Spartan Ninjas (Abandoned WIP)

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Author's Note: for further reference here is a key to help you follow the story:
::this:: is a character's own personal thoughts

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Spartan Ninjas
~ Chapter Fourteen ~
By: Cecilia Tsukineko and Kirei Kitsue
Beta'd by Sammei

----------Sunday Evening---------
"This is it!" Naruto said with a grin as they pulled up in front of Holmes Hall. The instant Mika turned the car off he jumped out, opening the trunk and grabbing as many of the bags of clean clothes as he could carry. Very much looking forward to seeing Sasuke again - two days was too long - Naruto bounded into the building and up the stairs.

Mika just shook her head in amusement and grabbed another bag. "If he's like that after only two days I'd hate to see what happens if you pull them apart for a week," she chuckled, grinning at Arashi.

Arashi took the bags from Mika since he had the rest of it all in his hands anyway. "They wouldn't make it that long," he said bluntly and headed up the stairs and into the building with his mother right behind him.

Naruto burst into his room with a huge grin... which immediately disappeared when Sasuke wasn't in the room. And the bathroom door was chained so he wasn't in there. Worried, Naruto grabbed the phone and dialed Sasuke's cell phone.

"Where's Sasuke?" Mika wondered as she walked in, looking around. She raised an eyebrow at the mess, especially around Naruto's desk. "And when was the last time you cleaned this room." That comment earned her a razz from Naruto as he waited for Sasuke to pick up.

Arashi just looked around the room and stated instantly, "Two of you live in this box?"

Naruto ignored his father, bouncing impatiently for Sasuke to pick up. ::Three... four... five...::

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The phone rang, but Sasuke never heard it. He was engrossed in reading the paper of a man that had tried to logic out his brother's killing pattern, but the man - not having any leads or real hard evidence or facts - was flailing to Sasuke's amusement.

"I think your cell's ringing," Kakashi said without looking up from the papers on his desk. "You might want to answer that."

"Hello?" Sasuke asked into the phone, his eyes and attention still mostly on the paper he'd been reading.

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"Sasuke! Where are you?"

Mika looked at Arashi and did her best not to laugh. They really were too cute.

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Literally dropping the paper unfinished on Kakashi's desk, Sasuke grabbed his coat and threw it out, smishing the phone between his cheek and shoulder while saying, "You're back... I didn't realize it was this late. I'm at Kakashi's office," as he performed the difficult feat of putting his coat on with a cast and a phone.

"I'll see you tomorrow in class," Kakashi said as Sasuke left, not surprised in the least when Sasuke apparently didn't hear him.

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"Oh, okay then. Do you need me to pick you up later or do you have the car over there?" Naruto asked. He'd completely forgotten about the other two people in the room.

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"I have the car. I'm on my way back," he answered, barely casting a wave over his shoulder at Kakashi.

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"Okay. See you in a bit." Naruto hung up and jumped about ten feet when he turned around only to run straight into Mika.

She grinned at him. "You know, it's really rude to have guests and then pretend they're not there," she teased, chuckling as he made a face at her.

Arashi just went to sit on the couch and paused about half-way to actually sitting. "You two haven't done anything on this have you... or do you reserve that for higher altitudes?" he asked as he pointed upwards at the bunk above his head.

Mika and Naruto both looked at him with wide, surprised eyes before Mika absolutely died laughing.

Naruto turned beet red and said, once he'd managed to find his voice again and his eyebrow twitching a bit, "Sasuke has a broken arm, remember? Do _you_ think he can get into the bunks?" That set Mika off even more.

Arashi promptly stole Naruto's chair instead of sitting on the couch, suggesting Mika do the same before Sasuke returned to claim his. They were interrupted by Sasuke entering the room.

"What's so funny?" he asked as he entered and then shut and locked the door behind him. He took two steps into the room and braced himself for impact.

It was a good thing he did because there was suddenly a set of Naruto arms wrapped tightly around him and a Naruto kissing him. "Hi!" the blond chirped with a huge grin when they broke apart.

When Mika finally got her breath back she explained to Sasuke, "Arashi asked Naruto if you two have done anything on the couch or, and I quote, 'do you reserve that for higher altitudes?' Naruto answered him with, 'Sasuke has a broken arm. What do you think?'"

Groaning Naruto buried his face in Sasuke's chest. "Baa-chan..." he whined.

