Naruto pushed past Sasuke as soon as Sasuke unlocked the door. He stood grinning in the hall for a second, looking around before yelling 'Tadaima!', kicking his shoes off and running into the house, bolting from room to room like it was the first time he was there and was exploring everything to make it his own. Sasuke just rolled his eyes and smiled a little. He knew Naruto was happy about being able to call this home, but Sasuke hadn't expected Naruto to be this happy and excited about all this. That didn't take away that Sasuke liked seeing Naruto like this.

Sasuke was holding several bags with more new clothing for Naruto and groceries for the next few days they picked up alone the way as well. Naruto had smoothly tricked him into carrying all of it, handing over one bag at the time each time Naruto wanted to point something out to Sasuke, but Sasuke didn't really mind. At the very least, Naruto was already wearing on set of the clothing they had bought, having discarded the tattered mission clothing in the shop, much to the shop keepers chagrin. It was better than having Naruto walk around in ruined clothing, so Sasuke shamelessly told the shop owner to deal with it.

He picked up Naruto's shoes and placed them neatly to the side, adding his own next to them. He'd have to tell Naruto to be more neat around the house, but for now he would let Naruto be cheerful. He took the bags to the kitchen, placed the bags with clothing on the table and started sorting the bags of groceries away.

It didn't take long before Naruto ran into the kitchen looking for Sasuke. "Need help?" He asked, a little out of breath and grinning like an idiot.

"No, it's fine. Just put your new clothing away." Sasuke answered, waving a hand at the table and continuing putting stuff away. He liked knowing where everything was, so he prefered to put everything away himself. Well, maybe he just needed to get used to having someone living with him, but for now he would sort it out himself.

"Yessir!" Naruto said. With the same energy, Naruto snatched the bags from the table, ran around to table and kissed Sasuke's cheek, and than ran out of the room again to which Sasuke rolled his eyes, a smile on his lips. Happy Naruto was happy, it seemed, and not ashamed to show it. Sasuke couldn't help but admire the endless energy Naruto seemed to have. They were just back from multiple days of travel, a fight, a near-death experience and a shopping trip and still Naruto seemed nowhere near ready to call it a day.

A few moments later a loud yelp followed by a crashing sound and then something shattering startled Sasuke to stop what he was doing. He hurried out of the kitchen and into the hallway Naruto had just disappeared into to check what the hell just happened.

He found Naruto sitting on the floor, rubbing his head and grumbling under his breath. It was quite a funny picture, but Sasuke kept a straight face, first wanting to be sure Naruto was alright. "Ouchy, ouchy!" Naruto mumbled while he cartoonishly kept rubbing his head, which Sasuke took as a sign that it wasn't really all that bad. He crossed his arms and did his best attempt to sound stern. "Care to tell me what happened?" He asked, raising an eyebrow at Naruto. The biggest, tear-stricken eyes underneath scrunched eyebrows rose themselves to meet Sasuke's, accompanied by an overly cute pout. Sasuke wanted to just swoop down and cup Naruto's face to wipe his tears away, but he maintained his stern pose, waiting for Naruto to explain.

"Your carpet tripped me..." Naruto answered seriously and sounding heart breakingly sad. Sasuke struggled to keep a straight face, seeing Naruto sitting on the floor and wanted to say something, but his eyes wandered over the floor to the broken vase behind Naruto. He dropped his hands and looked at it with a pained expression, his whole body seemed to deflate and he looked saddened by it. The look got Naruto's full attention and he cocked his head to take in Sasuke's face better, realising he probably did something bad and he already felt a bit guilty. He had seen the vase fall after face planting against the cabinet after tripping, but he hadn't had the reaction to catch it. "Oh, no..." Sasuke muttered, stepping past Naruto and kneeling down to pick up the shards carefully. "That was my mother's favorite..."

A pang of guilt shot through Naruto. Mothers were important, Sasuke had told him so, and now he had broken something very precious to Sasuke's mother, and that meant he had broken something very precious to Sasuke. "I'm sorry, Sasuke..." Naruto said, watching Sasuke carefully pick up the pieces. Naruto turned onto his hands and knees and crawled the small distance to Sasuke, placing his hand on Sasuke's leg. "I really am." He added searching for eye contact. "Let me do that." He said and he leaned in to pick up pieces too.

Sasuke sighed and looked back at Naruto. Naruto was looking so guilty it was really hard for Sasuke to be angry with him. That didn't stop him from being very miffed by the blond right now. Still, Naruto showed he was sorry and Sasuke didn't want to tell Naruto to just leave, so instead he would let Naruto help."Just hold up your hand." He sighed, and when Naruto did he tipped the content of his hand into Naruto's. "Be careful not to get cut." He warned and went back to pick up more pieces.

