Naruto Fan Fiction ❯ Homeless Harlot ❯ Scream for Me ( Chapter 16 )

[ X - Adult: No readers under 18. Contains Graphic Adult Themes/Extreme violence. ]

The slit of moonlight in the hallway created by the crack in Sasuke's doorway now lights the hall as the door pulls open completely. The teen darts over to the stairs stooping down snatching the cord from its place before the stairs, stuffing it into the pocket of his pajama pants before his back came into hard contact with the wall. He didn't have long to wonder what the hell happened as Kakashi went rushing down the stairs after shoving Sasuke out of the way.

'He shoved me!' The boy thinks in disgust, looking down the stairs that- had he not acted quickly- Kakashi would have fallen down as well.

"Gai!? Gai!?" The man calls out while shaking his groaning lover.

At least there was that. Sasuke heard a rather sickening pop! when Gai made it to the end of his fall. He thought that the man had cracked his skull open. Thank goodness, though, he's not dead. He didn't mean to kill him, only back him off for a little; like he did with getting Lee hurt, so that he can give his affair with Kakashi a proper goodbye. Killing the man would be horrible! Walking down the hall he turns on the overhead that's been placed just above the stairs.

"My leg is broken." Gai sputters the words out.

"And your nose too." Kakashi says upon examining his lover.

That explains the pop that Sasuke had heard.

Looking up the stairs he snaps at the teen. "Sasuke get down here and sit with Gai, I'm calling an ambulance." He darts away when he sees the boy coming down the stairs: oddly slow for what the emergency calls for but he doesn't have time to worry about how Sasuke handles tragidy due to his upbringing he has to get to the phone.

"Are you all right?" Sasuke asks quietly, hand caressing Gai's cheek.

Gai looked scared out of his mind for a moment; he had seen Sasuke stooping before the stairs and he was sure, so very sure that something had caught his ankle when he started down the stairs. But would Sasuke go that far to be with Kakashi? It didn't seem impossible since it was his idea that he and Lee- whom he knows to have a bad back- roll down that hill in such an odd manner.

'It seems my little 'Asuka' has become dangerous. I have to stop him before this continues.' Thinks the man.

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"Ahahaha, you're very silly Gai-san- an elephant." The nurse giggles over the joke the man had made.

With a hauty laugh, Gai takes the woman's hand into his own. "Nurse, can I trouble you for a drink."

"Sure. I'll bring you back an ice cold tea."

Smiling, Kakashi shakes his head. He was glad to see Gai in a joking mood; that fall scared the shit out of him. It was almost like a hard wake up call that he could lose Gai at any minute not only in life but with the secret he's chosen to live with. Sasuke. He had been sound asleep but the tumbling woke him up, and even in the bedroom with the closed door, he hears the sickening pop from Gai's nose breaking. Gai's beautiful nose. Leaning over he places a kiss on the cast covering the fine set of nostrils, earning a chuckle from the man.

"My nose would thank you if it could talk." He looks down at his cast covered leg. "My leg is feeling a little unloved, though." Teases the man.

"Of course, Gai." He leans over planting a kiss on the leg cast.

Smiling he looks down at his young rival. "Sasuke, what are you doing all the way over there?" He waves a hand. "Come here, come sit beside me- I'm not a monster, just a man with a broken nose; think of it like I missed a spot when getting my all over tan."

Sasuke rose from his seat at the window and walks slowly over to the bed. "I'm sorry that you fell. But you should really watch where you're going when you travel in the dark. You're a grown man you should know that by now."

'So Sasuke was worried for Gai?' Thinks Kakashi glad that it wasn't what he'd allowed his mind to think on the ride to the hospital with the silent child.

"I'll remember to find the light first." Assures the man. "Wanna sign my cast?"

Taking a red marker from Gai, Sasuke thinks for a moment before writing: Where does it itch?

The two men look down at the words, cocking a brow, before cracking a smile into a chuckle.

Sasuke snickers as well, shaking the laugh off before he says. "This way you can get people to read it off, and you can make the 'its an all over kind of thing' joke.

"Sounds good to me."

"I still can't get my head around how you managed to fall." Wonders Kakashi. "I knew you snuck out of the room every night to get a drink but I've never once seen you wobbling in your step, you always seem so wide awake."

"Maybe I was having an off night." The man says in a drained tone.

