SMILE

Disclaimer: I don't own anyone in Naruto. I don't own Naruto. I don't own Sasuke. But Sasuke likes to smell fruity.

Warnings: NaruSasu, yaoi/shounen-ai, nauseating amounts of ramen, strong language, HungOver!Naruto.

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CHAPTER TWO: JUST PEACHY

The knocks at his door were getting louder. Sasuke grunted, grabbed his pillow, and stuffed his head beneath it, not wanting to be woken up on a Saturday morning. He usually was not a late sleeper, but due to last night's crazy and not so pleasant events, he could care less if he slept in the whole day. The knocking persisted and he had to wonder who in hell could be at his door. Sasuke had placed a chair under that blond brat's doorknob in order to make sure he would not be receiving any unwanted visitors in the morning. He became exasperated with the rapping, due to an extremely short temper, and harshly flung his pillow at the door. He hoped it would scare off the idiot at his door, who just was begging to die. Good thing Sasuke was in an unusually generous mood this morning. All he wanted to do was sleep, yet the knocking continued on without relent.

"Sasuke…" He heard an unpleasantly familiar voice call. No, not him again. He made sure he put the damn chair under the doorknob. Yet, the obnoxious voice was clearly heard through the wall, contradicting all of Sasuke's evidence that Naruto was not at his door.

"Let me in….please…" Naruto groaned, his head throbbing with pain. His head felt heavy and his body unbalanced, as if he was going to collapse at any given moment. He had many hangovers before and had drunk even more than he did last night on several occasions, but they had never been this bad. He knocked a few more times, wondering if Sasuke was still sleeping. He was exhausted from last night, but that did not mean that he did not have the energy to kick down the door again. He had an exceptionally large amount of stamina.

Sasuke was now fully alert, and therefore did not have any hopes of falling back to sleep. As little as he knew about Naruto, he could tell that he was determined by the way his eyes would glitter impishly. So, he would be there until he let him in. Not seeing much of a choice, the Uchiha crawled down from the top bunk of his bed and opened the door.

"What is it?" Sasuke inquired, somewhat sleepily, but he still had an unnecessary amount of crudeness in his voice. Naruto blinked at him, his vision still somewhat hazy, not sure if that really was Sasuke. He could not tell. Did he usually go around yawning tiredly in people's faces?

"That you, bastard?" Naruto asked uncertainly and received a vicious growl in return. Now he was sure that it was Sasuke standing before him. Naruto, being the dobe that he was, let himself into Sasuke's dorm and flopped down onto the bottom bunk, rubbing his pounding head. Sasuke did not do much about it except murmur a few not-so-nice comments under his breath before laying back into a chair. They sat in silence for a few minutes as Naruto nursed his aching head, complaining quietly about how it would not go away. He should have thought more before drinking like he had been starved on an island without water, and there was the fact that Sasuke kicked him in his head.

"What happened last night?" Naruto questioned, still rubbing his head unconsciously. Sasuke raised his tired black eyes and yawned a bit before deciding to comply and answer.

"Nothing much." Naruto gave Sasuke a look of extreme annoyance from his spot on the bed. Sasuke gave him a glare in return. He was not the annoying one here. Besides, why should he tell Naruto? It was his own fault that he could not remember. Naruto sighed with exasperation, looked at Sasuke with his cerulean eyes, and stopped nursing his head for a moment.

"Not the talkative type, I see? You could at least try to talk, you damned bastard. It might help your social skills while you're at it, and here is someone lying around that actually is willing to talk to you. You'd just be a dumbass if you blew it off…" Naruto trailed off, halted his nonsense (in Sasuke's world) rambling, and stuffed his face in Sasuke's pillow. He quit rubbing his pulsing head, because it obviously was not working well. Naruto usually slept flat on his stomach with his face directly in the pillow, and he could not help but notice the funky pillow smell his nose picked up. It smelled like peaches, which he assumed smelled like Sasuke.

