Windmills (1/1)
Test run, I suppose this is. Still can't decide if it's crack or not. It's the earliest from the RSAU series, which I wish I could be a little more serious with, but it's so...bleh. I'm just throwing it up now before I get lazy again and forget about the trope bingo thing it was supposed to fufill.
So, yeah, an exercise in futility. And with a false semblance of semi-plot, too. Always, this is why I can't have nice things. I'll come back to it later.
At least I'm keeping the Gorillaz theme...kind of.
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Characters: Naruto/Sasuke
Rating: PG-15
Words: 2469
Summary: ?
And Sasuke breathes.
He forces his eyes to stay open as his chest heaves, fingers trembling against nearly hollow cheeks, mouth pressed hard to lips motionless against his own.
The rasp of Naruto’s name comes heavy from the back of his throat, and he struggles to pull himself away, struggles to hold still the fingers that won’t stop trembling, another murmur caught dry on his tongue, because this isn’t-Naruto can’t-
“Sasuke, you bastard, the hell you do that for?!”
“You weren’t breathing, you idiot!”
“What do you mean I wasn’t breathing?! Weren’t we kissing just now?!”
“Naruto, you-” Sasuke takes in a harsh breath, suddenly drained. His body deflates, and he shuts his eyes, keeps them closed too tight with the release of a slow exhale, before he can allow himself to look at Naruto again. “I thought you…”
“You thought I was…oh.”
“Yeah.” Sasuke moves back, no longer on top of Naruto. He folds his legs on the bed, knee bumping against Naruto’s calf.
“Still, doesn’t mean you had to hit me like that,” Naruto murmurs, hand held gingerly against the side of his face. “With how hard you hit, you could’ve knocked something loose.”
“What part of you weren’t breathing,” Sasuke says, deliberately slow, “do you not understand.”
“That’s what I’m telling you.” Propped by his elbows, Naruto begins to sit up. He shuffles on the bed, throwing his legs over the edge of it. “I never stopped breathing. I couldn’t have.”
“I know what I saw.”
“Well, I’m telling you. I wasn’t out of it. Your eyes did the whole creepy glowy thing, where they went all white, like when you’re healing someone. Except it didn’t feel like that at first. It was something different, because you’ve never done that with me before. But then it…”
Sasuke gives Naruto a sharp look. “What?”
“Then it started to feel good. I mean, really good.”
“That’s your reaction. I tell you I thought you stopped breathing. You just tell me it felt good.”
“Seriously, I was thoughtful enough to buy the nice condoms and everything.” Naruto lets his body sag a little, leaning closer to let his chin rest on Sasuke’s shoulder. “Way to kill the mood.”
“There is no mood. I almost killed you.”
“I already told you it wasn’t like that, didn’t I?”
“I’m being serious, Naruto.”
“Yeah, and I am, too.” Naruto shifts closer to Sasuke, sitting up a little straighter. “Because that something different I mentioned, how come you never told me your life magic works the other way, huh? We know each other, Sasuke. I know you.
“And trying to hide something this big,” he grits out, voice beginning to rise, “when you know the kinds of people who are watching us, the same kinds of people waiting to catch you with your guard down, waiting for me or Itachi or our parents to slip up, any reason to get their-”
“You know better than to try to guilt-trip me with that crap,” Sasuke cuts in, curt, too quiet, jarringly calm against Naruto’s near shouting. “I didn’t know about it, either. Not until recently.”
“Recently?”
“That incident two months ago, with the Federation plants who tried to ambush Sakura’s team at the dock on Gade-II, I figured out what happened.”
“Yeah, because Gade-II is supposed to be neutral territory.” Naruto scoffs. “But Sakura’s team detained him. You didn’t kill him.”
“I felt it, though. It wasn’t so much then, not enough that I couldn’t pass it off as some kind of fluke. But later I realised…”
Naruto glances at the small space between them, a slight frown tugging at the corner of his mouth at the sight of his hand no longer tightly gripping the sheets. “…then how come you didn’t tell me, Sasuke?”
“Get over yourself. Since when am I supposed to tell you everything?”
“Uh, since forever. I tell you everything, don’t I?”
“No, Naruto. You don’t.”
More so than the lack of hesitation, it’s the passive tone of Sasuke’s voice that makes Naruto flinch. “I tell you what I can. What I’m allowed to. It’s not my fault they won’t qualify you to be a pilot. I can’t help that. I don’t come up with the stupid laws. I’m not trying to-”
“Save it for someone who could give a shit.”
