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Soup's On	By : OfFansAndFlames Category: Naruto AU/AR > Yaoi - Male/Male Views: 1793 -:- Recommendations : 4 -:- Currently Reading : 3
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Sasuke dressed himself quietly Monday morning, careful not to awaken Naruto. Karin ran into Sasuke in the hall after first period, giggling as she smiled at him and cast him a wave. Sasuke perked a brow, paying the girl no mind and going about his business. Karin was acting a little flirty today, even by her standards.
When lunch came around, Suigetsu and Karin were the first to sit down, joined by Sasuke and Juugo, then finally Kabuto. However, Karin didn’t even wait for Sasuke’s ass to hit the seat before she started yammering at him.
“So Sasuke, I got your texts last night. I didn’t know you felt that way about me.”
Sasuke deadpanned, staring at the redhead in confusion.
“What?”
“You know,” she laughed, “last night?”
“Haven’t the foggiest.”
Karin giggled yet again, swatting her hand at Sasuke.
“You flirt. You always do this hot and cold thing. You act all distant towards me because you know it drives me crazy. But you don’t have to act anymore! I don’t know what you think, but trust me, you already have me.”
Sasuke rested his head on his left palm, taking a bite of salad as he tentatively regarded the female.
“I think you’re delusional.”
“Oh stop. You know I’d let you do anything to me,” Karin teased.
Sasuke stopped chewing abruptly, motioning to Karin as he addressed Suigetsu.
“Suigetsu, are you really going to let your girlfriend talk to me like that? Have a little pride.”
Suigetsu shook his head, raising both palms to Sasuke to indicate that he was more than comfortable with the matter.
“Nah, man. I saw the texts, and you were totally flirting. But it’s cool. I mean hell, what if we just had a threeway?”
Sasuke momentarily choked on his salad, clearing his throat as Karin stopped dead in her tracks.
“Suigetsu, I have never loved you as much as I love you now.”
This had gone on long enough. Sasuke slid his phone out of his backpack, hiding it in his lap so that a roving teacher wouldn’t confiscate it from him. He waited for it to power on.
“I’m so excited!” Karin practically squealed as she clapped her hands rapidly.
“Aw yeah!” Suigetsu affirmed, leaning into his girlfriend with a grin.
Juugo chuckled under his breath, leaning back in his chair.
“Suigetsu, I never knew you swung that way.”
The phone had finally powered on. He navigated to the “sent” folder, selected, and...
“Oh my god.”
That asshole. It had been Naruto all along. He should’ve expected as much. The guy was obviously a total prankster. He probably didn’t realize what a fine mess he had gotten Sasuke into. As strong as their denial was, those two would take any bait. Hell, Sasuke had indicated interest. By Karin’s standards, this must have meant as much as a solicitation for sex. Or a threeway, as the situation stood.
Unaware of Sasuke’s present revelation, Suigetsu smirked as he replied to Juugo, “Not generally, but for a pretty face like Sasuke’s? Unf. Fucking UNF, I’d take that on my dick any day.”
Sasuke growled at Suigetsu, wanting the guy to just shut the hell up before people heard him, “These aren’t my texts.”
Karin rolled her eyes with a smile on her face, “What did I just finish saying? Stop acting difficult.”
Sasuke shook his head.
“It’s not an act. My friend did this.”
Karin smirked, a “you and I both know” sort of expression on her face, “Because you always have friends over at the crack of dawn on a Monday.”
Sasuke sighed, again pulling the texts up on his phone and handing the phone over to Karin and Suigetsu.
“I have a 4.8 GPA. Don’t you think I could spell the word ‘sweet’?”
Suigetsu raised his eyebrows, looking surprised.
“It’s spelled wrong?”
Sasuke groaned, beginning to lose his patience. He could no longer count how many times he asked himself this question, but why did he bother with them? What else could he say to these two to shake them of their delusions?
Juugo took the phone from Karin and Suigetsu.
“Let me see this.”
He scrolled through the texts for a while. Juugo had always been a slow reader, but he soon began to chuckle.
“This doesn’t even remotely look like something Sasuke would say.”
Suigetsu shook his hands, speaking loudly now.
“Nooo, no. Kabuto, look at this.”
“No.”
Karin lifted up her hand in her aggravation, “Aw, come on!”
Kabuto shook his head, leaning back from the group.
“I am not getting involved in your ridiculous teenage drama.”
The Uchiha frowned while sipping his diet Coke, only now beginning to consume his meal again.
“It’s not drama. I just want these two fuckwits to get a clue and leave me alone.”
Kabuto sighed.
“Fine, if it will get you all to shut up.”
Kabuto’s eyes flipped back upwards in a split second, regarding Karin and Suigetsu with a look of dry annoyance.
