Surviving a Zombie Apocalypse

Chapter 17: Desire

When Sasuke woke up, the headache was still there. What was new were the bad coughing fits and the occasional sneeze. He mentally groaned to himself. Goddammit, he had too much to do; he didn't have time to get sick!

'Maybe I can still work through the pain and discomfort,' he thought. Just trying to sit up in bed showed him how wrong he was, because the second he was upright the room began to spin. Disoriented, the raven sank back onto the pillows just as Naruto walked into the room.

"Ohayo gozaimasu, utsukushii," he said with a smile on his face. "I made breakfast… You really don't look good. Here, lemme check your temperature, 'ttebayo."

"N-no, it's fine," Sasuke started to protest, but Naruto had already put the tray on his lap and gone into the bathroom. The sound of him rummaging reached the dark haired teenager's ears, and he smiled a little.

"Aha!" said the blond, coming back in with a small thermometer. "Here," he said to Sasuke, "stick this under your tongue."

The raven did as told, holding back the urge to cough. After a few seconds, the device beeped and Naruto took it out and looked at it.

"A hundred and two," he said. "Damn, Sasuke, I could roast marshmallows with that kind of heat."

The dark-haired teen rolled his eyes and sat up with Naruto's help. He began to eat, and then he stopped for a second and looked at it thoughtfully.

"This is really good. You said you made this?" he asked in a tone of awe.

Naruto raised an eyebrow, and Sasuke was reminded uncannily of himself.

"You don't have to sound so surprised when you say that, 'ttebayo," he said loftily. "I'm a pretty decent cook for someone who's practically in love with cup ramen."

His boyfriend laughed a little but began to cough violently and had to put down his chopsticks so he wouldn't accidentally drop any food. The blond rubbed his back soothingly until the coughing fit finally subsided, leaving him gasping for breath.

"Maybe I should go try to find you an inhaler?" Naruto asked anxiously.

"No, I'm fine now," Sasuke reassured him.

Naruto's smile came back, but now Sasuke noticed something… It wasn't his usual bright and cheerful smile; it was more strained, like he was trying too hard. The young raven didn't blame his boyfriend; after all, the survivors of the overrunning of the Uchiha compound the day before had all been through hell and back. It was just disconcerting.

Just as he was about to say something, the bedroom door that led to the outside slid open, revealing Kiba, Naruko, Gaara, and Sai. They all seemed to have had the life sucked out of them, except for Gaara, whose face was almost always devoid of any emotion. Honestly, he was Sasuke's best friend, but even the ebony-haired teenager had a hard time reading him. Sai lurked at the back of the group, apparently there against his will. None of them looked like they had slept well, except for Gaara, who had never slept well to begin with.

"I have three words for everyone," mumbled Kiba. "Worst. Night. Ever."

"Mm-hmm," muttered Naruko, whose eyes were bloodshot from crying.

"How about you guys?" Kiba asked the two boys on the bed.

"I've had better nights," said Sasuke, coughing a little.

"'Ttebayo," murmured Naruto by way of agreement.

"You don't look well," Gaara said bluntly to his best friend, who rolled his eyes.

"That coming from the guy who's had chronic insomnia since the age of three," the raven shot back. "You don't look much better yourself, Tanuki-kun."

Gaara snorted a little.

"I was being quite serious, Taka-kun," he intoned solemnly, though his eyes betrayed a small hint of mirth at the Uchiha's childhood nickname for him. "You don't look well."

"I don't feel well, either," responded Sasuke. "It's funny how the way you perceive my well-being and the way I actually feel seem to correlate."

"Heh," Gaara snorted again, amused.

"Well, it's breakfast time, so we were just stopping in to see how you guys were doing and then getting food," said Kiba. "We'll be back later."

"'Kay," said Naruto, grinning that forced smile of his.

"Naru-nii, are you okay?" asked Naruko.

For a brief moment Naruto's smile slipped, and then it was back.

"I'm fine, 'ttebayo!" he said airily, waving his hands dismissively.

"Okay…" said his twin sister, a bit reluctantly. "We'll see you later then…"

When they left, the couple went back to eating in silence. It wasn't the usual comfortable silence; there was tenseness in the air. Sasuke could tell it wasn't directed at him, but it still made him nervous. Finally, they were done with their meal, and as he was about to ask Naruto what exactly was bothering him, the blond practically volunteered the info.

"God I hate this," he almost whispered, his eyes downcast.

"Hate what, koishii?" asked his boyfriend quietly.

