HELLOOOOOO!!! Sorry I havn't updated in so long! busy busy busy! Went to Sakura con and had a blast! (strongly suggests you look up sora the explorer on youtube). Also, guess what I crossplayed as on two of the three days...? NARUTO! And guess what I'm listening to now....? VIVA ROCK! FROM NARUTO! Tehe Im such a Narutard. I also have this SUPER EPICLY AWESUM NaruxSasu pic from one of the artists booths. Thank you artist whose name I don't know because I was too busy looking at your beautiful artwork!!!!! haha, but don't wory, I do like other anime/manga too. Mostly bloody stuff. That makes up most of my favorites (Naruto, bloody stuff) he he *nervous laugh* I AM NOT A SOCIOPATH!!!!! NAO REVIEW!
It was cold. I mean night, and a storm outside, can have that effect when one is sleeping in a cave, but it felt like there was some other element to this that Naruto couldn't quite place his finger on.
With a moan, he rolled over. What the hell is that? The blonde sat up, his hand drawn to his side in an automatic motion, and found that he had been sleeping in a puddle.
"AHH! Son of a bitch!" he cursed, stirring Sasuke on the other side of the now-dead fire.
"What's wrong?" he asked, blinking as his eyes focused.
"Look! I'm SOAKED!"
Staring at Naruto, Sasuke realized that he was sitting in water too. In a slow, drowsy motion, he raised his head to look past the boy, to the mouth of the cave, where he saw the rain still pouring.
"I think we should leave", he said, turning back to Naruto.
"Well, no shit! There's no way we could stay in here if we're just going to get all wet!"
"Well yeah, but I think its going to get worse. We should look for someplace with higher elevation so that if it floods we won't get caught up in it."
"Oh… Right. Okay, where's the ramen? Ill just get that and we'll head out."
Simultaneously, both looked to the pile and let their expressions deteriorate to scowls as they saw the now-soaked ramen bowls that were obviously ruined.
"I guess no ramen then… well the three of us will just have to live off the land!"
Sasuke stared at Naruto. Something was off about what he had just said. What was wrong with this situation?
"…Hey, where's Sakura?" asked Sasuke.
They both looked around to come to realize that Sakura hadn't come back last night.
"Shit." Said the blonde, looking to Sasuke. "We can't just leave! If she comes back she wont know where we went!"
"I know, but she went to the bathroom. It doesn't take several hours to find a friggen' bush and come back. She must have gotten lost in this weather or something."
"So we have to go find her." Naruto stated.
Sasuke nodded in agreement.
Naruto stretched widely as Sasuke lifted himself out of the miniature lake that was ever-growing larger. Their fire, put out by the flooded rainwater, left the cave murky, and obscured objects to look much stranger than they were. The two boys met at the mouth of the cave, and received a blinding flash of lightning, leaving both slightly dizzy and temporarily visually handicapped.
They forged the storm together, which was terrible. The wind was cutting through their clothes as if they weren't even there, though the fact that they were soaked didn't help and the rain made sure it would stay that way. Outside everything was in chaos. Smaller trees had been blown over, and branches were haphazardly strewn everywhere. The worst part, that made them both hesitate, was that the water outside was up to their ankles. The canyon was flooding.
Naruto grabbed Sasuke's hand, "Come on, I have a bad feeling about this."
The blonde pulled Sasuke along, and as he stared at the hand grabbing his, Sasuke felt his face get hot as he remembered what he had heard last night.
He started to squirm with discomfort, and Naruto noticed, glancing back briefly with a questioning look. Seeing his hand over Sasuke's he slowed his pace and eventually stopped so that they were both staring at their conjoined hands.
Naruto swallowed hard. "I-I should probably let go." He said, but neither moved.
"Umm.."
"Stupid." Sasuke said, breaking the hold to bump Naruto's shoulder and continue walking while the blonde practically fell over as he scrambled to catch up.
What just happened? Naruto thought he had fixed this. Shoving any and all possibly existing feelings for Sasuke into the back of his mind had seemed like such a fail-proof plan last night. But watching the boy walk in front of him now, soaked by the rain, hair matted to his head from the weight of water, looking like a model for a goddamn add for rain itself! he couldn't help but want to think about it now.
It was Sasuke's turn to glance back, looking somewhat worried, "What?" he said plainly.
"Oh! Nothing" Naruto blurted a little too fast.
Looking at the ground, Sasuke had to focus on his feet to keep from spinning on his heel and running away. It was beginning to get very difficult to ignore that Naruto had accidentally confessed the night before.
