So.... I've stayed up two nights in a row until 3am-ish to write this chapter. I pretty much wrote the first 2000 words of this yesterday night when I should have either been studying for my exam (which I finished at 4pm Saturday) or sleeping (which I haven't actually done in 5 days). Well, technically that's a lie, I've gotten at least 4 hours of sleep within these past days. So mentally unstable right now... haha but that's the life of a university student who has to study for finals UGH! BUT! THEY'RE OVER! AND I GET TO GO HOME TOMOR--- wait! TODAY... cuz it's technically Sunday right now... haha.
Okay, before I go on an incoherent rant... here's the next chapter, enjoy.
Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto or Concrete Angel
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Chapter Thirty Three:
"Maybe I like provoking you."
"That might not be in your best interest," Sasuke warned him, flirting with not only his words and his eyes but his hands, which were now travelling up Naruto's sides, as well.
"But what if it is?" Naruto countered with a flirtatious smirk of his own.
"Well, if it is..." Sasuke's lips moved ever-so closer to Naruto's ear, brushing lightly against his cheek before whispering, "Then let's go upstairs."
Naruto's face flushed instantly and he knew by how intensely his cheeks heated up that they were glowing a very bright shade of red. It was at that moment that he lost all his previous initiative and was reduced to a nervous wreck. "Uh... b-but what about Kiba?"
"We have two hours yet, don't worry about him," Sasuke had obviously not lost any initiative at the mention of his friend who was planning on dropping by.
"But... but..." Before Naruto could argue any further, Sasuke's hot breath warmed his ear before kissing the sensitive skin just behind his earlobe. "Mmm...!"
He heard Sasuke chuckle lightly in his ear, kissing him even more tenderly as he moved slowly down his neck.
"Sa...Sasuke..." Naruto all but purred, trying to get his attention to stop while simultaneously calling out his name for him to continue. It was so overwhelming that Naruto didn't know which of the two he wanted. If he let Sasuke have his way... they probably wouldn't even make it up the stairs before...
Just the thought of what could happen caused Naruto's heart to skip a beat and his face to blush even brighter.
Sasuke seemed to notice the flash of shock and embarrassment that fell over the blonde's features and he looked up with an impish expression. "Now what did you just think about?"
His teasing voice hinting that Naruto was thinking of naughty things caused the blush to spread across his whole face. He couldn't bare Sasuke to be teasing him about such things. Yet he was ashamed with himself for being so naive. Why did he have to be so inexperienced with type of thing that it turned his face redder than a poppy.
Naruto lowered his eyes, not able to look the raven in the eyes after what had just run through his mind but the other forced his lips upon him. After the kiss that stole his breath away, Naruto had no choice but to look up at the mischievous boy.
"Do you know how crazy you drive me with that innocent look of yours?" Sasuke whispered huskily in his eyes, sending shivers down his spine.
"Ah!" Naruto gasped when Sasuke suddenly sucked on his earlobe. It was a good thing he was pushed so tightly between Sasuke and the counter, or else he was sure he wouldn't be able to hold himself up.
When Sasuke moved down a long his neck again, nipping ever-so gently, Naruto couldn't help but cling to the raven, tightly, as he tilted his head back to give him further access. This feeling was incredible, and though it embarrassed and confused the hell out of the naive blonde, he longed to feel more.
The Uchiha seemed to sense this because just after the thought had processed in Naruto's mind, Sasuke's hands snaked up under Naruto's t-shirt, eager to feel flesh. They trailed up his sides and around his back before returning to his front to feel up his torso. Sasuke's fingers brushed over the many scars, tracing each one gingerly. It put Naruto at unease, but Sasuke also distracted him from this with soft nips and kisses that sucked at his neck and collarbone.
"Un!" Naruto listened as his voice changed into a voice he'd never heard before in his life. A voice that had only been made when Sasuke touched him in this manner. It was strange to him that he was even capable of such an erotic voice.
Sasuke didn't think he'd ever heard such a voice before in his life and that urged him on even more. Before meeting Naruto, he'd never thought that he would be so ambitious and forceful when it came to intimacy. But now, with his body pressed against the blonde's and the blonde's body so vulnerable to his advancements, he craved more.
With this thought, Sasuke's right hand left his left hand in charge of feeling up Naruto's abdomen and went in search of the lower region of the boy. His hand moved down his body, running along the smooth, exposed skin above the waistband of the pajama pants which were yet another borrowed article from Sasuke's wardrobe.
