My Saving Grace

 

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Warning – In this chapter…They finally get to it…meaning hot, sweaty mansex warning for this chapter.





My Saving Grace.



Part 7





When the car finally pulled to a stop at the curb in front of his house Neji was thrumming with want. He turned pale eyes towards Itachi and leaned over to nuzzle his neck. "Are you ready to go inside?"



Itachi dipped his head and caught Neji's mouth with his for a brief, intense kiss. He nipped at the other man's lips and purred, "Lead the way snowflake."



"Let's go then." Neji got out of the car and walked the short way to his front steps while he fished his keys out of his pocket. He really hoped he hadn't left any dirty socks on the floor and that Socrates hadn't been into the underwear drawer again. Neji felt Itachi walk behind him and it nearly made him shiver...Gods he wanted this man so badly.



Itachi stood close behind Neji, close enough that he knew his body heat was seeping into the other's back. The door opened and he stepped inside with the long haired man. He was toeing off his shoes with a white and black ball of fur came barreling at him and proceeded to climb up his pants leg. Red eyes blinked in mild surprise and he bent, picking up the cat and meeting the stunning blue eyes of the creature with curiosity.



"Itachi, meet the other man in my life." Neji smiled and nodded towards the cat in Itachi's arms. "This is Socrates." Neji toed off his own shoes and leaned forward to rub the cat between the silky ears, causing a loud purr to start up.



Itachi's lips curved up at the bliss the cat displayed under its master's touch. "Socrates hmm?" He shifted so the cat was held in the crook of his arm rather than dangling from his hands. "Does he have an inordinate fondness for hemlock?"



"Thankfully no." Neji grinned and pulled both man and cat further into his house. It felt right having Itachi there in his sphere, the other fit there. "He's a true philosopher though." Neji looked around, relieved that there wasn't a sock in sight. "Can I get you anything?"



Itachi stroked a hand over the cat's back just before he set the Siamese on a platform of a kitty condo then he strode towards Neji. "Just you."



Neji stopped in his tracks at Itachi's words and his heart thumped loudly in his chest. He turned around and wrapped his arms around Itachi's neck. "You have me."



The other man slid his own arms around Neji's waist and pressed his lips to the younger's, sliding them against Neji's mouth as if he was memorizing the taste and texture of the Hyuga's lips.



Neji moaned and pressed his lips harder against Itachi's, slanting his mouth over the other's in an attempt to deepen the kiss.



The older man took Neji's bottom lip in between his and nipped, licked and suckled at it before opening his mouth wider to let Neji's tongue in, greeting it with his own. The slippery appendages curled and danced around each other as Itachi slid his hands up Neji's back, slipping under the shirt the other wore to stroke the delectable skin beneath it.



Arching into the touch Neji gasped. "Oh Gods, do you have any idea how incredibly sexy you are? You make me so hot just by the way you move." He flicked Itachi's lips with the tip of his tongue before slipping it inside to taste Itachi's mouth again. The other man's hands felt so hot against his skin, hot and wonderful. Neji wanted Itachi to touch him all over, just as he wanted to touch, tease and please Itachi.



Itachi groaned and cupped Neji's ass, pulling him closer so their groins ground together. He broke the kiss to nip along the delicate edge of Neji's jaw. "I have nothing on you. Your body's so lithe and graceful it puts a crane to shame and the way you're built," another soft groan, "I just want to run my tongue all over you, to lick you up until neither one of us can think straight."



"Lithe is another word for skinny and small you know." Neji pressed closer. "But when you say it I can almost believe you." He rubbed his crotch against Itachi's, groaning softly when he felt the matching hardness in Itachi's pants. "I want you to touch me Phoenix, I want it all."



Itachi nipped gently at the side of Neji's neck. "Bedroom?"



"Just through here." Neji started to walk backwards towards a doorway, still clinging to Itachi with all his might, both with hands and lips. Letting go even just for a short while felt like something unbearable.



Itachi let Neji lead him, still plying his lips, teeth, and tongue on the snowy skin of the younger man's neck as they nearly tumbled through the bedroom door. A brief glance noted the position of all the necessary things to avoid, though a dark brow rose at the sight of a few pairs of underwear scattered over the floor, and of the bed. He began backing Neji towards the mattress, his hands roaming over the slender body.



