fic: Every Thing Happens For a Reason [for Joya Verde] 2/2
Chapter 5
With Itachi
Two weeks. For two weeks I've had to endure the endless taunting curtsey of one annoying blonde and the tall, dark haired, shark obsessed coworkers and tonight it was finally going to prove worth it. Naruto and I were going out on our first date. That's right date. We'd been talking on the phone a lot and not just texting either but actually talking. Now I just had to wait two more hours before I could go pick him up. I had it all planned out. We'd go out to dinner, nothing to fancy but nice enough to actually site down and not get weird looks for being dressed up. Then we would go to my brothers concert and have ice cream afterwords where we could just sit an talk.
When I finally got off work the first thing I did shower and get changed. By the time I had finished that I was ready to go and pick up Naruto. When I finally rang the door bell I could swear that my heart was beating so hard in my chest it would be able to break my ribs. His father was the one who opened the door, I recognized him from the day I first meet Naruto.
“Hello, so your the young man who wishes to date my son.” It wasn't a question. I nodded and introduced myself and offered my hand which he took with a very firm grip and if it weren't for the fact that I was used to this type of thing from the people I have to work with I might have been very intimidated.
“Hey,” Naruto said popping up next to his dad. He looked much better then he did the last time I saw him. He still looked tiered but not quite as sick and worn out.
“Are you ready to go?”
“Yep” he said pushing past his dad to stand next to me.
“Have him home by midnight, is that clear?”
“Yes sir.” With that we went to the car and I opened Naruto's door for him so he could climb in. It didn't take to long to get to the restaurant. We were seated quickly and the food was really good, but the conversation was even better. Naruto was telling me about his projects and school work, and I was telling him about some of the cases that I had worked on. We talked about everything from books and music, to all the crazy little things that we find interesting or don't like.
The concert was also amazing, my brother has always been an excellent musician and no one could argue otherwise. Naruto seemed to be enjoying himself and they way he would really get into the classical music was just fascinating to watch. He would close his eyes and just listen. For me watching his facial expressions was an entirely new way of listening to music. All I could think of was how happy I was to be able to see this before I went completely blind.
“Itachi that concert was incredible. Thank you for bringing me.” I took his hand in mine and gave it a gentle squeeze.
“I'm glad you liked it. So would you like to go meet my brother?”
“Sure.” We left the theater and meet my brother outside. He was surrounded by all of his adoring fan girls and I could tell by the look on his face and his white knuckles that he would love nothing more then to get the hell out of there and do so by any means necessary.
“You haven't changed a bit little brother.” I said pushing my way though the sea of girls surrounding him. He glared at me before saying, “Yeah well you look like you've aged 10 more years since I saw you last, you old man.” We had a bit of a staring or should I say glaring contest after that, which caused most of his fans to get nervous and back away.
“So ice cream?” I asked and smiled at my little brother. He just shrugged and started heading for the door. I turned back to Naruto and motioned for him to go first. “Just give him a minute he'll realize that we're not alone. Sometimes he's a little slow.” Naruto smiled at me as we followed my brother out into the cool spring air. It wasn't till we got to my car that my brother turned around and noticed Naruto for the first time.
“Hey who are you?”
“I'm Naruto, your brothers date.” Sasuke's eyes got big for a moment then he looked over at me and I nodded in confirmation.
“Really?” Naruto nodded in reply and we all piled into my car and we headed off to the ice cream shop.
It was a quite little place, privately owned and run by an old couple who loved working in their 50's style ice cream shop. I've been taking my brother here when I come to visit ever since he started school in Suna. We always sat at the counter in the tall chairs the instant Naruto sat on one of the stools he started to spin around. I smiled as I watched the look of pure childish joy on his face.
A sharp jab to my side brought my gaze to my little brother who had a smirk on his face. “So are we getting ice cream or what?” He said moving to sit next to Naruto. I moved to sit on Naruto's other side.
