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Chapter 3
Naruto was eating a pot of instant ramen the next morning, when there was a knock – a rather impatient knock – at the door. After finishing his mouthful, he went to the door. He opened it to see Sasuke standing there. His heart leapt when he saw the raven, until he noticed the slight hint of desperation in his eyes.
"Naruto," Sasuke sounded quite out of breath. Naruto was surprised – what could be so urgent to make Sasuke run all the way here?
He led Sasuke to the kitchen, a look of concern clearly visible on the blonde boy's face. He handed Sasuke a glass of water, which the raven drank eagerly. He set the glass down on the counter.
"Naruto, earlier you mentioned you were going to rent out your spare room." Sasuke started, edging slightly closer to Naruto.
"Um…yeah...about that…" Naruto put his hands behind his head, a tell-tale sign that something was awkward about this situation, and soon, Sasuke found out what.
"Hey Naruto, where are the…?" Two pairs of dark eyes came to meet each other, and glared.
"Naruto, who is this?" Sasuke asked the blonde, still not taking his eyes off the stranger.
"T-This is Sai," Naruto could already sense the tension between them,
"He's my roommate."
Sasuke could have cried at that moment.
His absolutely perfect fantasies of living with Naruto had just vanished into thin air.
Why, Naruto? Why?
There was a long, painful silence for Sasuke and Naruto. The raven looked at the blonde, as if he was waiting for him to start laughing and say it was all a joke.
But Naruto averted his dark eyes.
"…and you are?" Sai asked, looking at Sasuke like he had intruded on something personal.
The raven looked at Naruto's roommate, as if deciding if Sai was worthy of knowing his name.
"Sasuke Uchiha." He eventually replied, glaring at Sai all the while.
He turned to Naruto, ignoring Sai completely.
"I think I'd better go." He said. "I can see you have other people to keep you company now."
"Sasuke! Wait!" Naruto called, but it didn't stop the raven as he ran out of the house.
He just kept running and running.
Away from his feelings and emotions.
Away from that creep, Sai.
Away from Naruto…
Sasuke only stopped running when he got to a park he recognised.
He had gone here when he was younger, to think and to get away from his family for a short while.
He sat down on the grass, and rested his chin on his knees.
He didn't know how long he stayed there, fiddling with the grass, lost in his own thoughts, but he didn't realise that the sun was setting.
Ok…extremely short chapter, sorry about that. And sorry that I haven't updated in a while, but I got a new laptop, so hopefully I'll be able to update more often, BUT I'M NOT PROMISING ANTHING! Lol hope you enjoyed!
