Hanakotoba no Kazukazu

... The Many Meanings of Flowers

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Summary: In which Sasuke Uchiha pursues a shy Yamanaka. A series prompted by Road to Ninja.

Prologue

Everyone knew Sasuke Uchiha of Konohagakure no Sato. A member of Team Seven, who included his best friend Menma Namikaze(1) and Sakura Haruno, daughter of the late Yondaime Kizashi Haruno. Younger brother to Itachi Uchiha, one of the many heroic ninjas in the Akatsuki organization. And a carefree flirt that wasn't afraid to pursue multiple girls at the same time.

Yep, that was Sasuke Uchiha in a nutshell. And at the moment, he and Menma Namikaze were enjoying a bowl of ramen at Ichiraku's.

"So, Sasuke." Menma asked over a mouthful of pork ramen. "Whatever happened to that one girl you were dating, Aya, right?"

"Nadeshiko." Sasuke corrected. "I dumped her last week."

Menma rolled his eyes. When Sasuke first started this 'date a girl for a little while then break it off later' thing he used to flip out all the time, but now he was used to it. "Geez, Teme, why don't you just settle down already?"

"When Neji Hyuga finally isn't a pervert." The young Uchiha replied back, holding back a smirk. Neji was a notorious pervert who had a habit for peeking on girls with his Byakugan eye.

Menma laughed. Those moments were hilarious to watch considering the fact Neji's cousin, Hinata, would always beat the crap out of him afterwards. "Nice metaphor." The blonde ninja slurped down the remainders of his ramen in one gulp and sighed. "Is there any girl you haven't nailed yet? Excluding Hinata and Sakura-chan, of course."

Sasuke tilted his head in thought, was there any girl that didn't throw herself at him?

At that moment, Team Ten passed by and that's when it hit him.

"Ino Yamanaka."

There you go, chapter one of my first ever Naruto Fanfiction (which is LONG overdue in my opinion)! And a Road to Ninja fic nonetheless. Still, I hope you enjoy this fanfic. In truths, this was inspired by an AU!SasuIno picture I saw on deviantART you guys should check it out.

(1) In this fanfiction, whenever I say Menma I'm referring to Naruto because technically speaking, that's AU!Naruto's name. Menma. And because I love regular Naruto so much, I'll just retain his love for ramen noodles in this story.

~SunshineSketch