Sasukec: Hey my readers! I know, it's been some time since I've updated and Sasuke and Naruto have been quite lonely and abandoned because of my new story I've been working on, Void. Well, if you've read my previous update (yes, there was one!) then you know why I've decided to pick up Do Ut Des again.

For those of you who don't know, well it seems that I'm in kind of a lull in Void so why not pick up Do Ut Des again? I'm getting pretty close to finishing, so might as well! Hope everyone's doing good and without further ado, here's chappy 15! Things are getting GOOD x3

"Sasuke? Are you still awake?"

A said blonde's loud whisper only made the Uchiha inhale deeply and turn onto his other side, continuing his slumber and answering Naruto's question. Naruto rolled his eyes slightly at the Uchiha as he continued to sleep. Bad thoughts then fluttered to Naruto's mind. The kind of bad thoughts that involved make-up, hair gel, various food condiments... And a resulting black eye. As Naruto realized that those thoughts would reward him with just that, he quickly abandoned the diabolical plans and he decidedly settled for looking around the suite for things to possibly do.

Damn... There really is nothing to do now. That concert isn't until later, so what does Ms. Anko want us to do? Wait around like good little children?

The blonde sighed, boredom leaking from his exhale of air. What was Naruto supposed to do? Sasuke had so kindly fallen asleep so there went most of Naruto's entertainment. The TV stations here were in all Italian, so the blonde saw little point in trying to decipher Italian into English. What was he left with? Naruto continued to scan the room, still trying to find something of little entertainment until it was time for the concert. His eyes landed on the giant curtained window as he realized it'd been a while since he'd journaled. Pleased he had found something to do, he walked over to the window and pulled the curtains back to reveal his journal notebook.

Right where I left you.

As he sat on the window seat, he opened his journal and flipped it past his two entries and stopped. There was a third entry and it was definately not of his own writing... But of Sasuke's. Naruto swiftly looked back over to Sasuke, who was still sound asleep. Naruto furrowed his eyebrows together in thought and suspicion.

Why were you looking at my journal? And why did you write in it?

Naruto then turned his attention back to his journal and Sasuke's entry. It was at least a paragraph. Naruto read it to himself, growing more confused as he did so.

This idiot isn't what you'd expect him to be. It's like he knows what to do just to piss me off. Then right after that he can make me feel like the greatest person on this Godforsaken world. Sometimes I feel like just telling him-

The blonde raised an eyebrow and curiousity got the best of him. He turned the page and realized that another entry had been written and in Sasuke's handwriting again. Only this time, it was a couple sentences.

If I didn't want to go on this trip, I could've just turned around before I got onto that plane. I'm fooling myself.

The blonde barely made out the two sentences. Sasuke had obviously tried to mark out his writing with crosses. The Uchiha probably didn't realize that Naruto kept his big eraser nearby. Which, Naruto thought, he should use to erase Sasuke's random writing.

This is a SCHOOL journal Sasuke... Not your personal Dr. Phil.

But the blonde couldn't bring himself to grab the eraser. He felt as if Sasuke had let a piece of himself out and left it for the blonde to decipher. It obviously wasn't a shopping or to do list. What the blonde really wondered was if the Uchiha was talking about Naruto.

If not me, then who else?

It continued to puzzle the blonde. It puzzled him why Sasuke would even write these kinds of things down. In any kind of journal. It couldn't even really compute with Naruto. One thing was for sure; no more leaving his journal just lying around. Even though he wanted to continue to ponder what these notes were about, he decided to skip them for now. The blonde grabbed both of the pages and gently ripped them out, folding them together for later reading. After he stuck the folded papers in his pocket, he grabbed his nearby pen and began writing all that had happened. Well, all being defined as the parts that didn't involve Sasuke.

Sasuke woke with a start. It scared Naruto more than he gave himself credit for and much more than what Sasuke had from his apparent dream. The bed-head Sasuke looked around the room before finally landing his eyes on the said blonde. Naruto was looking right back at him, iTouch frozen in his hands.

"Awe, poor wittle Sasuke had a bad dream? Don't worry Sasuke, I checked under the bed for the Boogie Man. He said he doesn't visit things scarier than himself."

