Hello again! I am just a writing machine lately. Well that's because I have an essay due in one of my classes, and two tests in the other, so I'm going to have to stop writing for a couple of days. Sorry! And work has now decided to give me several hours of work, so I'm a little busy with that. It sucks growing up haha! Thanks to Searafina for the nice first review! You're really way to nice to me! Also, thanks to Radar (Marriage? You wouldn't wanna marry a crazy girl like me!),Vernon Sullivan (Yea your guess is right, I'm gonna try my damnest to get someone for her), Akiru-Chan (I LOVE long reviews, don't even worry about it!), Zerofangirl (I really have one? –blushes- that's so sweet!), lydia-chan (More Sasuke-saurus for you), sakurananchan (damn I was hoping to be sneaky about Sasuke haha), a rather slytherin griffindor (you better amuse yourself with my story! –grins-), and last but not least, Masochistandsadist (Glad you liked the scientific name =P). NOW GO READ AND ENJOY!!!

Warning: Sexy scene, full speed ahead! Boyxboy hot scene! Be warned

Diclaimer: Dearly beloveds, we are gathered here today—stops- wait…this isn't the right thing? Oh…! Stop that priest, he has my disclaimer about not owning Naruto!! –Runs after priest-

Song Skip

"All that it takes

One more chance

Don't let out last kiss be last

I'm outta my mind just to show you--"

"What is with you and this song?" I lowered the music a bit to look at the pink haired girl who stared at me as if I was crazy. I blushed a bit, trying to roll my eyes like Sasuke always did. How could I tell her that in all honesty, I had the same feelings that some little fifteen girl had over my best guy friend? The one who had been acting like nothing had happened between us four days ago in Alabama? Yea, I don't think that would be one of my smarter ideas.

"It's just catchy and I like the beat. Besides, teme doesn't let me listen to it in the car anymore, so I can only rock out to it in the hotels when he's sulking in another room," I said, grinning. She seemed to accept the idea before she looked back down at the several maps that lay out in front of us. Since Sasuke refused to stop anywhere for more than five minutes during the day trip, we had driven through most of Texas without a problem. The state was extremely hot, but it would have been a great place to stop and paint. As a joke, I had Sakura tape me on the side of the road, pretending to die of heat stroke.

"This is the end…I've lost sight of the Sasuke-saurus…and my feeble human body will not sustain the same endurance as his species…his deadly glares and…evilness have killed me…gah!" I rolled onto my back then, dramatically twitching a few times. And it would have been the best death scene ever, until my face got completely soaked with ice cold water. Screaming as I sat up, I glared through a mop of hair while Sasuke smirked, shaking the empty water bottle from the convenience store. I stared at him for a moment before grinning, grabbing his hand and dragging him to the ground. Sakura taped us wrestling, and the second water bottle opened sometime during the scuffle. Easily I pinned the teme underneath me, looking up at the camera and smirking. "Have a look at the pale skin of the Sasuke-saurus. It's used to colder climates, and its skin will get irritated very easily. Now we'll save the little bugger by wetting its body to keep it from getting too skin damaged. But we must be quick, or the Sasuke-saurus will whip us off and snap! Off goes a finger with a blink of an eye!"

I then proceeded to empty water over his head, which I thought was completely fair since he had done it to me. Then again, he hadn't poured it into my pants…but that was beside the point! Sasuke had stopped speaking the rest of the trip to the hotel in Van Horn. Then he moved into the bedroom, and practically passed out the minute he fell onto it. That was because the idiot wouldn't let me and Sakura drive. Now he was up and moving around somewhere, but he had yet to come out into the living room.

The town was quiet and not as crazy as Montgomery, which was a plus for me. Like I really needed to get into another pointless fight, especially since Sakura felt so bad afterwards that she babied me the entire day it took me to recover. I tried to get her to stop, saying it wasn't her fault, but she wouldn't let it go. And the last thing I wanted to do was see her cry again, so I caved to her tears and let her do what she wanted.

But now that I was healthy, I almost wished I had taken advantage of it more.

"Naruto! Don't kneel on that, we're going to need that map for Nevada!" She said, yanking the map from underneath my knee and sending my flying to the ground. I fell into another pile of maps, and whined as I rolled around in them.

"Why do we have so many maps?!" She sighed as if talking to a three year old before she organized the maps by routes. She had already marked the next two days out on our trip, and I doubted that she really needed twenty maps to get there.

"Because all the ones that you're laying on are from the trip we've already done. If we do decide to drive back, then we're going to have to backtrack using those routes we already picked. But I think we'll stay away from Alabama this time."

