Brrrriiiiinggg!

The black haired raven walked slowly into his first class and sat at his desk. Just when the second bell started ringing five minutes after the first bell there was a loud sound of speedy footsteps approaching the class room.

'Hn. Must be the dobe.' Sasuke said to himself, arms-crossed.

Naruto had always been late for class ever since their ninja academy days but it seemed to have improved in Konoha high. At the end of the last few seconds of the bells ringing, a blonde boy with azure eyes stood in the doorway.

"Yeah! A new record! Naruto said gasping for air.

"Naruto...It's so nice that you decided to show up for class. Now…SIT DOWN!" yelled the teacher at the blonde.

The blonde walked in and took his seat next to the shy girl with purple hair who was staring at the blonde from the moment he stood at the doorway. As Naruto got close she turned away with a faint blush on her cheeks but Naruto was too busy looking for his raven haired friend to notice. Naruto knew that Hinata had a crush on him but Naruto could not look at her as anything more than a friend. Hinata also knew that for a fact Naruto did not like her as someone he could be more than friends with so she was trying to forget him. Naruto finally spotted his raven haired friend and greeted him with a brilliantly white smile.

Sasuke saw Naruto smiling had made it his goal to try to be nicer to the dobe because he was the one that defended him of the attacks of Haku and Zabuza. Because of Naruto… he was alive. So Sasuke decided to throw a quick smile at the blonde, which disappeared as quickly as it had appeared.

"Ok class…so for the final project you must work in pairs. Get into groups and then I'll go on with the instructions."

Hinata turned to ask the blonde to be her partner for the project but where he should have been was an empty seat. She then realized that the blonde had tackled his raven haired partner to the ground with a surprise hug attack.

'I guess I won't be with Naruto then..' she spoke to herself as she looked down on her fingers which she had started fidgeting with when she realized that she was not alone anymore.

"Ummm…hey Hinata! I was wondering if you wanted to be my partner for this project. I-if you don't want to its ok. I totally understand if you don't want to work with me. But…what do you say? D-do you wanna be my partner?" said Kiba; his words sounding like a jumbled mess.

Hinata knew that Kiba had a crush on her since their Ninja Academy days, but he never had the guts to tell her. Hinata thought about it and she realized that because she could never be with Naruto she might as well give Kiba the chance to steal her heart for good.

"O-ok Kiba I'll be your partner."

"Alright so…the project is due next week no later than Friday. Have a good day class."

Just as the bell rang Naruto yelled to Sasuke as he ran to his next class, "I'll see you later Sasuke-Kun!" and just like that sped off to his next class.

After school Sasuke stood at his locker waiting for the dobe. Just then Sasuke saw the blonde coming around the corner, but instead of going straight to his locker he stopped to talk to a pink-haired girl. Sasuke noticed that it was Sakura and that they started having a discussion that lead to laughter and smiling. Suddenly Sasuke started to turn red and felt his blood boiling in his veins.

'Ugh! What is up with me?! Why am I feeling like this?' the raven asked himself as he tried to shake off whatever he was feeling.

He suddenly noticed that Naruto was no longer talking to Sakura and that he was walking up to him.

'Just play it cool.' He said silently.

"Hey Sasuke!" Naruto said as he opened his locker that was 3 lockers away from Sasuke's.

"Hey."

"So about the project….I was thinking that you should come over to my house and we could start on it and then we could have RAMEN! What do you think? You wanna go to my house at around 4 pm? "Naruto chimed as he took his books out of his locker.

"Fine. 4pm. See you there." Sasuke said holding back the feelings he was having a few seconds ago.

"I gotta go Naruto. Bye. "Sasuke said as he walked off towards his home.

Finally in front of his home, Sasuke opened the heavy fence at the main entrance of his home (Mansion) and walked inside. He was surprised that he had opened the door and found no one home. 'Eh.' He thought to himself as he walked through the long hallway to the kitchen. He was suddenly thirsty and decided to go get a cool glass of his favorite drink…Pink Lemonade. He slung his book bag off his shoulder and let it hit the ground and went over to the sink for a blue clear glass for his lemonade.

After getting this glass of lemonade and putting the pitcher away he noticed a note on the kitchen table. He took it and read it. It read: "Dear little brother, mother and father have gone to the movies and won't be back 'till 10 pm. I have gone to do a few errands but I won't be back until 10pm as well. Mother said to order pizza if you get hungry because she gave our employees the day off. P.s. Don't get raped!Lol! Love, Itachi."

Sasuke crumbled up the paper as he drank some of his lemonade. Just before he left the kitchen he threw the paper into the trash bin and slung his backpack on his shoulder. He slowly walked up the elegant white and golden staircase and walked the long hallway towards his room. His room was painted dark blue and his ceiling had the family's Uchiha symbol on it. On one corner was his computer desk and on the other was his king sized bed with a dark blue comforter with 2 red pillows and a small white circle pillow in between both of the red pillows. He had a large 42 inch flat screen TV mounted in front of his bed and an amazing and expensive music system near the heavy elegantly designed glass windows/doors with golden designs that lead to his balcony.

