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Opposite Sides of the Tracks	By : kizukatana Category: Naruto AU/AR > Yaoi - Male/Male Views: 1622 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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Fuck. This is totally karma paying me back for jerking off to my best friend. Fuck, fuck, fuck... Naruto gritted his teeth and tried to think of something else. Anything at all. But his brain just kept focusing on the sensation of Sasuke's hands on him. Naruto jerked as Sasuke shifted the hand on his back as he moved to a different spot on Naruto's chest with the washcloth.
"It's fine, I can do it," Naruto said brusquely. Sasuke ignored him. The washcloth dipped toward Naruto's stomach. Naruto's hand shot out and grabbed Sasuke by the wrist. Hard.
"I said stop."
"Don't be a baby. It can't hurt that much. Like you said, most of this blood isn't even yours," Sasuke said, twisting his wrist to try to free it.
Naruto tightened his grip on Sasuke's wrist and jerked it to the side, further away from his body.
Sasuke narrowed his eyes and stepped forward, closing the gap so their bodies were almost touching. "Let go," Sasuke's voice was low. They were eye to eye, almost perfectly level with each other.
Naruto tighted his grip even more, probably leaving a bruise. "Look, I hate to spell it out for you, Sasuke, but I'm not a kid anymore. Touching me like that is going to have unintended consequences. So unless you're saying 'go for it', I need you to just go sit on that chair over there across the room from me and let me do this myself. I'm fine," Sasuke's eyes drop to the front of Naruto's pants, where it was rapidly becoming quite clear exactly what he meant by 'unintended consequences'.
"Exactly. So just go sit over there and let me wash up," Naruto said firmly.
Sasuke looked back at Naruto and leaned in, a smirk forming on his lips. "What if those consequences aren't unintended?"
Naruto's brain literally froze. There was no way that Sasuke was saying what he thought he just said. "Uh -"
Sasuke shoved Naruto against the wall, closing the distance between their bodies completely and kissed him. Hard. Naruto was too shocked at first to even respond. He could faintly taste alcohol on his friend's breath. He grabbed Sasuke by his shoulders and pushed him out to arms length, but didn't let go entirely.
"I'm not playin' here, Sasuke. You have about 10 seconds to tell me that this is some kind of bastardly joke because you're still a little drunk, or because I was an ass that day in the locker room, or whatever, and go lock yourself in the bathroom until I cool myself down. You have no fucking idea how much I -"
Sasuke slammed him back against the wall again and kissed him, hard enough for Naruto to lose his breath along with any remaining thoughts of stopping this. Instead, he fisted his hands into Sasuke's hair and tried to devour him whole. Sasuke felt the exhilaration at Naruto's response to him arc down his body and go straight to his cock. He wondered vaguely if he was going to come just from Naruto's kiss. For the past year, Sasuke had been telling himself that this would never happen, because Naruto was straight. Apparently, Naruto wasn't so straight. Sasuke's brain latched onto that thought like a vice.
"God, Sasuke," Naruto panted, sucking his way down his friend's pale neck, feeling Sasuke's shivering response. "You are so fucking hot."
He pulled open Sasuke's shirt, sending two buttons flying. He looked at the smooth pale abs and pecks, and down to where the man's erection was standing at full attention in his black sweat pants. "Oh, fuck," Naruto groaned, wrapping his hand around Sasuke's hard cock through his sweats. Sasuke pressed his body flush with Naruto's with his hands braced against the wall on either side of Naruto's head. The two stood there for a minute just feeling the tension and pounding desire radiating between their bodies.
"Ngh, Naruto..." Sasuke groaned, tilting his pelvis up to increase the pressure. The assault on his senses made him shudder. No one else had been able to reduce him to this state. He could barely breathe with the intense desire burning every nerve in his body raw.
Naruto began slowly pumping his hand on Sasuke's erection through the soft fabric, kissing along his collar bone. Sasuke fisted one hand into Naruto's hair, pulling his face up and thrust his tonge in hard. His other hand slid over Naruto's ass, pulling him closer and increasing the friction between them. Naruto flipped their positions and was pushing Sasuke up against the wall, pressing his entire length against the dark haired man.
"Sasuke..." he rasped, as his hands slid down Sasuke's waist and reached the waistband of his sweatpants. He trailed kisses along the pale man's throat, and collar bone, then took a long lick down his chest to his abs, tan hands wrapped around the pale waist. "Ha, just let me... ungh... let me..."
He slid Sasuke's pants down, unable to form words anymore. Which was fine, because Sasuke was past the point of being able to understand them anyway. Naruto wrapped one hand around Sasuke's cock and held the other at the pale waist, Sasuke's hands fisted in the blond's hair. At the sight of his friend's marble hard erection, Naruto felt his own cock jerk.
"Ngh, Naruto..."
"God, I'm not going to last three minutes," Naruto gritted out. Sasuke wondered if his friend had said something, but all brain functions ceased when he felt Naruto's hand close around his dick and his tongue circle his head. He threw his head back, the cords in his neck straining, as he braced himself against the wall to keep from falling down as Naruto began to suck. Sasuke made an inarticulate sound as Naruto picked up the suction and the pace. Every piece of awareness seemed to be focused on where the mouth of his best friend was sucking his soul out through his cock. The rest of the universe had simply ceased to exist.
