Rebound

Warnings: Kinky pool sex, cursing, drinking, bastard Sasuke, slight Sasu/Naru.

Commissioned by Crimson2006.

Rebound


Suigetsu Hozuki moved from the upstairs office of Club Taka. After spending his entire childhood living in the slums, the elite life of the wealthy was something he swore never to lose. He knew he was an asshole, a prick, a bastard, or any other derogative name one wanted to call him. He relished in this fact.

Nothing was beyond his possession. Men and women who once sneered at his deformed teeth and mocking attitude, now vied for a place in his bed. They thought to use him but instead were used before being discarded like the trash they were.

Still, despite the attention, he didn’t have what he wanted. Staring at the dance floor, he nearly growled at the sight. The co-owner of Club Taka, Sasuke Uchiha was grinding hard into Naruto Uzumaki. If looks could kill, Sasuke would drop dead to the floor.

Out of everything, Naruto was the one thing beyond his grasp. Not that he would attempt to spoil Naruto’s happiness. The loud, occasionally obnoxious blond man was probably the only person in this world he wouldn’t hurt. Only Karin knew of his obsession with Naruto. She’s pried it out of him with her constant nagging until he gave in, much to his everlasting shame.

He supposed he should be grateful she didn’t go blabbing to Sasuke about his infatuation. Thankfully, the woman had grown up and out of her obsessive lust for Sasuke. She’d married the gentle giant of their childhood gang and was now expecting their second child.

Sasuke, however, never grew up. He was still the reckless, arrogant asshole he’d been when they’d met. He should probably thank Sasuke for helping him get Club Taka off the ground. It was the barely there thread of friendship keeping him from pursuing Naruto. Bros before hos, or so the saying went.

Lately, that saying became less and less comforting. It wasn’t hard to see how Sasuke treated Naruto. On the outside, they were a perfectly loving couple. To one as close to them as he was, it wasn’t hard to see the verbal abuse. Why Naruto stayed with him, Suigetsu didn’t know but if Sasuke ever raised a hand to Naruto…

The song ended, bleeding seamlessly into another. Suigetsu began to move towards his two friends. They moved to their private table, a waitress trotted away as he approached the two. Naruto looked up, a bright smile spreading across his face.

“Sui! I was telling Sasuke I hoped you’d leave that boring office and come play. We don’t get to see you as often as we used to.” Naruto chatted happily, sipping on his rum and coke.

“I’m too busy to play around. I have better things to do than waste my time partying.” Indifference was the way to go. It was better to not give Sasuke any more reasons to mistreat Naruto.

“But…”

“Just leave him alone, idiot. He doesn’t hang around just to be with you.” Sasuke took a sip of his Jack Daniels.

If only Sasuke knew just how wrong those words were. He signaled the waitress. He was suddenly very thirsty and needed something to occupy his hands. A bottle of water was presented to him, which he gratefully took.

“Naruto, do you want to dance some more?” asked Sasuke, downing the remainder of his whiskey.

“No thanks. I’m a little over heated.”

“Fine.”

The two watched the dark haired man approach an attractive woman in a dress that was little more than two handkerchiefs tied together. Suigetsu slid into the seat Sasuke had just vacated. He didn’t miss the look of hurt in Naruto’s eyes.

“Why do you stay with him?” he asked, immediately wishing he could take back the question.

“He’s the only guy I’ve ever been with.” Naruto answered after several minutes of silence.

The fucking idiot. He might want to scream those words at Naruto but he knew he was an idiot too. He was no hero, waiting to save Naruto from the big bad Sasuke. He was the scavenger waiting for the shark to drop pieces of its ravaged meal, just as it had always been with Sasuke.

If Naruto wanted to stay with Sasuke, he wouldn’t come between them. Sasuke was a bastard but still his first friend. He was their leader. He was the one who pulled them from the slums, showing them how to succeed at life. As much as he wanted to push Sasuke away from Naruto, he wouldn’t as long as Naruto wanted to stay.

