Hello. I am Suichi, Hige. I would like to note some things before you start reading my fanfiction. This story is based off of the anime and manga called Naruto. I do not own any of the characters. They all belong to Masashi Kishimoto-san, the artist and author of the series Naruto.

When I began writing this my knowledge on this was based on the information from the point where Sasuke left on his own (from Orochimaru). To the current chapters, my story line is incorrect. So, please note that this is not true in connection to the real story.

Otherwise, I'd like you to enjoy. After all, I had fun writing this. The story is told in Naruto's perspective.

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In Our Own World

SasuNaru

Fanfiction

-スイチヒゲ-

Chapter One- How it all started

It's been four days since he's returned…Ever since I had heard that Uchiha Itachi was dead, I would stay by the gates of Konohagakure. It seemed like forever since I had seen him; Uchiha Sasuke.

Four days ago, he came in, almost in a staggered limp. He must have gone through so much to get here. The very moment I saw him, I left my post. He barely looked up at me, but in the small moment that he glanced at me, he smiled.

That smile caught me off guard; I mean have you ever seen that boy smile? It was…beautiful. His dark eyes glistened with some sort of transparent happiness.

Sasuke staggered over to me, his hands slowly rising, reaching for me. I found myself whispering his name as I reached for him as well.

After being close enough, I suppose, Sasuke let himself drop to the ground, trusting me to catch him. I quickly wrapped my arms around him and slipped to the floor with him. Our eyes met, finally, after so many years. It was in those eyes that I hated with a deep passion…and in those eyes that I loved beyond belief. With a loud sigh Sasuke allowed himself to rest his head against my chest, and as he did, his grip on my waist strengthened.

I found myself breathless with all the emotions swelling up in my throat. My eyes flooded and I could feel the painful salt from my dirtied skin mix with those tears. Others gathered around, voices calling to me, but it was as if I couldn't see or hear them. I was in my own world…where there was only me and Sasuke.

"-uto."

"NARUTO!"

"What?!" I gasped as I awoke from my memories. If it wasn't abrupt enough being woken by yells, I opened my lids to see angry turquoise eyes right in my face. I let a startled yelp escape my throat as I backed up from my old friend and teammate. The girl stood back and crossed her arms impatiently. I gripped tightly onto my black t-shirt, trying to slow down my heartbeat.

When I finally caught my breath I spoke, "What is it Sakura?" I placed my normal goofy grin on. That's when she snapped; and I really mean she snapped! You could almost see the veins on her forehead bulging!

"What. Do. You. Mean. What.!.?." Sakura asked through gritted teeth. I tried to think what we were doing, but all I could seem to conjure up was images of Sasuke. "Eh…" I weakly laughed, knowing that I was screwed.

She pulled back her fist then let it go flying into my jaw. Even that "small" hit she gave me sent me back into the trunk of a tree. Yowch… She may look like a innocent, flower-picking girl when you first meet her, but once you pissed her off, your death contract was signed.

"We're on a mission Naruto! A MISSION! How can you be sleeping?!" She hissed at me angrily. I let my hands fall behind my head and my grin returned. "But it's only a D-rank mission. It's not that hard…" I stopped when I felt Sakura's burning glare piercing through me.

I ended up having to get up and help her out with this stupid mission. I, for one, thought that this mission was pointless. For ninjas at the Jonin rank, this sort of deed was an insult. Godaime said it was given to us because all the little ones were already busy, and because we hadn't been doing anything…too important. Secretly I believe that she's only trying to keep me away from Sasuke. She wanted to get to him first. It wasn't fair.

"Naruto? Are you sulking?" Sakura asked me as we brought back groceries of all sorts to an old lady's house who had assigned the mission. Apparently she had caught a terrible cold and could not go shopping herself.

"…No." I replied, restraining from looking her in the eye.

"…."

"…."

"You're lying." Sakura muttered. I quickly averted my attention to her. "Am not!" Sakura sighed, showing her disbelief. I let out a groan of annoyance.

"…You're angry that you haven't seen Sasuke for the past three days, aren't you." Ouch! Bull's-eye! My startled expression proved her theory correct. Sakura smiled sweetly at me. "Tomorrow is our day off, remember? You'll have time to catch up with Sasuke then, I imagine."

She's right. I had forgotten about that. Finally some time off! It was obvious I was much happier after hearing that. Then it stuck me; she would want to see Sasuke too, wouldn't she? I sort of wanted it to be just me and Sasuke… My thoughts were broken in by Sakura's giggle. "Eh?" I looked around. What did she think was so funny? "Don't worry. You can have your boy time with him tomorrow. Lee-kun's asked me to help him with a few things…Though, I'm not entirely sure what it is he's asking me to do."

It made me feel more relaxed to know that Sakura wouldn't be there. I wasn't meaning to be rude, but she was right. I did want my "boy-time" with Sasuke. I opened my eyes from that normal squint I did to pat her on the back. "Good luck with that." I chuckled and ran ahead to the door. I guess Sakura hadn't really realized that we were at our destination either by the surprised look she gave me when I had ran off.