"Mm, well, see that this is the last one." He smooths the mans dark silken bangs aside to kiss him on the forehead. "Keep bottles of juice on the bedside table."

"That's a good idea."

The nurse walks back into the room, a can of cold tea in her hand. "I'm afraid that visiting hours are over for today. You can come back tomorrow as soon as eleven." She hands the can to Gai. Who smiles a 'thank you' to her. "So say your goodbyes."

Wrapping his arms around his lover, Kakashi kisses Gai on the lips. "Goodnight, Gai. You have your drink so try not to get up for another one, that's what nurses are for."

A soft laugh comes from the man. "I'll remember that."

"Good. I'll count the hours 'til we can spring you."

"Me too." Releasing his husband, Gai looks over at Sasuke. "Do I get a hug from you, or are you coming in to the kind of teen that-.." His words are cut off by Sasuke wrapping his arms around him in a tight grip. Seeing that Kakashi has walked to the door, the man leans into the teens ear and whispers. "I saw you, Sasuke."

Shocked, the boys dark eyes widen before lowering to slits. "If you saw me, then I won't feel weird about saying: be lucky it wasn't your neck." After this Sasuke removes himself from the man. "Sleep well." Walking to the door he practically scooped Kakashi into his own life force to get them out of that place.

Gai grit his teeth, a glare in his eyes.

The nurse gasped in horror when the mans fist crushed the can, still closed, within it, spilling the drink all over the bed. "A faulty can?" She wonders before rushing out of the room to get a change of blankets and sheets incase the stain got through.

"First I have to tell Kakashi, but we won't send our dear Sasuke back to the streets... not just yet.'

The drive home from the hospital was in complete silence; not even the radio is being played. Kakashi seemed to be thinking very hard about something while Sasuke seemed only to be watching the man. The teen thought that conversation would start the minute they walked into the door, but Kakashi only made his way into the kitchen, after removing his sneakers at the genkan. Taking a seat on the couch, Sasuke continues watching the man who's now walking out of the kitchen, after having closed a few cabinets a bit harder than need be, and before Sasuke can ask what he's doing he sees that Kakashi is cleaning up the blood that spilled onto the floor from Gai's nose. Hard to believe that a busted nose could make such a mess, but then the man's lip was split too. He could relate, Naruto punches really hard for a pleasant guy. You look at his personality and honestly don't expect a boom if you were in a knock down drag out fight. Kakashi scrubs furiously, silently.

Sighing, Sasuke opens his mouth first. "Are we just gonna ignore the elephant in the room?"

Ceasing his movement, the man looks up as if surprised to see the teen seated on the couch or in the home at all. A low sound escapes the man's mouth sounding a bit like a sigh of 'I forgot about you'. Which was verified by the man saying. "Sasuke, shouldn't you be getting back to bed? Its late, you'll be tired in the morning."

"I don't care. Kakashi, we need to talk."

"About?" He stretches his word, finishing with his spit and polish of the floor.

"Gai is gonna be in the hospital for tonight and a day.... don't you think we should..." He left his sentence open, hoping the man would get the hint.

"Resume our separation- and not just for the fact that Naruto is blackmailing us, but for the fact that this" He gestures at the mess. "shit right here, is an eye opener that I'm a complete idiot and should have used my head before climbing into bed with a minor- or anyone for that matter."

Sasuke didn't know what to say to that without sounding like a whining brat.

"You have school tomorrow. You really should get to bed."

"No."

The man stands with a shrug. "I don't care whether you do or you don't. I'm going to bed. Goodnight, Sasuke." He returns the items to the kitchen heading upstairs afterwards. Sasuke was not going to be ignored. Following the man up the stairs and into the master bedroom.

"Let me sleep in here."

"No." He strips off his clothing, climbing into his boxers and nothing more. He should have begged to remain at the hospital with Gai. He can't imagine how bored his love must be, or stir crazy he'll get- sure- its only one day and tonight but still an active man like guy must be losing it by now.

"Why not?" Asks the teen removing his clothing as well.

"Because I don't trust you."

"Me or yourself?" He snarls.

"Trust me, its you." Replies the man with a bit of malice.

