Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto nor do I'm making any profit from this fic.

Warnings: A bit OOC.

Yaoi fangirls.

"You know that we have no chance what so ever with Sasuke-kun?" asked the blonde, mind-mixing kunoichi as she leaned back on the bed in Sakura's room.

"Yeah, I know. And all the magazines are right you know…. all the hot guys are always gay," answered her friend with a dark sigh. "Heck, just look at Naruto, he have grown to one hot macho-macho man."

"Sakura-chan, we have lost and there's nothing we can do about it."

"I know, Ino-chan… I know… Sasuke-kun is in love with that blonde idiot, only – he has no clue what so ever that he's in love."

Yamanaka, Ino and Haruno, Sakura smiled evilly at each other. Well, since they had agreed on this point there was only one thing left to do. They were going to make sure that their favourite ninja got the happiness that he deserved.

"Yay for hot gay-sex…" giggled Sakura.

"Yay for very hot gay-sex… Do you think they'll let us watch?" commented Ino with the same kind of giggle, just the thought of the two opposites made her tummy tingle in a way that was way above NC-17. Just think of it, fire and ice… sun and moon, day and night.

They would most probably not get to watch, but that was not the issue. The issue was now how they would be able to get Sasuke to understand that he loved that blonde idiot known as Naruto. The girls had seen the signs for so long but had managed to ignore them with the false hope that the signs would be something of their imagination. But alas, the signs were not untrue and with a woman's intuition they had both realized that their childhood crush was crushing on someone else. In this case Naruto – the loudmouth, number one surprising and farting Hokage-wannabe.

"We need help on this one, because they are so fucking stubborn that we could move a mountain more easily than make them understand that they love each other," pointed Sakura out after a few moments of silence.

Ino agreed with a nod and lit up after a few seconds.

"Hinata-san, she's a must in this little group. Although she's crushing I'm sure she would agree to help Naruto out in this matter."

Sakura nodded towards Ino's suggestion.

"What about Tenten-san, do you think she can help out?" asked Sakura. Tenten was a practical girl, she could surely be of use.

"Why not, she can always threaten to gut someone if they refuse to understand," smiled Ino evilly.

"Temari-san?" suggested Ino. The sand ninja had moved to Konoha a few years ago and was now one of Konoha's most respected ninjas, cocky and saucy as they come.

"She's self-written in this group! She's a force of nature, if she can't push them together, I'm not sure what can."

"SAKURA-CHAN! You have a visitor!" called Sakura's mother.

Ino and Sakura looked at each other and Sakura frowned a bit. Who could that be? Very well, they would soon find out as a knock echoed through the pink haired girl's room.

"Come in," called Sakura and the door were opened and in came Hinata. 'When you speak of the devil….'

"Hinata-chan, what are you doing here?" asked Ino and looked curiously at the shy girl.

"Uhm… well, you see…. Uhm, I've noticed something… it hurt at first, but as long… as long as he's happy… I'm happy...," stuttered the white eyed Hinata, her fingers poking together in her usual manner. She wasn't sure if she should tell this to Sasuke's most prominent fan-girls, but it had been on her heart for so long and she really needed to talk to someone about it.

Ino and Sakura smiled and noticed the predicament the shy girl had and they invited Hinata to sit down on the bed with them. "You are not the only one that has noticed things. My guess is that you have noticed how Naruto looks at Sasuke-kun… right?" said Sakura.

Hinata nodded.

"And we have noticed that neither we nor any other girl has a chance with Sasuke-kun," sighed Ino and waved her hands about. "That man has only eyes for one person and that's Naruto. And stubborn and thick-headed as they are – they have no idea what they are feeling. So… Sakura and I thought we should help them along."

Hinata's white eyes widened but as the thought sunk into her she began to giggle like a young school girl, the feeling of betraying Naruto and the possibility to exposing him to danger faded away quickly. Her head bobbed up and down in agreement. Of course they should help Sasuke and Naruto out.

