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Chapter 4 -

Sasuke had just gotten to his new apartment, it was larger than his previous apartment, and was definitely a lot cleaner, he looked around it was furnished with modern and traditional furnishings, some of which had Uchiha fans marked clearly on them, he recognized them as they were from his childhood home in the Uchiha compound. He also noted that there were 3 doors down the hall, he looked in the first one to find what he noted to be a girls room the door beside led to a room that seemed empty with minor furnishings from the Uchiha compound and a few pictures of team seven, one caught his interest especially, it was a picture of team seven in front of the academy, Sakura was smiling brightly while Naruto was looking in the opposite direction of Sasuke both looked angered but he looked closely and noted the small smirk on Naruto's face, and he remembered, Naruto is actually Naruko... a girl. He turned out of the room as he strolled towards the kitchen as he heard a knock on the front door.

"Yo, Sasuke." Kakashi stared at him for a moment before walking in uninvited.

"What do you want Kakashi?" Asked Sasuke coldly.

"Just checking up on the coldest person in Konoha." Kakashi said with a clear grin on his face even if 90 of it is covered.

"Hmph." Sasuke strolled towards the kitchen.

"You're marrying Naruto." Sasuke jumped at the words that came out of Kakashi's mouth.

"If you're here to tell me about Naruto, I already know.." Sasuke said emotionlessly but a lot less colder.

"I'm not here for anything of that nature Sasuke, but I'd just like to say congratulations, Naruko is a fine young lady, she really cares about you Sasuke, she's giving up her drea-" Kakashi was cut off by a death glare.

"I. Did. Not. Ask. Her. To. Do. This. For. Me." Sasuke said still glaring at his former sensei.

"I didn't say you did, what I'm trying to say is that you should at least be grateful, if not for her you would be in a jail cell rotting for the rest of your life." Kakashi said.

"Does it look like I care about her? She shouldn't have been so careless as to think I did and even agree to marry me."



"She did it because you're precious to her Sasuke, you always have been, she always will care for you, she wants to protect you and she didn't want to see you rot in a cell until you die."

A few seconds later Sasuke broke the silence.

Sasuke looked at Kakashi with a faint hint of sadness in his onyx eyes.

"Kakashi... I want you to train me, I want to kill Itachi as fast as possible."

He continued,

"I don't want to see Naruko suffer being forced to marry me, it will just cause her grief and sorrow, I know she doesn't want to live with me as much as you and I know her you and I both know that she has never loved me." Sasuke finished.

"I think that's where you're wrong Sasuke, I believe she loves you even if she doesn't know it."

"..."

The silence was painful, Sasuke couldn't stand it any longer.

"I don't think so Kakashi-sensei, Naruto as much as I know her no matter how many secrets she had I know she couldn't love me, she was my rival, a friend, nothing more."

"As much as you'd like to think that, I don't believe that's true, she put on a mask as a hyperactive idiot just to hide her emotions from us, if none of us noticed I'm sure she's capable of masking love."

Then they heard a knock on the door.

"You should answer that Sasuke, after all it is partly your apartment," Kakashi said with a grin.

"Hmph." Sasuke grunted as he opened the door to his surprise it was Naruko.

"Oh, hey Sasuke, I didn't think you would be here, there is no food which I'm sure you probably noticed."

Sasuke's stomach growled aloud. Naruko giggled and Kakashi's grin widened as he looked back and forth between the two. Naruko began to blush and Sasuke turned away hiding his blush, 'Maybe Kakashi-sensei was right, maybe Naruko did love him' he thought to himself. No, that wasn't possible, Sasuke severed those bonds, yet why did he feel his heart beating faster than normal at the mere sight of Naruko, who he had just found out was a girl! Was it possible that he liked her as well? He quickly shook that out 

of his head and put on his emotionless face, he turned to see Naruko still blushing furiously and he couldn't hold back, he blushed once more as she said,

"Well are you going to let me in Sasuke? I have to live here now since they moved all my stuff here."

Sasuke slightly embarrassed let his wife-to-be into the apartment. She took her shoes off and went straight down the hall peeking into the rooms before wandering into the room he noted looked like a girls room.

"Heh, Sasuke it looks like you have a little crush on Naruko.. I mean, your eyes followed her all the way to her room and you blushed when she looked into your room."

Sasuke merely blushed again.

"That wasn't a no, Sasuke-kun," Kakashi said prying at the mask Sasuke had just put back on (Figure of speech) he once again looked emotionless until Kakashi burst out trying to contain his laughter as he said,

"Sasuke-kun, would you like to borrow one of my 'Icha Icha' books?"

Sasuke blushed furiously before heading towards his room, when suddenly Naruko walked out of her room, she noted that Sasuke was blushing furiously and said

"Sasuke-teme is something wrong?"

He continued to walk by until she asked him to go out, for food,

"Would you like to go out for some food Sasuke? My treat since you just got home."

He knew he was starving and after hearing that there was no food in the apartment he couldn't refuse, he hadn't eaten for 3 days as far as he knew.

"Uhh, sure."

He said still blushing but trying to push the blood back from his face.

"Kakashi-Sensei, would you like to join Sasuke-kun and I for dinner, we're going to eat out!" Naruko yelled from down the hall.

"Sorry, no can do Naruko, Tsunade is pretty pissed about me skipping out on the meeting earlier."

Naruko frowned and turned to Sasuke, "looks like it's just you and me Teme, I'm going to take a quick shower and get ready."



Naruko turned and walked for the bathroom, Kakashi grinning at Sasuke who was watching Naruko walk into the bathroom, the door slammed sending Sasuke back to reality.

"Huh?" He questioned Kakashi,

"Oh, nothing I couldn't help but notice you followed Naruko again as she entered the bathroom."

"Shut up." Sasuke grumbled.

"Have fun Sasuke-kun." Kakashi disappeared in a puff of smoke grinning at Sasuke.