“So Naruto do you know what you want?”
“I want vanilla with hot fudge.” Sasuke cut in.
“I didn't ask you Sasuke, but yes you can have your hot fudge sunday.”
“I'm not sure it's a toss up between the banana split and the brownie earthquake, the only thing is I don't know if I can finish it all, I haven't been eating a lot lately, I'm still a little full from dinner.”
“That's ok, you can pick and then we can share,” I suggested.
“Really, you don't mind sharing? Ok so which one out of those to do you want?”
“Between the two options how about the banana split? That way I don't have to explain to your father why your in a chocolate coma when I take you home.” Naruto laughed and we placed our order. While we waited I just listened while my brother and my date talked about college. Not even an hour of knowing each other and they had developed and friendly competitive friendship. I was glad they were getting along. I'd never actually let any of the other men I've dated meet my brother. I've spent so much of my life protecting him that I even protect him from the people I date and should be trusting with my personal life, but Naruto is the only guy I've ever really wanted to meet my brother.
“I should probably get going, I've got a class at 8am and I need to make sure that I'm awake that teacher is a real ball buster. There was a kid who fell asleep in his class and he dumped a whole bottle of water on the Nara kid to wake him up. 20 minutes later when the idiot fell asleep again the teacher shoved him out of his chair, granted when that didn't work he just left him alone, but he's dumped water on other people for falling asleep and I would rather that not be me.” Naruto was full body laughing by this time, but sadly it was interrupted buy his coughing.
“Hey are you ok?” I asked rubbing his back.
“Yeah I'll be fine. We should probably get going.” After that we all headed out to the car to drop Sasuke off at his apartment.
“It was nice to meet you Naruto. You know you're the only guy my brother has ever introduced me to.”
“No I didn't know that, but it was cool meeting you. Oh and we'll have to continue our discussion on who the best rock band of the 80's was.”
“Defiantly. See you later Itachi.” And with that he opened the door and got out.
“So I'm the first guy you've introduced to your brother huh?”
“Um... yeah, is that weird?”
“No, I don't know, it kinda makes me feel special though.”
“Would it be too over the top if I said you are special to me?” He just smiled and shook his head no. “Good. So are you up for doing something else, or should I take you back, I don't want to wear you out, I know you said when we talked on the phone the other day that you were feeling really tired lately.”
“NO! I mean no, I'm fine I promise. So what did you have in mind?”
“Well when we get back to Kahona I was thinking of showing you my favorite place in the whole city.”
“Cool!”
45 minutes later we pulled up to the parking lot of a park that was withing walking distance of the home I grew up in before my brother and I moved in with our grandparents.
“I used to sneak out of the house at night when I was younger and come here. There is just something about this place at night that just seems to make the world stand still. Whenever I come here I can just forget about everything. Actually I haven't come here for years, until I found out that I was going blind. After finding that out it felt like the world drastically shifted again, just like when my mother died I just got in the car and I ended up here.”
Naruto took my hand in his and leaned in to my shoulder. “Thanks for showing me this. You know when I found out about my cancer I felt like my life had ended. It just didn't seem real. The whole time in between waiting for my first treatment I could feel myself pulling away from everything and everyone. I know my parents were getting really worried about me by the way they were hovering around.”
“And now?”
“Now I don't really feel like my life is over, I mean this is the first date I've had in a year.”
“A year huh? That last date I went on was two years ago.”
“Your kidding?!”
“Nope.” We got quiet for a moment just walking around the park holding hands. It was a comfortable silence.
“So how good are you at finding start constellations?” Naruto asked.
“Your kidding right?” The smile on his face said it all. “Hey for all you know I could know every constellation there is in the night sky. Not say that I do but I very well could have.” We both laughed and we continued talking until his phone started to ring.
“Oh crap it's my dad. Hello?” There was a pause as he listened to his father talk on the other end of the line. Then I looked at my watch only to realized that it was ten past midnight. SHIT!! Why was I not watching the time.
