Out Of It
XI
Sasuke wouldn't sit down on Anko's second visit either. She lounged and fidgeted in the hard wooden chair in the visitation room while he paced or stood in front of her. Kakashi was always hanging around the doorway, attention glued to his little orange book o' porn.
Anko's casual stance was pissing Sasuke off.
"Why do you have any interest in what happens to me?" He said suspiciously.
"I'm starting an orphanage for Orochimaru's fuck-ups, remember? You qualify better than most, kid. And I thought Kimimaro was in bad shape..."
As she spoke, her bitten nails caught her focus. She pretended to have great interest in their state of being, even though she had been gnawing on them since she could chew and couldn't care less about their ragged state.
"What's to prove you're not working for Orochimaru now? You seemed pretty willing to in the past."
At this, she looked up angrily.
"I'd kill that bastard if I had the chance. Don't you forget it, Uchiha Sasuke."
Sasuke laughed darkly. "I'm sure, Mitarashi. You want to help Orochimaru's fuck-ups yet you wait until he's out of the picture to approach me 'out of guilt and concern.' You're frightened of him. Not to mention you're weak."
Anko looked at him coolly and Sasuke knew he had hit a nerve. Instead of breaking down in any way, she merely clutched the pendant on her necklace tightly and returned the low blow.
"Well, I'm not the one hiding in mental hospital," she retorted, eyes on his.
They stared at each other icily, both acknowledging they had brushed sore spots. He looked at this woman with a hint of confusion--he was being as nasty as he could, why wasn't she leaving?
She looked defiantly at this dark teenager, soon to be man--what would it take to convince him to come with her? What here, at Konoha, was he so attached to?
The stand-off went on long enough for Kakashi to glance up from his book in curiosity.
"I'll think about it," Sasuke said at last, before turning from Anko's gaze and sliding past Kakashi to exit the room.
The chilly rain of last week had given way, leaving the present afternoon warmer than it had been in months. Sunlight languidly covered all of Konoha Hospital's buildings and grounds, and so no one batted an eye when Naruto and Sasuke both signed out for walks.
"Everything's already so dry," Naruto commented idly, hands behind his head as they strolled slowly along the path.
The grounds were like a small park. There was only one path, but it wound along through a field that acted as a natural greenhouse for tall grasses, short grasses, wildflowers, planted flowers, and monstrously large trees with an army of buds and leaves on each branch.
They passed Asuma, sitting with a cigarette on a wooden bench as he kept watch on Ino and Sakura, who were sitting a few yards away picking bunches of red and yellow flowers. Naruto smiled and waved. Sakura waved back with her free hand and Ino looked over her shoulder to offer a smile. Asuma nodded to them in greeting as they continued walking.
"Ino's doing much better now, I think. She always likes spring better 'cause of the flowers. Plus she looks like she's been eating more," Naruto chatted happily to his quiet roommate.
Their hands brushed and impulsively, Naruto latched two of his fingers around two of Sasuke's. Holding hands was a bit too much of a relationship thing for them; it was an action that would bring whatever it was they had to light, which meant they'd have to define it, and defend it, and answer questions about it.
Sasuke caught Sakura's look out of the corner of his eye, how she then turned to Ino. Naruto noticed Sasuke's unease and tightened his grip for a moment before letting their hands drop.
"Where're we going?" Naruto asked lightheartedly, hands returning to behind his head.
Sasuke shaded his eyes and scanned the grounds, uninterested in everything he saw. For a change, Naruto decidedly turned off the path onto the grass; Sasuke kept pace with him.
"Ne, Sasuke..." Naruto said, his tone a few shades too serious for Sasuke's liking.
The dark-haired boy tilted his head and gave his roommate a glance to show that he was listening.
"You know, um, you...Well..."
They entered a little clearing sectioned off by two or three of the gargantuan trees.
"Woah!" Naruto said loudly. Whatever thoughts that had been going through his head had been effectively redirected to the twelve foot tall chain-link fence that stood in front of them.
"You didn't know this was here?"
"Uh-uh," Naruto said, shaking his head emphatically as he peered up at the edge of the Konoha compound. There were more trees beyond the fence.
"But you've been here so long."
Naruto looked sideways at him. "Yeah, well...I haven't always been allowed grounds privileges. Or if I have, I was never alone. I only really started getting better a little before you came."
