adhafhdafkNKSL You have no idea how much I struggled to write this chapter. Well fuck you chapter, here you are, all uploaded and pretty.

Ignoring all the other things I should be doing, I apologize for taking so long.

I was supposed to write all these fun things here but I'm too tired as usual.

Anyway I love you all as always, thanks for being patient with me. I just really really want to write chapter 26... Damn, I still have 25 left before that...

Short lemon this chapter, because next one will have a longer one.

Just read the chapter, and it's been beta'd by me, as always, and there might be typos, and I blame them on my cats (they're not even in the room, poor kitties).


Chapter twenty-four: A New Year's resolution

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Sasuke strode through the masses of people with determination coming from lots of practice. In his hand he carefully held a much smaller one, and now and then he had to stop himself from walking too fast for Yukio to keep up with. Yukio's other hand was secured by Naruto, who anxiously tried to make sure the little kid didn't drop anything or got trampled by someone.

Yesterday had mostly been spent in the snow, playing with Yukio who seemed to have a never-ending supply of energy. Sasuke had been forced to work after lunch though, but at least he was able to do it from home. He and Yukio had managed to get a little closer, at least Sasuke thought so himself, and at night he'd allowed Naruto a blow-job; braving his fears for being walked in on.

Today however was going to be spent shopping, and Sasuke already had the perfect plan in mind. Naruto wouldn't allow him to cut the kid's hair, but he could at least do something about his wardrobe. Naruto's attempts to explain that shopping with a child wasn't exactly a walk in the park fell on deaf ears. It could hardly be worse than attending a conference full of women his own age. Yes, he'd been to one once when Itachi was mad at him. There was lots of screaming involved, mainly on his own part when he'd managed to get a hold of the suspiciously busy older Uchiha.

Oh, and they were getting a new bed too.

He steered them to the right, ignoring Naruto's shouts after having bumped into someone and needed to apologize while trying to keep up with Sasuke.

"Seriously bastard, we're not in a hurry! Just slow down!"

"Yeah bastard, slow down!" Yukio mimicked, his giggling voice telling anyone interested that he was having the time of his life.

The smallest addition to their group was skipping along, his head turning back and forth so he could get a good look at all the people gathered because of the Christmas sale. Finally Sasuke did stop, in front of a store that quite obviously sold clothes for kids Yukio's age.

"Just don't buy him anything too expensive" Naruto reminded him.

"I know Naruto, he'll get teased by his classmates I know. Don't worry I've checked out some good stores already, I mean you didn't think I was just working last night did you?"

Naruto gave him an amused look.

"You know, other people's boyfriends browse the internet for porn, but you look at pictures of clothes. I should have known you were weird like that."

"What's porn?" Yukio asked, looking between them with interest.

"Uh well, umm that is…"

"It's bad stuff" Sasuke saved Naruto with, smirking at the blond and then smiling at the way Yukio had wrinkled his nose. "Let's get started" he added and walked them into the store.

Inside, Sasuke immediately got to work, leaving Yukio with Naruto. The blond just shook his head at Sasuke's impatience. Really, it was nice that Sasuke took an interest in the kid but he might be taking this a little too seriously.

"What's he doing?" Yukio asked, trying to catch a glimpse of the raven through all the other people and the clothes that filled up the store.

"He's looking for stuff you can try out, he'll be back soon."

"Because he wants to buy me new clothes!" Yukio chanted, holding Naruto's hand with both of his own above his head and spinning slowly around it in great concentration.

"Exactly" Naruto replied.

He was trying to make sure he always knew precisely where the kid was at all times, he'd run off once last year and it had not been fun to look for him. Eventually Sasuke came back, which Naruto was very thankful for since Yukio had gotten bored and they'd started playing a game of who could name the most dinosaurs. It was embarrassing how easily Yukio beat him really.

"Come on Yukio, let's see if these fit" Sasuke greeted them with, looking very businesslike.

"I know what you should do if you ever decide to quit your job Sasuke" Naruto said as they went over to the changing rooms. "You could work as a professional personal shopper."

Sasuke turned his head to glance at him, a surprised look on his face.

