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Naruto felt her heart throb in both excitement and nervousness. She just turned twenty a few months ago, and decided that it was time to confess to Itachi. She promised herself that she wouldn't start the next decade of her life without a definite answer from him. She wouldn't give him anymore time, it's not fair for either of them if he doesn't like her and she continues to chase him. It's also not fair for her to continue to put her love life on hold for a man that isn't interested.
She gets that he was uninterested in a child, but she could hardly be called that anymore.
She sends him a text asking if he would be available to grab a coffee. It didn't take long for him to agree to join her. He doesn't hesitate to agree to spending time with her and she takes that as a good sign.
Naruto took extra care to make sure she looked her best and anxiety and excitement swirled inside of her as she left her apartment. This is it.
She got to the coffee shop five minutes before the meeting time, and she smiled at the sight of Itachi already waiting for her. Her heart still raced at the sight of him and when he stood up and pulled out her seat, she can't help but feel love for the complete gentleman that is Itachi.
“You look lovely Naruto,” he said as he took his own seat.
“Thank you. You look amazing as well,” she complimented, “how has work been?”
They spent twenty minutes enjoying each other’s company and she only takes it as a good sign. Her knees started to bounce in nervousness, and she decided she had put this off too long.
“Itachi, I invited you to confess my feelings. I don't want you to think it's a joke when I tell you I love you. I have honestly loved you since I was a kid and I wanted to ask you if you could ever love me back?”
Itachi looked honestly taken aback by her confession which hurt more than it should. Did he really never take any of the things she did seriously? None of them? The older man got his face under control before he gave her a kind smile.
“I'm sorry Naruto. You are important to me, but I have never thought of you in that way,” he looked truly apologetic.
She was both devastated and relieved. The relief comes from the closure she guessed. She gave him a weak smile and the sight of him was a little blurry as tears filled the corners of her eyes.
“It's fine ‘Tachi. It's time for me to move on. Thank you for hearing me out,” she stood up and put some cash on the table and said, “I will see you around.”
After that she walked away without looking back.
Shit heart break sucks.
Shisui was excited, Kakashi was on vacation, so he was going to take over Naruto’s photo shoot. Ever since Kakashi fully trusted him not to fuck up, he normally gets put in charge of other shoots. He has never regretted the day he decided to uproot his life, he has so much fun spending time with beautiful people.
Kakashi is normally the one that does shoots with Naruto, partially because he can keep the blond girl focused, but the main reason being Kushina always shows up to Naruto’s shoots to direct her vision and she is incredibly picky while giving the vaguest idea of what she wants. After six years of experience, he now knows that the shoots with the Uzumaki women are the most fun and exciting ones to be a part of.
This shoot was nothing like the ones he was used to.
Normally, it would take a few shots to get Naruto to drop her sunshine smile and have the serious pout that was required for high fashion, but this time she got through everything quickly. They were able to get everything done in half of the planned for time and Naruto immediately left after the models were dismissed. She usually stayed to talk about the shoot and joke around with the rest of the team, so it was unusual for her to run off.
Kushina looked at her daughter’s back with a worried face that Shisui has never seen on the red-haired woman. Naruto is not someone people usually need to worry over, unless that worry was about what chaos she was about to cause.
“Do you know what happened to my daughter? She hasn't been this upset since Madara passed.”
Shisui shook his head, “I was about to ask you.”
Kushina just sighed, “I don't know.”
“I'll ask Sasuke later.”
She looked relieved at his words, “good idea. Maybe he will talk to you. Let's get back to work.”
When they finished going through all the shots and choosing the ones that would be sent to the editing department, he shot Sasuke a text only to be left on seen. The little shit. He decided to video chat his younger cousin. He answered and Shisui saw he was sitting at his desk playing video games.
“What do you want Shisui?”
He wanted to roll his eyes at the attitude, “I wanted to ask about Naruto.”
“She's fine, she just needs some time,” Sasuke said without looking at the phone.
“What happened?”
“I'm going through a tunnel,” he said as he ate another chip.
“You are in your room,” he started, and Sasuke hung up in the middle of his sentence.
Shisui let out a laugh of disbelief, “that little shit.”
He decided Sasuke knew her best and if he isn’t worried then she will probably be back to normal soon and put it out of mind for the time being.
Some of the models from the shoot were waiting for him and asked if he would like to get a drink with them and he was yet again reminded of why he loved his job so much.
That evening he was in a club with the beautiful girls on each arm when trouble walked in.
Shisui noticed immediately when Naruto walked into the club with Izumi and a few other girls he's never met before. His mouth was dry as he took her in, her long hair was down with bold makeup on her face, a mesh shirt with lingerie on display underneath, black leather shorts, thigh high boots and gold jewelry to accessorize. He's known that she hasn't been a child in a long time, but he still feels the instinct to pull his jacket around her and drag her out of the club. She should be somewhere better than this trashy place.
The girls he was with grabbed his attention and the way they were acting led him to believe the night would end in a threesome if he left with them right now. He saw a man walk up to Naruto with a drink looking like he was on a mission and stood up.
“I'm sorry ladies. I have someone else to take care of tonight. I'll see you another time.”
Shisui didn't even wait for a response as he heads over and wrapped his arm around her shoulder. “Sorry bud, this one is taken.”
He started to pull her out of the club when she gripped his wrist tightly causing him to curse and let go. He was faced with a look of annoyance.
“What the hell Shisui?”
“That's what I should be saying. What are you doing here?”
She crossed her arms causing her chest to push out more, “Ino said the club is where pretty girls go for a fast ego boost after a broken heart.”
“Who had their heart broken?”
“Me. Now if you will excuse me, I'm going to go take drinks from strangers and hey!”
He didn't let her finish talking as he threw her over his shoulder and continued to exit the club. After that incident where Kakashi carried both Naruto and her mother away from a fight with ease, he started working out to be able to do the same. He shot Izumi a text saying he has Naruto as he left the club.
