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Chapter Six: Naruto's Skills

"What are your plans for today?"

Sasuke twitched when he looked up from buttoning his shirt to see Naruto leaning against the bathroom doorframe brushing his teeth in nothing but boxers.

"I have to go get a new phone."

Naruto paused in his brushing and the toothpaste around his mouth swelled even more. "At eight in the morning?" Naruto spoke past the plastic in his mouth and turned back into the bathroom to spit it out. Sasuke waited until Naruto came back to get dressed.

"Like any normal healthy individual I'm going to eat breakfast." Sasuke sat on his bed and pulled on his socks.

Naruto tsked and tucked his belt into the loops on his dark blue jeans. Sasuke was gaining better control of himself to not look at the half-naked dobe as he constantly reminded himself that he was better than that and even then that the blonde was Itachi's. "You Uchihas are never normal."

Sasuke looked up as Naruto pulled on a light blue polo and ruffled his hair.

"Got another date?" Sasuke asked, taking in the flattering outfit.

Naruto made a weird face and shook his head. "No, but I want to talk to you about that later. I actually have a job interview at that pizza place we went to before at nine."

Sasuke hesitated on responding to either of those statements and decided to test his limits. "Do you want to have breakfast together? Save gas and all that?"

Naruto stared at him. Sasuke fidgeted. "How would you get back?"

"I could go get my phone during your interview and then come pick you up. My cousin dropped off my car last night, we can take that." Sasuke fidgeted as Naruto stared at him.

And then Naruto gave Sasuke the biggest grin he'd ever seen in his life. Sasuke could have sworn he'd died and gone to heaven.

"Alright then, Sasuke, let's go." Naruto grinned and Sasuke hurried to tie his laces while Naruto slipped on his flip flops.

Sasuke held back the grin that was threatening to burst onto his face when he saw the blonde waiting for him by the door with a gentle smile.

He grabbed his keys and wallet off his nightstand and rushed out the door, a chuckling Naruto following him.

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Sasuke sat in a booth exploring his new phone as he waited for Naruto. He took a picture of the glittery red vinyl of the booth and replaced the god awful phone company background with it. He sighed softly and took a sip of his coke, checking the clock and the door to the back again. Suddenly an obviously ecstatic Naruto burst through the door. He turned to the manager of the store and grinned brightly while he shook the man's hand. He man smiled back faintly and Naruto pranced over to the booth Sasuke was sitting at and slid in opposite him.

"I got the job!" Naruto exclaimed loudly, his face scrunched into a very anime-esque expression of glee. "I get to start in two days, and all the tips I make are mine!"

"Is that good?" Sasuke tucked his phone away and raised an eyebrow at Naruto's disbelieving look.

"Hell yeah, that's good! At my last job they did the divvying up the tips between everyone, so even though I brought in more than everyone else combined practically, I got a fraction of what was mine. I hated it."

"You're that good of a waiter?"

Naruto leaned back and grinned smugly. "I am such an amazing waiter that I have broken every record of tips received at every restaurant I've worked at. I get asked out at least three times every shift and I have even received parent hook ups, adoption offers, and marriage proposals."

Sasuke felt his jaw go slack.

Naruto chuckled, his eyes closing to cute little slits. "Kiba has the collection of numbers I've received. We tried to count once but gave up after 2000. I think it's fair to say I was justified in being disgruntled that I had to share my amazing tips with normal waiters."

Naruto opened his eyes in another gently amused smile. "You'll be attacked by fangirls with your mouth all open like that."

Sasuke snapped his jaw shut and glared mildly at the blonde.

The waitress who had given Sasuke his coke walked over and leaned back in a classic flirting pose. Sasuke shot Naruto a look but the blonde was busy smiling up at the brunette.

"So you're going to be working here?" She smiled back down at him.

"Yup, starting Tuesday. Name's Naruto"

"Awesome. We've needed a good waiter to replace the jerk we used to have. But you look really nice, Naruto."

Naruto smirked slightly and Sasuke's stomach coiled when the blue eyes flitted down the girl's body before smiling back up at her. "So do you."

The girl's smile grew wider and she stepped forward and brushed her fingers against Naruto's forearm. "I'm working all day Tuesday, so I'll probably be the one training you, though I doubt you'll need it. My name's Kara, so just ask for me when you get here and if you have any questions before then, my number's in the employee guide the boss gave you so feel free to call me if you need anything, okay?"

"I appreciate it, Kara. I look forward to seeing you Tuesday, then." Naruto tilted his head and smiled in a goodbye gesture and the girl waved and half-skipped back behind the counter.

"You're cheating on my brother already?" Sasuke hissed. The nerve of that girl! Is that how Naruto got all his tips?