"Whoa! All of these are where we've already been?" I looked down at the pile, which was much bigger than the five she was working on. The slight realization that the trip was practically over hit me harder than I expected. I fell back on the butt and stared at the pile, wondering how it was that all that time had passed us without me realizing it. It really felt like yesterday that me and the teme were fighting at the Mass line. And now we were only a couple states away from where we needed to be?

"Yea, give or take four days and we'll be in California. I'm guessing we'll hang out with Sasuke for a bit in his apartment to help him unpack or whatever, and then we'll be on our way again." Four days?! That was all the time we had left? I shook my head quickly and laughed, looking over to her.

"There's no way we'll make it there in four days!"

"Well let's see." She pulled out a map of the United States, pointing to the small part of Texas that we were in. "We're staying here for tonight, and then we're cutting across Arizona so that we can go see the four points. After we do that we'll look for a place in Utah to rest. From there we'll go see Las Vegas at night, since it's supposed to be amazing. And after that, we can just drive from Las Vegas to Los Angeles. It'll take somewhere between three and four days."

"Oh…" I winced a bit at the truth of what she said. It was really only going to be a few more days until the trip was over. I mean I really had forgotten that the road trip had a time limit, and that eventually Sasuke would be…

Gone.

"Uh…Sakura, I'm hungry! When's that pizza going to get here?" I asked, looking up at her. She blinked before she suddenly gasped, scrambling to grab her shoes. I blinked, tilting my head slowly in confusion. Now where was she going?

"I didn't get delivery because it was too much money!" She said, grabbing the keys to the car and looking back at me.

"Crap, I was going to take a shower before we ate," I mumbled, sighing weakly. She glanced to the clock on the wall before back at me, smiling.

"Well I've got to go grab some drinks for dinner anyways. I'll be back in twenty, and I'm taking a shower after we eat, so you better hurry up. Bye!" And with that, the bubbly girl had left me in a pile of maps. I sighed and stared at the ceiling for a second, letting everything sink in. Was I really ready to let go of this trip? Especially since there was big unanswered question about the random kiss me and the idiot shared.

"Gah don't think about it." I smacked my forehead to get my thoughts clear before I pushed up to my feet. I needed to get that shower done before Sakura came back, otherwise my pizza would get cold! And nothing was worse than soggy cold pizza in my book. Well, mushy cold ramen was just a crime against humanity. I was so wrapped up in my thoughts about the horrors of soggy noodles that I forgot about the third part of our group. Well, that was until I heard the shower already running in the bathroom. I groaned at the realization that Sasuke was already in the bathroom, and that I'd have to wait until he was done. Knocking on the door, I placed my forehead against it.

"Teme! Hurry up in there, I've gotta take a shower too!" I waited for a bit, hearing no response. Growling at the ignoring guy in the shower, I hit the door again, raising my voice. "Hey! Listen to me."

And there was still no response. That was it. Without thinking about the consequences, I shoved the door open and moved into the bathroom, turning to yell at the shower curtain. I stopped, however, when something completely unexpected met my gaze. Sasuke was standing in front of me with nothing but a pathetically small towel wrapped around his slender hips. His body was pale and toned in a way I had literally felt up before. I wanted to take my eyes off of the sight, but my eyes wouldn't listen to reasoning at they traced the dips of his muscles. When did he get so…so….

"What are you staring at, dobe?" So assholish? Honestly, his big mouth ruined everything I liked! I kept my blush under control as I glared at him, crossing my arms over my chest, my clothes and towels resting in-between them.

"Nothing worth my time, that's for sure."

"You should probably say that before you start to drool." I swiped my mouth with one of my hands, and he smirked once I realized he was lying. I quickly threw my towel at his face, which he avoided easily.

"I wasn't even drooling you jerk!" He shrugged and moved to the shower, dipping his fingers into the water to test its temperature. I watched as the small droplets slowly slide down the base of his fingers before languidly leaping over the edge of his fingertips. The digits flexed a bit and I involuntarily shivered. Thankfully he was looking at the water when he spoke again.

"Why are you barging into my shower?"

"Because I was calling to you outside and you were ignoring me."

"I was doing that on purpose."

"That's why I barged in! You better hurry your ass up because I need to take one too and Sakura already claimed shower after dinner." Sasuke seemed to pause at the statement before glancing over his shoulder, already seeming to be bored with my explanation. I growled and clenched my hands against my thighs. The stupid teme!

"I'm not rushing for you."

"What?! Why not!"

"Because I don't plan to waste the one good shower I get until the next time we find a hotel." Well that was true. It wasn't every night that we spent in a hotel. Sometimes we'd sleep in the car, since it wasn't cold enough for us to freeze or anything. We had made sure to bring extra blankets in case of an emergency, so it all worked out well. In fact, this was the first real shower we'd had since we left Alabama. Well, other than the one I gave Sasuke on the side of the road.

