Back to School

A/N: hallo! This chapter is about two months after the last one, so Naruto and Sasuke have been together for some time, mmkay? Anyway, replies!

LadyRonin: thank you! I try my best, and it's nice to know that people out there like it :)

Kurai Kisu: *laughing maniacally* it's your own fault, making me face my pervyness, serves you right! xD anyways, I do try to keep things between Sasuke and Naruto as gay as possible, cos I think we're far past the point of acting straight. Yuri, eh? I myself swing both ways, that way I don't have to choose. And the morning sickess was a hangover, no mpregging in this fic! ...but if I happen to write a sequal-ish one to this, there might be mpreg, you never know.... xD anyway, I LOL'ed multiple times while reading your review, like always, and had some explaining to do to my roommate for waking her up in the middle of the night. ”But it's Kurai Kisu's fault!” ”Oh god, get some real friends.” ”...these are way better.” xD I'm working on a REAL retort, you pervy monkey LOL just you wait.

Tokyo-Princess: *drops to her knees* I'm so so so so sorry! I was at my parents and you can't write a gay fanfic at your parents! ...at least I can't... but anyway, I missed you sooo much too! When I uploaded the first chapter of those two and you didn't review during the first day (not that I was waiting or anything... really...) I thought you'd forgotten all about me and moped around for a bit, but when I read this review, I was sooooooo happy that I literally jumped around the apartment, driving my friends nuts xP and I can loan my Shika to you sometimes if you want to, just tell me when and where xD oh and that party is a must, I haven't been not-obsessing enough lately! Oh, and now's my favorite part: THANK YOU FOR THE CHAPTER! I was speechless and on the verge of tears and I never cry! That was one of the nicest things anyone has done to me! I'm seriously planning on printing it out and putting it under my pillow! Thank you!! *glomps* oh, and you did an excellent job, I checked, it was the longest review yet :D with whopping 391 words! (the second longest has only 272 ;P) and again, you may lend my powers, just bring them back washed and ironed! xD though the crack-tastic dialogue is my forte, I'm not that good in describing things... and I like it when people quote something and say that they like it, it makes me feel that I did something right :D and just so you know, I added a little Kiba in this chapter, just for you ^^ and thanks again times a million, this just wouldn't feel the same without you x)

ShikaChouFan4Life: :D I think Chouji being all psyched about drawing is funny in itself, but when you add Shikamaru, it's just hilarious xDD thanks for reviewing again, it's great that you still put up with me after all these chapters :D

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Naruto stopped in mid-step as his eyes landed on the Uchiha sitting at the table, reading a scroll and eating his cereal in that sophisticated way of his. The fact that rays of sunshine occasionally caught part of the soft raven hair, that Sasuke had spent a big part of the morning sorting out, made the picture seem even more serene.

”So pretty...”

There was a small twitch in the corner of Sasuke's left eye. ”For your sake, I hope I just misheard you.”

Naruto chuckled and finished tying on his forehead protector. He then walked over to the table, next to Sasuke's chair, and leaned down so that his face was leveled with the other's, waiting till the dark eyes raised from the text to look at him, questioning, before pressing their lips together in a chaste kiss.

Sasuke blinked when they parted and raised his eyebrow at Naruto, who stood up straight and licked his lips, probably tasting the mix of milk and cereal.

”Good morning.” A warm wave ran through the Uchiha's body at the radiant smile his blond gave him before skipping towards the front door.

He followed the hyper shinobi with his eyes, absently continuing eating his breakfast. Naruto pulled his sandals on and turned around while adjusting his vest. ”So, meet you here at lunch for a quickie?”

Sasuke shrugged, turning back to concentrate on the scroll, allowing a small smile to get through his usually impassive mask. ”Sure, why not.”

Naruto chuckled again, wondering when the raven had last turned down sex, and put his hand to the door handle when both of the shinobi felt a familiar chakra signature heading their way.

