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Chapter 8

Naruto breathed in deeply and exhaled snuggling up to the source of warmth next to him. Naruto smiled happily. He felt relaxed and happy. Naruto heard a heartbeat and slowly opened his eyes. He tiled his head up to see a pair of black eyes staring back at him with just as much happiness as his held. He felt some fingers run through his hair. Naruto shut his eyes again and relaxed into Sasuke form.

"How are you feeling?" Sasuke's voice asked softly which he continued combing his fingers through blonde locks.

Naruto moved slightly feeling a low ache in his back and a slight sting in his rear but nothing too bad.

"Fine actually."

"Are you sure, I could go get you some aspirin?"

"No. Just stay here and don't move. I'm going back to sleep." Naruto said sleepily.

He heard a slight chuckle and felt Sasuke's chest rise and fall slightly.

"Of course, your comfort comes before my basic human needs." Sasuke felt Naruto smile against his skin.

"Yes it does."

Naruto climbed off of him and rolled onto his back. He looked up at Sasuke with a smile. Sasuke looked back at him and then toward the bathroom before throwing off the sheets with no shame and got off the bed and walked towards the restroom in all his naked glory.

"Meoooowwwwwwww. Daddy likes the view." Naruto cat-called after him.

Sasuke shook his head, "Happy to be present for your viewing pleasure Mr. Snuggles." Sasuke called back with a snicker.

"Nothing wrong with snuggling. You know you like it."

Sasuke reemerged from the restroom. He walked back over to Naruto and the blonde looked him up and down, blue eyes stopping towards the the dark-haired man's mid section.

"How did that even fit." The blonde said with wide eyes.

"Hn. It's not even up all the way and you're impressed by my size. I'm flattered."

Naruto face-palmed.

He felt weight shift on the bed and Sasuke crawled over to him straddling his weight. He grabbed the blonde's wrists and pinned them down on either side of Naruto's face. He leaned in bringing his lips above Naruto's lips. He placed a light kiss on the blonde's lips nipping at the bottom lip.

"You don't regret it do you?" Sasuke asked concerned.

Naruto smirked and shook his head.

"Do you?" Naruto challenged.

"Nope." Sasuke said and sealed Naruto's mouth close with his own.

Once they broke away they gave each other a few lingering kisses.

"So what does that make us now?"

"It makes you mine." Sasuke stated as if it were the most obvious thing in the world.

"Nuh uh. What gives you the idea that I'm yours."

Sasuke let go of his wrists and brought them down to Naruto's ass cupping it and massaging it and he grinded into Naruto's pelvis a bit.

"Because, I'm a possessive bastard and I said so." Sasuke said while kissing the corner of Naruto's lips.

"How about I'll be your's, if you become mine. It's only fair that we both get something." Naruto said with a sly smile.

"I think I can live with that." Sasuke kissed Naruto's full lips. Sasuke wasn't sure when or how but he was pretty sure he'd fallen in love with a mischievous blonde-haired blue eyed angel.

"Alright Teme, off. And go be a good boyfriend and get me ramen for breakfast.

"What is with you and ramen?"

"It's the love of my life. You have to accept that if you want my ass."

Sasuke groaned, "You know, in some relationships that could count as an affair."

"Kind of like you and your tomato's. I've noticed. "

Sasuke laughed and got off his new 'boyfriend'. He rolled onto his back and watched his blonde get up.

He smirked at the slight limp the blonde was sporting. Boyfriends. I guess that's what they were and since he and Naruto had gotten to know each other first, Sasuke wasn't going to have to worry about whether or not they'd get along or if Naruto would annoy him. This could actually work.

Maybe, just maybe Sasuke would get a happy ending after all.

Both boys bathed together in comfortable silence. They'd already seen eachother in the nude all morning, why shower separately when they could just conserve water. And make a certain Uchiha very happy.

"I created a monster." Naruto said while the Uchiha groped him and was feasting on his neck.

"Hn."

"I was thinking about going and seeing the owner sometime this week. Would you like to come and meet her."

Naruto noticed the way Sasuke froze.

"Naruto, there's something I need to tell you."

Naruto pulled out of Sasuke's grasp and faced Sasuke.

If it wasn't for the impending confession Naruto would've laughed at how Sasuke looked. Wet hair, sitting in the tub knees up and a slightly guilty look on his face. And with eyes that showed he was on the defense for a scolding.

