A/N: So I decided I'll keep this as T rate…finish it as a two-shot. Sorry it got late, little busy o_o Well anyway, thanks so much for the people who liked this story—especially the ones who reviewed! ^w^ I'm so happy coz you did! x3

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A masked shinobi and a young cherry blossom haired girl stood by the ramen shop that two boys had left not too much of a while ago. Sakura was feeling very impatient, and she was pretty sure she couldn't tolerate this anymore. She looked up at her teacher and ticked up an annoyed eyebrow at the small orange book he was reading.

"Ah, and I was so sure that this would be the only place to check if it was Naruto," She crossed her arms and leaned against the wall, sighing. "Well, Sasuke kun isn't here too, I wonder what happened to him…"

"You should have told them that we changed the meeting spot," Kakashi said, nose buried in his book.

"That's true too," Sakura mulled it over. "Though-oh, isn't that..?" She pulled herself away from the wall and squinted into the distance. Kakashi finally looked up as well.

From a way back, a very smug looking Sasuke strutted along the road, hands in pockets, while a considerably worn out Naruto followed a few strides back.

"Sasuke kun~!" Sakura waved excitedly. "Oh? Did they get into another fight?" She said, noticing Naruto.

"Hmm… I didn't expect to find both of them together," Kakashi said. "Oh well."

Sasuke walked over and stood in front of the sensei. Kakashi gave him what was assumed as an innocent face, but his visible eye gave him away with the amused twinkle in it.

"Kakashi, thanks to you, I've been stuck with this idiot all day," Sasuke threw his thumb over his shoulder. Naruto looked up from where he was and glared at the hand pointing at him.

"Well fuck," Naruto spat bitterly.

He shoved his hands into his pocket and leaned against the wall, scowling angrily. Sakura blinked at the unusual behavior of the usually energetic Naruto then further ignored it.

"Ne, ne, Sasuke kun, I was just thinking-" She turned to Sasuke then stopped when he wasn't listening. Sasuke had his eyes to the sulking Naruto, and the smirk on his face told that he was quite enjoying seeing the blonde suffer. Though Sakura didn't quite understand what. "Sasuke kun?"

As if not even hearing the pink haired girl talking to him, Sasuke grinned evilly and said,

"Though I can't deny that I've had quite an entertaining morning today," Naruto's head snapped up at that, while Sasuke continued. "I never realized that even you could be so…" He paused as if to exaggerate the moment and think over the right word, while Naruto looked at him in horror. By the look on Naruto's face, Sasuke seriously considered dropping in a word such as 'vulnerable', or maybe even 'tempting', just for the heck of it.

"So..?" Sakura pegged on, interested.

A sudden tense silence had hung itself above the four shinobi, making even Kakashi tear his eyes from the book he had been so much engaged in and look at the three in front of him. Something interesting seemed to be going on, huh.

Sasuke smirked inwardly as he felt three pairs of intent eyes on him (well maybe not a pair, in Kakashi's case), all in different reasons. He finally looked at Naruto before opening his mouth.

"…different."

Simple word, lots of very different meanings. Naruto was sure to react.

Before Sakura could get on to ask a confused question, or Kakashi to think it out, Naruto lashed out, pointing a finger at Sasuke.

"Why you, bastard, do you reali—ow!" He suddenly pulled back, clenching his jaws in apparent pain, doubling over. With a little limp, he hauled himself at the wall again. The glare he gave Sasuke could have almost pierced a hole through his metal forehead protector and right to the bone.

Sasuke simply ignored it and pretended he didn't hear. He instead studied his nails and brought a finger to his lips, much to Naruto's annoyance.

"What's wrong with you?" Sakura asked Naruto, making an irritated face.

"Ask him!" Naruto immediately whined. "Thanks to that goddamn bastard, I can't sit properly for a week!" He blurted out before he could stop himself.

Sasuke, who was probably not expecting Naruto to speak so, snapped his head at his direction. He was pretty sure Naruto wouldn't dare to mention it, and blinked with surprise before regaining his calm composure. He snorted and crossed his arms. Kakashi once again looked up with renewed interest, while Sakura's head flew from the fuming blonde to the raven and back questioningly.

"What happened with you two?"

The last thing both she and Kakashi were expecting, was to find Naruto's face turn bright red. Unlike the unsuspecting Sakura, Kakashi realized the point of Naruto's words, and his eyebrow shot up under his headband, looking at Sasuke who, noticing Naruto's furious blush, just grinned at him.

"I see you've been enjoying yourselves while we weren't here," Kakashi flipped shut his book and pocketed it.

"Like hell I've been enjoying myself!" Naruto yelled, firing up again. "Today was the most…" He stopped to think of a good enough word to describe how he felt, then let it go with an angry growl at Sasuke's challenging smirk. "Ugh, I'm going home!" He stated then turned around to leave with a painful stride. Sakura stared after him with a blank face while Kakashi's half amused, half shocked expression was clearly visible under his mask. Sasuke savored the moment till Naruto got a good way ahead, then said over his shoulder at the other two.

"Well, I guess I'll be going now too." He gave another grin and strolled in Naruto's wake, much to the blonde's dismay.

Kakashi stayed without a word until Sakura broke the silence.

"Doesn't Sasuke kun seem to be in an unusually good mood today? And Naruto's acting weird, what do you think happened?" She looked at Kakashi who sighed, scratching his silver hair. Kakashi could only think of all that could have happened, and it actually seemed oddly likely.

"I guess it was about time," He finally sighed, closing his eyes.

"About time?" Sakura looked at the disappearing figures in confusion. "For what?"

"You'd rather really not know…"

Well, that's it for the story! I don't think there would be anyone out there who hasn't guessed what Naruto's punishment had been…xD

So do tell me how the story was! I'd really appreciate it, minna! :3 See you all again later! :3