New town, new crush

Sasuke buried his face into the dark red scarf he had wrapped around his neck. He could almost feel how the weather dropped and when he looked up he could see the slight dust of snow start to fall. It was mid October and he had been living in a new town for only a few weeks. It was much colder than the last place he lived and much smaller too. It was also so much quieter, more peaceful. As he walked to the small corner store around the corner from his new apartment building he noticed there were much less people than his old home. No one bumping into him or loud noises. Just a few cars, and in all honestly he liked it a lot more than he thought he would.

This was about the tenth time he's visited the small corner store in the last week or so. He wasn't much of a grocery shopper. He typically just stopped by the store for a few bags of chips and a frozen dinner, but this time his junk food wasn't the only reason he continued to visit this store so much lately.

As he walked through the front door he immediately felt the warmth of the heaters and heard the small bell above the door. This alerted the store clerk who turned from stocking the shelves behind the register.

"Hello! can I help you with anything?" The blond behind the counter turned to sasuke with the most beautiful expression.

This was why he was coming here so often. The boy behind the counter had blond hair and the most beautiful blue eyes. He was always excited and happy, wearing a very energetic smile. Almost the complete opposite of sasuke but his perfect type. Sasuke realized he liked the same sex shortly after beginning middle school. It wasn't really a big deal either. He never had to have this talk with his parent because they had died in a car accident when sasuke was about four or five. From there him and his older brother went to a couple different family members until his brother itachi was old enough to take care of them. He and his brother were very close after his parents passed so when he decided to come out to him, itachi just laughed and said he already knew.

"Are you looking for anything?" The blond asked him.

"No, just something to eat" sasuke replied and gave the man a soft smile before continuing what he was doing. He grabbed a few bags of chips from the shelf and then went to the coolers to grab a case of beer. He walked to the counter and placed everything in his hands in front of the blond.

"Did you find everything okay?" He asked as he started scanning the chips.

"Yeah..." sasuke said as he reached for his wallet.

"You come here quit often don't you?" The blond asked.

"Uhh.. yeah I live around the corner" sasuke replied while the blond started to bag his junk food.

"Are you new around here, the town isn't that big and we don't get many customers that aren't regulars?" The blond placed the bags in front of sasuke.

"Yeah, I moved here a few weeks ago... what's your name" sasuke felt so happy that the blond noticed him but also a little embarrassed.

"I'm naruto, what's yours?"

"I'm sasuke" sasuke couldn't help how attracted he felt to this guy he's never really had a conversation with until now.

"Well it was nice meeting you sasuke, if you need anyone to show you around the town I'm willing to help! I know this great ramen shop around the corner" he said with a small chuckle.

"I might just have to take you up on that offer, if you hadn't noticed the only thing I really eat is frozen dinners and junk food" he gave naruto another smile.

"Okay well, here's my number. I'm free fridays and Saturday's" naruto said as he wrote his number on sasuke receipt. "Just text me when you're free"

"Okay, will do" sasuke tried to sound calm but he had felt his heart beat start rising. He had barely talked to naruto and already has a chance to get to know him better. He couldn't lie, it made him pretty excited. He didn't want to get too excited though, naruto seemed to be the type who was overly nice to everyone and the chances of him being gay is probably very slim.