One time I thought I saw a blonde man exactly like me, covered in paint. He said that I would find someone special. He explained he grew up searching for his special person after he was adopted. He wished me luck.

When you sleep, you are in a way, dead. You are vulnerable to attackers and death. Nothing can protect you.

A person could steal a kiss from you as you sleep without you ever knowing. You'll never know if a person stole a kiss from you.

But I would know. Because to 'sleep' means I can still hear and feel.

I felt a quivering breath, tickle the thin layer on my skin.

A soft hand carcasses the side of my cheek, tracing my jawline with his rough fingers, the coldness from his fingers made me think of a sharpened knife tracing my skin instead.

Soon I felt a passionate, soft, warmth that pressed themselves softly to my lips, the soft lips seemed shy and adventurous.

Soon, things escalated into a more desperate need, his pacing of delirious need increased, his hand gripped the sheets in pleasure.

His mouth parted only slightly.

I knew very well it was Sasuke.

The scent was the same, it smelled lightly of earth and a spray of spiced apples.

A bold tongue ventured into my mouth, but only into shallow areas of my front teeth.

His body heat shot high levels into heat. I began tracing endorphin levels were beginning to appear.

Never once did we part away.

Often times this would lead to sex. I decided that before things got too far I would stop him by pushing away his body that he forced on to me.

But before I could, he pulled away. Human limits of air was his reason to pull away.

With his heavy breaths, were shallow and desperate, as if to catch his breath as soon as possible.

I opened my eyes and sat up, I still felt the damp saliva coating my lips from him.

When my own eyes had met his surprised ones, it seemed as if time slowed, which would be impossible since time in fact, did not stop since the earth was in constant movement.

Was my internal clock damaged?

"Why did you kiss me?" I asked intelligently, I was utterly baffled to why he would kiss me.

Kissing was a sign of affection, on the lips meant intimacy. For some odd reason, my system was heating up rapidly.

His eyes widened and he looked away, storming out the room. I noticed the flash of red that adorned his cheeks like blood on snow.

Blushing, he was embarrassed? But wasn't he the one that kissed me?

I stood up to my feet, I staggered for a moment since my system wasn't prepared to move suddenly.

To my advantage, my body was not made to have limits. So swiftly, I managed to grab his arm. At the same time his hand was gripping the knob of the door.

"Why did you kiss me?" The repeated question arose once more, I felt my system heat up when his eyes averted from mine, he was silent, I felt...impatience?

Sasuke blushed harder. He was wondering himself, why did he kiss Naruto? It couldn't have been because he was attracted to the blonde robot; well Naruto did have unruly, flaxen, hair that seems to glow a good color in the light, his eyes were bright and colorful with different moods of blue, and when his soft lips would curl into a smile, it made me–Oh God he had a crush on Naruto.

Sasuke turned his head to Naruto, his eyes were cold once more.

"It was nothing."

Naruto knew immediately it was a lie, but he didn't press the matter, Naruto was taught it was not good to pry upon personal matters such as the current situation; so he nodded.

Silence were the words that were exchanged, and silence was the mood when Naruto and Sasuke had exited the house.

Kakashi have Naruto a knowing look, as if he was observing a unique plant among the garden.

Kakashi only waved goodbye to them; Naruto would nod and meet Kakashi's eyes to let him know that he understood his gesture, while for Sasuke, he simply sneered at Kakashi and turned to walk away in a hostile manner.

As we walked down the still silent streets, Sasuke seemed troubled with how his normally straight back was slacked, and his usual callous expression was now bemused in thoughts. He wasn't paying attention to anything with how unfocused his pupils were.

I pondered if it was a good decision to say something to him, I just didn't like how uncomfortable the situation was.

It seemed today I was deciding a lot of my 'feelings'.

Though it was a good question if I was truly influenced by emotions, then again, at the moment there was no malfunctions in my systems.

Quiet patter of footsteps were the only difference between sound and silence. Eventually we reached the school grounds again, however Sasuke not once gave a glance towards me or spoke a single word; Sasuke ignored me and treated me as if I was not in his presence.

He knew I was there, but he only walked away.

Within my decisions and options that were available, I chose to return to class rather than pursue him since it would not be an intelligent decision, he seemed to be experiencing an internal battle.

School was more important with the wider arrange of unique students that was available to me anyway. I wouldn't have learned anything from Sasuke with the baren amount of emotions he showed.

Sasuke would provide insignificant information to the other students. The decision was obvious. I let him walk away as I too, turned my back on him.

Then we walked our separate paths.

Not only did they distance themselves away physically that day, they no longer acknowledged each other.

Oddly enough I felt like this wasnèt the first time we separated.

Almost like we've done this before. Separating ways.

Students and teachers noticed the odd behavior whenever Naruto and Sasuke were near each other.

Sasuke would insult Naruto and would walk out the room during lunch if Naruto was in the class.

While for Naruto, he occasionally would stare out the window, which was extremely off because Naruto was the perfect student.

Smart, which appealed to the teachers.

Neutral, fair, and tolerant, which made students favor him, it also helped that Naruto was the best athletic student, but was always humble.