"Then let me go first and I'll be quick."

"And you'll use up all the hot water."

"If you're going to be such a pain in the ass I'm just going to take a shower with you!!" Fuck, what had I just suggested? Because I was pretty sure that asking to share a shower was not something friends do. Then again, we had passed that line a long time ago. Maybe I was just seeing how far I could push it until one of us snapped and killed each other to avoid the embarrassment.

"Hn." Okay, was that a yes 'hn', or a no 'hn'? I couldn't tell since Sasuke had turned away from me. I stared for a bit before I quickly tried to cover up my blunder.

"I-I just meant…y-you know, just to get the showers done...and i-its not like Sakura's here or anything… "What the heck was I babbling about? I was supposed to tell him that it was a joke or I was just tired, not try to make the idea sound more appealing. I mean yea, a kiss is technically intimate. But a shower was something completely different! Even for a guy and a girl, never mind two guys alone in a hotel together. "Ne-Never mind…I should—"

"It's fine." I jumped a bit at the sharp tone in Sasuke's voice, and looked up quickly to see him staring at the shower curtain. We fell silent for a few seconds, me keeping my gaze on him while he continued to stare ahead of him.

"Uh…fine?"

"Just stop rambling, you sound like an idiot." I normally would have gone off about how he was the idiot of the group, but my ears were burning too much for me to do anything but look down at my feet. This was way too embarrassing. Why did I even suggest this? And why did Sasuke say yes?

Suddenly, I felt self-conscious. I squirmed a bit, slowly playing with the hem of my shirt. What the hell was wrong with me? I shook my head quickly, ignoring the random surges of embarrassment while I threw my shirt over my head. This was stupid; I had been in my boxers around Sasuke plenty of times when we stayed at each other's apartments. This shouldn't even be a problem for me. I tried to brush off the fact that my body was shivering at the sound of his towel hitting the floor. Small squeaking noises from the curtain rings made my fingers pause against my boxers. I hesitated again, and it was pissing me off. I was Uzumaki Naruto, not some pathetic teenage girl on her first date! I bet I was bigger than him anyways.

So shrugging off the boxers, I moved to follow Sasuke's lead. I was a man damnit, and I was going to take each moment in stride!

"Shut the curtain, dobe." I jumped a bit and slammed the curtain shut behind us. Us, as in me and Sasuke. Alone. In a shower. Naked.

"Do-don't call me that!" I said, glaring up at him. He sighed, running his hand through his mane to get the now wet flop of hair out of his eyes. I strained my eyes to keep them on his face, speaking slowly. "Just…sh-shower or something."

"Hn." He grabbed the shampoo from the side, throwing some into his palm before tossing me the bottle. I caught it quickly, glaring at him a bit while I started to wash my hair, staring at a random spot on the wall. The water was the only noise in the shower, both of us quiet in our quests to clean and leave. And it would have worked perfectly fine if a trail of soap hadn't dripped into my eye. I winced at the stinging sensation.

"Damnit!" Closing my other one to keep from going completely blind (although shutting my eyes just did that anyways), I reached forward to fix the showerhead above me. Only, it wasn't a shower head I grabbed but a…human head?

"What are you doing?" His voice was muffled, and I could feel his lips brushing my palm in a way that made me shiver. Was this honestly happening? I slowly opened the clean eye, staring up as Sasuke sensually slid his fingers to my wrist, pulling my hand away. The slippery skin slid down my arm a bit, trying to keep a good hold. I wish I had remembered that fact later.

"I've got soap in my eye. Now move so I can get it out!" I pushed him against the curtain while I washed my eye out; ignoring the fact my arm was now pressed against his chest. I rubbed the injured area softly, finally sighing when the sting dripped from my eye and returned my vision. I blinked slowly, glancing back to Sasuke and grinning. "Got it."

"Leave it to you to be unable to shower without injuring yourself." The shower was small, and it was hard to ignore the closeness of our bodies. The fact that we were both naked, wet, and my body was deciding now was a perfect time to stir in arousal did not help the situation at all. I tried to ignore it to focus on the shared gaze.

"I do fine when you're not here!"

"You asked to come with me." …Gah. Bad Naruto! That's not what he meant. But it did sound pretty tempting coming from his mouth. I glanced to lips that I knew from experience tasted sweet. I wonder if water dulled his flavor. Feeling frustrated with myself, I jerked my arms to cross them. Remember when I said I should have remembered Sasuke was holding my arm? Yea, well when his body came crashing into mine, pressing me into the wall, I suddenly realized my mistake. A mistake that came out in an embarrassing moan when I felt something very endowed brush against my semi-aroused member. The pain in my head from jerking it into the wall was nothing compared to the heat inside my legs now that a certain teme was resting comfortably in-between them.