"That's not a bad idea."

Then Naruto grinned.

"Yeah, I'm sure you'd get lots of nice, female costumers."

Sasuke scowled and turned around again.

"Don't say stupid things" he muttered.

Once they'd managed to find an empty booth Naruto was politely told to stay outside as Sasuke brought his latest victim inside. The blond sank down on the couch outside, wondering if this was really such a good idea as his boyfriend apparently thought. Surprisingly he didn't have to wait that long though before the curtain was drawn back and Yukio jumped out, striking a pose wearing a simple red long-sleeved t-shirt and dark blue jeans.

"Pretty good isn't it?" Sasuke asked, watching the kid smugly.

"It's very nice" Naruto praised, and he wasn't sure if he was praising Yukio or Sasuke. Probably both since they both looked happy about it.

Things continued like that for a while, and Naruto was impressed by the amount of clothes Sasuke had gathered in such a short time. Yukio seemed to think of it as some kind of game, always thinking of a new pose and looking at Naruto for approval with excitement.

If Sasuke and he ever had kids in a very distant future he would pray for one that didn't like shopping.

"Well that was all of them" Sasuke said, startling Naruto out of his musings.

"Okay" he said, standing up and stretching out a few kinks.

"It didn't take that long" Sasuke commented, raising an eyebrow.

Naruto opted to just roll his eyes at that.

"Hn. I'll go pay, meet you at the entrance" Sasuke then said and pecked his cheek.

Naruto quickly grabbed Yukio by his lime-green sweater, making the child pout.

"But I wanted to go with Sasuke" he complained.

"We'll go wait for him like he said."

They started making their way over to the exit, Yukio pouting for all of five seconds before he started talking animatedly about his recent experience of shopping with Sasuke.

"It was sooo fun! And Sasuke told me to make poses, because that's what models do, and Sasuke says I look like one, and Naru what's a model?"

Naruto felt the corners of his lips twitch in amusement.

"It's a person who wears clothes and other people look at them and comment on the clothes."

"Is that a job?" Yukio asked with disbelief.

"Well they get a lot of money for it."

"Eeh? A lot?"

"Yeah, so much they can swim in it."

"Woooow! When I grow up I'm gonna be a model!" Yukio exclaimed, eyes wide and starry. "But I won't be swimming in the money, I'll give them to mom and all my friends and you Naru, so we can be happy!"

Naruto smiled at the excited little boy, then picked him up and carried him the rest of the way.

"That's very nice of you" he said. "But I'm happy anyway."

"Oh. Because Sasuke has money?"

"No, not because Sasuke has money" Naruto chuckled.

"Then why?"

Naruto looked at Yukio seriously for a moment, the kid looking back with his head tilted to one side.

"I'm happy because I really like Sasuke, and I like you, and being with you two makes me happy. And I don't need money to do that."

He could see Yukio process his words, his tiny brows furrowing in deep thought. Then they smoothed out again and he grinned with a small blush, putting his arms around Naruto's neck and hugging him.

"Well, I'm done but if you need a moment…"

Naruto looked up at his smirking boyfriend and stuck his tongue out at him.

"Sasuke! Uncle Naru and I are really happy you're here!" Yukio shouted with a bright smile.

"Oh, umm, thanks, I mean, I'm happy too, so, oh shut up Naruto!"

Sasuke glared at the chuckling blond who was obviously laughing at his sudden embarrassment. And it didn't help that the people around them that had heard were making awing noises.

"Come on sweetie let's go" Naruto said in-between chuckles, stretching out his hand for the pouting raven to take.

"Hn" Sasuke said, but took the offered hand as they exited the store.

Yukio had insisted on Naruto carrying him the entire way to the next stop on Sasuke's hidden agenda, and Sasuke had received quite a few glares along the way since he insisted on going to a store on the opposite end of the mall. When Naruto finally dropped the kid down with a sigh of relief the cute little devil immediately ran over to a t-shirt displayed a few meters away.

He stretched his hands out to touch it, and then turned to Sasuke.

"Can I have this one?"

