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Chapter 26: All In

Suigetsu didn't bother to make Sasuke tell him why he'd had a breakdown, but rather let him sleep it off. He knew that he couldn't force the young Uchiha to do anything that he didn't want to do. When Sasuke finally woke up the next morning his eyes were still red and the same expression was written all over his face. It worried Suigetsu, but he knew in times like that Sasuke needed a bit of normalcy. "You look like crap," he told his dark haired friend, hoping that it'd at least make him say something, but he just remained silent. Suigetsu sighed, "Look Sasuke, if you don't tell me anything then I can't help you."

"I don't even know where to start," Sasuke admitted in a small voice. He was lying on Suigetsu's bed, staring at the ceiling as he tried to find the words to explain everything. "Everything is just so fucked up," he told his best friend. "And I truly mean everything," he sighed. He felt like banging his head against the nearest wall until he forgot everything about the past few days, but he knew it wouldn't work.

"You're still not telling me anything that happened," Suigetsu pointed out. "Just start from the beginning," he said as he sat on his roommate's bed; he was at his morning class. "It can't be that bad," he tried to smile, but Sasuke just glared at him, making his smile quickly disappear. "Or maybe it can," he mumbled, causing Sasuke to groan in frustration.

"Remember that stupid party?" Sasuke asked. Suigetsu nodded, not sure that he liked where it was going. "I went home with Kyuubi that night," he said, disappointed in himself when Suigetsu gave him a surprised look. "I was drunk and I felt like Naruto flat out rejected me, but Kyuubi was there and made me feel better. Long story short, he took advantage of me and my drunken state," he summarized.

"Please tell me that's the only thing that happened," Suigetsu frowned. "I mean I can beat him up if that's the only thing," he assured his best friend. "Hell, if that's not the only thing, I can still beat him up," he added. Suigetsu knew that Sasuke could take care of himself, but that didn't mean that he didn't want to beat up the redhead.

"I can take care of myself, I don't need you fighting my own battles," he told him, annoyed. "Why is it that every time I tell someone that they want to beat up Kyuubi for me? I am perfectly capable at defending myself. The idiot isn't worth the time it would take or the possibility of an assault charge," he huffed. "And no, that's not it," he frowned.

"People care about you Sasuke," he said in response. "It's not that we don't think that you can't handle yourself," Suigetsu told him. "It's that we care enough to hate him for doing that to you. We are mad enough that we want to beat him up," he said, but Sasuke didn't find it reassuring. Suigetsu frowned; he had truly been hoping that the Kyuubi incident was the worst of it. "What else?" he asked, not sure that he wanted to know.

"Naruto rejected me," he told him, looking away. He hated feeling rejected; it wasn't something he was used to. He rarely put his heart out on the line enough times to feel rejection. "I kissed him and told him how I felt," he mumbled, "he didn't respond." Suigetsu looked shocked, knowing that Naruto liked Sasuke. "It was as if he were frozen," he said, "He was like a deer in headlights. It's not really the reaction you get from someone that likes you."

"Sasuke, just because he was shocked doesn't mean that he doesn't like you," he said, knowing that Sasuke would take lack of reaction as rejection. "You can't blame him for being surprised," he said. "I mean telling someone something like that and then kissing him doesn't give someone a lot of time to digest what you'd said," he pointed out. Sasuke looked at him again, still unsure about the situation. "Talk to him before you jump to conclusions," he added. When Sasuke just nodded he knew there was more to the story. "What else is there? I know you wouldn't break down because of a guy," he said.

Sasuke remained quiet for a while, not sure if he wanted to say anything else. Suigetsu's worried stare caused him to sigh. "I saw my mother," he told him, taking Suigetsu by surprise. Those words were the last thing that he had expected Sasuke to say. "She was standing outside of the dorms when I rushed out of the room because of Naruto," he continued, knowing Suigetsu wasn't going to interrupt. "I didn't know what to do," he said, not wanting to cry again but still feeling the emotions build up. "She wanted to talk, to explain herself as if it would make everything okay. None of it makes sense to me. Why would she come after so many years to explain herself?" he asked. "She knew that I couldn't forgive her, so why would she come back at all?"

Suigetsu was at a loss for words. Sasuke's mom wasn't a topic that he was ready for and he was pretty sure that he'd never be ready for it. Before he could say anything there was a knock on the door. Suigetsu let out the breath that he had unknowingly been holding. He had never been so happy for someone to come to the door in all his life. He silently got up and walked to the door, but when he opened it he found a person that was part of the problem. "Hey Naruto, what do you want?" he asked, glancing back at Sasuke for his reaction only to find that he hadn't reacted at all.