When the fresh air hit them, he set her down and snapped, “you of all people can't be in there.”
She shoved him, “I'm an adult Shisui. Quit looking at me like I'm a kid.”
“I'm not looking at you like you're a kid and that's the problem,” he snapped at her.
She thankfully shut up and someone came up to them and checked Naruto out much to his annoyance.
“Is this guy bothering you miss?”
“Back off asshole she isn't interested.”
Naruto sighed, “I'm fine. Thank you, sir.”
The guy put on a flirty grin, “how about you join my friends and I over there?”
He felt his eyebrow twitch and before he could say anything Naruto looped her arm around his, “we were just leaving, but thank you. Have a good night.”
They started to walk away before the guy could say anything else. When they were a bit further away, she let him go.
“You have no right to choose what I do Shisui.”
“As a friend, I have a tiny bit of a right,” he said as he pulled his jacket off and wrapped it around her shoulders, “I already texted Izumi and now I'm going to take you home.”
“I don't want to go home.”
“Then to Sasuke's.”
“I told you I have a broken heart,” she said sounding upset, “Sasuke's is the last place I want to go to.”
Was she planning on staying with one of her friends? Or was she planning on letting someone take her home? He clenched his fist and decided he didn't want to know the answer.
“How about you come over to my place?”
“Shisui, I just want to get drunk and get hit on.”
“I have booze at my place and it's easy to list the great things about you,” he offered causing her to snort and his lip twitched up, “come on. I learned how to flirt from you.”
She laughed and said, “so you had a great teacher. Fine. I'll go, but you better make my ego unbearable.”
He let out a laugh of his own, “can do. Now let’s go.”
He's been drinking and was far too buzzed to drive, so he ordered a cab to take them back to his place.
They get to his apartment, and he pulled out booze from his freezer and set it on the coffee table. She pulled off his jacket and under the bright lights of his apartment she was even more beautiful than when he first saw her in the club. He let his eyes roam over her form before he mentally slapped himself.
“How about I grab you something more comfortable to wear?”
The blond frowned, “but I thought you were going to wax poetry about me.”
He took the jacket and gave her a pitiful look, “take some pity on me. I'm but a weak man in front of a goddess. The way you are currently dressed would cause a saint to sin and they'd thank you as they were dragged down to hell.”
Her cheeks flushed a little red as she grinned, “now that's what I'm talking about.”
She stumbled a little as she bent over to unzip her boots and he quickly stabilized her, “are you drunk?”
She grinned, “we may have pre-gamed the club. I needed a little bit of extra confidence to do what I planned originally.”
He won't ask what that plan was, because it was painting a picture of something he didn't want to think about. Pulling her to sit on the couch he knelt in front of her and helped her take off the boots. When he finally unzipped and pulled off the second one, she gripped his face to look at her and he swallowed at the look he knows by now means he's going to get in trouble and love every moment of it.
“Ask me what I originally planned to do.”
They were both too buzzed for where this was going in his head, “you are trouble.”
“Please ask me Shisui.”
He shivers at the sound of his name, “what was your plan?”
Her blue eyes were hypnotic as she said, “I was going to find someone to be my first kiss.”
That was unexpected. In fact, that was so fucking, “cute. Fuck that's cute.”
“I'm not going for cute. I'm going for hot,” she held her arms wide, “does this outfit say cute to you?”
“Absolutely not. Naruto you don't know the things going through my head as I look at you right now.”
She tilted her head, “what's going through your head?”
“Please don't ask me that. I'm literally on my knees in front of you right now.”
“Shisui, would you kiss me?”
He's desperately trying to hold on to what little morals he has, and she isn't making it easy saying his name like that.
“Please change into something else.”
She leaned closer to his face, “I'll change into whatever you want me to if you promise to kiss me.”
He was going to hell. “I promise.”
Her responding smile made his pants tighten. “You're gonna be my first so make it a damn good one.”
“Fuck, you are trouble,” he said as he partially leaned over her taking over her mouth with his, giving her a firm kiss and backs away and internally cursed when he sees her lick her lips as she stared at his mouth.
He goes back for another kiss as her arms wrapped around his neck. He gripped under her thighs picking her up and she naturally wrapped her legs around his waist as they continued to make out. Carrying her to his room he tossed her on his bed and threw some clothes at her.
“There is makeup remover in the bathroom,” he said as he practically slammed the door shut.
He went back to his living room and opened the alcohol and took a drink as he tried to calm down.
That is Naruto on his bed. Eight years younger than him, Naruto. He watched her grow up into the bombshell she currently is, Naruto. One of his closest friends, Naruto. This has no chance of ending well for him. Her age isn't the problem, nor is the fact that he's known her most of her life, the problem is the tiny crush he's harbored for a few years now.
Naruto has always been important to him. After years of falling too fast for the wrong people, he started to wish someone would like him the way Naruto liked Itachi. After a while it turned in to, what if Naruto liked him that way.
It was something that sat in the back of his mind and now was brought to the front of it as she walked out of the room in just his baggy shirt which stopped at her tan thighs which were on full display.
“Thank you for letting me borrow your face wash and clothes. I didn't even know you knew what half of those products were.”
Ever since he became a photographer and started dating models, he keeps skin care products in his apartment, but that didn't matter as he was still focused on her thighs.
“Why aren't you wearing the pants?”
“Because they keep falling down,” she said with a laugh, “why don't you have drawstrings on your sweats?”
Because he wanted them to fall off the girls he normally let borrow them. He wanted to slap himself for his fuckboy ways.
She gave him a teasing grin as she lifted the shirt up, “don't worry, I'm wearing booty shorts.”
He took another drink and snapped, “you are wearing on my razor thin control.”