Naruto sat patiently next to Sasuke while Sasuke carefully piled the pieces into his hand. It had been a somewhat big vase, so he needed both his hands now to hold the pieces. Most of it was picked up, leaving the smaller particles they'd need a broom for to clean up. Sasuke reached for a piece underneath the cabinet the vase had stood upon, but quickly retracted his hand with a curse. His finger now had a deep cut and blood was dripping out quite fast. "Damnit." He muttered. He had even warned Naruto, and now he was stupid enough to get himself cut.

Naruto froze at the sight of the pearls of blood forming and running down. Sasuke's pale skin was a stark contrast to the viscous red liquid that slowly made its way down Sasuke's finger and he was completely fixated on it. There was something so beautiful about it and he wanted it. Before Sasuke could do anything, Naruto dropped the shards and grabbed Sasuke's hand, pulling Sasuke's hand towards him and making Sasuke turn around to face him.

Naruto's red eye was burning fiercy, enough to make Sasuke feel slightly unsettled. Naruto's grip on his wrist was strong enough to hurt him slightly and he moved his wrist to try and free his hand. "Naruto, let go." He said sternly, but Naruto ignored his words and his struggles completely. Sasuke tried again to break free, but the grip was like iron and Sasuke realised he had no chance of getting his hand back as long as Naruto didn't want to let go. Naruto had this greedy look in his eyes Sasuke had only seen before during their spar and Sasuke remembered the way Naruto almost went berserk, or at least it had looked like that to Sasuke. It was a lot less intense then it had been during the spar, since Naruto wasn't riled up by combat right now, but Sasuke recognised the look all the same.

Naruto pulled Sasuke's hand closer and started licking the blood away, starting at the lowest point near Sasuke's wrist and working his way up, leaving nothing but clean skin. He loved the sweet taste of Sasuke's blood and he moaned when the taste hit his tongue, the taste being almost intense enough to dull all his other senses. He closed his eyes and moved closer to Sasuke and Sasuke instantly moved back a little. Naruto just kept moving closer and with ease he pushed Sasuke onto his back, barely registering that Sasuke was protesting against it and that Sasuke had grabbed his wrist with his free hand to get Naruto to let go.

Naruto sat down on Sasuke's stomach, straddling him with a leg on either side. He kept licking Sasuke's finger despite Sasuke's continued protests, ending with taking the whole finger into his mouth with another moan and closed eyes. The moment he took the finger into his mouth and moaned, Sasuke suddenly became very still. The hand Sasuke was using to attempt to free himself was pulled back. The sudden stillness brought Naruto back to his senses a little and he looked down at Sasuke. Sasuke blushing like a tomato and hiding his face with his free hand, glancing over his hand and focussed on his finger in Naruto's mouth.

The embarresment on Sasuke's face brought Naruto's attention from the taste of blood completely back to Sasuke. The blush on Sasuke's face was almost reminiscent of blood and he loved the way it looked on Sasuke.

Naruto slowly took Sasuke's finger out of his mouth, licked his lips, swallowed visibly and smirked down on Sasuke. He ever so slightly moved his hips, grinding into Sasuke a little. The red on Sasuke's cheek increased as he averted his eyes under Naruto's unbroken gaze. Naruto sat back a little further, making sure he was sitting mostly on Sasuke's hips while making a few more subtle movements. Sasuke bit his bottom lip and closed his eyes trying not to make any embarrassing sounds, but Naruto's persistence made that, and him, very hard.

Naruto cocked his head as he watched Sasuke. He liked the way Sasuke reacted and wanted to see more of it. He grabbed Sasuke's other wrist, pulling the hand away from Sasuke's face so Sasuke couldn't hide his expressions, and pinned both Sasuke's hands above his head. Sasuke's eyes snapped open at that and he looked at Naruto, unsure of what to expect and he tried to get his wrists free again. "Naruto, let me go." He said, trying to sound calm and in control, but the way his face burned and his heart was beating in his throat he, as wel as Naruto, knew very well that he wasn't. Instead, his attempt to wiggle free just made the smirk on Naruto wider and Naruto's grip on his wrist a little stronger. The way Naruto overpowered him right now made him nervous and wary. He wasn't sure if he could get Naruto to stop when Sasuke wanted to stop, but Naruto didn't. At the same time, he was curious to see where this was going to go.