"I know Sasuke's in there," he flat out told him. "I really need to talk to him, please just let me in," he begged, "I need to fix this. He's got it all wrong." Even with all of his begging Suigetsu didn't open the door.

"Look, this has little to do with you," he said. "And really you should be happy about that," he added, causing a confused look to spread across Naruto's face. Suigetsu looked back at Sasuke once again, who didn't look to keen on the idea of talking to Naruto. "Just give him some time," he suggested, "he has other thigns that he needs to sort out right now." Before Naruto could say anything else he found the door shut, leaving him bewildered as to what could be going on.

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"I have no idea what to do," Naruto said as he walked in, uninvited, to Kiba's room. The brunet looked annoyed, but Naruto ignored that fact. "Seriously, I think I really screwed up this time," he said, flopping down on Kiba's bed.

"Sure, come in. Please have a seat, make your self comfortable," he responded sarcastically. Naruto just rolled his eyes at Kiba's words, knowing that the brunet didn't care. "How did you know I wasn't doing something private?" he asked.

"Because you like Hinata," Naruto said. "Face it, it's going to take a long time before she has any kind of intimate relations with you, let alone has sex with you," he told him as if it were a fact. "And if you were masturbating I just would have been scarred for life," he shrugged, "though I'm guessing you would have locked the door if that were the case."

"That's not the point," Kiba told him. "You need to learn to knock," he said, though he knew it wasn't going to happen unless he did start locking his door. "Or at least call or text me when you're coming over here," he said, knowing that probably wouldn't happen either. "Now what do you want?" he asked.

"No need to throw a hissy fit," Naruto told him, "I thought you liked dogs, so stop acting like a cat." His words got a glare shot his way, "You know, after living with Sasuke, no other glare freaks me out anymore. Speaking of him, he's the problem." Kiba just signaled for him to continue, not bothering to tell him that Sasuke was always the problem lately. "He seems to think that I've rejected him," he said.

"Did you?" Kiba asked, ignoring the dog comment. "If he thinks you did then there has to be a reason for that," he sighed, knowing that it would be a long and probably pointless conversation. Kiba had found that most conversations about Sasuke had become pointless. It was always about Naruto's deleimma of telling Sasuke he liked him and Kiba telling him to just tell Sasuke how he feels.

"He kissed me," Naruto said. His words surprised Kiba because he never thought that Sasuke would make the first move. "And he told me that he likes me," he added. "But I didn't expect it so I didn't react and he took it the wrong way," Naruto explained, his words getting faster as he talked. "I was frozen so he took it as rejection and now he won't talk to me and I don't know what to do," he said.

"First, start taking breaths between sentences," Kiba chuckled. "Second, just be yourself," he suggested. "You're persistent with everything else, why not with getting him to listen to you?" he said as if it were the simplest answer ever.

"Both him and Suigetsu pretty much told me to give him some space," he told Kiba. "I mean if he needs space then I should give it to him, right?" he tried working out his thoughts as to whether or not it was a good idea to do what Sasuke said, but neither side ever won. Each time both had it's pros and cons. Pros: he might find out what's going on, he may get Sasuke to forgive him, and they could start a relationship. Cons: Sasuke might get mad at him and he might push him further away. The idea that Sasuke might get mad at him was what was holding him back. Sasuke was already avoiding him; he didn't need to make it worse.

"What Sasuke needs to do is listen," Kiba told him. Kiba was sick of the drama between the two and knew that they needed to sit down and actually talk, not just dance around the issue. He could only stand so much drama in his life and he didn't want it to be Naruto and Sasuke drama, he'd had enough of that for one semester, "He's got to come back to the room some time, talk to him then."

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Naruto lay down on his bed, thinking over what Kiba said. He felt as if he were wrong since it was already close to nine o'clock and Sasuke wasn't back. 'Maybe tomorrow,' he sighed, wishing that the man would walk through the door. He didn't expect him to come back any time soon because the man had been avoiding him at all costs. He was surprised when a half a hour later Sasuke walked through the door. He didn't say anything and he didn't look at him but he was there and that's all that mattered. "Hey," Naruto said, hoping that he'd respond.

"Hi," Sasuke let out a mumble. He crawled into bed and turned away from the blond. He was hoping that if he ignored him enough then he'd go away, but he wasn't that lucky. The blond was too persistent for his own good.

"Can we talk about what happened?" Naruto asked, but Sasuke still didn't respond. "You can't go the rest of the semester ignoring me, I mean you kissed me, it's something we should talk about," he said, wishing that Sasuke would respond, but he didn't. "I know you keep saying what whatever happened has nothing to do with me, but we both know that whatever you're feeling has something to do with me. It may not be the main reason but if something else happened then what happened between us certainly didn't help the situation," he said, but Sasuke just kept his back turned away. "Will you at least look at me?" he asked a little harshly.

