~*What Friends Are For*~

Summary:

Naruto is suddenly caught in the middle of Sasuke and Sakura's troublesome life and finds Sakura staying at his place and finds feelings from the past resurfacing.

~NarutoxSakura~

~Rated M- Sex, Language, etc. ~

~Part 2~

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It's been a week since the whole Sasuke incident and a week since Sakura had been living with him. What could he say about Sakura living with him...he could say it was kind of irritating? Not that Sakura was irritating, it was just the fact that he has never lived with a female before and the things that a female needed was a bit too much...especially going out and having to buy tampons, adding to it, Sakura was depressed and went through mood swings where she would pummel him for no reason then go back to being the scarred woman...okay tell the truth, Sakura was getting on his nerves

Unlocking the door to his apartment, he stepped through and saw clothes sprawled everywhere on the floor. He had no right to be mad about clothes on the floor because he wasn't exactly a neat freak but this coming from Sakura, the queen of cleanliness, was infuriating. He looked over to his couch to see Sakura wrapped in his blanket. He dropped the bag he was holding, "Okay, that is it! Sakura." He yelled walking over to where she was sitting at. She didn't look up at him.

He growled and grabbed her shoulders, easily picking her up from the couch, "Sakura, wake up, dammit!" He yelled shaking her. Sakura shook her head than looked down at him and glared.

"What the hell, Naruto? Put me down!" He did as she said. She slapped him, "What the hell is wrong with you?" She yelled. Naruto gave her an incredulous look.

"What's wrong with me? What's wrong with you? Ever since you and Sasuke separated, you've been acting weird and I can't take it anymore! You got clothes all over my house and shit! Sakura, you should do better than this! Do you think Sasuke is feeling the same way, do you think Sasuke is moping around depressed all day? No, he is sleeping around; fucking another woman!" Naruto saw that he had hit a nerve by the way she flinched away from him.

He knew it was kind of harsh but come on, by how the way things were going on between them they were never going to work it out. Sakura just had to realize that Sasuke didn't care anymore and let him go.

Personally, Naruto wanted Sakura to leave Sasuke. About two days prior from the incident, Naruto had met up with Sasuke. Find out that Sasuke had left Karin, because she couldn't have kids and hooked with Ino, which disgusted him. He was fucking Sakura's best friend…how much could he hurt Sakura? What the hell was wrong with him?

Technically, he and Sakura were still together, so he asked him if he would be getting back together with her. Sasuke looked at him as if he was crazy and told him, "Hell no."

"I'm sorry, Naruto." Her small, weak voice sounded, "I know I've been…a handful for the past week. It's just that I don't know how to handle this," she put her hand over her chest, "I've never dealt with heartbreak. You just don't understand when you've been in love with someone for so long; since you had been a child. They grow up and become distant, and then suddenly 'boom!' you find out that they don't or never feel the same as you do for them." Naruto watched as tears began to appear at the corner of her eyes. Naruto sighed.

"You're wrong, I do know how you feel." She shot her eyes up at him, anger blazing within them.

"How could you possibly know I feel? If you did, you wouldn't be yelling at me to forget about him! You know how I feel about Sasu-"

"And you and Sasuke knew how I felt about you!" He yelled. Sakura flinched. Naruto sighed.

"I know how you feel more than anyone else. I was in love with you since we were children, before Sasuke did. To find out that you and Sasuke were together hurt me but what hurt the most was that the both of you knew how the way I felt about you. I could've said something but I didn't, because I saw you so happy with him that I didn't want to ruin it…for you."

He looked at her to see her eyes were wide. Both eyes caught each other, Sakura quickly looked away, ashamed. "I told myself every day, 'I should be happy because Sakura was' and it help me. It helped me a lot. So now I want to help you get over hi-"He was silenced…but in a way he never thought. He looked at her closed eyes than at her nose, trying to look pass it to see if this was really happening.

Was she really kissing him? She pulled away, the sound of their lips pulling away sounded through the silence. She then hugged him, "I didn't know you were hurting so much back then. I thought that was just a childish crush. I'm sorry," She pulled away and stared up at him, "If I would of knew, I would of…" She trailed off before pressing her lips back against his.

Once again, he was caught off guard. Sakura was kissing him again. He pushed her away, the confusion evident on both their faces, "Stop." He said.

"Kiss me, Naruto.' She whispered. He shook his head and tightens his hold on her shoulders. She pushed forward a bit, "Kiss. Me." She said again. Before he even knew it, he was kissing her. She ran her hands through his hair and pulled him closer, pushing her tongue into his mouth. Naruto groaned and took the blanket from around her shoulders and ran his hands up her shirt. He noticed that she wasn't wearing any pants and cupped both her cheeks, pushing her against him, urging her to wrap her legs around him and she did.

He gently laid her on the couch and latched his mouth onto her neck, "Naruto." She moaned, "Love me. I need to be loved." She whispered. Hearing those words come out her mouth, he pulled away and looked down at her.

"You're only using me." He said, vaguely.

"You told me you'd help me forget about him; this is the only way I can think of." She finished before grabbing the back of his head, trying to push his lips back on hers. He reached around his neck and pulled her arm from around his neck. He shook his head.

"No," He said lifting off of her, "I…we can't do this.

"But-"

"I know what you're doing; I did the same thing and hurt somebody. Trust me; you're going to regret it later." He saw her smile assuring at him before grabbing his hand. He felt her tug at it.

"No, I promise, I won't regret anything. I just need you…" She lifted up and wrapped her arm around his neck, "Please, Naruto, I need this…" She pulled away far enough to plant her lips on his. He groaned as he kissed her back. He couldn't do this; his mind was telling him to fuck her until she forgot everything and anything involving Sasuke but his heart was telling him otherwise.

He knew personally on how she was going to feel after if they'd do it. He had slept with Hinata soon after he had found out that Sasuke and Sakura were together. Of course the sex was good but when he woke up the next morning next to her, it didn't matter how good the sex was. He had used her.

"No." He firmly said backing away from her. He turned his back, not being able to handle the look on her face, "I'm going up to my room and locking the door, so it's not an invitation." He finished leaving her alone to her thought.

Closing his door and locking it, he leaned against it and covered his hand over his face. To the other guys in the world, he must have been a stupid motherfucker
to deny something like that. As much as he wanted to, he couldn't. Sakura had deal with it herself…BUT, once she finally frees herself from Sasuke, he was definitely going to pummel that body of hers.

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He didn't know exactly when he fell asleep but he awoken to the sound of his front door slamming. He blinked his eyes a couple of time before lifting up and rubbing them. He looked over to his clock; a quarter past nine. He yawned and walked toward his door, noticing that the doorknob didn't turn, he snapped his fingers.

Damn, he forgot he had locked it. "Sakura must be still downstairs." He said to himself, unlocking the door and making his way downstairs. He turned on the light and looked around, "Sakura?" He called out; looking over to couch to see it was empty. "Sakura?" He said once again making his way into the kitchen to see she wasn't in there, "Where the hell did she go?"

He eye caught a note on the counter. He picked it up.

I thought about everything you said and I'm sorry.
I'm going to see Sasuke and try to work things out with him.

~Sakura

His mouth dropped, "Oh. Shit." He dropped the paper and ran up to his room to grab his shoes. If he knew anything that was about to go down once Sakura knocked on that door…