"What's up with this peachy smell on the pillow? Don't tell me you use fruity shampoos or colognes on yourself, because that would be way un-Uchiha-like." He was just assuming, because the only Uchiha he had ever heard of was Sasuke, and he was uncertain if he had any family, since he was living here. Naruto considered if all Uchihas were like Sasuke, then yes, that would be very un-Uchiha-like, since it was also very un-Sasuke-like, based on what he knew so far. Which was not much, Naruto had to admit, but it was not as if Sasuke seemed to have a split personality. It was strictly a leave-me-alone-or-die type of personality.

Sasuke really had not been listening to what Naruto had been saying, because to him it sounded all the same. Blah, blah, nonsense, ramble, peaches. He was pretty damn sure that he said something about peaches, no matter how random that was. (Maybe if he had been paying attention, he would not have thought of it as so random.) Sasuke was too absorbed in thinking about what Naruto had said earlier. He wanted to talk to Sasuke. His mouth went dry thinking about it, because the most popular guy on campus (regardless of the fact that he was an idiot) was willingly sitting in Sasuke's dorm driveling about things Sasuke did not care about, whereas people nearer to Sasuke's own social status did not bother to say a word to him. He had always thought that was the way he wanted it.

"Sasuke, are you listening to one damn thing that I'm saying? You're jus' sitting there with some spacey look on your face which is odd since you usually have a grr-I-shall-kill-you look on your face…you're still not paying attention are you? If you don't start listening, I'll tell the whole damn college that you smell like peaches and that's sure some weird shit, and I don't think that'll be too good for your rep because people won't be so afraid of you now since the formerly scary Sasuke Uchiha likes to smell fruity."

"What did you say? I wasn't paying attention," Sasuke mumbled like he was serious, but Naruto thought he saw the beginnings of a smirk appear on his lips. He glared and grunted with frustration, unwilling to repeat the entirety of what he had just said. Sasuke already knew how to get to Naruto. That little bastard.

"Are you serious?" Naruto asked. He sat up from the lower bunk and focused his eyes on Sasuke, who was spread out across the chair now, still looking rather tired. He merely glanced at him with dull black eyes in return and nodded slightly.

"I said that it's weird an' shit how you, Sasuke Uchiha, like to smell fruity." Naruto crossed his arms and fell backwards onto the bed, not even bothering to watch the look on Sasuke's face. He was probably shocked that Naruto had discovered his deepest-darkest secret, and would beg him not to tell and ruin his reputation. Naruto grinned exultantly, closed his eyes, and laid back. In actuality, Sasuke's expression remained unchanged, bored and weary.

"Why? A man can't smell like fruit if he wants to? It's better than smelling like sweat."

"But that's a manly man smell. Chicks dig it, and it's a great way to attract them," Naruto pointed out ever so smartly, obviously unaware of the fact that Sasuke did not give a damn about girls. He would not care if they all disappeared from the face of the planet and never returned.

"Do you think I want to attract girls?" Sasuke asked, emphasizing the word girls, so it would get through Naruto's thick skull that he did not use the popular blond's term 'chicks'. Naruto looked at him with wonder at the fact that he disliked females.

"Why do you have to be Mr. Asexual-Bastard? You're no fun," he whined. Then, he began complaining about his head again, even though it did not hurt much anymore. He could not figure out why bothering Sasuke was so thrilling. Perhaps it was because he was so quick to anger.

"If I'm not any fun to you at all," Sasuke said harshly, "then why don't you just leave?" He suggested, but he did not allow himself to hope. Naruto, being the blond brat that he was, would probably dismiss it and linger just to annoy Sasuke, which he was currently doing. After Sasuke's comment, Naruto just shrugged and continued to lie around. He knew Sasuke did not want him here and wanted him to leave, but it was just too amusing. Besides, he was still uninformed on the events of last night.

"Nah," Naruto said, grinning foxily. "I think I'll stick 'round a bit. It's kinda fun to bug you and all," he said. He grew tired of lying on the pillow of horrendously intoxicating peaches, so he sat up and slid off the lower bunk. The sheets were now untidy and had a Naruto-shaped impression on them, which irritated Sasuke, who was quite meticulous. For all that Sasuke knew Naruto could shed his messy blond hair all over the blankets, or have fleas. Naruto wobbled somewhat when he stood, and everything turned orange. Having done so too quickly, he fell backward immediately, but thankfully he landed back onto the bed. But being the tall hunk he was, his head connected with the wall.

