AN: After this story ends, I have a multi-chapter story in line. It's something about Naruto as a student of Decorator and Sasuke as his lecturer who as well as a famous Million-Dollar Decorator in Japan. (^o^v) Stay tuned~ Also, please tell me what you think ;) Happy reading!

~o0o~

Sasuke went to the office in a casual outfit. He was about to go home but an idea popped up so he decided to stopped by. He had called Itachi and asked his whereabouts, Itachi had replied with some smartass remark about not forgetting that they have a company to run. Sasuke had to decode Itachi's remark that the devil's spawn was in the office. He had thought that he should have gone back home to change into something presentable but decide against it, thinking that he at that moment was nearer with the office than with the house.

So he was clad in a rider-style outfit, consisted of black shirt, black leather jacket, black jeans, with equal black shoes. He was from Naruto's hospital before, dropping the man there. The outfit was supposed to impress the Dobe but he had to meet Itachi after that before he forgot what to do next.

It was rare for him to dress something like that, especially when coming to the office. Hell, he never dressed in something like that in the office other than that usual crisp suit. So he was expecting for his employees to stare at him. He could see some were gapping idiotically. He almost rolled his eyes and moved to Itachi's floor.

"Where's Itachi, Kiba?" Sasuke asked the moment he laid his eyes on the brunette man.

"The boss is inside. Told me to ushered you inside if you have arrived." Kiba answered after giving Sasuke a salute.

Sasuke nodded and thanked the brunette before he headed to Itachi's room.

Itachi was sitting on his leather chair, folder in hand when Sasuke entered. Sasuke situated himself on the leather sofa. Sasuke scanned the room he had been into numerous times already. The room was gigantic with see-though glass almost half of the wall, giving a great view of Tokyo. The room was strange, Sasuke wasn't sure but he thought it almost looked like vintage European style mixed with modern-minimalist. There was a gigantic vintage frame with their family picture on it. Sasuke remembered that the picture was taken recently from their parents' 35th wedding anniversary. They also took on the 20th, 25th, 30th, and the last was the 35th, but Itachi kept changing it and he was cool with it.

"When are you going to the United States?" Sasuke finally asked after studying his father's sharp jawline. Both Itachi and him inherited their mother's.

"Tomorrow. Why?"

"I think I will tag along."

Itachi raised his eyebrow as he looked up at Sasuke. "Sasuke, we have a company to run. You know damn well that if the president and the vice were missing, then who would take care of the company?"

"Itachi. The business is not going to collapse in a week. Besides, I already have someone in mind to help me with this issue."

Itachi raised his eyebrow, non-verbally asking who.

As if knowing Itachi's silent question, Sasuke provided with an answer. "Nara Shikamaru."

~o0o~

"How troublesome…"

"I have found her. It bounds to happen for him to gain his memory back, so I got to prepare for it."

Throughout Sasuke's speech, Shikamaru had raised his eyebrow. "Wait. Who are you talking about?"

Sasuke breathed out. He forgot that he hadn't told Shikamaru about Naruto. "I've found Naruto and Sakura."

"What the…" Shikamaru paused and smiled with eyes closed, thinking that it was funny for Sasuke to tell of what he thought as a joke. "I know Sakura as she is in States now, but Naruto? Sasuke, we have been-"

"I know…"

Shikamaru's eyes were the size of saucer plate by now before he closed his eyes and sighed. "How troublesome…" There was a pregnant pause before he continued. "Please explain."

"It's long story…"

"It's not gonna happen, Sasuke… You tell me and I will help you."

Sasuke studied Shikamaru's face. When he saw that he was being serious, Sasuke sighed. He began to explain from when he saw Naruto at the coffee shop weeks ago until the evening he dropped Naruto to the hospital.

"So?" Sasuke finally asked when Shikamaru seemed to be mute.

Shikamaru took a deep breath. "Well, when will I take the throne?"

Sasuke smirked.

~o0o~

Sasuke had finished everything that day and it was already seven at night. He was already in the hospital's parking lot for almost thirty minutes by now. He chewed his bottom lip, hesitating on whether to call Naruto or not. He tapped the green icon on the screen and put the device on his left ear, deciding that he should just call Naruto instead.

"Hey."

There was a throat-clearing on the other said, making Sasuke smirked. "Hey. What's up?"

"I… uh, where are you?"

"Umm… I'm still in the hospital."