She started giggling, “you've photographed me in micro-bikinis.”
He decided right now was not the best time to think about that and said, “I'm going to go change as well.”
After he put on the sweats that she left behind, Naruto knocked on his door.
“Hang on let me grab a shirt.”
“No,” she had the liquor bottle in her hand as she barged into his room like she owned it, she laid in his bed and pat the spot next to her, “leave it off.”
The way his shirt pooled around her insane curves left his brain empty as he climbed it after her. She took another drink and he decided she had enough and took the bottle and set it on the side table. She crawled into his lap to chase after the bottle only to get distracted by his chest and abs. He tried not to think about the way her hands felt as they explored the top half of his body.
“Naruto, what happened with Itachi?”
She leaned her head on his shoulder, “I confessed. Not only did he turn me down, but he never thought any of the things I did was serious. I've only been a joke to him.”
He pulled her into a tight hug, “I'm sorry Naruto.”
“I'm not. Even if he didn't love me back doesn't mean it was a waste of my time.”
He pulled back and he was surprised that she didn't look sad, “are you really ok?”
She let out an amused huff, “no. Heart break sucks, but I figured it was time for me to move on. I can't keep living like a nun for a guy who didn't even see me.”
Shisui was amused by her statement, “Naruto, I can't be the one you rebound with. I fall in love entirely too quickly and I don't want to lose you if this goes south.”
She gave him a nod in understanding and just pushed him down and cuddled into his chest while throwing a blanket over them.
“I get it. You fall in love too fast, and I fall too hard,” she yawned and cuddled into his side, “though, it might be nice to be loved for a change.”
She passed out immediately after she said that, and his heart started racing.
“That isn't fair. You can't just say something like that and not expect me to fall for you,” he whispers as he tucked her more on his chest and turned off the lamp deciding to go to sleep as well.
He woke up before her and tried not to think about how good it felt to wake up with her in his arms. He carefully rolled her over and got up. He brushed his teeth as he went over last night’s events.
Naruto was drunk so she might feel self-conscious of her actions. He still kicks himself over some of his own drunk mistakes that he’s made in the past. The important thing to him is that she doesn't avoid him after this, she is too close of a friend.
He made coffee and started working on breakfast to help with any potential hang over she might have had. After he finished, he was planning on waking her up, only for her to walk out of his room still in his shirt.
“I used your toothbrush,” she commented as she sat on the stool.
“You can't be doing that, that's how you spread germs.”
She snorted, “we swapped spit last night so I figured it would be fine.”
He was scandalized by her brazen words, “you are supposed to act shy after drunken mistakes.”
She scoffed, “first of all, we've known each other for forever and seen each other’s worst sides, do I need to remind you of.”
“Nope,” he interrupted. He had no idea what she was going to bring up, but she could probably write a book of all the things she knows about him and vice versa.
“And B,” she continued as she took a sip of the coffee, “it wasn't a mistake. I may have been drunk but I knew what I wanted the entire time. I'm just trying to respect your boundaries.”
“Well, aren't you a gentleman,” he teased, internally happy that she didn't think it was a mistake and that this wouldn't ruin their friendship.
“Too bad you can't be my rebound. That kiss was super hot.”
He blushed not expecting her to bring it up again so boldly, “listen you cheeky little shit.”
“I'm listening,” she said with a cheeky grin.
He threw a dish towel at her causing her to laugh, “eat your food and stop checking me out.”
“You're the one that's shirtless you temptress,” she said as she gestured to his bare chest.
His jaw dropped as he crossed his arms over his chest, “why I never. I'm taking back that gentleman comment.”
She started laughing and they spent the morning just catching up before she said she had plans with the girls she was at the club with the previous night. He made her wear his shirt when she left because the mesh shirt was a hazard for his heartrate.
After that, the two of them started spending more of their free time together. Shisui didn’t mean to, but whenever he had a moment to himself his thoughts went to wanting to spend time with her and then immediately giving into that urge and going over to her place or inviting her to hang out. Their conversations had clear flirty undertones, though no one around them commented on it. In fact, no one seemed to know there was anything different in their relationship much to his shock.
Shisui realized that they’ve always talked like this to one another, it just now had a different feel when they both couldn’t stop looking at each other’s mouth.
They were on location to take pictures of the new swimsuits and some of the summer line. Surprisingly, Kushina didn’t show up since she was struck by inspiration and stayed back to work on it, so Kakashi oversaw everything and had him tag along so they could finish everything in a couple of days verses the week it would have taken if the red-haired woman would have shown up.
In between shoots, Naruto was in a long sleave shirt since she was supposed to walk in the show in a week with the final dress being both backless and sleeveless, so it was stressed that Kushina didn’t want her to have tan lines. They were in the tent that was set up for outfit changes and hair and makeup. She caught him checking her out and she lifted the shirt to show the string bikini she was wearing and winked at him.
“Stop it, you cheeky brat,” he whispered trying to keep the attention off of them.
She bit her lip as she stared at his lips before bringing her eyes up to meet his, “make me.”
Kakashi called her for the next shoot, and she looked him in the eye as she pulled off the shirt and threw it at him, “on my way.”
Shisui stood there in slight shock holding onto the shirt before laughing and continued to sneak looks at her as she posed in the sand. After she caught him and gave a cheeky wave, he decided to distract himself by looking through the shots of some of the other models that he took.
When they were done for the day, she convinced most of the people to play in the water before they had to head to the airport to head back. He, along with several of the other models, teased her over the fact that Kakashi treated her like a child by constantly reminding her to put sunscreen on her face and to leave the long sleeve shirt on.
“But it’s like a million degrees,” she whined to the silver haired man.
“Mah, mah your puppy eyes are strong Naruto, but I’m afraid of Kushina,” Kakashi drawled out as he shoved a hat on her head, “be happy I’m letting you swim at all.”
