Hello to everyone! This is my first fanfiction ever so please be nice with me hahah. I apologize for my English since it is not my first language. The story takes place after the fourth great shinobi war. Naruto managed to get Sasuke back to the village. While Sasuke is very aware of his feelings for Naruto, the blond is not very sure about his feelings for the Uchiha. He thinks it is wrong to feel anything other than friendship or brotherly love. Sasuke is not going to like Naruto's hesitation and that is going to bring frustration and angst to both characters.
Disclaimer: I do not own in any way or form Naruto. It belongs to Masashi Kishimoto.
The blond boy breathed steadily in his sleep. His chest rising and lowering while his mouth half open produced a quiet snoring. He looked very peaceful until he heard a voice "Oi Naruto, wake up" The sleepy boy rolled on his bed sheets until he ended up facing the window next to his bed, his eyes still closed. He suddenly felt a heavy weight on top of his chest, his eyes opened while he sat up on his bed gasping for air. He looked at the massive pile of documents sitting on his lap and wondered how they ended up there. "You awake now?" Naruto looked up towards the window to see a figure bending over the windowsill. The sunlight shining through the window turned the figure into a shadow but Naruto didn't need to see his face in order to recognize the person standing next to him. He blushed slightly as he pronounced this words "What are you doing here, teme?" The other boy let out a long sight which one could tell he was annoyed "I came here to give you your work since you're so lazy you can't even get assed to get up of bed" Naruto yawned and stretched his arms upwards "Do you even know what time is it?" "10.00am" the other boy responded. "Normal people are sleeping at that time on a Saturday" Damn the Uchiha's habit of waking up early he thought. "How did you get in here anyway, did you know it is against the law to invade someone's property?" The ninja resting on the windowsill seemed amused "You call this property? By looking at the mess you've got in here I wouldn't even call it a landfill" "Go away Sasuke, before I punch you in the face" "Like you would be able to, dobe" Naruto jumped off his bed ready to fight Sasuke but he was no longer there, all that remained was a stack of papers spread all over his bed. "Genjutsu eh..? Damn you, Sasuke.
It was a clear winter morning; the sun was weak but comforting. Naruto was walking along the leaf village streets with the stack of papers Sasuke gave him this morning on his arms. He wasn't able to concentrate in his room and he needed to get the documents filled by the end of the day so he decided to do it in the library. It was a strange feeling for him to spend time in the library, five years ago he wouldn't even thought about setting a single foot in the library. Well maybe to pull a prank, although he would've get into a lot of trouble if he damaged any important scrolls there. It surprised him how much he had changed over the years. He had to admit that people had influence on each other, when he was little he was always alone so he didn't have anyone to make him walk the right path but then Iruka sensei started scolding him and he felt loved for the first time. And obviously he ended up in team seven later on under the teachings of the porn reading jounin Hatake Kakashi. And from there on his bonds expanded, he met the rest of rookies and the sand siblings, the old granny Tsunade, his perverted master, the weird and awkward Sai, Yamato taishou, his fellow jinchuuriki Killer Bee and lots of formidable shinobi from all over the different countries. He was forced to mature to face with the disasters that fell upon the shinobi world and to bring a friend back which kept getting farther and farther away from him. He even became friends with Kurama, the all-powerful and hated kyubi! He went through so much pain and suffering but he never regretted any of his actions, he was now an acclaimed ninja of konoha although he decided not to take the name of kage since he felt he wasn't prepared for that, he had lots to learn and so he decided to spend some time taking care of the future generations of ninja as a teacher so they will inherit his will of fire. He remembered how he passed his chunin and jounin exams in a couple of months and his first team of genin was assigned to him. He performed the bell test just like Kakashi did when he was a genin and surprisingly enough they passed. His team was very close together so they immediately thought of working together even if one of them ended up without the bell. His little brats loved him since Naruto was very good with children, he knew how to push their limits and give them courage which combined with his goofy personality to make them have a good time while training.
Sasuke in the other hand decided to join the Anbu corps. He became the captain of the Anbu in no time since no one could deny his leadership abilities. The reason was that he wasn't ready to face the village yet. He was still resentful with the village because of the Itachi incident but he was happy to work in the shadows as long as he didn't have to interact with other people unless necessary. Sasuke was also in charge of the root faction of the Anbu which was dissolved after Danzou's death and now was under the control of the hokage.
As for the rest, life in the village was still the same. Perhaps life was more peaceful now that the shinobi alliance was forged. It seemed that Jiraiya's dream came true. The shinobi world was finally in peace and hatred among the villages seemed to be almost extinct. It wouldn't last forever because humans tend to forget about the errors from the past but this time it seemed peace would last longer than any of the other times.
He finally reached the library and sat in an empty table and placed the big pile of papers in front of him. Most of the documents were information about the new genins and their progress. Naruto had been procrastinating filling those documents and now there were so many he didn't know where to start. Granny Tsunade probably sent Sasuke to give him the work. She probably scolds me afterwards he thought. He started filling the boxes in the documents with a boring look in his face while he promised to never leave this task incomplete again. He had been staring at the blank pages of paper for so long that he didn't even notice that somebody sat in the chair across him until he spoke. "What are you doing dickless?" Naruto raised his head slowly with an annoyed face. "Could you stop calling me that?" "But it is your nickname, giving nicknames to people means you're friends with them right?" Naruto gave up a long time ago trying to understand Sai's reasonings "Could you at least pick something less rude?" "But you said it has to be based on the person's traits" People started looking towards them amused by their conversation "Sai, let's just not go in there please" Naruto's face was bright red "I am filling in my genin reports. I have left them for months and they have been accumulating. What are you doing here?" Sai showed the cover of the book he was reading "It is a book about the Anbu. Since I am no longer part of root I thought I should inform myself on how does the Anbu under the hokage works" Mentioning the Anbu made Naruto think of the one that gave him so much work to do that morning "Sai, have you seen Sasuke?" "I think he had a mission today, I don't know when he's coming back, what, you miss him already?" Naruto's cheeks gained some red "Of course not! But this bastard came into my house this morning and dropped all this stuff at me and then he left. He even put me under his genjutsu in order to talk to me like I wasn't even worth to talk face to face!" Naruto didn't realize he raised his voice too much and now the librarian was sending him a murderous stare. "Relax Naruto, no need to get all worked up because of him, you mind if I stay here reading?" Naruto let out a sight "Fine, whatever" He'll get Sasuke for what he did later.