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"Cherry or strawberry… Cherry or strawberry… or cola…" Karin said looking between the bottles of pop sitting idly on the shelf. She growled at the options trying to think of what would have been best. She shrugged quickly and put all three into the cart. After all, Suigetsu still had Sasuke's debit card and it still had a lot of money to its name. She than moved a little down the isle and got Kool-Aid packets of every flavor. After a second Karin felt the metal cart jerk and watched as Suigetsu dropped a pile of twenty frozen meals in the cart and smiled. "Do we really need that many?

"Did you forget how I eat?" He asked quickly. Karin smiled simply and pushed the kart down the isle. He watched her face carefully for a second before sighing. Suigetsu shook his head grabbing the side of the cold metal cart to get her attention. "So, every time you smile at me what are you thinking about up there, because whatever it is seems evil?"

"Pushing you off a cliff or forcing you into a dark corner. One of the two." She quickly stopped the cart and tossed in cheese puffs. She smiled at him again, the end of her lips curling tightly. "You worry too much."

"Hey…" Came from behind them and they saw Sai stop just short of them. He quickly bowed to them adjusting the shopping basket in his hands. "I'm sorry to bother you while shopping, but is Naruto with you? We've been trying to get a hold of him."

"No, he's at home. Sorry. He's been busy taking care of Sasuke. Sasuke gets super clingy when it comes to having Naruto around, especially when he's sick…" Karin felt a hard hand on her shoulder and looked up to see Jugo glaring at Sai in an over protective mode. "Back off, he's a friend of Naruto's. Sai, this is my father, Jugo."

"Um, hello." Sai waved nervously. Jugo nodded his head in acknowledgement but his eyes didn't give anyway leeway. Sai just gulped and continued. "Well, a lot of the group was hoping to talk with him, there are some people Ino bullied into apologizing to him. Here, this is my card; have him call me when he gets a chance okay?"

Sai dug out his wallet and handed Karin a simple business card. Karin shoved it away in Suigetsu pocket and said goodbye. As Sai bowed to them and walked past them with a small basket in his hand than disappeared from the aisle. Jugo looked down at her. "Is he okay?"

"Yes, he's fine Jugo." Karin said waving him off. She plucked his hand from her shoulder like it was tainted and moved down the isle to get more food. "He's one of Naruto's old friends from school, and not one of the asshole ones."

"I'm just being careful." Jugo pointed out and poked her in the back of the head before dropping things for sandwiches in the cart. They looked over the food and came to a common consensus: they mind as well buy a tent since they have all the food for a camping trip.

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Sasuke still wasn't feeling well at all; Naruto could see it in his face. Sasuke's cheeks were flushed and when he touched his cheek it felt like he was touching a stove. Sasuke was starting to act like the sickness was bothering him and grunted loudly than exhaled a strong breath onto Naruto's neck where he had perched his head. Naruto turned a bit and was barely able to see his face from the vantage point he had. "Do you want me to get you a washcloth for your forehead or something?"

"That'd be nice…" He muttered softly. Naruto slid away from him and off the bed and disappeared down to the boy's bathroom. Sasuke turned over on his back wishing he had a fan or something, even a hand fan made out of a scrap piece of paper. It felt like his blood in his veins was literally boiling him now. He was half tempted to ask Naruto if he could carry him upstairs so he could take a cold bath, but he didn't want to ask that of him. After what happened, after he had swore it would be okay, he didn't want to come off as weak to Naruto for some reason.

This wasn't Sasuke's normal compulsion to look tough or strong, this one had rooted somewhere in his head. It was psychological: he thought that if he looked weak, someone would take Naruto away from him, or worse Naruto would leave. Sasuke realized how stupid he was, it just wasn't going away. He didn't want to mess it up, and he felt like he had all because he didn't listen when Naruto told him flat out 'no.'

Sasuke was cursing himself and his stubbornness when Naruto glided back in and set the cloth down on his forehead. Sasuke looked up at him with the red eyes and stared at the blond. Naruto noticed the difference from his usual look and frowned. "What's with that face? You look like someone killed your cat."

"I'm sick, I don't know…" Sasuke sighed and folded the cloth down over his eyes. Abominations, as Sasuke thought they were, he didn't want them to be stared at like that. He didn't deserve that loving stare. "I feel emo…"

"Well, you are kind of emo. I mean… you are." Naruto said thinking it through. "It's not like it's a bad thing though. At least you're not crazy hard-core Goth, especially one of the ones who go to the mall and just stand there. They creep me out sometimes. It's like they're asking for people to run away from them."

