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Jiraiya was awake on Saturday at seven past eight getting ready for work. He had a class at nine about literary criticisms and was fixing his tie in the bathroom mirror. There was a rapid knock at the door and Jiriaya stopped. It was rare to get visitors, especially in the morning. Grumbling to himself a bit he left the bathroom to open the door. He was somewhat surprised to find a pretty young red head standing there smiling. "Hi, is Naruto awake?"

"Naruto, uh, no. You can go and wake him up though; his room's the first on the left." Jiriaya said pointing to the hall staring at her in a stupor. Karin walked in and passed him quickly with new heels on. "So, are you Naruto's friend?"

"Yea, one of them, well, excuse me." Karin said getting away from him as quickly as possible and quickly entered Naruto's room closing the door behind her to find the blond sprawled between the sheets. Without warning or real need she slapped his back quickly. "Up and at 'um."

Naruto looked up at her in mild shock and yawned. Naruto instinctively grabbed a shirt from the floor and put it on. "Where's Sasuke at?"

"A couple blocks away waiting to take you to breakfast. Hurry up." She walked across the floor, her heels clicking loudly. She opened the door and he followed her out to see Jiriaya looking at the both of them. Karin simply smiled and moved on.

"I'll be back later, I'm going out to breakfast." Naruto walked by Jiriaya as well following Karin out closely and shutting the door behind him. "You know, you are possibly the best cover ever. Jiraiya was trying to get out who I said 'I love you' to."

"Sasuke was somewhat thinking along the same lines. Look what he bought me, dance heels, they're reinforced so the heel won't snap as easy." Karin said staring down at the black footwear. "I still feel horrible in heels though…"

Naruto nodded, "It'll take a while until you feel better about the accident. At least you have Suigetsu."

"What does that mean?" Karin asked and she turned away quickly. Naruto waited a minute and she stopped on the side walk. She nervously twitched her hand thinking. "Suigetsu has his crush on me, doesn't he?"

Naruto shrugged, he didn't want to let anything out though he knew she had finally gotten it. Naruto just kept walking, the sight of the Corvette parked at the corner welcome. Karin just stood there, "Tell Sasuke I'm going to go out for a bit."

Naruto heard the heels run away at a quick pace as he headed for the car. To his surprise, Sasuke wasn't in his normal dark clothes. He sat in the front seat, window down reading a travel pamphlet for Australia. Naruto knelt down next to the window and leaned in seeing what was on the paper. Sasuke noticed and jolted a bit. "Hey…"

"Is Madara going to take you to Australia now?" Naruto asked. What Naruto really wanted to ask is 'are you going to leave me for an extended period?'

"No, Itachi's going to do is paper. I'm trying to help him find places to visit and document." Sasuke said and nudged his head towards the passenger side down. Naruto went around and got in letting them leave the block. "So, where'd Karin get to?"

"I said something that kick-started her head so she went off." Naruto left out the finding out who had the crush on her. "Where are we going to?"

"Some place with a booth so we can talk freely." Sasuke said and started the car. That place happened to be a nice restaurant on the edge of town. It was empty and the few occupants that were there were business folk or elderly couples. Easily enough Sasuke just asked for a small secluded booth and a waitress gave them one at the back of the restaurant with a curtain that could be pulled shut.

What Naruto thought as invaded space Sasuke thought as cozy as he cornered Naruto on one side of the booth and opened the menu for both of them to read. For a minute Naruto gazed somewhat angrily at a picture on the breakfast menu. The brunette looked at his companion, "Why do you keep staring at the eggs benedict like that?"

"Isn't Benedict that one guy who betrayed America during the Revolutionary war, shouldn't we be naming the eggs after Lincoln or something?" Naruto asked thinking he was posing a viable question. Sasuke laughed slightly and grabbed his hand smiling. "Was that a stupid question?"