“You both are fucking morons. There’s no way this could be Sasuke.”
“Thank you. Now let it go,” Sasuke commanded, glaring at the two. He’d had enough now.
Suigetsu sighed.
“Fine. Like I even cared about it anyway.”
Karin made no such pretense, pouting at the food in front of her and stubbornly refusing to eat.
“Now that the lot of you have had your fun, I have some news for you. I’m having a party on Friday for my twenty-first birthday.”
Suigetsu raised his brows, “I forget how old you are sometimes. But twenty-one? Fucking nice, man!”
Suigetsu raised his hand for a high five, which Kabuto ignored. He apparently didn’t appreciate attention being drawn to the fact that he was a twenty-one-year-old high school student.
“So, are you jackasses coming or not?”
Juugo nodded, Karin and Suigetsu giving a more enthusiastic response. Sasuke paused to consider it for a while, Kabuto staring at him impatiently until he nodded. He couldn’t very well turn down a friend’s twenty-first birthday party.
He suffered through the rest of the day, occasionally fantasizing about wringing a certain idiot’s neck. Well... Even Sasuke had to admit that it had been a little amusing, but like hell was he going to let Naruto know that.
On the way home, Sasuke and his friends stopped by a store just several blocks out of the way. Sasuke didn’t have time to make a large outing of it due to the large amounts of homework he had due the next day, but he figured it couldn’t hurt. He ended up stealing a pair of discounted Ed Hardy sunglasses, which he told none of his friends. Anything nicer had a corded security device around it that Sasuke would need to put a lot of time and effort into removing. Again, he stole without incident, his heart skipping a few beats when walking through the censors. The feeling faded quickly, but at least he really did like the sunglasses. It was nothing he could ordinarily afford.
He placed the sunglasses on the kitchen counter as he entered the door, trudging up to the bedroom and plunking his backpack down.
“Very funny, dipshit.”
Naruto cackled, pointing at Sasuke. His belly was pressed on Sasuke’s bed, the blond facing the door. So finally, his scheming had come to fruition.
“You noticed already?”
Sasuke rolled his eyes.
“As if I had a choice. I had two people clinging all over me half the lunch period thanks to you.”
Naruto raised wheat brows in disbelief.
“Just because of those texts?”
The raven sighed, plunking down on the bed next to Naruto.
“You have no idea how the female mind can work.”
Naruto scrunched his nose.
“Dude, girls are weird.”
A sigh.
“And you happened to pick the weirdest one on my entire contacts list. Congratu-fucking-lations.”
Naruto snickered, scooching over to Sasuke.
“I hope I didn’t cause you too much trouble.”
The younger shrugged.
“It’s fine. They’ll get over it.”
“They?”
Sasuke shook his head.
“The girl’s boyfriend. She showed him your texts, and he wanted to have a threeway with me.”
Naruto’s eyes widened in shock, a momentary pause until he cracked up laughing, kicking his legs spastically. A couple snorts escaped.
“Oh my god. I’m sorry, but that’s hilarious. Is this your typical high school life or something? They never had this on Degrassi.”
Sasuke sighed. He wouldn’t get mad. He had something much better in mind.
“Yeah, laugh it up, dumbass. But you better watch your back.”
Naruto moved back from him, his mouth forming an “oh.”
“Is that a threat?”
Sasuke lowered his head to face Naruto, his language dry, “Naruto, my older brother is a prodigy and on occasion, a blatant asshole. I know how to pull a prank.”
Perhaps it was poor judgment to warn Naruto about this, but his pride had its own say in the matter. Besides, Sasuke could be patient when it suited his purposes. He would wait until Naruto thought he had forgotten about the matter and pounce when the time was right.
“I’ll be ready for you then, Mr. Sex.”
Sasuke smirked, already brainstorming.
“But really, how many apps do you have on that damned thing? I’ve been playing around with it over the weekend, and like... Do you even use them all?”
Sasuke shook his head.
“I only use about half, but most of them were free.”
Naruto kicked his feet lackadaisically, balancing his chin on his palms.
“So what’s your favorite app?”
“Google Sky,” Sasuke responded, needing hardly a second to think it over.
“Well, that was fast. What does it do?”
“You point the phone up at the sky at night. The phone shows some graphics of the stars and the name of whatever constellation you’re pointing at.”
Naruto rolled over, a 180 until he was on his back next to Sasuke, peering up at him enthusiastically.
“That’s so cool! You have to show me now. I won’t let you back out of it.”
“You’re an astronomy buff too?”
Naruto nodded quickly.
“I suppose I could take a study break.”
Naruto grinned.
