Unexpected: Part I

"You're an idiot."

Naruto merely grinned at the whispered comment from his best friend. Even if Sasuke thought he was an idiot, his friend still followed him into his parents' bedroom.

"You don't have to whisper. No one's here," Naruto said with a roll of his eyes. There was no way in hell he'd be trying to sneak into his dad's secret porn stash if either of his parents were home.

"I doubt I'll find it any good," Sasuke added. Naruto shook his head. With Sasuke's asexual attitude, the poor guy would probably die a virgin.

"I heard dad talking to Jiraiya. Dad said the latest issue Jiraiya sent him was the best yet. The pictures were so good that the sex was so-"

"I don't want to know. It's your parents. Doesn't that gross you out?"

"Nah. I had to come in this world somehow, you know? Plus, it's cute how my parents love each other so much. I mean, it's obvious that they are the only ones for each other. I mean, it was a little weird realizing Jiraiya supplies my dad with dirty magazines to improve their sex life, but my guess is that it just gives them new ideas and stuff."

Sasuke stood awkwardly off to the side of the room blatantly refusing to pilfer the room as Naruto got onto his hands and knees and looked under the bed.

"Not there," Naruto said a little disappointed as he stood, brushing off the carpet fuzz.

"The drawers?"

Naruto checked the night stand on the left by his dad's side of the bed. The top drawer was filled with a strange assortment of things including dress socks, an old baseball, a box of buttons, and several papers – but no porn magazine.

He opened the bottom drawer which held a box of condoms, what looked like a riding crop, a bottle of massage oil/lube, and a stack of condoms. Grinning triumphantly, Naruto grabbed the top magazine and displayed it to Sasuke.

"Found -"

He stopped dumbfounded as soon as his eyes focused on exactly what was on the cover of the magazine. His eyes bugged out as he looked at the picture on the front. Sasuke, who hadn't gotten a good look at the front, came closer to Naruto who stood stock still. His eyebrows rose slightly upon seeing what was in Naruto's hands. Naruto, by contrast, stared open mouthed with wide eyes.

"Hn."

"It's...it's...a - a - it's a -"

"Gay magazine," Sasuke supplied as Naruto's words had failed him.

Naruto sunk down onto his parents' bed, the magazine still in his hands. He looked transfixed, almost horrified, at the lewd picture on the front depicting two naked men who were groping each other's dicks.

There was a strange buzzing that filled Naruto's head. It was as if everything he had thought he'd known about his dad came crashing down around him. His father, loving dad and doting husband, hording gay magazines in his night drawer.

"I thought it was strange your dad needed a magazine to get excited," Sasuke noted.

The words snapped Naruto out of his stupor.

"Don't say that!" Naruto growled, hitting Sasuke with the magazine. As if he realized what was still in his hand, Naruto flung the magazine on top of the others before slamming the drawer shut and storming out of his parents' bedroom, not bothering to wait for Sasuke.

His thoughts were jumbled. He didn't understand it. His father loved his mother, didn't he? But why did he have gay magazines in his nightstand? Naruto shook his head. Maybe it was all a gag...? Naruto's thoughts changed gear. He wouldn't put it past Jiraiya to send his father something like that as a joke. He'd only seen the top one. Maybe the other ones were different. As he made an abrupt turn about with his intent on seeing what was in the other magazines, he had to stop as he came face to face with Sasuke.

Naruto had forgotten Sasuke was even there. He walked right by his friend as he stormed back into his parents' room. He opened the drawer, hoping to see that the other magazines contained something else. Naruto's face fell as he saw each one of them contained nothing but naked men in lewd positions.

He slammed the drawer shut again before all but vaulting over to his mother's night stand. He rummaged in her drawers, hoping to find some het magazines. The only magazine Naruto found was one with knitting patterns.

After he closed the drawer, he sat on the bed silently. He didn't know why he felt so angry at his parents, his dad especially. He'd never once thought about his dad as being gay. It felt as if his whole life he'd been lied to. Was his parents' marriage a sham? Was his dad just with his mom because he felt he'd had to get married and live a "normal" life?

"This is awful," Naruto said. He couldn't believe this.

"It's awful because your dad likes to look at pictures of naked guys?" Sasuke asked quietly.

"Yes. It's just wrong," Naruto snapped. Everything he thought he knew was messed up. He opened his mouth, intent on explaining this to Sasuke, but he caught the look on Sasuke's face, making him stop. Sasuke's face was blank, but there was something about the set of his shoulders that made Naruto pause. In fact, Sasuke's face had gone so devoid of anything that it wiped the magazines from Naruto's mind. He stared at his friend, wondering why he had gone so rigid and so expressionless.

"If it's awful...if it's wrong that a man likes another man, then I guess we shouldn't be friends anymore. Because some of us prefer guys. And you've no idea how much it hurts to hide it."

Naruto stared at Sasuke in shock. It took a moment for him to process just exactly what Sasuke was saying, just exactly what Sasuke was confessing.

"Sasuke?"

Sasuke shook his head before leaving Naruto's parents' bedroom. Naruto's could do nothing but stare blankly at the spot where Sasuke had just stood even as he heard Sasuke slam his front door shut.

He hadn't expected his dad to be gay. But to find out Sasuke was too?

Naruto didn't have the slightest idea as to what to do.

Hi. I know, I know. I haven't updated anything in a long time. And this is something new which means I'm not updating my other uncompleted fics. Don't worry: these chapters are short and already finished! Hope you like it. ~ Jelp