Author's note: Hehehe! Ya'll are probably gonna hate me for this! X3

Disclaimer: Naruto doesn't belong to me… #%&$%!#!

Sleepless Nights

Chapter 13

Ready to Love Again

"Ouch!"

"Sorry… ooh, sorry!" Sasuke cringed as Naruto winced beneath him.

"Ah! D-don't pull it out so fast, it hurts!" Naruto shoved his face into one of the couch cushions to muffle a scream. "Damnit, why'd you have to get it stuck in there so deep? Ahhh!"

"Sorry!" Sasuke apologized for the umpteenth time, "It won't happen again, I promise, just stay still and let me do this."

"Yea, like fun this'll happen again! Next time you decide to shatter glass all over the floor you're carrying me to the other room – ouch!"

"Shaddup." Sasuke muttered as he carefully yanked another bloody shard of glass from Naruto's back. Now that he thought about it Sasuke realized that throwing Naruto onto his back in a room full of broken glass wasn't really the best idea. But Naruto had saved him and Sasuke definitely planned to return the favor some day, not with the same magnitude of course because Sasuke was sure Naruto didn't have anywhere near the same problems that he had.

Sasuke shuddered as he plucked a particularly large shard from under Naruto's shoulder blade.

"Owww, Sasuke!"

"Sorry."

The experience in his parents' room had been horrifying. He should have known the second he stepped foot in there that he wouldn't be able to stay long, but since he had gone through Itachi's room mere moments before he'd gotten brave. Sasuke thought he could handle it and when he was wrong the consequences had been catastrophic.

When he opened that door again he was eight, watching his older brother slaughter their parents without so much as the blink of an eye, only this time instead of running he'd forced himself forward. Step after step, one foot in front of the other Sasuke had bitten the bullet and forced himself into the room, very careful to not step on the blood stain in the middle of the floor.

It was the vases, the vases that now lay broken and shattered in the garbage can that had taken him there. They were Sasuke's parents' last anniversary gifts to each other, and he knew they would want them to be returned to their room.

He'd done well up until he tried to put the vase on its shelf. All Sasuke could have done was watch in horror as it shattered on the ground, that is when it started. The voices ringing in his ears again and again screaming of his uselessness and proclaiming that he should have died, one less clumsy body to take up space. He'd apologized again and again but there was no one there to accept them, his brother and mother weren't there with him anymore to tell him that everything was going to be alright. That it was just a little storm, and that it would all be over soon.

Sasuke came back to reality and looked down at where he was sitting perched on Naruto's lower back with a red stained towel full of glass in front of him.

Yes, that's right, he told me it was alright, Sasuke thought as he pulled out the last shard of glass, it was always Naruto.

He smiled softly and got up off the couch and taking the towel with him to shake it off in the garbage can.

"There, all done."

Naruto got up as well, careful not to get too much blood on the white couch and put his shirt back on.

"Great! Thanks, Sasuke, I never would have been able to get those things out by myself!" the blonde grinned and crossed the room to where Sasuke was, putting his hands out on either side of Sasuke and trapping him against the wall.

"You know what else I can't do by myself?" Sasuke blushed as Naruto's hot breath brushed against his neck, "go. On. A. date."

Damn, I thought he'd forgotten about that! Sasuke thought.

Naruto asked him out on a date, a real date for just the two of them at some fancy restaurant downtown on Hokage reservations. And Sasuke had declined.

I just don't think Naruto knows how bad it could be for him if people see us together in public much, let alone on an actual date! He knows as well as I do, it's damn near illegal to be gay in this city! Sasuke had thought. And he was right, when people like Sai started coming out not many of the other citizens had been very keen on the idea, though, there hadn't been any riots or protests… yet.

"So? Waddaya say? Let's go out." Naruto leaned in for a kiss but instead of Sasuke's lips he was met with the raven's hand.

"I-I just don't know if that's a good idea Naruto –"

"Why?" he whined, "what's there to think about? I told you I loved you didn't I? And you told me you loved me, so let's go!

Sasuke frowned, would it really be that bad to have a date with Naruto? No, I suppose not.

"Alright, we'll have a date, but we can't go out." Sasuke had assumed the blonde would have a problem with that as well, Naruto would want a night on the town to show his new boyfriend off to anybody who would give them the time of day, or rather, the time of night.

"Great! I know this nice little place we can go, you don't mind that it's in an apartment building do you? Oh, of course you don't, maybe you've heard of the place. It's called Chateau De Naruto."

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It's too itchy, and it smells funny… I don't like it. Thought Sasuke scornfully as he tugged nervously at the starchy neck of his brand new dress shirt. He regretted the moment that he'd agreed to let Sakura take him shopping to fix his lack of proper "formal wear." Hn, at least she isn't mad at me anymore, he thought.

It was Naruto's idea actually, for Sakura to take him shopping. It was mostly because Naruto had gotten excited and wanted to be surprised when he showed up in a suit.

The girl had dragged him all over the mall, every store that could have sold suits and plenty that didn't were what he was forced to hike through. He was even forced to follow into a lingerie shop because Sakura had accidentally met up with Ino who was looking for something new for a hot date with her boyfriend later on.

But the excursion wasn't all bad; Sasuke snorted a laugh as he remembered lunch with Sakura and Ino in the food court. The girls had generously paid for his food and had been updating him on everything that had happened since he'd "fallen asleep" when a huge sticky glob of pre-chewed food slammed into the back of his head.

Sasuke had told the girls to ignore the table of immature shinobi behind him but Sakura was already all over the situation. She'd sworn at them once just as they nailed Sasuke again.

"They really shouldn't have done that." Ino had told him, "they're about to wish they'd never been born."

