Title: Magic 8 Ball
By chibi-ruroun
Warning: shonen-ai (boy love) don't like it, don't read it.
Pairing: Sasunaru
Disclaimer: Naruto is owned by Kishimoto-san
Tap. Tap. Tap.
Sigh.
Silence.
"Neh, Sasuke-kun?" Sakura said, inching toward the raven-haired genin once more. Sasuke scowled and crossed his arms, looking warily at her.
"…" He gave a pointed look, frowning.
"W-Well, I was wondering where's Naruto? I mean, I know Kakashi-sensei is always late. But Naruto…" Sakura paused when she heard a rustling in the bushes next to the bridge where Team Seven meet for training or mission everyday. Sasuke appeared to have heard it as well and turned toward the source of the sound.
All of a sudden, among the green bushes, there appeared a tuft of golden yellow hair that stood out glaringly from the dull faded color of the surrounding flora. Sakura's eyes widened for a moment, before narrowing them in anger. Taking two big steps toward the bushes that revealed the suspicious yellow hair, she yanked it hard and pulled the person in the bushes out.
"Owowowowowowowowowowow….Sakura-chan. Wha're you doi'…" Naruto muffled a big yawn with his hand, his eyes still clouded with sleep. He wore a perplexed look as he stared up at the pink-haired kunoichi, wondering why was she in his house.
"What are you in my house, Sakura-chan…..eh? Where is this? Where am I?" Naruto's eyes darted around frantically. He looked very adorable, sitting on the paved road with a pout on his face and a confused countenance. However, only one of the two teammates agreed, and it's not Sakura.
"Naruto…" Sakura asked, "why in the world are you sleeping in a bush?"
"eh heheheheheh….um…I don't know?" He offered cutely, looking up at her. Sakura was livid! Naruto had been SLEEPING for the past three hours while she and Sasuke-kun had to stand there and wait for their stupid, lazy sensei to appear.
Before she could taken all her frustrations out on our poor Naru-chan, Sasuke spoke up.
"Hn…only an idiot would fall asleep and not remember anything…"
Naruto blinked. Then blinked again. Then blinked once more.
"Teme…FINE! I'll tell you." Naruto said, jumping back into the bushes. Sakura and Sasuke watched the bushes moving about as Naruto tried to find the object that he had hid in the bushes.
After ten painstaking minutes, Sakura was about to explode and strode forward to the bushes once more. However, before she could yank Naruto's blonde hair, Naruto wiggled himself out the bushes and –
"TADAAA" He held out a peculiar, black, circular object with a white number '8' written on the back of the ball and a small black screen on the opposite side. There was a complete silence before Sakura burst out.
"What's this, Naruto?" Naruto's grinned.
"It's call the Magic 8 Ball. It's the newest edition from Konoha's number one Joke-and-Toy shop."
Sasuke rolled his eyes, but asked anyways.
"What does this black ball do? I bet it's just some crappy toy."
"Teme – it's not a black ball. It's a Magic 8 Ball! And it's awesome. It'll help you make all kinds of 'yes and no' decisions…" Sakura looked confused.
"Help you make…decisions?" Naruto beamed at her and nodded endearingly.
"How?"
"Allow to demonstrate." Naruto faked a cough and raised his two hands dramatically, holding onto the black ball, took a deep breath (by this time, Sakura's right eye is twitching with irritation), and asked a question. His voice ringed loudly across the bridge.
"Will Sakura-chan finally realize my 'cool-ness' and go on a date with me?"
Sakura was about to hit Naruto over the head when Naruto, with his face comically grave face, held up a hand to stop her and slowly rotating the black ball in his other hand, the blank screen on the ball face down.
Slowly, he turned the ball upside down and closed his hand over the black screen. Naruto carefully opened his squinted eyes and stared down at his covered hand. Sakura had enough.
"Well!" Naruto continued and uncovered his hands to see what was written on the screen. Then he stared and stared until he broke down and sobbed out loud, the ball still clutched in his hands as he sat down on the ground. Sakura hit Naruto over the head.
"What the heck are you bawling out your eyes about? What did the ball say?"
"I-I don't want to say it…" Naruto's eyes darted to Sasuke then back to Sakura. There is NO WAY he'll say it in front of Sasuke. He'll tease him about it forever…there's no doubt.
"Naruto…" Sakura said, annoyed and moved toward to take the ball from his hand. Naruto scrambled upward and held his hands away. All of a sudden the ball was taken out of his hand and Naruto hastily turned around.
"Wha – Sasuke-teme! Give it back!" But Sasuke quickly jumped to the high branch above and read the black screen. It says:
MY SOURCES SAYS NO
Sasuke read it aloud and muffled a chuckle. However, Naruto had good hearing and his face reddened in anger and he huffed.
"S-Shut up, teme…It was a stupid toy anyways."
Sasuke's smirk widened. He descended gracefully and handed the ball back to Naruto. His bored voice drawled, the smirk still in place.
"See, I was right…again." Naruto looked at his teammates. Sakura smiled at Sasuke and giggled a bit. Sasuke appeared smugger than ever. Argh! He can't stand his rival who always make him look bad in front of his true love.
Naruto's eyes stared to water, for some weird reason, so he quickly looked down and to cover his face with his blonde locks and mumbled softly to himself.
"I will not cry, I will not cry, I will not cry…"
Sakura's giggle did nothing to make him feel better. 'Why did I buy this stupid toy anyways!'
He felt very angry all of a sudden and threw the black ball into the bushes. Hard. Hopefully, the black ball is broken. Then, he turned to his bewildered teammates and squint his eyes together so they couldn't see the hurt in those expressive eyes.
"When Kakashi-sensei comes, tell him that I don't feel well…Ja." Not even bothering to wave at Sakura, Naruto dashed away.
And missed the rare concerned look on his male teammate's face.
A/N: I was just cleaning the room when I re-found my brother's magic eight ball and the idea for this story just pop out of nowhere. R&R plz.