“No dad we're on our way back now. We just lost track of time. We'll be there be for you know it. Bye.” He closed his phone giving me a panicked look and we raced back to my car. By the time we reached it we were both clutching our stomachs for laughing.
“Was he mad?”
“No just worried. Now days he treats me like I'm going to pass out at any given moment. Then again I can't really blame him for that. The day after I got back I did pass out, but don't worry I'm fine.”
“Well I should get you back before worried turns into I'm never letting that guy take my son out ever again.” With Naruto smiling I turned the car on to the road and headed back to his house. We pulled into the drive way and I ran around the car to open up the door for Naruto. I even walked him to the door. We paused at the door, Naruto was looking at his feet he was being shy which was just adorable and such a turn on at the same time.
“Thanks for tonight Itachi, I had a lot of fun.”
“I'm glad, I hope we can do this again, and soon.”
“Me too.” The porch lights flickered. “That's my dad's way of warning me to get inside before he comes out here and physically drags me back into the house.”
“Then I guess this is good night, I'll call you tomorrow.” The was another pause between the two of us. The type of pause where I don't know if I should kiss him or not, all I can think is that I really want to, but before I can make up my mine a hand reaches behind my neck and drags me down into the most incredible kiss. His lips are so soft and perfect.
Of course that the most perfect kiss after the best date I've ever been on get interrupted by my dates father. Can't say I ever thought that would happen to me again now that I had a real job and was no longer in school.
“Alright Naruto it's time for you to come in, there's no need for you to be getting a cold. And you. You can go home but keep in mind you now have one strike against you.” With that he walked back inside leaving the door open for Naruto to go in.
“Good night Naruto,” I stole one more kiss before I nudged him into the house.
I waited for the door to close in my face before heading back to my car.
Chapter 6
With Naruto
Two months since my first date with Itachi. My dad was still holding that one strike over Itachi's head. Needless to say we were never late again. Itachi made sure of that almost to the point of being annoying, but last time he ended up staying and we watched a movie. I feel asleep on the couch half way though, but when I woke up the next morning I found that Itachi had carried me to my bed. He even left me a note on the table next to my bed. All it said was, 'Good Morning.' It was sweet and understated but perfect.
A knock on the door had me nearly falling on the floor. I flung the door open and there stood Itachi with a smile on his face. “Hey is your stuff ready?”
“Yeah my mom's just grabbing the camera. I can't believe I'm finally graduating!” I yelled jumping into Itachi's arms. Itachi stumbled back and the force of my jump knocked his new glasses out of place. I didn't think I would like Itachi with glasses but actually seeing them on his face I decided that he looked sexier then ever. He put me down while my mother rushed past us.
“Come on boys we're going to be late, your father is already there. Oh wait batteries, I need to get the extra batteries,” she said turning back towards the house.
“Mrs. Uzumaki there's no need I made sure to buy some before I came over. They're in the car along with my camera as well just in case something would happen to yours.”
“You truly are a life saver young man. I don't know what I would do if you weren't here. Alright I think that's everything. Let's go.” She was already climbing into the front seat of Itachi's car. I felt Itachi press his lips to my now bald head which was covered with a light weigh stocking cap. A month and a half ago when my hair started falling out I was so panicked that Itachi wouldn't like me any more. I should have known better, he was actually the one who took me to get my head shaved, he even offered to get his head shaved to but I told him that if he did a stupid think like that I would break up with him right then and their. We joked around the rest of the day, Itachi saying that I was only dating him for his hair.
Once there Naruto took off and headed over to where all the other graduating students. I followed my boyfriend's mother to the seats his father had saved for us. They were so excited, I know how they feel. My brothers graduation was last week I my grandparents and I were so happy for him, my father actually called, which was more then I got when I graduated. Naruto even came and my grandmother loved him, she kept trying to give him mints, and my grandfather kept talking to him about his opinions on which of the students would make a good girlfriend for Sasuke.
