Disclaimer: Naruto does to belong to me
Ages:
Naruto: 21
Sasuke: 24
Special thanks to hopelina. She helped me sort out some plot points in chapter 10 and I owe her quite a bit for helping me fix them.
Beat The Odds
Chapter 11: The X Games
August 20 2009 - 2 years and 11 months together
It was raining heavier than normal but was a welcome change from the humid weather they had been having the past few weeks. Naruto propped his feet up on the coffee table, thankful Kakashi had gone to work. He opened his laptop and quickly pulled open Skype. He clicked on Sasuke's name and glanced at the clock. He smiled and pushed the 'call' button.
He placed his headphones in and listened to it ring.
"Hey." His screen changed and then cleared up to show the handsome face of his boyfriend. Naruto grinned and waved enthusiastically at the camera.
"Hi." Sasuke smirked and shifted in his leather seat.
"How was work?"
"Long," he muttered out and ran his hand through his raven hair. "The amount of stupidity in the world..."
Naruto chuckled, "you think everyone is stupid."
"Hn."
He shifted his feet and stifled a yawn. Oddly, he too felt tired even though he didn't do anything. It was summer break; he was entitled to being a bum.
"Suigetsu is a special stupid." Sasuke commented quietly and bringing his hands up to cover his own yawn.
Naruto registered the name and then wondered why it sounded familiar. Then his mind had an enlightening moment and he found himself scowling.
"Suigetsu, as in your ex-boyfriend?"
Sasuke blinked impishly and then gave a curt nod, "I told you about him."
"You didn't tell me you worked with him."
"Is that a problem?"
"No, I just...wish I knew."
He watched as Sasuke slowly scrutinized him through the camera but kept his face impassive. He didn't do jealous boyfriends, as the ordeal with Neji showed, but Naruto wasn't jealous. Not this time. It was a morbid curiosity; he always liked to know things about his partner that others didn't get the privilege to know.
"When did you two date again?"
Sasuke blinked on the other side of the screen obviously wondering where this conversation was going.
"In high school."
"First boyfriend?"
"Hn."
"He was your first kiss, right?"
"Naruto what's with the-"
"Curious." He casually replied and grinned, "so he was your first. How old were you?"
"He wasn't my first kiss."
"Ohhh kinky, who was?" Naruto waggled his eyebrows to show that this was not serious, but for fun. It was a part of Sasuke that he never knew. Something he wanted to know.
"Why do you want to know?"
"Is it strange that I want to know this about you?" He frowned and gazed at his dark-haired lover. "It's something I don't know about you and it's a part of you that I want to know. Wouldn't you be the slightest bit curious if you found out I had dated half of Toronto?"
Sasuke rolled his dark. "I have not dated half the city moron; and no. Whoever had you before means nothing now."
"Maybe, but they led me to you. Plus you know you're my first." He stuck his tongue out before plastering on a wide grin.
"Hn."
"So answer!"
"It was a friend of mine at the time. I kissed her to see what it was like to kiss." He shrugged, "we were young."
"How old?"
"Twelve? I think..."
He gaped, "how can you not remember your first kiss?!"
Another eye roll. "It's not that I don't remember, I just know we were in our last year of junior high."
"So you didn't date?"
"No."
"So Suigetsu was your first boyfriend?"
"Yes."
"How long did you guys date for?"
"Seriously Naruto," the man huffed out, "I don't understand why this is interesting."
He groaned and rubbed the bridge of his nose, crossing and re-crossing his legs. "I don't understand why you don't find this interesting. I just want to know for the sake of knowing."
"You're like a gossiping batty woman."
"Excuse me?" It was light with a laugh, "I am no woman, I'll have you know." He winked playfully.
"We dated for a year."
"Wow," Naruto let out a low whistle, "oh was he your first..." eyebrows raised with a cocky grin. Sasuke growled and almost wanted to smack the boy through the screen for such a stupid expression on his face.
