Yet another story from yours truly. this is more angsty than some of my previous stories. don't know what make me write this, but i hope it came out good.
Warning: yaoi, angst, language.
Disclaimer: i don't own.
The blonde panted as he ran to the front gates. He gasped softly to see his dark haired ex-best friend stumbling through the gates. He smiled and landed in front of the other boy. Blue eyes met black.
"S-Sasuke." Naruto panted out while smiling brightly. Sasuke stumbled forward and leaned on Naruto. "Welcome back, Sasuke." Naruto said wrapping his arms around the shaking brunette. He felt Sasuke weakly grip the front of his jacket. Sasuke pressed his face into Naruto's neck. Naruto felt wetness on his exposed skin, Sasuke was crying. "Sasuke?" Naruto asked softly.
"Just stay like this for a minute." Sasuke said so softly that Naruto barely hear him. This of course was in hopes to hide the shaking in his voice, but Naruto had heard it. Naruto held Sasuke gently as they stood there. He could feel Sasuke was weak, his chakra levels were low. Naruto was known for doing stupid things, but what he was about to so was definitely one of the stupidest things he'd ever done. Naruto held Sasuke tightly and forced his chakra into the other boy. Sasuke gasped softly as Naruto's chakra filled him. It was warm, almost suffocating, soft and fuzzy, it was comforting. Sasuke relaxed and let Naruto's chakra fill and heal him.
"Come on, we should tell Tsunade that you're back." Naruto said softly. Sasuke nodded but made no move to leave Naruto's arms. "Sasuke?" Naruto asked.
"I'm sorry for leaving." Sasuke said, his voice still barely audible. "Don't leave me." He said tightening his grip on Naruto. Naruto nodded and smiled softly.
"I'll never leave you, Sasuke." Naruto said softly. Sasuke sighed with relief and leaned further into Naruto's chest. Naruto rubbed Sasuke's back comfortingly. "Let's go see Tsunade." He said taking Sasuke's hand and leading him towards the Hokage's Tower. Tsunade didn't know whether to smile or frown when the Uchiha walked in.
"Uchiha?" Tsunade asked. Sasuke said nothing. "I'm assuming you're here to stay. And I guess I should welcome you back." Sasuke nodded slightly. "Come with me, Sasuke. We should run a few tests on you. Make sure you're healthy and everything." Sasuke nodded. Tsunade left the office and Sasuke looked nervously at Naruto. Naruto smiled and took Sasuke's hand.
"Come on, Sasuke." Naruto smiled and followed Tsunade. Sasuke tried hard to pull Naruto's chakra into him, desperate for that comfort he had felt earlier. Naruto had to let go of Sasuke when they got into the exam room. Tsunade ran a few tests and frowned at Naruto.
"Why did I find your chakra signature in Sasuke's system?" Tsunade asked.
"He was weak so I forced some of my chakra into him so he could get his strength back." Naruto said. Tsunade frowned deeply.
"Naruto, that's very dangerous." Tsunade said.
"I'm sorry. I didn't know." Naruto said softly. Tsunade sighed.
"He's in bad shape. Watch him for the night, okay?" Tsunade asked. Naruto nodded. Naruto reached out to Sasuke and Sasuke took his hand.
"He won't leave my eyes." Naruto said. They walked back to Naruto's apartment. "I'll set you up on the couch." Naruto said as he locked the door. He looked in his closet for an extra blanket and pillow for the other boy.
"Can I sleep with you?" Sasuke asked. Naruto looked at Sasuke.
"Yeah." Naruto nodded. Sasuke slowly pulled off his dirty clothes till he was just in his boxers. "You want something to wear or do you just sleep in boxers?" Naruto asked.
"Boxers." Sasuke mumbled. Naruto undressed and pulled on a pair of flannel pajama pants. The two boys crawled into Naruto's small bed and laid down.
"Night, Sasuke." Naruto said. Sasuke curled into Naruto's side and pressed his face into Naruto's neck. "Sasuke?" Naruto asked.
"Just for tonight." Sasuke said softly. Naruto sighed and wrapped his arm around Sasuke. "Don't tell anyone please." Sasuke whispered.
"I won't." Naruto said. Sasuke nodded and pressed into Naruto even more. Naruto swore he felt something soft brush against his neck, something like lips. Naruto shivered slightly as Sasuke's arms snaked around his waist. Naruto relaxed in the warm embrace and easily fell asleep. The next morning Naruto woke up to an empty bed. He looked around his apartment and found that Sasuke was already gone. There was a banging on his door. Naruto pulled on his robe as he went to his door.
