The story is Shikamaru got sick and Naruto is way too busy with his work and cries for help to Kakashi. Kakashi instead asks Sasuke to sub for Shikamaru. Naruto, obviously, get all happy and is also unintentionally flirty with Sasuke too.
Then, Sasuke kisses Naruto on the head in a spur of the moment. Naruto obviously gets confused and avoids Sasuke for a while. Until a guy who admires Sasuke talks excitedly with him and Naruto gets jealous.
Then, he gets the news that Shikamaru will be cured after 4 days, and he gets a sake bottle to comemorate Shikamaru recovery.
While they were talking, Sasuke decides to kiss Naruto and confesses that he always loved Naruto. Naruto asks about Sakura, and Sasuke says that he only returned her feelings out of guilt from trying to kill her, but he never really loved her. They continues to kiss and Sasuke asks that before Shikamaru return after those 4 days, if Naruto could be his in the meantime.
Naruto does try to imagine Hinata, but her face is a blur in contrast how much his eyes are fixed towards Sasuke's, how afraid that Sasuke might disappear if he stopped looking at him.
While they were having sex for the first time, Sasuke feels Naruto's warm body, his scent, his breathing, how he envelops him, all the expression that it's solely his. But it's not enough, he wanted more.
As they were taking a shower, Naruto have second thoughts because they are cheating to their spouses. Sasuke says that it's only inside that room, no one would know, it's only something between them, it's not cheating. And even though Naruto knows that it's such a weak lie, he accepts it nevertheless.
So they start their affair. Naruto admits that he hasn't been having sex with Hinata because he vaguely realizes his real sexuality. He calls her saying that he's busy with work, he wouldn't be able to come home that night as well as the next day, while Sasuke is fucking him from behind on the Hokage's desk.
There's a day where Sasuke uses a kage bunshin to stay with Naruto while his real body is talking with his daughter, saying that no matter what happens in the future, he'd prioritize his children. Naruto feels guilty because he's actually the other way around.
At last, Shikamaru is back and Naruto realizes the time Naruto and Sasuke had together is over, he should return to normalcy. We see him interacting with his family and all. But then Shikamaru notices that Naruto is not energetic for some reason. Sasuke arrives to deliver a mission report and Naruto flashbacks to their brief affair.
Naruto then realizes that he did have feelings for Sasuke for a long time, but thought that it's not what it's expected from him. He's expected to have a crush on a girl, so he chose Sakura. He's expected to love a woman and have kids with her, so he chose Hinata, that's what it's the usual "happy ending." But he couldn't forget Sasuke's kisses.
Loving a man is seen as a mistake. Loving Sasuke he thought that it should also be a mistake too. When Sasuke suggested the affair, he should have denied this temptation. But he's too stupid to be able to deny it.
Shikamaru receives a phone call and it's from Kakashi. He asks for Naruto and though Naruto wanted to turn it down, Shikamaru insists him to go, since it's only one day. Also, he could see that Naruto had a lot in his head, so maybe it's for the best.
Kakashi greets him and says that he wanted Naruto to see something even though it's not Fire country's style.
Naruto sees a lesbian couple getting married, and says that wasn't it supposed to be only a man and a woman getting married. Kakashi disagrees, he says that he might have failed teaching his students about life lessons, he wants to make amends and see that this line of thought is outdated, he wants to change so that people will stop seeing that homosexuality is "strange".
Naruto thanks Kakashi, looking forward the day he'll be able to marry Sasuke.
He finds Sasuke, saying that after Shikamaru returned, whenever he would wake up he'd feel an instant sadness, seeing no one next to him. He asks if Sasuke also feel sad about it and Sasuke agrees. The sadness is because he wanted to hug (also implies everything else ok) Sasuke forever. Even thought it was only for a short time, Sasuke was his. He thought that he could hold onto those four days, he thought it'd be enough. But actually, he always had the desire to hold Sasuke's hand forever.
Sasuke cries, confessing that he also had that same desire.
Naruto finally kisses Sasuke, apologizing for making Sasuke cry. He promises he'd be with Sasuke forever.
Sasuke huffed, inwardly amused nevertheless. If he knew Naruto was such a fascinating person, he would have tried to chat with this dumbass ages ago.
