The Guardian

Chapter 12: Solving

A/N: Wow…have I updated this fast in a long time? I don’t think so…but this chapter just flowed. I totally enjoyed writing and spent about three hours or so working on it. It’s been a long time since I could spend a day writing a chapter at intervals! So yayness!

Chapter 12:

Gaara watched Sasuke for a while…he was soon joined by Suigetsu, Karin and Juugo in that order. The dark haired boy hardly seemed to notice his presence. He was off on a thought ride, oblivious to everything going on around him. He remained that way when class began and didn’t seem to budge even when the teacher called out his name twice. It was only when said teacher came over to slam a hand down on his desk that Sasuke came out of his dream world. However his glare at the teacher and the sentence “What the fuck do you want?” was not duly appreciated and he was carted off to meet the principal.

A lecture and an apology letter later, Sasuke was back to daydreaming in class. At lunch at the end of the Quad, his stupefied gang gathered around him and waited…then they waited…and waited…waited some more and then Karin lost it. Sasuke got a punch that sent him rolling away. That broke the surprised atmosphere and Suigetsu joined in as well until Gaara realised that they were all actually trying to find out what Sasuke had to say and that if Sasuke was unconscious it would just mean more waiting. So he separated everyone with the help of Juugo and then looked at the Uchiha raven.

“So?”

Sasuke frowned looking extremely grouchy. “So what?”

“WHAT HAPPENED??” That was Karin.

Sasuke looked a little confused. “What do you mean what happened?”

“Gosh man, that dense guardian of yours must be rubbing off on you. What happened to make you daydream all day?”

“Oh…” everyone sweat dropped when Sasuke said that.

Sasuke shook his head. “Well….Naruto said he loves me…”

“And that has you in a worried daydream, why?” Gaara raised his non-existent eyebrows in question.

“Well…” Sasuke put his head in his hands. “I…I didn’t know how to react to it.”

“WHAT??!!??” even Gaara had joined in on the chorus.

“I don’t know…I’d been dreaming of it for so long that I…I still don’t know how to react now that it’s coming true…”

“What did you say to him when he said that…?” Juugo was the one who spoke to everyone’s shock.

“I…” Sasuke flushed. “I said…’what? You gotta be kidding me, dobe…’ and then I helped him pack up and we came home…”

Everyone collapsed to the floor total anime style. Karin groaned. “Lame…Sasuke….my prodigy…how lame can you be?”

Sasuke frowned. “I was shocked.”

Suigetsu patted him on the back. “And what did Naruto say?”

“Nothing, we didn’t…haven’t said anything to each other for a while now. But his is just between us ok? If anyone knows that anything’s going on between me and Naruto before I turn eighteen, he’ll be in a lot of trouble.” Sasuke warned.

Everyone rolled their eyes and nodded. “We know.” Gaara heaved a gigantic sigh. “Why is it that when one thing gets solved with you guys there are so many things that crop up right at the end of the last problem?”

Sasuke shrugged. Karin’s eyebrow twitched. “Ok that’s it…the moment school is over you are going to tell Naruto that you’re freaking out about it. It’s natural Sasuke-kun…if you come here in this particularly dazed state tomorrow, I will HARM you…”

Sasuke nodded and then lay back on the grass. “I don’t know what to say…”

“Oh you will know…trust me. If you’re not getting things sorted by tomorrow then you won’t have to worry about the “lusting” for Naruto part…” Karin grinned a little crazily. “All my hard work will not go to waste…”

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Naruto sighed and buried his head in his hands. “So yeah… he said ‘’what? You gotta be kidding me, dobe…’ and then we packed up and came home…”

Hana looked at him and smothered a smile. “Naruto…”

“Yeah…I mean how lame could things get huh? And I was thinking he’d be happy to hear that from me…” He growled. “Ah….I had no idea what to say that…and saying ‘no it’s true Sasuke!’ would have been silly.”

Hana tried again. “Narut…”

“And then we came home and went to bed. I didn’t sleep a wink! In the morning he was fine…like what I had said last night didn’t happen!” Naruto stood up and began to pace. “He wants me to say it so why isn’t he happy? Does he think I didn’t mean it? I cried…” then his eyes widened and he looked at his ex, “No…I mean I didn’t cry cry…just a tear…I mean…well maybe he hates me now…maybe he thinks he made a mistake in liking a cry baby…I mean is it too much to except him to wipe away my tears and say ‘Oh I’ve wanted that! I love you too’? I don’t get it!! I don’t get it! I don’t get it…I DON’T GET IT!”