Curious students often approached Sasuke and Naruto what was wrong between the two because when they asked Sasuke what happened, he would insult the asking student and tell them there was nothing wrong to begin with, this was a quaint reaction, because a normal Sasuke would have ignored the person that was asking, so despite his denial, it was clear something was wrong.

With Naruto, he would stare at you as if he was a frozen robot having trouble processing the information (funny enough, the students never realized the irony in that simile to compare his blank reaction.)

Naruto would stare at you with a plain expression and say there was nothing wrong, but to a human, it was pretty obvious something was off.

But like how life was, time continued it's daily duties to make the days pass by. By a blink of an eye it was already a month, deciding the strained distance between them, Naruto decided to confront Sasuke by approaching him at lunch.

A normal human would have had difficulty searching for Sasuke during lunch, the reason was because Sasuke preferred slipping away and disappear like air to avoid people.

But thanks to the benefits of being a android, it wasn't much of a chore to locate Sasuke's whereabouts.

Somehow initiating a conversation with Sasuke would be an issue.

Naruto was able to identify that Sasuke's pride would be an issue, humans he had observed were proud rather than humble.

So he decided to take a roundabout route to fix their bone, whatever it was. Approach Sasuke for help.

When the bell chimed for the start of lunch, Naruto found Sasuke on the back of the school. Like typical melodramatic tv shows and books, the wind blew on Sasuke's hair wistfully, his face seemed troubled in thoughts–or possibly confused?

In any case, Naruto was not hesitant to ignore the warning glare Sasuke gave when their eyes met. Naruto stared unamused.

"You're avoiding me. Why?" The wind abruptly stopped.

Sasuke didn't move for the next few seconds, a silent duel to make him submit was initiated. Sasuke's eyes were filled with unreasonable contempt, and Naruto's eyes were surprisingly not empty, they held curiosity.

Sasuke didn't understand why Naruto sought out for him since hey never established a bond, it would have made sense if Naruto had approached him to question about the kiss–but from the look in his eyes, it wasn't just that.

Naruto had a request for Sasuke Uchiha.

Something only he could do.

Sasuke held his words back to see how things play, then he would decide the next action. That's what he did, wait and then take action.

Ignoring the silence, Naruto continued "I want you to help me, I don't have anyone at school that can explain human behavior to me. You're the only one with the knowledge of what I really am. Can you help me understand humans?"

Both were silent for the next seconds, the glass eyes met human ones. Sasuke only answered one of his questions with another question, his eyebrows angled closer to his eyes to form his chilling glare that would send ripples of goosebumps on a person's skin, but Naruto wasn't affected since he wasn't just any 'person'.

"Why is it so important to you? You're a android, you can't be human. For something like you, it's impossible." Sasuke made sure to emphasize the word 'something' instead of saying 'someone'.

Although he felt no malicious feelings towards Naruto, he wanted to set a line between them, because deep down he couldn't forgive the android for making him feel affection towards him.

Naruto wasn't human, he was a piece of machinery; Sasuke observed the curious android, he knew that he shouldn't be falling for Naruto so fast, the flawless android was charming from all aspects, how he smiled, his eyes, and his voice.

Sasuke resisted the urge to close the gap between both of them, it wasn't right, Naruto wasn't human.

He wasn't suppose to feel an odd urge to feel Naruto's skin, and it wasn't meant to last, because no one else knew better than Sasuke that humans are unreliable.

But maybe he had enough to be alone.

Maybe, his pride wouldn't allow him to admit the truth, it seemed weak to fear isolation, so he stood his ground.

Naruto was silent, his eyes narrowed and stared at the ground, his head dropping just a bit. It seemed that he was upset by Sasuke's comment.

But surely it was fake.

"I want to be a human. I was programmed to be curious of humans, but I was given a certain freedom most machines do now have. I have free will. I know that to be human, I have much to understand, but if I am correct, I am beginning to 'feel'. I am able to say I have my own wish. I want to feel happy, bitter, angry, and sad. And right now..."

Naruto lifted his hand to his chest, slightly to the left, where the human heart was to hide behind fleshy skin, and not a metallic crust.

He closed his eyes.

"I feel whole. Always I was alone, never knowing the true appreciation of human company. I can say I have friends, and I want to stay by their side. So that's why I want to be more human." Admitted Naruto.

Highlighted blue eyes stared at Sasuke's dark eyes that were framed by even darker bangs.

Sasuke leaned against the school wall and wet his bottom lip thoughtfully.

"...Hn." The dark eyes looked to the side to observe the trees, as if he was bored and uninterested.

Why should Sasuke help Naruto if he doesn't get anything out of it.

Naruto didn't allow Sasuke's monosyllabic sentence to be the end of their conversation.

"A compromise then?" He suggested, instantly catching the interested gleam in Sasuke's eyes when he looked up to Naruto again.

With a slow nod Sasuke agreed.

"Then what do you propose Sasuke?" Asked Naruto, for an odd reason, Naruto felt dread in his question, already regretting to agree a compromise with Sasuke. With past knowledge, Sasuke was unpredictable.

"I'll help you understand humans, if you kiss once a day until the end of the year."

Sometimes I dream. I dream of a broken man of the moon who looked for his Sun. His fragile dream that had been lost.