I’m finally done! I was inspired by @fourangers‘s Mirai Kissaten! It just got me in that cafe mood ya know? Like that soft, dim lighting feel. Idk. I wanted to capture that in this piece. I was just gonna have a sketch but it got way outta hand and here we are.
Please give it a read if you’re into a nice slice of life, cafe sorta meet-cute!
Dedicated to @rivaille-plisetsky that suggested the prompt:
Post-War shenanigans with Kakashi being the only one with knowledge of their relationship
So here it is! I hope you’ll like it. SNS, with a tiny bit one-sided Sakura --> Sasuke, and sex insinuations. Comedy and it’s a lil to the side of crack.
AO3 link
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Somehow, some way, it just clicked. Maybe it was due to exhaustion, or Sakura's confession still fresh in his mind but Kakashi witnessed the way Sasuke was looking at his best friend/rival/nemesis, how affection warmed his black eyes mixed with longing and burning intensity and it was just…oh. Oh. OoooooOooH.
Everything made sense now. It's no wonder he was so desperate to cut off his bonds with Naruto and why it brought him so much pain to do so.
Kakashi just stood mildly shocked as his eyes followed his previous students' behavior, from Sakura's relieved smile, Naruto's wide beam and Sasuke's gaze constantly trained towards the blond nin.
Ah…to be young and naive.
⏤.⏤
Kakashi had a hard time feigning surprise when he saw both boys tucked together, blissfully sleeping on the small bed at the hospital. Sakura, on the other hand, was so happy about Sasuke's return that she didn't connect the dots yet.
The next few months was a cumbersome process of finding solid proofs about the Uchiha's massacre tying with Konoha's higher office corruption, since the elders were eager to throw Sasuke in jail while he was still recuperating from his wounds. Fortunately Naruto called Shikamaru for help as they searched in the archives with Tsunade's permission.
Soon enough all the guilty were charged for conspiracy in ethnic cleansing and thrown behind bars. Sasuke also spent some time in jail for multiple attempts of murder against the 5 kages, but thankfully due to his contributions in ending the latest ninja war and Naruto’s constant nagging with Tsunade, he was set free.
Naruto and Kakashi both expected that Sasuke would bolt out of Konoha the second he was unchained. However, much to their puzzled astonishment, the last Uchiha had decided to settle down. He even took the chuunin exams with Naruto as some sort of proof that he desired to get back being a Konoha citizen. As if there was something(someone) that rooted him to the ground.
When Sasuke reached 18 years old, Kakashi gifted him a special Icha Icha book with prim pride.
Sasuke glanced at the title, glared his ex-teacher with his face bright red, and promptly hid when they noticed Naruto’s chakra close by. Several comrades joined in afterwards, some were part of the rookie nine, other were Sasuke’s current teammates, all gathered to celebrate his birthday.
Through the course of that night, wherever Sasuke would go, Ino and Sakura were on his toes once again, vying for his attention. It was a confusing realization for Kakashi, that even if Sakura was now an accomplished medic-nin and jounin, she would revert to her pre-teen self once Sasuke was around. Kakashi simply observed in between sips of sake while Sakura fussed over Sasuke with her doe-eyed expression, and Sasuke tolerated her presence with the smallest furrow on his handsome face. Black eyes flickered towards Naruto’s back, before he exhaled a heavy sigh, calling Sakura much to Ino’s annoyance.
On the next day, the news about Sasuke and Sakura dating was the talk of the whole town. Or rather, how Sakura was running behind her beloved wherever they go, emerald eyes glimmering like a little girl winning the affection of her idolized popular boy.
This is bizarre; Kakashi concluded watching the one-sided interactions. Those youngsters were just too much for him sometimes.
Naruto swore that he welcomed this new development with open arms, really, like…really. He’d accept no one else but Sasuke, if he was going to lose Sakura’s hand to another man. But Kakashi could notice the tightness of his grins whenever team 7 would reunite, but whether he was jealous over Sakura or Sasuke, no one would ever know.
Months have passed and Sasuke was slowly entering a dangerous territory, returning to his personal darkness that few could reach. Maybe it was due to Sakura’s impatience that their relationship got stuck since day one, or how she finally broke the illusion that her idol was just a regular man, so she was currently much more content spending her time with Ino nowadays. Maybe it was because his friendship with Naruto was becoming strained over the days. Maybe the Hyuuga’s heiress bold approach towards his best friend was grating Sasuke’s nerves.