His arms were now braced against the wall, but made no move to pull away from my body. Hell, that was fine with me at the moment, since any shifting from him was going to only make my body want to shift back. I stared at his shoulder while willing my body to calm down, thinking of anything disturbing that would make me limp for a little while. It wasn't happening any time soon when Sasuke breathed into my ear.

"You idiot." Even his insults were hot right now. I closed my eyes and gritted my teeth, hoping that somehow he wouldn't notice my body's quivering limbs against him. I was so confused that I hurt. Three weeks ago, if you had told me that I was going to be naked and pressed against my best friend in a steamy shower, I would have laughed my ass off. But now, feeling how his lower abs stroked against the sensitive part of my stomach, the idea seemed pretty damn reasonable. But feeling his fingers rest under my chin to turn my gaze up to his face was still somehow embarrassing to me, and I tried to look away. "Don't do that."

"Do what?" Oh I don't know, I could name about ten things that we shouldn't be doing at the moment. But hey, if he only wanted to focus on one, he could be my guest. I'll just catalog the other ones for later.

"Don't look away, dobe." I hesitated at the smugness in his voice. I knew he was trying to get me riled, and I knew that I shouldn't let him. Still, just sensing he was smirking caused my eyes to turn back to his taunting gaze.

"Teme—" And the rest was swallowed by a kiss. My eyes stayed wide in shock while his lazily closed. Holy shit, Sasuke was kissing me! Now I wanted to have a whole moral debate about the pros and cons about this, why he would waste his time and what was going through his head. Really, it was on the top of my list. But when Uchiha Sasuke wants to kiss you, your mind is pretty blank two seconds into it. I moaned and grabbed his shoulders, no longer liking the idea of playing nice. Just because he kissed me did not mean I was going to submit. For all I knew this was a joke, and I was going to make it backfire on him so bad, he'd be see—

How did his tongue get in my mouth? I felt hands grasp my hips, pulling them closer to his own to create a furnace between us. If we were any closer, we'd be touching again. And feeling myself slipping down his thighs, I made the final commitment by hooking my legs around his waist. I quickly bit his lip to show that it meant nothing in the power struggle our mouths were divulged in. He smirked into my mouth while I growled to hide a moan at the erotic way his tongue soothed over the bite mark, sliding against my lower lip as well. Our bodies were slick with water while they hesitantly met, hips shyly becoming more acquainted. I think it was the only time that me and the idiot had been shy around each other. But I was both shocked and utterly aroused by the fact his body was starting to react the same way mine was.

With my back pinned against the wall, Sasuke had the upper hand in our position. I hissed and pulled my mouth from his as two questing fingers touched my nipple, painful pleasure making me arch when they pinched the tender skin. It wasn't fair how easily my body reacted to his damn touch. I hadn't been able to jack off in weeks, and the most boring touches were setting me on fire. And no, it wasn't because it was Sasuke damnit! I heard his chuckle under my ear and he sucked the skin there. I tried not to tilt my head back in pleasure even though my body bucked into his much easier than before. One of his hands was curled around my thigh, holding it so that his thumb could stroke along the inside while we explored each other's body. See, told you the thigh was purely sexual.

Grabbing his neck with one of my hands, I pulled him from his fascination the skin he was sucking in favor of a kiss. But, unlike the other times we had swapped spit, the fire was gone. We didn't part our mouths are first, and it was the first time that one of us silently asked for permission to deepen the touch, Sasuke slowly brushing a tongue against my lower lip. I relented and parted them, simply enjoying the sudden stroking inside of my mouth. It wasn't demanding or harsh, like our tongue battles. It was just a kiss. Our bodies softly rocked in a strange motion that made my mouth unable to keep away incoherent moans. And feeling his fingertips gently slide along the length of my neck was too much for me to handle. By the end of it, when I had finally pulled my mouth from his, my body was shaking worse than before. I was panting heavily against his shoulder to keep myself from passing out due to lack of oxygen. That one kiss was more intense than any orgasm I had ever felt, and left me gasping for some self control.

"You dead?" I let out a long breath against his skin to show I still had a pulse. Cocky bastard thought he'd be that good?

"Didn't get rid of me yet." I mustered up the strength to talk, which should have been much easier than I made it sound. It was just a make-out, not like we fucked for hours on end. In fact, the whole thing must have only taken ten minutes tops. I would have felt embarrassed by my lack of control, but the teme was breathing heavy too. So we were even when it came to each other. I winced after I opened my eyes, realizing just what had happened between us. And hell, I couldn't even push away since he was literally supporting all of my weight in his hands. This was so humiliating. I would have rather been killed back in Alabama if I knew this was how it'd end up.

"Stop thinking, your head's going to explode." How did he even know what I was doing? I looked up at him and formed a slow glower, not happy with the way he was instantly able to switch back to asshole.