"Yep." Sasuke said and felt Naruto's weight on the bed next to him. It was than Sasuke felt the tingle of fingertips tracing down his arm to his hand where their fingers melted together. Naruto was watching Sasuke's face when he got a smile on his face. It was a small one, his lips were flushed red from his fever and his face was paled so much he looked like he was made of porcelain. Naruto leaned over and kissed him carefully for a brief second. Sasuke let out a little amused noise. Naruto pulled back to see the smile grow.

"Cheer up emo kid, and get some more rest." Naruto said and kissed him firm on the cheek. He squeezed his hand with gentleness and let go of Sasuke. Naruto stood up and hoped Sasuke would follow his advice and get some sleep as he walked out closing the door half way. Naruto sighed deeply, yet silently and walked over to his room, it was cool in the dark, but he flipped on the light and found it unappealing for some reason. He threw himself down on his bed turning on the PS3 wanting to have something else to do; he didn't though.

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"Algerining." Jugo said looking down at Karin. They were playing a game, a dumb game that none of them liked, however it passed the time while they were walking to the corvette. Karin thought for a second.

"I don't know how to spell it but I think I may have been convicted of it." Suigetsu muttered and unlocked the trunk setting the groceries in and taking them from the other two. They stood there in silence until Karin started spelling. "A-L-G-E-R-I-N-I-N-G?"

"Yep. Now I have to do another crossword to get more weird words." Jugo said and shut the trunk. He sighed and gave a quick scan of the parking lot. Afterwards he calmed a bit and pointed a finger at each of them. "You two head directly home, you park in the alley. You be careful."

"We got it." Suigetsu said and got in the driver's seat. "You sure you don't want a ride."

Karin shook her head and just told him to drive. Jugo agreed walked out of the parking lot waving. "Didn't I tell you, he's dating one of his co-workers. The angry one with the puffy red hair."

"No… seriously? Oh my god…. That means you might be getting a mommy." Suigetsu picked with a giant smile starting the car. Karin slugged him in the arm and made a face. Suigetus grabbed it saying 'ow' and telling her that that wasn't nice. "Don't be mad at me, it might happen, and than you'll get to be a flower girl."

"I'm too old to be a flower girl." She said and than noticed two figures that looked familiar in the rear view mirror. They began walking towards the car, both tall, one with white hair and the other looking like he was sewn together. It took a second for her to recognize them, Karin screamed. "DRIVE!"

"What?" Suigetsu said and without thinking peeled out of the parking lot. He swerved as he hit the pavement hard and had to use some advanced maneuver to avoid hitting a large truck next to them. "What the Hell was that?"

"It was two of those goons we pulled out before the fire, just without the lab coats." Karin said and began sighing. She scratched her head nervously looking for an idea on what they should do about the two following them. "We should tell somebody, we should call Itachi."

"Are you serious, Itachi's a fucking disaster right now or do you not remember him on the front steps? Call…. God, call that blond dude you exchange hair tips with. He blows shit up, that's awesome." Suigetsu said and glanced over at her quickly. He pulled the silver corvette over to a payphone and watched as Karin quickly hopped out. She dug through her pocket and inserted the coins and quickly dialed. "Hey Deidara, it's Karin. Two of Madara's groupies are tailing us."

There was a silence on the phone followed by ruffling and some swearing. "Um… Interesting. Can you shoot them?"

"Like we carry gats with us." Karin said obviously. "We're both 16!"

"Just get back here as fast as you can then. If it's the normal hunting party, they'll kill you without blinking." Deidara hung up on the other end and left Karin slightly pissed. She walked back to the car and quickly buckled. "He said to just get home as fast as we can."

"Great, and we're on the other side of town."

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"I told you we should have just stayed in the car, no you fuckin' bastard, you had to go get them without the fuckin' car and than tell me I'm being lazy for not getting out of the fuckin' car!" Hidan yelled at Kakuzu who was un-phased by the tantrum. Kakuzu simply sighed and calmly looked at Hidan. "What's gotten into you today?"

"I don't know, maybe the fact that the police are after us, a crazy scientist is trying to court us, and our boss is in jail! How about that?" Kakuzu said and went back to the car. "It's bad enough the only instruction we've gotten from Madara is to keep track of them, but than he tells us to play nice with Orochimaru but keep our distance… The bastard."

"Who Madara?" Hidan asked through a loud sigh.

