chapter request from Eric Burrell

VI.

Naruto, Sasuke had decided a long time ago, was a complete and total idiot.

Even when the blond became the Hokage he was still freaking stupid and did so many things that made Sasuke shake his head in amazement that this dummy had become Hokage. There was no way it was proper for the Hokage to try and throw a party ever single week and not get reprimanded by his advisor for it. Sasuke was convinced Shikamaru had little to no care about what Naruto did each day and weekend.

Honestly, Sasuke wondered how on earth any kind of work got done when Naruto was trying to throw a party every weekend, and somehow succeed in doing so.

Like now. Here he was, the last of the Uchiha, stuck at a stupid party Naruto had put on for the village, complete with an insane amount of food and a sickening amount of saké. Sasuke was pretty sure the saké was all Tsunade's fault, and was the only reason she, as one of the new elders in the village, allowed the party to even go on.

Sometimes, Sasuke really hated being back in Konoha.

"Having fun?"

And other times, he didn't. Mostly, those times included Sakura, like right now.

Sasuke shook his head at Sakura, looking back to where Naruto was as he was trying to convince Hinata to dance with him. It was rather funny, because Hinata's face was bright red and she looked as if she was about to faint at the idea of dancing with the boy she loved.

"Naruto's been talking up the Hyuuga girl for ten minutes…"

Sakura laughed, nodding and watching just as Sasuke had been. "Naruto likes her as much as she likes him. It's cute!"

Shrugging, Sasuke looked from his idiot best friend to the girl beside him, wondering why on earth she over here instead of dancing with the young man that had brought her to the party.

"Where's your boyfriend?"

Sakura looked at Sasuke with nothing but confusion on her face, racking her brain to see if she could figure out who he was talking about, until it hit her. "Oh! You mean Akira? He's not my boyfriend! He's my cousin!"

"…what?"

"Heh, yeah. He's my cousin on my mom's side. I rarely get to see him, because he lives way out in Suna and has a family of his own. He's six years older than me."

That's why they looked alike! Sasuke finally understood why he thought it was so weird that Sakura was here with someone that looked a little bit like her, and now he knew why.

"Mm…" all Sasuke did was nod as Sakura's response, before grabbing her hand.

"Hey, wait! What are you doing?!"

"I want to dance with you."

"…the heck? Are you sure you're Sasuke-kun?"

"Yes, I'm sure." Sasuke rolled his eyes as he finally got Sakura out to where the rest of the couples were, not the least bit shocked to find Naruto and Hinata had finally made it there as well. "C'mon, Sakura. I'm not gonna hurt you."

Sakura nodded, after shooting the smallest of glares at her dear friend. She knew Sasuke wouldn't hurt her, not on purpose, but just didn't know if she wanted to dance right now. Not with it being a slow song that would force the two to be in such a close proximity.

Well… we do stay over at each other's houses a lot…

Sakura was calm as she allowed Sasuke to pull her close, keeping his arms around her waist while she wrapped hers around his neck and laid her head on his shoulder.

"See? I told you I wouldn't hurt you…"

Sakura laughed lightly, nodding. "You were right, Sasuke-kun…"

Both were silent after that. Sakura was happy as could be, even though she was doing her best not to show it, and Sasuke was clam and content.

"…Sasuke-kun?"

"Hm?" Sasuke had barely Sakura, she was whispering. He thought it wasn't really her, but answered anyway.

"It's all right that I still love you, right?"

Sasuke stopped moving to think for a moment, making Sakura hold her breath, as she thought he was going to say no and walk away.

After a moment, he started moving again, kissing Sakura on the top of her head.

"Yeah. It's… perfectly fine."

Sakura was shocked for a moment, but smiled, nodding as she hugged Sasuke tighter than she had been.

"I love you."

Author's Note: Did anyone else get miffed about today's chapter?
Not the CPR part, I'm fine with that(it was kinda creepy how sakura started pumping naruto's heart with her hand... like... ew). Just... we barely saw Sasuke, what's going on? Is he going to be ok? Is my baby going to live? ;-;
I'm also pretty ticked off that the Naruto Wikia is claiming Sasuke is dead.
THEY CAN'T TOY WITH MY HEART LIKE THAT. *cries*

Hopefully next week, whoever it is that's about to approach Sasuke (methinks it's obito, karin, juugo, or a white zetsu) will save him.

Sorry if this seems like a weird chapter or is too short. I haven't felt well today and I have this pain in my side that has been coming and going all evening...

See you guys next time~

EDIT: WAIT A SECOND.

THIS IS IN A COMMUNITY? :D

YAY.