As Long as it Feels OK

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Lexicon:

Teme: bastard

Baa-chan: This is Naruto’s name for Tsunade, I’m pretty sure it means old hag. Correct me if I’m wrong.

Inuzuka Ryuu Chinjuu Combi Henge: Inuzuka Style Beast Combination Transformation, the one where Kiba and Akamaru become that giant white wolf/dog thing.

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It was that dream again, instead of being rudely awoken by rays of sun he was coxed further into slumber by the hands of his dream lover. Those hands were on him again, leaving red trails that sang across Naruto’s nerves and sent pleasure coursing through his veins. This time, Sasuke’s mouth was involved. He was trailing kisses everywhere he could reach from his place curled into the blond’s back.

Naruto simply chose to purr and enjoy, if it was a dream then there was no need to do anything to encourage the other boy. His thoughts became the fruition, he was being pleasured by the most beautiful boy in all of Konoha, slim hands wrapped around him, stroking him, while wet lips trailed fire down his back. He let his eyes slide shut as his hands moved to cover Sasuke’s own; he could feel the smile against the small of his back as he did this. Suddenly, a tongue flicked between his cheeks and he arched, a deep moan tearing itself from his throat.

His eyes snapped open; he was relaxed deep into the bed sheets. If it wasn't for that dream, he probably wouldn’t have noticed the heavy arm, curled over his waist, holding his back tight against a hard chest. Breath tickled over the hair on the back of his neck. Deep, even breaths, indicated the body behind him was asleep. He hoped that it was Sasuke, and he didn’t want to wake him by moving; but he needed to know for sure who it was.

He turned slowly, shifting his weight as little as possible, so as to not move the mattress too much. The first thing to greet his blue eyes, was pitch black hair curtained over pale skin. Upon further inspection, it turned out that it was Sasuke curled up behind Naruto. This of course, sent great waves of pleasure running rampant throughout his body, especially upon the discovery that they were both naked in the bed.

Naruto turned completely onto his side facing his sleeping team mate and debated on what would be the best way to wake up the boy in a hospital room. He decided on something simple and brushed the stray hairs out of Sasuke’s face, and slowly let his lips meet the other boy’s. When this failed to rouse the other boy Naruto cupped his cheek and let his tongue snake over his lips.

Finally there was a twitch behind Sasuke’s eyelids. Naruto pulled back a bit to be able to focus on his lover’s face. Eyelashes that was like a black brush stroke over smooth, pale, cheeks, his eyebrows were drawn together in obvious frustration at being woken. The blond couldn’t help but smile. Sasuke’s eyes slowly opened, fogged with sleep, and were obviously disoriented.

“Morning, Sasuke-teme.” The fox grin made its first appearance of the day.

Sasuke slowly pulled back, blinking a few times, attempting to bring awareness to his sleep-muddled brain, “What are you doing dobe?” He tucked the blanket between their forms.

“I was waking up happier then I ever have before. What are you doing?” He was slightly confused as Sasuke began to pull away.

“I was taking my turn at making sure that Pneumonia wouldn’t set in. Could you be any more stupid? You just found out that Kyuubi’s chakra is no longer taking care of you, and you go and sit in ice cold rain? Tsunade-sama actually thought you might die. You were running a fever when Sakura brought you in, it stayed like that for three days, you were unconscious again! You’ve never been hurt before in you life! What the hell did you think you were doing?!” By this time the brunet had pulled his boxers on and was getting out of the bed, sneering at the blond.

Naruto tried to reach for his team mate to draw him back, but Sasuke was having none of it, “No, Naruto. You got into this position with a prank; you can get out of it on your own. I was only doing my duty as a team mate. I’m going to tell Tsunade that you’re awake. Let me know when you grow up, you aren’t just looking out for yourself anymore, there’s another life to think about.” He pulled a johnny shirt over his head and padded out of the room and up the hall.

Naruto sat staring at the door in shock. He had thought he had won. He had thought, that he finally had someone to love him. Apparently he’d been wrong; Sasuke was only doing his duty as a team mate. He laid back down facing the wall opposite the door; he didn’t want to see anyone else. He’d lost something without ever having it to call his own.