“Okay,” Naruto says to himself, taking a calming breath. “Okay, I get it. Not knowing you can manipulate your magic to actually take away someone’s life force instead of just using it to heal, that’s new. But what about transferring your own life force, like giving someone an extra boost or something. Did you know about that, too?”
Dark eyes narrow. “Is that what you meant earlier?”
“The part about you kissing me feeling really good, yeah, that’s what I meant.”
“That’s essentially what healing magic is, anyway. If I do too much at a time, that’s why it tires me out.”
“Like what happened at the river with…”
Sasuke turns stiff. “I didn’t have much of anything to draw from back then. That was the first time I-it doesn’t affect me to that extent anymore. The difference this time is I’ve never tried to transfer life magic that way before. I didn’t even know I could do it without my hands, but seeing you so still like that, watching you just lying there...”
“That’s what you do when you panic?” Naruto tilts his head a little, giving Sasuke a strange look. “You kiss people?”
“I didn’t...panic. I just did what felt natural to do.”
“What felt natural, he says.”
A lot less stiff, Sasuke rolls his eyes, running a hand through his hair. “Apparently, it’s a faster way to take away someone’s life force, too.”
Mouth falling open, Naruto continues to stare.
Nonchalant, Sasuke looks down at his hand held in front of him, fingers outstretched, not looking the least bit apologetic. “At least my control’s much better than what it used to be.”
“What am I-your guinea pig?”
“More or less. It isn’t as if there’s anyone out there who really knows about this.”
“What about all that time you spend on the PDH? Haven’t you found anything yet?”
Sasuke lowers his arm. “I would’ve told you.”
“What about that research you were doing on light users, then? They’re kind of like you, right, so somebody must’ve-”
“Who else would know, Naruto? Who else would-” Sasuke goes silent, clenching his jaw, but he doesn’t wait for an answer neither of them have. “I still don’t know what being a life user really means.”
“You going to tell Itachi?”
“Tell him I almost killed you while we were trying to have sex.”
“Well, when you put it that way…”
Sasuke snorts, flicking Naruto on the arm.
“Seriously, though. Was it really that bad? Like when we were kids and you had to wear those special gloves all the time?”
“For the first couple of seconds, yeah.” Lips pursed, Sasuke turns his gaze down, flexing the fingers of his left hand. “Something like that, I guess. I just thought I grew past needing to have a handicap.”
Naruto bites at the corner of his lower lip. He starts to raise his arm, almost starts to make a subconscious reach for Sasuke’s hand, but thinks better of it when dark eyes catch his gaze. “…I would have been okay, you know,” he says, busying his fingers with the corner of the pillow halfway positioned off the bed. “Having Kyuubi doesn’t exactly mean I’m running low on reserves. So, really, you didn’t take that much. It just surprised me.”
Sasuke doesn’t quite look away. He doesn’t say anything, either.
“We know for a fact your Influence doesn’t work on me. And at least it doesn’t work well on people you’re really close to. I think even Sakura’s almost immune to it by now. And if the whole life force thing has more to do with that…”
“It surprised you so much that you stopped breathing, Naruto.” Lips taut, Sasuke takes a slow breath in, fingers curled into his palm.
“Actually, about that…” Naruto lets go of the pillow, lifting a hand he places over the back of his neck. “The reason I was surprised when you kissed me, that is, how it made me feel, it was like having sex with you. Just…without actually having sex with you,” he admits, cheeks somewhat flushed.
The tension dissipates at the admission, broken by the near embarrassed sort of resignation on Sasuke’s face.
“Um, it was really intense?”
“You’ve never had sex before.”
“Okay, not sex, sex. More like that really good feeling when you’re getting off with your hand, and you know you’re getting closer-almost there-except a whole lot better when you finally-”
“Shut up, Naruto,” Sasuke says, voice not a little strained. “Please.”
“Does this make what you did some kind of sex magic?”
“There’s no such thing as sex magic.”
“Heh. I’m almost tempted to ask you to do it again. Not that I think I’d ever really need it, but that feeling…”
“I wouldn’t do it even if you did ask.”
“I know. I’m just kidding, kidding, but you definitely can’t kiss anybody else like that, though, all right. Definitely shouldn’t...” Naruto trails off for a moment, blue eyes already uneasy appearing more and more on edge, but then he blinks. “Just, uh...yeah. It’s a good thing you wouldn’t, a really good thing because...”
