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I stared across the table at Sasuke-kun as he sat there, sipping his tea as if nothing was happening. I glared at him, my eyes slits. Sakura-chan was sitting beside him and was still looking all heart-eyed, something I did not understand. Not that I did not feel the same way, but she was dating Ino. Why was she still fixated on Sasuke? And as for Sasuke... I turned my attention back to him once again. Damn you, Sasuke... I growled to myself. I clenched my fist around my chopsticks and accidentally snapped one of them. How could you?

It was not too long before that day that I had learned something about Uchiha Sasuke I had not known before. We were together, training near the forest in Konoha Village. Sasuke had gotten immensly strong... he almost seemed as strong as that ecchi-sama... what's his name... the perverted old toad guy... Anyway, we were training and he told me something.

"Naruto-kun," He smiled, a smile which made my knees weak.

"Ha... hai?" I responded.

"What do you think about... about Shikamaru?"

The question caught me off-guard. He had never once mentioned Shikamaru. Why now? I did not even know he knew who he was.

"He's... uh... nice, I guess." I was confused. I did not know how to respond to such an odd question. And, like an idiot, I had to know why. " Why, Sasuke-kun?" I jumped out of the way as he threw a ninja star at me. It barely missed my foot, proving how fast he had really gotten.

"Because," Sasuke shrugged, a smirk playing on his lips as he landed back on the ground. I looked down at him from my place up in the tree. "Because we're kinda going out now. I was just wondering your opinion." My jaw dropped open. Feeling anger and jealousy swell up inside of me, I screamed down at him.

"BAKA! Why? Why are you going out with that coward?" The smirk never left Sasuke's face; in fact, it seemed to grow.

He shrugged. "I dunno." He replied nonchalantly. "I think he's kinda cute."

And that was why I was glaring at Sasuke a day later.

Baka ne! I yelled at him from within my head. I thought you were smarter than that! Going out with that bastard, are you insane? Why couldn't you ask me out instead?

"Naruto-kun..." Kakashi said lightly, his voice filled with confusion. "You... broke your chopstick... and you aren't eating your ramen. Are you okay?"

"I'm fine." I snapped. Just to prove it to him, I shoved the ramen (which was getting cold) into my mouth and munched, still pissed. I could feel Sasuke's eyes on me, and I knew that he had a smirk on his face. As I looked up from my bowl, I glanced at him and my suspicion was confirmed: he did have a smirk and he was looking at me, a sadistic glint in his eye. This annoyed me even more so, defiantly, I slammed the bowl onto the table and demanded more ramen. "And bring me some new chopsticks!" Still mad as hell, I looked over at Uchiha again. I knew this did nothing than to further provoke my anger, but I continued to do it nonetheless. Sasuke's dark eyes did not meet mine, but I could tell that he was still smirking beneath his bowl that was pressed to his lips.

That.

Arrogant.

Bastard.

An hour later...-

"You know, you'd think you would have learned your lesson by now, Naruto." Sakura stated, standing by me as I threw up several meters from the resturant. "Eating all that ramen at once. It was like you had an entire buffet table in front of you." She tsked a few more timeswith her tongue and shook her head, but I did not retaliate due to my vomiting. Not only that, I had nothing to say. What could I say? She was right. I was being an idiot. But how was I supposed to act? The one person I had ever really wanted in my life was dating someone else. Was I supposed to just sit back and take it? So I did nothing as Sakura, once again, berated me and my "ingenius ways of planning".

"You're right, Sakura." There was a momentary light 'woosh' and then Sasuke landed on the ground in front of the two of us.

"Sasuke-kun!" Sakura squealed and hurried up beside him, bouncing up and down like your typical fangirl. I stopped vomiting, but I could feel butterflies fluttering around in my stomach. Wiping the last of the saliva and slight vomit away, I shakily stood up and turned to the two of them. Still smirking and arrogant (and ignoring the bouncing girl beside him), Sasuke continued.

"He should know by now, but I suppose he is still too much of a little boy." Fists clenched at my sides, I glared at him.

"Bastard..." I muttered between clenched teeth.

"Hey, Sakura..." Sasuke looked over at the pink haired girl and flashed his amazing smile briefly before requesting, "Would you mind going back to Kakashi-sensei? I have something I want to talk to Naruto about." Pouting, Sakura still gave in to her first love's inquiry. Giggling, she then left his side and headed back to our instructor. Turning to me, Sasuke's smile disappeared and he narrowed his eyes as he looked at me. I was shocked as well as surprised. What was going on? "What's your problem?" He demanded.

"Mymy problem?" I yelled back. "What the hell is with you? I didn't do anything to you!"

"Except stare and growl at me all night!" Sasuke shot back. "I don't know what I did to make you so pissed, Uzumaki, but I don't particularly like your attitude!" I was taken aback; so shocked and speechless as if the wind was taken straight out of me.

"My attitude!"

"That's what I said, isn't it?" Sasuke snapped. "Or are you so hard of hearing, you have to repeat everything?"