"No, just silly. It's just a style of eggs, and no, they weren't named after Benedict." Sasuke said and sighed heavily. He turned to Naruto, "The movements, Madara's using real humans as guinea pigs. He's worse then I thought, plus I have this list from Sasori. Madara's not only trying to become immortal, he's killed hundreds of people in the process through genetic mutations. We have to find a way to take him down."

"But…" Naruto said thinking about Sasuke. "What would happen to you?"

"I'm sixteen, I'm a legal runaway. I'll be fine, plus I'm set to inherit everything of Madara's, the ugly salmon color mansion, the millions of dollars, and all his cats, if he ever gets put away I get it. Anyway, you're thinking selfishly," Naruto turned away at that word. Sasuke smiled, "I didn't say it was a bad train of thought. Anyway, if Madara does go to jail, we can quit school and spend all day playing with oodles of cats, though you should probably keep going and graduate if we break up."

"You're planning on breaking up with me?" Naruto asked somewhat shocked.

"NO! No, Hell no. Never!" Sasuke tried to quickly remedy the situation. "No, I don't want to break up with you. It was an abstract thought, a teleological notion about the future if something were to happen and you wouldn't be supported. Just forget I brought it up."

"You know, technically, we never starting going out. You never asked me." Naruto said, a sly grin crept onto his face. Sasuke picked up the hint but waited on his original idea. He reached his other hand across and held it to the far side of Naruto's face and whispered in his ear. He pulled back a bit and kissed him on the cheek. The statement caused Naruto to laugh, "Oh so you don't know if you like me enough yet."

Naruto casually shoved him a bit. Sasuke laughed warmly and slipped out of his hand. "I'll be back, order the American traitor for me."

Naruto watched as Sasuke disappeared from view. What he couldn't see was Sasuke was digging in his pocket to pull out his phone. He disappeared into the bathroom answering it. "What?"

"You act like I'm ruing your date or something." Suigetsu said loudly. Sasuke quickly swore at him and Suigetsu laughed. "So, Karin came back and won't even make eye contact with me. What the Hell did you tell her?"

"Nothing. Naruto did say her brain jogged while he was talking to her and she took off." Sasuke said and immediately knew it was a mistake.

"Put him on the phone. Now." Suigetsu rarely got demanding with Sasuke, but when he did, Sasuke followed it knowing what a loose cannon he could be. He told him to wait a minute and walked back out the table. The waitress was leaving as he slide in and handed the phone over. Naruto answered. "What the fuck did you say to Karin? She refuses to look at me."

"She was talking about her heels and how she was uncomfortable in them because of what happened. I told her it'd take a while to get over the accident and… and at least she still had you. She kind of figured you liked her and just took off abruptly. Are you going to kill me?"

Sasuke rolled his eyes at the blond's question and took the phone. "Listen, Naruto just saved you some trouble, why don't you force her to listen like normal or give her space to contemplate?... Suigetsu?"

"She left, mentioned something about shoes and just took off. She doesn't like me back does she?" Suigetsu let out a long line of curse words and sighed. "I'm going to go stab my wall, later."

"Make sure the wall is the only thing you stab. Bye." Sasuke hung up the phone and immediately laid his head on Naruto's shoulders. "I hope they can still live near each other after this, we can't kick either out of Black Bird for fighting. I'm also hoping he doesn't stab through his wall. It'd rip up my posters."

"Well, she didn't seem mad at it, just like she had an idea. I thought when I told her he was showing off for her she would pick up the right gist, guess not." Naruto said and laid his head on top of Sasuke's. "So, Jiriaya, he thought that since I wouldn't tell him who I was talking to Thursday night, that I had a girlfriend."

"Most parents would, I guess." Sasuke said and flipped open the curtain to check for the waitress. "So what did he do?"

"Try to give me the talk, but what he did was yell about how diseased girls can be and how horrible things can be caught from them. And then you sent Karin in this morning, so now he thinks I'm dating her."

