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“Wait hold up, you like Nico?” Naruto asked incredulously.

“Dude I just told you my best friend was kidnapped slash murdered and that is all you react to?” Dan asked in disbelief.

“I’m sorry I got distracted, I have a short attention span at night. Have you ever noticed how your forearms are less tanned than the other side? Maybe I should try and tan my forearms,” he mused.

“Naruto you always have a short attention span,” he sighed, “Come on let’s go back and eat.”

‘Sorry bud,’ Naruto thought, ‘I’m not good with being serious, try Sasuke.’

“Finally! What took so long? Did you have to cook it too blondie?” Nico almost tackled him in the rush to grab her pizza, “Sorry I couldn’t think up a better nickname by the way.”

“That’s alright I don’t mind. You’re welcome by the way,” he added and the girl looked up guiltily with a mouthful of pizza. Dan sat down sulkily and ignored her, not even mentioning her current resemblance to a chipmunk.

“Why don’t you just call him dobe? I do, or baka or usuratonachi even,” Sasuke offered helpfully.

“Oh no Sassi, I couldn’t steal your pet names. Thanks by the way Naruto,” Nico grinned.

“Come on teme, stop annoying people,” the blonde said patting his empty lap. The Uchiha grinned and laid back down.

“And anyway I wasn’t annoying anyone,” Sasuke said looking up into the cerulean eyes.

“Except me,” Naruto added kissing the tip of his nose.

“Well yeah but that’s a given,” he agreed wrinkling up his nose, “Ew pizza juice.”

“You know you love it,” the blonde dismissed.

“I love something but it’s not the pizza juice,” Sasuke murmured grabbing his boyfriend’s shirt and pulling him down for a quick kiss. He released him and licked his lips, “Although I could grow to enjoy it,” he conceded.

“Um excuse me but I’m trying to eat here. How would you feel if I grabbed Nico and started making out?” he realised what he’d said as soon as the words left his mouth, “Or Kae or someone,” he added hastily turning red.

“Hmm that really depends who the someone was,” Naruto said thoughtfully.

“I wasn’t serious!” Dan said rolling his eyes, “Moron.”

“Hey I have a question. How come you girls go crazy every time we do anything but you don’t react to Torya and Jules?” Naruto asked the cousins.

Nico and Kae looked at each other, “Eww!” they said together.

“Rae he’s my brother!” the blue haired girl said scrunching up her face.

“Incest is not cool,” Kae added, “And besides he’s not hot.”

“I don’t know, he’s not bad looking,” Naruto said thoughtfully, “Nothing on Sasuke-teme though. Rae?”

“It’s kinda short for ramen, or ramen without the m and n anyway. And like all the best nicknames it seems to come out of nowhere,” she grinned, “Totally random.”

“I suppose I can handle that,” the blonde decided.

“It’s very user friendly. Hey you know we never finished our sparring the other day,” Nico said suggestively, “We could go outside now…”

“I don’t know that Iruka would let us, we don’t really have lights in the back yard yet,” Sasuke said uncomfortably, “We could just finish it tomorrow at school though.”

“Yeah we should, I feel like I haven’t done anything since we got here,” Naruto agreed.

“I noticed you were developing a bit of a gut,” the brunette boy in his lap said playfully poking him.

Naruto punched him and the Uchiha rolled onto the floor.
“Am not,” he muttered childishly.

Sasuke stood up slowly rubbing his head, “Although we could continue tonight,” he muttered glaring at the blonde.

“Oh no, I’m not looking after you guys if you get hurt,” Sakura argued as she entered the room with Ryo, “You get enough injuries without adding darkness into the equation!”

“Besides Sassi, revenge is a dish best served cold,” Nico grinned.

The word jolted through his brain. Revenge. That’s what he was meant to be doing. How had he gotten so sidetracked? He was supposed to be training to kill his brother not having sleepovers and making out with his…boyfriend.

“Excuse me a moment,” the Uchiha said in a half-strangled voice. He walked up the stairs and closed the door to the bathroom sitting on the edge of the bath tub.

What the hell was he doing here? All this time he had been trying not to make new bonds, trying not to need anyone. He hadn’t wanted anything that could be used against him, he hadn’t wanted any one to be hurt because of him. And now he had done the worst thing imaginable.
He had put the one person he truly cared about in a position where he could be hurt. Where he could be damaged even further. It had been hard enough for the boy to hear those little words already, without him making things worse.

“Sasuke?” Naruto knocked softly at the door, “Are you alright?”

