Bestfriends Chapter 3

"Hey Sasuke?" I asked.

"Yeah?" He replied.

"Want some dessert?"

"What're we eating?" He asked in response following me to the kitchen. I took out the big bucket of ice cream, maraschino cherries, and chocolate sauce. While Sasuke got out some bowls and spoons. Really we hadn't even known each other for more than two days, but it already felt like we were best friends. We filled up our bowls and headed back to the couch to watch the rest of the Law and Order episode.

Another entire episode had passed and it was getting late. Although there were still more episodes on well into early Sunday morning, I could already feel my eyes dropping. My eyelids were heavy and the couch seemed so comfortable compared to the chair, that I had to get up to move to. It really wasn't worth it. I closed my eyes for a second, just to catch a little rest, have expecting myself to open them again and feel rejuvenated. Although that didn't happen. I closed my eyes and everything in my body seemed to tire, and I cuddled up on the couch, getting extra comfortable, I spread my legs out a little bit so that they extended to more than half the couch. More than what was my fair share, as I was sharing it with Sasuke at the moment. And somehow, it got to the point where I was practically lying down fully on the couch. I had no idea how my body escalated it to that point but I was so damn comfortable. At this point I didn't even care if Sasuke slept on here too with me, and honestly that idea didn't even seem so bad...

A moment later I felt Sasuke moving on the couch too. My legs weren't straight, but had a bit of a bend at the knee, so that there was a little space between my legs and the couch, and Sasuke snuggled right in the little hole my legs created. His head rested itself on my butt and he just stayed like that for the longest time. I froze when he set his head there and then realized I was over reacting. I mean, guys did that, right? We sat like that for about half an episode, I couldn't fall asleep like this, I was frozen. And I thought Sasuke had fallen asleep, but was proven wrong when he stretched and nudged his way between me and the couch. He didn't move me much but he sort of crawled his way between me and the couch, and was sort of laying on top of me a little. It was definitely an uncomfortable position.

"Uh... Sasuke?" I asked, but received no response. I heard him snore and thought it was impossible for someone to fall asleep that quickly after just moving. I nudged and pushed him and he startled awake.

"Huh? What's going on?" He said as he shook violently from being startled awake. He moved on the couch and somehow ended up on top and straddling me, "Woah! What happened?" he said continuing to flail.

"Sasuke, call down," I said grabbing his arms so he couldn't move. Yet he continued to struggle against me. I tried to get out from under him but he was strong and his thrashing about made it difficult. Eventually I squeezed myself out from under and wrapped him under myself and straddled him so I could contain him.

"Sasuke!" I screamed and he finally froze and made eye contact with me, "What the hell was that?" I asked, confused and scared.

"What the fuck dobe? Get off of me!" He said as he struggled under my firm grip on his wrists.

"No! You just flipped the fuck out! I'm not letting you go until you explain what just happened?! What the fuck man?" I cried. I saw his eyes widen and he asked what happened. He seemed concerned. I realized he didn't actually know what a tantrum he just threw and calmly loosened my grip and explained what happened, "I was laying down on the couch and you seemed to be sleeping, so I shook you awake and just just started freaking out and thrashing about. And I had to control you."

"Oh." was all he said.

"Has this happened before Sasuke, what was that?" I asked, concern filling my voice.

"Hn, yeah maybe a few times..." he admitted.

"Sasuke" I said, raising an eyebrow at him.

"Okay, yeah it happens a lot actually." I gasped when he told me that, and wondered what it was all about, what happened to him?

"Are you alright, why does this happen to you?" I said, still holding him underneath me, I swore I saw a light blush cover his cheeks, but figured it had to be from the tantrum.

"I have nightmares, Naruto. I have reoccurring nightmares, and sometimes even night terrors about my parents death. And when people try to wake me up from them, I go ballistic.

"Oh my god, are you sure you're alright?" I asked, leaning closer into him.

"Yeah, I'll be fine. I just need some water" He said as he sat up, not even realising I was on his lap. His sudden movements surprised me and I fell off of him and the couch before Sasuke caught me and held me in his lap, to stop me from falling. Our eyes met and he brought me up close to his face. I know he blushed this time, and it was definitely not from his night terror.

"Err, um... sorry," He said, laying me down on the couch as he awkwardly got up off the couch, "It was just an instinct, I didn't want you to fall and hit your head or anything." He said as he quickly scurried into the kitchen to get some water.