'He can't seriously be over it? What's he thinking? ....Maybe having Gai fall was pushing it a bit but, it was either that or attacking the man directly and honestly I doubt I'd win.' Casting his gaze to the floor, he thinks. 'What am I gonna do now? I've screwed up everything! Maybe.... maybe for a while I'll back off, and after that while he'll be the one begging for me. I can ignore him completely.' But watching the man settle into bed had his member in a twitch. He's dying to be inside the man now that he's had him; love should go both ways, and sex should as well. Maybe Kakashi will give him this one night of what he wants if he promises to leave him alone after. 'Its a stretch, but it could work.' Climbing into the bed he hears an agitated groan.

"Sasuke, really, go back to your own room." He turns onto his side.

"I will.... if you give me something first." He plants a kiss on the man's bare shoulder; his hand, with teasing finger tips, drifts like a ghost down the man's well toned abs to the rim of his boxer shorts.

"Do you really think I'm in the mood for sex with Gai being in the hospital?" He clamps his hand around the horny teen's wrist, but the boys damned fingers persisted to mess with and at their reach beyond the band. Kakashi rolls over, sitting up; Sasuke's wrist still within his hand. "What's it gonna take to back you off?"

"Let me have sex with you."

"Came up with that answer awful quick." States the man. His hard tone softens seeing the delicate face of the teen highlighted by the dim light of dawn showing through the open window. "Sasuke, listen to me. Its over between us.... having Naruto find out was a blessing if he got us to at least consider the idea of stopping. And Gai getting hurt was an eye opener of how easy it would be to lose him."

'Easy! You'd be surprised at how wrong you are about that.' Thinks the teen. Leaning forward, he places kisses on the man's chest; not about to give up or give in. He was pleased to feel the man's chest flex beneath his lips as they clamped onto his nipple. "See, you do want to. If you... if you let me inside of you, I swear that it will be the last time I bother you." Lying the boy goes on to say. "You're right, having Gai fall is an eye opener, I care about him and I don't wanna see him hurt. But, Kakashi, I need this. I need you."

Sasuke was shocked when the man's hands clamped down over his cheeks; his weight going back, landing on the bed before he's covered by the man and gifted with a hard, but so welcome, kiss. His bottom lip is nibbled before the man pulls away to hiss into his mouth.

"Once this is over, don't ever ask for me to be with you again."

Regardless how serious the man's words were, neither of them could deny the shiver that ran up their spines when their members began to harden in the grind of their hips. Their pants meet inbetween the joining and unjoining of their mouths. Hurrying this along, Sasuke pulls away the restricting boxer shorts; one hand at Kakashi's pushing and one at his own doing the same. Sitting up, Kakashi removed his own night shorts, pulling Sasuke's away chucking them somewhere in the dimly lit room. Hand on the boys crotch he pets his balls, hard, tugging at the base of his member when his hand came up high enough to wrap his hand around it. Sasuke's responses got him harder than he would have admitted to someone after telling them it was the last time, and he was over the whole, sneaky-freaky, thing. The side table drawer is pulled open and a bottle of lubricant is produced. Kakashi uncaps it with his teeth. Pouring some over his own erection, he coats it well before doing the same to Sasuke's leaving it a bit dry- but only a bit. He doubts the teen will be any match for Gai as far as length or girth, so he felt no need for much preparation. Its strange to him that Sasuke would want to do something like this with him, as far as he knew most guys like to be on the bottom- he loved it- but to have a teenager request the front seat was just odd.

Sasuke brings him down into another kiss; their hips mash and slide together with the coating making it too delightful to go beyond grinding, but vibrations up and down their spines keep the grind strong. But Sasuke wanted the main attraction. Giving his lover a push, Sasuke moves to sit between the man's hips. Sucking in a nervous breath the teen looks over the beautiful man before him wondering exactly how to start something like this.

"Just place yourself then move in."

"Won't it hurt?"

Kakashi's laugh caused the teen to shrink away, but the caress on the cheek brought back his fire. "I don't think it'll hurt, besides, the pain will be nice." He smiles faintly as he's thinking. 'It'll be a nice punishement if it does hurt.'

Nodding, he finds the man's hole with his index and middle finger brushing along between the cheeks. Moving the tip of his head to the entrance, Sasuke backs off. Kakashi gives the teen an odd look.

"What's wrong?"

"Can you turn over?"

