Underneath the Sakura tree, Somei Yoshino

OMG i am sooooooooooooooooooooooo sorry, i am such an awful writer for posting up this chapter.

I hope everybody's new year and xmas was good? it was weird celebrating both of them in Hong Kong but it was all good.
oh yeah went to Beijing for 5 days before Uni started, which it did on monday and some of the classes i have is soooo boring and a lot of work =( but i am taking japanese this semester so at least i can learn some more. but yeah Beijing was awesome, took so many pictures, went climbing in the great wall of china, they must have loved stairs back then because it was never ending.

anyways i hope i am not disappointing you with this chapter and that i havent lost my ever so loyal readers because i was to slow with this one. good or bad criticism is welcome as usual and thank you to my beta for being patient and waiting and fixing my mistakes despite her having a lot of things to do.

and of cours thank you to all the readers and commenters, it is my life serum so please comment.
well okey so on with the story then.

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Chapter 11

Sasuke was woken by a loud knock on what he presumed was his front door, he let out a small growl as the knocking didn't stop. As his body slowly woke up Sasuke began to register the presence of another person lying in his arms, normally Sasuke would never share a bed with anyone after sex, not even Neji. Sasuke slowly opened his eyes and stared right into a head fell of golden locks.

‘who?’ it took a couple of seconds for Sasuke to remember that he had slept with Naruto earlier this afternoon, but it was rare of him to be too tired to chase the boy away. Not that he actually minded right now, the heat coming from the tanned boy in his arms was pleasant.

-knock-knock-

Sasuke let out another growl before sneaking out of bed, surprisingly, Naruto seemed to be a heavy sleeper as the boy did not wake. Sasuke grabbed new a pair of boxers from the drawer along with a pair of silk pj bottoms and got dressed before heading for the door. To say that the Uchiha was not pleased was an understatement, who ever it was on the other side of his front door was going to get an earful as soon as he opened the door. It had been a while since he had gotten any decent sleep, but thanks to a certain blond he was feeling well rested however, he wasn't going to tell anyone that, because that would indicate that even an Uchiha could not survive on his own.

-knock-knock-

“What!?!” Sasuke growled as he opened the door.

“Wow did someone wake up on the wrong side of the bed this afternoon” Neji said, half smiling, enjoying the view of a half naked Uchiha with hard nipples. “Want me to cheer you up?” he added letting a finger glide over one of Sasuke’s hard nipples.

“Piss off Hyuuga” Sasuke answered slapping Neji's finger away, “What do you want?”

Neji frowned a little when he heard Sasuke say his last name, something he only did when he was really pissed off, ‘I guess there will be no second round on me today’ he thought.

“How cold, I cant come and visit a friend?” Neji said as he squeezed passed Sasuke and entered the flat.

“I don’t remember giving you permission to enter” Sasuke said in an irritated and cold voice as he closed the front door.

“Ah come on Sasuke it was freezing outside, you wouldn’t let your friends stand outside and freeze now would you?” The long haired man entered the living room and noticed the clothes that were tossed on the floor, Neji’s eyes followed the trail of clothes before he laid eyes on the sleeping blond lying in Sasuke’s bed. “So that’s why you're so pissy, I interrupted your fun time” Neji grinned and pointed at Naruto.

“Not that it is any of you business, we were done and you interrupted my sleep” Sasuke sat down on the sofa and lit a smoke.

“And hes still sleeping in your bed?” Neji said with surprise in his voice, nobody and that meant nobody, not even him, were allowed to sleep in the same bed as the Uchiha after sex. “Why does he get to sleep in your bed, I mean I can understand all the random people you drag home not sleeping in your bed but I am your closest friend.” Neji slumped down on the sofa next to Sasuke.

“He let me top...” was all the raven haired man said, Neji looked at him with a ‘oh I see’ look. Whenever he and Sasuke had sex he was always on top, he had tried once to be bottom with Gaara and it had hurt like hell that he avoided it at all cost.

