Chapter 3

Naruko was sitting on Shikamaru's couch, squished between Menma, who had surprisingly stolen the place from Lee, and Sasuke, who, and she was even more surprised, has said something about preventing her brother to lose his mind, or something like that.

Shikamaru had taken the spot on the floor, in front of her, and she was feeling as if she was surrounded by guard dogs.

Choji was waiting by the door for the pizzas to arrive, and Ino, Tenten and Hinata were sitting on the other sofa, whilst Kiba, who was leaning on his giant dog Akamaru, Shino and Sai, were lazily on the carpet, going through the dvd's. Rock Lee was visibly pouting next to the window, and Neji was listening to him rant about something that she couldn't quite grasp, and didn't really care, anyway.

"So guys, what do you want to watch tonight?"

"Avengers!" Shouted Kiba, pulling out the dvd with enthusiasm.

"No way dogbreath, we already saw it like a thousand times" Naruko answered as Menma nodded.

"Yeah, she's right, something else"

"But, isn't like Tom Hiddleaton playing Loki on the Avengers?" asked Ino, looking at the other blonde haired girl, who simply shrugged.

"Yeah, so?"

"So? Naruko! He is freaking hot, like really really really hot!"

"Yeah, even I have to agree with her" Tenten agreed, and she and Ino shared a girly squeal thinking about the actor.

"you girls are crazy, we won't watch a movie just because of some hot guy, plus, you really think that dude is hot?" Sasuke argued, his arms crossed and a raised eyebrow.

"I fail to see it" Naruko answered honestly, she really couldn't see what was so special about that guy.

"Dude!" Kiba high fived Naruko and both ignored Ino's disbeliefing look.

"Really Naruko, I'm disappointed you should be on our side"

"Well what about Avengers:Age of Utltron?"

"No!"

"But, Chris Hemsworth? Really Naruko, what do you like?"

"I don't really base a movie on how hot the leading actor is!"

"Troublesome, we should at least watch a movie that we will all enjoy"

Shikamaru spoke with his usual calm, his eyes closed as if he was in deep thought, ignoring Ino's comments on how the other blonde girl was totally hopeless.

"I say something like Batman, that guy has abs we can all enjoy" Sai proposed, gaining a shocked glare from half of the people in the room.

"What? I have no problems admitting that I don't mind watching a movie with hot guys, I am rather sure of my sexuality"

"Yes but now we aren't" Menma smirked at the other raven boy that just stared blankly, not grasping what the big deal was anyway.

"What? Is your lack of a dick such a problem with you that you can't stand the competition?"

"Would you drop the dick jokes you weirdo?"

Hinata blushed from her spot in the corner, as the other girls just chuckled.

"You're disgusting!" Kiba muttered, and it took a lot to impress the dog loving boy.

"You know we don't really care about your dick, Namikaze" Sasuke said, expressing half of the room's thoughts.

"Now, that's a mental image I surely didn't need! Someone slap me right now!" Naruko closed her eyes, covering her ears trying to avoid hearing more, the mental image made her cringe.

Sasuke grinned evily and whacked the girl on her arm.

"That hurt you damn asshat!"

"Jeez, what a whiney baby, you asked for it"

"Would you two stop acting like idiots! I'm getting a headache! And Namikaze, Uchiha is right, we don't give a rats ass about your lack of a certain part of your anatomy" Neji protested from his spot by the window.

"Well, excuse me but I do, I have a reputation!"

"I didn't know you had one" Naruko added, making Kiba high five her again.

"A dick? That's completely my point"

The girl sweat dropped, Sai really was an idiot.

"That's not what she meant!"

"The dobe asked for it, she should be clearer"

"Damn teme!" Naruko flashed a fist in front of Sasuke's pale face, who just snorted as an answer.

Naruko was fuming, darned Uchiha, always getting her riled up.

"It is an unyouthful thing to do, talk about someone else's dick! You cannot let that nasty mouth insult you so, my dearest friend Menma"

Everyone just sighed, there was no way of dropping the discussion.

Lee was now hugging the raven haired Namikaze, whose eye was twitching dangerously, he grimaced, as he felt the other squeeze his arm.

The hyper boy clad in his usual green jumpsuit, was oblivious as ever.

"Lee what have I told you about physical contact?"

"Never touch Menma?" the other answered,

"Exactly! Why do you always forget it?" Really, he was starting to lose his nerve. First they gave him the dreaded news, and now the guy was stealing his breathing space.

"Do you not like me Menma?"

Lee was so close that Menma could count every hair of his bushy eyebrows. Damn they were huge! Had they always been that huge?

"You guys are hopeless" Shino muttered from under his hoodie, even though no one heard him, as usual.