The blonde received a satin pillow in his face. He removed the pillow, laughing lightly as he did so.

"Shut up, Naruto."

As the blonde went back to whatever game he was playing on his iTouch, he replied distantly, "About time you woke up, anyway. I wanted to share all this boredom with you!"

Sasuke snorted as he swung his legs off the side of the giant bed and yawned.

"Hoofrickinray..." Sasuke's words blended with a wide yawn.

"Well," Naruto continued, eyes still bored into the touchscreen device. "We've still got a good three hours before we have to leave for the concert. Any bright ideas for what we can do?"

The Uchiha began to slightly fix his hair before he replied.

"I don't know, why are you asking me?"

Turning his attention away from his iTouch and onto Sasuke, Naruto shrugged.

"Just asking for input. It's not like I know either."

The blonde put his iTouch in his pocket then stood up to stretch.

"I think I might go out for a walk. Do you want to come too?"

Sasuke's invitation surprised the blonde. Then again, they were on good terms now. The kind if good terms where past did not apply now or ever. It still surprised Naruto and he felt like it always would. Although strange, he could admit to himself that he liked it.

"Um... I guess. Sure."

"We should probably let Ms. Anko know we're even going out." Sasuke said as he looked through his bag. Moments later, the Uchiha pulled out a black, light jacket then slid it on himself. Naruto nodded, then went to retrieve his own jacket: an orange and black jacket, the same make of Sasuke's. After taking a look at Naruto's jacket, Sasuke barely stiffled a chuckle.

"That thing is hideous, Uzumaki."

Naruto glared at his roommate as he slid his right, then left arm into the light jacket.

"I apologize, Sasuke. My clothes don't always scream, 'Hello, I'm disguising a trapped, tortured soul underneath all this black'. It's actually healthy to wear light colors sometimes and I happen to like orange, thank you very much."

"Sure," The Uchiha snorted. "Dont come crying to me then when a bunch of kids start laughing and throwing rocks at you."

The blonde laughed as he led them out of the suite.

"I'll consider myself warned."

"Fine. Just make sure you're back an hour before the concert. And please don't do something that will have me needing to bail you boys out of an Italian jail."

Ms. Anko teased the last part with a small smile. Both Naruto and Sasuke replied, "Yes, mam."

After exiting the hotel's main doors, Naruto was happy he'd grabbed his jacket. It was definately light jacket weather. With the sun on the horizon and continually falling, it would only get colder now. Both boys stuck to the tile like sidewalks, Sasuke with his hands in his jacket pockets and Naruto with his hands twined together, resting on the back of his head. The air around them was chilly; any colder and it might be possible to see their own breath. There was as much traffic, if not more, as there was back home. Naruto had still imagined Rome to be the kind of place that wasn't as urbanized. But, actually seeing Rome changed his view on that and made him wonder if other old cities were the same way. He assumed as much. It was the 21st century anyway. Things change and history books rarely do.

Now that they were taking their walk, the blonde wondered just where to. A walk was just a walk, but they usually had a sense of just where that destination might be toward.

"So, any idea where we're going, Sasuke?"

Naruto looked over to the Uchiha who continued to look ahead. After a moment of what Naruto assumed was thought, the Uchiha settled for a shrug. Naruto then thought of a possibility.

"What about that giant colliseum behind our hotel? Feel like going to check it out?"

Sasuke shook his head.

"Nah, we've already been to see it. What's the point?"

"I don't know. I'm just throwing out ideas since you won't."

"It's just a walk, Naruto. It doesn't have to have a destination."

"But...," Naruto whined as he removed his hands from his head and let
them dangle before him. "That's so boring! We've got freedom to go
anywhere in Rome! Can't you feel the power?"

Naruto raised his arms into the air as if he were a dictator, emphasizing his point about "power".

"It's thriving."

Sasuke's monotonous voice was almost an insult to the blonde.

"Okay, Mr. Sarcasm, we'll just walk around boringly..."

And so they did. The two teens walked together along the same path, neither wanting to start up the conversation. Naruto didn't see any point to whine about it anymore seeing as Sasuke would just ignore him and Sasuke just wanted to walk. However, given enough time, the blonde would lose it. The sun had just vanished behind the horizon and the street lamps had just flickered on when Naruto sighed heavily.

