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Sasuke had a date tonight, but instead of the excitement that one would expect to linger in his mind, all he felt was annoyance and a mild headache.
Well, it wasn’t a date per se, more of karin taking him along to third wheel her and her girlfriend, sakura, on a date, and sakura would bring a friend as well. They weren’t calling it a date, but it sure as hell sounded like he was being set up. He didn’t even know why he was going.
Karin screeched as she pulled a dark blue shirt out of his cupboard,”I’m so excited for you to meet Sakura.” Right, this was why he was going.
Karin, Suigetsu, Jugo and him had been friends since middle school. And they had had his back whenever he had needed it, they had tolerated his admittedly volatile temper and given him space without ever intruding upon his personal boundaries. He wanted to be as good of a friend to them regardless of how much he didn’t want to spend his Sunday night at a club, getting wasted. He and his pet iguana, Aoda, were very happy curled up under a rug and reading, thank you very much.
“Hn. I’m looking forward to meeting her as well as long as you both don’t ditch me to go fuck in the washroom stalls.”
”Sasuke, please, we’re ladies’, Karin threw him a sly smile over her shoulder as she continued rummaging through his cupboard,”We’ll do it in the car.”
She winked at him and turned around.
”Now pick.”
He rolled his eyes and sighed.“I’ll wear the blue one.”
She grinned and threw the shirt at him, which landed right in his face.
“Get ready in 15 minutes. Sakura will come to pick us up in twenty.”
The door shut loudly behind her as she walked out of his room.
He looked good. He knew that. Regardless of how much he didn’t wish to go on this date, he would never walk out the door unless he felt he looked appropriate enough to do so. The fact that karin wolf whistled at him when he walked into the living room was another indication of the fact.
“Damn, Uchiha, if I wasn’t gay as fuck, there would be drool on my chin by now.” She took his hand, raised it and twirled under it with more grace than he would expect her brash personality to have.”Now tell me how pretty I look.”
Sasuke snorted lightly. She did in fact look quite nice. A magenta dress hugged her body, complimenting her red hair and the bronze tint that shone on her eyelids.”you, karin uzumaki are the most beautiful girl I have ever seen.”
Karin’s nose scrunched up as though she smelt something rancid,“Ew, Sasuke, I asked you to call me pretty, not bring on an entire cringefest. No wonder you’ve never been with a girl.”
He raised an eyebrow,“I’ve never been with a girl because I’m gay.”
She shrugged his statement off, grabbing her purse.”Potato, pot-ah-to”.
Sasuke shook his head, frowning,“Its more like potato, tomato.”
“Potato being gay and tomato being straight?” Said Karin, tilting her head thoughtfully.
“No the opposite. Tomatoes are so much better than potatoes.”
The horrified gasp that left the redhead’s lips was muffled by the sound of the apartment door closing.
Sakura had shown up alone. She had not brought along a friend. Sasuke wanted to die. When he had noticed sakura sitting all alone in the car, he had nudged karin to ask about the other third wheel. Karin being the supportive friend she is, had nodded in agreement with Sasuke and told him that she would ask sakura about it.
Which she consequently forgot the moment her eyes met sakura’s. Since then, that is in the 10 minute car ride, and the 15 minutes for which they had been seated in the club, he was stuck alone with sakura and karin making heart eyes at each other. They did try to include him in their conversation, sakura asked about what he liked, what he was studying at university, and the other basic icebreakers. But with Sasuke’s rather inept social abilities, one word answers and the obvious fact that the two women wanted to talk to each other more, he was left feeling a bit out of place.
He didn’t mind the feeling as much as he thought he would, however. He had been a front row audience to the massive crush karin had been harbouring for sakura. Karin was one of the boldest and loudest people he knew. He knew just how much suppressing her feelings for the pinkette had perturbed her. They had only recently gotten together and he wanted her to not have to suppress those emotions anymore, at least in front of him.
Which still undeniably left him at this undesirable position.
He stood up abruptly from his chair, and turned to karin,”I’ll go get a drink from the bar, I’ll be back in a minute.”
Karin’s gaze didn’t shift from sakura as she nodded,”Yeah yeah, take your time.”
He walked up to the bar and waved the bartender over,”Hey, a whiskey, neat please.”
He watched as the man poured the liquor and handed the glass to him.
As he walked back to their table, bracing himself to feel like the third wheel once more, a loud groan reached his ears, and he was just about to turn around when a giant flash of yellow promptly crashed into him and the contents of his glass spilt on his blue shirt.
He felt rage boiling within him. He really did not fucking need this. He didn’t want to embarrass karin by throwing a fit in the middle of-
His angry train of thoughts halted.
He swallowed.
The man’s eyes were very blue, and he was staring wide-eyed at Sasuke.
Were they naturally that blue, or was he wearing lenses? They were a deep shade, yet striking enough to stand out.
