A/n; My writing style changes daily. The likelihood is these chapters are going to be very different from the first, so its possible they wont read very well as a whole. Remember originally this was going to be a oneshot so please forgive the abrupt change in pace and style.

Blue eyes slid across to the raven who sat hunched over with both elbows on the table, his steaming ramen left untouched in front of him. It was worrying. Apart from barely speaking a sentence since Naruto had dragged him back, Sasuke had refused to take even the tiniest bite of any of his meals. Most disturbing of all was the fact the raven had not objected when Tsunade sama had placed him under Naruto's care, leading the blond to think something was seriously wrong with his best friend.

"Sasuke- you have to eat." Naruto told him, gentle but firm. The raven shot a glare at the younger boy and shoved the offending bowl away from him.

"So you eat it. I'm not hungry." The blond pursed his lips and looked hard at Sasuke.

"I brought you back so that you wouldn't die. I will not loose you because you refuse to eat your dinner." Coal eyes rolled.

"Hn. You couldn't stop me anyway. I'm here because you played a dirty trick. I could leave at anytime like."

"But you wont."

"But I could."

"You wont though."

"Try me."

Blue eyes burned into obsidian, and the tension in the air was so thick that Ayame was tempted to dive for cover in case a brawl broke out, but the next words that slipped from a pair of tanned lips were more gentle than either expected.

"You wanted to come back and we both know it." Sasuke did not reply, but stabbed the table with his chopsticks moodily, a sadistic smile creeping upon his face upon hearing a satisfying crack. "Sasuke, you must eat. You're too thin, even for a guy with your kind of metabolism… I can see your ribs for Christ's sake!"

"I'm not hungry." was the monotone response. The blond stood up, the glimmers of anger beginning to surface.

"Why are you so depressed? What have I done that's so bad that you want to punish me and yourself in this way?!" Sasuke sighed, discarding the broken chopsticks and easing himself off the stool, throwing down a few yen to Ayame out of courtesy, despite the uneaten meal in front of him. He shoved his hands in both pockets and began to trudge out of the bar, with Naruto's indignant yells following him.

"Hey bastard! We're supposed to be together at all times! Baa chans orders!"

"Shut up already, you sound like my wife." the raven muttered, as Naruto ground his teeth in irritation, trotting after the raven.

"What the hell do you think you're doing? Where are you going? Sasuke answer me!!!" he all but bellowed down the cobbled street.

"Away from you." the raven spat back, sending Naruto The Look. The Look was a speciality of Sasuke's that he had been able to perfect in all those years away from Konoha. It could send enemies running for the hills and fan girls screaming for their mommies, so when Sasuke gave you The Look most people had the decency to step back. But of course, Naruto having the IQ of an ape, decided to disobey this sacred tradition and meet the challenge head on.

"Fine! That's just peachy Sasuke! You go back into the emo corner and brood about the shittiness of your life and about Orochimaru's hideout being "so much better than this" because I've had it up to here with your crap!"

Sasuke did not even flinch but walked away, his fists clenched so hard his knuckles were turning white to prevent him from retaliating, leaving Naruto to stalk off in the opposite direction and take out his frustration any way he could. "Any way he could" translating as kicking the nearest object in the vicinity, which happened to be a 3 tonne,2 0 ft tall oak tree. Now I wonder who's gonna win that particular battle (!) Suffice to say after gaining a rather painful toe, Naruto resorted to a much less painless approach of anger management- plucking out a tin can from the nearest bin and kicking it along the path, feeling satisfied at the grating sound it produced.

"Stupid, stubborn Sasuke, getting me so riled up.."

Kick.

"Stupid me for caring too much about him"

Kick.

"Stupid me for thinking about him all the time."

Kick

"See I'm doing it now. Even when the bastard pisses me off beyond my limits, he still finds a way to worm himself into my thoughts. Teme."

Kick

"I wonder where he is now…"

Kick

"I've got a chakra thread linking us so I know he hasn't left the village…"

Kick

"Yet."

Kick

"No Naruto, don't think that! He was just being his usual teme self, and trying to make you angry. He wouldn't really run off."

Kick

"Would he?"

Kick

Naruto stopped walking and the tin can clattered down the road and fell silent. Naruto closed his eyes and calmed his breathing, feeling into the dark corners of his mind, trying to find the chakra link between him and the raven. "I have to find him, before he does something stupid again." Blue eyes snapped open and his head tuned towards the faces of the Hokage's. Their spot. Their favourite hang out when they were both part of Team 7.

"Trust you to be there…"

Without another moments hesitation he raced off towards the statues.

"Don't you dare jump…"

T.B.C…

A/N: Evil aren't I?

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