Sasuke eyed the expectant child warily. The t-shirt was, to use a nice word, extremely hideous.

"No" he replied curtly.

Two dark, tearful eyes widened and blinked at him, the pink little lower lip trembling as Yukio gripped the shirt tighter.

"But it's so pretty, and Sasuke you said I'd look good in anything, and Sasuke it's so pretty."

Naruto tried hard to refrain from laughing his ass off, watching Sasuke struggle against the powerful puppy-eyes Yukio possessed.

"Yes Sasuke you said he'd look good in anything" he said, helping Yukio out on his quest.

As cute as he was, he was a devious little scrawny off-spring of his cousin the sweet-talker, and give him your finger he'll definitely take the whole hand. He probably wasn't even aware of what he was doing, just copying his lovely mother.

Sasuke gave him a glare that clearly said he wasn't helping, before turning back to the begging child.

"Oh pleeeease Sasuke, pretty-pretty-please with strawberries on top!"

Sasuke tried to burn a hole in the offending piece of fabric. The shirt was a: yellow, b: full of dots in mismatching colors, and c: adorned with the large, scarily smiling head of a clown. Sasuke doubted he could search through this store, or any store for that matter, and find something that was less of an eye-sore.

"No" he said again.

Yukio's shoulders slumped, his head hanging low and a heart-achingly disappointed look spreading over his whole being.

"Okay" he mumbled, looking up at the shirt one last time as if to say good-bye.

Oh Naruto thought this was so funny, if only because he'd suffered in this situation many times before and could now finally see someone else fall victim to Yukio's adorableness.

"Dammit" Sasuke swore to himself. "Fine, you can try it on, but that doesn't mean-"

"Yay! I love you Sasuke!" Yukio shouted and grabbed the t-shirt, running off to look for somewhere to try it on.

"Hahaha oh my god Sasuke, you should see your face right now!" Naruto laughed as he watched the shocked expression on the raven.

"Shut up" Sasuke bit out through gritted teeth. "You could have warned me you know."

Naruto walked up to the sulking man, taking a light hold of his thin coat and pulling him closer, smiling against his lips.

"Mm, no I don't think so" he said, his blue eyes sparkling with amusement as they met annoyed dark ones. "This was something you had to find out by yourself in order to grow" he added in a mock serious tone, grinning and ducking when Sasuke tried to hit him over the head.

"Asshole" Sasuke muttered, then hurried after his new favorite dress-up doll, so he could assess the damage the horrible shirt would do to him.

He spotted him just as the kid found the changing rooms, slinking into the narrow corridor before Sasuke could call out to him. Once he reached them himself, he heard an angry voice that made him run the last few steps around the corner.

"What's going on?" he asked, seeing Yukio a few steps away from what appeared to be an angry middle-aged woman in the process of trying out a blouse on her snotty-looking daughter, and by the way it definitely wasn't her color.

The little boy looked very frightened, clutching his clown-shirt tightly to his chest and running over to stand behind Sasuke once he saw him. Sasuke narrowed his eyes at the upset woman, who was wearing a much too thick layer of make-up.

"What's going on?" she answered in a shrill voice. "This little brat here just opened the door while my daughter was changing, you need to keep better track of your perverted brats!"

Needless to say, Sasuke saw red.

"I'd think, that if he really was a pervert he'd peek on someone that was actually worth looking at" he shot back, raising an unimpressed eyebrow when the woman blushed furiously and spluttered indignantly.

"Sasuke?" came Naruto's voice from around the corner a second before the blond appeared, his eyes widening at the scene in front of him. "Is there a problem?" he asked, looking hesitantly between Sasuke and the upset woman.

"Not really" Sasuke said, picking up Yukio and walking past the woman, ignoring her completely.

"Ha!" the woman spat out. "I should have known you were faggots!"

Sasuke froze, then turned around to look at her with poorly disguised contempt.

"No" he said, calmly, "what you should have known is that calling someone a 'faggot' is very insulting, but I'll let it slip this time since you're clearly of such poor educational level that you fail to realize what a bad role-model you are for your daughter, who suffers the risk of growing up to become a just as short-sighted and shallow person as you are, but hopefully she'll instead grow up to write a book about how you ruined her childhood by embarrassing yourself in front of strangers."