Suigetsu nodded to Naruto before leaving the table. He didn’t want to be there any longer. It hurt too much to watch the two of them together. He could only take it in spurts. He must be a masochist to keep going back, only to see Naruto making heart eyes at Sasuke.


~*~

A few months later, the ringing of the doorbell drew him from his midnight movie. Seeing the forming of a dark bruise on Naruto’s cheek was enough of an answer to any questions forming in his head.

“I didn’t know where else to go. Sakura is out of town and I didn’t want to worry Iruka.” More tears began to streak down his face.

“So you decided to come to me?”

Naruto stiffened for a minute before stepping away. “I’m s-sorry. I’ll go to a motel.”

“Naruto…I didn’t mean it like that. Come in if you want just don‘t expect me to play the gracious host. I‘m not in the mood.”

The flash of relief on the other’s face nearly broke his heart. He lead the way to the kitchen, pulling an unopened bottle of scotch from the cabinet. Pouring Naruto some in a glass, he watched the other down the strong liquor.

“Aren’t you having any?” he asked.

“I’m a recovering alcoholic. I keep that bottle here to remind me what I was. After waking up in the hospital from alcohol poisoning, I started going to AA. I still go periodically.” Suigetsu grabbed a bottle of water from the refrigerator.

“I’m sorry.”

“Don’t be. I’m not. Now tell me how you got that.” he said, pointing to the bruise on Naruto’s cheek.

Naruto laughed, a heartless chuckle. “This came from Sasuke. Although, he has a broke nose and a busted lip. I was supposed to work tonight. I got called in but after about two hours, they sent me home. I find Sasuke fucking some chick in our bed. We fought, I left. End of story. Are you sure you don’t mind me staying here? I know you knew Sasuke before me and he’s your friend.”

“I don’t mind. You’re my friend too, Naruto.”

Naruto’s face lit up happily. For a moment, the pain and hurt melted away to show the Naruto who’d won his heart. He thought it a bit sappy of himself. Next thing he knew, he might start spouting poetry. He chuckled, the sound bringing a look of question from Naruto.

“Never mind. Come on, I’ll show you where you can sleep.”

“Suigetsu…”

“What is it?”

“Why didn’t you ever fix your teeth?”

He started, shooting a look at Naruto. “They are a birth defect. They remind me who I was before I met Sasuke. I don’t want to forget where I came from. Why? Do they bother you?”

Naruto was silent as Suigetsu shut the bedroom door, closing Naruto in the guest room. His hands clenched as he stood for several seconds before moving down the hall to his own bedroom. The pale blues of the walls and carpets offered soothing comfort. He collapsed on the bed, sleep coming slowly due to the presence of a certain blond a few doors down.

If he dreamed that night, they were lost in the way all dreams are lost. The only thing he could wrap his mind around at that moment was the smell of food pulling him from sleep. He blinked a few times, running his hand through snow colored locks. His mind, more asleep than awake, tried to figure out why the smell of bacon and eggs was drifting up from his kitchen.

His feet shuffled as he blearily walked in to find an unusual sight indeed, but not one he hadn’t imagined before. Standing before him, attempting to flip an omelet, was Naruto. He was making more progress towards a mess than towards breakfast.

“You know, we eat breakfast off of plates, not the counters and floors.”

Naruto swung around mid flip, the omelet missing the pan completely to crash to the floor. “Fuck!”

“Let me show you how it’s done.” Suigetsu came up beside Naruto, adding a little butter to the pan before pouring the egg mixture.

He stood close, savoring the sensation, before flipping the egg neatly. “You are trying to flip it high. Just try little flips. This isn’t for the circus. Want to try?”

At the excited nod, he handed over the pan, watching as Naruto stuck out his tongue before attempting to once again flip the egg.

“I did it!” he crowed, practically dancing around the kitchen.

“Heh.” Suigetsu snickered, taking a bottle of water from the fridge.

“At least I got the bacon right.”