"Everything," responded Naruto. "The uncertainty of if we're gonna survive another day and the guilt about leaving Mom and Dad and Kyuu-nii behind… There's no God, or Goddess, or any divine being or beings. If there were, how could they, or it, or he, or she condone so much death and destruction? Wouldn't whoever protect the decent people of the world? And yet so many of our friends are dead or undead as it were. Our friends, our parents, our siblings, our extended families… They're all fucking gone. They were all for the most part good people who didn't deserve to die. So why, 'ttebayo? Why the fuck is this happening?"

The blond began to cry, his well-built body shaking, and Sasuke pulled him into a firm embrace. He felt so guilty. All he'd been doing was thinking about himself: what he wanted, how he felt, what had happened to him. And he'd been a jerk to Naruto yesterday when the blond was concerned about him and also feeling just as bad as he was. He wanted badly to do more to comfort his boyfriend, but what words would ever be appropriate for such a tragedy?

"I don't know why this happened," the raven-haired teen murmured softly to Naruto. "I don't think anyone knows why, and if they do they're either dead or in a secret bunker somewhere riding this out. I couldn't even tell you if there is a divine being up there or somewhere, because I'm not even sure if I believe in a god or gods. But you said so yourself, sweetie; if we have each other, we can take anything thrown at us."

The blond teenager smiled a little against Sasuke's chest.

"Truer words have never been spoken," he murmured, sitting up and wiping his eyes.

"I knew you'd see it my way," the raven kidded him. "Uh!" he added involuntarily as a bad wave of pain practically split his head in two, and sank back upon the pillows.

Naruto immediately felt his lover's hot forehead, gently brushing aside dark strands.

"I'll get a cold washcloth," he said worriedly. Before Sasuke could say a word he got up and left and then just as quickly was back with a damp cloth, which he placed over the raven's eyes and forehead. "Does that feel better, 'ttebayo?"

"I'm grateful, Naruto, I really am, but you didn't need to do that for me," protested the smaller teenager.

"Oh, I know I didn't need to do anything, 'ttebayo," said the blond, smiling a real smile, "but I wanted to. And besides, you're in no condition to get up and do anything yourself at the moment."

Sasuke growled.

"I am not helpless," he said mulishly.

"You might as well be," said Naruto bluntly, "because every time you try to sit up you lose your sense of which way is up or down and weave around like a drunken sailor, which is extremely amusing for me I might add. Why's it so hard for you just to ask for help, 'ttebayo?"

And goddammit, the blond was right, and that peeved Sasuke. The raven crossed his arms over his chest, trying to burn holes through his eyelids and the wet cloth, but Naruto just laughed: a genuine laugh, not a forced one.

"You're so cute when you're irritated," he teased, leaning down and kissing his boyfriend on the lips.

"You know you're probably going to catch whatever I have now," said the raven.

"Yeah," the other teenager said airily, "but why should I care?"

Sasuke rolled his eyes.

"Dobe," he murmured as Naruto crawled into bed next to him.

For a while they lay together in comfortable silence. Then Naruto spoke up.

"Y'know," he said pensively, "we've never had morning sex before, 'ttebayo."

Sasuke had been about to drift off, but the statement from the blond woke him up again, and he had another coughing fit, almost choking on his disbelief.

"What the hell goes on inside of your head?!" he gasped, taking the cloth from his eyes, blinking against the sudden harsh daylight, and looking at Naruto incredulously.

"You ain't seen nothing yet, baby," teased the other teenager, smirking. "Of course, I could show you what lives in my head right now, if you feel up to it…"

His boyfriend thought for a minute and then shrugged.

"Well, I can't go anywhere," he said wryly. "That doesn't mean we can't have a little fun."

Naruto pumped the air with his fist.

"But," interjected Sasuke, "this is the first and last time we are having morning sex. Ever. Do you get what I'm saying?"

"Loud and clear, Mister Bastard, sir," said the blond, saluting and grinning like a Cheshire Cat.

The raven sighed.

"That grin isn't very reassuring," he said.

"Oh, shut up, 'ttebayo," responded his lover. "I've got twenty million different things I'd like to do to you right now, all of them dirty as hell, and not enough time to do them all."

"Then what are you waiting for?" Sasuke purred as his lips met Naruto's. "Get started, dammit."

"Well first I've gotta get you out of those pesky clothes," murmured the blond between kisses.

"Lucky for you it will be easy since this juban is all I'm wearing- nhah!" gasped the raven as his boyfriend bit down on his lower lip, telling him nonverbally to stop talking, and then invaded his mouth with the taste of sugar, which was a little gross, but not as strong as the blond's soothing natural taste of mint and lavender. He felt a cool breeze as Naruto pulled the juban down far enough to bare his chest and shoulders and shivered a little. The blond noticed this.

"Are you okay, 'ttebayo?" he murmured.

