Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto

Sasuke watched Naruto closely the next day, but inconspicuously, of course. The blond boy didn't seem one bit different, though. He came, as he always did, with that big foolish grin on his face, waving and calling Sakura's name and glaring occasionally at Sasuke.

Sasuke also didn't act any different. He stayed as quiet as he could; only speaking when prompted, and sometimes not even then.

Sakura went back to normal, she seemed to have gotten over yesterday's relapse. She went back to tugging on Sasuke's shirtsleeves and giggling, trying to talk to him about things that girls like her talked about.

Now it was Sasuke who was distracted.

Sasuke couldn't stop thinking about the night before, and the conversation he had overheard Naruto having with the moon. He remembered the blond boy's big blue eyes as he had looked up and said that he had never been hugged before. Sasuke wondered if Naruto always got depressed at night, or if it had only been that one night.

Sasuke was so distracted, in fact, that he kept messing things up during training. Once he even tripped and fell out of a tree, much to Sakura's distress and Naruto's delight. The little pink haired girl was frantic. She ran up to him and started freaking out. "Oh Sasuke, Sasuke! Are you okay? Does it hurt? You didn't land on your head did you? OMG! Sasuke! What happened? What made you fall? Was it Naruto?" She glared at the blond boy.

"Hey!" Naruto shouted. "I wasn't anywhere near Sasuke! I can't help it if he tripped over his own damn feet!"

"Now, now," Kakashi cut in. "You're supposed to be a team remember?"

"But- Kakashi-sensei!" both Naruto and Sakura protested.

"Will you all just shut up?" Sasuke demanded, standing up and brushing himself off. He growled. "Maybe if everybody would just leave me alone..." He glared at Sakura. He sighed then, and put a hand to his forehead. "This is stupid. I'm out of here." And he walked away, hearing Sakura behind him start to sob and blame herself for messing Sasuke up.

Sasuke immediately felt bad. He hadn't meant to upset Sakura; he was just frustrated with himself for being so distracted. And it's over Naruto of all people! he thought. Of course, Sasuke would have gone back to apologize to Sakura, but that would have been very un-Sasuke-ish, so instead he just kept on walking.

"Who the hell does that guy think he is??" Naruto demanded once Sasuke was gone. Sakura had burst into a fit of tears and was on her knees, pounding her fists on the ground. "Stupid!" she exclaimed while sobbing. "Stupid Sakura! It's all your fault! Now Sasuke hates you!"

Naruto tried to comfort her. "It's alright, Sakura. Don't pay any attention to him; he was just being a jerk. He only blamed you as an excuse for tripping over his own big feet."

"Shut up Naruto!" she screamed. Then, she too was gone.

Naruto and Kakashi stood there a moment, just looking at each other. Finally the silver haired man sighed and slid a hand down his face. "Well, I guess that's it for today's training then."

Naruto nodded. "Seems that way."

"See you tomorrow, Naruto."

"You too, Kakashi-sensei."

Once Naruto was alone, he began to wonder about what was up with Sasuke. What could he possibly have been thinking about to make him fall out of a tree?!?

Naruto began walking home, still pondering. Suddenly, a thought came to him. Naruto stopped in the middle of the road, eyes widening. An image came to mind of the day before, when Naruto had tripped and accidentally kissed Sasuke.

He couldn't still be thinking about that could he?! he wondered incredulously.