And wish they did, as well as pray and beg as Sakura leapt over the table and "took care of the problem," he hadn't actually seen what she'd done to them because Ino'd turned him away from the carnage to clean the food out of his hair. But he knew it bad by the way they screamed.

He chuckled lightly; he might actually be starting to like Sakura.

But Sasuke's light mood was gone as soon as he saw where he was. The raven looked up to see a door in front of him, but not just any door, tacked barely below the peephole was a crudely carved wooden sign.

Welcome, to the Chateau De Naruto.

What an idiot, Sasuke thought, then he smiled, but that idiot is my idiot.

He whipped the sweat from his forehead with the back of his sleeve, creating a very obvious sweat stain on the white fabric. Why was he so nervous? It was just Naruto wasn't it? Naruto, who knew more about him than anyone he'd ever known, Naruto, who loved him.

Sasuke reached out a shaky hand and opened the door, immediately frowning at what he saw.

Naruto sat at a table at the center of the room speaking with the "waiter" and "waitress" who expertly lit two candles for the table and set them down. As soon as they spotted Sasuke the "waitress" strode confidently in her frilly black and white outfit over to him and held out a hand for the suit jacket that he hadn't even bothered to put on.

"What are you two doing here." Sasuke growled as he shoved his jacket into the girls' arms.

Sakura giggled and hung it up on a hook by the door, "You don't expect us to let you guys serve yourselves do you?" she eyed the stain on Sasuke's sleeve and clicked her tongue disapprovingly.

Sasuke glared at her as Naruto stood up and motioned to the table where he would be sitting and the raven moved to join him, but before he could make it his seat Naruto had him locked in a hug.

"You look so sexy in that," he whispered heavily in Sasuke's ear, "I can't wait to take it off later."

Blushing furiously, Sasuke shoved the blonde off of him, "Knock it off! There are other people!"

"Oh, don't mind us at all," Sai waved his hand dismissively, "just go on with your business like we aren't even here."

Sasuke smacked the palm of his hand to his forehead and groaned, "Fine."

The couple sat in silence as their servers ran back and forth from the kitchen getting food and utensils with which to eat it. Sasuke arched a dark brow when Sai came in with an oblong bottle in a bucket of ice. He stopped next to the table and bowed slightly to his two "customers."

"Tonight's wine is a fine Campus Oaks Merlot aged to perfection in our very own winery." He kept a straight face as he poured the sweet smelling red substance into two identical wine glasses before setting them on the table in front of each man. "The Chateau De Naruto sincerely hopes that you enjoy your meal." Then he disappeared back into the kitchen where Sasuke could hear both he and Sakura giggling like a couple of school girls.

Sasuke felt like scowling but he was too perplexed by the drink. He took a sip expecting sparkling cider and wrinkled his nose in disgust, setting it down immediately.

"You're not twenty-one, where'd you get real wine?"

Naruto laughed at the face Sasuke made and sipped his own, "What, you don't think that being chosen to be Hokage has its perks? Like Sai said, I have full access to everything in the mansion, even the wine cellar. No questions asked."

Shaking his head, Sasuke sighed and gulped down his first glass, "You could get in real trouble for that, you know."

Naruto just shrugged and slurped up another spaghetti noodle, what's up with him and noodles? Sasuke thought, but he didn't say anything else.

An hour passed and Sasuke was getting more nervous with every second. He had no idea what all Naruto had planned for the night and had been trying to figure the blonde out ever since he first walked in the door. Right now Naruto was doing everything he could to keep the raven talking about everything and nothing, of course the wine wasn't hurting the situation either.

Apparently Sai had been given orders to never let Sasuke's glass become empty, for as soon as Sasuke'd finished his drink Sai was there re-filling it again.

He's trying to get me drunk, Sasuke thought, and I think it might be working.

Sasuke had to blink vigorously for a moment to regain equilibrium so that he saw one Naruto sitting in front of him instead of two.

I know what you're trying to do, he thought.

Suddenly Sasuke held up a hand and slammed a fist on the table.

"Stop." He ordered, he then leaned across the table and gazed at Naruto from beneath lowered eyelids, "You know, you don't need to get me drunk to get me to have sex with you, Na-ru-to."

Naruto froze and held his hands out in front of him in defense, "No, Sasuke, I wasn't –" his sentence cut short as plates of food and glasses full of wine clattered to the floor. Sasuke had climbed up onto the table and grabbed Naruto by the collar, forcing their lips together. Naruto gasped in surprise and Sasuke took the chance he was given to shove his tongue into the blonde's mouth.

Naruto groaned and threw his arms around Sasuke's neck, pulling him closer and deepening their kiss.

"Sasuke," said Naruto as he brought his face away from the raven who was still kissing every inch of skin his lips could reach, "we can't do this here!"

"Why not?" Sasuke slurred as he sloppily licked Naruto's ear, "It's your house." his fingers busied themselves with unbuttoning the front of Naruto's shirt until it was in a small pile on the floor with his own. Sasuke's hands pushed on the blonde's chest, shoving him back in his chair far less than gently as Sasuke climbed down from the table to straddle his waist.

As his talented mouth lapped at Naruto's throat hungrily Sasuke ground their hips together while his hands kept Naruto from moving away.

"Hnn, ah! Sasuke –" Naruto moaned, "Let's – ahh! The other room!"

Sasuke halted his attack momentarily and shook his head, "No wa-ay Na-ru-to, I'm gonna fuck you right here," the raven unzipped Naruto's pants and slid a hand beneath the supple fabric, "whether you like it or not."

Author's note: Oh God! I'm probably going to get chewed out by one of my friends for leaving off like this and not writing you a steamy sex scene for the ages! Aaarrrggghh! I just can't dooo it!

Oh well, maybe next time.

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