Cocking a brow, Kakashi was seconds from laughing but held his chuckle. He had to wonder about Sasuke's reasoning for this request, as he turns onto his stomach, hips rising a bit from the bed as he places his and Gai's large fluffy pillows beneath his lap; his head rest against his forearms. 'Maybe he's nervous that he'll see that I'm not actually enjoying it.' Thinks the man.

Kakashi grunts when the teen shoves his length into his body; Sasuke's weight falls down over his back, his hands hold gently onto Kakashi's shoulders as he places a kiss onto the middle of the man's back between his shoulder blades then Sasuke rests his cheek there. It was still, the movement, the air in the room, everything. Kakashi moved his hips back against the member that seemed to be sitting in him like it was a dead body burried seven inches deep.

"Maybe we should-.." He was going to say 'keep this moving along' but he's cut off by Sasuke's words.

"Even if we don't get together after this... I still love you, Kakashi."

He's quiet, as quiet as Sasuke's gentle tone. "....Sasuke."

Again he'd meant to say more, but Sasuke chose that moment to again silence him by shifting his hips back; a pleased sigh comes from his lips feeling the sensation of fucking the man simply from sliding out of him before he shoves back in, repeating this over and over, encouraged by Kakashi's grunts and outcries of pleasure.

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In the other part of town, in a small apartment, Uchiha Itachi found himself in the bathroom staring down at the floor. He supposed it was for just incase: incase he cried, incase he screamed, incase he'd been moved to throw things. Seeing what he saw... who he saw... Sasuke is alive! He'd spent two years wondering what had happened to his little brother, knowing that he could only think the worst. His father was claimed by the cruel winters of Konoha, so of course it would take his little brother as well.

There's a loud pounding on the door behind him, he can feel each knock vibrating his spine. "Oi! Itachi! Are you gonna stay in there forever? Some of us need to use the bathroom, nn."

It remains quiet on the enclosed end of the bathroom, but a moment later the door opens quietly. Deidara, the owner of the apartment, looks at his roommate with distaste for his out-of-character behavior, but offers him an even smile. "Wanna tell me what this is all about? I mean, kids get to me too but I'm not gonna lock myself away like the phantom of the apartment."

"That boy... the one beside the blond was- is my little brother, Sasuke."

Eyes widen in surprise. "No kidding? But I thought that Sasuke-..."

"So did I, but all this time.... he's been alive."

Still in shock, he shakes his head. He knew Itachi's story, his life on the streets he was told by the male when he'd caught him heading to a shelter after work one day. He invited the man to come live with him, he has a two bedroom apartment and didn't mind sharing and it was on the third month with the near silent man that he got him to spill his guts about his past. He had a father who left him to care for his little brother because he knew his time had come to leave this world. The two of them lived the best they could, but Itachi wanted more for his younger brother than to leave him as their father had no choice to. Sasuke didn't even get to know their mother. The world was a hard place for people like them and it would only get worse until they perished. Itachi taught his brother to be tough, to be fearless, he knew that Sasuke would be alright until he was sure to get security for the both of them. It was foolish, he knew, but there was always that chance it could work. And so he left him. Itachi found a shelter and began making phone calls for interviews, they've been up this road before only to be turned back to the streets when no calls for work were returned. That's the thing with shelters, it isn't a hotel for the homeless, its a place to help yourself and if you don't someone else might be able to and you're only in their way. So he mugged a man for his clothing, took interviews here, there and everywhere he could until ready to call it quits and return to his brother until that sweet day when the manager of the packing factory called him back. He had a job. Money, a small home, the Uchiha's could make it.

But Sasuke was gone. Itachi searched for days to months, months to a full year but he had not found his little brother. He'd even asked shelters if they'd seen him, soup kitchens, but everyone shook their heads. After the half of the next year Itachi knew what had happened to his brother and he could not bare to search for him any further. He had done it, he had killed him. He was stupid to think that a young boy could survive on his own after so long, he should have just brought him along but dammit! He hated more than anything to see that hopeful look on his brother's face be beaten away when the question of "will they be all right" was replied to with a silent "no". All that love, all that personal shame he'd taken due to the lengths he had to go through just to keep Sasuke and himself warm through a hard night... it had all been for nothing. Deidara was kind to him, always trying to get him to smile but he did it through teasing rather than kindness and Itachi thought that that sort of dry humor was just what he needed to keep him from ever being happy or smiling again. But its all been a lie. Sasuke is alive! He's alive, and he has to get him back from whomever it was that took him. The very idea that his brother was taken in by some damned pimp... He balls his fist. The man would have a very short last hour on this planet because he would murder him in cold blood for sullying his dear brother.