"Naruto!" Kiba yelled as he banged on the front door of Naruto's apartment.
"What?" Naruto asked opening the door and glaring at Kiba.
"Sasuke is back." Kiba said slightly out of breath, obviously he had run all the way to the apartment.
"Yeah. I saw him last night." Naruto said. Kiba's eyes widened.
"What?" Kiba asked. Naruto shrugged. "Well, we're having a party for him. You know like a welcome back thing. It's at Hinata's house at 8."
"Yeah, I'll be there." Naruto nodded.
"Alright." Kiba grinned. "I'll see you there, then." He called as he ran off. Naruto sighed and pulled off his clothes to take a shower. He slowly washed off before he got out and dried off. He was brushing his teeth when he saw a bruise on his neck.
"What the hell?" Naruto asked looking closer at his neck. Sasuke had given him a hickey. Naruto growled. There were teeth marks. Sasuke had bit him with intention to leave a mark. Naruto was pissed, and there was nothing he could do and it pissed him off even more. Naruto spent his day training or doing random jobs for people around town just wasting time. Naruto had an hour before the party was supposed to start. He took a quick shower and got dressed. He chose a white button down shirt with the top buttons opened to reveal his black t-shirt underneath and a pair of dark-wash jeans. Naruto examined himself and nodded in approval. He looked good.
"Naruto, you're early." Sakura said as Naruto came up the walk. Naruto smiled and scratched the back of his head.
"Sorry, I didn't have anything better to do." Naruto said.
"But we haven't finished directing." Sakura said. Naruto laughed.
"You do realize that no one is going to care about the decorations. We're all going to get smashed and destroy them all anyway." Naruto said. Sakura rolled her eyes.
"You and I know that, but try telling the other girls that." Sakura said.
"Who all is here?" Naruto asked.
"Ino, Hinata, Ten-ten, Temari." Sakura listed.
"Yeah, well Temari scares me, so I won't tell them how ridiculous decorating is." Naruto said. Sakura laughed.
"Gaara and Neji are in the back yard." Sakura said.
"No Kankuro?" Naruto asked.
"He's hanging out with Kiba." Sakura said. Naruto laughed and nodded.
"Figures." Naruto said. "Well, at least Gaara and Neji are less disturbing as a couple than Kiba and Kankuro." He said as he headed to the back of the house. Neji and Gaara were sitting together on the bench in the back garden. They straddled the bench and sat facing each other, leaning in so that they could talk in whispers. Naruto saw the loving looks the two boys shared shortly before looking over at him.
"Naruto, it's good to see you." Neji said.
"Am I interrupting?" Naruto asked.
"Not really." Gaara said. Naruto nodded.
"Kiba said that you saw Sasuke last night." Neji said. Naruto nodded.
"Yeah. I saw him for a bit." Naruto said.
"I heard he was in pretty bad shape. The guys at the gate said he was shaking, barely able to stand. Said he looked lost, confused, like he was about to cry. The guys said you held him for about ten minutes before he felt well enough to make it to Tsunade's." Gaara said.
"So?" Naruto asked. "I haven't seen him since last night, so I would assume he's at least a bit better." Gaara and Neji nodded.
"It must be hard for him, you know?" Neji asked.
"I think it is good that we're having a party for him. He needs friends around him." Naruto nodded.
"How long has he been gone?" Gaara asked.
"Five years." Naruto said. Gaara nodded.
"Naruto!" Kiba shouted as he jumped on the blonde.
"What's up Kiba?" Naruto smiled as he wrestled the brunette off of his back.
"So when are the girls going to finish decorating?" Kiba asked as he let go of Naruto.
"It's kind of dumb for them to be decorating anyway, we're just going to get drunk and rip them all down." Kankuro said wrapping his arms around Kiba's waist and leaning on him.
"That's what I said." Naruto smiled.
"I think that's what we all said." Gaara said. Naruto, Kiba and Kankuro laughed.
"We should see if they're finished. It's 8." Neji said.
"Yeah. Besides, we'll need to get in there before Choji arrives and eats all of the snacks." Kiba said.
"What are you implying, Kiba?" Choji asked from behind them.
"That Ino is making delicious snacks and you're going to eat all of them so that none of us know how good your girlfriend cooks because then we'd be jealous of you and you're too nice of a guy to make all your friends jealous." Kiba said. Choji smirked.
