7 MINUTES IN HEAVEN VS. SPIN THE BOTTLE!!
The next person to stand up was none other than…Sasuke. They looked at each other and both said, "Great…."
They walked into the closet and both stared at each other, blushing like mad. They looked up at each other and said, "So…"
Naruto spoke up and said, "I think this game is rigged, don't you?"
"It's just a game…" he said, but in the back of his mind he knew he wanted to be there with him.
Naruto said to him in a whisper, "Hey, know what we should do! We should mess up our hair to make it look like we went crazy on each other! That'd be so funny!!"
"Yeah…but, why not for real?"
"Huh? Wh-what'd you say?!" he said, his eyes grew wide.
"I mean it." he said as he backed Naruto into the closet, pushing his body close to him.
Naruto freaked out until Sasuke smiled at him and said quietly in his ear, "Gotcha."
"You're such a tease!! You know that?! God, that scared me so much…." Naruto said with a red face.
"Sorry, I just wanted to see how you'd react to that! The look on your face was priceless!" Sasuke laughed quietly to himself as Naruto's face grew more red by the minute.
Naruto gritted his teeth and clenched his fist tightly. Sasuke didn't even notice that Naruto got close up to his face, and Naruto glared at him as he spoke to him, "Okay! Let's see how you like it!"
Sasuke's eyes grew wide, but he wasn't able to react fast enough to what Naruto was about to do. He leaned into Sasuke's lips, kissing him lightly and letting go a few moments lateras both of their faces grew redder by the second. They stood face to face after an unforeseeable action, not knowing what to do with themselves, both faces burned with embarrassment, but excitement as well.
Sasuke said to him in an almost shaky voice, "Y-you can not tell anyone about that…"
"Y-yeah….Same with you…….Wow…I-I didn't actually think that I'd do that…." Naruto said to him, not looking him in the face, because his own was too red for him to see.
"I didn't think you were going to do something like that…..at all…..I was just kidding about the whole thing of….you know…the 'pushing you back into the wall' thing, but that…. Wow, man….I'm really uncomfortable right now."
"Yeah, so am I….S-so…. What are we going to do now? How much time do we have left anyways?" Naruto said, trying to change the subject, but he didn't think it'd work out too well.
"I don't know, I just want outta here." he said with a sigh.
Naruto held a pained look in his eyes and face as he watched Sasuke in such a miserable state. He felt bad for him, but in naruto's eyes, he didn't try to kiss him, it just sort of happened. Naruto thought that Sasuke couldn't and would never take it like that. They came out of the closet, red in the face and with miserable expressions. Sasuke held a blank look while Naruto looked sad.
"Uhh….what's wrong you guys?" TenTen asked them both.
"Huh? Oh, uh…I-it's nothing, really." Naruto said to her, lying through his teeth and making him feel even worse.
He sat down back in his pot, but was silent for the rest of the time. Finally, when the game 'spin the bottle' came around, Naruto wasn't the happiest person. All he wanted to do was to go home, but for the sake of everyone else's fun, he stayed. Hinata spun it first and it landed on Kiba.
"Woohoo! Yeah! This is like destiny Hinata…." Kiba said to her.
She blushed a few shades of red and they kissed. The bottle was passed on to the next person, which was Ino. She made it spin really fast, making it anyone's game. It began to slow down and stopped at Neji. Ino blushed a bit because he was older, but tenTen wasn't the happiest person, seeing her wannabe boyfriends kissing another girl. It was a light one on the lips and they broke apart quickly. She passed it to Naruto, who wasn't in the mood for it, but spun it lazily anyways. I
t landed on none other than Sakura. She blushed and looked away for a minute, but looked back and saw him, just waiting for her. She leaned over to him, and they made a small yet sweet kiss. They broke apart after a while, Sakura was blushing like crazy when they stopped. She quickly passed it to Shikamaru, who didn't even bother to spin it, and he passed it to Sasuke, who also passed it to someone else. Naruto spoke up and said, "Aww, come on you guys! You have to do it! It's just a game…."
