Fork in the Road-

I don't own him, I'm over it-

I decided to delete the last post and rewrite the entire thing as one shot- What do you know it worked and it's complete- I might do more interesting pairing in the future- I am thankful for those who reviewed the last time I put this up-
Enjoy-


He stopped moving, his hand poised to strike at a target that didn't exist anywhere, but in his mind. He felt the chakra signature and read it like calling card.
Naruto's heart began to beat wildly. After all these
years of being apart how could this man still make him feel. Nervous and new, like the day he'd first been touched.
'It's not fair.'
Naruto didn't want to think about him at the moment, so he continued with his training. No longer beating his invisible opponent nor, the various logs and trees that had the misfortune of being in his way.
But the feeling of excitement that he felt as Sasuke
watched him. It was the hidden power that Sasuke had
been attracted to. It had been a very unusual first love he'd been sure.

For Naruto it had been about surpassing, at first.
Later, he learned not to resist when Uchiha silently
demanded kiss. Forcing passion lips to his own, his
tongue demanding entrance. He learned to lay under
Sasuke's touch, writhing in pleasure as his body was
learned, and tuned. To allow himself to be entered and filled. Sasuke had learned each movement that would make him moan, and whimper for more.
Naruto had learned to be conquered, he never thought for one moment that this act could be so satisfying. In a way Sasuke had taken his need to be the best. For just a moment, he could relax and be held, loved.
This alone was better than anything he'd ever dreamed.
Images flared in his mind of Sasuke turning from him,leaving him.
Even if he'd been nearly dead at the moment waking up and knowing he was gone. That all they had was tossed aside had haunted him, leaving him feeling more empty than he'd ever been before.
Pushing his energy into each movement. He wanted to
forget the feel of Sasuke's touch that convinced him of a love he'd been willing to leave behind.
Three months, sped by quickly,

Tsunade had put him on leave, tho forced would be more the description.
He'd wanted to go back out on missions after he had
healed from bring the missing nin and avenger back. He'd spoken for Sasuke, tho he didn't really know why he'd bothered. Even if the elders made a big show of punishing Sasuke.
Everyone knew they wouldn't put his head on the block.


His thoughts, would not keep from subject that made him mind race, and his heart hurt.
During those years, his smile remained true because of his love for the village. But, with Sasuke missing so was a little bit of his light.
It was after finding yet another dead end that, Neji had come upon him.
Tho, he had never spoken to Neji about it, the other man knew of his past relationship with the Raven. He knew what it was to have something, then have it taken away.

Neji knew this was just as painful as never knowing it.You just know what you didn't before, what is supposed to go into that empty place.
And he was given a taste of something more wonderful
than he had ever imagined.

Then, he left to pursue power and the destruction of his brother. Sasuke leaving had left a hole in his heart that no medic nin was capable of
repairing. He told himself often enough through his
search for the missing nin that it was for the village.

But, he knew deep in his heart he had his own selfish reasons.
It had been hard, every dead end threatened to send him into a depression.
He was on the very edge, finding it difficult to get out of bed much less leave the apartment. It was then, that he knew he had to train. It didn't always break the spell, but it kept him moving. And when there seem to be no forward motion in this search he needed to feel he was making something happen. Even if it was just chaotic landscaping.
He'd felt Neji, watching him silently gaugeing, every movement he made.
It almost made him angry, being watched silently with no explanation. He wanted to know why he stood watching, just out of sight, when Neji knew Naruto would be able
feel him.
Only after he had exhausted himself had Neji
came into view.
Naruto examined him from beneath long bangs. He tried to pick out anything that changed since he had left. Neji moved forward silently.

“You can't keep this up.” Neji's voice was calm and
assured.
“I need to train.” Naruto answered his voice heavy, his breathing hard.
Neji began walking forward.
“Yes, but punishing yourself for not finding him is not doing you any good.”
Naruto shook his head.
“I'm not I'm trying to...” he thought hard.
What was he trying to do?
“You are so strong Naruto, I watch you, I envy you, but at times I fear for you.”
Naruto pushed sweat that had been threatening his eyes away along with the soaked bangs.
He stood tall and examined his friend as he made his
was to him.
Why was he walking like that, it made him want to attack or run.
“What are you talking about?”