In a fast, seemingly practiced way, Sasuke jumped up and slid over the table, facing the blond that had just dived over the sofa and landed on his feet, and they both readied a fighting stance.

Just as Sakura opened the door, he could hear Naruto's voice from inside.

”I KNOW YOU ARE BUT WHAT AM I!?!?”

She sighed, walking inside to find his teammates arguing, probably because of something pointless, like always.

”You're a total loser, you're not even worth my time.”

Naruto gasped, pointing an accusing finger at the infuriating raven. ”YOU ARE THE ONE THAT'S NOT WORTH MY TIME!”

Sakura coughed, effectively getting their attention, and put hands on her hips. ”Guys, it's a little too early for fighting, why won't you try to get along for once?”

Sasuke hn'ed, crossing arms over his chest, and Naruto pouted, sniffing loudly. ”He started it.”

The pink haired kunoichi sighed again, smiling. The boys were such kids sometimes, she was happy that atleast one of their group was mature enough to get along with everyone. Although she didn't make any promises if Ino happened to walk in.

”Anyway, the Hokage told me to come get both of you to the academy, there's a shortage of teachers today.”

Naruto nodded, he was going there anyway, but Sasuke groaned, he had had a full day planned. The blond saw his boyfriend's annoyed expression and quickly cut in before any damage was made. ”We'll be there in a moment, I still have something to tell that bastard, okay?”

Sakura rolled her eyes, completely missing the small pout on the Uchiha's lips, and turned around to leave, quickly adding something from behind her shoulder. ”Don't kill each other, you have to work today.”

Naruto snorted, waiting till the door was closed and Sakura was well out of hearing range before turning to Sasuke, who was taking the rest of his breakfast to the kitchen, cursing to himself.

”Why didn't you let me skip the thing, I had something to do.” The raven was pissed, but it never fazed the blond. He walked over to the brooding bastard and put his arms around his mid-section, kissing the pale neck softly. ”Cos this way I get to see you more and you were just gonna sit inside, reading through those old scrolls.”

Sasuke grunted, turning around in the hold and laying his arms over Naruto's shoulders. ”Maybe it was something I was looking forward to?”

Naruto rolled his eyes and pulled them closer to each other, pressing their chests together. ”More than ogling my sexy body in training gear?”

The raven rolled his head to the side, biting his lower lip in thought. ”I'm not sure... How old would the scrolls be?”

Sasuke knew his boyfriend and knew that something was coming, but his eyes almost bulged out of their soccets when Naruto kneed his upper thigh. ”Next one goes a bit higher, mmkay?”

The raven slowly moved his eyes to meet Naruto's, just to check if he was serious, and swallowed slowly. ”Okay.” His voice cracked a little, making him blush in embarrasment.

The blue eyed shinobi smirked, thoroughly enjoying the surge of power. ”Now come on, we gotta leave.”

Sasuke nodded and stayed unmoving until the blond let go of him, mentally sighing in relief. ”I'm just going to grab some lunch-”

”What do you need lunch for?” Naruto asked, seemingly innocent but there was a teasing quality in his tone of voice. ”I thought we already made plans.”

The raven licked his lips as he was thinking about all the possibilities. ”Yeah, but we're going to be at the academy.”

Naruto let out another smirk, turning around to walk to the door. ”It hasn't stopped us before, now has it?”

When the blond had left the room, Sasuke let out a small groan. ”I've really ruined him.”

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Shikamaru stretched his neck, rolling it from side to side. They were sitting in the waiting room, as it was finally the day that Shika would have the cast removed.

He was happy, sort of, but he'd already grown used to the thing and if not counting the itching, it was actually very useful, as it was a lot easier to get out of chores and troublesome missions.

Not to mention the fact that Chouji had made new friends with the cast, that he now called the 'Smoke Detector'. It was supposed to be funny but somehow Shikamaru had failed to see the humor in it.