"How long have you been here?"
"I've never not been here," Naruto said, flopping down backwards into a patch of grass shaded by the trees. He eyed the fence instead of looking at Sasuke, who then sat down beside him.
"That's impossible. The hospital doesn't look after infants. The children's ward's youngest is that depressed kid who cries a lot--"
"Inari," Naruto injected.
"You really have no memories before the hospital?" Sasuke asked, curiosity piqued.
Naruto sat up and crossed his legs. He leaned forward and plucked at a few strands of grass before answering. "It's stupid, but I always think my mom had red hair. Like a fox."
"Huh," Sasuke said tonelessly.
He reached out to cup Naruto's face. Blue eyes flicked over to lock with his dark ones. Their gazes held for the second it took for Sasuke to lean in for a kiss. Naruto closed his eyes and leaned into his roommate's mouth, his own mouth opening a little more, deepening the kiss. His hand came up to loosely wrap around Sasuke's wrist as the hand cupping his face slid into his hair.
Naruto's other hand drifted over to slide playfully over Sasuke's knee and up his thigh. The fingers in Naruto's hair twisted and the kiss grew less gentle. A low approving growl escaped from the blonde and he turned towards Sasuke, allowing the dark-haired teen to wrap his arms around his neck. Naruto's hands hooked Sasuke's hips and he pushed him backwards, shoving Sasuke's shirt up as they went.
A groan escaped Sasuke as Naruto started to thrust into him. They broke the kiss, both panting, and took the opportunity to pull Sasuke's shirt over his head and unzip Naruto's jacket. The black-and-orange article of clothing was tossed away blindly and Sasuke threw his head back when he felt Naruto's tongue swipe down his neck.
Sasuke's fingers dug into the blonde's shoulders as Naruto teased and marked his skin from throat to chest. Trying not to get completely lost in the sensations, Sasuke tugged at Naruto's shirt; he wanted it off, wanted to feel Naruto's skin against his own. Getting the idea, Naruto sat back and quickly pulled his black t-shirt over his head. As soon as it was off, Sasuke's lips hungrily reconnected with his.
Limbs tangled and Naruto was sprawled on top of his dark-eyed roommate with Sasuke's knees bent on either of him. A heat wave of arousal flooded Naruto at the feel of Sasuke's hands working on the fly of his pants. Naruto braced himself on the ground next to Sasuke's head with one arm. With the other one, he reached down to Sasuke's groin and cupped him. Sasuke's moan cued him to curl his tongue around his roommate's. The dark-haired teen's hands faltered, and, forgetting their job, clutched at the brim of Naruto's pants. A small movement of Naruto's hand brought Sasuke off the grass with an arched back, pressing their groins together (trapping Naruto's hand between them) in unexpected contact that had them both breaking off the kiss in favour of panting.
Sasuke slid his thumbs underneath the waist of Naruto's pants and, still gasping, met his blue eyes in a silent question. A lusty grin spread across the blonde's face and Sasuke took this as more than enough of an answer. Naruto licked his lips and his tongue unintentionally brushed Sasuke's mouth. He trailed his hand up Sasuke's clothed erection to the button crowning the zipper on his shorts.
Their opened mouths met again in another tongue-twisting kiss as Naruto helped Sasuke work off his shorts.
"Don't we need...lube or something?" Sasuke rasped as he successfully managed to kick his shorts and boxers off.
Naruto looked at him and with great effort, pulled himself out of Sasuke's arms in mid-grope to reach for his jacket. He clumsily searched the pockets and triumphantly withdrew a little plastic bottle filled with pale blue gook.
"I stole some lotiony thing from Ino's room," Naruto said, returning to his position on top of his roommate.
Said roommate looked mildly impressed. He briefly wondered how long Naruto had been carrying that in his pocket. Meanwhile the blonde gazed back down at him, marvelling at how good Sasuke looked with his cheeks flushed and sweat making his black bangs stick to his forehead.
Naruto couldn't resist swooping down and stealing another kiss.
"How--mmph--do you want to do--nngh--this?" Sasuke's mouth asked between distractions provided by Naruto's lips.
Naruto stopped, mouth hovering centimetres above Sasuke's as he thought for a moment. "You're bottom."
"What?" Sasuke asked, out of curiosity and a little indignation. Did he look like he'd be a better bottom?
