Author's note:

Welcome to my brand new story! I started writing this yesterday and just finished it, which is a little crazy, since it's 5 in the morning where I'm at! I guess vacation does that stuff to you ;)

Please enjoy the story, it's my first official fanfiction and I'm excited to have it published, I've never written anything this long— aside from assignments.

Warnings: This contains multiple pairings (SasuNaru and KibaNaru – minor pairings might appear too) BOYxBOY and harsh language.
Disclaimer: I don't own any of the characters, and I have nothing to do with the creation of Naruto or anything else that involve the original series.

Notes: Italic text means the occurrence is of past tense, or is used to emphasize peculiar thinking, dreams and often sarcasm.
Bold letters are just to emphasize points, sounds, etc!
Things marked with a * will be things pertaining a further explanation at the bottom in my final A/N.

Chapter 1: A Raven and a Hound

Inhale, exhale, inhale, exhale—

It was just like breathing but more comforting.

His lungs were clinging onto the smoke like it was his last stash of air supply. His hair was clinging to his face like it was seaweed washed up on the shore. Hadn't it been for his hand covering his cigarette the rain would have strangled the dim light emitting from the cancer stick.

He ignored the sounds of whistling and applause from behind him. It was just the football team cheering at the wet cheerleaders. Football players were all emitting from the field; the rain had cancelled their Saturday match. Fortunately for Sasuke, who didn't wish to witness yet another victory for their home team.

Kiba Inuzuka was on said team. He was the football captain to be exact.

What a jerk.

Leaning against the metal fence of the roof he was currently situated on, he ignored the shivers that occupied his body when the cold wet metal came into contact with his clammy drawstrings hoodie that met his already freezing skin.

Usually Sasuke Uchiha was well groomed and definitely not clammy in any way, but how could he care, when there was no one around to witness? Though he preferred the solitude that was to be found on the roof, he often found his mind wandering, and finding pleasure at resting upon memories of a certain best friend of his. The only other person whose company he didn't mind at all times.

His own personal sun.

He had waited a long time, for what to be exact he hadn't known.

But one day when he had been standing in the hallways of middle school, minding his own business, he had stumbled across it. And the sight he had to behold was shaped in a blur of yellow, and oh, was it a sight to behold:

The sun, it was a beautiful thing, a bold little creature with pearly white teeth, skin that shone just like sun rays, which golden liqueur was overruled only by the fair hair that matched. It had tan, taut, skin that would crinkle at its eyes to form the most charming of traits- crows feet, as it grinned brilliantly. And as if to prove a point of perfection the blonde had the bluest eyes he'd ever seen, they were clear like exotic ocean depths.

Sasuke had watched as the boy laughed his way through hallway, barely stumbling on any of the obstacles blocking the floor. He had a petite stature, yet his boldness occupied the entire room. He lit it up. Sasuke was sold from the very moment he laid eyes on him. Now he had only needed an introduction–

"NARUTO! NARUTO UZUMAKI, YOU COME BACK HERE! THIS IS NOT ACCEPTABLE BEHAVIOR!"

And then it had been granted.

Before Sasuke had been able to progress what had happened, the boy that mere seconds ago ran across hallway like life was just fun and games, was being chased down by one of the teachers.

Umino Iruka was a pitiful sight; the man couldn't keep up with Naruto that much was clear. He was sweaty, exhausted, and failing miserably at suppressing laughter too at that. So whatever this boy had done, it must have been some sort of prank and a funny one at that.

Sasuke had wondered why he hadn't noticed Naruto before— then again, Suna middle school had been fused with his current school; Konoha middle school, in order to save money. Therefore it had resulted in loads of new kids roaming the whereabouts of his education. But how could one not notice a person like that?

Sasuke snorted at the memory. Things had gotten really complicated since then. Middle school had passed and he was a senior in high school now, together with Naruto. They would be graduating once summer came, and it was a scary thought. But as much as it seemed to unsettle Sasuke, Naruto didn't seem fazed by it the least. If only life was as simple as Naruto made it seem. If only he didn't need to focus on his grades, college, and paying rent. He closed his eyes for a second, letting his mind wander, and his dark eyelashes flutter across his cheeks. There were so many things to be concerned about... A colorful picture strew across his eyelids at the interruption that came in the form of his favorite sound—

"Smoking isn't healthy, y'know." A velvet voice muttered.*

Ah, when speaking of the sun of course it showed... Sasuke glanced sideways towards the door of the roof.

