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Constellations (complete)	By : momhuey8 Category: Naruto > Yaoi - Male/Male > Naruto/Sasuke Views: 1362 -:- Recommendations : 1 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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Naruto sighed when he felt the shower door open behind him. He knew it was Neji, had felt the brunette’s intent for this all day. He turned with a smile plastered on his face.
“Hi. What’s up?”
Neji studied him for a moment and then reached up and placed his hands on Naruto’s chest.
“I’m not here to murder you in the shower, Naruto.”
Naruto realized his eyes were squeezed shut and he was holding his breath.
“Neji…”
“Don’t worry, Naruto. I came here to talk to you alone. May I speak freely?” When Naruto nodded warily, he continued. “I am very concerned about stealing your happiness. You’ve been very vocal that you want me here, but in truth, I believe you do not.”
“That’s not true. I do want you here, very much. I need you. We need you.”
“I sense that he wants me, but does not need me. And you need me, but do not want me. Perhaps you need me because he wants me?”
Naruto looked down at his feet and toed the puddles by the drain. After a moment he looked back up at Neji.
“One of the things that I admire and respect about you is the way you really see people,” Naruto said. “You were right when you told Sasuke that I live for his happiness.”
Neji raised a brow. He wondered what else Naruto had overheard in the hospital.
“You make him feel secure,” Naruto said. “Happy.”
“No. You make him happy,” Neji said.
Naruto nodded. “We both do. Maybe that’s okay.”
“Maybe, but neither of you really need me.”
“He does. He loves you.” Neji opened his mouth to argue, Naruto interrupted. “He does. Do you think he opens like this to everyone? It’s hard for him, but he’s shown you parts of himself that he’s only shown to one other person. In some ways, he’s shared with you more than he’s shared with me. I don’t think he’d ever show me the fear he’s shown you.”
Neji stared at his feet for several moments, thinking Naruto was awake in the hospital much more than they knew.
“If what you say is true, I’m surprised you can live with that.”
Naruto’s face softened. “Sasuke has the most fragile heart in all of Konoha. He pieced it back together after his family died and then he pieced it back together again after Itachi came back and made him relive it. I don’t know how many times a person can survive having their heart torn to pieces, but now that he’s patched it all back together, he’s given the whole thing to me.”
Naruto’s face suddenly looked fearful.
“Did you see what happened after the thing with the villagers?” Naruto asked in an anxious voice. “I’m terrified for him. I can’t hold his whole heart. He won’t survive when I’m gone. And he’ll live in ever growing fear until the end.”
“If.”
“Huh?”
“If you’re gone before him. You might be here another fifty years.”
A flicker of irritation crossed Naruto’s face and Neji felt he’d somehow added to whatever burdens Naruto already carried.
“It won’t be fifty years.”
“You seem sure of this.”
“You know as well as anyone that there are eight other demons. All of the other vessels, with the exception of Gaara, are dead, and he’s only here because someone else died in his place.” Naruto rubbed his face. “For Sasuke’s sake, I probably never should have gotten involved with him.”
“I see,” Neji said. “I understand why you want me here. You want a piece, if not all, of Sasuke’s heart held elsewhere if you die.” Another flicker of irritation crossed Naruto’s face, but he nodded.
“I wonder how you’ll feel watching me put my hands on the love of your life for the next several decades.”
Then he saw it; the mask. Naruto’s expression transformed into a leering grin. “You never know, I might actually learn to like it.”
Neji realized that Naruto had completely pulled away. If he thought Neji was not going to take his concerns seriously, he wasn’t going to be serious.
“You see very clearly below Sasuke’s layers. I wonder if he sees below yours.”
“He can see my layers or whatever you want to call them just fine. He can handle them. It’s the truth he can’t handle.” His face fell and he sighed tiredly. “Maybe no one can.”
With that tired sigh, everything fell into place in Neji’s head. Sasuke would never acknowledge the constant threat to Naruto’s life. He’d blind himself with a sharp stick before looking at it. So Naruto had no one to lean on. He shouldered his particular burdens alone.
Neji didn’t think that Naruto would admit that was why he needed Neji; Naruto never leaned on anyone. But at the very least, he didn’t need the added burden of maintaining illusions for Neji as well as Sasuke.
What Naruto needed was an ally, both physical and emotional, in his fight with the demon, with those who would take the demon for their own purposes, and with those who would see him dead simply for housing the demon.
“Okay, Naruto. I will help you hold Sasuke’s heart for whatever comes from the battle with and for Kyuubi. But you now have two arrogant, single-minded…assholes…trying to rearrange your constellations. Don’t be surprised if you find that they shift.”
“What if they don’t?” Naruto’s face was impassive.
What answer did Naruto need? What answer could he honestly give?
“Then I will miss you. You are my dearest friend and I love you. And if the future goes the way you think it will and we can’t change it, I will stand up for Sasuke and I will miss you.”
“Neji, thank you.” Naruto wrapped his arms around Neji and sighed. “Please stay.”
Neji pulled back.