As he was in the kitchen, I could feel my own heated face, and touched it, I was burning up. But why? Was it from wrestling with Sasuke, my-almost-fall, or the fact that his lips and mine were mere centimeters apart, no more than thirty seconds ago. Whatever it was, I didn't have time to think about it before Sasuke came back to the couch with two glasses of water. Handing me one, I thanked him and sat up on the couch. So we both could sit.

"Woah, there..." He said pushing my body down on the couch, "You shouldn't be moving much. I think you banged your head pretty good, you should lay down." As soon as he said that, I felt a huge pain in my head, I reached up and lifted my head off the couch and I could feel a little warm and sticky liquid. And soon realized I was bleeding. The look on Sasuke's face also confirmed that it was blood.

"Oh shit, Naruto." He said, getting up from the couch again. This time he brought over a warm, damp rag and made me turn on my stomach and he held it there. I told him where some advil was and he got up and got me some. But the banging in my head didn't subside. And after half an hour I still felt horrible.

"How is it?" He asked.

"Hnnng, ugh." Was all I could manage. I shook my head slightly and he understood.

"Alright then, come on." He said, "Don't be surprised, I'm about to pick you up okay?" I managed another groan before he picked me up bridal style and carried me to my bedroom, I opened my eyes and saw him looking at me, but quickly looked away blushing, when he realized I saw him. And laid me down on my bed, "You know dobe, you may have concussed yourself." He said, laughing at me. I shot him a glare, but he wasn't fazed.

He tucked me under my covers and turned the overhead light off. Knowing light, isn't good for concussions. People are more sensitive to light and pretty much everything, when they get them.

"Hmm, thanks Sasuke." I said, one he turned the light off.

"No problem, but I'm sleeping in here, with you tonight. Sometimes, if you fall asleep with a concussion you might never wake up again. So I'm going to keep an eye on you tonight. I'll wake you up every so often, I set like three alarms for tonight, so, you know." He said, climbing into bed with me. I had no problem, with him sleeping in bed with me, honestly I really didn't mind it at all.

I heard him say goodnight dobe and something about me being an idiot for falling and hitting my head, or something like that at least. And before I knew it, I heard him snoring next to me. It wasn't too loud though. It was just the type of breathing you heard, when you knew someone was sleeping. I tried, myself to fall asleep but the banging in my head was too much and I just couldn't manage any sleep at all.

It felt like hours had passed, but when I turned to look at my clock, only 30 minutes had really gone by. Ugh, tonight would be a long night for me. I couldn't believe it. I got a fucking concussion from falling and hitting my head off a couch? I mean, I don't even remember hitting my head, I thought sasuke caught me before that. But the welt on my head, disagreed with me. But seriously, I was trying to contain Sasuke from a night terror, and this is what I got in return? a concussion? So not fair. I turned myself so I was facing him, and resented the fact that he was able to fall asleep so easily. I laid there, just like that, for a while. And thought about the past two days. It was weird, really. How a friendship could blossom so quickly. I mean, in the past two days, more things have happened to me than the entire month pretty much. I found myself appreciating that sasuke and I became friends so soon. Honestly the time I've spent with him, has been like some of the happiest times I've had since Jiraiya passed. I remember being so happy go lucky with him, but after he passed I didn't really feel happy about much anymore. I would always fake it though, I didn't want to concern anyone so a lot of the time, I put on a facade. But these past few days, last night after Sasuke and I got in a fight, being an exception, I've been actually happy.

I finally felt myself slowly start to drift off, my eyelids were heavy and I let them win and they closed. My body began to become heavy too, and my bed felt so comfortable at that moment, I didn't want to ever get up. And soon after that, I fell asleep.

The next time I woke up, it was still dark and Sasuke had his arms wrapped around me and had his body extremely close to mine. I was thoroughly confused and I had been awake for a total of about 10 seconds. But the loud beeping pulled me out of my sleepy daze, and I remembered what Sasuke said about checking up on me in the night. Hmmpf, I thought. Seems like I was the one checking up on him, he slept right through the alarm and I turned off the other ones he had set. I just wanted to get some, uninterrupted sleep tonight. After I got snuggled back into bed, I don't know how but Sasuke's arms found me and trapped me once more. They worked their way around my body and they pulled himself closer into me. My face was practically touching his chest, our bodies were mere centimeters apart. But I decided to just let it be for tonight. I figured Sasuke probably wasn't a good sleeper because of his nightmares, so any sleep he got, even if it was cuddled up with me, I wasn't about to interrupt. I let it happen for tonight, and decided to just go with it. I needed sleep myself, and craning my neck so that it wouldn't rest on Sasuke's against Sasuke's chest was getting annoying. I let the straining muscles in my neck go, and rested my head(that was still thumping by the way)on against his chest, and snuggled into him to make myself more comfortable. Through my groggy state though, I thought it was actually pretty comfortable and I quickly drifted off into sleep, allowing Sasuke to cling to me.