“You are lucky that I too am terrified of my mother, or it would be a battle in the sand,” she joked, and he snorted before picking her up and throwing her in the ocean.
“You are a million years to young to take me on kid,” Kakashi told her as she came to the surface.
She just started laughing and put the wet hat back on her head, “oh, it’s on.”
There were several water battles that shifted into games of chicken and volleyball. Shisui was on her team, and they were joking around when something brushed up against his leg. He screamed as he jumped on her and she started laughing herself to tears as they fell into the water.
After a few hours it was time for the group to gather their things to head to the airport so they could check in and head back. While waiting to board, the airline asked if there were any passengers willing to take a later flight and she nudged him.
“Do you have anything to do?”
He pulled up his calendar, “I'm free for a few days until I have that sportswear shoot.”
“Wanna take the later flight?”
He felt excitement hum under his skin. “Let’s do it.”
She stood up and started walking to the podium and Kakashi stopped him from following.
“If she suckers you into going back to the beach make sure she puts on sunscreen. Tan lines will ruin the dress she is supposed to walk in at the show in a week.”
“Will do,” he said with a two-finger salute and grabbed his bags to meet her at the podium.
“There you are. We will change our flight to a later one,” Naruto said, and they handed the person their IDs.
“That is a great help. We can get you out on the next flight out,” the person said with a smile.
Naruto shot him a grin, “I was thinking a few days later.”
He looked at her and grinned already agreeing to whatever crazy thing she thought about doing. While the person was booking their new flight, Naruto was pulling up accommodations and when she noticed he was trying to peak over her shoulder, she just turned the phone to show him a private two room bungalow.
“It even has a private pool, so you don't touch seaweed in the ocean,” she teased.
“I'm pretty sure it was a man-eating fish that brushed up against me,” he defended causing her to laugh.
They got the new tickets, and they left the airport to go check into the room she rented.
After they checked in, she decided that they should grab dinner and he already had a list of places that he wanted to try if they had time while they were shooting. He was excited that he could finally put the list to use.
Over dinner as they talked, he nudged her with his foot as she brought up the ‘girly scream’ he let out earlier, and she nudged back. It went back and forth as they both brought up all of the embarrassing things that they knew about each other until he realized they were playing footsie.
He was telling her a story from college days as she ran her fingers down his arm, and when her hand reached his, he raised it to lace their fingers together. Their fingers stayed laced as they shared desert. As he brought his free hand up to thumb away some of the chocolate off her lip, it hit him hard that they were on a date.
They were on a date, and he really wanted to kiss her again.
He paid for dinner and felt excitement fill him when they left the restaurant hand in hand. They headed to a bar that was on his list that had a live band to continue their evening. Shisui thought it was the best date he’s ever been on, and as they were dancing, he gave into temptation and pulled her into a soft kiss.
The smile she gave him as he pulled away had him leaning in for another.
They were buzzed and giggly as they got back to the bungalow sometime after midnight. Standing in the common area Shisui gave her another kiss.
“Good night, Naruto.”
She pulled him into another kiss before heading to her room, “night, Shisui.”
He went to bed smiling, thinking about the girl who was sleeping in the next room.
They woke up late and he decided to take breakfast on their private deck. He was sitting on one of the lounge chairs in his trunks, enjoying coffee while overlooking the view of the private pool and the ocean just beyond it. Naruto came up in her swimsuit and handed him a tanning oil as she sat in front of him on his chair.
“Kakashi told me that you can't have tan lines,” he reminded her while looking at the oil in his hands.
She reached behind her and pulled the strings and her top slipped off along with whatever brain cells he had left at the sight of her bare back. His mouth was dry as he poured the oil in his hands that smelled like a tropical smoothie, and he hoped he wasn't shaking as he applied it to her skin.
When he reached her sides, she leaned back, and he bit his lip to stop himself from groaning. The blond knew what she was doing, and he didn't want to stop it from happening anymore. He rubbed her toned stomach before slowly making his way up to her breast. Both of them were breathing heavier as he cups both of them and started massaging the oil over them.
“How long am I supposed to pretend that I don't want everything you are offering me,” he asked as he focused on the noises she was making.
“I was hoping you would jump me the moment I took my top off.”
He pinched her nipples causing her to moan and he turned her head to catch the next moan with his mouth as they kissed. “This mouth of yours is one day going to get you in trouble.”
“Sage, I hope so.”
Turning in his lap she ground down on his dick and he gripped her hips to stop her. She smirked and leaned back showing the length of her body as she rolled her hips again.
“Fuck,” he hissed as he grabbed the back of her neck and pulled her back into a kiss as he gripped her ass and started grinding against her.
She reached down and freed his member from his trunks, and he smirked at her astonishment at his size.
She slowly stroked him as she held it against her stomach. The tip was just above her bellybutton, and he watched as she furrowed his brows and asked a little nervously, “are you really going to fill me this much?”
He groaned at her words, the rare innocent side of her made the cheesy line ten times hotter than it should be. He decided he needed more privacy as he picked her up and took her to his room where he set her on the bed and went into his bag and pulled out a box of condoms tossing it on the bed next to her.
“I was your first kiss, so it's safe to say I'm the first to do this as well,” he asked in confirmation.
She grinned and leaned back on the bed to check him out, “yeah, so make it good.”
He thumbs his waistband and pulls down his swim trunks and continued to enjoy the look on her face at the size.
“Well, aren't I a lucky girl,” she said cheekily.
He pulled the strings from her swimsuit bottoms, and she closed her thighs quickly. “That's not going to work.”
Sitting her on his lap, he let his hard on press against her back as he hooked her legs over his own, spreading her legs wide to show her in the mirror in front of them. Grabbing her face, he slowly sunk a finger inside of her. “Look how wet you are.”
He added another finger and she started grinding against his palm.
“Kiss me.”