It was a long ceremony like all graduations are, but at least the student speeches were humorous. Naruto's mother was snapping pictures right and left and his father had the video camera glued to his hand. After the entire class had walked across the stage all the students through their caps in the air before making their way to their families. I watch Naruto make his way over to us only to have some guy step in to his path. They talked for a moment before they hugged. Now this hug was not just a hug between friends there was more to it then that. I felt this protective, possessive feeling boiling up inside of me and before I knew it I was standing next to Naruto with my arm draped around him and I was pulling him into my chest.
“Hello, I'm Naruto's boyfriend, and you are?”
“I'm Sai, Naruto's ex-boyfriend.” There was a moment while we were sizing each other up.
“So... Anyway where's mom and dad?”
“They're waiting for us over there. Come on. Oh and it was nice to meet you Sai.” I guided Naruto away from Sai, but the smirk on that guys face made me want to go and punch that jerk's smirk right off his face.
“Are you jealous?”
“No... Why do you ask?”
“Well you stormed over when I was talking to my friend who's new boyfriend is now kissing him,” he said pointing over my shoulder to the couple who were kissing, one in a graduation gown. “Then there was the possessive arm on the shoulder and the famous Uchiha glare. Oh, and last but not least the dragging me away even though he was just saying hi.”
“Alright point made. I'm not taking it back though.” He just laughed and stood on his tip toes to kiss my nose. I know that that is cheesy and cliche but I loved it when he did that.
“Congratulations Honey, we are so proud of you,” Naruto's mother said as she hugged him.
“Good job son, Itachi will you take a picture of the three of us?”
“Of course.” I took a few pictures of Naruto with his parents before his mom took the camera from me and told me to get next to Naruto. We took a couple of nice ones before Naruto started in on the silly ones, though I think my favorite was when I kissed him on the cheek when he wasn't expecting it. The look on his face was priceless. Once all the picture taking was done we went out for an early dinner with his parents and once that was over Naruto was mine for the rest of the night. First night together without a time that I was required to have Naruto home by.
We headed strait for our park. There was a swing set that we made our way over to. “So how are you feeling now that your finally done with college? You're in the real world now so what's next?”
“I'm excited, no more school nothing. As for what I'm going to do, I will be working with a local photography place, I showed them my portfolio last week at the interview and they just called this morning I got the job, granted I've got to start with all the small stuff but hopefully it won't be long before I get to do all the cool stuff like weddings and engagement pictures.
“That's great.”
“I've got a chemo treatment tomorrow. A week after that they're going to run some test to see if the chemo is working.”
“Hey no worrying about that right now, we are celebrating.”
“Are we? No we're not celebrating right now, because if we were we wouldn't be talking because we would be too busy making out.” The devilish smirk on his face was more then enough of a hint for me to pull him into my arms and devour his lips. I could feel his hands tracing their way down my chest and I pulled his hips toward me, my hands slowly moving to grab his firm ass. He gasped into our kiss and wrapped his arms around my neck pushing himself closer to me.
I lost track of hold long we'd been making out but Naruto was now lying in the grass underneath of my own body. “I should get you out of here before you catch a cold.”
“No, I'm fi- achoo. Ok we can go.” I laughed and helped him stand. “Itachi, can we go to your place. I don't want to go home right now.”
“Alright.” I was a little nervous, I couldn't remember if I'd picked everything up. I didn't think that we'd end up at my place, I thought that his parents would want to have Naruto with them tonight, though I'm not complaining that I get Naruto all to myself for the evening. I pulled up into my parking space and looked over to Naruto who was fast asleep in the passenger seat.
I ended up carrying him up three flights of stairs to my apartment. The elevator was broken because some stupid kids on the first floor decided to play a prank that went bad and somehow broke the dam thing. I'm not quite sure how I managed it but I was able to unlock the door and get Naruto into my bed.