The two sat down, splitting the omelet and bacon along with toast. Juice for Naruto, water for Suigetsu. “Can I go swim in your pool? Please? Please? Please?”

“Go for it.”

Naruto whooped before racing from the kitchen, reminiscent of a little boy. After seeing such happiness in Naruto, especially after the previous night, Suigetsu didn’t mind. He knew it was Naruto’s way of coping with his trouble. He treated things like a child, worrying only for the moment…at least for now. He would face things eventually.

The ringing of the doorbell forced him to leave the kitchen mess in favor of answering it. Hopefully, it would simply be a delivery man. He didn’t want Naruto to have to deal with other people yet. And, he wanted to relish having Naruto all to himself for a while.

Opening the door, he saw a pretty pissed off Sasuke. His nose was quite swollen, evidence of Naruto having slugged him. “Where the fuck is he?”

“Who do you mean?”

“The man who’s car is in your fucking driveway!”

“He doesn’t need to see you right now.”

“Tell me where the fuck Naruto is.”

“No.”

“I’ve seen the way you look at him. You just want him for yourself.” Sasuke attempted to push past Suigetsu, only to get a firm hand on the shoulder.

“I don’t think so, you arrogant shit.”

“I just want to explain it to him.”

“Listen Sasuke, if and when Naruto wants to talk to you, he will. Don’t make me kick your ass. You know I love a good fight.” Suigetsu said calmly, grinning a little to show off the deformity of his teeth, almost shark-like in shape.

“Fine. You tell that idiot that if he isn’t home by midnight tonight, he can pick his shit up from the garbage can because we will be through.”

Sasuke slammed from the house, his car burning rubber as he left the driveway. Suigetsu took a long swallow of his water. He hated the way Sasuke had changed over the years. Their fearless leader had become little more than someone who only attacked those he deemed weaker.

“Thanks for not telling him where I was.”

Suigetsu turned to see Naruto leaning against the doorjamb, a towel wrapped around his waist. His slender, well muscled, upper body on display for him alone. It wasn’t as if he hadn’t seem Naruto half naked before. He and Sasuke had been over before. It was just that he’d never been alone with him in that state.

“You came here for my assistance. I won’t betray it despite my friendship with Sasuke. I’m also your friend.” Suigetsu turned to go upstairs. “You know, I think I need a dip in the pool myself.”

“Alright!” Naruto turned, a splash heard a moment later.

Suigetsu tugged at his lounge pants, thankful Naruto didn’t notice the erection…or maybe he wished he would have. Either way, a dip in the cool pool would help cool his head and hopefully his libido.

Pulling on a pair of dark blue trunks that hung low on his hips. He grinned deviously at the other as he slid into the water. Naruto had his head pillowed on his arms on the side of the pool, only his torso not submerged. It was almost too easy.

Sliding seamlessly into the water, he dipped beneath the surface as he approached Naruto. As he got closer, his open eyes spotted something that sent him to the surface choking on water. “You’re fucking naked.”

“I didn’t have a swimsuit.”

“And you didn’t think to ask me for a pair?”

“Why did I need to? Does my sexy body get you all hot and bothered?” Naruto burst into laughter, sinking beneath the surface in his mirth.

Suigetsu reached beneath the water, grabbing Naruto’s hair and yanking him to the surface. “Do you really find it so funny? Would you find it so funny if I did this?”

Suigetsu would never know what made him do it. Maybe it was a moment of weakness? Whatever the case, Suigetsu had Naruto pinned to the wall of the pool with his lips plastered over the other. Not one to take things slowly, his tongue swiped across the lips, pressing between the shock slack lips.

He felt Naruto stiffen in surprise. He waited for the struggling, the shoving away. It never came. Naruto didn’t exactly fall into his arms, but he wasn’t pushing him away either. Unable to resist, while his lips sucked at Naruto’s, he stroked a hand across the other’s drawn up nipples. That got a response.

The moan coming from Naruto shot heat straight through him. He wasn’t any where near a virgin but the sound nearly had him cumming in his pants like an untried youth. He wanted more, his fingers pinched harder.

