Teme? Tonight wasn't so bad after all." the two boys were standing in the entryway, bodies tangled up in an embrace as Sasuke leaned in to kiss Naruto again. He really couldn't stop—kissing Naruto, that is. After the arupt coming out to his father he felt like he could do anything. It felt pretty great.
"Oh yeah, surprise visits from my father and awkward family dinners are always a treat."
"They are!" Naruto grinned back. The two were just about to head outside when Mikoto stopped them and motioned Naruto to come forward.
"Sasuke..." she stared, "how is he?"
Naruto opened his mouth. Snapped it shut. Then opened it up again. "Eh, he can be a pain in my ass sometimes but... I don't know what I'd do without him. His kind moments are really fun to look forward too, you know?"
That answered seemed to please her, seeing as it was able to bubble up a laugh from the seemingly stoic mother. "Well I'm glad he's finally found someone. I always knew he never had an interest in women..." she shook her head in disbelief, "Really, that boy thinks I know nothing about his life when I'm practically living right under his nose."
"He doesn't see it that way... just saying," Naruto quickly added.
Mikoto sighed, this time some wrinkles came to her eyes... "I know. If I could change things, I would in a heartbeat."
"It's not too late. You could always start over."
"No..." she shook her head, a sad smile on her lips, "I don't think that's possible anymore."
Naruto smiled brightly—for her. "Ma'm, don't give up hope yet. Sasuke can be a prick, and an asshole, and a bastard sometimes but I know him. He wants his family."
This time, a genuinely small smile came to Mikoto's lips. "Thank you, Naruto. Feel free to come back here anytime. I'm sorry my husband can be a little... difficult. Uchiha's are rarely anything but easy to handle."
Naruto scoffed, "Tell me about it. But thank you."
+I Promise: One Last Thing+
"So," Sasuke started as Naruto slid into his car, "what did my mother want to talk about?"
"Oh nothing too serious," Naruto assured him, slipping on his seatbelt. "She just gave me permission to run off and marry you anytime I wanted. I told her I wanted us to go to Vegas so she gave us her life savings."
"Please tell me she bought us tickets for a trip to California, too." Sasuke joked back.
"Boy, I couldn't walk out there without tickets for Cali!" the two boys looked at eachother, smiled, and then broke out into peels of laughter that floated around and around in the cold, frigid air.
Sasuke finally settled down and turned on the ignition, "Now what did she really tell you."
"That's what she told me, Teme."
"Naruto."
"Sasuke."
"I'm serious."
"I'm serious too," Naruto shot back. "Your mother really accepted us. I think she likes me... Also, I think your dad's gonna warm up to us too."
"Now you're just being stupid," Sasuke said as he started the long, but pleasurable drive back to Naruto's apartment.
"No, I'm being optimistic. There's a difference," Naruto corrected. "Why should I automatically make the situation negative when it could have any number of possible endings?"
Sasuke smiled softly, "I don't know where you got that outlook of life on, but I can't say I'm complaining."
"Practice, Teme. Lots of practice..."
Hopefully that practice comes in handy later on.
Haaa. Epic foreshadowing ftw. So I was abusing the replay button my playlist on Youtube for the song The Invisible Wall by the Gazette and I suggest you all listen to it c: Ruki is just so... amazing and down right sexy in that video! And the music that goes along with it... well worth the listen (:
Sorry this chapter was slow and filler-ish, next chapter shall move the plot right along! I promise you. So yeah, baby pandas like to be saved and all that jazz. Fishies are cute. I'm so tired I'm babbling. And I still have pen on my hand from Creative Writing today... Hahahaha. So pro.