How Will I Know
By: esmtz
Naruto POV
It had been at least 2 years since Sasuke left the village and I still always thought that he would just come back to me and say he was sorry and would never leave again but I was wrong. I should have told him how I felt but the only thing that stopped me was that I also had another crush on another guy, Neji Hyuga. I know it's not normal to have feelings for other guys but since when have I ever been 'normal' to anyone. My feelings for Sasuke developed after the whole Zabuza affair and Sasuke saved my life which makes me wonder now if he ever had any feelings for me. For the past two years I was out training with the pervy sage, Jiraya as everyone calls him but I call him pervy sage because he has a thing for looking at girls. Anyway when my second crush started it was immediately when I met Neji. Yeah sometimes he pissed me off but so did Sasuke I swear I have a thing for jerks. I was immediately nervous when I came home as I looked around for any signs of Neji but so far nothing. Jiraya left me to go do a few things when I hear someone call out my name.
"Naruto!"
I look and see Sakura as she smiles and waves at me while running in my direction and then stops in front of me.
"Hey Sakura" I say smiling at her "its been awhile"
"Yes it has did you just get back I've missed you" she says pushing back her hair and I nod.
"Yeah and it looks like nothing has changed" I say looking around.
"Yeah well so far Tsunade says she likes Konoha the way it is" Sakura replies.
"I would hate to see it different" I said and then I looked at her "Sakura have you seen Neji at all today?" I ask blushing a bit.
"Um I think he's with Lee why Naruto?" Sakura got nervous when she said bushy brow's name but I ignored it.
"Uh no reason do you want to go get some ramen with me Sakura since I haven't been here in so long I kinda want to go there first…."
Sakura laughs.
"Because you're hungry"
I blush as my stomach growls and I nod.
"Ok then" she says and we both start walking.
While walking we meet up with Ino and her group as well as Hinata's group. I get the same usual response from Hinata with her becoming nervous for some weird reason. We all go eat ramen and I tell them about all the training I went through as well as listening to what's been going on here.
"Just curious has anyone seen Gai's team?" I ask trying not to use Neji's name in case they got suspicious.
"How should I know they're probably off on a mission" Shikamaru says as he kisses Ino's cheek and she giggles.
"How long have you guys been together?" I ask.
"It's been like a month Shikamaru finally got the courage to ask me out" Ino says smiling.
"Congrats" I say as Shikamaru grins at me and Ino turns to Sakura.
"You should ask Lee out Sakura we all know he still likes you"
I watch as Sakura turns bright red making me choke on my food.
"You like bushy brow?!"
She just nods.
"You know its kind of funny how your team seems to like Neji's team huh Naruto?" Kiba says grinning at me and I turn a dark red.
"Wh-what makes you say that Kiba?"
"Well its obvious isn't it Kakashi is going out with Gai…"
My mouth dropped open in shock.
"WHAT?!"
"You don't believe me see for yourself" Kiba turns around making me look and I see them holding hands grinning at us.
"Kakashi sensei when did you…?!" I ask my eyes wide as I point in their direction.
"Hmm? Naruto you're back it's nice to see you again" Kakashi just smiles ignoring me.
Gai suddenly turns and yells back making me jump.
"Lee, Neji, Tenten look who's back"
Both Sakura and I turn an even darker red as we see Neji and bushy brow show up and they come right up to us.
"Naruto it's been such a long time" Lee says grinning at me "when did you get back?"
I couldn't say anything as I looked at Neji and he looked at me shocked.
"Naruto"