"Well you're not." Sasuke checked once more quickly. He smiled and pulled Naruto in towards him. Their lips met quickly, hard and warm. They pulled apart smiling, "so since you may complain about it, do you want to go out?"

"I don't know if I like you that much." Naruto teased back repeating Sasuke's own words. Naruto stuck his tongue out at him and turned away for a second to smile to himself.

Sasuke decided to take the opportunity to learn his limits. Without hesitation he grabbed Naruto thigh and turned his head so they were facing. Without trying hard Sasuke leaned on him a bit. "I'd rethink that answer. It's not a very good one unless you're a parrot."

"I like parrots." Naruto was somewhat hesitant as Sasuke kept leaning in until he was pinned against the wall. Sasuke gently kissed him at the base of his neck and then slid his hand up his leg to squeezed his thigh putting too much pressure on the blond. It was there Naruto caved, that was Sasuke's limit. "Fine, I do want to go out with you. Are you happy now, Sasuke?"

"No, there could have been some worship in there. You know you let me go that far in a booth, I'm surprised." Sasuke smiled, kissed him again on the neck and sat back letting Naruto resume his normal position. He checked the curtain and saw their food coming. He held the curtain open as an aid to the waitress and waited for her to set the food down. "Thank you."

The girl left and the Sasuke began eating, Naruto just sat there. He stared blankly at his pancakes slightly biting on his lower lip. Sasuke inquired and Naruto gave him a funny look. "You had to do that in public."

Sasuke understood the meaning immediately. He smiled somewhat flattered and grabbed Naruto's hand, "Think of something else to take your mind off it. Anything will help, just separate yourself from it."

"So, what do you want to do about the movement?" Naruto asked quickly.

"Let's give them a run for their money, see how good they are at covering their tracks. I happen to have some sticky fingers when necessary." Sasuke pulled a small key ring out and held up a bright green key. "It's a replica of Madara's key to his office; he won't be in tomorrow morning. He attends the church at the opposite end of town. Want to have some fun raiding it?"

"I think we should mess with Quality too though, otherwise it's going to look uneven. Of course, what can we do when their building's already been destroyed?" Naruto said. Sasuke nodded and stole a pancake off his plate shoving it in his mouth. "Hey, eat off your own plate."

"Or you could share and we can get you more pancakes. I'll share my eggs." Sasuke offered holding up his plate to him. Naruto shook it away and began eating his pancakes. "So, are we all better now?"

"Yeah, just don't do that again in public." Naruto said quietly. Sasuke smiled, he should have offered to take him into the bathroom. He had to bet that Naruto wouldn't say no to him.

Sasuke began to think dirty thoughts and couldn't help but ask him one of the questions that came to his mind. "You don't scream in bed, do you?"

"What?" Naruto asked somewhat shocked by his statement. "How can you ask something like that?"

"Just wondering since our floor has Suigetsu and my brother on it. I don't want to explain it to them, though they could probably guess. So, are you a screamer?" Sasuke asked, his casual demeanor ensuing thinking nothing of the question posed. "I used to be, I learned how to choke my scream though."

"I don't know." Naruto said with great unease.

"Don't be nervous with me." Sasuke let go of his hand and wrapped it around Naruto's shoulders looking at him. "I love you; I'm not going to do anything against you. Don't be nervous, okay?"

"I can't talk about things like that, it's embarrassing. I can't even think about things like that, it's like Jiraiya's got my head censored or something." Naruto tried to explain. He failed however and sighed.

Sasuke just gripped him tighter and kissed him on the forehead. "I'll have to rewire it later then. So, are you coming home tonight?"

"Yea, I was just going to go and tell everyone I'm quitting the movement. I'll be home after that." Naruto grabbed his hand interlocking their fingers and moved it onto them onto his lap. "I wonder how they're going to take it. Tsunade put all her hope in me, she even gave me her grandfather's necklace."

