I like to watch him sleep

 Chapter 8 Naruto’s POV

Naruto studied the small town as the three walked away from the village chieftain’s offices. It seemed that the village was preparing for a festival. Naruto’s eyes lit up as he saw the number of food vendors setting up around the village plaza. He was soooo going to go there first as soon as they were done checking into their hotel.

Thankfully their conference had gone well and the scroll with the signed agreement was being safely kept by Sasuke. As was always the case, the smaller the village… the more easily they were offended. Tsunade had sent them as her representatives because as high level shinobi, the village chief would feel like he was being taken seriously as an important person. But actually it was the village’s location that was more important. It served as a good place to keep an eye on other villages that might become a problem in the future.

Naruto snorted to himself as he remembered the chief all puffed up with self importance. Good thing it was Sasuke’s job to play diplomat. Sai would have offended the chief for sure and Naruto had found it funny watching Sasuke have to be charming.

Because Sasuke never liked HAVING to be anything. Naruto glanced at Sasuke and at the look on his face started to snicker again.  It soon became an outright laugh as Sasuke shot him a dirty look.

“Would you like to start limping on the other side too Naruto?” Sasuke asked with a deadpan look.

Naruto winced as he remembered the chakra infused stomp Sasuke had delivered to his foot as they were leaving the chiefs office. Was it his fault he had gotten a case of the giggles when Sasuke was telling the chief how pleased they were to have the good will of the tiny, insignificant village?

Sai took in the behavior of his two companions and felt himself relax slightly. They seemed to be acting normally again.

As the three parted ways, they agreed to meet for lunch after getting cleaned up in their hotel rooms.

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Naruto stared at himself in the mirror of his tiny bathroom and grinned thinking about his plans. I am gonna’ do exactly what I’ve been wanting to do… touch touch touch touch touch! Naruto punctuated each word with a poke of his finger against the glass. With an excited laugh Naruto studied his naked torso in the mirror. Running a hand across his chest and down over the muscles of his abdomen, Naruto gave himself a critical look. I wonder if the bastard will want to touch me as much as I want to touch him… because I really really want to be touched.

There really hadn’t been a lot of instances in Naruto’s life where he had felt touches meant to please. Touches meant to hurt, kill or heal had been pretty common with the occasional touches showing friendship. But not much in the way of showing that he was desired by someone else. Kyuubi was desired more than Naruto. Of course that was for his chakra but still…

Naruto leaned forward and blew hotly against the glass. Leaning back he drew a smiley face on the wet surface. With a final grin at his reflection, Naruto turned back to the room and began to get dressed. His plans for the day kept jumping back and forth with his remembrances from breakfast around the campfire that morning.

I so need to wipe this stupid grin off my face or Sasuke might try to wipe it off for me. I want him dazed and confused like he was this morning, not annoyed and pissed off like he was after their meeting. Yeah, this morning… that was a total surprise. Shaking his head, Naruto slipped his mesh shirt over his head. I never realized that having someone watch me like that could be so arousing. And when Sasuke stared at my crotch I had to stop the urge to close my legs. What am I? A girl? Naruto gave a huff of annoyance at himself but soon started grinning again.

But Sasuke’s eyes… I really liked that glazed look he had. And when his mouth was hanging open a bit I so wanted to lean over and lick his bottom lip. Naruto felt his own lips tingle at the thought. Yep… I want to make him look at me like that again. Naruto finished putting his sandals on and with a determined step he headed out the door. Time to put plan ‘touch-a-lot’ into action.

 

A/N Thank you to all my reviewers... I find myself thinking about your comments and feeling guilty that I'm so slow lol. They really are great though and I love reading them. Let's me know that I'm not just talking to myself on here :) I'm actually going to post this & go write some more!