Summary: Sasuke and Naruto have strange ways of showing each other they care. My own personal random word challenge. 50 words, 1 word for each chapter. SasuNaruSasu
Warnings: Yaoi, of course. You'll get lemon warnings as they come.
Disclaimer: Trust me, if I owned Naruto, I wouldn't have to write fanfiction.
a/n: I was bored and I already had this written, so I just proofread it and decided to go ahead and post it. This is a shorter one. Then I'll go back to working on Guess Who. Thanks much for your awesome reviews! I'm glad everyone enjoyed the last chapter. It was my favorite so far.
The Dobe and Teme Chronicles
Chapter 4 – List
Naruto and Sasuke were stuck on guard duty tonight. It was no secret how much Naruto hated guard duty. It was just so boring. Sasuke, of course, just took to it like he always did...it was simply another mission to complete.
To pass at least some of the time, Naruto brought a sheet of paper with him, one he hadn't looked at in a long time. Actually, he'd forgotten about it until he found it a few days before when he finally cleaned out one of his drawers. He began to read through it, even though the moon was the only light he had.
"What are you doing dobe?"
"I'm looking this over." He held it out. Sasuke took it and glanced at it.
"A list?"
"Yep. I made it back when I was in the academy. I wrote down all the goals I had for myself."
"And what did it include? Being the world record holder in ramen eating? Coming up with the best prank ever? Getting Sakura to like you?" He asked with a raised brow.
Naruto glared. "Bastard." He yanked his sheet back from the Uchiha's grasp. "It's not like that!"
"Hn." Sasuke grabbed the sheet once again with a smirk.
"Teme! Give it back!" Naruto yelled and reached for the paper only for Sasuke to shift it to his other hand.
"Hmm...let me think...No."
"Teme..." Naruto growled.
"Let's see..." He looked down at the list. Between his sharingan and the moonlight, he could see the writing clearly. "Damn dobe, your penmanship is completely illegible."
"Well then give it back so you don't have to trouble yourself with reading it." Naruto tried to reach out for the just out of reach list. Sasuke slapped his hand.
"Hey!"
With a smirk Sasuke started reading the list aloud. "Number one...become a genin." Not much of a surprise there. Everyone in the academy had that goal. "Number two..." He smirked, "Beat Sasuke. Well, you're already a step behind there dobe." He dodged a quick punch from the blond, then grabbed another fist coming toward his face. "And this just proved it."
"Shut up teme!" Naruto yelled, reaching once again for the paper that Sasuke wouldn't give him.
"Number three...get my first kiss from Sakura." Sasuke couldn't help the almost uncharacteristic snort of laughter. "Well, I definitely had that one right. Guess that goal didn't work out too well either."
"Yeah...well, that was your fault."
"So says the one who fell into me."
"It wasn't my fault, I was pushed! Like I'd want to kiss a bastard like you."
"That's not what you were saying yesterday." Naruto immediately blushed. Fortunately, the darkness hid it from his teammate.
"Jerk." he mumbled.
"Hn. Number four...learn a super duper awesome jutsu." Sasuke just raised a brow. "You're an idiot."
"And you're a bastard! Besides, I did, didn't I? Hello! Shadow clones. Rasengan. Rasen Shuriken."
"If you think so dobe."
"Dammit teme! If you're just going to make fun of my list, give it back." He yelled and reached a hand out to grab the old sheet of paper. Sasuke pulled it just out of reach.
"I don't see why you're making such a big deal out of it. You were twelve and stupid. Almost everyone has stupid goals at that age."
"Even you?"
"Hn." Sasuke didn't voice an agreement or disagreement with that one.
"Oh don't hide behind a grunt. It's true." Naruto suddenly stood up in a perfect imitation of a freshly made genin Sasuke. "Ahem! 'I have a dream...no an ambition to kill a certain man.'"
Sasuke glared. "Dobe."
Naruto smirked. "Teme." Sasuke's eyes narrowed.
"Number five..." Sasuke moved on before he gave into his urge to hit the smirking blond. "Figure out why everyone hates me." Suddenly, the list didn't seem so funny anymore. "Wait. You didn't know?"
Naruto glanced away. "Not until the day I failed the exam. That traitor Mizuki-sensei told me."
"Ah." Sasuke looked down the rest of the list. Almost everything else on the list struck a sad chord inside him. 'Try to find out who my parents were.' 'Make enough money to buy new weapons.' 'Be able to go to a restaurant that doesn't kick me out or serve me rotten food.' It was easy to forget that Naruto, despite all his constant smiles, had lived a life that no one would wish on a child.
'Become Hokage' was way down at the bottom of the list. Sasuke eyes widened a bit in surprise. He'd have figured that would be up at the top. Once he finished, he carefully folded the paper and silently passed it to his equally silent friend. Naruto glanced at Sasuke briefly before taking the folded paper and pocketing it. The silence was heavy and Sasuke felt uncharacteristically uncomfortable with it. So, after gathering his thoughts, he asked about what surprised him most.
"I kind of figured becoming hokage would be first on your list. Not last." Naruto shrugged and looked down at the ground.
"Yeah, well, it wasn't exactly written in order of priority. I had to work up to hokage, you know."
"Hn." It was silent between them once again as they kept their thoughts to themselves and looked out into the darkness. At least this time it wasn't as uncomfortable as before. After a while, Sasuke chuckled. "You know, we really were stupid back then. Remember Sakura's introduction?"
Naruto couldn't help but laugh at that. "Of course. Hers was easy." His voice changed to a squeaky falsetto as he stood up again with his hands together and attempted to look girly by batting his eyelashes. "My name is Haruno Sakura and I like..." He looked at Sasuke with googly eyes. "And my dream for the future..." He looked again at Sasuke with a fangirly squeal. Sasuke gave an uncharacteristic snort before he gave in and full out laughed. And Naruto almost fell over laughing with him. The smile he flashed Sasuke after he calmed down was one of gratitude and genuine happiness. He didn't have to say it aloud. He knew Sasuke understood without words that he was thankful for the mood lifter.
Sasuke sighed and crossed his long legs as he leaned back in the hard chair. "You know, we should start a new list."
"Why?" Naruto asked. With an elegant shrug of his shoulders, Sasuke answered.
"You still have goals. And I finally have some goals of my own that don't involve blood and vengeance. It would only make sense to write them down."
"And if nothing else, we can read them ten years from now and make fun of ourselves eh? "
"It would be entertaining, at least."
"Yeah." Naruto smiled and tilted his chair back on it's legs.
"Well then..."
"Alright fine, I'll do it. You make your list, I'll make mine. I bet I'll accomplish the stuff on my list before you."
"Tch...You wish dobe. I'll finish long before you."
"Will not!"
"Hn."
"Don't you 'Hn' me bastard!"
"Hn."
Naruto growled and was about to punch the bastard when his chair tipped back a bit too far. "AHHH." Naruto crashed to the ground with his feet in the air. Sasuke snickered.
"Idiot."
"Shut up teme! I could be hurt here."
"As if. You have too hard a head for that dobe."
"Bastard."
"Dead last."
"Ass."
Their arguing continued the rest of the shift.
But, at least it passed the time.