Naruto instinctively arched forward at the touch. His skin was very sensitive, especially in an area such as that where he'd never been touched before... or at least, not touched like that, or by someone else. However, this caress also brought to Naruto's attention where they were, because he had leaned off of the counter which was previously supporting him. "S-Sasuke... we can't do this here... what if someone- Wait, hey! What are you doing! Stop!"
What provoked Naruto to yell in the middle of his sentence was Sasuke's roaming hands, which had, without his awareness, both made their way to Naruto's lower back and dipped beneath the waistband of the pants, moving to squeeze the blonde's butt cheeks.
"But you have such a nice ass," Sasuke whispered seductively into the blonde's ear. And, if it were possible, this would be the point where Naruto's entire body flushed bright and deep red because of how embarrassed he was.
"Don..don't say that!"
"Why not?" Sasuke's eyes were glossy with lust and Naruto didn't know if he should be afraid of this personality that he'd never seen before and that was so contradictory to his calm, collective, and conserved Sasuke, or if he should be intrigued. He certainly couldn't deny that he was turned on because what Sasuke was doing was evoking so many emotions and feelings Naruto never even knew existed and it felt... so good. He just wanted to succumb but he didn't want to risk anything. There was so much at stake with their relationship, people who would judge and Naruto lost all coherent thought at that moment when Sasuke's lips clamped down upon his own.
"Mm...." Naruto let his eyelids flutter closed and he kissed Sasuke back with just as much passion, as Sasuke's hands caressed his lower side. At this point Naruto concluded that he didn't care what people thought or what was at risk. He wanted to have this relationship with Sasuke and allow his new boyfriend to make him feel things he'd never felt before. He loved him and he wanted this more than anything.
He pulled the raven closer to him with his good arm, cursing that his other arm was so useless at this time, he could use it to further close the distance between his and his boyfriend's body.
Sasuke seemed to sense Naruto's want to meld their bodies together and pulled Naruto up off the counter entirely and held him up by his ass. "Wrap your legs around me."
Naruto didn't even know if he comprehended what was asked of him, he was currently in a state of shock from the contact made between their lower regions when his hips were pressed into Sasuke's at the motion of him being picked up. He hadn't even realized he'd gotten hard, but it was easy enough to imagine what was happening to him would produce an erection. And the contact, even through the articles of clothing, was so arousing that Naruto's mind momentarily froze.
"Naruto," Sasuke attempted to retrieve the attention of his lover, it was becoming difficult holding him up like this considering the current situation.
"Oh... sorry," Naruto managed, quickly wrapping his legs around the raven's waist. This only served to make him gasp as it brought their hips even closer and more tightly together.
Sasuke chuckled at the blonde's gasp, feeling his rapid breath against his shoulder, but it was obvious in his voice that he was also feeling the effects of their hips aligned in such a position.
"Now," Sasuke started as he turned towards the doorway, "let's go upstairs."
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Sasuke growled at the loud disturbance. Though it wasn't that loud, it was enough to bring his mind back to current events and become aware of what time it was. Three-thirty. Damn it, Kiba.
From his window, he had heard a car pull into the driveway. Someone must have given him a ride, probably Tenten because she was the only one who would drive the boy for free and his parents weren't likely to drive him out here since he'd always walked in the past. Useless boy couldn't even walk the short... well not entirely short, actually well out of the way of town... distance to get to his house. Why must he be so concerned for his mental well-being?
With a sigh, Sasuke pulled himself up into a sitting position next to the slumbering blonde. Naruto had fallen asleep quickly after their endeavors, curling up on his left side, and though Sasuke himself was slightly exhausted, he hadn't dozed off. Instead he cleaned them both up and returned to the bed to cuddle up to the peaceful blonde, holding him closely and breathing in his essence.
He had been so happy, so content during that period and was now very upset that his dumbass best friend had to ruin such a memorable moment.
Looking down at the undisturbed blonde, he felt conflicted. Naruto looked so beautiful and at ease as he slept that he didn't want to wake him up. But he couldn't just let him sleep while Sasuke left his side to talk with Kiba, the blonde needed to be present. In fact, it was in his best interest to be present during the conversation the three of them were going to have. As much as Sasuke would like to postpone it so he could lay beside his love longer and possibly continue their earlier engagements, they had to get up.
"Naruto," Sasuke shook his boyfriend's side, careful of his bad shoulder which might be a little sore. The blonde refused to stir. "Naruto, wake up." He shook the boy a little harder to no avail.
