Sakura looks at herself in the mirror, she glosses her lips, applies mascara to her lashes. She brushes out her hair, and puckers her lips, finally unbuttoning three of the top buttons on her white uniform shirt, showing off a bit of her cleavage.

"Well, what's the big occasion?" Ino asks, checking her phone for the millionth time.

"Okay well you know how the gang is going to meet up at that new restaurant."

"The one near the mall?"

"Yea. That one, well Sasuke's going to be there."

'Really?"

"Yea, and well I thought I'd look sexy tonight for my future man," she purrs.

Sasuke slowly sips his soda, fixated on how the blonde's lips wrap around his chili cheese hot dog.

"Hey! Sakura over here," Naruto yells with a full mouth, flagging the girls down over to the guy's booth.

Sakura, Ino, and TenTen walk over to the large booth and squeeze themselves into the open seats.

"Neji, isn't Hinata supposed to be here?" Ino asks.

"She had to study for her exams." He replies.

Ino directs her attention to Shikamaru, "what about that girlfriend of yours? The blond one…"

"Temari. She had work today, so she couldn't come."

Silence blooms over the booth; a waitress delivers three extra-large baskets of fries.

"So, Sasuke…" Sakura dips a fry into a small cup of ketchup, "about Jiraya-sensei's English project. I was wondering if me and you would be able to-"

'Huh, first off what English project?" Naruto impedes.

"The one for Jiraya-sensei. The one where we have to write a fifty page essay on a book or author that had a huge impact on society." Sasuke responds.

Naruto stares at him, entirely oblivious to his short monologue.

Sasuke sighs, "the essay that's due in four weeks."

"What!?" Naruto shouts. "Sasuke, old buddy, old pal, you gotta help me out on this one. Pretty please?" Naruto flashes him his infamous puppy eyes.

Sasuke's heart does a little skip. "Fine I'll help you."

Sakura flashes Naruto a dirty look.

Sakura clings to Sauke's arm.

"Isn't it a beautiful night Sasuke?" Sakura purrs.

"I guess," he shrugs.

She faces him, and tucks a strand of her hair behind her ears. 'Is it as beautiful as me?" She purses her lips together.

Sasuke becomes highly uncomfortable.

"Uh…listen, Naruto's calling me and I promised to give him a ride to his place so we could get a start on the project." He shakes Sakura off of his arm, and walks over to Naruto; they get into his car- a dark blue Honda- and drive off together.

Sakura watches the car retreating into the distance, her whole entire body shaking in anger.

Naruto unlocks the front door, "yeah, so the place might be a bit of a mess you know, rarely ever get visitors to chez moi."

Sasuke balks at the messiness of the living room, as soon as the couple passes over the threshold.

"What the hell happened in here!?"

"I told you it's messy."

"Yeah I heard you say it was messy, but I didn't think a tornado had crashed through here." He glances at the thousands of idly tossed, super-sized ramen cups, candy wrappers, soda cans, and dirty laundry.

"Yea, well-"Naruto tosses his backpack onto the floor. "We should probably get started on the project."

Sasuke nudges a porno magazine with his sneaker. "I'm not working in here, until this place is clean."

"Come on Sasuke," the blonde whines, "its like close to midnight, and you want me to clean!"

Sasuke fixes him a stern look.

Naruto flops onto the floor next to Sasuke, as he powers up his laptop. Sasuke starts, "alright so I think we should-"he stops abruptly, hearing soft snoring. He turns and spots Naruto sleeping on the carpeted floor. He shuts down the computer, and gathers a blanket from the closet, using it to cover Naruto's sleeping form.

Naruto shifts slightly, Sasuke study's the blond. His angelic face…his soft…kissable lips. Sasuke barely registers as his face hovers a hairs breadth from that of the blonde's, he strokes a stray lock of hair off of the blonde's face. He moves in closer, their lips lightly touch, he licks the dobe's bottom lip, the taste of ramen laminating his tongue.

Naruto stirs, 'hmmm…Sasuke?" Groggily he reaches out to grasp where Sasuke should be, but only grabs air.

The front door softly closes