Shikamaru groaned and spun it lazily, yawning all the while. TenTen gasped as it landed at her and lightly kissed him on the lips. She backed up quickly and saw Ino's expression on her face, which was decently amusing to her though. Shikamaru passed it to Saskue, the only one without a kiss from someone else. He spun it really fast as everyone followed it's path to see who it would land on. As it spun, Naruto wished and hoped that it wouldn't land on him.
As it started to slow down, Naruto began to sweat a bit from the pressure, gripping onto his pants tightly with his fingernails driving into his knees. He gulped loudly as it moved even slower by him, making him more nervous than ever before. He shook and finally, when it slowed down to a stop, he shouted at the top of his lungs, "ALRIGHT ALREADY! GOD!!"
"Naruto! You-" Sasuke was cut off by him.
Naruto grabbed at Sasuke's face with his hands and thrust himself at him, kissing him. Sasuke's eyes grew wide with confusion and from being startled. He closed his eyes, bearing the fact that he was kissing another man in front of his friends. When they let go Naruto glared at him, and Sasuke just stared at him with a look that was too confusing to figure out.
Everyone looked at Naruto in shock as Sasuke said, "Umm…..N-Naruto?"
"What?" He said with a low tone of voice, glaring at him.
"Th-that's very brave of you to do that, but……..it didn't even land on you…"
"HUH?!" Naruto said, his eyes growing wider with every passing second.
"Ahem….I-it landed on Hinata…………not you………"He said, blushing as he looked away from him.
Naruto looked down at the bottle, and looked up at who it pointed to. It was indeed Hinata, who sat right next to him. Naruto looked up at Sasuke with a red face and screamed as he looked down at the bottle, "WHAT?!"
Sakura slapped her face and said, "Naruto, you idiot….Why don't you at least try to pay attention to the game, even if you are bored……"
Naruto looked up at Sasuke and said, "S-Sasuke! I…..I didn't mean to-"
"Naruto….It's just a game. But…Please pay attention next time." He tried to say coolly, but his face told him and everyone else a different story.
Naruto blushed and ran outside for some air. He walked around to the back porch and said to himself, "I got so carried away, that I thought it landed on me… Sasuke must really hate me now…. I think I'm just going to go home….."
Naruto came back in and said, "Hey guys, I'm going to go home early, sorry. I'm not feeling too good."
Sakura perked up her head and said to him, "But, Naruto… You were the one who was the most excited out of all of us to have fun here."
"But…It's getting late already, and besides, we have a date tomorrow…right Sakura?" Naruto said with a smile.
Sakura blushed a bit and everyone said, "What?!"
Ino asked her, "S-Sakura, are you really going out with him?!"
"No…we're just hanging out, that's all. I can't for that anyways. So, I'll see you at my house at eleven o'clock?" She asked him with a pink face.
"Sure….sounds good to me." He said as he waved to her and walked out the door.
Sasuke couldn't help but to feel bad for Naruto. He got up and said, "Wow….hey, it's almost ten, for those who have a curfew…"
"What?! Oh my god! I gotta get home!"
"Yeah, me too! Thanks for the fun Sasuke!! Maybe we can do this again later during summer break."
Once everyone left the house, Sasuke sighed heavily, thinking about Naruto and the kiss that everyone watched. He went into his room, sagging his shoulders and said to himself, "Wow….Naruto must hate me now, I don't blame him though… I acted like a total jerk to him."
He sighed to himself as the plopped down on his bed. The closet incident never left his head, as it constantly replayed over and over again. He rolled over, trying to get it out, but when he thinks that his mind was finally calm about it, it popped up again. He laid there as the night went by, unable to sleep.
Naruto got home and went straight to bed. He sat on the bed and said to himself, "I wonder if he actually hates me now. God! I'm so stupid!"
