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Heise:I'm so glad you gave a chance to the story, I do have a P with some kind of P in mind but that would be a Kaka/Hina story, lol.
Voyna: My dearest, so sorry I still want u to beta my stories, I just got a little anxious in posting it, lol. Texting you really inspired me and now I love the chapter. Ja ja. I think I made fun of your Oro rapes Sasu thing, lol. It wasn't really on purpose !
Author's note: So sorry I took so long to update, I had mostly written this chapter a while back, but I was really unsatisfied. After getting some inspiration (wiggles eyebrows at Voyna) I edited it a bit and added some stuff, and now I love it! (Even if you don't).
As always, Naruto belongs to Kishimoto-sensei. Also, the 'Do you know how I know you are gay' is from 40 Year Old Virgin movie (as if you would not know).
"Ma...Sasuke, how long are you staying this time?" said Naruto while scrubbing his left underarm with a rag.
"Mhm, I don't know Naruto...depends..." said Sasuke absently while massaging shampoo on his scalp.
Naruto frowned, "Depends on what? Sasuke, this is you home..."
"Mhm..." If there was something Naruto understood about Sasuke was that his monosyllables answers could mean anywhere from 'ok', to 'fuck off'.
"I really missed you man..." replied Naruto rather bashful. Sasuke smirked and lathered his right arm.
"Ah? You know Naruto I really don't like men that way..." Naruto let out a gasp and looked at Sasuke, stopping the scrubbing of his buttcrack
"Teme...", he then narrowed his eyes and let out a foxy smile.
"You know Sasuke that was kind of gay you saying that...I'm just saying." Naruto felt quite satisfied with his witty reply, and continued scrubbing his butt-cheeks.
"Mhm" was Sasuke's uninterested reply.
"Mhm, meaning yes I'm gay or mhm meaning maybe I'm gay." Naruto high fived inwardly at his own comment.
"Naruto, are we having all this gay talk because you want to tell me something...perhaps? I already told you I don't swing that way, dobe." Sai followed their friendly banter quite curious. It had always been incredibly amazing to him all kinds of human interaction.
"Ha! Sasuke teme! do you know how I know you are gay?"
"How dobe?" To anyone else, that did not know him, would think he sounded indifferent, but Naruto, who knew him from a long time noticed a small inflection, indicating he was actually enjoying himself.
"Because you have long eyelashes." Sasuke gave him a long look.
"That was kind of lame, Naruto..." replied an attentive Sai. "Shut up! Sai!"
"Dobe, do you know how I know you are gay?" Sasuke sprayed water on his head.
"How teme?" Naruto sprayed water on his butt.
"Because you notice I have long eyelashes." Some soap had accumulated on Sasuke well formed posterior, and he scratched it.
"Mh, and you know how I know you are gay?" Naruto was now washing his balls.
"How dobe?" Sasuke ended up spraying water on his buttocks.
"Because you admit that you have long eyelashes." Naruto kept washing his balls.
"Naruto that was lame too..." Sai was truly trying to be helpful, but of course that was not how Naruto took it.
"Sai shut up, or I'll smack this rag on your face!" Said Naruto standing up and holding the rag in front of him, the same rag with which he had just been lathering his balls with soap.
"And dobe do you know how I know you are gay". Sasuke would not admit it, but he was enjoying himself.
"How teme..." said Naruto more sedated, sitting back on the wooden stool.
"You have pubes on your face." and started rinsing his shoulder length hair.
"Nani! These are marks, not hair!" Sasuke shrugged his shoulders.
"Teme do you know how I know you are gay?" continued Naruto vehemently, rinsing his crotch.
"How dobe?"
"Because your clan's symbol looks like an upside down ball sack." A vein popped in Sasuke's forehead. He let it go though.
"Yeah, that was a good one Naruto." Said Sai pensively earning him a nasty look from the dark haired man which he ignored.
Sasuke got up and sat inside the ofuro, put the small towel on his forehead and closed his eyes.