"I got the lube, I get to fuck you," Naruto said decisively.
He lowered his mouth to Sasuke's ear and, as Sasuke opened his mouth to retort, he traced the shell of Sasuke's ear with the tip of his tongue and finished with a bite and a tug on the earlobe. He heard Sasuke's breath catch.
"Ah...f-fine," he acquiesced in a feverish whimper.
Naruto tugged at the remains of his clothes hurriedly. Sasuke grunted in discomfort, which quickly faded into a long-breathed sigh of approval as a pair of lips met his bare, sensitive stomach.
His legs spread unconsciously, giving the boy between them a little more room. He heard the little lotion bottle click open with a small plastic sound and a wave of doubt washed over him. What was he doing?
Naruto sat up a little and pressed an open-mouthed kiss onto the sensitive inside of Sasuke's knee. Sasuke's doubts met a tsunami of hormones--sociopath or no sociopath, Sasuke was still a teenaged boy. His eyes closed briefly and his breath rushed out past his lips in an unsteady, shallow hiss.
Naruto pulled Sasuke towards him, hands cupping Sasuke's bare ass as he raised him almost into his lap. Legs on either side of the blond, Sasuke swallowed hard, doubts battling hormones, as he felt Naruto's erection, slick with the lotion, nudge his entrance.
They paused like that for a second and then Naruto pushed in. Sasuke frowned and tried to relax. It wasn't easy. He tried not to move as the sensation swung from pleasure to uncomfortable prickles of pain and back to pleasure again. Noticing his discomfort, Naruto forced himself to stop moving, hands fisting in the grass.
"Keep going, I'm fine," Sasuke ground out. He shifted his hips to prove it and ignored the pain that shot up his lower back.
Naruto didn't look completely convinced but the temptation to keep moving was too much for him to argue. He lowered his head and caught his roommate's mouth in a deep kiss as he thrust forward in one smooth stroke, filling Sasuke to the hilt. Sasuke gasped shortly into his mouth, his fingers convulsing around Naruto's upper arms.
Naruto's breath came in harsh pants as he ground down into Sasuke's hips. Sasuke gritted his teeth. As the pressure suddenly warped into intense pleasure, he threw his head back with a load groan.
They rocked back and forth, sweat easing the friction between their bodies. Grunts accompanied them each time they bore down towards the ground. Sasuke's toes curled into the grass, his fingers clawing at the taut muscles of Naruto's back.
They gripped each other harder as they felt climax nearing, the heat between them rising the closer they got. Naruto's hand slid over Sasuke's sweaty chest and stomach to latch onto to Sasuke's erection. He had barely begun stroking before Sasuke bucked and then curled in suddenly, nearly knocking his head against Naruto's as his release hit him.
"Ah! Shit!" He bit out, hands scratching down Naruto's throat to grasp strong shoulders as he rode out the waves. Naruto followed him over the edge quickly. He groaned loudly, thrusting hard as he came, burying his face in Sasuke's neck.
A satisfied huff spilled heat over Naruto's shoulder and they stayed like that for a second. Slowly, Naruto pulled out--Sasuke winced just slightly--and collapsed at his side, both of them panting and staring into space with dazed eyes.
"That was a lot better than I thought it would be," Sasuke finally said.
The blond gave him a curious look before rolling his eyes with a muttered 'sociopath.' He lazily reached over and snagged his shirt as Sasuke pulled himself into a sitting position. He pulled his boxers on and watched Naruto tug the black shirt over his head. As soon as the blonde's head was through the neck of the shirt, Sasuke was kissing him.
Naruto's mouth opened against his while he haphazardly donned his own boxers. Somehow, they managed to get all their clothes back on without breaking the kiss for more than a few seconds at a time.
Finally, they drew apart. Sasuke opened his eyes to find Naruto grinning into his face. He looked at the blonde balefully.
"What?" He asked, covering a sudden bout of shyness by sticking his hands in his pockets and shifting his weight to one foot--his perfected bored look.
"We just had sex," Naruto said, face still split in half by his full-wattage smile.
Sasuke scoffed and rolled his eyes before flopping backwards onto the grass. Naruto looked down at him, his smile dimming for a second, his eyes growing distant. He quickly lay down next to his roommate, folding his arms behind his head.
