I couldn't resist updating, I had some time to kill before work...
Chapter 3: A caring brother
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When the lesson had finished and they had decided that they would meet up after school to continue working, Sasuke and Naruto split up and spent the rest of the day in different parts of the school. The hours seemed to drag on, until it was finally time for them to meet up. Sasuke had finished twenty minutes earlier and was already waiting in the library when Naruto showed up trying to look like he hadn't hurried getting there. After a silent agreement to work seriously on the assignment both boys went into study mode and worked hard for about an hour. Discovering that they actually worked pretty well together, and that it was nice talking to someone that could keep up without additional explanations, they actually enjoyed themselves. However much you can actually enjoy doing homework. They were smart, not geeky.
After that hour Naruto yawned and stretched his arms over his head just to show the world that he was really tired if it happened to miss the big yawn. Sasuke glanced down to the hem of Naruto's shirt to see if he could catch a glimpse of skin and almost slapped himself when he realized what he was doing. Luckily Naruto managed to snap him back to reality.
"I'm hungry, treat me to some ramen."
"And why would I do that?" Sasuke raised an eyebrow at his new found friend's demand.
"Because I put up with tutoring you for an entire hour and that means you owe me ramen." Naruto smiled smugly.
"Wow, and I learnt so much!" Sasuke replied ironically. "And if remember correctly, I've already given you a sandwich once so it's your turn to give me food."
"But that doesn't count, it was an emergency!"
"Emergency my ass" Sasuke snorted. "But fine, I'll buy if you admit that I'm better than you at math, which I obviously am."
"The hell you are you teme!"
"Hn, dobe".
Their argument went on all the way to Naruto's locker, then continued to Sasuke's and all the way to Naruto's favorite ramen place, Ichiraku. Which according to him was the ideal spot for a date (not that it was a date). Sasuke would also have thought that it was indeed ideal for dating, if his thoughts hadn't been interrupted by pain-in-the-ass-Kiba.
"Naruto! Sasuke! Didn't think I'd see you two here!" Catching up to them, he nudged Naruto in the ribs. "You sure move fast eh? Dating already!" He grinned at them, while they both did their best not to get affected by Kiba's comment. And of course they failed miserably.
Silently telling his blush to go to hell, Naruto glared at Kiba and dragged him off to the other side of the restaurant leaving Sasuke slightly curious, and put his face close to Kiba's with one hand grabbing his shirt and said:
"Kiba if you don't stop saying stuff like that you're going to regret it!"
"What, I'm just trying to help you is all." Kiba replied with an innocent smile.
"But you're NOT helping! You'll scare him away or something!"
At this Kiba snorted in disbelief. "Trust me Naruto, you won't get rid of that guy for a while if my instincts are correct, and they always are." He grinned again and now it was his turn to grab Naruto and drag him back to where Sasuke stood with one brow slightly higher than the other.
"Sorry 'bout that Sasuke, just had to clear some stuff" Kiba told him and pushed both him and Naruto down into chairs, taking a third himself. Naruto mumbled something darkly while giving Kiba a warning glare. Sasuke noted that Naruto looked really cute when he was angry.
Despite the not-so-great start they didn't have any trouble getting along while eating, mostly because Naruto and Kiba were so good at talking. Sasuke would occasionally give a comment or a "hn" and try not to look amused when Naruto said something especially stupid. All in all, it was a pretty good ending of a pretty good day. And he still had the bus ride home to look forward too.
~Line breaker~
After having finally gotten rid of Kiba Naruto and Sasuke again found themselves on the bus, but this time heading home instead. Naruto remembered what Sakura had said about Sasuke living on the other side of town, and decided to ask him about it.
"I moved" was Sasuke's short reply.
"Ookaay…" Naruto just looked at him. This guy doesn't really like to talk about himself, does he? Happy at having found out something to pester his raven-haired friend about, Naruto pressed the matter as far as he could. He made a silent bet that it would take at least ten questions about why Sasuke moved before the guy got seriously pissed and forgot his poker face.
Turns out it took fourteen. Naruto had almost run out of things to ask when Sasuke finally snapped and told him to shut up or talk about something else. So the mischievous blonde went on to ask anything he could think of that had to do with Sasuke's personal life. Sasuke almost threw him off the bus. But he did answer the questions.
~Line breaker~
They didn't get to see each other again until Thursday afternoon, when they had Math again. Half of the lesson was spent working with the book and the other half on the assignment, but since both of them had finished the chapter two lessons ago they spent the first half whispering about the assignment and the other talking about it. Sometimes they would accidentally brush their arms or hands together, one time even their legs, and Sasuke was starting to suspect the whole 'accidentally' thing when Naruto once again leaned over his desk to look closer at some section of the math book that was currently residing on it, thus letting their arms touch a little. Not that he was complaining, it was just torture that he didn't actually know if Naruto liked it or not. Suddenly Saturday couldn't come fast enough.
Naruto on the other hand continued with his experiment to try and see if he could get a reaction out of the raven, but of course not being able to read anything in his perfectly still face. Damn this guy is like a robot! He thought and then almost laughed at himself. Yeah, Sakura-chan is a ninja and Sasuke a robot. Oh, and Kiba is totally a dog. I wonder what that makes me? He shook his head to clear away his weird thoughts and tried to focus on the assignment again. Kakashi sure had given them an unnecessarily hard one.
