Tranquil Morning

Disclaimer: I don’t own Naruto, or Sasuke, or Kakashi or Sakura. *wails* Ok, so I don’t wanna own Sakura, but…. Sassssuke-kun…I want your-…. Err…nevermind…
Characters belong to Kishimoto-sensei.

Author’s notes:
This fic literally fell into my head one day while I was writing something completely different. So I just typed it down in a hurry.
Yeah… I kinda like it. Much more innocent than the other stuff I write, but if I recall correctly I wrote this before I got into real intensive smut. I like this though. I like the sweetness. Hope you do too!! ^__^

Warning : SasuNaru, WAFF, shonen-ai.


Tranquil Morning


Tranquil morning, early spring. The birds are chirping in the trees, everything is peaceful.
The mission is over, we’re heading back. It’s far; we sat up camp here last night. Kakashi-sensei and Sakura are sleeping. Their breaths are heavy; Sakura’s talking in her sleep. Murmuring slightly. He is asleep too… Naruto. I watch him. He’s murmuring, smiling in his sleep. Usuratonkachi.. that’s what I call him. “Dobe..” that was the last thing I said to him before we went to sleep last night. “Good Night dobe…”
I talk like I hate him, act like I’ll never acknowledge him. The truth is I do. I think of him constantly. I have to keep my head cool, to stop myself from doing something lame like blushing when your hand touches mine briefly. I have to force myself to look away when we go to the hot springs. I cannot allow myself to gaze upon your body; it’s only going to make me fantasize about how it would be to run my hands through your hair. To feel your soft lips against mine. How it would feel to feel your warm skin against my own, to tangle our bodies together and become one…
Why am I feeling like this?
You’re my friend, and rival. I don’t want to feel like this. I don’t want to let myself become vulnerable. Love makes people vulnerable. I’m the last of the Uchiha-clan. My purpose in life is to kill my brother. I don’t have any time to think of anyone else.
But Naruto… He is stirring up my inside… He’s making me feel things I have never experienced before.
I don’t want to… But I guess there’s no escaping it. ¨

I’m not sure how long I’ve felt like this. I remember when we kissed…
It was an accident. I acted as if I wanted to kill you afterwards. The truth was that it triggered so many emotions inside me. I didn’t really want to let you go, I think what I wanted to do was to close my eyes and wrap my arms around you instead. I wanted more. And… It scared me… I think that was the first time I actually felt something for you. But I pushed the feelings away. I didn’t want to feel it, I was ashamed. And the way you reacted…. Did you really resent it that much? Or were you acting too? I hope you were…
But because of the reaction I was afraid to talk to you about it afterwards. I was worried. Thinking that if I confessed to you and you felt the opposite; I’d end up pushing you even further away. I don’t want that. I don’t want to push you away, even though I do it every day. But behind those words; “Usaratonkachi…. Dobe… Idiot…” there is love… I don’t know if you can tell…

I almost died… Haku nearly finished me. I saw your eyes when I woke up. Those wide open, ethereal blue eyes. They are full of life, and full of love. Naruto? Was that love in your eyes that time? I thought I saw something. I could see you were sad, that you’d been worried. But I think I saw something else… I’m aching to find out what you felt then, what you feel now. If I wasn’t so proud I’d confess. But I’m afraid of being rejected. I can’t handle it, I never could. Father always acknowledged Itachi, “As expected of my child.” He repeated those words to my brother. But he always told me “keep that up and become like your brother.. “ Like I wasn’t my own person... That’s why I can’t handle rejection. I’ always trying so hard to seem unaffected by everything. But this time I can’t… I think I love you Naruto… But I’m not sure that you’ll ever get to know that.
If I never tell you , and you’ll never know, the I will never know whether or not you feel the same. But I’d rather live an entire life knowing nothing of your feelings than facing your rejection. I never take anything to me. But if you… I can’t even think about it.
If I ever told you, you would probably tell me off straight away, childish as you are.
I still talk down to you, as if I’m trying to hide my feelings from myself, that’s what I’m ashamed of really… Not my feelings but myself.