So…it’s true.” Naruto gasped out, pulling his lips away.

“What is?”

“What Sasuke said…about you wanting me.”

“I’ve wanted you since the first time I met you. I wanted to fuck you. To mark you. I want your laughter. I want it all to be mine and no one else’s. I want to erase anyone else’s touches from your memory. Tell me to stop, Naruto. Otherwise, I’m going to fuck you so hard you won’t walk straight for a week.”

He must have been crazy to say it. Naruto was on the rebound. It wasn’t like he cared for him any more than as a friend. He was an asshole to be willing to do something like this to Naruto…and he didn’t care. He took what he wanted. If Naruto was willing, he would take and take and take.

“I…”

“You need to make a decision, Naruto.” Suigetsu slid his hand downward, under the water to cup the half hard erection. “Do you want me to fuck you, to plow into you so hard you will still feel my cock even after I’m gone?”

Naruto moaned, talk like that was a weakness for him. Sasuke never did it. He thought it beneath him but to hear the words coming from Suigetsu’s mouth, he was becoming more and more turned on. It had been so long since he and Sasuke had been together, he wanted what Suigetsu was offering. He was offering relief. He was offering physical completion having been denied him for so long.

Naruto reached a hand wet shoulder length platinum colored hair. The texture was soft, so different from the slight coarseness of Sasuke’s. All he had to do was say the words. It was a little frightening. He’d only ever been with Sasuke. To sleep with one of his lover’s long time friends seemed almost cruel and yet this man wanted him. He could feel the erection pressed against his hip. It was so hard to remember the last time Sasuke made him feel wanted. Maybe he was on the rebound, but he needed this.

“I want you to take me.”

Those sharp teeth glinted in the sun as fingers clenched in golden locks forcing the neck back, baring him. “I have to warn you Naruto, I like things rough. If you say stop, I will stop. But I hope you don’t. I want to be in your tight ass. Sasuke doesn’t seem the type to spread you like I will.”

Naruto’s eyes rolled back in his head at the first touch of teeth on his neck. Suigetsu smirked into the flesh as Naruto’s hips rolled against him. Time to test and see if Naruto could take what he wanted.

“I love the water. It makes things feel weightless.” He ran a finger down Naruto’s abdomen and across the now fully hard penis. “But, it also adds sensation.”

He pulled the other over to one of the vents blowing the filtered water back into the pool. Their height put Naruto’s crotch just in front of the jet. He cried out, trying to push away. Suigetsu held him fast. “Do you feel it pushing over you cock. It’s almost like fingers, isn’t it. Just imagine if I had four hand that is what it would feel like. Two hands on your nipples, and two hands on you cock and balls.”

Naruto cried out as teeth bit firmly in the flesh of his neck. The hands on his nipples were relentless in their pinching and twisting. His hips couldn’t help but push forward into the stream of water.

Suigetsu caught the movement. “Ah, you like it. You like the feel of my four hands? I bet it’s not enough for you. Not someone who loves cock as much as you. I’m going to have to show you what it means to be my cock slut. But not right now. Right now, I want to hear you beg nice and pretty. I want you to tell me exactly where you want my hands and mouth.”

“I want…oh God…it’s not enough.” Naruto panted, his head falling back.

Suigetsu pressed closer to his ass, letting him feel his erection. “What’s not enough?”

“I want more.”

“You have to tell me or I won’t know what you want.”

“I want…you to suck my nipples.”

“Good boy.” He pushed Naruto around so that his ass was pressed against the vent, the water pulsing against his anus.

“Ahh!” he cried out.

“Does that feel that good? I think I felt your cock jump against me. Are you that needy for something in your ass?”

Naruto couldn’t answer, his mind went blank as hot lips closed over his nipple. One hand pinched the flesh of one while lips suckled on the other. Suigetsu lapped at the nipple before biting down, his sharp teeth pinching the bud, a feeling he was sure bordered on pain.