He brought the covers up to his head to try and sleep. But every time he closed his eyes, he was kissing Sasuke in the closet. He rolled over and tried to go back to bed as he said to himself, "No! that never happened!! Just go back to bed Naruto……"
The image came in crystal clear into his mind as he kept kissing him, even a dream came about it. He awoke with a start and yelled at himself saying, "NOOOO!! No, no, no, no, no, no, no!! Go to bed!! It never happened!! I got a date with Sakura, and I don't wanna be late or too tired…..UGH!! I hate myself for being so dumb…"
The next morning, he woke up and yawned from lack of sleep. He got into the shower to relax, and got himself cleaned up. He put on a black and red t-shirt with grey ravens, and some jeans. He messed up his wet hair and was out the door. He locked it and began walking to Sakura's house. Passing Sasuke's home on the way, he didn't even bother to look over to see if he was there or not. By the time he got there, Sakura was swinging in the front yard, waiting for him. She smiled at him, making his gloomy face smile too.
"Naruto! I'm so excited to be with you for a while, you know? You look good in that."
"Thanks, Sakura, you look good yourself." he said with a smile.
She blushed as she looked at herself again. She wore a light purple top with a white lace ribbon on each shoulder and jean shorts. She looked up at him and said, "So, ready to go?"
"Yeah! So, what do you want to do today?"
"I don't really know…. We could just walk around town, or go see a movie or something?"
"That sound good to me." He said as he began walking.
Sakura walked with him and she picked herself up and said, "Oh, and by the way… Sasuke tried calling you last night, but he couldn't get a hold of you… He said that he wanted to talk to you tomorrow."
"Don't we have school tomorrow?"
"No…it's a holiday, remember? Silly." she said with a smile.
"Oops….ha, ha! Sorry about that…." he said, scratching the back of his head.
The time he spent with Sakura was much needed to him. They walked around in town and even got ice cream from a small shop. Later, they went to go see a scary movie, which Sakura screamed at multiple times, making Naruto laugh at her for it too. As he walked her home, they began talking about their fun filled day with Naruto constantly mocking her scream, making her laugh. He walked her to the door and she turned to him and said, "Wow….I had a really great time Naruto."
"Yeah, same here! I can't believe that we never really do that anymore. We'll have to bring Sasuke sometime too, wouldn't that be fun?"
"Oh...uh, yeah. It would be fun." she said, making her voice quieter as she spoke.
"Huh? Something wrong?"
"N-no….Of course not. We'll have to do this sometime during summer vacation. It'll be a blast!" she smiled at him, pink in the face.
"Yea it will. I'll see you later Sakura, okay?" he said as he turned to leave.
"Okay, can I get a hug though?" she said, almost afraid of what she just said.
"Uhh…..Sure, why not." he said as he spread his arms out for her.
She hugged him, closing her eyes in complete comfort. She lightly stuck a piece of paper on his back and said to him, "Okay….I'll see you in school."
Naruto turned and waved at her, and went on home. On the way there, he thought he saw Itachi talking to Sasuke. Naruto looked from behind the fence and said, "Huh? I thought that Itachi wouldn't be home for another two days….."
He tired to listen to the conversation. Sasuke spoke first with, "I-Itachi….what are you doing home? I thought that you wouldn't be home for-"
"I know….I know…. We ended up and left early, because someone was holding up on drugs while we were there. Bastards…."
Sasuke looked at him with wide eyes and said, "That's the first time I've ever heard you swear in front of me…."
"Sorry…it just disappoints me greatly. So, how are you fairing with Naruto?" he smiled at him.
"Huh? What's that supposed to mean? Nothing's wrong with me…. I'm just fine…"
"Sasuke…I've known you since you were born, I know when something's wrong with you. You can tell me…."
"Okay, but I promised that I wouldn't say it to anyone…I guess I'm just going to explode if I don't though… Okay, I had a whole bunch of friends over yesterday…and, me and Naruto got stuck in the closet for 'seven minutes in heaven'…and, just as a joke, I pinned him to the wall. Well….I wanted him to think that I was joking, but in my head, it was almost as if I wanted to."
Naruto's eye's widened as he said to himself quietly, "That's what happened with my kiss!"
"Then…he got mad at me, but then……he……"Sasuke was blushing but finished his sentence with, "He kissed me….."
