Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto or any of its characters.

A/N: It feels like ages since I've updated, instead of a few days. I also feel guilty. Time to get back on track! :3 Here's the first double digit chapter, chapter 10!

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Chapter 10: Sleepover

Naruto stood outside Jiraiya's apartment door on the third floor. It was Friday morning, and he had gotten up and ready for school earlier just for this purpose. But he was scared; he had no clue how his guardian was going to react about Sai. Still, he'd rather the pervert hear it first thing from him instead of the school rumor mill. Or, knowing Sai, shouted from a window, along with some question about Naruto's penis size.

Finally he reached up and knocked on the door. Sure, he lived here for years, and sure, he had a key to the apartment, but knowing Jiraiya, it was likely he'd walk in on an orgy or something. Something he didn't want to see his godfather doing. Ugh. The door opened and the older white-haired man looked down on him with surprise. Fair enough, Naruto rarely visited after he moved to the apartment below.

"Is this good news or bad news?" he asked. Naruto grinned as he let himself in.

"What? I can't just randomly visit the man who raised me?"

"Not for no reason," he snorted good-naturedly. "No one's hurt, right?"

"Nah." Naruto went to the kitchen and raised himself to a sitting position on the counter, swinging his legs against the cabinets idly. "Something happened last night but I'm not sure how you're going to react," he admitted after a while.

"Are you happy?"

Naruto thought for a while. He supposed he was, yes. The thing with Sasuke last night still left a sour and very confused taste in his mouth, though. "Yeah."

"Then whatever the news is, I'll be happy, too."

"I'm bisexual, I've discovered recently. And I'm dating Sai." His guardian snorted in amusement again, and Naruto looked up to see him rolling his eyes.

"Tell me something I don't know, kid. Well, the bi part, the Sai part is a surprise I'll admit. Weird kid, but if he respects you, then fine."

"What?!" Naruto gaped. "How does everyone know that I'm bi except me?" He flushed at the laughter that came after his exasperation.

"It's probably just an unconscious thing on your part, Naruto. Our society can still be pretty iffy at the subject of homosexuality, so I guess you just... I don't know, repressed that part of yourself out of fear of how the people closest to you would react. Shit, do I look like a psychologist?"

The blond smirked. "If anyone had you for their psychologist, they'd run out screaming."

Jiraiya placed a hand over his heart, feigning pain. "You're too kind to me, kid!" The young man snickered and looked around the apartment. He hopped down, going over to the coffee table in the living room where there were papers all spread out.

"What are these?" he asked curiously. He reached for one and Jiraiya raced over, trying to gather them all up, but he had snagged one. "Oh my god, why do you have these?! My English teacher reads this all the time!" His face scrunched up.

"He does?" The pervert's face lit up. "Er, I mean, really now? Interesting. Hm."

The blond's eyes scanned the manuscript, noticing it was a different Icha Icha title. "You write these? You didn't tell me you published stuff!"

"How do I tell my young innocent charge that his godfather slash guardian writes erotica? But seriously, Kakashi reads my book?"

"All the damn time. I'm pretty sure he's reread it about ten times by now. Are you famous?"

Jiraiya winked. "I'm getting there, kid. Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to head to school early and have a nice chat with your teacher. Just feedback and stuff. Do you need a condom or anything?"

Naruto spluttered. "A... a condom? For wh—oh god no! No!" The very thought of Sai and Naruto and sex together had him feeling nauseous. Kissing was just fine, thank you very much! With that horrible image seared into his brain, he ran out of the apartment.

Naruto and Kiba strolled into English class right as the bell rang. As usual. He flashed a grin at Gaara and Shikamaru, who nodded and half heartedly raised a hand, respectively. Sakura fluttered her fingers in greeting as he took his usual seat by Sasuke, who was stubbornly looking at the wall to his right.

"Hi Sasuke!" Nothing. "Sasuke!" Nothing. Damn it, what was wrong with the boy? He didn't do anything! "Sassuukkkee," he drawled, reaching over to poke the boy's cheek. Dark eyes flicked around to meet his, and he thought Sasuke was going to bite his finger off for a moment.

"Hi, idiot." The blond grinned. Empty insults, that was a good sign.

"Morning, shithead! Feeling better?"

"Hn." He got distracted by his phone and pulled it out of pocket to read and respond to a text.

Naruto spent a few moments staring at his friends sitting around him, thinking about when he should bring up the thing with Sai. He hoped they wouldn't react like Sasuke did. Lunch would be good, since Sai would be there as well. A part of him didn't want to talk about Sai in front of Sasuke, though. He felt... how did he feel? Embarrassed? Guilty? That made no sense.