He turned her head to give into her request, “so demanding.”
“I know what I want,” she said into the kiss.
Her first orgasm came, and she bit his lip causing him to groan. Pulling away he ripped open a condom and slide it on as he lifted her and slowly sat her back down filling her for the first time.
He almost came when she rubbed her stomach, “fuck you are so big.”
He pulled that cheeky mouth into a kiss as he started playing with her clit, “this mouth is definitely going to get you in trouble one day.”
“I hope you'll be the one to punish me,” she said a little breathless, “move.”
“No,” he growled in her ear, and he continued to touch her, “just sit there and feel me right now.”
It didn't take much longer for her second orgasm to hit and the grip her vagina had on his cock caused him to black out for a second with pleasure. He didn't give her time to rest as he rolled her onto her side on the bed and hiked her leg over his arm as he started to thrust
She moaned as she gripped onto the sheets, “fuuuuck. You are gonna kill me.”
“Fair play after everything you put me through.”
“Then bring it.”
They spent the day in different positions and when they finished, they were both wildly out of breath.
“That was amazing.”
If he could catch his breath he'd agree. He's never just gone on and on like that before. She sat up and stretched causing him to worry about the stamina she has.
“I'll order room service.”
He looked over her body and he smirked at the bright red handprints glowing on her ass.
She ordered half the menu and looked at him, “wanna join me in the shower before it gets here?”
He felt his dick twitch and worried a little bit about his body’s reaction to her, “stop seducing me you succubus.”
She looked amused as she let her eyes run over him, “I don't think we have time for another round.”
He held his arms over his chest and narrowed his eyes at her. Her eyes turned teasing as she leaned over and gave him a quick kiss.
“Ok, you can stay here.”
He watched the sway in her hips as she turned the corner and he chased after her and picked her up, “fine, but no hanky-panky.”
She started laughing as she wrapped her arms around his neck, “I promise no hanky-panky. I just wanna feel you up.”
“Scandalous,” he gasped.
He thoroughly enjoyed washing her and being washed by her. She decided that a bath after the shower sounded heavenly and started to fill the large tub and added bubbles to the bath. There was a knock on their door, and he decided to grab it while she was adding random soaps to the bath. The waiter rolled in the cart of food and left.
Naruto walked in and pulled him with her, and he laughed as he got in first and she got in after sitting on his lap leaning back against his chest.
This is nice, he thought as he let his fingers trail up and down her arm. He didn't know if they should be talking about the marathon of sex they just had or what it might mean for their relationship. Since she her back was against his chest, he felt when her heart started to pound, he was about to ask if she was ok, but she spoke first.
“Shisui,” her voice was unusually shy, “I would like to keep doing this with you.”
Her words caused his heart to start pounding matching hers perfectly, “and what is this?”
“I don't know but being with you feels good,” she wrapped her arms around herself, “it feels natural, ya know.”
He brought his arms up to wrap around her hugging her tight feeling excitement at her words. “Would we tell people?”
“We don't have to until we define what we are. I don't want you to feel pressured or uncomfortable or anything.”
He was stunned, “what? Why would I feel that?”
“Because you work for my mom, and you are close with my parents, and I'm close with your family, and we've known each other for what, thirteen years,” she said as she leaned further into him, “and if we don't work out, I don't want to lose having you in my life.”
He wants to argue with her that he technically worked for Kakashi, but everything she said was true and something he should take into consideration, “you won't lose me. We can wait to tell people when we are more defined.”
What he really wanted to do was tell her he loved her and just start planning a future together, but that's bitten him in the ass too many times and he doesn't want to lose her either. Her stomach growled and she moved to get out of the tub.
“Let's go eat,” she said with a smile.
They spent the night eating the food she ordered and laughing watching trash TV while cuddling. The following morning, they had to go back home, and he wished they stayed a bit longer. He had her take a picture with him in the suite before they left. It felt like life changing moment, and he wanted a picture of it.
Four months passed in what felt like a blink of an eye, and Shisui was happy being in the unnamed relationship with Naruto. Their everyday lives didn't change much, the biggest difference is at the end of the day they would fall into each other’s beds. More often than not, he goes over to her apartment verses her coming over to his loft. She lived in the middle of the city, so they were able to easily do anything that came to mind.
It was so easy being with her, natural to use her words, and ‘I love you’ has been at the tip of his tongue the entire time.
The only reason he hasn’t said it yet was the fear that she would reject him. It wasn’t that long ago she was still in love with Itachi, and he tries not to think about it too hard. The stakes were so much higher with Naruto then they have ever been with any of the other people he’s said it to, which it made this relationship feel both exhilarating and terrifying.
This was either going to last or it was shaping up to becoming the worst heartbreak he’d ever experience.
They've always had a semi-flirty friendship and it wasn't uncommon for either of them to throw their arm around someone. They didn't say anything, and no one questioned it. They were hiding this thing between them in plain sight.
No one knew of their romantic relationship.
That’s what Shisui honestly thought until he overheard Naruto and Sasuke talking.
After he finished talking to his aunt about business related things, she informed him that Naruto and Sasuke were hanging out in the latter’s room if he wanted to see them. He grinned and went to see Naruto, it was something he's been doing for years so it wasn't unusual, and when he got to his cousin’s room, he overheard the wonder twins talking.
“How long am I supposed to pretend that you aren't sleeping with Shisui?”
“How long am I supposed to pretend you aren't cheating on Sakura with Hinata,” she shot back.
“Fair enough. Are we whores?”
“Well, you are. I'm only sleeping with one person,” Naruto said, and he was happy to hear confirmation that they were monogamous.
Sasuke snorted, “your loss. Hinata is super into being the other woman.”
“It's always the quiet ones.”
“She wants to get you in on it,” he said and Shisui frowned at the statement.
“Not Sakura?”
