A/N: Ugh, I am definitely getting out of schedule here but with school, it's hard to maintain the days I actually upload versus the days I should have uploaded.
DISCLAIMER: Kishimoto owns Naruto like I own a pair of shoes (for a very long time)
Sai was bent over a piece of paper, looking down at his swimming regimen with his math homework on the side. He twirled his pencil with his left hand and his cheek rested against the palm of his right hand. His foot tapped rhythmically in four time and he felt a tickle in his nose that kept on making him want to sneeze but it wasn't quite coming out. He tried to concentrate on what else to put down for his swimming regimen but he was quite distracted with the chattering blonde behind him.
"Kyuu! Tell me that joke again! The one about the street performer and the four guys in the back that couldn't see him! I still don't understand it!" Naruto whined into his phone. He kicked his feet on the bed and listened to his brother, carefully trying to pay attention. He was silent for a few small moments, contemplating the joke still. "… I still don't get it Kyuubi! Okay, tell it to me again! Maybe I'll get it this time!"
Leaning back in the chair, he tilted his head up at the ceiling and looked at some of the glow in the dark stars. "If you didn't understand it the first few times, what makes you think you'll understand it by being repeated ten more times. Just think about it dickless, you're not brainless." Sai groaned. He had listened to his friend talk to his brother for about half an hour talking to his brother but the last five minutes were spent about a joke he still didn't understand.
Not that he knew the joke himself, but if the blonde wasn't going to get the answer by having the joke repeated to him then he wouldn't get it soon.
Naruto glared at him but sat up in his bed. "I'll talk to you later in Kyuubi… Okay, I'll do well in school. You too, bye." He hung up the phone and put it in his pocket. "How's your stuff coming along Sai?"
"I'm getting a little hungry. Do you have anything to eat?" he asked as he set down his pencil on top of his work.
"We have leftovers that I cooked yesterday. We could just heat it up and eat in front of the tv. That sound good?"
"Sounds fine. I think I need a break."
Both boys left the blonde's bedroom and headed downstairs.
Naruto prepared their bowls while Sai just waited in front of the television, changing the channels and not staying on one in particular.
"Sai! I can hear you changing the channels! Will you stick to one dammit!" Naruto yelled from the kitchen. Then there was beeping coming from the kitchen. "One bowl down! One more to go!"
Just two minutes later, both boys sat in front of the television watching some mindless action movie playing on the air. They chatted about the movie in between their bites of food, some of their homework that they had yet to finish, and other subjects. And afterwards when the movie was over, the bowls were washed, and they downed a glass of milk (at Naruto's insistence), they stood in the middle of the living room. They weren't quite ready to return to doing homework.
Naruto stretched his back and looked at the time on the clock nearby. "Do you want to like, walk around the park or in town or something?" he asked.
Sai just shrugged but agreed to go walk around the park together.
About half an hour into their walk, Naruto was trying to reach into a pond to grab a toad while Sai stood off to the side.
"Come on little guy… I won't hurt you…" Naruto said sweetly to the toad sitting on a rock. He wiggled his fingers, trying to entice the amphibian onto his hand and stretched his arm out as far as he could without falling into the pond. "Sai, come help me get him! I want to bring him home!" he called, looking back briefly at his friend.
"That is disgusting Naruto." Sai grunted and he made a face at the toad in the pond. "If you actually touch that thing, you might catch something and get sick. Now get away from there!"
"What's the matter with you? You're around water all the time!"
"It's chlorinated!"
"You get dirty all the time when you do your art stuff!"
"There is a big difference between handling art supplies and creatures from the outside."
"Damn it Sai just help me-! Oh… he got away."
The toad had finally hopped off its rock and into the water, swimming away from the two boys.
Naruto walked back to Sai with a pout on his face and his arm crossed like a little kid. "He got away because you wouldn't help me!"
"Believe me Naruto, even if you had my help the thing still would not have gone home with you." Sai started to push his friend away from the pond to continue walking. "You have been obsessed with toads and frogs ever since you got that weird little pen."
"Its name is Gama-chan!" Naruto shouted. He pulled out his phone which actually had the little frog as a phone charm. "And he is adorable and I love him!"
"What about foxes? You liked foxes."
