Fever Pitch

If: another chapter, another disclaimer: not mine

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Sasuke awoke with a thunderous headache and few memories of what exactly had happened after dancing with the red headed sex god known as Gaara. Flinching and groaning due to a ray of light hitting him square in the face, Sasuke grabbed his covers to pull them over his head, only to realize that they wouldn’t budge. Growling, Sasuke tugged harder on the blankets, desperate to get the sun out of his face. A groan from his left stopped him mid-tug though. Eyes widening, and eyebrow twitching, Sasuke slowly, ever so slowly, turned his head to the left. Blond hair was the first thing Sasuke saw. Sasuke’s twitch increased. Turning his head back he looked down at himself and lifted the blanket. Sighing in relief at his still fully clothed self, Sasuke put the blanket down.

“Stupid dobe… stupid sun… stupid hangover,” Sasuke muttered as he rolled to his right and slipped out of the bed, landing awkwardly on the ground. Groaning, Sasuke put a hand to his head and used the other one to raise himself to his feet. He sneered at the blonde that had just taken over his bed, who was snoring and drooling. Damn that Naruto.

Muttering to himself, he made his was to the bathroom shakily. The door to the bathroom was closed and Sasuke could hear that the shower was going with his highly sensitive hearing thanks to the hangover. Sasuke’s head thudded as he placed it on the door. Bringing up his clenched hands, Sasuke banged on the door, instantly regretting because his head started to throb worse than it already was. Straightening himself, Sasuke pounded his fists on the door in a very childish fashion.

“God damn it Itachi! Get out of the fucking bathroom!” Sasuke growled his voice shot from all the shouting he had been doing last night. Still pounding his fists on the door, Sasuke could dimly hear the shower turn off when suddenly the door opened. Not expecting this, Sasuke lost his balance and fell forward, right onto his wet brother, who grunted as he impacted with the ground.

“Damn it Sasuke! You’re lucky I didn’t crack my head open, foolish little brother!” Itachi snarled. Sasuke twitched again.

“Then next time warn me when you’re going to open the door!” Sasuke growled in response.

“Next time don’t bang on the door so that you can’t hear it opening!” Itachi nearly roared.

“…Could you two keep your love affair down? I have a hangover here…” a drowsy voice said from behind the brothers, who were still tangled up on the floor. Sasuke, hearing those words, scrambled off his brother, blushing slightly. Itachi only grinned and made himself comfortable on the floor, totally ignoring the fact that his towel was practically off now, barely covering him.

“I can’t help it Naruto-kun… I’m always loud when it comes to Sasuke,” Itachi purred, grabbing his towel and standing up. Sasuke gagged and turned away from the two standing in the doorway.

“Cover your ass damn it!” Sasuke shouted.

“Why little brother? Oh! I get it! You don’t want Naruto-kun to see my ass, since you think you own it!” Itachi said, turning to grin wickedly at his younger brother.

“God no! I don’t want to see your pale white ass!” Sasuke shouted, not turning around to look at his brother apparently zombified friend.

Itachi sighed and turned back to Naruto. “Some day he’ll admit how much he loves me.”

Itachi blinked a couple times, noticing that Naruto was indeed asleep on his feet. Itachi scratched the back of his head.

“Huh… I wonder how he does that…” he muttered.

“Just go away, would you?” Sasuke asked. Itachi just glared at his brother.

“Fine then… I see how much you care about your one and only family member,” Itachi sniffed, throwing that final barb at his brother. Sasuke stuck his tongue out at his brother, though Itachi didn’t know since he was walking away. Sasuke stared at the sleeping Naruto for a moment before shrugging and standing. He needed to do something about this hangover, and fast.

Going to the medicine cabinet, Sasuke threw it open and started to rummage through it for some sort of pain reliever. Throwing pill containers that were of no use over his shoulder, Sasuke finally found the strongest pain killer he could. Raising his eyes to look heavenward, Sasuke said a silent thanks before tearing open the container. Pills scattered all over the bathroom as Sasuke tore off the lid so violently that the whole container went flying. Cursing, Sasuke knelt on the ground and gathered a handful of pills; he’d clean this later, when he didn’t have this freaking hangover.

Standing, Sasuke walked through the doorway, barely inching around the still sleeping Naruto, grabbed his friend’s arm and dragged the near lifeless body of Naruto into the kitchen. Itachi was already there, rifling through the fridge to apparently find something to eat. Sasuke yanked Naruto over to the table and managed to push his friend into a chair. Placing his handful of pills on the table, Sasuke stumbled over to the sink. Itachi only walked out of the kitchen and into the living room. Grabbing some glasses, Sasuke filled some with water. Bumbling back over to the table, Sasuke just stared blankly at his friend whose head was now resting on the table, a small puddle of drool already forming. Sasuke slammed the glasses of water on the table, effectively waking up the blond.