“No. Hinata only seduced me because she is weirdly obsessed with you,” his cousin said, “she has like every magazine you have ever been in. It’d be creepier if she wasn’t so hot.”
Naruto laughed, “what a babe. When did you start hating Sakura?”
“When she was a total bitch to you after you announced you were no longer going to chase after Itachi,” he stated.
“Yeah, I think she had it in her head that if I wasn't going to end up with Itachi that I would for some reason end up with you.”
He almost snorted at the same time as Sasuke did at that, “if that was the case it would have already happened.”
“Though I don't like her, I don't think you should keep cheating on her.”
“I know. It’s getting kind of expensive dating two people.”
She snorted, “you are such an asshole. I have no clue what girls see in you.”
“Yeah, me either,” he said sounding just as amused as she did, “but if the person I'm dating doesn't accept my best friend, then they can fuck off.”
“Same here,” Naruto agreed, and he was glad that he has never felt insecurity towards her relationship with Sasuke.
His cousin changed topics, “does he make you happy?”
“Yeah,” she confirmed, and he smiled at the knowledge.
“I wish you were in your whore phase with me.”
“You know I'm not built that way.”
“Don't tell me you're in love with him,” it was quiet, so he wondered if she made a gesture since Sasuke scoffed, “I take it back. You are such a whore.”
She started laughing, and he decided to knock and interrupt them. Opening the door, he saw they were both playing handheld games. Naruto was laying on the bed while Sasuke was sitting at his desk with his feet propped up on the bed. They both stopped playing as they looked at him.
Sasuke gave him a teasing look, “are we supposed to pretend you haven't been listening to our conversation.”
He didn’t bother pretending that he didn’t listen in, “if you already know then I am curious to how she responded to your last question.”
Her face was red, and Sasuke's eyes roamed down to his crotch and before his face had that look that said ‘not bad’ as he nodded.
“I'm feeling objectified.”
“You should, because she held her hands up showing your size as she nodded.”
She made a choked screech and threw a pillow at Sasuke, and Shisui laughed at how red she was.
He crossed his arms and leaned against the door, “wanna go feel that love?”
She smiled and hopped off the bed, “absolutely.”
Sasuke looked offended as he said, “you’re ditching me for a booty call? Boo you whore.”
She flipped Sasuke off as she pulled him away. Shisui just laughed and waved at his cousin who flipped him off.
Shisui was ashamed to admit that he’s been neglecting his friendship with Itachi since he started this thing with Naruto. It was partially because he felt a little guilty being in a relationship with Naruto, despite the fact that Itachi turned her down, but mostly because he doesn’t want to compare himself to his friend. Naruto loved Itachi for so long, and he didn’t know if the blond still held onto those feelings.
He wasn’t brave enough to ask her either.
They went to a bar and after a few drinks Itachi started talking to him about turning down Naruto all those months ago and thinking he regrets that decision.
Shisui was in hell at the thought of Itachi trying to date Naruto.
“Maybe you should leave her be,” he said as he ordered another drink.
Itachi was peeling the label off a beer as he said, “we haven't really talked since then.”
He knew that wasn’t true since their families are constantly doing things together, “It's hard to believe she would just stop talking to you.”
“I only see her at family gatherings or when she's over visiting Sasuke and the conversations are the stilted polite conversations that I never expected from Naruto,” Itachi sounded a little heartbroken and he felt sick.
“Well, she probably just needed to give herself a chance to fall out of love with you. Just give it more time,” he urged.
“It's been almost six months since I've had a real conversation with her. I really miss her.”
He’s never been a jealous guy before, so he was shocked at the urge he had to punch his best friend in the face and demand he stayed away from his girlfriend. He doesn't have the confidence that she would choose him over the guy she loved for over a decade.
It's the longest relationship he's ever been in, and he has no plans on getting out of this anytime soon. He loves her and really doesn't want to lose this.
“I think I'll try talking to her at the Uchiha company party in a few days since she is rarely coming over to the house anymore,” Itachi commented as he finished his drink.
“Why would she be at that?”
“She holds twenty percent of the shares from Madara,” he informed him.
Shisui didn’t know that, “I thought she left those with Obito.”
“No, she just gave him permission to vote on her behalf since she fully trusts his decisions.”
He didn’t know that either, but now that he thinks about it, “so she's rich, rich.”
Itachi just shrugged, “I haven't really thought about it.”
Neither had he. They're all trust fund babies so none of them really had to worry about anything money wise, but Madara was richer than God. Sasuke's ten percent has him set for life if he decided he doesn't want to work, and she got more than four times that.
Shisui decided to change the topic away from the blonde, “tell me about work. Have any students that are just assholes?”
Thankfully Itachi went along with his topic shift and the rest of the time was great. It felt like old times.
“I missed going out like this.”
Shisui felt that pang of guilt, “me too. Let’s go out more often. We’ll invite Izumi next time and it really will feel like old times.”
After they said they goodbyes and left the bar, he decided he needed to wrap his arms around Naruto as soon as possible.
He went over to her place and let himself in. They've had keys to each other’s place well before they started anything, and it was just another part of why their relationship was so easy. He saw she was taking a test on her computer and helped himself to food while waiting for her to finish.
When she finished, she came up behind him and wrapped her arms around him in a hug, “that was so stressful.”
He turned around and returned the hug, “you know I could help you cheat since I have an MBA.”
She looked up at him and teased, “I'd rather just use you for stress relief.”
He moved his hands closer to her thighs and she understood his intentions and jumped making it easier for him to carry her to the couch to make out.
After he sat down with her straddling him, he pulled away and reminded her, “you don't have to try so hard if you don't want to.”
“I want to know what I'm talking about when I'm in the boardroom, you know?”
He nodded and then asked, “what are you doing with Madara’s money?”
“I'm giving it away,” she said as she started kissing along his jaw.