"Tell her the truth. I know that both sides are keeping research to a minimum; Quality is just releasing their findings. Tell her you joined to make a difference, and that difference isn't there anymore. Keep it quick and painless, I'd give the necklace back too."

"I guess." There was a clacking outside and both turned to see the waitress pop her head in. "Can I get more pancakes?" She nodded and left again.

"You're so expensive, you're lucky Madara spoils me." Sasuke picked up his fork and kept eating. "You know, I kind of want to run up to everyone and just yell 'shut the fuck up and get over yourself.' They all have to think they're right."

"Maybe you should tell them that." Naruto suggested. "Have you ever considered just going up to Madara and flipping him off?"

"Better, I've done that once. He thought he did something wrong and gave me a few thousand bucks to cool me off." Sasuke bragged quickly. "I should do it again soon and see what happens."

"You and your rich uncle…"

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Naruto was grabbing his stomach the entire time back from the restaurant. He groaned as they pulled up in front of Jiriaya's house, but smiled goofily. "I ate too much."

"It happens." Sasuke said and rubbed his hand with his thumb. Sasuke smiled and turned off the car. He looked over at the driveway and saw it was empty. Sasuke without delay pulled his hand over to one side and smiled. Naruto noticed it. Like clockwork the two can together and kissed quickly. "You taste like pancakes."

"No, it's the syrup." Naruto corrected him.

They laughed quickly smiling at each other. They dropped hands and Sasuke shut the car off. "Come on, I'll walked you up."

Sasuke got out of the car and went around helping Naruto out of the car. On the way up they joined hands and stood quietly as Naruto unlocked the door. Naruto walked in slowly, Sasuke followed cautiously hoping his present wasn't felt until he wanted it to be. Naruto never forgot him though and closed the door after he stepped in.

Naruto immediately laid his head under Sasuke's and gripped him tightly. Sasuke wrapped his arms around him petting his back lightly. "Sasuke, remind me never to eat pancakes again… ever."

"You'll be eating them tomorrow, you've just eaten too much right now. Come on, you should go lay down." Sasuke said and led him still half curled to his chest down to the frog infested room. Naruto fell over on the bed and sighed heavily then watched as Sasuke crawled up next to him. "You know, we're not in public."

"Sas…" Naruto felt their lips mesh together. It was the first time they had actually looked into each other's eyes at close range. It was that gaze from his boyfriend that erased any other thoughts in Naruto's head besides closing the curtain more, which he easily accomplished.

Putting his arm down Sasuke grabbed it and pinned it to the bed. They pulled apart for a minute. "Naruto, open your mouth."

Without delay he did and Sasuke stuck his tongue in Naruto's mouth. Sasuke partially rolled on top and laid his hand on Naruto's stomach and slowly slid it down. Sasuke pressed their mouths violently together and his hand shot under the rim of Naruto's jeans. Naruto lurched somewhat but was stuck in place. Sasuke just held him until his move was made and removed his hand.

"I better go save Suigetsu's sanity." Sasuke muttered as he moved their lips apart. Sasuke lowered his mouth to Naruto's ear. "When you go to deal with that, go slowly and think of me."

"You can't just do that and leave." Naruto muttered looking at him.

Sasuke smiled, "if you want me to stay I will, but I don't know when your guardian's going to be home. This is part of your rewiring. Just think of me and go slowly." Sasuke said and kissed him delicately. He grabbed Naruto's hand and led it down, "I love you."

"I love you too, but that's mean." Naruto muttered, Sasuke couldn't help it. Since his hand was already down there he gave one good stroke, sending Naruto into a gasp. "No… that was mean."

"I'll play later, I have to go make sure the other Black Birds are taken care of. If you need a ride home later, call me. And remind me to get some syrup, that was possibly the most delicious Frenching ever." Sasuke chuckled as he rolled out of the bed and left the room shutting the door. He really wanted to stay and watch, joining in was even an option, but he was right. He had no clue when Jiraiya would be getting home.