"No, Orochimaru, you idiot!" Kakuzu said placing his good arm on the car's hood. Hidan shrugged innocently. "Though Madara's not getting far behind. If I wasn't aware of the repercussions, I would quit."

"Oh, you mean him hiring goon 'A' who's a crazy psychopathic killer to hunt you down so his secrets don't get out? Don't worry; I would volunteer to skin your ass." Hidan said trying to be reassuring. He placed a hand on Kakuzu's back and smiled.

"Asshole!" Kakuzu quickly punched him in the face knocking him down to the pavement. Hidan grabbed his nose, bleeding, and began swearing as loudly as he could. "You should be thankful my other arm's broken, or your face would have been annihilated."

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Karin knocked on Naruto's open door before walking in with Sai's card held out. He took it and looked at the text. "Sai was at the store, he wants you to call him soon. Apparently they've been trying to get a hold of you so they can talk with you."

"Okay, cool thanks." Naruto said grabbing his phone from the charger. He dialed the number on the card when Suigetsu came up from behind Karin and asked 'did you tell him yet?' She shook her head and Naruto looked up at them through the ringing phone to his ear. "We ran into some of Madara's people."

"Hello?" The phone answered. Naruto quickly said hi back. "Sorry I'm a pain in the ass to get a hold of. Karin said you wanted to talk about something…?"

Naruto listened closely for a few minutes while Suigetsu and Karin abandoned his doorway, he could hear their footsteps. They were checking up on Sasuke. The footsteps walked away. "I'll have to ask, we kind of have some…." 'Some people who could/would kill us' "some people who are really super upset at us. Yea, goodbye."

Naruto put a heavy foot on the floor and quickly walked across the hall and knocked at Itachi's door. He waited a second before the elder Uchiha opened the door and looked down at him. It was evident to Naruto that he had been crying. "Are you okay?"

"Was that your question?" Itachi said in an obvious way to get him to the point of this disruption. It wasn't just the words, his tone was defensive.

"No. Um, a few of my friends want to meet up with me and Sasuke to talk but I figured I should ask you if it's okay if we go." Naruto watched him for a minute and Itachi sighed. He scratched his head and thought for a second, weighing options and results from various things.

"Have you arranged anything yet?" Naruto shook his head. "Set it up for eight at the park tonight, all of Black Bird will be going… If Sasuke's up for it. I'm not sure how whatever Orochimaru did to him is going to affect him in the short term. Go check with him."

Itachi looked away and shut the door slowly in Naruto's face. Naruto was a bit surprised but accepted that Itachi needed time to himself. Naruto shrugged as he silently made his way into his boyfriend's room. Sasuke had been sleeping for a half-an-hour and Naruto really didn't want to wake him. He checked the time; it was just going on three-thirty. He knelt down bed level and gently shook Sasuke's shoulder. "Hey, Sasuke…"

"Hn…" Sasuke raised a hand lifting the towel off his eyes. He saw Naruto and smiled in a daze. "What's up?"

"We're going to meet up with Sai at the park at eight if that's okay with you." Sasuke nodded and set the cloth aside. Naruto got up and pulled his phone out and dialed Sai back telling him where and when, and that he didn't make up the time or meeting place. They agreed and Naruto hung up the phone and set it on Sasuke's table. Sasuke motioned him into bed and smiled as Naruto listened to the hand gesture. Naruto lay down next to him and was quickly pulled in. "How's your hot flashes?"

Sasuke was going to argue that they weren't hot flashes, he had a fever, but he didn't care. "Better."

Sasuke raised his hand to Naruto's face and pressed his lips to him. Both boys blushed when they pulled apart to stare at each other. It was than Sasuke closed his eyes and curled up to Naruto's upper chest. Naruto placed a hand on Sasuke head and stroked his hair sensing something was off with him too. "What's wrong?"

"I just feel… I feel like a dumb ass." Sasuke murmured as an excuse. He did feel down on himself, however it wasn't that and he knew it. And than he realized he was lying to Naruto, something he didn't want to do. "My eyes are red. Doesn't that bother you?"

"No, they don't. They're just eyes; we can get you sunglasses, contacts, Visine." Sasuke slapped Naruto's back for the last one and laughed a bit. Naruto just kept petting him and eventually moved to petting his back, the touch lingering just on his skin. Sasuke felt his back shiver at every contact. He opened a red eye to the door to see a red eye looking in than disappear in the dark of the hallway.