”You do know that it's leaving in about five minutes, right?”

Chouji grunted as a response. Yes, he was aware of it, but the Asuma-cloud had to be finished! The Kurenai-cloud would feel lonesome without it.

”I'm going to miss him.” He said absently, picking up the green crayon to add a chibi vest.

Shika groaned. ”It. You're going to miss IT. Don't personalize it, it's just a cast.”

Chouji gasped, covering the Asuma and Kurenai clouds with his left and the team 10 clouds with his right hand. ”Don't say that in front of them! It's hurtful!”

Shika sighed. ”Too troublesome.” He then went on to confiscate all Chouji's crayons, handing him a bag of chips instead. ”You need to get back to healthier hobbies.”

Chouji whined at the loss of his artistic medium but soon remembered how fun eating really was.

”Nara Shikamaru, we're ready for you.”

The brunet stood up, looking at his best friend. ”I'm only going to be a minute, you should get back to the academy, I'll see you there.”

Chouji shook his head stubbornly. ”No, I'll wait here.”

Shika didn't argue for two reasons, one: Chouji looked really determined, and two: it was far too troublesome. ”See ya then.” He trudged inside the room, leaving a slightly melancholic teammate behind.

”Okay, now if you'll just sit there, we can get that thing off.”

The corner of Shikamaru's eye twitched in irritation and after spending a whole 10 seconds in thought, he let out an annoyed sigh. ”This is going to sound weird and I'm not going to explain myself, but I need a favor.”

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Sasuke leaned back on the chair to glance at the clock behind him, absently chewing on his lunch. ”The dobe is late.”

As on a que, Naruto burst through the door, slamming it closed after him. ”Sorry.” He walked over and climbed on the table opposite to Sasuke, crossing arms over his chest, and huffed in anger. ”Sai was being an asshole and made fun of me in front of the whole class, it was like I was a student again.”

The raven watched silently as his blond growled and mentally punched the shinobi in question, before raising his clear blue eyes and looking at him pleadingly. ”Make me feel better?”

Sasuke sighed and stood up, fishing an Ichiraku take-out box from his bag and giving it to the tan hands that had stretched out at the sight of it. After handing out the ramen he nudged the blond's side to make some room and got on the table to sit right next to him.

”So, what did he say?”

Naruto shrugged his shoulders, continuing to devour his lunch. He tried to speak, but all Sasuke could fish out was incoherent mumbling and something about sandwitches.

”Dobe, swallow. I know that you know how.” Sasuke added teasingly.

The blond choked, forcing the ramen down his throat. ”Not funny!” Naruto coughed, learning how to breath again. ”Well, he told me to do some jutsu that I don't know, and he knows that I don't know it and he made me do it anyway! In front of the whole class!”

Sasuke calmly ate while listening to Naruto's rant carefully. ”And I tried and of course I failed and then he said I was useless and used me as an example of 'what happens when you don't listen to the teacher'.” The blond finished, sniffing loudly.

The raven put down his cup and put his arms around the blond's shoulders, pulling him to an embrace. ”It's okay, the bad man's not here anymore, nobody's making fun of you.”

Naruto scowled ”Don't patronize me.”, but still snuggled deeper to the hug.

Sasuke chuckled. ”You do realize that he was right about the whole not-listening-in-class thing?” He felt Naruto punch his side in defiance and dropped it.

After few minutes the blond straightened up, sighing contently. ”Thanks.”

The Uchiha nodded. ”That's what boyfriends are for.” He didn't miss the excited smile on Naruto's face. ”So, do you want me to go to Sai and beat him up and then make a vague statement about never touching my property again?”

Naruto actually laughed out loud, imagining Sasuke sitting on Sai's remains with a smug smirk. ”Yeah, but he didn't really touch me.”

Sasuke rolled his eyes. ”Of course he didn't, I would've already kicked his ass and not be here planning it.”