Neji felt the edge of his bed against the back of his legs and he let himself fall backwards onto the soft mattress pulling Itachi down with him, spreading his legs to give the older man room between them. He ran his fingers through Itachi's short hair and down his neck as he kissed him with abandon. "Clothes off...Now!" Neji wanted to feel Itachi, skin against skin, he bucked up against Itachi as his hands pulled mindlessly on any piece of cloth he could find.



A husky chuckle came from the Uchiha. "Easy now. I have every intention of being skin to skin with you Neji, of feeling you pressed against me so close we almost make one person. But I want to enjoy the reveal; I want to see every inch of your skin exposed to my eyes so I can feast on the image before I feast on you." As he spoke his fingers were working Neji's shirt off, slipping the buttons out of the holes one by one, his knuckles brushing against the skin beneath.



"How can I take it easy when I want you this much?" Neji was flushed with arousal as he arched upwards against Itachi again. Itachi's knuckles brushed over a bandaged nipple and Neji shivered, the slight bite of pain only heightened the pleasure he was feeling. He started to unbutton Itachi's own dark shirt with slightly unsteady hands. He latched his mouth onto Itachi's neck, licking and biting as he clumsily undressed the other.



A pleased rumble filled the air as Itachi managed to strip the shirt off the man he over, the skin exposed to his hungry gaze. He leaned down to lap at the Hyuga's collarbone, careful not to jar the bandages over the hoops threaded through the nipples. He didn't want to hurt the other man in any way. "You're exquisite."



"And you're hot! I love your hands on me." Neji's skin prickled where Itachi touched him and he pressed closer still. He made a small sound of triumph in the back of his throat when he finally got the last button of Itachi's shirt open and Neji pushed it down the other's shoulders, caressing the skin he found. Neji's eyes widened when he saw the small, square bandages on Itachi's chest and he ran a fingertip down the edge of one very gently. "What's this?"



"Mmm," Itachi nuzzled the skin beneath his mouth, "I gave in to Kisame's nagging." His hands trailed down the silky skin of his partner's torso to work on unfastening the Hyuga's pants.



"Oh you got them pierced too?" Neji's mind swam with images of Itachi's sweet nipples pierced with metal even as he raised his hips to make it easier for Itachi to get his pants off. "I can't wait until they're healed so that I can tug on them with my teeth and tongue. Neji ran his hands up and down Itachi's smooth back, just now noticing the splash of color against the pale skin. He squirmed until he could look over Itachi's shoulder at the phoenix spreading out across his back. "Oh fuck! Are you trying to kill me here?" Neji almost moaned as he followed the bright feathers with his fingertips.



Itachi shivered as he felt Neji's touch trace what he knew was the tattoo on his back. "I told you I have tattoos." His hands pulled Neji's pants and underwear off so he could stroke them over other man's thighs.



"You did." Neji agreed and shivered as Itachi caressed his naked thighs. "But seeing for myself is way better than being told." Neji grabbed Itachi and twisted their bodies until he had the other underneath him, he sat on Itachi's thighs with his hair cascading around him. "I think I need to conduct a thorough search to see where the others are." His pale eyes practically glowed as he moved his hands towards the Uchiha's fly.



A soft sound of utter pleasure escaped Itachi as he felt Neji's hair on his skin. Kakuzu was more correct than he knew when he said Itachi had a hair fetish. He propped himself up on his elbows and his lips curved up sensually. "Hmm you think you can take it without turning into a mess of overheated snowflake?"



"Hmm, won't know unless I try right?" Neji's voice was filled with equal parts heat and amusement. "If I melt I hope you're there to catch me." He popped the top button open and pulled the zipper down with a soft hiss. Neji leaned down and nuzzled Itachi's toned stomach before slowly, slowly moving his lips downwards, making his hair drag across Itachi's skin in a caress of its own.



Itachi moaned then purred out, "I'll be more than happy to catch you Neji and then I'll make you melt for me all over again." He lifted his hips to let the paler man pull his pants off.



