I'm sorry I took long, but again I haven't found a beta reader... and so the spelling and grammar still sucks and i don't really like how it came out; besides it was my finals for my masters class and well just a lot of shit happened...
I wonder if a few of the people that had stick to this story are still around... I make you guys wait so much and then give you so little... I'm sorry, i'll try to improve and I'll try to find me a beta reader okay?
Well, so here it is. In here it has a little more smut, but I still have a few character's development I need to work on... Still, I think it came out pretty decent looking so yeah...
review...? Please...?
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When Sakura came back out after three hours, which had felt somehow like an eternity, they all walked over to her by the swinging doors to see her pained yet more relaxed expression.
Sasuke had bolted from his seat, taking Naruto with him, still holding him by the hand.
Neither of them noticed…
She had explain them that it was going to take a hell of a lot of time for Lee to recover and he was going to need yet another operation and months of therapy. However, he was alive.
Again the nurse only allowed family members to walk in; but Sakura had managed to let them all in.
The raven noted so many things while they walked in an easy silence through the corridors.
He vaguely remembered having passed through these exact same plain hallways been barely aware of the noises and voices that made no sense whatsoever.
What he did remember was the overwhelming feeling oppressing his heart at realizing how close he was to dying and how much he thought of the blue eyed blond he had shared most of his high school and college life, and in that moment he realized he could not live without the dumbass.
Unknowingly, he squeezed Naruto's hand, only a little, even if just to reassure himself that the other was indeed there with him, holding his hand.
They had been able to see Lee and even sustain a small conversation with the injured man; he was all drugged up and kept calling every nurse Sakura and asking them to marry him. The first three had been fun for her, but after the sixth, she just asked all the nurses to leave the room and appeared to be slightly angry at the young man.
Mister Guy told them they should probably go back and get some rest; especially Sakura who had spent almost 2 days on a row on the hospital.
She had declined at first, claiming she really wanted to stay by Lee's side – and secretly Naruto had found this the most romantic thing ever – but ended up accepting when her eyelids kept closing in on their own accord.
Itachi drove them back in a quiet and peaceful ride home.
Once outside their apartment building, the older raven helped them get Sakura to her room and her much needed bed. He also commented he would have never guessed the female to be so heavy.
And the three of them pitied Lee.
Itachi took his leave rather soon, declining Naruto's invitation to have some breakfast with them – in all honesty, he had done so more because he felt somehow nervous to be alone with Sasuke again after what had transpired between them at that exact same place – and told them both that if they needed anything to give him a call.
When the door had closed behind Itachi, Sasuke saw how Naruto's shoulders flinched with the sound and his neck became tense.
A silence settle into the room while the tick tack of their wall clock could be faintly heard as a background noise, lost to them, as the only sound they could really care about were the other's nervous breathing.
Now what? Did they just pretend noting happened and let themselves go with the flow or should they sit down and talk about it?
Naruto realized he had not been quite thinking when he had pushed the raven against the couch while inspecting his mouth with a little too much tongue... But then again, they could do just that again.
Sasuke cleared his throat, not sure of why he had done so when the blond turned around and faced him with expectation sparkling on his blue deep eyes.
A silence settled in and their gazes were looked to each other, none knowing what to do next.
And indeed what to do? A lot of thoughts had gone through their minds while in the hospital, looking at white plain walls, and scaring away ghost of unknown fears they didn't know resided in them until face with it.
They could hear Sakura's even breathing in her room, having left the door slightly ajar, even if just to be sure she was still there...
They were both feeling a sea of conflicting emotions that pushed them and pulled them in all directions. One direction pulled them towards the sleeping woman they both considered their sister, watch her sleep until they were completely sure she would be alright; the other pushing them towards each other... and unknowingly that was what their bodies had been doing while still contemplating what to do and what to say.
-"I'm..."- started saying the raven, but stopped himself when he noticed he wasn't really sure what was it he really wanted to say.