“I-i am so sorry, I swear I didn’t see you-”
Sasuke narrowed his eyes at the sputtering man and was about to retaliate, as he felt his drenched shirt start to stick to his skin. He cringed at the feel of it.
The blonde man must have realised his discomfort, “fuck, man, I really am sorry.”
He rubbed the back of his neck, he looked nervous as he spoke,” I, uh, have an extra shirt, if-if you want..?”
Sasuke wanted to point out the incredulity of how the dude even expected him to wear some random stranger’s clothes, who was the one to soil his shirt in the first place. But his shirt was growing colder and he felt more gross and clammy by the second.
Without another word, he scoffed and started walking towards the washroom. “Is that a yes?” The man exclaimed from behind Sasuke.
The Uchiha just turned around and glared him. What a fucking idiot. He resumed walking. He heard the blonde sputter after him.
It was a fucking dominoes shirt.
He stared at the bright blue shirt in the mirror, he was now dressed in. It was much too big for him, as the blonde had wider shoulders and a broader chest than Sasuke, and it smelt weirdly citrus-y. The pair of blue and red dice embellished on the left of his chest seemed to mock him. His eye twitched.
He wanted to die.
“For fucks sake, I cant believe I need to walk around the club, wearing a fucking dominoes’ shirt.”
The blonde idiot’s reflection grinned sheepishly at him. He rubbed the back of his head,”I came here directly after my shift, so I still have the shirt with me.” He tilted his head to the side as if he just had an idea, but of course the dumbass wouldn’t actually tell Sasuke what he was thinking, Instead, he would just choose to stare fixedly at Sasuke.
He swore to god the blonde’s stare felt fucking tangible, pricking his back like needles, and it was annoying the shit out of him. “What?”, he snapped.
The blonde blinked at him and immediately ducked his head, looking at his shoes. It seemed as though touching his head, which he was scratching again, in any sort of way was a nervous tick of his. It annoyed Sasuke.
“I, um, if you don’t want the logo to be visible, you could”, he muttered something incoherent, and Sasuke’s eyes narrowed further if that was even possible at this point. “What the fuck are you saying?”
“You could wear my jacket”, he quickly said,”if you want, that is.”
The washroom smelt distinctly of piss and he didn’t want to be in this damning club for a second more than he needed to be. Sasuke looked at what the blonde was wearing, it seemed like a fitted shirt underneath, covered with a black cotton jacket, which he had decided to pair with faded black jeans. A small blue crystal hung around his neck, glinting as it caught light from the dim yellow LEDs.
The black paired with the necklace, made his oceanic eyes and wild blonde hair even more prominent.
Sasuke held out his hand, refusing to make eye contact with the other man. He could feel the blonde grinning at him as he handed over the jacket. Sasuke sighed and muttered a half hearted thanks, pushing his arms through the sleeves of the jacket.
He stared at his reflection once more and scrunched his nose up. He was enveloped with the smell of citrus. He wouldn’t admit how much he liked the scent even if he was held at gunpoint.
He nodded at the other man who was just staring at him owlishly. What Sasuke had thought was a t-shirt had turned out to be a black tank top, he ignored the way it clung to his body.
He looked back up at the man’s face to notice a faint pink dusted upon the blonde’s cheeks, as he stared at Sasuke’s reflection.
Sasuke turned and was walking out the washroom door, when a tan hand gripped his forearm.
“Wait!”
A dark eyebrow was raised at the sputtering blonde.
“Um, I, I should-”
Sasuke turned to leave again.
“Let- let me buy you a drink.” He hurriedly added,“to replace the one I spilt.”
Sasuke was just about to snap and decline, when he noticed how guilty the man actually looked. He glanced at the tan hand still clutching his forearm, and his eyes slowly trailed upwards to meet the man’s eyes. His eyes paused at the way the man’s bicep flexed lightly and the wide span of his bare shoulders.
If he was to return to the table a little later, he knew karin and sakura wouldn’t miss him, would they?
“Whatever.”
He continued walking, only pausing when he noticed that the blonde wasn’t with him, he threw a glance back, raising a perfectly arched eyebrow. “Aren’t you coming?”
They were sitting at the bar, the blonde was nursing a bottle of beer, peering at Sasuke.
“My name’s Naruto by the way.”
“Hn”
Sasuke swirled the whiskey in his glass.
“Uzumaki Naruto”, he repeated.
“I see.”
Naruto frowned at him.”This is when you are supposed to introduce yourself, asshole.”
“No way”, he sipped his drink, was the idiot always this loud?
“Shocking, right?” Naruto grinned,”it shouldn’t surprise me you are actually as socially inept as you look.”
Sasuke threw him a look,”What’s that supposed to mean?
“Oh, I don’t know, ‘the stay away from me, I’m too cool for you, my glare can literally incinerate you’ vibe that you have going?”
“You probably feel that way because I am too cool for you”, he smirked at the blonde’s narrowing eyes,”’what you think others think of you being a mirror to your own insecurities’ and all that crap.”