I took a moment just watching him sleep, he looked so peaceful, you would never even know he was sick. I locked to door quick before making a quick call to his parents letting the know that Naruto had fallen asleep and was staying at my place for the night. I assured them that I would have him checked in at the hospital for his treatment on time.
When I got back to my room I found Naruto curled up with one of my pillows clutched to his chest. Smiling down at the smaller man I gently removed his shoes and socks and pulled the blanket up to his shoulder before I crawled in next to Naruto and curled around his back.
With Naruto
When I woke up this morning the first thing I saw was the clock on the bed side table reading 9:28 am. Then like every other morning I stretched my body only to feel something obstructing my movements. That was the moment I realized that I wasn't alone, my first thought was to panic, but the warm deep chuckle from behind me told me exactly who I was in bed with.
“Good morning Naruto. Did you sleep ok?” my boyfriend asked pulling me closer to him. The warmth from his body relaxed me and I felt so safe with his arms wrapped around my waist while his fingers traced lazy little designs on my stomach.
“Yeah,” I said practically in a daze.
“So are you up for a light breakfast before your treatment today?”
“Hm breakfast let me think?” I smiled devilishly at Itachi then I roll on top of him. Up till this point we'd really only gone to about second base which I was disappointed about. At this moment though I was going to take advantage of this situation. I started to kiss Itachi. Our tongues twisted around each other and his large hands moved down to cup my ass. I couldn't help but moan into his lips. Slowly I broke away and kissed my way down his neck before finding his collar bone. Once there I bit down and the sound Itachi emitted was so sexy I could feel myself getting hard.
I reached down to Itachi's waist and bunched his shirt up his chest before slipping it over his head. Itachi had already started to unbutton the shirt that I'd been wearing yesterday. I moved further down his chest taking one of his nipples into my mouth. Circling my tongue around the nub before taking hold with my teeth and gently pulling. I loved making my normally quiet boyfriend moan when we fooled around.
Itachi's hands moved up to my shouldered before he dragged his nails down my spine, my back arched and a couldn't hold back the moan. I released his nipple from my mouth then kissed my down his stomach pulling at the draw string of his pajama pants. I reached his hip bone, one of my favorite parts of Itachi's body. Pressing my thumb into the spot on his hip that made Itachi shudder I bit down on his other hip bone. I could now feel Itachi's had member pressing into my chest.
“Ahh, Naruto.” Itachi moaned his voice all husky and deep, his hands rubbed over my bald head. It was moments like this that I really missed my hair. I started to pull down his pants hooking his boxes along with them. I got them almost all the way past his hips before he jerked up. “Naruto! What are you doing?”
“Having my breakfast,” I grinned. He pulled me up for a kiss. “Then don't let stop you.” With that he helped me remove that last article of his clothing. I moved down and placed a gentle kiss on his hip, then moved to the inside of his thigh. Then trailing light kisses to the base of his member I licked a slow trail up to the tip then circled around it before drawing back slightly and blowing cool air over the wet trail. I continued licking and blowing cool air before I switched and took as much of his cock into my mouth as I could. The sound of Itachi breathily calling my name made me get harder and harder. While bobbling my head up and down on his cock I started to hum. Itachi grabbed my head tightly and pulled me away as he came. His whole body tensing up and shaking. The expression on his face was burned into my retinas and I never wanted to for get that sight.
“That was amazing, but I think it's my turn to have some breakfast. I'll be right back.” Itachi climbed out of the bed not even having second thoughts of his nudity. What I was not expecting was for him to come back with a bottle of maple syrup. “You might want to take off your pants unless you don't mind them getting sticky.” I couldn't get out of my pants fast enough.