Then he turned his back on her stunned appearance again and walked over to an empty booth, hesitating at the door to look back at Naruto.

"Are you coming dear?" he asked, and saw Naruto try hard to hide a smile.

Naruto silently walked past the still gaping woman, her daughter who seemed to be about ten years old was struggling to get her to come back inside so that the few people who had stuck their heads out to stare at them would stop. He felt sorry for the kid, but when he'd entered the small booth and found a silently seething raven and a just as silently crying Yukio all thoughts of pity flew out the window.

"Hey kid, don't cry, it's all fine now" he told Yukio in a reassuring voice, taking him from Sasuke and hugging him close.

Sasuke was mumbling to himself, glaring daggers at the wall as if he could produce laser-beams that reached the annoying woman. Naruto put a hand on his arm, calming him down with a look and making the raven sigh and lean against the same wall he'd just glared at.

"People like that make me lose hope in humanity" he groaned, tiredly rubbing a hand over his face, his other occupied by the bags from the previous store.

"Just ignore her. But I have to say you made an impressive comeback, I bet she won't be able to talk for days."

Sasuke's mouth formed a tiny smile, and he moved his hand from over his eyes to meet Naruto's. Then he frowned and got off the wall, taking a half-step to close the distance between them and watch the still sobbing boy in Naruto's arms with concern.

"Hey Yukio, are you okay?" he asked, putting a hand on one shaking little shoulder.

Yukio nodded against Naruto's chest, sniffing loudly and drying off his tears with his sleeve.

"I'm f-fine" he choked out, straightening up and glancing at Sasuke.

"I think," Naruto said slowly, "that maybe we should take a break and go have lunch instead. What do you say Yukio?"

Yukio nodded, and Naruto sent Sasuke another silencing look when the raven's lips thinned into a line at the thought of stopping. But then Sasuke nodded too, ruffling Yukio's brown hair and smiling at him.

"Sounds good. We'll just get this shirt and continue later."

Yukio nodded again and then buried his nose in Naruto's neck, which made Sasuke throw another bone-chilling glare in the offending woman's direction, before leading the way outside again.

~Line breaker~

Sasuke listlessly speared some salad and chicken with his fork, at least the fast-food restaurant they (Yukio) had picked sold something less unhealthy than the slimy fries Yukio was happily munching on. If Sasuke had been allowed to choose they would have gone to the cozy little Italian restaurant he'd seen a block away as they drove to the mall, but apparently that was both too far away and not suitable for Yukio's delicate tastes. He snorted right before putting the less than adequate food in his mouth and ignoring Naruto rolling his eyes for probably the tenth time in as many minutes. Letting his eyes wander away from the a little too cute sight of his boyfriend wiping some excess ketchup off the kid's cheek he caught sight of two girls sitting two tables away. He didn't even bother reacting to the squealing they made as their eyes met, but he couldn't help over-hearing their not-so-discreet conversation.

"Oh my god he just looked this way!"

"I know, I mean how is it possible to be that handsome?"

"Aah I don't know! But aww that kid is sooo adorable! Just imagine him holding it!"

"Yeah, and doing cute stuff like putting him to bed, or comforting him if he fell down and hurt his knee, or-"

"OH MY GOD I thought the blond was his wife but it's a guy!"

"What? Lemme see!"

Sasuke felt his left eye twitch, seeing the girls straining to get a good glimpse of Naruto.

"Shiiiit he's totally hot too! Oh my god if my parents looked like that I'd just die!"

"Yeah that kid's one lucky bastard! Damn, do you think he's adopted? I mean, I could swear the dark-haired guy was the dad but if they're gay…"

Sasuke's surprised attention was diverted as Yukio held up the small toy he'd gotten with his food, shouting something about how it was going to help him save some princess from a dragon, making Naruto laugh and smile and of course that made Sasuke unable not to smile too.

"Oh my god oh my god did you see that?! I thought my heart was going to stop!"

