Learn to Love (Complete)

To my AFF reviewers: I'm really sorry I can't reply to all of you!! I need to leave for college in about 5 mins!! So just wanted to say I love you all!! Thanks for sticking with my!! By the way, this story has been nominated for the TONFA naruto fanfiction awards in the best romance category....so if you'd like to vote here's the link: http://nfa.narutofic.org/vote.php so thank you!!

Chapter 7:

“Dad, we’re going to be late! I’m their star player, I can’t be late!” I yelled into my father’s ear. I hadn’t bothered with putting on my seatbelt; I wanted to be ready to jump out of the car so I could rush straight to the locker rooms.

Dad laughed “All right, ebi (shrimp), I’ll get you there on time!”

Mom smiled too. “Sweetheart, get your seatbelt on…and don’t worry, you know Dad’ll do anything for you!”

I smiled back at her. Yeah…I was always proud of the fact that I was dad’s favorite son. Not that I didn’t love Aniki, but dad was my universe. We had done everything together, dad and I. He was the one who comforted me when Kyuubi nii-chan had left.

So I listened to mom and sat back just a bit, still not bothering about the seat belt. We sped along merrily and every time dad stopped for the light, I squirmed and frowned…muttering darkly about not being on time.

I looked up as yet another light turned red and raised my eyebrow when dad didn’t stop. He looked at me from his mirror and smiled. He didn’t see the car coming head on, when he did it was too late. I heard my mom scream…the car hit us hard. The car jerked hard and I suddenly felt pain as I smashed through the glass. After I passed the glass I felt weightless, like I was floating until, gravity yanked me back to my senses as I hit the ground. Mind numbing pain shot through my back, before it went numb.

I squinted trying to see, what had happened…the sight got engraved in my memory…the car on he passenger side was completely crushed, my mom was slumped over with blood pouring everywhere, I couldn’t see my dad. But my mom…she was pale…really pale, my brain tried to process these facts, as I started screaming myself raw…

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The night was cool, a light breeze flowing throw the trees made the leaves whisper silently. The silence was comforting, only the small whimpers of a puppy having a good dream interrupted it. The dark haired boy in the bed nuzzled closer to another blond one. The big grandfather clock downstairs ticked, its ticks echoing through the house.

The blanket like calm was shattered by a loud scream. Fugaku and Mikoto sat up in shock…Itachi ran out of his room. Sasuke jumped and then turned to look at the blond, who was suddenly screaming himself hoarse. Sasuke panted slightly and then tried to wake the blond.

“Naruto…wake up! Naruto!” he shook the blond slightly panicked. By this time the rest of the family had barged into his room. Mikoto ran up to the screaming boy, and gathered him up into her arms.

“Naruto, its ok. Wake up dear…” she said in a calm but firm voice. The screams slowly receded, turning into small whimpers. Chocolate had run into Sasuke’s lap, giving small whines, with his tail between his legs.

Naruto opened frightened, but sleepy glazed blue eyes slowly, looking from one face to another. Then he buried his face into Mikoto’s shoulder, sobbing. Mikoto shushed him, and cuddled him, holding him close, crooning.

Sasuke made out the muffled words “it was my fault…” being repeated over and over again. His mother was rubbing soothing circles onto Naruto’s back, rocking him a little. It took about half an hour, and then the blond calmed down a little.

He turned to look at Sasuke, his face scrunched up and tear stained. He held his arm out and wiggled his fingers. “Sasuke…”

Sasuke moved forward gently and hugged the blond, taking him out of his mother’s arms slowly and then laying him down before rearranging the bed covers. He forgot about his parents and brother, at the sight of those scared blue eyes. He stroked the blond’s head softly.

“Naruto…you’ll be fine ok? It wasn’t your fault. It was just a bad dream…tell you what,” Sasuke slipped out of bed, though the blond began to whimper. He rummaged in his desk and then pulled something out and came back to bed.

Then he held it out towards the blond. “This is a dream catcher Naruto. The American Indian tribes, say it’ll catch the nightmares in its web, I’m going to hang it up here, so you won’t have any.” He hung it up and then slid in next to the blond. Mikoto kissed the blond on his forehead, before doing the same to Sasuke. Then they shuffled out of the room, leaving the dark haired boy, watching the light haired one.

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When Naruto woke up in the morning, he was surprised to find Sasuke still in bed, hugging him. The dark haired boy was sleeping soundly not moving even when Naruto shifted. Naruto fell still too, though he could feel Chocolate trying to get to Sasuke. He caught the puppy when it came within arms reach and pulled it to his side. If Sasuke needed sleep, then Chocolate wasn’t going to disturb him.

