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Time Frame for Entire fic: From Before Chuunin exam to time skip and beyond.

Warning: Sexual situations between male/male characters, and mild spoilers for the new manga arc – but not until chapter 12.

This chapter has been edited. That being said, it may still need editing done to it. If you see any mistakes e-mail, leave a review, or personal message me about it. :-)

Restless

Chapter 1: Restless Sleeper

Uzumaki Naruto had a tendency to move around in his sleep. Having been an orphan and thus never having had anyone to tell him that he moved around a lot, Naruto never cared that he usually woke up sprawled across his bed because, frankly, it didn't matter. So when Team 7 went out on their first assignment that called for all of the teammates to share the same tent, Naruto did not bother to mention that he might need a little bit extra room during the middle of the night because unfortunately, he didn't know. So when Sakura ended up between Sasuke and Naruto (much to Sasuke's dislike at having to be next to Sakura, and Sakura's dislike of being next to Naruto, but happiness at being close to her Sasuke-kun, and Naruto's happiness of being next to his Sakura-chan) the sleeping arrangements honestly seemed fine.

It was with great alarm that Kakashi - who was scouting the border - heard Sakura scream bloody murder from inside the tent. He raced back only to find that poor Naruto had accidentally rolled over in his sleep on top of Sakura, who promptly pushed him off, screamed, and began to beat Naruto to death. Kakashi heard Naruto's desperate explanation as Sakura continued to beat him. Kakashi sighed. Clearly Naruto's inability to stay still while awake carried over into his nightly sleeping pattern.

"Oi, Sakura. Stop killing Naruto," Kakashi ordered. Sakura reluctantly stopped. Naruto, his body covered in lumps from the pounding, groaned and fell backward. Sasuke gave a small growl at Naruto AND Sakura. His glare clearly read "wake me up and die!" Kakashi raised his visible eyebrow and made a mental note not to wake Sasuke if at all possible; he seemed quite cranky when woken unexpectedly.

"Sakura, I think Naruto is probably just a restless sleeper. Sasuke, sleep in between Naruto and Sakura," Sakura, who had been glaring daggers at Naruto, broke into a large smile once she realized she was going to sleep next to Sasuke and not Naruto! Sasuke grunted, just wanting to go back to sleep.

"No one better role on me while I'm sleeping. I hate being woken up," Sasuke threatened, and Naruto gulped ever so slightly. The happy grin on Sakura's face faltered slightly, and Kakashi wondered if Sasuke had purposefully said "no one" rather than just Naruto to prevent Sakura from pretending to accidentally role on top of him. By Sakura's expression, she probably had been planning just that. With the threat of being harmed by both Sakura AND Sasuke, Naruto grumbled and headed back to his sleeping mat, putting clothes and what not between him and Sasuke to help stopper his rolling.

Naruto became fairly good at not rolling around in his sleep (although Sasuke did have to punch him back over to his side a few times in the beginning). Team 7 still made Naruto sleep at one end with Sasuke in between him and either Kakashi or Sakura.

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Months passed before Sasuke found himself the victim of Naruto's inability to stay in one spot while he was sleeping. Before when Naruto had accidentally rolled over into Sasuke's personal bubble, only a random arm or leg would end up on the other side of the mini barrier Naruto tended to create, and Sasuke could push one of Naruto's limbs back over onto Naruto's own side. However, since Naruto had started to move around less and less, he had stopped putting things between them.

Sasuke felt a slight woosh of air leave his lungs as Naruto rolled heavily on top of his chest. Sasuke grunted annoyed at the offending object on his chest, aka Naruto. For someone who seemed so small, Naruto was still heavy as a sleeping dead weight.

"Dobe," Sasuke grumbled as he pushed Naruto off of him and over onto Naruto's side of the tent. Sasuke wasn't expecting it when Naruto pulled back at Sasuke, catching him around the neck, forcing Sasuke to topple over onto to Naruto. He managed to catch himself before applying his full weight onto Naruto who, for his part, seemed completely oblivious that he had just rolled over and been pushed back to his sleeping mat. Sasuke's face reddened slightly. The way his arms were, and the way that his legs were now intertwined with Naruto's was quite indecent, and he knew if someone had been watching this, that it would look scandalous. Still supporting his upper body weight with his arms, Sasuke tried to untangle his legs without waking Naruto; that would be only too awkward, and since this was Naruto, and he would probably try and blame Sasuke and wake everyone in the tent up. Poor Sasuke found, much to his growing horror, that when he tried to move his legs, Naruto seemed to move his body against Sasuke's.