Sasuke nodded. "How's… How is Sai doing?"

There was a sigh. "He is still in coma. He was awake this morning but when I arrived, he had been sleeping. He hasn't woken up ever since."

"Are you… gonna spend the night there?"

"Umm… I-" there was a small commotion could be heard before a woman spoke.

"Sasuke, where are you?"

Sasuke retreat his phone to look at the screen confusedly before he put the device back to his ear. "Ino? I'm uh… actually in the parking lot of the hospital."

"Ah yes. Naruto will be right there in a minute. Bye!"

Click.

He could hear a muffled sound of Naruto protesting before the line went dead. He gulped at the realization. Naruto is coming!

He got out of his car and bent down to look at the rear-view mirror. Was he still looked presentable? He straightened up and dusted away the imaginary dirt off of his clothes and waited there, looking at the entrance of the parking lot. Naruto could show up any minutes now. Naruto might not know which one was his car just in case he forgot.

Naruto eventually showed up with a sheepishly smile on his face. Sasuke replied a smile with his own one. "Have you had your dinner?" Sasuke asked when Naruto had arrived in hearing range.

"Ah no…"

Sasuke nodded and spun around and entered his car. Naruto followed around and entered as well in the passenger seat. "Do you have anything in mind?" Sasuke asked as he started the engine and started driving.

"I feel like cooking."

Sasuke stared at the road wide eyes. He then remembered back then that the Dobe always cooked for him. He had forgotten about it until he mentioned it. Sasuke almost slapped himself. Naruto just cooked for their brunch earlier that day.

"So, are you proposing on cooking the dinner for us?"

Naruto shrugged. "If you want me to… We could go grocery store first…" Naruto suggested.

Sasuke nodded. He thought that he could be the happiest man on earth by now. He was much too excited to be true. He hadn't felt this kind of emotion in years! "Sure."

"Do you have a request on what to eat?"

"I –uh…"

"I think I know what you like… Correct me if I'm wrong but… I think you like onigiri. Am I right?"

Sasuke could only flash him a smile.

Naruto grinned. "What do you think onigiri filling it with tomato? I could also cook us sushi. There is this place I know where to buy fresh tuna and salmon."

Sasuke gave him a horror look. "Naruto, how did you know that I-"

"Lucky guess?"

"Fuck…" Sasuke could no longer contain his excitement as he let it out with a curse, which made Naruto startled.

"Sasuke, what the hell?"

Sasuke shook his head, not trusting his mouth to speak. Luckily Naruto didn't press the subject any further. He sighed inaudibly and the two went to grocery shopping.

He never dreamed of this kind of day with Naruto to happen someday. If today was some sort of dream, he wished that he would never wake up from it.

~o0o~

It was after dinner that the two men were left sitting across each other on the mini bar in Sasuke's apartment. Naruto had asked for red wine after he finished doing the dishes and Sasuke had led them to his mini bar and became a bartender for the both of them.

Naruto was in daze after a few drink. He let the side of his head rest on his right arm that was sprawled on the bar's table. The other hand was holding a glass up by his elbow prompted up against the bar's table. He dazedly studied the red liquid absent-mindedly. "Do you think I should head back to the hospital or?" There was a scoff before he continued. "Ino ushered me to go sleep with you, saying that she would look after Sai. That woman won't let me live down with it if I denied."

Sasuke could only watch the man in front of him, or more likely under him. He set the bottle aside and rested his chin on his hand that was supported by his elbow on the table, while the other hand was rested near Naruto's head. The golden hair was very tempting to touch in Sasuke's eyes. Should he touch it? He decided that he should so he began touching it with his free hand. It's still soft to his touching. He smiled when Naruto began humming, meaning that the man enjoyed his hair being touched. Naruto always liked someone to touch or even play with his hair.

"You can stay here if you want. You can leave first thing in the morning."

"Hmmm… That sounds great…"

Sasuke watched Naruto smiled with eyes closed and the two fell into comfortable silent.

"Sasuke?"

"Hmm?"

"Do you think you can play with my hair in the bed? This feels great, I think I'm gonna fall asleep…"

"Shall we move then?"

Naruto lifted his head and looked at Sasuke through half-lidded eyes and smiled. "Let's go." Naruto sipped the wine in one go and put the glass down before he hopped off of the barstool, waiting for Sasuke to lead the way.