"Could we at least do something?"

"Like what?" Sasuke challeneged.

"Something like..."

The blonde looked around. There were a good amount of people out and most were sitting nearby at...

"That cafe!"

Naruto pointed at the French styled cafe which was lined with various outdoor tables and seats made of metal. In the middle of the intertwined metal tables sat a long pole that had a red material wrapped around it. The blonde guessed that it was an umbrella folded down. The cafe itself held many wide, glass windows and on some windows it said, 'Le petite dejuner, du soir'. Sasuke raised an eyebrow at the cafe.

"That cafe?"

"No, the one down the street. Of course this cafe! I love French food! Plus, I'm starved."

The Uchiha shrugged.

"Fine. You're buying, then."
Luckily for everyone on the trip, they each got 200 dollars worth of money in Italian currency. It was enough to keep everyone content, even through the lesson in amounts in Italy. Naruto sighed then reluctantly replied, "Just don't get something overly expensive. Let's hope they speak English, too."

Both teens headed in the direction of a certain empty table outside and sat. Moments after they sat, a young, Italian girl came up to the teens. She looked to be about the same age as Sasuke, with dark, long, and fine hair and deep blue eyes. It was as if she was a fair mix
between Naruto and Sasuke's features, oddly enough. She was slim, small hipped, and short with an angular face and pale skin. She smiled at Naruto and Sasuke and sat two menus in front of the boys and spoke with a soft, high Italian accent, "Hello and welcome to 'Le petite dejuner, du soir'. My name is Cartina. I will be your server this night."

Her English was near perfect and it surprised even Sasuke. The blonde smiled back at her and decided he'd start up a conversation since she obviously knew a good amount of English.

"Cartina? What a beautiful name."

The raven-haired girl flushed as she giggled and replied, "Why, thank
you senior..."

"Naruto. How'd you get so good at English?"

The blonde continued to charm her in his own ways while Sasuke just crossed his arms, back slumped into the metal chair, and eyes rolling.

Is he flirting with her? She's just a fucking waitress. He doesn't even know her.

She smiled again, showing her teeth which were a perfect, straight white.

"I took some classes and they seemed to work well for me. I actually-"

"Cartina!"

After her name was yelled a few more times and, from what the blonde could tell, Italian cursing, she excused herself.

"I am sorry, I will be back in one moment."

Naruto opened his mouth to say something, but she was already walking off, her tablet held close to her chest, thin hair flying behind her. The Uchiha sighed and opened his menu, trying to ignore the blonde.

"She wasn't half bad looking, Sasuke. She-"

Sasuke looked up at the blonde under his lashes, glaringly.

"Why do you care? You don't have a chance with her. She's just some Italian waitress."

The blonde soon had a smirk tugging at his lips.

"Oooh! Am I sensing jealousy?"

"No!" Sasuke replied quickly and defensively, confirming Naruto's statement. Naruto couldn't help but laugh at Sasuke before opening his own menu. It was only moments more before Naruto spoke up again.

"...What did YOU think about her?"

The question slightly caught Sasuke off guard. He'd thought the subject over Cartina was over. Obviously, she was still on his mind.

"She's just a waitress."

The Uchiha tried to keep his eyes on the menu, also trying his best to refrain from picking the most expensive thing on the menu.

"Oh, fine. Don't know why you're all moody about it."

French styled music silence filled the air between them as they each tried to decide their meals. It wasn't long until Cartina returned, hair up in a high ponytail. Her smile returned as she saw Naruto.

"Bonjourno, senior Naruto. Who is this, your friend?"

"Yeah, I usually call him sour puss, but I'm sure he'd like Sasuke a lot better."

MUCH better...

Cartina then turned to Sasuke and smiled her sweet smile at him like she had Naruto. The Uchiha somehow felt like he should smile back, but he knew it wasn't going to happen. He just nodded at her in acknowledgment.

"What is it I can get for you, seniors?"

"I'll take this pasta thing!"

Naruto pointed to it in the menu, obviously indicating he had no idea how to pronounce it. Cartina wrote down his order on her tablet then looked to Sasuke who said nothing and only pointed to his order. Cartina nodded, still smiling, and wrote that down also. After writting down their orders, she then asked, "Drinks?"