“There is a price. In return you have to share everything with me.” Naruto rubbed the back of his neck and scrunched his shoulders.
“Not that. We’ve already established where we stand there.”
“That could be a problem.” Naruto sighed. “If Sasuke thinks he’s the only one that wants you that way, he could ask you to leave.”
“What do you suggest?”
Naruto fidgeted for several moments, silent.
“I can do anything for him.” He looked at his feet again. “Even pretend…or…put on a show.”
He winced and covered his face with his hands. “Gods, Neji, I’m sorry. You don’t deserve this.”
“We will have to be convincing.” Neji ignored Naruto’s apology. “Sasuke is proud. He won’t stand for being manipulated or deceived.”
Naruto leaned in and pressed his forehead to Neji’s with a sigh.
“Naruto, this arrangement has much to offer me; a passionate love, a dear friend, a future that I thought was impossible before this week.” He touched Naruto’s cheek. “A family of my own.”
Naruto smiled, “Don’t forget, fucking like bunnies.”
Neji nodded and rubbed his ass cheek. “Indeed.”
Naruto laughed. “You know, he does like both positions.” He leaned in and continued, “In fact, he really likes being dominated.”
Neji’s look indicated that he patently did not believe that.
“Seriously. I wouldn’t lie to you about that.”
Neji looked unconvinced.
“Honest. You could always try it and see how it goes.”
“I don’t know him that well yet. I don’t trust my ability to read him. If I did try something like that, how would I know if he liked it or not?”
“He’s very subtle,” Naruto said gravely. “You would have to use all your powers of observation. An example would be…” Naruto looked thoughtful and tapped his lip with his fingertip. “If you found yourself on your back with his dick up your ass, he wasn’t in the mood. The clue would be the kunai at your throat.”
At Neji’s alarmed look, he added, “Or if you found yourself on your knees with his dick down your throat, he probably wasn’t in that kind of mood. The clue in that case would be a fistful of your hair in one hand and the Chidori in the other.”
Humor had replaced the uncertain look on Neji’s face.
“He can be hard to read, but he will keep giving you clues if you look carefully. If you wake up in the hospital with his dick up your ass…” Naruto shrugged. “Well, you get the idea.”
Naruto grinned at Neji and then blinked, unable to read the look on his face. “What?”
“Passion, humor and a well of love so deep, you can’t see the bottom.” He held Naruto’s hands. “If I had such a thing, I don’t know if I’d share it.”
“Under normal circumstances, I don’t know if either of us would. And I kind of feel bad, because we are both using you, for different reasons. But if you and I keep a certain distance, you can have an amazing life with him. You and I just can’t get any closer.” Naruto shrugged.
“It’s too late for that. You have already agreed to my price.” Naruto leaned away and Neji followed. “I will try to help protect his heart, but you have agreed to let me help you carry your burden.”
“You can’t help me carry my burden,” Naruto sighed in exasperation. “Don’t you get it?”
“Alright, I misspoke. You have agreed to let me help you so you can carry your burden more easily.”
“I don’t understand.” Naruto sounded exhausted. “What do you want from me?”
“I want nothing from you. I would ask that I be allowed to give something to you. I want you to talk to me. Share with me your fears and your doubts, and your strategies and plans.” He gripped Naruto’s arms. “Give me the things you can’t share with him. So that you are not alone in this.”
A vista opened before Neji. For a time he had felt like an interloper. But now he saw that this little family did need him. Their burdens were overwhelming and he could help them.
In return, he would have a family of his own and love from both men, albeit in two different forms. Indeed, he had a passionate lover as well as a devoted friend. And he could have a purpose. An important purpose that filled him with a strength he didn’t realize he had. In fact, at this moment, he felt stronger than these two men, the most powerful ninja alive.
Sasuke had brought him here to give Naruto an abundance of love and happiness; and ties to life. He, irrationally, hoped that if he gave the blond enough reasons to live, he would live.
Naruto wanted Neji to give Sasuke reasons to live after he was gone. Whether he would really die young or not was irrelevant; the point was that Naruto truly thought he would.
As he looked at these two desperate men, he envisioned a hideous outcome. Excruciating pain could easily be coming their way. He wanted to wrap the truth in a thick ball of denial as Sasuke had, but he realized he had become the key to the happiness of these two people. And he felt equal to it.
He slid his hands down and cupped Naruto’s hand.
“Naruto, you understand that love isn’t about what you receive, it’s about what you are able to give. Let me to hold and protect this.” He hefted the hand. “Allow me give that to you.”
“Neji…” Naruto smiled softly, pushing the fingers of his free hand into the hair at Neji’s temple.
“Mmm. My two favorite men. And they’re naked.” The pair had not heard Sasuke come into the bathroom. “And it looks like I’m here just in time.” He crossed his arms. “Don’t let me stop you. I’ll just watch.”
Naruto snorted and pressed his forehead to Neji’s.
“I have the most amazing luck.” Neji knew that Naruto was referring to bad luck, but that Sasuke would take it another way. He started to say something to stop this when Naruto gripped his head in both hands and gave him a brain melting kiss.