"I'm fine, dobe," said the ebony-haired teenager. "What happened to all the dirty stuff you said you wanted to do to me?"

"Oh, I'm getting there, bastard," said Naruto, smirking against Sasuke's lips. "All I ask is that you be patient and open-minded."

"Uh-oh," muttered his boyfriend, though his body was saying 'Oh god yes!' "If it has anything to do with flavored lube, I am O-U-T, sweetie."

"Hey, I don't like flavored lube any more than you do. And it's not flavored lube, it's something much better," smirked the blond.

"Enlighten me, dobe," Sasuke smirked back.

Naruto stopped kissing the raven for a moment and rummaged under the bed. After a few seconds he came up with…

"Chocolate syrup?" groaned the smaller teenager. "Really? Do I look like an ice cream sundae to you?"

"Well, you do taste awfully sweet," said Naruto, smirking. "I've also got honey, peanut butter, and raspberry jam here."

Sasuke groaned again in irritation.

"That is the worst pick-up line ever," he muttered. "And what the fuck did you do, raid the fridge or something?"

"Exactly. Now choose, because one of these is about to be put on your body, and I'm not choosy 'cause I like all four options, 'ttebayo."

Sasuke rolled his eyes.

"The jam, I guess," he sighed. "This really is the last time we have morning sex, and this is definitely the last time I agree to let you show me what lives in your head. This is just plain weird."

Naruto just chuckled.

"Don't be such a spoilsport, 'ttebayo," he grinned, opening the jar and dipping a finger in.

When he had a goodly amount of it perched precariously on his finger, he brought it up. With the other hand, he untied the sash of Sasuke's juban, pulling it out with a flourish and leaving the raven's entire body bare for his perusal. The smaller teen shivered, both from the sudden chill and from the odd but pleasurable feeling of Naruto's slick jam-covered finger trailing down his body, from the nape of his neck to his nipples, which were already hard from the cold, to his navel, and finally traversing the length of his growing penis all the way to the head.

When Naruto was done teasing Sasuke, he took the discarded sash and bound the raven's wrists together, pulling them over his head. Then he crashed their lips back together, invading the smaller teenager's mouth. They mapped out each other's mouths, even though they knew already what they would find, and this stopped only when Naruto broke the kiss and laid kisses all along Sasuke's jawbone, coming to the nape of his neck, where he bit, sucked, and licked his boyfriend into a state of intense arousal. The raven was only vaguely aware that the blond's actions meant he was going to have a really big hickey there later, having already given himself over to his animalistic instincts.

"Nnnn…" he moaned, rolling his hips upward against Naruto's crotch. The blond, still for the most part clothed, felt his penis twitching uncomfortably, begging to be let out of his jeans, and he obliged it, pulling his pants and boxers down past his erection without once stopping his torturously delicious touch on Sasuke's body.

From the nape of his lover's neck he laid kisses all the way down to the raven's nipples, already hard from the cold, and then sucked and bit each one until they were red and as rock hard as both of their hardened members. From there he kissed and licked his way all the way down Sasuke's stomach, over the pale muscles to his navel, stopping there for a little while.

"Feels nice, doesn't it, 'ttebayo?" he said in between kisses and licks.

And oh god, it felt so nice that "nice" didn't even begin to describe it. If being driven mad felt like this, Sasuke thought, it really wasn't so bad. He just wished that Naruto would hurry up and get to the part that involved giving him head. He'd never told Naruto –he just naturally assumed that he knew- but he absolutely loved the way that tongue piercing brushed against his skin, exciting every nerve that it touched, making it hard for him to keep from climaxing early.

Naruto, as if reading his mind, smirked.

"All good things come to those who wait," he murmured huskily, holding Sasuke's half-lidded gaze for a moment, and then he continued his journey south, finally reaching his intended destination: the raven's painfully hard erection. His boyfriend gasped, moaned, and twitched as Naruto kissed and licked his way up the length to the head and then immersed him inside of his mouth up to the balls. Teasing the area where the raven's penis connected to his testicles, he deep-throated it until he tasted the pre-cum seeping from the head of the sensitive member.

Sasuke was almost at the edge of what he could stand, and suddenly Naruto took his mouth away. The lack of stimulation left the dark-haired teen feeling very uncomfortable, and he growled in irritation. Naruto raised an eyebrow.

"Hey, I said all good things come to those who wait, didn't I?" he said as he grabbed a condom and rolled it onto his penis. Then he turned Sasuke over onto his stomach and helped him up so that he was on his knees facing the headboard, putting the raven's bound arms over his head and around the blond's neck. Grabbing regular lube, he slathered it all over his dick and pressed it against Sasuke's entrance.