"What is it?" Naruto said with a serious expression.

"Remember that first afternoon we went out drinking?"

Naruto nodded.

"You got really drunk."

Naruto blinked.

"And you kind of told me about Mrs. Namikaze and I possibly coaxed her location out of you."

Naruto's eyebrows slowly started to rise.

"Look, I told you I came here looking for help from my family. I didn't know you very well and I wanted to have some sort of security if that makes sense."

Sasuke sighed, "I went and I saw her. I asked for her help. She didn't deny me help, but she hadn't granted it. So I've been biding me time. I don't know what's going to happen."

"What kind of help did you ask for exactly?"

"Honestly, I asked if there was any way she could help me. She said she was in the midst of selling it. She offered to pay for a motel for me to stay at, but I didn't want to impose on her and you'd already said I could stay here while you were renovating. I don't like asking for help Naruto. Not from anyone."

Sasuke dropped his eyes.

'Did Nozomi pull the sale in order to help Sasuke out? Did that make this Sasuke's fault? No, it didn't. That wasn't Sasuke's fault. Nozomi had that right and it was her choice. But still. She had to have motivation in doing so and Sasuke was likely the reason.'

"Teme, thank you for being honest. I'm not mad. She is your family and you have the right to see her and it wasn't fair of me to use her as blackmail even a little. So, I'm sorry. But, I'm now trying to figure out if she pulled the sale because of you."

"I didn't ask for her to pull the sale or even hint at it. I'm not the kind of person to just take something away from another person."

Naruto brought his hands up to his newly acquired basterd of a boyfriends face and made him look him in the eyes.

"I know it's not your fault of anything like that. But for now Teme, I want breakfast. So since you seem to have comfortable placed yourself as the seme, that means, your paying. "

Sasuke nodded. Probably the only down fall to being a top.

Naruto climbed out of the bathroom and sing-songed "Seme Teme" while getting dressed.

"Baka." He sighed under his breath with a smile.

Both men could currently be found back on the deck, one working, the other, being less productive.

They were so close to being finished and the Teme decided his time would be better spent admiring the blonde.

"Just because we are a couple now does not permit you to be lazy."

"I'm not being lazy. I"m thinking."

The blonde dropped his tools and looked at the mischievous dark haired male.

"About?"

"All the possibilities."

From the mp smirk Sasuke gave, Naruto knew saw the dirty implication.

"Get up. Now. Or else I will require two years of courting, formal dates and dinners, you meeting my grandparents, getting them to bless our relationship, an engagement ring, two more years and a wedding before you get to explore all those possibilities."

Sasuke knew the sound of a threat when he heard it. He made a face and got up while the blonde stuck his tongue out in victory teasing.

"Better put that back in your mouth before I give it something to do." The Uchiha growled.

Naruto retracted his tongue before he found out if his new boyfriend would carry out a threat.

Once the deck was more or less built both Naruto and Sasuke walked the house starting from the basement all the way up to the attic making notes and changes they'd like to make on the house. They would run the list by Nozomi before shopping

Naruto had already replaced the electricity without injury so they'd be able to add more lighting and the house would short out from the higher wattage.

The list consisted of measurements of each room and what they'd like to do to it and what furniture would be placed in it.

The basement would for the time being remain empty, the first floor would be converted into a sitting room, give the fireplace an upgrade, they'd mount a T.V on the wall and add some bookcases. The second floor would get painted according to each room and the kitchen would get completely updated. The second floor bedroom would be flipped into an office since it was smaller. The third floor would have the two spare bedrooms painted and turned into guest rooms while the master bedroom would get its own fireplace updated and a t.v. in there.

They both decided to kill sometime by picking out fixtures and paint color swatches for every room. The first floor had been painted and now it was time for the rest of the house. They got their jackets on and exited out the door. Sasuke walked down the front steps first and saw the black car from yesterday parked towards the middle of the street. The engine turned on and the car started to drive off.

Sasuke didn't believe in coincidences like that. He ran down the street after the car and Naruto called after him, but the car ripped out of the street before Sasuke could get close enough to see a driver. He slowed and felt his stomach turn a bit. He sincerely hoped it wasn't who he thought it was. If so, it was a damn omen of things to come and he was not going to let anyone screw up what he had going for him. He was in a relationship with someone he could actually see it working out with, a job that let him live in his family's old house rent and bill free and he was slowly making progress into getting back in school.

