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Chapter 9: It'll Be Okay

It's been a couple of days since Itachi and Naruto have gotten out of the hospital. We're back in school and everything seems to be normal. Well, as normal as it can get. A life that has Naruto in it is never going to be normal. When the homeroom bell rings we all get up and leave the room.

"Sasuke." Kiba runs up to me.

"Yeah?"

"I-I have ... uh .. something to tell you." He better not be telling me he likes me. Maybe I should tell him I overheard him and save him the embarrassment.

"I li-"

"I overheard your conversation with Naruto."

"Wha-" Kiba stares at me blushing slightly. "You mean ... you know then?"

"Mhmm."

"Oh ... uh-"

"I'm sorry, but I like someone else."

"I figured." Kiba nervously laughs. "Can I ask who it is?"

"You won't like it, but you can't tell him if I tell you."

"I won't tell him."

"It's Naruto." Kiba's eyes widen and he stares at me a little more than surprised.

"Naruto?"

"You guys talking about me?" Naruto says walking beside Kiba scaring us both.

"Hey Naruto." Kiba smiles acting like I didn't tell him anything.

"What were you guys talking about, sorry for interrupting your talking time but you can continue now."

"We were just talking about-" Kiba was cut off by a loud siren.

"A fire drill?" Naruto sighs and we all walk outside and find our teacher.

"You three. Why are you so late?" Our teacher yells at us and tells us to get in line. We stand here for a while until the announcements come on telling us we can go back inside. I start to walk into the school but something grabs my wrist and drags me from the school. I look over and see that Naruto was the one dragging me with him.

"Naruto What are you doing?"

"Going home."

"Why are you taking me? I don't feel like getting in trouble right now."

"It'll be fine Sasuke, I want to go and fix up the house in the forest."

"How are we going to fix it?"

"With tools and stuff ... duh." I roll my eyes and Naruto lets go of my wrist. When we get to Tsunade's house, Naruto runs in to grab the supplies. When he came back out he had a bag.

"Let's get going." We walk to the edge of the forest and start to climb up the hill. Both of us falling a couple of times before we reach the top. Finally we reach the meadow. "Hey I brought this." Naruto reaches in the bag and pulls out a tub.

"What is it?"

"Tuna."

"Why do you have ... tuna?"

"For the cat under the porch, if they're still there that is." Naruto laughs pulling it back in the bag. We walk into the forest again and reach the house. Naruto reaches into the bag again and he hands me the tuna. I unscrew the cap and set it in front of the hole they were in. There was a tiny meow and two pairs of eyes appear. The mom cat slowly comes out and cautiously sniffs the tuna taking a small bite. The kitten walks out and tries to eat it also. The kitten was black, white, and yellow. For some reason I wanted to take it home with me.

"Let's get to work." I stand up and take one more look. The mother cat didn't look to well, she was so skinny you could see her ribs. I wonder how long they've been here for. I walk up the stairs and Naruto follows me.

"Here is a hammer." Naruto hands me the hammer and I look around.

"Naruto."

"Yeah?"

"How are we going to fix this place if we have no wood or nails?"

"Good question."

"I'll look around for something to use, start to tare up boards that need replaced." I walk outside and look around the house. I go to the back of the house and see a shed. I walk over to it and open it up seeing piles of wood and nails. "Well this should do." I walk in and grab some wood and nails and go back inside. "I found these." Naruto looks up from the floor and smiles.

"Great." We worked on the house until it started to get dark. We got a lot of the floor to be safer to walk on, but it was still in bad shape. I decided to go outside to see the container of tuna completely empty so I pick it up and turn around to Naruto. His smile didn't look like it usually does, which made me a little concerned. "We should probably get back now." I nod and walk to the meadow with him and down the hill in silence. The silence made me kind of fidgety. Normally Naruto talks when we walk anywhere, maybe he's got something on his mind.

"Naru-"

"Sasu-" We both tried to say each others name which surprised us both. "Sorry, you can go first." Naruto laughs scratching the back of his head.

"I was just wondering if you were okay."