Kakashi sighed. They were so much cuter back when they were little genins.
But Kakashi was; he hoped, wiser now. The accumulated experience he built up all over those years brought him a wider scope about how he should handle human emotions and its complexities. He wouldn't make the same mistake he had done before, unlike last time when he failed talking some sense to pre-teen Sasuke.
He stood up, hopping on the direction towards Naruto’s house.
⏤.⏤
One year later…
Konohamaru cleared his throat, knocking on the door. He heard grumbles, quiet steps and then the door was pried open with a pair of glaring eyes.
He gulped. “Good morning. Is Naruto-niichan nearby?”
Sasuke thinned his lips, turning around. “Cooking breakfast.”
Konohamaru gave a brisk nod, striding towards the kitchen and being greeted by Naruto’s wide gin.
“Hey Konohamaru! ‘Sup?”
“Naruto-niichan! It’s your first day in the Hokage’s apprenticeship, are you excited?”
“Sure am! Man, can’t believe that Tsunade-baachan is going to pass the torch to me, I thought for sure they were going to choose Kakashi-sensei that⏤”
“Oh? Talking about me?”
Konohamaru and Naruto shrieked when they heard Kakashi’s sudden chime, Sasuke stood leaning on the wall unimpressed.
The older man said. “Ah, here I was coming here to congratulate my former protegée, and all I hear is Naruto-kun talking behind my back. You’re hurting my fragile heart.”
“Can’t you knock on the door like a regular person? You almost gave me a heart attack dammit.” Naruto complained, rubbing his chest.
“Another reason why I’m questioning Konoha’s decision to make you the next Hokage. I assumed the prerequisite for such an important job was to master basic moves like noticing someone’s chakra when they are close by, dumbass.” Sasuke scoffed.
“Say what, you asshole⏤”
“As much as I’d love to get down the memory lane watching you boys bicker, I’m here to give you a gift, Naruto.” Kakashi placed several books on the table. “My entire Icha Icha collection. All signed by Jiraiya-sama.”
Naruto stared wide-eyed once the information sank in, picking up one book as if it was the most precious thing in the world. He leafed through pages, smiling fondly when he read Jiraiya’s message. They let Naruto take his time browsing through the books, even Sasuke curbed his usual teasing barb too.
The Uchiha nin seemed to realize something, coughing. “Well, since Kakashi already gave you his present, I suppose I should also give you mine.”
Naruto’s eyes were narrowed and suspicious. “And what exactly you’re gonna give me, bastard?”
Sasuke smirked, throwing his arm around Naruto’s shoulder and directing to their bedroom. “You’ll enjoy it, for sure.”
Konohamaru and Kakashi watched as Naruto was dragged by Sasuke. Konohamaru muttered. “Well, I guess I’ll wait here until they are done. I was also gonna give Naruto-niichan my gift.”
Oh. “Ooooh, there’s no need for you to wait this long Konohamaru-kun. You can give him once we’re in Konoha’s headquarters.”
“What? I can wait a little, I mean⏤”
Kakashi patted the younger nin’s shoulder as he hurried them to the exit. “I have a feeling they are going to take a while, so we better go.”
Several months had passed and Naruto was beginning to get used to the hectic schedule of being Tsunade’s apprentice. The assistants were also smoothly adapting with his working style too, most comfortable with his friendliness.
The rare exceptions were when Naruto’s best friend would go to a long term mission, and the sunny personality will cloud to a petulant pout.
“Naruto.” Everyone jumped startled from the familiar baritone voice, swiveling their heads to see Sasuke perched on the window.
Naruto instantly brightened up, turning back to face their assistants as he declared. “Hey guys! Sasuke is here so I’m gonna go ok, ‘s gonna be really quick I swear. Be right back, be right back!” Both Naruto and Sasuke disappeared in a cloud of poof.
The assistants shrugged, some even rolled his eyes while they resumed their work.
⏤.⏤
How odd it was that whenever Sasuke was around though, Naruto would always blink out of their eyes. For someone who wore neon orange outfit and had bright golden hair in midst of an ocean of dark heads, Naruto could disappear without an effort.