Itachi looked at him and said, "Wow. That sounds like a lot for one to bear, I'm sorry to hear that."
"That's not the half of it… After that, we got really uncomfortable, and when we were playing 'spin the bottle', he flipped out and kissed me in front of everyone, because the closet thing made him so nervous…it didn't even land on him anyways. I tried to play it off like it never happened, then I couldn't sleep because I acted like a first class jack ass to him. Now….he hates me so much, that when I tried calling him to apologize last night he didn't even answer. Now….I-I can't even begin to think of how he feels….But I feel like shit because I was a jerk to him. He probably hates me so much now…." he said, tears almost running down his cheeks.
Naruto said to himself, "Wow…I didn't know he felt that bad about it…he's crying…"
Itachi raised his arm and placed it around Sasuke's shoulders, making Sasuke lean on him. He clutched at Itachi's shirt and said, "I don't know what to do…I lost my best friend with something stupid that I started with!"
"Sasuke….It's not your fault. It was just a joke, but it got out of control, that's all. Things happen in life that you really can't explain or that go all too wrong. Trust me, I know how you feel Sasuke. I bet you're going through so many different emotions right now."
"You have no idea…."
"I'm here for you, okay? You'll see, Naruto will understand if you tell him. I'm sure that he doesn't hate you, and if anything, it's the other way around for him too."
"So….you think that he thinks I hate him?"
Itachi nodded his head and said to him, "Why don't you try to call him again? Hmm? You can work it out tomorrow on the holiday, besides, I'm not going to be here for tomorrow. You can have him over if you want to as well…"
"Unless he's still too mad about it…he might not even pick up the phone…"
"Just try it and stop pussy footing around. You'll find that I'm right, Sasuke." he said as he got up from the porch and walked into the house. Naruto ran home quickly to get away from it all and said to himself as he got in the door, "He doesn't hate me after all….I'm so glad."
A rustle was heard on his back and he took off the paper that Sakura had put on his back. It read, ' Sasuke's really depressed right now. You should talk to him what happened yesterday, I'm worried for you both.'
He smiled that Sakura was worried for him and Sasuke, and ran upstairs for his cell phone, which was finished charging and when he opened it. He had five missed calls from Sasuke yesterday. Naruto said to himself, "Jeez, no wonder he thought that I hated him….I'll call him instead of him calling me. He looked so depressed when he was talking to Itachi like that. Man, Itachi's good at this whole 'life' thing…I wonder how he knew. Shit! Did he see me when I was listening?! Ah, well….I'll call him right now to ake him happy again."
He scrolled down to his contact and clicked on it. Hearing the dial tone was nerve wracking for him until Sasuke answered with a surprised voice and said, "Uh, hey, I was just about to call you."
"I'm so sorry that I didn't answer your calls! It died and it turned off and it had to charge up….I'm so sorry about that."
"It happens…just at the wrong time, unfortunately….Listen, Naruto…about the whole thing…I'm no mad at you, at all. I never was mad at you."
"Really?" Naruto said to him, happy to learn that it wasn't an act put on for him to watch.
"Yeah, I could never be mad at you for something like that…I mean, what kind of friend would I be?"
"I don't know….I'm not mad at you either. I was so worried that you were mad at me instead. I know that I freaked out a bit too…I got so confused with myself, that I didn't think."
"It's okay. Itachi was right…it did turn out okay then…"
"Yeah…he was right the whole time…" he said to him.
"Wait a minute. How did you know that I was talking with him?"
"I overheard you talking Sasuke….I didn't try it, but when I was coming home from Sakura's house, you looked so depressed, so I wanted to see how you felt 'cause I couldn't sleep either!"
"I…I didn't know you were listening…. Maybe that's why he said all of those things to me…. Naruto, I'm really sorry. Do you want to come over tomorrow?"
"Sure, I'll come over." he said smiling, happy to hear that Sasuke's actually happy.
"Great. So, how was your date with Sakura?" he said, perkier than before.
"It was fun. I told her that we should bring you next time too, but she just wanted it to be us…I thought that because the three of us don't get to hang out a lot together anymore, you know?"
