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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 stood against the wall, towel and a change of clothing in hand, waiting for Neji to come out of the bathroom after his shower. The door finally opened and Neji stepped out and stopped in front of Naruto with a towel wrapped around his waist.
“How are you feeling? After your shower, I can give you a nap until the baby wakes up.”
Naruto felt a surge of affection. Neji was always so considerate, always putting Naruto first.
“We’ll see. You do so much for me already.”
“It is my pleasure to do so. But if you want it, you have to take it now. Hinata is coming home with the children and staying for dinner.”
“That’ll be great. The boys have been dying to show her the snake they found.” He grinned. “She’ll be thrilled.”
Neji wondered if Naruto was aware that he had placed his hands on Neji’s hips. That Naruto’s fingertips were unconsciously tracing small circles on his ass cheeks.
Actually, it had changed years ago. Not long after he’d moved in, he felt Naruto start to slip unconsciously into something closer, but he always realized and then pulled back and, having agreed to his request to keep a certain distance, Neji had let him.
Neji realized that he’d forgotten the lesson Sasuke had taught him years ago about the perils of holding back. Who was this arrangement, as it stood, benefiting? Neji had agreed because Naruto had asked. But Naruto had done it for Neji’s sake.
Neji suddenly felt ashamed about the wasted years. He’d let Naruto choose for him but it never should have been Naruto’s choice. All these years, he could have been giving even more to the man he loved.
Naruto chattered away about Hinata’s visit. When he stopped talking, Neji, hmm’d absently and then leaned and pressed his lips to Naruto’s.
Automatically, Naruto’s lips parted and allowed Neji entrance with a needy whimper. After several seconds, Neji finally pulled back and brushed his fingers over the front of Naruto’s shorts.
Naruto looked down at the erection obvious in his pants.
“Huh.” Naruto rubbed the back of his neck. “When did that happen?”
“Shortly after I moved in?”
“Hmm. Looks like my secret’s out.”
“You just lost your chance for a shower and a nap.” Neji grasped Naruto’s head and glued their lips together. Without breaking contact, he guided them to the bedroom and pushed Naruto onto the bed. He tossed his towel to the floor and crawled in beside him.
Naruto participated eagerly in their mutual explorations. It was all very familiar, but satisfyingly new. Finally he let go of Neji’s neck long enough to rasp, “Tell me what you want.”
“Let me in.” Naruto understood the double meaning in Neji’s request. This was not a performance for Sasuke. This was just the two of them. Naruto nodded and answered, “Yes.”
Later they lie on their sides facing each other. “I’m sorry I made you wait.”
“I’ve waited for nothing. I’ve had everything my heart desires since that day in the hospital when you two pulled me into your arms.”
The door opened and Sasuke came in. Naruto reached out a hand, still gazing at Neji.
“Hey, bastard,” he whispered. “I love Neji.”
Sasuke crawled onto the bed to lie behind Neji, resting their cheeks together so they were both looking at Naruto.
“Me, too.” He rubbed his cheek against Neji’s and sighed. “This is how I like to come home.”
Neji and Naruto looked at each other. Sasuke didn’t even realize that he’d never come home to this before, that his two lovers had never been together without him in their years together.
Naruto looked at the faces gazing at him, those beautiful, dear faces and felt his heart swell.
Neji, who saw each of them with an intense focus, who looked deep and tried to walk in their footsteps and truly understand them. Neji, who knew each of them better than they knew themselves.
Sasuke, with the heart of a clan leader, who didn’t have the depth of insight that Neji had because his senses were spread further abroad. He was always taking the emotional temperature of his loved ones, ready to spring into action the instant he sensed the tiniest cloud marring their skies. Sasuke, who continuously scanned the world, looking for ways to rearrange it to please his family.
Naruto reached out and spread his fingers so that he could touch both sets of lips. He marveled at the love he saw shining from their eyes, for him.
“God damn, but I’m the luckiest man alive.”
“Perhaps Sasuke could give you that nap? Maybe you could finish the baby’s nap with him?”
Naruto’s face lit up and Sasuke got up. He held his hand out. “Come on, Dobe.”