Sasuke looked from the couch to a grinning Arashi and back to the couch. Then he looked at Mika, "If you want the truth -..." he began his voice even and as serious as it ever was, but Naruto knew that he was kidding and expecting Naruto to interrupt him.

True to form, Naruto did. "NO SHE DOESN'T!" he squeaked.

"And you've just told her for me..." Sasuke chuckled. Naruto's reaction would have been all the telling that Mika would have needed.

The bathroom door opened as far as it could with the chain on it and a black eye peered through the crack. "No who doesn't? And doesn't what?" Kiba asked curiously. "Y'know you are _really_ loud when you yell, Naruto?"

Turning an even brighter shade of red Naruto grabbed the doorknob and pulled the bathroom door shut. "Go away, Kiba," he growled.

"Okay, now I'm really curious," Mika chuckled, just grinning at the murderous glare Naruto gave her.

Sasuke smirked evilly and then said, "Sorry, Mika... it's not a kiss and tell relationship." Effectively leaving her completely in the dark.

"Yeah... at your age it probably shouldn't be... This one -..." and Arashi jerked a thumb at Mika, "went rabid when she found out I was sleeping with Sara at an age younger than yours."

Mika raised an eyebrow at him. "It's your fault for getting caught by her father in her house when you thought her parents were going to be gone all night. That and you lied to me as to why you were going to be home late. If you'd just told me you were planning on spending 'quality time' with her instead of 'studying for a test' I wouldn't have blown up so much."

"Too much information," Naruto muttered, hiding his burning face in Sasuke's shoulder.

"Oh, yeah! That's what every teenager tells his mom. 'Hey Mom, I'm going to go -..." and here he elbowed the air and winked pointedly with a lusty grin, "Play around with my girlfriend at her place. Back me up if we get caught, k?'"

"Tch." Sasuke snorted and shook his head. "You shouldn't have let yourself get caught to begin with."

"Again. The term 'quality time' would have sufficed," Mika said with a sigh, pretending to exasperated.

"Can we talk about something else?" Naruto muttered, beginning to feel a little light-headed from all the blood in his face.

To ice the cake Sasuke smirked wickedly and looked to Mika and Arashi. "Hey, you two... I'd like to spend some 'quality time' with Naruto, since I haven't seen him in almost three days, and definitely two nights..."

Arashi laughed outright at the attempt to get more of a rise out of Naruto when Mika said, "I think he was serious, Arashi..." which effectively shut him up. He blinked and then grinned, stood and patted Naruto's shoulder on the way by. "Have fun boys!" he said as he unlocked and opened the door looking over his shoulder at Mika. "Coming, Mom?"

Chuckling Mika followed him out. "Good-bye, kids. Naruto, call us soon." She shut the door behind her.

Naruto was quiet for long moment before mumbling, "I think that was the single most embarrassing moment in my life..."

Sasuke caught his chin and unburrowed Naruto's face from his shoulder forcing the brightly blushing boy to look him in the face. Sasuke's thumb reached up to caress one of the semi-clearly defined whisker-marks - whenever Naruto's face got red they showed up a little more - before murmuring, "Ostrich..." as he leaned in to kiss Naruto sweetly on the lips once.

When they broke apart Naruto wrinkled his nose at him. "You weren't much help... jackass." But he was smirking and tightened his hold on Sasuke. He had missed him sorely in the short time they'd been apart.

"It was only in fun..." he muttered and lowered his head even as he jerked - though gently - his right arm tighter around Naruto's waist bending him backwards a little at the lower back so that he could lick then nibble at Naruto's neck. His entire demeanor was playful. This whole thing could go one of two ways: they'd either end up wrestling for a bit and then hit the bed or just flat out hit the bed. Since both options ended in bed, Sasuke wasn't feeling overly finicky about which it would be.

"If you're looking for forgiveness, that's a really pathetic attempt," Naruto teased with a mischievous grin, his blush quickly fading now that he was back in familiar territory. Pretending to be miffed he pushed Sasuke away and locked the front door before grabbing a bag of clean laundry, making as if he was going to start sorting clothes.

Watching him for a moment Sasuke shrugged one shoulder and pulled the couch bed out making it for sleep before flopping back on it. He laid his cast across his stomach and the other arm he tucked behind his head. He let one leg fold off the bed so that his knee curled around the edge, his foot resting on the floor, while the other was propped up on the wooden "ladder" of the end of the bunk above the couch. If that's how Naruto wanted to play it...

