Underneath the Sakura tree, Somei Yoshino

hiya guys.

well i have finally manage to fix the internet in my room, Hong Kong is awesome btw.
uni life here is very different from the Scottish one, not so much drinking. well lockas anyways, the exchange students go out drinking every night. no surprise there =)

well i manage to finish off another chapter, so please tell me what u think. i think the comment will mean more to me now, since there is a lot of work that need to be done for uni this year. this place has twice the work load stirling ever gave us, at those moments i really miss my uni. but yeah so need to balance with the work and the writing, so yeah comments are very much appreciated as it will be the main reason i will update. this never change hehe.

well i hope not to many people have abandoned my story for me being to slow to update.

hope you all enjoy this chapter.

a wee reminder:

"speach"

'thoughts'

Chapter 6

Sasuke was sitting in front of his computer staring at the empty word document, still nothing. But this time the pressing matter of starting the novel was not occupying his mind, it was a certain blond. Sasuke knew the argument earlier had been his fault, but Sasuke had inherited his father’s stubbornness and pride, and besides it was not like Naruto was coming back so it really did not matter in the end.

Suddenly Sasuke’s trains of thoughts were interrupted by the sound of his doorbell. He got out of his chair and walked over to the door and proceeded to open it, but just as his hand was only inches away from the door handle he stopped. Could it be the blond boy? He still had his key so he would not ring the doorbell would he? Or did he suddenly decide out of politeness that ringing the doorbell would be better? Again the doorbell went off bringing Sasuke back to reality, should he open or not? He swallowed before he hesitantly turned the handle opening the door.

“Geez took you long enough!” a familiar male voice said as he waved a bag in front of Sasuke’s face.

“Neji?!?” the raven haired man stared at the man, surprised to see him here.

“Who did you expect, it’s only me and that publisher agent of yours that rings your doorbell” Neji said a little annoyed, entering the flat without any invitation, not that he really needed one. Sasuke shut the door behind him and followed Neji to the living room, listening to the sound as glass bottles bumped into each other.

“What’s the occasion?” Sasuke asked referring to the beer bottles in the shopping bag the other man had brought.

“I got a promotion at work, I am now senior executive of my department.” A huge grin was placed on the man’s face. Neji was a business man; he worked for a well known company handling new productions of computers. Sasuke really did not understand what Neji talked about half the time when he would begin one of his rants about work. But as a friend, he indulged the other man in his rants and just sat and listened, nodding in agreement when ever Neji asked him if he was right about the matter.

“Congratulations” Sasuke said sitting down at the sofa watching Neji take of his coat and tossing it on the chair and headed for the kitchen to grab some glasses.

“Got any ice?” he could hear Neji call from the kitchen.

“What you need ice for, we are drinking beer” Sasuke replied.

“Its not beer, its Sake, do you have ice or not?” the man asked again.

“Dunno check the fridge” Sasuke called back as he looked inside the bag, seeing the two Sake bottles.

“Wow since when did you store food in this fridge?” Neji half shouted, he had known Sasuke since the first day of University and never had he seen the man cook anything. Sasuke was caught by surprise; he had totally forgotten all the food Naruto had bought for him to cook.

“And don’t tell me you are joining cooking classes because I know you don’t have the patience for it.” Neji said as he came out from the kitchen with two empty glasses, some ice and a platter of nigiris. Unsure what to tell him Sasuke only stared at the platter wondering when Naruto had time to make the nigiris.

“Don’t tell me you have got a girlfriend and ….”

“Don’t be silly” Sasuke interrupted him annoyingly. Neji was gay, something he had told Sasuke on the first day they had met. Sasuke on the other hand had never really expressed his preference in sex, but truth be told he never had any interest in girls. All through his school and university life he had turned down every girl that had asked him out, at one point he thought he might have been a-sexual but the blond boy had stirred some unwanted feelings within him.

“You know I have no interests in girls”

“True” Neji said filling their glasses with Sake and offered Sasuke one of the glasses. Sasuke contemplated whether or not he should tell his friends about his bizarre meetings with the blond boy, he could tell Neji was waiting for an explanation. He sighed; the effort of making up a lie was too much for Sasuke to be bothered with so the decision fell on telling his friend.

Neji sat listening as Sasuke told him about his eventful days with the blond, how he had woken up to find the stranger in his home making him food and making sure he was alright. He conveniently left out the meeting at the Sakura Lake and the whole sleeping in the same bed knowing it would cause more commotion as letting in a stranger in to one's home probably sounded better than letting a strange male hooker in.

“So let me get straight” Neji began, putting down his empty glass on the table. “you let a stranger into your flat, he bought you food and cooked it, and he has your flat key?” Sasuke nodded in agreement as he took the last sip from his glass, Neji only shook his head.

“How can you be so careless, I mean what if he turns up here with his ’employer’ and steals all your stuff?” he could not believe how careless his friend had been, although, the blond had gone out of his way to help Sasuke but the thought of alternative motive could not be dismissed.

“If that’s the case I think it would have happened by now” Sasuke took another gulp of Sake from his glass which the other man had refilled only seconds ago “Besides I’ll change my lock tomorrow” he said into the glass. Neji on the other hand was not satisfied with the answer, tomorrow might be too late.

“You really are to reckless Sasuke” he added before downing the rest of his glass.

“Hn” was the only reply.

After a few more glasses of Sake and a long silence Sasuke broke the silence, he could feel that he was affected by the alcohol as he would never initiate a conversation.

“So why celebrate your promotion with me? Isn’t your lover a better choice?” Sasuke looked at the man as he took the last sip of his glass.

“Oh we broke up yesterday” Neji said refilling their glasses with a wobbly hand, he too was beginning to feel the affects of the alcohol.