He grunted, grabbed his head, and started to squirm a bit, as if that would alleviate the pain. Sasuke had been somewhat startled when Naruto's head hit the wall, but then he realized what was happening, lay back, and enjoyed the show. Naruto closed his eyes tightly and groaned, and Sasuke decided that it was about time he did something. He stood and stretched, then almost slugged over, but his Uchiha pride had not allowed him to do so. He stood completely straight and walked as normally as he could to the medicinal cabinet in the bathroom. He grabbed the aspirin and tossed it at Naruto's head.

"Ouch! What was that?" Naruto wriggled slightly, and then grabbed the bottle of pills that had been expertly thrown at him. Naruto's head hurt even more now.

"Aspirin, it might help the pain a bit," Sasuke said blandly. Naruto gazed at the bottle intently and Sasuke watched him, awkwardly standing in the middle of the room. He squinted at all the small words that he could not see in an attempt to read them. Sasuke's patience was just as short as his temper.

"Well?" He asked, irritated.

"Um, how many do I take? My head kinda hurts…and I can't read all the little words on the back," he said pointedly and flipped the bottle around, so the side with all the scribbles was facing Sasuke. He leaned forward and glanced at the words on the pill bottle.

"Well, you're over 12, right? Take how many people over 12 have to take," he said dismissively. Sasuke made his way back to the chair and sat on it lazily, waiting for Naruto to take the pills already. The blond grunted in agitation and tossed the bottle somewhere behind Sasuke's desk, leaving it for him to find later.

"That's the point of you reading it! It's too small, and my head hurts, so I can't!" Naruto pointed out, giving up on taking the medication. With all the pressure Sasuke was putting on him, he doubted he could get past opening the child-proof cap without intense difficulty.

"Maybe I shouldn't have kicked you in the head," Sasuke uttered.

He picked up the newspaper and began to read, pretending to be deeply engrossed. His black eyes moved from side to side, reading each sentence quickly. An article relayed information on the robbery of a pearl-handed pistol that occurred in a nearby town, over the mountains. Naruto stared hard at Sasuke as he read the paper calmly, probably hiding a smirk from him. Suddenly, the realization of as to why his head hurt so much hit Naruto.

"You kicked my head?" He accused, his mouth hanging open, incredulous. "No wonder why it hurts so much, you damn bastard…" He trailed off, murmuring every curse word in his vocabulary under his breath, directing the slew of words toward Sasuke. He was still reading the paper casually, as if it was not his fault that he had kicked Naruto in the head. Right, like his leg had a spasm and it accidentally happened to kick the very precise spot that was Naruto's head.

"Are you also the reason that I had my hands tied behind my back? Or the fact that there was a chair preventing me from getting out of my own dorm and I had to call the janitor in order to get out?" Naruto asked angrily. Sasuke looked up from the paper and raised a thin black eyebrow at him. He had never seen Naruto mad before, and it was quite entertaining.

"So that's how you got out. I should've thought about that possibility earlier," he admitted, then continued reading the paper. Naruto's face flushed with anger. It was either that or he was embarrassed about Sasuke locking him in a room and tying him up when he was drunk.

"Why'd you have to restrain me?" Naruto demanded, his face returning to its normal tanned (from constantly surfing) tone. He began to pace back and forth in an attempt to rid of his anger. Sasuke took a wild guess and decided that his head did not as much as it seemed. He halted in front of Sasuke, awaiting his answer. Sasuke folded the newspaper neatly on his lap and placed it on the table.

"Can't be letting drunken people run rampant through the streets," Sasuke said, stood up, and stretched. Only a few inches separated them and Naruto's blue eyes darkened considerably. Naruto glared threateningly at Sasuke, and his cold obsidian eyes met him with an equally intimidating glare. Of course, Sasuke would not say that Naruto had been unconscious, and therefore could not be running rampant. He certainly would not say it was the fact that he had been drooling all over his peach-scented hair (it had taken him quite a while to get that out in the shower) that made Sasuke restrain him.