Now what’s happening? You’re stirring… Awakening?
Maybe now is the time?
“Sasuke?”
Naruto approaches me. This is strange.
“Why are you awake this early?”
“I’m asking you the same question.”
“I just woke up… and you?”
“I never slept.”
“Why not?”
“I was thinking. “
“About what?”
“Stuff.”
“Sasuke? You seem strange.”
“Hm?” I can’t stand this… You can even tell when there’s something on my mind, I’m trying so hard to keep my heart closed, but with you... I just can’t.
“Your face is flushed… Are you ok?”
“Yeah… Just… the things I thought about…. They weren’t pleasant.” They really aren’t ; my family is my weak spot, Itachi is my sworn enemy, and yet my brother. There is a bond between us after all. And you… A chapter untold.
“When did you decide to start sharing your thoughts with me? Why are you so open all off a sudden?”
I understand you’re confused. No one can ever see inside of Uchiha Sasuke’s mind.
No one ever gets to know what he’s thinking, unless he tells them. And he won’t. That’s who I am. But tonight, tonight I want to come clean. I want to show you the real me.
“Because you understand. “
I can still see the confusion in your eyes. But I also see my equal. You’re my equal both in battle and skill, although I’ll never admit it. But most of all, that I can never change; you’re my equal as a person. No one else knows how it feels to have no one, to be constantly alone.
“Understand what?”
“How I feel. But maybe not completely…”
I lean in… My heart is pounding hard, like it’s about to break out of my chest. My cheeks are flushing. As my eyes close, yours are widening; “Sa-Sauke?”
My lips part.
“Sasu...?”
My lips meet yours.
This is the single best moment of my life, and also the most terrifying. This is the moment where I’ll know if you’ll reject me or not.
You seem surprised, but unlike the last time you’re not pushing me away. Not breaking the kiss. But I do.
“Sasuke? Why did you…?”
“Naruto… This is what’s behind all the names I call you…”
“I never thought you’d…”
“I was afraid you’d react like last time.”
I feel my heart beating in my throat, my hands are trembling. I’m nervous. What will you say next?
“Why would you think that?”
“Because…. I don’t know. “
“Sasuke… I don’t know exactly what it is you are feeling. But I think we’re feeling the same about each other….”
My heart skips a beat. Did you really just say that?
Obviously yes, because you keep talking.
“When we fought Zabuza and Haku; when you fell…. I thought I’d lost you forever. I think I realized then my real feelings for you... I was so afraid; I really thought you were dead. I was so afraid! But you woke up… When you woke up… When you looked at me. I was so happy. I didn’t know how to react, how to show you how glad I was you’re alive. I couldn’t show you the way I really wanted to.”
I knew I saw something else than just happiness in your eyes that time.
“…”
You lean forward, with closed eyes. I want to speak, but you interrupt;
“Sasuke… Ssh…”
Our lips meet again. Our tongues brush each other, and my heart is pounding. You wrap your arms around my neck, I do the same. I run my hands down your back, under your shirt, touch your skin. You let out a weak moan. “S-sasu…”
I shush you; “Ssh… Kakashi-sensei and Sakura might awake….”
We kiss again. I take your hand, you lay down, and our shirts get pulled up as we lay down. Our skin touches. I feel your lips, your tongue, your skin and your warmth…
“Naruto…”
“Sasuke…S-sasu…”
I love you.
Never let go.

It is still early morning, a tranquil, cool spring morning. Birds chirping in the trees, the forest is wakening. Two ninjas are asleep in the grass, wet with dew, while two young boys are expressing their love for each other.
The sun arises in the horizon. It is the beginning of a new day, and of a new life.
Uchiha Sasuke and Uzumaki Naruto; they are no longer alone.
~~~~ Owari