"Mmm, I think I'll hold you to that." Neji pulled Itachi's trousers and underwear off, pausing to admire Itachi's strong, lean legs. "You are so beautiful, you make my mouth go dry." Neji leaned down again and placed a barely there kiss on Itachi's flushed erection.



A hungry hiss came from the Uchiha and he bent and spread his legs to give Neji more room, also exposing his second tattoo on his inner thigh near his groin. "Gods baby please don't tease."



"Well what have we got here?" Neji's voice was husky as he tilted his head to look at the tattoo more closely, moving his mouth away from Itachi's erection in the process. The tattoo was a black and gray, incredibly detailed image of a kamaitachi. "Beautiful." He leaned closer and licked at the tattoo, lapping at it with broad strokes of his tongue. "Any more surprises for me?"



Itachi growled softly, the teasing stroke of Neji's tongue inflaming his senses further. "You'll just have to find out for yourself won't you?"



"Always so secretive." Neji continued to lap at Itachi's thigh, moving higher and higher up. "I guess I just have to continue to explore then." He pressed a kiss to Itachi's lightly furred balls before running his lips up Itachi's shaft. Neji found the frenulum piercing and he ran his tongue around the smooth metal. "Fuck, Phoenix, you're making me so hard here." He slipped the head of Itachi's cock inside his mouth and found the piercing with his tongue again, toying with it even as he sucked.



Sensation buffeted Itachi and had his head spinning as he felt Neji's mouth on him. The piercing increased the feelings and he swore he could feel streaks of fire licking along his spine. "I'm making you hard? Gods baby your mouth is so good it feels like I'm made of marble."



Neji slid his mouth of Itachi's erection and placed another kiss to the tip. "Mmm I can feel that, when I have my mouth on you I can feel you pulsating...And you taste so good, I can't get enough of you." He nuzzled the hard erection in front of him. "Touch me too Itachi..." Neji looked up with pale eyes. "Please, I want you feel your hands on me."



Itachi leaned up and somehow managed to maneuver them so that Neji's rather glorious ass was in his face and he still felt the Hyuga's breath ghosting over his cock. He stroked his hands over the backs of Neji's thighs, along the hips, down his sides, then back up to knead the globes of that delicious ass. "I think it's time I started making good on some of those checks my mouth has been writing." He lapped delicately along the crack of Neji's ass, teasing his tongue up and down the crevice.



"Oh Gods..." Neji tossed his head to the side making his hair sweep over Itachi again as he looked at the other man over his shoulder. "That feels so good." He arched his back as closed his hands around Itachi's cock so that he wouldn't reach back and spread his own ass cheeks wide for Itachi to have more room. He wanted to give pleasure too and not just recieve it. With a keening sound he placed his mouth back on the purple, leaking erection in front of him.



A pleased and hungry growl came from the older man and Itachi used one hand to pull a firm globe aside, exposing the tight little pucker to his tongue. He licked over it and around it, stroking the sensitive ring of muscle with his tongue as he used his other hand to stroke and fondle Neji's balls. His entire body felt hot hearing and feeling the sounds Neji was making vibrate against the skin of his cock and he shivered. His lover had a wickedly skilled mouth.



Neji felt his balls draw up tight at Itachi's touch, everything Itachi did to him felt fucking amazing. "Yeah, that's it lick my ass...It feels so good." Neji squirmed on top of the Uchiha. "Fuck me with that wonderful tongue of yours." Right now Neji was without shame, he wanted...He wanted more than he ever had. He slid Itachi's cock deep down his throat and then he did what he'd thought about before, he reached back and spread his own cheeks wantonly, needing Itachi to go deeper.



Itachi made a sensual purr and did as Neji requested, slipping his tongue into the other man's entrance. His eyes closed as the feel of Neji's throat working around his shaft and the clenching muscles around his tongue brought to mind how it would feel to be deep inside the long haired man. He groaned and thrust his tongue deeper before pulling back a bit then slipping it back inside, fucking Neji with his tongue as he'd been wanting to. His hands stroked his lover's cock and body expertly, lingering in any places that drew a reaction from the other man.



It wasn't enough, as wonderful as it felt it wasn't enough, Neji wanted to feel Itachi inside him. He slid off Itachi's penis with a wet pop and turned around until he was straddling Itachi. He did have lube in his bedside table but he didn't have the patience to reach for it. He grasped the root of Itachi's cock firmly in his right hand and lowered himself down on it hissing at the stinging sensation but honestly even the burn felt great.