Yet, somehow, Naruto knew that Sasuke was right. He couldn’t only think for himself anymore. There was another life in him, that was as much a part of Sasuke as himself. He knew without thinking that he wouldn’t give up on this child, or his dreams. He would take care of the baby that grows inside of him for now, and try to win Sasuke over, while he still had him as a friend. Once everything was settled, and as back to normal as they'd ever be, he’d continue his training to become Hokage.

He knew he should leave Sasuke be, that he’d eventually come around and want to talk to the blond again; but it still upset him that he’d been yelled at. He also knew it was for his own good, for the longest time yelling at him had been the only way he’d listen. He wasn’t the same person he’d been then though, he needed to show Sasuke that before anything. It was his fault that they'd only really trained together. He needed to take it upon himself to try to become closer to the other boy, get to know him all over again. He definitely wasn’t who everyone seemed to think he was.

There was running foot steps in the hall now, and he figured that it was Tsunade, he wasn’t disappointed. “Naruto!” She was at the side of his bed in record timing.

“What Baa-chan?” He didn’t turn away from his scowling at the wall.

“So you are awake.” She sat on the edge of the bed, “I think we should talk about what you should and shouldn’t be doing.”

“I know my limits.”

“Correction, you knew your limits. Without the Kyuubi, they’ve changed.”

“I know I shouldn’t do anything that normal people don’t do. Sitting in ice cold rain is out. So’s draining myself of chakra to try to improve my stamina.”

“Right. But there’s other things too, givin' your… condition.” She paused and waited for him to turn to her. “For now, you can retain a normal schedule, but try to cut your training sessions short and refrain from using your chakra whenever possible. Once you begin to develop more you’ll have to stop training completely to keep from putting stress on the baby. We don’t know how this is going to work as the baby gets bigger.”

“Yeah, yeah. I know. Can I go home? Please? I’m craving for Ichiraku.”

A smile stole across her face, “Sure, just send for me if you feel even a little dizzy. You might want to give Sasuke some space for the time being too… He was amazed that you were carrying his heir, but he feels betrayed by how it came to be and your most recent stunt didn’t please him in the least…” She seemed to debate over something for a few seconds, “You know, he probably wouldn’t want you to know it, but he insisted on being the one to stay with you until you woke up.” She stood smiling knowingly before giving him his privacy to change.

He smiled at that little tidbit of information. So Sasuke did care for him, or he at least cared that he was carrying the newest Uchiha child. He at least knew he wasn’t going to be alone in this.

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He took his favorite seat at Ichiraku’s and ordered a bowl of miso ramen. It wouldn’t take much to get his energy back up, Kyuubi took care of the body, but Naruto was all energy even without chakra. He planned on heading home and taking a well deserved shower. While he’d nearly frozen the past few days, he was sure he smelled rank from the past two weeks without a shower. He’s not had much food either so that took preference to the blond.

He was well into his third bowl before he noticed an amused body next to him. Turning he noticed a goofy looking Kiba perched on the stool next to him and Akamaru sitting on the seat next to that.

“Hey fox-face.” Kiba leaned his elbow on the counter as he watched the blond inhale his favorite food. “I heard you were out of the hospital.”

Naruto glanced around looking more then a little confused, “Am I? Well shit, how’d that happen?” He dead-panned at the dog boy. “Of course I’m out of the hospital!”

Kiba simply laughed, “Did you wanna go for a good training session then an even better soak at the hot springs? Bet it’d do your ‘injured’ body a world of good.”

“You know that sounds about the best idea I’ve heard in a long, long time?” He placed his now empty bowl on the counter and followed it up with the money for his bill, “Give me a few minutes to get changed and pick up some stuff from my place, then I’ll meet you at the grounds?”

“Sounds good Blondie! See you in a few.” And Kiba was gone with a chuckle still hanging in the air.

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He was still attaching the bag with his kunai and shuriken to his belt when he got to the training grounds. He was back in his bright orange jump suit but with clean boxers and t-shirt, so he felt infinity better about himself. He knew he still stunk to high heaven, but what was the point of showering and then training? Especially if you were training with Kiba and Akamaru, it was only inevitable that you would get dog pee on you.

Kiba was sitting on the ground leaning against one of the posts with Akamaru in his lap, “Ano, Dog Boy, what are you doing?”

“Waiting for you. Sure took your sweet time, didn’t you?” He put the dog on the ground next to himself before pushing up to his feet.