"Yeah. Well, I'm glad you had a good time with her. I bet she's happy too."
"Yeah, probably going to call everyone she knows and tell them what a good time she had. Girls…. So, how are you doing…and um…what did Itachi think when he found out that we kissed? I mean, I just want to know…"
"I don't really know honestly. It was like he was okay with it, I guess. I don't know, I could read him at all when I said that to him. All he did was smirk at me and tell me that it must be a lot to handle…Maybe because….well…..that was my first kiss…"
"From a guy you mean?"
"No….in general……Yeah, I know, it's really weird…"
"No….Same here…..I guess I was just flustered so much because of that."
"Yeah…me too…"
There was an awkward silence and neither of them would say anything because that's what was on their minds the whole time. Sasuke said to him with a little bit of embarrassment in his voice, "So……Umm…w-what do you want to do here tomorrow?"
"Uh, I...I don't know. We could just hang out or something?"
"Sure…..I'd like that………………Ummm…………I don't what else to say………"
"Neither do I……wow, this feels really weird….."
"Yeah………..So…….Ugh!! I can't take it anymore!" Sasuke yelled into the phone.
Naruto backed it away from his ear at the time he yelled, and put his ear back on and said, "Sasuke, there's something I have to tell you, and I don't think you're going to like this but…."
At the same time they both said, with the same volume of voice, "THE ONLY THING I THINK ABOUT IS YOU!"
There was silence from both sides.
"Umm…….."
"W-what I meant by that was……."
"Just what happened……to us…."
"Yeah……..That's what I meant too…….."
They both couldn't even believe that they said that to each other. Sasuke finally said to him with a calm voice, "Well, it's good to know that we have each other's back with this situation."
"Yeah, no kidding!" Naruto replied laughing.
Sasuke laughed along with him and said, "Okay, I'll see you tomorrow then?"
"Yeah, I'll see you tomorrow Sasuke." he said before he hung up the phone.
Naruto finally let out a sigh of relief, thankful to hear that everything was okay with the two of them. He got back into his bed and thought about what's going to happen if the word gets out of them kissing, not only once, but twice. He fell asleep with ease and couldn't wait to wake up in the morning.
Sasuke hung up the phone with Naruto and walked into his room, to find that Itachi was there and said to Sasuke, "So?"
"You were right…but how did you know? How did you know that it would be okay?"
"I'm much older than you, and I know what you're going through in life. Shisui had the same problem as you and Naruto did."
"Really? Shisui did?"
"Yep…and with me too, his own cousin. Can you believe that? I knew at the time when you were down and started talking to me, that knew what was going on…and with whom as well."
"How did you know that it was with Naruto?"
"Naruto is….he's your best friend. I know that when you're down, he's the one who's there for you. I'm glad that it worked out for you, Sasuke. I really am." he said as he left his room, messing up Sasuke's hair as he passed by him.
Sasuke laid on his bed and thought about what Iatchi had said to him, and how everything was back to normal, for now anyways. He couldn't stop thinking about what he and Naruto would do.
The next morning, Naruto woke up with a start. He got dressed quickly and said to himself, "Okay, I'm going up to Sasuke's house to hang out after our little….situation that happened. I just gotta act normal."
Sasuke woke up and got into the shower without even bothering to look at the time. He got out and heard a knock at the door. He quickly wrapped himself in a towel and walked to the door to answer it. It was Naruto, and the look on this face was in shock as he saw Sasuke in a towel.
Naruto's jaw dropped and said to him, "Is this how you greet everyone you want to hang out with for the day?"
"N-no….I just got out of the shower. I didn't know what time it was when I woke up…so, what time is it anyways?"
"It's about eight in the morning."
"Why are you here so early? It's a holiday…"
"I wanted to spend the day with you, and that's what I planned on doing."
Sasuke rubbed his brow with his fingers and said, "Okay, you can come in then, just don't go in my room. I'll go get dressed really quick."
Naruto said to himself, "I think that this is going to be one crazy day…..Just one crazy day."