“Jesus, you’ve got a giant stick up your ass”, Naruto chuckled,“You’re a complete asshole you know.”
“Yet you choose to sit here instead of leaving. You bought me that drink already.”
Naruto huffed under his breath. It was not cute at all, or at least thats what Sasuke told himself.
“Sasuke.”
Surprise coloured the blonde’s face. “What?”
“My name.”
Blue eyes widened before before Naruto was grinning again. “Sasuke what?”
“Just Sasuke.”
“Hm, ‘just Sasuke’”, his face held a mawkish look,” Thats such a beautiful name.”
Sasuke rolled his eyes, choosing to ignore the juvenile joke,”so why did you come here directly after work?”
“I was supposed to meet a friend.”
“Then what are you doing here”, Sasuke asked genuinely a little confused.
“Im, uh, very late. And my friend, she’s-”, his face looked embarrassed,” -quite scary, not gonna lie. At this point the safest bet for me is to wait till I know for sure that she would be drunk before I show up.”
Sasuke simply raised an eyebrow at that.
Naruto explained,“I know she’ll try to punch me when she sees me. Its better to wait till I know her aim will start to get sloppy. I can dodge more easily that way.”
Sasuke snorted at that, his lips curving into a small smile, and Naruto seemed proud to be able to elicit that reaction out of him. His grin was wider than ever.
”What about you, what are you doing here all alone?”
“I came here with friends, as well.”
Naruto threw him a puzzled look,“where are they?”
“Probably making out somewhere.”
He startled when Naruto let out a loud laugh. It peeked Sasuke’s interest, but was much too short for his liking. He wanted to make Naruto laugh again.
“Like for real?”
Sasuke nodded.
“Your friends sound cool.”
Sasuke nodded again. “They are.”
“Why would you tag along though if you knew you might end up alone?”
Sasuke shrugged at him,”I'm not alone right now though, am I?”
Naruto threw him a dazzling smile.
“You know”, Naruto emptied the rest of his beer and waved at the bartender for another one. Sasuke tried not to think about how the pink lips had wrapped around the mouth of the bottle,”I thought you were a stoic bastard when I first met you. You still are a bastard, but now its a more ‘I’m hotter than you, lick my shoes’ kind of pissy bastard not the ‘ I’ll kill all of you for looking at me’ kind of bastard. You get me?”
Sasuke raised his eyebrows, as mirth danced in his eyes“You thought I was a bastard?” He would not acknowledge that Naruto had possibly called him hot, the warmth spreading across his body was just an effect of the alcohol. Yeah, only the alcohol.
Naruto nodded with a serious expression on his face,”yes”.
“You? The dude who knocked into me, made me spill my drink and then had me wear his dominoes uniform? Thought that I was a bastard?”
“When you say it like that-”
“Thats what happened, you idiot!”, a small laugh bubbled up his throat.
Naruto threw his head back laughing,“yes, but I made up for it by lending you my clothes didn’t I?”
“You lent me your uniform.”
“And my favourite jacket!”
Sasuke looked Naruto right in the eye,“I think we both know the jacket looks better on me anyway.”
Naruto didn’t break the eye contact, and Sasuke could here the honesty in his voice as he said,“it does.”
If Sasuke were a lesser man, his breath would have hitched in his throat, and a blush would have spread through his face. He closed his eyes and sipped his drink, glad that Naruto couldn’t see how the tips of his ears had turned slightly red.”tch, dobe.”
With an unexpected movement, Naruto stood up. He scratched the side of his neck.
”Do you want to, maybe, go outside?”
Sasuke tilted his head to the side,”to do what?”
The other shrugged. “I dont know, talk? Whatever. Its really noisy in here.”
Sasuke thought about it for a minute. He was having fun talking to Naruto, spending more time getting to know him didn’t sound bad.
Sasuke didn’t let his thoughts linger on just how much he liked the idea of being alone with the blonde.
Sasuke nodded,”sure”.
They exited the club, and were immediately hit with the cold November air. Sasuke was comfortable, but only because he had Naruto’s jacket.
“Are you cold?”
Sasuke was not concerned for the blonde, it would just be annoying if he were to catch something. Like pneumonia.
Naruto threw a grin at him,“Oh no, I don’t get very cold easily.”, he crossed his arms behind his head, the muscles in his bare arms flexed at the move. Sasuke wanted to wrap his hands around them.”My dad says its because I have more energy than the average person. I don’t think it makes sense to be honest.”
“It does to me.” Sasuke said, as the two started walking down the street.”higher metabolism helps in keeping the body warmer,”he looked at the blonde’s arms once more and thoughtlessly added,” and if I’m not wrong, I think muscles act as insulation as well.”
Fuck. He hoped the blonde didn’t interpret that as-
Naruto waggled his eyebrows at that,“are you calling me ripped Sasuke?”