He felt warmth spurt against his hip before the coolness of the lapping water washed it away. His brow arched, as he looked up deviously at the painting Naruto. “Do you like a little pain, Naruto?”

“A little.”

“What a very naughty boy you are? How did you survive with such an icicle up the ass like Sasuke?”

“I…don’t…I mean…”

“Don’t worry. I’ll take care of you. Don’t cum so fast next time. I hate having to wait.”

Naruto nodded limply, his head fell against the damp shoulder as water continued to pulse against his ass. He tried to move, only to have Suigetsu tighten his grip. “Stay where you are.”

“But…”

“No buts.”

Naruto nodded, whimpering a little as Suigetsu began stroking his limp member. The sensitive tip made it almost uncomfortable, still he continued to stroke. Every so often he ran his thumb across the tip. Each whimper brought an almost malicious grin to his face. He knew if he did something Naruto didn’t like, the other could stop him; but he never did.

Gradually, blood began to fill the limp organ. The whimpers became pants. Suigetsu nibbled at Naruto’s jaw as his fingers brought him to life once more. “Naruto, it’s almost time for me to fill you. You want that, don’t you?”

Naruto jerkily nodded. “Good, I want you to turn around for me.” He watched as Naruto hissed when his cock was returned to the jet.

“Now, I want you to stretch yourself for me.” Blue eyes went wide at the request. The once again throbbing cock only got harder.

“I can’t…”

“Yes, you can. I want you to show me just how much you want it.” Suigetsu took Naruto’s hand, bringing it down until the fingers brushed against the tight puckered hole.

Naruto whined, arching his back as he pressed on finger inside. Suigetsu watched, the water distorting the image. Still, he could see how Naruto’s long finger dipped inside. It was the most erotic sight he’d ever seen.

“Add another.” he growled hoarsely.

Naruto moaned as he inserted another. In a matter of moments he was pressing back against his fingers, trying to find the deep enough angle. He gasped loudly as Suigetsu’s finger’s joined his own.

“Christ, you’re tight.” he groaned, his mouth sucking at the skin on his shoulder.

“Ahh…I…It’s not enough.” Naruto’s neck arched as his hips tried to pump against fingers inside.

“Not enough?” Suigetsu gasped, biting down on Naruto’s shoulder as he inserted another finger to join the three already inside.

“Oh God!”

“You better not cum.” he growled, forcing Naruto’s fingers and his own into a rhythm. Naruto’s moans turned to thinly veiled screams as his hips pressed into the fingers moving in and out.

“Do you think you are ready, my lovely cock slut? I can see now how much you want it. I can give it to you if you ask nicely.” Suigetsu ran his tongue over the bruise forming in the shape of teeth marks.

“Please, I’m ready. I need…you inside me.”

“And who am I?”

“Suigetsu…please.”

“Good boy.”

Removing their fingers, he pulled Naruto’s hips towards his own. He was careful to keep his partner’s erection lined with the blowing vent of water. He was sure Naruto would never look at a pool the same way after today. He wasn’t sure he would either.

Lining up his erection, he pressed forward slowly. Naruto was well stretched, but even with the stretching it was a tight fit. He took things slow. He wanted to pound the ass now belonging to him, but he waited. This was their first time together. He would wait.

Naruto groaned as the hard cock slid home. It was strange…this feeling of completion, going far beyond anything simply sexual. He felt filled to the brim, more so than he’d ever felt before.

Suigetsu waited until the clenching around him stopped. He growled, enough was enough. He’d said he was going to pound him. He was a man of his word. Pulling back, he jerked his hips forward forcefully. He growled at the cry escaping Naruto. “I love the sounds you make. Don’t hold them in. I want to hear them as I make you cum. Can you feel how tight you are around me? It feels like you are trying to gnaw my cock off.”

Naruto’s fingers clenched on the concrete of the poolside. The water continued to flow over his cock as Suigetsu pounded in him from behind. The heat was building far to fast inside him. It was like an inferno waiting to explode. Cry after cry escaped his lips with each inward thrust.