Itachi's hands clamped on Neji's hips. "Shit baby, you're going to hurt yourself." His hands held Neji's his still as he leaned up and bent double to lap at the head of Neji's cock. "I can see I'm going to have to teach you patience."



"Fuck!" Neji's eyes flew open as he felt Itachi's cock in his ass and the man's mouth on his cock. "How flexible are you?" Neji placed his hands on top of Itachi's trying to get the older man to lose his grip so he could sink down on the cock fully. "It's okay, I won't break. I want you 'Tachi...please."



A soft growl came from the older man. He let Neji sink down a few more inches, though his grip on his lover's hips didn't loosen. He also bent forward a little more to take the head of Neji's cock into his mouth and circle the tip with his tongue.



Neji honestly didn't know what to do with his hands, his entire body hummed with sensations and he didn't know what to concentrate on. In the end he placed his hands in his own hair as he rocked his hips as much as Itachi's grip would let him. "Come on baby, don't do this to me...don't tease me. I want to feel you inside me Phoenix, as deep as you can go. Go on...Spread me open."



Itachi glanced up at Neji, a moan vibrating in his throat at the vision the other man made. It made him want to throw caution to the wind, flip Neji over, and drive into him as fast and deep as he possibly could. The long brown hair brushing his thighs and balls didn't help with controlling that impulse either. He slipped one hand around and between Neji's ass cheeks so he could trace a finger around the stretching ring of muscle and make sure no damage had been done. He checked his finger, satisfied when he saw no blood and slowly, ever so slowly, he lowered Neji down until he was held balls deep inside his lover.



"Mmm yessss." Neji tossed his head back as he felt Itachi fill him up. It had been a long time since he'd had sex and he couldn't remember it ever feeling this good. Being fucked and sucked at the same time was mind blowing and Neji couldn't have held the keening noises inside if his life depended on it. He started to move slowly up and down Itachi's cock and with every push and pull his cock thrusted further inside Itachi's mouth. "Gods, come up here baby, let me kiss you." It was too much, Neji couldn't handle the double sensations anymore, he felt like he was about to jump clean out of his skin.



Itachi shuddered at the sounds coming from his lover. Neji was hot and tight around him and every move brought him closer to the edge. He was so focused on the taste and feel and sound that at first he didn't register Neji's request until it was repeated then he gave the Hyuga's cock one last lick and straightened so he could offer the long haired man his mouth. Their tongues tangled in a slow, sensual, hungry dance as Neji moved and Itachi met each downward thrust with an upward roll of his hips.



He could taste himself and Itachi in the kiss, it was so hot! Neji wrapped his arms around Itachi's neck as he continued to ride the man. He rode him with long strokes, rising up until Itachi was barely left inside him before dropping down heavily. Sweat was pouring off their bodies making their skin slide slickly against skin.



Another shudder shook the Uchiha's frame as pleasure flooded his mind and body the tension growing tight until he knew a slight touch would be all that was needed to set him off. He continued to kiss his lover as he slipped a hand between them and wrapped it around Neji's shaft, stroking in time to the other man's movements.



Neji clenched around Itachi when he felt his fingers wrap around his dick. Itachi's cock rubbed against his prostate with every stroke and Neji gasped as he grew closer and closer to his climax. He wrapped his arms tighter around Itachi's shoulders and and licked at the other man's lips as pleasure wracked his body. Tensing and arching his back like a bow, Neji shouted Itachi's name and came in white ribbons all over Itachi's hand and stomach.



A deep groan rumbled in Itachi's chest as his own peak washed over him, a tempest of pleasure whipping through him, sending him half blind and deaf as he released deep inside his lover. The soft splatter of cum hitting his chest sent a shudder through him as he braced a hand on Neji's back, keeping the other man upright as they came down from their climaxes. When he knew Neji could focus on him, Itachi raised his cum splattered hand up and licked it clean, a purring sound of satisfaction coming from him.