"So let's call Tenten and Temari, I'm sure they want in on this," said Sakura.

The girls agreed that they would meet up at Sakura's office at the Hokage-tower. Having been Tsunade's apprentice for four years had paid off and she was now just as respected in the medic-nin area as Shizune-san and Tsunade-sama herself. And tonight it would be a real girl party in that very office.

Ino had brought chocolate chip cookies; Hinata had bought a few bags of potato-chips. Temari, being the oldest of the group had managed to get hold of a few bottles of wine. Sakura knew where Tsunade kept her stash of sake and with an evil smile she tiptoed away to sneak a bottle or two from her leader. Tenten had chocolate bars with her. All was set for the perfect girls' scheming night.

Sakura was glad that Friday nights were quiet at the tower and they all made themselves comfortable around the small table. Candles were lit and Temari served them all wine in small cups. They raised their cups and called in the night and the gods that came with it to bless their little circle. It all of course ended in a madly giggling scenario.

Once they had collected themselves Temari took charge and looked around the group.

"So, where do we start?" she asked as she snatched a chocolate chip cookie.

"I think we should begin gently… nothing too obvious," said Sakura, the clear minded.

The others agreed with nods.

"Date at Ichiraku's ramen-stand?" asked Hinata gently. "We could post a free meal ticket to Naruto-kun and deliver a message to Uchiha-san that Kakashi-sensei wishes to meet him there.."

Tenten snapped her fingers and nodded. "Of course, Naruto-kun loves ramen, he wouldn't say no to a free meal at the Ichiraku's and Sasuke-kun would be too curious to pass down a message from Kakashi-sensei!"

"That's a marvellous idea," said Ino and nodded in agreement.

Sakura had to agree too, that was simple enough to work. Simple and yet she thought that it was a bit stupid. She was not sure that Sasuke would be so easily fooled, but then again…. he could. "Perhaps we should add in that Kakashi-sensei wants to teach him something new?" That would certainly do the trick.

"Ok, the simple plan is made," said Temari and scribbled down the idea on a piece of paper. "Idea number two? Because we need a back up plan…. Or ten."

The girls hummed, nodded and looked into their minds for a good plan. It was Sakura that came up with the next one.

"They are always trying to top each other in just about everything, that could work to our advantage. What could Sasuke-kun do and Naruto not?" said Sakura and lipped at her wine.

"Well, with Ino-chan's help I'm sure we could Sasuke-kun to make a beautiful flower arrangement," said Hinata and nodded towards the mind mixing kunoichi. "And Naruto-kun, even though he's the aspiring Hokage, can be quite naïve and he would not notice the scam."

"What do you mean Hinata-chan?" asked Ino who was not quite following the shy girl.

"You enter Sasuke-kun's mind, make him do a beautiful arrangement with flowers and then we have Sakura-chan tell Naruto-kun that she saw Sasuke-kun make it. Sakura-chan you will exaggerate how beautiful and handy Sasuke-kun is with flowers. And if everything goes as I suspect, Naruto-kun will do the very same thing and later we have them deliver their creations to each other, anonymously of course. But we just have to make sure that they have witnessed the creations in the making first."

"Hinata-chan, you are one hell of a plotting girl!" cooed both Tenten and Temari and they all raised their wine-cups into the air again.

Hinata blushed and did her best to gulp down the wine in her cup. She felt a bit embarrassed for coming up with the ideas but at the same time she really basked in the attention she got. Sakura let out a howl, enough to wake the dead if you asked the shy Hyuuga.

A loud knock brought them all out of stupor and Sakura gulped down her heart. She rose to her feet and went to open the door. Outside were Tsunade, Shizune and Anko.

"What's going on in here?" asked Tsunade in a voice that demanded a quick and honest reply.

"We are planning, Hokage-sama," said Sakura truthfully and she and the rest of the girls nodded and bowed their head for the charismatic leader.

