A/N: So, it's been a while, this I know. Once again, my muses abandoned me for other SasuNaru writers. If you are the one they abandoned me for, please send them back. Oh, and send cookies! Yeah...everyone loves cookies.
One-Shot #61
The Color Orange
Team 7 was recently granted a vacation, two-weeks mission free and Konoha free. To any other team, it would have been heaven, but to Sasuke it was like they just sentenced him to a lifetime of having screws drilled in his temple. Sadly, even with the beautiful beach and weather and mission-free fun in the sun, Sasuke only had one thought running through his head.
Whoever showed Naruto the color orange needed to be castrated.
Only ever seeing Naruto's bright orange jumpsuit, Sasuke just assumed that he owned something other than that horrid color. Only one day into the vacation and Sasuke thought he'd assumed wrong. Save for a black t-shirt and a green pair of boxers (which he was desperately trying to forget he saw, because at the time Sasuke wasn't actually supposed to be looking), everything else he saw was orange. Orange beach towel, orange sleeping bag, orange duffel bag, and even an orange pair of swimming trunks; Sasuke was convinced there was no other color in that damn bag of Naruto's.
Kakashi, through a fit of not acting like himself, offered to pay for the team to spend one of their nights in a night club. Why, no one knew, but they all jumped on the idea of it. Everyone, of course, except Sasuke who merely stared at Kakashi as if he'd grown a third head.
"Why would we want to go to a night club?" Sasuke asked, arching an eyebrow.
"Speak for yourself!" Naruto said, shocked Sasuke didn't want to go. "I can't wait to do something normal, civilian."
"Yeah, Sasuke." Sakura said, smiling. She'd stopped caring about what he thought about here around the same time she figured out he was gay. Although not sure if he knew yet, she'd seen it, proof of it, several times. "Me and Naruto want to go, you could at least go just so we could have some fun."
Looking from her face to Naruto's, he sighed. They both looked as if they were going to pout for the next year if he said no. "Fine."
"Naruto," Kakashi interrupted, his eye crinkling in a smile at Sasuke's compromise. "This place has a dress code. No jumpsuit." Immediately Sasuke groaned. Here came the orange blazer, he just knew it.
Sasuke and Naruto were sharing a room during their vacation. While Sasuke was getting dressed and ready for their night out, Naruto was in the shower. Sasuke, having already finished getting ready, went to wait for the rest of the team out front. He was leaning over the railing, staring out at the beach, when Kakashi leaned over the railing beside him. Sasuke realized, then, that Kakashi could entirely change his looks with a simple change of clothes. It was just an un-tucked, button-down shirt and a pair of dark slacks, but it worked. And the mask, of course. When Sakura came out, Sasuke actually did a double-take. Even if he wasn't interested in girls, he had to admit Sakura looked beautiful. A simple black dress brought out her bright green eyes. And, surrounded by three men, Sakura decided to forego anything too low cut, better to not have three big-brother types yelling at her to cover up.
The biggest shock of the night was when Sasuke felt a presence, glanced over toward the door, and had his jaw hit the floor. There stood Naruto, dressed similar to the way he himself was, and nothing was orange. In fact, he was wearing a dark blue that immediately brought out his already bright blue eyes. Somehow, Sasuke thought maybe Sakura was behind it, Naruto's hair was calmer, less spiky, and lying down a little. His Hokage's necklace was sticking out of his shirt where it wasn't buttoned the whole way up. All in all, Naruto looked amazing.
Kakashi, noticing Sasuke's expression, even if he wasn't trying to make one, grabbed Sakura's hand and pulled her toward the street. He mumbled something, but neither teenage boy heard him. They were too busy staring at each other. Naruto picked then to take notice at how good Sasuke looked in a blood red shirt.
"You, um…you look…" Naruto mumbled, trying to make his words coherent. He took a deep breath and tried to speak again, but Sasuke pushed him back against the wall of the hotel. Again, Naruto tried to make a word form, but Sasuke silenced him by pressing his lips to Naruto's.
Both teens let themselves get immersed in the kiss, panting and moaning and letting their hands roam each other. Sasuke let his fingers slip underneath the dark blue shirt Naruto was wearing, his fingertips trailing along the smooth fabric of his pants, when he felt something cotton. Breaking the kiss, Sasuke looked down to see what was cotton, only to find the tip of bright orange boxers peeking out over Naruto's dark pants.
"Orange." Sasuke said, his tone nearly a growl.
Naruto arched an eyebrow. "So?"
"I guess I should have figured." He leaned forward and ran his tongue down Naruto's neck. "You never go anywhere without something orange."
"I like orange." Naruto breathed out, biting back a moan. "I like you, too, and you're not orange."
Sasuke chuckled. Just then he could hear Sakura yelling at them to hurry up and Sasuke pushed himself off of Naruto.
"I guess we should go. She might come back and drag us there."
"Yeah." Naruto smiled. As they started to walk off, he turned to Sasuke. "Why did you kiss me?"
"Because I like you."
"When I don't wear orange?" Naruto asked.
Sasuke smiled, a rare sight, and wrapped his arm around Naruto. "Nah, in any color." Naruto smiled brightly for a moment before Sasuke added, "But I don't think I can work with tie-dye."
Naruto frowned and narrowed his eyes, but Sasuke just chuckled. He slipped his fingertips under the back of Naruto's shirt and felt the familiar cotton fabric of his boxers and smiled inwardly.
Maybe the color orange wasn't so bad after all.
Orange isn't so bad, right? It's my favorite color. I mean, I don't wear it constantly, but I've been known to ask for something in orange instead of blue or pink or some other normal color. Orange makes me smile...and so does Naruto...so it fits that they go together, right?
Oh, btw, chappie 3 of Inevitable is coming. I'm having the worst time in hell writing this chapter, but that's due to those damn fickle muses who leave me for the other writers. Cheating bastards...