"I like both Gama-chan and foxes." Naruto corrected. "Kyuubi is the one who got me into foxes. And he also got me into reading this one book series and actually putting money in my piggy bank instead of letting it sit empty and-"
"Brother's complex." Sai interrupted.
Naruto kicked his shin but didn't continue on.
Their walk in the park turned into a walk into the town, the both of them still not feeling up to continue doing homework. So once they were in the town they decided to pass by the shops and look around to pass the time.
"Sai, no matter what I do or say, don't allow me to spend any money! I'm trying to save it up!"
"You got it dickless."
So the two of them walked around and window shopped. They occasionally stepped inside a certain store if it looked interesting. And just like Sai was assigned to do, he didn't let his friend buy anything that he saw in any store they went into. He even went as far as to take the blonde's wallet and put it in his own pockets. And no doubt that he would tease the blonde with sexual innuendos while simultaneously doing his job.
However Naruto started getting irritated so he brought him into the library nearby and pushed him towards the aquarium they had on display. Something about just watching fish swim around always brought a peace to the both of them. They even had a plan in the future to go visit an actual aquarium one day together.
"Ready to head back dickless?"
"Yeah I'm ready to go back home you dick."
On the way back Naruto continued to talk about the joke that he didn't understand. Kyuubi had told it to him a week ago and he still hadn't solved it. And finally fed up with the blonde complaining, Sai asked what the joke was.
Naruto looked up in thought trying to say the joke word for word and recite it. "An Englishman, a Frenchman, a Spaniard, and a German are all standing watching a street performer do some excellent juggling, I think is how it starts. The juggler notices that the four gentlemen have a very poor view, so he stands on top of a big box. Then the street performer says, 'Can you all see me now?'" Naruto took a breath and then finished the joke. "'Yes.' 'Oui.' 'Si.' 'Ja.'"
Sai chuckled and pat the top of Naruto's blonde hair. "Wow, that is so obvious. I believe that Sasuke-kun is right calling you a dobe." He chuckled.
"Hey! How come you got it right away? I don't get it!" he whined and stomped his foot.
"Just… just sleep on it." Sai sighed.
Night had fallen, their homework was all finished, they had eaten, and showered. Sai was on the floor, sleeping on the futon and of course, Naruto was on his bed. It was close to midnight when he woke up and started thinking about the joke.
Then he abruptly sat up and jumped on Sai, effectively waking him up. "I finally understand it!" he shouted.
"Naruto! What's going on?" Minato called.
"Naruto! I thought I said not to stay up late!" Kushina shouted, stomping coming towards the bedroom.
Both boys cowered in fear when the tired, red headed woman appeared at the doorway.
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"The both of you look tired. What happened?" a classmate asked as she approached Naruto and Sai when they entered the classroom. "Is it that exam that we have to do soon? Are you tired because of that? I'm pretty beat too, studying for it."
Naruto shook his head and rubbed at his neck. "No, it's not that we… Wait, we have a test?"
Sai rubbed at his temples and lightly nudged his friend. "I don't like loud noises early in the morning dickless. We're tired because of some stupid joke he didn't understand until last night. Then he jumped on me and screamed that he finally understood and then… his mother came into the room."
Their classmate just gave them a sympathetic smile and pats both of their shoulders in encouragement. "There there, I'm sure when it comes to lunchtime I'm sure Naruto-kun will feel better."
"Because of the food? Food does make me happy and brighten my day."
"No silly! Doesn't spending time with Uchiha-senpai always cheer you up? You seem to be in a good mood whenever he is around or after you're done being with him." She leaned in to whisper, "Is it because you really like him Naruto-kun?"
Naruto's face flushed red but he tried to play it off by pouting. "I have no idea what you're talking about!" he pouted and pulled Sai to their designated seats. He leaned back in his chair and slouched against the back and his eyes started to feel heavy again, tempting him to go right back to sleep. Then suddenly he felt his seat tilt back and he jerked. "Fuck!"
Some of the students laughed at the sight.
Apparently Sai had actually snuck up behind Naruto's chair and started to slowly tilt him back. He made sure to keep a secure grip on the chair to ensure that his friend never actually fell. "Wakey wakey." Sai teased.
Naruto glared up at Sai and continued to pout. "You are such a dick! And I want juice!"
"Well that's too bad because sensei just walked in. And now you have to wait to get your juice."
