Underneath the Sakura tree, Somei Yoshino

disclaimer: dont own anything from Soseki or naruto

hiya guys

well finished another chapter, unfortunatly it isnt beta'd yet but i am very pleased with this chapter so i thought i put it up for u guys to read even though it isnt beta'd. oh but i thinky my beta reader is going to draw me a sakura tree, yay so happy never had anyone drawn my anything hehe, so yeah well exited if she does.

had a football match yetserday and we ended up losing, which sucked since we now wont proceed to the next round, but oh well we did play hard and lost by one goal, 2-1. blah.

well anyways hehe i want to thank Sleepy, i am glad i made ur day un crappy, and yeah missed being able to write but hopefully i will do some more and that uni doest tae completely over.

lexjamandme, oooh u even copied a line yay. very happy. i think this chapter has its sweetness two.

Sneakyfox, hehehe ^^

Sasunaruluv, hehe thank you, trying to add soe humor in to this story so hope i succeed.

and last but not least jess249 for commenting on my story.

oh yeah of cours cant forget my other readers, and i hope that this chapter pleases u.
and dont forget to comment they are my life source for this story, even more so now that i have to balance writing with uni work so maybe if i get extra comments i might put mu home work to the side for a second and write some hehehe.


oh ps: pixicorps the books and stories are real =) how much of them that has been translated i am not sure but some of them should and if i must recommend something I am a Cat is good hehe
okey now on with the story. enjoy.

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chapter 12

Sasuke and Naruto ate their meal in complete silence, not that Naruto had much choice as Sasuke's eyes were glued to the book in his left hand. His onyx eyes went up and and down as he read the lines of words on the pages, Naruto noticed that the raven haired man squinted a little as he read. 'he needs glasses' he thought as he watched the older man a little longer.

“So what's the book about?” Naruto finally broke the silence but there was no reply other than 'hmmm' from the man, he was too deep in the book to register that Naruto was talking to him.

If there was one thing Naruto hated, it was being ignored. One did not go out and have lunch with people one would socialise and not have ones nose stuck in a book the entire time, 'lets see if this gets his attention' Naruto thought.

“Man I am horny, ne Sasuke-san what do you think wanna take me hard right here on the table? Lee-san can join in, been a while since I had a threesome must say I kinda miss having two dicks shoved up my ass.” Naruto purred in his sexy low voice, he was glad there were only 4 other customers in the cafe and that the low jazz music playing in the background was loud enough to drown out his voice before it went passed Sasuke's ears.

“Hmm sure ... ” Sasuke replied still focused on his book, Naruto on the other hand had begun counting to see how long it would take before his words had sunk in, if they did at all. ‘4 … 5…6 …’ Sasuke turned another page and took a sip of his coffee. “ … Wait … What!?!?!” Sasuke almost swallowed his coffee down the wrong pipe.

“Ah now we are paying attention, who would have thought you were such a pervert?” Naruto couldn't help but grin, he had just managed to shock the man that never seem to show anything other than a stoic expression, well except in bed earlier but that didn't really count.

“Dobe, I am not the one spilling dirty words here.” Sasuke put his book down and stared at Naruto with a serious look “And let me make one thing clear, there is no way in hell even if Lee was the last person on earth, I would ever consider to share a bed or anything sexual with him.” Sasuke couldn't stop a shiver of disgust from showing as an image of a naked Lee appeared in his mind.

“Hehe calm down, I was only saying it to get your attention. You seem to have forgotten there was another person sitting with you.” Naruto said taking a sip of his coffee, “Must be a very interesting book as you seem so engulfed in it, what's it about?”

“Well if you must know.” Sasuke began.

“I must.” Naruto grinned as he interrupted the raven-haired and received a glare.

“If you really must know, I suggest you shut up and listen, didn’t your parents ever teach you it was rude to interrupt people while they were talking?” With that last comment Sasuke could see a small change in Naruto’s facial expression and the memories of one of the first conversation they had ever had came to his mind. “Sorry..”

Naruto just shook his head, he was used to it. Well maybe not used to it per say it was just that he never really spared his parents any thought and it was easy for him to suppress or forget or both his own parents.

“The book was written by Natsume Soseki, an author from the Meiji Era. Sasuke picked up the book and handed it to Naruto , who in return accepted it and listened to Sasuke as he began to unravel the life of Natsume Soseki and his themes and works. “London Tower and I am a Cat was one of his first novels, I especially like, I Am a Cat, as it describes the mix of western ideas and Japanese tradition during the Meiji Era.” Sasuke took a sip of his coffee before he quoted a line from the book, I am a Cat.

