A TorturedTourniquet Beta
Hey guys. Uh not really in the mood to talk today so... here you go.
ONWARD!

Disclaimer: I had a dream the other night where Naruto and Sasuke were...well, you know. But even I know I only own Naruto and co. in my dreams.
Warning: Yaoi. Very soon Lemons, so soon that you're pissing yourselves waiting.



And he was welcomed back with warmth. Could his angel bare it now?

Sasuke stood before the Hokage's table. Although, unlike before, Naruto was sitting there, rather than the Elders, next to Tsunade. She handed the kitsune some papers. He took and read them to himself. He then nodded to Tsunade and stood.

The porcelain fox mask covered the goofy grin on his face. "Uchiha Sasuke, the verdict on your trial is in," Naruto spoke. "The shinobi have come to a conclusive decision that you may live in Konohagakure."

Sasuke let out a sigh of relief. He smiled softly.

"There are some conditions though," Naruto added. The raven gave a sneer. "You will still be watched by ANBU, which gradually, on your behavior, will decrease. Secondly, you won't be able to leave the Leaf Village for the time span of a year. Lastly," he took a small pause, "by orders of the reigning Hokage, Tsunade-sama, and her pupil, all generations of shinobi are to know of your treachery.

"And so," Naruto continued. "You will wear your scarred forehead protecter."

Sasuke nodded. An ANBU black op removed the hand cuffs, which were put back on in the court room. He could live with that.

Tsunade stood. "Court dissmissed."

Most shinobi left after a bow, but Sakura ran up to the raven and wrapped her arms around his shoulders. He was taller, so she stood on the tips on her sandaled feet. Naruto joined them and grinned, hands on his hips.

"Welcome back for real this time, teme!" he cheered.

"It's like we're back in team 7 again," Sakura mused.

Sasuke watched as the others grew silent. He broke the silence. "No, something's missing."

Suddenly, something came in through the main court doors. "Yo!"

It was Kakashi, an embarrassed Iruka behind him. The three sweat dropped. Speak of the devil himself.

"Sorry we're late," Kakashi grinned beneath his mask. "I was on my way here, when I saw Iruka . He was feeling ill so I decided to escort him with me. But on the way we met an old lady who had a cat stuck in a sakura tree-"

Before he could finish, Iruka had hit him over the head. "You and your stories."

"So what'd we miss?" the jonin asked.

"Naruto!" Iruka cried. "Thank God," he said hugging the blonde.

Sasuke's eye twitched as Sakura rubbed her temples. Naruto was glaring at the redness of Iruka's cheeks. "You better not have done anything to my father!"



They all went out for a late lunch at the usual place before Sakura needed to head back to the medical center.

About 4 ANBU hid themselves well around the shop. Naruto and the rest could see them all though, so it wasn't much of a shock. Being skilled shinobi had it's perks of having perfect senses.

Once Naruto stepped under the cloth door he cheered. "Yosh ramen!" Over the years Ichiraku expanded, adding booths but, somehow never managed to obtain a rice paper door. Most of it was obtainable by Naruto's mission money anyway.

"That's it Naruto," Lee cheered along with the other. "Be youthful in the name of ramen." Naruto laughed and wrapped an arm around the bushy browed man, giving a light pat on his chest. From behind Sasuke watched with jealousy. "Oh Naruto it's so good to have your enthusiasm back again."

"Don't get so sappy Lee!" Naruto grinned. He let go of Lee and came up behind Sakura lifting her up by the waist. As she squeaked and pleaded to put her down, he carried her over to her boyfriend. "When are you going to marry my sister and be my brother-in-law."

He was all smiles. It was like sparkles were flying around him. Naruto nuzzled into Sakura, giving her a strong hug.

"I'm taken Naru-kun, go away," Sakura laughed. Even so, she pressed back.

Sasuke watched it in slow motion, wishing he was in those tan arms instead of the medical nin.

"Kami, I'm starving!" Naruto complained. He let go of the pink haired girl.

Everyone moved into their usual spot in the semi-circle booth. Shikamaru, Kiba, Hinata, Shino, Ino, Chouji, Neji, Ten-ten, Lee, and Sakura. Naruto looked at the already crowded booth and frowned.

Then an idea hit him.

Naruto sprinted the few steps to the bar and took 2 high stools with him. He placed them infront of the empty edge of the table. They were too tall. So Naruto crouched down and took a kunai from his pouch. With 4 qucik slices to each chair, they stood shorter. He stood back up truimpantly, a huge grin on his face.

"Naruto-san," the owner of the shop, Tenchi, called, his eye twitching. "You do know you're paying for those, right?"

Naruto sweat dropped. "Yeah I know..." he mumbled and sat at a stool. "I guess I'll double up on missions."

Sakura laughed. "Baka."