Sasuke pulled Naruto into the baby’s room and pointed to the spare bed against the wall. He moved over to the crib and after lovingly smoothing the silky blond curls on the tiny skull, gently picked the baby up and placed him on Naruto’s chest. Just as Naruto got comfortable, a look of pure bliss on his face, Neji’s one year old daughter, the only other girl besides Naruto’s twin, slid out of her bed. Rubbing her eyes, she toddled over and tried to crawl up with Naruto. Sasuke picked her up and she immediately tucked herself onto Naruto’s shoulder and returned her thumb to her mouth.
When Sasuke finally sat on the edge of the bed and put his hand on Naruto’s seal, he saw Naruto staring at the ceiling, blinking hard. In spite of his efforts, a tear slid down his temple into his hair.
Sasuke wiped at the wet track and caressed Naruto’s cheek. Naruto looked at him, his smile watery.
“Never think that I have a single regret. No man could ever have more than I do.” He then closed his eyes and drifted to sleep, a smile on his face.
Without conscious thought, Naruto changed his and Neji’s relationship. Whenever he was close enough, he reflexively reached out and touched Neji’s hair or brushed his fingers down a pale arm.
Then one day he was particularly tired from holding in the demon. He was feeling the number of his days and it hit him. What the hell was he doing? It suddenly seemed downright cruel to foster an even deeper relationship with Neji when his time was growing so short. He pulled back and before long, Neji blocked his path through a doorway one day.
“How are you feeling today?” Naruto knew Neji’s detention for the opening gambit that it was.
“Neji, I feel really bad about all of this. I’m not being fair. I shouldn’t have let things change.”
“You have changed nothing. I loved you before. I love you now. But now I am able to give this to you.” Trust Neji to take the burden of the change on himself.
“You carry such a load for me.”
“You carry the burden of the world.” Neji grasped Naruto’s hand and hefted it as if weighing it. “I only carry this.” He squeezed it. “It is not heavy.”
“Are you going to be okay?” Naruto’s voice broke.
“He will fall apart, so I will not.”
When Naruto was tired, he was at his weakest. His mind would fill with the broader perspective and the stark lack of progress. Hopelessness and despair would follow soon after. Like now.
But Neji was a master at understanding Naruto’s mind. He knew that Naruto was overwhelmed, weighed down by the large and small details. His mind was being crushed thinking about teams and toads, about past, present and future enemies, about plans already underway and plans yet to be devised. His heart was aching thinking about his children, about first steps and first words, about time wasted and time well spent, and about futures that he didn’t believe he’d get to see. His mind was spinning and his back was breaking.
At these times, Neji would talk, narrowing Naruto’s focus to days or hours, or even minutes. He would engage Naruto in, not the whole plan, but the next single step. Or an activity. He pulled Naruto into the kitchen then piled vegetables and a knife before him. He handed Naruto a small card.
“It’s been a while since we made this. The recipe is here.”
Naruto stared at the card unseeing for many moments, but Neji just kept at his own task.
For a while, Naruto stared at the pile of vegetables, still seeing much of the desolation in his mind. Then he mechanically chopped, and as his hands became engaged, his mind slowly followed. Before long he was studying the recipe and rummaging through cupboards. Finally he was fully engaged, thinking ahead to required pots and utensils, to oven temperatures and even whether he felt like improvising on the ingredients.
Suddenly he realized what Neji had done. He’d let Naruto lean on him and then helped him stand back up again. He went to Neji and pulled him into his arms.
“You are a miracle.” Naruto sighed.
“He is.” Sasuke came in the door and wrapped his arms around Naruto from behind.
His senses were instantly on the alert and discord hummed through him. These two were not happy. Frustration and the need to act filled him.
“I just came home to eat and then I’m going to search some more.”
“You’re leaving again?” Naruto forgot to hide his disappointment. Every minute was excruciatingly precious and he hated being away from any of them for any amount of time.
“I wonder if we could try this from the meditation garden,” Neji said.
Sasuke cocked his head. “That should be okay. The children will have to hold it down, though.”
So Sasuke worked from home and Naruto and Neji took turns occupying the children and hanging out in the garden with Sasuke.
