Chapter 2: Mission: Get Sasuke to talk to me

After a whole night of thinking (and researching), Naruto finally came up with a plan to get Sasuke to talk to him. It was quite simple really. Here are the steps Naruto came up with to see that his plan is successful.

Step 1: Find out Sasuke's likes and dislikes.

Step 2: Show some interest in what Sasuke likes.

Step 3: Now that we have a common interest we can talk!

Yes, it was just as simple as that but somehow Naruto is finding it difficult to even complete step 1.

"Hey Sakura-chan! I have something to ask you," Naruto shouted as he made his way through the crowded hallway towards Sakura. It was still 30 minutes before homeroom but the hallways were unusually crowded for some reason.

"What is it that you want to ask, Naruto?" Sakura asked, as she paused what she was doing do look at Naruto.

"Can you tell me anything at all you may know about Sasuke, you know like his likes and dislikes, it's important," Naruto asked, heaving from exhaustion due to running around the hallways asking his fellow school goers the same question.

"Um… I don't know much about him other than the fact that he doesn't talk much and that he likes to keep to himself," Sakura answered truthfully.

"Urg!" Naruto groaned from frustration. He had asked everyone, and I mean everyone, in his class what they knew about Sasuke and all of them gave him the same answer as Sakura did.

"Why is it so important for you to know things about Sasuke anyway? Are you planning something?" Sakura asked, eyeing Naruto suspiciously.

"N-No, No, No! I'm not planning anything! I-I just wanted to get to know him better since we're classmates and all, ya know," Naruto replied nervously, further enhancing Sakura's suspicion.

"Hmmn… Well if you really want to know about Sasuke so much why don't you just ask his brother, he's in class 3-B," Sakura told Naruto, and without further ado, Naruto zoomed through the hallway towardx class 3-B. 'That's the same class as Dei-chan,' Naruto thought as he came to a stop infront of a door that was marked '3-B'. 'It's a good thing that Sakura-chan and Ino-chan showed me around the school yesterday, I probably would have gotten lost if they didn't.'

Opening the door to class 3-B, Naruto was greeted with silence as the class abruptly stopped whatever conversations they were having and turned their attention to him.

"Uh… Um–" Naruto started.

"Naru-chan!" A shout was heard from the very back of the class.

'That sounds like… "Dei-chan!" Naruto shouted back, making his way towards his brother while simultaneously avoiding all the curious gazes of his brother's classmates.

"What brings you all the way over here to my class, un? Do you miss your big brother already?" Deidara asked, a big grin plastered on his face.

"You wish! I actually came to look for a classmate of yours?" Naruto said, looking around the class room to try and see if he could find anyone that looked anything like Sasuke.

"Un? And who would that be?

"…" Naruto opened his mouth to answer but he didn't know what to say. 'How could I have forgotten to ask Sakura what Sasuke's brother's name was!?' Naruto thought, mentally slapping himself repeatedly.

"Let me guess, you don't know his or her name?" Deidara asked, laughing at his brother's stupidity. Naruto just hung his head, embarrassed.

"Well, just tell me what he/she looks like, you should at least know that, right?" Deidara asked, trying to help out his baby brother.

"Well…" 'I wonder if Sasuke's brother looks anything like him?' "He has raven hair, onyx eyes and um… that's all I know," Naruto replied, scratching the back of his head while smiling sheepishly. Deidara face palmed.

"Well, there's only one person in this class with raven hair and onyx eyes and that's – well speak of the devil," Deidara paused mid-sentence, directing his gaze above Naruto's head towards to door, "Tachi-chan!" and then he was off, racing over to where 'Tachi-chan' stood. Naruto followed at a slower pace.

"Morning Tachi-chan!" Deidara chirped.

"Hn." came 'Tachi-chan's' reply.

"What did I tell you about that?! 'Hn' is not a word so stop using it when addressing people," Deidara, also known as Die-chan, said as he reprimanded 'Tachi-chan'.

"Hn?" 'Tachi-chan asked. Deidara sensing his change of tone looked to see what caught 'Tachi-chans' interest.

"Oh I almost forgot, this is my baby brother, Naruto, Naruto this is Itachi Uchiha, he's the person you're looking for, right?" Deidara asked, just remembering that his brother was with them.