"Are you ready?" he asked, pulling on the raven's hair so that Sasuke was forced to lean his head back to keep Naruto from pulling any out.

The smaller teenager nodded, and before he could say anything he had been invaded by the monstrosity that was his lover's penis. He cried out, but the hand that Naruto had been using to grab his hair went to his mouth, and the noise was muffled. At the same time, the hand that wasn't being used went to Sasuke's erection, fisting it, making him thrust violently into the blond's hand and impale himself further on his boyfriend's penis with another cry. The movement made Naruto cry out and he bit down on Sasuke's neck to muffle the noise, making the raven scream again, this time in pain as much as in pleasure. Blood dribbled from the wound, but neither really noticed as they reciprocated thrust for thrust, finally pulling each other over the brink of pleasure in a messy tangle of limbs, sweat, blood, cum, muffled yelling, and panting.

"Dammit, Naruto," groaned Sasuke as they both collapsed onto the bed, shaking from the aftereffects of their orgasms and from the cold. "That last bite really hurt!"

"Sorry, Sasuke," said the blond sheepishly, still out of breath. "I didn't intend to bite as hard as I did. Oh holy shit," he added, looking at the damage, "I drew blood!"

"No, really?" said the raven sarcastically. "What the hell are you, a vampire? We don't need two types of undead beings walking around here, you know."

"Well, if I were a vampire, you'd just enjoy the biting and the sex that much more, 'ttebayo," joked his boyfriend as he rolled the condom off and threw it away.

"Less talking and more helping me untie this damn knot," Sasuke responded with a smirk, struggling with the sash of his juban. "My hands are starting to lose feeling."

When they were both fully clothed again, they snuggled.

"So have you revised your position on morning sex, 'ttebayo?" asked Naruto, grinning.

"No, not really," replied his boyfriend, "but I will say that this love-making session has been the best so far."

"Even though I bit you hard enough to draw blood?"

"Maybe even because of it," said Sasuke dryly. "Crap, maybe I'm sicker than I thought."

"You're not sick, you're just a dirty and horny little masochist who likes the delicious torture I mete out," said Naruto cheekily. "And I'm a dirty and horny sadistic bastard who likes to torture you simply because it makes such delicious and sexy noises come out of your mouth."

"Hmph."

"Don't be like that…"

"Whatever, dobe," the raven murmured, suddenly feeling extremely tired.

"Now go to sleep," said Naruto, kissing his boyfriend's forehead and putting the damp cloth back over his eyes. "Your head still feels extremely hot."

"Mm-hmm," Sasuke mumbled sleepily, already drifting off.

"I love you, koishii…"

"I love you too…"

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The next day Naruto woke up with a bad cough and a runny nose. Sasuke was fine, except for a mild cough left over from yesterday.

"Goddammit, Sasuke!" the blond snarled. "You gave me your cold!"

"It's funny how karma works," laughed the raven, fetching a damp cloth from the bathroom and laying it down over Naruto's eyes and forehead. "This is what you get for biting me hard enough to draw blood and not listening to me when I warned you I was sick."

"Ugh… I hate you, you bastard."

"I love you too."

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So dere it be-eth, people! Review! On a side note, a juban is an under-kimono worn by both men and women. It's worn under the outer kimono on formal occasions, but can also be used as a garment to be worn around the house, which is how it's most frequently used today.

Sasuke: o.O Why do you have so many damn sex scenes in this story?

Me: 8D Because I can. Besides, this story is longer than anything I've ever written before. I think that warrants more sex scenes than I've ever written before, and hopefully better yaoi scenes than I've ever written before.

Sasuke: -_- It looks like whenever you have writer's block you take the easy way out by writing a sex scene.

Me: 0.0 GET OUT OF MY HEAD! NARUTO, YOUR BOYFRIEND IS PLAYING WITH MY HEAD! MAKE HIM STOP!

Sasuke: '-_- Really?

Naruto: Stop fucking with her head, Sasuke! ^.^

Sasuke: I'm not; she was a fucking psycho to begin with! #-_-

Naruto: ^.^ Point.

Me: #*_* Grrrr…

Oh, and Kei-kun, I told you that the sex scenes would be kind of morbid, right? I don't think morbid was the right word. It's more just über-kinky and mildly disturbing to "normal" people who don't get a kick out of sadomasochism. Maybe if I still have enough left in my arsenal of yaoi I'll write a separate story for you where there's a lot of sadomasochism involved.

Naruto: =) You could write a morbid scene in.

Me: -_- Maybe later…

Sasuke: 8( "Maybe later"?! Why later?!

Me: '-_- Because I said so, Sasuke-chan.

Sasuke: #-_- Grr…

Me: 8) Review!