The moment was broken by Sasuke's cellphone, that started ringing loudly.

Naruko craned her neck to spy on the caller's name, but the bastard Uchiha covered it with his hand.

" Ehm gotta answer it" Everybody's eyes were on the pale black haired boy.

"Did he just…" Ino pointed out, she thought she had seen a dusting of ping coloring his cheeks.

"Uchiha?" Menma's voice was low and came out as a snake's hiss. His blue gaze would have scared the living shit out of some stranger, but Sasuke was used to it, plus he was the one that had invented the glare, well technically Itachi, but still.

"what?" the other answered proving that he wasn't affected at all.

"Where do you think you're going?" the blue eyed boy's tone resembled the devil's.

"Ah, sorry Namikaze, gotta answer"

said that, the boy swiftly got up and ran, literally, out of the house.

"You will pay for this, damn Uchiha! I thought we had a plan!"

"Huh? What are you talking about bro?" Naruko asked, she was glad Sasuke had gotten up, sje was starting to get hot. She took off her orange hoodie, revealing a baggy black shirt.

"Nothing, he knows!" he pointed his finger towards the door, as if trying to burn it down with his eyes.

"Ok, now, that was weird" Kiba commented, leaning on his huge dog Akamaru. No one had ever seen Sasuke so eager to answer a phone call

"You guys are such dumbassess, did any of you notice that lately he's always text messagging like a freak?" The other blonde haired girl boredly explained from her spot.

"the pizza guy is here!" Choji happily announced, as he opened the door and ran out to pay him.

"I say girlfriend" Shikamaru said, commenting what Ino had said. Clearly the signs were all there.

"Who? That emotionless teme? Who would be so foolish to even approach him?"

"You mean, apart from Ino?" Tenten smirked at said blonde's outraged expression. It was comeback for all those times she had made fun of her own crush on Neji.

He was so cute standing there by the window. She wished she could approach him as easily like the other guys, but he was distant with her.

"Hey, that was last year and it was only a crush!"

"Sure" Tenten rolled her eyes relaxing on the sofa, and sharing a look with Hinata, that smiled kindly.

"Don't worry Ino, He can't hear you" Neji pointed out, but it didn't calm the girl.

"It's not like he didn't know, she confessed to him like three times"

Naruko said, mimicking the number three with her fingers.

Menma winced, there goes his sister's big mouth.

"Really? Why didn't we know?"

Kiba asked, nobody had even noticed that Ino had a crush on Sasuke.

"Because no one cares"

"Well thank Shika" she muttered, a she crossed her arms on her chest.

The boy just shrugged, and got up as Choji closed the doors, pizza in hand, and opened on the table.

"so, everybody dig in!" he said as he happily mumched on his first slice.

Naruko yawned, as she watched the last scene of the Lord of the Ring, Fellowship of the ring.

She was one of the last ones still awake, Shikamaru was snoring lazily beside her shoulder, and Menma, was yawning, barely keeping his eyes open. Sasuke, was somewhere around, the girls were sleeping, and so was the rest of the group. Just Lee was stilll awake, having taken advantage of Sasuke's absence he had taken the spot in front of Naruko, he was looking with teary eyes the two characters on the screen.

"Youth flows in those two, they will be sure to make with the power of their friendship! Won't they Naruko? My beautiful ray of sunshine?"

The girl battled her eyelashes, still confused at the way Lee was adressing her. He had never called her such names, and was confused by his actions.

Menma beside her was keeping himself from kicking him away from his sister.

"Shut it bushy brows, nobody cares about the power of youth or whatever" Slugged Menma as he got up.

"Get up sis, time to go home, or mom will start panicking and send dad out here to pick us up" he continued as he pinched his twin, earning a groan of protest from her.

"Let him, I'm too tired to walk" she yawned and elbowed Shikamaru on the ribs, waking him up.

"Damn 'Ruko, told you already to stop doing that" complained the boy as he rubbed his hand on his face, trying to stay awake and don't succumb to slumber.

"You alway have to be so noisy"

Another black haired biy complained getting up from his corner.

"Sas'kè dammit, where the hell were ya?" Naruko beamed at her friend, who scowled in return.

"I was right there, you big moron"

"Really? I didn't notice you"

"Do you ever notice anything" the Uchiha muttered making his way towards the door.

"Well guys, I'm out, Don't want Fugaku to get pissed at me for going home late, it's close to midnight, and we have to get up early"

"Up early? What for? It's a friggin sarurday" yawned Shikamaru stretching his arms.

"Me and my parents are going to Ame, we're staying there a week"

"Ame? What are you going there for?" Kiba asked as he put the leash on Akamaru, ready to leave.

