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He is just standing there and Naruto thinks it's weird. Why isn't he near him at this moment? What is he doing all the way here, surrounded by all these people, when Sasuke was all the way there?
That beautiful boy he chased for years, trying so hard to bring back, but what for?
Why did he want Sasuke back, so badly?
Couldn't he live without his friend?
Friend? Right. His friend.
Sasuke is his best friend. So why is he sitting all the way there, surrounded by strangers and Naruto wasn't with him?
He is drunk as fuck but he does know how to walk, ok? So he moves his feet, as much as it takes to reach Sasuke.
Sasuke.
What is he doing?
Naruto has to squint. Sasuke looks bored by default but also because Naruto can read him just fine, pretty uncomfortable; the fucker is definitely awake, isn't he?
"Yo asshole, loosen up!" Naruto tells him with a slap on the back, but- why the hell? That wasn't what he wanted to say. It was something else.
Sasuke watches him with cold eyes, his eyebrow silently judging.
"What's your problem, dead last?" Naruto is not sober, mind you.
"You are!" He says, though he wasn't even sure why.
Sasuke narrowed his eyes at him, then poked Naruto in the cheek "You're drunk, aren't you?"
"Yeah, so?"
"Just pointing that out."
" 'nd you're an asshoole."
"Really, now?"
"Yes, really!"
"What's your deal, moron?" Sasuke asks after a moment's pause.
Naruto thinks about this. What does he want, really? Sasuke, right? All this time, he fought for this bastard, all this fucking time he competed with this asshole and for what? Because Sasuke's opinion matters. Because he has to be here. Naruto couldn't stand it if Sasuke wasn't at his side.
He needs Sasuke around, no matter what!
"You. That's all I've wanted, isn't it?" Some people coo and 'aww' around them but Naruto doesn't get why. They all know the extent he would go to, for this bastard. Why does it surprise them, still?
Sasuke's face stays the same though, except his pretty eyebrows furrow and Naruto knew what they are doing. He knew Sasuke's expressions all too well.
"You're a major asshole, asshole!!"
"Uhuh," Sasuke hums, his hand loosely holding a glass and even surrounded by people, he looked alone, secluded in his own bubble. Naruto usually breaks that bubble. It's what he's good at.
He gets all up in Sasuke's face, "Wanna fight, you dirty fucker?"
"Anytime." Sasuke smirks at him and damn, Naruto wants to eat that smirk off his lips like crazy. But. Priorities.
"Ok, bastard. You got it!"
They are all in each other's faces like usual, but something is wrong. This proximity is ok, but: Naruto really doesn't feel like pummeling Sasuke to death. He just feels like other things. Like inhaling that good scent, like nuzzling Sasuke's neck, like getting his hands all over... fuuuck.
Sasuke is holding him upright by his arms, Naruto realizes He is more than drunk. He is completely wasted.
"Why didja leave, yoh bastard?!!" Because all the answers Sasuke gave him were never good enough. Sasuke, of course, does not humor him.
"You're a mess, Hokage-sama." He says instead.
Naruto hates that title. He doesn't want to hear it now. Not from Sasuke's pretty mouth, damnit!
"Don't call me that," He slurs, wanting to sound sharper than this but he is a mess, isn't he?
He feels Sasuke's body heat like it is his own skin, stretching all around them both, covering his weakness and his heart, but not close enough, not really.
"Sasukeh,"
"Is he alright?" He hears somebody say.
"Hokage-sama, maybe we should go?"
Hokage? Are they referring to him? He doesn't recognize those voices. He only wants to hear Sasuke's voice.
Sasuke.
"I'm here, you idiot." That is his voice and Naruto might have called his name out loud, for no reason.
"It's alright, Uchiha-san. We can take him from here." Someone is offering and Naruto still doesn't recognize any voices aside from Sasuke's. He is so attuned to his voice he could find it anywhere.
"I got him." Sasuke is saying and Naruto burrows deeper into the sensation of his best friend, his rival, his most important person. The guy he got stronger for, the person he fought to bring back home, his light and darkness, Uchiha Sasuke.
He isn't going to let go now. No way.
"Sas' keh,"
"Yeah, you idiot. I'm here." Then, a short pause. "Can you walk?"