"Planning? What are you planning? And why is it that my best sake is being served at this little party?" asked Tsunade and made her way through the room and grabbed hold of a bottle. She eyed her favourite student and then the rest of the group. The halos around their heads did not shimmer very innocently. Something was surely up.

"Tsunade-sama, please sit down and you too Shizune-san and Anko-sensei," said Tenten and offered her place to the legendary sucker – Tenten's personal idol - and her two friends.

"Alright girls, what is going on here?" asked Anko as she sat down next to Temari and Hinata.

"You see… we all have agreed on something this very day," said Sakura and motioned Shizune to sit down on her place.

"And what is that?" asked Tsunade and drilled into the very depths of Sakura's soul.

"Naruto-kun and Sasuke-kun needs to understand that they love each other," said Hinata and turned about ten shades of red and found Temari's wine bottle and filled up her cup a bit more. 'I really need to work on my confidence,' she thought for about the sixteenth thousand times this year.

"Ehh?" was Tsunade's only reply.

"Tsunade-sama, what Hinata-chan is telling you is the truth. Ino-chan and I worked our differences out a few days ago and we began to plan how to get them together… you know how stubborn Sasuke-kun is and you certainly should know how thick headed Naruto is… sooooo, we decided we should give them a hand…. "

Tsunade changed colours from pale to ghostly white to rosy red within seconds.

"WHAT?" roared the leader of the Konoha village after a few seconds of colour changing.

Anko and Shizune began to giggle wildly and then it all escalated into a roaring laugh. And the one tearing the roof off the Hokage tower was of course Anko.

"WHAT, What?" snarled Tsunade who wasn't on the clear ground on what that just had been said to her.

"Naruto-kun loves Sasuke-san," said Shizune and as she tried to stifle her giggles.

"Ehhh?"

"Come on, Tsunade-sama, have you not noticed this… the sunshine-boy loves that stuck up bastard!" said Anko and nodded towards Temari as the young sand-woman held out a small cup of wine to the loud mouthed teacher.

"Ehh?"

"Tsunade-sama, you must agree that Naruto-kun has a thing for Sasuke-san…. and that Sasuke-san has a thing for Naruto-kun…. the two boys loves each other and these girls wants to make sure that our little boy realize it…. right?" said Anko to clarify things for her leader.

"Right!" said the girl-group with one voice.

"See, and this is why they have assembled here tonight – they want to make sure that Naruto-kun and Uchiha -"I've got a stick in my ass"- Sasuke, finds each other," pointed the always so forward Anko out.

Tsunade was not on the level… not just yet. Her boy… her favourite boy was in love with another boy? No, no…that was just…. Really? No… you just had to be kidding!

The other women in the room could see the Hokage turn her brain inside and out in order to cope with things that just had been revealed to her.

"So my little Naruto-chan and…. that freaky Uchiha-kid…?" she mumbled and reached for the nearest cup of alcohol. She got a cup and she practically inhaled the stuff.

"S-Since when?" asked Tsunade once she had found her voice again.

Ino and Sakura looked at each other and then at Hinata and the three agreed silently on one thing.

"We think that they always had a thing for each other, Hokage-sama," said Sakura wisely. "The rivalry have always been there, the obsession that the two have with each other, wanting to top the other."

"But Uchiha left…." said Tsunade.

"And Naruto-kun dragged his pale Uchiha-ass back to the village because Naruto is nothing without Sasuke and Sasuke is nothing without Naruto," said Hinata and smiled a bit wickedly. Yes, the wine and the sake had begun to rise to her head.

"Hinata-san!" gasped Temari in surprise but then her face split up in a wide smile.

"But Hinata-chan is right," said Tenten. "Even I who has no close connection to the two have noticed their attraction to each other. They have a kind of love-hate relationship."