Sasuke moved closer and buried himself into Naruto's side, his face titled towards Naruto. The blond watched him for a moment, before bringing his head down and his lips onto those pale pink ones. It was a soft chaste kiss and when Naruto finished he found himself looking into shocked black eyes.

Both the boys blushed. Sasuke licked his lips and then moved up to capture Naruto’s lips again. He moved his lips against Naruto’s taking his upper lip into his mouth slightly.

“Woah! Bad timing! Who knew you guys would start a morning like this?”

Sasuke almost yelped and pulled away from Naruto. He turned to glare at an amused Itachi. Naruto blushed crimson and studied the ceiling. Itachi merely grinned.

“Well, I thought I’d wake you up and tell you that breakfast is waiting. Mom and dad have an important announcement to make too. oh and Naruto you might want to look at the papers…or keep your phone on.” Itachi bowed and left.

Naruto stared after him. “Um…Sasuke I need to go…you know…” Sasuke looked at him, blushing and nodded.

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When they went down, Mikoto and Fugaku were in the dinning room, already seated rifling through some files. They smiled as the two boys entered. Mikoto stood up serving them herself…another thing that surprised Sasuke.

“Boys we have some good and kind of bad news. First the bad news. Mikoto and I will be going to Europe for a month. We are leaving this evening. The good news is…you’d better look at this Naruto.” Fugaku held the morning’s business times out to Naruto.

I WILL CONTINUE MY FATHER’S BUSINESS.

Uzumaki Kyuubi stepped up to take his place as head of Uzumaki Corp. The decision was made by the present head Gamasama Jiraiya. The prodigal son who has been avoiding this job for the past few years has made a surprising return. His ideas are already being put to practice and his employees are eager to work for him.

At a press conference Uzumaki-san said “I will continue my father’s business. He always wished for me to do so, but I had lost confidence. But lately a special person showed me that responsibility need not always be scary.”

Uzumaki Kyuubi also has a little brother Uzumaki Naruto…who was he star player of Leaf International School. Due to the accident eight months back, Naruto was temporarily paralyzed, but is now on his way to recovery. Uzumaki Corp has just closed a deal with Uchiha Itachi’s company Chidori. This might prove successful to both companies…

Naruto’s jaw dropped! “Kyuubi-nii has taken over from Ero-Sennin! I need to talk to him!”

“Yeah you do… he’s been trying to call you since this last night…it was pretty late actually, but your phone was switched off. But before you try to do so, listen to mom and dad…there’s more to come.” Itachi leaned back, rubbing his tummy after a really sumptuous meal.

“Yes, he’s right. Your brother wanted you to stay with him now, instead of at the hospital, but Fugaku and I decided, we’d like to have you with us. You make Sasuke happy and are no trouble at all.” Mikoto smiled, ruffling his hair.

“But Kyuubi-san, insisted that he wanted you to have a nurse with you, so you can do the physiotherapy. He will be sending someone you know and will me sending all the machines needed to one of the spare rooms, if you consent that is. Do you want to?” Fugaku asked the last question gently.

Naruto was staring at them wide eyed. He glanced at Sasuke who trying to conceal hope with some difficulty. “Well…I will. Thank you.” His eyes filled a little. Sasuke was looking at him with a strange expression.

“Good then that’s settled. We’ll leave for work now.” Mikoto hugged both boys and left with Fugaku. Itachi wheeled Naruto away some distance and they had a whispered conversation. Sasuke stared jealously as he saw Naruto hand Itachi something.

Then Itachi wheeled the blond back and deposited him in Sasuke’s care. They fed chocolate and then Naruto suddenly caught Sasuke’s arm. “I want to show you something…please come to the hospital with me.”

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They walked down the silent corridors of the hospital. A part that Sasuke had never been to, but Naruto wheeled himself as if he had been there many times. Then they stopped at one room. Sasuke read the card…Uzumaki Arashi. Sasuke frowned, they were visiting Naruto’s father?

Naruto silently opened the door and waited for Sasuke to come in. on the stark white bed lay a man. He had the same wild blond hair like Naruto’s, only instead of being silky, his looked lank. He seemed to be sleeping peacefully, but the wires and oxygen mask attached said otherwise.

“Meet my father, Sasuke. Dad, this is Sasuke.” Said Naruto in a cheery voice, which Sasuke realized at once was fake. Seeing Sasuke’s questioning frown, Naruto continued. “He’s been in a coma. Jiraiya and now Kyuubi will continue to keep him on life support…its cause I believe that he will wake up sometime. I can’t give up on him…I couldn’t do anything for mom.”