“Figures” Sasuke said as he watched Neji pour the sake, “You never keep anyone long”

“Well it’s not my fault they can’t satisfy me” he handed Sasuke the refilled glass, and leaned back in the sofa.

“Right” Sasuke looked at the man as he lay with his head back on the edge of the sofa staring up at the ceiling. “The correct answer would be that they aren’t Gaara”

“Gaara has nothing to do with it” Neji said giving Sasuke a glare, but Sasuke knew better. Although Neji did not want to admit it he still loved Gaara, Sasuke knew that, however much like himself Neji was a proud man and never wanted to admit to anything especially if it was something that could be considered a weak point. Sasuke sighed, well at least they had moved from the topic of the blond.

“If you say so” Sasuke said into his glass.

“I do, and I can prove it to you. The only one occupying my mind at the moment is you.” Neji grinned as he moved so close to Sasuke’s face he could feel the man’s warm breath on his face, Sasuke only gave him a look. Then Neji moved gently forward kissing Sasuke. Sasuke could feel the warm lips pressing against his own, he really should have stopped Neji before the kiss but the alcohol was clouding his better judgement. This had not been the first time the two had gotten intimate with each other, on a couple of other occasion they had ended up having sex after a night of drinking. One would think that their relationship would change drastically after the first time but the two had remained the close friends they were. Neji let his tongue gently slide over Sasuke bottom lip asking for permission to enter, Sasuke parted his lips slowly giving Neji the permission. Their tongues battled for dominance as Neji pushed the raven haired man on to the sofa, after a minute they broke the kiss to catch their breath.

“See?” Neji grinned at the man, quite satisfied with the way he had proven his point. Sasuke only gave him a look before he pushed the other man off him; he was in no mood for his games.

“Whatever” Sasuke downed the last bit of his drink, it had been a long time since he had been this drunk, not that it was a bad thing as it helped him take his mind of the novel and the whole key situation with the blond.

“I think we have some audience Sasuke” he heard Neji say, not quite understanding what he was getting at Sasuke looked in the direction of which the other man's eyes were fixed. In the doorway stood a frozen Naruto, he had walked in on the two kissing and not quite sure what to do.

Neji got up from the sofa and grabbed his coat “Well I think it is time I departed, we’ll continue this some other time Sasuke” Neji said giving him a grin, Sasuke knew he was only trying to make the blond feel even more uncomfortable about the whole situation. He rolled his eyes and let his body fall back on the sofa; Neji could be such an ass when he wanted to.

Naruto watched the other man’s every step as he walked past him and down the hallway; the dark eyed man had kept his eyes fixed on him the whole time as if he was looking right through him. Before leaving he had given Naruto a nod and a smile, Naruto could only stare at the floor as he came so close he could feel the man’s body heat pass by him.

“S-sorry” Naruto stammered he was not sure what to do; he was too drunk to make a rational decision. As usual he, Gaara and Haku along with the new guy Menma shared a bottle of sake which was a little too much considering how much he had been drinking through the night with the customers.

“Um should you run after him?” he asked.

“Why? He is not my lover” Sasuke said as he began tidying up the table, ‘damn, really drank too much tonight’ Sasuke tried his best to walk in a straight line in o the kitchen.

Naruto continued to stand in the doorway, he knew he really should be leaving as he probably pissed Sasuke off but his body would not heed his command.

“Are you just going to stand there?” Sasuke asked as he came back in to the living room. Naruto flinched a little to the harsh words.

“S-sorry” the blond boy closed the door and sat down on the sofa and watched Sasuke sit down on the other side. ‘Really shouldn’t be here, not in this state’

“So what are you doing here?” Sasuke asked after a couple of minutes of watching the blond boy, engulfed in his own thoughts, it was hard to admit but Naruto was really hot. And he had not gotten laid in god knows how long and thanks to Neji's little stunt earlier his body was now screaming out for sexual pleasure.

“S-sorry” Naruto felt himself getting more nervous “I-I just wanted to return the key” He held his hand up towards Sasuke, showing him his flat key. Without a word Sasuke accepted his key and got of the sofa to put it in his jacket pocket.

There was awkward silence in the room as Sasuke was fiddling with his jacket and other things, Naruto only watched as the man moved around the room. Sasuke was wearing a blue shirt which was at least one size to big for him, the top button was unbuttoned exposing his collarbone. He wore a pair of dark blue jeans which were a little to long for him so they were folded at the bottom. Needless to say Naruto was enjoying the view he had of Sasuke’s back where he sat in the sofa, but it also made him a wee bit aware of the amount of alcohol he had been drinking. A good looking guy, Naruto mixed with alcohol was not a very good mix as it almost always ended up with the two having sex.

“Well its getting late I should head back home” Naruto said with a nervous laughter and got out of the sofa.

“Hey!” Sasuke said as he watched the blond boy open the door.

“Hmm?” Naruto stopped and faced towards where Sasuke was standing

“Can you come again?” the raven haired man asked. Naruto was surprised by the question but at the same time, for reasons unknown to him at the time, he was happy the man had asked.

“Sure ... Like my cooking that much?”

“Hn” was Sasuke’s only reply; he could not deny that the blond was an amazing cook however his pride would not let him show any emotions as usual. Naruto on the other hand could see a small sparkle when he had mentioned his cooking, he could not help but smile, right now Sasuke was too cute for his own good.

“I’ll stop by tomorrow before work; I’ll teach you how to cook.” Naruto said and waved at Sasuke before he left the author’s flat. Silence descended upon the flat as Sasuke could hear Naruto’s footsteps disappear in the distance, he sighed as he found himself staring at the front door. ‘I am so drunk’ he stated to himself and shook his head before trailing off towards the bed and tossing himself in the middle of it, slowly but surely falling asleep to the sound of the ticking clock on his wall.

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