With a smirk wide on his face, a perverse idea rang through his mind and he leaned over, licking the blonde's ear. This woke the blonde up with a start and a visibly flushed face.
"Sasuke! Stop being such a pervert!" Naruto proceeded to holler as soon as he was aware of his surroundings.
"You know you like it," Sasuke teased, getting up from the bed but not before winking at his befuddled blonde.
Naruto grumbled at this but didn't deny it. "Why'd you wake me up?"
"Did you forget? We have company," He spoke without much emotion, moving to get some clothes on, but he didn't move very fast because he hadn't heard the car pull away yet. It had to have been Tenten, the two were probably chatting in the car.
Coincidentally, as soon as he thought this, he heard an engine start and the screeching of tires against the pavement. Yup, definitely Tenten's driving skills.
The sound seemed to startle Naruto, who attempted to rise out of the bed only to get caught with the blankets wrapped around his lower body, which would have otherwise been exposed. "Oh..."
Sasuke, who watched this from the corner of his eye, laughed and shook his head. "You stay here, calm down and get dressed. Togas aren't the best attire, even though you'd look pretty damn sexy in one."
He received a glare at this, but the blonde complied and sat himself down to untangle his body from the sheets which engulfed him.
At that moment, there was a knock on the door and Sasuke was surprised Kiba hadn't just walked right in. It was more like the Inuzuka to be extremely intrusive, but he was certainly glad he put a limit to how much he was planning on invading Sasuke's life once he reached the door.
"I'll head downstairs and greet him, you come down when you're ready." Though he didn't want to leave Naruto to walk down on his own, he couldn't just leave Kiba waiting at the door until the blonde was decent. He would just walk in at that point and probably head up the stairs to walk in and see the blonde in a most compromising manor, which probably would have been worse than forcing Naruto to gather up some courage.
Naruto merely nodded at this, not looking comfortable with it as Sasuke suspected, but he didn't argue.
Now Sasuke, fully clothed, walked down to the front of the house and pulled open the front door. "Get in pest." Was his only greeted before turning to walk into the living room.
"Yo! You're alive!" Kiba chirped, bouncing in through the doorway, kicking off his shoes before following the raven into the room and throwing himself down onto the couch. "Me and Tenten thought maybe you'd died or somethin' when ya didn't come outside to see us. You should check and make sure people who park in your drive for a long time ain't psychos or somethin' ya'know."
Sasuke rolled his eyes at the brunet's nonsense, though in his world... it was technically something he should be used to doing. No idea who Itachi might send to finish him off, but Sasuke was pretty confident that Itachi wanted that pleasure to be his. He shuddered inwardly at this thought but pushed it aside quickly, focusing on the task at hand.
"Who the hell else would come to my house at the exact time you said you'd be invading my privacy?"
Kiba proceeded to shrug, not realizing Sasuke's question was rhetorical. "A psycho with good timing, maybe?"
Sasuke shook his head, seating himself in a chair across from the doorway so he would be able to see Naruto walk in the door whenever he so choose.
"So what have you been up to?" Kiba asked, turning to lay on his stomach and stare at the raven.
Sasuke shrugged, "Mostly sleep, eating, watching movies." He laughed inwardly at the movie that hadn't actually gotten watched the previous night.
"Geez, you're such an unproductive loner. I figured you'd be an intellectual geeky kind of emo and just burry yourself in school work."
Oh no, I've been very productive.Was all Sasuke could think. So much had happened within the past two days that Sasuke didn't know how he was managing to function. The blonde's image flashed through his mind and he realized, oh right, yes, that's how I've managed. Naruto had been such a pillar of strength, ironic in a way, and a great outlet for a multitude of emotions. The previous one having been the best out of all.
"What are you smirking about?" Kiba asked, genuinely concerned since he rarely ever saw his best friend with a smirk like that.
"Oh, nothing, sorry." Sasuke cursed himself for outwardly showing that.
"No, you looked... satisfied or something with that look. What's up?" Kiba was right on with that assumption.
"Well, I have something to tell you actually." Just as he spoke, he heard light footsteps coming down the stairs. Wonderful timing Naruto.
"Whose that?" Kiba, with his expert hearing, turned his head to the doorway with a very confused expression upon his face.
Sasuke got up just in time to make it over to the other side of the room, motioning his blonde who looked horribly nervous in the hallway, to come into the room.
The moment Naruto was visible in the doorway, Kiba jumped up from his position on the couch, glaring with mixed anger and confusion. "What the hell is Uzumaki doing here?"