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Jiraiya was awake on Saturday at seven past eight getting ready for work. He had a class at nine about literary criticisms and was fixing his tie in the bathroom mirror. There was a rapid knock at the door and Jiriaya stopped. It was rare to get visitors, especially in the morning. Grumbling to himself a bit he left the bathroom to open the door. He was somewhat surprised to find a pretty young red head standing there smiling. "Hi, is Naruto awake?"

"Naruto, uh, no. You can go and wake him up though; his room's the first on the left." Jiriaya said pointing to the hall staring at her in a stupor. Karin walked in and passed him quickly with new heels on. "So, are you Naruto's friend?"

"Yea, one of them, well, excuse me." Karin said getting away from him as quickly as possible and quickly entered Naruto's room closing the door behind her to find the blond sprawled between the sheets. Without warning or real need she slapped his back quickly. "Up and at 'um."

Naruto looked up at her in mild shock and yawned. Naruto instinctively grabbed a shirt from the floor and put it on. "Where's Sasuke at?"

"A couple blocks away waiting to take you to breakfast. Hurry up." She walked across the floor, her heels clicking loudly. She opened the door and he followed her out to see Jiriaya looking at the both of them. Karin simply smiled and moved on.

"I'll be back later, I'm going out to breakfast." Naruto walked by Jiriaya as well following Karin out closely and shutting the door behind him. "You know, you are possibly the best cover ever. Jiraiya was trying to get out who I said 'I love you' to."

"Sasuke was somewhat thinking along the same lines. Look what he bought me, dance heels, they're reinforced so the heel won't snap as easy." Karin said staring down at the black footwear. "I still feel horrible in heels though…"

Naruto nodded, "It'll take a while until you feel better about the accident. At least you have Suigetsu."

"What does that mean?" Karin asked and she turned away quickly. Naruto waited a minute and she stopped on the side walk. She nervously twitched her hand thinking. "Suigetsu has his crush on me, doesn't he?"

Naruto shrugged, he didn't want to let anything out though he knew she had finally gotten it. Naruto just kept walking, the sight of the Corvette parked at the corner welcome. Karin just stood there, "Tell Sasuke I'm going to go out for a bit."

Naruto heard the heels run away at a quick pace as he headed for the car. To his surprise, Sasuke wasn't in his normal dark clothes. He sat in the front seat, window down reading a travel pamphlet for Australia. Naruto knelt down next to the window and leaned in seeing what was on the paper. Sasuke noticed and jolted a bit. "Hey…"

"Is Madara going to take you to Australia now?" Naruto asked. What Naruto really wanted to ask is 'are you going to leave me for an extended period?'

"No, Itachi's going to do is paper. I'm trying to help him find places to visit and document." Sasuke said and nudged his head towards the passenger side down. Naruto went around and got in letting them leave the block. "So, where'd Karin get to?"

"I said something that kick-started her head so she went off." Naruto left out the finding out who had the crush on her. "Where are we going to?"

"Some place with a booth so we can talk freely." Sasuke said and started the car. That place happened to be a nice restaurant on the edge of town. It was empty and the few occupants that were there were business folk or elderly couples. Easily enough Sasuke just asked for a small secluded booth and a waitress gave them one at the back of the restaurant with a curtain that could be pulled shut.

What Naruto thought as invaded space Sasuke thought as cozy as he cornered Naruto on one side of the booth and opened the menu for both of them to read. For a minute Naruto gazed somewhat angrily at a picture on the breakfast menu. The brunette looked at his companion, "Why do you keep staring at the eggs benedict like that?"

"Isn't Benedict that one guy who betrayed America during the Revolutionary war, shouldn't we be naming the eggs after Lincoln or something?" Naruto asked thinking he was posing a viable question. Sasuke laughed slightly and grabbed his hand smiling. "Was that a stupid question?"