He had interpreted it as Sasuke hitting on him. Sasuke internally sighed and agreed with the idiot.
Externally, however, he rolled his eyes and blamed the pink colour his cheeks adorned on the cool breeze,“you wish.”
“Hm, maybe I do.”
Naruto was watching him from the corner of his eye.
“If I didn’t know any better I would think that you’re flirting with me”.
Maybe he was more buzzed than he thought.
Naruto stopped walking and leaned against the brick wall on the side of the pavement. They were a couple metres away from the club by now. “What if I am?” There was a dare in his eyes, and Sasuke realised he really didn’t want to back away from it.
“Then I would let you know your attempts might be more effective than you think.” He pressed his back to the wall, next to Naruto. Naruto quirked an eyebrow at him,”they’ve been effective, yeah?”
Sasuke slowly nodded.“They have. Nothing does it for me more than when a guy tells me I should ask him to lick my shoes.”
Naruto looked away from Sasuke, and his head tilted back to rest against the wall. A laugh left his mouth. Sasuke loved the sound of it. It was more low pitched than Naruto’s voice normally, and his eyes almost crinkled close when he laughed like that. Sasuke watched his side profile, as Naruto’s eyes opened to look at the night sky. They shined just as bright as the stars they were looking at. Sasuke couldn’t help but stare.
Standing so close to Naruto mixed with the alcohol in his blood, made every thought in his brain seem distant and fuzzy.
Slowly, Naruto’s head tilted towards Sasuke, only this time, his face was merely two inches from Sasuke’s. Sasuke’s breath seemed to pause, he felt anticipation creep up his body.
When Naruto spoke, he could feel his warm breath on his nose. “And what if I kissed you?”
Sasuke’s eyes widened, though only fractionally. Naruto’s eyes seemed even more blue when he was this close to him, they felt like an ocean, shades of rich and vibrant blues scattered, with eyelashes the colour of sunlight encasing them.
He exhaled slowly.
“Why don’t you try, and then I’ll let you know?”, his heart rate sped up as the words left his mouth and Naruto’s smile widened exponentially. Sasuke fucking loved that smile.
Fuck.
He was so fucked.
He couldn’t stop himself, especially when Naruto smiled at him like that. Like he was the centre of Naruto’s world at the moment. They had just met for fucks sake, how could just one look from this stranger make him feel this way. His hands moved on their own, as they took hold of Naruto’s jaw and brought his lips to meet his own.
He felt Naruto smile against his lips, and the thought made something flicker within him. Naruto’s hands snake up his neck and entangle themselves in his hair. He was pushed back against the wall, and his hands roamed Naruto’s torso.
The kiss grew quickly from soft and testing to more needy as Naruto thrust his tongue into Sasuke’s mouth and he felt a hand flick his nipple lightly through his shirt. Naruto’s attention shifted quickly from his lips to his jaw, as he kissed along it, lips trailing down his neck. “I wanted to do this, the moment you put my clothes on”, he said in between fluttering kisses. Naruto, then, yanked the collar of Sasuke’s, or well technically his, shirt aside and attached his lips to the span of skin made visible to him. He bit and lapped at it, and the sting of his teeth and the pleasure that followed was enough for a low moan to escape Sasuke. Naruto seemed to be encouraged even further at the sound, and his lips found their way back to Sasuke’s.
He revelled under the attention of Naruto’s mouth and hands, his back arching and his breath coming in gasps. He could feel his groin stir, heat pooling in his belly. He knew they were standing, literally, on the side of a road, but he didn’t give a shit. Arousal clouded every rational thought he had.
He raked his hands through Naruto’s hair, gripping it hard as he coaxed the blonde’s mouth open further. He wanted to explore all of Naruto, wanted to dive as deep into this sunshine of a man as he could-
They both were startled as the sound of a phone ringing pierced through the air. Naruto’s eyes were wide as he moved back, his hands still on Sasuke’s jaw and waist. They both stared at each other for a moment, before Sasuke’s head fell on Naruto’s shoulder. A chuckle escaped his lips and he felt Naruto’s hands tighten around his waist. They both started laughing, and he felt Naruto’s laugh vibrate through his chest and into Sasuke, as the phone rang in the background. He felt so alive.
After a moment, Naruto fished his still ringing phone out and frowned at his screen. He looked apologetically at Sasuke, ”I'm sorry, I have to take this.” He silently hoped it wasn’t anything urgent, he wasn’t ready for the blonde to leave quite yet.
“hello-”
Naruto flinched as the other person began speaking, their voice loud enough for even Sasuke to hear, though the words were unintelligible. Naruto walked away, arguing with the person who called.
He was looking about his surrounding (Naruto’s ass) when his own phone started vibrating, and he took the device out with raised eyebrows.
Shit, karin was calling him. He braced himself as he clicked ‘accept’.
“Where the fuck are you?”
“I told you I was getting a drink.”