"Dobe, and do you know how I know you are gay?" Naruto was just finishing rinsing his body.
"How teme?" He got up and sat in the hot water inside the ofuro.
"Because the men in your clan have pink hair, pink, hair." He emphasized.
"Teme do you know how I know you are gay, man?" By now they were garnering quite the attention from other bathers.
"How dobe."
"Because Orochimaru smacked that ass when you were 13, and you loved it." Naruto smiled foxily and placed the small towel on his forehead.
"And you know how I know you are gay, dobe," but Sasuke did not let him reply, "because you and Kyubi bang each others butt-hole every night" Sasuke accompanied his words by smacking both palms repeatedly a couple of times, without opening his eyes.
Naruto laughed nervously, "Sasuke teme...that was pretty gay man...Kurama did not like it..." Sasuke yawned. He really did not care what Kurama thought, one way or another.
"So... are you two coming out of the closet...or something?" Asked Sai in all seriousness, who had just sat inside the ofuro.
Sai had lately been taking his sweet time bathing, something that was very closely related to Ino having informed him some months ago that, 'If you don't take a proper bath every day, you are not sleeping on my bed', or something along those lines. Not that Sai had ever been negligent with his bathing routines, but as a boy not having grown with a woman's care...And Ino was very picky when it came to cleanliness. To sum it up, Sai was pussy whipped by his wife.
Sai had just closed his eyes, letting his head rest on the border of the bath, when he felt a rag smack his face harshly. "Sai, I warned you..."
"Growing some ball now Naruto, " Sai smiled creepily, removing the rag from his face and trowing it to the side,"too bad you still have a small dick.
"Ha! Better than..." and he made a gesture with both arms, dangling them in the air, "I bet Ino's vagina is all wobbly and stuff."
"You better not say that in front of her Naruto, she will probably kill you...But besides that, it is better than leaving a woman virgin after you are done having sex with her." Sai pat himself on the back internally for such a well placed joke. Social humor was one of those things he struggled with.
Both men heard then a low rumble. Sasuke was laughing.
He immediately cleared his voice, and turned to the other side.
"Sa-sasuke...you laughed man..." Naruto was ecstatic.
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"Let's celebrate!" Screamed Naruto excitedly, leaving the public bath, which really meant 'let's go to Ichiraku'. Sasuke did not mind, he actually liked ramen, just not to the obsessive level his friend did though. Ichiraku ramen was as very... 'Konoha', and Sasuke was kind of craving that.
"Sorry, Naruto, I promised Ino I would go home to have lunch. Glad having you back Sasuke-kun." Sai smiled, waved at both and dissapeared in a swirl of black ink.
"Hnn, she got him in tight leash..." Murmured Naruto. "You missed it teme, Ino and Sai married last year."
"Really?" was Sasuke's comment, but he wasn't truly interested.
"Big party too, Ino's idea of course," Naruto scratched his head, "I got so drunk, I woke up in Ino's bathtub." Naruto of course, did not mention he woke up next to a passed out Kiba on said bathtub as well. Overall it had been one of the most embarrassing moments of his life. He made Kiba promise that, 'what happened in Ino's bathtub, stays in Ino's bathtub, no homo'. He never indulged in alcohol after that.
Sasuke just gave him a 'look', but did not comment and just kept walking.
"Ohh, nice legs..." commented Naruto as they came closer to the ramen stand. Sasuke agreed, but made no comment. The crossed pair of legs sitting on one of Ichiraku's stools did look nice.
Naruto outdistanced him and went inside the place, ducking the fabric dividers. Sasuke, right behind him, was about to move aside the noren, when his shinobi instinct kicked in, he heard the punch and moved aside with quick reflexes. A second later, Naruto's body flew out the ramen stand, falling painfully on his rear end some meters away.
Sasuke saw a second later long black hair flying out from underneath the noren, running towards a blood spitting Naruto. The nice pair of legs had a nice body too, and could impart quite the sucker punch, he observed.