"Oh I think you're trying to kill me." Neji watched Itachi lick his cum off his fingers before grabbing hold of said hand and sucking Itachi's long digits into his own mouth. Itachi had already gotten most of the cum off but Neji still swirled his tongue around, cleaning each finger and the palm of Itachi's hand with gentle laps of his tongue. He pushed at Itachi's chest until the older man laid flat on his back with Neji on top of him, Neji stretched out his legs and rested his head on Itachi's chest, his hair sticking to both their skins but Neji couldn't bring himself to mind. "That was beyond amazing, thank you."



Itachi nuzzled his lover's temple, his arms coming up to wrap around the slender body. "I think that's my line."



Neji chuckled tiredly and nuzzled Itachi's chest, being careful not to jostle Itachi's new piercings. He looked off the side of the bed and caught sight of several pairs of his boxer-briefs spread out over the floor. "Fucking cat." He grumbled as his cheeks pinkened.



"Mmm?" Itachi glanced at the underwear. "Ah so the cat pulls them out, you don't just toss the used ones on the floor?" His tone was teasing, if a little tired.



"Do I look like someone who leaves their dirty underwear lying around on the floor?" Neji tried to form a glare but he was much to sated and tired to manage it. "I don't get it, the cat has some weird fetish for my boxers."



"Anyone could be an 'underwear on the floor' person. Sasuke is, drives Naruto just as insane as it drove our mother too. I imagine it's just because the underwear smells like you even under detergent and softeners and he gets lonely." Itachi ran a hand down the fine muscles of Neji's back. "Can't say I blame him. I'd miss you too."



Neji raised an eyebrow. "Will I find you rolling around in my underwear too?" Neji's voice was filled with amusement. "And another thing...Waaay too much information about Sasuke, I did not need to know that." He placed tiny kisses along Itachi's collar bone.



The Uchiha chuckled. "No but you might find me sleeping in one of your shirts one day when you least expect it." Itachi didn't even notice that he was already thinking and speaking in future terms.



"That I wouldn't mind at all." Neji placed a hand lightly over Itachi's heart, feeling the thumps of his heartbeat. "I may just steal some of your clothes too." He tangled his legs together with Itachi's and felt his eyelids growing heavy. He knew he should get up and clean both of them off but he felt so comfortable and content lying there with Itachi, having the other man in his bed felt completely right. Socrates poked his head inside the bedroom to see what they were doing and since the weird noises had stopped he trotted over and jumped up on the bed. The cat laid down next to Itachi's head and started to purr loudly.



The comfort of having Neji against him and the cat purring in his ear lulled Itachi into a restful slumber.

 

oo—oOo—oo

Itachi rushed around his bedroom to get ready for a date with Neji, he was looking for a shirt he'd purchased after getting released with a clean bill of health. It was a black silk shirt that had fit even his post hospital stay self in a dashing way. "Ah there it is." He shrugged into it and paused, frowning. It was much more loosely fitting than he remembered but then he'd been toning down from swimming in an attempt to get his pre-cancer physique back so it may just be that he'd lost his sedentary body fat and hadn't gained enough muscle back just yet.



The doorbell rang and he buttoned the cuffs as he walked to answer it, wondering who it could be. Neji wasn't due for another thirty minutes.



Neji clutched the cat-cage tighter in his arms as he waited for Itachi to open the door. Socrates mewed pitifully inside and Neji talked at him soothingly. He straightened when Itachi opened the door and asked if he could come inside. Neji kissed Itachi on the cheek and toed off his shoes. "He was inside my house 'Tachi." He placed the cat-cage on the floor and ran his fingers through his hair in a nervous gesture. "I'm not some scared little girl but he was inside my house when I got home...in my bed."



Itachi's jaw clenched and he drew Neji into his arms, a hand smoothing down the sheet of chocolate hair soothingly. "Did you call the police?"



Nodding Neji rested his head against Itachi's shoulder. "They said there's not much they can do. There was no sign of breaking and entering, I know him and he didn't actually do anything. Still he found a way inside my home when I wasn't there...It makes my skin crawl. I have no idea what he touched and he was in my bed. Socrates was there alone with him...I don't like this Itachi."



The Uchiha leaned his cheek on Neji's head. "I don't know much about him. You said he was friends with you and Naruto in school?"