He had felt and thought of so many things while sitting on that waiting room, holding Naruto's hand. He had felt that he was somehow stronger when the blonds' heat passed to him through their entwined fingers, he had thought he did not want that feeling to ever end... And he had felt like kissing Naruto until there was nothing left of him, until there was no tomorrow waiting for them, because if he could stay next to the blue eyed man there was nothing else he really wanted. But all of these realizations were terrifying, because they somehow meant he was vulnerable to the other male, without knowing how or when Sasuke had given his all to Naruto...
When had that happen? Maybe it had been somewhere in between Naruto saving him from himself and they kissing and dry humping in their living room that he had lost himself to the blond male.
Naruto's mind was wondering through the same dangerous territories.
He was far beyond scared witless, he did not have any idea as to where this - whatever "this" might be - could be going... that is, if it was indeed going anywhere.
And that thought scared him even more when he realized he did not wanted it to be like that. He wanted "this" to be going somewhere, anywhere, everywhere, as long as the raven stayed by his side.
-"You..."- started the blond but his voice had sounded somehow rough, husky and so he tried to clear his throat and maybe with it his own thoughts.
Sasuke's dark hunting eyes kept staring at the other in search of Naruto's next words in his eyes.
-"We... do we?"- continued Naruto, but when he heard the echo of his own voice resonate on the silent apartment and he recognized the sound of hope dripping from the "WE", he stopped again, fearing that his voice might brake again and with it his own self control.
-"We?"- asked the raven and tried with all his might to sound as indifferent as he could manage... He failed though, because he saw the eyes of the other twinkle in anticipation.
They both stood there, thinking of what to say next, what to do next...
And they didn't realized they had both already decided what to say and do until their lips collided again in a hungry desperate kiss.
Sasuke poured into the action all the things he had felt while in the hospital. The fear he had unkwongly felt while sitting on those uncomfortable plain chairs next to the blond, hopping with all hope that he would never have to be in such a place, waiting as he was in that exact moment, for Naruto.
Naruto, as well, had felt so many things, had thought and remembered so much. He remembered that time when he and Sasuke, back on their last year of high school, had gone camping with a large group of friends.
They had ended up getting lost and while arguing whose fault had it been, Sasuke had lost his stepping and fell down a hill for a few feet. The blond had never been as scared in his life as he had been when he saw Sasuke's immobile figure at the end of the road.
The kiss became rougher, if that was even possible, as each of them remembered the emotions filling them and trying to take this opportunity to brush them aside and just be content with the fact that they had each other.
One of their cell phones rang, but at the moment they couldn't care less, because all they could care about was the other's lips, the other's neck, and the other's hands roaming through their bodies and underneath the shirt in search of much needed and desired skin on skin contact.
Someone grunted in the kiss, but they were not sure who had it been... probably even both of them.
Naruto didn't even noticed when had Sasuke pushed him against one of the wall, what he did noticed however was the raven driving him harder against the wall as he started grinding his whole body against the blonde's one.
They were both grunting and moaning into the kiss, not very sure of how much far along could they go.
Naruto's hands had by now memorized every crevice on Sasuke's torso as he let them touch and feel on pale hot skin.
Sasuke, on his side, was doing something very similar, though his hands had been a little more daring and had dwelled into farther northern territories, places that his hands roamed over and had the blond squirming nervously as he tentatively touched and caressed with raw need and passion.
The blue eyed man asked himself when would the feeling of disgust will hit him, yet again if it didn't the first time, why would it do it now?
He felt cold fingers tracing lines lazily - a big contract to the rapid and desperate grinding of their bodies - over his navel, causing goose bumps to rise on his whole body and a gasp that sounded a lot like Sasuke's name to leave his lips without his permission.
Did they know what to do next?
Naruto was sure he didn't, but the raven seemed to know what he was doing as he fumbled with Naruto's buttons of his pants and led tan hands to his lower back.