His mind cleared and heat built around him as he dangled from Naruto’s lips. Naruto pulled back after several long moments.
“You really have no idea what you’re in for, Neji. If you did you’d be running for your life.” Sasuke had Naruto’s arm over his shoulder and was helping him to the bedroom while towing Neji along by the elbow.
At Neji’s blank look he snickered. “Wait until the day he brings home two milkmaids and a goat and says “party’s on!”
Neji’s eyes cleared and he looked from one to the other. Finally he looked at Sasuke, “He’s not serious is he?”
“Absolutely not. I’d never bring home milkmaids.” Naruto snorted in laughter.
He looked to Naruto then, “Is he joking?”
“No.” Naruto’s eyes twinkled. “He wouldn’t bring home milkmaids.” Then he took pity on the uncertain look on Neji’s face and plundered his mouth again, determined to make the best of this, listening for the hitches in Sasuke’s breath and catching the scent of his arousal.
“Someone is going to get their brains fucked out,” Naruto growled. “Is it going to be you or is it going to be me?”
“Actually, it is going to be him.” Neji pointed to Sasuke. “Naruto, if you will assist me, I would speak with him about the pain in my ass.”
“I have to go.” Neji’s voice was sleep roughened. Sasuke stretched on top of him and rubbed his cheek against the smooth chest. Then he rolled to the side so Neji could get up.
“What time did Naruto get up?”
When Neji didn’t answer, Sasuke rubbed his eyes and looked up. Neji was midway pulling on pants. “He didn’t sleep with us.”
Sasuke stiffened. Then he rubbed his face with both hands in agitation. “God damn it.”
Neji moved to gather the pile of his things that had begun to accumulate in the corner of the bedroom. This wasn’t part of the deal. He hadn’t expected Naruto to shove him and Sasuke together and then separate himself.
“Wait.” Sasuke stood and intercepted him.
“I will not come between you.”
“You aren’t. You can’t.” He looked fierce. “I wouldn’t let you.”
“My first priority is Naruto and the relationship he has with you.”
“You can’t hurt that. You can only make it better. I’ll talk to him.”
Neji looked uncertain.
“I want you here. He wants you here. It’s just going to take some time to work out the kinks.”
Neji was still silent, unmoving. Sasuke moved into his space and ran his hands over his naked torso, tangled his fingers in the hair swirling around his chest.
“You are so fucking gorgeous,” Sasuke said in a husky voice, his eyes following the path of his fingers.
“Your physical attributes stimulate me, as well.”
“I love it when you talk dirty.” Sasuke’s lips twitched.
Neji tilted his head and pushed a lock of hair off Sasuke’s brow. “Passion, humor and a well of love so deep you can’t see the bottom.”
“Yes, he’s…”
“Not him.” Neji stroked a fingertip along Sasuke’s jaw. “You.”
Heat built in Sasuke’s eyes. “Come back after your shift.”
“Let’s leave it up to him, shall, we?”
It didn’t take long to find Naruto; he was sitting on the roof watching the sun finish its appearance over the horizon.
Sasuke crawled into Naruto’s lap, wrapping his legs around the hard torso, his arms around the strong neck.
“He’s gone.”
“What time will he be back?”
“He’s not coming back.”
“What?” Naruto looked alarmed. “Why not?”
“You tell me. Explain to me what last night was about and you’ll be getting close.”
“I wasn’t tired.”
Sasuke just looked at him, his lips pursed, waiting.
“Okay. It’s just that I’ve had years to build a bond with him, and I thought I’d give you two a chance…”
Sasuke sighed and rolled his eyes.
“Let me know when you plan to get somewhere near the truth, okay?”
“That is the truth.” Naruto defended.
Sasuke tilted his head and studied his lover. “Maybe partially, but mostly bullshit. You’re trying to allow him and me to build a bond that you haven’t built with him yet? Do you think I’m stupid? Do you think I don’t know you?”
“We’ll meet him tonight and get him back.” Naruto ignored Sasuke’s observations.
“No.”
“Don’t you want him here? I thought you and he...” Naruto shrugged.
“I wouldn’t mind exploring this. But not if he comes between us.” Sasuke arched a brow. “If you put him between us.”
“That’s not what I was trying to do.” Naruto sighed. “It’s just I can see you’re attracted to him...care for him. And I’d do anything for you, give anything to you.” He pressed his lips to Sasuke’s. “If you wanted that mountain, I’d grind it to dust and put it in a small box to keep under your pillow.”
“Well, then it wouldn’t be a mountain anymore, would it? It would be dust.” Sasuke smirked.
“Tch. Jerk. You know what I mean.”
“Naruto, if I wanted a mountain, I wouldn’t want you to turn it into something else. And I don’t want a mountain if giving it to me crushes you underneath it.” He threaded his fingers through the blond strands at Naruto’s temples. “I would like to try this with Neji. The idea of a larger family appeals to me. But if he started to come between you and me, I’d carry him bridal-style up to the head of the Sandaime and toss him over the edge.”
“You are such a romantic bastard.”
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