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Sleepless Nights

Chapter 3: coping methods

Sasuke had been gone far too long.

After the man stormed out on Naruto the blonde had miraculously accrued enough of an attention span to finish his 'homework', make dinner and eat it, watch television, and take a nap. Sasuke had not called or returned home. Part of Naruto was relieved to be apart from the raven but his conscious told him that something was wrong.

'Someone might try to kill him.' The words of his mentor rang in Naruto's ears. He suddenly froze eyes wide in horror.

'I let Sasuke out on his own. In a city full of shinobi. Most of who would want to kill him. And Tsunade-baa-sama put me in charge of him!' "Shit!"

Naruto was off the couch immediately, out the door and out into the crowded streets of a Konoha Friday night.

Blonde hair bobbed around in the sea of people hunting frantically for its chicken's ass counterpart, but then Naruto froze where he was… he didn't know where Sasuke would be!

In all his time knowing the raven he'd never followed Sasuke anywhere, save his house of course but that was a different story, so of all the places in the whole village (which was freaking huge by the way) he had no idea where to look to find anyone, let alone the proffesionally elusive Uchiha.

First of all Sasuke wasn't a perv or so Naruto assumed, so there was no reason for him to look through the red light district or anything…

Naruto was pretty sure the boy wasn't suicidal ... yet... so he wouldn't need to check rooftops or the top of the great stone faces for his roomie.

'Oh!'

One thing he was, though, Naruto remembered, was a drinker. He was sure Sasuke thought no one knew but it was a bit more apparent than the raven had thought. The boy didn't hide the smell very well and when he had a hangover one would have to be an imbecile to not notice since he beat the hell out of way more people than usual when he was. Since they were ten Sasuke had turned to the bottle for 'help' Naruto assumed it was when dealing with the death of his family became increasingly hard, but Naruto wouldn't know anything about that.

Maybe it made him feel better… he wasn't about to pretend that he knew what Sasuke was going through. Naruto frowned; he would have to do something about that some time soon. The blonde wracked his brain a little while longer for a place Sasuke might be hiding but there was nowhere else.

It was settled, he was in Tanzakou town at a bar.

Naruto openly face-palmed earning some strange looks from passersby, Tanzakou town! There are hundreds if not thousands of bars everywhere you look, there was no way he was going to find Sasuke there!

Frowning, the blonde glanced around through the throngs of people. From one of the establishments came a strangled shriek and a "You motherless piece o-!"

Hm, that sounded like Sasuke. Naruto turned on his heel and strolled over to the door, he might as well start there, the night was stil young. The line was around the block but this did not concern Naruto Uzumaki in the slightest, as he approached the scary looking bouncer he received a murderous glare. He tried to bypass the man only for a meaty hand to shove him back.

"Whoa there shrimp, you isn't getting' in there. You gotta wait in line like ev'ry one else."

"Oh do I?" Naruto said with a sly smirk. He reached around to his back pocket and the bouncer flinched away, probably thinking he had a gun but what he really had was a simple plastic identification card. The man gave him a questioning look when he flashed it, most likely because of the odd photo. Naruto was had been playfully flipping off the camera when Lady Tsunade slapped him and the camera flashed. That image should give you a pretty good laugh. ;)

"Take a closer look at the 'occupation' line." The bouncer leaned in and took a second to read before he flinched back again, this time whirling around and ripping the door open behind him. The man bowed as Naruto passed him.

"My apologies Rokudaime-sama." Naruto nodded and entered the club where the smell of booze and prostitutes slapped him in the face then proceeded to beat the shit out of him until he could no longer smell it.

The lights were dimmed and music blaring but the screaming he heard before was still audible not too far off at the bar. Naruto shoved his way through the crowd of sweaty grinding bodies to the fight; before he was even close enough to see faces he could see the fluffy black hair.

'Definitely Sasuke.'

'Crack!' a chair was cracked to splinters over the other man's head by an enraged Uchiha screaming profane naughty words while punching and kicking with all his drunken might.

Naruto sighed as Sasuke was falcon punched into the bar and coughed up blood all over the front of his white beater, he would have to wash that for the raven in some cold water as soon as they got home. The other man kneed Sasuke in the chin then grabbed him by the hair and punched him in the face.

'Okay! Time to step in!' Naruto decided that Sasuke had gotten enough of what he deserved and bounded ahead and bitch-slapped the guy away from his friend. While the thug regained his composure Naruto helped Sasuke to his feet and he, in turn swatted Naruto away and proclaimed though his words were still very much slurred.

"Git yer… handsofme! Der… freezing!"

As the blonde brushed his friend off the thug got up from the ground and lunged at Naruto, ready for a fight but he kept him at an arm's length. He didn't have time for this.

"Back up and calm down if you don't want me to kill you." his dangerous low voice somehow calmed the beast and the thug grumbled some inaudiable nonsense disappeared back into the crowd, he hadn't wanted to fight in the first place. 'Wow that was lucky.'

He turned back around to get Sasuke out the door but he was already gone. Incredibly distraught, Naruto whirled around a multitude of times before finally spotting Sasuke back at the bar loudly striking up a conversation with the bartender. He was still ordering drinks.

Angrily, Naruto grabbed him by the collar and pulled him off his stool as he still gripped a bottle of straight whiskey in his fist. Sasuke grumbled some profanity at the blonde but he was paid no mind as Rokuaime dragged him out into the street which was less populated now since it was the middle of the night. Eventually the raven was able to stand on his own two feet and walk along-side Naruto who still held his hand, they were almost home and Sasuke's cheeks still harbored a tint of pink.