“Dude, if that was all it took I might have even considered being bottom once.”

“Right.” Sasuke said with an ironic but cold voice, he knew all about the incident with Gaara as the long haired man had spilled his beans when he had gotten back from his Christmas party almost too drunk to walk. “Of course that’s not the reason idiot.”

“Then what is the reason?” Neji asked, he was curious now to know whatever the blond boy did to grant him permission to sleep in the bed.

“I dunno why I let him sleep next to me it just happened...” Sasuke took a last drag of his smoke before putting it out in the ashtray.

“Things like that,” Neji grinned as he pointed towards the bed “just don’t happen, you put up your Uchiha rules for a reason.” he paused a little “You like him don’t you?”

“Of course not, he is no different from any other lay I take home” Sasuke was quick to defend himself.

“Except he gets to sleep in your bed” Neji added.

“Except he gets to sl … oh shut up Neji.” It had taken Sasuke a second before he realized he repeated the long haired man. Neji on the other hand couldn't help but chuckle a little, in his opinion it was about time Sasuke found someone he liked. Much like him, Sasuke picked up random strangers, the only difference was that Sasuke only took people home when ever he had writers block, how on earth his friend managed to hold himself that long at the time without getting sexually frustrated was a mystery. Neji, on the other hand, couldn't go longer than two days at most; his sexual craving was a challenge to satisfy.

“If you have nothing else to do here but waste my time Neji, I suggest you leave.” Sasuke broke the silence.

“Fine.” Neji got up taking a hint from the annoyance in Sasuke’s voice “I did have other business with you than just to annoy you; believe it or not. He straightened his jacket before continuing. “I ran into my old Sensei the other day, the over enthusiastic literature expert of sorts. Remember him?” Sasuke nodded.

“Well he was telling me that there was an opening for the teaching assistance job at the university, and I told him about you and how you would be prefect for the job”

“What on earth makes you think I am willing to take a petty job like that? Besides I hate people and I can’t teach.” Sasuke said

“You don’t hate people, you just hate the idea that there is a possibility that if you got to know people they would get behind that brick wall you've built up around you, and teaching isn’t that hard it just requires some social skill which in this case you might not have but could learn by teaching.” Neji looked at the raven haired man. “Besides I know you haven’t written anything yet, you always sleep around when you have writes block.”

“Tch, I’ll think about it.” Sasuke was not pleased that Neji knew he hadn't written anything, he could use that as a leverage to get himself out of the teaching assistance job that Sasuke knew for a fact, that Gai had offered him first before he had mentioned Sasuke was better for the job.

Naruto stirred as he heard voices in the room, he recognised Sasuke’s deep voice as he spoke “… I can’t teach” then he heard a voice he couldn't place, only thing the voice revealed was that it was another male in the room. Then after a couple of minutes the conversation seemed to finish as he heard the other male bid his goodbye and the sound of the front door being closed, only then did the blond sit up in the bed meeting the onyx eyes of the raven haired man.

“Hey, um you could have woken me if you had someone coming over, I would have left...” Naruto said.

“Don’t worry about him, he always shows up unannounced,” Sasuke wandered in to the kitchen “tea or coffee?”

“Coffee please” Naruto answered as he went searching for his discarded boxers, he needed to go back home and change, if he turned up for work with the same clothing he was wearing yesterday he would definitely be questioned.

After a couple of minutes, Sasuke came back out from the kitchen just in time to see Naruto pull his black silk boxer over his nice toned ass, the raven haired man couldn't help but stare.

“Coffee's done.” He announced and walked in to the living room and placed the two cups on the table “I don’t have any food so we have to go out and eat breakfast”

Naruto sat down next to Sasuke in only his boxers and shirt taking the cup of coffee. “Do I have time to go home and have a shower?” he asked before taking a sip of the coffee, frowning a little, it tasted like cheap instant coffee.

