Naruto finished up his paper work for the day, stretching out stiff muscles from a long day of work, he decided to call it quits after he reached the third stack of papers. Surprisingly besides Ino's shocking black mail, everything else had run pretty smoothly throughout the day, which had come to Naruto's delight.
His brain was only half functioning and all he can really think about was an image which kept replaying in his mind. Naruto jumped across roof tops to his house, he was started to wish he hadn't sent Sasuke away to Sungakure. How was he meant to talk to Sasuke face to face about what had happened and if everything was okay between them if he wasn't even in Konoha?
Though Naruto was happy about the time he had alone to think about had happened, he didn't want to start pushing Sasuke for answers when he hadn't even had time to process it himself. He was scared though that Sasuke acting strange this morning may be a result to that kiss, maybe Sasuke was uncomfortable? Or maybe he was embarrassed about the situation?
He brought out his keys to unlock his front door. The first thing he was greeted with was loud screaming from two hyper children, Naruto wasn't in the mood to deal with this today, his head still hadn't fully recovered and he needed time alone to think.
"Hey Naruto, how was your day?"
"Um, quite busy like always and I was shown that photo of me and Sasuke by Ino, so she got out of cat chasing today, unfortunately for me."
"Oh, yer that photo, we all got a little bit too drunk if I might say, she sent copies to the group this afternoon, it's over there above the kitchen sink". Naruto found the photo tucked underneath a newspaper so that the kids didn't find it, he still couldn't believe it was him kissing Sasuke in this photo.
Naruto didn't even think about it, but by the time he had noticed what he had done the photo was already tucked neatly inside his pocket.
"Hey Hinita, I'm really tired and need to think about some plans that I'm presenting to the elder's tomorrow, so I might head over to the bath house to think for a bit, okay?"
Naruto was about to leave the house before something in his gut told him that he had to ask Hinata a question he wasn't too sure he wanted the answer too.
"Hinata, uh I know this is weird, but by any chance did we kiss last night?"
"Hm, no not that I remember? But I'll give you a kiss now to make up for it?"
Naruto's mind was racing at a million miles per hour, he didn't even register or care that Hinata was kissing him. He was stuck in a swirl of thoughts and hazed memories of last night.
"I'm off now."
Naruto quickly closed the door before Hinata could even say a word. He didn't even realize how quickly he was walking towards the bath house, but by the time he reached it his breath was heavy from practically jogging there.
*Inside the bath house*
Naruto chucked his clothes inside a locker, grabbed the photo of him and Sasuke, wrapped a towel tightly around his waist and headed off to the bath. He needed to look at the photo again, he didn't even know why, but every time he saw it his heart would start racing again and he felt something warm build inside himself.
He started walking over to the men's bath, he was glad he came at such a late hour, most of the clients had already left by this time, leaving Naruto with peace of mind and a little bit more privacy. He slipped into the warm water, hot clouds of mist swirled around him, he felt his tensed muscles begin to relax in the comforting hot water. Naruto was reaching a state of relaxation only deep hot water and silence could provide.