His own phone vibrated in his pocket and he saw it was a text from an unknown number. He opened it up and read:

Unknown: I made plans for you and your friends to stay over tonight.

Uh, what? He texted back asking for the texter's identity, figuring it was just a wrong number. A few seconds later, his phone went off again.

Unknown: Itachi Uchiha, I forgot you wouldn't know my number.

Oh. Well, that was a tad creepy. He added the number to his address book and wondered if Sasuke knew his big brother was planning on kidnapping them all to spend the night. Looking over, he saw that the raven was glaring down at his phone like it had reached out and slapped him across the face.

"Uh, Sasuke," he called over, and their eyes met, one pair of them still glaring. "Did your brother text you about his... plans?"

"Yes, the stupid meddling ass," he spat out, and their exchange had drawn the attention of his other three friends.

"What's up?" Kiba asked warily. Sasuke was too busy trying to strangle his phone, so Naruto had to answer.

"All of us are spending the night at Sasuke's tonight. His brother's plan," he explained. Kiba looked excited, which honestly is how Naruto felt as well. Shikamaru and Gaara looked like they didn't care one way or another but nodded all the same. Sakura watched on in fascination.

"I'll be there after I get off work, which will be around seven!" Kiba said, and Sasuke grumbled. He was ignored.

Naruto sat at the lunch table across from Sai, his hands tucked under his thighs. He was wondering about Sasuke, who had muttered something about going to the library before heading off. Sai's voice snapped him out of his reverie.

"Have you told them yet?"

He smiled at his new boyfriend, who was looking at him with a soft smirk. "No, I was waiting until lunch, so you'd be here." The boy looked pleased at that, and they lapsed back into silence.

"Chouji took the last french fry," Kiba whined as he sat down. "He had two of them! How is that fair?" Shikamaru and Gaara sat down afterwards, the redhead slowly eating one of his french fries as he stared at Kiba. Naruto stomped down the urge to laugh at Kiba's pouting look.

"I have something to tell you guys!" Naruto blurted out, and Sai looked up expectantly, as did the others, though they looked more surprised.

"Should you wait for Sasuke?" Sai asked, eyes narrowed. Naruto thought back on Sai saying he thought there was something between the two, and sighed.

"No, he's in the library, probably whining to his brother, and already knows. We're all spending the night at his place tonight, by the way." Sai looked absolutely thrilled. Except not. "Anyway!" he hurried on, looking away from his boyfriend, "uh. Sai and I are dating now."

Kiba was the only one who showed any excitement, and patted him on the shoulder in congratulations. Gaara and Shikamaru didn't look surprised; he really needed some more vocal friends. Sai was wearing a wide, forced-looking smile, and Naruto wondered how tonight was going to go.

Jiraiya was standing by his desk shuffling through the stack of papers he had just received. An alcohol basket sat on his desk, and Naruto had the sneaking suspicion that it was from Kakashi. His favorite author was a coworker, after all. He wondered if his godfather was now going to be stalked.

"Alright," the teacher finally said, tossing the stack of papers on his desk. "Everyone handed one in, that's awesome. But Hinata, dear, I don't think your partner was serious when he said he was raised by wolves in a cave." Hinata blushed in embarrassed and gave Kiba a stern look. The dog boy only grinned.

"So now I can announce what I have planned for you idiots next week. On Wednesday we'll be into Konoha Forest on a hiking trip!" The class' response didn't match his enthusiasm. "Each group I'll give a destination, and it's up to you two to get there."

"This sounds dangerous," Shikamaru pointed out. "And like it has nothing to do with Health."

"Each group will also get a few flares and a megaphone. There will be cell service out there, and you'll also be getting my number. I've informed the teachers and your sexy Principal, and the homework for Wednesday will be waved off." Now the class was sounding excited. Naruto glanced over at Sasuke, who was already looking at him, eyebrows raised.

"This has nothing to do with Health," Shikamaru said again, sounding really frustrated now. Shikamaru and hiking did not belong together.

"Class dismissed!"

Naruto was sitting on a kitchen stool in the Uchiha household, watching Itachi chop vegetables as Sasuke sat doing whatever in his room. "Do you have more of those deli roll things? Those were awesome."

Itachi snorted as he moved about. "I'm glad you liked them. Yes, I can make some more after the others get here." Naruto was there a bit early; the others agreed to wait for Kiba to get off work at seven, and it was thirty minutes until that time.