Rolling his eyes at Sasuke with a smirk, Naruto stopped putting clothes away and sat on the bed, scooting until he was between Sasuke and the cubbies. He lay down on his side so his feet were at the opposite end as Sasuke's, propping his head up in one hand with his elbow on the mattress, and combed the fingers of his other hand through Sasuke's hair. "So what did you do all weekend?" he asked curiously.

"Worked on the case with Kakashi... You?"

"Spent time with Dad and Baa-chan. Found out that she was even more evil to him when he was a kid than she was to me."

"Hm.... that's how it is. The second child raised is always treated better and then the third better than that... and so on..."

Naruto smirked and laid his head down on Sasuke's left shoulder. They didn't have to be careful with that shoulder anymore since it had healed completely a couple weeks back. "Did you and Kakashi find out anything interesting?"

"No. I've just been reading a lot of the 'extras' type stuff, like articles and papers people have written on the case. Kakashi thinks it might bring something to my mind... or at least give me some different insight."

"Mm." Naruto scooted a bit so that his ear rested right above Sasuke's heart and he closed his eyes with a quiet sigh. Sasuke's heartbeat was a sound he had missed greatly over the past three days. The hand that had been in Sasuke's hair slid down to rest on his shoulder.

Pulling his hand out from beneath his own head smoothly, Sasuke reached across his own chest and caught whatever part of Naruto seemed most convenient, pulling him closer. Bending his neck just a little he managed to reposition them for a long kiss. Playfully Sasuke pulled Naruto's lower lip into mouth and teased it with teeth and tongue, his nose brushing the underside of Naruto's chin.

Murring and somehow managing to not break the kiss Naruto shifted until he was laying in the same direction as Sasuke and settled on top of him. He slipped his hands beneath Sasuke's shirt to run them over his torso, eagerly deepening the kiss and drinking down Sasuke's sweet taste.

Getting his elbows under him, Sasuke inched up more on the bed until he could lay both legs on the mattress completely. Going as slow as he had Naruto had moved with him easily and Sasuke continued to devour Naruto's mouth hungrily. He'd been starved of this for the last three days and two too long nights. As soon as he was comfortably laid on the mattress he settled back onto the bed again to lay completely flat and let his casted arm curl up over his head out of the way while his right arm lifted and his hand found its way down the back of Naruto's pants to squeeze one firm, round muscle bundle.

When they both ran out of air and broke the kiss, gasping, Naruto pulled Sasuke's shirt off, diving down to roam his mouth over Sasuke's chest. Just hearing Sasuke's voice every day over the phone had been far from enough. The past three days had made him realize just how addicted he was to Sasuke's touch, taste, kisses, teasing, skin, love... Slowly his hands slid down Sasuke's abdomen to his groin, brushing it teasingly before playing with the zipper of his jeans.

Sasuke's voice was both warning and plea as he murmured, "Don't tease, Naruto... not tonight..." A weekend plus was far too much time apart for them to tease each other too much, especially beyond this point. Grabbing the back of Naruto's shirt he hiked it up until Naruto was forced to take it off or be blind-hooded by it and once it was gone, he brought his left elbow under him again and pushed up on Naruto's shoulder with his right hand forcing the blond back and up onto his hands at which point Sasuke's mouth latched onto one ruddy colored nipple.

Naruto moaned low in his throat and arched into Sasuke's mouth. Keeping himself propped up on one arm he slid his other hand back down to Sasuke's groin, this time undoing Sasuke's pants. He leaned back on his knees, whimpering quietly at the loss of Sasuke's mouth on his chest, and pulled the rest of his lover's clothes off. Delighted to find that Sasuke was already almost completely aroused he trailed kisses down Sasuke's pale stomach to his erection, caressing it lovingly with his tongue and encouraging him to full arousal.

Still propped up on his elbow, Sasuke looked down his own lithe, muscle-defined torso and reached down to tangle his fingers in Naruto's golden hair. A low, quiet moan filtered out of his vocal chords and his eyes hooded. For some strange reason the nerves at the back of his eyes were burning, but not in an unpleasant manner. For a moment his vision wavered then clarified intensely, showing him something for only a brief second that made him moan a little louder though he barely caught a glimpse and then it was gone. However, now Sasuke was fully aroused and his mouth fell open ever-so-slightly so that he could pant faintly, anticipation getting the better of him.

