Sasuke Says {SasuNaru} - FastForward (BoyxBoy)

Chapter 6

Sasuke Says.

September 20th, 17:42

Sasuke sat alone at the kitchen table, a half-eaten plate of shrimp fried rice sitting in front of him, and a cigarette dangling loosely between two fingers. He was staring across the room at the wall, not looking at anything in particular. Every few seconds, he brought the cigarette to his lips, inhaled, and pulled it away again, completely working on auto-pilot. The smoke would slowly escape from between his parted lips, the small stream of it obscuring his vision briefly before he would blow out and expel it from his lungs completely.

Then, the machine would come full circle, and his arm would move back towards his mouth, the raven inhaling on the cigarette once more before repeating the same process of letting it trickle through his lips and then blowing it out.

The Uchiha still wasn't sure what exactly had happened. Itachi had left, for one reason or another, and Sasuke had taken it upon himself to sneak down the stairs and pretend to be his brother all for the sake of being able to touch Naruto in the same ways he knew Itachi could.

Fuck, Sasuke thought, scowling across the room. What was I thinking? He knew it was all Itachi's fault. His brother was one of those take-what-I-want-no-matter-who-tries-to-stop-me types. Sasuke wanted to be like that, too, he just knew he never would be.

Still, now he was screwed. Because now, Naruto would think Itachi liked him-which Sasuke was pretty sure he did, but still-and he, personally, felt off. Like he'd done something wrong, betrayed Naruto's trust. Which was just completely illogical considering what the blond had done. But still, it made him feel weird.

The cigarette was returned to his lips, the raven inhaling on it deeply while pondering his next move. He felt compelled to tell the blond, but if he did that, Naruto wouldn't trust him. Already he still did, even after everything that had happened, and he felt if he went down there to admit it had been him, and not Itachi, he'd lose whatever he had with the other teen. Whatever it was they had.

He just knew one of the main reasons Naruto wasn't trying to escape was because of him. Even though he'd tried the one time, he'd explained himself, and while Sasuke still wasn't sure that warranted forgiveness, he at least acknowledged that Naruto had issues that were harder to overcome than just willing them away.

But really, ever since that confession, Sasuke had been avoiding him. He didn't like the trust Naruto had in him. He was worried about it, because he didn't trust himself with the blond. Proven point being what had just transpired. He wanted him too much, it was too hard to let the blond trust him completely. Maybe it would be better if he told him. Maybe then, Naruto wouldn't be so happy every time he came downstairs.

Figures I would fall for the one person on the planet I can never have, the raven thought with a snort, inhaling one last time before putting his cigarette out, holding the smoke in his lungs while leaning back in his chair before expelling it slowly from his lungs, watching it drift towards the ceiling.

Realistically, Sasuke knew that he didn't know enough about Naruto to seriously like him, but he was definitely attracted to both his looks and his personality. Something which only furthered his disapproval of what they were doing, not to mention he hoped the lashes on his back weren't going to scar like some of Sasuke's had.

Closing his eyes and letting his head fall back, he thought back on what he'd seen of the other's body while he'd been manhandled against the wall. He was so toned, and tanned, and fucking gorgeous. And so selfless. That one was what got to him the most. Naruto was so ridiculously selfless. And considering, he was taking this whole kidnapping thing well. Though if he pissed Itachi off any more than he already was with his non-chalance, he was probably going to get a bullet to the head...