Sasuke almost frowns. “Why?”
“Because you can’t just go around kissing random people?”
“Just tell me.”
“What I’m trying to say is, it felt good, Sasuke.”
“You said that already.”
“And I mean it.”
“How?”
“It was like...like somehow, I was actually getting high off you. The kind of high people can get addicted to real easy. Remember that Fusion Bar we snuck into with Kiba and Toshihiko?”
“You mean that time we hopped a transport all the way to Jeil, after you tried to pick a fight and I had to drag your sorry ass all the way back to the base?”
“No need to be so uptight about it, jeeze.” Naruto makes a dismissive wave with his hand. “Not the first time you hacked a transport without permission. Point is, when you kissed me the first time, even though you were taking some of my life force, it was kind of like the aftermath of inhaling that vapour a little too long. That’s the best I can think of comparing it to for you.”
Sasuke raises an eyebrow. “I didn’t think the Ephemeral there was that strong. Not legally, anyway.”
“It isn’t,” Naruto agrees, but his voice is quick to grow low, more sombre, with that uneasy look back in his eyes. “I’ve never been under your Influence, so I can’t compare it to that, but the second time you kissed me, Sasuke…” He lets out a quick breath, forcing air through his mouth, “it felt like a hell of a lot more.
“So, if that was anything close to what being under your Influence is like, I get why you’re not supposed to do that.” Leaning forward, Naruto licks his lips, arms crossed over his lap. “Except this way’s worse. Because you’re right. It hits a lot faster.”
“I know it has to do with inducing mild euphoric sensations,” Sasuke says, “but there’s nothing sexual about it. I don’t even mean to do it half the time. My Influence doesn’t work like that.”
“Maybe not, but something sure as hell does.”
“It was only a few seconds, though. How badly did it affect you?”
“Not like it would’ve affected someone else, I don’t think. And that could be because of your connection to Kyuubi. It’s just, more than the sudden rush I got from it, it was the way it left me kind of jittery, the way it almost made me need it, and I had to hold myself back from this really strong urge to get it again -I can see how someone might get addicted to that.”
“…it’s too unpredictable to try this again.”
“W-wait a minute, Sasuke. Wait a minute. I never said that. Just because you got too worked up during foreplay, doesn’t mean we can’t still try. We can definitely still-”
“I could’ve killed you, Naruto. I almost-”
“But you didn’t kill me. You won’t kill me. I’m still here, all right. I’m better than that. Sure, you really had me going there for a second, but everything’s okay-I’m okay. Really.”
Naruto gives Sasuke a slight nudge with his elbow. “Besides, death by sex magic, you got to admit, it’s not a bad way to go.”
Sasuke pulls on Naruto’s ear. “Don’t call it that.”
“Whatever it was, I’m pretty sure it scores right up there with the best sex I ever had.”
“We already established you’ve never had sex before.”
“That is so not the point I’m trying to make here, Sasuke.”
“Then what is?”
“Is sex magic illegal?”
“There is no such thing as sex magic. Stop trying to-”
“Would it make you feel better if I called it breath play?” Naruto grins at the dry expression on Sasuke’s face. “Because that does make it sort of like sex magic, doesn’t it. Once you really start to think about it.”
Without warning, Sasuke makes a reach for the collar of Naruto’s shirt, mouth pressed against warm lips, a desperate rush of grappling fingers and unyielding force that topples a surprised Naruto back onto the bed.
When Sasuke starts to pull away, though, this time, nothing happens.
Naruto opens his eyes, watching Sasuke with a soft and lazy grin. “Told you.”
“Nothing.”
“Nope.” Naruto snorts. “At least we made it past the kissing part.” He gives a thoughtful look to Sasuke’s dark blue shirt, tugging at the hem.
“Your clothes are still on, too.”
“Not like we’re in the mood anymore, anyway.” Naruto shifts a little, letting Sasuke get more comfortable. “How long do you think it’ll take for Neji to notice we’re gone?”
“Another hour at least. That’ll give us time to run into Itachi, first.”
“Kind of not looking forward to that.”
“I’m not looking forward to it, either. But since there’s no telling if whatever’s going on with me will manifest itself in other ways, we have to say something.”
“About us trying to have sex or your breath play sex magic?”
“Come here, Naruto. Let me kiss you again.”