Sasuke didn’t have much time to spare tonight. He refused to halfass his homework, so he worked without breaks for several hours on end. He had always had a long attention span and outstanding discipline when it came to schoolwork. However, it seemed like however far he worked ahead, the work kept on piling up. With his community service, his social life, and all of his honors and advanced placement classes, it was sometimes like trying to row up a waterfall.
He waited until the neighbors’ lights were out. He lost no sleep over this, given that he still had several more hours of work to do. Naruto, again, had politely entertained himself with other endeavors, munching on a bag of Skittles.
“C’mon. Let’s take that study break.”
Naruto was at his feet in an instant, like a dog being taken on a walk. He’d clearly been eager, though he’d done a decent job of hiding it up until now. Sasuke grabbed a pair of black thin-rimmed glasses, tucking them on his face as he stood.
“I never knew you wore glasses,” Naruto smirked.
“Only for stuff like this.”
Stars were minute things, after all. Little pinpoints against a sea of black, and if Sasuke were to truly study them, he needed his vision sharp. Naruto smiled back at Sasuke. The glasses had a way of transforming his entire face, it seemed, making him look several years older. Considering how rarely Sasuke wore them, Naruto assumed that he was one of the few people to see him with them on. As trivial as this seemed, it made him feel special.
Sasuke took them to the front of his house, both of them sitting next to each other on the stoop. Their bodies touched, which was necessary. Sasuke could not very well show Naruto a display on something as compact as a phone screen from a distance.
Sasuke powered on his phone, pointing it at a random constellation. He wasn’t able to get out so much as an utterance before Naruto jerked the phone off him, looking all around the sky with a big grin on his face. Originally taken aback by Naruto’s pushiness, he leaned back and watched Naruto’s face as the light of the screen reflected against it. It was difficult to be annoyed with him when he looked like this, and Sasuke found himself reserved to a mild smile.
“This is awesome!”
Naruto moved the phone around quickly and haphazardly, the graphics blurring as the star patterns spun across the screen.
“What... How does this even work?”
Naruto gestured wildly, the phone’s screen flickering black and white.
“The phone has a compass and a GPS, and it knows the time. That’s all you need to know where the constellations will be.”
“How did I not know about this?!”
Sasuke shrugged.
“Well, you didn’t know about nyan cat either.”
“Maybe I was better off that way. Two hours, man...”
“Three,” Sasuke responded flatly.
Getting his fill, Naruto slowed his movements and tilted the phone slightly.
“Oh, Pisces. Isn’t that the fish sign on the zodiac? Ya know, that looks nothing like a fish to me.”
Sasuke leaned back, looking at the screen with Naruto.
“It’s actually two fish, tied together by a string at the end of their tails.”
Naruto opened his mouth slightly, looking skeptical.
“Seriously. It’s a Greek myth. Aphrodite and her son, Eros, turned themselves into fish to escape the fire god. Then the two of them were tied together to make sure they didn’t lose each other during the escape.”
Naruto was silent now, listening to Sasuke speak intently. Sasuke had told Naruto that he was interested in things like chemistry and anatomy, but he had never heard Sasuke actually speak about them. It was rare to see him engaged in much of anything, and it made Naruto feel lucky to see it.
“You’re such a nerd, Sasuke,” he grinned.
The other snickered.
“There are worse things to be.”
“It still doesn’t look like fish,” Naruto added.
“Don’t ask me where they got it.”
Naruto moved the phone over, pointing at the Little Dipper.
“So, why’s the app calling the Little Dipper Ursa Minor?”
“It’s Latin for little bear. The Big Dipper is Ursa Major.”
Naruto scrunched his brows together.
“Big bear?”
The other nodded.
“I can see them being dippers, but not bears.”
Sasuke pointed at the screen.
“It’s kind of a stretch, but the tip of the handle is supposed to be the tail, and the square part is the body.”
Naruto chuckled.
“I’d rather it be a fox. That works just as well.”
Sasuke squinted through his glasses, taking a better look at it.
“The body is too thick for that.”
“But the tail is too long to be a bear. It’s the Little Fox to me now. I’m my own astronomer.”
Sasuke rolled his eyes.
“Alright, it’s a fox. See, there’s Polaris, at the tip... The bear’s...the fox’s tail is the North Star.”
“I thought that sounded familiar.”
Naruto stared at the phone for a while before asking, “So all the constellations move over the year, right? Then what did sailors do when the North Star went over the horizon?”
Sasuke shook his head.
“No, that’s the thing about Ursa Minor. It’s positioned so that unless you’ve got some bigass mountains, it never goes over the horizon. We’ll lose Ursa Major though in a couple months, over that big hill there.”
Naruto was gazing at Sasuke, utterly content. If he didn’t know better, it seemed like there was a smile on Sasuke’s face, or even in his voice when he talked. It was faint, and he could have well been imagining things. But when he talked about things like this, Sasuke seemed different. The blond felt like he was learning an entirely new side of him.