But when it was finally lunchtime, Naruto happily received a juice box from Sai and practically started shaking when he tried to open it. He was really excited just to get a small juice box, which Sai had actually pointed out. And Naruto just replied that there was nothing wrong about getting excited about small things like getting a box of juice or not tripping over untied shoelaces or finding lots of money in your pocket.
"Yes! This taste so good! I love juice!" Naruto moaned out after drinking a bit of juice from the box.
"Calm down Uzumaki, don't get horny just because you drank a little bit of juice."
Both Naruto and Sai turned around to see Sasuke walking towards them with a bento box in one hand and a bottle of water in the other. He approached the two of them and looked down at Naruto. "You look a little tired Uzumaki. You get enough sleep last night?"
"Okay, so get this senpai. My brother told me this joke a week ago and I just did not get it until last night! I called my brother to tell me the joke again and I thought that I would understand if he told it to me again. So I told the joke to Sai and he said that it was so obvious! And I didn't figure out the joke until last night!" Naruto explained as he walked with Sasuke.
"So what's this joke that took a week for you to figure out?" Sasuke asked.
While Naruto and Sasuke walked together, neither had taken notice that Sai was not with them. Instead he had discreetly slowed down his pace so that the blonde and the Uchiha could walk together. But a decent distance away he watched the two of them walk side by side… and Naruto's ass.
But mostly to watch the two walk together.
"So I guess no more tournaments until next spring senpai. At least not until next year." Naruto commented. It had been a week since the tournament and everyone was still congratulating their school's swim team in third place for their medley. "Unless you plan on not continuing for your third year?"
Sasuke shrugged his shoulders. "Maybe, maybe not. It doesn't really matter to me in particular, I know it won't affect me when I'm adult. For me, it's just a nice extracurricular to have." Then he turned to Sai to ask him the same question.
Sai just simply stated that he would continue if the art club wouldn't let him back in for his second year. Then he turned to his friend and his senpai and asked, "So when are you two going to go out on a date?"
Naruto yelped and reflexively punched Sai in the arm. Sasuke just looked at him owlishly before letting a smirk come onto his face. He put an arm around his kouhai and pulled him close. "What do you say Uzumaki? Sai wants a date from us."
"I uh… I don't know…" Naruto said slowly. "I mean, do I like you enough senpai for me to even go out with you and call it a date?"
Suddenly there were whispers that he heard so Naruto turned around and flushed at a group of some of their classmates that had walked by them. "Oh my gosh! Naruto-kun and Uchiha-senpai are going on a date!" one of them had whispered. "And did you see the way Uchiha-senpai was holding Naruto-kun?"
And then they were gone as quickly as they had come.
"I… they think we're going on a date now…" Naruto mumbled, dumbstruck from the idea of going on a date with his senpai. "I didn't… They think…"
Sasuke took opportunity of the moment. "Well we certainly can't let them be disappointed Uzumaki. Where would you like to go for our date?" he asked. He had a few simple ideas to go on for a date but he thought that it would be courteous to ask what his kouhai would want to do on the date.
That is if Naruto would recover any time soon to answer his question.
So Sai slapped the blonde's back. "Don't be rude dickless. Sasuke-kun is asking you where you would like to go on your date."
Naruto looked between the two of the boys and down at the floor. "I… do we have to go on a date?"
"I would like it if we did Uzumaki." Sasuke answered. "I want to go on a date with you."
"I… okay." Naruto sighed, almost in defeat. But the way Sasuke had said that he wanted to go on a date with him had struck something within him so he allowed it. "But it has to be next week, I can't do it this week."
"Why?"
Then blue eyes lit up with excitement and he started bouncing on his heels. "I'm going to go see my brother this weekend!"
A/N: Don't worry, Naruto going to see Kyuubi will be included in the next chapter. And so will Sasuke and Naruto's date, because I'm almost ten chapters into this story and there hasn't been a significant progression because I've been busy and lazy. But yeah, I'm gonna try to turn up the romance between our two little twats within the next few chapters.
And I'm sure you have all heard very sad news that the very last manga chapter of Naruto will be November 10. So put aside your ship wars and remember how Naruto had brought something to your life. Like, it took up at least a decade of my life so for sure I'm going to be sad… and stuff. And don't forget about the last Naruto movie too which will be coming out in December (at least for Japan).