'My little boy and that bastard… no… I had planned that he would find himself a good girl, a girl like Hinata-san and have many cute children that I could teach once I leave my title to him… Why… why?' thought Tsunade as she rose to her feet and walked over to the window and looked outside. 'He always called me granny…. Have I lost that title to him… to his children?'

"Tsunade-sama?" asked Shizune and got up and walked over to her friend and leader.

"I'm confused….," said Tsunade truthfully. "But tell me about your plans, how on earth are you going to get them together?"

Sakura explained about their newly hatched plans and as she told them the other girls giggled and Anko roared with laughter.

"…. So now you know Hokage-sama, please don't ruin this for us. If you only look at them you will see the signs as well."

Tsunade rubbed her temple again. She nodded, she might be a legendary sucker, but she had deep down known about it but refused to see it.

"Will you help us perhaps?" asked Temari and filled up Tsunade's cup with more sake.

"My boy deserves every ounce of happiness he can get… and if that involves that little prick, well…. of course I will help you guys," said Tsunade.

"Jolly good," giggled Hinata with perfect old English dialect and raised her cup to the mouth but was stopped by Temari.

"I think you have had enough already," said the blonde woman but she enjoyed seeing this side of Hinata. The shy girl certainly had a streak of humour and wickedness inside her, a streak that should be out in the open every day and without alcohol.

Hinata pouted but accepted the cookie Temari gave her instead.

"I think we need more back up plans, just in case the first ones fails," said Anko. "

"Anko-san, you are right, we need more plans to revert to in case the first ones do not succeed. Do you have any ideas?" asked Shizune.

"Well…. I happen to know that Naruto-kun has a soft spot for kids….. why not put them together in a babysitting mission?"

Tsunade's eyes widened and she began to laugh. Of course, that would be just perfect. Naruto did have a soft spot for those little critters called kids.

"I can give them that… Didn't Inuzuka, Kiba's sister plop out a pair of twins last year? Two little girls with the energy of five Naruto's?" said Tsunade as an evil grin began to spread across her face.

No body in the room protested against the idea. Now they had three plans to get those two thick headed boys together. It just couldn't fail… could it?

One week later on a Friday, Naruto awoke feeling well rested and he got up from bed and stretched a few times before heading into the shower. As he finished up in the bathroom he heard someone at the door. He hurried to dress himself and ran to the door. He opened it but nobody was outside.

"Strange, I could've sworn I heard someone," he mumbled to himself and was about to close the door when he saw the small envelope lying just outside. He picked it up and then closed the door.

He opened the small envelope and saw a ticket to a free meal at Ichiraku's ramen stand. A small note was attached to it. "From your secret admirer." It read and that made Naruto confused. He had a secret admirer?

"Who ever it is surely knows of my love for ramen!" he shouted and found the rest of his clothes and got dressed.

Two seconds later he was out the door, ticket in his hand and he headed for the Ichiraku's ramen stand.

Across town was something very similar happening. Sasuke had gotten a note from his sensei, a note that wanted Sasuke to meet Kakashi at the Ichiraku's ramen stand. 'So he wants to teach me something new…? I wonder what that could be…?' thought the raven haired young man as he put the note into his pocket and exited his house.

In his heart he wished for someone else to be at Ichiraku's, someone that he was pretty sure to meet there. Sasuke had come to terms with his feelings and knew that there would never be anyone else that could fill up that cold space inside his heart. It had always been Naruto. The loudmouthed idiot. He was the only one that could make his cold heart feel warm again. Not that he ever would tell Naruto about his feelings. No, he knew that Naruto was straight as they come, so he would keep his pie hole shut and enjoy the closeness the rivalry gave him.

And as Sasuke came closer to the ramen stand he could see something orange and his heart began to beat faster. Naruto was there. He swallowed hard and calmed his body down a bit and went to sit down next to the object of his twisted obsession.

"Shashuke…" said the blonde with his mouth full of food.

"Dobe… " greeted Sasuke and nodded towards the old man running the ramen stand. He could survive a bowl of miso ramen.