"I'm smarter than you think."

"That's not hard. In fact, I'm pretty sure a rock could surpass my guess at your intelligence." I growled and started to squirm in his touch while hitting him hard in the chest.

"Put me down you asshole! Who the hell do you think you are?!" Finally I was set back down on my feet, and I stumbled a bit before grabbing the wall. I heard him chuckle behind me in a way that truly pissed me off. Turning to face him, I stopped my attempt to yell when I saw he was leaving the shower. "W-Wait! Where are you going?"

"Do you think it'd be smart for Sakura to see us like this? She'd think something happened." Well maybe because something did happen…

"What about your shower?! Weren't you the one complaining about smelling or whatever? You can't just leave me!" He stared at me for a moment, and once the silence hit the awkwardness that we had been talking through reared its ugly head. So it finally struck the teme as hard as it had me. I wanted to look away from the intense, cold stare he gave me. I shifted on my feet a bit, finally turning my gaze to the curtain and brushing my nose against my finger as if there was a scratch. Actually it was just a nervous tick I had created when I was a kid that I was never able to get rid of.

"Yes, I can." And with that, he pulled the curtain back to cover his face and moved out of the room. I watched him shut the door behind him before I finally fell back against the wall, sliding to sit in the tub. I stared at my thighs, which were slightly red from the rubbing we had just done. We. As in, Sasuke and I. How did something that seemed so right when I did it feel almost wrong now? And the way he stared at me made me feel like he was already regretting it. I pressed my fingers to my lips, now thinking of how I kissed him. Why had I done that? I could say it was to muffle my noise, but Sakura wasn't there. Maybe it was because I didn't want to shout? No, I had been loud 90% of the make-out. I just felt …like I needed to. Like somehow, the kiss would cement this entire experience into reality for us.

I was thinking about this too much. The teme probably already discarded it into his 'things I don't care about' pile. So I finished my washing, hurrying to towel dry my hair when I heard Sakura's cheerful voice in the other room. I could smell the pizza and instantly felt my stomach growl. Hey, after something like that a guy's gotta eat! So I finished changing into my sleep pants, and decided a shirt wasn't necessary since it was way too hot. When I moved into the other room both of them were there, sitting at the table while Sakura chatted away about something. I hesitantly took a seat across from Sasuke, grabbing a slice of pizza and shoving it into my mouth. If my mouth was full, I wouldn't have to talk.

And luckily, Sakura had enough to talk about to practically last all of dinner. Sure she asked us why we were so quiet, and me and Sasuke faked fights we truly had no interest in. I could tell it was all for show by the way his eyes lacked the normal arrogance he had. And it's really hard to get into a fight with someone who isn't really responding.

"Naruto, clean up while I take a shower, okay?" I looked up at her while she left the room, the teme still quietly eating. The silence didn't even bother creeping; it just slammed straight into me. So I ignored him as well, moving to toss the plastic plates and utensils into the trash. We never used the plates in the hotels because we didn't know who else had touched them. So I moved back to the table, unconsciously glancing to Sasuke as I did. I froze in my quest to pick up the pizza box when I made contact with an unwavering gaze. I swallowed for a second before slowly grinning

"What's the matter Sasuke, awed by how much better I am?" He narrowed his eyes at my comment.

"Hn." I glanced back at the table at his response, which was all too typical for the pain in the ass. Why did I even expect something to change?

"Sakura says we've got about four days till we get to your apartment." I moved to the trash and dropped the now folded box into it, closing my eyes as I did. I wasn't sure why my mind was racing so fast, but it was causing me to blurt out random things. "So you'll get your wish and finally outrun me, huh? Not like you ever could in high school, I was way too fast for you!"

"You were pathetic and lazy. The only one you beat was Shikamaru, and that was because he didn't run." I quickly shook my head, turning to face him.

"No way! I beat Chouji and all the girls…well except Tenten, but she's way too fast to even count! Besides, you got beat by Lee every time." The irritated twitch in Sasuke's eyebrow made my grin widen. Ah, bushy brows. Even though I hadn't seen him since our high school years, it still put a thorn in Sasuke's side to know that Rock Lee was better at something. Then again, the kid was obsessed with our gym teacher Gai, and even stayed after school every day to train. I think he even went off to the Olympics. With Gai as his couch still, of course.

"He did not beat me."

"Did too! He holds the record for the school!"

"Shut up." I laughed at his scowl, which if looked at in a certain light, almost seemed like a pout. I jogged back to the table and plopped down in the seat next to Sasuke, leaning my elbows onto the table and grinning at him. I couldn't help but enjoy his expressions.

"You know…" I dragged out the word slowly, enjoying how arrogant I sounded. "I bet Lee is still faster than you."