Naruto gave up, looked away, sat on the bed again, and glanced at Sasuke. He widened his eyes and pouted. Sasuke glowered at how such a horridly popular idiot could look so innocent. It had to be his large, perky blue eyes. Damn those large, perky blue eyes.

"Actually you were pretty drunk," Sasuke started unsurely, uncertain of why he was bothering to say this. Naruto looked at him with a questioning expression, waiting expectantly. He raised one of his eyebrows. "To the point that you had passed out, so I had to fight the rabid girls surrounding you and drag you out of there," Sasuke admitted quickly, receiving an awed stare from Naruto. It made Sasuke almost seem, no matter how strange it would sound, kind. It would have been even kinder if he had not kicked him and tied him up. Sasuke must have figured this, so he quickly added a nasty insult to go along with it.

"But seriously, Naruto, you have to lose some weight. You were one fat piece of crap to carry." Naruto just grinned in response and nodded with a sarcastic raise of his eyebrows. To both of their surprise, Sasuke's face turned a somewhat less pale shade.

"You're blushing, how cute," Naruto teased and Sasuke's face darkened, but still retained its slight tint. Naruto walked up to Sasuke and squatted down beside him as his face returned to its usual pale color.

"That must've been something for you, seeing as how evil you always are. Hey! I've got an idea. How 'bout in a way of saying thanks for not abandoning me while I was passed out and in the hands of rabid and horny girls, I'll treat you to some ramen. I know this great place on the other side of town called Ichiraku's, and we could get to know each other better, and you not throwing death threats at me would be pretty cool," Naruto rambled, paying close attention to Sasuke's face in an attempt to catch a glimpse of his thoughts. He would not be too surprised if Sasuke refused, since he was antisocial and especially bitter toward people like Naruto. Sasuke's face stayed the same, but different emotions swirled though his dark eyes, most likely trying to figure out whether or not to go. Naruto allowed him to mull it over. He closed his eyes, sat back against the wall near Sasuke's chair, and waited.

Sasuke was unsure of what to do. Part of him would not mind some free ramen, since he just realized how hungry he was, another part of him was viciously telling him to deny the offer, and a very small part of him thought that it might not be so bad. That aspect was instantly crushed by the others for considering that. Sasuke realized it was not an expression of Naruto's gratitude, but an invitation to hang out with him. His stomach growled and the part of him that was hungry won hands down.

"I'll go," Sasuke said, somewhat crudely, receiving a bright smile from Naruto. "But only for the free ramen. I'm hungry." He talked more to himself than to Naruto, as if he needed reassurance.


Naruto watched as Sasuke stormed away from him, his hostility having returned. He did not understand why he had become irate. Maybe it was the fact that Naruto had made Sasuke walk. To the other side of town, that is, and now he was making him walk back. Maybe he was getting cramps. As they ate, Naruto had watched intently, yet in a 'omg-wtf' way, as Sasuke stuffed his face with nauseating amounts of ramen, since he never would have expected Sasuke to eat that much. He must have been starving. Naruto was usually such a huge fan of ramen and loved to eat several bowls of it daily, but today he thought if he ever saw another bowl of ramen, he would vomit.

Naruto watched Sasuke's back as he walked ahead of him, refusing to walk beside him, and it would simply destroy him if he had to walk behind Naruto. Sasuke walked steadily, trying to reach the college dorms before he collapsed. He had been very hungry, therefore he had eaten a great deal, and all the walking that the blond idiot made him do to further earn the ramen gave him a large cramp. He should have thought about the possibility of this happening earlier. A sharp pain struck his side for a moment, but he recovered quickly and maintained his fast pace. Sasuke was almost power-walking and Naruto lagged behind, since he did not feel like barraging through the streets. He checked from the corner of his eye to make sure Naruto was still behind him. Nobody had to know he was checking. It was just that Sasuke had not been in this part of town for years and sort of had no idea where he was going. He searched for any signs that Naruto noticed they were lost, but the blond was not paying attention. He was too busy spacing out.