Sasuke sat up and turned toward him, but he still didn't say anything. He was looking for some escape route. He silently got up and grabbed some clothes from one of his drawers, heading for the shower. Naruto didn't let him, quickly getting up and forcing Sasuke to look at him. Sasuke couldn't complain because before he could speak Naruto pulled him into a kiss. The dark haired man quickly pushed him away, "What the hell was that?"

"A kiss," Naruto replied, "You should know, you kissed me the other day." Sasuke still looked at him, completely confused, so Naruto said, "I told you, you've got it all wrong." He let go of his grip of Sasuke's arms and said, "I do like you, a lot. You took me by surprise and then ran off and didn't come back the next night."

"You like me?" he asked, still surprised. He'd thought that he'd been rejected so the last thing that he thought would happen when he came back to the room was Naruto kissing him. His emotions were an emotional rollercoaster, but he knew that he had to concentrate on what was in front of him. "You have the worst timing," he said.

"What?" Naruto asked, it was his turn to be confused. "How is my timing bad? I mean I know it's not right when you wanted me to say it, but I did say it," he said, not understanding. "I mean you don't have another crush right? Because that'd be awkward if you did and you'd already hooked up with him," Sasuke cut off his train of thought by kissing him.

"Just shut up," he told him, kissing him again. He dropped the clothes he'd picked out onto the floor, freeing his hands to pull Naruto closer. The blond didn't argue and wrapped his arms around Sasuke's thin waist. He kissed him back, happy that it was finally happening.

It was only a little later that Naruto realized they hadn't talked about anything. While he didn't want to pull away from the passionate kiss they had been sharing, he knew they needed to talk. "We still need to talk about all of this," Naruto pointed out, breaking the kiss.

"What?" Sasuke asked. He kissed him again, trying to move away from the topic. "What more do we need to talk about?" he asked between kisses. "I like you, you like me, what more is there to say?"

At first the kisses distracted Naruto, making him think that Sasuke was right. Soon he realized that there was still a lot to talk about so he pulled away again. "How about what's going on with you," Naruto said, knowing that was the main thing. He stepped away from Sasuke, knowing that if he started kissing him again he wouldn't be able to make them actually talk.

"I don't want to talk about it," Sasuke said as he leaned against the dresser. "Can't we talk later?" he asked, frowning at the thought of the question. He started to pick his clothes up off the ground, but Naruto stopped him. He knew that if Sasuke got his clothes again then he'd make a b-line to the bathroom.

"No, we need to talk now," Naruto said, determined to find out what was wrong. He wasn't one to force someone to talk, but if they were going to have any sort of relationship they needed to be able to talk to each other. "What is this? Are we dating now?" he asked, needing to know where Sasuke stood.

"Is that you're way of asking me out? Because it is the you're terrible at it," Sasuke told him, in a way mocking him. When Naruto gave him a serious look Sasuke sighed and said, "That's what I want. Is that what you want?" He never liked feeling insecure but that seemed to be all he felt the past few days.

"You have no idea how much I want that," Naruto told him with a small smile. "And since we're dating now, you should be able to tell me what's going on," the blond said. "If we start a relationship off with secrets then this is going to go nowhere very fast," he said, knowing that secrets always hurt relationships.

Sasuke was quiet for a moment. He looked at the ground, not sure how to start. He felt as if he were repeating himself all day, first telling Suigetsu what happened and now telling Naruto. "I saw my mom," he told the blond. "I haven't seen her in years and it just took me off guard. I never expected to see her again nor did I want to," he explained.

"Oh," was Naruto's response, not sure what else there was to say to that. "I'm sorry," he said. He moved closer and pulled Sasuke into a hug, knowing that the other man probably needed it. Sasuke just leaned his head on Naruto's shoulder, feeling safe in the blonde's strong arms. "Let's just relax tonight and get your mind off it," Naruto suggested. "I've got a stack of movies and money for pizza, that should do the trick," he tried to smile.

"I'd like that," Sasuke replied, though he still didn't smile.

"Good, you go pick a movie and I'll call for pizza," Naruto said as he let the other man go.

Sasuke just nodded and went to pick out a movie. Once he did, he sat on his bed, which sat facing the television that was on top of one of the dressers in the room. When he looked at Naruto it made him smile a little. No one had ever made him feel the way Naruto did. He then started thinking about his brother and what he'd think about his now boyfriend. His brother usually had a good sense of judgment when it came to other people. When the blond came and sat next to him, wrapping his arm around Sasuke, the dark haired man spoke before thinking, "I want you to meet Itachi."

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