"Yeah, I guess I'm fine." He smiles but I could tell he was faking it. "I'm a little sad that my house got destroyed, but it's getting rebuilt right now so its okay." He stops talking for a little while letting us walk in silence yet again, until he spoke again. "H-hey Sasuke." I look over and Naruto was contently looking at the ground.

"Yeah?"

"You know on picture day when you got mad at me?" I raise an eyebrow at him.

"Yeah?"

"And you know how you went to the roof and Sakura talked to you?"

"Mhmm."

"I kind of ... maybe ... overheard your conversation with her."

"Okay?"

"You don't care?" Naruto looks at me a little confused.

"Why should I-" Then I remember what happened and my eyes widen slightly. Sakura said who I liked. "Dammit." I whisper so only I could hear it. "What did you exactly hear?"

"Well, uh, the whole thing." I look over and see him looking at the ground again, but then back to me with saddened eyes. "I didn't mean to eavesdrop I just ..." He looks to his hands. "I meant to tell you sooner but I was afraid you would get really mad."

"I'm not mad, Naruto."

"I'm sorry I won't do it again! Please don't be-" Naruto's eyes widen and he got a confused look on his face. "Y-you're not mad?"

"No."

"I don't know what to say, I was planning on you being super mad at me."

"I don't really care that you know, Naruto. As long as you don't care then it's fine."

"I have to ask this one question." I glance to him raising an eyebrow. "Why me?" How did I know this was coming.

"That, you are going to have to find out by yourself."

"But-"

"I'm not gonna say."

"Fine." He pouts crossing his arms. Then a smirk formed. "You must have liked that kiss at my house." I felt my eyes narrow and I look at him from the corner of my eyes. "So I'm right? That must have been why you were so weak in the knees afterward." I turn my gaze into a glare which makes him smile even more. "That really must have been hard for you to control yourself." If we weren't so close to my house I would have strangled him. I turn to my house and quickly walk to the door only to be stopped by Naruto grabbing my wrist again. "Wait, I have a question."

"What is it?"

"I'm going on a trip with Jiraiya tomorrow and everyone else is coming, we are spending the night there then leaving the next day. Do you want to come too?"

"What time do you want me to be at Tsunade's?"

"Seven in the morning." Naruto's smile grew. Great. Early.

"I'll be there." Naruto let go of my wrist and smiled waving as he walked away.

"See you tomorrow!" He ran off and I go inside.

"I'm home." I take my shoes off and see Itachi standing right in front of me which almost makes pee myself. Was he standing there the whole time?

"Did you ditch school today?" Dammit.

"Yeah."

"Why?"

"Naruto made me."

"Oh, I see. That makes it totally NOT okay, Sasuke."

"Look, I'm sorry. I won't try to do it again." I walk past him and he sighs.

"Sasuke." Itachi says making me look back.

"Yeah?"

"I heard Naruto outside with you."

"Oh, right. I'm going on a day trip with him and everyone else tomorrow, we'll be back the day after tomorrow."

"Oh, okay." Itachi sighs.

"Oh and Naruto knows that I like him now."

"Really?!"

"Yeah." I look at him and see him smiling as I walk into my room.

XXXXXX

"Come on, come on, come on! Let's go people!" Naruto shouts pushing people into the car after we put our bags in the back, he managed to push me into the van as well. Because he pushed me in first I was pushed into the back of the van with Kiba and Lee. Fantastic.

"Is everyone in?" Jiraiya gets in and closes the door looking back at us and smiling when he sees my glare. "Good, then let's go. It will be a couple hours till we get there so relax." A couple hours. Great.

The whole trip I had to restrain myself from punching both Kiba and Lee. Lee was going on about Guy and youth and Kiba was just being Kiba. When everyone gets out of the car I look around. There is a beach, and a forest behind our cabin. The cabin looks pretty ... small. Can it really fit all of us comfortably?

XXXXXX

"I see you finally made it Jiraiya." Tsunade says walking from the cabin with Orochimaru beside her. Are. You. Freaking. Kidding. Me. I glare at Orochimaru when I see him smirk. I could see Naruto doing the same. I walk over to Naruto and elbow him in the side.