"Hn."

"Don't you think?" He glanced to me and rolled his eyes.

"Stop being stupid dobe." He reached forward to hit me in the head, my hand grabbing his wrist quickly to stop the attack. The moment our skin touched we stopped, glancing to each other in a way that made my heart skip. I opened my mouth to speak, but I hesitated. What the heck was I going to say? 'Hey don't touch me like that because it makes me think of the shit we just did in the shower! You know the shower you probably don't ever want to bring up? That one!'. But as embarrassed as I felt, I didn't want to let him go.

"Don't touch me, teme, unless you want me to touch you back." My voice was so quiet; I didn't even think he heard me. Didn't matter really, because I was sure my eyes showed the threat clear enough. I had four days left with him, and I wasn't going to tiptoe around the fact that something had changed between us. I felt it with the blush in my cheeks, and the tingling through our touch. There just had to be something there.

And he didn't pull away. Instead, he used our connection to pull me out of my chair and over him, keeping his narrowed eyes on me. I instantly stumbled into him, catching myself from falling by swinging my leg over his body. Unfortunately, that ended in the awkward position of a certain blonde (that's me) resting in a certain asshole's lap (that's him). I tried not to show the hitch in my breath by glaring back at him.

"Don't make promises you won't wish to keep." My lips barely parted against his while he spoke, and our breathing switched mouths through the heated conversation. Our eyes didn't move or close, because in truth this was a competition. Wasn't it always with him?

"I don't."

"You open your mouth too much, dobe."

"That's not what you said in the shower," I snapped out, not really thinking of the embarrassment that would hit me afterwards. His eyes narrowed and suddenly the grip I had on his arm was switched so he was now holding onto me. A slight panic went through me and I tried to pull my arm back, thinking I had pressed the matter too far. "Let me go!"

"No."

"Are you crazy?! Sakura is here! You were the one who said not to act friggen weird!" I hissed out, struggling to pull away from him. It was no use, because I didn't have the strength to get away from him while I was straddling his lap. Why was he doing this? Wasn't he supposed to be straight or something? I closed my eyes tightly when I realized that I didn't bother trying to deny my sexuality anymore. It was embarrassing, sitting here in another man's lap and feeling excited about it. I was supposed to like girls, that was what I done for two decades of my life! Why did Sasuke have to go and change all of that?

"Stop squirming." His commanding tone only made me grit my teeth and squirm harder than I was before. This wasn't exactly beneficial to myself, since I was starting to get aroused again. But damnit, I wasn't going to just sit here and let this asshole control me! So when he grabbed my hips to forcibly stop me, I let my frustration bubble over into a kiss. I hand both of my hands on his cheeks, not letting him pull away even if he wanted to. If he was going to make a fool out of me, I was going to make sure that he was embarrassed too! So I parted his lips much easier than I would have thought and dove straight into the warmth of his mouth. I sensed his light shudder underneath me and I felt my pride well up inside of my chest. Feeling more empowered, I pressed my chest against his, determined to make him question his body as badly as I had for the past couple days.

I nearly moaned when he started to kiss me back with as much force as I had started the kiss with. I was no longer holding his face to mine, but rather clinging to it to keep myself sane. Our rubbing from the shower continued, Sasuke using his hands on my hips to help my constant squirming. It wasn't the best place to do this, especially since Sakura would be getting out of her shower any minute. But that whole 'logic' thing escaped me when his greedy mouth sucked my lower lip into action again. The rubbing soon became hard grinding, and my hands slid from his cheeks to the back of his chair for leverage. Our sleep pants were hardly a barrier as they jerked with our movements, and I could feel part of my hips exposed to the air.

Feeling a sudden need to have some control over the situation, I pulled back from his mouth and slipped my lips down his throat and over his pulse. Remembering the movements he had done in the shower, I covered the pulse with my lips and sucked, adding my tongue into the equation when his blunt nails dug into my hips. Sure they still hurt, but knowing that Sasuke was struggling to keep the Uchiha composure was more than enough to keep me going. I bit around the tender area before licking the marks languidly with my tongue, suddenly shutting my eyes at a particularly hard thrust of our bodies. It was the second time that night that I honestly thought I was going to come.

"Stop Naruto." But the damn teme had to try and ruin it! I tried to ignore him and return my lips to his neck, but his hand was in my hair, tugging my head back so hard I thought he was going to pull my hair out. Naturally my eyes watered from the sharp pain but I stared up at the ceiling so he wouldn't see it.

"What?" I asked, closing my eyes when his hot breath prickled the skin of my neck. Was he going to return the favor?

"You suck any harder and it's going to leave a mark, dumbass." I groaned in irritation while I tried to pry the hand out of my hair.

"So what?"