And for the first time in his life the Uzumaki felt fear... He had never really truly experienced fear as he was at this moment.
Was Sasuke going to take it to next base?
The blue eyed man was not sure as to what to do when this hit him.
Where to place his hands? What to say and do? Should he be seductive or was Sasuke gonna be seductive for the both of them? Should he be bold and take the lead or should he allow the other male to do as he pleased? Should he be scared as to what awaited him when they were both finally naked?
Because Sasuke certainly seemed to think so as he started pulling down Naruto's pants.
The blond really wanted to push the other, tell him to stop, tell him he wasn't ready for this. But his will shattered along with so many other things when he felt cold long finger raped themselves around his ragging hard on – when had he gotten so hard anyways? – and a sinful erotic moan escaped his lips without him being able to contain it.
-"I… We should-shouldn't… ahhgg Sasuke!"- the blue eyed man tried to stop the raven, but he seemed to be either deaf or just plain out enjoy too much Naruto's panting.
-"Why?"- asked Sasuke not stopping his ministrations on the other's cock, a smirk plastered on his lips; not that Naruto could actually see it, since the Uchiha was on his neck licking and biting what he could of tan skin, but he could feel it dripping from the raven's voice.
And indeed, why?
Naruto was more than sure he wanted the raven, not only lust and body, but the whole of the Uchiha: his morning moods, his self sufficient bastard smirks, his pale skin, his midnight dark eyes, his unholy hours for working on one of his cases, his liking for CSI episodes, the barely noticeable fat that had gathered on his abdomen because he did not have time to exercised as often as before, the way his teeth so meticulously chewed every bite of food 20 times, as recommended by the doctors, the precision with which he brushed his mouth every night before bed.
The raven felt a tan strong hand pull him forcefully against the blond, action that only manage to fuel his desire and intentions.
There was really not going back…
And the blond knew it as he felt the well known coil on his belly, announcing the oncoming orgasm.
-"I'm… gonna… ahhgg, Sasu… ke! I'm gonna…cuuuum"- moaned the blue eyed man between ragged breathing and fast grinding.
The Uchiha felt a moan escape his lips at the feeling of strong fingers massaging his own clothed erection and he ground much more forcefully unto the strong hand, wanting more than anything to come with the other man.
And come they did… Naruto into Sasuke's waiting hand, and the raven into his tight boxers thanks to the rapid caresses of the blond.
They stood still, still bathed on the afterglow of their physical activities, the reality of what they had done not quite hitting them yet.
Faltering breathing was mixed with the peaceful sound of the ticking of the clock as well as the sound of the dripping on the kitchen sink; sound that had gone somehow unnoticed a few minutes ago, but now it was more than present.
Again the question seemed to hit them both at the same time: Now what?
Naruto felt compelled to say something along the lines of "We just dry humped each other", but he managed to repress that urge by chuckling darkly at the sticky sensation on his groin and the hand that had not quite removed itself from his now flaccid member.
The blond asked himself if Sasuke had wanted him to do something along the same lines to him; but then again, they would have the opportunity to do it again.
And when he caught himself thinking that, he felt surprised to realize that he liked that idea, the idea of maybe improving his "technique", the idea of doing this and maybe something much more intimate with the raven, maybe one day wake up in their shared bed...
'Woah!! Now hold your horses Uzumaki, you're going fast!'- he reprimanded himself mentally as he had allowed his mind to go places he was not quite sure he could go right now.
He thought that now it was safe to assume this was somehow gonna find a way to repeat itself at least once a week... maybe twice... or maybe once a day... or twice... if he found Sasuke in a good mood.
He felt like he shouldn't let himself get carried away by the emotions now coursing through his body as a result of the amazing orgasm he had experienced in the hands - quite literally actually - of the young Uchiha.
But it was hard to do, since said Uchiha was still holding onto his dick and his ragged tired breath was still gusting over his neck, sending shivers up and down his spine, making him feel hardening again.