"Na-Naruto-kun, gomenasai...demo, you should not scare people from behind like that, Naruto-kun. "Sasuke swallowed hard. A red faced Hinata already had her hands glowing green and was healing him. She did not like it when people grabbed her from behind, something Naruto had just learned the hard way.
Sasuke stood in front of them, wide eyed, realizing who the person was. He frowned, feeling his stomach do somersaults. She was the last person in the world he wanted to see, yet she also was the one he longed for the most, much to his discomfiture. Sasuke swallowed again, looking at her unblinkingly. She hadn't notice him.
"Gomen, gomen, Hinata-chan, I shouldn't have scared you like that...I'm ok, Kurama is healing me already," Naruto smiled wide, "look who's back. The teme!...I mean Sasuke" Naruto knew Hinata was very respectful, always.
Sasuke saw how her smile faltered and her pinky twitched. She looked slightly to the side, not really looking at his face, but noticing him standing there. She fixed a smile on her face, but he could see she was starting to hyperventilate.
"Ah...ano...I see..."She fainted, on top of Naruto and Sasuke did not like that.
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"Teme, did you scare her or something? She hasn't done that in so long..." Naruto murmured his last words, frowning in thought.
"Don't blame me dobe, she barely looked at me." Sasuke deadpaned, faking disinterest, yet in the inside he was in complete turmoil. Lying about that just made him feel like the worst scum on earth.
"Sasuke your house is close by, lets take her there until she wakes up." Naruto picked her up. "But let's get some ramen to go first!" He walked towards a dumbfounded Sasuke, and unceremoniously dumped the girl on his friends arms.
"Na-Naruto..." it was a good thing Naruto did not hear him, he was busy making the orders, or he would have suspected something was going on with his friend. Sasuke did not stutter. Ever.
Sasuke allowed himself to look at the unconscious woman then, feeling his heart increase its rate and starting to breathe slightly harder. To say he was uncomfortable was an understatement, yet a small tiny part of him relished having her in his arms. He prayed on the inside then, that she would not wake up any time soon, only Kami-sama would know how messy would that be.
Her pale face was turned sideways, her hair covering part of it, yet Sasuke recognized the curve of her jawbone, it was Hitomi, he knew then. He suddenly felt stupid, at not having recognized her before. It all made sense then, the strong pull he had felt towards her. He winced inwardly, if she did not hate him before, she will despise him now, when she realizes she had kissed him. Her own rapist.
Sasuke also felt his heart constrict, remembering her in a similar posture some years ago. She had been wearing substantially less clothing though. He noted how her face had lost some of her roundness, the texture of her sking behind her knees where he was holding her up, the way her blouse, which covered her all the way up to her neck, delineated her figure, specially her chest. She was even more beautiful than he remembered.
His hands tightened his grip on her, he had ruined any chances he could have possibly ever had of being with her. Sasuke self-hate increased exponentially, for a moment.
Uninviting memories reached him full force. The painful moans, the silent tears, the soft voice begging him not to, yet those were not the worst. Recollections of how much he had enjoyed her body inundated him as well. Him grunting like an animal in heat, the soft skin underneath his lips and tongue, the feel of the tight flesh wrapped around him, his first orgasm and not least of all the mole on her left butt-cheek. He had really liked that mole. He even had dreams about it sometimes...
"Sasuke, are you blushing?" Naruto of course had to interrupt him at the worst moment, and Sasuke had been so lost in thought he did not notice him approach. Good job Sasuke, you are loosing your edge, but now think quickly! "It's the sun Naruto, you have been making me wait for too long."He replied impassively.
"Ehh?, it's not like you to make excuses." Naruto had the bad habit of being very perceptive when it was less needed, or so Sasuke thought. "Don't tell me you like Hina-chan?" Naruto smiled foxily and Sasuke hated how his friend referred to her in such familiar way.