Suddenly Naruto got a very wicked idea and moaned at the mental picture it gave him. There was something he'd wanted to try for a long while and this looked to be the perfect time to do so. He gave Sasuke's erection one more lick before climbing off the bed just long enough to strip. Settling above Sasuke on his hands and knees he leaned down to purr huskily in his ear, "Wanna try something new?"

Sasuke looked at Naruto out of the corner of his eye, Naruto's soft moan and purring voice made him shiver a little, but it was what he had said that forced Sasuke to let himself drop back to the mattress from his elbow. The implications of those words ran rampant in his mind and every one of them made him all the hotter, hornier and eager to try anything Naruto wanted. "Anything you want..." he said, his voice rough with arousal.

Naruto gave him a quick, fierce kiss before turning around so that he faced Sasuke's arousal again, only this time Sasuke was presented with his too. Leaning down so that he was on his elbows and knees, Naruto took Sasuke's erection into his mouth with a long hum, swallowing when the swollen tip brushed the back of his throat. He immediately began to suck hard and long, eager to bring Sasuke over the edge at a mind-blowing pace.

Naruto had just presented Sasuke with the most arousing thing the poor Uchiha had ever seen in his entire life and that fact was made known plainly with a long low groan that ended abruptly in shuddery gasps. His right hand flew up to take Naruto's hip firmly, his cast settling against the other hip, and then he pulled Naruto's hips down taking Naruto's erection into his mouth in an exact replicate pattern of what Naruto had done to him. ::Oh.... mygod...:: Sasuke's body jerked with passion, muscles contracting almost uncontrollably with bliss and he spread his legs wider drawing them up a little and planted his heels on the mattress as he mimicked Naruto's every move on his own throbbing arousal.

A low moan resonated throughout all of Naruto's body as he trembled at the overload of sensation. The combination of Sasuke's mouth around him and his lover's need in his own mouth was heaven and his mind spun in a haze of delicious pleasure. Slowly he pulled his mouth away from Sasuke's arousal to suckle the head, teasing the slit with his tongue and lapping up the beads of precum before swallowing him whole again. His nose was flooded with Sasuke's addicting scent and Naruto felt his mind slip even farther away from sanity. Determined to make Sasuke cum first he cupped Sasuke's sacs in one hand, stroking them just the way Sasuke loved it.

::Oh... not fair...:: Sasuke squirmed a little as Naruto's hand found his sacs and sent sheet-like waves of warmth over and through him. He essentially only had one hand and... lots more experience where blowjobs were concerned... but he couldn't think, his mind fogged up and hazed over with what Naruto was doing to him. Still mimicking Naruto's mouth exactly Sasuke groaned, felt the tightening in his lower body that heralded release and arched off the bed, his back bending almost impossibly as he came into Naruto's mouth. Wisely he let Naruto's erection fall from his mouth as he came, but as soon as the seizure of pleasure was over, he took it right back in to the back of his throat and moaned his bliss, swallowing reflexively as he felt his own cooling cum sliding back down his softening member. The image of what Naruto's face must look like - pleasure written all over every feature as it hovered over Sasuke's waning arousal with cum dribbling lightly down his chin - made him shiver, his passion far from completely satiated.

Greedily Naruto drank down as much of Sasuke's cum as he could while moaning at the same time as Sasuke's moan around his arousal sent sparks along every single one of his nerves. He eagerly lapped Sasuke clean, trembling in pleasure as he felt his own climax building. Finally it was just too much and his limbs almost gave out from under him as he came, spilling his seed into Sasuke's waiting mouth. Panting heavily he hovered there for a moment before falling onto his side, spent. His gasps caressed Sasuke's hip and one of his arms slowly slithered across Sasuke's waist, pulling him closer so Naruto could kiss the crease where his hip met his leg.

Sasuke swallowed every last drop of Naruto's spent passion and then reached his right hand down to tangle their fingers together his palm to the back of Naruto's hand. Turning his head he nuzzled Naruto's thigh slightly, panting breaths ghosting over the sweaty skin closest to him. Lightly his lips caressed where he'd nuzzled, followed by a slow lap of his tongue. He was content to lay there and just nuzzle, kiss and taste Naruto's sex-flavored skin for the rest of the night.