“Ahhh!”

“Tell me how it feels. I want to hear it.” panted Suigetsu, the tight heat surrounding him nearly destroying his ability to speak.

“I feel so full…oh God…I’m going to cum.”

“Not yet, damn it.” He growled, reaching down to clench tightly on Naruto’s erection.

The whine of disappointment echoed across the water as the orgasm was staved off. He increased the power behind his thrusts, working towards his own orgasm. Naruto’s cries rose in tandem, pushing him all the closer to his own completion. Growling one final time, he bit down hard on the shoulder before him. The screech from Naruto was all it took to push him over the edge, his cum shooting deep. His fingers released Naruto. He felt the pulsing of the other’s orgasm as the taste of blood coated his tongue.

He slumped limply against the blond, his tongue lapping at the bite. He pulled back to admire the injury. If he hadn’t just cum, he was sure the sight would have him jizzing. “Fuck…”

“Oh God…I never…” Naruto panted, his body limp against Suigetsu.

Me neither, thought Suigetsu. He didn’t say it. He didn’t want to pressure Naruto to feel something if he still loved Sasuke. The bastard didn’t deserve him. He’d always been the type to think of himself but Suigetsu had hoped he would change after he met Naruto. He didn’t, though Naruto didn’t seem to mind.

“Come on, you are getting water logged.” He escorted the limp Naruto from the pool, wrapping a towel around him before taking one for himself.

Both barely made it to Suigetsu’s bedroom before collapsing on top of the mussed sheets. Sleep came fast. Sasuke’s visit, the sun, the sex; it all exhausted both of them. A nap was in order.

~*~

Suigetsu jerked awake. The sun was setting. They had slept nearly the entire day away. How could he have slept so long? Groaning, he sat, noticing the empty side of his bed as well as the lack of warmth. Naruto had been awake for a while.

“Naruto?” he called out.

No answer. He pulled on a loose pair of lounge pants, going downstairs to search for his wayward lover.

Panic ensued as he walked through the house. No Naruto. He glanced out into the front drive. Naruto’s car was gone. He’d left. After that amazing afternoon in the pool, he’d left. For a moment, he didn’t know what to think. Had he looked too much into what they’d shared? He held no illusions of a life with Naruto, but he’d hoped for a few weeks of memories before he was left in the cold with him either returning to Sasuke or deciding he didn’t want a relationship.

He found himself staring at the bottle Naruto had drank from the previous night. Losing himself in the oblivion alcohol could give him was so tempting. He could almost feel the warmth pouring through him. One drink wouldn’t hurt…to relax him. He grabbed a glass from the cabinet. His hands shook as he tipped the bottle. Glass on glass clinked together.

A warm hand on his stopped the downward tilt of the bottle. “I though you said you didn’t drink.”

“Naruto?”

Relief was the first emotion pouring through Suigetsu, followed closely by anger. His fingers clenched on the bottle before throwing it across the room to splatter scotch on the wall. “Where the fuck did you go?”

“I went to see Sasuke…”

“You went to see Sasuke? I should have known. You are all alike. You can’t get enough of his ice dick. It doesn’t matter how much he cheats on you as long as you get your Sasuke fix.” Suigetsu felt a dam in him burst. All the tied back emotion was released for Naruto to see.

“Stop right there, you arrogant asshole. I thought you were different from Sasuke. I went to see Sasuke so I could keep my things from getting trashed. My car is full of my stuff. I thought I could stay here for a while but fuck you. I’d rather stay in a hotel than deal with this possessive shit from you.”

The front door slammed, leaving Suigetsu to his thoughts. He tried to call Naruto, but received no answer. As the days passed, he discovered he was staying with Sakura. So, he began calling her apartment.

“Hello?” A woman answered the phone. He should have known better than to hope Naruto would answer.

“Is Naruto there?”

“Who may I ask is speaking?”

“Suigetsu Hozuki.”

“He doesn’t want to speak to you right now.”