"Ramen isn't healthy either, dobe." He said, noticing the hideous orange excuse of a raincoat his friend wore: "And that color definitely can't be healthy for my eyes either." He grunted, displeased, yet withstanding to crack a smile at the tinier persons appearance. He hadn't been expecting him.

"You're real jerk, you know that?" Naruto said with a pout. At this Sasuke couldn't contain it any longer and smirked.

"Yeah, yet you chose to come seek me out." He answered, quitting the bud of his cigarette against the metal fence. With his brown boots he bounced lazily off the fence and stretched, feeling rusty. Man, for just how long had he been standing there?

He savored his friend an odd look:

"Weren't you supposed to be hanging out with dog-breath today?" He asked, curiosity finally outmatching his need to be cool.

At the statement Naruto flushed lightly, and Sasuke suspected he knew why.

"Err, well… the team's coach sorta made them go for extra training hours, now that they were here anyway and hadn't wasted any energy on the match." Naruto scratched the back of his head and smiled sheepishly. "I guessed you'd be here… though, I still don't get why you like hanging around here so much, especially on Saturdays when no one is around. Dude, this roof is dreary."

At this Sasuke quirked an eyebrow; obviously Naruto didn't get the main point of being on said roof was the solitude itself, but he'd let that one slide in order to question Naruto's choice of words: "Have you been reading the dictionary lately?" He asked sounding slightly amused. It was not like Naruto to use words such as; dreary. It almost sounded stupid coming from the blonde.

Naruto flushed beet red at this, okay, so Sasuke knew his vocabulary wasn't the greatest, but had it been this obvious he had done a little studying of his own? Apparently it had. The fact that Sasuke noticed every slight change Naruto ever went through didn't help the fact either. Or the fact that he had pronounced the word extremely poorly...

Naruto turned to face towards the door, sparing himself the embarrassment as a clear, heavy, neon sign was screaming the truth whenever he tried to lie to the raven.

Yup, he wasn't going there again.

"C-can we go now? It's cold, teme!" He complained, completely ignoring the other's mockery and shivering slightly from the now dusty rain… and the anticipation running through his veins, as he awaited the other's usual greeting.

Sasuke nodded, "Sure… but first." He went for the shorter of the two and placed a hand on his shoulder, slowly dragging him around and meeting his ocean depths of eyes:
"Haven't you forgotten something?" He asked, smirking confidently as he brought the blonde closer to himself to share one of those rare moments.

Sasuke narrowed his eyes at the sight of the moistened lips before him; Naruto had licked them, probably anticipating his move.

So the blonde had accepted the action by now, actually welcomed it?

A warm feeling spread throughout his body at the thought of Naruto wanting this just as badly as he did.

He let his hand go from Naruto's shoulder and slid it down his back, ignoring the wetting feel of his raincoat. And then their lips met, caused by a gentle jolt to Naruto's chin made by Sasuke's index finger and thumb.

Both their eyes were closed. At first Naruto had refused to close his, finding the taste of smoke that resided in Sasuke's mouth to be repulsive, but as Sasuke tugged lightly on his bottom lip with his teeth, he had been urged to do it anyway, and let a slight whimper escape his mouth in the process.

Sasuke's hand was rubbing comforting circles on his back, helping Naruto keep his warmth.

At the feel of Sasuke's hot appendage meeting with his own, Naruto mewled, all memories of the now distant taste of smoke gone and replaced by the addictive taste of Sasuke himself. Now that he was being held close to the other, he had no problems keeping his warmth. And with Sasuke's hand placed at the small of his back, that kept urging him closer and closer, until it was impossible for them to be further apart, Naruto felt his cheeks burn because it surely was getting hot outside.

As Sasuke enjoyed pushing at the younger's tongue and turning him into a flustered mess, he felt his heartbeat rapidly increase, along with the blood rushing from all the logical places of his body to more primal ones. He groaned in the kiss, when Naruto decided to respond teasingly and draw his tongue back, only to draw Sasuke's bottom lip into his mouth and suck on it lightly, before letting go of it and looking up at the older of the two.