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"Cherry or strawberry… Cherry or strawberry… or cola…" Karin said looking between the bottles of pop sitting idly on the shelf. She growled at the options trying to think of what would have been best. She shrugged quickly and put all three into the cart. After all, Suigetsu still had Sasuke's debit card and it still had a lot of money to its name. She than moved a little down the isle and got Kool-Aid packets of every flavor. After a second Karin felt the metal cart jerk and watched as Suigetsu dropped a pile of twenty frozen meals in the cart and smiled. "Do we really need that many?

"Did you forget how I eat?" He asked quickly. Karin smiled simply and pushed the kart down the isle. He watched her face carefully for a second before sighing. Suigetsu shook his head grabbing the side of the cold metal cart to get her attention. "So, every time you smile at me what are you thinking about up there, because whatever it is seems evil?"

"Pushing you off a cliff or forcing you into a dark corner. One of the two." She quickly stopped the cart and tossed in cheese puffs. She smiled at him again, the end of her lips curling tightly. "You worry too much."

"Hey…" Came from behind them and they saw Sai stop just short of them. He quickly bowed to them adjusting the shopping basket in his hands. "I'm sorry to bother you while shopping, but is Naruto with you? We've been trying to get a hold of him."

"No, he's at home. Sorry. He's been busy taking care of Sasuke. Sasuke gets super clingy when it comes to having Naruto around, especially when he's sick…" Karin felt a hard hand on her shoulder and looked up to see Jugo glaring at Sai in an over protective mode. "Back off, he's a friend of Naruto's. Sai, this is my father, Jugo."

"Um, hello." Sai waved nervously. Jugo nodded his head in acknowledgement but his eyes didn't give anyway leeway. Sai just gulped and continued. "Well, a lot of the group was hoping to talk with him, there are some people Ino bullied into apologizing to him. Here, this is my card; have him call me when he gets a chance okay?"

Sai dug out his wallet and handed Karin a simple business card. Karin shoved it away in Suigetsu pocket and said goodbye. As Sai bowed to them and walked past them with a small basket in his hand than disappeared from the aisle. Jugo looked down at her. "Is he okay?"

"Yes, he's fine Jugo." Karin said waving him off. She plucked his hand from her shoulder like it was tainted and moved down the isle to get more food. "He's one of Naruto's old friends from school, and not one of the asshole ones."

"I'm just being careful." Jugo pointed out and poked her in the back of the head before dropping things for sandwiches in the cart. They looked over the food and came to a common consensus: they mind as well buy a tent since they have all the food for a camping trip.

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Sasuke still wasn't feeling well at all; Naruto could see it in his face. Sasuke's cheeks were flushed and when he touched his cheek it felt like he was touching a stove. Sasuke was starting to act like the sickness was bothering him and grunted loudly than exhaled a strong breath onto Naruto's neck where he had perched his head. Naruto turned a bit and was barely able to see his face from the vantage point he had. "Do you want me to get you a washcloth for your forehead or something?"

"That'd be nice…" He muttered softly. Naruto slid away from him and off the bed and disappeared down to the boy's bathroom. Sasuke turned over on his back wishing he had a fan or something, even a hand fan made out of a scrap piece of paper. It felt like his blood in his veins was literally boiling him now. He was half tempted to ask Naruto if he could carry him upstairs so he could take a cold bath, but he didn't want to ask that of him. After what happened, after he had swore it would be okay, he didn't want to come off as weak to Naruto for some reason.

This wasn't Sasuke's normal compulsion to look tough or strong, this one had rooted somewhere in his head. It was psychological: he thought that if he looked weak, someone would take Naruto away from him, or worse Naruto would leave. Sasuke realized how stupid he was, it just wasn't going away. He didn't want to mess it up, and he felt like he had all because he didn't listen when Naruto told him flat out 'no.'

Sasuke was cursing himself and his stubbornness when Naruto glided back in and set the cloth down on his forehead. Sasuke looked up at him with the red eyes and stared at the blond. Naruto noticed the difference from his usual look and frowned. "What's with that face? You look like someone killed your cat."

"I'm sick, I don't know…" Sasuke sighed and folded the cloth down over his eyes. Abominations, as Sasuke thought they were, he didn't want them to be stared at like that. He didn't deserve that loving stare. "I feel emo…"

"Well, you are kind of emo. I mean… you are." Naruto said thinking it through. "It's not like it's a bad thing though. At least you're not crazy hard-core Goth, especially one of the ones who go to the mall and just stand there. They creep me out sometimes. It's like they're asking for people to run away from them."