"I know, that was like, so cute!"

"I can't take this anymore, I want a baby and a sexy husband too…"

The two girls were practically sobbing at this point and Sasuke was one more word from just standing up and shouting that no, Naruto was not his husband and Yukio was not his kid so they could just go take their squealing somewhere else dammit!

"What's wrong Sasuke?" Naruto asked, and he sighed in resignation.

"Nothing" he mumbled. "Nothing at all, just some annoying girls, let's ignore them."

Naruto gave him a surprised look, before sweeping his eyes over the rest of the customers sitting in the quite large restaurant, his eyes landing on the two now close to fainting girls.

"Jeez Sasuke, I thought you were used to this sort of thing?" he commented with a light chuckle, waving at the girls just to piss him off.

"Don't encourage them" Sasuke hissed, but it was already too late and the girls had gone into some sort of giggle-attack, their faces red and eyelashes fluttering.

"But really, you'd think they'd have more common sense than to flirt with someone that's obviously taken."

Sasuke couldn't help liking how that jealous tone sounded, but tried to keep looking disapproving.

Then something insane happened, the two girls made their way over, one of them with a determined look on her face and the other hanging on her arm and giggling hysterically.

"I'm really sorry if we're bothering you" the girl who was able to stand straight started, her friend unable to meet their eyes and trying to hide her face behind her hands."But you're like, the cutest couple we've ever seen, can we take a picture of you?"

Sasuke wondered if he'd ever seen Naruto so shocked before. Yukio was hiding his face against the blond's arm, probably smearing all sorts of grease and salt and ketchup and god knows what on his shirt, and Sasuke decided that even girls were less hurtful to look at than that.

"Thanks, but no you can't" he told them.

The girls looked disappointed, then the giggling one widened her eyes in recognition.

"Oh my god you- y-y-you're Uchiha Sasuke!" she squealed, and Sasuke thought he was going to end up with a killer headache from all the squealing he'd been forced to endure.

"Wow! Can I have your autograph?" the other girl chimed in, all thoughts of the 'cute couple' gone.

"Why would you- I'm not even famous! Now go away!"

He glared at them, watching them flinch with satisfaction. Then they mumbled some sort of apology and walked away, starting to laugh crazily about ten meters from them and running away after one last glance at Sasuke. He groaned in frustration, looking at Naruto to get some pity. But the blond was still gaping after the girls, only collecting himself after maybe a minute.

"I can see now why you didn't want to eat here" he mumbled.

"No Naruto, I didn't want to eat here because of the food, but whatever, can we leave now? We're attracting attention."

When Naruto nodded he breathed a sigh of relief, helping him get everything in order and cleaning Yukio up. Naruto had been right – shopping with a kid definitely wasn't a walk in the park.

~Line breaker~

Naruto walked into their bedroom, finding one sexy raven sitting on their bed that for the moment only consisted of a mattress on the floor.

"Hey handsome" he mumbled, leaning against the doorframe and smiling at Sasuke when he looked up from his book.

"He already fell asleep?"

"The second his head hit the pillow."

He closed the door behind him and walked over to the bed, kneeling on it and continuing up towards Sasuke on his hands and knees. He sat down on Sasuke's lap, no comforter in-between them luckily for Naruto's purposes, and ran his hands through Sasuke's hair.

"You should have reading glasses" he mumbled, and smiled at Sasuke's raised eyebrow.

"And why is that?"

"'Cause then I could take them off before doing this" was the answer as Naruto leaned forwards and captured Sasuke's lips in a heated kiss.

He sucked sensually on the bottom lip, looking into aroused dark eyes with equal arousal.

"Mm, I'm so horny Sasuke" he mumbled into the kiss, moving his hips against the raven's to accentuate his desperation.

"I know" Sasuke groaned in response, slowly dragging his hands up and down Naruto's back before settling just above his ass. "But Yukio…"

Naruto gripped the dark hair harder, tilting Sasuke's head up and licking his throat.

"Is asleep" he finished Sasuke's sentence with. "As long as you're not too loud," he grinned at the raven underneath him, "we should be fine."