"Mhm, can we go now?" Sasuke knew any further remarking on his part would just sink him into more trouble, better to just change the topic. He should have know Naruto wouldn't just leave it alone.
"Is that mhm meaning ,yes I like her or maybe I like her or you wouldn't mind bang..."Naruto was suddenly interrupted. Sasuke did not like where the question was going.
"Can we just drop her off at the Hyuga compound? Don't you think we will look strange carrying her around? As in, creepy strange?" Sasuke felt the need to clarify.
"Hinata-chan hasn't lived inside the compound for a while, she moved out like...five years ago. And besides I'm her friend, why would people think it weird? She used to faint all the time back in the days..." Sasuke wanted to ask why, but he refrained himself from doing so. It wouldn't do for Naruto to think that he was interested in her in somehow. Not that he wasn't, but his feelings had to forcibly remain purely platonic.
"Maybe because I'm the one carrying her dobe, I have never been her friend." Sasuke pointed out.
"Ahh, Sasuke don't be such sour puss, and besides don't be a hypocrite man, you were just eying her rather appreciatively." Naruto wiggled his eyebrows suggestively, and Sasuke felt irritation well up.
"I mean don't get me wrong man, Hinata-chan is like..."Naruto thought out his next words, "one of the hottest chicks in Konoha, " Sasuke dearly hoped that was not the overall population consensus, " I hear she has gotten a lot of marriage proposals, " Sasuke felt his breathing stop, "but she keeps rejecting them..." Sasuke breathed normally, he was going to kill Naruto one of this days. "Weird, I don't know what's up with her..." And I hope you never know Naruto...
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Hinata woke up disoriented and lethargic. The futon she was laying on was unfamiliar but clean. The sheets were soft too. She got up, walked towards the half opened shoji doors leading to the outside. The sky had already darkened, which the girl found strange because she was having lunch in Ichiraku...She gasped, remembering. Sasuke was back. Not only that, he was Shisui! She was horrified.
She rubbed her thighs unconsciously, and looked at her clothes. No, she was not sore there, neither was she wearing unfamiliar clothing. Her breathing calmed down slightly.
Hinata had not slept properly since she arrived to Konoha from her mission and still had to finish her report, which was why she decided that day to have a quick meal and finish it, and perhaps take a nap later, if there was time.
It would have been alright if she had found out by someone else's word, and thus requesting a long term mission outside the village. Like she did the last time, four years ago. She knew she was just setting herself up, escaping led nowhere. One day Sasuke could decide to just stay in Konoha, and what would she do then? Move out of the village? That was ridiculous.
The house was unfamiliar, but she had a pretty good guess to whom it belonged to. She was tempted to take off, and disappear, but Naruto was probably still there and it would have been very unpolite to just vanish.
Hinata really did not want to see him, nonetheless, she breathed in, renewed herself with courage, and walked towards where the voices were coming from. She could hear Naruto's unmistaken loud raspy voice. She smiled, she was not alone.
"...and then Sai, who was completely smashed by then, gets asked by Sakura what was it that he loved the most about Ino, all for the sake of recording the moment." Naruto laughed heartily, "Sakura should have known better, seriously, guess what the jerk says?" Naruto attempted to imitate a slurred Sai, " 'I like her pussy the most' , he got punched so hard by Sakura, that I think he wasn't able to have a wedding night." By now Sasuke was chuckling too, imagining the scene.
Naruto's words mortified Hinata immensely, she had been present when Sakura asked Sai, and had innocently looking forward to some romantic answer. Had she known Sai she would have never expected such, everyone that knew Sai personally also knew, that there was not an ounce of romanticism in him. Although he could be very thoughtful sometimes.
Hinata was, though, taken aback from what she saw in the Uchiha's kitchen. Naruto cutting vegetables while Sasuke, next to the sink, was cutting meat. Hinata would have thought the sight rather cute, if it wasn't for the dark haired male standing there, with his back towards her.