"Did you know he was going to be here?" I say glancing at Naruto then back to Orochimaru.

"No. I knew Tsunade was so I should have guessed he would be here."

"Dammit." I look down to the ground and clench my fists.

"I won't leave you alone long enough for him to touch you, Sasuke. Don't worry about him, let's just focus on us." Naruto stepped closer to me making me look up to see him smiling.

"Right." I go to the van again with him and grab our bags, handing Naruto his then shutting the trunk. When we walk inside I take a look around. It looks even ... smaller than the outside. "Where do we go?"

"Over here." Naruto was standing in front of a room. I walk over and into the room. There's one bed.

"Okay, now where's my room?"

"In here." Naruto looks at me confused then he smirks. "Or are you afraid to share a room with me, Sasuke?" I clench my fist around my bag's handle and glare at him.

"As if." I walk over throwing my bag on the bed.

"It's settled then." Naruto smiles and walks over to the door holding something in his hands. "Get changed, we're going swimming." My eyes widen slightly. Swimming? No way am I getting my hair wet. It takes hours to do.

"I can't."

"Why not?"

"I didn't bring a swimming suit."

"Why not?"

"I didn't know there was going to be a beach here."

"But ... wear your shorts."

"Fine." I sigh crossing my arms walking out of the room with Naruto following me.

"I'll be right down there, I have to change real quick so I'll meet you down there."

"Okay." I walk out the door seeing Tenten, Lee, Hinata, Ino, Shikamaru, and Sakura down at the beach.

"Sasuke, where's Naruto?" Sakura walks up to me.

"Getting changed."

"I see, why don't you go help him." She nudges my arm laughing.

"Ha, ha very funny." I roll my eyes and take my shirt off throwing it on the sand beside me. I sit down laying back, crossing my arms behind my head and closing my eyes. When all of the sudden the sun goes behind some clouds making it darker so I open one of my eyes.

"Hey Sasuke." Naruto's smiling face was blocking out the sun.

"You didn't take long."

"I didn't want to keep you waiting." Naruto laughs moving out of the suns path blinding me. I quickly sit up and look at him. "Let's go."

"Where?"

"In the water, come on."

"Not happening."

"Why not?"

"I don't want to."

"Your coming in." Naruto grabs my arm and pulls me up dragging me knee deep into the water.

"Fine, fine just let go." He smiles and lets go and we walk deeper into the water. I look back and notice everyone else running towards us full speed. I gotta get out of the way, but as soon as I thought that something happened.

"Sasuke!" Naruto jumped at me laughing.

"Naruto, wait!" We fall into the water the rest of the way. Dammit, I am so going to kill him. I could feel something wrap around my waist. What is the dobe doing? I quickly stand up and see Naruto, with just the tops of his shoulders above the water. That fool, is he trying to grope me with all these people around? I quickly push Naruto away glaring at him. "What the hell Naruto, not here." Naruto raises his hands and his eyes widen.

"Sasuke?" Naruto furrows his brows and lowers his hands, that's when I realize there was something still around my waist. I reach down and feel my side pulling up something. Seaweed. Fan-fucking-tasic. I look over and see Naruto smirking. Dammit.

"I totally understand." Naruto walks behind me running his hand along my back teasingly. "So when? Tonight? Its should be easy since we're sharing a room you know."

"Wha-?! Wait... I-" Sasuke pauses and smirks. "I wouldn't want you to make to much noise. You can't handle that much pain dobe."

"Dammit Sasuke, I was supposed to be the one picking on you." Naruto sighs standing in front of me. I lean forward grabbing his shoulder and get closer to his ear.

"Sorry, I just couldn't control myself." I glance over and see Naruto slightly blushing. He looks over at me making me smirk. I then release him completely satisfied walking out of the water. I look over and see Kiba rolling his eyes and Sakura smirking. That's when I remember that my hair got wet. Great, now I have to go fix it.

I walk up to the house passing Jiraya, Orochimaru, and Tsunade. They all see me and smile, Orochimaru being especially creepy for even him. I walk in the cabin and right into the bathroom, looking straight at the mirror trying to fix my hair as best as possible (which isn't very good). I walk out of the bathroom and into Naruto's and mine room grabbing my bag.

