New story here. Originally a oneshot, but lengthened itself. Shouldn't be more than 5 or 6 chapters, though.
Somehow I am managing to finish a chapter/day, or making up for it. I am so proud of myself. :
Anyways, it's AUish, kinda future fic.
Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto... same applies for all other chapters.
Enjoy!
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Sasuke is oblivious and Neji is heartbroken. It's only natural that it's because of Naruto. Go figure. SasuNaru, onesided NejiNaru
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Chapter 1:
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Ramen, I admitted privately, was pretty good. Not "the best, most wonderful food," but still, pretty good.
Not that I'd ever admit to that moron, I decided. He'd never let me live it down. Make a giant fuss. Announce it to the village. Ask me if I was really 'that bastard Sasuke.'
Yeah.
Someone sat next to me, to my surprise. I was sitting in the very corner of a small, though not too broken down, bar, purposely trying not to get attention.
People tended to avoid me, anyways, from my 'smoldering black glare' and 'tough guy, bad boy looks.' Unless they knew me. And then, they avoided me even more.
Because I was Uchiha Sasuke.
Well, except the fan girls. They liked me more because of my bad boy rep. I shudder to think of them.
It wasn't Naruto, thank god. I dunno what I'd do if I saw him today and now.
He'd be noisy. And annoying. And sincerely kind and happy to see me. That retard.
So I knew it wasn't him.
And it wasn't Sakura, either, I was sure. She would've greeted me already. And attached herself to me like a leech, albeit with good intentions.
Who else? Maybe Kakashi, but I was sure that if it had been him, I would have noticed his brightly colored 'literature' already.
Nobody else was really my friend. I wasn't like Naruto, bright and cheerful and endearingly sincere and all that. I didn't have his knack of somehow becoming friends with everyone, his knack for appearing cutely naïve, for knowing just how to make someone comfortable, knowing when to be quiet and when to fill the air with meaningless noise.
I really wasn't like Naruto, Naruto who was cool and happy and so obliviously smart. Naruto who was strong and determined and goddamnably loyal. Loyal to I who tried to push him out of my heart. I who tried my hardest to kill him more than once and nearly succeeding. Me.
Goddamn retarded asshole.
I took another swallow of sake, and pushed my finished bowl of ramen away, frowning slightly, absolutely refusing to look to my right to see who in their right minds would willingly sit next to me.
Me, Uchiha Sasuke, current village outcast.
Silence filled the air as neither I nor the person next to me said a word.
"Drowning your sorrows, Uchiha?" a voice cut through my musings coolly.
"Hyuuga Neji." A bit taller, with longer hair, and a slightly more mature though still quite feminine face, the Hyuuga prodigy hadn't changed much in the years that I'd been gone.
"You shouldn't be talking," I nodded towards his own glass of sake, my voice just as cool as his did. "I never thought that the pride of the Hyuugas would become an alcoholic in the scant years I was away."
"Touché, Uchiha, touché."
We sat in a sort of companionable silence, as almost-comrades, as people who could probably relate to each other.
"What are you doing here, in a bar like this, Hyuuga?" I couldn't stand the silence anymore nor my curiosity.
"What about you?" he retorted. "You, the heir of the famed Uchiha clan. What about you?"
I shrugged, refusing to rise to his provocation. "I guess you were right. Drowning my sorrows. Heh."
He stared at me, before smiling bitterly.
"Same as you...drowning my sorrows," he murmured softly, his hands clenching his glass until his knuckles were white.
"What kinda sorrows?" I asked, almost flippantly, almost apathetically, the sake loosening my tongue slightly, to my chagrin.
"This," he said, looking at me almost angrily, swallowing more sake. "Is all your fault."
"Is it," I say, rather surprised.
"Absolutely," he said fiercely, glaring at me with those pure white eyes of his. I could have sworn they were glowing.
"You," he snarled, stabbing my chest with a finger. "Are the most oblivious person that I have ever had the absolute misfortune to be acquainted to."
"I am?" Now I was totally confused. "Isn't Naruto the most oblivious?"
Neji grimaced angrily. "No! You fool."
"You are. And you're so clueless that you don't even realize it."
I blinked amusedly.
And he snarls under his breath before yanking me towards him and kissing me with his tongue. His hand pressing me against his body, before abruptly letting go.
"Were you disgusted by that?" he asked suspiciously.
"...No?"
"Good. Now we've established that you are gay or bisexual," he said calmly. "See? I would be willing bet you never realized it before."
"I'm straight. Straight as a ruler."
"...You really are stupid."
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I hope you liked that, and please review?
Written: July 24, 2008
Words: 765