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"...you really did that for them?"

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Enamorado de Ti

"Why you'd get them?"

"Get what?" Naruto says, through the low hum of the TV, from the movie they're supposedly watching. There's a light tug on the lobe of his left ear, and he turns his gaze away from the TV, looks to Sasuke draped comfortably over him.

"Your piercings." With his fingers, carefully, Sasuke examines a small hooped, onyx and silver earring, slowly moving to trace the thin, matching ear cuff above it. "What made you get them?"

"Oh, those." Naruto sits up a little. He grunts, trying to get as comfortable as he can where he's sat at the far end of the couch, adjusting his arm around Sasuke. It's already late, but he doesn't really feel like moving just yet.

"Got them done a couple years back, but I only did it because Sakura and Ino wanted to get their ears pierced, and they couldn't admit they didn't want to do it alone—that's why I have two in mine, one for each piercing they have in theirs."

With another light tug on Naruto's ear, Sasuke gives a soft hum, gives the smallest little smile that's still able to make Naruto's heart stutter, makes Naruto all but falter beneath Sasuke's gentle expression that falls somewhere in between teasing and fond.

"Did you cry?"

"Really, Sasuke?" Naruto returns the teasing in dark eyes with a dry look. "Really?" He gives Sasuke's side a slight squeeze in warning, not enough to tickle, but just enough just to make Sasuke squirm a little. "And for your information, no, I didn't cry, you jerk."

Sasuke doesn't try to move from the arm around him, but he lets his smile fall away, turning his head to rest on Naruto's shoulder, gaze turned toward the TV.

"...you really did that for them?"

Naruto snorts, absently smiling at the memory of Sakura and Ino practically dragging him out the house, once he offered to get his ear pierced with them, too. "Of course I did. I know I've always been really bad at spoiling them, but they're my little sisters, you know. I can't help it.

"That's just something girls their age want to do, I guess, but when Mom and Dad finally said they could get their ears pierced, even though they were excited about it, they were still a little nervous about the whole thing, so I just wanted to show them that it'd be okay.

"And I let them pick out the earrings they wanted me to wear, too, the same style I wear now. They said it really suits me, and I think it's a good look. I mean, I've gotten compliments before—and listen, before you even start, as much as you like to pull on my ear, almost as much as you like to touch my sideburns, there's no way you can tell me you don'tlik—"

Sasuke cuts him off with a kiss, more than a brief meeting of lips that catches Naruto off-guard, as he feels himself being pushed towards the armrest of the couch. Mindful of Naruto's glasses, Sasuke tilts his head, resting a hand against the side of Naruto's face, drawing him into the real lush kind of kissing Naruto quickly found himself getting addicted to, so easy to get caught up in, a casual sort of intimacy that doesn't go any further than unhurried touches, even as his hands move to rest on Sasuke's hips, helping to hold him steady, and he closes his eyes, sighs into the fingers gently tugging on his hair, because, yeah, Sasuke likes to pull on that, too.

Too soon, Sasuke begins to pull away, letting his hands fall.

Slowly, Naruto opens his eyes. He blinks, raising his gaze to Sasuke peering down at him. "...not that this is me complaining or anything," he says, licking his lips, tapping his fingers against Sasuke's side, "but, uh, what was that for?"

Sasuke just watches him, dark eyes again turned soft, as he reaches to carefully adjust the thin red frames resting on the bridge of Naruto's nose.

"You really are anal retentive, you know that. They weren't even crooked this time."

"You're just so..."

"What?"

"Nothing." Sasuke gives a small shake of his head. "You're just being you."

"I'm just being me?"

"...yeah."