"Sasuke."

"I don't care."

"That's rude, Sasuke."

"Why should I care if I'm rude to you?" I turn and see Orochimaru smirking in the doorway. Maybe I shouldn't have came in here alone.

"Because I'm your boss."

"Not here you aren't."

"Oh, Sasuke. That's where you're wrong."

"What?"

"You see," Orochimaru walks closer. "I am your boss. You have to do what I say."

"You couldn't make me do anything that you say."

"Would you do it if Naruto was in danger?" My eyes widen and I glare at him.

"What the hell are you saying?"

"All that I'm saying is that I know that you care for Naruto deeply."

"That doesn't mean anything."

"I know you wouldn't willingly put him in danger, now would you?"

"You're such an asshole, you know that?" My glare intensifies making him smirk.

"I'll ask you once, would you want him to get hurt because of you?"

Don't reply, just ignore him. I try walking past Orochimaru, but he stops me.

"I didn't tell you, you could go."

"I don't need permission from you for what I can or cannot do."

"Sasuke."

"If you don't let me go then Naruto will-"

"Naruto will what?"

"Just let me go."

"Not willingly." I try pushing past but he grabs my wrist pushing me on the bed. I quickly kick my feet up kicking him in the chest getting up and leaving the room, immediately running into Naruto.

"Ah." I look in front of me and see him staring at me confused, and dripping wet.

"Sasuke?"

"Naruto." I take a deep breath and step away from him.

"Is everything ... okay?"

"Just peachy." I walk past him out the doors, I could hear him follow me.

"Sasuke."

"What is it dobe?"

"What are you doing?"

"Going outside, I forgot my shirt."

"Oh." I quickly walk to the beach and grab my shirt. I look back and see that Naruto wasn't following me any more. That really sucked, because I wanted to talk to him right now. I glance to my left and see Naruto talking to Shikamaru and Kiba.

"Hey Sasuke." Sakura stands next to me smiling.

"Hi."

"That little performance you did in the water a little bit ago was quite interesting."

"Let's not talk about that, shall we."

"Sasuke, what's wrong?" I glance at her.

"Why?"

"You seem different."

"Sorry."

"Guys!" Naruto runs up to us smiling. "We're going on a hike, you guys need to come with."

"Alright." Sakura eagerly smiles.

"Can't."

"What? Why not Sasuke?" Naruto pouts crossing his arms.

"I don't feel to good." I actually felt fine, but I didn't want to go on another hike.

"Aww man, well I could stay back with you." Naruto smiles again.

"No, you were happy about the hike, go on and have fun with everyone. I'll be here when you get back." Hopefully.

"O-okay." Naruto sighs looking back to everyone for a second then back to us. "They probably want to go now, so I guess we should go. Come on Sakura." Naruto and Sakura run to the group and Naruto looks back shouting. "I'll be back before you know it, so don't worry." He turns around and runs off.

I turn around and walk to the cabin. I walk into the living room looking around. Nothing to do here. I walk back outside and down to the beach where the adults were. I walk to the water taking my shoes off and walking along the edge so the water runs over my feet. I found it kind of calming. I walk down the beach pretty far and stop. I turn and look to the sea closing my eyes taking a breath. Maybe I should stay here until Naruto comes back.

I look over and sigh. I need a shower. I walk back along the beach and to the cabin, trying my best to avoid the three on the beach. I quickly walk inside and look out the window in the door to see if they saw me, they didn't. At least if they did notice they didn't care. I feel my hair and glare in the bathroom mirror. The sea water made it feel all scratchy. I turn the water on and strip waiting for it to get warm.

I open the closet and grab a towel setting it next to my clothes. I step in the shower and close my eyes. I let my mind go black. I wash my hair and stand in the water for a while until I finally decided to get out. I wrap a towel around my waist and do my hair (which takes an hour). I look at the clock when I walk in my room to change. 6:48. Naruto has been gone for a long time, I wonder if they got lost. That dobe, it wouldn't surprise me. I slightly smile and put my clothes on shoving my dirty clothes in my bag.

