Warnings-Yaoi, Sasunaru/Narusasu, ___naru and het pairings.
Disclaimer-If I owned Naruto, It would have been over by now but since it is still going strong -not mine
Apologies if I have used the Japanese suffixes wrong, If there is a mistake , do point it out Thanks....Enjoy.
When Naruto was twelve, Sasuke did not exist for him; they studied in the same academy but different sections. Sasuke being the bright spark was of course in the toppers section. But it all changed when Iruka sensei decided to take the ruins of Naruto's studies in his own hands.
Needless to say at the end of the year Naruto found himself actually enjoying studies and shocking people with great grades.....And next year Sasuke found a new classmate- And this was the start of a story. Alas, it seemed that they were meant to hate each other. It was the case of 'Hatred at first sight' atleast for Naruto it was......
For Naruto, The best thing about being in the whiz section was being classmates with Haruno Sakura, the most beautiful girl in his eyes, from her reddish pink hair to her inhuman strength everything was the best thing to have happened to him. When Naruto; after sweating his ass off finally managed to enter the whiz section he dreamed of dating her, being her hero....but alas on the first day of the school itself he was unceremoniously dumped for none other than : in Sakura's words "Prince Charming" aka Uchiha Sasuke.
"Sakura-chan hi! I am Naruto Uzu..."
"Whatever, get side you are blocking my view of Sasuke-kun"
"Eh...who?"
"You don't know Sasuke-kun ?"
"Who, Mr Rooster Head ?"
"How dare you talk about Sasuke-kun like that? I am gonna teach you some manners, Naruto! "
"Gah...Sakura-chan tha hurts" After being first hand witness to her strength he started to love her more.
The primal reason for rivalry was: Sakura for Naruto and a dobe presence for Sasuke. Everything was an intense completion for both of them, sometimes involving blood and gore. Every argument ending with punches and kicks was normal.
"I am going to kill you you bastard!"
"Let me see you try, dobe"
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"How dare you say that I am uncouth"
"Coz that's the word that describes you best,dobe."
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The martial art classes were hell, especially with kakashi sensei's habit going off in the middle of training, returning only to finding Naruto and Sasuke almost managing to kill each other.
But as they say "After a good fight admiration sprouts" and with time the rivalry had mellowed down to trivial things like
"See Teme I beat you in cycling"
"Dobe that was slow cycling and you reached the finish line first"
"Wha..."
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"Hah,I beat you in creative arts"
"Hn, by drawing an almost-nude girl in Jiraya's art class"
"So What, you are just jealous Teme"
"Jealous of what, Porn?"
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"What don't have anything to say after losing for the third time, dobe."
"Che I don't like physics."
"How is physics important in a dart game, Naruto."
"Che...Whatever"
It was more than just a cold October night, It was his 24th birthday, and already past nine o'clock, his friends Sakura-chan, Ino, Shikamaru, Chouji, Kiba, Hinata, Lee, TenTen, were waiting for him at The ramen stand with his birthday cake....Ayame neechan, Oyaji, Iruka sensei were probably getting worried over him....and he was here sitting in a stupid park in the shadows of a big statue which looked like a native version of Mt. Rushmore.
Sasuke and him had been seeing each other a lot less lately. All of them from the academy had a custom of gathering together once a month and this month since it was Naruto's b'day it was his party. But the bastard had to ruin it too.
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.[flashback starting when naruto was waiting for sasuke at ichiraku with his friends]]
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"Che Sasuke why don't you ever answer my phone at the first time"
"What is it Naruto?.. I am busy"
"Wha do you mean by busy, cut the crap and drag your busy ass over to ichiraku this instant , we planned this two weeks ago damn it Its always---- I am busy....I have work.....I gotta a meeting ......we haven't met in like two months ...You came here now or...Errr hello you there" but all Naruto could gather was the dial tone."I am gonna kill that bastard"
"Calm down Naruto. He is a busy man"
"but Sakura-chan its eight(o'clock) on Saturday night and we pre-planned this, look everyone is here but the bastard doesn't even remember what day is it." Naruto sulked.