The brunette forgot where he was sitting and leaned back to rest his head on the wall falling loudly into the bath tub.
“Sasuke!” Naruto said panicked. He quickly opened the door and ran in looking around wildly.

“Calm down dobe,” the Uchiha laughed, trying to get out, “I just fell in is all. Give us a hand will you?”

The blonde grinned embarrassedly, “You worried me.”
He grabbed the pale hands and pulled the boy up into his arms, the brunette stiffened.
Naruto pulled away and looked at him, “I thought this is what you wanted.”

“I did, I mean I do but…” Sasuke trailed off looking away.

“It’s Itachi isn’t it?” he said sadly grabbing the Uchiha’s chin and lifting his head so he could see the dark eyes.

“Yes,” he whispered softly.

“I thought it might have been, as soon as I heard the word revenge. Please Sasuke don’t let that get in the way of your life,” Naruto pleaded.

“It is my life,” Sasuke replied deadly.

“No it’s not! Not anymore!” Naruto said desperately, he leaned their foreheads together and closed his eyes, “You’re so much more than that. Itachi tried to weaken you by killing your emotions, without passion you’ll never get stronger. Feelings can spur you on to greatness. Please don’t go away. I… I love you.”

The brunette heard the emotion throbbing in the blonde’s voice and could feel his defences crumbling into nothing.
It took a moment for the actual words to register, “You do?”

“Of course I do you absolute bastard. Don’t you dare do this to me!” Naruto told him, his eyes full of unshed tears.

Sasuke tilted his chin up and their lips met. The kiss was soft and tentative, still very new and unsure. The boys pulled apart and Nartuo searched the Uchiha’s face for some sort of sign. The blonde pulled him into a tight hug.
“Thank you,” he whispered softly.

Sasuke renewed the kiss in answer, once more he licked at the lips and tongues met in fierce battle to outmanoeuvre each other. The Uchiha moved his hands to stroke the scarred cheeks with his thumbs and Naruto dropped his arms and looped his fingers through Sasuke’s belt loops.
He almost grinned when he felt every muscle in his boyfriend’s body tense, he felt the Uchiha growl and the corners of his mouth curled upwards. The blonde pulled away.

“We’d better go back down to the others,” he said, grinning yet reluctant.

Sasuke growled, “Fuck the others.”

“Are you sure about that?” he asked teasingly, “I thought you’d get jealous.”

The brunette was not amused, “Tell them to get their own.”
He leaned in again but Naruto lifted one hand to hold him back.

“Now don’t be like that, they’re our guests,” he put his finger on the pouting lips, “We have to go back down before boredom breaks out.”

He felt the growl emerging again and pulled on the belt loop wrapping his free arm around Sasuke’s waist so their entire bodies were together. Naruto gave his boyfriend a quick kiss and walked out.

“And you call me a bastard,” Sasuke muttered darkly.


“They’ve been gone a fair while,” Nico commented.

“What do you think they’re doing?” Kae said without thinking.

“Do you really want to know?” Dan asked grinning.

Everyone in the room went red except for Dan who just laughed, “Well you asked. And they are teenage boys…”

“Well yeah, but they wouldn’t…not with guests downstairs,” Kae said slowly.

“Sassi would,” Nico said flatly.

“I wouldn’t think Naruto would,” Sakura said.

“Why not?”

“He’s not that silly and he has more social sense than that,” she commented. Kae and Nico waved wildly pointing at the door. She turned to see Naruto in the doorway.

He grinned, “I love how you all assume I’m more mature and have better self control than the bastard.”

“Only in some areas dobe,” Sasuke purred snaking his arms around the boy’s waist.

“I said not now teme,” Naruto admonished smacking the hands away, “Just for that you can sit on the floor,” he told him taking the last available seat on the couch next to Sakura.

“Fine then be like that,” the Uchiha pouted sitting at the blonde’s feet.

“Well it’s getting a bit late, maybe we should head upstairs,” Sakura suggested standing up, “We pushed the boy’s beds together and changed the sheets so we can sleep in there.”

“Where are we sleeping then?” Ryo asked.

“I’m guessing on the floor,” Dan said yawning.

“How do you always do that?” Naruto asked curiously.

“I’m just that good,” he replied grinning lazily.

“Yeah well anyway we have the mattress of Sakura’s bed plus two spare mattresses, we just have to them from the next room and put sheets on them,” Naruto explained.

Dan and Ryo eyed each other suspiciously.

“Naruto and I can share if you like,” Sasuke laughed.