"Yep." Sasuke said and felt Naruto's weight on the bed next to him. It was than Sasuke felt the tingle of fingertips tracing down his arm to his hand where their fingers melted together. Naruto was watching Sasuke's face when he got a smile on his face. It was a small one, his lips were flushed red from his fever and his face was paled so much he looked like he was made of porcelain. Naruto leaned over and kissed him carefully for a brief second. Sasuke let out a little amused noise. Naruto pulled back to see the smile grow.

"Cheer up emo kid, and get some more rest." Naruto said and kissed him firm on the cheek. He squeezed his hand with gentleness and let go of Sasuke. Naruto stood up and hoped Sasuke would follow his advice and get some sleep as he walked out closing the door half way. Naruto sighed deeply, yet silently and walked over to his room, it was cool in the dark, but he flipped on the light and found it unappealing for some reason. He threw himself down on his bed turning on the PS3 wanting to have something else to do; he didn't though.

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"Algerining." Jugo said looking down at Karin. They were playing a game, a dumb game that none of them liked, however it passed the time while they were walking to the corvette. Karin thought for a second.

"I don't know how to spell it but I think I may have been convicted of it." Suigetsu muttered and unlocked the trunk setting the groceries in and taking them from the other two. They stood there in silence until Karin started spelling. "A-L-G-E-R-I-N-I-N-G?"

"Yep. Now I have to do another crossword to get more weird words." Jugo said and shut the trunk. He sighed and gave a quick scan of the parking lot. Afterwards he calmed a bit and pointed a finger at each of them. "You two head directly home, you park in the alley. You be careful."

"We got it." Suigetsu said and got in the driver's seat. "You sure you don't want a ride."

Karin shook her head and just told him to drive. Jugo agreed walked out of the parking lot waving. "Didn't I tell you, he's dating one of his co-workers. The angry one with the puffy red hair."

"No… seriously? Oh my god…. That means you might be getting a mommy." Suigetsu picked with a giant smile starting the car. Karin slugged him in the arm and made a face. Suigetus grabbed it saying 'ow' and telling her that that wasn't nice. "Don't be mad at me, it might happen, and than you'll get to be a flower girl."

"I'm too old to be a flower girl." She said and than noticed two figures that looked familiar in the rear view mirror. They began walking towards the car, both tall, one with white hair and the other looking like he was sewn together. It took a second for her to recognize them, Karin screamed. "DRIVE!"

"What?" Suigetsu said and without thinking peeled out of the parking lot. He swerved as he hit the pavement hard and had to use some advanced maneuver to avoid hitting a large truck next to them. "What the Hell was that?"

"It was two of those goons we pulled out before the fire, just without the lab coats." Karin said and began sighing. She scratched her head nervously looking for an idea on what they should do about the two following them. "We should tell somebody, we should call Itachi."

"Are you serious, Itachi's a fucking disaster right now or do you not remember him on the front steps? Call…. God, call that blond dude you exchange hair tips with. He blows shit up, that's awesome." Suigetsu said and glanced over at her quickly. He pulled the silver corvette over to a payphone and watched as Karin quickly hopped out. She dug through her pocket and inserted the coins and quickly dialed. "Hey Deidara, it's Karin. Two of Madara's groupies are tailing us."

There was a silence on the phone followed by ruffling and some swearing. "Um… Interesting. Can you shoot them?"

"Like we carry gats with us." Karin said obviously. "We're both 16!"

"Just get back here as fast as you can then. If it's the normal hunting party, they'll kill you without blinking." Deidara hung up on the other end and left Karin slightly pissed. She walked back to the car and quickly buckled. "He said to just get home as fast as we can."

"Great, and we're on the other side of town."

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"I told you we should have just stayed in the car, no you fuckin' bastard, you had to go get them without the fuckin' car and than tell me I'm being lazy for not getting out of the fuckin' car!" Hidan yelled at Kakuzu who was un-phased by the tantrum. Kakuzu simply sighed and calmly looked at Hidan. "What's gotten into you today?"

"I don't know, maybe the fact that the police are after us, a crazy scientist is trying to court us, and our boss is in jail! How about that?" Kakuzu said and went back to the car. "It's bad enough the only instruction we've gotten from Madara is to keep track of them, but than he tells us to play nice with Orochimaru but keep our distance… The bastard."

"Who Madara?" Hidan asked through a loud sigh.