Rain attacking them from the sky, and occasional thunder and lightning splitting the sky in two, the pair walked. And walked. And walked… but where the hell was that damned girl?
"Hey, I think we should turn here", Naruto said as they came up to a fork in the canyon. "There are some trees over there that she might have gone to... well, you know."
Silently, Sasuke turned and led the way over to the small rise of land, one of the few spots not completely submerged in water, which was covered in trees and might also provide a place to stay until the end of this stupid project.
"There!" Naruto pointed to a small pink figure up against a tree, they both sprinted to Sakura, because she wasn't moving, and even in fan fiction that's never a good sign.
"Sakura!" Naruto threw himself down next to her frail figure, which seemed so cold and still that it sent a sharp pang of fear through both of them.
Sasuke knelt down and slid pale fingers over her dainty wrist, putting his opposite palm on her forehead.
Sasuke let a sigh of relief escape him as Naruto looked up hopefully, "She's alright. She's just unconscious."
"Maybe this was the cause?" Naruto held up a beastly-looking branch that was gnarled and had so many knots it looked like it could be lethal. Not to mention it was thicker than his arm, and pretty heavy.
"Ah. That would explain things. But she does have a fever."
The two looked down at their friend, relieved that she wasn't seriously hurt. With the adrenaline from panic dieing down, they began to notice that Sakura had broken out into a cold sweat, and her face was sickly pale.
"Shit." Naruto stood up, running his hands nervously through his yellow locks.
"Lets move her up further. How about under those trees over there?" Sasuke pointed to a grouping of large oaks that looked sturdy enough to not crush them in their sleep. It was probably still the middle of the night.
"Ill carry her", said Naruto, and bent down to scoop her up, as if she weighed nothing.
Sasuke chuckled and looked at Naruto, "You know? I actually think I may like Sakura more when she's unconscious. She's really cute when she's dead to the world. Especially since she's not talking."
Naruto looked from Sasuke to Sakura, eyes suddenly serious and slightly worried. A pained expression slid across his face unknowingly and when he looked back to Sasuke, the dark haired boy was staggered from the sight of pain in that face.
"Not that I actually like her or anything!" scrambled Sasuke, realizing what that may have sounded like to Naruto.
The blonde stiffened and looked very intensely at the ground, "Not that I would care if you did."
"Oh. Y-yeah." Why did he have to say that? Things would be fine, and then he kept making them awkward. Sasuke was confused about this, and then the horrible voice that tells you what you never want to know about yourself came into his head and whispered, but if you don't like him, why should you care what he thinks?
Naruto carried Sakura, dripping and feverish, to the spot previously decided on. In her pitiful state, she subconsciously clung to Naruto for warmth, and began to shiver so badly that Naruto feared he would drop her. He hurriedly set her down on a clear patch of earth, one of the few that was near to being completely dry, and took off his hoodie. Looking at Sasuke, the blond brushed back the water that had begun to stream into his eyes.
"Give me your sweatshirt", Naruto demanded. Sasuke did as he was told without hesitation.
The boy weighed the two, after wringing them out, and decided that his was warmer. He put his sweatshirt on her, and wrapped Sasuke's into a makeshift pillow, which he carefully placed under her head.
Stepping back to take a look, Sasuke knelt down in his place.
"Any better?" asked the blonde.
"A bit…. But it's not enough. She's still shivering and her skin feels like ice."
"Well we could sleep near her for warmth?"
"Uhmmm, no. First of all, she would use it against me. Second, she would sue you for sexual harassment."
"Good point. But what else can we do? None of us expected the rain, so unless you want me to strip down to boxers, there's nothing I can do!"
Sasuke looked at Naruto very directly. Naruto blushed and turned slightly, scrapping his foot against the ground, "Don't tell me you seriously plan to ask me to do that!"
Sakura moaned in her sleep, drawing the attention back to her. Her body released another violent shiver, as if something was alive inside of her and wanted to tear its way out.
"She's sweating again, and her fever is worse." Sasuke looked back to Naruto, "I know we've been having some issues lately, but this is for her safety. Now just take your goddamn pants off!"
Before long, both boys were sitting on the ground in nothing but boxers and undershirts that were so wet that they really didn't exist. Naruto sat next to Sakura, who had stopped shivering after they added Sasuke's jacket and the pants to a makeshift sleeping bag. Sasuke, sitting in front of a tree opposite to him, was hugging himself and shivering from the cold.