"Hey Hinata-chan, glad you woke up, girl you slept a lot, it's a good thing Sakura keeps Sasuke's sheets clean." Hinata felt faint, but tried really hard not to give it much thought to the fact that she slept in the Uchiha's bed.
"Ano...I'm so sorry for imposing, thank you for ta-taking care of me." She bowed prettily. "I will take my leave now." All this was said looking at the floor.
Hinata was just turning to leave, when she felt a hand on her arm. "Wait Hina-chan," Sasuke's eye twitched, "stay, Sasuke is making nikujaga. Can you believe this bastard can cook really good? Seriously Sasuke, you would make a great stay at home husband." Naruto guffawed at his joke.
Sasuke ignored him pointedly and Hinata's embarrassment increased exponentially.
"No no, I really have to go Naruto-kun, I promised chichi-ue I would go home for dinner."
"But Hinata-chan, it is past eight, their meal is probably over." Hinata eyes widened. Nani?
"I saw it was dark, but I did not know it was that late..." she finished despondently.
"Then that's it, just talk to your old man tomorrow, he will understand. Stay here we are making a lot food, right Sasuke?" Sasuke replied with his patented mhm, without turning around.
"Teme say something to Hinata, man it's not like we see you all the time or something." Finished Naruto with a pout. Sasuke let his shoulders drop, almost imperceptibly, sighted and turned around.
"Hyuga you can stay, I'm cooking a lot of food..." He did not look at her, but bowed as well.
Hinata had known, when she saw the dark stranger, Shisui, in Yumegakure no Sato tea shop, that he was eerily familiar. Now what were the chances of her actually encountering Sasuke and receiving her first kiss by said man? Her rapist.
The fond memory of said kiss crumbled immediately. She trembled, but put on a fake smile. She nodded politely and answered, "Gomenasai Uchiha-san, I really do not want to impose..." But the choice was taken from her. "What are you saying Hinata-chan! Come, tell me how to cut these carrots, because the teme keeps scolding me because I'm cutting them too big." And he guided her to the cutting board, holding her by her shoulders. Hinata really wanted to protest, but did not want to make a scene. Just a meal Hinata, that is it. Naruto-kun is here...he will protect me and I'm strong...So she kept telling herself, yet she knew deep down, a man that had protected a young girl so strongly and has kissed her so softly, was no rapist.
Hinata got a sudden urge to cry, but she just smiled gently and grabbed the knife. "It is like this Naruto-kun."
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To say the dinner was awkward was an understatement. Naruto was practically the only one chatting, with the occasional grunt from Sasuke, or the 'hai Naruto-kun' or 'iie Naruto-kun' from Hinata.
The nikujaga had been really good and Sasuke had refrained from looking at her the whole time, for which she was grateful. She avoided looking at him as well and tryed to keep her attention on Naruto. That was except for one time when they both reached for the pickled plums at the same time, and his dark gaze had fixed on hers for a split second. Her cheeks reddened in distress, and she removed her chopsticks from the small bowl immediately. Neither attempted to grab pickled plums again. It had been a good thing that Naruto had been fighting his way with a big chunk of meat to notice the uneasy exchange.
Hinata walked back to her apartment absentmindedly, still incredulous of such meeting. If someone had told Hinata the day before that her first encounter with the last Uchiha would be during a meal, a meal that he prepared too, she would have laughed at their face. No only that, but she had slept on his bed, and found out she had her first kiss with him, and he could actually be a gentleman, and could cook...Hinata had to forcibly calm down herself.
However, the thought that troubled her the most had nothing to do with any that, but rather with something the man had told her when he was going as Shisui, why had he talked so candidly about his brother?
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Sasuke could not sleep well that night. Her scent was impregnated in the sheets, it was torture.
He got up, got a cold shower and went back to bed.
An hour later he go up again to have some linden tea and then went back to bed.