"No, just silly. It's just a style of eggs, and no, they weren't named after Benedict." Sasuke said and sighed heavily. He turned to Naruto, "The movements, Madara's using real humans as guinea pigs. He's worse then I thought, plus I have this list from Sasori. Madara's not only trying to become immortal, he's killed hundreds of people in the process through genetic mutations. We have to find a way to take him down."

"But…" Naruto said thinking about Sasuke. "What would happen to you?"

"I'm sixteen, I'm a legal runaway. I'll be fine, plus I'm set to inherit everything of Madara's, the ugly salmon color mansion, the millions of dollars, and all his cats, if he ever gets put away I get it. Anyway, you're thinking selfishly," Naruto turned away at that word. Sasuke smiled, "I didn't say it was a bad train of thought. Anyway, if Madara does go to jail, we can quit school and spend all day playing with oodles of cats, though you should probably keep going and graduate if we break up."

"You're planning on breaking up with me?" Naruto asked somewhat shocked.

"NO! No, Hell no. Never!" Sasuke tried to quickly remedy the situation. "No, I don't want to break up with you. It was an abstract thought, a teleological notion about the future if something were to happen and you wouldn't be supported. Just forget I brought it up."

"You know, technically, we never starting going out. You never asked me." Naruto said, a sly grin crept onto his face. Sasuke picked up the hint but waited on his original idea. He reached his other hand across and held it to the far side of Naruto's face and whispered in his ear. He pulled back a bit and kissed him on the cheek. The statement caused Naruto to laugh, "Oh so you don't know if you like me enough yet."

Naruto casually shoved him a bit. Sasuke laughed warmly and slipped out of his hand. "I'll be back, order the American traitor for me."

Naruto watched as Sasuke disappeared from view. What he couldn't see was Sasuke was digging in his pocket to pull out his phone. He disappeared into the bathroom answering it. "What?"

"You act like I'm ruing your date or something." Suigetsu said loudly. Sasuke quickly swore at him and Suigetsu laughed. "So, Karin came back and won't even make eye contact with me. What the Hell did you tell her?"

"Nothing. Naruto did say her brain jogged while he was talking to her and she took off." Sasuke said and immediately knew it was a mistake.

"Put him on the phone. Now." Suigetsu rarely got demanding with Sasuke, but when he did, Sasuke followed it knowing what a loose cannon he could be. He told him to wait a minute and walked back out the table. The waitress was leaving as he slide in and handed the phone over. Naruto answered. "What the fuck did you say to Karin? She refuses to look at me."

"She was talking about her heels and how she was uncomfortable in them because of what happened. I told her it'd take a while to get over the accident and… and at least she still had you. She kind of figured you liked her and just took off abruptly. Are you going to kill me?"

Sasuke rolled his eyes at the blond's question and took the phone. "Listen, Naruto just saved you some trouble, why don't you force her to listen like normal or give her space to contemplate?... Suigetsu?"

"She left, mentioned something about shoes and just took off. She doesn't like me back does she?" Suigetsu let out a long line of curse words and sighed. "I'm going to go stab my wall, later."

"Make sure the wall is the only thing you stab. Bye." Sasuke hung up the phone and immediately laid his head on Naruto's shoulders. "I hope they can still live near each other after this, we can't kick either out of Black Bird for fighting. I'm also hoping he doesn't stab through his wall. It'd rip up my posters."

"Well, she didn't seem mad at it, just like she had an idea. I thought when I told her he was showing off for her she would pick up the right gist, guess not." Naruto said and laid his head on top of Sasuke's. "So, Jiriaya, he thought that since I wouldn't tell him who I was talking to Thursday night, that I had a girlfriend."

"Most parents would, I guess." Sasuke said and flipped open the curtain to check for the waitress. "So what did he do?"

"Try to give me the talk, but what he did was yell about how diseased girls can be and how horrible things can be caught from them. And then you sent Karin in this morning, so now he thinks I'm dating her."