“Right now, you are tired, discouraged, yet instead of resting an waiting, you train to forget your disappointment.”
Neji's eyes held a threat and a promise.
Naruto said nothing.
Even tho he wanted to yell and scream about how unfair it was that he could be so close to finding him. How, Sasuke's obsession kept him far away.
He was always far away.
He hadn't paid attention, Neji was too close, he was
reaching out his hand, his finger brushed Naruto's
cheek.
The golden blond was frozen for moment, caught between wanting to lean into that touch and wanting to pull away. He was at war with himself.
Neji, moved in slow motion, careful, and precise.
He'd gauged every reaction and lack there of in this
man.
“It's hard” He said touching the tanned cheek.
“You feel so heavy with sorrow, but you have to keep
going.”
Pale eyes took in the features before him.
“You just wanted to love him.”
Neji's voice was soft, almost a whisper, as he moved
forward to cup the whiskered cheek.
Naruto broke, he leaned in to that touch. Something that had been missing from his life for too long. Something he'd kept himself from wanting for fear of it being a betrayal.
Their bodies where touching he didn't remember if Neji had moved forward or he had.
All he could care about at that moment was the warmth of the embrace. How good it felt.
He was dizzy with it.
He felt safe and warm in this man's arms like he had
when Sasuke had held him.
Naruto eyes opened.
'No, not again.'
His body tensed, ready to push that feeling away. To
move Neji way, and run from the promise the man was
making him.
It would seem Neji saw this coming.
'A plan of attack.'
Echoed in the blond's mind as Neji's lips caressed the
tip of his nose, as his fingers feathered across his
cheek.
The first kiss was barely that as Neji moved his lips gently, caressing Naruto's own.
Defusing the explosion that had been winding in to his friend.
“Please.”
The words where so soft, they where barely heard before Naruto's mouth was claimed. He didn't have to hold on because the long haired nin held him. He didn't have to beg or demand, because he being given to.
He felt tears run down his cheeks, he felt the pain in his chest lessen just a little. Enough for him to be held.
The kiss became everything to him at that moment. He
didn't want the mingling of breath, the caress of
tongues to stop. But, when it did he was still in
someones arms, Neji's arms.
He allowed himself to feel loved.
Their relationship continued, gentle embraces,
passionate kisses.
Long nights spent in each others arms
His smile felt genuine, and he had someone to come home to again.
Neji never begrudged him his search for Sasuke. It was something Naruto never questioned , but a the same time didn't understand. Everything was simple without complication.

Until a month after Sasuke's trial.


“ I did love you.”
He said as his fist slammed in to the tree.
“I did.”
He moved furiously through moves every punch landed on something more often in his mind than in this physical realm.
“But,”
He wanted to complete the sentence, he wanted to yell it.
But, if he did it wouldn't be true, and he would end up hurting someone he loved.
He swung around his foot making contact with another tree.
But, if he admitted his love for one it would hurting the other.
He moved to another tree only to miss not expecting the empty air fell to his hands and knees.
“Why,why can't this one thing be simple.”

“You never finished.” from the shadows came a smooth
tenor.
Naruto didn't look up.
Sasuke would have seen the look of longing and surprise in his eyes. Yes, he knew he was there. But, he usually never came forward, just stayed hidden.
“Do you not love me anymore?”
He didn't want to answer, to respond to one love was to deny the other.
“Did you think that I would wait forever.”
Naruto said angry.
I have every right to be angry. I had to drag your ass back here.
“You left, you went with someone who wanted nothing more than to destroy all that was left.”

Naruto moved into a sitting position.
Keeping his feeling carefully hidden.
Sasuke was different now, he knew he would be. But there was something always moving behind his eyes. This man could calculate a million ways to bring you to your knees. And Naruto imagined most of them where most unpleasant. Being with the snake had to be trying knowing the man had it out for your body, and the power it would deliver him.
“And even after you where done, you never tried, to see us.”
He'd wanted to say me, but to say me would be admitting he had hoped beyond anything. That Sasuke would return to him.
He examined that, all those year Neji comforting him, loving him, holding him. Had he been using Neji. He felt suddenly afraid.
Sasuke saw the tensing of his shoulders. He didn't have to read Naruto's mind to know why, his feelings had changed so suddenly from anger to confusion.

'Neji' He thought, eyes narrowed.
Anymore it was always about the relationship that had bloomed in his absence. He cursed his brother for the millionth time for making him loose those years with the fox. He cursed himself for his narrow vision. He felt Neji enter the area before he saw him. His eyes flickered red, as his hatred for the man surfaced for a moment. He'd never once thought of Neji as a rival in the form Naruto was, but now he was rival for the love of the one person he treasured.
Sasuke had felt more than little relief when Naruto
spoke for him at his trial. Some of the villagers many not see his true worth. But obviously over the years the council had. Even if they hated the fox trapped inside the Nin, they could discount all he'd done.
It was after the trial that everything seemed to waver.
He was being taken away while arrangement for his house arrest would be termed and Naruto was in the hall waiting. He thought for him, then Neji appeared, he hadn't been in the room. But Sasuke assumed it was because the business didn't concern him. But, he stopped in front of the fox holder. And touched his cheek pulling Naruto in to his arms.
Naruto fit there willingly like he'd always belonged, and Neji looked up, his eyes colder than he'd ever witnessed.
The entire scene told Sasuke what Neji wanted to say.
'He's mine.'
He had wanted nothing more than to wipe the nin from the earth.