“Hey, hey, don’t you threaten me like that. You’re putting me in a serious life-and-death situation. Either your brother kills me when he finds out we tried to have sex, or you kill me when we try to have sex. There is no good ending for me in this.”
So, yeah, an exercise in futility. And with a false semblance of semi-plot, too. Always, this is why I can't have nice things. I'll come back to it later.
At least I'm keeping the Gorillaz theme...kind of.
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Characters: Naruto/Sasuke
Rating: PG-15
Words: 2469
Summary: ?
And Sasuke breathes.
He forces his eyes to stay open as his chest heaves, fingers trembling against nearly hollow cheeks, mouth pressed hard to lips motionless against his own.
The rasp of Naruto’s name comes heavy from the back of his throat, and he struggles to pull himself away, struggles to hold still the fingers that won’t stop trembling, another murmur caught dry on his tongue, because this isn’t-Naruto can’t-
“Sasuke, you bastard, the hell you do that for?!”
“You weren’t breathing, you idiot!”
“What do you mean I wasn’t breathing?! Weren’t we kissing just now?!”
“Naruto, you-” Sasuke takes in a harsh breath, suddenly drained. His body deflates, and he shuts his eyes, keeps them closed too tight with the release of a slow exhale, before he can allow himself to look at Naruto again. “I thought you…”
“You thought I was…oh.”
“Yeah.” Sasuke moves back, no longer on top of Naruto. He folds his legs on the bed, knee bumping against Naruto’s calf.
“Still, doesn’t mean you had to hit me like that,” Naruto murmurs, hand held gingerly against the side of his face. “With how hard you hit, you could’ve knocked something loose.”
“What part of you weren’t breathing,” Sasuke says, deliberately slow, “do you not understand.”
“That’s what I’m telling you.” Propped by his elbows, Naruto begins to sit up. He shuffles on the bed, throwing his legs over the edge of it. “I never stopped breathing. I couldn’t have.”
“I know what I saw.”
“Well, I’m telling you. I wasn’t out of it. Your eyes did the whole creepy glowy thing, where they went all white, like when you’re healing someone. Except it didn’t feel like that at first. It was something different, because you’ve never done that with me before. But then it…”
Sasuke gives Naruto a sharp look. “What?”
“Then it started to feel good. I mean, really good.”
“That’s your reaction. I tell you I thought you stopped breathing. You just tell me it felt good.”
“Seriously, I was thoughtful enough to buy the nice condoms and everything.” Naruto lets his body sag a little, leaning closer to let his chin rest on Sasuke’s shoulder. “Way to kill the mood.”
“There is no mood. I almost killed you.”
“I already told you it wasn’t like that, didn’t I?”
“I’m being serious, Naruto.”
“Yeah, and I am, too.” Naruto shifts closer to Sasuke, sitting up a little straighter. “Because that something different I mentioned, how come you never told me your life magic works the other way, huh? We know each other, Sasuke. I know you.
“And trying to hide something this big,” he grits out, voice beginning to rise, “when you know the kinds of people who are watching us, the same kinds of people waiting to catch you with your guard down, waiting for me or Itachi or our parents to slip up, any reason to get their-”
“You know better than to try to guilt-trip me with that crap,” Sasuke cuts in, curt, too quiet, jarringly calm against Naruto’s near shouting. “I didn’t know about it, either. Not until recently.”
“Recently?”
“That incident two months ago, with the Federation plants who tried to ambush Sakura’s team at the dock on Gade-II, I figured out what happened.”
“Yeah, because Gade-II is supposed to be neutral territory.” Naruto scoffs. “But Sakura’s team detained him. You didn’t kill him.”
“I felt it, though. It wasn’t so much then, not enough that I couldn’t pass it off as some kind of fluke. But later I realised…”
Naruto glances at the small space between them, a slight frown tugging at the corner of his mouth at the sight of his hand no longer tightly gripping the sheets. “…then how come you didn’t tell me, Sasuke?”
“Get over yourself. Since when am I supposed to tell you everything?”
“Uh, since forever. I tell you everything, don’t I?”
“No, Naruto. You don’t.”
More so than the lack of hesitation, it’s the passive tone of Sasuke’s voice that makes Naruto flinch. “I tell you what I can. What I’m allowed to. It’s not my fault they won’t qualify you to be a pilot. I can’t help that. I don’t come up with the stupid laws. I’m not trying to-”
“Save it for someone who could give a shit.”