“Huh? Wha?” the blond asked, his head snapping up and whipping around. Sasuke rolled his eyes and sat across from the blond. He grabbed half the pills and shoved the other half towards Naruto, which rolled in many directions and one fell off the table. Naruto cursed and Sasuke cracked a tiny smile, grabbing his glass of water and downing his handful of pills in one gulp. Naruto meanwhile, was searching for the pill that fell on the ground. Gulping down the rest of his water, Sasuke watched as Naruto swallowed his pills, having finally found that pill on the ground. Shaking his head as the blond started coughing, Sasuke stood up and wandered over to his friend and patting him on the back. Once Naruto stopped coughing he looked up and his friend and gave him a dazzling smile.

“Thanks!” the blond exclaimed, having finally woken up and once again started being loud and annoying. Sasuke almost regretted waking the blond up.

“Yeah yeah…” Sasuke muttered before moving back into the kitchen. “What do you want for breakfast?”

“Ramen!” Naruto immediately exclaimed. Sasuke twitched.

“We don’t keep ramen in this apartment, we eat real food here,” Sasuke said to the blond who had gotten up and followed him into the kitchen. Naruto pouted.

“Awww…” he whined. Sasuke just fixed him with a glare. Naruto stuck out his tongue.

“Tch, dobe,” Sasuke muttered while opening the fridge.

“Teme! Don’t call me that!” Naruto yelled, pointing his finger at the black haired boy. Sasuke pushed a gallon of milk his way. Naruto barely grabbed the gallon before Sasuke let go.

“Put that on the counter,” Sasuke said impassively. Naruto grumbled but did as he was told. He barely caught the cheese that was tossed at him as soon as he turned around.

“God damn it Sasuke! Warn me before you do that!” Naruto yelled, nearly jumping up and down in his frustration.

“Would you shut the hell up? My head still hurts!” Sasuke growled shutting the refrigerator door with his foot as he carried some eggs over to the stove, which was part of the counter. Naruto looked away sheepishly, but kept the indignant look on his face. Sasuke dug into one of the cabinets to get a frying pan and stuck it on the stove before lighting the stove.

“Get me a bowl, fork and wooden spatula,” Sasuke ordered. Naruto muttered something but started to fish around for a bowl. Sasuke opened the cheese and tested the frying pan to see how hot it was. Naruto shoved a bowl and Sasuke. Sasuke took it and grabbed a couple eggs, cracking them open and putting them in the bowl. Naruto handed Sasuke the fork and put the spatula next to the bowl on the counter. Sasuke stirred the eggs and then put them in the frying pan, grabbing the spatula and stirring.

“Stick some cheese in,” Sasuke told Naruto.

“Sweet… cheesy eggs,” Naruto said, tearing up a piece of cheese and putting them piece by piece into the cooking eggs. When Naruto had put in as much cheese as he wanted, he dug around for a couple plates. Placing two plates on the counter, Sasuke turned off the stove and started panning out the eggs on the plates. Naruto went back to the table, grabbed the now empty glasses and brought them back to the kitchen to fill with milk. Sasuke grabbed another fork, grabbed both plates and walked back to the table as Naruto put the milk back into the fridge and then following his friend with the two glasses of milk. Together they sat down.

“Sooo… what about that guy from last night?” Naruto asked a lecherous smile on his face. Sasuke flushed slightly at the mention of Gaara. Naruto started to laugh loudly. Sasuke winced; his headache slash hangover was throbbing because of the loud mouth.

“What about him?” Sasuke retorted. Naruto leaned over the table and wiggled his eyebrows suggestively.

“What did he slip you? His number?” Naruto asked. Sasuke’s face turned red and he looked away from the pervert sitting across from him.

“No,” Sasuke said. Naruto blinked.

“Then what’d he slip you? Drugs? An address?” Naruto asked. Sasuke just looked at his nosy friend. “Fine… don’t tell me.”

Naruto huffed, crossed his arms and started to pout. Sasuke just gave him a blank look. He knew he’d end up telling the blond everything… eventually. It was just so much fun to tease his friend though. Naruto had these extravagant reactions to even the slightest of things.

“Fine… I’ll tell you,” Sasuke finally said. Naruto jumped up and pumped his fist in the air.

“Yatta!” he shouted. Sasuke brought a hand up to his temple and rubbed it.

“Please try to be a little more… quiet Naruto, my head still hurts damn it,” Sasuke growled. Naruto gave him a sheepish look and sat back down. He twirled his finger in the air.

“Yatta,” he whispered. Sasuke glared at the blond, who only smirked evilly at him.

“Do you want to know Naruto? Because I can just not tell you because of your attitude,” Sasuke snapped. Naruto immediately stopped what he was doing.

“I’ll be good,” the blond said. Sasuke sighed.

“Good,” Sasuke said. He clasped his hands and looked up at the ceiling, knowing that this would piss off Naruto.

“Sasuke!” Naruto hissed. “Tell me!”

“Tell you what Naruto?” Sasuke asked, feigning ignorance. Naruto started to twitch. Sasuke was enjoying every minute of this.

“What did it say? The thing he slipped you last night!” Naruto hissed, trying desperately not to raise his voice. Sasuke smirked.

“It said ‘see youtomorrow,’” Sasuke finally told the blond.