An: First off, I'm really sorry about how long this took to get up. But this is just not my pairing. That doesn't mean I hate it or anything, I just took me around 20 rewrites to get something decent. And yeah I said I was going to do a Sasu/Naru I ended up with Naru/Sasu. 'Cause let's face it, Naruto doesn't hardly ever get to be the seme and I like seme Naru.

Second thing, to make up for the lateness of this ficlet I added a Naru/Sasu pic I did not even twenty minutes ago to my deviant art account for my readers. Link is: seraphimaerias. deviantart. com /art/You-Know-You-Want-To-98941321 (just remove the spaces) and while you're there check out my other Naruto pics!

Then lastly, I live in Houston and yes, Hurricane Ike was a bitch. And yes, having no electicity or running water sucks. Thank god that's over. Now, enjoy.

Part 0004. Naruto/Sasuke

A sigh slipped from my lips as I sat with my back against a tree just outside my house. The sun was high and the shade I sat in was welcome as I took a break from my training with a bento in my lap. I decided to eat quickly then look for Naruto. Maybe he'd like to spar with me today?

As if summoned by my thoughts, Naruto appeared ten feet in front of me in a swirl of leafs. He smiled warmly at me and came to sit beside me. I raise an eyebrow at him and continue to eat.

"Hey, Sasuke-teme, would you be up for a mission with me tomorrow? Baa-chan said she'd let you off your 'house' arrest if you can play nicely for the day." Naruto said with an amused quick to his lips that even I had to admit looked good on him.

I almost hit myself over the head, Naruto looking good? What was wrong with me? I was staring I realized suddenly at Naruto's strange expression. I hastily look away to glare at the ground.

"I think I can manage that, Dobe," I finally told him.

"Teme, don't call me that," he protested loudly. He crossed his arms and pouted, drawing my gaze again and down to his pale pink lips. I catch myself and force my eyes away from his lips, trying to crush the desire to know how soft they really were.

"Hn, what is the mission anyway?" I ask as I pack away what's left of my bento. He shrugs and lies down on the ground in front of me, he arms pillowing his head. He looks up at me with a thoughtful gaze as I blank my face of any emotion.

"I don't know and I don't really care either. I just asked Baa-chan for a mission for us 'cause I knew you'd be bored by now. You'd have come looking for me sometime today wanting to spar anyway to keep yourself occupied, but this way she'll clear out a mission too," Naruto smiled teasingly.

I grunt and turn away to side my bewilderment, did he really know me so well? Is he really able to predict my actions that accurately? "When is this mission?"

"Now, if your finished eating," Naruto said, getting to his feet. I nod and follow him as he heads to the exit of the Uchiha training grounds. I wasn't allowed to use chakra still for another three months so we'd have to walk there instead of shunshining over. "Sakura-chan also told me that she'd come by later to see us if she could getting from her lessons long enough."

"I thought she was already a top med-nin?" I cursed myself for letting the question slip from me.Naruto, however, smiled at the fact that I was actually asking about one of my old comrades- something I had done since they'd brought me back to the village. He chuckled, "She is, Sasuke. She's the one teaching the lessons, not taking them. Obaa-chan drafted her into teaching a bunch of little gennins the basics."

We walked on in silence as we traveled through the village, some of the villagers stopping to glare at us as we strode past them. The Hokage Tower came into view and we entered as a jounin I didn't recognize past us with a mission scroll in hand. I decided to ignore the others around us and focus once more on Naruto as he led me into the mission room where the Godaime Hokage sat behind a desk along with four or five chunnins. The blond woman's smile brightened when she spotted the Nin beside me and waved us forward.

I found myself uncomfortably frozen in place as close to fifty pairs of eyes turned on us. I turned my gaze to Naruto who watched me with concern and motioned to him that I'd wait outside the door. He nodded and pushed his way to the front as I turned and escaped the room as fast as I could without making it look like I was running away. I leaned against the wall further down the hall and waited, trying to calm my heart. My heart that'd traitorously skipped a beat when my eyes met Naruto's.

Five minutes passed before Naruto came for me and I looked up into those eyes and grit my teeth as a wave of desire rushed through me. The blue-eyed blond stepped closer and my breath caught when he placed a hand on my flushed face. "Are you okay, Sasuke? First you paled like you saw a ghost, now you're as red and flustered as one of those tomatoes you like so much."

"I. . . I don't think I'm okay, dobe," I said quietly, very much aware of his body mere inches from my own and very much so invading my personal space. These emotions that I'd been trying to bury for years seemed to burst up and out in all in one big explosion of longing that would no longer allow itself to be denied.

"-et Obaa-chan?" he looked at me expectantly and I blinked not having heard what he'd said.

"What?"

"I said do you think that I need to go get Obaa-chan?" He repeated with a worried look that appeared downright adorable on him. I shake my head at him.

"No, I'm not sick. I. . . I just realized something that I didn't really think about before." I said as I pulled my flustered body away from his and slid down the wall behind me to sit on the floor with my legs stretched out in front of me. He knelt next to me and I took in a shuddering breath. He looked closely at me, seeming to study me, before nodding vaguely and leaning closer.

"Naruto, wha-" I was cut off as those pale lips I'd admired earlier pressed against mine. I watched him slide his eyes shut and felt a slick, wet tongue slide into my own mouth. Despite myself I felt my body relax and melt against his as I let him kiss me. He pulled back and I opened my eyes, wondering when I'd closed them, as he rested his forehead against mine.

"Teme, next time just say it." He said with a somewhat cocky grin, "I've been waiting since you came back for you to make up your mind."

"What?" I gape up at him. He laughs and shakes his head.

"Come on, Teme, we gotta do this mission. Then we can back to your place to talk," he wiggles the scroll in my face before wrapping an arm around my waist to ghost a moist kiss along the sensitive skin over my jugular, "If talking is what you want to do."

Then he was gone, laughing as he went. I followed uncertainly, all the while thinking of I wanted to do to him first, kiss him or wring his neck. I did decide, however, to ignore the laughing Anbu that followed after me.

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AN: R&R please. And just because no ficlet requests have appeared- Next time: Mizuki/Naruto