Sasuke felt his body clench, and tried to warn his friend, "Naruto, I'm... ugn, fuck!"
Sasuke came so hard he thought he might actually black out. Naruto's mouth continued to pump until every last tremor from his body had ceased, his own release coming without even unzipping his pants. Sasuke slid down the wall in a dazed heap, his pants still around his ankles. Naruto slumped back on the floor.
"Holy hell," Naruto panted. Sasuke fully agreed with his friend's statement, but wasn't quite able to connect with the speech part of his brain yet to respond.
They stayed like that for a few minutes, looking at each other. Then Sasuke smirked. And Naruto grinned.
"I thought you liked girls," Sasuke said.
"They're alright. I like you more," Naruto was still grinning like an idiot. "I thought you didn't like anybody."
"Hn... I might like you a little."
They snickered a bit, still trying to process what had just happened. Naruto looked down at his own body, still partially smeared with blood and sweat from the fight in the ring and the battle with Sai, then his exchange with Sasuke, and now his pants sticky with his own cum. "Ok, so I am covered with bodily fluids from so many guys right now I feel pretty trashy. I am going to go take a shower," he looked over at Sasuke, eyes darkening as he took in his lover's disheveled state. "It should not even be legal to look like you do right now."
Sasuke felt his blood heat at Naruto's look, despite having come not more than 5 minutes ago.
He kicked his sweatpants off to the side and lay there for a bit on the floor, trying to get his brain to talk to him again. He felt like his existence was somehow being redefined, and he wasn't in full control of it anymore. But instead of feeling panicked, as he normally would have, he felt somehow... content. But he couldn't get any further than that in his thought process. He heard the sound of the shower, and the mental image of Naruto in the shower had him fully hard again. He looked over at the bathroom door. It wasn't closed all the way. He decided to take that as an invitation. He remembered the bottle of massage oil that he had seen in Naruto's bag next to the suture tape and gauze bandages.
Naruto stood in the shower. He flinched a bit as the water washed over his cuts, and leaned his head against the wall of the shower. Sasuke had seemed pretty sober. But he sure as hell hoped this wasn't just because Sasuke had been drinking earlier. Or worse, because he felt grateful to Naruto for saving him or something stupid like that. He took the soap and started mechanically to wash himself, scrubbing away the layers of sweat and blood. He needed to talk to Sasuke. Find out what he was really thinking. He'd just have to control himself a little, and give his friend a way out in case this was all just some stupid misplaced gratitude or -
He felt a hand slide up his back. His whole body absolutely clenched. Oh, God... how many times have I had this exact fantasy. "Holy fuck, Sasuke." His voice shook.
He felt Sasuke's mouth at the back of his neck, and he arched into it despite himself. So much for trying to hold back. He felt like every drop of blood that had been in his brain 10 seconds ago had just rushed straight down to his dick. Who knew the circulatory system was plumbed that way?
Naruto could smell the scent of the his sandalwood massage oil blend with the steam of the shower. Sasuke had opened it and was rubbing along Naruto's spine, then continued down and began kneading the taught muscles of his ass. His hand reached around and found Naruto's erection and began to pump it in slow, long strokes. And oh, God, it was impressive. Sasuke shuddered. Naruto turned around and grabbed Sasuke by his hips and pulled the pale body flush with his.
"I was in here, heh... trying to tell myself to hold back and give you time to think about -"
"Tch," Sasuke pushed his erection against Naruto's. "Does it feel like I am needing time to think about anything?"
Whatever Naruto's response might have been died in his throat as Sasuke went back to pumping his erection. When it was clear Naruto was beyond any further protest, Sasuke poured oil on his hands and rubbed them together with Naruto's hands, lacing their fingers together and pulling his friend flush against him again. He then slowly began rubbing the oil up Naruto's arms and over his chest, circling each nipple and gradually making his way down to the tattoo that was a source of endless fascination for him. Naruto stood with his eyes closed, his hands resting lightly on Sasuke's sides.
Naruto was literally shaking with desire, and wanted nothing more than to bury himself into Sasuke in that instant. But he had never been with a guy before, and wasn't really sure what the 'negotiation process' was for who fucked whom. At this point, he didn't even really care. He'd be happy either way, as long as it happened in the next 10 seconds. With a girl, it was clear what went where. And if Sasuke had been a girl, he would have just thrown her back against the wall, pulled her legs around him, and fucked her into next Tuesday. But Sasuke was clearly a guy - minor brain short circuit as he looked down at Sasuke's perfect, engorged phallus thrusting against his - Naruto shuddered again, feeling a bit desperate to escalate this but not sure exactly what to do. GoddammitwhatthefuckistheresomesecrethandshakeIamsupposedtofuckingknowIhavetofigurethisoutinthenextfivesecondsbecauseholyshitSasukeisinthefuckingshowerwithmeandIamsofuckinghard
"Sasuke," Naruto's voice was tense with frustrated arousal.
