The Art of Patience

The Art of Patience Ch. 16: Apologies

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Naruto headed toward the bathroom, scalpel still in his hand. He needed somewhere to put it until he could figure out what to do with it. He decided to put it in a box he kept in the bathroom that held a few things that he never really used, so it would be safe there. He entered the bathroom just as Sasuke was gingerly stepping out of the shower. Naruto grabbed a towel and gently wrapped it around his younger sub's lithe body. Smiling a bit as the little sub jumped in surprise. "It's just me. I thought I'd help take care of your..." he trailed off, realizing how contradicting that sounded. He was the one that put the injuries there after all.

Sasuke stood there, nearly naked with his hair hanging damply against the back of his neck with drops of water making their slow descent down his spine on their way to the floor. Red marks stood out on his skin like a fresh tattoo and the bruise now took up almost one whole side of his face with its bluish purple hue. Sasuke flinched just a little at his Master’s touch and felt immediately guilty over it. Naruto hadn't meant to hurt him earlier but the pain and shock of being hit and clawed at still remained fresh in his mind and he would do anything not to feel that pain again. "Thank you for letting me use your shower Master."

Naruto noticed the slight flinch and immediately felt regret and sadness enter his mind. He would do all he could to make it up to his little sub tonight. He nodded in answer to the softly spoken words of gratitude before he released the towel and let the wet boy hesitantly dry off. He would have said something, but he felt that whatever he would have said could never be enough to make up for his actions.

While Sasuke dried himself off, Naruto proceeded to gather up the necessary tools and medications needed to disinfect and bandage up Sasuke's arms. Once he noticed the younger Uchiha was finished with his task, he took the towel and gestured for Sasuke to head toward his room.

Sasuke walked down the hall into his Master’s wreck of a bedroom and stood in the middle of it looking and feeling lost and confused. The younger Uchiha looked around for some sign of his brother or that dog he'd seen earlier and was both relieved and unnerved by the absence of both. Sasuke looked down at the floor and spoke in a voice almost too soft to be heard, the thought that was plaguing him. "Where did Itachi go?”

Naruto looked up at the almost inaudible question and sighed in defeat. Of course Sasuke would probably be uncomfortable alone with him. Nevertheless, he smiled and gently took the raven's hand and led him over to the bed. "I asked him to keep the dog company for a bit so that I can spend some time with you. Now go ahead and sit down so that I can take care of you."

Sasuke sat down on the edge of the bed and took slow, deliberate breaths as his beloved Master sat down next to him with the same medicines and bandages that had been used to soothe his brother’s back after his harsh whipping about a week ago. Itachi's back had healed quickly so Naruto probably knew how to make dressing the wounds painless as well as easy to replace if need be. A thought entered his mind. He wasn’t sure if he wanted to know the answer to his inquiry, but he needed something to break the semi-awkward silence between them. "May I ask you something Master?"

Naruto started the meticulous task of carefully disinfecting the scrapes with peroxide before looking up. "Of course you can Kitty."

Sasuke sat in silence as the disinfectant faintly stung his cuts and scrapes that eventually faded into a faint tickling sensation before they were covered up. "Would you have killed someone tonight if Kiba hadn't shown up to help?"

Naruto stopped what he was doing and looked at Sasuke carefully. He stayed still for a moment, lost in thought before he answered. "To tell you the truth, I really don't know. I don't even remember half of it." He raised a hand carefully and ran his fingers through Sasuke's jet black hair. "I never meant to hurt you like I did..." He trailed off when the action made the smaller male flinch again. He sighed and went back to his work.

Sasuke hated himself for doubting his Master’s attention as anything other than love. But pain or even the faint shadow of it was more than enough to make him react without thinking. His poor Master was probably just trying to make it up to him by being alone in his room. "Thank you." he said quietly. The phrase being said for a number of things.