Sasuke walked out of the bar and went to Naruto's side. "Can you walk?"

Naruto rolled his eyes with a smile. "Silly… Come on."

They eventually ended up inside Sasuke's room. Sasuke walked straight to the bathroom to do his night routine before bed. But before he entered his bathroom, he rolled his eyes when he caught Naruto fell face first on his king-sized bed. "Naruto, at least go change first."

"I don't have anything to wear." Naruto apparently had tilted his head to the left so he wasn't suffocating.

"I have many. You can wear them. It's on the closet room."

Naruto lifted his head to look at Sasuke. "Where?"

Sasuke pointed at the direction before he finally entered the bathroom.

Few minutes later after he was done taking a shower, he got out from the bathroom feeling refreshed. He caught Naruto was already clad with only his grey sweatpants, shirtless, sitting with eyes closed on the bed. "Naruto?"

"Hurry. I need you to play with my hair." Naruto answered without moving.

Sasuke smirked at the display. Typical Naruto. With that, he hurried to change and went straight next to Naruto. Sasuke tapped the empty space beside him, "come."

Naruto grinned as he crawled to Sasuke.

The two positioned themselves in a comfortable position before Sasuke began stroking blonde hair. "You've never changed, haven't you?" Sasuke smiled, closing his eyes.

Naruto sighed in content. "You should try it. It feels great."

"No. It pains my scalp every time you do that. I don't like it."

"Hmm… That's… stupid…"

"Hn… Idiot."

"Bastard."

The two fell in a comfortable silent. Naruto was enjoying the moment as if he had no cares in the world when his hair was being stroked by someone. As of Sasuke, he was thinking a lot of things. One of the things was his trip he would be doing tomorrow.

"Sasuke?"

"Hmm?"

"Did we do this kind of thing when, you know… before the accident?"

"Yes… I always did this when you couldn't sleep, and you would sleep eventually."

"Hmm… Indeed…" Naruto hummed in appreciation, enjoying every stroke on his scalp, eyes closed. "Thanks, Sasuke…"

"It's nothing."

There was a pause before Naruto started again. "After the encounter at the coffee shop back then, I blacked out, right? Because I was having these blurred scenes playing before my eyes after I looked into your eyes. The harder I tried to look the scenes for more, the hurting my head became. I never experienced that kind of situation after I gain conscious that time in hospital. Do you want me to continue?"

"…Yes please…" Because he himself was curious.

"Hmm… Ever since that day, I began having these weird dreams. I can't make up the dreams, but those made me losing my sleeps."

That explains a lot… What's with the bags under Naruto's eyes.

"At first, I thought it was nothing so I tried to ignore it. It was getting worse when you were admitted to the hospital, having your wrists stitched. I was so mad at you somehow. Why would you do that?"

"Were you curious about me?"

"Sasuke, curiousness is my nature. I will always question things. After the first encounter, I asked Kakashi about it. He intentionally dodged the questions I threw at him. I could see he was lying so I kind of played along with him, and decided to find it out of my own. Gaara crossed my mind after seeing Mrs. Shirakawa's red rose on a green vase."

Sasuke smirked at that.

"So I asked Gaara about you. Gaara at first was hesitant, but he eventually spilled the beans. I was about to resolve things with you but you were being a dick for trying to commit suicide. Sasuke, I'm… sorry for making you like this…"

"Naruto." Sasuke warned, not wanting Naruto to blame himself for what had happened.

Naruto shrugged. He knew better. "I also want to thank you for giving me my sleep back. I haven't slept in like forever, until last night."

"What about… Sai? Haven't you-" Sasuke paused to bit his lower lip, hesitant, should he continue his question or not? "Haven't you slept with… Sai?" Sasuke said, biting back jealousy from emerging.

Naruto shrugged again. "Didn't work."

Sasuke didn't know what to feel to that. He closed his eyes instead.

"Sasuke? Can I ask you something?"

"Shoot."

"What actually happened that night…?"

Sasuke sighed. "I don't think that I should tell you about it. It's safe that, let's just say that we had an argument that night. We were very young then. There was no compromise between us. Both were very selfish. You left, I went on mental breakdown mode. It's safe to say that you disappeared from the face of the earth and I couldn't find you. There was no day went by without suicide crossing my mind. Years later, I met you again. With a new man."

During the talk, Naruto had sat down and held Sasuke's hands on both of his, staring at the pale man with an expression Sasuke couldn't quite name.