"God, what are you waiting for, Naruto? If you don't hurry up and fuck me I swear I am going to -"
Naruto never found out what Sasuke was going to do. Taking that as permission, Naruto shoved Sasuke against the shower wall, and pulled one of the hard, pale thighs up over his hip bone, thrust two oil-slicked fingers into Sasuke and immediately began scissoring them. The other hand pumped Sasuke's cock, while Naruto sucked on his neck. He briefly thanked his time in the House of Porn for all the interesting discussions he had had with his housemates that let him know what to do in this situation. Sasuke's sensory system was briefly overloaded by the sudden flood of pleasure from so many different places on his body.
"Yes, so good. God, Naruto!" Sasuke ground out, his body already wracked with pleasure. "Don't wait any more. Do it now. Unh, hurry up."
Naruto didn't need to be told twice, and he quickly pulled his fingers out and drove in Sasuke with his oil-slicked cock in one hard thrust. Sasuke arched back at the sudden pressure. He wasn't used to receiving often and Naruto was... substantial. But with the first thrust Naruto hit the cluster of nerves inside Sasuke dead on, and any discomfort was instantly vaporized in the white-hot pleasure that seared through him.
"Right there, Naruto. Just... harder... fuck!"
Naruto shifted both hands on Sasuke's hips, lifting and tilting him to thrust harder and faster into that spot, slowly building the tempo and accelerating. The sight of Sasuke, normally so reserved and refined, arched back naked in ecstasy with his face twisted in pleasure and his hair wet and tumbling into his eyes almost sent Naruto over the edge.
"Sa-Sasuke," Naruto choked out.
"I'm... close... don't... stop. Fuck me... harder," Sasuke grated out, looking through half-lidded eyes at his friend who was pounding him into oblivion, golden hair tangled in the spray of the shower, tan skin slick with oil and water, muscles straining with each thrust.
Sasuke came, arching back. He saw his stream of cum spray over Naruto's tattoo, and the sight sent a second wave of climax viscously tearing through him immediately after. The oil made the cum bead up on the skin, showing white against the black swirl of the tattoo and the gold of the flesh. Sasuke rubbed his hand over the tan torso, spreading his seed in show of primal possession before the water from the shower washed it away.
The intense, possessive look in the dark eyes drove Naruto into a crashing climax of his own, tan fingers leaving bruises on pale hips as he slammed into him in his release.
They stood locked together, panting, as the water continued to wash over them. Naruto slowly relaxed his death grip on Sasuke's hips, gently massaging the abused flesh and lightly kissing and nuzzling his lover's neck while their breathing slowed. Sasuke relaxed into the embrace, reveling in the overt display of affection from his friend. It was something he had never allowed with his previous lovers, wanting them out of his sight as soon as possible.
Slowly Naruto pulled out, then he pulled Sasuke down to sit on the floor of the shower with him, laying his head on the pale shoulder and wrapping a tan arm around Sasuke's waist while the warm water continued to relax them. Naruto hummed softly in Sasuke's ear, content to just hold his lover in the aftermath while his body regained equilibrium.
Again, Naruto was the first to recover his speech. "So... If this is going to become a regular thing with us I am going to have to invest in a cock ring or something. You made me come in less than 10 minutes both times. It's just embarrassing."
Sasuke rolled his eyes, knowing he hadn't fared any better. And 10 minutes was a generous estimation. "Let's finish washing up before we use up all the hot water in the hotel."
The thought of Naruto and a cock ring was intriguing, though.
Had Naruto been with guys before? What was he comfortable with? At least there was no doubt at all that Naruto wanted him. Sasuke had sensed Naruto's hesitation in the shower, and in his pounding need to consummate things had taken the expedient path of just letting Naruto do what he was likely most used to. But Naruto had surprised him a little by at least knowing he needed to prepare his partner. So, maybe Naruto had some experience with guys? Sasuke found that thought singularly annoying. He jerked when he felt a tan finger smoothing between his brows.
"You're frowning," Naruto stood up, shut off the water and grabbed a towel to dry himself off. He tossed one to Sasuke.
"You're bleeding," Sasuke said. Naruto looked down to see the red on the towel. The gash on his ribs had opened up with all the activity.
"Well, I just lost my mansex virginity. I'm supposed to bleed, right?"
"Pffft. You are such an idiot," Sasuke said, but Naruto's statement pleased him, somehow. He didn't understand why the fact that Naruto seemed to have been with a lot of women didn't bother him, but the thought of another man did. Whatever. "Let's put more tape on that to hold you together."
Sasuke pulled on his sweat pants. Naruto looked down at his jeans, and took them over to the sink to wash them out. He'd have to make do with the towel until they dried.
"God, I'm starving. I haven't eaten in like 18 hours," Naruto grumbled, rummaging through his pack while Sasuke re-taped his side. He pulled out a couple of granola bars, and tossed one to Sasuke. "But we're stuck here until Gaara calls with instructions on where to go, so we'll have to make do with this for now."