"Huh?" Naruto looked at him, his smile fading.

"You two were so obviously flirting it made me sick."

Naruto looked confused. "I wasn't flirting."

"The hell you weren't. You checked her out."

"I did not! She looks good in those colors!" Naruto smirked and shrugged. "I guess it just comes naturally. People tell me all the time I'm a flirt. I don't mean to; don't tell Itachi, he might get weirder." Naruto's eyes narrowed slightly and Sasuke rose an eyebrow.

"Weirder? Is that what you said you wanted to talk to me about?"

Naruto perked up and leaned forward across the table. "Yeah! Is your family like super strict on physical stuff or something?"

Sasuke twitched. They surely hadn't had sex already, although, the blonde hadn't been home at eleven when Sasuke had gone to bed.

"I suppose. We all like our space. A lot of space." Sasuke mumbled, taking another sip of Coke.

"Hm…" Naruto fell back against the booth and looked out the window pensively.

"Why?"

Confused blue eyes landed back on him and Sasuke felt his stomach do something weird again.

"He didn't touch me at all last night. Didn't even attempt to hold my hand. It felt like I was just being awkwardly reunited; the only time it felt like a date was when he smiled at me."

Sasuke choked. "Itachi can smile?!"

Naruto snickered at Sasuke's strangled exclamation.

"Yeah, you should see it. It made the whole confusing gay thing worth it. But if he asks me out again, we're going somewhere more casual, damn it." Naruto glared at the window.

"So are you his boyfriend?" Sasuke asked testily.

Naruto sighed and knocked his head on the table. "I don't know! With a girl, I would've been a boyfriend the second we agreed to go out, but I don't know how gay things go cuz apparently they don't even hold hands on the first date!" Naruto banged his head on the table again.

"Shouldn't you talk to him about it then?"

Naruto peeked up at the carefully stoic raven. "Do you hate me or something? You're being awfully helpful for him being the brother you supposedly hate."

Sasuke glared. "You're the one who wanted to talk."

"True, true." Naruto propped his face up on his palm and stared at Sasuke. Sasuke twitched and fiddled with his straw, refusing to meet the clever blue eyes. "You know, for a bastard, I think you're turning out to be a really cool friend."

Sasuke didn't know whether to feel relieved or wince at the 'friend'. "Hn."

"And so you go back to the bastardliness." Naruto groaned and let his chin drop back to the table. "Hey, let's go get lunch somewhere."

"You don't want to stay here and flirt yourself a free meal?" Sasuke glanced at the brunette girl behind the counter.

Naruto growled. "I didn't mean to flirt, damn it. It shouldn't even count. And no I don't want to eat here, I'll be eating here too often after a couple days as it is."

Sasuke stared at the dobe. "Then where are we going?"

"There's a burger joint down the street."

Sasuke took his new phone out and checked the time.

"Hey, gimme your phone real quick!"

Sasuke glanced at Naruto before he surrendered his phone and went to pay the waitress for his soda.

Naruto followed him. "You have Itachi as aniki in here?"

Sasuke scowled back at the snicker in Naruto's voice as Kara dropped his change into his hand.

"Bye, Naruto." Kara chirped and Naruto glanced up from Sasuke's phone and waved before he followed the raven to the Mercedes Sasuke had gotten as a graduation gift.

Naruto handed Sasuke his phone back and Sasuke put it in the cup holder. "What'd you do to it?"

Naruto smirked at Sasuke's suspicious tone. "I just gave you my number, that's all."

Sasuke's heart jumped a little. Damn it, he had thought he was getting better.

"Hn."

Naruto snickered and gave Sasuke directions to the tiny burger place he'd seen on their way here.

Naruto laughed at Sasuke for ordering a side salad like a girl but when they sat down at the slightly sticky table, Naruto's mouth started watering at how refreshing the lettuce that was disappearing into Sasuke's mouth looked.

"Stop staring at my mouth, it's creepy." Sasuke grumbled and Naruto pouted and crossed his arms but a minute later Sasuke pushed the remaining half of the salad across the table to him. "Here."

Naruto looked up at Sasuke in surprise. "You wanted it, right?" Sasuke asked boredly.

Naruto looked down at the salad and felt something grow warm in his abdomen. The bastard was really turning out to be cool. "Thanks."

"Hn." Sasuke offered his fork and sighed in agitation when Naruto scrunched up his nose at it. "I don't have mono, dobe. I don't even have cooties." He thrust the fork in Naruto's direction and the blonde smiled at the little joke and took the utensil.

"Thanks."

"Hn."

Naruto let a little smile set itself on his lips as he looked at the bored raven. Yes, he was definitely getting to like this Uchiha.

Tsuzuku