-"You ready again?"- he heard the husky voice of the other ask him on the hollow of his neck.
Warm breath mixed with the words causing his shaft to twitch and a dark chuckle to escape the lips of the pale man resting against him.
-"Might be"- answered Naruto and upon hearing his voice, Sasuke felt somehow excited all over again.
How could that be?
It was only a voice; but the ragged ring it had to it, reminded Sasuke of why was that way in the first place, and it had a lot to do with him and his pale hand still resting inside Naruto's pants.
-"Nah, we should sleep"- answered Sasuke after a while, when his more composed side came back to him and allowed him to think straighter.
The raven could hear the breathing of Sakura on the adjacent room and wondered if their moaning and groaning had been loud enough as to wake her.
But as the apartment remained still and silent except for their now calming breathing, he decided it was safe to assume Sakura was very much asleep.
-"Take a bath"- said the raven and reluctantly took his hand out of Naruto's pants, wiping the reaming semen on the thighs of the other.
He felt Naruto shiver at the action and couldn't stop the tired laugh that escaped his lips at the action.
-"Hey!"- complained the blond, but it came out somehow less angry than it should have with his voice been husky and rough that it took some of the angriness of the tone.
Their eyes made contact in what could be consider a normal manner, except it wasn't.
Sasuke's hand was still on the blonds' pants and Naruto's left hand was still holding on tightly to the raven's lower back, they had stickiness on their crotch, a constant, wet reminder of their previous activities and their now more composed, even breathing was gusting over each other faces, the smell of sex lingering in the little air that could fit in between them, lips swollen and a light layer of sweet on their bodies.
Naruto briefly considered asking the other male to bathe with him, but restrained himself when he sensed the awkwardness of it all.
They most had been standing there, just looking at each other and avoiding with all their might to think about what this could mean for them.
It was Sasuke who first spoke, bringing them back from whatever place their minds had wondered off to.
-"We..."- his voice sounded somehow broken, hinting the other of fear and incertitude; Sasuke cleared his throat and started again: -"We... like each other, don't we?"- and by the end of the sentence he had sounded somehow unsure, but couldn't help himself from saying it that way.
-"WE do"- answered Naruto emphasizing the WE part as if he could make "this" more real by using that word when referring to them.
-"And so WE...?"- Sasuke looked unsure as to what should he say next.
And so they what? They were LOVERS? Friends with benefits? "Brothers" in an incestuous relationship? Were they even in a relationship?
-"WE..."- repeated Naruto, the same uncertainness dripping from his voice.
They both contemplated what could be said next.
And whatever that might be, it would most definitely sound corny.
-"Yes, WE"- said the raven after a few minutes elapsed.
They could live with being a WE. It didn't quite defined what they were, it didn't classified them into any category and it certainly didn't told them under what grounds they were gonna be moving with each other... But it was a start... sorts off...
The blond briefly thought about it. He had never had certainty when it came to the other, he always had this creeping feeling that someday the raven might leave and never come back...
And now, as he was leaning against a wall, half of Sasuke's weight on him, his hand lazily tracing circles on the other's lower back, it was no different from the past years; but now, at least, he knew the raven had seek him out, had approached him, had cornered him against him a wall and had cut down the other of any escape routes he might have.
So maybe, even if just for a couple of minutes, he could assume, the raven wanted him to stay with him... even if just for a couple more minutes.
-"WE... yeah, we"- finally added the blue eyed man, tasting the words in his mouth and feeling pleased with the sound and the taste they left in his tongue and lips... It tasted a lot like Sasuke and Chai tea.
-"Why do you like coffee so much?"- suddenly asked the raven, causing the other to look at him funny, however a lopsided smile - one Naruto had never seen on the Uchiha - appeared on his lips.
-"Why do you ask?"- responded the blond with a question of his own, feeling like all the invisible tension of the moment lifted from the air around them.