" 'm gonna try..." Naruto mumbles, nuzzling a warm neck and damn, it smells so good. Why didn't he do this sooner?
"Watch your step, there's stairs here." Naruto opens his eyes to squint at his surroundings. Yeah, he can sort of make out some stairs.
"Sasukeeh,"
"Yeah."
"Don't go again."
Sasuke halts for a second only but then they were walking once more, and Naruto hears him make that weird 'hn' sound of his. If he were somebody else, he might not have understood what that means.
He is hit with the cold air outside; it feels wonderful on his heated face. He burrows into Sasuke's hair because it's just there and how long did he feel like doing that, really?
They are sitting on the stairs, Naruto thinks. He can still hear the music from inside.
Sasuke's hair felt really soft and it is just like he thought, isn't it? "Bastard." Naruto says, because Sasuke would always be a cruel motherfucker.
"Yeah." Sasuke answers, no question marks, and he moves his hand to put it on Naruto's head, tugging at his hair. Naruto quite likes it.
"Feels good." He murmurs.
"Yeah?" Sasuke tugs a little harder.
Naruto fumbles to touch him, his hands clumsily placing themselves on Sasuke's cheeks. They feel warm and soft. He can't stay away from this person, for the life of him, could he?
"What are you doing?" Sasuke asks, watching him with clear eyes.
"I'm drunk." Naruto pointed out.
"I see that." Sasuke huffs at him and Naruto squints because he needed to see him clearly, damnit.
"Sasuke."
"Hmm?"
"You won't go, this time?"
"Maybe not,"
"Wha- maybe?"
"Yeah. Maybe. Want to come with me?"
Naruto blinks at him. "Come with?"
Sasuke nods, his hand brushing Naruto's hair from his eyes, and fuck, it feels like a fever, wherever his fingers touch.
Naruto looks at him, his dark eyes, sharp features, that beautiful face he can't get enough of. "Yes. I wanna come with. Wherever you're going."
Sasuke seems silent, his eyes getting bigger, his heartbeat fastening in rhythm under Naruto's hand on his wrist. God, he does. Wherever Sasuke goes, Naruto would follow. It doesn't have to be fucking Konoha. Sasuke isn't out for vengeance anymore. The war is over. Naruto could go anywhere.
"You're Hokage, idiot." Sasuke says and Naruto blinks fast in realization.
"Then why didja ask?"
"I guess. I wanted to know what you would've done."
"I would come. I would!"
Sasuke smiles at him. A quick, blink and you miss it, honest to gods smile. "You would," he says, tracing Naruto's whiskers with the pads of his fingers. Naruto leans into it. He is more drunk on Sasuke's presence than the alcohol itself.
"I can't believe you're here, still." He tells him, because he almost can't. Every morning he would wake up with the same thought he'd had since forever. Bring Sasuke back.
But Sasuke was here, now.
For how long?
"You do know why?" Sasuke asks him and Naruto looks at his eyes, dark and so hard to read. "Why?" He asks, leaning into Sasuke's hand where it's holding the nape of his neck.
"Idiot. You're too drunk." Sasuke scoffs, like Naruto knows the answer all too well, but he's just playing dumb or something.
"I'll come with," Naruto says again, making grubby hands at Sasuke who almost smiles again. His mouth twitches, at least.
"What are you trying to do?" He asks Naruto and he doesn't know exactly. Just. Touching.
He needs to touch Sasuke all over.
Sasuke indulges him, it seems, and Naruto is shamelessly sneaking his hands under his shirt: black and simple, like his hair; warm and soft, like his skin. He feels around, prodding him, because he never got to do this when they were younger. Sasuke wouldn't have let him back then.
What changed between them?
When did it become more than friendship?
Probably when Naruto decided he would suffer like an idiot for Sasuke. He would get his arms and legs ripped off but still bring him home. When the hell did he decide that?
How is that only friendship?
How did anyone ever think he wanted to marry someone else?
Sasuke scoffs in his ear and Naruto said that last part out loud, didn't he?
"-but 'm not even gay, Sasukeh," His actions totally contradict his words, funnily, as he feels for Sasuke's warm back under his hands. He sighs, content to plaster himself to Sasuke's body and just feel him there, his head buried in that long neck.