"Go check by the mini-fridge. Maybe there is food there," Sasuke suggested. Naruto walked over, and rummaged around.
"Um... no food. Interesting stuff, though," he slanted a glance over at Sasuke. Sasuke felt an immediate response to the look, and raised a brow.
"I guess we shouldn't use any of these on our first date... or you won't respect me in the morning."
"Who says I respect you now?" Sasuke smirked.
"Asshole," Naruto grinned. "Maybe on our second date we can go to a bondage themed hotel. They'd have a better selection."
Sasuke wasn't entirely sure that Naruto was joking. He wasn't sure he wanted Naruto to be joking.
"They definitely have an interesting assortment of lube and rubbers here, though. Flavored, self-heating..." Naruto had picked a few of these items up and was reading the labels with interest.
"I like your massage oil," Sasuke said without thinking. "It smells like you."
Naruto's eyes darkened at Sasuke's words, and he walked back over to the bed where Sasuke was lounging against the pillows. Naruto tossed whatever he had in his hands on the nightstand, and leaned over Sasuke, one arm on either side of his shoulders. Sasuke was in just his sweat pants, not having bothered with his ruined shirt, his damp hair tumbling into his eyes. He looked amazing. Naruto put his thumb and forefinger under Sasuke's chin and lifted his mouth to his, kissing him slowly. "You are absolutely the sexiest thing I have ever seen in my life," Naruto licked the side of Sasuke's neck, causing his friend to arch back and grit his teeth as goose bumps spread out over his skin. "I can't even go ten minutes without touching you."
"Who's asking you to wait?" Sasuke pulled him down on the bed. He ran his hands over Naruto's chest, then down over the tattoo. He could still hardly believe he actually was getting to touch him like this. He was already hard again. "So... you hadn't been with a guy before, then?" Sasuke asked casually.
Naruto lifted his head up from nuzzling the side of Sasuke's neck and gave an unbelievable sexy smile. "Nah... I was saving myself for you. How about you?"
Sasuke smirked, twisting his fists into the sheets to keep from just grabbing Naruto, flipping him over, and fucking him into the mattress. "You're not my first guy. But you are the first person I ever slept with sober."'
Naruto laughed. "You slut." Somehow it didn't surprise him that Sasuke would need some help loosening up enough for sex. He sure had hated it when all the girls had tried to force it on him when they were in school.
"You, ah, seemed to know what you were doing, though," Sasuke said, hooking his hands into the knot of the towel at Naruto's waist.
Naruto paused in his assault of Sasuke's neck to look up at him. "Is that a compliment or a question?"
"Both, I suppose," Sasuke admitted.
"Well, then. Thanks, and..." Naruto stretched out on his side, facing Sasuke, and began slowly running his hand up and down the smooth torso. "...I've had some strange jobs over the past several years, and I guess one of them was particularly educational on stuff like this. Lots of kinky people to talk to."
"You mean your work at Hinata-Sama's Adult Entertainment?"
Naruto made a strangled noise, blushing slightly. "You know about that?" Sasuke loved it that Naruto could still blush. He was such a contradiction. Outwardly, Naruto looked like such a tough guy. Tattooed fighter, not afraid to take a punch. But he was so honest and emotionally demonstrative. Sasuke particularly loved that last bit about him, since it was something he decidedly was not.
"I might have seen a few of the pictures."
"Oh really?" Naruto lowered his voice, and put his lips right next to Sasuke's ear. "Did you have a favorite then?"
Sasuke thought a bit. If Naruto was comfortable talking about it, then he supposed he could be as well. "You looked pretty good in shackles. But I have to say I did enjoy your showers."
Naruto ran his hand down Sasuke's chest and slid it lazily in circles on his lower abs, coming close but not quite touching Sasuke's erection. "Would you like to know just what it was that I was thinking about in the shower?"
"If you say Shakira, I'm going to hurt you."
"Hehe. Nope. Actually, on my very first day, Hinata told me to think about someone I found really attractive, but someone I could never actually have. Someone who was... out of my league. And the one I thought about... was you. And the first time I imagined what it would be like to fuck you, I came so hard even though I wasn't even touching myself. It was a little intense, and the first time I guess I realized I was bi. I mean... I hadn't had sex yet, so I hadn't really given it much thought before then. But... wow."
"So you thought about me a lot when you were there?" Sasuke's voice was rough. Naruto's hand had moved lower, stroking Sasuke's erection through his pants, curling his tan fingers around it and pumping slightly.
"Hmmmm... I wasn't joking when I said you had no fucking idea how much I wanted you. That house was full of all this insane sex stuff, and all I could think about was how unbelievable it would be to do just about any of it with you. Heheh. So, just so you know, you'll have to work pretty hard to find something that would push the boundaries with me, as long as it involves you."
