Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto.

Naruto just couldn't get used to it.

He found it extremely difficult to grasp the concept that they were now a couple. He just didn't place them together when he thought of who Sakura would fall in love with. Of course he had always hoped that the person she eventually fell in love with would be him, but that was neither here nor there.

So trying to get used to the idea that his best friend and teammate was now dating their sensei was difficult to say the least. It made him slightly uncomfortable when left alone with them; it's not that they were overly affectionate with each other in public, quite the opposite really. But it was more the fact that he felt like a third wheel.

Naruto decided being a third wheel wasn't much fun, and he began to feel as though in them finding each other he had lost two friends.

Two friends who were irreplaceable, and that just wasn't fair. So he now found himself quietly sitting on the old swing he had spent many of his younger years on, feeling slightly rejected and as though he had suffered a great loss.

Just as he was beginning to feel really low he recognised two voices. They had come to find him. He watched them as they made their way to the swing, smiling. They told him they had been looking all over for him, and asked why he was out there alone. He smiled in response and in a un-Naruto like manner said nothing.

He didn't need to say anything, they understood. Naruto felt the sting of rejection fade, and the pain of being left out disappear when they invited him for Ramen. And as he walked alongside them, laughing with them, he knew he would never be the third wheel in their eyes.


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