Deidara brings Itachi from his thoughts by asking. "What do we do about it, nn?" Placing his hand to the man's shoulder he asks. "Are we gonna kidnap him?" He leans in to say that, like the person whom Sasuke is with would overhear and move him.

"We find him and ask for him back... if the answer is no, we take him."

Nodding, the blond smirks but it soon droops to confusion. "But how do we find him?"

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It was no longer a wonder why Naruto would pound into him as hard as he had back when the two were sex-lovers, between the in and out of that tight, engulfing, pleasure place hearing the different responses to the way its being done were music to his ears, as well as the sound of his thighs slapping the back of Kakashi's. Lost in the motion and feeling, the two paid no mind to the sun shining through the window announcing morning as the heated union continued on. Kakashi seems insatiable to his pounding; the mans tunnel physically voiced its want by clamping down harder while trying on its own to suck the male further in, joined by the man's arm coming back behind them to grip the teen's buttocks.

Sweaty beyond any showers ability to staunch it right away, Sasuke pants heavily while thinking through his dream cloud about how deep Gai goes that this man wants more from him, until he'd realized. An intoxicated to shaky hand removes itself from Kakashi's shoulder, caressing down his side until it reaches his hips where it locates the man's penis to give the abandoned orgin a work out. That was what sent Kakashi near the edge as his cries grow louder with each push and timmed stroke coming at him, until his forearms have been dug in till bleeding by his short fingernails cutting through the skin as the man climaxes all over his pillow giving an extra sigh when feeling Sasuke's seed fill into him before the younger male exits his body.

Still trembling with pleasure the two lay collapsed into the bed. Sasuke was the first to catch his breath. "I'd better get ready for school." As he moves to leave the bed, his wrist is grabbed.

"No sense in wasting a day to say goodbye, letting school get in the way." Says the man through pant; looking gorgeous with sweat and a smile plastered to his face.

Naruto had been going through his day fine, at least, until he'd gone to reading class. Finding not Kakashi-sensei sitting behind his desk but a substatute teacher. It was one thing to have Sasuke not come in, students get sick- and fake it- all the time but to have Kakashi absent too was a little suspicious. There's always a chance that they're taking an early vacation since summer is so close, or maybe Kakashi-sensei has to stay home to take care of Sasuke because Gai-san is gone for the day. No, Naruto had to get rid of any excuses he can make. Sasuke lied to him, he's probably at home feeling fine and dandy and beyond happy while Gai sits at work completely unaware of what's going on in his home. He has to tell him, and nothing will stop him.

The absentees barely made it through lunch before they found their clothes off again to enjoy the taste and feel of each other in the teacher's office. Sasuke is seated on the swiveling leaning armchair, his legs straddled onto the arms of the single seat while he holds onto the back. The chair is leaned forward from his weight and a bit of Kakashi's, who's got a secure hold of his hips to ensure that the chair doesn't fall over while he thrust into Sasuke's, slightly bouncing, body. The creaks of the chair, that if alive would be nervous of snapping in two from the thin bar holding the seat to the wheels being abused in such a way, join their moans and groans: jiggling and jostling with each move. The chair jerks upright when Kakashi leans his weight back a bit before shoving himself in harder and deeper.

Sasuke began to accept the idea of living as a blind man when their hands do a little swap and he now has one stroking his own member while the other is hooked around Kakashi's lower back, and the man has his hands secured to the side of the seat. The hard sound of Kakashi's panting in his ear brought Sasuke to his end and his body spasmed and tensed before exploding. If this was lunch, Sasuke can not wait for dinner.

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Naruto has it all planned out. He's on his way to Sasuke's house with his friends homework. When Sasuke opens the door he's going to toss the papers at him, then give him a nice sized welt on the cheek- bigger than the last one- let him think about that as he marches into the house, has a seat and waits for Gai to come home so he can tell the man of what's been going on in the home. That being the plan, he had no idea that it was going to blow up in his face when he answered the door and saw a solemn faced Sasuke staring back at him.

"What?" He asks in a snipping tone.

"I brought your homework for you." He shoves it into his ex-boyfriends chest.