Sasuke wondered if it was just him, or if the entire hotel heard his last thread of restraint literally snap. He fisted his hands into Naruto's hair and pulled him into an eating kiss, feeling the click of their teeth together. "You should be careful of what you offer," he whispered wetly into Naruto's ear, peeling off the towel that was around Naruto's waist, and finding his cock already fully hard and weeping. He wrapped his fingers around it and slowly licked the head, feeling a sense of power as he watched Naruto lose control. He sucked until he felt Naruto's body start to tense, then he spun the blond around and pinned him facing the headboard, and placed a biting kiss on the spot just below Naruto's ear.
"Shit, Sasuke." Naruto's voice was shaking again. Sasuke loved it.
He rubbed oil along his erection and then stroked it over Naruto's ass. He reached around and slowly pumped the blond's engorged erection with one hand, and with the other he inserted two oiled fingers into him. Naruto tensed at the weird feeling, but didn't pull away. The pleasure of the hand on his dick immediately erasing any discomfort. And when Sasuke's fingers brushed against a particularly sensitive spot inside, Naruto let out a stream of curse words, all awkwardness forgotten.
"Grab the rails of the headboard, and don't let go," Sasuke instructed, already panting. Naruto gripped as instructed, and Sasuke positioned himself behind him, not stopping his ministrations to the blond's cock. He took a moment to admire the play of sinewed muscles across Naruto's back and shoulders, and the tapering if his waist to a tightly muscled ass. There was nothing soft or girlish about this man's body. "God, Naruto," Sasuke breathed against the tan skin. "I... want to... fuck you... so much..."
With that he pulled Naruto's hips back and thrust in. Naruto grunted with the newness of the overly full sensation that was not altogether pleasurable. But Sasuke was already moving, shifting the angle with each thrust until -
"Fuck! Right there," Naruto' knuckles were white as he gripped the rails of the headboard as Sasuke picked up the pace, hitting the cluster of nerves inside Naruto with each thrust. "Sasuke, harder. God!"
Sasuke had been trying to hold back, knowing Naruto wasn't used to this, but Naruto's words shut down all such thoughts and he completely let loose, pounding into his friend while his hand pumped mercilessly on his cock. "Naru-to!
"More, Sasuke. God. I want.. you to.. break me... in half. Yes! Fuck," Sasuke felt his body surge at Naruto's hoarse cries, and he fought his climax with every ounce of will to be sure he sent Naruto over first. His hands were shaking with the need to come.
"God, Sasuke, I'm close. Ah - faster!" Sasuke complied, knowing that he wouldn't last much longer.
"Sa-su-ke, ahg!" Hearing Naruto shout his name and feeling his body clench around him sent Sasuke spiraling into a climax so hard it felt like it lasted an hour.
. . . . . . . . .
They were laying in bed, a tangle of limbs and sheets. Naruto didn't know if he could even move anymore. He felt Sasuke's hand slowly stroking along his back. And couldn't believe he actually felt himself getting hard. Again.
"God, Sasuke. I think for the past 4 hours I have either been hard or coming. Aren't there warnings on those medications for old guys' dicks that if you have shit like this happen you're supposed to go to a hospital or something? This is insane. You are fucking killing me here. I have to tattoo a warning label on your ass or something. Hot as hell... may cause death."
"Pfft. Usuratonkachi. Come here."
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Sometime much later, Naruto staggered out of the shower and collapsed into bed. Sasuke followed, equally exhausted. Naruto turned and pulled Sasuke's back flush with his chest, spooning their bodies together, his eyes already drifting closed in sleep. His fingers lightly stroking Sasuke's chest. Utterly exhausted from the long series of events in the past 24 hours, and slightly hypoglycemic due to lack of food, Naruto was already half asleep when his head hit the pillows. He had literally lost count at how many times they had had sex. How was this even physically possible? He wondered vaguely if he would ever recover, or simply die from energy loss. He felt so drained he wasn't sure. But it would be a hell of a way to go, so he didn't really mind either way.
Sasuke smirked. Naruto was so tired he didn't even realize he was saying half of it out loud. His words were so mumbled it was hard to make them out, especially when he continued through an enormous yawn. "...it's not every day you hook up with the person you've loved since you were ten. I just hope my body gets a little of this worked out of its system soon, so I don't end up with an eternal hard-on every time I get within fifty feet of him. OK, passing out now. Umf - Sasuke - don't you dare leave this bed." And true to his words, Naruto had barely finished speaking when he was snoring softly.
Sasuke had gone perfectly still. "What? Naruto. Oi!" He turned to face his friend, gently shaking him trying to wake him back up. "You can't just go to sleep after you say something like that." Still no sign of life. But then he saw the shadows under his friends eyes, and the bruises still healing all over his body, and remembered that his friend had looked completely exhausted before their evening together had even started. He must be beyond tired now. He sighed, laying back down and smiling slightly as Naruto's arms automatically encircled him again. And he let the contentment seep into his being, drifting off to sleep in the arms of his lover, wondering if Naruto would even remember what he had just told him in the morning. If he did, maybe Sasuke would finally answer the question that Naruto had asked him in that alley 10 years ago, of why he had been there in the first place.
. . . . . . .
It was early morning. Sasuke had woken up still nestled in Naruto's arms.
