A/N: I was surprised to receive interest in my first Naruto FanFic. Thank you for the encouragement and reviews.

oh-tangled: I could care less about what you've got to say to me. It'll be SasuHina month soon, so don't bug me about this crack-ship. You don't even know the woes of being a crack-shipper.

Guest (1): Thanks for reviewing, you really made me happy. You don't have to worry about Sakura being a bitch because I love her character. I can assure you that, I'm not the kind of person to bash. Sakura will play a more important role, later on, but for now she's a minor character. Most of the stories I have written are for Fairy Tail and I usually put my own twists to the story line to make it mine. This is my first time actually writing/publishing a Naruto fic.

ReadingGurl07: Thanks for the encouragement.

DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN NARUTO.

Naruto knew something was off about his raven haired friend. Sasuke seemed more agitated than usual. The stick that was normally stuck up his ass seemed to be shoved up way more up than usual and must have hit a nerve. Naruto couldn't figure out why Sasuke was acting so differently. Naruto noticed the Uchiha's strange behavior when they went out for ramen. It was making Naruto's ramen taste bad watching Sasuke in a more than pissed off mood twenty-four seven. He even witnessed the Uchiha turn red at some moments. Sasuke would scowl more often and his frown was more apparent than usual. Naruto could only trace it to the encounter with the new girl which was about a month ago. As his friend, Naruto needed to figure why Sasuke was so irked at even the most calming places. All seemed to be linked to the new girl.

"Oi, teme!" Naruto called once after Naruto was done reading his book. The two were alone in the library.

"Leave me alone!" he snapped. "I'm trying to read. Something you should be doing too."

"Trying to read my ass!" Naruto exclaimed. "You haven't been reading at all."

"That's because you're so fucking annoying," Sasuke answered.

"For the record, teme," Naruto began in a prideful voice, "I've been quiet for a whole ten minutes reading The Tale of the Utterly Gutsy Shinobi."

"That's hardly anything to be proud of," Sasuke informed.

Naruto ignored his rude comment. The Tale of the Utterly Gutsy Shinobi was an amazing manga, his absolute favorite to be exact! There was action, comedy, romance, history, angst, and did he mention action? How could anyone hate on it? "Anyways, I caught you stealing glances at a girl."

"You must be crazy, dobe," Sasuke said as he rolled his eyes.

"I'm afraid not," Naruto countered.

"Oh, really," Sasuke challenged entertaining the blond with his casual smirk.

"Yep," he said with his funny grin. "I caught you looking at the new girl, eight times." Naruto pointed to the blushing girl who hid her face in a book. Instantly, Sasuke's smirk fell once he noticed who the girl was. "There it is again!"

"What?" Sasuke barked.

"Every time you happened to look at her, you scowl and frown just like that!" Naruto pointed out. There was a moment of silence as the Uchiha looked at him with disbelief. Sasuke always scowled and frowned. He rarely ever smiled at anything or anyone. "So, are you interested in the new girl?"

"You really are a dumbass," Sasuke told him.

"Is that a yes?" Naruto asked.

"No," he answered with growing aggravation.

"Do you know her name?"

"No."

"Do you want to go talk to her?"

"No."

"Do you want me to talk to her for you?"

"No."

"Do you like her?"

"No."

"Do you think she's cute?"

"No."

"Did she do anything to piss you off?"

"No."

"Is she one of your fan girls?"

"No."

"Wow! To think there's a girl that's immune to Sasuke Uchiha's charm!" Naruto exclaimed in disbelief further ticking off the Uchiha boy.

"Just shut up and read your goddamn book!" Sasuke barked at him.

There was silence for about two minutes before Naruto opened his mouth once again. Naruto couldn't help himself. His ebony haired friend was the most coveted student with his looks, brilliance, and athletic ability. He was curious about Sasuke's love life, or lack of. He always avoided contact with females and hardly ever gave them a single glance. However, Naruto caught Sasuke giving a girl eight- now nine glances! He had just caught another frown and glance towards the indigo haired girl who looked as red as ever. Perhaps, Sasuke just needed help in that area.