"What's with that expression?" Sasuke gave Naruto a weak smirk, wondering what the idiot was thinking right now.

"Sasuke, right now I really want to kiss you into oblivion. Do you want to?"

"…Huh?"

"I'm sorry." Naruto said before he launched himself to Sasuke, straddling him onto the bed. Sasuke was fast responding from the kiss of the quite-aggressive man sitting upside his groin. Naruto was dominating the kiss as he kept nibbling Sasuke's lower lip, Sasuke was sure it would turn red in no time. What was happening? First they were laying in a comfortable position, and now he was being straddled by his sweetheart, who was attacking him with a passionate kiss.

Eventually Naruto broke the kiss and sat straight, staring at the man under him with such passion through golden bangs, eyebrows were joined together, panting. "Kissing you gave me headache." To emphasize his words, he closed his eyes and began rubbing his head with his right hand.

Sasuke knitted his eyebrows in confusion and sat upright, putting Naruto to lay down beside him. "Do you want me to get you a glass of water?"

"No…" came a raspy response. "Let me cool down my head. Just before I saw a scene of you smiling. You were…"

"Stop it. Don't force yourself."

Naruto nodded. "I'm sorry, Sasuke."

"No need to. Now go to sleep. You have to be in the hospital tomorrow morning at eight."

"Huh? How did you-"

"Ino texted me before."

"Oh…"

"Hn."

"…"

"…"

"Are you gonna stay like that? Come down." Naruto had yanked Sasuke's hand down so he fell beside Naruto. "Let's sleep."

Sasuke smirked. "Good night Naruto."

"Night, Sasuke…"

~o0o~

"Naruto, wait." The two were inside Sasuke's car in front of the hospital when Sasuke held Naruto's hand before he opened the car to leave.

"Yes?"

"I'm only letting you know that I will be going on a business trip in the States today. I won't be in the country for a couple of days, I guess."

"…Huh?"

"If anything happened, just call me," Sasuke paused as he let go of Naruto's hand, knowing that he got Naruto's attention. "I'll come immediately. Just, take good care of Sai for now while I'm away. He needs you the most right now."

Naruto bowed his head down, staring at his lap. If Sasuke would be away, then how could he sleep again? Sasuke was like his weird dream repellent. But then again, there was Sai.

"I won't be away for too long, I promise."

Naruto eyed the pale man from the corner of his eyes. "Ugh… I was being stupid and selfish." When he was with Sasuke, he realized that everything seemed to not existed. For a moment he forgot Sai.

"I will call you once in a while if it's okay for you."

"Sure." Naruto sent Sasuke a smile before he finally exited the car.

Sasuke inside waited for Naruto to disappeared inside the hospital before he left to the airport. Itachi had texted him that morning that he'd expected Sasuke to be in the airport at ten sharp. It was only nine, and he guessed that he'd be there earlier. Itachi was very punctual when it came to time, saying that time is money, which Sasuke couldn't have agreed more.

Sasuke stopped under the traffic light and took out his cell phone to call someone.

"Juugo."

"Yes, sir."

"I will be in the US for a couple of days. Go watch Naruto from a far for me. If anything happens, inform me immediately."

"Will do, sir."

With that, Sasuke hung up and headed straight to the airport.

~o0o~

"Has Sai woken up?" Naruto asked Ino upon arriving at the lobby of the hospital.

"He woke up last night after you left. I told him that I sent you home to take some rest. I reasoned that you really worked hard and needed to rest. He only smiled and fell asleep. But right now, he is eating his food."

Naruto nodded and left the woman to his room to retrieve his coat, before going to see Sai.

He felt guilty for lying to Sai, but he couldn't explain either why he felt even guiltier being with Sai, when he felt it was normal to be with Sasuke. When he was with Sai, doing things as lovers did, he felt guilty. He felt like he had betrayed someone. But when it's with Sasuke, he felt like nothing existed except he and Sasuke.

He had troubled sleeping alone. He also had troubled sleeping with Sai. Yet with Sasuke, he fell asleep immediately the time his head hit the pillow. Sasuke was like his weird dreams' repellent, and he got his quality sleep thanks to him. But now that Sasuke would be leaving Japan to the US for a couple of days, then who could help him with his sleeping?

He should prepare to have some sleepless nights ahead.

