A/N: New chapter! This chapter would have been released earlier but I just started Term 4 at school on Monday. I hate school. Teachers are meant to take it easy on the first week back. But no, they like to bombard us with assignments.
Anyway this chapter came out differently then to what I planned in my head. And Sasuke seems a bit weird to me. Oh well. I'm too lazy to change it.
Thanks to: mochiusagi and Boejangles for reviewing.
Parings: I decided to do SasuNaru for this story.
Warnings: Shonen ai (later chapters). Swearing (this chapter)
Disclaimer: I hate disclaimers. They just remind you of what you don't have (eg Naruto) Sigh.
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Creative Ways to Earn Money
Naruto's brilliant idea is as follows: Every girl (or boy) who wants to him to give Sasuke a love letter must pay him a certain amount of money.
By Monday morning, fliers created by Naruto to spread this news, were in the hands of every fan girl, every fan boy, pinned up in every classroom and even posted in blogs/myspaces/websites etc
"Hey Naruto why does the flier sometimes sounds professional and other times sounds like the idiot you are?" asked Kiba while holding the flier.
"Hey, I did this-"
"It's because I helped him," interrupted Sai who ran up to catch up to them as they were walking to home room.
"Hmmm. That sounds more believable. I mean-"
"Guys, I not-"
"Hey, what are you going to do when Sasuke finds out?" interrupted Sai once again with a cherry smile on his face.
This question made Naruto stop suddenly with a confused look on his face.
"What do you mean-"
"I mean, I don't think Sasuke would like you making money of him. I think he could get a bit angry," continued Sai with Kiba nodding along in agreement.
A few seconds pause for these words to sink in.
"Oh shit! You're right. He's going to totally kill me when he reads this flier. I didn't even think about what he would think. I'm profiting off his love letters. AND I called him a bastard in the flier. AND SENT IT AROUND THE SCHOOL. I'm going to die. I'm going to die. I'm going to die. I'm going-"
"Well at least you don't have homeroom with him-" Sai mentioned cheerfully.
Naruto glared at Sai and was about to continue his mantra before he realised….
"You knew this was going to happen, you fucking asshole! You helped me make those fliers. And didn't stop me from insulting Sasuke in them. Why the fuck do you want me to die? Don't you remember the last time…."
Naruto shuddered.
"Why the hell did you let me do this?" Naruto said in a deadly whisper. Everyone in the 50 meter radius suddenly felt very cold and rushed to class. Later the when class began and there were no late arrivals, teachers would ponder on the mystery of what made today so special as to make students actually come to class ON TIME.
"Ok first off. Let go of my neck before you choke me to death." Naruto blinked a couple of times at his hand which had somehow made itself to Sai's thin neck. He unclenched and stared at it.
"Hey, where'd Kiba go?" asked the blonde suddenly when he realised his surroundings were one presence short.
"He ran for it once you started screaming at me," answered Sai. "Can't say I blame him."
Naruto scowled at Sai before he said, "Now tell me. Why do you want me to die?"
"I wanted to piss off Sasuke. You were just in the right position."
"You can piss Sasuke off just by being near him!"
"Yes, but I wanted to really piss him off."
"So what, I'm going to die for a good cause."
"You could say that I guess."
Naruto suddenly sighed and all the adrenaline left him. Sai smirked at Naruto's defeated state.
"Naruto, Sasuke isn't going to do anything too horrible to you so don't worry."
"Oh, now I fill so much better that you've said that. All my worries have been swept away," said Naruto sarcastically. "Are you like high or something? This is Sasuke I'm talking about. S-A-S-U-K-E. SASUKE. If I just explained the situation to someone who knows Sasuke well they wouldn't think I'm mad if I went to Argentina purely to avoid him."
"I doubt that going to Argentina will stop him from following after you. But anyway don't worry."
"Why?"
"Because I have a plan."
--
When Naruto went back to his room after school he did not expect to find Sasuke calmly to be typing on his laptop.
Sai had told him that Sasuke wouldn't care about his fliers simply because he would be glad that the blonde's whining about money would stop.
Naruto then questioned why did he have a plan. He replied that this was a different plan but still involved him and Sasuke. Naruto dropped the subject then but decided to keep a closer eye on Sai from now on. If the gleam if Sai's eye told him anything, it told him that whatever Sai planned, it would not have good results for him.
Speaking of good results, Naruto's money making scheme was a success. Most girls/boys didn't care that they had to pay Naruto a bit of money. In fact they were more afraid if he would not be taking their letters anymore.
Naruto sadly hadn't actually been able to enjoy his victory. He kept fidgeting and twitching. The blonde also kept glancing either side of him whenever in was in the hallways in case Sasuke came along. Kiba, once he found out that Naruto was too scared shitless to kill him, kept making Naruto's paranoia worse by telling him that he could see Sasuke every 10 minutes. When Naruto was in his right mind once again, he got Kiba back for that day. You don't want to know how.
Anyway, going back to Sasuke, Naruto decided to try his luck out and talk to the raven.
"So bastard, hear about anything different today?"
"Hn."
"You could at least answer my question, bastard."
Sasuke suddenly stood up and walked over to where Naruto was sitting on his bed. And…well…punched him.
"What was that for teme?!"
"That was for the fliers. But I'm not going to kill you so stop squirming. This isn't as bad as last time."
Naruto shuddered at the words 'last time'. Then the blonde rubbed his sore cheek while muttering things like, "teme", "lying", "bastard" and "stupid Sai."
"Sai told me you were worrying all day because of what you did without thinking."
"I am so going to kick his ass tomorr-"
"That's enough punishment enough. Plus the adding bonus of you being quiet more. Or at least with one less thing to complain about."
Naruto sighed in relief. All the tension built up in his shoulders left him and he finally felt comfortable around Sasuke again. Sasuke went and lied down in his bed facing Naruto.
"Oh yeah, Here's your love letters. There's 10."
"Chocolates?"
"12." Was his eyebrow twitching?
"Flowers?"
"……50." Naruto wisely took a deep breath before continuing, "One of the girl's dad's gave her flowers for her birthday but she decided to give them to 'the one I love' with a poem. It says……"
By now Naruto was full out hysterically laughing. In between the laughter he managed to say.
"Your gentle heart captures me so,
I will beat any in my path and any who are foes,
Just so you will be mine and mine only,
It's just and added bonus your hot!"
"Your gentle heart…" The blonde sniggered while the raven glared.
"You're 'gentle.' Oh, I wish that girl actually knew you. And at the end 'It's just and added bonus your hot!'. Could she not think of anything else to say?"
"Don't you know that those things are private," Sasuke said with a scowl.
"It's not like you read them anyway." Naruto erupted into another fit of laughter.
"Oh Sasuke, my heart is beating so fast.
Whenever you are around.
But I'm afraid in your eyes I am last.
It's like I'm in the pound waiting to by found," the blonde said with a girlish voice while giggling.
Sasuke suddenly sat up from his bed. "You know you sounded just like a girl then."
"No I didn't!" denied Naruto standing.
Sasuke smirked while standing up as well. "Yes you did."
"No I didn't
"Yes you di-"
--40 minutes later--
"So anyway, I earned heaps of money today because of you," mentioned Naruto while nursing his bruised arm. He already checked his body for any broken bones and was glad to find none.
"Hn."
"I earned 250 in one day. I must admit I felt like kissing the girl who told me she had 50 bundles of flowers."
"Hn."
"Say 'Congratulations' or something, teme."
"Hn. I'm going to bed."
"Bastard."