“Sorry instant is all I have, you can have a shower here. I have some shirts and trousers that are too small for me; they might fit you if you want to borrow some clothes” Sasuke replied trying his best not to spit the horrible coffee back in to the cup, why on earth did Neji like this stuff, he had no idea.

“Thank you” Naruto said taking small sips of the warm coffee and looked at the watch hanging on the wall “its 3 o’clock where do you want to get breakfast?”

“I have some errands to run and they are all on the same street as Lee’s, we can eat there” Sasuke answered.

After they had both had taken a shower and Naruto had gotten dressed in Sasuke’s blue jeans that seem to fit him perfectly and a white t-shirt with a grey turtle neck jumper which seemed to have the Uchiha crest embroidered in a slightly lighter grey colour making it almost not noticeable. Sasuke wore a black turtle neck jumper and a pair of loose dark blue jeans which fit him perfectly around his ass, Naruto couldn't help but stare for a couple of seconds.

“Let’s go.” Sasuke grabbed his coat and the keys lying on the table before opening the door and holding it open for Naruto to walk out first.

Outside, the sun was shining and it was quite warm to be so early in the spring, the sound of children playing in the park and people chatting amongst themselves as they were walking past, floated through the air. Sasuke guessed it was one of those ‘wonderful days’ people were always talking about, where there seemed to be any worries to be concerned about.

“Nice day isn’t it” Naruto decided to break the silence.

“Hn” Sasuke took a puff from the newly lit smoke in his hand. Sasuke was not particularly fond of nice days, as a child Sasuke had never been allowed to play on nice days like these or any other days for that matter. His father had told him playing was for lesser people, people with no ambition. So as a child he had watched the other kids play, laughing, enjoying the small freedom they had been given by their parents, to roam around the playground, while he was stuck inside studying for what his father called a life. Naruto, on the other hand, didn't mind nice days like this, he didn't have any good memories per say, but he liked the way the sun was gently stroking his skin, like a loving parent.

As they round the corner to the small shopping street where the old bookshop was, Sasuke open his mouth, “Need to pick up a book from Sandaime-san...” He pointed to the bookshop and started heading in the direction of it.

-pling- The doorbell on the old door gave away a soft sound as they both entered. Sandaime came out from around the bookshelf holding two books in his hands and a tired but a gentle smile appeared on his face when he noticed who it was.

“Sasuke-kun, Naruto-kun.” The old man walked towards them placing the book he was holding on the counter, “Coming for your book?”

“Yes.” Sasuke replied not saying much else.

“Short as ever I see.” Sandaime smiled and turned his attention to the blond standing next to the bookshelf on the other side “How's the book Naruto-kun?”

“Oh its very good thank you, almost done reading it!” Naruto smiled back to the old man as he walked back to the back room. Sasuke gave Naruto a questionable look, Naruto didn't have to hear the words coming from the raven haired man as the look told him everything.

“I got a collection of Kajii Motojiro short stories last week.” The blond said knowing he had answered Sasuke’s unspoken question. Sasuke nodded back and let his eyes fall on to the books Sandaime had left on the counter, there were two books written by Haruo Sato.

After a minute Sandaime appeared back from the back room holding a black leather covered book, it had no title or so it seemed but if one looked closer they could that there was some writing on the front, imprinted in leather.

‘Light and Darkness’

“You got a unique taste in books Sasuke-kun, it was a hard one to track down.” Sadaime said handing Sasuke book.

“Yeah,” The raven haired man inspected the book in his hand, “thank you Sandaime-san.” He said after a couple of minutes reading the first two pages.

“The price was a little more than anticipated though” the old man spoke.

“Don’t worry, I'll have your money transferred to you by tomorrow.” Sasuke bowed respectfully to Sandaime before giving the signal to Naruto that they were leaving. Naruto followed Sasuke’s example and bowed to the old man who bowed back and followed the other man out of the shop.