"He was, he was a fellow outcast. He had some sort of problems at home and ended up in foster care along with Naruto." Neji wrapped his arms around Itachi's slim waist. "He's always been very quiet and serious but he wasn't like this. I really liked him once, even thought I was in love with him."



Itachi frowned a bit. "Would he listen to Naruto or someone else?"



"I don't know, I stopped understanding him even before we broke up. Gaara became more and more withdrawn and he stopped telling me what was on his mind. Even if I hadn't walked in on him cheating we wouldn't have lasted." Neji sighed. "Naruto has Shinji and Sasuke now, if Gaara has gone off the deep end I don't want to turn his attention on them. I know he has siblings but in all the years I've known him he's never had much contact with them."



Itachi used his foot to open Socrates' cat carrier and tugged Neji into the living room to sit on the couch, the Hyuga in his lap. "If he can't be reasoned with...will it bother you knowing that I and a few of the Akatsuki will threaten him to leave you alone?"



Neji leaned back against Itachi, tangling his fingers with the older man's. "Not counting the fact that it makes me feel like a useless damsel in distress...No I don't think it bothers me, I don't know this Gaara and frankly I don't want to know him." He looked up at Itachi. "I don't want you or your friends to get into any kind of trouble on my account though. Other than making me uncomfortable he hasn't done anything and I can handle Gaara on my own...I'm not weak."



"I know you're not weak Neji but you're my lover, my snowflake. It's my job to protect you just like it's yours to protect me. Gaara worries me, the look in his eyes...it's not stable." Itachi raised their joined hands to his lips. "I won't bring in the Akatsuki as a whole as anything but a last resort but maybe Sasori might be able to help. Kisame said he's related to Gaara in some way."



"He is? Well now that you mention it Sasori and Gaara sort of look alike." Neji felt himself relaxing in Itachi's arms. "Thank you for listening to me and for letting me barge in like this, cat and all." He brought their hands to his lips and kissed the same spot Itachi had. "I just freaked and you were the first thing that entered my mind, my safe haven."



"Neji you and your cat are welcome in my home any time you need it." He pressed a kiss to Neji's temple. "Now do you still want to go out or would you rather stay in and order some chinese?"



"Staying in and order chinese food sounds like a brilliant idea." Neji turned and nuzzled Itachi's neck. "I'm sorry for ruining our date."



"You didn't ruin it snowflake. I'm glad you came to me." Itachi stroked his lovers back and hair, feeling relieved that nothing bad had happened. Over Neji's head the reddish brown eyes flashed to an almost ruby color. Gaara had gone too far and if Sasori wasn't able to convince the little bastard to back off then Itachi would deal with it himself, viciously so.



Socrates walked into the room on low legs and wide, wild eyes. Neji fished the cat up and snuggled him in his arms. "Where have you been huh? I hope you've left Itachi's underwear drawer alone." Right now all the tension slowly started to leave his body, just being close to Itachi calmed him more than anything could. Neji shifted off Itachi's lap and snuggled up beside him instead, Socrates still in his arms. Suddenly Neji sat up straight. "Fuck, I forgot the litter box, I need to go home and get it."



Itachi's lips twitched and he stood gracefully as Neji scrambled off his lap. "I'll go with you and we can pick up the Chinese on the way back. For now Socrates can pass the time in the bathroom."



"Okay, thank you." Neji brought Socrates to the bathroom and closed the door on his pitiful expression. "I can't believe I forgot it." Neji cursed his own forgetfulness as he brushed a kiss against Itachi's lips before he went to put his shoes back on.



"It's understandable." Itachi slipped on a pair of loafers. "You were worried and wanted to get yourself and Socrates safe as soon as possible."



"Yeah but to forget his litter box...Come to think of it I don't think I remembered his food either. I suck as a cat owner." Neji continued to grumble softly as they walked out of Itachi's house. He hated that Gaara had managed to rattle him to this extent, he had just never expected to come home and find the redhead in his bed...Really what had Gaara expected? That he would squeal with happiness and jump in there with him? Gaara knew that Neji was in another relationship now; Neji didn't understand what went through Gaara's mind at all.



Itachi reached out and thumped his forefinger against Neji's head. "No you don't. That cat is spoiled rotten." Itachi stepped through the front door, locking it behind himself and Neji, and walked with him to the Hyuga's car.