"Thanks."

Growing angry, Naruto balls up his fist. "That's all you have to say? No apology-.."

Cutting the blond off Sasuke asks. "For what?"

"You know damn well what.... you and Kakashi!" He answers before letting Sasuke figure it out for himself. "I asked you not to do this shit anymore and here you two are getting cozy at home."

"What cozy? I'm alone." He moves from the entrance gesturing a hand behind him as if to say look for yourself. "Kakashi's at the hospital." He lied, unaware of how true the statement was.

That was shocking. "What happened to him?"

"Nothing. Its Gai, he fell down the stairs last night and broke his nose and leg. He'll be home tomorrow morning."

"Oh," His anger disolved quickly. He felt so stupid, he should trust Sasuke more. But how could he not jump to the conclusion?! His assumptions are justified. "I'm sorry to hear that. He's alright, though, isn't he?"

"Same as always." Cocking his head over his shoulder, he asks. "Wanna come in?"

"I shouldn't. I have homework."

"I can help yo-.."

"Okay!" He steps past the male. "Thanks, Sas', this stuffs really tough today. Asuma-sensei dropped the bomb on some new kind of math and expects a guy like me to be able to do homework on it after hearing about it one day!"

"Isn't that usually how it goes?" He closes the door. "Did you take notes? I won't be much help with that if you didn't."

"I took notes but I don't know how to make out any of it." He dumps his bag to the floor, snatching the zipper open he removes his books and notebook. "We have science too." His blue eyes catch a glance of the inside of the teachers, at home, office and there on the desk looks like a bottle of lubricant.

Sasuke's dark gaze follows the blond's and he scoffs. "Its windex; I thought the same thing when I first started living here."

Blushing from another hit and miss, Naruto shakes his head. "I wasn't thinking anything like that." Though he was. The blinds were up. The man was probably cleaning to get rid of the frustration of having his lover in the hospital. His mom does that all the time. But putting windex in a lubricant bottle is kind of odd. Then again, a lot of people do weird things in order to recycle. "Alright, let's get this over with and play some video games." He pushes up non-existant sleeves; he's wearing his summer uniform shirt with the short sleeves.

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"This is the second school we've been rejected from. I don't think anyone is gonna tell us if your little brother goes there or not." Deidara sits on a bench, slumped, and nearly overcome with sweat. "Plus, walking around in this heat is making me look disgusting."

"Then go home." He looks over the name of the third school's location.

They've been to two already and so far they've heard the same thing from both of them. Without proof or identification from the student- whom they will not let see him- then they cannot release any information about the minor in question. So he and Deidara waited until after school at the first place they checked out to see if Sasuke would exit but the male did not and neither of them saw the blond from before either. Tomorrow they'll wait for the other school to let out to search for Sasuke in the crowd, but for now they may as well head home.

"We'll find him, and we at least know he wasn't brought in by some dirty oldman, the guy wouldn't let him go to school; he'd be chained up in a bedroom or basement."

"You don't know how little the homeless are cared for by the rest of society; even if I reported him missing, I'd only have to say that he lived on the streets and they'll call it his and my problem."

"So don't mention that part."

"What about a photo."

"I could draw him." Standing, he starts for his car. "Just tell me what he looks like and we'll get some posters made."

Itachi hadn't thought of that. "Do you really think it would work?"

"I don't see why not." He shrugs. He'd say anything at this point if it meant he'd be getting out of this heat wave.

At the hospital. Kakashi had to say he was going shopping in order to visit Gai alone. He knew that Sasuke would want to come with him if he flat out said that he was going to see Gai. The way that Sasuke's been behaving and when he shouted for the two of them to shut up when they were having sex just didn't sit well with Kakashi. He hates the fact that his body is practically owned by this teenaged seducer, but dammit if he can't help it.

"Kakashi? What are you doing here?" Asks his lover; turning down the television from the baseball game he's watching, the chipper male devotes his attention to Kakashi.

"I brought you a mushroom covered cheese burger- incase the hospital food sucks."

"It does, I've been giving it to the trash all day- and even it doesn't wanna hold onto it." He smiles but it soon fades as he gestures for Kakashi to take a seat. "You won't even humor one of my jokes, this must be more than a food rescue. What's up?"