Then he went rolling into the table clutching his stomach. Hana looking more pissed than he’d ever seen her and more like an Amazon warrior then a sweet veterinary doctor was standing over him. “SHUT UP! Naruto why did you stop me from leaving when I came to get my stuff?”

Naruto had gathered his scattered guts by then. “Cause you give good advice…and since you made me do this…I mean put this into my head, you’d better help me deal with it…”

Hana glared at him, her mouth turning own at once side. “Uh huh…how can I give you good advice when you’re rambling? Listen…Sasuke must be confused too….so talk it out with him. Honestly they way you guys can never just be happy and normal is getting irritating. Now make something nice for Sasuke-kun and then talk it out. You’re going to be twenty one soon. Start acting like it…” her face softened. “I’m really very angry with you for making me listen to all this when we just broke up the day before yesterday…it hurts….but then again I was expecting you to be sensitive…” she sighed. “Clear it up Naru…and be happy…”

Naruto watched her leave and threw himself onto the couch. It was true that he’d forgotten they’d only broken up two days ago. The Sasuke situation had been killing him so he’d just grabbed her as she was walking out with her stuff so she could clear it up for him. He slapped his hand against his forehead before he got to making some chicken croissants for Sasuke. Then he went upstairs and tried to study for the exams that were coming up soon. Nothing went into that head of his…he had known it wouldn’t at least not while his head was full of Sasuke. He heard the front door open and Sasuke’s muted shout of “I’m home” but made no move to go down. He wanted Sasuke to change and relax a bit before they brought up this topic.

When he finally made himself go down Sasuke was sitting on the couch a chicken croissant on his plate. Naruto surmised that the younger boy had taken about two bites of it when he’d entered. He sat down next to Sasuke and lay his head back against the couch so he was looking up at the ceiling. He liked this weird comfortable and quiet silence he had with Sasuke.

Sasuke broke the silence. “did you mean it? When you said…”

“Yeah…”

“I’m sorry, I was confused…more like I had waited so long for you to say it, I even had all these answers in my head, cool ones like ‘Took you long enough, dobe…’ but I couldn’t say anything…” Sasuke looked at his plate. “I hadn’t expected…you to say it then…and now I’m thinking, maybe it was just a spur of the moment thing. You saying it then I mean…”

Hands caught ahold of his wrists and lips gently kissed his. Blue eyes looked into his startled black ones. “Sasuke…I’m a doofus. I need to tell you something…Sasuke…” Naruto cleared his throat a bit, but a determined look entered his eyes. “Sasuke, when you first came into my home…well a few months after that…I don’t think you even remember, you were fast asleep… you fell asleep on this couch and I carried you to your room. As I put you down on your bed, you kissed me…in your sleep.”

There was a pause and Sasuke looked at tad bit embarrassed. But Naruto gulped a bit and continued. “I think I liked you then…I haven’t been honest with you when it comes to my feelings at all. I liked you then Sasuke…way back then. But I was coward…I thought and in a way I still think it was wrong. Every moment I spent with you then on, I tried to consciously shut you out. That time you made out with me at the farmhouse…I wasn’t asleep…but I didn’t want to let you know that I was awake…I…I…I couldn’t stop you that night…”

Naruto looked distressed. “Sasuke the truth is…Hana noticed it too…I wanted to deny being in love with you. I repressed every shred of that particular emotion I had for you…I kept trying to change it into something more family like…I failed. I wanted to be a good guardian. If you don’t mind me saying it, you seem to have an extra fucked up past…and I didn’t want to fuck it up more…”

Than Naruto looked at him determined again. “But I do know that I’m in love you…I know that from now on I can’t run anymore. Because I ran away I hurt you, I hurt Hana and I hurt me. And I know it’s hard for you to just take me at my word…but Uchiha Sasuke I am definitely in love with you.”

Sasuke stared at him for a long while. He didn’t know if he had to be happy that everything was finally settled or mad that Naruto had loved him but fought it and made him hurt for so long. But then again, whop could blame Naruto…if word got out, hen this definitely wouldn’t be taken lightly in society. So he went for it.

