Countdown before a kiss mark fades

I

Exactly, how many hours, days or weeks does it take before a kiss mark fades?

The trivial question steering my curiosity, I set out to find the answer, who would have thought that it would lead to a dozen more questions after?

“Ne, Sasuke… kiss me.” Midnight dark eyes blinked in surprise and puzzlement, the sudden question making it lift up from reading a passage in a western book and roll to the corner to take in the casual expression of his blonde friend.

Pastel blue eyes bright and glistening from the rays of sun on the window above them and a messy mass of light blonde hair embracing his tanned cheeks and slender neck, a pert little nose and thick lips curled into a carefree smile were what composed of the resident golden boy currently peering on his book.

“Idiot.” Was his only reply before he took his attention back into the book and choosing to ignore the least comfortable closeness from the blonde who was kneeling on all fours beside him as the raven’s back was against the post of the bed, his legs relaxed lying on the floor.

“No, really. Kiss me.” The blonde said again, voice casual as if he was just asking for another copy of lectures.

“Can we please stop this bullshit conversation already?” Sasuke’s dark brows closed into a frown, the space in the middle forced into a wrinkle while he took his time glaring on the jumble of words fastened to his face.

“Hey it’s not like I’m asking you to have sex. It’s just an experiment, you know… just curious what it’d feel like.”

‘All the more why I shouldn’t.’

Naruto eventually pulled his body in a relaxed position, seating himself beside the raven haired teen whose brows furrowed even more as he rested his back against the side of the bed, his hands pressed against the cold wooden floor and his other leg bent while the other stretched, his eyes fixing their attention to the ceiling.

“Then get a girl to do it for you.” The raven spat vehemently, the very idea putting a restricting feeling around his chest.

“You think I’d ask you for ‘that’ if I could? We’re already in college… it’d just get embarrassing if I start dating someone and not know how to kiss. That would just blow the whole thing off.” Naruto thought of his last attempt to date, and sighed internally with remorse at how it ended with a very unexpected result.

“What exactly do you take me for?”

“I should ask that Sasuke-bastard. You very pretty much snatched off the entirety of girls that I took a liking to. Sakura, Ino, Arisa, Katsura, you even got pure Hinata initiated you prick… man, the list is endless I should really give myself a reward for still sticking with you.” At that Sasuke turned hotly to face Naruto with a look of well defined annoyance written all over the pristine face.

“Hey I DON”T SNATCH them off. THEY come to ME.” The raven made sure that Naruto got the words clear till the very last letter as the latter straightened, blue eyes putting on an equally brave and annoyed face.

“Well YOU didn’t have to take them in all at the same time prick.” The blonde darted his finger accusingly at Sasuke, the gesture inflaming the raven even more and he inched forward just a little more to intimidate him.

“Well it just so happens that you have a pretty bad taste when it comes to the choice of partner, if it isn’t a slut then it’s a whore. And besides who would want to date someone who looks more like a woman than them? Be thankful that I took the trouble of revealing their true intentions before they got to you.”

“Oh then so you’re saying I should be thankful the whole damn campus is now talking about me being a fucking impotent!? Bullshit.” Naruto could barely see Sasuke’s equally enraged expression as all of his surroundings seemed to have taken the beautiful color of red. Woman? Wasn’t he the one who’s got a penchant for long hair and lip gloss!? That pompous freak!

“Well you wouldn’t be pissed off now if it weren’t true right?” Sasuke arched a mocking slender brow, smirking amusedly as he was as the blonde blushed angrily in front of him, fists clenched tightly and a wise retort refusing to be formed in his head.

“Should we try to confirm it?” At this Sasuke threw his book aside, leaning close towards the blonde who was taken aback by the movement that he could do nothing but turn stiff as the raven planted both palms on either side of Naruto, nose nearly meeting as both lips hovered against each other, breaths mixing. “What, didn’t you say I could do it? Sasuke, how’s it like to kiss, Sasuke how do you have sex, Sasuke how many days does it take before a kiss mark fades… don’t you want to answer that right now?”

Naruto’s breath hitched and he tried to pull away using his feet that only slid against the smooth floor under the man’s parted legs kneeling on the floor as Sasuke’s lips hovered just a little bit closer now just a hair’s width away. “So… shall we?” Was the man’s near seductive whisper, Naruto’s face becoming more inflamed.

“Sasuke you bastard!!!” A couple of fast heavy steps, a loud banging on the door along with an undignified oof and Sasuke soon found his face having some intimate bonding time with his book, very intimately.

The man sprawled on the floor remained unmoving in his position like he was getting prepared to be crucified, his hand taking off the book that was shoved at his face when the blonde just about threw anything that his hand first had an encounter with just to avoid Sasuke’s lips and he sighed heavily, deep pools of black staring hard at the high ceiling.

“Idiot. Do you realize what you’re doing to me? That idiotic natural living weapon…” And he closed his eyes, heaving another sigh as he put the back of his arm over his eyes. “I’m so pathetic.”