Okay, so deeming by how talented Naruto was rapidly turning, they might have done this more times than accounted for.

Looking at Naruto was breathtaking, only in moments as these had the younger the confidence to look at him so lecherous. The dark blue hue Naruto's eyes had taken as they met with the obsidian eyes of Sasuke, it drove him wild, to just know he could bring out a side like that in the ever so innocent blonde. He felt like starving, he hungered so much for the younger… right up until the moment loud whistling sounds were to be heard from the field again.

It had stopped raining and the team was back on track, and it reminded Sasuke of the Inuzuka; his competition, the only other guy that had claimed Naruto's admiration besides him. And then those compassionate feelings turned into dust and boiled into something dangerously align to pure hatred.

Noticing how Sasuke's eyes went from hazy and darkened into alight and angered, Naruto sensed the upcoming sentence:

"You're not going to go to Inuzuka's house later, are you?" Sasuke nearly spat, having a hard time containing himself. He hoped his best friend would stay with him for the night, even if it meant sharing a bed- or rather, definitely if it meant sharing his bed.

Naruto looked sideways, successfully avoiding Sasuke's gaze: "I might… I'm not quite sure. I mean, Sasuke… he is my… my friend too." He looked at the ravenette, hoping for some sort of understanding, but he was met by none.

Sasuke only grunted his response, muttering something about his car, as he made the way down from the roof with his brown boots heavily set on the stairs, nearly stamping.

It seemed like it was only natural for dogs to bark at ravens, and for ravens to cry right back. But Naruto sure wished it didn't have to be that way.

Sighing, he followed his for once stubborn best friend down to his car.

"Gy-ah, S-Sasuke… ngh, you're heavy, g-get off! A-ah! Ha… ah…ngh… ah." Naruto wiggled underneath him. Sweaty and exhausted from use, he was slightly trembling from the activity too, not being used to the extra weight exerted on him.
He had just rapidly fought against Sasuke's repulsing threat of him having to eat every nail in his floor, if he didn't change channels into something more… intelligent. This guy was seriously too weird.

"T-Teme, move!" He growled a bit aggressively, trying to get rid of the other.

Sasuke was currently displayed languidly on top of Naruto, his legs in between the blonde's, and his strong arms reaching up and pinning the dobe's hands to the floor. They had been situated on his couch earlier, but since Naruto had insisted on them watching Geordie Shore, which Sasuke found utterly and amazingly boring, they had ended up fighting. Of course Sasuke intended it, since he was the one to smack Naruto's face with a pillow, when his boredom grew too intense, which had evolved into the blonde fighting back, which let to further ado, of course. Things had escalated rather quickly and they were now lying on Sasuke's wooden floor.

A victorious smirk was evident on the raven's face: "Come on, a fight between friends have never killed anyone."

Naruto snorted at that.

"A fight between friends..? You practically suffocated me with that pillow!" He huffed, not noticing the hungry eyes that locked onto his panting body, looking especially at the lump in throat as it heaved when he breathed. The sounds Naruto had been making under their slight encounter had left Sasuke lusting for something more intimate, something forbidden.

The hunger never seemed to vanish.

Naruto was met by the feel of soft lips on his neck, and he yelped incredulous at the feeling. Asking, with a slight hiccup to his voice, the obvious virgin exclaimed:

"W-What d-do you think you're doing!?"

Sometimes Sasuke had to be surprised; he could be kissing Naruto, making heavily out with him, but whenever it went from using his mouth to touching him beneath the clothing, or torso, kissing any other part of his body, the blonde would become a stuttering ball of insecurity. Naruto would be pushing him away and become horrifically embarrassed. Now Sasuke knew Naruto found it odd that he liked to kiss him, but since Sasuke barely ever made bolder attempts, Naruto had assumed it was something just accounted for him, his best friend, and thought that it was just another quirk to Sasuke's odd personality. And it sure as hell was; it was only accounted for the blonde. Damn it. Sasuke longed for Naruto.

And he had been doing so for 4 years now.