He glared harshly at nothing in particular when Naruto had caught up.

"What the hell Teme? What'd you run off like that for?" Naruto asked concern evident in his voice.

Sasuke looked at him breathing heavily, "Naruto did you recognize that car?"

Naruto furrowed his eye rows together before shaking his head. He hadn't gotten a great look at it, but it was too expensive for any of his friends to drive and his Grandparents didn't own any black cars.

"Why?"

" I think someone is following us. I saw that same car yesterday when we were walking home."

On the walk to the hardware store both boys keys an eye out for any black cars with tinted windows. None surfaced, but it kept them on edge.

Naruto reached out and grabbed Sasuke's hand and he saw Sasuke flinch.

"What, not comfortable with public displays of affection scaredy cat?" Naruto taunted.

"No." Sasuke grabbed Naruto's hand and spun him I front of him and kissed him.

Sasuke pulled back with a smirk, "Are you?"

"Bastard. Stop making me feel like a woman!"

Sasuke snickered while Naruto walked off in front of him fuming slightly.

A few strangers stared at the blonde from the sudden outburst.

They returned with a list of items and measurements and the color swatches. They walked hand in hand when they saw a black car drive by, Naruto rubbed the back of Sasuke's hand in reassurance. If someone was watching them, let them. They could watch all they wanted. Naruto didn't give a damn.

"Just calm down Teme, they are simply just jealous they don't have this delectable ass."

Sasuke turned and stared at Naruto before letting his hand go and grabbing Naruto's ass with a smirk and then wrapping his arm around Naruto's shoulders and holding him close.

"If you and I had kids people would die from sexiness overload." Naruto said as if that was a possibility and for all Sasuke knew, it could be.

Sasuke made a coughing noise.

"What. We're you really and ugly child," Naruto did a mock gasp and placed his hand over his chest," maybe you had plastic surgery to look like your great great uncle. You're an imposter."

Sasuke's laughter bubbled up in his chest before some of it came out.

"No, I haven't had any kind of surgery like that. The only surgery I ever had was laser eye surgery which I got in college."

"You used to wear glasses."

"Yes"

" I bet that looked sexy." Naruto snickered.

"Actually it did. But I didn't like having to buy new glasses every year or so I saved up 5 grand and had the surgery. Spent about two days on pain meds and about six months in sunglasses. Definitely a decision I don't regret. The biggest pain in the ass was to not rub my eyes."

"How bad was your vision."

"It wasn't bad. I just needed glasses for reading."

"Wish I could've seen them."

Sasuke smirked a bit.

"Maybe if you meet my older brother he will show you a picture."

Sasuke knew for a fact Itachi had wallet sized school photos in his wallet so everyone could see how "kawaii" his otouto was. It was embarrassing.

Sasuke and Naruto kept walking like that back to the house. They went around and placed the swatches in every room. Once that task was done they listed exactly what color and how much paint every room or area would need. Both boys headed to the kitchen and sat down.

"So what's the dinner plan?" Sasuke asked.

"Mmm, Ichiraku's sounds amazing. And it would be even more amazing if my wonderful sexy strong boyfriend walked over and got take-out" Naruto said over exaggerating compliments and batting his eye lashes.

"Or we can walk over there and my sexy delectable delicious boyfriend can work off that meal before he eats it."

"Ramen isn't that bad for you."

"It's high in sodium and with the quantity you consume you'd have to run around all of Koniha twice before it could count as 'ok' for you." Sasuke said with a slight twitch to his eyebrow.

The image of Mr. Lee popped into Naruto's head.

"Pretty please, you didn't work as much this morning and I'm really tired."

Sasuke was well aware Naruto was ass kissing and was completely full of it.

"And your real motive for asking me to go pick up the food?"

"Don't worry about it. Just go geez." Naruto said laughing.

Sasuke resigned himself to his fate.

"If you want, you could bend over and take it and I'll go get the food."

"Never." Sasuke said daring Naruto to challenge him again.

"It's just a thought. You get so sensitive when it comes to your butt being owned. I let you do me. It's not that bad. It didn't hurt as much as I thought it would."

"That's because I took my time prepping your virgin ass. Which will be pounded into again tonight. Now I have to be a gentleman and get my devious boyfriend his precious high blood pressure waiting to happen."

"Bye Teme!" Naruto called after him.

