Chapter 4: Snickers

Naruto stormed up to the older boy, "It's all your fault!!" he yelled in his face, "All of everyone was looking at me strangely this morning, and it's all because of you! If you hadn't been such a coward, my whole apartment would be treating me worse than usual, you chicken!! Next time say it to my face, teme!!"

"What the heck are you talking about, dobe? If I wanted to say anything to you, I'd would…"

"But you didn't!!!" Naruto cut him off.

"As I was saying before, I'm not a chicken, and anything you did to make your situation worse for yourself is not my problem nor my fault."

"Yes it is!! It's all you're fault, you stupid, cowardly, gay teme!!"

"I'm not any of those things…"

"That's what you want us to think!!! And now, because of your chicken-ness everyone thinks I'm gay too!! But I'm not! And I'm going to prove you are!!"

"Good luck with that, but you might have a bit of trouble, as I'm not."

"SASUKE-KUN!!!" a high pitched voice interrupted Naruto, who now stood there with his mouth open, still ready speak.

"Hi, Sakura-chan!" he said, forgetting about his argument with Sasuke, as he ran up to great the pink haired kunoichi, only to be punched.

"Get out of my way, Naruto!" She then latched her arms around Sasuke's, who promptly tried to free himself from her evil, pink grasp.

"Get off of me, Sakura."

"I love you, Sasuke!" she yelled in his ear, "Will, you go on a date with me after training?"

"No." came his usual reply.

"Oh, yeah! To prove I'm right, I'm going to write down everything you do, starting…five seconds ago!…Darn it! I forgot my pad and pencil! I'll be right back!"

He went to run off to his apartment, but ran into Kakashi-sensei instead. "What do you think you're doing?"

"I'm going to my apartment for a minute! I left something at home!"

Kakashi looked at him, raising his only visible eyebrow, "Looks to me like you have everything you need."

"Yeah, but I left something that's crucial to my research in my room."

If it could, Kakashi's eyebrow raised even higher on his forehead. Naruto? Doing research? "For what? Never mind, I don't even want to know. Just be back soon."

"Okay!!" he yelled, running out of sight. He returned a few minutes later with a pad and pencil, pointing the sharp object at Sasuke, he said, in his usual, obnoxiously loud voice, "Ha! I'll prove I'm right!"

Sasuke stared at his friend, not sure if the boy was insane or what, "Why do you want so badly to prove I'm something I'm not?"

"So I can redeem my name and be respected by all the villagers once again!"

"You never had their respect to begin with…"

"Shut up, teme! I heard that! It's because of stupid people like you…"

"What the heck are you two talking about?" interjected Sakura, thoroughly confused as she had not been there to hear the two boys original conversation.

"Anyways," cut off Kakashi, not wanting to listen to their bickering any longer, "we have a few D ranked missions today that we need to complete."

"Mou, we always get lame missions. What is it this time? Finding that stupid cat, again?" complained Naruto.

"Actually yes, that's one of them."

"It's the third time this month! Can't you get something better for us?"

"Just shut up already, dobe. The sooner we get this done, the sooner we can start training, right Kakashi-sensei?" questioned Sasuke.

"Yes, thank you, Sasuke."

At the end of the day, Naruto's little notebook had several things written down in it, mainly consisting of all the times Sasuke refused to take Sakura on a date of flipped his long bangs out of his eyes and all of his protests to Naruto writing down just about everything he did. "Would you stop writing down every little thing I do?" Sasuke asked, angered by the blonde's actions.

"Why do you care? If you're really as straight as you say, then you should care. But if you are gay and trying to hide something, then of course you'd protest!"

"I'm not gay, Naruto, I just don't want you to follow me around. Would you like it if I followed you around all day, taking notes on everything you do?"

"Psh, like you'd do anything like that. And besides I like to keep my private life private."

Sasuke glared at the blonde, amazed at his stupidity.

"So, anyways, I'm going to stay at your house, so I can get more research!"

"No, your not."

"Why? Don't want me to find that shrine of me you have hidden in your closet?"

"I don't have a shrine of anybody, dobe, especially not you. And you can't just decide that your staying at someones house."

"Well, either you let me in, or I'm going to have to use my super secret ninja skills on you and I don't think you'd like that."

"You're forgetting I'm better than you are."

"Only in your dreams, teme!! I am way better than you!"

Sasuke sighed, he could feel a horrible head ach coming on. "Fine, you can come over, but only to prove once and for all that I'm not gay, only for a few days, and you have to fend for your self.

"Deal!"

(after notes: i completely forgot to finish this chappy!! i started typing it up, like, right after i posted last time so i wouldn't take so long again, but i forgot again! i apologize to all of you i kept waiting (if you hadn't completely given up on me ever updating again). there's just been a lot of drama amongst my friends lately, and it's taking up most of my time, because i have to deal with it at school and at home, so, yeah, excuses aside, i can't wait for the parade Monday!! i get to play with my flag again! yay!! lol talk about easily amused…so anywho, please let me know what you think of the story! anything I can do to improve it? input is greatly appreciated!!!)