Well, Sasuke couldn't deny that he wanted it as much as Naruto did. Not wanting any more unplanned interruptions they'd decided to only order a bed before taking the car to Sasuke's personal tailor, where he'd insisted they bought their New Year's outfits, but it had still been quite the frustrating experience. And it didn't help that he'd had to work during the larger part of the evening either.

"Mm okay" he said, sliding his hands underneath the blond's shirt and feeling the smooth, warm skin.

"Yes!" Naruto cheered, making Sasuke chuckle as he allowed the impatient man to take off his shirt.

Naruto didn't waste any time and immediately started lapping at his nipples, loving how Sasuke arched his back and moaned. It was crazy really, how Sasuke could make him so turned on with just a sound or a touch, or even a look. He rubbed his hands all over Sasuke's chest and sides, biting lightly on one nipple before moving up to nibble on his collar bone.

"Why are you still dressed?" Sasuke mumbled, tugging at his shirt and giving him a pointed look.

"Sorry" Naruto mumbled and sat up, throwing the shirt off and then hurriedly un-buttoning his jeans.

Then he had to lean down again to kiss those alluring lips, he couldn't not kiss them. He played lazily with Sasuke's tongue, humming around it and struggling when his pants caught at his ankles.

"Hurry Naruto" Sasuke breathed, dragging his nails down his back and then throwing his arms around his neck and moaning sinfully.

Naruto sucked in a breath, finally free of all his clothes, and made quick work of Sasuke's remaining ones. Then he snuck one arm underneath the pale waist and pulled Sasuke close, sucking hard on his pulse and leaning on his other arm as he started to grind them together.

Sasuke had relaxed completely, letting Naruto have his way with him, thinking how insane it was that Naruto could call forth such strong emotions in him in the space between two heartbeats. He felt overcome with pleasure, and they'd barely been going for five minutes. He was moaning and squirming and gripping Naruto's shoulders tightly, spreading his legs when he felt Naruto's hands searching for that one secret place that the blond probably knew better than he did himself.

Feeling the finger slipping in he released a gasp, moving against it to try and take it deeper. There was just no way they could ever go this long without sex again.

Naruto on the other hand was finding it hard to wait until Sasuke was ready, all the sounds coming from the raven and the way their bodies moved so deliciously against each other had his head reeling, and he wanted Sasuke now! Everything Sasuke had done today had made him need the raven so bad, wanting to just push him down on one of the beds on display and ravage him right there and then. It really wasn't fair how perfect Sasuke was, even something like interacting with a kid he did almost flawlessly. And it made Naruto breathless and hot all over.

Starting another deep kiss he pushed a second finger inside, Sasuke's hips rising to meet his own in that sensual way that the raven must know drove him out of control. He licked Sasuke's lips before plunging his tongue inside again, muffling the wanton moans continuously produced. Letting go with a shaky breath and hooded eyes taking in the sight of one satisfyingly flushed boyfriend, he stretched out his hand to grab the lube and finally coat himself.

"Naruto" Sasuke groaned, he was panting with his eyes closed, his hands having fallen down on each side of his face.

Naruto didn't know what he wanted to do most right now, take Sasuke's hands in his and lean close to his ear and whisper how much he couldn't live without the incredible man so pleasured by his actions, or simply thrust inside and keep thrusting until they both saw stars.

Primal instinct chose the latter for him, and he lifted the pale legs upwards to get a better angle. Sasuke shouted as he felt the sudden intrusion, Naruto holding his thighs in an iron grip and lowering his head as he tried to not come undone only from this. Then suddenly Sasuke was kissing him again, it was open-mouthed and sloppy and Naruto's head was spinning, from pleasure or lack of oxygen he neither knew nor cared about. He'd started moving without noticing, and Sasuke's legs hooked behind his back to push him in deeper.

He couldn't really think anymore, just move in sync with Sasuke and pray to last longer than a few minutes. He didn't want it to end, not ever, and it was difficult to believe that he had this mind-blowingly sexy person all to himself. That he and Sasuke were together, for real, that they meant more to each other than just your average boyfriend, the kind you have because you've got a crush and it's kind of nice just to have someone close to you.