Naruto followed Sasuke through every twist and turn of the sidewalks, disregarding the direction in which they were going. As long as he could see a somewhat short (Sasuke stopped growing at 5'7", so he was short compared to Naruto) person with duck-butt hair and dark clothing, he knew he was okay. Naruto had no desire to lead the way. He wanted someone else to take over for once, and it did not seem like Sasuke minded very much. Naruto was preoccupied with thinking about Ichiraku's, anyway. He had failed miserably in his attempt to hold a conversation with Sasuke, because every time he tried to talk to him, Sasuke would just stuff his face with more ramen. If Naruto was perceptive, he would have grown suspicious of Sasuke's exact timing. If possible, he wanted to befriend Sasuke. It was not like he was going to tell Sasuke that, because then he would get his ass kicked in response. He refrained from admitting that to Sasuke, though, because it would probably give him an incentive to be particularly unfriendly toward Naruto.

When Naruto emerged from his bubble of thought, he noticed that they were walking in the wrong direction. He increased his pace to catch up to Sasuke, then halted and looked at him with irritation. "What is it, dobe?" Sasuke asked dryly. Naruto looked at him, wondering when he had decided to start calling him dobe, but dismissed it. At least it was some form of familiar recognition.

"Do you have any idea where you're going, Sasuke, or is this some short-cut back that you know? Because it's either that or you're lost, or for some reason you want to take the long way, 'cause were almost at the Konoha Mall, which we are not supposed to be at," Naruto said sternly, staring straight into Sasuke's black eyes, trying to get something besides a grunt or a glare out of him. Perhaps like some words that would answer his question.

To his dismay, Sasuke just shot him a death glare and ignored him. He knew he was damn stubborn and was not about to admit that they were lost. Damn Uchiha pride. Naruto glared, baring his teeth, and growled. He stepped directly in front of Sasuke, who was still ignoring him.

"Bastard, you better answer me right now!" Naruto threatened through his teeth. Sasuke crossed his arms tightly and glanced to the side, becoming exasperated. Naruto was about to open his mouth to yell when he heard a cluster of footsteps approaching. He looked ahead, along with Sasuke. Neji, Ino, Gaara and Sakura were walking in their direction, talking among one another. The girls swung their shopping bags while Gaara and Neji just nodded along and drank their sodas. Sasuke's eyes immediately narrowed and he crossed his arms even tighter.

Sakura halted abruptly, causing the rest of her friends to do the same a moment later. They looked at her and followed her gaze to the two boys standing in front of them. Naruto's girlfriend lowered her sunglasses and stared at them for a few seconds.

"Naruto?" She asked uncertainly. She was surprised that he was still with that emo kid, Sasuke. "Is that you?" She asked, hoping that her eyes deceived her. Naruto froze and Sasuke sneered at her cruelly. Naruto scratched the back of his head nervously.

"Hey Sakura, guys. What's up?" Naruto said, trying to be as nonchalant as he could. Sasuke kept his glare on them steadily, but their attention was focused entirely on Naruto. He had a light blush on his face and Sasuke scowled, because it was quite obvious why they were shocked. Naruto's snobbish friends were surprised to find the two walking together, even if they had been on the verge of attacking each other.

"Why are you still hanging out with the Uchiha?" Gaara asked in a tone that was darker than his usual one. He crossed his arms, awaiting an answer.

Naruto just laughed and tried to think of something to say. He was not embarrassed to admit that he was hanging out with Sasuke, in the lesser meaning of the term. There was nothing wrong with that, but the words would not come out of his mouth; they decided to halt their journey and linger tauntingly at the tip of his tongue. Naruto shuffled about in a flustered manner while they stared him down. Sasuke was yet again going unnoticed, which he should have preferred, but it was beginning to annoy him.

"Um, well, you know." He hoped that they would answer the question for him, even if Sasuke would rip him apart limb-from-limb later for it, and their chance at friendship and Naruto walking again would be zero.

They all stared at him for a few seconds before the light bulb Naruto was hoping for went off in Ino's head.