He looked over at the sleeping form of his blond, bronzed lover, tangled in twisted sheets on the king-sized bed in the hotel room. The man lay unmoving, seemingly dead to the world. Sasuke smirked. He had never felt better in his life, despite that his head hurt and his whole body ached from the previous night's exertions and excesses. He tried to name the emotion that he felt swirling through him, but his brain was still not back to being fully functional, passion and alcohol having basically shut that organ down for the past 12 hours. Though to be honest, processing emotions wasn't his strong suit under the best of circumstances.
Images from the prior night flashed through his head, slamming one after another. He felt his skin heating again just at the memories. He smirked again when he thought about what Naruto's reaction would be if he went and woke him.
An intense satisfaction and sense of accomplishment swirled through it all. He tried again to put into words in his own mind how he felt. About all he could come up with, until his brain started actually working again, was:
Finally! Fucking finally! Why did this have to take so long to happen? Why had we been such idiots and not gotten here sooner?
. . . . . . . .
It was somewhat later that morning that Naruto vaguely heard the sound of a phone ringing. Barely able to move, he slapped his hand around on the nightstand until he located the source of the noise. He picked up the cell that Gaara had given him.
"Hey," his voice was raspy with sleep. He looked over, and saw that Sasuke was sitting in bed with him, awake and amused at Naruto's exhausted state. Naruto scowled when he saw that the man had evidently already gotten up, showered, and put his sweat pants back on.
"You sound like hell," Gaara said. "But you're alive, so I guess that means you found him. You both still in one piece?"
"Yeah. We're fine. I'm starving though... I think it's been almost 24 hours since I've eaten a real meal. Can hardly move. You find us a safehouse?"
"Yeah. It's all set up. Go to the hotel where Tsunade reconstructed your hand after that gang fight last year. We'll meet you by the alley-side entrance and take you to it."
"We can be there in 45 minutes. Can you bring food and clothes?"
"It's taken care of," Gaara said. There was a slight pause. "Speaking of taking care of things, what about Sai. Was he there?"
"He's out of commission. We don't have to worry about him chasing us."
There was a brief silence. "You didn't kill him." Gaara's voice was flat.
"Gaara... he was almost dead. He won't be able to follow us. This will be long over before there is anything to worry about."
"But you know what will happen. You've gotten him off Sasuke, but you know it is not over. Your 'favor' is not going to be returned."
"Gaara," Naruto lowered his voice futher, feeling the hard stare of Sasuke on his back. "We can talk about this later. I'm sorry. I can only be the person I am. I'll take what comes when it comes. My main goal is getting this situation taken care of for Sasuke. This won't interfere with that."
"Naruto-"
"Gaara. There's nothing more to talk about. It's done."
Naruto hung up the phone, staring at the nightstand. He could feel Sasuke waiting for an explanation.
"Problem?"
"Gaara has a place secured for us. With food. We have to meet him across town in 45 min, so we should get dressed and head out." Naruto sounded upset. Sasuke had gotten only half the conversation, but knew that something was definitely not good.
"Hey," he said, pulling Naruto to him, keeping his arms loosely around his friend. "I never got around to saying thanks last night."
Naruto smirked. "In a way you did, I guess."
Black eyes looked directly into blue. "What happened last night had nothing to do with gratitude."
Naruto could already feel himself responding to the proximity of his lover. "What was it about then?"
Sasuke leaned in, and kissed Naruto softly on his lips. "Just us," he murmured against the tan lips.
-xXx-
It was closer to an hour later when Naruto and Sasuke finally arrived at the designated meeting spot. Temari was waiting in a black car just by the entrance. She took in the rumpled appearance of the two, not failing to notice the hickies covering both their necks as they got in the car, and smirked.
"So, Naruto. Looks like your friend forgave you for being an ass after all."
Naruto flushed. Sasuke just shrugged. Temari burst out laughing, and handed a baseball cap and sunglasses to Sasuke, who looked at them as though they were covered with poison. Eventually he put them on. She tossed Naruto a clean hoodie, which he gratefully exchanged for the bloody one he had had to put back on that morning. He tried hard not to look at Sasuke as he changed in the car, feeling the man's gaze on his body. Having sex in the back seat of a car with Temari watching was not how he wanted to start the day. She already had enough ammunition on him anyway.
She drove them to an apartment building about 15 blocks away, and parked in a gated underground garage. They took the elevator to the 23rd floor, and followed Temari out to the apartment at the end of the hall, which she unlocked with a key. Inside, Gaara was sitting at the kitchen table. But he was not alone. Naruto felt Sasuke freeze as he saw the other man, eyes locked in desperation, the naked emotion on his face reflected in the similar face of the man at the table.
"Itachi," Sasuke's voice was raw . Itachi was up in an instant and closed the distance, embracing his brother fiercely.
"I missed you so much, Sasuke."
"How did he -" Naruto began.
"He showed up at the gym about twelve hours after he left you the note, figuring we would have made a plan for you to contact me. He took out the man Danzo had sent after him, and went to find Sasuke, but you had already gotten him out. We agreed that - given Danzo has already found him and knows about you as well - there is no risk anymore in us joining forces to finish this off." Gaara informed him.