The next thing that woke me up was sudden movements that stirred me, "Hnng," I moaned as stretched my legs out slightly.

"Ahh, I see the dobe has woken up too," Sasuke said snarkily. Apparently his arms had been around me the entire night, because I felt him squeeze me tightly and held me close to him for a quick second or so. Then he release me and unwrapped his arms around me and flung them into the air also stretching. Apparently he noticed the confused look on my face from his earlier actions, "Oh sorry if I held onto you during the night, I usually end up doing that when I sleep next to someone else. I don't know why but I do a lot of weird stuff in my sleep." He explained.

"Uh, yeah.. it's fine! Hehe I didn't mind it too much, I figured as much anyway!" I said awkwardly. I settled back down in bed, and thought about the situation I was currently in. Honestly, I have only known Sasuke for like two days now, and since yesterday I guess with the whole towel-door-opening-thing, I've been getting a weird vibe from him. Especially since last night, when he held me after I fell, when he picked me up and was staring at me, when he insisted that we slept together, when he held me the entire night, and this morning's hug squeeze. I mean, Sasuke wasn't gay... was he? He's told me he's had girlfriends, but I guess that doesn't mean much especially when he said none of them were long term, and that none of them satisfied him. And looking back on it now, it is kind of strange for two people to just start being best friends right off the bat. I don't know something felt weird about the whole thing.

I tossed and turned in bed and dismissed my thoughts when I remembered he was still here. I didn't mind him being here, in fact, I still really like him but there was just something off putting about him now.

"Good morning," He said walking back into the bedroom I had no idea he had even left in the first place.

"Good morning." I said back smiling and rubbing my crusty sleep filled eyes.

"I see you didn't die during the night, even though you turned off the alarms I set." He said, glaring at me.

"Oh shut up teme! You didn't even wake up from the first alarm. You said you were going to check on me and you couldn't even wake up!" I rebuttled back at him.

"Yeah whatever dobe, who knows, if you didn't wake up from that alarm I set you could be dead from your concussion right now!" He said.

I hmmpfed in annoyance from the topic, "You mind if I take a shower?" He asked.

"Nope not at all, the bathroom is right through there," I said, pointing to the bathroom.

"Alright thanks," He said as he walked into it.

My head still hurt a lot from last night and when I sat up in bed, the room was spinning. But my hunger overcame my senses to lay back down and I got up from bed and stumbled my way to the kitchen. Holding onto the fridge door for support, I surveyed the fridge, looking for possible options for breakfast. I grabbed some bacon and eggs out and started up the bacon on the stove. The smell filled the room after a few minutes and after about ten minutes I thought it was about time to make the eggs. As soon as my meal was done I set the table for two. Walking over to the bathroom, I didn't hear the shower on anymore and called to Sasuke that breakfast was ready. Although the yelling made my head spin. There seemed to be two of everything in my bedroom, or maybe it was just my double vision... I tried to clumsily stumble my way to the kitchen, before tripping on a chair leg and falling face down to the ground. I could feel the wind knocked out of me but other than that I didn't feel a thing. I stopped mid air, and opened my eyes to see the floor a few inches underneath. As my senses came back to me, I could feel a strong arm pull me up.

"Damn you fall a lot." Sasuke said, as water dripped from his hair and hit me in the face. At some point he turned me around in his arms so we were once again face to face and very close. He only had a towel wrapped around him, and his body was dripping wet. I could feel his entire body pressed against mine as he held me. My face was practically touching his chest and I had a full view of his body, his muscular yet lean figure held onto me perfectly.. I could feel his muscles in his arm clench and tighten around me. Bringing me closer to him. I looked up at him and saw his charcoal colored eyes staring right at me and a small smirk crossed his lips. He had water drip from the tip of his nose that fell on my cheek and before I could react to it, he wiped it off with his thumb, slowly dragging it over my lips. My eyes widened as I fully realized the proximity of Sasuke and I, and I quickly moved and shoved him away from me. Although the side affects of my concussion cursed me again when my sudden movements caused me to stumble and fall over. And this time Sasuke didn't catch me.