He sighed, finally reaching Sai's room. He entered inside to find the pale man was eating what he could think of as oats.

"How are you feeling?"

Sai was startled at the voice. When he recognized the voice, he smiled at his doctor. "I miss you, dickless." Sai cracked. His voice was hoarse.

Naruto pouted hearing Sai's hoarse voice as he approached the man, giving him a peck on the cheek. "Finish that quick and eat the medicine." Naruto said as he checked the IV and his chart, still pouting.

"Can't…" Sai said as he stared at his bowl offensively. "This thing is nasty. I have trouble swallowing this."

Naruto sighed. "You refused to do chemo…"

Sai shrugged. "How are you?" The pale man handed the almost empty bowl to Naruto.

Naruto took the bowl and set it on the table nearby. He got himself a chair and sit next to the bed. "Don't lie to me, Sai. Tell me why you refused to do so." Naruto whispered in a serious tone, holding Sai's cold hand on his warm ones.

Sai stared at blue eyes with a shrug. "I have seen my brother doing chemo. It wasn't helping him getting better but prolonged his suffering instead. I don't want to experience the same. I'd rather…" He paused and leaned his back on the stuffed pillows behind, closing his eyes. "It's coming…" He whispered.

Naruto cursed and got handful of tissue papers from the earlier table and put them under Sai's nostrils. He knew from his other patients that while experiencing nose bleeding, the bridge of the nose would have a burnt sensation. Naruto could judge by Sai's knitted eyebrows. He was clearly holding on the pain. "Can you handle it?"

"Can't…" He forced out with hoarse voice, holding Naruto's hand with his left one dearly, like his life depended on it.

Naruto hissed but stood up and got himself an anaesthetic syringe and injected it to the IV tube which was connected to Sai's wrist. Naruto waited for a while for the drug to work as Sai's hold to his hand weakened.

A single tears dropped on tan cheek without him realizing it. He should become a surgeon instead of oncologist. That way, he would definitely save lives more than watching them…

Naruto cursed as he cleaned Sai's nose from any traces of blood and threw the stained papers on the trash bin. This was bad. Where was Ino? Just when he wondered about her whereabouts, Ino entered the room.

"What happen?" The woman asked as soon as she landed her eyes on the unconscious pale man.

"I just injected his IV with an anaesthetic. Was he like this yesterday?"

Ino sighed. "Tsunade did the same yesterday. After eating his breakfast, he was in pain. We asked him if he could handle it, he said he couldn't." Ino pouted and drew circles on Naruto's back. "Oh come on… Don't do that…" Ino cried despite of her attempt on shooting Naruto down. "Come…" She eventually dragged Naruto out to his room.

"Since you are Sai's private doctor, you can rest here until next check-up with him." Ino said upon arriving at Naruto's room. She led him to sit on the couch and made herself sit next to him. "Do you want to talk?"

"Do you think I'm evil?"

"Huh? Why do you think so?"

Naruto sighed. "I was having trouble sleeping because of these weird dreams I kept on having. I tried many ways to get my sleep back included sleeping with Sai because when I woke up from the dreams, I was left lonely. But it was futile. I went on depression and somehow managed to burnt my skin with the warm water of the shower. I woke up on Sasuke's bedroom and we slept together, not that I had sex with him or anything… But sleeping with him next to me, I somehow got my sleep back, dreamless night."

"Okay… Where's the evil part?"

Naruto closed his eyes with joined eyebrows. "Sasuke seemed to be my weird-dreams repellent. Also, when I was with him, I felt like my problems didn't exist. I even forgot about Sai. That's the evil part."

"Do you love Sai, Naruto?"

"…huh?" Naruto opened his eyes and casted his vision away from the woman. "I'm not sure…"

"Naruto, you and Sasuke are meant to each other. And that's not a problem when Sai let you have a relationship again with Sasuke."

Naruto bit his lips. "Yeah… Sai was the one who begged me to make it up with Sasuke. I swear that guy is too selfless, god…"

Ino smiled sadly as she soothed the man beside him by rubbing circle on his back. "Naruto, Sai approved your relationship with Sasuke, and you got your sleep back. Now there is no reason for you to worry, okay?"

"Ino, Sasuke is going to business trip in the US for a couple of days. Do you think you can give me some vitamin B complex?"

Ino sighed.

TBC

Published: Thursday, December 7th 2017 3:14 PM (JST)