A/N: This is the last chapter! I hope you guys liked it, and please review!
Upon walking out of the theater, the veil of anonymity was taken away, forcing Sasuke and Naruto to come face to face with the gawking of passing strangers at the two young boys holding hands, at which point, they mutually dropped the other's hand. They continued walking down the street, the dusk painting the sky a dark, melancholy blue. Sasuke stuffed his hands into his pockets, while Naruto was using his sleeve to dry the remaining moisture from his almost dry eyes. Sasuke glanced at him.
"All over a stupid movie."
Naruto seethed. "I'm not going to dignify that with a response."
A moment passed.
"You can't tell me that you didn't feel anything!" He shouted shaking a fist into Sasuke's face.
"Good job at not dignifying that with a response, dobe."
Naruto gritted his teeth, fuming. Sasuke kept his face straight, but inwardly snickered. Whatever feelings he may have for the dumb blonde, he would never tire of riling him up.
"You have no heart! You know, they…they were…like," he started sniffling in the midst of saying his sentence, causing a stutter to emerge.
Sasuke stepped forward, took one hand out of his pocket, and lazily wiped away the tears on Naruto's face that had yet to fall. Naruto met his eyes. Sasuke's eyes weren't the windows to his soul, Naruto could never see through them. At that moment, he desperately wanted to. He wanted to know what caused the kind gesture.
But he looked down, not able to keep the gaze with what he was going to say next.
"Like us."
He balled his hands into fists, needing some sort of physical release, some kind of outward expression, to replace the part inside of him that he had made bare. It's only a few words, he thought, but it's Sasuke, he's smart enough to know what I mean.
Sasuke's hand now lay still on the side of Naruto's face. It was an absent touch almost, with Naruto not leaning into it, and Sasuke not turning the touch into a caress.
"Us?" Sasuke questioned, unnerved, unsure, but hopeful all the same.
"Yes," Naruto started to explain, looking off to the side, "us. Us as in Team 7 at the end of the movie. And us as in us, you and me."
At that moment, he felt a curious feeling in his stomach. It was heavy and uncomfortable, but it didn't hurt. Like a knot, it was twisted and tight. What am I doing, he questioned himself, I'm ruining everything.
"Is this what you were thinking of throughout the movie?"
Naruto gulped, which Sasuke took as a yes. He removed his hand, needing time to think.
"We should go. I'll walk you to your place."
They walked the rest of the way in near silence and full-blown awkwardness. Shy sideways glances were shared when they thought the other wasn't looking. Touches were shared where they barely skimmed the other's hand or arm, which a few hours ago could've been ignorantly wrote off as accidental. Naruto tried to process what it all really meant; if his impromptu soul sharing had been met with mutual feelings from Sasuke. And Sasuke tried to make sure no other interpretation could be read in Naruto's feelings, other than the one he desired to see.
They reached Naruto's door, who tried his best to not look at Sasuke.
"I appreciate you coming with me," he said as he put the key into the lock. The knot in his stomach had grown heavier, but not tighter. He wanted into his apartment as soon as possible, wanting sleep to heal him of this knot and the last half hour.
Sasuke watched him, his eagerness to get inside his apartment reflected in the redness creeping onto the sides of his face, and the bangs that he had buried his eyes under.
"I consider this a date," Sasuke blurted out. He figured this was the best course of action. Naruto was more the type to be blunt with, and it would alleviate Naruto's embarrassment. Besides, it wasn't like the boy hadn't already given him the go-ahead.
He stopped trying to unlock his door, and blinked-up at Sasuke, not sure if he had heard right, or hallucinated in his mind-consuming embarrassment.
"What?"
"A date," Sasuke stepped forward, the two boys facing each other, "with you," they were now close, their bodies a few inches from touching. Sasuke leaned forward and touched his forehead to Naruto's. He closed his eyes, his breath quickening. "Dates end with a goodnight kiss, you know."
Naruto closed his eyes in return, and placed his hand onto Sasuke's shoulders. The knot in his stomach growing tighter.
"I'm ready," he answered. Their warm breaths mingled with each other, causing the other's skin to flush.
Sasuke took his hands out of his pockets and wrapped them around Naruto's waist, pulling him closer. He briefly opened his eyes so as to change position to locate Naruto's lips better, but it was Naruto who pressed his lips to Sasuke first, in a light, chaste kiss. Sasuke closed his eyes once again, and pressed his lips harder into Naruto's. Naruto parted his lips, allowing for a slight tug on Sasuke's lower lip. He moaned into the motion, and returned the tug by gently running his tongue on Naruto's upper lip, politely asking for entrance. His lips parted fully this time, letting Sasuke run his tongue over his teeth, before their tongues lightly touched, and engaged in a gentle battle. Sasuke pulled back, with Naruto getting one last lick at the other's nearly closed lips. They stood for a moment, sharing a look of dazed lust and clear love.
Naruto broke out into a smile, one of the ones that could light the sky. "This was a good day!"
Sasuke grinned. "Yes, it was."
At some point, Naruto was sure that the knot in his stomach had broken.