He knew that he had about an hour and a half to be able to get to Naruto's house so he decided to lay in bed for a while…Although he wanted to fall asleep for a bit he just couldn't. He kept on thinking about the way he had felt earlier. The feelings he had felt when he had seen Naruto, his BEST FRIEND speaking to Sakura. He remembered how his face went from creamy white to bright red in seconds. But what he remembered most of all was how his blood burned boiling hot in his veins. He hated these feelings; he hated remembering it all but he mostly hated the fact that he didn't know why he was acting like that. He tried clearing up his mind, but he couldn't. All that time he was thinking of Naruto's perfect sun-kissed hair. He thought about Naruto's azure eyes that looked like two pools of beautiful sparkling water and of his seemingly perfect face. Sasuke decided to try to watch some television to try to get his mind off of these feelings and flashbacks he was having. But the first thing that came out on his TV was Naruto's favorite song "Your guardian angel" by the Red Jumpsuit Apparatus.

'Gah!' Sasuke screamed.

"I know that I'm not gonna have any peace…I might as well just shower and get ready to go over to Naru's house." He said with an exasperated sigh.

For the next half hour the raven took a bath, applied cologne and got dressed. He wore a long sleeved white shirt which he fixed by rolling up his sleeves. He also wore a pair of black pants that fit him perfectly and black casual shoes. He accompanied his whole outfit with a black jacket which he decided he would only use to sling over his shoulder to create a dramatic look. After looking at himself in the mirror for about the tenth time, he took his books and keys and started walking towards Naruto's house.

Sasuke decided to buy some flowers to take to Naruto's home. He decided to buy a dozen red roses because he knew that Naruto and his mother Kushina both love roses. After stopping at the Konoha florist for his beautiful purchase, he walked to Naruto's home. When he got to the Uzumaki residence, he stepped closer to the door, took a deep breath and knocked on the door. Immediately the door was opened by the beautiful blonde who was surprised to see his best friend with roses.

"Awww! Sasuke! They're amazing! You shouldn't have…" Naruto said smiling a beautiful white smile while he took the roses and let his jet-black haired friend into his home.

"Ummm…you can go upstairs…my room is the one all the way to the end of the hallway. I'm gonna go put these beautiful flowers in water. Thanks for the roses….Oh! And do you want something to drink?"

"Ummm….do you have some pink lemonade? If not, it's fine and… you're welcome."

"Ok, One glass of pink lemonade coming right up!" Naruto said as he skipped into the kitchen to get a vase full of water and Sasuke's lemonade.

Sasuke closed his eyes and smiled a small smile before going upstairs into Naruto's room.

Sasuke opened the door to Naruto's room. Although it wasn't as big as his room it still was nice. It had a computer desk, an art station, a flat screen TV hung on the wall that faced his bed and a king sized bed. Sasuke was actually surprised that Naruto could fit everything in that room. On the side of his bed Naruto had a night table that had a picture frame on it. Sasuke went to sit on the bed and grabbed the picture frame. In the frame was a photo of him and Naruto after their graduation ceremony. The Uchiha wore a blue cap and gown while Naruto got permission that day to wear his own cap and gown in his choice of color: Orange! Sasuke looked at the photo with a smile remembering the days at the academy. Just then the blonde appeared and sat next to him handing him the glass of lemonade.

"Those were some amazing times right Sasuke? The great part is that your still here next to me…you, my best friend. "Naruto said happily.

"Yeah, I agree." Sasuke said.

Sasuke had not seen how close Naruto was sitting next to him and when he turned to answer him he almost touched Naruto's face with his nose. Naruto noticed he was too close and apologized to Sasuke and then moved aside a bit. Sasuke started getting red again but this time it was because of the space issue.

'Gah! Why am I blushing again? What is wrong with me?' he asked himself. 'He's only a friend. You can't possibly be in love with your Best Friend! Especially because he's a guy and so are you!' he said to himself.

That afternoon the raven and the blonde worked and almost finished their project…mostly in part because Sasuke was the one doing most of the work… But Sasuke didn't mind. All he wanted was to be near his dobe.

It was getting pretty late and the blonde looked tired so the onyx eyed boy decided to leave and started collecting his books. But while trying to hurry up, his books fell on the floor and he quickly stooped down to get them. Naruto also stooped down to help Sasuke pick up his books so he could leave quickly before it started getting dark. While picking up the book, they both grabbed the same book accidently touching hands.

"Oh! Uh…sorry!" Sasuke blushed.

"N-no! It's ok. It was my fault." The azure eyed boy blushed.

"I-I gotta go…you know before it gets dark….well…. see you tomorrow Naruto!"Sasuke said as he hugged Naruto quickly and then ran out of the room and out of his home.

Outside on his way home Sasuke thought to himself 'How I wish I could tell you how I feel about you...if only I knew you felt the same…maybe if I knew you felt the same would it be easier to tell you how I feel…"

On his long walk home the Uchiha made a plan to ask Naruto how he really felt about him.