Naruto of course began to shout something about not calling him a dobe, but Sasuke didn't listen. He was just happy that Naruto was there with him.

"What are you doing here?" asked Naruto once he had swallowed the food in his mouth. He willed the blush down a bit as he looked into those black eyes that only spoke of beds, heat and sex.

"Kakashi-sensei asked me to meet him here," said Sasuke and nodded thankfully to the owner of the stand as he was served a bowl of miso ramen.

"Why?"

"Something about teaching me a new move," said Sasuke and he knew that would get the blonde all riled up. And surely, soon enough Naruto was spitting being the future hokage and the best of all ninjas in Konoha. 'So cute…. So very cute…' thought Sasuke and looked at Naruto from the corner of his eye.

One hour went by… two hours… But no Kakashi showed up and Sasuke began to loose patience with the notorious lazy jounin.

Naruto was happy as long as his rival was there with him. Yes, he enjoyed the time he could spend with the Uchiha. Every moment he could be with Sasuke was gold worth if you asked the Kyuubi-boy.

"Hey, Sasuke…"

"What..?" snarled Sasuke, his patience began to run low. He had waited for three hours for Kakashi to show up.

"Want to spar or something? I mean… we can tell the old man here to tell Kakashi-sensei that we are at the training grounds," said Naruto and bit his tongue a bit. He refused to blush because the offer somehow sounded as if he was asking Sasuke out for a date.

'Spar… spar with Naruto. That means trying to beat him, hurt him… no, I can't do that… not anymore,' thought Sasuke and shook his head at his thoughts.

"Oh… I'm too good for ya… he, he, he," laughed Naruto. "Are you a little kitten that is afraid of little pain!"

"Shut up dobe, that's not it and you know it. I can beat you any day of the week."

"Sure you can…. Little Sasuke-chan…"

Sasuke brought up all his will in order not to jump the blonde right there and then, instead he paid the old man and left. He was not going to be tricked into a sparring fight with Naruto.

"When Kakashi-sensei shows up, tell him that I will be home," said Sasuke and turned his back against Naruto and the old man and then he was gone.

"Bastard," grunted Naruto and finished his last bowl and handed over the ticket he had gotten from his secret admirer. The man smiled and accepted the ticket. Naruto was soon gone after that.

"Blasted, that plan failed," muttered Ino as she watched Naruto disappear down the road.

The whole bunch of young women agreed whole heartedly. But they just had to move on to the next plan instead. And they had to lure Sasuke to come close to the flower shop to execute that plan.

Which wasn't that hard. Ino's flower shop was on the way home for Sasuke. The girls boosted chakra under their feet in order to get there before Sasuke passed the shop.

Ino asked Hinata to look after her when she entered Sasuke's head. Hinata nodded and saw Ino do the necessary seals and then Sasuke's body went rigid and then turned around and put a thumb into the air, much like Rock Lee would do. Mission completed, Ino was inside Sasuke.

Sakura darted off in order to find Naruto. At the same time "Sasuke" walked into the flower shop and began to pick out the flowers for an arrangement.

"Sakura-chaaaan," called Naruto when he saw the pink haired young woman that once had been his team mate.

"Naruto… I'm so glad that I found you…. Sasuke is acting strange… he's at the flower shop and he's…. he is…. Well…. He's making some sort of a flower arrangement… please… you know him best, can't you go there and look if he's ok?" asked Sakura and sounded very worried.

"Ehhh?"

"I was going to visit Ino-chan, but Sasuke-kun was there, doing this wonderful thing with flowers…. Really beautiful it was… but…"

Naruto growled. The bastard was trying to impress women with flowers was he? No chance in hell Naruto would let the bastard win this competition.

Sakura smirked when she saw Naruto take off with a growl worthy of the Kyuubi. 'Mission completed.'