"What are you smiling at Sasuke?" I immediately turn around shocked by the voice, Orochimaru. He steps close to me as soon as I turn around and he pushes me on the bed roughly kissing me. I pull away and hit him with my head since he had my hands pinned down. Damned old bastard. He started messing with my shirt making my eyes narrow into a glare.

"What the hell." I move my one free hand and try to push him away, that's when I notice where my knee was. Between his legs. I bring my leg up as hard as I could and he backed up for a second so I turn over and start crawling across the bed. He grabs my ankles and pulls me back, but this time I was on my stomach. I try and turn but he pushes me back down. He starts pulling my shirt up again. He gets it halfway up and he stops. The front door opened. He backed up and looked at the door, but as he was doing that I turned over punching him in the face as hard as I could and I run out the door past Jiraiya and Tsunade.

Holy shit. Did he seriously just try to rape me? I run to the back of the cabin and look to see if he was following me, he wasn't. I walk further into the woods behind the cabin and lean on a tree. I need to stop freaking out. I sit down next to the tree bringing my knees up to my chest resting my elbows on my knees, and putting my face in my hands.

I heard leaves crunching so I flinch looking up starting to get up. When I see that it was a confused Naruto I sighed with relief sitting back down closing my eyes.

"Sasuke, did something happen?"

"I can't handle this anymore, I have no clue what he's going to do or when he's going to appear." I see Naruto look to me even more confused.

"What did he do?"

"He just ..." I clench my fist and look to Naruto. "Naruto I..." I look to the ground. This was hard for me to admit so I was going to take my time. "I'm just scared, Naruto." I see his eyes widen a little from the corner of my eyes.

"Sasuke," Naruto reaches over to me hugging me which surprises me. "I'm sorry for leaving you here alone when I said I wouldn't. I ran back as soon as I remembered. I'm really sorry, I didn't know he was going to do anything this drastic.

"I'm not trying to worry you Naruto." I put a hand on his arm and slightly smile at him letting him know I'm okay. "Let's get back." I stand up and Naruto does too.

"Right." As we were on our way back, I noticed Naruto walking closer to me than normal. Especially when Orochimaru looked at us. He was practically on top of me. We walk over to Jiraiya and stand right next to him.

"Jiraiya." Naruto pokes him when he doesn't look back.

"Huh, oh hey Naruto, Sasuke. Something wrong?" Yes!

"Well, uh." He looks over to me and I nod no. "Nope. I was just wondering if we were going to have a fire tonight."

"Of course, In fact I'll start it right now." Jiraiya walks over to Tsunade and it looks like he's telling her to help him, and apparently she said okay because they both walk over to the house grabbing some newspaper and a lighter.

"You know that we should tell someone." Naruto looks at me.

"Not right now."

"Sasuke, this won't stop unless we tell someone."

"I know, but I just don't want to tell anyone yet."

"I understand, let's go by the fire." Naruto was practically holding my hand. We both take a seat around the fire as everyone else comes back from the hike taking a seat with us. I look over and see Orochimaru directly across from me so I glare at him. I then feel something around my hand making me look over. Naruto was holding my hand glaring at Orochimaru too. Naruto really wasn't going to leave me alone. I smile and look at the fire. It was huge, but I could make it even better. I just didn't want to let go of Naruto's hand.

"Hey I have an idea!" Sakura says sitting next to me, she gets everyone's attention but she was looking right at me smirking. If it's truth or dare again I swear I'll leave right now. "Let's play would you rather." Dammit why another game. I sigh leaning back in my chair. "I'll start. Naruto, would you rather go without ramen or go without Sasuke." Both Naruto's and my eyes widen and we look at her. I hate playing games with her.

"Um ... That's ... uh ... without er ... Sasuke." I look over at him surprised. "Sorry." He whispers to me as everyone says ohhhhh. I try letting go of his hand but he grabbed my hand harder making it so I couldn't let go. "Sai, would you rather spend a year alone with Ino or Sakura?"

"Ino. Hinata, would you rather date Kiba or Shino?"