“Okay,” Naruto says to himself, taking a calming breath. “Okay, I get it. Not knowing you can manipulate your magic to actually take away someone’s life force instead of just using it to heal, that’s new. But what about transferring your own life force, like giving someone an extra boost or something. Did you know about that, too?”
Dark eyes narrow. “Is that what you meant earlier?”
“The part about you kissing me feeling really good, yeah, that’s what I meant.”
“That’s essentially what healing magic is, anyway. If I do too much at a time, that’s why it tires me out.”
“Like what happened at the river with…”
Sasuke turns stiff. “I didn’t have much of anything to draw from back then. That was the first time I-it doesn’t affect me to that extent anymore. The difference this time is I’ve never tried to transfer life magic that way before. I didn’t even know I could do it without my hands, but seeing you so still like that, watching you just lying there...”
“That’s what you do when you panic?” Naruto tilts his head a little, giving Sasuke a strange look. “You kiss people?”
“I didn’t...panic. I just did what felt natural to do.”
“What felt natural, he says.”
A lot less stiff, Sasuke rolls his eyes, running a hand through his hair. “Apparently, it’s a faster way to take away someone’s life force, too.”
Mouth falling open, Naruto continues to stare.
Nonchalant, Sasuke looks down at his hand held in front of him, fingers outstretched, not looking the least bit apologetic. “At least my control’s much better than what it used to be.”
“What am I-your guinea pig?”
“More or less. It isn’t as if there’s anyone out there who really knows about this.”
“What about all that time you spend on the PDH? Haven’t you found anything yet?”
Sasuke lowers his arm. “I would’ve told you.”
“What about that research you were doing on light users, then? They’re kind of like you, right, so somebody must’ve-”
“Who else would know, Naruto? Who else would-” Sasuke goes silent, clenching his jaw, but he doesn’t wait for an answer neither of them have. “I still don’t know what being a life user really means.”
“You going to tell Itachi?”
“Tell him I almost killed you while we were trying to have sex.”
“Well, when you put it that way…”
Sasuke snorts, flicking Naruto on the arm.
“Seriously, though. Was it really that bad? Like when we were kids and you had to wear those special gloves all the time?”
“For the first couple of seconds, yeah.” Lips pursed, Sasuke turns his gaze down, flexing the fingers of his left hand. “Something like that, I guess. I just thought I grew past needing to have a handicap.”
Naruto bites at the corner of his lower lip. He starts to raise his arm, almost starts to make a subconscious reach for Sasuke’s hand, but thinks better of it when dark eyes catch his gaze. “…I would have been okay, you know,” he says, busying his fingers with the corner of the pillow halfway positioned off the bed. “Having Kyuubi doesn’t exactly mean I’m running low on reserves. So, really, you didn’t take that much. It just surprised me.”
Sasuke doesn’t quite look away. He doesn’t say anything, either.
“We know for a fact your Influence doesn’t work on me. And at least it doesn’t work well on people you’re really close to. I think even Sakura’s almost immune to it by now. And if the whole life force thing has more to do with that…”
“It surprised you so much that you stopped breathing, Naruto.” Lips taut, Sasuke takes a slow breath in, fingers curled into his palm.
“Actually, about that…” Naruto lets go of the pillow, lifting a hand he places over the back of his neck. “The reason I was surprised when you kissed me, that is, how it made me feel, it was like having sex with you. Just…without actually having sex with you,” he admits, cheeks somewhat flushed.
The tension dissipates at the admission, broken by the near embarrassed sort of resignation on Sasuke’s face.
“Um, it was really intense?”
“You’ve never had sex before.”
“Okay, not sex, sex. More like that really good feeling when you’re getting off with your hand, and you know you’re getting closer-almost there-except a whole lot better when you finally-”
“Shut up, Naruto,” Sasuke says, voice not a little strained. “Please.”
“Does this make what you did some kind of sex magic?”
“There’s no such thing as sex magic.”
“Heh. I’m almost tempted to ask you to do it again. Not that I think I’d ever really need it, but that feeling…”
“I wouldn’t do it even if you did ask.”
“I know. I’m just kidding, kidding, but you definitely can’t kiss anybody else like that, though, all right. Definitely shouldn’t...” Naruto trails off for a moment, blue eyes already uneasy appearing more and more on edge, but then he blinks. “Just, uh...yeah. It’s a good thing you wouldn’t, a really good thing because...”
Sasuke almost frowns. “Why?”
“Because you can’t just go around kissing random people?”