"You sure you don't want to go talk to her?" Naruto asked raising a suggestive eyebrow.

"I'm sure of it, Naruto," Sasuke said, his voice still pissed as ever.

"You're absolutely positive about it?" he asked again elbowing Sasuke's side which earned Naruto a deathly glare. Sasuke did not like being touched at all, nor did he like where Naruto was taking this discussion. "You might not ever find a girl like her. Plus she's really pretty."

"If you think she's so pretty, why don't you go talk to her!" Sasuke countered.

Naruto sat there for a minute and thought about it before speaking up. "You know what, I will!" he exclaimed with a triumphant look in his face.

Sasuke watched his blond friend from his seat. Naruto approached the indigo haired girl that had cause of their discussion. The girl's face seemed to redden with a tinge of pink as Naruto talked to her. Sasuke could tell that she was genuinely happy. The girl looked was red as a tomato and Naruto didn't seem to notice the effect he had on her. The girl's smile faltered as it turned to an uncharacteristic frown. Naruto returned long after with a sheepish grin.

"Her name is Hinata," Naruto informed.

Silence. Sasuke didn't care.

"She's like the exact opposite of you."

More silence. Still didn't care.

Naruto scratched the back of his head and gave him a nervous smile, "Sorry, teme," he began.

To think that a girl refused to go on a date with the school's number one heart throb, Sasuke, even existed! It further surprised Naruto that she didn't know the Sasuke. There were students that transferred to Leaf Academy just because Sasuke was there. All of them wanting a shot to be Sasuke's woman.

"She's not interested in you," Naruto informed. "She refused to go on a date with the Sasuke Uchiha of Leaf Academy.

"Has your brain turned to ramen noodles?!" Sasuke exclaimed.

Sasuke wasn't upset at the fact that this Hinata refused to go out on a date with him, the school's number one heart throb. Sasuke could have any damn girl he wanted. Girls transferred to Leaf Academy in hopes to be his woman! No, Sasuke was pissed because Naruto had tried to set him up without his consent and he had the stupid notion that he was interested in some plain looking girl.

"Aww, Sasuke, don't be like that," Naruto patted Sasuke's back which earned him another glare. "Don't let rejection get the best of you. You'll get through to her-"

"I don't give a fuck, Naruto," Sasuke informed, anger etched in each syllable. "I never even said that I liked her."

Somehow, the blonde teen didn't seem to notice as he began to blabber more. "Look at me with Sakura! She'll eventually come to like me. She has softened up to me these past years. People say there are more fish out at sea but sometimes you find the one, you know? You find the right fish and yo-"

Sasuke growled with frustration at his friend and slammed his text book shut; his face, red with anger at the dobe. "You really are a dumbass!" Sasuke flatly stated. Sasuke was not interested in someone as pathetic as that. He was tired of Naruto's antics, so he stormed off.

"Sasuke-kun, I was wondering if you could help me-" Sakura stopped when Sasuke marched right passed her with an angry scowl. Sakura turned to see Naruto stunned.

That's when it hit Naruto hard. "Ow!" he cried as his hand rubbed the growing bump on his head. "Sakura, don't hit me so hard."

"Naruto!" she snapped. "What did you do to Sasuke-kun!"

Naruto couldn't help but laugh though. He didn't know why he was laughing at Sasuke. Sasuke could have any other girl he wanted except for this one. Oddly enough, Hinata seemed to have no interest in the school's heart throb. They were total opposites. It was humorous how Naruto found the situation. Fits of laughter just kept coming out of him.

Sasuke was his best friend and best friends help each other out. A wave of obligation swept over Naruto. He had to help his deficient friend. Still, the laughs kept on coming. He couldn't believe it. To think he'd see the day when Sasuke falls!

Sasuke is in love.

It was only reasonable for him to do so. Sasuke didn't know how to act around girls because he kept pushing them away.

"Ow! Stop that," he cried as Sakura whacked him his book, The Tale of the Utterly Gutsy Shinobi.

"You have to apologize to Sasuke-kun for whatever dumb thing you did to tick him off," she said. "Who am I going to ask for help in Physics?"

