Okay! So this is if Sasuke came back on his own. Pfft! Like he would! I am all in favor of Naruto dragging him back to the Leaf after helping him kill Itachi, as we all know that's the only way Leaf shinobi can get anything done! You know, team work and team mates are more important than the mission and all. Because Naruto and Sasuke are friends, whether they like it or not.

Done ranting. Please read story now. And also review and tell me how it is.


He strutted down the streets of Konoha, resplendent in his new, purple-bow-less outfit (that was too... Orochimaru for him. And, of course, he didn't want to be wearing the same outfit as he had under Orochimaru).

He was particularly looking for a kunoichi with pink hair.

And he found her. Although not in the place he'd expected. He found her... at a ramen restaurant. Sitting next to a very familiar yellow-haired dobe. And there was another one. A dark haired boy he'd seen once before. Whose midriff was always showing.

"Hmph," he snorted, under his breath.

The strutting boy made a face of displeasure and disgust, neglecting the fact that girls were gasping and pointing at his low-cut shirt that bared his chest to the world. If he had looked their way, they would have blushed. As it was, he passed right by them, only wondering what the pink haired girl was doing. With the yellow haired boy and the dark haired boy?

As the dark haired boy looked up, for no apparent reason, he saw the strutting boy. The boy knew that he must have recognised him, as this guy didn't seem to be one to forget faces easily, and yet his face registered no shock or awe or... well, any emotion at all except a cold, blank stare. He turned back to his food, and leaned just a little towards the yellow haired boy, and said something.

The yellow-haired boy froze, as if not looking back would make it a lie. Or if what the dark-haired boy had said wasn't true, there would be no harm in it. The pink haired girl froze, too. They stayed just exactly where they were, hands and faces in the same expression that they'd been in, chopsticks held halfway between their mouths and the bowls, and from where he was, he saw the the noodles captured between the sticks were not moving.

He walked up to the counter, and said to the brown-haired girl standing behind it, who was looking at him with a mixture of curiosity and remembering, "I'd like some miso ramen, please. And the dobe here will pay for it." He gestured to the blond boy coolly.

Said dobe dropped his ramen. The pink haired girl gasped, and put hers down carefully.

Simultaneously, all three shinobi looked at him. One bright blue pair of eyes, one bright green pair, and finally, a dark, cold pair.

"Hello," he said. "I knew you'd remember me." Sasuke smirked, and turned to his ramen, which had just been placed in front of him, and began to eat.


I don't know what this is. I think it's kind of a sequel/follow-up to my songfic? Obviously it's not a songfic itself, but it's kinda the same ... I dunno... idea... someone mentioned that they'd like to see a sequel (I'm sorry, I don't remember your name... - -'... oh, it's Kun'aii, right?)

I promise I will write more, but I don't know if I'll ever finish this one.

I guess I just got tired of pranking Neji for a while. I'm sorry...

I really will finish that one...