The blond Dom finished wrapping both arms in white bandages before he gently took the small raven into his arms and kissed the dark bruise gently. "You know I would never hurt you on purpose Sasuke. I love you. I know I haven’t told you that, but I do love you, very much. I guess it had to take something like tonight’s clusterfuck to make me realize it."

Sasuke blinked as he was held against his Master’s chest. Those strong arms were wrapped around the pale boy’s shoulders and back with quiet strength that didn’t say a word about the blonde’s darker urges for violence and chaos.
Sasuke leaned into his Master’s embrace and felt waves of happy emotions wash over his mind in the wake of the three words he'd always wanted to hear from the blond, just three simple words that were worth more to him than he'd admit. Naruto had just admitted to loving him and the feelings that went with it were stronger than any wine known to man, lighter than air and more precious than any jewel currently in existence. "I love you too, Master." He said quietly, burying his face in the older man’s chest, just listening to the man’s lulling heartbeat. “You have no idea how long I’ve been waiting to hear you tell me that. I thought that…”

Naruto shushed Sasuke gently as he held the trembling boy closer, loving the feel of the body pressed against him. After a few moments he gently laid Sasuke down on his back and hovered over him for a moment just looking. "We have tonight just to ourselves. You can ask for anything you want from me."

Sasuke felt his face heat up just a bit as he thought over what Naruto had said. Come to think of it, sex would be a very nice stress reliever right about now; to take the last remnants away. The real question was though, how they should have sex since their tastes ran down different roads. Also, after tonight, Sasuke wasn’t feeling up to his usual masochistic streak. Maybe something a bit more soothing; something he had never really given its proper chance. "Could, could you show me… why being gentle makes you feel so good?"

Naruto's eyes widened just a bit as Sasuke's soft spoken request reached his ears. Did he really hear the boy correctly? Sasuke never asked for gentle lovemaking. But then again, he had just been through hell tonight and anyone who has gone through unwanted fear and pain would not want that willingly in an act that was supposed to be desired. Nevertheless, he leaned down to gently press his lips against Sasuke's own full pink lips. The kiss didn't last long; just a touch of skin and it was over. He looked lovingly down at his cute little blushing sub with love in his electric blue eyes. "If that's what you want, then I guarantee you that I'll make you feel things that you never thought were possible."

He started off by situating himself so he was hovering just barely an inch over Sasuke's naked body. Bringing his lips down onto soft flesh, he began the long process of kissing every single inch of skin delicately stretched over Sasuke's body; licking and sucking in certain spots.

Sasuke felt goose bumps rising along his sides that had nothing to do with the temperature in the room while slow waves of pleasure cruised through his body form his Master’s loving caress. Sasuke breathed deeply as his Master continued to memorize every inch of his body with those wonderfully soft lips in a nearly infuriating fashion.

Naruto licked a small circle around Sasuke's bellybutton, seeming to be fascinated by the little indentation. He made sure not to use his hands at all; just lips tongue and teeth. He purposefully bypassed the raven's growing erection in favor of his inner thighs. Looking up, he noticed the flush on Sasuke's face was a bit darker than it was a few minutes prior and smirked to himself; it was already affecting him.

He teased the young sub a bit more by running his tongue just high enough on his thigh that Sasuke could feel the heat from the blonde's mouth on his heavy balls and cock. Looking up once more at the raven's flushed face, Naruto stopped for a moment. "I want you to talk to me while I'm doing this. I want to know exactly how your feeling when you’re feeling it."

Sasuke inhaled deeply as his Master’s breath teased his heavily aroused crotch. His climax wasn’t anywhere near its peak but the unfamiliar sensations of gentle sex were starting to drive all thought from his mind leaving naked need and raw desire in its place with just a hint of something else keeping the raven haired man from clinging to his Master’s strong body for comfort and reassurance. "Master, you’re making me feel like there's no one but you in this world."