Heat rose to his face in full force as he realized just exactly what Naruto was rubbing against, and it embarrassed him to notice that his body reacted in a most unwanted (though not entirely unpleasant) manner. Sasuke let out an involuntarily soft groan at the sensation and cursed Naruto. If Naruto were to wake up now, not only would he accuse Sasuke of trying to molest him, but it might seem more plausible if Naruto realized Sasuke was hard.

Sasuke found himself frozen as Naruto began moving his hips against Sasuke's, and Sasuke found himself even more horrified as he realized he was bucking back against him. He didn't know why he didn't stop the situation. He didn't know what he would do if Kakashi, Sakura, or especially Naruto woke up. All Sasuke thought about was how good this new sensation of grinding against another body felt. He moved his body closer to Naruto's, supporting his weight with his arms.

The look on Naruto's face was completely different from the goofy grins that he was so used to. His face was more serene, and he looked both older and younger at the same time. It was though a mask had been lifted from Naruto. Sasuke had always thought of Naruto as being someone who looked – not ugly – but not good looking either. Yet with his face in this peacefully blissful state, Sasuke found himself shocked at how – he couldn't think of a more manly word for it – beautiful Naruto looked.

Being so close to someone was something that Sasuke had missed. He didn't realize how much he had missed human contact with others – and this pleasure that he felt was amazing. Sasuke had never been one to masturbate. He knew what it was, but had found his time too precious to waste it on something so frivolous. Yet now, this feeling – Sasuke never wanted it to end.

It was a slight shock, but not altogether, when Sasuke felt something burst pleasantly from his erect member, and barely had enough time to muffle his moan into his shoulder. He idly realized he had just had an orgasm, something that he'd heard some of the other boys his age enjoyed bringing upon themselves through self pleasure. This only half registered in his brain as Naruto's mouth opened ever so slightly, as Sasuke presumed Naruto was preparing for his own climax. Sasuke's eyes widened. Naruto's loud mouth self would probably wake the rest of the people in the tent - and how awkward would that be with what Sasuke just allowed to happen?

"Sasu-!" Naruto began to moan.

Sasuke's lips crushed Naruto's with his own as he felt Naruto moan into his mouth and felt Naruto's body buck against his own limp member. Naruto's body stopped moving, and he seemed to go lifeless as soon as he stopped moving. Sasuke idly realized that his legs were untangled from Naruto, but found himself captivated by Naruto's face. His hands seemed to move of their own accord as he gently traced three of his fingers across Naruto's cheek. Naruto made a strange noise, as though he were going to wake up. Sasuke quickly scrambled back to his own mat. How could Naruto not wake up through their entire grinding, yet almost wake up at such a gentle touch?

Naruto suddenly muttered something unintelligible. He sort of half sat up, seemed to look around as though reaching out for something, and then fell back onto his sleeping mat, quite clearly still asleep.

Sasuke breathed hard from the pleasure he still felt from his climax, as well as from fear. He lay still on his mat, the stickiness in his clothes from the unfamiliar sensation of having an orgasm made him feel as though he were glued to his boxers. He kept giving sideways glances to Naruto, still wondering how on earth Naruto had slept through that, wondering if he was indeed asleep at all. Naruto had clearly begun to say Sasuke's name as he had bucked under him. Sasuke felt embarrassed at his own actions and anger at Naruto for instigating it and then not even seeming to realize what he had done. After staring at the inside top of the tent for a full ten minutes, Sasuke cursed slightly, got up, and went outside to clean himself and his clothes.

Within the tent, Kakashi turned an eye to the empty sleeping mat next to the now quieted form of Naruto, wondering how things would be in the morning.

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The next morning Naruto woke up to find a very embarrassing situation in the inside of his boxers. He remembered having - even more embarrassingly - a very heated dream about Sasuke. Naruto felt himself blushing as he noted that everyone else was already up. He quickly exited the tent and found himself scampering down to the nearby river to bathe and to wash his clothes.

