Homecoming

EPILOGUE





“More paperwork?!” Naruto moaned when Shikamaru slammed a huge pile of papers on his desk. “I’ve just finished signing on the last pile you dropped on me…”



“That’s what the Hokage does, what did you think?” Shikamaru smirked.



“No way…” Naruto slipped in his chair. “I’m… I’m taking a lunch break at Ichiraku…” He tried to sneak away, but Shikamaru, annoyed, grabbed him by the robe. “How many times do I have to tell you, the Hokage can’t go to Ichiraku ramen!”



“But.. but!!” Naruto tried to protest.



“This is so tiresome!! I’m almost ready to quit!” Shikamaru growled.



“How about a takeout?” They both raised their heads, hearing a third voice.



A masked Anbu soldier was sitting on the window sill, his hand raised with a bag that undoubtedly contained a packaged miso ramen.



“Sasuke, you’re the best!!” Naruto cheered and stuck out his tongue to taunt Shikamaru. He grabbed the package with gleaming eyes.



Shikamaru shook his head. “I’ll be taking my break now.” He left the room without another word.



Sasuke removed his mask and looked on as Naruto happily opened the boxes. “Careful not to stain your robes, Hokage-sama.”



“Oh, I’ll just have Shika wash it for me…” Naruto mumbled as he looked adoringly at the humid bowl in front of him. “Itadakimasu!”



“Ahh, it’s too hot.” He cringed.



Sasuke took out two mugs and filled them with green tea.



“How are the boys, Sasuke?” Naruto asked between munches. “Oooh thank you!” he said when Sasuke handed him the tea.



“They are fine. Getting used to their new teacher… bickering as usual…” He smiled. “Kenji was devastated to hear you won’t have time to be his teacher anymore.”



“Oh I’m sure I can fit a few lessons into my schedule… instead of stamping…” he looked at the dreary pile of papers.



“You know the paperwork is important too.”



“Yes, yes…” Naruto sighed. “There’s no more ramen. Did you buy the small dish you cheapskate?”



“You’re welcome.”



Naruto finished slurping his ramen and leaned back in his chair with a big satisfied sigh. “I knew it, Ichiraku is the best.” He raised his eyes to Sasuke. “It was worth making you the captain of my personal guard.”



“Always at your service Hokage-same,” Sasuke said, a sliver of a smile on the edge of his lips.



“So…” Naruto straightened up in his seat and glance at the dreadful pile of papers. “Time to go over these…”



“Yeah, you do that.” Sasuke disappeared in a puff of smoke.



Naruto made a face and leaned his face on his elbow. “You could have said ‘see you later’…”







Kenji watched Ryoichi training with Kakashi for a while. They had only just returned from a low rank mission and the other boy was anxious to do some serious training. Kenji also wanted to train, but the nagging jealousy of his brother subsided meanwhile, and he no longer felt the need to surpass him.



“I’ll surpass you in my own way…” Kenji said to himself in determination. “I’ll be just like Naruto-sensei!”



“Are you sure about that?” He suddenly heard Sasuke’s voice and a large hand was placed on his hair. “He sure is complaining about the paperwork…”



“Naruto-sensei is awesome… he’s even better than you, dad,” Kenji raised his head to Sasuke.



“Probably so.” Sasuke nodded with a sealed face.



“Naruto-sensei is an important person to you, isn’t he?” Kenji asked.



Sasuke looked at the boy. “Uh, he’s a precious friend…”



“Hikari-chan said that there’s no such healing technique as the one he was using.. and that he’s probably gay… what is ‘gay’, dad?”



“Uh.. hmm..” for the first time, Kenji witnessed his father’s usually blank face showing some confusion.



“W-what healing technique?” Sasuke stared down at the boy.



“You don’t remember? When he kissed you?”



“K-kissed… what?” Sasuke mumbled. Did Naruto kiss him in front of the kids when he was out cold? He was going to kill that idiot, Hokage or not.



“Yeah… so, Hikari-chan said…”



“Yes, well… she was just saying it to throw you off… you need to be smarter than that, Kenji.” Sasuke started to walk off, leaving the young boy behind, even more confused than before.



“Ah!” Kenji suddenly remembered.



He ran quickly past Sasuke into the house and returned just as quick. He handed Sasuke the file. “Don’t be mad at me, okay?” he asked carefully.



Sasuke looked at him, curious. He opened the file. All the old photos of Naruto and himself were inside, the photos he threw away to the trash in a moment of anger.



“You threw it away… but I thought maybe you didn’t really want to get rid of it…” Kenji mumbled. “I mean, you’d probably burn it if you really wanted to get rid of it…”



Sasuke was silent for a moment. His face stern. Kenji winced for a moment when Sasuke raised his hand. But he only rested it on the boy’s head and ruffled his hair gently.