Naruto found himself grabbed in a hug, the chicken croissant and plate slid to the floor. Sasuke was hugging him so firmly and solidly…it wasn’t painfully tight but it still seemed like the boy never wanted to let him go. Naruto wound his hands around Sasuke too, breathing in that warm scent that Sasuke smelled off. “I’m sorry…” he murmured into the boy’s hair.

Sasuke just held him tighter. He wondered whether if he held Naruto any tighter he could just merge with that warm body, whether they could just become one being. Was it so bad that he just wanted to stay like this…wrapped up like this forever? Would it be running away if they never broke apart and he just let all his problems seep out of him?

Naruto shifted, stretching out his legs and prodding Sasuke to do the same while letting the boy continue to hold him. The new position with them both lying almost on top of each other was much more comfortable. They stayed like that for a whole hour neither speaking, just being happy to stay like that.

It was almost twilight when Naruto finally shifted a bit more. “Ne Sasuke…”

“Hn?”

“I wanna make out with you…”

“Eh?” Sasuke sat up and glared at Naruto. “Is that what you’ve been thinking about all along?”

Naruto shook his head. “No…just now… the thought came to me. You up for it?”

Sasuke looked at him incredulously… “No. Especially not when you ask for it!”

Naruto stood up then and unceremoniously dumped him on his butt. “Fine. I’ll go get dinner ready…though there maybe enough croissants…maybe I only need to make a soup or something.” He looked down at his prone ward. “Don’t glare at me like that teme…come and help…or go do your homework…”

Once dinner was done, Naruto went up to his own room after kissing Sasuke goodnight. He decided he’d take things really slow as Sasuke was acting weird…He spent half hour at his desk trying to cram a bit, but gave up. He had the whole day tomorrow so he could spend it studying. He slid into bed in his boxers and cuddled his pillow covering his head in the blanket too. He’d just noticed today that Sasuke was all ready his height…he would soon get taller than him. The thought made Naruto pout a bit. It just wasn’t done that Sasuke got to be taller. He was so wrapped up in this thought that he almost screamed when he felt something sit down next to him. He hoped it wasn’t Watson.

“Naruto…”

Eh???? Naruto freed his head from the blanket and looked at Sasuke’s slightly awkward expression. “Hm?”

Sasuke said nothing; he just crawled forward a bit and placed his nose against Naruto’s. Then with absolutely no warning of any sort he caught Naruto up in the most passionate kiss the blond had ever had.

(Lemon-ish-ness)

When Naruto finally pushed Sasuke away to be able to breathe since his nose had suddenly decided not to work during the longest kiss of his life, he had to wonder how Sasuke had gotten under the covers with him. Even before he could take in a lungful of air, Sasuke’s hands began running down his naked chest, constantly and erratically grazing his nipples. Naruto couldn’t help the moan that he gave, he couldn’t help his hands winding into that black hair and pulling the younger man down for a long kiss.

Sasuke’s hands wouldn’t stop moving, his fingers played with every possible patch of skin they could find and once Naruto’s mouth had freed Sasuke’s…little kisses were trailed from neck downwards on the dobe’s beautiful tanned skin. All the doubts Naruto was having fell apart and his hands hand began the Sasuke exploration enthusiastically.

Two fingers hooked into Naruto’s boxers and started sliding them off. The things was, Sasuke sexily slid downwards along with them licking each patch of skin he encountered with that hot little tongue of his…the bastard bypassed Naruto’s good sized erection which had just gained freedom and continued licking down one leg…he stopped at the foot with a slightly disgusted expression. The blankets had slid down with Sasuke, leaving Naruto in all his naked glory.

Sasuke’s breath hitched a bit, his sucked in a breath and casually tossed the boxers aside. Then he lay back on top of Naruto placing their erections next to each other and began to literally grind into him. Naruto’s moans began at the back of his throat and then slowly rose in volume as this unbelievably good friction continued.

He grabbed the raven’s ass and began a fast incessant rhythm, dying to cum. He just really really had to cum. “Sasuke…” he groaned.

Sasuke’s panting in his ear was driving him nuts. The fact that Sasuke stopped panting at intervals to try and trace his earlobe with his tongue also drove him nuts.

(Lemon-ish-ness ends here and Important bit here)

Naruto was so caught up in his pleasure that he didn’t notice that his fingers had moved on Sasuke’s ass to trace his puckered little entrance.