"Uh ... m-maybe ... uh ... K-Kiba." I move around in my seat to get comfortable and Kiba's phone started singing 'You don't understand, you don't understand. What you do to me when you hold his hand. We were meant to be-" Kiba quickly answers it looking at me confused then looking away. I furrow my bows and take out my phone holding it down by my side so only Sakura could see I had it out. Oh shit. How the hell did I call Kiba? What ... that's my ring tone for his phone. Well this is awkward. I hang up and shove it in my pocket again. Naruto looks over at Sakura since she was hiding a little laugh, then he looks to me and I just shake my head no. "Lee, w-would you rather kiss Tenten or Neji?"

"I would rather kiss Neji!" Lee stands up running to Neji making Neji spaz quickly standing up and running.

"Lee, it wasn't a dare! You don't have to do it!"

"Come on Neji!"

"Absolutely not!" Neji runs into the cabin with Lee following him. Good luck Neji. I look back seeing everyone laughing.

"Who goes now?" Ino looks at everyone.

"I will." Gaara says. I forgot he was here. "Kiba," Everyone looks at Kiba making him feel uncomfortable. "Would you rather make out with Sai or Sasuke?" I do an internal face palm.

"Uh, well I guess Sasuke." I felt Naruto's grip on my hand tighten. Damn he is going to pull my hand off if he squeezes it any tighter. I squeeze back telling him that he needs to chill with the whole hand squeezing thing. He doesn't even like me like that, so why is he getting so mad. "Uh, Sasuke. Would you rather save Naruto from someone trying to kill him or me?" I could feel everyone's stares at me, including Naruto.

"Probably," I look over at Naruto and smile making him slightly smile. "Kiba." Naruto's smile faded and his eyes widened a little. Paybacks a bitch. I smirk and look at Sakura who wasn't hiding her astoundment. "I'm going to bed now." I stand up letting go of Naruto's hand as I stand up walking to the cabin. I hear someone walking up behind me.

"I'll come too."

"You don't have t-"

"I said I wouldn't leave you alone." Naruto smiles as we walk in to the cabin and get ready for bed. I walk into the room and lay down on the bed getting under the covers. Naruto soon walks in, turning the lights off before he gets under the covers as well. I roll onto my side facing away from Naruto.

"Are you mad at me?" Naruto says just loud enough so I can hear it.

"Why would I be mad?"

"I chose ramen over you."

"No."

"Would you really choose Kiba over me?" I pause before answering his question.

"Of course not you dobe. I had to get payback for you choosing ramen over me somehow."

"Sorry about that, it's just that if I said without ramen then no one would let it go." Naruto laughs a little bit.

"So you would pick me over ramen?"

"Weeeell." I turn over onto my other side hitting him in the arm. "I'm just kidding." He laughs turning to face me on his side, which was kind of a mistake. Our faces were too close for comfort. "Hey Sasuke."

"What?"

"Do me a favor and close your eyes."

"What? No way."

"Please." I roll my eyes and sigh closing my eyes. I felt Naruto moving around and then I felt something on my cheek. When it went away I opened my eyes. Did he just ...

"What did you do?"

"I kissed your cheek." Naruto laughs.

"Why?"

"I don't know." I take a deep breath and sigh. "What was that sigh for?"

"Just know that this is your fault."

"What's my faul-" Naruto's sentence was cut off by my lips on his. Surprisingly Naruto didn't resist the kiss at all, in fact he pulled me closer which shocked me. I start kissing down to his neck making him shiver a little bitY. I start to pull at his shirt and that's when he decides to stop me. "Sasuke." Naruto said in a little gasp. I could feel his heart beating like crazy, maybe or that's just mine.

"Sorr-" I try and apologize but he stops me again.

"Sasuke, i-it's not that I don't want to ... I just want to wait, I'm not sure what I think right now. Maybe when I know for sure that this won't be a one time thing. It's just that when I fall, I fall hard and I don't think that I could deal with it if this were to happen to us." I smile and look up at him with a look that would make anyone scream with joy. Naruto was just the lucky guy to be on the receiving end. I see him blush but he doesn't look away.

"It's okay Naruto. I understand." I lay back down on my side of the bed and look at the ceiling. Man am I an idiot.