Naruto laughed again before sporting a more serious expression. ”You do know that there's a bunch of girls planning to ask you to be their date to the dance that's coming up.” He dropped his eyes to his hands that he was twisting and turning to get something to look at. ”Some of them came up to ask me things about you, and all I wanted to do was shout that you're already mine. Pretty selfish, huh.”

Sasuke lowered his gaze too, suddenly finding the floor tiles surprisingly interesting! He didn't know what to say, sure they had talked about the whole 'we should tell everybody about us' thing, but they hadn't reached any conclusions. Yet.

”Your silence is really reassuring, you know.” Naruto said with a laugh, but there was no emotion behind it.

”Naruto, I don't-”

”Never mind!” Sasuke watched as the blond stormed out of the room, slamming the door shut behind him, again.

(That idiot needs to learn to let me finish.)

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Shikamaru pinched the bridge of his nose, his migrane slowly seeping back in to his head. The genius glanced to his right, where Chouji was happily scurrying along with the almost whole cast.

”Too troublesome.”

Chouji looked back at his friend, grinning at him widely. ”You're so smart!”

Shikamaru turned back to face the way he was walking, quickly checking if he'd done it already today, and after making sure he hadn't, Shika rolled his eyes.

They walked in moderate silence, before it was broken by a loudmouthed brunet with a large white dog. ”Shika, my man! I see you have your arm back.”

The Nara slowly turned his head to Kiba. ”How perceptive of you.”

Chouji nodded, enthusiasticly showing Kiba the cast he was possessively carrying in a tight embrace. ”Look what I got!”

Kiba let out a mock gasp. ”Wow, that's the neatest thing I've ever seen! You think that bum will give me one if I break his other arm?”

Chouji scruntched up his nose in doubt and was about to answer when Shika cut in. ”You think you could breed after I'd have neutered you?”

Chouji, Kiba AND Akamaru snapped their eyes to the seemingly bored shinobi, mouth agape, to which Shikamaru snorted. ”Yeah, didn't think so.”

Kiba huffed, signaling Akamaru that they were leaving. ”You just watch your back, I'll have Akamaru mark you.”

Shikamaru chuckled, enjoying their banter. ”As long as it's not you doing it.”

Chouji tsk'ed at Shikamaru after Kiba had left. ”Well aren't you in a bitchy mood.”

The Nara just shrugged, mentally sighing in relief as his headache subsided. ”He was asking for it.”

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Kabuto clenched his jaw in annoyance, getting tired of listening to Karin's complaints. It was always Sasuke this and Sasuke that and Naruto this and that, and it was driving the silver haired scientist mad. The girl hadn't shut up once after their retreat to one of Orochimaru's hideout right outside Konoha.

”And I just know he wants to join us but is held back by that Naruto.” Her voice was filled with hatred with the mere mention of the blond's name. ”You should've seen his eyes, he was interested, I swear! But then that Naruto came and forced him to stop our conversation!”

Kabuto started counting to ten while copying data, trying to drown out that annoying high-pitched sound.

”And you should've seen the way he looked at me, it was pure lust I tell you, pure-”

”ELEVEN!” Kabuto spun around and threw a Senbon needle at her throat. When it struck, she sat still for few seconds with a surprised look on her face before falling to the floor, unconscious.

Kabuto had a serene smile on his face as the room became completely silent. He slowly turned around, getting back to working with newfound motivation.

His small world broke down when a messenger came in, handing him a scroll and, with a weird glance at the drooling girl on the floor, hurried out of the room.

He broke the seal, rolling the scroll open to find Orochimaru's handwriting.

”Dear Kabuto,
I was just wondering,
where's that young body you promised me?
With love,
Orochimaru”

Kabuto swallowed, staring at the words on the paper. ”Oh, snake's poo.”

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A/N: done again with another chapter! This was mostly ready yesterday, but then I felt like it needed something more so I used another day thinking about it :P thanks for reading and review if you feel like it!