When they where out in the street again Sasuke began to walk in the direction of a very green looking café with the word Lee’s written in gold across the top of the entrance. First, Naruto was a bit surprised Sasuke would eat at a place like that, after knowing him for a couple of weeks he had imagined that Sasuke was the type of person to eat at a place a little more fancier. But as soon as they entered Naruto understood why Sasuke went to this place.

The café was painted with the darkest green colours and all the furniture looked like it had been bought in 18th century London, the lighting was dim and the soft sound of jazz music filled the room along with the aroma of oolong tea. Customers in the café were either reading a book or whispering amongst themselves, this was one of those intellectual art places. Naruto was impressed, but the atmosphere really did fit Sasuke as he sat down at one of the free tables he placed his new book on the table.

Naruto followed Sasuke's example again and sat down opposite him at the table; Sasuke had placed a menu in front of him and Naruto picked it up and began to read what Lee’s had to offer.

“Ah Sasuke, I see the youth of spring time has brought you out of hibernation!” A short black haired man with bushy eyebrows said in loud voice disturbing the peace and quiet in the room. The man was dressed in a green turtle neck and black pair of trousers, ‘must be the owner’ Naruto thought as everything had been painted in a shade of green.

“And who is this, your new ‘special’ friend?” The man gave Naruto a run over and smiled before placing a hand on Sasuke’s shoulder who still had not looked up from his menu.

“Hand...” was all Sasuke said still not moving his eyes away from the menu.

“Still the same.” The man removed his hand from Sasuke’s shoulder and turned his attention back to Naruto. “So who might you be then?”

“Uzumaki Naruto” Naruto answered holding out his hand, which the older man took.

“Ah such a youthful name for a young man. My name is Rock Lee” Lee shook Naruto’s hand with huge enthusiasm.

“Lee, stop it you're scaring him.” Sasuke finally decided to speak more than one word. “Make yourself useful and take our order.”

“Aaaww” Lee pretended to pout, he was so use to the Uchiha's attitude “Lighten up Sasuke its springtime and love is in the air, by the way how is that goddess of an editor of yours doing? She say anything about me?”

“No, now that the damn order.” Sasuke was getting annoyed; Lee was a person he could only take in small doses. “My usual coffee and a number 24.”

“Okay okay, and Naruto-kun what would you like to have?” Naruto looked a little puzzled at first, he was too caught up in watching the interaction between Sasuke and Lee that he had completely forgotten to look at the rest of the menu.

“Hmm I’ll just have the same as Sasuke” Naruto answered giving Lee the menu.

“Sure!” Lee took the menu from Naruto and Sasuke “But I must say Sasuke, I am surprised you brought someone, you don’t even invite Neji to this place.” Lee placed his hand on Sasuke’s shoulder again but only for a second before going to the kitchen to tell the cook. Sasuke’s eyes widen a little and a flicker of surprise could be seen on his face if one looked closely, luckily for Sasuke, Naruto was too busy looking around at his surroundings to notice. But Lee was right, this was the first time he had taken anyone to this place, not to mention spending more than one day with the same person.

Sasuke let his eyes fall upon the blond sitting in front of him who was busy staring at the pictures on the wall. The light was dim but still the small light was reflected in the blond's sapphire coloured eyes and made them sparkle. Unaware, Sasuke felt himself getting pulled deeper and deeper in to those beautiful blue eyes and it was not until Naruto spoke to him that Sasuke realised he was staring at the blond.

“What?” The blond said.

“Nothing.” Sasuke was quick to reply and grabbed the book to examine, it trying his best to ignore Naruto, but the image of those blue eyes that had been filled with lust from earlier, was haunting his mind.

Naruto looked at the older man as he quickly picked up his new book and became engulfed by it. The dim light made Sasuke’s hair almost come off as a dark blue colour and his eyes looked so dark it they almost appeared unnatural. But to Naruto it was the sexiest thing about the older man, they were dangerous but Naruto felt himself being drawn closer and closer the more time he spent with him however he couldn't stop no matter how much he tried.