"Do you feel like explaining it to Sakura?" Oh, right. I forgot about that. I glanced down at him once he released my hair, my arms now resting comfortably on his shoulders. I should have been uncomfortable like this, practically sitting in a lover's hold with the idiot. His arm was around my waist and even if I wanted to leave, I couldn't. Guess there was no running away from it this time.

"So…"

"So what?"

"Don't you act all cool with me! You know damn well what!" I smacked him in the head, and was actually surprised I had been successful. He closed one of his eyes and glared with the other, pinching my waist and making me yelp. What a girl move.

"Well if someone would stop acting like a horny teenager, maybe we could discuss this." I blushed and scrunched my nose at the accusation. Give me a break here; it was the first time someone had ever shown sexual interest in me! Sure it was a guy, and even worse, Sasuke. But hell, it could have been worse. I might have liked a pig or something.

"Fine, talk then."

"About?" Oh he was so going to hell. I growled and would have strangled him if not for the fact that my body swore to become impotent for the rest of my life if I did. He seemed to enjoy my suffering because he smirked and shrugged slowly. "You're the one who started this."

"You kissed me in the shower!"

"You kissed me at the club." Damn.

"Y-you invited me into the shower."

"Because you offered." Double damn!

"Well…uh…you stroked my hair in the car! Ha!"

"You got jealous over a girl." Why does he always have to win at this? You'd think once, just once, I'd win. But no, he had to remember every little detail and then use it on me!

"So what? You expect me to be jealous of a guy?!" He rolled his eyes as if I had just asked the dumbest question ever. Which I knew was so not true because I had said much dumber things!

"I don't like men."

"You like me."

"You don't count." We both stopped and stared at each other in shock. I was banking on the fact that he hadn't meant to say that.

"You…like me?" He grunted and suddenly shoved me off his lap and onto the ground, leaving the room before I even had time to yell at him for being a total dick. Which he was! I hadn't even done anything wrong and he was acting like I just pissed in his shoe or something. I rubbed the sore spot on my back before pushing myself back to my feet, moving into the living room to try and find the teme. He was so getting his ass kicked.

"If you're looking for Sasuke, he's in the bedroom getting ready for bed." I glanced up to Sakura, who sat in a pair of dark green pjs while flipping through the hotel's TV. I shrugged and sat down next to her, glancing at the TV as well. I could have gone after Sasuke, but what was the point? He would have either glared at me the entire time, or just pretended I wasn't there. So I spent the night with Sakura, staying up late and watching the most interesting documentary about ants I had ever seen. Oh yea, did I mention that I had only seen one? But Sakura had passed out on my arm, the controller nestled into her thighs. Sure I could have grabbed it, but I preferred my dick attached my body. So I slowly closed my eyes and leaned my head back on the couch, trying to get some type of sleep. Sakura's warmth should have knocked me out right away, since I tended to get extra sleepy when someone was next to me. But for some reason, my eyes kept drifting open to glance at the door leading toward the bedroom, knowing that a certain black haired guy was sleeping peacefully while I squirmed and sighed.

If there was one thing I learned from this damn trip, it was this. Do not watch boring ass ant documentaries at two in the morning. I finally had forced myself to get some sleep, but it was less than three hours later that we were out on the road again, me practically passing out in the passenger sleep. Of course Sakura and Sasuke looked perfectly fine, because they had slept! I had been energetic at the beginning of the day, but by noon I was seeing little Sasuke-sauruses jumping along the side of the road. And I thought nothing would wake me up until Sasuke decided to make the worst mistake of the day.

"Hey, can we listen to my CD?" I blinked slowly before looking over to her.

"You brought one?"

"Uh huh! Since you're all pop and Sasuke's all uh…rock-" Sasuke hated it when you called it emo. So we had to think of stupid substitutes when everyone knew a song called 'I'm not okay' and 'Thank you for the venom', its friggen emo. "-I wanted to listen to a little of my own music."

"I thought you listened to everything?" But I grabbed the offered CD, popping out Sasuke's shit and pushing her mix in. She nodded, smiling.

"Well duh!" I blinked a bit when I heard an unfamiliar song pop up onto the CD. I sat back a bit at the obvious country entrance to the song, and my eyes instantly widened at the first verse.

I don't wanna rush this thing
I don't wanna jump the gun
I really wanna say those three little words
But I'm gonna bite my tongue

Yeah, I'm just gonna lay on back
Leave it on cruise control
I'm gonna hold it all inside
Till the right time comes down the road

I swallowed weakly at the uncomfortable lyrics, glancing anywhere but the driver next to me. Sakura was too caught up singing the catchy song to realize that I now turned my face toward the window, trying my best not to glance over to Sasuke. Although, the almost ironic song kept on getting worse.