The blond was a little embarrassed about the way he was feeling right now. He felt light, and his heart seemed unable to decide on a tempo. Was he seriously getting flutters in his stomach while looking up at the stars with this guy? Could he possibly get any more cliche? Regardless, he leaned into Sasuke, resting his head on his shoulder.
Sasuke’s posture straightened as Naruto lopped against him. His eyes darted, unable to see Naruto’s face from this position. He sat for a few seconds, neither moving nor shooing the other away. Finally, he exhaled deeply, letting his neck relax as he lay his head against Naruto’s.
The Uchiha hadn’t expected his body to react this way. He felt a little dizzy, gripping the brick stoop with his other hand. He’d done something like this before, when he’d allowed Naruto to sleep against him on the bus. But he hadn’t reciprocated, and Naruto had been unconscious. However, this wasn’t a private act.
Realization smacked him upside the head. He would make out with girls at parties, and sometimes he’d even go farther than that if the situation was right. That felt good too, but it was entirely different. For Christ’s sake, the only thing they were doing was lying against each other. There was only one reason an act so mild would affect him this much. Whatever Naruto was feeling for him... It had to be mutual.
Sasuke willed his body to relax, keeping his breathing deep. He loved this, and he hated it. He loved feeling so different, so unburdened. This was one of those seldom times when he didn’t feel alone. Even before his parents, he hadn’t felt this way around anyone. But moreover, it frightened him. One more person to love means one more person to lose. Not necessarily to death, of course. From the start, both of them knew that this arrangement wouldn’t last. Maybe this was why despite everything, his chest felt tight.
They sat for several minutes together, until Sasuke’s tailbone started to ache from the hard brick pressed against it. He yawned, the lulled mood tempting him to sleep. Of course, he couldn’t do this. He had far too much work ahead of him. Naruto’s breathing had, likewise, become long and calm.
“I better get inside. I have a few more chapters to read.”
Sasuke sat upright, Naruto taking his head off of his shoulder.
“Right.”
The two stood, dusting off their pants as they entered the house. Naruto messed around with Sasuke’s computer as Sasuke propped his head up against the wall with a pillow, engrossed in his history book. Sasuke tried to immerse himself in the words, all the facts that seemed so mundane to him. He had to focus, and he didn’t want to think about his newfound emotions.
Interested in a change of scenery and a late night snack, Sasuke moved down into the kitchen. He grazed at a small bowl of cereal as he highlighted his textbook. Around one in the morning, the garage door opened. Itachi had finally come home. Itachi joined Sasuke in the kitchen, pouring himself a glass of orange juice.
“Hey, Sasuke.”
Itachi’s voice sounded hoarse as he spoke. Perhaps he had caught a cold or some other sort of bug, as he had been prone to do lately. Itachi’s eyes took in the sunglasses on the kitchen counter, lifting them up. Sasuke bit his tongue, but otherwise seemed utterly unchanged.
“These are some nice shades, Sasuke.”
“Thanks.”
Itachi noted the price tag on the side, something to the tune of forty-five dollars.
“How’d you afford these?”
Sasuke didn’t like where these questions were headed, but he kept his voice level.
“A friend gave them to me.”
“They left the price tag on?”
Of course, Itachi was as perceptive as ever.
“I was there when they bought them, so there was no point in taking it off.”
Itachi placed the glasses down silently, staring down at the kitchen counter as he stood. Sasuke continued to read, as he had been doing.
“Sasuke... I hate to ask you this. But I’ve been noticing that you’ve been getting a lot of new stuff lately, and I haven’t been giving you any money.”
How could he even know, as rarely as he was home? Did the guy have his wardrobe memorized or something? Knowing Itachi, he could probably do something like that without even trying. He had a memory like a steel trap. Sasuke didn’t look up from his book and took care not to slow his movements.
“Whatever you say, I’ll believe, because I trust you. Sasuke, look at me.”
Reluctantly, Sasuke dropped his highlighter and looked up at his brother, doing his best not to look like a cornered animal. The sunglasses and the necklace were only two things among several that he had taken. He just hadn’t expected Itachi to put it all together, or even notice. His mistake.
“Because I trust you, it’s really important that you’re honest with me when you answer.”
He focused on his own facial expressions, his body language. He had to stay cool, just like he did when he passed by the security censors. He knew where this was headed. He didn’t want to answer Itachi’s questions. He just wanted to go up to his room and finish his homework. He wanted out of this situation. After Itachi had put so much effort into Sasuke’s verdict, keeping his record clean, how could he turn around and do this to Itachi just months later? He didn’t know how he’d even face him.
“Have you been shoplifting?”
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