It’s been almost a year.
‘Almost a year since we started dating,’ Sai thought laying on his bed, staring at his ceiling imagining Naruto’s welcoming smile. ‘And he still doesn’t want to be affectionate in public.’ The black haired was fed up. Almost shedding a tear, he takes his blonde boyfriend’s jacket, holding it close to his chest. ‘It hurts.’ , A tear falls from his dark orbs. The artist rarely ever cries. Being trained under Danzo for most his life has thought him to keep his emotions sealed. But this, this, it hurt the poor boy too much.
They just had a fight. Him and Naruto. Sai had been a bit off lately and the jinchuuriki has noticed it. Naruto had confronted Sai about it a few hours ago and the painter acted rather, immature. Calling the blonde a ‘Heartless idiot’ and a ‘Cold-hearted douche that only thinks about himself’ . Naruto soon left speechless, giving Sai his jacket just incase he felt cold. Oh how kind he was, how he gave Sai a never-ending warmth in his stomach but oh, how stupid he was. The lonely boy lays in his bed, weeping as he grips onto Naruto’s jacket until he slowly and calmly falls asleep.
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Sai wakes up to a beautiful morning, hearing the birds chirping from outside his big window. He slowly sits up and stands up, the blonde’s jacket still in his hands. He stares at it for a while and then throws it onto his bed. He walks up to his window seeing Sakura sitting under the tree in front of his house. “Hey! Sai!” The medical ninja says waving to Sai, “…Sakura?” He blinks in confusion, wondering why his pink haired friend decided to visit him at this hour. “Come down here will ya! I gotta talk to you!” She says, still waving. “O-oh, um, alright. I will be down in a few minutes.” As soon as the artist says that he goes away into his bathroom to change and wash his face.
After several minutes the painter finally finishes and goes downstairs to meet the kunoichi. “Hello Sakura, what did you want to talk to me about?” He asks the pink haired politely. Sakura chuckles a bit, “Before I get into that,” she nudges the Sai’s arm a little, trying her best not to elbow him into next week because of her monster strength, “Why don’t you stop being so formal with me? I mean, we are friends aren’t we?” She says, eyebrow arched. “But Sakura, the last time I had tried to be not so formal with you, you attacked me.” Sai says, confused. “Sai, that was because you called me ugly.” The kunoichi says, trying to contain herself as his insults repeat in her head. “Oh. I am sorry about that. My book says that-“ before he could finish, Sakura interrupts him, “Enough of that, now, what I wanted to talk to you about…” The pink haired girl sits down and waits for Sai to sit next to her, “Naruto.. has been acting really weird this morning. Like- he isn’t boasting about how strong he’s getting, he declined Kakashi-Sensei’s offer to train with him and he even declined my offer to treat him to ichiraku’s. I’m concerned, and see, I’ve been noticing you and Naruto talking a lot lately and he keeps sneaking off to your apartment so I figured you’d know something about why he’s been acting like this.” The hokage’s apprentice looks up at him with worry written all over her face. He sits there, silently replaying the events of last night in his head. He frowns, he knows why, but he can’t tell Sakura. “Do you know where he is currently?” He asks the worried girl. “Hmm, I think he may be at the river near our usual training grounds. Why? Do you know what’s wrong?” She asks the artist with a tiny beam of hope in her tone. It doesn’t look like it but she cares so much about the blonde jinchuuriki. “Maybe I do, maybe I don’t, I cannot tell you. Anyways thank you, I am going to find Naruto now. Goodbye.” Sai gets up and runs off leaving Sakura confused under the tree, “Wait what- Sai-!?” The girl stands up and frowns, a sigh escaping her lips. “I will never understand that guy,”
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Sai scurries through the forest trying to find the river. He wants to make things right, apologise for how he acted last night and most importantly, wants to confront Naruto about his concerns about their secret relationship. Sai’s almost out of breath, he runs forward and finally sees the river. He keeps running and running until he bumps into a familiar figure, “Sai?”, the black haired boy looks up to see his boyfriend, Naruto, standing in front of him. “Here,” the blonde reaches out a hand and the artist gladly takes it and stands up. “What are you doing here?” Naruto asks, “Naruto I-,” Sai pauses for a bit, “I am sorry- about yesterday I- I did not mean what i said, I was just feeling really out of it. I apologise, for hurting you.” , Naruto smiles softly, “Sai, it’s okay. I forgive you. But,” The blonde sighs, “I just want you to tell me what’s been bothering you, I care about you okay? And I love you-“ , the painter interrupts him, “If you really love me then- then-,” he takes a deep breath, “Why can’t you hold me in the street? Why can’t I kiss you in public?”, Naruto looks at his boyfriend surprised, “I wish that we could be like that, why can’t we be like that? Aren’t I yours?” Sai has tears streaming down his face, ‘he looks so heartbroken’ Naruto thinks as he looks at his boyfriend, he pulls the sad boy into a hug and Sai rests his head in between the blonde’s shoulder and neck.
“I’m sorry Sai, I’ve just- I’ve just been scared. I’m not as strong as I look to be. I’m scared of what everyone would think- about yknow, two men in a relationship. It’s abnormal here. I’m sorry, I’m a coward.” The jinchuuriki says, rubbing Sai’s back soothingly in attempt to calm the black haired boy down. “Naruto, you have nothing to be afraid of. You’ve been through much worse and have overcome them. You’re strong, I admire you so much because of that. And Sakura cares about you, even Kakashi-Sensei and Yamato-Sensei and Lady Hokage- they all care about you, as well as the people on the other teams. They would never judge you for something like this. And even if this kind of relationship is ‘abnormal’ here, we can make it normal. I just- I love you, so much and I want others to know how much I love you too.” Sai finally looks up at Naruto’s face, “Please? Can we be more affectionate in public? I cannot stand another minute having to hide my blushing when you smile at me.” , Naruto chuckles and places a kiss on Sai’s lips and Sai kisses back, loving the warmth the blonde gave him. They finally pull back for breath, “Yeah, okay. We can.” , Sai smiles and kisses his boyfriend again , “I love you” he says, pulling back from the kiss , “I love you too, Sai” . The blonde intertwines his hands with his artist boyfriend and starts walking out of the forest.
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“Hey! Naruto! Sai!”, The couple hear a familiar voice coming near Ichiraku, “Oh hey Sakura!” , Naruto says, grinning widely , “Ohoho what's this?” , Kakashi says peeping out of ichiraku, pointing at Naruto and Sai’s intertwined hands.
OK TE END I CANNMOY WRITE AANYMOR