Purring quietly, Naruto shakily got up just enough that he could turn around again, letting himself drape along Sasuke's side. He cupped Sasuke's jaw in one hand and pulled him close for a deep kiss, relishing it as their tastes mingled. To him nothing tasted better than Sasuke's essence in his mouth or his own in Sasuke's. "That was fun," he murmured with a wicked smirk as he lapped at the corners of Sasuke's mouth, tasting himself there.

"I think I'll be investing in a Karma Sutra... soon..." Sasuke agreed with a gentle teasing note in his voice before his tongue snuck out and twisted about caressed Naruto's own tongue and lips. The mingling tastes in his mouth was ambrosia to him and anything that made things like this happen repeatedly was his friend.

"Oh? Just how soon?" Naruto purred between delectable kisses, shifting so that he lay on top of Sasuke and running loving hands up and down Sasuke's sides.

Sasuke's hands found Naruto's hips and settled there lightly. "Tomorrow..." he murmured against Naruto's mouth and kissed him a little deeper then returned to brief kisses strung together. The hands on his sides were making him shiver.

Naruto hummed happily and lifted himself just enough to brush light fingers over Sasuke's nipples, rocking a little against his lover's hips. Just because he was spent at that moment didn't mean he was done playing for the night.

A quiet moan and Sasuke's eyes fluttering shut with pleasure beginning before the euphoria from the first climax was gone was Sasuke's _and_ Naruto's reward. Sasuke's hips lifted into the small rock of Naruto's hips and his right hand slipped up over Naruto's hip to caress his bottom encouragingly. "Naruto..." he breathed just to say the name he'd come to love so dearly.

Shivering at the touch on his rump Naruto ducked his head and began nibbling on Sasuke's neck, soothing each nip with a swipe of his tongue. "My Sasuke..." he murmured, biting at Sasuke's pulse as his hands gripped Sasuke's waist possessively, rocking harder against him as his body woke back up from its earlier ecstasy.

A soft moan escaped Sasuke's lips as he tipped his head back into the pillow he'd managed to squirm onto, exposing his neck to Naruto's mouth entirely. His own body was already awake and on its way back to peak arousal once more, faster this time with the lingering echoes of previous bliss still tickling his senses. The hand on Naruto's rump cupped one cheek with spread fingers and Sasuke lifted his hips in a slow, forceful grind, seeking more friction, more pressure.

Naruto devoured Sasuke's neck as he increased both the pace and pressure of their grind, the mattress squeaking slightly as he drove Sasuke into it. He slid his hands up Sasuke's sides then up his arms, pinning Sasuke's hands above his head. Wriggling a bit he forced Sasuke to open his legs, making it possible for Naruto to grind even harder and faster. He loved the feel of his lover beneath him, naked and flushed and panting in arousal. "My Sasuke... mine..." he growled, giving him a particularly hard bite where shoulder met neck.

Long, pale limbs wrapped around Naruto's waist and hugged as Sasuke lifted his hips into every grind with equal force and rhythm. Unconsciously he tested Naruto's grip on his wrists, found both of his wrists sufficiently held, and shuddered. Being held at Naruto's mercy was a concept that made him quake inside with piercing lust and he arched a little off the bed, pressing hard into Naruto's pelvis, their stomachs brushing.

Moaning at the feel of Sasuke's legs around his waist, Naruto left his neck to devour his mouth with a fierce hunger, swallowing the noises Sasuke was making and feeding him his own as their tongues danced feverishly. Two nights apart had definitely been much too long and he was going to make up for lost time. He was beginning to feel that specific heat radiating from between his legs that he knew would implode at any moment to send him over the edge into oblivion.

The sharp, not-quite-physical tightening of release sent Sasuke into an intense euphoria beyond the one he had experienced only minutes before. His half-screaming moans of ecstasy were swallowed by Naruto's willing mouth as his lower back arched once more and his seed coated both their bellies and ribs in his achieved pleasure. Then he went limp, still rolling his hips idly to match Naruto's pace though with less force for he was no longer capable of maintaining it. Even his kiss had turned languid.