Sasuke silently followed Naruto, watching him, to see what he made of what had gone on between the two of them last night. This was, of course, assuming Naruto remembered anything.

"Oi, Naruto," Sasuke greeted after a few minutes had past as he watched Naruto clean his pants. "I'm surprised you ran down here before breakfast," Sasuke said off-handedly.

"Oh, hahahha!" Naruto laughed nervously, rubbing the back of his head. "Just wanted to freshen up a bit before that," Naruto half-lied. He was grateful that he had managed to wash himself and his pants after waking up from what he had believed to have been a mere wet dream about the person he considered his best friend. Though it was awkward that Sasuke happened to be standing there watching as he was wringing out his wet clothes before he put them back on.

"Will you give a guy some privacy?" Naruto hollered, holding his clothes in front of him in the water. Sasuke merely gave a "hmpf" before turning and sauntering back up the hill. Naruto cursed as he threw his wet clothes around himself, realizing he had forgotten a change of dry clothes back at the tent. Naruto's eyes widened as he saw his extra jumpsuit near the area that Sasuke had been. The fact that Sasuke had done something nice for him puzzled Naruto more than the fact that Sasuke had known that Naruto would need an extra set of clothes. If Naruto had been Shikamaru, he might have realized that something wasn't right with the current situation. But, seeing as how he wasn't Shikamaru, and just Naruto, he counted it as a blessing and got changed.

Breakfast was extremely strange for Team 7. Sasuke was talkative while Naruto was very quiet. Sakura frowned at Naruto. She had come a long way from being annoyed at the blond haired shinobi during their first few weeks together; after all, they had been a team for going on four months. So now, as he was staring at his food, Sakura was worried. Normally when Naruto was quiet, it meant that something was wrong. Sasuke was also acting strangely. He was talking about mundane things. She glanced at Naruto, and then back at Sasuke, wondering what was going on. She looked over at Kakashi who seemed unperturbed by the way they were acting. If Kakashi was okay with it, then Sakura figured she would be too. After all, it wasn't that often that Sasuke was talking, and about - of all things - dreams. Sakura decided just to enjoy listening to Sasuke's voice.

For his part, Naruto was completely oblivious to everybody else.

"What do you think Naruto?" Sasuke asked. Naruto jumped, startled at being addressed by Sasuke.

"Huh?" Naruto asked. Sasuke glared.

"You should listen when someone is speaking to you, dobe." Naruto glared back.

"Well if your voice weren't so annoying I would, teme!" Sasuke and Naruto began to throw insults back and forth at each other. Sakura felt somewhat relieved to see her teammates acting normal again - though it was getting irritating.

"Naruto!" She knocked him on the side of the head.

"Itai!" Naruto exclaimed in pain, holding the offended area. "What was that for?"

"You should answer Sasuke-kun's question."

"What was it again?" Naruto asked, completely forgetting that not listening in the first place was what had gotten him into the insult battle.

"I said there has been a great deal of research about dreams. They say that dreams are the mind's way of playing out scenarios that you yourself desire, but may seem unattainable in real life. Dreams are our utmost desire. What do you think Naruto? You always go on and on about your dream of one day being Hokage. Ever actually have any dreams about it? Or anything else you secretly wish for?" Sasuke asked. His voice was neutral, and his outward appearance was calm, but inside his heart was beating fast inside his chest.

Naruto paused for a minute and then burst out laughing. "That's the stupidest thing I ever heard! Why on earth would I ever have a secret desire for my nightmares to come true? Dreams being our outmost desire! That's stupid," Naruto began laughing. Sasuke's face stayed impassive the entire time as he got up and walked away. Only Kakashi saw how Sasuke's fist had clenched so hard that he had drawn blood with his nails. Sakura noted that Sasuke had left but that wasn't unusual. He often went into strange brooding moods and needed time to be by himself. She thought about following him to where ever he was going, but she hadn't finished her breakfast, and therefore had no excuse to do so.

Although Naruto may not have been one to pick up on a lot of things, he was usually the first to pick up on someone's emotions of pain. Naruto stopped laughing, and looked at Sasuke's retreating back. Something he had said had managed to actually upset Sasuke. Not many things did that, and Naruto felt extremely uncomfortable. Naruto had had that dream about Sasuke last night, and a blush rose to his face as he wondered if he had said something in his sleep. He didn't think a mere disagreement about dreams was the only thing bothering Sasuke.

