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Chapter 2: Sasuke's attempt at forgetting

Thanks for the reviews, this stories coming along better in my head than the other one. I'm exploring a new side for Sasuke, and it comes out in this chapter a little. A few more chapters before the discovery. Enjoy.

Sasuke was on auto pilot on the way back to his apartment. It had been almost a week since Sakura had broken up with him and he still was adjusting.

'Why am I such a shit head?' An unusually thought for him, but he had been thinking it all week. He didn't want to admit it, but he wasn't over her.

'Get it together. Get it together.' He kept telling himself. He had to go to a bachelor party tonight and he didn't want his ex-girlfriend on his mind, a place she had been since the night she had broken up with him.

"If that's the way you feel."

"It is."

He softly kissed her on the cheek before walking out of the room. He closed the door and got to the elevator before slamming his fist against its wall.

'I'm such a fucking…' He wasn't going to call himself an idiot, that word he saved for Naruto.

'Shit head.' It was the only word he could think of to label himself as.

'No, I can't let this get to me. I have to… I have to…'

He pulled out his cell phone and dialed. He heard his best friend's stupid ringback song and rolled his eyes.

'Idiot.'

"Yo Sasuke! What's up?"

"We're going out drinking, meet at my place in fifteen minutes."

"What? I thought you were spending the night with Sakura."

"Change of plans. I'll see you in a few."

Click.

Naruto pulled up five minutes late to a very pissed off looking Sasuke. He began to get out when Sasuke walked to his passenger door.

"Don't bother, you're driving."

"Dammit."

It had been a long standing rule of whoever drove wasn't going to get drunk that night.

"Why me?"

"Because I need booze more than you right now."

"Huh? What's up with you?"

"I'll tell you later, just drive."

'Pshaw. I'll never found out.' He pulled out of Sasuke's apartment complex and turned right.

"So, where to tonight?"

"I don't care."

"You sure you want to leave it up to me. You know where I like to go."

Sasuke thought about this for a moment and knowing Naruto's favorite hangouts quickly changed his mind.

"Just go to Haku's. We can get in right away there."

"Alright, I love that place. Hot chicks!"

Sasuke eyed him questionably.

"Jeez, I was only kidding. You know I'm whipped."

"And on a very short chain, just drive."

Two hours later and Sasuke's mood hadn't improved and his thoughts were still on Sakura, much to his discomfort.

"So, are you ever going to tell me why?"

"Why what?"

"Why you are spending the night with me, instead of your gorgeous girlfriend."

Sasuke was about punched him in the nose when he remembered his promise to tell him.

"She isn't my girlfriend anymore."

"WHAT!" Naruto about fell off the bar stroll, but quickly righted himself up again and glared at Sasuke.

"Why did you break up with her? I mean… Why did you break up with her?"
"Idiot. I didn't."

"Holy shit… she… broke up… with you?"

Naruto slumped down, placing his head on his upturned hand.

"Yeah."

"So… what did you do?"

"Whose to say I did anything?"

"Sasuke… I've known you since we were like seven… You… aren't exactly… the best boyfriend…"

The gaps in Naruto's speech let Sasuke know that he had broken the token rule. Naruto wasn't good at keeping the glass full.

"So, you're on her side now?"

"What! I'm offended! You know I'm always on your side. I'm just… being honest… about it… I mean… compare yourself to me…"

"I'd rather not."

"I meant… our relationships… We both have… smoking hot… girls… Yours might be more hot though…"

"Keep your mind off my girl."

"Ex-girl."

"Whatever."

"Anyway… after the hotness part… It's totally different… I'm getting married in a week… and you're… you're…"

"Single."

'Single.'

This wasn't a new thing for him. Although he had been voted most popular and hottest guy in high school, he had never gone out with anyone. He had found high school girls a waste of time and energy. And from the experiences he saw with his friends, far too expensive.

Naruto continued to ramble in the background as his thoughts consumed him.

"Hey Sasuke… Sas…"

Clunk.

Sasuke looked over to see Naruto had fallen off his stool, completely passed out.

"Idiot. You are paying me back for breaking the rule."

He picked Naruto up, paid for the drinks and left. After sliding Naruto into the passenger seat, he walked over and got behind the wheel.

'I hate driving his car. It's such a piece of crap.'

A few minutes later and they were back at his apartment.

"Huh? Where are we?" Naruto sluggishly said when Sasuke lifted him from his seat.

"My place. You broke the rules and got yourself drunk."

"Well, one of us had too."

"Just go back to sleep."

He never got a response. He dropped Naruto on his coach and soon his snores echoed throughout the entire apartment.

'That's the last time he drives.'

He began to undress when he looked at the clock.

'Almost ten; she would have been asleep by now.'

He sat down at his desk and opened his laptop. His desktop, a picture of Sakura in her middle school uniform smiling at him, meet his eyes.

'I can't believe she still fits into that.' His eyes moved toward her chest. 'Well, mostly.'

He shook the thoughts of the many times Sakura teasing him in that from his mind and opened his mailbox. He wasn't expecting any mail, at least any worth while mail, and clicked on the new message button.

'I guess this will be the last one. I can't really write about a girl who hates me.'

He began to type:

'Dear Sakura, I can't really say I truly understand how you feel…'

Twenty minutes later he hit the save button and closed his computer.

'Why doesn't that make me feel any better?'

"Sakura… why…"

He collapsed on the bed and slept unsoundly for the rest of the night.

The rest of the week had not been any better, but he hoped tonight would finally strip the thought of Sakura from his mind.

'Tonight I'll get her out of my mind, so when I see her at the wedding tomorrow I won't completely fall apart.' Sasuke couldn't stand this new feeling of being vulnerable.

"Sasuke! Come here, come here. There are some sexy ladies I just know you'll love!"

'Idiot.' There seemed to be no end in sight of when he would no longer call his friend that.

"Not interested."

"Oh come on. I'm not allowed to touch, but you can."

"Naruto, can I please just drink my beer in peace."

"Not when it's my party! Now come on!"

He reluctantly followed Naruto to the group of 'sexy ladies' that he had been mentioning. Being around these girls only reminded him more of his ex. None of them had the eyes of Sakura, or the nose, or the lips, or the hair.

'Or the breast size. Wait, did I just think that?' He quickly excused himself from the group, who had been trying to get him to dance with them, stating that he had to go to the bathroom.

"Dammit."

"She's like a disease."

"What?" He looked over to see Naruto standing at the door.

"Like a disease. She gets in your head and doesn't leave. I know; it was the same way with me when I first meet her."

"So even though you are marrying Hinata tomorrow, you still think about Sakura."

"No, No! After awhile I realized she wasn't really my type and just moved into the friend zone in my head."

"That hardly makes any sense."

"Doesn't have too."

"Then why say it?"

"Because it's my party and I can do what I want too, do what I want too!"

He threw a bar of soap at him while he sang the song and left the bathroom, before turning back towards the mirror.

'Plan ruined. Tomorrow will be fun… not.'