Naruto couldn't believe his eyes, but there in the flower shop was Sasuke making a flower arrangement worthy of a king. Naruto growled and snarled just before entering the flower shop and looked at Sasuke with glowing, blue eyes. No way would he let Sasuke top him in this area.

"Can I help you?" asked a woman and Naruto nodded.

"I want to buy a bunch of flowers, the kinds he is using over there," said Naruto and pointed towards Sasuke.

The women nodded and made a bouquet of the requested flowers and handed them over to Naruto.

The blonde was too occupied with looking at Sasuke making the arrangements that he never noticed that the woman never asked for any money. Two minutes later he was outside the shop, heading towards his home again.

Ino giggled and moved out of Sasuke's head, leaving the raven haired youth in a state of confusion. But in typical Uchiha-style he wouldn't show it. Instead he left the shop and the arrangement he had been doing without saying a word.

On the way home he met the shy Hyuuga-heiress. She smiled and mumbled something about Naruto carrying a bunch of flowers.

That alone made Sasuke's already black eyes, darken with jealousy. His dobe had bought flowers? Why and to whom?

The Uchiha-genius never once thought that it could be a set up of some kind. All he could see was Naruto giving flowers to a girl. 'No, no… I will not let him!' he thought as he took off in order to find his blonde dobe again.

The gang of conspiring women found a spot on the opposite building of Naruto's home. They could see the blonde trying to duplicate the arrangement he had seen Sasuke do at the shop. Of course… there was a lot of cursing but they all had to agree on one thing. Naruto had will powers that far succeed the normal one.

And they could see the Uchiha-boy come running and find a spot next to Naruto's living room window. His knuckles turning white as he watched Naruto trying to do something with the flowers he had bought from Ino's mother.

And to all the girls the jealousy was evident in Sasuke's appearance. This was the last piece of evidence that Sasuke had a thing for Naruto. And Naruto… the light blushes they had seen while the blonde was visiting the ramen stand was enough.

No, they had not been wrong. The two loved each other beyond words, but was too shy to tell the other about their feelings.

Good thing they had a bunch of considerate female friends.

Naruto looked at the arrangement he finally had made and he smiled victoriously. Yeah, it surely looked a lot better than Sasuke-bastards thingy. With that thought he picked up the arrangement and went to the flower shop and left it there.

Ino's mother looked confused but the blonde just said that he wanted to top the bastard's arrangement and pointed towards the thing Ino had done with Sasuke's body.

Ino's mother looked positively confused but nodded and smiled. What ever those two boys were up too was none of her business.

A few minutes after Naruto left the shop, Ino entered and smiled at her mother. She said that the two arrangements that the boys had made was a key ingredient to a plan that she and her friends were making.

Ino's mother just shook her head and let Ino take the arrangements. No, it was not her business to know.

Naruto lay on his bed and looked up at the ceiling, feeling very full of himself. He had made something that looked a lot better than Sasuke-bastard's thing. Yes, he felt really good.

Well, not really. The thought of Sasuke making such a thing in the first place made Naruto feel bad inside. Why had Sasuke done it? Did Sasuke plan to give the thing to a girl? And who could that girl be?

The thought alone that Sasuke had someone he wanted to impress made Naruto feel nauseous. He hated it. Sasuke was his prey, god dammit!

'Not that I ever could tell the bastard about my feelings. He would hate me for sure…' thought Naruto and the despair began to eat at his soul. 'Yeah… he will hate me for having these kinds of feelings for him. He wants a nice girl he can marry and have a bunch of small Uchiha-heirs with… he doesn't need an idiot like me…'

Naruto could feel his chest tightened and the need to cry was just lingering under the surface. Gods, why had they chosen him to love that stuck up bastard?

But his unhappy thoughts were brought to an end as there was a knock on his door. He rose from the bed with a grunt and went to open his door. And again there was nobody outside. But this time he saw the flower-basket sitting on the floor outside his door with a note attached to it.