Later on he sat on his bed and meditated for a bit. Some said the best way to meditate was to empty the thoughts. He thought that retarded, there is no human way to empty a mind of thoughts. Instead he analyzed his life, trying to look at it from different points. What he's doing, how he's doing it, what could he make better. He would think a lot of Itachi and ask himself what would he do. It was obvious to him that Itachi would have never found himself in his situation, he had been after all really kind. The same could not be told about Sasuke. He wished many times he had his brother's temperance, but alas, he was who he was.
Itachi would appologize, seek her out and appologize, or take advantage of some situation to apologize, or send a letter to apologize...or...At least it was crystal clear what he had to do, even if she wanted nothing from him, he had to apologize...somehow. Sasuke was able to sleep a few hours after that.
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Naruto went to bed that night with a smile on his face. It had been obvious to him that Sasuke had liked Hinata, and from what he had noticed, a lot.
It made a lot of sense, Sasuke blushing, refusing so half-assedly to carry her. He had even looked uncomfortable, since when Sasuke looks uncomfortable? He was one of the most shameless person he knew, not counting Jiraya and Kakashi-sensei of course. And did he really think he did not hear him stuttering his name, at Ichiraku? Then during the meal he had been so quiet, not that Sasuke was ever loud, but he had acted rather uncharacteristically. And did they really think he did not notice the whole pickled plum incident? It had been the most hilarious thing, but Naruto knew how to be tactful. Sometimes. And besides from what he understood, Sasuke had become, kind of, a womanizer, to actually see him uncomfortable around a girl...Well, it was perfect, thought Naruto. Because if there was one thing now that he wished the most, was for his dark haired friend to stay permanently in Konoha. Even if that meant for Sasuke to end up with Hinata. Naruto frowned slightly.
Two years after the war he had asked Hinata out. He had always known she had loved him and had honestly felt like a jerk for always ignoring her. He had always appreciated her as a teammate, but it wasn't until he saw her with her new outfit that he started to see her as a woman. Hinata had great boobs, and he was addicted to boobies, what could he do. He was truly a jerk. Yet the one time he masturbated thinking of her, had made him feel like the worst kind of person. How could he think of sweet Hina-chan that way.
He decided then to ask her out. And she, very gently, rejected him. Naruto had been rejected many times, by the villagers, by Sakura-chan, yet it wasn't until Hinata had done so that he had truly felt he had lost something precious. It had hurt, he could admit. At first he thought that she might be going out with someone, yet he always saw her alone. It was some time later that he started to hear the gossip of how she kept turning down marriage proposals. He had wondered if something had happened to her, something really bad that no one knew about. That thought had persisted on him for some time, for some reason.
Hinata...she would have made a great wife, just how his mother wanted.
Naruto shook his head, it was not good to think of the past or what could have been. Besides, he had the best...ehr girlfriend? He wasn't really sure how he stood with Karin, what he knew for sure is that it was the best sex ever, not that he had much experience with other women. As a matter of fact, he had lost his virginity with her, and was pretty sure she had lost hers with him. Of course, no matter how many times he asked she would assure him, in that unconvincingly way of hers, that he had not been her first. Karin had, to his amazement, been a submissive (in bed). And man if he liked that. So used he had been to Sakura's bossy manner, that the day Karin had told him in such a sweet and innocent manner 'onegai...' he had almost come all over her ass.
Flat chested Karin had apparently been a late bloomer, because 21 year old Karin had the sweetest double D, crowed with the softest pink nipple...
But enough of Karin Naruto! back to Sasuke, Karin only left two days ago, you spent the whole night before fucking her, as per request, it had been great, she's coming back in three days and, "Damn it!" He had a hard on.
After calming himself down, because Naruto was not going to think of Sasuke while having a hard on, seriously, he wrapped himself around his pillow, as usual, and smirked before closing his eyes. He knew what he was going to do. Kakashi-sensei after all, owed him some favors.
Have anyone ever noticed how Naruto hugs his pillow while he sleeps? lololol and apparently Sai and Ino's wedding is the root of all evil. Ja ja