Neji stood on the opposite side of Naruto, his cold eyes taking in Sasuke.

“Haven't you caused enough, pain.”
Neji's voice was a stoic as his own, laced with a subtle warning.
Sasuke eyes flickered again. He wasn't allowed to fight, they didn't trust his power, and his ability to know ,when, and how much.
He would have to prove that he could be trusted, before he was allowed event he smallest missions.
He looked at Naruto who had taken up looking at the
ground lost.
He felt his anger drop, Naruto looked lost.
He knew Neji was looking at his lover.
“I don't want you two to fight.”
He was playing with the grass he sat near.
“I don't want, anyone else to hurt.”

Sasuke felt like the biggest ass on the face of the
earth.

I know I have to choose. It's not fair to either of them to be wondering, who I love.
He twisted the grass from the earth.
He thought he knew every aspect of what he wanted from life.
He had, life just had to throw new and interesting
things into spice things up.
Naruto examined the two men.
He had more than enough spice in his life.
They where similar, in ways.
Both head strong, it was pretty much impossible to turn them from a goal once they had their mind set on it. In his heart, the Fox had always known Sasuke would never return until his brother was dead. He would have just taken off again if it had been any other way.
He'd done his best to comfort him when they where
friends. And went even further, when they became lovers.
Sasuke had shown him what it was like to be taken care of.
Taken care of in a way that didn't just bring some light into the darkness. But dispelled it. Sasuke took control, guided him, even tho he was just as clueless in some ways as Naruto had been.
But, Sasuke had been loved once, he knew the feeling.
“When you left it..”
He could feel both their eyes on him.
“I thought I was going to die.”

Sasuke's anger was losing to his emotions for the blond that sat on the ground between them.
“I'm not speaking of when you left the village. That had been frightening. I thought that you'd been taken.”
Sasuke could feel Neji's own anger wane, even if the

possessive air remained.
“But, when I woke on Kakashi's back and I knew I had
lost you.”
Naruto finally looked at him.
He saw a man on the edge of his sanity. His vengeance had been all he'd had close to him for so many years. And now he longed for the warmth of the only love he could remember.
The look on Sasuke's face when he'd been found alone in that dark place had broken his heart. He wanted the raven th come to him, cry to him about how lonely he was. But, he knew in the next second it wouldn't happen.

Sasuke had been alone fighting that world for his own survival for too long.
He'd become another creature, bent on not being
defeated, as path he'd taken and could no longer give up. He knew at that moment he would have to taken the man he loved down. Or he would never be free.

The look would not leave his eyes, it was always there in the background. The reason the village feared Sasuke.The whole reason he feared for the man before him right now.
“It is selfish.”
Neji spoke Naruto's eyes flew to his lover.
“But,”
His ice cold eyes softened when meeting his blonde's.
“I refuse to give you up.”
The chill returned as he looked at Sasuke.
“You hurt him, you brought a pain that could have
shatter him to pieces.”
Sasuke felt hatred flare in his heart again at the sound of Neji's voice.
White eyes locked on black, as Sasuke mouth fell into a tight line.
“I'm sorry, Naruto.”
He said through clenched teeth.
“You will have to choose.”
The fox felt a quivering pain deep in him.

Neji, had left him alone. Where he'd spent the night
Naruto had no idea. Since the day of that kiss, they had rarely been a night he'd been alone in his apartment.
He'd laid in their bed waiting for the sun to rise.
They had left him there.
He felt Neji's need to hold him to tell him all would be alright. But, it would have been a lie. He was given no choice but to break someones heart. He would be tearing a piece of his own in the process.
How do you choose?
He'd thought that Sasuke had scorned their love when
he'd finally brought him back. But, the raven's little challenges showed him different.
Looks that flashed longing, subtle touches, the way his voice softened the few time they had spoken, the way he watched him at a distance.
Neji didn't miss it, and he had been flattered in
childish way. When, Neji became more possessive. How
Neji would take small actions and turn them into ways to
show his love for Naruto. Their love making becoming
marathons of touching and gentle caresses. That is what he loved about Neji.
He was gentle in ways, Sasuke wasn't.

