A/N: This did not want to come out, but after some time I just figured I should just upload it. There's a second part to this, whcih will be another one-shot after this one called staying home. Let's hope that it will come out better.

Not beta'd so any mistakes, tell me.

Disclaimer: Don't own Naruto

Coming home

As the night wind whisked through Naruto's hair, he reluctantly made his way closer and closer to Konoha. It was already late into the night and from the position of the moon, Naruto would have guessed it to be after ten. He was supposed to have been back by five but he had put it off. He couldn't delay any longer since the last time he decided to be late (by a day), the old hag (aka Tsunade) had sent out a team on anbu thinking he was in trouble.

The reason he was reluctant to return home wasn't that he didn't want to return to Konoha, it was literally he didn't want to return to his empty apartment, his abode, his…home. What was the point of coming home when no one was there to greet him? It had always bothered him before but lately the loneliness was getting too much. It was like a small hole in his heart and it would get bigger and bigger until it would consume him. Before, when he was younger, it had stopped getting bigger when he had sometimes an unexpected visitor that would crash at his place after training because they were both tired and his visitor didn't want to walk all the way across the village to get home. Naruto welcomed those times, but those times were gone and were not expected to occur any time soon.

A sigh passed his parted lips as he landed in front of the gates of his village. He signalled down to the guards, which opened the door for him. Passing through the gates, he then made for the surrounding buildings and jumped from one to the other as he made his way to the Hokage tower.

"What held you up brat?" The voice greeted Naruto as he stepped into the Hokage's office.

"I'm back aren't I?" The Hokage's lips dipped down at the now usual response

"Mission?"

"Success. Here's my report."

After handing the report, Naruto sat back into the chair in front of the desk. Tsunade though, was trying to hide the smirk that wanted to spill out. Once she finished the report and filed it away she indicated to Naruto to go home. After mumbling a 'good-bye', Naruto started a slow track back to his apartment.

Fumbling with his keys, the blonde, after dropping his keys twice, opened the door. What greeted him was not a dark cold apartment, but one that was brightly lit.

"You're late. Don't tell me you picked up Kakashi's bad habits."

Naruto turned towards the voice and there he was, leaning causally against the side of the couch, arms crossed and a scowl marring his face.

"Sasuke?" Naruto questioned, wanting to confirm that the image before him wasn't a figment of his imagination.

"Hn." The confirmed response was given, but still Naruto didn't believe it.

"What are you doing here?"

"Where else would I stay? Kakashi's or Sakura's." He shifted from one foot to the other and the movement caught Naruto's attention. There, Naruto saw, above Sasuke's right foot were black seal markings, to be exact, a tracking seal.

"You're back," was the only thing Naruto could get out.

"I'm back."

In a moment of happiness, which Naruto hadn't experienced for some time, the blonde moved towards Sasuke enveloping him in a hug.

"Sasuke," he breathed out in confirmation. He quickly noted how he was taller by an inch or so than the dark haired man and how that contrasted since they last saw one another.

Tentative hands lifted from their tense state and wrapped, in return, around the blonde.

"You're here."

"I'm home."

Naruto didn't like coming home to an empty house, but Naruto thought that if Sasuke was there to greet him, he wouldn't mind coming home.

A/N: You know what to do! REVIEW!! Also, anyone else coming to anime north next weekend??