Naruto rewarded that little comment with a small lick to the engorged head of the raven's cock, noticing with a smile how Sasuke jerked just a bit at the touch. No doubt every nerve in his body would be over sensitized at this point.

Sasuke felt and heard a moan escape his perfectly shaped mouth and clutched at Naruto's sheets with hands and toes. Just that one little lick, cleverly placed, felt like a kind of torture on its own with nothing to follow it. Sasuke could feel himself slipping into new territory where pleasure was more of a torment than actual pain; that's how good Naruto was to him. "Again! Please do that again I can’t stand being left like this!” he cried desperately, wanting nothing more than to have the blonde’s lips wrapped around his weeping arousal.

Naruto took pity on his writhing sub and engulfed just the head of Sasuke's cock and gave it a small suck accompanied by gentle licks from his tongue.

Even without being told, Sasuke knew he had to keep from coming until his Master said it was time. Oh but it was so hard not to just give in to the pleasurable torment he was being put though! The little sub writhed under his Master’s overly potent tongue and lips. He didn’t know how much longer he could resist the urge to wrap his arms around Naruto's neck and pull his Master in for a passionate kiss. This gentle sex thing felt too good not to have been tried before. Or maybe he just appreciated the tenderness this time around.

"Please Master; I don’t know if I can keep it in much longer!"

Naruto gave in to his little sub's desperate plea and removed his mouth from the boy's cock. He slid up the lithe body, making sure that Sasuke felt their skin sliding against each other on his way up. Once he reached Sasuke's face again, he pressed his lips to the pink lips beneath his and ran his tongue along the plump bottom lip. "How is it so far?" he asked, his voice heavy with lust and desire as he continued to explore Sasuke's body with his mouth.

Sasuke groaned with feeling as he wrapped his arms around his beautiful Master and gently ran his fingernails along that perfect back. His entire body was singing with a desire and lust that only Naruto could satisfy and the promise of that fulfillment kept stoking the fire of the boy’s desire.

The raven haired kitten arched his back and pressed his throbbing erection gently against Naruto's firm belly in the hopes of getting fucked just a little bit faster. "I don’t want you to stop but I can’t take much more… Please, help me."

Naruto smiled down at his panting sub and kissed him once more. "Of course I will my beautiful, but I need you to sit up for a moment so that I can get you ready." With that, he stood up and opened a drawer of his side table to retrieve a bottle of lubricant. This would be a bit of new territory for Sasuke. While Naruto had used lube for the boy before, it was only the minimum amount to make sure he didn't actually injure Sasuke or himself. But tonight, Sasuke was going to feel the joys of full preparation...

Sasuke reluctantly put his bare feet on the floor to do as his Master commanded and presented his ass to Naruto since that was most likely where those lubed fingers were going anyway.

Naruto admired the cute little ass in front of him before caressing it with his clean hand. He put that same hand on the slightly bony hip and pushed so that Sasuke was forced to turn around and face him. "I want you to see what I'm doing." was all he said as an explanation before he gently pushed Sasuke back so he sat on the bed once more.

Grabbing one leg, Naruto pushed it up so that Sasuke's foot was flat on the bed and his twitching hole was exposed to the room and the blond Dom's eyes. "Now I want you to keep your eyes open and watch what I'm about to do, ok?" he asked before hovering a slick finger over the opening but not touching, just simply waiting for Sasuke to reply.

Sasuke nodded and tried to make his tight little butthole seem as inviting and irresistible as he could to get closer to that elusive climax Naruto had been guiding him towards for what felt like eternity.

"Good boy." was all that was spoken before the blond gently slid the lubed finger inside Sasuke's ass. It wasn't that difficult to do considering that the raven had had a dildo up his ass all night and he was pretty loose already. He was able to add a second finger in no time and gently pulled the fingers almost all the way out before pushing them back in once more, hitting Sasuke's prostate and keeping eye contact with him the whole time.