“Just tell me.”
“What I’m trying to say is, it felt good, Sasuke.”
“You said that already.”
“And I mean it.”
“How?”
“It was like...like somehow, I was actually getting high off you. The kind of high people can get addicted to real easy. Remember that Fusion Bar we snuck into with Kiba and Toshihiko?”
“You mean that time we hopped a transport all the way to Jeil, after you tried to pick a fight and I had to drag your sorry ass all the way back to the base?”
“No need to be so uptight about it, jeeze.” Naruto makes a dismissive wave with his hand. “Not the first time you hacked a transport without permission. Point is, when you kissed me the first time, even though you were taking some of my life force, it was kind of like the aftermath of inhaling that vapour a little too long. That’s the best I can think of comparing it to for you.”
Sasuke raises an eyebrow. “I didn’t think the Ephemeral there was that strong. Not legally, anyway.”
“It isn’t,” Naruto agrees, but his voice is quick to grow low, more sombre, with that uneasy look back in his eyes. “I’ve never been under your Influence, so I can’t compare it to that, but the second time you kissed me, Sasuke…” He lets out a quick breath, forcing air through his mouth, “it felt like a hell of a lot more.
“So, if that was anything close to what being under your Influence is like, I get why you’re not supposed to do that.” Leaning forward, Naruto licks his lips, arms crossed over his lap. “Except this way’s worse. Because you’re right. It hits a lot faster.”
“I know it has to do with inducing mild euphoric sensations,” Sasuke says, “but there’s nothing sexual about it. I don’t even mean to do it half the time. My Influence doesn’t work like that.”
“Maybe not, but something sure as hell does.”
“It was only a few seconds, though. How badly did it affect you?”
“Not like it would’ve affected someone else, I don’t think. And that could be because of your connection to Kyuubi. It’s just, more than the sudden rush I got from it, it was the way it left me kind of jittery, the way it almost made me need it, and I had to hold myself back from this really strong urge to get it again -I can see how someone might get addicted to that.”
“…it’s too unpredictable to try this again.”
“W-wait a minute, Sasuke. Wait a minute. I never said that. Just because you got too worked up during foreplay, doesn’t mean we can’t still try. We can definitely still-”
“I could’ve killed you, Naruto. I almost-”
“But you didn’t kill me. You won’t kill me. I’m still here, all right. I’m better than that. Sure, you really had me going there for a second, but everything’s okay-I’m okay. Really.”
Naruto gives Sasuke a slight nudge with his elbow. “Besides, death by sex magic, you got to admit, it’s not a bad way to go.”
Sasuke pulls on Naruto’s ear. “Don’t call it that.”
“Whatever it was, I’m pretty sure it scores right up there with the best sex I ever had.”
“We already established you’ve never had sex before.”
“That is so not the point I’m trying to make here, Sasuke.”
“Then what is?”
“Is sex magic illegal?”
“There is no such thing as sex magic. Stop trying to-”
“Would it make you feel better if I called it breath play?” Naruto grins at the dry expression on Sasuke’s face. “Because that does make it sort of like sex magic, doesn’t it. Once you really start to think about it.”
Without warning, Sasuke makes a reach for the collar of Naruto’s shirt, mouth pressed against warm lips, a desperate rush of grappling fingers and unyielding force that topples a surprised Naruto back onto the bed.
When Sasuke starts to pull away, though, this time, nothing happens.
Naruto opens his eyes, watching Sasuke with a soft and lazy grin. “Told you.”
“Nothing.”
“Nope.” Naruto snorts. “At least we made it past the kissing part.” He gives a thoughtful look to Sasuke’s dark blue shirt, tugging at the hem.
“Your clothes are still on, too.”
“Not like we’re in the mood anymore, anyway.” Naruto shifts a little, letting Sasuke get more comfortable. “How long do you think it’ll take for Neji to notice we’re gone?”
“Another hour at least. That’ll give us time to run into Itachi, first.”
“Kind of not looking forward to that.”
“I’m not looking forward to it, either. But since there’s no telling if whatever’s going on with me will manifest itself in other ways, we have to say something.”
“About us trying to have sex or your breath play sex magic?”
“Come here, Naruto. Let me kiss you again.”
“Hey, hey, don’t you threaten me like that. You’re putting me in a serious life-and-death situation. Either your brother kills me when he finds out we tried to have sex, or you kill me when we try to have sex. There is no good ending for me in this.”