“Sasuke I am at the bar. Your lying ass isn’t here.”
Naruto glanced at Sasuke, still on the call, and grinned. Sasuke forgot karin was on the call for a minute.
“Sasuke?”
…
“Sasuke!”
“Hn.”
“Dude, what has gotten into you? Where are you?”
His eyes were still on the blonde, who now looked annoyed, still arguing with the caller. Objectively, he knew he was being kind of an ass. A big ass. He knew karin wanted him and sakura to get to know each other better, and he-
He was making out with some guy he had met an hour ago, outside a club, sporting a boner like a horny teenager.
He sighed, ignoring the strain in his pants,“I’m coming back.”
The call ended.
He was socialising, alright, just not with whom karin wished him to interact with.
Sasuke noticed Naruto walking towards him. He looked defeated. Sasuke started speaking but was interrupted.
“I, uh, need to go meet that friend now. She’s really pissed.”
Sasuke nodded.”I need to leave as well.” He felt his heart give a slight tug.
But neither moved. They both stared awkwardly at each other, Sasuke was unaware of what was the right thing to say or right label to put on what had just happened. The idea that Naruto might not want to seem him again, put a bitter taste in his mouth.
After what felt like eternity, the silence which had set a sense of mild dread in Sasuke was broken by Naruto.
“I want to see you again.”
A small smile formed on Sasuke’s lips, Naruto’s eyes dropped on them immediately.
”Me too.”
The grin was back on the blonde’s face,“I’ll, find a way to come speak to you some more before I leave?”
“I would like that.”
Naruto’s head dipped as he placed a chaste kiss on Sasuke’s lips, but his head moved back just as quickly. A fierce blush rose up Sasuke’s neck. Naruto grinned and he looked away. A smile was still on his face.
It was there the entire time as they walked back to the club, this time engulfed in a silence that was comfortable.
Naruto and he separated as soon as they entered the club again.
The conversation he’d had with Naruto replayed in his mind as he made his way through the labyrinth of bodies and tables. Naruto’s jacket was soft between his fingers, it hung loosely around him. He exhaled slowly as the image Naruto’s wide chest crossed his mind.
Not right now.
He beelined his way to karin and sakura’s table, and pulled up the chair next to karin’s. He saw sakura’s gaze instantly latch onto his torso, she frowned at it as if it had a riddle etched across it.
“Where the fuck were you?”, karin snapped.
“Outside.” He said simply, squirming a little under sakura’s attention to his clothes.
“What the fuck are you wearing?”
“A shirt and a jacket.”
“Thats not yours. Those aren’t your clothes.”
Fuck, he’d left his shirt in Naruto’s backpack. He’d get it later, maybe when he got the chance to spend some more time with the blonde.
From the corner of his eyes he saw Karin gaping at him.“where did you find these? When did you change?”
“In the washroom. Some time back.”
“You’re telling me you wore some clothes you found randomly lying in the washroom?”, her tone seemed incredulous at this point,”What happened to your own clothes Sasuke?”
“They got soiled.”
“Sasuke, I don't understand. What the fuck happened?”
He shrugged.”I just told you”
She rolled her eyes as sakura smiled at her food.“God, talking to you is like dealing with a moody 15 year old.”
Sasuke’s eyes narrowed at karin-
“Sasuke?”
His head snapped around at the voice, eyes alert. Naruto was standing behind him, staring confusedly.
Had the idiot followed him to the table?
Sasuke could feel karin’s questioning gaze at the back of his head. His mouth felt dry. He had enjoyed Naruto’s company, but he didn’t want him to meet his friends just yet, or deal with the confrontation from Karin that would follow. He opened his mouth to speak, mind contemplating an explanation-
“Oh Naruto!”
Sakura stood up, with relief in her voice.
Sasuke blinked.
“Do you”, maybe not relief, considering she walked up to the blonde and promptly whacked him in the head,”have any idea how long we have been waiting for you!”
Sakura was who Naruto was supposed to meet? He was supposed to be Sasuke’s date? Sasuke’s stomach swooped, and his mouth felt dry.
Naruto scowled at her, rubbing the spot on his head where she hit him.
“I’m sorry, sakura, you know how Kakashi is, he left the restaurant to go to some book signing the old pervert is conducting today. He had the keys so its not like I could just close up and leave.”
Sakura sighed,“God, Kakashi really pisses me off, sometimes.”
Naruto nodded enthusiastically, glad that her anger had moved its focus onto the other man.“He does cross the limit sometimes, doesn’t he? You should let him know the next time we see him.”
Sakura’s eyes narrowed at him”so you’re telling me, Kakashi returned 3 hours late?”
“Oh, uh, um not exactly, I-”, his panicked gaze met Sasuke’s, who shook his head lightly ensuring karin didn’t notice the movement. His gaze silently pleaded Naruto to not disclose their meeting. He didn’t want to tackle sakura and karin’s questions, not right now at least.
