Tattoos

"So tell me," Kakashi began. "Why do you have so many tattoos?"

"Why the sudden inquiry?" Naruto shot back, rolling on his side to face his bedmate.

"I've just always wondered if there was a reason behind any of them. Especially that one..." Kakashi answered, trailing his finger down Naruto's chest at the end, stopping when it reached a tattoo of three crows right above Naruto's crotch area.

"I just thought they looked cool," Naruto said, looking away from Kakashi's mismatched eyes.

"You're lying. You always do that cute little thing where you immediately avert your eyes after you lie."

"It's not important," the younger of the two said, fully turning away from the older to face the opposite wall.

"Well, if it's not important, then why would you brand your own body with them?" Kakashi was determined to get the answer, knowing fully well that soon enough Naruto would crack and spill all his secrets. He grinned victoriously when he heard a small, defeated sigh fall from his young lover's lips.

"It's just... I have this weird thing where I like to get a tattoo of something that somehow symbolizes every guy who ever breaks my heart... It's stupid and chickish, I know, but I just-"

"So you're telling me seven other guys have been your boyfriend before me? Am I better than them? Please tell me I'm better than them," Kakashi cut him off, slight anxiety detectable in his voice.

Naruto laughed. "Definitely. You're honestly way better than most of them, Kakashi."

"Most of them?! Not all of them?"

"You're adorable when you're jealous," Naruto said, turning back around to place a short and chaste kiss upon Kakashi's worried lips.

"Seven, though..."

"Wait, you counted them?" Naruto suddenly asked.

"Of course. Naruto, I've long-since mapped out every inch of your body and memorized it."

"That weirdly turns me on."

"I like to think I'm pretty good at turning you on," Kakashi said with a wink.

"Eh. Sometimes," Naruto responded with a sluggish shrug.

"You know you love me."

"Do I really, though?"

"I should certainly hope so. I mean, after all the amazing things I did for you last night..."

"They were okay."

"Oh, shut up. We all know you loved it." Kakashi paused to chuckle briefly before asking, "So... Who do they all symbolize, then?"

Naruto internally groaned. He knew this was coming, but he really didn't like talking about all his exes. He sighed, about to answer, before Kakashi cut him off again.

"I'd first like to know who those damn crows represent and why the hell they get to be in the best possible spot."

Naruto laughed shortly at Kakashi's lingering jealousy before saying, "Uchiha Itachi."

Kakashi's eyes widened briefly before narrowing in suspicion. "And why does Uchiha Itachi get to be so close to your private spots?"

"He was my first and, up until you, the best," Naruto said.

"How did that one happen, anyway?"

"Well, long story short, I totally had a major schoolgirl crush on him a while ago. Sasuke and I were already besties back then so I saw Itachi a lot of the time when I'd go over to their place to hang out with Sasuke. It didn't take too long for him to figure out that I had a major heart boner for him and he screwed me one night when I went over. We never actually dated but we kept having little flings. I was totally in love, so I was crushed when he ended it saying that he didn't want his dad to find out he was doing it with a kid."