“Well tell him I want to fucking speak to him.”

“Listen, you asshole, if he wants to see you. He will come see you. Otherwise, fuck off.”

Suigetsu replaced the telephone on its cradle. There was only one thing to do in a situation like this. God, he hated the thought of calling that bitch but as he was, he needed a good swift kick in the ass and there was only one person a bitch enough to do it. Grabbing the phone once more, he dialed a familiar number.

“Hello?”

“Juugo, let me speak to Karin.”

“…”

“Hello?”

“I made a mistake, Karin.”

“Oh? What’s this? The great Suigetsu made a mistake? The world is coming to an end. Whatever shall we do? Juugo, gather up our stuff. We need to go underground.” Her ribald laugher rang loud in his ear.

“Now listen here you red headed bitch…”

“Oh, ho…what’s this? Suigetsu almost sounds normal. I wasn’t sure it was really you with that kicked dog sounding voice.”

“Fucking bitch. You listen here. I will never, ever sound like a kicked dog. Get that through your estrogen clouded brain.”

“That’s more like it. I was beginning to worry about you. If you miss him that much, apologize. Geez. I knew you were in love with Naruto from the first time I saw you with him. Stop being a moron and go be the asshole we all know and love.”

“You are such a bitch, you snap me out of any funk.”

“Yeah, yeah, flatter will get you no where with me. I suggest you instead focus on getting back your little sunflower before he moves on to greener pastures.”

Suigetsu found himself outside of the apartment of Sakura Haruno, soon to be Sakura Haruno Uchiha. No, not to Sasuke, the man she’d fawned after her entire school career. Instead, she was swept off her feet, literally, by one Itachi Uchiha. They’d dated for three years before the question was popped followed by the obvious yes. Naruto was staying with her for the time being.

Ringing the bell, he tried to avoid his nervousness. Taking a swallow from his ever present water bottle, he suddenly wished it was filled wit liquor. Instant courage was what he needed. Before he could change his mind, the door opened to show the impassive face of Itachi Uchiha. Fuck.

“Yes?”

“I’m here to see Naruto.”

“Hn.”

“It’s alright, ‘Tachi. I’ll talk to him.”

Itachi glanced behind him at Naruto before nodding. “Call if you need me.”

“Hey.” Naruto said to Suigetsu, shifting nervously on his feet.

“I wanted to say I was sorry.”

“I should have told you I was going but…you know, you don’t own me. If I want to go out, I should have to clear it with you or anyone. I’m not a piece of meat for all the dogs to fight over.”

“Yeah…”

“Listen, what happened at your house was me on the rebound…”

Suigetsu’s heart plummeted through the floor. He didn’t want to hear anymore but at the same time, he couldn’t walk away. He wanted every possible moment with Naruto.

“…but I wouldn’t mind going out with you.”

Suigetsu’s eyes shot up. “Say again.”

“I said I wouldn’t mind going out with you but I don’t want to just be an easy fuck. If you want in these pants again, you have to do more than get me naked in a pool. I want to get to know you and I want you to get to know me. I’m not as perfect as you seem to think and I know you aren’t. I think we should get to know each other and maybe…I don’t know but I want more than sex.” Naruto scratched his cheek, staring Suigetsu straight in the eye. His wide blue eyes seemed to express every emotion he was feeling.

“I can handle that. What about Sasuke?”

“He knows we are done. I mean, I can’t not feel something still for him but I don’t love him anymore. I haven’t loved him for a long time.”

“So…you want me to win your heart?”

“If you think you can take on the task. I’ll be staying with Sakura until her wedding. Then she’s subleasing me her apartment. I can’t stay with you because we will end up fucking and I don’t want our relationship built on the physical. I’ll let you know when I’m ready.” Naruto smiled.

“Can I still kiss you?”

“Yeah.”

Suigetsu smiled a little before brushing his lips across Naruto’s before lifting them. It might not be exactly what he wanted, but it was a start. This was a chance for them to be more and he supposed he would be fine with that.

Fin~