"How does Naruto have an ounce of good thinking still," Ino started. "After taking all the blows to his head from bill board brow and Lady Tsunade?"

"The same way you stay so ugly, Ino-pig," Sakura retorted.

As the girls exchanged name calling, Sasuke was smirking. To him it looked like nothing had changed in all those years.

The raven still stood, watching the table. He kind of felt that they had forgotten him already.

Suddenly, as if sensing the other's thought, Naruto looked over to him, gently smiling and calling Sasuke to sit.

"What do you think, teme?" Naruto asked. "Pretty good seats for quick thinking."

Sasuke smirked back. "My chair is unbalanced," he said matter of factly. Naruto huffed and pouted. It filled Sasuke with some kind of feeling. Cute. The love for Naruto he had came back from the back of his soul. Sasuke had hid it so during the hearing it wouldn't distract him as much.

A waitress brought them all a glass of water. Sakura lifted her glass with a smile. Everyone looked at her. Her lovely green eyes gleamed with pure joy. "I believe we have 2 things to toast today," she said.

"Da fuck we drinking water for then?!" Kiba said loudly. "Can we get a bottle of sake?!" The others laughed. Why not one drink on this, a day of 2 great occasions?



After 3 bottles of sake the guys were a bit toasted. The girls looked around at them. Thank Kami they decided to stick to water.

A tan hand reached for his cup of sake, but a dainty girl slapped his hand away. "You just got out of the hospital, no need to go back with alcohol poisoning," Sakura warned.

Naruto hiccuped beofre answering. "Sorry." His scarred cheeks were flushed. At first glance his eyes were happy, but a long, hard, deep look to the well trained Sakura Haruno and she saw the ounce of sadness.

Next to Sakura, Lee was stern and coursing with strength. Maybe he shouldn't have had sake. Thank kami his alcohal tolerance went up with age.

"I think I should take Neji-kun home," Ten-ten said. Neji looked at her dizzily. She stood, pulling him up with her.

"I gotta head to work anyway," Sakura sighed. "Can you make sure Lee-kun gets home on time?"

"No problem," ten-ten smiled.

She, Neji, Lee, and Sakura waved to the others as they left excited the ramen stand.

Ino looked around the table. Chouji was dead asleep against the table. Sasuke sat still giving a look at Naruto who was still eating ramen, in silence. Kiba was amazingly quiet and relaxed.

"How are the two loudest bakas I know so quiet when they're drunk?" the blonde girl asked towards Hinata.

The other girl shrugged.

"Probably the same way Naruto can eat 14 bowls of miso ramen and not explode," Sasuke said dryly, his onyx eyes never left the kitsune. He wasn't really drunk but only a bit unbalanced. But, as an Uchiha, he didn't look it.

Ino chuckled into her hand. She put down her chopsticks and stood. "I guess we should go," she said. "I'll go pay the bill." sh walked over Shino (who was oddly normal), Hinata and Kiba. "Wait...?"

Hinata looked at her. "W-what is it-t, Ino-chan?"

Ino had narrowed her blue pupiless eyes. "Someone's missing."

Sasuke smirked. "Shikamaru is sleeping on the floor."

The girl looked down and nearly jumped. At her feet lay an unconscious Nara. After shaking her pretty blonde head, she kicked the man. "Oi, wake up!" But Shikamaru kept on snoozing. An evil grin spread on Ino's face. "Shika-kun's paying today!" She reached into the man's pant pocket to grab his wallet. The others laughed.

Sasuke stood. He looked back down at Naruto. The azure stare was dull. He looked about to fall asleep. The raven sighed. Sasuke took Naruto's arms and put them around his long slender neck. Next, he pulled the black clad legs around his slim waist.

"Teme?! What are you doing?" Naruto asked sleepily.

Kiba ogled at the sight. His eyes were glassy and distant. He gave a goofy smile and saluted the raven and fox. "Have fun," he slurred.

Hinata sweat dropped at her boyfriend. Her mercury silver eyes looked to the raven. "I-if you get some c-coffee in N-Naruto-Kun, he s-should be f-fine."

Sasuke nodded before carrying the other man out.

The afternoon was darkening as evening slowly approached. The blazing sun stung Sasuke's enticing eyes. In no hurry he walked to where he remembered Naruto's apartment to be located.

"Sasuke?" Naruto whispered. He tightened his grip around the other's broad shoulders. His whiskered left cheek rested against the white cloth covering Sasuke's warm pale back. Naruto took a long whiff of the natural scent of the Uchiha. It was like Sakura petals, warm tea, cool water, and burning candle wicks all in one. So interesting how the totally different scents could mix to make one sweet smell of Sasuke.

"Hn," Sasuke hummed. He could feel Naruto's blonde locks tickling at his neck. His pale cheeks dusted pink when he realized the closeness.