"Dobe, are you paying attention? I'm not surprised if you aren't, but…"
"I AM paying attention! I'm just thinking really hard about it, maybe you should try that too."
Sasuke just gave him an amused smirk and said:
"Then why are you drawing ninjas and robots in your book?"
Naruto realized that he was, in fact, doing just that and closed his book quickly.
"Maybe I just think better while drawing" he replied trying to look superior.
"But that would mean you being able to do two things at the same time" Sasuke replied.
"TEME!" Naruto yelled, forgetting he was in a class room. "I can totally do lots of things at the same time! You're just jealous 'cause you can't!
"Can't what? Draw like a five-year old?"
But before Naruto had time to throw himself on top of the smirking Sasuke and create a fist fight, Kakashi showed up before them and told them in an uninterested voice that they would either calm down or get detention for a week. Satisfied that they seemed to choose the 'calm down' option he went back to his desk and continued reading what suspiciously looked like the covers of a math book now covering something completely different. Apparently Tsunade had threatened him again.
Satisfied with his pay back for last night's interrogation, Sasuke went back to the work at hand with a fuming Naruto at his side. He sadly noted that counting tomorrow's lesson, they would probably only need to work on it one more hour after school. Sometimes being a genius wasn't as fun as it sounded.
~Line breaker~
After deciding to do the last of the work before tomorrow's lesson during the extra long lunch break, they separated and headed for their lockers. Sasuke would have liked to spend the afternoon together again, but since they both had training today as well as tomorrow directly after school, there wasn't much they could do about it. And then he remembered that he still hadn't gone shopping with Itachi. This of course meant time to get down to business. He called Itachi and forced him into meeting up at the mall in thirty minutes, and then told his trainer that he had a very bad case of stomach ache and had to go home. Sasuke never skipped practice, so he figured that it'd be okay just this once. He didn't really like karate anyway, he just chose it because it wasn't a team sport and he could easily beat people at it, because he was awesome like that.
Thirty minutes later, and still thinking about how he could use karate to his favor in front of Naruto, he stopped in front of Itachi. Even though Itachi had sounded really against this idea on the phone he had to try hard not to show his excitement for the task ahead.
"So can I really pick whatever I want?"
"Hn."
"And you'll definitely wear it?"
"Hn."
"Oh come on, this was your idea at least show some interest!"
"…"
"Fine do it yourself then!"
"Seriously Itachi, we haven't even entered a store and you're almost jumping around, it's just shopping" Sasuke said and wished his brother would just shut up, pick out some clothes and then leave him alone. Or preferably with Naruto.
"BUT it's shopping for your first date! I'm just being the caring brother here! An Uchiha NEVER looks anything less than amazing on dates, so obviously you need help, and I just think that you should be a little more grateful…"
"IT'S NOT A DATE!" Sasuke blushed and realized his mistake, he might just as well tell the whole mall via the loud speakers that he, Sasuke, was just about to go on his first date that wasn't even a real date and now he was shopping clothes with his stupid brother because he was too nervous to do it alone. Damn it.
"Whatever let's just get this over with" he mumbled and turned to enter a store that looked ok.
"Gah Sasuke you can't go shopping there!" Itachi shook his head at his poor little brother. "No wonder you lack style if that's where you buy your clothes!"
Sasuke just stared at him. It was one thing knowing that his brother was good at matching clothes and outfits etc., but to realize that he actually cared about where those clothes were bought…
"Itachi, you are so gay, do you know that?"
"Anything for your first date little brother!" and with that he took a firm grip on Sasuke's shoulder and steered him towards the other end of the mall.
~Line breaker~
Three hours later they finally went through the exit and Sasuke sighed happily at the feeling of fresh air in his lungs. Both of them loaded with shopping bags they went to the car and then Itachi drove them back home. Once they were home Sasuke went into his room, dumped the bags on the floor and lay down on his bed closing his eyes. God was he tired. He never knew shopping could be so intense. And Itachi sure had craved his entire attention, going through clothes faster than he should have been allowed to. If he could just sleep for a while…
At that precise moment Itachi decided to walk in, and when he too had dumped some bags at the floor he raised his foot to Sasuke's level and stomped him on the back of his head. Angry at this undignified treatment Sasuke rolled back and pulled his brother's leg up so that he fell to the ground with a smack. But Itachi just smirked.
"Thought we were done for the day, didn't you."
"We aren't?" Sasuke asked with a slightly horrified expression on his face.
"The fun has just started! Now is when we go through all the clothes again and match them together to finally end up with the perfect combination!"
And that is exactly what they did, but only after some heavy protesting from Sasuke. After two hours that Sasuke spent trying to come up with the perfect way to kill Itachi with the clothes he happily forced onto Sasuke, they seemed to have finally made a decision. Sasuke inspected himself in the mirror. Not bad. But thank God that I do lack style, if not my horde of fangirls would be too much to handle, probably. He turned back to Itachi.
"Good enough?"
"Sasuke, how many times do I have to tell you that you can't look 'good enough', you have to look positively sexy!"
Sasuke gave him a hard stare. "Well, do I look 'positively sexy' then?"
"Of course you do, I'm the one that chose the outfit after all!" Itachi looked very pleased with himself. "Now, as for what you're going to wear tomorrow…"
Sasuke decided never to ask Itachi for help again.
Heehee messing with Sasuke is so fun! But if you're up to date with the real manga, you'll know why I totally cried during the latest chapters. Poor Sasuke!