“Thank you, Kenji.”



Kenji smiled as he watched him walk away, holding the file.







“You’re late!” Naruto stated when he opened the door of his private room. “What kind of a guard are you?”



“Sorry, I got held up.” Sasuke entered the room.



“Never mind. Come on in… I don’t have much free time.”



Sasuke hesitated. He waited till Naruto passed him by and grabbed him, swapping him into his arms.



“What are you doing?” Naruto asked.



“This.” Sasuke captured Naruto’s mouth with his.



Naruto, surprised, tried to struggle, not too hard, in Sasuke’s strong arms, then gave in and returned the kiss, with even more hunger than the hunger he felt at noon when Shikamaru denied him a ramen break.



Their tongues tangled together, finding the familiar nooks and crannies, basking in the moment.



They only stopped to take a deep breath.



“I thought we decided to be just friends…” Naruto said when his breath returned.



“Weren’t we always just friends?” Sasuke asked and took out the picture of young Naruto, the one he signed for Sasuke after they both passed the jounin exam together. “It’s worth a lot of money now, like you said.”



Naruto smiled as he looked at his childish signature.



“But Sasuke… we can’t… the past cannot be erased.” He handed the picture back to Sasuke.



“No, but… the future can still be written.”



Naruto thought it over for a moment. “Maybe if you buy me ramen at Ichiraku every day for the rest of your life, I’ll positively consider it.”



Before Naruto could say another word, Sasuke removed his kimono quickly. Their clothes scattered on the floor within mere moments. Sasuke downed brisk kisses on Naruto’s jaw line and neck.



“Whoa, slow down….” Naruto pushed him off. Sasuke growled unwillingly like a dog whose toy was taken from him.



“Let’s go to bed…” the blond Hokage said with a soft smile.



Sasuke almost smiled. He understood. Naruto wanted this to be different from their last couple of trysts. He only longed to feel Naruto’s body under him, or over him, in any way he could, but giving in to passion was their downfall in the past. Now that they were older and possibly wiser, they should take a slower pace… they still had the rest of their lives together.



Their pace decidedly, indeed became slower. Naruto groaned as Sasuke teased his nipples, biting and licking, slowly and with no mercy.



Sasuke continued to tease him, all the while allowing their cocks to rub together. Naruto was already rock hard and dripping, but Sasuke paid no mind.



“Sasu….” Naruto moaned, grabbing Sasuke by his hair. “Bastard… what are you…”



“You wanted it slow…” Sasuke reminded him in a quick breath.



“Not that slow… you’re waiting till we will shrivel up and die?!” Naruto grouched between wheezes.



“You… with all your stamina… can’t take this?” Sasuke asked and sucked on Naruto’s nipple again.



“Aaah… do it already…. Put it in…” Naruto almost cursed him.



“Not yet…”



“Sasssu…” Naruto arched when Sasuke’s warm and sweaty hand grabbed his hard cock.



Sasuke rubbed him a little, before just tickling the organ with the tip of his fingers.



“You bas.. tard… just…”



“You can come if you want, Naruto…” Sasuke teased. “You know what I want…”



“No… stop…” Naruto shut tight his eyes.



Sasuke licked the drops of semen that leaked from Naruto’s swollen member. He continued to tease him, hoping he would explode, but Naruto still held on. His stamina proved to be quite a challenge, even to someone as potent as Sasuke.



“Fine, you win…” Sasuke muttered huskily and shifted his position, finding a better angle to enter Naruto.



Naruto groaned and grabbed onto Sasuke as he felt him pushing his way inside. For a while, they were one. Naruto could imagine their teenage years. At seventeen, two horny boys rejected from society, discovering a world of their own in each other’s arms and to hell with the world and society.



“Sasuke… Sasuke…” Naruto somehow always loved how the name rolled on his tongue.



“Naruto…” Sasuke was stoic, but to Naruto he still looked like the lonely child who glared at him on the riverbank before sneaking a side smile. Sasuke was and will always be his first bond that he made for himself in that vicious world. Two sides of the same coin, similar but different, and yet completing each other.



Yes, Naruto had to admit to himself as he was carried on by the first wave of orgasm. He finally felt complete again. Even if things were different now, the times and the people have changed, many friends and loved ones were gone… one thing was still the same. They were still Naruto and Sasuke.



He rested in Sasuke’s arms and felt almost complacent.



“Sasuke…” Naruto whispered once they both calmed down.



“Hmm?”



“It’s been a long time since I’ve felt….” His voice died out.



But he didn’t need to finish. Sasuke just smiled peacefully. “Welcome back, Naruto.”



Naruto closed his eyes and whispered softly,



“I’m home…”









THE END