Sasuke moaned and would have thrust with his hips to help his Master hit his prostate harder if his position didn’t make that practically impossible. This whole gentle lovemaking was infuriatingly sensual and Naruto obviously had more than enough practice at it to make his pain loving sub want more. "Master, may I pleasure myself with you?"

Naruto’s mind screamed in agony at the sexy little request. His little kitty was just too damn hot for his own good. He thought on it for a moment as he languidly slid his now three fingers in and out of Sasuke. "Yes; but only if you wear a cock ring for now, I don't want you coming yet..." While Naruto waited for Sasuke's answer, a thought came to him. Why not let Sasuke have a bit of freedom during this session. After all, he was supposed to be apologizing to his sub. What better way to show that than to give up a bit of the control. "Actually, never mind. Pleasure yourself all you want." he said with a little smirk. With the way he was going, he could probably pull three or four orgasms from his little sub by the time they were threw. "And you're allowed to come whenever you feel you need to."

Sasuke gasped at the unexpected amount of freedom his Master had given him. This was the first time he'd been allowed to do so much without having to ask for each act individually. "Master… Thank you so much. I will do everything I can to make sure you won’t regret letting me do so many things for you." Sasuke felt something inside him snap and he grabbed his straining cock with almost enough force to hurt and started using his thumb to stroke the head in time with Naruto's finger fucking until he was little more than a lump of flesh that quivered with primal need of release; his climax, the first of many he hoped, was starting to rear its head.

Naruto watched in fascination as Sasuke's hand moved in time with his own. He never told Sasuke this before, but he loved watching his subs pleasure themselves; it was a huge turn on for him. The only reason he had them refrain before, was the reason that he didn't want them to come too quickly.

When he knew Sasuke was close, he deliberately stopped all of his actions and pulled his fingers out of the raven’s opening and just watched Sasuke's ascent into orgasm.

Sasuke cried out loud as his climax washed over him in a white hot spray of hormones and barely controlled emotions of love and adoration for the person who'd brought him this far. The crystalline moment of Sasuke's orgasm made the world stand still for the youngest Uchiha as the boy let loose his load of cum into the space between himself and his adoring Master.

Naruto watched Sasuke cum all over his stomach and chest. It really was a beautiful sight to behold. Not being able to hold himself back, Naruto leaned forward and started the task of licking off his sub's cum from the boy's stomach, hand and now limp cock.

Sasuke mewled like his namesake and arched his back under his Master’s soft pink tongue. It felt amazing to have Naruto give him a tongue bath, just as good as getting a blowjob from the blond only on a much wider area. "That felt so good. You're so good to me…”

Naruto smirked at his little kitty as he licked the last bit of cum off Sasuke's stomach. "You think that was good? I'm not even half way done with you yet." With that, the blond lifted Sasuke's legs so both feet were on the bed and the twitching little pucker was visible to the room once more. Lowering his head, Naruto took an experimental taste of Sasuke's quivering hole, running his tongue along the oversensitive nerves of Sasuke's opening. He reached a hand up to gently massage his sub's already re-hardened cock.

Sasuke felt his breath catch in his throat when his blue eyed Master started bringing him back into a fully aroused state in the span of a couple of minutes. The sweaty sub tried to sit up a bit to see what his Master was doing to his twitching little asshole that felt so freaking good it was like a bomb had gone off making him feel ridiculously heavy with lust.

Naruto pressed with his tongue a little and it slid in easily. He proceeded to tongue fuck Sasuke while he slowly pumped the raven's arousal. The blond pulled his mouth away after a couple minutes and looked up into Sasuke's smoldering ebony eyes. "Aren't you forgetting my condition Kitty? You're supposed to be telling me how you're feeling, correct?"