Naruto quickly scarfed down his breakfast and followed after Sasuke. Kakashi peered up from over the top of his favorite Icha-Icha Paradise book, watching as the strange series of events unfolded.

Sasuke stood looking over the river that he had gone to last night to clean up after his, er, experience. He didn't know what to think about anything. It was such a stupid and trivial thing, yet extremely mind-boggling at the same time. Sasuke had never questioned anything to do with his sexuality, and he wondered what on earth this meant. Also, why had he let Naruto - why had he let himself - do something so foolish? Part of him told him because it had felt good. Another part of him because of the strange connection he felt with Naruto. There had been a strange sense of superiority in being on top and making someone else, especially his rival, do something so – so – so – ugh! He couldn't even find the right words for what had happened. He slammed his right fist into a tree, and then his left fist, and then again, and again, getting his frustrations out through physical exertion.

When Naruto finally caught up with Sasuke, Sasuke was punching the trunk of a tree back and forth, something that Naruto had only seen Sasuke do once. The only time Naruto could recall Sasuke ever making a mistake on a mission, and Kakashi reprimanding him – only slightly of course - Sasuke's face had been impassive, but he had left the camp and worked his anger out on the trunk of a tree. Naruto clearly remembered the strange set of self-directed anger in his actions – the same vibe that Sasuke was currently giving off now.

"What's your problem?" Naruto asked oh-too-bluntly. Sasuke ignored Naruto and kept punching the tree. Naruto didn't take the hint.

"Oi. Want to spar? I bet I could beat you with a hand tied behind my back." This time Sasuke paused to glare at Naruto, but kept punching the tree. Naruto knew something was terribly wrong when Sasuke didn't bother to correct him about who would win in a spar.

"Sexually frustrated or something?" Naruto had honestly meant it as a joke, but he should have realized it was a bad time to joke around with Uchiha Sasuke. Therefore, it came as a big shock to find that Sasuke had redirected his punch for the tree right into Naruto's face, slamming him backwards into a bush.

"Teme!" Naruto hollered as he quickly rebounded and flew a punch at Sasuke that Sasuke easily dodged. Sasuke grabbed Naruto's wrist in mid-punch and twisted it around, flipping Naruto to the ground. Meanwhile, Naruto's feet found leverage in Sasuke's stomach, launching him into the air. He landed on his feet and had just enough time to sidestep Naruto's next punch but found a foot kicking his ankle from behind him. He ungracefully caught himself with his left hand, managing to twist his leg to clip the side of Naruto's head.

"Stop!" Kakashi hollered as the two boys disregarded their sensei and continued to pound the crap out of each other. Kakashi had to physically separate the two.

"Kakashi-sensei, he-" Naruto began.

"I don't want to hear it Naruto," Kakashi yelled angrily. Naruto stepped back as though he'd been slapped. Usually Kakashi-sensei always listened to what he had to say, and the fact that Sasuke had just punched him without cause - after he had clearly declined his offer to spar - and he couldn't even defend himself? Naruto looked between Kakashi and Sasuke as though this were some conspiracy against him and stormed off. Kakashi sighed, knowing he would have to explain his abrupt and angry tone of voice later. Kakashi wasn't mad at Naruto. He was livid with Sasuke. Kakashi took a deep breath, trying to calm himself.

Sasuke made as if to follow but Kakashi held out a hand, grapping Sasuke's wrist to halt him.

"Taking your frustration out on him won't work when he clearly doesn't realize what happened last night," Kakashi reprimanded Sasuke. Sasuke froze, startled, and looked at his sensei. A slight blush rose to his face.

"How much were you awake for?" Sasuke asked, his voice cracking ever so slightly.

"I thought I heard something like a muffled punch, and I woke, fully alert. I realized a few moments later that Naruto must have rolled onto you, and the noise had been him knocking the air out of your lungs. So, in other words, the whole bit."

"Oh." Sasuke couldn't think of what to say. An awkward silence fell between teacher and pupil. "What, uh, do I do?" Sasuke mumbled out, not liking to ask for help, but feeling at a serious loss at the situation.