"That's what I thought you meant." Choji said as he went into the house. Shikamaru laughed as he followed Choji into the house. Naruto and Kankuro tried hard not to laugh at Kiba but eventually lost it.
"I thought he was going to kill you." Kankuro said through gasps.
"Me too." Kiba said softly.
"Come on, let's go inside." Naruto smiled. The boys outside went into the house. It was still another half hour before Sasuke showed up, and that was only because Kakashi literally dragged him there. Everyone was eating, drinking, and laughing. Sakura, Shikamaru, Ten-ten and Sai were playing some board game while Kiba, Kankuro, Neji and Hinata were playing a video game. (Hinata was winning) The rest of the guests were just talking in groups. Naruto noticed that Sasuke was outside. He grabbed two bottles of beer and went outside. "Mind if I join you?" Naruto asked walking up to the bench Sasuke was sitting on.
"Sure." Sasuke said moving so that Naruto had room to sit down. Naruto handed Sasuke a beer and Sasuke took a big drink. "Thanks." Sasuke sighed.
"Why are you out here by yourself?" Naruto asked.
"I didn't want to be in there." Sasuke shrugged.
"But they're your friends, Sasuke. They want to see you." Naruto said.
"Hn." Sasuke shrugged.
"Hmm, so glad you haven't changed your bastard ways." Naruto smirked.
"Hn." Sasuke answered. Naruto finished his beer and leaned on Sasuke's shoulder.
"I'm glad you came back without me having to drag your sorry as back." Naruto sighed. Sasuke smirked.
"Yeah." Sasuke said.
"Hey, Sasuke, about last night," Naruto started.
"It won't happen again, don't worry. I was just really tired and slightly delusional." Sasuke said. Naruto nodded.
"Yeah, but last night you," Naruto started again.
"Sasuke! Naruto! Come in here, we're about to have cake and Sasuke has to cut the first piece." Sakura called.
"Yeah, we'll be right there." Sasuke called. He turned to look at Naruto.
"Sasuke, last night when we were sleeping, you," Naruto started but Sasuke silenced him by gently pressing their lips together. Naruto stared in shock at the other boy.
"I have to go cut the cake." Sasuke said before walking away.
"Right." Naruto said softly. Sasuke went into the house and Naruto sighed. He touched his lips with one hand and then the bite mark with his other hand. "I guess that explains the hickey." Naruto said to himself.
"Naruto, are you coming in?" Hinata asked as she opened the back door.
"Not right now." Naruto answered. Hinata came out and sat down next to him, handing him a plate of cake. Naruto smiled. "Thanks, Hinata."
"So, what were you and Sasuke talking about out here?" Hinata asked.
"Nothing really. You know Sasuke was never a big talker." Naruto smiled. Hinata laughed slightly and nodded.
"That's true." Hinata said. "He looked sad earlier. But he seems happier now that you've spoken to him."
"Ah." Naruto nodded.
"Naruto," Hinata said softly.
"Hmm?" Naruto asked.
"What is Sasuke to you?" Hinata asked.
"I don't really know. I mean I hope we're friends, but he has been gone for five years." Naruto said.
"Just friends?" Hinata asked.
"Yeah. I mean what else would we be?" Naruto asked. Hinata pointed at the hickey Naruto had been hiding. "Oh, well that's just, I don't know. It was an accident I guess. Sasuke was sleeping over last night and he was really close and I guess he did it in his sleep or something." Naruto said trying to cover it. Hinata smiled.
"Don't worry, Naruto. I think I was the only one who saw it." Hinata said. Naruto smiled and blushed slightly.
"I'd appreciate it if you didn't tell anyone. I don't want anyone to get the wrong idea." Naruto said. Hinata smiled and nodded.
"Don't worry. Your secret is safe with me." Hinata smiled.
"Thanks, Hinata, you're the best." Naruto smiled brightly. Hinata blushed slightly. "We should probably get in there." Naruto said as he stood up. He pulled Hinata to her feet and they went back into the house.
"Can we just call it a draw?" Naruto panted as he looked at Sasuke. They had been sparing for the past three hours and neither of them wanted to give up even though neither of them could really keep fighting.
"You call it a draw, I'll call it my win." Sasuke panted.
"Forget that, you know that you can't fight any more." Naruto said.
"And you can?" Sasuke smirked. Naruto snorted and launched himself at Sasuke. He tackled the other boy and they hit the ground, Sasuke on his back and Naruto straddling Sasuke.
"Looks like I win." Naruto smiled as he panted. Sasuke panted and looked up at Naruto. He really was too tired to even roll them so that he was on top.