"YOU BASTARD!" I screamed. Running towards him, I was about to hit him when he evaded my attack and cornered me instead. Hitting me, I fell to the ground. Getting up, I coughed hard. My lungs felt all bruised, which was unsual for such a short fall. Covering my mouth, I continued to cough. Upon removing my hand, I saw red on my palm. "Shit..." Apparently my most recent battle wound was acting up, and my vomiting had not helped it heal at all. Why was Sasuke so furious, though? I did not understand why he was so angry with me. I was the one who was supposed to be angry with him.

Sasuke landed in front of me and started walking towards me, as I lay on the ground. He was speaking, but all his words seemed distorted. I could not make them out. I tried to tell him this, but found out I had no voice in which to. Soon afterwards, my vision also became a blur and I felt so dizzy and lightheaded. It was not too long afterwards where I collapsed and everything became a void of blackness.

I was not sure how long I was out, nor did I remember being moved. As I fought to wake up again, my eyes seemed to burn against the light in the room. I was no longer outdoors, but in what looked like to be a cabin. Slowly sitting up, I immediately fell back to the bed. My body felt so weak. I could barely move without feeling a wave of exhaustion succumb me.

"Oh. You're awake." I looked over to see Sakura.

"Sa... kura...-chan..." I spoke quietly, my voice hoarse.

"How are you feeling?" I was a little confused. Sakura never seemed to care about me. Even after being with Ino, the one person she ever seemed to care about was Sasuke. My weird look might have tipped her off that something was amiss, because she blushed with embarrassment and looked away.

I was even more confused.

"Sorry." She muttered. "I did not mean to make you feel weird..." There was a light poof and, as the momentary smoke cleared, my eyes opened wide with shock as well as slight fear. Arm dangling over his shoulder in embarrassment, Sasuke stood and could not even look me in the eye properly. "I just thought you would much rather see Sakura then me... but I wanted to see you."

"Why?" I asked, my throat all scratchy. "So you could beat me up again?"

"No!" Sasuke caught me off-guard, his eyes meeting mine. He seemed annoyed and... a bit remorseful. "That was... I don't really know what that was." He admitted. "I was mad. You had been pissed at me since the day before and I didn't know why. I guess... it all got to me." His cheeks were still flushed and I remained (still) confused. Why was he acting that way? So many questions... he was confusing me so much...

"Sasuke..." I finally said. Surprised, he looked over at me.

"Nani?"

"What is it? What is it you really want to say to me?"

"Huh?" He sounded confused.

"You didn't come here to berate me, did you? If you wanted that, all you had to do was bring the real Sakura." I looked down at the bed, feeling suddenly depressed. What if his intenion had been nothing but to belittle me?

"You... you still really care for Sakura, don't you?" This question caught me completely off-guard.

"What?"

He did not answer my provocation, though, and simply continued. "I mean, you seem so hurt around her all the time."

"Because she's a bully!" I exclaimed. "She bosses me around constantly!"

"Oh." As I watched him, I became speechless. He was acting unusual to his true character. Or maybe this was his true nature. Either way, he was freaking me out. Why was he acting so... well... weird? "Tell me..." he said, after seveal moments of silence. "Do you... like Shikamaru?" My jaw dropped as it had before when he told me his "big news". "I have thought about it over and over and I can not come up with a reason why you would be so upset... besides the fact that you have a crush on Shikamaru. You... don't, do you?"

"Of course not!" I responded. The only person I have feelings for is you. ONLY you, Sasuke.

A small smile played on the face of the ninja I loved. "Good." He said. His grin and relief seemed to spread like a wave through the atmosphere in the room. I found myself smirking with him. As he muttered a short farewell, I found my eyes watch him as he left the room. My heart pounding, I laid back on the bed and sighed heavily. Slowly opening my eyes, I looked up at the ceiling. Why did he have to do something like that? Why was he always on my mind? Deciding to leave the annoying questions for later, I turned over on my side and closed my eyes, trying to fall asleep again.

"Naruto-kun!" A few minutes later, I heard my name being called from the doorway and, just my luck, I was still wide awake. I did not move, however, because I wanted to pretend like I was asleep. I did not want to be bothered by anyone anymore; especially since the person who had said my name was Sasuke. He must have fallen for my trap because he sighed heavily. "Oh... I guess he's asleep." He paused for several more moments and I felt sweatdrops start to form. I had to go to the bathroom, but I knew he had not yet left. I could not go with him there because he thought I was sleeping. Oh, the agony!

"Well... I guess I'll have to tell him another time. But, since he is asleep..." A few more seconds pause and then, "I wish you had a crush on me, Naruto-kun. With you being so angry with me, I thought it was Shikamaru, but if you had a crush on me..." There was a sad yet happy sound in his voice as it trailed off and he left the room for good.

I laid there, unable to move. My entire body was frozen stiff.

What.

The.

Hell.

Was.

That?

Owari! (of first chapter)

Notes: This fanfic will not be too long, I can tell. Please keep me motivated on writing it, though! Threaten me (in a non-leathal way, onegai) if you must! Of course, even if you do threaten me, nothing might happen. So here's what ya do: Get Mai (from Yuugiou) to come and get me to update. That might work. Ja! (or Halle Berry!)