"Oh, you mean the bet, right? That's still going on? If he hasn't smiled already you know there's a pretty slim chance that he will. You're either determined, or an idiot, Naruto," Ino said, grinning at him. Gaara continued with his steady gaze and Sakura remained surprised, but calming down nonetheless (though there was nothing that should merit alarm). Neji seemed indifferent toward the entire situation. The corners of Naruto's lips almost twitched up in a smile.

"Yup." Naruto nodded, receiving a look from Sasuke that was something in between a twitch and a glare. Naruto gave him a brief, stern look in return. It was not as if he was denying that he treated Sasuke to ramen, he was just agreeing with someone else's lie. So, technically, it was not as bad.

"We tried calling you earlier so you could go to the mall with us, but you didn't answer. Where were you?" Ino asked curiously.

Naruto remembered that he had left his cell phone in his car last night. He was not about to tell his friends that he dragged Sasuke to a bar, though, because he was uncertain of how they would react. He settled for lying and had to think of a suitable excuse for not picking up his phone.

"I…uh, I was sleeping. I'll see you guys later. Me and Sasuke have to head back now, you know, bet and all to complete, big orange thing to win," he said, trying to smile as convincingly as he could. He quickly waved goodbye to his friends, and noticed Neji's even gaze directed towards he and Sasuke. Naruto walked away from his friends casually after glancing at Sasuke quickly, silently begging him to play along and follow him. Sasuke eyed Naruto's friends coldly, then the thing they least expected happened. Sasuke smiled at them smugly before strolling away.

"How did Naruto know it was orange?" Ino asked in a slight whisper, uncertainly breaking the unusual silence between the friends.


Naruto led the way on the trip back to their dorms, to prevent getting lost and encountering anyone else he knew. He would have to repeat the same act over and over again. Sasuke followed grumpily, still annoyed from stumbling across those snobs. He could not fathom how Naruto could be friends with such people. When they finally reached the dorms and climbed the stairs, Naruto went to Sasuke's dorm absentmindedly instead of his own. He stood by the door and waited for him to unlock it. Sasuke glared at Naruto while he waited impatiently to be let inside. He still had not managed to shake the dobe off. That blonde slut was right, he was either determined or an idiot for sticking around Sasuke.

Sasuke walked into his room and sat on the chair again, expecting Naruto the lay on the bottom bunk once more, mess up all of the sheets, and contaminate his peachy pillows. As expected, he did exactly that, stretching out across the bed and yawning indolently. He closed his eyes, smiling contently, and looked like he was ready to fall asleep when it was only the early afternoon. It was palpable that he had no intention of leaving any time soon, so Sasuke decided to do what he does best; ignore Naruto and make no note of his existence whatsoever. He slid onto the floor, pulled out his binders and folders, and decided now was a good time to start his schoolwork, seeing as there was nothing else to do. Even if Naruto was right at his heels, following him around, and being unconditionally obnoxious, he still had to maintain his perfect GPA.

Naruto opened one cerulean eye to peer at what Sasuke was doing. He was writing line after line on a paper, doing homework for whichever class. Naruto had no interest at all in school and yawned with boredom. Sasuke continued his work, undistracted, and Naruto began to watch him write quite intently. He appeared to be a very good student, whereas Naruto was not. Naruto remembered that they shared a class together and leaned over to take a tiny peek.

"I see you," Sasuke said, without lifting his gaze from his paper. Naruto was caught off guard and slunk back. Sasuke continued his homework and the steady tapping of his pencil was starting to annoy Naruto. After a few minutes of silence, Naruto became rather bored. He crawled onto the floor and sat cross-legged next to Sasuke, still peering at his homework.

"This is boring. You do homework in your free time?" Naruto asked, like it was something unbelievable. Sasuke still did not bother to look at him and continued to write. Naruto did not seem to realize that was when homework was supposed to be done.

"Obviously."