"Naruto! Are you okay?" He asked trying to help me up, but I shoved his hand away and stood up despite my foggy mind.

"Sasuke...? What the hell is with you?" I said breathing heavily, "What the fuck was that?"

"What was what? I just caught you from damaging your head further." He said sauntering towards me, "Come on, you need to lie down. You're still getting side effects from your concussion." He said reaching a hand out and placing it on my shoulder.

"No shit sherlock," I barked, slapping his hand off of me, backing away from his advancing figure.

"What? Why are you acting like this?" He asked, "Come on calm down, you're getting paranoid, it's just the concussion Naruto." I couldn't help but stare at his body as he walked towards me. His feet leaving water footprints as he stepped. The bright orange towel of mine he used, hanging dangerously low on his hips. I could see far too much of his happy trail and my heart started beating fast and had.

"God damnit Sasuke put on some fucking clothes, you're so distracting!" I said panting hard.

"I'm so what Naruto? How am I distracting you?" He asked, raking his hand through his wet hair, craning his body to the side, showing his stomach and all of its glory.

He didn't stop his attack on me, he kept walking towards me and somehow I found myself backing into my bed and falling back on it. Sasuke walked right up to me. Stopping only when our legs were much much too close.

"Sas..-"

"So where are some extra clothes I can wear haha?" Sasuke laughed and raked his hands through his hair again, looking down at me sitting on the bed. I fumbled and got up, moved around him and grabbed some boxers, sweats and a shirt for him to wear. He caught the clothes I threw to him from the opposite side of the room, feeling extremely uncomfortable with him now. He slipped the boxers on while still wearing the towel, after he got the boxers on he ripped off the towel, leaving him in just his underwear. His physique was incredible, his abs evident but not to the point that he looked like a bodybuilder, it was like he was blessed with the body he had. Sasuke took me out of my short lived trance as he put on the gray t shirt I gave to him and the black sweats afterwards.

"Starting now are we, dobe?" Sasuke smirked at me and I blushed heavily.

"Hn in your dreams teme," I snapped back. Sasuke gave me a quizzical look but then went to the kitchen and I sheepishly followed. Again I decided to push away the last five minutes of my life and think about all of it later, when Sasuke left. I had forgotten about the food that I made earlier, but I guess Sasuke didn't, he sat right down at the island table and dug into the eggs and bacon. I sat down too, doing the same.

"Pretty good dobe," Sasuke said.

"Well it is pretty hard to fuck up bacon and eggs, but I can't say I've never done it." I admitted.

After we finished, Sasuke helped me clean up and we went out for the day. We went for a walk and stopped by the coffee house and chilled there for a while. I showed him more of the city. And not once all day did I sense anything weird from Sasuke. It's like he was a totally different person from the night before and this morning. I was much more comfortable with him now. At around three we went to our local bowling alley, which was where a lot of kids from school were always at all the time. I saw a few of my swimming friends there and introduced Sasuke to them. They all seemed to get along really well, then again, everyone got along well with Kiba and Shikamaru and Choji. Our friend Sakura was there too and I could tell she had the hots for him. I became irritated with her quickly and we didn't stay long after that. We left at around five and headed back to the apartment. And Sasuke and I bid our adieus for the night and each went back to our own apartments.

When I entered my own and shut the door behind me, I fell to the ground with my back leaning against the door. I hadn't felt bad all day after I had some food, but now I was feeling the headache coming on strong again. I couldn't believe that I hit my head only twenty four hours ago, it really seemed like a lot longer than that. I crawled my way to my, appreciating the fact that I finished all of my homework with Sasuke. I laid in bed, thinking about the past weekend. Sasuke wa really cool and I really like him as a friend, but I honestly didn't understand his actions from last night and this morning. What was it all about. And then he just goes and turns normal again today? What the hell was up with him? He was so confusing... and why am I just now remembering that I practically drooled over him today? I remembered staring at his almost naked body today, way too much than I should have. Maybe he think I'm gay? Is he? Did I give him the wrong impression? I hope not, to all of them. My thoughts quickly lead to dreams and I fell asleep letting the sleep take over.