This was more.

This was everything.

And Naruto was still scared.

~Line breaker~

"Fancy meeting you here" Kakashi said as he joined Naruto outside on the porch.

Naruto snorted. Fancy indeed, seeing as they were currently in Kakashi's and Obito's house for their New Year's party. He rubbed his hands together, trying to ward off some of the cold.

"You know, your puppy is looking for you" the silver-haired man continued, giving Naruto another of those creepy smiles.

"What puppy?" Naruto asked with furrowed brows. "Are you talking about Yukio?"

"Nope, try again."

"Why would you call Sasuke a puppy?"

Kakashi crossed his arms, feeling the cold too.

"Because he looks like one. Aah, to be young and in love again."

"Don't let Obito hear you say that" Naruto warned his boss in an amused tone.

Kakashi waved his comment off, opting to look around the small garden instead.

"Hey Kakashi, there's something I've been wondering…"

"I'm sure there is."

"Haven't you and Obito ever thought of having kids?"

"Of course we have" Kakashi replied, scratching his nose and then glancing at Naruto. "And we're never getting any."

"Because…?"

"Please Naruto, disregarding the incredibly painful lack of sex we'd have, imagine a kid growing up with a dad like me, owning a publishing company for porn."

"So you admit it's porn!"

Kakashi ignored Naruto's exclamation.

"Anyway that's not why I came out here, I just wanted some fresh air."

Naruto snorted again, not believing a word in that sentence. But then he sighed, remembering why he was out here in the first place.

"And that, is exactly why I'm here."

Naruto looked up in surprise at Kakashi's sudden contradicting comment, but scoffed at his knowing look.

"It's none of your business" he mumbled.

"Come on, what's got you all sighing and sulking, Sasuke isn't holding out on you is he?"

When Naruto was silent he continued.

"Ah but your matching outfits were really cute, seems like Sasuke has taken to that little brat."

"It's almost too much really" Naruto said, ignoring the way Kakashi's eyes lit up in victory at making him talk. "The past few days we've done all sorts of stuff for him, like going to the movies, the aquarium, fun museums, you name it we've done it. And you know what the worst part is?"

Naruto gave Kakashi an almost exasperated look, to which the other man responded by a blank listening face.

"I told him he didn't need to do all this, just because I said to him that if he wasn't nice towards Yukio I'd break up with him, and he said, that he knows I want kids in the future so he might as well practice! I mean, how goddamn perfect can he get?! It's just too much."

Kakashi watched the frustrated blond man beside him, thinking he was worried about something very unnecessary, but still putting a hand on his shoulder for comfort.

"Do you know, how I knew Obito was the one for me?" he said slowly, making Naruto look up at him and shake his head. "I don't" he continued, calmly meeting Naruto's dubious eyes.

"What do you mean you don't, anyone can see you two are perfect for each other."

"Ah" Kakashi said, holding up a finger to pause Naruto. "Everyone might know it, and Obito certainly knows it, but I'm still doubting sometimes that I'm what he really needs. After all, I used to be such a douche bag when we first met."

Then he smiled, and it wasn't creepy this time, just comforting.

"But he has that certain way of looking at me, and then I know that we could never be separated. And Sasuke looks the very much same way at you that Obito looks at me."

"What do you mean?"

"I mean, that it's pathetic really to see him wander around without you, like a lost little puppy. So, I offered to find you for him. Now move along or I'm kicking you out, his depressed aura is ruining my party."

And with that Kakashi pushed him towards the door, and despite Naruto's scowling expression he simply pushed him inside the house again and kicked him in the butt, waving at him and then closing the door again.

Well that pervert was just as weird as usual.

Sighing again, but then straightening up he started walking towards the living room where he'd left Sasuke to go get some air. It wasn't that he was feeling down or anything, he just felt a bit, weird, standing there with Sasuke who was carrying Yukio since the child was too shy to stand himself apparently, it had made him feel as if others looked upon them as a family, and as nice as that was it made him nervous. The way Sasuke had started to like his little nephew so much, it made Naruto hear wedding bells in his head and he wasn't ready for that step. Not that he thought Sasuke was about to propose or anything, he just had trouble shaking off that feeling of not being on the same wave-length as others seemed to think he was.

