Reaching for Love.

It seemed magical, a special day for Team Seven... like one they hadn't had before. Sai stood between Sakura and Naruto as they created a meal together...well sort of.

"Sai!" Sakura laughed as he tried to put some ramen noodles into the indent in the center of his rice pile, before he began to form the rice around it. Naruto looked over, and laughed as he saw what Sai was up to, forming onigiri with his favorite type of food in the center of it... He was trying hard to make a lasting impression on his new team mates, what he was working for he was sure...

Sai smiled as he folded the noodles into the rice ball, and passed it to Naruto who added it to the large pile of mystery rice balls they were assembling. Sakura was making the rice, Sai was adding things in, and ususually Naruto was forming the rice balls into their proper shape. That ramen rice ball was special though, and Naruto knew it was Sai's way of trying to cheer him up... He just wasn't expecting what happened that night, after the Team Seven party, which involved Sake, ramen, rice balls, and several other things...

"Bye Sakura!....see you...tomorrow..." Naruto was mostly drunk as he stumbled along the path, walking from side to side shakily, but Sai was there with him to steady him as he went. Sai had drunk almost nothing and eaten almost nothing, as he got Naruto home...

"Alright Naruto, goodnight." Sai said as he tucked the blonde haired ninja into his bed, stroking his hair lightly before going to turn away and leave his Naruto to rest up for the day ahead. A firm, tan hand grabbed his wrist and tugged him into the bed along side of him.

Sai's eyes were wide as Naruto's lips pressed to his own, the blonde's drunken state bothered the other Ninja greatly, but feeling his Naruto press him down into the bed was quickly making him forget his thoughts of regret..and just give in to being with his Naruto.

"Mhmm...you taste good..." Naruto grumbled as his lips left Sai's slightly swollen ones and worked down to his collar bone where he began to give short little licks and nibbles of Sai's ivory skin. Sai's chest rose and fell quicker, as Naruto became even more aggressive with his loving affections...

He used his teeth and hands to tear apart Sai's outfit, until the raven haired painter was bare beneath his wandering hands...and those hands certainly wandered. The hands were moving here, there, and everywhere as Sai's breathing began to pick up in short pants of hot breath.

Naruto's lips wandered, biting down on Sai's pale skin hard, leaving marks of claim as Sai's hands dug into the bedding below them... Naruto licked Sai's shaft only once, before he shifted Sai and thrust all of himself into the unprepared entrance.

For a normal person, it would have been hell, but even for a tallented ninja like Sai, it was painful as he felt tears biting behind his eyes as the fox boy dominated him, with deep and hard thrusts into his torn entrance...

"N...Naruto..." Sai whimpered out, trying to find a way to tell Naruto to slow down, only to have the blonde go harder and deeper inside of him, causing his eyes to close...the only way out of this would be to hurt Naruto, and he couldn't do that to him... not to his Naruto..

When Naruto had finished, he slowly pulled back and fell next to Sai on the slim bed. "Mhmmmm....Sasuke-kun..."

That name made the little bit of Sai's heart that he'd found while with Team Seven, shatter into a hundred pieces. Naruto, while drunk, had royally screwed Sai...and then complimented the bedmate by the wrong name...of course, Naruto would never love anyone but Sasuke...

As he gathered up his clothes, he remembered how it felt when he had no emotions...it was perfect...because he didn't feel at all. Going back would be the best way for him wouldn't it? Yes...

Back to being a prized ANBU level Ninja, with no one to worry about but his master and his mission. That was it...all he had to worry about.

But even still...looking back at the happily sleeping Naruto, he felt a stab of pain go through his heart...how could Naruto do such a thing?... he hadn't minded the rough sex, it had been Sasuke-kun's name at the end of it that had tormented him so...

"Goodbye... Naruto-kun." He said, as he vanished, going to his own abode, where he would wait for tomorrow in silence...after a good long shower of course. He wanted nothing, but everything... why was everything he wanted already Sasuke's?

Perhaps he was meant to be with no one, to hold no body, to love nothing, and to be nothing but a shadow in peoples memory... no... he was not a friend. He was not a human... He was a ninja...and he had to remember that fact.

An emotionless killer, who painted things that caused others death...it's all he would ever be...As Sai exited his shower, he paused looking at a new picture he'd been working on...

Him, and Naruto together...back to back in battle.. watching each others back, protecting the other and fighting off enemies... without giving it a second thought, he ripped the picture in two, and let the pieces fall to the ground while he got dressed and then crawled into bed...

Things would look duller in the morning.
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A/N: Hey everybody, I can't believe how many hits this has gotten! Thanks so much everyone! I'm sorry it took me a few days to update, but this is my longest chapter yet, and yes, it did have some hentai writing in it, but I promise I can do much better, I'm saving that for the scene where Naruto wins back Sai's heart...if he does...xD

Tell me what you guys think of this...oh, and a spoiler from the next chapter is this:

As Sai looked across the entrance to the desert village, he couldn't help himself as he looked into the emotion filled eyes that had obviously once been as diluted as his own. Friends... maybe they were real.

Of course, the kunai that nearly broke the skin on his back made him think twice about that...

Tell me what you think guys and girls! Enjoy!