"I..." Naruto started. He snuggled in closer. How could the prince of cold glares be so warm? It was attracting the kitsune like a moth to light. "I'm so happy you're back for good."

Sasuke walked on silently. He admired the soft pressure of Naruto's breath against him. It made everything disappear around him. The looks of other passerbys on the main dirt paved street just vanished. All that mattered was the ongoing unexperienced heart clenching feeling Sasuke held within and Naruto.

The rest of the way was left to the fragile day voices around them. Naruto was so comfortable that his eyelids flickered downward. Soon enough, he softly fell into a weak but engulfing slumber. He dreamt of his coma dream Sasuke and how, maybe, he could be possible.

As Sasuke's sandals stepped on the landing to the second floor of the apartment building, he sighed. "Dobe, wake up. You're home."

Naruto stirred in his rest. "Hmmm?"

His eyes opened to reveal wonderful blue orbs. He slowly came to realize where he was. "Sorry."

Sasuke let him down and stepped away from the door. Naruto reached into his pouch and took out his keys. His large, callosed hands fumbled with te small ring of 2 keys. Suddenly, he dropped them. He groaned. He was about to grab them when a pale hand got there first.

sasuke handed over the metal with a smirk. "You okay enough to get inside without falling?"

Naruto huffed. "Shut up!" The raven laughed. Naruto managed to open the door and step in, not bothering with Sasuke. He walked to the fridge and opened the door. After reading something on the carton of milk he picked up, he looked up as if thinking. "Hey teme, what day is it?"
,br> Sasuke walked in and closed the door. "May 20th," he said.

"Three days past spoil date." Naruto shrugged and opened the slit to the carton. "Eh, I've had worse," he said after drinking some.

Sasuke's eye twitched. "Disgusting baka." Naruto out the milk away and grinned at the other. Sasuke shook his head.

Suddenly, without a notice, Naruto pulled his black wife beater up and off, dropping it to the floor. His clothes smelled like he needed something fresh to wear. He rummaged through his drawers and found an orange and red sweatsuit. It was one he bought a while back but never wore. He walked to the nightstand on the other side of the futon and fished for boxers. Sasuke stood back and watched Naruto's every curve.

The tan smooth curve of the kitsune's back as he took out a white shirt. The golden locks that were so long they bruched against Naruto's shoulders. The brown nubs and dip of his belly button. It all burned into the sight of the young Uchiha. Sasuke couldn't keep his ebony eyes off Naruto. He wanted to touch it all.

"Can you turn around or something?" Naruto stood straight and scratched his head idly.

Sasuke looked up at those amazing eyes and smirked. "Embarassed, dobe?" Slowly he walked toward Naruto. "We've known each other forever now. I don't think seeing you naked would do much." Truth was, he wanted to see it all.

Naruto blushed. "We were young then, we're twenty now. Big difference," he said. Sasuke sashayed closer to Naruto.

"That didn't stop you from the lake at my house," Sasuke said licking his bottom lip. He finally stopped walking as he was only inches from Naruto. "You could have easily worn your underwear."

"That was different. Believe it!" Naruto smiled, trying to make Sasuke believe him.

"How so?" Sasuke said, his voice a seductive whisper.

"It was hot then!" Naruto squeaked. His eyes were wide. He was holding himself back as hard as he could.

"I should go, anyway," Sasuke said. He turned around before more happened. Nerves were flying fluent in his body. This was wrong, being attracted to NAruto. "See ya."

With a small wave he exited through the door. The door slammed shut behind him. Naruto let out the breath he was holding. He collapsed onto the futon, legs dangling off the edge. His large hands covered his eyes. He was sad but his boner told another story. Hopefully Sasuke didn't see that.

"Kami, he's kucky I didn't fuck him there and then," Naruto mumbled to himself. "Ahg, I need some ass."



Awww I bet you guys thought there was gonna be a steamy Naruto/Sasuke moment....
Don't be hopeful just yet lol. I believe that love should known first before sex happens. Or at least some kind of feeling is known.
Itachi: Wow they both are really oblivious. My brother doesn't notice Naruto is Hard for him and Naruto doens't notcie that my brother was about to rape him wild.
Nati: Yeah I know lol. But you know they are like this in the real Anime too. Naruto is so slow he would be smarter if he stood still. And Sasuke is stupid for taking the Akatsuki route.
Itachi: Well I wanted him to not go down that path but he doesn't listen.
Nati: I wonder who's fault that is, Mr. I-acted-as-a-spy-to-only-kill-my-fami- *Itachi glare* Okay so what? I mean, you did plan out his whole life. Poor guy, let him have some freedom.
Alright guys next chapter is a lemon. Now before that chapter I'll warn you. This is a Naru/Sasu but there is some Naru/other character moments *cough*sex*cough* And later there will be some Sasuke/ OC moments. You're warned. Don't be mad next chapter! Please review!!!

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Love Natsuki Lee