"No, Orochimaru, you idiot!" Kakuzu said placing his good arm on the car's hood. Hidan shrugged innocently. "Though Madara's not getting far behind. If I wasn't aware of the repercussions, I would quit."

"Oh, you mean him hiring goon 'A' who's a crazy psychopathic killer to hunt you down so his secrets don't get out? Don't worry; I would volunteer to skin your ass." Hidan said trying to be reassuring. He placed a hand on Kakuzu's back and smiled.

"Asshole!" Kakuzu quickly punched him in the face knocking him down to the pavement. Hidan grabbed his nose, bleeding, and began swearing as loudly as he could. "You should be thankful my other arm's broken, or your face would have been annihilated."

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Karin knocked on Naruto's open door before walking in with Sai's card held out. He took it and looked at the text. "Sai was at the store, he wants you to call him soon. Apparently they've been trying to get a hold of you so they can talk with you."

"Okay, cool thanks." Naruto said grabbing his phone from the charger. He dialed the number on the card when Suigetsu came up from behind Karin and asked 'did you tell him yet?' She shook her head and Naruto looked up at them through the ringing phone to his ear. "We ran into some of Madara's people."

"Hello?" The phone answered. Naruto quickly said hi back. "Sorry I'm a pain in the ass to get a hold of. Karin said you wanted to talk about something…?"

Naruto listened closely for a few minutes while Suigetsu and Karin abandoned his doorway, he could hear their footsteps. They were checking up on Sasuke. The footsteps walked away. "I'll have to ask, we kind of have some…." 'Some people who could/would kill us' "some people who are really super upset at us. Yea, goodbye."

Naruto put a heavy foot on the floor and quickly walked across the hall and knocked at Itachi's door. He waited a second before the elder Uchiha opened the door and looked down at him. It was evident to Naruto that he had been crying. "Are you okay?"

"Was that your question?" Itachi said in an obvious way to get him to the point of this disruption. It wasn't just the words, his tone was defensive.

"No. Um, a few of my friends want to meet up with me and Sasuke to talk but I figured I should ask you if it's okay if we go." Naruto watched him for a minute and Itachi sighed. He scratched his head and thought for a second, weighing options and results from various things.

"Have you arranged anything yet?" Naruto shook his head. "Set it up for eight at the park tonight, all of Black Bird will be going… If Sasuke's up for it. I'm not sure how whatever Orochimaru did to him is going to affect him in the short term. Go check with him."

Itachi looked away and shut the door slowly in Naruto's face. Naruto was a bit surprised but accepted that Itachi needed time to himself. Naruto shrugged as he silently made his way into his boyfriend's room. Sasuke had been sleeping for a half-an-hour and Naruto really didn't want to wake him. He checked the time; it was just going on three-thirty. He knelt down bed level and gently shook Sasuke's shoulder. "Hey, Sasuke…"

"Hn…" Sasuke raised a hand lifting the towel off his eyes. He saw Naruto and smiled in a daze. "What's up?"

"We're going to meet up with Sai at the park at eight if that's okay with you." Sasuke nodded and set the cloth aside. Naruto got up and pulled his phone out and dialed Sai back telling him where and when, and that he didn't make up the time or meeting place. They agreed and Naruto hung up the phone and set it on Sasuke's table. Sasuke motioned him into bed and smiled as Naruto listened to the hand gesture. Naruto lay down next to him and was quickly pulled in. "How's your hot flashes?"

Sasuke was going to argue that they weren't hot flashes, he had a fever, but he didn't care. "Better."

Sasuke raised his hand to Naruto's face and pressed his lips to him. Both boys blushed when they pulled apart to stare at each other. It was than Sasuke closed his eyes and curled up to Naruto's upper chest. Naruto placed a hand on Sasuke head and stroked his hair sensing something was off with him too. "What's wrong?"

"I just feel… I feel like a dumb ass." Sasuke murmured as an excuse. He did feel down on himself, however it wasn't that and he knew it. And than he realized he was lying to Naruto, something he didn't want to do. "My eyes are red. Doesn't that bother you?"

"No, they don't. They're just eyes; we can get you sunglasses, contacts, Visine." Sasuke slapped Naruto's back for the last one and laughed a bit. Naruto just kept petting him and eventually moved to petting his back, the touch lingering just on his skin. Sasuke felt his back shiver at every contact. He opened a red eye to the door to see a red eye looking in than disappear in the dark of the hallway.