In reality Naruto honestly didn't want to go back out walking since they'd just gotten back and Ichiraku's came to mind as an afterthought.

Naruto waited about 20 minutes before he got bored. He'd grown accustomed to Sasuke and may have missed him. A small bit. Not that much. But some. Ok ok he missed him. That bastard had clawed his way into his heart and seemed pretty comfortable. After giving a dramatic sigh he went and waited on the steps outside. He would probably go see Nozomi tomorrow. He needed to go over the list with her and ask about the house and its halt in the sale. He didn't feel the need to pester her about Sasuke, he trusted him. Maybe he'd invite the bastard along. He smiled.

He saw two figures round the corner. One was definitely a woman and judging by the figure of the other it was a tall thin man. The girl was stumbling in her heels and was shouting at the man who was shouting back. From where Naruto was he couldn't understand what was being said. They stopped about half way down the streets and the woman did some arm motions and placed her hands on her hips.

Naruto smirked. Women were comical to a point.

"I feel bad for that dude. He's got a crazy one."

Sasuke came back holding a few bowls of ramen and an order of onigiri and an order of sashimi.

His Dobe was going to get fat. Well, it was up to him to make sure he kept the blonde exercised and in shape.

He licked his lips and smirked. After dinner, Sasuke was going to coax the blonde into a wonderful round of playtime and they'd cuddle in front of the fireplace for awhile and then he would give his blonde angel a relaxing massage before going for round two.

Sasuke came around the corner and walked down the middle of the street. He saw two figures to his right, but paid them no heed. He saw his target of future pleasure inducing and he slightly shivered at the memory of Naruto's heat wrapped around his cock.

Naruto watched the sexiest delivery boy on earth walking closer with each step with the most heavenly food on Earth. All of a sudden Naruto saw the woman make a straight line for Sasuke and Naruto got up and started to walk towards Sasuke at a pace. With the recent stalking he wasn't sure he liked this.

Sasuke suddenly found a pair of arms wrap around him tightly before hearing an annoyed sigh. Sasuke saw Naruto in front of him so who the hell had the gall to hug him.

Sasuke turned his head with fire in his eyes and barely restrained anger. His eyes landed on an old acquaintance of his and his eyes dropped and he saw red. Literally.

"Ohh, Sasuke-kun. I've missed you." A theatrical red headed nightmare from Sasuke's hell sobbed.

"How the fuck did you find me Karin" Sasuke all but roared.

"I had you flagged as a missing person when you left. We still have to get married." She was still delusional and psycho.

Naruto had already connected the dots and made a move to calm Sasuke down before his Teme connected his fist to someone's face which wasn't going to take long.

Naruto walked up to Sasuke and put a comforting arm on Sasuke's shoulder.

"Everything alright?"

Naruto took notice of the male standing with a bored expression. "Yo." The stranger said.

"Yes, your assistance isn't required. My fiancée and I will be leaving."

Naruto could hear Sasuke grinding his teeth.

"Now, darling, where is your place. We have some catching up to do." Karin said while walking her fingers up his chest suggestively as she moved to touch his chin and lean in for a kiss he snapped his head to the side in anger.

"To answer your question, he lives with me, in my house, and he sleeps in my bed with me and no, there isn't any room for you. Now we have to go and eat dinner and feed each other romantically licking up up spilt food from each others lips by candlelight. Good bye."

Naruto wretched her arms off of Sasuke and they walked off together. Naruto grabbed bags from one of his hands and they held hands to the door.

Naruto and Sasuke heard the male roar with laughter," Bye Sasuke. See you around!"

Sasuke shook his head and entered the house.

Naruto looked back at the woman. She spelled trouble for them. The man hasn't stopped laughing. He was actually laying in the street. She threw her clutch at him before stomping off. The man got up and gave Naruto a slight salute before walking off still laughing.

"Sasuke you alright?"

Sasuke sat on the couch and shook his head. The food was on the floor abandoned.

"What's going on?"

"I don't know. Karin's been obsessed for years. Suigetsu probably got bullied into coming. But one thing is for sure. "

Naruto looked at him concerned.

"Nothing good can come from them being here." Sasuke held his hands in his head.

Naruto grabbed Sasuke's wrists and straddled his weight bringing Sasuke's head to his chest and he pressed a kiss to the top of his head.

Naruto would stick it out with his new boyfriend. Screw whoever was trying to mess with them. Naruto had determination set in his eyes.