"Can I sit with you while you work?"
Sasuke smiled at Naruto and patted his thigh. "Put your head here."
"You sure it won't distract you?"
"Positive." Sasuke knew it would help him relax if he could feel Naruto's heartbeat, strong under his palm, feel the warmth of his living flesh against his leg, hear the steady sound of his breathing. Having him near, where he could keep an eye on him and be reassured that he was a living, breathing presence in his life, settled and calmed Sasuke.
So while Sasuke sat lotus style and meditated, Naruto stretched out and rested his head on his lap.
Naruto, being Naruto though, it didn't take long before his mind wandered and the fidgeting began.
Sasuke chuckled as he felt a fingertip caressing his hip bone.
"I've long considered it the eighth wonder of the world that you ever became a sage," Sasuke said, his eyes still closed, a smirk on his lips.
"Hey!"
"Now that I know the ability to remain motionless is the key, I can hardly imagine the beatings the toads must have dished out to make you sit still."
Naruto blushed. "They did have to...uh...refocus my attention once in a while. But seriously, this is completely different."
"Is that so?"
"Well, yeah. In all fairness, Sasuke, they didn't have one of these." And he pressed his lips to Sasuke's crotch, then settled back.
"Hn."
"Not that I ever looked, mind you." He appeared thoughtful for a second then got a disturbed look on his face. "Ew."
Sasuke looked at the face that he loved more than his next breath and considered stripping the clothes from that hard body and lying with Naruto.
But this was important. His entire future happiness depended on being able to find this enemy and destroy it.
"Why don't you take a nap? I'll make a clone so you can rest."
"Think you can do both?"
Sasuke shrugged. "It might slow the search down a bit, but not much."
Naruto nuzzled his cheek against Sasuke's thigh and sighed in contentment. As he drifted to sleep, he muttered, "...love you."
He woke to the tensing of Sasuke's body and a change in the chakra in the room.
“I found it.”
Naruto sat up and shook his head, trying to clear the sleep from his brain.
"You are so fucking awesome," Naruto said as he activated the tattoo on his arm.
Minutes later the room was crowded with the council, Tsunade, Neji and several Anbu.
Naruto and Neji squatted before Sasuke who still had his palm to the floor, his link to the enemy unwavering.
The three grinned at each other then Sasuke's eyes narrowed and the occupants of the room were subjected to his gathering chakra.
Neji put his hand over Sasuke's, his lover's display of power an irresistible temptation. His eyes closed and he gasped as Sasuke's chakra wrapped around him and then raced down and out of the room. Several seconds later he could almost see the explosions as the chakra reached its destination and erupted in a giant ball of black fire.
Sasuke sagged. He'd sent nearly everything he had in a need to obliterate every cell and molecule of those who would take Naruto from him. He sank back into Neji's arms, tired but happy. Struggling to stay awake after expelling all of his chakra across the miles he looked at Naruto's smiling face.
The last thing he saw before his mind shut down for the necessary regeneration was Naruto clutching his seal and the smile fading from his face..
"Naruto!" Neji's eyes widened and the rest of the room crowded around the blond.
"I'm...," he panted, wincing. "I'm okay. It's okay."
Every person in the room was tense, the Anbu with their weapons drawn, as they watched and felt their leader's struggle with the demon.
"What happened? What's wrong?" Neji shouted, reaching for Naruto, Sasuke out cold in his arms.
"I don't know," Naruto answered, breathing in and out through his clenched teeth.
After several very long moments everyone felt the equilibrium return and Naruto's will overcame that of the demon. He meditated for several moments longer, his breathing coming easier. Finally he opened his eyes.
"It's okay, I've got it now," he said.
"What happened?"
"The pull is stronger now."
"Fuck!" Shikamaru growled. He paced. "There must be more than one base." He looked at Naruto. "Smart. That's what I'd do, considering what happened the other two times."
"They're learning from their failures." Naruto looked at Neji meaningfully, then at Sasuke who was just now rousing, albeit with obvious difficulty.
"Damn," he whispered. When Sasuke realized this, it was not going to be pretty.
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