Suddenly all movement ceased. It took Naruto a bit to get his senses together, he looked up at Sasuke whose head had jerked upwards and saw fear slowly filling Sasuke’s eyes.

One of Sasuke hands was twisted at a weird angle grabbing Naruto’s wrist stopping those fingers from going near his entrance. Seeing Naruto’s questioning gaze, sasuke took a couple of deep breaths. “No…” he whispered. “Naruto…you can’t…please don’t…touch me there…”

Naruto nodded. “What…”

Sasuke shook his head. “I don’t want to talk about it…” then slowly a panicked expression came over his face and his erection against Naruto’s thigh wilted. “Naruto…you have to know…I…I can’t be uke…please don’t make me be uke…”

When Naruto shifted to calm him down, Sasuke looked even more panicked. “Don’t be angry…I’m sorry I didn’t tell you before…don’t hate me…I just can’t be uke…”

Naruto gave him a short slap. Sasuke’s other arm; the one that was supporting him came up to clutch his cheek, causing him to fall on top of the blond. Before he could retaliate arms wound around him.

“I don’t hate you. You don’t have to be uke…be seme all right? My seme…” Naruto rubbed Sasuke back. “Calm down Sasuke…you have your reasons and I don’t need to hear them till you’re ready.”

After the quiet little speech he grinned at the raven. “Ok, seme-sama…can we please finish what we started? I was sooo close to cumming…”

Sasuke blushed a bright red. After that it didn’t Sasuke long to get back to being a horny teenager and humping Naruto like a bunny. They came simultaneously and then went of to have a nice hot shower.

Sasuke looked for a minute at Naruto who seemed to be scrutinising the bed as he stood butt naked by it. “Dobe…?”

“I’m changing the sheets and you’re helping me.”

“What the hell? Let’s just sleep in my room…”

“No…I want my bed…come one its fun changing sheets while we’re both naked!!” Naruto grinned widely. “I get to check you out…and think up funny things for you to do to me…”

A pillow hit him. Then the whole plan degenerated into a pillow fight. An exhausted Naruto scuttled off to leave the sheets in the laundry basket while Sasuke put on the new ones.

“Teme…”

“Hn?”

“I thought you didn’t want to make out…”

Sasuke turned around to look at Naruto. “What do you mean?”

Naruto frowned. “I’m talking about earlier today…”

Sasuke sighed. “I meant…that it would be awkward if we went at it like that. I wanted us to just do it when we felt like it, not after talking about it…”

Naruto nodded and then threw himself forward. He hit Sasuke and they both fell onto the bed. Yanking the blanket over them Naruto snuggled into Sasuke.

“Goodnight teme…”

“Don’t…don’t you want to know about my past? Aren’t you even curious?” even though he was grateful that Naruto has understood about him not wanting to talk about it, he still felt a bit miffed about Naruto not seeming curious at all. Didn’t the dobe want to know about him?

“I am. But you aren’t ready to talk yet and I’ll wait till then.”

“Oh…ok.”

“Yeah, now go to sleep teme…”

“Usuratonkachi…?”

“Hm?” Naruto sounded a little annoyed.

“I love you…”

Naruto chuckled a bit, before cuddling Sasuke some more. “I love you too, teme…”

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It was the ringing of the phone that woke Sasuke up. He wondered who would be calling at six in the morning on a Saturday. Naruto still seemed oblivious to the world. Sasuke reached out and picked it up.

“Hello?”

An extremely deep male voice sounded on the other end. “Uzumaki Naruto?”

“Uh…no this is his ward. Is it very urgent?”

“Yes. Please hand the phone over to Uzumaki Naruto at once…”

Sasuke replied an affirmative and then clapped a hand over the mouth piece, incase the person got ideas. Then he woke Naruto up. The blond groaned and grumbled and took the phone.

“Hello?”

“Naruto?”

“Hn?”

“This is Asuma from the Konoha Police Department. We’ve had a call from the Otogakure Department…Sannin Orochimaru has just escaped…”

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A/N: Hope you all liked this chapter! I’d thought of ending before the phone call, but decided it felt too much like the end of the story and decided that you all needed to be a given my trademark cliffie!

Since it’s the first time I’ve updated this fast in ages please encourage me with more reviews…

Thank you all for reading…

Taka