Gaara, Naruto and Temari exchanged glances and silently walked into the living room, giving the brothers some privacy.
Sasuke was afraid to let go of Itachi, as though he might vanish. Itachi either understood or felt the same, because he continued to allow the embrace even though the brothers had never been very physically affectionate with each other.
Sasuke pulled back and looked at his brother's face. It was so similar to the one he remembered, but showed signs of aging as well, especially in his eyes, which held a hard darkness that had not been there before. Sasuke remembered the medical report of the man who had killed their parents. He knew instinctively, looking at his brother, that it had been him. He also knew that had the roles been reversed, he would have done exactly the same.
They walked back to the kitchen table and sat in silence for a few minutes, just looking at each other, noticing the small changes that time had wrought. "I followed everything you did since I've been gone," Itachi said, his usually smooth voice roughened by emotion. "I was so proud of the way you took over and just ran with everything. Not surprised, mind you. Every time I'd see an article about you, talking about how you'd managed to exceed some expectation or another, I'd just grin."
Sasuke flushed at the praise. But it didn't keep the anger away. "Well at least you had a way to know that I was alive and ok. You had a way to follow what was happening in my life. I had nothing. Everyone kept telling me that you were dead. I had no way of knowing differently, but I just... I just couldn't accept it. You could have found a way to send me some kind of note. I understand what you were doing. Naruto showed me the police report from the bomber's death." Itachi's brow rose at that.
"But, dammit Itachi! There must have been some way to-"
"I'm sorry, Sasuke." The words were filled with grief. "You have no idea how much I wanted to. And I thought of all kinds of ways. But I was also able to think of all kinds of ways that it could go wrong, or be discovered. And that would lead directly to one or both of us being killed, or at least targeted. I just... I couldn't risk you. You are all I have. I could risk anything but you."
Sasuke could do nothing but look at his brother, the emotions that Itachi normally kept so guarded now pouring out. The love and insecurity he had felt... and Sasuke felt his anger and hurt melt away. His brother was... human. And he loved him. And that was enough.
Itachi saw the changing expression on Sasuke's face, and felt a knot release inside him as well. He reached a hand out, and straightened his brother's collar on the rumpled shirt. "So... it looks like you and Naruto finally figured yourselves out. Took about five years longer than it should, but I'm glad."
Sasuke read honest happiness and acceptance in his brother's face, and knew he didn't need to ask if his brother was ok with him being gay. A worry he didn't even know he had evaporated before it had a chance to form. "Yeah... it's pretty great. But even we didn't figure it out until way after you left. How did you know?"
Itachi rolled his eyes and mumbled something about brain-dead teenagers. "You always used to talk about him when the two of you were in school together, especially after that first fight. And after he left, you used to be practically bouncing up and down at the mailbox when you'd get a letter from him, when generally you have the emotional responsiveness of a tree stump, so... it was always pretty clear."
"Hn," Sasuke tried to frown, but found somehow that his default expression kept morphing into a grin. Love was annoying.
Shouting from the other room caught both their attention.
. . . . .
"Where is the food? Seriously, I am half dead from hunger. I will eat absolutely anything. Even vegetables," Naruto stated emphatically.
Gaara raised a brow at that. Naruto had lived above his gym for almost 3 years, and he had never seen him eat a vegetable that wasn't inextricably combined with meat or noodle in some way.
Having expected this reaction, he quickly handed over a carton of ramen he had snagged from the kitchen as they had passed through to the family room and handed it to Naruto. Naruto didn't waste so much as a second tearing it open and devouring it. Gaara left him in peace for a few minutes, but Naruto could feel the weight of the man's gaze on him, and new his reprieve would be brief.
When most of the food was gone and Naruto could feel his blood sugar levels returning to normal, Gaara launched the first question. "Let me see the damage."
Naruto sighed and pulled his sweatshirt off. Gaara checked the gash on the ribs, and smirked at the other various markings all over Naruto's body. "I didn't know Sai was a biter."
"The fuck?" Naruto looked down to where Gaara's finger was resting on his shoulder. He vaguely remembered Sasuke biting him when he had... Naruto quickly shut off that line of thinking when he felt his body responding to the mental image.
"Looks like you and Sasuke were able to make good use of the hotel. About fucking time."
"What?"
"Oh, please. It's been obvious since I figured out what you were actually doing in Tokyo. But don't let it distract you until this is over. You cleared the immediate threat, but the main one is still there." Gaara's small smile turned into a glare. "And speaking of clearing the immediate threat, I want to know what happened with Sai. Why didn't you kill him? You obviously must have incapacitated him. What were you thinking?"
"Gaara, I told you. I can't kill a friend."
"Can't kill a friend. Naruto, you need to be a little more careful about who you decide is your friend if you are going to apply that rule. Generally, the sociopathic assassin who happens to work for they guy you are planning to take down would probably qualify as a FUCKING BAD CHOICE FOR A FRIEND."