-"You drank like 2 cups of it. You still taste like it"- answered Sasuke and watched how the other's breath hitch in his throat and his cheeky answered died down.
The blond felt weird at the mention of the previous activities; sure it was something quite visible, seeing that his hand had yet to let go of the raven. But so bluntly going about the situation...
-"You taste like Chai"- said Naruto avoiding the other's eyes and asking himself why he should feel shy about it.
-"Do you not like it? I could stop drinking it if you don't like the taste"- answered the Uchiha and watched the other struggle to find a response to the taunting.
The Uzumaki felt hot going up his neck to his ears... Was this Sasuke's way of saying they were gonna repeat this on regular basis? Was this some sort of "Do you wanna go out with me" scenario in which the Uchiha was not really saying it and saying it at the same time?
-"I don´t dislike it. If you like it is okay"- rambled the blond his eyes now locked on the opposite wall in which they were lean against to.
-"What flavor do you prefer?"- asked Sasuke and surprised even himself when he leaned into the blond, closing in the distance between their faces... Just a few more inches and they would be kissing all over again.
Yet again, why not? They could kiss as much as they wanted, couldn't they? After all, they had a WE going on, didn't they?
Yet another ring resonated in the room, bringing them out of their musings and it took them a while to realize whose cell phone was it.
It turned out it was Naruto´s.
-"Hello Iruka"- he answered on his phone, the raven still resting half of his weight on him and Naruto's hand still tracing lazy circles on the other's lower back.
Something was said on the other side of the line, something that Sasuke could not hear, but that had the blond laughing nervously.
-"Yeah, sorry. I was kinda busy…"- and when the blue eyed said this, a faint but very perceptible blush tainted his cheeks and the Uchiha had no hard time figuring out what was the other referring to by "Busy".
-"Yeah… Kinda"- said Naruto after another intervention on the other side.
Sasuke could very clearly distinguished Iruka's voice on the other side, but as much as he tried, he couldn't tell what the other was saying.
-"Yeah, right here… in front of me actually"- answered Naruto to whatever thing the older male had asked and finally made eye contact with the Uchiha.
The raven heard the chipper response the professor gave on the other side while his eyes directed themselves to Naruto's lips, pink and swollen from all the kissing they had been doing.
-"glad… you should… say hello…"- Iruka was saying, but the raven only got to hear snippets of it that filtered in between the little distance that separated both males.
-"I'll say Hello from you"- responded the blond and Sasuke watched mesmerized how those lips moved while Naruto was speaking and then noted the smirk at the end of the sentence.
Iruka started saying something else, but neither of them knew what that have might been…
Naruto leaned into Sasuke, kissing him not quite tenderly but not quite rough… Yet it was both…
When Sasuke noticed the kissed had ended, but Naruto's hand was still resting on his dark hair – and how had it gotten there in the first place anyways? – and a smirk was plastered on his lips… Those same lips he had been kissing just a few moments ago.
-"Yeah, see you tomorrow"- said the blond and hanged up, his eyes shining with a gleam the raven had never seen on those blue like sky summer eyes; he caught himself wondering if that shine had always been there, but he just simply was not looking close enough.
Well, he was close enough now…
-"YOU should take a bath, because you stink"- said jokingly Naruto as his blue eyes roamed all over he pale face in front of him, happy to be able to memorize the details of it while been so close.
-"You stink!"- retorted the Uchiha back and a smile – one Naruto had only seen once in his life – reached his lips and normally dark eyes turned a hue of bright.
-"You're heavy, you know"- commented the blue eyed man offhandedly, the hand on the raven's hair was still holding onto it playing with the little strand of hair on the back.
-"Well, you are comfortable. I might stay here"- answered Sasuke still smiling.
If someone had seen the scene at the moment they would have stopped dead on their tracks.
It looked so surreal…
Naruto's blond hair was messy, as always, and Sasuke's dark bangs were all over the place, the zipper from Naruto's pants was down and the garment had been pushed down as well, only a little, revealing a little bit of tan skin of the blonds' leg.
