All of my stories are set in the same world before or during Sasuke and Sakura's relationship. This is before they're dating.
Backstory: Sasuke returned to the village after killing Itachi and getting his revenge. He doesn't know the truth about Danto's involvement and Itachi's true motives. He was pardoned and rised through the ranks as a ninja and is slowly rebuilding his bonds.
8:15 am
Sasuke had been awake for almost 20 minutes. He never slept in, even on days like this when Team 7 didn't have to meet. Ever since he (thought he) got his revenge half a year ago he's been…well, bored. He worked towards that one goal for so long and now that he's finished he has nothing to do, nothing to work for, no reason to get out of bed, no—DING DONG. He lifted his head off of his pillow wondering if that was real. DING DONG.
"Eh, doorbell," he muttered as he sat up and threw on a t-shirt and shorts. He lazily walked to his front door, sighed, and opened it. There was nobody there; just an animal cage with a note on it. He crouched down and read the note:
Sasuke, aren't you glad we're best friends? Me too! That's why I know you would help me because I would always help you. Since I know you love animals and since you know Hinata and I are going out of town…
"There is nothing correct with this note so far…" Sasuke thought to himself.
I figured you would be the perfect person to look after our cats for the next few days. Here are Fidel and K-Jong.
-Your BFF (Naruto) ((Best Friend Forever))
Sasuke picked up the cage and looked inside to see an orange and a white cat.
"Damnit Naruto…"
He walked back in with the cage and sat it on his counter. He didn't like cats and he barely liked his "best friend". He began cooking rice for breakfast. He grabbed his trademark favorite food, a tomato, and began munching on that while the rice cooked.
"MEOW! MEOW! MeeOW!" Fidel and K-Jong screeched.
"What?" he asked the cats in annoyance.
"MEOW MEOW MEOW!"
"What do you, uh, what? What? Is this gonna go on long 'cause I'll probably be here—"
"MEOW!"
"You probably just wanna get out…" Sasuke unlatched the door and the cats leaped out onto the kitchen floor. They hissed and ran around his floor still meowing loudly.
Sasuke sighed loudly and pinched the bridge of his nose, "Ok shut up already…ugh, I need to get rid of you, but nobody would come here just to take these cats."
He walked back to bedroom and grabbed his phone and called one of the four numbers he had in his phone.
-Ring Ring-
"Hi Sasuke-kun! Pocket dial me again?"
"No. Wanna come have breakfast at my place?"
"Yes! I'll be right there."
"Hn," he replied before hanging up. That was the longest phone call he's ever done.
8:23 am
Sasuke was just finishing making eggs to go with the rice when there was the familiar DING DONG at his front door. He walked to the door and opened it to see his lovely pink-haired teammate.
"Hey."
"Hi Sasuke-kun thanks for inviting me."
"Hn. Come in."
She walked into his apartment for the second time ever. He walked to the table, pulled a chair out for Sakura and sat down, which she followed. The plates of eggs, rice and cherry tomatoes were already ready for them.
"Did you cook this yourself?"
"Uh-huh."
Sakura popped one of the tiny tomatoes into her mouth, "Hmm, these are good, but I don't know why you're madly in—Sasuke! You got cats?"
Rubbing against one of Sakura's leg was Fidel and K-Jong jumped onto their table.
"Uh, no. These are Naruto's."
"Aw, they're cute," Sakura sweetly sang as she scratched the back of its ear.
"Yeah well, they were yelling a lot earlier."
"Yelling?"
"Meowing."
"Did you feed them?" she asked.
Sasuke furrowed his eyebrows quizzically.
"You didn't feed them?" she asked again.
"No what do they, uh, eat?"
"Cat food, milk, fish," Sakura listed off.
"I don't have any of those."
Sakura got up and opened his refrigerator. Inside were tomatoes, eggs, tomato soup, cheese, cherry tomatoes, and—ah! Milk. She opened the carton and could smell the aroma of spoiled milk.
"That's expired," Sasuke monotonously explained.
"I could go shopping with you?" Sakura asked.
"Eh, fine. I could use more tomatoes."
Sakura sat back down and kept eating, "So did you just invite me here for cat help?"
"Do you mind?"
"Of course not!"
"Great, wanna take them?"
She giggled, "You're funny sometimes."
He smirked and kept eating.
"Do you like cats?"
"Not really," Sasuke replied.
Sakura scratched her leg and said, "I used to have a dog but my parents took him with them when they moved."
"Hn," Sasuke said in his typical monotonous grunt. He scratched his face.
"Naruto and Hinata went to a spa for the weekend. I think they're getting pretty seri—" she started, but had to scratch her face, "serious. Uh, Sasuke are you feeling itchy?"
He was in the middle of scratching his neck, "Kinda."
They both peered to their side to see Fidel gnawing at his paw and K-Jong scratching his ears.
"Did…Naruto say if these cats have flees?"
"He probably gave them it."
Sakura smiled and let out a quick laugh, "You are funny sometimes."
"Don't tell anyone."
She kept smiling, "I'm glad you called me."
"Well, I only have four numbers in my phone and one of them dumped these mangy these on me."
"Ooh, let me guess your contacts. Well, there's me and Naruto. And Kakashi-sensei?"
"Yeah."
"And….uh, Tsunade? For missions?"
"No."
They both continued to itch at the flees that jumped on them.
"Let me guess, um…Sai? He's grown on you, right?"
"No and no."
"Then who?"
"Pizza delivery."
Sakura chuckled and smiled wide. Sasuke couldn't help to feel happy making her happy.
"We should go to the store."
"Hn."
8:57 am
Sasuke and Sakura paced the aisles of the market. Sasuke held the shopping basket that gradually got heavier as Sakura tossed in various cat supplies and basic human food that weren't tomatoes for Sasuke.
"Do you like Pop Tarts?"
"What are those?"
"They're a breakfast food that are sweet—"
"Pass."
Most food choice went like this until they got a lot of, well, mostly tomatoes and cat food, but Sakura picked out some fairly neutral foods for him to try.
"This is kinda fun," Sakura commented.
"Hn."
"What do you normally do on weekends?"
"Nothing."
"You just wait until you get to see the team again? I'm flattered."
"No. I read, I've found a couple tv shows that aren't completely annoying, uh, I go for walks."
"You don't train as much anymore."
"No, no I don't."
And that was true. Sasuke has calmed down considerably since returning to the village, but he's still quiet and anti-social. He would never admit it, but this was fun for him too.
9:42 am
The duo walked into Sasuke's apartment.
"MEOW!"
The cats had knocked over his trash can and were eating out of it.
"Oh damn!" Sasuke cursed. He set the bags on his counter and began cleaning up the mess.
Sakura unpacked the shopping bags and poured the cat food into the little bowls they got for them. Fidel and K-Jong began eating it up.
"Ok this buys us some time. Let's get them a flee bath," Sakura told him.
"Hn. Why are you helping so much?"
"We're friends. Right?"
Sasuke thought for a moment, "Hn."
It sounded positive, so Sakura smiled, grabbed the shampoo, and followed Sasuke into the bathroom.
To Be Continued.