"First and last time, dobe." Sasuke said. Naruto smiled and leaned down to rest his head on Sasuke's chest. Sasuke put a hand on Naruto's head, to keep the blonde there. Naruto felt Sasuke slowly pull some of his chakra out. It always felt strange when Sasuke stole his chakra. Tsunade had said it was dangerous, but Naruto never stopped Sasuke. After all of their spars Sasuke would steal a bit of Naruto's chakra. Naruto didn't know why Sasuke did it, but he didn't really care all that much either. If Naruto was honest with himself, he liked Sasuke stealing his chakra. It felt intimate in a way.
"We should go take showers." Naruto said after a few minutes there.
"Just let me rest another five minutes." Sasuke said. Naruto sat up and leaned over Sasuke.
"You okay?" Naruto asked looking down at Sasuke.
"Tired." Sasuke said. "Of course I could never sleep very well anyway." Sasuke shrugged.
"You want to stay at my apartment tonight?" Naruto asked. Sasuke smiled and nodded.
"Yeah, it's creepy in my big empty house. Maybe that's why I haven't been sleeping well." Sasuke said.
"Cool. Well, we should get going." Naruto said standing up and pulling Sasuke up as well. The two boys slowly made their way back to Naruto's apartment since they were too tired to go any faster. After they each took a shower the two boys crawled into Naruto's bed, ready to go to bed.
"Naruto," Sasuke said.
"Hmm?" Naruto asked tiredly.
"Let me kiss you." Sasuke said. Naruto looked over at Sasuke.
"What?" Naruto asked. Sasuke had kissed Naruto a few times since his return but Naruto had thought nothing of it really. Naruto kissed Sakura and Ino and Ten-ten and even Gaara, Neji, and Kankuro sometimes. But now Sasuke asked, which made it different.
"Let me kiss you." Sasuke said again.
"I don't think so." Naruto shook his head.
"Why?" Sasuke asked as he sat up and leaned over Naruto.
"I don't think it's a good idea." Naruto said. Sasuke's eyes flashed slightly and Naruto winced. "I'm sorry Sasuke. I didn't mean," Naruto started.
"Then let me kiss you." Sasuke said. Naruto sighed.
"Fine. But only this once, okay?" Naruto said. Sasuke kissed him hard, not even listening to Naruto. Naruto had to admit that it felt nice to have Sasuke kissing him. Naruto relaxed and let Sasuke deepen the kiss. Sasuke's tongue forced it's way into Naruto's mouth. Their tongues wrestled for a few seconds before Sasuke growled and Naruto gave up, allowing Sasuke to dominate the kiss. Sasuke bit Naruto's lip until it bled. Naruto hiss slightly and Sasuke pulled away. Sasuke smirked as he looked down at Naruto.
"Nice." Sasuke said softly before licking the blood away.
"Sasuke, stop." Naruto said while pushing Sasuke off of him. Sasuke growled but obeyed and laid down next to Naruto. "No more kissing." Naruto said. Sasuke growled. "What's wrong, Sasuke?" Naruto asked.
"Nothing." Sasuke huffed and turned away from Naruto.
"Sasuke," Naruto sighed.
"We're best friends, right?" Sasuke asked softly.
"Of course." Naruto said quickly.
"More than best friends?" Sasuke asked.
"I don't know." Naruto said awkwardly.
"Give me your hand." Sasuke said turning to face Naruto. Naruto gave Sasuke his hand. Sasuke held Naruto's hand tightly and flared his chakra. Naruto hissed and pulled his hand out of Sasuke's grip. An Uchiha fan was burned onto his palm.
"Why did you do that?" Naruto asked, nursing his sore hand. Sasuke didn't answer, he just turned away. "It's not going to heal, you know. I'm gonna have a scar like this forever." Naruto said. Again Sasuke said nothing. Naruto huffed and glared at Sasuke's back. "You are a bastard, you know." Naruto sighed as he wrapped his arms around Sasuke's waist and pressed his face into Sasuke's back. Sasuke placed his arms over Naruto's and held the blonde there. Naruto sighed heavily and pressed further into Sasuke's back. Sasuke relaxed and fell asleep in Naruto's arms. The next morning, Naruto woke up to an empty bed again. He got dressed and started walking around town in search of something to do.
"Oh, Naruto, how are you today?" Hinata smiled when she met Naruto on the street.
"I'm good. What are you up to, Hinata?" Naruto asked.
"Oh, nothing." Hinata blushed.