Itachi laid me back before he uncapped the bottle and upending it letting the sweet sticky liquid fall on to my chest. The traced a swirling design all over my chest putting dabs of syrup over my nipples and my cock. “Looks good enough to eat,” Itachi said with his own devilish smile. He started at the pool of syrup at my belly button then followed the trail up to my collar bone then down to my hip and back up to my left nipple. I never though having someone lick syrup off my body would be such a turn on. It seamed to take forever for him to finally reach my cock. He nearly took my whole member in his mouth and sucked so hard I thought I would cum right then and there. He repeated this several times before I screamed his name as I came.
We sat there for a moment just enjoying the moment. “How about I go make some real food and you go take a shower and get cleaned up, explaining to your parents why you smell like syrup and why your shirt is sticking to your chest might be a little awkward.” I laughed and kissed him on the cheek before running to the bathroom. Itachi yelled through the door that I could borrow some clothes if he wanted to.
For the rest of the morning I couldn't keep the smile off my face, not even checking into the hospital could make my happiness disappear. After the treatment was a different story of course. Itachi stayed with me as long as he could until the nurse kicked him out. He promised that he would come back tomorrow and he kissed me good bye.
Chapter 7-Epilogue- Seven Years Later
With Naruto
Itachi was sitting in the chair next to me bouncing his knee in impatience. He'd been pacing not to long ago but after he kept bumping into things he found his way into a chair. He was declared legally blind last year. He could still see somethings but it was really only shapes and blurs of colors. We'd moved in together shortly after I graduated from college and despite the cancer these last seven years have been some of the best years of my life.
Right now we were waiting for the doctor to come back with the results. Today we were going to find out if I gone into remission. My hair had finally grown back which I was happy for, granted it was darker then it was originally, but Itachi said that he liked it even better. I remember one time his said that now my hair didn't make his eyes hurt as much. I punched him for that one, not hard or anything just playfully. I'll admit things aren't perfect one hundred percent of the time but make up sex is one of my favorite types of sex so everything seems to work itself out just fine.
“Ah Mr. Uchiha, Mr. Uzumaki I have the test results back.” The doctor said coming into the room. Itachi was instantly out of his seat and stumbled his way over to me wrapping his arm around my waist. “I have good news. Mr. Uzumaki I'm happy to inform you that you are now officially in remission. Congratulations. Now if you don't mind I have some other patients to check in on so I'll be on my way, you two are free to go.
He was out the door in a flash and Itachi hugged me so hard I thought he was going to squeeze the life right out of me. “I think it's about time to celebrate, what about you?”
“Well I couldn't agree with you more, let's call my parents and your brother and his wife and we can have a family dinner and play card games and just make it a whole family event, oh we should also invite all our friends too.” Itachi growled and started kissing my neck.
“You know very well that's not what I meant. Now lets get home so I can take off all of you clothes and have my way with you.”
We couldn't get home any faster if we had teleported there like they do in Star Trek. The second the door was closed Itachi had me pressed against the door and he was ravaging my lips and neck and pealing away my shirt. I was already working on his pants not even bothering with his shirt. Right now I wanted Itachi inside me and nothing else. Distantly in the background I heard the phone ring but that wasn't important right now the answering machine could totally get it.
We didn't even make it to the bed room much less the couch. Itachi thrust is hot throbbing cock into me right there against the front door. I was screaming his name so loud that I wouldn't be able to talk tomorrow. It was a good thing we lived in a house or the neighbors at the apartment would have been so pissed at us.
By the time we'd both recovered from our first round against the front door we were actually able to make it all the way to the couch before we got distracted again.
The next morning when we got up we found that my parents had called three times wondering about the results of the test. I called them first thing that morning to let them know the good news and I apologized that didn't call back, but they understood and thankfully didn't ask for any details. Talking to may parents about my sex life was one thing I never wanted to talk about with them and vice versa.
Life was never going to be perfect but it was a life that I wouldn't change for all the world. I loved Itachi and he loved me, and if I hadn't gotten sick I never would have met him. Life was funny that way. I truly believed that everything happens for a reason.