“I Am a Cat. As yet I have no name I’ve no idea where I was born. All I remember is that I was miaowing in a dampish dark place, for the first time, I saw a human being.”

Naruto listened as the dark voice spoke those words, even though he had never heard of the author or the books he was intrigued. It was something in Sasuke’s voice that made him want to read the books his dark onyx coloured eyes had ever laid eyes on just to be able to speak those same words with such love, because even if Sasuke hid his emotions well he couldn't help but reveal his love for books.
“That book there is called ‘Light and Darkness’” Naruto let his fingers gently slide over the imprinted Katakana and Hiragana that spelled out the title “Unfortunately, unlike his other books this was never finished”

“Why was it never finished?” Naruto asked as he flipped to the last page.

“He died from a stomach ulcer and never got to finish it,” The raven said and drank the last of his coffee “but I guess that's what makes it interesting, the ending is open for everyone to finish for themselves.” Naruto nodded and put the book down at the table as Sasuke signalled to the green dressed Lee that they wanted the bill.

“Ah leaving so soon Sasuke?” Lee said as he came up to the table and handed Sasuke the bill.

“Hn.” Again Sasuke was back to his usual wording. He took a quick look at the figure before fishing out his wallet and placed the amount plus some tips, then he picked up his book and rose from his seat.

“ See you again soon Sasuke, do not forget the joys of spring time,” Lee said with equal enthusiasm as before. “and hope to see you again Naruto-kun!”

“Yeah” Naruto smiled and thanked him for his food with a slight bow before following Sasuke out to the street again.

“So what do you want to do now?” Naruto asked.

“Nothing.” Sasuke replied and began walking down the street.

“Finished all you errands?” The blond asked as he walked besides the raven haired man.

“No.” Sasuke still had some small shopping to do, he was running out of toothpaste and shampoo. They continued to wander down the street in complete silence; strangely enough, it was not an awkward silence but a comfortable silence, it was the type of silence one would share with one's oldest friend, the silence where no words were needed.

After a while, they both stopped in front of a small supermarket, the small supermarket Naruto had been shopping in a couple of weeks ago in order to feed Sasuke when he was sick.

“Buying food?” Naruto asked as they entered the small shop.

“No, I need toothpaste and shampoo.” Sasuke said in an slightly annoyed voice, even though the younger boy was following him, like a puppy, purely for his own amusement, was somewhat annoying; Sasuke was still drawn to him.

“Hmm so not even going to attempt cooking?” Naruto asked as they walked past shelves filled with different types of dry food.

“I’ll cook when you eat it.” Sasuke said thinking the blond boy would politely decline as eating any of Sasuke’s cooking could, in worst cases, cause fatalities.

“I’ll eat it”

“Come again?” The raven-haired man stopped and faced Naruto.

“I said I will eat it” The blond boy repeated grinning

“You do know I can’t could worth shit right?” Sasuke said.

“I’ll teach you.” The younger man responded still grinning, “Here, let’s have dinner together tonight and I’ll teach you how to cook, we’ll make something simple like spaghetti.”

“No.” Sasuke was quick to respond, he did not really think the boy would accept it. It was not so much that Sasuke hated cooking it, had more to do with that he completely sucked at it; and no Uchiha would do something that made him appear completely at loss and the fact that Sasuke had no patience to cook.

“Ah come on, it'll be good for you.” Naruto pouted a little, he was hoping Sasuke would accept, he wanted to spend some more time with the raven.

“No … ” Sasuke began to buckle from his decision, for some strange reason, unknown to him, Sasuke wanted the blond to stay a little longer despite the annoyance.

“Please Sasuke it won't be that bad, I promise.” Naruto made his sapphire coloured puppy dog eyes.

“Fine, but you're going to eat it no matter how bad it taste.” Sasuke grunted, clearly annoyed that he had caved in. Naruto could tell the raven was a person that never gave anyone the satisfaction of winning over him in an argument or anything requiring the Uchiha’s judgement.

“Yay, hmm let’s see we need a small basket then.” Sasuke watched as the smiling blond took off back towards entrance to fetch a basket before shaking his head ‘what have I gotten myself into?’ he thought, before turning towards the shelf filled with shampoo and toothpaste. It only took Sasuke half a minute to pick out the shampoo and toothpaste and he was now currently waiting for the blond to return with the basket however, the blond seemed to have disappeared.

“Sasuke, over here!” Naruto’s head popped out between two shelves.