"You want to hang out? I was thinking of going to Ichiraku's for ramen, you want to join me?" Naruto asked.
"Sure." Hinata smiled. Naruto smiled and took Hinata's arm, wrapping it around his.
"Then let's go." Naruto smiled. They walked to Ichiraku's and ate some ramen. Naruto paid for their food and then invited Hinata to a movie. They had a nice day together and Naruto asked Hinata out for another date later that week. Hinata answered yes before passing out. Naruto carried the unconscious girl back to her house. "I don't know, she just kind of passed out." Naruto said while handing Hinata to Neji. Neji sighed and nodded.
"Thanks for bringing her back." Neji said. Naruto smiled and nodded.
"I'll see you later, Neji." Naruto said and walked off. He found Sasuke waiting at the entrance of the Hyuuga estate.
"What happened to her?" Sasuke asked.
"I don't know. We were hanging out, and then she passed out." Naruto shrugged.
"You want to spar?" Sasuke asked.
"Sorry, I'm too tired. Maybe tomorrow." Naruto smiled. Sasuke nodded.
"Yeah. Do you want to get something to eat? My treat." Sasuke said.
"Nah, I just ate a bunch of popcorn when I went to the movies with Hinata. I'm not that hungry." Naruto said.
"Then you could come over and we can play some video games or something." Sasuke said. Naruto looked at Sasuke and smiled.
"You wanting company, Sasuke?" Naruto asked. Sasuke sighed and nodded. "You just had to ask you know." Naruto smiled.
"You want to hang out?" Sasuke asked.
"Yeah, let's go." Naruto nodded.
"How's your hand?" Sasuke asked noticing the bandage on Naruto's left hand.
"It's sore." Naruto said. He looked over at Sasuke contemplating on whether or not he should ask Sasuke about last night. First they made out and then Sasuke basically branded him. What did it all mean? Sasuke asked if they were 'more than friends.' Did that mean Sasuke wanted to be something more? "Sasuke, about last night," Naruto started.
"What game do you want to play?" Sasuke asked.
"Sasuke," Naruto started again.
"I mean I do have a lot of games. I don't want to spend like two hours trying to figure out which game to play." Sasuke said.
"Yeah. I don't know. That new ninja game you got the other day. Let's play that." Naruto said.
"Okay, cool." Sasuke said. They made it back to Sasuke's house and Sasuke pulled out his game system and his new game. The two boys played for a few hours before Naruto got hungry again. "You want to go get something to eat? Or we could have something delivered." Sasuke said as Naruto got up.
"Nah, I think I'll just go home and make something." Naruto said.
"I have plenty of food here. I don't mind if you had some." Sasuke said grabbing Naruto's arm.
"I guess I could stay. I'm sure it gets really lonely in this big house." Naruto smiled. Sasuke nodded.
"What do you want to eat?" Sasuke asked. "I'll make you something. What do you want?" Sasuke asked standing up quickly.
"I don't care. Whatever you want to eat, I'll eat it too." Naruto said. Sasuke nodded and quickly went to his kitchen.
"I'll make some beef and rice." Sasuke said. Sasuke said as he started pulling ingredients out.
"Sounds good." Naruto said. Sasuke quickly made food and they ate until they were completely stuffed.
"You want to stay tonight?" Sasuke asked. Naruto looked at Sasuke. "Please?" Sasuke asked softly. Naruto sighed and nodded.
"Yeah, I'll stay." Naruto said. Sasuke smiled softly.
"Okay. You can sleep in my room. It gets kind of creepy if you're in here by yourself." Sasuke said. Naruto nodded as Sasuke grabbed his arm and pulled him towards his room. "You want to sleep in my bed or on the floor?" Sasuke asked.
"Um," Naruto started.
"The bed is definitely more comfortable." Sasuke said.
"Bed I guess." Naruto said. Sasuke pulled Naruto to the bed and laid down.
"We should get undressed." Sasuke said. Naruto yawned.
"Yeah." Naruto said.
"I can undress you if you're too tired." Sasuke said. Naruto laughed.
"I'm not that tired." Naruto said as he started to undress. Sasuke undressed as well. They laid back down and Sasuke pulled Naruto to his chest and held him there.
"Goodnight, Naruto." Sasuke said. Naruto sighed.
"Night Sasuke." Naruto said before falling asleep. Sasuke watched Naruto sleeping. He took Naruto's hand and unwrapped the bandage. He gently traced the Uchiha fan burned on Naruto's palm. Sasuke smiled softly as he stared at the burn and fell asleep.