"Apologize for punching him for the sexually frustrated comment." Sasuke nearly growled.

"Heard that too huh?" Sasuke said, almost accusatorily.

"You're just lucky that I sent Sakura to scout in the other direction. She was actually worried about you and Naruto. You're both acting abnormal, and it really needs to stop. We are not in 100 percent friendly territory, and you need to be more alert. Whatever is going on between the two of you, you should put it aside until we get back to Konoha tonight."

"Tonight? I thought we wouldn't be getting back until tomorrow," Sasuke said puzzled.

"With what happened last night, I'm going to push to get back as soon as possible so nothing else like that will happen - at least not before you two get a chance to talk before you tear each other limb from limb." Sasuke was quiet a moment, and then spoke.

"What am I supposed to do if he doesn't realize what happened?" Sasuke asked.

"Let it go," Kakashi said. Sasuke merely nodded and walked back to camp. Kakashi watched as he left and wondered what to do. He knew that both of his charges were rather sensitive when it came to issues of friendship, let alone anything more. They were both young men experiencing an awkward time in their life, and he knew that these kinds of events could make or break what happened to them later as a team. He decided to go find Naruto, and try and talk to him.

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After Kakashi found Naruto grumbling about stupid Sharingan users, and explaining that he hadn't wanted to hear what Naruto was going to say because of course Sasuke had clearly started it - a fact that made not only Naruto forgive Kakashi, but Sasuke as well, Naruto was appeased. Naruto seemed to associate Sasuke getting in trouble as a sort of default apology from Sasuke. Kakashi never liked how Naruto seemed excited when Sasuke got in trouble, but was grateful for it now since Naruto switched back to his happy and bubbly self almost immediately, and became excited that they would head home sooner than expected. With his mind off of Sasuke, things were not as awkward, at least not for Naruto. Sasuke's brooding on the other hand was clear to Kakashi. Kakashi watched as Sasuke watched Naruto.

"Ah! We've been out scouting for six days! I haven't had ramen in forever. I wasn't expecting to be home a day earlier, and I thought for sure I would want miso ramen when we got back, but I think I'm really in the mood for pork ramen," Naruto rambled on excitedly.

Sasuke watched Naruto in bemusement. The blond had completely forgotten any sort of fight the two had been having, and he was tempted not to bring it up again. Yet he knew that he should talk to Naruto when they got back to Konoha. He realized that things would only become more awkward if he didn't, but he couldn't figure out exactly what to say to Naruto. "Do you remembering humping me last night?" sounded like something that Naruto would say, not Sasuke, but for some reason, that was the only thing that Sasuke could think of. He was frustrated. He was VERY frustrated. And part of his frustration was that in the back of his mind, he wanted to experience what had happened last night again.

When they finally reached the gates of Konoha well beyond dark, Naruto was still happily talking about the pork ramen he wanted to buy as soon as he got to the Ichiraku Ramen stand.

"Bye minna-san!" Naruto said his good-bye to everyone, clearly bouncing over to the ramen stand. Sakura yawned, and waved good-bye to Naruto's retreating back. She then turned to Kakashi and said good-bye, finally turning to Sasuke.

"Sasuke-kun, I wondered if maybe you wouldn't mind walking me home?" Sakura asked politely.

"No," Sasuke replied coldly. Sakura laughed a little, partially expecting the refusal, but hopeful otherwise.

"Well, goodnight then!" Sakura said, waving goodbye. Sasuke watched from inside the gates as Sakura walked down the familiar streets and disappear as she turned a corner. Kakashi and Sasuke stood silently by the large entranceway. Kakashi cleared his throat loudly. Sasuke just ignored him. Kakashi cleared his throat again. This time Sasuke grunted and turned in the direction of Ichiraku ramen, the obvious destination of one Uzumaki Naruto.

Next chapter: Restless Conscious

I hope you enjoyed the first chapter! (Just on a side note, someone told me that if guys have a wet dream they always wake up due to the emotional feelings, but I've talked to several guys that said that wasn't necessarily the case. Either way, Naruto was semi awake, but not fully coherent. Hey, if he can use chakra, survive a death god's seal, and walk on water then it's possible that he can't wake up for a wet dream.) Jelp