Neji waited until Itachi had gotten in the car and then he slid into the driver seat. He leaned over and kissed Itachi, with a little more heat this time. "Have I told you today that you're wonderful? 'Cause you are." He pulled back, turned the key and drove out onto the street towards his home.



"Hn, you're biased." Itachi's eyes twinkled at Neji in affectionate teasing.



"Maybe, you're still wonderful though." Neji turned and smiled at his passenger as he drove to his house. He parked outside and stayed in the seat for a while before getting out of the car, Neji really hated that Gaara had made him uncomfortable to enter his own house. "Let's get this done then shall we?"



Itachi nodded and got out to stand beside Neji, one hand on the other man's shoulder as they walked up to the door.



Neji unlocked the front door and opened it, his house was still and quiet but Neji still felt weirded out and he just wanted to get what they'd come for and get out of there. "Could you go in to the bedroom and get Socrates fuzzy rat toy?" He looked at Itachi pleadingly, not really wanting to see the bedroom yet; he hadn't made the bed after finding Gaara in it. "I'll grab the food and the litter box."



"Sure," Itachi ran a hand soothingly down Neji's arm before he stepped away and went into the bedroom. Because he was scanning the floor for the cat toy he didn't notice the object on the bed at first but when he did his eyes narrowed and he stepped forward to glare at the red vibrator next to a note on the pillow. The message on the note made him growl loudly and violently.



"What's wrong?" Neji poked his head inside the bedroom; he had heard Itachi growling all the way to the kitchen. He placed a lid on Socrates litter box and balanced the cat-food and kitty litter on top of it.



"I'm not sure you want to know." A positively feral edge was in Itachi's tone as he shifted to allow Neji to see the thing on his pillow.



"What's tha-" Neji broke off as he stared at the piece of plastic and rubber. "Ewww." He walked forward until he could read the note. "And more ewww! When the hell did Gaara get this fucked up? He can't really think I would use this and think of him like the note says..." Neji eyed both the vibrator and note with disgust. "Reconnect my ass...the only think that will reconnect with us is my fist and his face."



"I don't know when he became so fucked up but I know what will happen if he doesn't cease." Itachi's voice was dangerously soft, quiet, and cold in a way it hadn't been since he last saw their uncle strike Sasuke when he was thirteen. Madara was still in federal prison from the false charges Itachi had arranged for proof of.



Neji startled a bit at the icy and soft tone of Itachi's voice and he grabbed the other's hand while he carried the box and food under his other arm. He never wanted Itachi to use that tone towards him. "Let's go, I don't want to stay here longer than I have to...Oh and remind me to buy a new bed."



The Uchiha followed, gathering his anger and chaining it up. He caught sight of the mouse by the door and bent to pick it up, putting it in his pocket. They were outside and walking back toward the car when he spoke again, in a much more normal tone. "You could always just use mine."



Neji placed the litter box and the cat food in the backseat of his car before he turned to Itachi. "Do you mean that?"



The Uchiha traced his fingers along the ridge of Neji's cheekbone. "I mean it. I wouldn't say it if I didn't mean it."



"Then I'll gladly use your bed Itachi, for as long as you stand to have me there." Neji leaned his cheek into Itachi's touch. "I hog the covers."



Itachi leaned down to brush a kiss over the bridge of Neji's nose. "Then I suppose I'll just have to cover myself with you won't I?"



"Hmm, that doesn't sound too bad." Neji smiled and kissed Itachi lightly. They were probably crazy and it was probably way too soon for them to take this kind of step but Neji was sick and tired of being cautious. Even though none of them had said it yet Neji loved Itachi and he hoped that the Uchiha loved him back.



The Uchiha smiled, a soothing wave of. "Come on, let's go. We'll get dinner and watch horrible B-movies with the cat."



"Yeah, let's head back before kitty cat claws his way out of your bathroom or get the neighbors to complain because of his wailing." Neji chuckled and got in the car, even after the disgusting thing Gaara had left in his bed Itachi could make him feel better.



Itachi chuckled and slid into the car, unaware of the angry green gaze on the two of them as they drove away.



To be continued…

 

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