Not even a second later Naruto climaxed, adding his cum to Sasuke's with a long, loud moan. Gasping he broke the kiss to rest his cheek against his lover's, trembling as the aftershocks of orgasm washed through him. "Sasuke..." he breathed lovingly, letting go of his wrists to tangle their fingers together. Slowly he continued to rock against Sasuke, the movement more soothing than arousing now.

"Naruto..." he crooned back and let his tongue lick a bead of sweat that was sliding down the edge of Naruto's cheek from his temple. His own hips still rolled against Naruto as well, for much the same reason. The fingers of his right hand constricted a little and he turned his head ever-so-slightly to nuzzle Naruto's cheek with his nose.

Purring in deep contentment Naruto kissed him softly, resting his forehead against Sasuke's and gazing at him with tender eyes. Slowly his breathing settled back into a normal pattern and he felt wonderfully relaxed. "I didn't hurt you, did I?" he asked quietly, rubbing his thumb on Sasuke's wrist. He wasn't sure if he'd gripped too hard when pinning him down.

"No... not at all," he murmured back the rocking of their hips gradually beginning to slow down and grow lazy, much like their breathing. Deep, black eyes held brilliant blue ones with a deep and resonating love between them.

Naruto smiled and nuzzled noses with him. "Good..." He kissed him softly again and slid his right hand down Sasuke's left arm to cradle his jaw, stroking his cheek with the pad of his thumb. His other hand gave Sasuke's a squeeze. "I have my own key to heaven..." he murmured, his tone loving and teasing at the same time.

"Your own unlimited pass you mean..." Sasuke teased back but leaned his face into Naruto's hand, his eyes closing happily at the small petting.

Naruto chuckled and nuzzled at Sasuke's temple. "I suppose that works too... Or that I have a piece of heaven right here... How I got lucky enough to find such a beautiful angel I'll never know..." he said softly, his words sincere.

Touched, Sasuke kissed at Naruto's jaw - exposed to him by Naruto's reach to kiss his temple - and murmured, "I'm anything but an angel, Naruto..." images of the many others he'd shared his bed with coming to mind at the thought. None of them could hold even a candle to the flame Naruto had kindled in his heart, but to call him an angel...

"Yes you are," Naruto insisted gently, kissing Sasuke's eyelids. "I can see your wings."

Sighing in temporary defeat, Sasuke lifted his chin and sought Naruto's mouth again, seeking the reassurance of their loving bond in a more intimate physical form that nuzzles and caresses.

Slowly Naruto explored his mouth, still able to taste himself there and still having Sasuke's taste in his own mouth from their first climax. He could almost feel the bond between them pulsing with health, strong and secure. "I love you, Sasuke," he whispered, the words kisses in themselves.

"I love you, too, Naruto," he whispered back in the same manner. "My Naruto..." he stated softly and untwined their fingers so he could pull Naruto down on top of him and to the side a little, settling them in a comfortable position for sleep. Naruto's left thigh was strewn over his lower abdomen and the knee wrapped about Sasuke's hip, hugging him the same way Naruto's left arm, now stretched across his chest, did. Sasuke's casted arm looped about Naruto's lower back while his right hand cradled Naruto's left elbow. Sasuke buried his nose in Naruto's hair where the blond rested his head on Sasuke's shoulder and chest.

Gently Naruto pulled out of his embrace to sit up. "Be right back," he said quietly, getting off the bed and heading to the bathroom. There was the sound of running water before he came back with a clean torso, holding a damp washcloth. With loving strokes he cleaned Sasuke of their drying cum, leaving every so often to rinse out the washcloth. Once he was done he crawled over Sasuke and lay back down in the position he had been in before, using Sasuke's shoulder as a pillow. "Sleep time?" he asked softly, burrowing into Sasuke's side.

Reaching up over their heads to the back of the couch Sasuke hit the alarm button to activate it and then resettled it at Naruto's elbow. "Ha~..." he murmured and nuzzled Naruto's head sleepily. Naruto's clothbath had made him sleepy and it was getting to be too difficult to fight any more.

"'Kay." Naruto grabbed the blanket with his toes and pulled it over them, wrapping them in a cocoon of cozy warmth. "Night, Sasuke."

"Good night, Naruto..." Sasuke mumbled his eyes closed and his breathing already beginning to even out with sleep.

-----------That Same Night, Just the Floor Above----------
"So... Have you made any progress?" Ino asked from her desk chair of the girl sitting on the couch. She was very thankful that Sakura wasn't going to be back from her parent's for another few hours because Ino knew she would not approve of what she was doing.