It's like, this is where he has to be, simply.
"Is this your way of saying I'm special?" And Naruto almost chokes because- is Uchiha Sasuke making a joke?
"Are- did you just flirt with me?!" Naruto lifts his head to look at him. Sasuke's face doesn't give anything away, except there is a small flicker in his eyes and Naruto knows that spark. He goddamn knows those eyes so well, yet he could still get lost in them.
Sasuke scoffs at him; how many times is that tonight? His forehead bumps Naruto's and whoa: this Sasuke, Naruto rarely gets to see. He wonders if anyone else ever knew this side of him and feels oddly protective, stupidly selfish.
He doesn't want anybody to see this side of him.
This Sasuke is playful. And his mouth is quirking in a barely existing smile, watching Naruto carefully. How the fuck did Naruto go without this face for three years?
"Fuck, you're pretty." He tells him and no, he doesn't have a brain to mouth filter.
"Really? So you're in it for the looks."
Naruto pinches his hip. Sasuke doesn't react in any way. "Jerk. If it was just for that, you wou- really, Sasuke?! You're really asking that?"
"Calm down, stupid. I just wanted to see you squirm."
Naruto opens his mouth to retort but Sasuke's hand is taking his palm in his and he doesn't break eye contact with Naruto as he brings it to his face, slowly, tracing barely there lips on his fingers. Naruto holds his breath.
Sasuke's eyes hold his gaze, strongly, his lips kissing Naruto's fingers, his knuckles. At one point he just bites down on it, and Naruto shudders, feeling like a storm about to rampage on the whole village.
Then his fingers are sucked into Sasuke's mouth and he groans pitifully, like a man starving. Fuck. If his pent up body has to endure one more fucking day, he is gonna ravage Sasuke to bits, right on the Hogake's desk, in broad daylight!!
Hell!
If Sasuke is bad for him and if he means only darkness, then Naruto would gladly let it soak him in, drown himself in it.
Nothing could compare with this boy he found-
Shit, he is drowsy but he would stay awake for this! He would be wide awake for Sasuke giving him his undivided attention.
His mouth is sinful around Naruto's fingers, sucking on them so slow, coating them with his tongue, and how the fuck did they not kiss yet?
"I already stole your first kiss, didn't I?" Sasuke stops to say, Naruto's wet digits trailing his chin as he releases them.
Naruto is too dazed for this, "Second too?"
Sasuke nods, his evil mouth crafting a well-known smirk. "Couldn't find anything to compare?"
"Smartass." Naruto says weakly, his whole frame leaning into Sasuke's.
Anybody could come out of the house and find them here, on the back porch, sitting so close and intimate, Sasuke's defenses down for Naruto, their scents mingled with each other.
His heart beats with excitement at the thought.
He would fucking love that.
He wants to shout to the whole world and show them how much he likes that idea!
"You would," Sasuke deadpans and Naruto smiles, an easy, 'you know it', smile. He is flicked in the forehead for that. "Already did, dobe."
Fuck, does Naruto love that Sasuke has pet names for him. Uchiha Sasuke. Pet names.Hah. Do they all take that for granted? Pet names are affection notes through and through.
"You gorgeous bastard!" Naruto kisses him because shit, he had that coming for years now.
Sasuke hums against his mouth, no doubt quietly insulting him but he is becoming pliant under Naruto's lips and he lets him press his tongue to Sasuke's and does it feel good, oh boy, it's so good.
Naruto isn't leaving this step, like, ever.
His body is trying to absorb Sasuke with how close they are brought together, and it's like he still can't do it enough. He was gone so long, Naruto would cling close to him for the next year or so, at the very least.
Somewhere in the back of Sasuke's throat, a moan sneaks it's way through and it goes straight for Naruto's alarm zone.
Fuck parties and sleep, they should just have sex right here and now.
Only, Sakura shows up out of nowhere, blinks in shock a few times before her vision goes red and she proceeds to destroy half the courtyard, scaring away all the guests and Naruto's poor hard-on in the process.
Naruto pretends to fall asleep soon after that. He would take his revenge on Sasuke, tomorrow, in the Hokage's goddamn office, in broad daylight.
Believe it!