Saeko rubbed her shoulders while she searched the aforementioned blond nin, seeking his signature. She’s way past her prime to be able to find a strong shinobi like Naruto-kun.
Fortunately for her, she spotted Kakashi from afar, calling him. “Kakashi-kun!”
Kakashi acknowledged her with a nod.
“Have you seen Naruto-kun? I really need his signature to authorize a new mission.” She sighed.
Kakashi chuckled. “Well…in case you can’t see him, I guess you could look around and try to find Sasuke instead.”
“Ah right…Uchiha-kun right.” Saeko shook her head. “They are almost attached to the hip.”
“Right.”
“Such a beautiful friendship between those two boys, right?”
Kakashi stared the old lady before settled with a hum.
“They need to settle down and find a good ladies in their lives though.” She quipped with chiding tone. “Why are they taking so long to get married, I wonder. Youngsters those days are in no hurry to build a family, they are exactly like that Yamanaka girl; living with her best friend Haruno-chan.”
Kakashi hummed absentmindedly once again.
Almost as if he was reading their minds, Sasuke exited the toilet in front of them, licking his lips as his finger wiped his mouth.
“Ah, Uchiha-kun!” Saeko tightened her steps, approaching him. “Have you seen Naruto-kun anywhere?”
Sasuke glanced at her back, then gazed Kakashi’s amused eyes, shrugging. “Behind me.”
“Behind y⏤?” Lo and behold, the future Hokage opened the door a little breathless and disheveled, hand combing through his golden hair.
His cheeks were tinged red but he soon recomposed himself when he saw the old lady. “Oh hey, Saeko-san, Kakashi-sensei! Why are you⏤”
“Naruto-kun, you’re going to be the death of this old woman, I swear!” Saeko interrupted him, shoving the papers on his face. “I know that Uchiha-kun is your best friend but do you really need to have him next to you 24/7?”
“I’m sure that Naruto-kun would happily perform his tasks as the Hokage apprentice, normally…” Kakashi muttered. “But I guess Sasuke just missed him too much.”
Sasuke glared, rolling his eyes. “I’ll see you soon Naruto.”
Saeko concluded that their friendship is really one of a kind, watching Uchiha-kun’s back as Naruto was signing her papers. Gossip around town said that a female shinobi might disrupt such cozy relationship, even though Sasuke kept turning down every date request. There was a bet about which man would find a girlfriend first, however, Kakashi almost zeroed his bank account with the belief that his former students wouldn’t find any girl whatsoever.
Every female shinobi dedicated their time to seduce either the last Uchiha or the future of Hokage of Konoha. This also meant that they were thinning Sasuke’s very limited patience, their constant pestering wouldn’t give them some time for themselves.
⏤.⏤
“Naruto-niichan! Wow, you lucky dog!” Konohamaru chirped when he spotted his friend in the corridor, punching the tanned arm playfully. “I can’t believe this⏤!”
“Believe what, Konohamaru?” Naruto questioned.
“Haven’t you heard? Tomoko Saiyuri, the most gorgeous woman of all Konoha is actually going to ask you on a date!”
“He’s not interested.” Sasuke grunted.
“Oh, c’mon Sasuke-niichan, I know you might be sore because she chose Naruto-niichan instead of you, but there’s no way Naruto-niichan wouldn’t be interested because⏤”
“But he’s not interested, he’s not available, he won’t do anything with her.” Sasuke hissed.
“Uh, yeah…Konohamaru, why would I be interested?” Naruto squinted his eyes puzzled. “I’m honored, honestly, but where did you get the idea I would⏤”
“You know that this is your fault right.” Sasuke snapped towards Naruto.
“What?” Naruto grumbled.
“You give too many openings, people are still thinking you’re available.”
“Uh…wait, Naruto-niichan, does that mean you’re actually seeing someone⏤?”
“Wait, don’t put the blame on me, asshole. Where in the hell did I show that I’m available?”
“Well, you’re such an oblivious dumbass, that you wouldn’t realize yours and anyone’s feelings even if it’s right under your nose.” Sasuke muttered under his breath. “Maybe this is the reason why everyone is also blind about us.”