Sasuke groaned when his master stopped and realized that he had failed to keep true to his Master’s commands. For longer than he cared to think about, he'd quietly enjoyed Naruto's skilled tongue while his body got ready to climax again. It would serve him right if Naruto got out a cock ring for his disobedience. "I'm sorry Master. I forgot to tell you how good you are making me feel." Sasuke took a few quick breaths while his body screamed at him for making the good feelings stop. He needed to make things right if he wanted his beloved to continue. "It feels even better than last time. I didn’t think that was possible. Please, I need more of your touch!”

The blond Dom smiled before sliding up the raven's body once more. He rolled them over so that Sasuke was now on top of him. "You deserve everything I'm giving you tonight. You are a wonderful sub and I know that I'm going to be keeping you for a long time."

Sasuke gazed adoringly at his Master and smiled hazily though his body’s need. Somewhere in the back of his mind something was cheering at being kept by this tanned man for a long time; while yet other parts urged the raven haired boy to quit stalling and get to the good part. “I love hearing that you’re keeping me Master. There’s nothing that would make me happier than to be with you and Itachi forever."

Naruto ran his fingers through Sasuke's dark hair before he scooted back on the bed so that he was leaning against the headboard. Since his clothes were already off, he didn't have to worry about the struggle of that task. He stared intently at his confused looking sub. "Come over here Sasuke." he said as he started to stroke his cock slowly; using his kitty’s name to emphasize how important this moment meant to him. "I want you to ride my cock and I want you to ride it however you want too."

Sasuke felt his heart soar and he crawled over to his Master with his eyes on that giant cock he'd be impaling himself on in short order. It looked so much bigger than he ever remembered seeing it before; not that he minded. He was sure he'd be able to take the full length into his ass before reaching his limit; he had done it many times after all. Just not quite in that particular position.

The dark haired sub carefully threw a leg over Naruto's muscled stomach and crouched there, straddling the man he loved for a moment before starting to lean back into his Master’s throbbing erection.

Naruto realized what Sasuke was doing and stopped him by holding his hips and preventing him from lowering himself any further. "I know I prepared you thoroughly, but I still don't want to hurt you." With that, he brought Sasuke to sit on his stomach for a moment as he slicked up his cock with more lube. Once that was done, he let go of Sasuke's hip. "Ok, go ahead." he said breathlessly as he tried to contain himself and not flip them over to pound Sasuke's ass into the damn floor. This was Sasuke’s time to be in control… It was the least the blond could do for his kitty.

Sasuke smiled and lowered himself onto Naruto's impressive length until he was sitting on the blonde’s hips. Just that slow contact between them made Sasuke's prostate sing with happiness. "We fit perfectly together like this Master. I feel so complete like this…”

Naruto couldn't take it anymore. The emotion pouring out of his sub was too much to take. He wrapped his arms around Sasuke's waist and pulled him against his chest, letting the smaller one rest his head on his shoulder. "Of course we do. You're so perfect, I can't even stand it." He growled low in his throat as he gently thrust his hips up into Sasuke's tightness and he clung to his smallest sub, emotion gripping him so hard it was a bit difficult to even breathe.

Sasuke clung to Naruto as his Master took over the thrusting and cried out every time his sweet spot was hit until the little sub was thrown into a frenzy because of it. "You’re the only one I’ve ever wanted this way. Nothing mattered until I met you. I don’t want to think of a world without you!"

Naruto continued his thrusting as he pressed his lips to Sasuke’s over and over again. He couldn't get enough of Sasuke's taste, the feeling of his skin, the sound of his voice, the rightness of the moment. Something in him snapped and he held Sasuke's hips down against his own and made him stay there. "Look at me...." he growled, breathless and possessively.

Sasuke bit back a whimper from having his Master stop thrusting so suddenly and pulled away from Naruto's sexy chest to look at a spot on Naruto’s face close enough to the eyes without actually looking into them, just in case he'd done something wrong.

Naruto grabbed Sasuke's chin gently and directed the raven to look directly at him. His expression softened as he realized that his sub thought he was in trouble. "No baby. You’ve done nothing wrong. All I want is for you to tell me how much you love me. I need to hear it once more." He had no idea where this was coming from, but he just wanted Sasuke to tell him. For some reason, he needed to hear it again.