“How much?”
“All of it. There is going to be so many charities with his name on it that he will be immortal,” she said as she pulled away and let out an amused chuckle, “I just know he’d love the fact that I gave it away too, since he just didn’t want to give it to the greedy assholes in your family. No offense.”
He snorted, “none taken. I know just the family members you are talking about.”
She grinned and continued, “I'm already rich and am going to take over dad's company so I didn't need his money. I just loved him.”
He knew it was going to completely kill the mood, but he was curious, “wanna tell me more about him? After we got those shirts, I almost cried laughing so damn hard. I wear it to the gym all the time.”
She huffed as she got off of him, but she had a wistful look on her face as she told him several stories. He was laughing at the things she was saying and regretted not getting to know the man before he passed.
“Tell me about your dad.”
Shisui gave her a small grin, “my dad was great. He was one of the reasons that the Uchiha business got so big, so I followed his footsteps and went into business.”
She laced their fingers together, “what would he have thought about you becoming a photographer?”
“He was the type of dad that would be happy for me so long as I was happy,” he said as he thought about his late father, “he would have loved to meet you. The stories I told of you and Sasuke always cracked him up, it got to the point where whenever I got back from Itachi’s he would ask what shenanigans you were up to that day.”
She snorted, “I could only imagine what you told him.”
“Only good things I promise,” he said as he kissed her knuckles, “and by that, I mean only the most embarrassing things that you did growing up.”
She laughed as she lightly swatted his arm, “do you think he would have approved of you and me?”
“Absolutely.”
His father would have truly loved having her at family dinners. Shisui never told her this but going over to hang out with her and being part of the adventures helped him immensely after his father passed and he was left alone.
Eighteen maybe an adults age, but it was still too young to lose his only parent.
She pulled him from his thoughts, “tell me more.”
They spent the night talking and he felt like they got even closer than they were before. She surpassed Itachi as his best friend that night just for all of the platonic contributions she brought to his life. He has no plans to lose her as either a friend or lover.
He may no longer work at the company, but he still owns a large number of shares from his late father and is always invited to the parties, he just hated the stuffy affair. Normally when he would receive the invitation he would ignore it, but now that he knew of Itachi’s plan, he decided he wasn’t going to just let her go without giving it his all.
Since he hasn’t worn a suit since he worked at the company, he had to get one tailored for the event. There was pride in knowing that he was in way better shape than he used to be.
When he got to the event, he had a difficult time finding her while constantly being stopped by people who wanted to talk about the upcoming shareholders meeting and he was debating on if he wanted to follow Naruto’s lead and just have Obito vote on his behalf too.
Out the corner of his eye he saw his cousin walk up to the stunning blond that he had every intention of taking home tonight and watched as he led her away from a group of people who were probably talking her ear off. If this many people were talking to him over his five percent of shares, he could only imagine how many people tried to talk to her about her twenty.
Shisui politely excused himself in the middle of his uncle’s pitch and hurried to where they escaped. He made it in time to hear Naruto respond to what he assumed was Itachi’s confession.
“I put my everything into chasing you and I don’t plan to do that anymore,” Naruto’s voice was unwavering, “I moved on. I am falling in love with someone and it's exciting.”
He felt the air leave his lungs. He decided he needed to take a minute so he wouldn’t start fist pumping the air and begin cheering over the words that just left Naruto’s mouth.
“My apologies, I was unaware that you were seeing someone.”
“Yeah,” she said with a nod, “for almost six months now.”
Itachi sounded confused, “was it a rebound from after we talked at the coffee shop?”
“He's so much more than that to me.”
“May I ask who it is?”
“When he's ready to be open in the relationship.”
Shisui could hear the disapproval in Itachi’s voice as he said, “that doesn't sound very healthy if.”
“It's me,” Shisui cut him off and he saw her smile at the sight of him, “I'm in love with you.”
“I bet you've been holding that in for a while,” she teased.
“Since our first kiss,” he confessed.
She looked shocked at that, “you really do fall fast.”
“Yeah, so fall for me hard.”
She smirked, “I like your choice of wording.”
He made a choked sound at that as she turned to look at her first love who was just looking amused by the two of them.
“I'm happy for the two of you,” Itachi said, and he truly looked happy for the two of them.
Naruto smiled at him, “thank you ‘Tachi.”
“Stop avoiding me, both of you.”
“Sorry,” they said at the same time as they shared a smile.
Someone interrupted to talk to her, and she said she would be back. He was checking his girlfriend out when Itachi pulled him from his thoughts.
“I guess that explains why you were trying to stop me from talking to her,” Itachi said sounding amused, “is everything good between the two of you?”
“I'm so disgustingly happy,” he confirmed, delighted that he could finally tell someone about it, “I’m not gonna lie, I was ready to come and literally fight for her.”
“It’s been a very long time since we sparred,” he said with a laugh, “I really am happy for the both of you.”
“Thank you, Itachi. Let me take you out this weekend.”
“I’d like that.”
She joined the two of them again and pulled his hand with a devilish grin. “Wanna ditch this boring ass party?”
“Absolutely.”
Naruto waved as she started to head towards the exit, “see ya ‘Tachi.”
Itachi wished them a good night before he was called away by Fugaku to talk to talk to some people.
As soon as they left the venue, she stopped him to check him out.
“It’s been a very long time since I’ve seen you in a suit,” she said as she gave him an appreciative once over before she let her fingers dance across his chest, “what’s a girl gotta do to take your fine ass home?”
He grinned and flirted back, “all you need to do is say my name and flash me those pretty blue eyes and I will follow you into hell.”
She started laughing and he pulled her into a kiss.
They went back to her place and she had him sit on the couch as she changed. On the coffee table there was one of Jiraiya’s books that had a sticky note in it with his name on it. He opened it to blush as he reads a sex scene with a breeding kink and when he got a few pages in a slip of paper fell out it was a prescription with the name of a birth control on it. His brain stuttered at the implications. Did she want to reenact the scene?
