Chapter 2

The Confession

"Naruto! Naruto!" Sasuke screamed repeatedly. He had lost Naruto, and hadn't seen him in over an hour, and that was enough to do it for Sasuke. He was only able to stay away from him for so long because he was blinded by rage and hatred, but Naruto helped cure that, Naruto wouldn't give up until he brought him back and he did. Now Sasuke was going to do the same. Sasuke continued the search, looking in all of Naruto's favourite places, Ichiraku's, the training grounds (where they had just been), his house, and the new ramen place he wouldn't shutup about.

Sasuke couldn't take it anymore, how could he screw something up so horribly, so soon? Breaking down, he quickly headed to the cherry blossom grove where he would always go to think. He fell onto his knees in the tall grass of the meadow, and cried. Sasuke hadn't cried in a long time, he hadn't had anything come out other than blood recently. But instead of treading on that he cried, and he thought about him, and he cried some more, and he wondered, how could he ruin this friendship, the only thing left in the world that mattered to him, he would rather be friends and conceal the unwanted feelings, than not be friends at all.

Sasuke gasped for an ample amount of oxygen before screaming hard, "God damn it Naruto! This is what I get isn't it?! This is what I get for meeting you! For talking to you! For befriending you! For liking you! For falling for you! This is what I get in the end! But you know what, life isn't fair! In fact life is so unfair that it's taking away the last thing I love! It's taking you Naruto! Life is trying to screw me over yet again, and now I have no one! I always told myself to hate you, to not let my emotions get the better of me, yet here I am! Here I am yelling at myself for being stupid, and arrogant, and- ugggg! And for loving you..."

Sasuke jumped when he felt a gentle and familiar hand on his shoulder, "I guess that's your ninja way, huh?" Naruto smiled. Sasuke pulled Naruto onto his back so that he lay in the long grass. It was windy, and the cherry petals were floating through the air, the sun setting at dusk reflecting off of all the shining leaves. Sasuke crawled over top of him, his hands planted on either side of Naruto's head and his knees placed on either side of his hips. He leaned in and whispered into his ear, "I wish it was that easy... I wish you were that easy..." Before nipping at his earlobe playfully, marking kisses along his jaw to his chin, up to his bottom lip and sucking on it, and placing a firm kiss on his lips. It started out smooth and clean, but grew fast and heated, only pulling away for air.

Sasuke traced his hands sloppily up Naruto's shirt, luckily he didn't have his chest gear on, and felt across his flat stomach, up to his defined chest, then back down again to the waistline of his pants, slipping his fingers under them. "Tell me when you want me to stop..." Sasuke muttered. Naruto just nodded, his cheeks cherry red from embarrassment. Sasuke resided on the fact that this place was completely private and slid Naruto's pants off his waist. He continued by trailing light kisses down his neck and undid his jacket. "Sasuke... I don't want to be the only one undressing," Naruto struggled while trying not to make eye contact.

He took that into account and begun to take off his gray Uchiha jacket, exposing his muscled, porcelain, chest. Sasuke nipped and sucked at Naruto's neck until it bruised, then moved south to nip in between his pecs. He continued to leave several more hickeys trailing down to his v-line. "Are you ready Naruto?" Sasuke asked while reaching for Naruto's last piece of clothing. Again he stayed silent and nodded.

They lay next to each other, completely submerged in the tall green grass, and staring blankly into the starry sky. Naruto lay flat with his jacket draped lazily over his waist, careful not to expose anything, and Sasuke lay similarly, his pants still on his legs, and his jacket bunched up by his head, holding Naruto's hand with his right. Everything was peaceful until their ears rung with another's laughter, unmistakably Sakura's, and small hushes obviously belonging to Sai. They stared at eacother in shock for a moment then horrific fear, thankfully they couldn't be seen through the grass but how would they get out without being noticed? More importantly what are Sakura and Sai doing here at this time? Sasuke peeked his head above the grass to pinpoint their location.

Sai had Sakura pinned against a tree while she straddled his hips and kissed him anxiously. Sasuke's face contorted in horror, and in an instant swept up Naruto and their clothes and booked full speed away. "Sasuke?! Naruto?!" the familiar voice beckoned. He immediately dropped the blonde boy and stood facing Sakura, "What do you want now?" Sasuke played as she approached. "What do I want? I want know what you're doing here shirtless and I thought I saw Naruto, where is he?" she yammered.

"What am I doing here? What are you doing here? And why were you and Sai making out?"he retorted, trying desperately to maintain the act. Sakura leaned in close and whispered, "I know what's going on here, so not a word about this from either of us alright?" Sasuke quickly nodded and picked up Naruto and ran.

Sasuke made it in the door and closed it behind him, luckily they had made it back to Naruto's house with out being seen. "Hey Sasuke..." Naruto started. "If you want you can stay here tonight- I mean I can make a bed for you on the floor!" He blushed. Sasuke just grinned, "I don't mind if you don't."