In his frustration with the choices before him, he ended up back at the training area. He had to laugh at himself, after a fashion he felt that a need to be more powerful had harmed them. His mind turned in circle trying to come up with a solution.
And he kept coming to the idea that he wouldn't be able to choose. His heart grew heavy, when he thought of having to leave them both. It felt cowardly, but they could find someone else to love.
Even tho he felt part of him would die seeing both men he loved, being cared for and caring another.
His body stiffened upon feeling Neji approach.
He was torn between running, and standing his ground when he felt Sasuke.
'So soon, they expect me to make this kind of decision so soon!'

He looked up at his lover, and was struck curious by the confident air surrounding him. He was confused by the lack of hostility he felt from the man at his back.
“We've been selfish.”
Neji said keeping him from looking back at Sasuke.
“Pushing such a responsibility on you.”

“In not being man enough, to understand the lengths you have gone to show your love to us.”
Naruto looked at Sasuke as he spoke.
There was a gentle smirk on his face that, made him
think kindly on the old days.
“How could we, do that to someone we swore above all
that we loved.”

He grew suspicious of their speech. He looked from one to the other, the way they approached him would often make him the barrier between the two powerful nin. He felt slightly trapped at his moment. He tried to decide if he was happy or frightened of this odd new development.

Neji's smile was gentle.
“We found each other last night, even tho I told myself to stay away from him until you had decided. I can truly admit that I wanted to to find Sasuke and fight him.”

“I intended to either be the last standing or not to
survive.”
Sasuke said drawing blue eyes to him.
“I was angry with myself, for brash and thoughtless
words, and mad with the thought of losing you to Neji. But, at the same time I felt I deserved to lose you.”

“It is amazing really,” Neji said with some humor “We are supposed to be genius, yet we squabble like children over a favored toy.”
He tilted his head, his hair falling to his shoulder.
“When you are not an item. Nor a goal, you are Naruto. Who has hurt, feeling our pain. Shown us our errors, through your own selfless courage.”

Naruto felt embarrassment flare in him at Neji's soft words. He was startled suddenly to see how close he'd gotten.
“We'd grown to accustomed to seeing every obstacle as a threat. We where blinded by the reflex. And in turn where the cause of your pain.”
He reached out his hand in familiar gesture, cupping his cheek, caressing the soft skin with his thumb. Naruto felt himself relax into his hand, wanting to press against him to feel the warmth.
“We decided, that it was time for your pain to end.”
Sasuke voice brushed his ear.
Naruto's eyes slid open, startled and aroused, by the memory of how Sasuke could do this to him. Surprise him in stealth. His mind sped with questions, that where dashed away. By the persuasive lips on his own, the tongue that gained entrance without resistance. The gentle hands that slid into his hair tilting his head deepening the kiss.

Any thought that might have remained was dashed by a
tongue that played with the sensitive edge of his ear. The steel grip on his wrists, making him powerless to do anything more than feel, was being given to him. Sasuke's mouth found his neck, nipping and biting his way down, Naruto squirmed, moaning in to the mouth that was devouring his own.
Neji finally released the fox containers mouth, enjoying the moans no longer held back by his kisses. He attacked his throat, holding his hips, from thrusting.
“Always so eager.” he said breathlessly mocking
slightly.
He used on hand to push Naruto's shirt up, past his abs, to find a pert nipple that begged to be toyed with, giving it an experimental squeeze before taking a tasting of the nub in hale the scent that was uniquely his.

Sasuke found his favorite spot at the base of Naruto's neck, and showed no mercy in the bite he inflicted there. Letting his teeth linger long enough to make the blond cry out, in pleasure before he sucked and kissed
the area to soothe the pain.
Naruto could do no more than beheld between the two,
moan and whimper with each sensation that assaulted his body.
Sasuke and Neji worked in tandem to removed his
clothing. Sasuke determined not to let his wrist go. But finally became overwhelmed with the need to touch more of his flesh as Neji bound his hands with the shirt he worked off.
Sasuke wound his finger in to the blond locks pulling his head back, so their lips met. Naruto was all to willing to be kissed even at the awkward angle. Their tongue meeting in a battle that was soon won by the raven, Neji began to toy with Naruto's rigid length.