"You could always ask me," Naruto volunteered.

"If I wanted to fail that course, I would have asked you," Sakura remarked. "You need help in that class too."

"We could always ask, Ino," Naruto suggested.

Sakura cringed. She wouldn't go to her rival for help. Ino was extremely smart, she gave her that. Ino could easily have been one of the top students if she wanted to but Ino was set on impressing Sasuke and wouldn't score as high on purpose, afraid of being seen as a nerd in his eyes.

"Dickless, Ugly," the two fighting teens looked up to see Sai. One of the few things the blond and pink haired teens shared in common was their dislike in nicknames they received from Sai. "What is wrong with Prince Charming today?"

"Sasuke's in love," he sang over and over again like an elementary school kid.

The best part of it- they could hardly believe it.

"So Prince Charming isn't asexual," Sai pondered.

Now because of his idiot, Naruto, he knew her name which he didn't want to know.

Sasuke was pissed. He didn't care if he ignored Sakura or that he bumped into Sai. He just wanted to avoid her. And now because of that idiot, the girl had a name.

Hinata...

Sasuke disliked his conscience very much. He loved his mother dearly, but did she really have to install a conscience in him? His mother was at fault here. She taught him that when you wrong someone, you must apologize to them. So why was it so hard for him? One: Sasuke never apologized because he was never at fault. Two: his Uchiha pride wouldn't allow it . He refused to condescend to that no name weakling and stuttering buffoon. It was a simple misunderstanding, right? You couldn't blame him for having such assumptions. It was a plausible reason for why she was always around.

Since their last encounter where Sasuke accused her to be one of his fan girls, he began to notice her more. This wallflower stood out to him in the mass of his screaming fans. She was a sore thumb. Quiet and reserved screamed louder to gain his attention than Naruto yelling at him. Plain and simple caught his eyes among the flashy and little covered girls that followed him.

All the little things she would do began to irritate him. Her good marks (he didn't care because he too got good marks) in class, the way her fingers would fidget at the hem of her skirt when she was nervous, the way she would avoid eye contact with everyone, her absurdly long hair, the little stutter of her shy and gentle voice, or like how her tongue would childishly stick out during art class as she drew a picture, or how colorless her doe-like eyes looked. The purity she aired herself was a joke. She must have some sort of flaw. Murphy's Law demanded it!

Sasuke could not believe that he was paying attention to some nobody, to this girl who lacked a single ounce of confidence. The more that Sasuke had put off his apology, the more her presence irked him. She didn't even have to mutter a single word to annoy the crap out of him. She was just there and he hated it. He despised how she made him feel like an egotistical bastard. Well, he was fine being an egotistical bastard. What he was not okay with was how she made him feel like an idiot just like how Itachi would do the same. He was a genius, a mater of all trades, the best at everything, he was a goddamn Uchiha of the finest quality! He was not an idiot. Yet, he made himself look like a fool in front of that girl. He should care less about her.

Then, Sasuke figured it out. Sasuke scoffed at the realization. Those lavender tinted eyes filled with admiration that he accused for staring at him were staring at the person right next to him, Naruto Uzumaki. It was painstakingly obvious. You didn't have to be a genius to figure that out (unless you're Naruto). This weird girl had a crush on the densest human being on the planet whom was madly in love Sakura. It was a love triangle. Indigo haired girl likes Naruto, Naruto like Sakura, Sakura likes Sasuke, and Sasuke could care less.

However, his conscious wouldn't allow him to sleep knowing that he had wronged somebody, a nobody to be exact. It messed up his behavior pattern and it went noticed by the blond dobe. Still, Sasuke felt the need to apologize for his rude words and false accusations. But his pride would not allow him to say the foul word. So he found his own way to apologize. He would simply help the weird girl who liked Naruto. That was his way of apologizing. Everyone would end up happy, and so Hinata would vanish from his thoughts for good.

A/N: I'll try by best to update as soon as I can. I'm a sporadic writer so no promises. But I can promise SasuHina and NaruSaku in the end.

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