"Naruto it's your special day don't go all gloomy on us he might just come by ...."
"I am going to get him now."
"It's not a good Idea Naruto....you know how much he loves to work...he ...."But Naruto was already out the door leaving the candles on his birthday cake flickering in the cold of night.
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.[when naruto reached sasuke's office]
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"I presume you double checked your facts Little brother....I don't want some silly errors marring the proposals success" Itachi said flipping through the files.
"This is unarguably the best time to get on with the next stage of the marketing campaign no disturbances from the rival companies for the next few months, my guarantee."
"Sir, Please sir you can't enter like this"
"Teme"
"Naruto? Wh.."
"You are coming with me now!"
"Oh, disturbances on home ground itself, che not like I didn't expect them" Itachi commented snidely.
Sasuke swallowed blood. Grabbing hold of Naruto he dragged him out of the conference room.
"WHAT THE HELL NARUTO?"
"Err hey sorry I guess I got a bit carried away I'll wait okay you finish your meeting, then we can go to Ichiraku! You can't even begin to imagine what you..."
"Shut up now and get out I am not going anywhere....... you ruined my meeting Dobe"
"But Sasuke... how was I to know you didn't tell me anything on the phone in fact you didn't receive any of my phone calls before!
"Coz I didn't want to, you always disturb me, ruin my meetings, try to distract me, babble nonsense that I care shit about....tch.. you are still the obnoxious idiot"
"Oh, so you are not coming, ne?"
"You still didn't get it...No, I am not going anywhere near to that shabby excuse for a restaurant to another of those lame drinking binges you like to call Get-Togethers....now Out"
"Shabby, watch what you are talking Uchiha, Ichiraku is"
"It is nothing but a low class food joint which serves pathetic bloody Ramen"
"Teme, don't spout crap about ramen"
"Why, is it because you like that shit so much? For the record I hate it and also going to all those stupid parties, now out and I don't want you entering this office ever again."
"I won't!"
"Good."
.[flashback end]
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Now sulking in the park he thought, he had informed Sasuke weeks before and still....Apart from these gatherings Naruto made a point of meeting Sasuke more frequently as & when he could get Sasuke out of his office. It had been fine for the first year after graduating from business school but now..............the last he met Sasuke alone was six months back and the last gathering Sasuke had come to, with Naruto's pleading of course was three months ago. He was kind of afraid that Sasuke was doing this on purpose after all this would not be the first time him doing so.
"Teme, why do you affect me so much?" Naruto tossed the question to the heavens.
'Coz, he is the one you love' his conscious supplied.
Sighing he looked down from the sky to see one of the most precious sights he would never forget.
His friends were right there, tucked in their winter garments, making their way into the park with Hinata holding his birthday cake, the candles casting a delicate glow on her face, the ramen aroma mingling with the winter winds and with Sakura-chan pounding a fist on his head muttering "Idiot". It was all so beautiful. His friends had waited at Ichiraku for him but when he didn't come back from Sasuke's they had come to the park.
So Today he would cut the cake under the stars, ask his wish directly to the heavens, eat ramen with the people who mattered to him....
It was so much more than he could ask for but it would have been complete if it had been for a certain best friend, whom nobody mentioned for the rest of the night.
The next day it was way past after noon when he came back to his house, courtesy Iruka-sensei who insisted that he stayed over for breakfast.
"Naruto-san"
"Hello Mrs. Nowel, looking as Beautiful as Ever, hope you had a good morning" Naruto courteously greeted his kind neighbour.
"Oh, Thank you, Umm.." The lady cutely blushed before continuing "You had a parcel last night...but ummm you have to come and pick it up, its big."
"Oh, Of course....."
When Naruto opened the box in the confines of his house it had a big bouquet of red roses and underneath were around a hundred boxes of instant ramen.
The first thought which was more of a prayer that his mind conjured was that the card would say it was from Sasuke.....With unbridled anticipation Naruto opened the card to find------------
So who is the mysterious card sender? Is it sasuke or ....?
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