“I actually, met someone, uh, here.”
Sakura’s eyebrows shot up. “Oh- oh okay.”
Sasuke could swear something softened in her eyes, but the expression changed as soon as it had appeared.
As soon as sakura and Naruto took their seats back, Naruto turned towards him once more. “What are you doing here, bastard?” He grinned before his head snapped in sakura’s direction.
”Is he-?”
Naruto’ eyes were as wide as saucers.
Sakura nodded at him, and Sasuke could only wonder what that exchange was about. A surprised “oh” left Naruto’s mouth, followed by another “oh”. The second one however was different. Naruto’s posture slumped slightly, and it seemed as though a small realisation hit him.
Sasuke felt his stomach twist at the expression. Naruto looked disappointed.
But his face had morphed back into its usual grin, as he acknowledged karin and him.
Sasuke, however, had a hard time getting himself to smile again, his mood which formerly had been dangerously close to pleasant, had quickly soured. Naruto was disappointed. Naruto was disappointed that Sasuke was here.
Sasuke clenched his jaw.
“Do you two know each other?”, karin quirked an eyebrow, looking between him and Naruto.
“Hn, he dropped something on my shirt, so I was forced to wear his shirt.”
Sakura’s eyes widened,“Oh, no wonder. I thought, I recognised the jacket you’re wearing.”
Naruto’s grin wasn’t the same as it had been outside. Sasuke didn’t like it.
“Well, bastard, you’re welcome.”
Sasuke simply rolled his eyes, watching as the conversation was soon taken over by the other three. Naruto exerted confidence and exuberance and Sasuke would only somehow tune back in to the conversation when he heard Naruto’s voice.
Naruto laughed at something Karin said and Sasuke hated that it was still the best thing he’d ever heard.
Sasuke had a bitter taste in his mouth.
Naruto was avoiding him.
After making out with Sasuke, and flirting with him and looking at him like he peed rainbows and shat stars, Naruto was fucking avoiding him.
Throughout dinner, after the initial greeting, the blonde didn’t even look at him once. He was obnoxiously loud, and talked too much, but not once did he speak to Sasuke directly. He had an enraging laugh, but not once did he laugh with Sasuke. His impossibly blue eyes did not even once make contact with Sasuke’s persistent stare. And Sasuke couldn’t help but stare.
Wasn’t he supposed to be Sasuke’s date or some shit? Thats what karin had been implying at least. Sasuke felt mad at her as well, although he could not fathom why.
Just when Sasuke had thought his night couldn’t get worse, they all had decided to go and dance.
Sasuke didn’t dance, so he sat by himself at the bar, with a clear view of the three. The music was blaring and he could feel each beat pulse through his body. He could see sakura and karin clutch at each other and sing the songs or rather screaming the lyrics into each others’ faces. While Naruto…
Naruto was dancing with whomever the fuck approached him. At the moment, he was dancing with some brunette. They wear jumping to the beats, the man’s hands were roaming Naruto’s chest and shoulders, their bodies were very close together.
Sasuke felt livid.
Naruto grinned and said something to the man.
Sasuke tossed another shot back.
The music changed.
From hip hop, it changed into something more sultry. The beats slowed down, and the mass of bodies swayed to the rhythm, their dance moves undergoing similar change.
Sasuke could only watch, as Naruto whipped the other man around in his arms, how he buried his face into the man’s shoulder and clutched his hips, moving both their bodies in unison.
It took him a moment to realise that the two were grinding against each other, as something akin to a moan had seemed to have left the brunette’s lips.
Before he knew what he was doing, Sasuke had taken another shot, gotten to his feet and walked up to the pair. His hands moved on their own as he pulled the man from Naruto’s arms.
“What the fuck man?”, he slurred, but withered when he felt the venom in Sasuke’s glare.
“Fuck off.”
The dude looked obviously offended and looked at Naruto questioningly. When Naruto didn’t say anything, he threw his hands up and walked away to next man.
Sasuke turned back towards Naruto. The lights were dim, and the few coloured lights that had been turned on jumped about the blonde hair, forming a halo of every colour around his head. He felt pinned under the oceanic eyes that were watching him with confusion.Sasuke stared back. He saw the lust that lingered beneath those golden lashes and felt his toes curl and breath halt with anticipation. What had previously been anger, was now overshadowed by the incredible ardour Sasuke felt for the man before him.
He didn’t think twice before he took Naruto’s hands and placed them on his waist, wrapping his own around around the blonde’s neck. They started moving, slowly, and Sasuke submerged himself in the crook of Naruto’s neck, his head propped up lightly on his shoulder. He could feel Naruto breathing, he could feel his erratic heartbeat through every point where their bodies connected. The smell that at this point he could only describe as something hypnotically Naruto, surrounded him, and he had the urge to capture it, to keep it all to himself. He place an open-mouthed kiss on Naruto’s flushed skin.