'Still drunk.' Naruto thought sadly, he had been looking forward to talking to Sasuke about his problem but that wasn't going to happen now. He subconsciously squeezed the Uchiha's hand tighter in his causing Sasuke to squeal and giggle like a schoolgirl. This incredibly unnatural sound coming from the Uchiha causing Naruto to stifle his laughter with a snort.

"Oooooh! Looks like sumwun li~kes meeee!" Sasuke giggled and laid his head on the blonde's shoulder and closed his eyes.

Naruto blushed, thinking that it was odd when the Uchiha giggled and stretched the collar of his shirt looking away, it wasn't like sasuke could see him due to his lack of sense or anything else at the moment but this did not matter to Naruto. Suddenly he was worried that Sasuke would think that his breath stunk or he would notice that Naruto hadn't combed his hair that day or god forbid he'd see that shade of red covering his face and neck.

"Shut up Sasuke, you're drunk. You don't know what you're saying." He leaned the still giggling Sasuke up against the wall while he fumbled his keys out his pocket in order to get Sasuke into bed and away from anymore booze. He also needed to find a way to get the bottle of forgotten whiskey out of Sasuke's hand.

The two men stumbled inside, tripping over the couch on their way to Naruto's room and in the midst of the struggle Naruto was able to safely set the bottle on the entable next to his couch. Moving to the bedroom the blonde decided that since this was a 'special occasion' Sasuke would be residing there until he was well. Speaking of the raven, through their journey home he had several times gripped Naruto's collar in an attempt to kiss the blonde, though his attempts had been thwarted time after time. Naruto managed to sit Sasuke on the bed and get his bloody shirt off him without the raven thinking Naruto was trying to strip him.

"Alright, lay down and sleep this thing off," Naruto was mostly talking to himself knowing that Sasuke had no idea what he was saying. "There's going to be a gatorade and a dramamine on the entable when you wake up. Goodnight Sasuke."

Naruto made his way to the door so he could go comfy up the couch enough to seep on but Sasuke called him back.

"Naruto, wait," his speech was no longer slurred leading the blonde to believe that he had somehow sobered up within the last ten minutes and rushed back to the bed to where Sasuke was sitting waiting for him.

"Y-yea?" the blonde could have slapped himself silly for letting his voice crack like that, he even expected Sasuke to laugh at him but the Uchiha was as stoic as ever as he looked Naruto in the eye, waiting for the right time to speak.

Sasuke beckoned naruto closser with his finger and the Rokudaime, not being wise to his friend's antics leaned in, thinking that the man was opting to say something important. As he got closer to the raven Naruto gazed deeply into his eyes, hoping to be able to see some hint of what the raven was thinking before he actually said anything but there was nothing. No indication that Sasuke had anything on his mind at all and this puzzled Naruto.

"Sasuke, what- ?"

The raven lashed out and grabbed the collar of Naruto's shirt and jerked him forward, causing Naruto to fall on the bed and on top of Sasuke. His lip already connected with the other's who was frantically licking the blonde's lips begging and pleading to be let in.

Naruto inhaled sharpley and moaned when Sasuke shifted, bringing some much need friction to the hard on he didn't even remember getting. He moaned again as the Uchiha benieth him shoved his tongue down his throat and tugged at the hem of his pants lightly but just enough for Naruto to know what the raven wanted.

He'd gotten so caught up in Sasuke's kiss, the sweet musky smell of his skin and the electricity that ran up his spine everytime Sasuke touched him he had overlooked one minor detail. Sasuke had tricked him and was still drunk the pink tint had returned to his cheeks and his mouth tasted of stale whiskey, if he were able to remember this in the morning there was no doubt that Sasuke would make fun of him for letting a drunk man get the best of him. Suddenly Naruto leapt off of Sasuke to the other side of the room where his eyes stayed glued to Sasuke's erection that the raven was masaging through his pants and moaning Naruto's name as he did so, even though the subject of his dirty fantisies was still in the room.

Oh how he longed to go right back over to that bed and give Sasuke the Ride of his life, he always had, ever since they they were kids, as strange as that was. As he watched, Naruto's mind told him that going back over there was wrong, the other man was drunk and if they did anything would just dissapear somewhere again in the morning and never be heard from again. Sasuke didn't really want this, he probably would have been trying to take anyone right now if he were still on the street and if he were sober it bost certainly wouldn't have been Naruto who was the object of his affections.

"Naa~rutooo, why did you stop?" Sasuke's eyes had long since glazed over with lust, the blonde tried to not look into them lest he be sucked back into the deathly sexy hurricane that was Sasuke Uchiha and get himself into some real trouble. Inching towards the door Naruto shook his head, hoping to clear it of images of Sasuke writhing in pleasure benieth him.

"You're drunk and we aren't going to do that!" he hurried out the door, and locked it behind him, expecting the drunken Sasuke to try and break it down to get to him but as soon as he was out of the room he heard the loud sawing of Sasuke's snoring. He had fallen asleep. Naruto sighed and slid down the door onto his butt with a thud.

Naruto glanced down at the tent in his pants and groaned. Of course he had to be trapped in a one bedroom apartment with a drop dead georgeous tipsy Uchiha who was horny mind you! How he was to ever get through the night without finding himself back in bed with his cock wedged between sasuke's asscheeks he had no idea. The blonde slowly stood up and sauntered awkwardly off to the bathroom to take care of his... problem.

He could not wait until Sasuke had his own place!

Author's ramblings: I'm so so so soo so soooo sorry about updating so late and for this chapter being all shitty and whatnot and that there was no mention of itachi in this chapter! *Bangs head into wall* I actually forgot I had a story to write -_- so this chapter was rushed and stupid but I PROMISE it will get better from here on out! Please review! I run on reviews! No reviews=no more story! (That means you mystic) So review review review!