"I've known you to be many things Maitou Gai, but clumsy is not one of them. I wanna know what happened last night that you fell down the stairs. Were you really just delirious?"

"Hn. You talk as if you're waiting to hear something specific." He opens the bag taking out a french fry.

"I just... I just wanna be sure."

"That Sasuke didn't do it?"

The room grew still.

"Kakashi, Sasuke is dangerously in love with you and if you haven't picked up on it then you need to sharpen your skills of caution my rival." He wags the fry at Kakashi.

"But it seems unlikely he would do something so dangerous and stupid just for me."

"Does it? You can be very charming.... you haven't been charming him, have you?"

"Not to my knowledge."

Gai made a very diswayed sound in the back of his throat as he eats. "Sometimes the most flirtatious situations are the ones we're unaware of."

"I'm sorry."

The way those words weighed down Gai's ears, he knew that his lover was apologizing for what he's been doing or had done rather than just seeing Gai hurt in the hospital. Touching the man's hand; bits of salt from his finger tips are brushed away before he keeps his grip. "Kakashi, Sasuke did not push me down the stairs."

The saddened man let out a sigh of relief. He didn't want to know himself if he found out that Sasuke hurt Gai.

"But I do think he set it up for me to fall."

"What do you mean?" His celebration was short lived.

"My foot caught something right before I started down the stairs, and during my tumble I saw Sasuke stooping down at the top of the staircase."

Kakashi thought that over. "You mean like he might have put a string there?"

"Or something."

Thinking back Kakashi did think it was strange how Sasuke was at the top of the stairs just standing there rather than going down them. But then, he'd shoved the boy out of the way so quickly, he wouldn't have noticed whether Sasuke were getting ready to move or not.

"Would he really do something like this? Sasuke loves you."

"Or at least he used to. What I don't understand is how he came to care for you this much."

"I can't figure it out either, I haven't given him any sort of special attention."

"Like I said, ignorance is the most attractive feature to some people." He shrugs. "Beats playing up to it."

"This is insane. We have to get him out of our house then- put him somewhere. I can't have that jealous brat hurting you."

"You're sweet to think of me, but, I can handle that young man without resorting to having a minor out on the streets."

"Really?"

"Mental torture my friend." He taps a finger to his temple. "We'll make that boy realize exactly what it is he's losing, not what he stands to lose. All of our love: the food, the clothes, the care, it will all just go away- like a band-aid, right off!" He gestures pulling a band-aid from a wound. "Sooo that all of this nonsense can stop once and for all." Releasing Kakashi's hand, Gai takes a bite of his burger savoring the taste before allowing his sadness to sweep over his demeanor. "Kakashi, I had been hoping that you would have told me without my taking stabs in the dark or making wild accusations but neither you nor Sasuke said a word to me. I don't know what hurts more, honestly, the lying or the keeping it from me and not having enough sense to stop it."

Kakashi's heart stilled, blood rushed to his ears almost defening him. Gai knows, or at least he thinks that he knows. But, he didn't say anything to either of them... what can that mean.

"Kakashi, my love and rival... you're a grown ass man. You should know better than to do things like that not just with someone else but with a minor. Yesterday, I only let you be intimate with me because I wanted to know how Sasuke would react to it."

That shocked the man. Taken aback he asks. "And?"

"I got the reaction I thought I'd get, but the end result wasn't a broken leg and nose." Gai blinks thoughtfully. "I was sort of hoping that Sasuke would show some of that legendary maturity he's always exampled to us but he chose to get rid of me instead." Looking into his lovers individually colored eyes, he continues. "I'm beyond words of disappointment with him. I can't be the nice guy anymore, and if you care to salvage the crack in our relationship you will stop this whole thing and help me."

"Sasuke has hurt you, and he will never do it again. But I've hurt you as well and I'm very sorry."

"There will be time for apologies later when things go back to normal. I don't want remorseful guilt saying its sorry." Readjusting his sitting position he digs into the bag offering his lover a few fries. "I love you, Kakashi. But you're gonna pay through the nose in making this up to me. I want a vacation to an exotic location, I want to see my mother twice in one month, and I want a lifetime supply of TLC whenever I need it, even if you're dog-tired I have to come first."

Smiling, the man chuckles before saying. "So many demands for the wounded heart. Now who's being immature?"

Snickering, he shoves the gray haired man out of his seat. "Aaa shut up."