“Yeah well, Tsunade told me to try and take it easy.”

A look of worry flickered across Kiba’s face, “You sure you should be training then?”

“Yup, as long as you listen when I say to stop. Careful ‘bout my stomach too, it’s still kinda tender from the fight on the mission.”

At this point Akamaru interjected a bit of a sad/worried sounding statement, Kiba just laughed at him, “Not possible.” He turned back to Naruto, “I’m starting now. Just let me know if you need to stop.”

“Right.” Naruto took on a defensive stance knowing Kiba's the type to automatically start with a rush. He wasn’t disappointed, Kiba ran a wide circle to Naruto’s left and Akamaru ran wide to his right. They were going to try and close off any escape, but they were far too slow for the blond. He leapt high and flipped in the air to land on one of the logs in front of him. He drew a kunai as he landed and threw it in the direction of Kiba, knowing Kiba does more damage then his pet.

Kiba was already flying towards the post with Akamaru by using Inuzuka Ryuu Chinjuu Combi Henge; they easily dodged the kunai, and slammed head first into the post, knocking Naruto off balance so that he tumbled off backwards. He regained his feet with another kunai in his hand, but when he looked for the giant white beast it was no where to be seen. So, Naruto closed his eyes and allowed for Kyuubi's hearing to help him out. The faint rustle behind him was all he needed as the kunai flew from his hand towards his target.

There was a poof, and smoke issued from the trees as the boy and his dog return to their normal forms to avoid the kunai. They came running at the blond, instead of dodging with a leap into the air, he turned it into a kick. He nailed Kiba in face and sent him sprawling to the ground.

“I win.” Naruto chirped happily as he landed on the ground.

“Ah gawd! My face!!!” Kiba knelt holding his nose and glaring at the blond.

“Hey, you know you shouldn't use the same technique on me twice in a match, you had it coming.”

“Yeah yeah yeah...” Kiba climbed to his feet and checked his hand for blood, luckily there wasn't any.

“Did you want to go catch a movie or something tonight?”

Kiba was looking past the blond's shoulder, “I think there's someone else who'd rather go with you.” That smirk was back, showing that Kiba was in fact fine. Akamaru added an “Arp” of agreement.

Naruto turned very curious as to who Kiba would be talking about. He heart leapt into his throat to find Sasuke watching the two, “How long's he been there?”

Kiba turned to the dog at his side who let out a string of arps and yips and murmurs, “Akamaru says since he and I disappeared into the trees.”

“Hn...” Naurto watched Sasuke for a few seconds, “Yeah I think I will see if he wants to hang out or something...”

“Riiight. Have a good time, love bird.” Kiba and Akamaru walked out of the grounds and towards his home laughing all the while.

Once he was out of sight, Naruto slowly started walking towards the dark haired boy. “I wanted to apologize for earlier...” The blond cocked his head to the side and regarded Sasuke curiously at his comment. “It wasn't my place to get angry like that with you. You're old enough to make your own decisions and look after yourself...” Sasuke didn't look up from his feet.

“Ne, Sasuke-kun, I'm sorry too. Maybe before it wasn't your business how I took care of myself, or didn't as the case may be, but now it is. So it's okay that you were mad, it made me think anyway.” At this Sasuke did look up, looking quite surprised but then smiled at his team mate. “Did you wanna come over for a movie or something later, Sasuke?”

The brunet blinked, “Are you asking me out on a date?” He prodded playfully.

“Maybe I am, maybe I'm not. You'll have to come over and see.” Fox-grin played across a tanned face.

“Maybe I will then. You need to shower first though, I'm not sitting in a room with that stink for a minute let alone a couple hours.”

Naruto did his best to look offended, “You injure me!” They just smiled at one another for a minute. “Yeah, I'll go do that now, it is pretty bad after all... I'll see you at seven?”

“Sure... I'll bring something for us to eat.” One last glance was shared before the boys went in opposite directions towards their individual homes.

Naruto was feeling more nervous then he would admit, afterall, Sasuke had never been inside his appartment, he'd only been to the door. He'd have to clean up a bit, the few dirty dishes in the sink and his clothes... oh god his clothes were everywhere... He turned a corner and broke into a dead run, he had a lot of work to do before his place was suitable for a guest, let alone the boy he was coming to like more and more each day.

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