"We fooled around, and no he was not my first."
"Who was?"
"Naru-"
"Amuse me, please?" He asked with such a defeated voice that it made Sasuke's skin crawl. Naruto should never sound defeated, and he decided to do fix that.
"When I was 17, his name was Yahiko. He was my brother's friend, five years my senior."
"Five years older?!" Naruto screeched, "That's completely illegal. He took advantage-"
"Please I was 17, it was consensual. I dated him mostly to piss Itachi off."
"Why?"
Sasuke blinked and shrugged, "He got me grounded for two weeks because I broke curfew. Yahiko was always funny and trying to get in my pants. It pissed Itachi off whenever he would openly flirt with me, so I thought it was good revenge to give into his teasing." He waved it off and turned the screen of his computer to get a better angle of his boyfriend's face.
He saw Naruto nod.
"Okay so Suigetsu was...how old where you when you dated him?"
"14."
"Damn son, that's young." Though it really wasn't, but for Naruto it was. He never felt attracted to anyone in high school. Honestly he didn't have very many friends going through high school. He was picked on for the scars on his face so he shied away from the light. "So 15 to 17 you were single?"
"Hn."
"And then 17 to...?"
"17."
Naruto gaped, "in the same year you dated two people?! I couldn't get that kind of attention if I paid for it." He whined out and huffed good naturally. "Okay so, 17 you dated someone else..."
"Yes."
"Who?"
"His name was Haku."
"Okay, so Suigetsu, Yahiko, and Haku. Was Haku at least legal?"
"He was in my physics class, so yes."
"Physics eh?" He smiled and closed his eyes, "did you guys do the nasty."
"Yes."
"Damn." He opened his eyes, light meeting dark. "How long did you guys date?"
"Until the end of high school, a few months." He indifferently told, picking up a pen and twirling it in his fingers. "We parted ways because of different schools."
"Hmm..." Naruto nodded and smiled, "anyone else?"
There was a short nod, "one other." He muttered out. "His name was Sasori, and since you're going to ask. Met him when I turned 19. We dated for about seven months."
"Why didn't it work with any of them?"
"Suigetsu and me fought a lot so it was going to happen someday. We were too young to make it work. Yahiko and me dated for all the wrong reasons to begin with. We let it drag on for a long time because it was fun to tease Itachi, but we had to call it quit because it was starting to really affect Itachi and his friendship." There was a sadistic gleam in those dark orbs at mentioning the distress it caused his brother. "Haku and me where going to go to different schools after high school. We knew it was for the best not to keep the relationship. Sasori I just wasn't connected to him enough to keep a relationship."
Naruto mulled that over, so Sasuke had four boyfriends before him. That's not bad. The thought of him and Haku breaking up because of different schools seemed bizarre considering that he is willingly dating someone in a different country, and fighting to keep it alive.
"Did you break up with all of them?"
"No."
"Hmm..."
He watched as Naruto seemed to digest that information and was looking at the screen with such intense eyes it left Sasuke feeling a little uneasy. Maybe talking about past exes was not the best idea. Though there didn't seem to be jealousy in those eyes and soon the eyes shifted from cloudy to blindingly bright with a smile to match. Whatever was causing him trouble had passed, he idly wondered what it was but decided to keep it to himself.
Naruto was a little torn about feeling upset that these people had Sasuke in a way that Naruto never will (because he will never be Sasuke's first boyfriend, love, kiss, crush) but he felt pride swell in his chest. He had been trusted with this information and that meant the world.
"Did that satisfy your curiosity?"
"Yup."
"So did you do the deed with anyone that wasn't a boyfriend?"
The cheeky grin made Sasuke roll his eyes, "don't make me hang up on you." That didn't stop the smile that made its way onto his face as Naruto laughed happily in the background.
Just a question: Am I the only person in the world that is actually interested in a person's exes? My boyfriend got uncomfortable with it and I welcomed it. My friend think I'm nuts because I pursue the topic.
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