title: love month
prompt: SASUSAKU MONTH ON LJ!
rating: T-M
summary: o16; In order to stay warm, Sakura and I had to share body heat. To be honest, it was really, really awkward...
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Warmth
"Let's gather 'round the campfire and sing the campfire song. Our c-a-m-p-f-i-r-e s-o-n-g song…"
Sakura and Naruto had been singing it nonstop ever since we (Team 7, of course) headed out on our first camping trip. It was a nice way to get away from everything (although I would, of course, have to train), but their singing didn't really help.
It was only until Sai screamed out. "STOP IT. SHUT UP. SHUT UP." To be honest, I've never seen him freak out before, so this was a change to all of us. Then, he grabbed Naruto's banjo, snapped it over his knee, and threw the parts over the lake.
"Hey, that's littering!" Sakura said.
"My campfire banjo!" Naruto cried out. "Sai, you don't know how much I saved for that! I could've bought thirteen bowls of ramen."
I rolled my eyes. Of course, he counts currency in ramen.
"Let's go, Naruto. We'll find somebody else to appreciate our singing at the campsite," Sakura said, tugging on Naruto's arm.
For some reason, she shot Sai and me a dirty look. I looked down to see if my pants were zipped.
Yup, no XYZ. So why was she looking at me like that?
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True to their word, they kept singing the campfire song as they were setting up the tents. Sai made an excuse to go draw the landscape scenery, and Kakashi went to go get some "peace and quiet." I bet that was his code name for "sit on a tree and masturbate."
As for me? Well, I didn't have any excuse, but I really did want to get out of here. It's not that I don't like Naruto or Sakura. Naruto's one of my best friends, and Sakura's…ahem. I honestly don't know at the moment, but she's somebody that I care for. She's a female. And a friend. She's a female friend, I guess.
There could be something more, but right now, I'm a little too scared to dig deep into it.
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"Kakashi, why didn't you tell us to bring more stuff?" Sakura asked, shivering. "You said it would be warm out!"
"I thought it would be! I didn't check the Weather Channel or anything. I'm not freakin' God."
"Work on it," Sakura muttered as she kept rubbing her arms. Naruto, seeing how cold Sakura was and how simple her outfit looked, he took his coat off and wrapped it around her. Sakura looked up and saw Naruto, now in a black T-shirt.
"You'll get cold, idiot."
"It's fine. I'm a survivor!" he said, humming the notes to "I Will Survive." "Anyway, Sakura-chan. It's a guy's job to do this to the girls. That's how the romance movies and books go, right?"
For some reason, I immediately became jealous. I would have also given her a coat, except…I was cold, too, and my outfit didn't have a coat.
Poor Sai, I thought, thinking that the guy's penis must be frozen solid by now.
"Thanks, Naruto." She gave him a small hug, which for some reason, caused me to become incredibly jealous.
"Why don't I make a bonfire?" I said, getting some dry twigs and wood. Of course…why didn't I think of this before? "Just wait a second." I did the proper jutsu technique, like I did when Team 7 was young, and made a huge fire, causing Sakura to wow and clap.
"Awesome, Sasuke-kun! Thanks so much!" she handed Naruto's coat back, and he stared at it in sadness, sniffing it. I smirked.
"Sasuke, one. Dobe, zero."
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"If only we had some marshmallows. La, di, da, marshy-marshy-marshmallows," Sakura said, humming to herself. Dear God, does she ever stop humming? Nobody can be that happy.
She put her hands near the fire and rubbed them. "Wow, it's so warm. Good thinking, Sasuke-kun," she said to me.
"Hn." I sort of blushed a little bit, but she didn't notice. That was good.
We were all sitting on logs that Sakura had punched down (she has freakin' super-strength. Seriously, where was the young girl I used to protect?), and she sat next to me as Kakashi got his own and Naruto had to share with Sai.
Her head was on my shoulder, and Naruto was eyeing me angrily as Sai drew the flames, tossing his bad sketches into the fire.
"It's pretty, huh?" Sakura said as she continued to warm her hands, her head not leaving my shoulder. "I think fire is a beautiful monster."
Like me, I thought, as she had told me those words before. I was her beautiful monster.
"Yeah," Naruto piped in. "We should sing a campfire song."
Sakura immediately took her head off. "Yeah!" Then, she pushed Sai off his log, so the little bastard had to come next to me and scoot near me (hands off, homo), and Naruto and Sakura were having their arms wrap around each other and kept singing the campfire song off tune and everything. It was bad, but I feel like it could have been worse if Sai didn't break the banjo.
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Pretty soon they got tired, and Naruto went to his tent to sleep. Kakashi called it a day, too, and Sai then packed up his stuff and left.
So then, it was just Sakura and me.
Sakura. And me.
A female with a male.
"So, Sasuke-kun," Sakura said, sitting next to me on the log. Her head was on my shoulder again, and she held her hands out to the dimming fire. "It's warm, huh?"
"Yeah."
I felt a drop of water on my skin, and Sakura did too. We both looked up at the dark sky and saw that it was raining.
"Awwh, no," Sakura said, watching the fire dim out. "Now it's cold again."
"Let's go back in the tents," I said, leading her there. And no, despite my raging male hormones, we did not have sex. Instead, she shivered again and rubbed her arms.
"It's cold again."
"I can't make a fire here, Sakura."
"I know."
She continued to shiver until I sighed, wrapping my arms around her. She froze for a second.
"W-What are you doing, Sasuke-kun?"
"Sharing body heat. I read that it's one of the most effective ways to keep somebody warm."
"Oh." She then wrapped her own arms around me and hugged me tight. "You're really warm, Sasuke-kun."
So are you, I wanted to say.
"Can we stay like this forever? Even after the rain stops?" she asked.
"Hn." Yeah. I'd like that.
We stayed like that for a few more minutes, until Sakura yawned. "I'm tired, Sasuke-kun. Can you, uh…can you come with me to sleep? Not like that," she blushed, noticing my face. "I mean, I just get cold and I need somebody to…"
I already changed into my pajamas (a T-shirt and a pair of sweats) and lied down on the mat. "Come here," I said, patting next to me. Blushing, she said, "Turn around. I have to change."
So, without peeking (and oh, how hard it was), I closed my eyes until she let me look again. "Okay."
She lied down next to me and held me tight like a little bear. "You are warm," she said, squealing.
"Agh! Sakura, your feet are cold!"
"I know, that's why I need you to keep me warm!"
"You're insanely cold! This isn't normal!"
"I have bad circulation!"
We squirmed for a little bit before I gave up. Her arms were around my waist and her feet were on my own (so. Cold). She looked up at me and then kissed my cheek.
"I wish I could hold you like this forever, Sasuke-kun," she said, smiling. Ugh, she was too cute.
I put my own arms around her.
"Me, too," I admitted. My cheek burned from where she had kissed me.
"You know, body heat is really effective especially if it's skin on skin."
"What are you saying…"I said, raising my eyebrow. I really hoped that she couldn't feel my erection.
Then, she grabbed her hand with mine and said, "See? Warm already!"
I frowned. Of course it wouldn't have been what I thought it would be.
She hugged me tighter and said, "You warm me up, Sasuke-kun. I really like sharing body heat with you. You're like…the bonfire, and I'm like…well, me."
"And...?" I began, urging her on. My free hand was on her waist.
"Your warmth makes me happy and I don't want it to end."
She yawned again before I could say something. "Good night, Sasuke-kun."
Aw, what the hell. I could save my confession for later. Right now, our hands were intertwined and we were sharing body heat skin-on-skin.
Slight changes 7.8.14!