"I usually surf or do something else fun. Not homework. That's for later when I've already done every other possible thing I can think of." Naruto ranted on, but to his dismay Sasuke was not listening, nor did he even pretend to do so and nod along. Naruto's eyes narrowed. "You know," he continued, "you seem to be really into your homework, Sasuke. That's kind of…well, nerdy." He was hoping to insult Sasuke and evoke am aggravated response, since that was something recently added to Naruto's fun-things-to-do list, which also consisted of surfing, driving fast, hanging with friends, eating ramen, and making out with Sakura. To his disappointment, Sasuke did not respond. Not immediately, at least.

"Were you lying about the bet to your friends?" He asked suddenly. Naruto was taken aback; so far, in his little experience with Sasuke, he would ask the questions and Sasuke would answer with an arrogant insult or two. Naruto stared at him with slight uncertainty as Sasuke continued his writing steadily. He finished and went on to the next assignment. Naruto decided to go along with it and answer.

"I was lying," he said, and it certainly was not one of his prouder moments. He stated simply that because there was nothing else to say about it. He was a jerk and he was glad Sasuke played along with it despite that. Sasuke stopped doing his schoolwork, raised his black eyes, and stared directly into Naruto's cerulean ones. Naruto looked straight back, somewhat wary of what Sasuke would say next.

"Well, then," Sasuke said, snapping his binder shut while holding Naruto's gaze. "I got my free food and you admit that you gave up on the bet, so I see no reason for you to be lingering around my dorm."

Naruto was unsure of what would come next. He looked up when Sasuke came towards him, made him stand up, fiercely swung open the door, put a foot on Naruto's back, and literally kicked him out of his room. Naruto stumbled and nearly fell, but then regained his balance and turned to look at Sasuke, who had now grasped the doorknob. "Get out of my dorm, and stay there, I still have plenty of broken, sharp objects in my room that I can use against you."

"Uh, hey, Sasuke…wait a sec-." Sasuke slammed the door in his face, and then locked it. He sat on the floor and opened his binder once more, so he could finish his homework in peace. Naruto lowered his hand that he was going to use to reach out and stop Sasuke from closing the door. He sighed and started to quietly knock on the door, attempting politeness.

"Sasuke? C'mon…I didn't mean the whole bet-thing like that…I still want to hang out or something…Are you listening to me? Sasuke?" He knocked a few more times as quietly as he could, still trying to be polite (If he wanted to be so polite maybe he would respect the Sasuke's privacy). He was met by silence, which meant that Sasuke probably was trying to ignore him. Naruto sighed and he concluded that politeness was not meant for him, so he raised his fist and started to loudly bang on the door.

"Hey! Let me-!" He was in the middle of shouting when he heard laughter coming from down the hall. Naruto shifted his gaze to the stairs at the end of the hallway and the laughter grew louder. The approaching click of heels became audible. Naruto almost twitched. Sakura and Ino were probably coming to his dorm to pay him a visit. Naruto did not have enough time to frantically sprint to his room without being noticed, since they would probably hear him stampeding down the hall. He saw the tops of Ino and Sakura's heads and heard their laughter finally dying down.

Sasuke sat on the bottom bunk inside the dorm, still doing his homework, but stopped to listen when he no longer heard Naruto's persistent knocks. He looked at the door and it was completely silent. He wondered if Naruto had gone. The sound of high-heels and girls' laughter filled Sasuke's ears and he realized that visitors to the dormitory building were about to make their way down the hall, which was strange. Who Realization came to Sasuke and he sat still, trying to be as quiet as possible. It was Naruto's girlfriend and the blonde slut, most likely.

As they reached the top of the stairs, Sakura swung a shopping bag in her hands. The so-called explanation for coming was to give Naruto a present that they bought him. It acted as a cover for Ino and Sakura's true intentions. As if they had coincidentally came at the exact moment Naruto and Sasuke should be parting ways, and they coincidentally used the back stairs when the front stairs were closer to Naruto's dorm. And now, they coincidentally saw Naruto standing in front of you-know-who's door with his fist in mid air, ready to knock. And that is when Sakura's paranoia began.

"Hey! Naruto, we were just heading over to your room," Ino said casually, furtively elbowing Sakura in the ribs. She wanted the pink-haired girl to stop staring so blatantly. Naruto looked over and smiled at them, but his eyes betrayed his grin.