Naruto stared for a while with his jaw slacked, before blurting out. “We live together, I thought everyone knew.”
“Most think we’re just roommates, some still believe that you’re guarding me while I’m on house arrest.”
“What? We share a bed.”
“They think we didn’t find a good house with two bedrooms.”
Konohamaru interjected tentatively. “Um, Naruto-niichan, what exactly are you talking about⏤?”
Naruto however, couldn’t listen to him, blue eyes still trained towards Sasuke. “I don’t get it, we haven’t seen anyone else so far ever since we decided to live together, I thought⏤”
Sasuke sighed. “They think we’re just taking our time to find a girl to settle down.”
Naruto nodded numbly, scratching his head. “Oh. Is that why Momiji-san wanted to cook me some obento?”
Sasuke grunted, his glare darkening. “And you almost fell for it, hook line and sinker.”
Naruto gazed back, studying the Uchiha’s activated Sharingan. Everyone was staring with growing confusion until Naruto snorted. “Are you jealous Sasuke-chan?” He laughed.
“No, absolutely not.” Sasuke promptly defended himself, raising his chin. “I’m staking my claim, that is all, since someone else is not making any effort over this relationship.”
“Awwww⏤you’re really jealous!” Naruto grinned.
“I’m not jealous, usuratonkachi, I just feel like you should have made everything clear to everyone so I can avoid all those troublesome harpies and⏤” When Sasuke saw the determined blue eyes, he tensed but all of a sudden, Naruto grabbed him and hoisted over his shoulder. "Naruto, what the hell are you doing, I swear I'm going to fry your sorry ass if you⏤Naruto⏤!" The door slammed shut.
Then, silence. All ninjas on the vicinity didn’t know whether they should intervene whatever skirmish because Naruto was going to be the Hokage, but still, since he’s the future Hokage, he didn’t need anyone to defend him, right?
Their thought process was interrupted when he heard a moan. But not any moan, it was specifically Sasuke’s moan. Every face was colored red. As the moans and groans were increasing in speed and volume, the shade of their blushes were darkening, and everyone froze on the spot.
A constant thumping noise joined in, eliminating whatever doubt they might had out of the window, in concern with the activity they were doing in the Hokage’s office. The banging grew faster and louder, that at this point everyone in the building could hear it out.
A guttural scream ripped from Naruto’s voice, that made all women fan to themselves and all men shuffle uncomfortably. Another pregnant silence reigned in the building, until Naruto opened the door beaming ear to ear, holding Sasuke’s hand while the latter was scowling, limping his steps.
“So!” Naruto proclaimed cheerfully. “As you can see, Sasuke and I are unavailable for any possible dates at the present and future moment. We’re pretty busy screwing each other, after all.”
“I am screwing you next time, usuratonkachi.” Sasuke grumbled darkly.
Naruto chortled, unaffected by his threat. “He’s so sweet right. I can’t ask for any better boyfriend.”
Sasuke kicked his legs. Naruto retaliated by slapping hard his back. As their skirmish was growing more violent, everyone scurried away from the couple.
Those two are insane.
(Kakashi later appeared in Konoha’s headquarters, ready to collect his money from the bet. It’s more than enough to secure a very nice retirement. The news about Naruto and Sasuke’s relationship reached to Tsunade’s ears but she was wholly unimpressed. She did punch her protegée to seven foot below ground for soiling her office though.)
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Summary: "Oh crap." Muttered the blond. Sometimes, there's something worse than one-night stands. It's called we're-doing-this-because-we're-going-to-die-tomorrow desperate sex. Too bad they didn't in the end. NaruSasu, AU. NSFW
Comedy, Romance, a dash of drama, Architect!Naruto, CEO!Sasuke, Enemies to Friends to Lovers, fixing an old fic I posted on ff.net.
I miss the time I had before I drew this picture. It meant so much to me. It was created for a fanfiction that touched me a lot. It was made for a very good friend of mine. I loved it for that...
Another, former friend used it to hurt me a lot. This is already more than a year ago. But it still hurts like hell when I look at it. To this day, I'm afraid that some friend might say things like, "In the old days, you were better." Sasuke looks like a toast in this picture, or "Your pictures convey absolutely no feelings." again. Aaah shit! Ouch, ouch, ouch. 😣