When puberty hit him hard in the genitalia at the age of 14, Sasuke had started being horny and lusty for his best friend, and he had been ever since. Now in middle school Sasuke had wanted simple things like hanging around and first base touching, being the asocial bastard that he was, he didn't need much more, but hormones got the better of him, and now he couldn't help but to cream his pants lightly by the mere thought of Naruto's delicious body.

Sitting up with fingers longing for something much sweeter, much more off limit, and ignoring the awkward tension that grew between the two as he didn't care to explain his actions, Sasuke grabbed a hold of his pack of cigarettes. There was no explanation to his actions; he had just felt like kissing his best friend's neck. It was perfectly normal. Well, at least it was for him. He opened the pack— Benson & Hedges never let him down. He set one of the sticks on fire and inhaled deeply, his eyes coming down to close, immediately appreciating the relaxing feel of the nicotine flowing through his veins, which was much to Naruto's dismay.

"You really shouldn't be enjoying something so disgusting." The blonde said, scrunching up his nose at the smell.

Usually Sasuke didn't smoke inside but sometimes, most often during after their nightly cuddles, or brotherly fights, the older boy craved for his cancer sticks. Badly. Naruto didn't know why, and couldn't figure out it was because Sasuke fought against a fiery want to screw him senseless- a want he futilely tried to suffocate in smoke. So of course Naruto just thought of it as a typical smoker thing— Sasuke just couldn't contain his cravings any longer and just had to have it.

He blushed slightly; somehow that had sounded perverted. And if only he had known how truthful his thoughts had been, if only they had been with the intention of pertaining something perverted.

Peering up at Sasuke again, he gave him a sly smile, it usually got the older to quit when he offered him something instead of smoking, something better than smoking:

"I'll let you kiss me goodnight if you quit that one." He said, feeling slightly embarrassed at his own proposition— Perhaps it was a tad early to be kissing goodnight?

He knew it was just a friendly thing they did, yet he couldn't stop the butterflies from fluttering around his stomach.

At this Sasuke perked up slightly… a kiss? What a bold move, usually Naruto just offered something sweet like stroking his hair, which he fucking loved. Now kissing they only did when they met one another, or whenever Sasuke got really drunk and told Naruto he had missed him cause then it only seemed fair to kiss; it wasn't often that Sasuke was in an emotionally honest mood /slash/ it was close to never. It was somewhat like whereas other friends hugged when they met, they just engaged in kissing instead. Or Sasuke initiated it; Naruto just went by the flow of it, accepting the gesture.

Sasuke was quick at flickering the barely lit cigarette to the ashtray standing on his living room table, and gulping down some water from one of the glasses that had been placed on said furniture next to his couch, before dragging his best friend, who laid on the floor, by his waist towards him.

Now with Naruto situated in his lap, in a more intimate pose than what they normally engaged in, he lent up and captured the other's lips. He brushed some stray hairs away from Naruto's face in the process, and couldn't help but to curve his lips upwards just the tiniest at the sight of his best friend's cheeks reddening, before they both closed their eyes and got lost in sensation.

Naruto shivered at the contact; he liked being manhandled. It made him feel secure; like someone was protecting him and he wasn't so lonely any more. Aside from Sasuke, his best friend, he didn't have many close to him; he wouldn't let them. So in this exact moment he felt cared for, wanted even. He let his arms slide around the neck of his bestie, closed his eyes as well and sighed into the kiss… this was relaxing. Sitting like this in Sasuke's lap and being kissed by those talented lips, it was like there wasn't a care in the world. Naruto intertwined his fingers in the hair of his raven, enjoying the sensation of their tongues clashing in a fight for dominance.

For once Naruto won the battle and Sasuke let him conquer his mouth with a pleasant groan. Naruto's chest swelled with something akin to pride at this, he knew no one, aside for him, who got to conquer the cavern of the youngest Uchiha. Though his victory was short lived, as the other stroked his sides tenderly and fought back once more, taking back his territory and claiming Naruto's mouth as his. A gasp escaped Naruto, his heart pounded steadily in his chest… this had definitely been one of their longer kisses. Tugging lightly at Sasuke's hair he now signaled the kiss had to end. They were both running short on air supply and needed to breathe, much to Sasuke's dismay.