Naruto ordered a Coke while Sasuke settled for some water. She then told them she'd be back with their drinks. After she got them their drinks, Sasuke just stirred his ice cubes around with his black straw. The blonde noticed Sasuke's mood.

"Okay... What's up, Sasuke? Your mood is depressing, honestly."

"How much longer until we have to go back?" Sasuke said, entirely disregarding Naruto's inquiry.

"Now you're avoiding."

"No I'm not," The Uchiha acted surprised. "I was just asking a simple question."

"So did I. Answering my question with another question isn't an answer."

The Uchiha chuckled lightly.

"You contradict yourself, Uzumaki."

"Would you stop calling me that?"

"It's your name, isn't it?"

The blonde rolled his eyes. "Yeah, but I prefer NARUTO, sour puss."

"No, I think you prefer Cartina."

Frustrated with Sasuke's jealousy, Naruto sighed heavily, raising one eyebrow as he did so. A thought floated around in the blonde's head. A thought that would probably get him a black eye. If he was lucky, he'd be able to get out with at least a bruise. However, Naruto was crazy enough to do it and wanted to see Sasuke's reaction. He needed a good laugh. So he stood up... Walked to the side of an already confused Sasuke... And planted his lips to the Uchiha's.

Sasuke's eyes flew wide open as he inahled quickly through his nose. The blonde closed his eyes and waited to see Sasuke's reaction. However, Naruto didn't expect this. Sasuke... Kissed back? It didn't seem to even perturbed the Uchiha. In fact, it was Sasuke that deepened the kiss, slipping his tongue into the blonde's mouth. This joke was on Naruto. He got a reaction, but it certainly wasn't Sasuke's reaction. The boys pulled apart, slowly, both were staring each other in the eyes. The blonde could tell those around them were staring too, also stunned by what just happened.

As if reality hit, Sasuke's eyebrows pulled down in sudden fury as he reared his right fist back and threw the right hook onto Naruto's
face. The blonde stumbled back a bit, but caught himself on a nearby empty chair. The blonde could feel the sting of Sasuke's punch on his cheek as he chuckled. The blonde made his way back to his seat, sitting back down as if nothing had happened. He tried to play it off, but he could hear the unsteady quake in his own laugh.

"I think that may have actually hurt, Sasuke."

Naruto could see the Uchiha's fists balled up and his knuckles turning white. So white, the blonde thought his knuckle bones had burst through his skin. Oh no... Sasuke was pissed.

"I'm leaving."

Sasuke abruptly stood and began walking back toward the direction of the hotel. Naruto sighed and noticed Cartina was coming back with their food. She must have seen what happened because she was frozen with two plates in her hands.

Naruto looked over to Sasuke who was still storming off - Naruto was sure that black cloud was forming over his head - then back to Cartina. He figured there was no use in letting the brunette walk back alone. The blonde reached in his pocket, pulled out some money, and set it on the metal table. Before he got up and caught up with Sasuke, he shot an apologetic smile at Cartina who was still frozen and confused.

Naruto had to jog to catch up to the Uchiha. Once he was at Sasuke's side, he said, "Come on, Sasuke. It was just a j-" Sasuke stopped walking abrutly.

"EVERYTHING is a joke to you! Cartina, this trip, me..."

Naruto rolled his eyes.

"What happened to our good terms agreement?"

"Well, it went out the window when you decided to kiss me for no
reason!"

"I told you..." Naruto argued. " That it was a fucking joke!"

"In public?"

The blonde drew each word out.

"That was part of the joke..."

"Well I'm failing to see the humor on this."

"Obviously! You started to kiss back!"

A blush began to crawl onto the Uchiha's usually pale face.

"We're not talking about this. At least not now. We have to get back
to the hotel."

Without giving Naruto a chance to reply, he shoved his hands into his pockets and continued on his previous path. The blonde watched him for moment before tagging along with him at his
side.

"I'm still starving..."

"For the love of God, shut up."

Sasukec: Things are heating up, eh? ;D

Feels good to be updating again! I hope you guys are still with me! ;-;
Well, keep on the lookout for chap 16! I'm working on it! :D
Reviews are all so welcome! 8D