"How are you and my little brother getting along?" he asked curiously. The blond didn't answer for a while, mulling it over.

"I don't know. Sometimes good, sometimes he just gets really upset and hateful, like last night."

"Last night? I know he went over to hang out, but ignored me when he stormed back in the house later on."

Naruto felt embarrassed. "That's the thing, we didn't hang out last night. I was with Sai all day and I get back to my apartment to see Sasuke waiting there, and he gets all sarcastic and leaves. I didn't know he was over there!"

Itachi had turned around to face the blond, and he squirmed in his seat as the older Uchiha studied him. "Interesting," he replied. "He hardly talks to me, so I get my information from you. What'd he do today?"

"Nothing, really. He was kind of standoffish at first and he skipped lunch, which was odd. I just figured he was calling you."

"I wasn't called."

"Oh." Silence followed, and Naruto scratched behind his ear, wondering what Sasuke was up to at lunch, then. "Did you know about the hiking trip Wednesday? We're partners for that."

"He mentioned that, but only because I had to sign some papers for it." Naruto hadn't gotten any papers, but that was probably because the teacher was his guardian. Naruto continued to watch in silence as Itachi moved about the kitchen and two large homemade pizzas were made. The smell made him realize how hungry he was.

The others finally arrived and Sasuke appeared from his room. Sai put his arm around Naruto's waist and leaned over to place a kiss on his temple. Sasuke grabbed one of the pizzas, making sure Itachi took what he wanted. "We can watch a movie in my room."

"Why not the living room?" Kiba asked, eyes focused on the wide comfy-looking area through the doorway.

"TV in my room is bigger, and Itachi won't bug me." They found it hard to believe the nice older handsome man would be a nuisance, but at looking over to see his smirk, they changed their mind and grabbed some pizza, following the raven to his room.

Naruto immediately threw himself on the large bed, being sure his pizza didn't fly off his plate. "Off," Sasuke commanded, sitting down on his bed. Naruto stuck his lip out.

"No! Think of it as you saying sorry for breaking my window."

"Me being sorry for breaking your window is me paying for the window, idiot."

"That's your brother."

"Same difference."

"It is not, asshole!"

"Is too!"

Kiba ignored the bantering while he looked through the stack of blu-rays, Sai on the floor leaning against the bed between Gaara and Shikamaru. Naruto was sidetracked as Kiba finally found a movie and put started it up, and Sasuke stopped arguing with him to get off his bed.

"The new Sweeney Todd, sweet!" Naruto said, shoving some pizza in his mouth. Sasuke leaned against his wall and nibbled on some himself, eyes focused on the large screen in his room. Naruto was jealous; even when choosing to live in this modest house, their richness still showed. One only had to look at Sasuke's car.

An hour into the movie, Itachi had come in with deli rolls, much to Naruto's delight. The older Uchiha had tried settling in with the group to watch the movie with them but grabbed the empty plates and left after Sasuke started beating him with a pillow. Naruto didn't care either way, he just yelled his gratitude after the departing Uchiha while shoving the deli rolls in his mouth.

After Sweeney Todd ended, Kiba put in The Grudge. Naruto wrapped Sasuke's blankets around himself and curled up against the wall, already knowing he was going to get terrified. As the movie wore on, he was pressed against Sasuke's side. The raven scoffed and reached around Naruto's body to give him a mocking pat on his shoulder, but his arm didn't move afterwards.

A little while later, Naruto noticed Sai lean forward a bit to look at the bed behind him. He gave his boyfriend a sleepy smile. Sai looked annoyed and turned back around. What was that about? He felt movement on his arm, and he remembered Sasuke's arm was around him. Sai was probably annoyed about that, it clicked. He didn't feel like tossing the arm off, though, especially since the ex-actor wasn't being pissy.

He curled up further into the raven's body, completely content as the movie wore on. It was comforting, which he was happy about, since he didn't handle horror movies well. The presence next to him was helping with that.

Naruto found his eyes closing and his head drooping onto something warm and comfortable. Sasuke's shoulder, perhaps? He really didn't want to move. He felt something soothingly run through his hair, which did nothing to help his oncoming slumber. So he gave into it.

Oh god the fluff! It'll still be a few chapters before anything substantial (romance-wise) happens between the two. And next chapter, the hiking trip! After that the time will speed up a bit. Hope you enjoyed, and don't forget to review if you can! :3 I also have a new SasuNaru Supernatural fic out, titled 'Believe,' so I'll be doing these three now.