"Finally, there you are" Sasuke's voice interrupted his confused thoughts, and he looked up startled to see his boyfriend walking towards him in the empty hallway.

"I'm sorry, I guess I just got lost in thought."

"Hn" Sasuke said, stopping in front of him and critically fixing his orange bow-tie, matching Sasuke's blue one and Yukio's green one.

"Where's Yukio by the way?"

"He found some kids to play with, seems like boredom was a good cure for shyness."

"Well that's nice."

Sasuke gave him a searching look, then wound his arms around his waist and pulled him close, pressing his lips against Naruto's ear and creating a nice pleasant spark.

"You know, everyone thinks I'm somewhere looking for you, and Yukio is happily occupied, no one's going to notice if we sneak into a bathroom and have some fun."

"I bet Kakashi told you to say that" Naruto chuckled, chuckling even louder at the sheepish look Sasuke tried hard to hide. "But it's still a good idea."

Sasuke smirked at him and took his hand, leading him up a flight of stairs in search for a good spot. Naruto wondered why the house was so large if there was only Kakashi and Obito living there, but maybe they just had all the space so they could get some variation during sex.

The third door Sasuke tried was a success, a fairly large bathroom that looked as if its sole purpose was for shower sex. It was almost embarrassing. Even more so that Obito had followed up Kakashi's suggestion with one of his own, namely accidentally soaking Naruto in some red wine and thus being forced to take a nice long shower. Together of course.

Deciding not to take Obito's advice he pushed Naruto against the door, licking his lips and kneeling on the floor in front of the blond. He nuzzled the still soft length through the fabric of Naruto's dress pants, meeting the anticipation in blue eyes with a predatory look. When Naruto caressed the side of his face with one hand he leaned into the touch, closing his eyes before looking up again with half-lidded ones. He could hear Naruto's breath hitch, and he took the opportunity to open up the pants that were stopping him from doing his job.

Was that the look Kakashi was talking about? Naruto thought, feeling his heart suddenly pounding against his ribs. He remembered feeling once, when they'd had sex right after that terrible dinner party at Sasuke's mother's, as if he was being chained down to the ground, Sasuke holding him there even though at the same time he was flying freely. That feeling, it was something so different from anything he'd ever experienced before.

To trust someone completely.

He swallowed hard, fighting off the loud groaning his vocal cords wanted to do as Sasuke took him in his mouth, looking as if he was enjoying himself immensely. He buried a hand in dark hair, holding on to the surface of the door behind him with the other. Sasuke was too skilled at this, knowing exactly how to make Naruto feel the most pleasure in the shortest amount of time.

And when he'd released, and watched Sasuke dry off the parts of him that had escaped his talented mouth, Naruto made a New Year's resolution for himself.

Next year, and hopefully the one after that, and all the other ones after that, he was going to try his best to love Sasuke with all his heart, and no doubt would come between them and ruin anything.

Yes, he was going to love Sasuke more than anything, and he was going to do it right now.

"Sasuke" he breathed, pulling the raven up and reversing their positions, Sasuke's back slammed against the door and Naruto's body pressing into his. "Sasuke" he breathed again.

There must have been a special look in his eyes, because Sasuke seemed to have lost all ability to speak, his eyes widening and his breathing labored.

"You're mine" he whispered. "You're mine because… because I…"

Trailing off as his lips met Sasuke's, all he could think of was that there was just no way next year wouldn't be perfect.

He'd make it perfect.


Well I'm fairly pleased with it considering writing it hurt like hell... I think there's something wrong with me... I mean, the lemon part was almost too easy to write... What a pervert I am. Anyway, Naruto's prediction might be slightly incorrect... Depends on how you see it I suppose. Next chappy the serious stuff will start again... I'm feeling bad in advance... X) Oh, and those crackish teenage girls... no wait I don't have an explanation for those! I'll just go sleep now.