The Uchiha applied to the order, slowly dragging away from the plump lips of his boyfrie- best friend. He looked Naruto over and took in the arousing sight, memorizing it for later use. Naruto looked stunning; breathless and blushing, wet lips, slightly swelled from kissing and hazy eyes, alongside his clinging body. He had his arms draped around Sasuke's neck and his legs hugging his torso. If they could only stay like this forever- but then it came. Sharp, harsh knocking was at the door, signaling their bonding time was over.

It was as though whenever Sasuke was situated in a perfect moment with Naruto, someone just had to come and ruin it. And most usually it was a certain idio-

"Kiba!" Naruto exclaimed, rising hurriedly from their intimate stance on the ground.

Hn, hadn't he known?

Naruto hurriedly began collecting his belongings that were strewn across the living room. "Shit, I totally forgot to check my phone; he must have been waiting in his car. And he's taking me to dinner too, that isn't nice. Fuck." he cursed, before rushing to the door in such a hurry Sasuke barely managed to tell him goodbye before it was slammed in his face.

Of course it had to be mutt-boy… Who else would ruin such a perfect moment for him?

Rising from his position on the floor, Sasuke went for the door to tell his best friend what an idiot he was. But when he opened it, the sight that met him made him still in his tracks… Kiba, the broad, tall, beast that he was, was hovering over his petite best friend and hugging him, his hands a little too low for Sasuke's liking.

Naruto was smiling warmly and returning the gesture, chirping about how excited he was to' not only go eating, but go to the movies too at Kiba's expense? What a nice gesture!' Obviously the blonde didn't get he was being treated on a date. Sasuke rolled his eyes at this, trying to ignore the pang of hurt that resided in his chest at that moment.

Fuck that one burnt, Inuzuka.

When Kiba caught glimpse of him his mouth thinned, hiding his animalistic fangs and flattening the grin that moments ago adorned his handsome features, as he had been occupied by the sunny personality of Naruto. Like Naruto, and unlike Sasuke, Kiba was tan, and that tan only empathized the white growl that appeared when the mutt bared his fangs in a snarl.

"Uchiha," he spat.

Sasuke just glared. "Dog breath," he said with equally vehemence to his voice.

This of course caught Naruto's interest, who took hold of Kiba's arm, not noticing the glimpse of satisfaction that flew into the warm depths of the dog lover's hazel eyes at the action, and the flash of jealousy that tinted Sasuke's obsidian gaze with a nasty green.

"You guys, you should really try being nicer to each another! It'd be EPIC if we could all just hang out, believe it." He lectured exasperatedly.

"Like, I'm cool, Kiba's cool, you're okay too, teme— We'd be one legit team of awesome! You get what I'm saying? Now come on, I don't want us to miss the movies! See ya on Monday, teme!"
Naruto exclaimed happily, turning around to walk towards Kiba's car with the brunette as escort, totally uncaring for an answer because they had this debate an unfathomable amount of times already, and it didn't matter what Sasuke nor Kiba said, Naruto didn't wish for them to argue; they just had to listen and obey.

At the mention of Sasuke being 'okay' and not cool like Kiba himself, the bastard quirked an amused eyebrow, gloating in victory.

So as if to emphasize Naruto's point Kiba nodded and sarcastically said his goodbye to Sasuke, whilst glancing over his shoulder to look at the raven:

"He's right, duck butt, you're o-k-a-y." He spelled. "I'd like totally love hanging out with you. On Monday. After I've spent my amazing weekend with Naruto. See you princess." He pursed his lips and winked at the Uchiha, knowingly pulling Naruto closer, as they ventured the mockingly long road down to the big, fat, jerks fugly shit car. That probably smelled like dog shit and barf.

Sasuke nearly snapped at that. Not cool, not cool at all.

But Sasuke never let his cool demeanor slip, not unless he was around Naruto.

And he didn't let it slip now either. He just kept glaring at the bastard.

And he didn't fail to notice the knowing smirk that had adorned Kiba's face, as he entered his car with Naruto and drove away. So he had won. For now. And the brunette knew it.

But now was not the final round… Sasuke had to think for himself in bitter defeat.

( A/N ): Hello and kudos for reading!

Please keep in mind that English is not my first language. I hope you enjoyed the story and will stay tuned, please review!

Notes (further explanation):

* Yes, Naruto's voice is Sasuke's favorite sound.

July 19th, 2013