"Kiba!" Sasuke retorted the brunet's outburst with an threatening warning, wrapping his arm possessively around the blonde's waist.
Kiba hadn't expected Sasuke's voice to be so cold, and he was taken aback, but couldn't stop the anger and confusion to express itself within his features.
"We need to get some things straight with how you think about Naruto." Sasuke's voice was no longer threatening but it was strict, and he was intent on making his friend understand, even if he had to force the concept onto him.
"There's nothing wrong with the way-"
"Yes there is Inuzuka," This time Sasuke's voice had taken on new depths, as though it was laced with arsenic.
Kiba immediately shut his mouth, anger still in his face but it was mostly dominated by confusion and concern, or perhaps worry for his own well-being, not entirely certain why Sasuke was so enraged.
"Sit down," He instructed his best friend, the venom receding back into his fangs as his voice because calmer and kinder. Kiba did as he was told, sitting very stiffly onto the couch from which he had just arisen.
As soon as Kiba was situated, Sasuke very carefully led Naruto into the room, arm never leaving his waist, and sat the two of them on the love seat that was right up against the wall next to the doorway. He could feel Naruto's body shaking nervously the entire time, and that caused his arm to tighten around the boy's waist, ensuring him that he wasn't going to leave his side for a moment.
"Kiba, you, and most of the village, have a very ill conceived perception of who Naruto is." Sasuke paused to see if Kiba would interrupt him with a horrible remark but was satisfied when he was presented with silence and continued on. "Everyone has been so caught up in their mind set that Naruto is not his own person, he isn't an individual, he is merely his mother's son. He is more than just the offspring of that woman. It was not his fault for who his mother happened to be, nor who his father was. Most people, including you, see him as mostly being his mother's son and only regard him as his father's son long enough not to completely lash out at him."
Naruto winced at these words and Sasuke looked at him through the corner of his eye. His head was lowered, eyes glossy and focused on the floor, teeth driving into his bottom lip. It hurt Sasuke that he had to say things like this, but it needed to be done.
"Naruto is a human being and he is not his mother. I want, no, I need you to realize this and get over your misplaced anger. Yes you can be angry at his mother, many people are because of the many horrible things she did during her lifetime. But that doesn't give you, or anyone else, any right to hate Naruto. He was also a victim of his mother's if you can manage to shift through the bullshit your parents fed you."
Kiba opened his mouth at this point, probably intending to deny that his parents had ever lied to him about anything as dark as this, but Sasuke cut him off immediately with a note of anger clearly controlling his voice.
"No, you don't talk right now. Your parents also have an awful misconception about Naruto. Everyone in this god damn village is so concerned with who his mother was and what she did and that because they never had a chance to hate her for her crimes, they've decided to put all their blame and anger on the only survivor! Naruto doesn't deserve this! Just because his mother died before she was able to be punished for her massacre does not mean that her legacy is to be passed on to her son, whom she also tried to kill, which people can't seem to remember correctly!"
Sasuke was thoroughly inflamed at this point. He hadn't meant to allow himself to get this worked up, but he did have the chance to outwardly express his anger at this particular topic, and with all the other emotions being released recently, this one didn't seem to want to miss its opportunity for freedom.
"I'm so pissed off with everyone thinking Naruto is going to become his mother! He's nothing like what his mother was and no one ever takes the time to get to know what a great person he really is! No one cares that he is his own person, an individual who feels and has suffered fifteen years of torment and abuse because of people's ignorance and blatant inability to human beings whenever around him!"
Both Naruto and Kiba had their heads turned on Sasuke at this point, their eyes locked on him as they watched him breath rapidly and raggedly. Neither of them had ever seen him so furious, ever. And now with him breathing as coarse as it was and his face flushed with rage, neither of them knew what to do or how to think. It was overwhelming for both of them and as much as they wanted to speak or respond, they both had no idea how to respond and were also too frightened to speak for feat that Sasuke might snap at them.
So they settled on waiting, silently, for Sasuke's breathing to finally calm and regulate itself once again.
"Sorry... it just... I really resent everything Naruto's had to go through and no one at all seems to care or they ignore the fact that he's human and can feel and hurt. Every has placed so much anger onto him all these years and he's had to bare it all on his own without anyone's help, and everyone in this village seems to be okay with it."
"You're not..." Naruto finally spoke up with a very quite and timid voice, yet reassuring and thankful at the same time.
Sasuke turned his head to look Naruto in the eye and was greeted with a very small smile, which he returned as well as he could in his exasperated state.