-"It had always fazed me how do you manage to be so tan even in places where the sun won't reach"- said the Uchiha earning himself a laugh like barking from the other male.
-"And you haven't seen it all!"- answered back the blond not realizing what his words could imply.
But the laughter died down when he felt a hot hand placing itself on his tight and he turned to find dark hunting eyes fixed on the little exposed skin of his tight.
-"You should take a picture of this… The contrast is just so…"- Sasuke wanted to say so many things at this moment, but none of them made it outside as yet again Naruto's mouth cover his with his own lips.
A vibration coming caught them unaware causing them both to jump at the sensation. Someone grunted in discomfort and they had to part the kiss.
-"It better be good or I'll castrate you the old way"- said the deep and harsh sounding voice of the raven and it wasn't until Naruto felt the weight of the other lift up that he realized it was Sasuke's phone that had rang and it was him who was speaking.
The Uchiha walked a few steps away, whispering angrily at whoever might be on the other side of the line. He felt a little sorry for them, but on second thought, not really, after all they had interrupted something rather pleasant.
-"I told you… I don't care… If he… no, but you can…"- Naruto only could hear snippets of it, not like he cared for what was been said, but he felt that it was somehow work related and maybe Sasuke needed some privacy.
Uncomfortably he made his way to the kitchen, stickiness already drying on his crotch, but the wet feeling wouldn't go away… But maybe he didn't really want it to go away; maybe it was a good reminder…
He roamed over the fridge in search of something to eat, now been reminded of what little had he eaten the night before. The sound of the awakening city – it was about 9am – filtered in through the kitchen window that they had forgotten to close last night when they left on a rush.
The same dirty dishes they had left on the sink were still there, but he wasn't sure why had he expected them to wash themselves. They looked kind of lonely on the sink, since it was only a couple of them, but it was better than seeing just one lonely plate waiting on the sink to be washed.
He didn't know why, but his blue eyes travelled over to the living room area where he knew Sasuke was still rambling with someone over the phone and stared longingly in the direction he could hear the cut down voice of the raven.
-"I'm not going! Is my day off and that's final!"- he heard the other yelled into the phone and then the angry closing of his clip cell phone.
Sasuke stormed into the kitchen fuming and mumbling about his law firm and the crazy hours he had to fill in.
-"You should go, I mean is your job"- said Naruto not even believing his own tone, it had sounded somehow angry.
-"I'm not going! Besides your closing is tomorrow, of course I'm not gonna miss that"- retorted angrily the Uchiha causing the blond to stop in mid action; he was getting milk to have a small bowl of cereal, but his hand distractedly let it slip back into the fridge and turned around to see the angry expression on the pale features.
The blond could see Sasuke had not consciously meant to say it out loud, or maybe he had and was just not such a big deal… And then again, why would it have to be? They had always shared this kind of things together; they expected the other to always be there for each other…
Yet, why did it felt somehow different from all of those other times?
… Oh, yeah… They were… together…?
Naruto's blue eyes were glued on the fridge's door in which rested a picture of the three of them on their last Hanami festival over at the park. Sakura had placed it there with a magnet.
-"Sorry…"- mumbled the Uchiha after a moment in which none of them knew what had occurred in their minds…
-"We definitely need to get some sleep, I gotta go to the gallery later on, so…"- Naruto didn't finish his sentence, not like he needed; he knew the raven knew what he meant.
After a couple of awkward minutes, the blond decided to be the first to leave, take a shower or at the very least clean himself up a bit.
But was stopped by a pale body leaning against him… And when had a wall appeared behind him anyways?
Sasuke's dark eyes were saying so many things and Naruto wasn't sure what they were, but felt that it was something important to know and so asked… sort of…
-"Sasuke…"- breathed the blond and reached over to place his lips on Sasuke's.
Maybe sleeping wasn't going to happen for the next couple of hours…