She walked out of her room in lacy red lingerie and a slight blush on her face, “so, what do you think?”
“You look amazing.”
“I know that,” she said with a wave of her hand causing him to laugh, “I'm talking about the book.”
His brain froze as he stared at the book in his hands, “uhh.”
“If you aren't interested that's ok too,” she assured him, “but I am on birth control, see.”
She grabbed his hand and pressed it against her arm where there was a hard lump, “that's kinda gross.”
“What's gross was the size of the needle used to put it in,” she said with a shiver, “but you can cum inside me for like five years without worrying about me getting knocked up.”
The only part of that sentence that truly registered with him was the five years thing. She plans to be with him for at least five years. He smashed his mouth against hers and enjoyed her melting into his embrace.
“Five years huh?”
“Mhmm,” she affirmed as she started pulling on the knot on his tie, “that is what the doctor says.”
He continued to stare at her face as he asked, “you plan to stay with me that long?”
She froze and then gave him the look as she said, “well, I'm planning on it. You in?”
“Yes. Sage yes,” he said as he brought their lips together again.
He has always used protection. It was something that was practically beat into him by his dad, if he was going to fool around, he was going to practice safe sex. There would be no babies out of wedlock. Sex with a condom was always awesome, but he didn't realize how much better it was without that thin barrier of protection.
The amount of sex that they had rivaled their first time together and he was again a little nervous about his body’s reaction to her. The gross satisfaction he got as he watched his cum drip down her thigh had him glad that she was on birth control because he planned to do this as often as she would allow him and he was definitely not ready for a kid.
She was asleep on his chest, and he let his fingers run up and down her back perfectly happy in that moment.
“I love you,” he whispered.
“Love you too Shisui,” she mumbled out.
His eyes widened as he looked to see she was still asleep. He put his arm over his eyes as he had the largest smile on his face. She loves him on an unconscious level.
He’s gonna get her to say it to him when she’s awake.
Shisui decided he was going to plan something hopefully so romantic that Naruto would just blurt out ‘I love you’. The idea that came to mind was dinner at her favorite restaurant and then bring her back to his place that would be filled with flowers and balloons that had pictures of all the years they spent together as friends and the ones they took together after they started seeing each other romantically to celebrate finally becoming an official couple.
He decided to enlist the help of Itachi and Izumi to help set up his loft.
Izumi was pouting as she was blowing up balloons, “I don’t want to help you win Naruto over.”
“Why not?”
“Because you are a whore,” she said as she passed another balloon over to Itachi to tie the string on it, “you’ve dated everyone who said yes.”
He’d be more annoyed by having his failed dating past thrown in his face except he’s still on a dopamine high from the amazing sex and Naruto’s unconscious confession of love.
“Correction, I was a ho,” he said as he tied another picture to a balloon and let it go, “but now I am a domesticated man.”
“What does Naruto think about your slutty past?”
He grinned, “she says she likes to put my experience to use.”
“That’s because she’s cool as fuck,” Izumi pouted, “Itachi are you ok with this?”
“I’m just glad they aren’t avoiding me anymore,” Itachi said as he handed him another balloon with a string on it.
“Sorry about that. I was a little insecure hanging out with you.”
“I’m glad you moved passed that.”
Izumi gestured to Itachi, “see how cool Itachi is? He should have been the one Naruto ended up with.”
Shisui poked a hole in one of the balloons and sucked in the helium. With a squeaky voice he said, “you aren’t going to be invited to our wedding one day.”
Izumi sucked in helium herself and in her own squeaky voice said, “don’t act like Naruto wouldn’t be the one in charge of that.”
“You right.”
They both looked at Itachi who let out a sigh and sucked in the helium to join his friends, “you two are children.”
Shisui and Izumi both started laughing as they pointed at their usually stoic cousin.
“You sound so silly.”
“Absolutely ridiculous.”
Itachi just shook his head at his friends.
Shisui sucked in more to keep his voice high and said with a serious face, “alright, back to Operation: Be So Stupidly Romantic That Naruto Has No Other Option But To Say That She Loves Me.”
He took her to Ichiraku and brought her back to his loft and he loved seeing her light up as she looked at all the floating pictures.
“You once told me that I should always take a picture of the day my life changes and I took that to heart. My life was made better by just having you in it.”
She pulled him into a deep kiss, “Oh sage my boyfriend is so cheesy.”
“I learned it from you.”
She gave him a scandalized look. “Me? No, say it isn't so.”
He's so happy. He's never felt more comfortable in his life.
“I love you.”
A light blush dusted her cheeks at his confession.
“I love you. I love you. I love you.” He liked that she turns a brighter shade of red every time he says it. “I love you.”
She just kissed him. “Shut up for a minute.”
She was fanning her bright red face as he said, “I love you Naruto”
She squeaked and covered her face.
“How are you of all people this shy,” he asked with a laugh.
“I have a maiden’s heart dammit. Shut up.”
“I love you,” he said, and she covered his mouth with both hands.
“I love you too,” she practically shouted as she hid her face in her hands again, “I had a whole romantic thing planned asshole. Not as romantic as what you did here, but I got you a stupid ice cream cake. It's at home and it says ‘I love you’ in red icing and I was going to bring it to you in bed. You said fall for you hard and I was going to do a play on words and make a dirty joke at the same time.”
The more she talked the bigger his smile got, “I have never craved ice cream cake more in my entire life. Like if I don't get some right now, I might just start crying.”
She pulled him into a kiss, “we don’t want that. Let’s go.”
Shisui took a picture of her bright red face as she handed him the cake. He smiled as he looked at the picture and expected he would experience so many more moments that he would want on film with Naruto.
It was a good thing he became a photographer.