Sasuke tongue followed the length of Naruto’s neck, from the base to his jaw, where he softly sank his teeth. Naruto shuddered in his hold, and his grip on Sasuke’s hips tightened. Sasuke, encouraged by Naruto’s response, continued placing small kisses and bites along Naruto’s jaw, till he finally found the lips, he knew he couldn’t get enough of.
Without warning, he pushed his way into Naruto’s mouth, moaning at the feel of the man before him. His hips thrusted towards Naruto’s while their tongues performed a dance of their own. He felt giddy and he knew the feeling hadn’t been caused by alcohol.
Suddenly, he was pushed back by Naruto’s hands on his chest. Naruto’s eyes were wide, and he let out a long breath.
He shook his head, and said something before he walked away.
Sasuke had read his lips and had been able to infer the words, however. His chest hurt, as he saw the head full of blonde hair mover further and further away.
“I cant do this.”, he had said.
In his defence, Sasuke had tried.
He had tried to forget all about that night, to forget all about his meeting with Naruto, to forget the way he had made Sasuke feel.
And, if he was being completely honest, Sasuke was pissed. His mood had been terrible for the past week, and karin had been avoiding him due to it (though he was glad she hadn’t seen him dancing, kissing, rutting against or what ever with Naruto). His tone was acidic anytime anyone said a word to him, and he-
He just felt desperately confused. He had gone over every conversation, every interaction with the blonde, and he could find no reason for Naruto to ignore him and walk away the way he did. If he wasn’t interested, he could just say so, Sasuke would have respected his wishes.
But no, he had to flirt with him, kiss him, hold him, and then walk away like none of that mattered. Sasuke felt used and humiliated.
That was why he was standing under Naruto’s apartment building, a week after their night at the club. He had gotten his address through sakura, telling her that he needed to return Naruto his clothes, and get his own shirt back as well.
The bright blue coloured building had been constructed on the side of the thoroughfare. It was small with all road facing balconies teeming with plants and vines. He walked up to the fourth and the highest floor, and knocked at the apartment door that read ‘009’.
He had to wait a minute before the door was opened by a yawning Naruto, rubbing tiredly at his eyes. He paused when he saw who was at the door, and stared at Sasuke with widened eyes.
He was wearing blue sweatpants and a grey t-shirt. Sasuke hated how much he wanted to kiss him.
Naruto blinked before he moved aside to let Sasuke inside. “S-Sasuke! Uh- come in. Yeah! come in!”
Sasuke walked in without a word as Naruto sputtered something about the mess. The confidence he had felt while on his way here was fading, replaced by something more weary.
A barrage of colour rushed at him as he crossed the threshold.
The apartment walls were a garish orange, there were posters of different bands put up on them and some were lined with floating shelves filled with succulents, colourful trinkets of various kinds and photo-frames of Naruto and other people. The sofa was a deep red with green cushions arranged messily on it. There was a small bucket on the side of the sofa with a fat orange toad in it, Sasuke noticed and he walked towards it.
“Thats Gamakichi.”he watched as Sasuke, crouched next to the bucket,”don’t touch him though, he’s not very friendly.” He chuckled to himself,”When sakura tried to pet him for the first time, he wrapped his tongue around her wrist and refused to let go.”
“Hn”, he watched as said toad let out a loud ‘ribbit’, swelling up to almost the size of Sasuke’s head.
“Would you like something to drink?”
Sasuke shook his head.
Naruto looked uneasy, as he shifted his weight on the balls of his feet.
“Sasuke, I- you,” he breathed out slowly,”what are you doing here?”
Sasuke handed him the small brown paper bag he had been carrying,”your clothes.”
Naruto took them with a short,“Oh”. Sasuke watched as emotions flitted across Naruto’s face, wondering what the blonde must be thinking.
A few minutes passed and neither of them moved. Naruto was looking around his room nervously, Sasuke assumed it was mainly to try not look him directly in the eye.
Naruto started.“I- I’ll go get your shirt! I’d washed it by the way, just in case-”
“You were avoiding me.”, the sentence was said calmly, yet Sasuke felt turmoil rumbling in the back of his mind. His chin jutted out defensively as he spoke.
Naruto froze, his eyes had widened exponentially, and if Sasuke hadn’t felt as apprehensive as he did, he probably would have laughed at the ridiculous posture the blonde had frozen in.
“I- Yes, but I didn’t- I didn’t mean to avoid you.”
He didn’t mean to?
“Bullshit.”
He felt Naruto growing angry. “How the fuck can you blame me for not avoiding you?”
Something dropped in Sasuke’s stomach, he felt bile rising up in his throat.
Naruto let a breath out as he went and sat on the couch, Sasuke could just stand and watch, his feet didn’t feel capable of moving.