"For you dobe…" the note said and Naruto blushed darkly and as he put the basket on his living room table.

'For me…. Sasuke, what the fuck are you up to?' he silently asked himself as he slid down on the sofa looking at the flower basket. His heart was dancing victoriously because this meant that Sasuke liked him…. right?

Sasuke was about to kill the person that disturbed his bath time. He had just slipped into his tub filled with hot water when there was a knock on his door. He got up, dressed in a robe with the Uchiha-emblem on its back and opened the door only to find that there was no one there.

He growled and cursed his freaky fan-girls for the prank and was about to close the door when he saw the flower arrangement on his door step. Just seeing the pattern and the choice of flowers made his heart skip a beat. He picked it up and brought it inside and found a small note inside the greenery.

"Did you really think I would let you get away with that prank… what you can do I can do better you bastard!"

Naruto! It couldn't have been anyone else that could've sent him this. The dobe had seen him in the flower shop and decided he could do something that was just as good as Sasuke's creation. 'A creation that I didn't do….' thought Sasuke but his mouth tilted up in a smile and he caressed the arrangement he had in his hands. Unconsciously he brought it up and smelled one of the flowers.

His dobe had sent him this and that was enough for the Uchiha-heir to feel a whole lot better. It had not been sent to a girl of Naruto's dreams. It had been sent to Uchiha, Sasuke.

The girls muttered. Their plans had back fired. But their leader was there to comfort them. They still had another plan that could bring the two boys together. The baby-sitting mission!

This was their last plan, it just had to work. If it didn't, Tsunade said they had to have another meeting and set up new plans.

# Five days later… #

Naruto was bored out of his wits when the old hag asked for him. He smiled brightly as he dressed in a pair of black pants, an orange t-shirt and a black jacket. He was going on a mission. Yay!

Sasuke was relieved when he got the message from his leader. A message that said he was called to into the Hokage's office for a mission. It was D-ranked, but Sasuke didn't care, not as long as he could forget about the dobe for a few hours.

Tsunade looked at the two youths as they stood there in the middle of the room. She sorted around with her papers, waiting for Naruto to loose his patience… which came rather quickly.

"What do you want me to do, granny?" asked Naruto after a few minutes of silence.

"Oh, you and Sasuke-kun will be watching Inuzuka, Hana's twins. You see, both her and her husband will be on a scouting mission with their dogs and they will need someone that can take care of their children. And you and Sasuke will be the ones to do it," said Tsunade without looking up from her papers. She waited for the explosion to come…

"NO WAY! I'm not going to do a mission like that with that bastard over there!" yelled Naruto and pointed towards Sasuke, he was totally unaware that his words were cutting a deep wound inside Sasuke's heart.

"Brat – you will listen to me. And I will not take a no for an answer. You and Uchiha-san will take this mission and you will be watching Ayame and Aya. And you will be doing it from five o'clock this afternoon. DISMISSED!"

And Naruto knew better then to go against that voice. This was the Hokage's final words and he could not protest against it. He had to be on this mission with Sasuke-bastard and they had to watch over two children of the Inuzuka's clan. He was doomed.

Sasuke grabbed the scroll from the Hokage and looked at it and he scowled. This was not what he needed. He needed to be strong if he was going to take out that creepy brother of his and this mission was not going to give him the experience and power he needed.

But as a good ninja he was, Sasuke didn't go against his leader's words. He nodded and accepted the mission even though he found it to be a waste of his time.

Naruto continued to rant curses as he followed his friend out of the office. He wanted tough missions, missions that could grow a back bone.

Sasuke couldn't hold back and commented that Naruto certainly was in need of one. The blonde got more riled up and began shouting at Sasuke. 'Naruto…. You're so cute when you're angry…' thought the black haired boy and smirked in secrecy.

T B C

Hope you all enjoyed this part.
No very original I know..
This story has been posted on AFF first. So there might be a few here that recognizes it.