Sasuke and Naruto’s been together long before they were born, in fact it seemed like God was playing a cruel game with their parents that they just had to be neighbors in the same apartment, that the other’s parents had to be the other’s godparent and vice versa, that they attended nursery, kindergarten, elementary and middle school, high school and now university together, with the same major even.

It was in middle school that Sasuke had branded the relationship between the two of them as something that can be called an unwanted inseparable relationship, they were stuck together before they even realized it. And so even if they would always get into small fights or frequent heated arguments the other could expect him to be there in times of need, so when Naruto’s parents had perished when their apartment burned down in his third year of middle school, Fugaku and his family took him in and when Sasuke’s family died when the car they were in fell on a cliff where he was the only one who survived because Itachi threw him out, Naruto who was already living by himself in high school took him in.

It was needless to say that they pretty much depend and trust each other like family, so it’s already expected that when they put their choice of what they would do after high school the same answer was found even when the two stubborn lots claimed that they’d never talked about it during the three way conference, it’s just really the fault of an unwanted inseparable fate that Kakashi, their guardian would always refuse to accept with a meaningful smirk and a mischievous gleam in his eyes.

Sasuke deemed it impossible at first to find himself staring long heated looks at the blonde every time it’s Naruto’s turn for P.E. class from the window of the middle school library, had Sai just shut up and minded his own business, he wouldn’t have realized that he liked the idiot when he got all enraged when Sai in all his perversion hugged -understatement- the half dressed blonde in their locker room. Eventually being the usually think before you act Sasuke that he was, the both of them ended in the sick room, because he did think of it and he found it was worth punching Sai and ending in the principal’s office than letting the bastard have his way on the blonde and poor Naruto inside the counseling office, fucking Sai admitted that he did it on purpose, said he was getting pissed off always having to see the look of pain and frustration on Sasuke’s face and Naruto’s dense personality, he just had to do something.

Sure, problem number one solved. He was in the peak of adolescence where raging hormones are normal, that he finally like someone and he had been unconsciously lusting after him for the past two years of his middle school life. But knowing life, as long as you’re alive there just had to be a couple of one or two problems in your way every time, so what Sasuke had to endure now, was to control himself from jumping Naruto every time they were alone, keep from the said blonde that he was attracted to a guy and the guy was him, keep his fists to himself every time someone would get close to Naruto a little too intimately, monopolize the blonde without the said blonde knowing which was the easy task-it’s such a convenient thing to have an idiot for a love interest, and keep the friggin’ girls AND boys away from him when they entered high school where Naruto’s attention attracting pheromones suddenly increased. Okay, so the problems were a little more than a couple or two. Unfortunately, as much as Sasuke wanted to keep Naruto to himself the blonde just had to be so friendly with everyone that doing so would be worthless so what he could do now was keep them from crossing his line of defense.

The big question was how he could do it without him obviously waving the flag flashing –hey I’m Sasuke! I’m gay and I like my best friend- for the blonde. He had to snatch them away before they could get too dangerously close to Naruto emotionally. Which he had been doing since high school. And the finishing blow was… how the heck he could confess to the blonde which he had been brooding over internally for the past five years.

Sure, life was tough, but Sasuke’s tougher and he was never one to accept defeat, especially on such a trivial matter as love. The only thing he’s thankful for was that he knew Naruto liked him too, he just hadn’t realized it yet, after all no matter how two people trust each other as friends, a sane person wouldn’t still stay with a friend who seemed to enjoy snatching every person he liked. Or was it just Sasuke thinking that to comfort himself? Since Naruto’s the kind of person who’d still forgive you whatever your fault is if you’re sincere enough to apologize, heck even if you weren’t sincere he’d still forgive you.

Well it’s about time that the idiot realized his feelings for him.

Sasuke slowly sat up from lying on the floor with a groan, he’s feeling a little heady, even with that small body Naruto had a really huge supply of strength.

It’s about time.

*Finally!!! I managed to finish the freakin’ short first chapter!!! The following chapters would be Sasuke’s story when he was more impulsive than he is now! Ahh… I really like reading, I can borrow vocabularies, I learn a lot of synonyms, antonyms and idioms from time to time, chartreuse for example, hey where’d you get those sex toys for your Too much drinking Kurai? Don’t tell me… you own them don’t you!? Hehe… ahnnnn! You wouldn’t get angry if you give some to me ne Kurai? –winks prettily- psh, I wonder how I’ll ever get to make a hot smut, it’s getting more and more obvious that I don’t have a damn experience with that sort of thing, I’ve been making smut for a time now from all the words that I read from previous works. Hey do any of you guys know how I can put a drawing in my story? Like in the (I knew you would find me) story? Oh it’s got another continuation of the chapters, I should review it later. Heheh liked that one. Anyway I just spent three consecutive weeks of staring in my laptop screen, trying to ponder on the reason why I couldn’t type this story and the half of it typing the now published chapters of (A grain of truth) on the other window. Damn when are the next chapters of Too much drinking gonna get updated!? And Family portrait and Breaking apart and volatile too!? Yes, yes, patient. Like a ninja. Because it’s definitely worth the wait!!!