”I know, what you were expecting and I,” Naruto paused, “I can’t do that shit, I’ve tried before but it just-”
What was Naruto talking about? He felt himself snap, he raised an elegant brow, “What the fuck are you on about? I knew you were not the brightest but to think you were this fucking dumb?”Naruto’s glared at him,“Sakura had told me that Karin would be bringing a friend, you asshole. I just didn’t expect that friend to be you.”
Sasuke’s lip curled,”oh I'm sorry that I was the one who showed up. Didn’t mean to disappoint you.”
Anger flitted across Naruto’s face,“the fuck you mean disappoint?”
“No you’re right, I didn’t disappoint you”, his voice didn’t betray any of the hurt he had felt, only pure rage slipped past his lips.”Its hard to disappoint someone whose attention you hold for only an hour.”
Naruto shook his head,”Sasuke you have no idea what you’re talking about.”
“Don’t I? Was I not just a passing interest before someone else showed up?” He remembered the way Naruto’s hands had held his face, the way his mouth had traced the length of Sasuke’s neck, the way Naruto had looked at him. It was one kiss and Sasuke felt pathetic just what it had reduced him to.
Naruto’s hands had tensed into fists,“Bastard, you have no fucking right to judge me about something like that when you yourself do the same thing.”
Sasuke’s eyes narrowed at him.”You know nothing about me.”
“You’re correct. I don’t. But karin does.”
“Why are you bringing her into this?”
Naruto gritted his teeth. He stood up.”Because I asked her about you, you asshole.”
Surprise vibrated through Sasuke, but he settled for a simple raised eyebrow.
Naruto continued, his eyes were blue fire,“Sakura told me she was bringing a ‘date’ for me. Obviously, I wanted to know more, so I asked her about it.”Naruto was much closer to him now.
“I asked about you, what you were like, what you liked and- and, she told me that you weren’t interested in anything of that sort. That most people repulsed you, as did their attention. Was she wrong?”
Sasuke paused. This, this wasn’t what he had expected Naruto to say. He was not wrong, however, so he shook his head.
Naruto nodded, but Sasuke could make out he had wished him to deny the statement.“I didn’t know your name though, I had decided I didn’t really care, it was just for one night, I didn’t have to see you again, y’know. But, I didn’t know you were you when we first met.”
A blush rose up Sasuke’s neck at the memory, the way Naruto had him pinned against the wall.
“And I”, he covered his eyes with his hand,”I recently got over my ex, we dated for 3 years, broke up 4 months ago. I don’t want to be someone you cant even stand to look at the next morning.”
Sasuke let out a shaky breath, he didn’t know what to say,“You idiot.”
Naruto looked like he was about to lose it-
Sasuke interjected,“That isn’t what I want”.
Naruto’s frowned,”what?”
Sasuke wasn’t good with words, he never said the right thing or the right way. So, he did what he felt would be the next best thing. Sasuke leaned in till the distance between them ceased to exist. He held Naruto’s shoulders, put what he felt into the kiss that which he couldn’t express verbally. With some hesitance, Naruto opened his mouth to let Sasuke in. The kiss was slow in a way Sasuke hadn’t experienced before, it was careful. It was one filled with relief and apprehension.
Sasuke pulled back.”a one night stand? that is not what I want you to be.”
Naruto’s lips looked a bit swollen, his head tilted to a side,“Huh? But, but sakura said-”
Sasuke wanted to laugh.“you idiot. A one night stand is not what I want, not from you at least. Its true that I do but you-”
He put his forehead against Naruto’s strong shoulder,”You’re different, you feel different. Honestly even I don't know why. But,” he took a shaky breath in,”I was hurt, when you started avoiding me after we kissed. And maybe a little jealous when you were dancing with that other guy.”
Naruto breathed out a chuckle, and Sasuke felt the warm air against his neck. He swallowed.
“I- I want to get to know you.”
He felt strong tan hands tilt his face upwards and cup it gently.
When Naruto kissed him again, he felt himself melt into it. He slid his hands into the blonde hair, that flopped around like an incarnation of the sun itself.
Naruto pulled back, resting his forehead against Sasuke’s.”you are, so sappy.”
“Oh, shut up.”The soft strands entangled between Sasuke’s fingers as he kissed Naruto with a newfound fervour, savouring the smile he felt against his lips. His chest clenched lightly, as Naruto nibbled on his lips and a gasp exited his mouth. He felt like he could do this forever.
When Naruto pulled back, his lips shone a bright red,”Lets got out! I know this-”
Sasuke stared at him. “Right now?”
“Yeah!”, Naruto’s eyes shone so bright, he faltered for a second. A band hand gripped his hand and pulled him towards the door.
Sasuke yanked the hand back,”I’m not going anywhere with you if you don't change out of that.”
Naruto pouted,“Why? Whats wrong with it?”
“Apart from you looking homeless?”
The blonde mop of a head dropped on his shoulder.“Ugh Sasuke, you’re so high maintenance!”
Sasuke felt a small smile overcome his features. He owed Karin one for dragging his ass out that day.