"Yeah... but everyone else needs to get it through their thick skulls that you aren't to blame for any of their misfortunes and they need to see the pain you've endured all your life." With that said, he turned his eyes upon his best friend, who looked altogether stunned.
"Kiba, you didn't know, I bet, that Naruto was physically and verbally abused by his aunt since he was a child."
Naruto stiffened noticeably at this being said and his eyes widened, turning his attention directly on the raven. He couldn't believe Sasuke had just said that so openly to this boy who'd tormented him so much and he was very clearly hurt by this.
Sasuke attempted to soothe him by stroking his side with his hands, but that served to do nothing to ease the boy.
Kiba, however, looked unsure of how to process this information. His gaze was dominantly on his best friend but occasionally it would glance to the blonde, whose reaction confirmed it's truth.
"Why do you think Naruto always came to school with bruises and bandages?" Sasuke asked, not expecting an answer. "His aunt would beat him every day, brutally. I found him one day, not too long back, nearly unconscious at the bottom of his steps because she's pushed him down them after beating him. Naruto's lucky to be alive."
Though Naruto knew he wasn't exactly pushed down the stairs, he had fallen... technically... he didn't say anything to correct the raven. He probably wasn't able to at the moment since he was in such a state of disbelief and denial that he didn't think his vocal cords would function properly.
Again, the Inuzuka looked perplexed, but now his gaze was predominantly fixed upon Naruto, which the blonde noticed immediately and attempted not to even shift his gaze in the brunet's general direction.
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Kiba's mind was running wild at this point. Sure he's picked on the Uzumaki and bullied him. Pushing him to the ground and threatening him... but he never did anything that could lead to his death or well, even to bleed really. Yes he hated Uzumaki for what he... or for what he believed him to be, but he could never inflict devastating harm upon anyone. Everything Sasuke said, with such rage, made it painfully clear that he should consider Sasuke's perspective on the Uzumaki boy to hold some truth. He had to trust his best friend, especially when he was so outwardly emotional about it. Which he never was about anything, ever.
"Sasuke," Kiba decided to address his friend, not sure if he could address the blonde let alone if the Uzumaki would be able to handle it. "Is that really true?"
"Why wouldn't it be. You know me, Kiba. I wouldn't lie about this kind of thing. I wouldn't think it very hard to believe since you happen to be one of Naruto's bullies." When saying, it was obvious Sasuke tried as much as he could to keep the anger at this from slipping into his voice but he was unsuccessful because Kiba couldn't help but wince at the tone of the accusation.
Kiba's eyes lowered, he actually felt ashamed to be one of the people who bullied him, especially if what Sasuke was saying was true. Though, yes, it wasn't very hard to believe. The Uzumaki did always seem to be constantly injured, save for the past little while that he was involved with the Sabaku siblings. And everyone in the village resented his mother and placed the blame upon him, as Sasuke has said. Everyone expected him to turn out just like his mother and thus, they hated him and constantly harassed him with horrible words and the occasional push.
For once, Kiba actually started to think of how the Uzumaki could live with all this. All the torment from those around him, the shunning from being apart of the community or any group of friends. Along with physical abuse from the one person who was supposed to be his family. How could he...
Kiba's eyes lifted from the ground and settled on the blonde's body. He didn't know what he could say, he was still having trouble believing this. He had grown up his entire life, taught to hate the Uzumaki child, told that he was a monster. His mother was responsible for so many deaths and he was going to follow in his mother's footsteps, but as his own mother had told him, "You can't do harm him though, his father was a honorable hero and deserves to be respected. His father saved many people and because of that, you can't hurt the Uzumaki child."
The brunet sighed, his eyes lowering once again. He was so confused but there was no way he could just simply dismiss this. Sasuke was so passionate about this and he trusted his best friend to be speaking the truth. His concern for the blonde obviously meant that the Uzumaki... Naruto couldn't be all that bad, or at least not as bad as his parents conditioned him to believe.
"I..." Kiba started, but was unsure of where he was going with this. He could just address this simply, it was like his entire world was being flipped upside down and if he accepted what was being said as true, he would be at fault for so many things. He would be the bad person, who harmed someone who was emotionally and physically unstable for so long. "I'm sorry..." He finally finished, confronting the issue head on, and after a long pause he added, "Naruto."
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Okay, so now that I've just after doubled this chapter by the length of a normal chapter... I'm going to end it there. I'm so mentally unfit to be alive right now and I have no idea how I wrote this much.... SO TIRED! G'night and thanks for reading.