"Well you're not." Sasuke checked once more quickly. He smiled and pulled Naruto in towards him. Their lips met quickly, hard and warm. They pulled apart smiling, "so since you may complain about it, do you want to go out?"

"I don't know if I like you that much." Naruto teased back repeating Sasuke's own words. Naruto stuck his tongue out at him and turned away for a second to smile to himself.

Sasuke decided to take the opportunity to learn his limits. Without hesitation he grabbed Naruto thigh and turned his head so they were facing. Without trying hard Sasuke leaned on him a bit. "I'd rethink that answer. It's not a very good one unless you're a parrot."

"I like parrots." Naruto was somewhat hesitant as Sasuke kept leaning in until he was pinned against the wall. Sasuke gently kissed him at the base of his neck and then slid his hand up his leg to squeezed his thigh putting too much pressure on the blond. It was there Naruto caved, that was Sasuke's limit. "Fine, I do want to go out with you. Are you happy now, Sasuke?"

"No, there could have been some worship in there. You know you let me go that far in a booth, I'm surprised." Sasuke smiled, kissed him again on the neck and sat back letting Naruto resume his normal position. He checked the curtain and saw their food coming. He held the curtain open as an aid to the waitress and waited for her to set the food down. "Thank you."

The girl left and the Sasuke began eating, Naruto just sat there. He stared blankly at his pancakes slightly biting on his lower lip. Sasuke inquired and Naruto gave him a funny look. "You had to do that in public."

Sasuke understood the meaning immediately. He smiled somewhat flattered and grabbed Naruto's hand, "Think of something else to take your mind off it. Anything will help, just separate yourself from it."

"So, what do you want to do about the movement?" Naruto asked quickly.

"Let's give them a run for their money, see how good they are at covering their tracks. I happen to have some sticky fingers when necessary." Sasuke pulled a small key ring out and held up a bright green key. "It's a replica of Madara's key to his office; he won't be in tomorrow morning. He attends the church at the opposite end of town. Want to have some fun raiding it?"

"I think we should mess with Quality too though, otherwise it's going to look uneven. Of course, what can we do when their building's already been destroyed?" Naruto said. Sasuke nodded and stole a pancake off his plate shoving it in his mouth. "Hey, eat off your own plate."

"Or you could share and we can get you more pancakes. I'll share my eggs." Sasuke offered holding up his plate to him. Naruto shook it away and began eating his pancakes. "So, are we all better now?"

"Yeah, just don't do that again in public." Naruto said quietly. Sasuke smiled, he should have offered to take him into the bathroom. He had to bet that Naruto wouldn't say no to him.

Sasuke began to think dirty thoughts and couldn't help but ask him one of the questions that came to his mind. "You don't scream in bed, do you?"

"What?" Naruto asked somewhat shocked by his statement. "How can you ask something like that?"

"Just wondering since our floor has Suigetsu and my brother on it. I don't want to explain it to them, though they could probably guess. So, are you a screamer?" Sasuke asked, his casual demeanor ensuing thinking nothing of the question posed. "I used to be, I learned how to choke my scream though."

"I don't know." Naruto said with great unease.

"Don't be nervous with me." Sasuke let go of his hand and wrapped it around Naruto's shoulders looking at him. "I love you; I'm not going to do anything against you. Don't be nervous, okay?"

"I can't talk about things like that, it's embarrassing. I can't even think about things like that, it's like Jiraiya's got my head censored or something." Naruto tried to explain. He failed however and sighed.

Sasuke just gripped him tighter and kissed him on the forehead. "I'll have to rewire it later then. So, are you coming home tonight?"

"Yea, I was just going to go and tell everyone I'm quitting the movement. I'll be home after that." Naruto grabbed his hand interlocking their fingers and moved it onto them onto his lap. "I wonder how they're going to take it. Tsunade put all her hope in me, she even gave me her grandfather's necklace."