"I can't say no... but it's not a yes either," the girl replied, examining the nails of her left hand. "He's really attached to that ice-bastard Sasuke. I swear that guy knows we're up to something... He gives me dirty looks every time I study in their room."

Ino twitched angrily at Sasuke being called an ice-bastard but decided to not say anything about it, especially when he truly could be very cold towards people. "Have you at least been able to make friends with him?"

"Oh, that was the easy part..." the girl scoffed. "He's easy to lead along, he's just overly loyal to his... master. Like a puppy."

"Then give Sasuke reasons to hate him and beat him so like a puppy he'll starve from lack of positive attention and run to you," Ino said slowly, feeling very exasperated at the lack of progress in the attempt to pull Sasuke and Naruto apart.

"I said I'd deal with Naruto... I'm not going anywhere near Sasuke. He looks like the type of guy to hurt you if you piss him off the right way... Look, what I'm going to do, is since Naruto's bisexual, but he's been with Sasuke this whole time. I'll offer him a taste of something he won't have had in a long while, like offering him a candy that only comes out at Easter, y'know? He's so dense and unthinking, he's not going to think twice about taking me up on it. And if he does... well, he'll be out of your hair anyway. I promise."

"He'd better be." ::Otherwise I'm wasting a lot of money on you.:: "What of the way Sasuke acts around Naruto?" Ino hated to ask that but she had to know.

At this question the girl made a face. "Disgusting... They're all romantic and sweet. Without pouring out confessions of love at every turn though. Basically, it's the little touches and looks..." she shuddered, "It's so _wrong_."

Ino got the urge to snarl but she resisted it. The idea of Sasuke being romantic with another boy made her stomach turn. "You said Naruto's overly loyal, and yet you're going to tempt him and you are expecting him to take you up on it. Isn't that a little contradictory?"

At this she laughed a little and it sounded kind of cruel and yet joyous just the same. "Ino, Naruto's a male, and just like any other male the urge to copulate with anything that can give him pleasure and - more naturally - offspring, is going to tempt him. I'm going to be offering myself to him, not something a man who's at all interested in woman can resist. I may not be a super model but I'm not ugly either."

"True. I would advise you to be very careful doing that, though. Make sure you are certain that Naruto will take you up on it first. Sasuke, and thus Naruto, has many connections and you will end up in a very deep hole of you're not careful."

"Oh? What kind of connections?"

"Police and professors mostly. Actually one of Sasuke's professors works at the police station."

"I see... Well, thanks for the warning. I'll make double sure to take care of it then," she said seriously. The police were not something she wanted to mess with, but if Naruto refused her...

"Take care of it soon," Ino insisted, letting some of her frustration show. "I'm getting impatient."

"It's a delicate... operation Ino. I'm going at it as fast as I can... You want this to work don't you?"

"Of course I do!"

"Than please try to be a little patient while I do my best to ensure that it does. Ok?"

Ino sighed and leaned back in her chair. She'd been patient for years and was beginning to run out. "Fine. Do you have anything else you want to tell me about them?"

"Nothing you'd want to hear," she reported.

"Try me." Anything that gave Ino more reason to hate Naruto was more that welcome.

"I walked in on them by accident, before Thanksgiving break... They forgot to lock their door and Naruto had told me that he'd be there so I could just walk in. I think he forgot that I was coming and that he'd left the door unlocked for me. They were going at it pretty heavy on the couch, Sasuke on bottom, and when I came in Naruto leapt away blushing while Sasuke just calmly sat up and moved over to his desk. I don't think he was very pleased with me. He had a raging hard on. Even I could tell that and I was still standing in the doorway. Naruto made a bunch of apologies and we went to the study lounge... For my sake, he said," she explained all the while examining the nails of her other hand.

Ino's jaw clenched tightly as she swallowed the urge to scream or break something. "Anything else?" she grit out through her teeth, angry red licking at the edge of her vision.

"Hmmm, nope," the girl answered.

"Then get out." Ino needed time alone to vent her anger.

"Going..." she said and got to her feet, leaving immediately and heading back to her room. She would call Naruto later and enlist his 'help' with history again, but ask if it could be a study session in her room this time. She would be 'too exhausted' from yoga to move from her couch.

TBC...