They gazed up at the leafy branches of Konoha Hospital's unhealthily-large trees. The light and wind played across them, throwing moving shadows over the two mental patients.
"You already knew about this place," Sasuke stated.
"Huh?"
"Please. It was a bit too convenient. You happen to have lube on you when we come across the perfect secluded area?"
"Hehehe...well, I knew of it. People always make out here."
Sasuke looked over curiously. "Who?"
"Y'know. Ino and Shikamaru sometimes. Others too, I think...Um...Sasuke."
Sasuke grew wary at the serious tone of voice and the fact that Naruto wasn't looking at him. His blue eyes were glumly fixed to the high branches.
"What, dead-last?"
"You know you...Well, I...You know you can leave," Naruto stuttered out.
Sasuke frowned and sat up on his elbows. "Is this because of Anko? Don't worry about her. She's probably working for Orochimaru. And anyway, there's nothing out there."
"There's nothing here," Naruto said quietly, sadly. Like he'd thought about this, Sasuke realized. "You're going to go. You're...better. You've gotten better. And until..." Naruto took a deep breath. "Until you go, I can't get better."
Sasuke stood up, shocked. He glared down at his roommate, who was still avidly staring a hole into the trees. Angry that Naruto thought he could just push him away, angry that he had nothing to say in reply, and especially angry that Naruto might be right, Sasuke turned and marched out of the clearing.
Naruto sat up and watched Sasuke's back as he left, feeling utterly miserable. A familiar static began filling his ears and he could feel the tendrils of Kyuubi's presence eating at the edges of his vision, framing the world in red. Naruto fought back, but his heart was heavy and he put no energy into the battle.
Naruto knew Kyuubi didn't like Sasuke beyond the kissing and the sex. That was the only reason Kyuubi obeyed Sasuke somewhat, to keep him happy. And, Naruto thought with a wince, he had just pushed away the only person that had some measure of control over his vicious other half.
Kyuubi pushed harder and Naruto felt some of his defences give way. And it would be so easy to just sink into the oblivion Kyuubi provided, so easy to just let go, so easy...to just...
A string of curses flew through Sasuke's mind and his feet slipped slightly as he tore up the C-class stairs. He was breathing heavily and had broken a sweat.
He had tried to walk off his anger; he had needed to think away from the wardens and the other patients. And in the meantime, Naruto had had a meltdown so spectacular, so explosive that Sasuke heard patients in the far corner of the grounds in the B-class ward discussing it. It was then that Sasuke had started running.
A frustrated voice in his head mentioned that Naruto may not even care if he showed up. Sasuke was too tired to forcefully shove the thought away and so merely countered it by thinking that it was his fault, he had caused Naruto's problems and, if he was nothing else, he was responsible for his actions.
Finally, Sasuke reached the floor he needed and burst through the doors into the hallway. He raced directly towards the room he suspected Naruto would be in but Kakashi appeared out of nowhere and physically stopped him like a brick wall.
Sasuke glared and pulled back, panting from exertion.
"Naruto's under sedation. He's asleep. You can't talk to him," Kakashi reasoned.
He watched carefully as Sasuke walked over to the door and looked in through the little window. Sasuke saw that Naruto had landed himself exactly where Haku used to be. He was in one of the hospital's gowns and was strapped down tightly to the bed.
No, this was wrong, Sasuke thought. Naruto wasn't like Haku. He was too optimistic, too strong-minded to be compared to the downcast Haku, who was so accepting of death and obedience.
Sasuke automatically reached for the doorknob but the masked orderly spun him around so that they were face to face.
"Let go," Sasuke growled, trying to twist out of the older man's hold, but Kakashi's grip on his shoulders held him firmly in place.
"Listen to me," the orderly commanded. "I have something to tell you."
Sasuke stopped actively struggling and aimed eyes like daggers at Kakashi.
"We have to do a background check on people looking to care for discharged patients they aren't related to. We had Mitarashi Anko researched as protocol."
Dread sank like a weight into Sasuke's stomach at Kakashi's next words.
"It's clear, Sasuke. Anko's offer is real."
Author's Note:
Got a bit of inspiration from the-pink-angel's Wasting Mission Time and DarkSahdow's Drunken Lee Flirts XD on DeviantArt, thought they deserved some credit.
And then this is just awesome: sora-ko's Naruto – Googlefight