"Hey! I wasn't expecting you guys. Why'd you come? I'm kind of in the middle of something," he murmured and brushed his overgrown bangs from his face. He crossed his arms and looked at them, waiting for either of them to say something. Sakura was still staring and Ino smiled weakly before stepping closer to her and elbowing the pink-haired girl again. Naruto raised a blond eyebrow expectantly.

"Oh, yeah," Sakura said, laughing. She blushed slightly, and then quickly regained her composure, extending her arm that was carrying the bag. Naruto grasped it, wondered what it could be, and tried to take a peek inside the bag to find out. Sakura prevented him from doing so and Naruto stared, which was the only thing he seemed capable of at the moment.

"Um, thanks. A lot," Naruto said, gesticulating as he spoke on, "but why did you guys get me this? I mean, it's real nice and all but-." Ino suddenly cut him off.

"That's what friends are for, Naruto." Ino smiled brightly, and Sakura knew that her friend was going to say something about their true reason for coming. She felt like slapping her own large forehead and sighing. Naruto watched Ino smile suspiciously and he felt like backing away, but he stood his ground. He held his breath for a moment, anticipating Ino's words, and he noticed how it was quiet. There was no pencil-tapping coming from inside Sasuke's dorm like there had been a minute ago. That only meant one thing: Sasuke was listening in on their conversation. Naruto glanced furtively towards the door and listened again, expecting the pencil-tapping to resume. Naruto was aware that they were directly outside of his dorm, but that did not mean he had to become silent.

"Sooo, what are you doing outside this door?" Ino asked politely. "You were about to knock on it and then we came along. Who's in there?" She and Naruto both knew that she was prodding, but she looked too innocent to have any malicious intentions. Naruto figured, 'hey, why not?' Sakura gave her best friend an incredulous look. Ino would need a good slap for this later.

"Well, this is Sasuke's dorm and, you see, he just kicked me out," Naruto explained, not seeming embarrassed in the least. He just laughed lightly. Sasuke sat inside listening; he almost dropped his binder and let his papers flutter about haphazardly when he heard that. Sasuke had surely underestimated the dobe's capacity for idiocy. Not only did he not comprehend why those bitches he called friends were really there, he seemed to think that being kicked out of places was funny.

"So, naturally, I'm just trying to get him to let me back in," he added. Ino and Sakura stared. Natural for Naruto, they supposed. They doubted that anyone would even try to enter Sasuke's dorm, much less go back in after being threatened multiple times and having their life spared. It was like asking for death. Sakura smiled at Naruto for a second, admiring his determination, even if it was to the point of stupidity. Naruto laughed and brushed his hair out of his piercing blue eyes. Sakura admired how he was drop dead sexy and scorching hot, too.

"That guy is insane, you guys should try meeting him sometime, he really isn't that bad-." Naruto was interrupted by a loud thump that came from inside the dorm. He stared at the doorknob, wondering whether or not he should try entering the room now. He was also wondering what the hell that noise was.

"Um, right," Sakura said, rushing to end the conversation. "Well, just take the gift, Naruto. I hope you like it. It's from all of us." She strolled up to Naruto and gave him a sensual kiss, one that he would not forget, to make sure he acknowledged that he still had a girlfriend around. It was to rid of her paranoia, too.

"Especially me," Sakura said, somewhat provocatively. Naruto put on his usual crooked, foxy grin, and planted a quick kiss on Sakura's large forehead. The pink-haired girl strolled ahead, gesturing for Ino to follow after. Ino laughed, ran up to Naruto, and gave him a quick peck on the cheek.

"Me, too!" She exclaimed, referring to Sakura's last comment. "And you know you wanted that kiss from me." She giggled and strolled off with Sakura, who gave her a possessive look regarding Naruto and whacked her arm. They sauntered away laughing, but for Sakura, the laughter was merely superficial.

Sasuke did not bother to collect all the things that he dropped after he fell off the edge of his bed, rushed into the bathroom, and locked himself within it. He heard Naruto knocking at the door once again, asking to come in. Sasuke sat on the toilet seat, waiting for Naruto, along with what he just heard, to go away. It was just sickening.