Temari flinched. When Gaara was pissed off, she would rather be in another time zone. Or another solar system. And Gaara was looking extremely pissed right now. They were both shouting.
"Well, gee, Gaara. That's great fucking advice. Since when have either of us chosen friends based on what is convenient? It's not about that, and you know it."
"What I know is that someone I care about as an ACTUAL friend just basically committed fucking suicide last night, and I think I have a right to be a little bit pissed about it."
Of the three in the room, Temari was the only one who noticed the two figures enter the room from the kitchen, listening to the heated discussion taking place.
"Look, what was I supposed to do, huh? Tell me that. Let's say a 4-year-old who was wicked good with a knife tried to kill you. And you totally knew that this kid would just keep trying and trying until you were dead. Would you be able to kill him, Gaara? I don't think so."
Gaara took in a breath. He was trying to decide if he should control his temper, or just save Sai the trouble and kill Naruto himself right now. "Maybe. Maybe I wouldn't. But Sai is not four. He's three years older than you. And you are an idiot if you are thinking of him as the sad little orphan that he told you about."
"Fuck you, Gaara. You have no idea what it's like. Sai is like me. We both had the same shit luck as kids. Only he had it worse. You had a family. And I know it sucked. But you don't know what it is like to not have that, even if it is a shitty one. To not belong to something, not have something that defines you. You see the world around you, and you don't know where you fit into it. Normal kids freak out at teenagers, trying to make their way in the world and 'find themselves'. And generally do an ass poor job of it for the first few years. But try doing it when you are four or five. You don't have someone you can look at as an example of where you fit in the world and how you should respond to things. You have no context or judgment for choices you make. You just guess, or have the choice taken away entirely by someone else. I ended up with a pedophile. Sai ended up with Danzo. I had someone who helped me, who saw me for who I was and accepted me. Sai didn't. He was raised by a monster to be his weapon. But he never had a choice. Sai is a sociopath not because he is mentally deficient in any way. He is a sociopath because he was never given any social contexts or experiences to build on. Danzo marked him for his skills by the time he was seven. Once he was labeled Danzo's assassin, everyone was afraid of him. He had no friends. He had never even been asked to play basketball until I did. You should have seen his face, Gaara. He was twenty years old an it was like I was the first person who ever... I was just so..." Naruto broke off and put his head in his hands.
"I couldn't kill him. Say whatever you want. It doesn't matter at this point anyway."
Gaara looked at his friend. He was so angry. But at the same time, he knew this was just Naruto. It was, in a way, why he liked him so much in the first place.
"Just tell me what kind of shape you left him in, so at least we have a sense of how much time we have before we need to worry."
"Well, his knife was sticking out of his right lung the last time I saw him," Naruto said hollowly.
"Then maybe he didn't make it. He wouldn't have been able to call for help, and he couldn't have made it to a hospital -"
"I called an ambulance from his cell."
"You what?" Gaara's and Sasuke's voices echoed each other. Naruto jerked his head up, noticing for the first time Sasuke and Itachi standing in the doorway. Sasuke's face was white.
"Look. I'm starting to get a little pissed off here that everyone just assumes I am going to keel over dead as soon as Sai looks at me. I took him down once already. He is not some infallible angel of death. Can we please just move past this and focus on Danzo? There is a reasonable chance that if Danzo is dead, Sai will walk away from this whole thing and actually try to make a life for himself. He has been good enough at what he does that he is not even on the radar for the police. If Danzo goes, Sai could still come out the other side and move on." Naruto huffed. The last thing he wanted right now was to deal with this, especially not with Sasuke. They were both physically and emotionally exhausted. And the discussion was a pointless one anyway.
Naruto walked over to Itachi and held out his hand and smiled, sincerely if a little wanly. "I'm Naruto, by the way. We never really met properly. I'm really fucking glad you are not dead."
Itachi shook his hand, returning the smile. "Me, too. Glad to finally meet Sasuke's boyfriend. Seriously, it took you guys long enough."
Naruto froze, holding Itachi's hand, not sure at all what to do in this situation. He looked over at Sasuke, who was just rolling his eyes. Itachi smirked. "Yeah, the hickies all over both your necks were pretty obvious, so I figured why beat around the bush about it..."
Itachi cut off with a grunt as Sasuke punched him, but they were both smiling and Naruto couldn't help but grin. He could hear Temari snickering, and decided not to look at her right now.
"Look. I need to shower and go change into fresh clothes. Sasuke hasn't eaten yet and he's probably starving. Let's just get settled in and sort things out. Is there a clean phone we can call Shikamaru on? It would be good to get him here, since he has been thinking through what we have to work with and has probably solved the meaning of the universe by now."
But evidently Gaara was not quite done extracting his pound of flesh yet. Naruto walked toward the kitchen, and was on his way to the bathroom when he heard Gaara shout down the hall after him, "Have you told Sasuke about your kids yet?"
Followed almost immediately by a lethal sounding Sasuke, "His what?"
"Gaara! I'm going to fucking kill you!"
-xXx-
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