"You know, if you built up some muscle, or ate enough to keep you fat, you wouldn't be so cold," said Naruto.
The statement was so unexpected, considering the situation, that Sasuke couldn't resist looking up at Naruto, "Well its not like you're fat. And don't try to tell me you have tons of muscle because you were out of breath just from carrying your backpack to lunch and home the other day!"
"What if I told you I have asthma?"
"I wouldn't believe you. You're probably just as cold as I am!"
"…"
"…"
"Sasuke?"
"Yeah?"
"Can I go sit by you?"
Naruto was looking down, his face red from blushing. "J-just to get warmer, that is."
Sasuke sighed and slid over, making room for Naruto in front of his tree. "Sure."
Naruto's face lit up into a smile as he scrambled across the damp earth and plopped onto the seat provided by Sasuke.
Naruto leaned carefully on Sasuke, careful not to do anything too much. The two sat together for a short while in silence before Sasuke sighed and grabbed Naruto by the waist, drawing a yelp from the blonde, and said, "Get closer, or getting warmer isn't going to happen!" They ended up settled with Naruto's arm around Sasuke's shoulders, and Sasuke's arm behind Naruto's back.
He's so warm, thought Sasuke, Jesus! He could sell himself as a heater…With this much heat, it makes me feel so nice…
Naruto looked down with a start to find Sasuke asleep in his lap. He reached down to move him, but the boy on his lap snuggled closer and smiled in his sleep at the warmth. Naruto smirked at Sasuke, and wrapped his arm around his shoulder.
This would be fine. Two men, alone in the woods, wearing little more than their underwear, in the pouring rain, trying to keep warm. Yes, that was a perfectly reasonable explanation for why he was holding a sleeping Sasuke, and both of them were half-naked. Besides, Sasuke hadbeen the one who told him to take his pants off! THIS WAS NOT RAPE!
Naruto gave in and, not for the fist time in his life, ignored the little red flag in his head, and laid down closer to Sasuke, so that he could hold him closer to his chest. To keep us both warm is what he kept telling himself. But it wasn't what it really meant to him. The growing bulge in his shorts confirmed that.
As the rain slowed to a drizzle, and the storm grew quiet, Naruto and Sasuke slept together for the first time, both sopping wet, and nearly naked, and perfectly content to stay that way.
Early in the morning, Sasuke felt his mind slipping from dream state and more into consciousness. He noticed how warm he felt and remembered falling asleep on Naruto the night before, which caused him to stiffen and his eyes to fly open.
His companion moaned in protest and drew Sasuke in closer, so that the lines of their bodies were pressed together. This was slightly different from where he remembered last.
Letting out a calming breath, the black haired boy composed himself and turned slowly so that he could face Naruto, trying not to wake him. He had quite a difficult time doing this, though, because to his surprise, Naruto had quite a strong grip.
He looked up the boy's arms and noticed his natural tan. Not anything dark, but a light hinting towards the kind of skin that goes instantly tan if you put it in the sun. And underneath that skin, there were, to his surprise, plenty of muscles. Maybe Naruto actually did have asthma? Who knew, but looking up the swell of his arm and the curve of his jaw, Sasuke lost himself in the peaceful expression on his blonde's face as he slept.
His? It sounded so right. Sasuke pushed to raise himself up and, having no trouble moving this time, brought his face closer to the other boy's. He lingered in the closeness, feeling the boy's sweet breath on his face, before going that last distance and pressing his lips to Naruto's.
Naruto could smell it coming before he could feel it. As sleep began to drift away, he became more aware of the smell of rain coming from Sasuke's hair, and the fact that the boy in his arms was awake and moving. As he felt lips against his, he opened his eyes and found Sasuke's face in front of his. With a simple grin, he startled Sasuke into pulling back and franticly trying to say something, but he wasn't finished.
"Shut up", said Naruto. Sasuke closed his mouth and felt his eyes grow wide as Naruto grabbed his arm and pulled him closer. The blonde smiled mischievously, and let it grow wider when Sasuke blushed.
"I think I get it now," said the blonde.
"What?" Sasuke asked, not sure where this was going.
"Why this whole trip has had us both acting so strangely. I love you."
With this, Naruto wasted no time in pushing Sasuke to the ground, so that he was straddling him. Looking into those blue eyes, which were growing darker with something he had caused himself, Sasuke felt the last bit of worry slide away as he put his arm around Naruto's neck and whispered, "I know", and drew them both into another, more active kiss.