Sasuke looked directly into his Master’s blue eyes and felt a shiver run down his spine as something inside responded to the intensity of that gaze. For that one moment, he thought he completely understood everything about Naruto. That had never happened with anyone else besides his brother; it was a bit strange to say the least, but wonderful nonetheless. "I love you more than any of the others I’ve been with. You and Itachi are the two most important people that I think will ever be in my life. From the moment I saw you, I wanted to be yours even if I didn’t know how to do that at the time. I don’t want to belong to anyone else… ever."

More than satisfied with that answer, Naruto kissed Sasuke’s lips continuously as he started to thrust upward once more to meet Sasuke's downward movements. The words were affecting him so much and he wasn't sure how to respond to the obvious adoration the raven was showing him. He released the raven’s lips and sucked on Sasuke's ear lobe for a moment before whispering into said ear. "I didn't realize that you felt so strongly about me. I'm so sorry I never noticed before." He was getting close but he didn't want it to end, it was so right being with Sasuke like this.

Sasuke rested his head on Naruto’s shoulder, breathing in the man’s heady scent. He would never get sick of his Master’s scent. "I was afraid to tell you before, or myself. I was afraid to love you enough to give myself to you completely." The emotion built up inside of Sasuke so forcefully that he found himself spending his load once again in the space between their two sweaty bodies and this particular climax seemed to last for a minor eternity for Sasuke until he finally slid down the blonde’s chest in happy exhaustion.

Naruto continued to thrust, moaning uncontrollably as his speed picking up as he felt Sasuke's channel tighten and spasm around his cock. He bit the pale neck as he came, trying to hold back his scream of pleasure, not wanting to wake up the neighbors.

After what seemed like a few hours, but was only a few minutes, Naruto finally came down from his sex induced high. He let his head rest against Sasuke's shoulder as he held the trembling boy in his arms. "Fuck, I love you."

"I love being loved and fucked by you Master." Sasuke responded with a shaky soft tone. He sat there, still impaled on Naruto’s softening cock in the afterglow of their lovemaking before the raven felt he was strong enough to lift himself off Naruto's spent erection. He flopped down next to his sweaty Dom and smiled softly before cuddling up against him more for the hell of it than for comfort from the things that had happened earlier that night.

Naruto wrapped his arms around Sasuke once the boy got off of him and just lay there for a moment, basking in the comfort and love of his smallest sub. It felt so different than how he used to think of time with Sasuke. Personally, Naruto didn't like treating Sasuke like shit and hurting him like Sasuke so desired. If Naruto could have, he would have shown Sasuke this side of love making a long time ago. But he knew that Sasuke hadn't been ready or willing to accept it before. A huge part of being a good Master and Dom was to know your sub’s limits and comfort levels. It was not a good idea to go outside a sub’s comfort level. Doing that would most likely result in either losing your sub, or something more severe, like what happened with him. They both had a few issues to work out still.

"So what did you think?" The blond asked referring to the act of love they had just played out not even five minutes prior.

"It was wonderful. I can see why you love it this way so much." The little Uchiha sighed and snuggled against Naruto further in the afterglow of their sexual pleasure. The peace of the night filled the loving silence in the room and begged to be honored for as long as possible before unpleasant questions started to line up in the back of Sasuke's mind; the answers were probably as unappealing as the questions. But the thought of never knowing was enough to make the little sub squirm.

Sasuke would ask these questions; there was no doubt about that. But for now, he'd let himself bask in his Master's love. The awkwardness that was sure to come could wait a few more moments.

TBC

And there you have it! I hope Naru's apology to Sasu was what you all expected and more! Next chapter should be coming fairly soon, but we’ve been having some problems with the internet lately… Just so you all know, it might be a bit. But either way, until next time!
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