"Y-Yeah," Naruto stuttered out. Itachi stared at him, analyzing Naruto from head to toe. "So, um, Itachi-senpai, I just wanted to ask you about your brother…" Naruto started, getting more nervous by the second under Itachi's intense gaze.

"Hn?" Itachi raised an eyebrow, his interest peeked by the mention of his brother.

"… Well, we're in the same class and he doesn't talk much and I wanted to get to know him better but it seems like he doesn't want to talk to me, at all, so I just wanted to know if you could tell me his likes and dislikes so that I could know if we have a common interest, that would make it easier for us to talk, ya know?" Naruto said, eyeing Itachi expectantly.

Itachi just stared at him for what seemed like hours. Naruto was starting to feel like he wasn't going to answer, until he spoke up.

"Draw."

"Draw?" Naruto asked, confused.

"Sasuke likes to draw things, more specifically people, and he dislikes… talking," Itachi replied, his voice dripping with sexiness. 'I wonder if Sasuke's voice is as sexy as his brother's?' Naruto found himself thinking.

"Thanks Itachi-senpai! You were a big help," Naruto said just as the bell rang for homeroom rang, "Bye guys!" Naruto said, taking his leave and heading towards his classroom.

'It seems like otouto is about to make a new friend, how interesting," Itachi thought, a ghost of a smile on his face, as he watched Naruto run down the hallway to his classroom.


"So… did you ask Itachi-senpai about Sasuke?" was the first thing Naruto heard as he walked into the class. Before him stood Sakura, a hand on her hip awaiting his reply.

"Yep!"

"What did he say?"

"…"

"You don't have to tell me if you don't want to."

"… He said that Sasuke likes to draw."

"That's all?"

"Yeah, why'd you ask?"

"Oh, nothing," Sakura replied and now it was Naruto's turn to eye Sakura suspiciously. 'She's hiding something from me, but what?'

"Take your seats everyone, class is about to begin," Kurenai-sensei said before Naruto got the chance to voice his suspicions. 'I'll just confront her about it after class' Naruto thought as he took his seat, which just so happen to be beside Sasuke.

"Hey Sasuke!" Naruto quietly exclaimed.

"…"

'Still playing hard to get are we? Well that's about to change soon, very soon…' Naruto thought as he torn a page from his notebook and started to scribble on it. At hearing a page being torn from a book, Sasuke glanced to his left where Naruto sat, hunched over, scribbling on a paper. Sasuke was curious as to what Naruto may be scribbling on the piece of paper so he tried to crane his neck to see but it was useless.

After Naruto was finished with his scribbling, he folded the piece of paper and tossed in into Sasuke's desk. 'Open it,' Naruto mouthed to Sasuke, who was looking at him with a 'What the hell is this' look.

Reluctantly, Sasuke opened the paper to reveal a drawing. Naruto intently watched Sasuke to see what his reaction would be. Minutes passed with Sasuke just staring at the drawing, Naruto was starting to think that he was frozen but then he heard something, it was so faint that he thought he was imagining but as he looked at Sasuke more closely, he saw that Sasuke's shoulders were slightly rising and falling, indicating that he was silently laughing. 'Yes! I'm making progress!' Naruto thought as he mentally fist pumped the air, grinning from ear to ear.

As the saying goes, Expect the unexpected. Naruto should always keep this saying in mind because the unexpected is about to happen to him. He hadn't really expected Sasuke to laugh at his drawing much less comment on it but comment on it he did.

"You call this a drawing? *Scoffs* I admit that the overall drawing is slightly above average but your line work is so horrible that it's laughable," Sasuke had said, his voice acting as a gentle caress to Naruto's ear. 'Do may ears deceive me or did Sasuke just talk to me?' Naruto thought as his mouth hung open shamelessly from the shock. Sasuke had indeed talked to Naruto. Those were not the first words Naruto was expecting to hear from Sasuke but he wasn't complaining since got to confirm that Sasuke's voice was just as sexy as his brother's, possibly sexier.

Naruto stared at Sasuke, who was still staring at the drawing (scrutinizing it), with a smile, 'Mission: Get Sasuke to talk to me was a success! Now time to put Mission: Become friends with Sasuke into action!'


Next chapter: Mission: Become friends with Sasuke