"Tell her the truth. I know that both sides are keeping research to a minimum; Quality is just releasing their findings. Tell her you joined to make a difference, and that difference isn't there anymore. Keep it quick and painless, I'd give the necklace back too."

"I guess." There was a clacking outside and both turned to see the waitress pop her head in. "Can I get more pancakes?" She nodded and left again.

"You're so expensive, you're lucky Madara spoils me." Sasuke picked up his fork and kept eating. "You know, I kind of want to run up to everyone and just yell 'shut the fuck up and get over yourself.' They all have to think they're right."

"Maybe you should tell them that." Naruto suggested. "Have you ever considered just going up to Madara and flipping him off?"

"Better, I've done that once. He thought he did something wrong and gave me a few thousand bucks to cool me off." Sasuke bragged quickly. "I should do it again soon and see what happens."

"You and your rich uncle…"

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Naruto was grabbing his stomach the entire time back from the restaurant. He groaned as they pulled up in front of Jiriaya's house, but smiled goofily. "I ate too much."

"It happens." Sasuke said and rubbed his hand with his thumb. Sasuke smiled and turned off the car. He looked over at the driveway and saw it was empty. Sasuke without delay pulled his hand over to one side and smiled. Naruto noticed it. Like clockwork the two can together and kissed quickly. "You taste like pancakes."

"No, it's the syrup." Naruto corrected him.

They laughed quickly smiling at each other. They dropped hands and Sasuke shut the car off. "Come on, I'll walked you up."

Sasuke got out of the car and went around helping Naruto out of the car. On the way up they joined hands and stood quietly as Naruto unlocked the door. Naruto walked in slowly, Sasuke followed cautiously hoping his present wasn't felt until he wanted it to be. Naruto never forgot him though and closed the door after he stepped in.

Naruto immediately laid his head under Sasuke's and gripped him tightly. Sasuke wrapped his arms around him petting his back lightly. "Sasuke, remind me never to eat pancakes again… ever."

"You'll be eating them tomorrow, you've just eaten too much right now. Come on, you should go lay down." Sasuke said and led him still half curled to his chest down to the frog infested room. Naruto fell over on the bed and sighed heavily then watched as Sasuke crawled up next to him. "You know, we're not in public."

"Sas…" Naruto felt their lips mesh together. It was the first time they had actually looked into each other's eyes at close range. It was that gaze from his boyfriend that erased any other thoughts in Naruto's head besides closing the curtain more, which he easily accomplished.

Putting his arm down Sasuke grabbed it and pinned it to the bed. They pulled apart for a minute. "Naruto, open your mouth."

Without delay he did and Sasuke stuck his tongue in Naruto's mouth. Sasuke partially rolled on top and laid his hand on Naruto's stomach and slowly slid it down. Sasuke pressed their mouths violently together and his hand shot under the rim of Naruto's jeans. Naruto lurched somewhat but was stuck in place. Sasuke just held him until his move was made and removed his hand.

"I better go save Suigetsu's sanity." Sasuke muttered as he moved their lips apart. Sasuke lowered his mouth to Naruto's ear. "When you go to deal with that, go slowly and think of me."

"You can't just do that and leave." Naruto muttered looking at him.

Sasuke smiled, "if you want me to stay I will, but I don't know when your guardian's going to be home. This is part of your rewiring. Just think of me and go slowly." Sasuke said and kissed him delicately. He grabbed Naruto's hand and led it down, "I love you."

"I love you too, but that's mean." Naruto muttered, Sasuke couldn't help it. Since his hand was already down there he gave one good stroke, sending Naruto into a gasp. "No… that was mean."

"I'll play later, I have to go make sure the other Black Birds are taken care of. If you need a ride home later, call me. And remind me to get some syrup, that was possibly the most delicious Frenching ever." Sasuke chuckled as he rolled out of the bed and left the room shutting the door. He really wanted to stay and watch, joining in was even an option, but he was right. He had no clue when Jiraiya would be getting home.