Naruto tried to pull his mouth away long enough to let out noises of pleasure, but Sasuke kept his lips in place. Neji watched the two while he stroked Naruto.
Becoming more aroused by the forceful way Sasuke

dominated their lover. His eyes ran down, Naruto neck and back to the chest that arched in pleasure. He smiled and his mouth kissed and licked his way down. He paused as he reached the belly button, remembering briefly how he'd found out how sensitive that area is for the blond.
He dipped his tongue in to the slight hole and traced the edge, making the blond squirm more.
Sasuke released the blonds mouth just in time to hear an uncharacteristic squeak, that turned in to a pleasured whimper, as Neji played with his belly button.
He smiled down in to the white eyes and chuckled.
“Our little fox likes that dose he.” Sasuke said in to the squirming mans ear.
His free hand feather touches from Naruto's hip, past his ribs, pausing to toy with his overly stimulated nipples leaving behind crescent shaped nail marks, causing him to thrust his hips more into Neji's hand.
He chuckled, at the blonds need for pain matched the
need for pleasure. One of the many ways the blond would drive him to animalistic madness in their love making.
Neji finally came to Naruto cock, licking, and nipping at the tip, pushing back when ever the blond tried to
thrust.
Sasuke understood without words, and pulled his hip
back, bring the tight ass flush with his own hard
arousal. He began grinding against Naruto, letting him know how this excited him to no end.
Neji smiled as Naruto whined at the restriction of his own movement, as Neji licked the underside of his cock, sucking at the balls.
“Please..”
The first coherent word the blond had uttered during
this entire experience.
“He can still speak, Neji.”
Sasuke said breathless, licking narrators ear.
“Hmm, I'll have to fix that.”
He answered moment before taking Naruto length in to his mouth. Naruto let out a burst of sound as Neji took him in and moan. The vibrations making him want to move, even as Sasuke denied him the pleasure, making him crazy.
The raven knew Naruto was coming to the end soon, as he moved his head back moaned in time with Neji's
movements.
He finally gave in to sinking his teeth in to the foxes skin as he came into Neji's mouth, with ecstasy driven yell. He could never resist marking Naruto in as many way possible in his younger years. A habit that would not change it would seem.
He slumped back against the Raven, his bound arms
finally falling forward limply as he tried to catch his breath.
The two genius smiled at each other as Naruto fought to open his eyes.
“You haven't.”
He said in a sleepy voice.
“We will.”
Neji said smoothly as traded places seamlessly with

Sasuke.
“He's still able to speak.”
Sasuke said eliminating any thought that came to mind by wrapping his hand around Naruto's cock bring it back to life.
“You have something against him speaking?”
Neji inquired.
Sasuke smirked, as he pulled Naruto's legs up to wrap around him.
“It means we aren't doing our job.”
Neji gently probed the tight entrance with an oiled
finger.
“Very true, we are genius, we should be able eliminate all thought from his precious mind.”
Naruto had a moment to wonder when Neji had gotten the oil on his finger before Sasuke kissed him forcefully, bring his back to his aroused state. Tho, he barely had the energy to challenge the tongue that pillaged his mouth as Neji worked the blonds entrance.

Somehow his bound arms found a way around Sasuke's neck, as he gave into the kiss. He didn't have time to think about the time that passed as Neji carefully worked him open for what was to come. Sasuke, knew way to play with him that kept his mind reeling and faraway from the pain that would edge in only to be erased by pleasure.
He let out a moan as Neji thrust in his own length in, and was equally surprised as Sasuke was able to move his own cock in threatening to tear him. Neji and Sasuke felt the fox tense and simultaneously, drew his mind away from the pain with equal amount of pleasure. Sasuke pumping his length and Neji toying with his sack in curious way that always had him melting.
Sasuke kissed him waiting for his body relax and adjust.

His body shaking with the restraint. He'd wanted this for so long, that this seemed an eternity.
Once Naruto had relaxed and was making pleased sounds.
Black eyes met pearly white and they began to to thrust together, the sound of Naruto's voice from each equaled thrust driving them mad. Out of reflex Sasuke kept pumping Naruto, He watched through slitted eyes, as the blond's head laid back against Neji's shoulder. His mouth open, his neck exposed.
Never would the two thought that the fox could look
anymore erotic. As the thrust harder in to him nothing left, but the instinct to make him theirs.
Naruto came for the second time and tightening around them driving them to come second later.
The blond was truly gone this time.

He tried but failed to keep his eyes open as the pulled gently out of him. He was held in strong arms was all his senses would allow for that moment.
When he was finally able to open his eyes again he
gazed, up at Sasuke's strong features as he cleaned the fox. Black eyes flicker up, a soft smile lingered.

Before he fell out of succumbed to the edge of sleep
again.He heard Neji's voice speak softly about something, as he was moved between two bodies in their bed. He was overwhelmed by the the warmth of the blanket and his lovers.
He barely understood how he knew it was Neji at his back rubbing soft circle on his stomach,one leg lay over his and Sasuke at his front leg between his two and hand in his hair. He nuzzled Sasuke's neck and drifted off.
“Finally he's speechless.”
Sasuke just chuckled.