Sasuke nodded and crossed the space between them, gathering Naruto into a hug. The blond told him about the accident and how it was his entire fault that this had happened. At that Sasuke looked into his eyes.

“Dobe, this is not your fault. He’ll wake up.” He took in the way Naruto’s hair smelt. “Now, we need to b getting back home. Itachi wants some groceries too ok? So shall we head home?”

Naruto nodded and they made their way to the supermarket and picked up a few groceries. Naruto was unusually chatty the whole way. He even talked one whole paragraph about celery and how good it could be, but that was put to an end when Sasuke said “You don’t even like celery” in a puzzled voice, after which he changed the topic deftly.

When they approached the house, Naruto got this odd gleam in his eye. Sasuke dumped the groceries on the kitchen table and went to fill a bowl with puppy food, for Chocolate. Then he wheeled Naruto up to ‘their’ room.

Upon opening the door, his jaw dropped. On his blue walls done in a specific pattern were pictures…photographs actually. One wall was dedicated to Sasuke growing up. A cluster of baby pictures with an arrow leading to his six year old pictures and soon on. Another wall was full of photographs of this week he’d spent with Naruto, along with some odd ones of them in Naruto’s ward at the hospital. Every where Sasuke looked he saw his parents and friends smiling at him. Above his bed, were posters of his favorite band. And the ceiling was done with a mixture of glow stars and skulls.

“Surprise!” Naruto yelled. Sasuke just stood staring speechless. Naruto grinned. “Thought the room needed lightening up…you…you aren’t mad are you?”

Sasuke turned to look at him, a very strange look in his eyes. “No…no I’m not mad…I’m…how did you?”

Naruto looked at him wondering if he was ok. His voice had gone very quiet and soft. “Well, I hired an official photographer with Itachi’s help and asked him if he could get it done this morning, as I was supposed to be leaving today. But then I decided that I’d like to stay here and see your room like this. Are you ok?”

“Yeah I’m ok. Naruto, you…” Sasuke glanced away, he didn’t know what to say…a hug would be nice, but he was getting too mushy nowadays. He turned back to the blond trying to convey the depth of his feeling through his eyes. “Um…thanks.”

Naruto saw Sasuke’s eyes looking at him, happily though the rest of his face was blank. He smiled softly. “Anything for you…Sasuke-chan!” he ended on a childish note.

“Argh! Don’t call me that, dobe!”

“Don’t call me dobe, teme!”

Sasuke looked up at ‘his and Naruto’s’ wall. His eyes came to rest on a picture of them in the pool, staring intensely at each other. What was that strange feeling welling up inside him? Suddenly he turned to Naruto and picked the blonde up carrying to the bed. Naruto looked into the most intense black eyes, before lips captured his own.

They kissed hard for a while, when Sasuke pulled back. There was a strange gleam in his eyes. Naruto looked at him a little apprehensively. A hand slipped down his waist, resting on his hip. Sasuke smirked.

“Can you feel down here dobe?” he asked in a husky voice. Naruto’s eyes widened as Sasuke’s hand moved on to his crotch. He gasped lightly as Sasuke began to stroke him through his pants, his gaze not moving from his face.

“Sa…Sasuke…” Naruto tried to say, but he was coming alive down there. He could feel himself tingling and starting to harden as Sasuke’s hands worked their magic.

Sasuke’s other hand undid his shirt and his mouth descended on a pink nub. Naruto gasped out loud, letting his hand rest on Sasuke’s head. He hadn’t ever felt like this. He wished he could move, but he had to lie there and take it. Sasuke’s hand slipped into his pants and began an alternate stroke. Naruto wanted to buck…this was driving him crazy. As Sasuke’s strokes became faster, Naruto clutched the sheets as tight as he could, before stars exploded in front of him and pleasure coursed through him.

Since it was his first time, he came quite easily, spattering all over his pants and Sasuke’s hands. (Not in mood for lemon right now, sorry.) Sasuke sat back looking at him, with a satisfied smirk. Naruto panted softly, pretty wiped out. He didn’t wake up until he felt something wet and then realized Sasuke was cleaning him up. He smiled up at the dark haired boy blearily, before dozing off.

Sasuke watched him for a moment before disappearing into the bathroom for some alone time with his left hand.

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A/N: yes I will have to end this chapter here. And I will have to delay my chapters for a while because of college, exams and I had an internet problem too. Hope you liked this chappie.

Taka