I got a feelin'
My head's a reelin'
My heart is screamin'
I'm about to bust loose
Bottled up emotion
It's more than a notion
It starts with an "I"
And ends with a "U"
I got a feelin'
Are you feelin' it too

And as fate would have it, my hand was now fisting in my shirt, right over my heart. Most people would automatically think the three little words or whatever the hell the singer said was 'I love you'. But hey, couldn't it be 'I like you' or 'I want you'? People thought too inside the box. And I felt trapped in a box from how hard it was getting to breath. Was it just me, or was Texas air way too humid? I tried to keep my eyes on the window, but I slowly glanced over to Sasuke. His hands were clenched on the wheel, glaring every now and then at the radio in-between us. Alright, so I wasn't the only one who noticed it.

I guess I've all but said it now
So much for hopin' you'd go first
Don't leave me hangin' out here on a line
Baby, it's your turn
Say you couldn't sleep last night
Swore that you could feel me breathe
Had you wantin' me there by your side
Yeah, baby I know wh—

"Naruto! I was listening to that!" I ignored her as I shoved my finger on the mute button of the radio, glancing back at her.

"T-That was the dumbest song I have ever heard! Not being able to sleep because of someone? H-ha! Like that happens. You better have not filled t-this CD with sappy girly love songs!" She blinked before she frowned, crossing her arms over her chest.

"You know, that song was sung by a guy. It's not a girl song." Yea, that's why I shut it off! The fact that a guy was singing it only made it even worse. I didn't answer her as I skipped to the next song, which was (thankfully) not a pathetic love song. And most of the songs she had on her CD were my type of music, except for the occasional romance song I skipped immediately. Sakura was two seconds from ending my life when Sasuke suddenly stopped the car, both me and Sakura jerking forwards in our seats. I glanced forwards and smiled, Sakura's mood instantly pulling a 180 as she pointed between us. "We're here! The only place in the USA where four states meet."

"Awesome! I wanna get a picture for the parents to prove to them I can be in four places at once." We quickly moved out of the car, Sakura grabbing both her camcorder and camera. We messed around with the camcorder, trying to convince Sasuke to wave to the lens. He didn't. So after he bored us to death with his Uchiha glare, Sakura got someone passing by to take a couple pictures of us. And after the group pics, we made Sasuke take about….50 of me and Sakura. Hey, it's not a crime to be in love with yourself! Plus we're hott. Once we were satisfied with our pictures, we convinced Sasuke to take a few with Sakura, ruining every single one with his frown.

But that didn't stop Sakura from grabbing the camera and pushing me toward the teme.

"Alright you two! Let's get a picture of you two together too!" I wanted to protest the idea, but by the look in Sakura's eye I knew I wasn't going to win. Throwing my hands up in defeat, I punched Sasuke in the shoulder and leaned against him, smiling while he glared at me.

"Cheer up bastard! I don't… bite" The look he gave me clearly said 'yea you do', and it made me glance away in discomfort. Was this how it was always going to be now? I didn't want that. Determined not to let the night before ruin my last few days with Sasuke, I threw my arms around his neck while I jumped on his back, laughing when he stumbled a bit to keep balance. Once he slid his arms under my thighs and straightened up I leaned onto his back, throwing my hand out over his shoulder to give the peace sign. Sakura stared up at us in shock, her hands not moving to take the picture. Frowning, I tilted my head. "Sakura?"

"Oh! Sorry Naruto. Smile." I nodded and grinned again, Sakura taking the picture quietly. I waited until she nodded before I dropped my arm, letting it hang over Sasuke's shoulder and against his chest. "How did it look? This idiot better not have ruined it for me!"

"N-No! It…it looks really nice." The off tone of Sakura's voice made my eyebrows furrow, but I didn't have time to ask before Sasuke snorted, suddenly walking back toward the car. It took me a few seconds to realize that he was still carrying me, and I started to hit his back in protest. "Hey! Let me go!"

"Hn." I continued to bicker with the teme, not noticing the thoughtful look in the now quiet girl that followed us.

And that's chapter three!! So the boys are starting to heat up, but they're almost at Cali. I wonder what will happen first, their confession or their goodbye? And will Sasuke and Naruto be able to get over their distance and be together? Hmm, you all wanna know that too huh? Well you'll have to wait for the fourth installment! Oh, and two things. One, I was not bashing emo music, Naruto was. I actually like MCR, along with all the other songs I use in this story! Secondly for those who are reading 'Psychic Problems', there WILL be a second chapter. I knew as soon as I posted that 'maybe' that it really was a 'yea I'm going to because I can't stand to leave it there'. But I was too lazy to go back and change it all. I'm going to work of the second part now. And if you haven't read it yet…well go read! Right after you review this off course! =D