“Dobe where did you go?” Sasuke said as he came around the corner.

“Don’t call me hat Teme. By the way do you want chicken pasta or beef pasta?” Naruto asked as he held up the two types of meat.

“Doesn’t matter just take one.” Sasuke said uninterested.

“Hey its the cook's job to decide the contents of the meal.” Naruto held up the meat in front of Sasuke.

“Fine, chicken.” The raven haired man said annoyed. Again, Naruto only smiled and placed the beef back into the fridge. During the whole shopping spree Naruto explained to Sasuke which were bad vegetables, what was good, how to distinguish the differences about what spices to use for the meat and how to see if the meat is fresh if he didn't get it from the butcher.

After shopping, they went back to Sasuke’s flat with everything. Naruto had made a small detour, to pick up some chocolate from the candy shop and some strawberries from the fruit stand lady, explaining that it was for dessert.

“Okay let’s begin,” Naruto said rolling up his sleeves “wash your hands.” Naruto instructed as he finished washing his own hands, after Sasuke had done what he had been told, he was given a red apron.

“Where did you find this?” He asked, as it was something completely new to him.

“In that drawer over there, you have a lot of cooking supplies for a guy who can't cook.” The blond said as he began taking out the ingredients from the shopping bags.
“Let’s start with the simplest thing first; the salad.” Naruto handed Sasuke the knife and chopping board and began explaining how to cut the salad before beginning to show him how to fry the meat and make his own pasta.

“Wow, Sasuke you need more oil in the pan you're burning the chicken.” Naruto could smell the burnt chicken fillet in the room.

“Well if you had told me that in the beginning I wouldn’t have burnt it.” Unlike Naruto who seemed to be enjoying teaching Sasuke how to cook, Sasuke was starting to get fed up and annoyed. It was a simple fact ,Uchiha males didn't know how to cook even the simplest thing like a salad. As Sasuke was preparing the salad, he had managed to drop the lettuce head on the floor and chopped the tomatoes into to small pieces leaving only a mosh of tomato on the cutting board.

As for the the pasta, it had not ventured much better; first, he added too much butter and then too much water. Despite him measuring each thing he had somehow managed to screw it up. Then when it came to make the pasta itself, he had cut it into small square pieces instead of long slim ones, in the end, he had managed to make some long ones but they were by no means straight. He added too much spice in the sauce so it tasted more like pepper than a cream sauce and now he had just burnt the chicken.

Naruto sighed a gentle sigh followed by a warm smile, despite Sasuke being incapable of cooking, he had tried really hard, if one took one look at the kitchen one would think a flour and water bomb had gone off. Everywhere was covered in either flour, water, tomato juice or different spices. The fire alarm had long been disabled and both Naruto and Sasuke had flour in their hair and all over their cloths.

“What?” Sasuke said as he turned off the oven.

“Nothing.” Naruto said still smiling as he walked up to stand next to Sasuke.

“Take out?” The raven asked as they stared into the half burnt chicken pieces and the amateur pasta that didn’t even look like pasta, a very green salad and the cream sauce which now was pepper with cream sauce.

“Well we can order some but I said I was going to eat what you cooked, didn’t I?” Naruto turned to look at the raven-haired man. “Here…” Naruto began taking pieces of wet flour from Sasuke’s hair. “Your hair is full of flour.” Sasuke looked up trying to spot some but obviously, he was not going to see any.

Sasuke let his eyes fall back down on the slightly shorter blond standing only 10 cm away from him, pools of black met sapphire blue. Both stood there for several minutes without moving, they were too lost in each other's eyes as they both had colours that seemingly seemed unnatural to others. Sasuke felt a need to kiss the blond, the need to claim him as his possession.

Ever since this morning, Sauske had had this stirring feeling swirling around inside his body, a feeling that was completely new to him. It was a mix feeling, the desire, want, need and maybe even a mild form of love for the other male was all mixed into one and right now it was boiling over making Sasuke lose any sense of reasoning.

Naruto was also having the same emotion stirring within him, there was just something about the older man that made him feel all the emotions he only read in books or heard from others. Was this what some people called a crush? No it couldn't have been as Naruto had had crushes in the past, this was different; the need for the older man was so much stronger.

Neither of them knew who initiated the kiss but here they stood in the kitchen covered in flour and a mess all around them kissing fiercely, both could feel the need in the other as they both desperately tried to get more contact and friction between their bodies. It was like neither of them had ever touched or received any body contact in their lives and since the first contact they had become addicted to it, the taste, the smoothness the feeling of being ravished gently yet clumsily rough.