Naruto leaned in, softly kissing Sasuke's lips, but Sasuke turned his face away so instead Naruto kissed his jawline, making his way to the soft skin of Sasuke's neck. Sasuke tried to turn his face so Naruto couldn't reach while half-heartedly muttering for Naruto to stop, but that just earned him a growl from the blond pinning him down. Naruto pulled Sasuke's hands a little closer so they were directly above his head and pinned both Sasuke's wrists with one hand. Even like that Sasuke felt like he had no chance on freeing his hands, but he still struggled against the hold.

Naruto let his now free hand hand softly caress over Sasuke's face, staring at him intently. "So pretty..." He whispered. "Don't move now." He held Sasuke's face to the side with one finger as he once again swooped down to kiss and lick at the soft and sensitive skin in the nape of Sasuke's neck. Sasuke still struggled a little, but at the same time he was slowly caving in to the sensation Naruto was pushing onto him, struggling a little less with each passing second.

Naruto broke away from Sasuke's neck and instead kissed him on the mouth again. With soft movements, he coached Sasuke into responding to him, slowly working their way to a full on deep kiss. Sasuke finally cracked and moaned into the kiss, relaxing his body. Naruto was in control, and even if Sasuke didn't think he liked it at first, he felt like it was fine now. It was exciting in some way, to surrender and be controlled a little. It stopped him from having to think about what he was doing and he could just go with it. He only had to follow the soft nudges and and light pressures Naruto gave him and Naruto did the rest. It was a lot different than the kiss during the mission, in which Naruto had seemed to want Sasuke to take control and he had done so for as far as he was capable off, but the lack of experience kind of stood in the way of that. Sasuke loved that Naruto had wanted him to take control then, yet now Naruto had no problem taking full control and Sasuke was just loving this all the same. Maybe it didn't really matter to him who was in control, as long as it was with Naruto. Right now, with Naruto leaning over him and guiding him, he was loving being loved.

Naruto felt the change in Sasuke as Sasuke relaxed and let go of his hands. He smirked into the kiss at his little victory, kissing Sasuke a little more fiercely and a little more daring. Sasuke wrapped his arms around Naruto neck, pulling him a little closer and kissing back with the same passion as Naruto was putting into it.

Naruto intertwined his fingers into Sasuke's hair, pinning Sasuke down a little as he let his other hand wander over Sasuke's chest, feeling the muscles underneath the cloth. Breaking the kiss, Naruto gave them both a few seconds to catch their breaths, before he nuzzled Sasuke's neck, taking in his scent with deep steady breaths that tickled Sasuke's skin with every exhale. Sasuke just held onto him, trying to keep his neck craned so Naruto had easy excess, which was difficult, because he was ticklish. Not that Naruto's firm grip in his hair left him much choice, but that was besides the point.

Naruto sat up, looking down at the mess he made of Sasuke. Sasuke was breathing hard, much like himself, but Sasuke had clear kiss marks decorating his jawline and neck, his hair was disshevelen and his clothing ascew, he was still blushing and his eyes were a bit glazed over. As Naruto sat up, Sasuke had dropped his hands so he was holding Naruto's hips, which Naruto teasingly wiggled a bit under the excuse of finding a better way to sit. It made Sasuke's blush bloom brighter again and Naruto could feel why. He smirked down on Sasuke, loving the embarrasment on Sasuke's face. When Naruto let his hands slide down Sasuke's chest with the intention of finding more skin contact, Sasuke's expression changed from embarresment to a little reluctant. Sasuke grabbed Naruto's hands and stopped him. "Naruto, I..." He said. He was happy Naruto didn't just go through with it. Instead, he stopped his movements as soon as he saw Sasuke's expression and let Sasuke stop him.

"No further?" Naruto asked, smiling slightly at Sasuke.

"Yeah, I'm sorry. It's just..." It hadn't even been a week since he had admitted to himself that he liked Naruto in this way and any more then kissing, and maybe feeling each other up, just wasn't on the table yet right now.

"Are you sure you don't need help with this?" Naruto asked, wiggling his hips again and making the blush on Sasuke's face burn up once more. Naruto smirked, his red eye still fierce, but Sasuke still shook his head 'No'. Naruto shrugged. "Okay." He said happily and instead leaned down again to hug and snuggle against Sasuke. Sasuke barely caught a glimpse of Naruto's eyes, switching from red to blue the instant Naruto accepted Sasuke's decision. Sasuke hugged him back and for a while they just stayed like that, enjoying each other's body heat and company.

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