"Itachi's graduating, he's coming home next Saturday, so…"

"Itachi? Your brother Itachi?" Ino asked, she remembered seeing him a couple of months ago. She had also thiught the elder Uchiha was hotter than hell, but wasn't about to say that out loud.

Naruko had her wide blue eyes open, listening intently. She had heard a lot about the mysterious Itachi, from Sasuke, Menma and even her parents. She didn't really remember him, she had only seen him twice before he left for college, and that was four years ago, her memories of him were blurry.

"So we won't see you all week?" she asked once out of her daze.

"Are you going to miss me or something? I am coming back"

"Miss you? Hell no" she smirked, and Menma rolled his eyes at them. They were the cause of most of his headaches.

"Hn" was the only answer he gave her.

They started walking out of the house greeting Shikamaru, who just waved from his doo seeing them off.

Choji and Ino lived close by so they left together, followed by Shino,Kiba and Sai, bidding goodnight to everyone.

The last ones left, were Neji , Hinata, Tenten, the twins and Rock Lee and Sasuke.

"So, Tenten are you going home on your own?" Naruko asked, as they walked towards the street before parting ways.

"Yeah, but I live close by, No problem"

"Neji, why don't you walk Tenten home? I will be fine onmy own, our house is just a couple of blocks away." Hinata kindly offered , surprsing everyone.

Neji blinked, but wasn't opposing it, he was worried about his cousin though, he was about to speak, but was cur off by the black haired Namikaze.

"Will you really be ok?" Menma couldn't help but ask, he had barely talked to the girl all night, and noticing the strong blush in her cheeks as he spoke thought if it was a good idea, he didn't want to embarass her.

"D-don't worry, I will be fine"

"Why don't you take her home? If you are so concerned?"

"It's fine you guys, I will be fine"

"I insist" Naruko winked not so subtly at her twin, who just facepalmed, confusing the poor dark haired girl.

"Menma, you don't have…"

"Don't worry Hinata, I will walk you home, Naruko will be fine with Sasuke, they have to go in the same direction anyway, so Neji doesn't have to worry about you walking home on your own."

"Yeah, Hinata, don't you worry"

Naruko smiled pulling her hands in her pockets, as she felt Sasuke pulling her by the hoodie, she waved goodbye at everyone, and she heard Lee shouting something about good dreams and friendliness.

"Damn that Lee is so annoying"

"Yeah? What's up with him, I couldn't figure him out tonight"

Sasuke snorted as he too put his hands in his pockets.

"Aparently he realized you're a girl"

"Yeah so?"

The Uchiha pursed his lips, he didn't think it was wise for him to speak any further. Sometimes she was too naive for her own good.

Naruko just shrugged as she pulled her golden locks in a messy bun upside her head.

"Damn hair, I should just cut it"

"And lose your only girly feature?"

"You really are a bastard, teme"

"Dobe" muttered the Uchiha not wanting to let the blonde girl have the last word.

"So, you must be happy that your brother is coming home" she didn't know why, but she was curious about him, she had thought about asking Menma , but since she had a twenty minute walk with Sasuke she figured she could make something out of it.

"Hn" he thought about for a couple of seconds.

"Yeah, I guess" he finally answered.

"Sure you are, I mean, I would be too if Menma was coming home after a long period of being away, he is your brother after all!"

"Hn"

"He can't be worse than you!" Sasuke just smirked at that.

"You will see when you meet him"

"Who knows when that will be" Naruko wondered, she did go to Sasuke's house often, so it would probably happen.

"Plus my parents are organizing a welcome back party for him, my mother called yours today, it's in two weeks"

"Really?" she blinked.

Her and Sasuke's parents we're friends, so it wasn't uncommon for them to be invited to eachother's house. Especially in the last year, since her father's business had made a deal with Uchiha Corp.

"Yeah, so, see you when I get back, we should have a gathering at my house, on the weekend when i get back"

"sure! Il'll tell the guys! We could use your pool if it's hot"

"Yeah, allright, well here we are, so, I will text you or something"

"Kay! Bye Sas'ke! Have fun at your brother's party!"

"Hn"

He watched as Naruko walked inside and started leaving.

He gave a last check on his cell phone, and smiled when he noticed that Sakura had read his last message. He would text her tomorrow.

The black haired boy smirked as he waved at Menma who was jogging back to his house, and wondered why the boy was grinning so widely. He would have to hear from his best friend too. But, it would havw to wait till morning, now he had to get home and get ready to meet his brother again.

Author's note

Hi everyone! I really can't stop writing, I just..my jead is full of ideas, and I think this stort will come out a little longer than planned!

I just wanted to thank everyone that is following this story and that has added to their favorite! And thank you to the two people that have reviewed!

Thanks to all of you!