Naruto was depressed. Ever since Kimimaru found out about him going to Sasuke's apartment without filming he had been angry with the blonde. Sakon and Ukon constantly yelled at him for being an idiot and ruining their story. Tayuya and Kidomaru would glare at Naruto whenever he was around but had enough decency to not say rude things to him. Even Jiraiya was upset with him.
At school he had to deal with his popularity which had seemed to grow even more after he broke up with Sakura. There were rumors going around that Naruto was dating some famous actress/model/billionaire heiress and that's why he broke up with Sakura. (Because everyone knew Naruto had to have a really good reason for Sakura to take the break up so well.) He was thankful Sakura didn't tell anyone the real reason.
Currently Naruto was sitting in Kakashi's office looking for some guidance that Sasuke couldn't provide.
"Kakashi, have you ever been in love with a straight man before?" Naruto asked. The silver haired man laughed. Being that Kakashi was openly gay and one of the few people who knew Naruto was gay, the blonde decided to ask him about his problems.
"Many times, yeah." He nodded.
"A straight man who thought gays were disgusting?" The blonde pressed.
"Yeah." The other said somewhat sadly.
"Did you ever force yourself on them?" The blonde asked quietly. Kakashi frowned.
"Did you do something like that?" He asked. Naruto looked off to the side.
"I might have. I was kind of drunk and don't remember everything." He answered honestly. The other man nodded.
"I see. Did the other person get mad at you?" He asked.
"They haven't really said anything about it." The blonde said. Kakashi nodded.
"That's probably common. He probably wants to pretend like the whole thing didn't happen." He said.
"I can't pretend like it didn't happen." Naruto sighed.
"Because you love him?" Kakashi asked.
"That and certain people won't let me forget." The blonde answered.
"Certain people?" Kakashi asked somewhat confused.
"It's complicated and you probably wouldn't understand." Naruto shrugged dismissively.
"So these certain people won't let you forget but you don't want to say anything about it to the person you love because he hates gays, right?" Kakashi asked.
"Exactly, what should I do, Kakashi?" He asked.
"Hell if I know." The silver haired man shrugged.
"Kakashi." Naruto frowned.
"Look, Naruto, I can't tell you how to fix this because I honestly don't know how to. Either you have to tell the guy your true feelings or tell those certain people that you want to forget about everything." He said. Naruto sighed.
"Those were the only conclusions that I could come up with as well, but they're both very difficult to accomplish." He frowned.
"I really do wish I could help you more, Naruto." He sighed. Naruto smiled and shook his head.
"No, you did help. Thanks, Kakashi." He said as he got up. "Well, I gotta go. Maybe I'll ask Uchiha-sensei for his advice when I go see him."
"That's right, it's Friday, huh?" Kakashi smiled. Naruto laughed and waved as he left.
"Uzumaki Naruto, please report to the main office." A voice over the school's PA system called. Naruto sighed.
"Hey, I have to go to the office but I'm leaving my stuff in here, okay?" He asked when he got to Sasuke's office. The raven nodded and Naruto set his bag down before heading to the office. He hadn't been expecting what was waiting for him.
"Naruto." Kimimaru smiled. Naruto glared at the other man.
"What are you doing here?" He growled.
"What do you think? We need to talk." The other answered, grabbing his arm and dragging the blonde outside.
"What the hell, Kimimaru?" Naruto snapped as he yanked his arm from Kimimaru's grasp.
"I should be asking you that. What the hell are you doing, Naruto?" Kimimaru growled.
"What the hell do you mean 'what am I doing?' I'm getting undercover footage for your story." He snapped.
"Except our story is supposed to be on Uchiha. Why the hell are we just getting tapes from you hanging out with your friends?" Kimimaru shouted. "You were supposed to go back to his apartment and seduce him. You didn't spend five years in college to hang out with a bunch of teenagers. You better get the story on Uchiha or else," He started.
"What?" Sasuke asked. Naruto and Kimimaru froze.
"Sasuke." Naruto said softly.
"What do you mean story?" Sasuke glared at the blonde. Naruto winced.
"It's not like that, Sasuke." He tried to explain.
"So… what? Were you supposed to have sex with me or something? Make me out to be the same as Orochimaru?" He growled.
"No, I didn't," Naruto started.
"All of this was just a set up? From the very beginning you were only interested in getting a story." The raven glared at him.
"It wasn't like that." Naruto shook his head.
"What the hell? Doing something like that is despicable." Sasuke shook his head as he turned and walked away.
"Sasuke." Naruto called after him.
"Don't even talk to me." Sasuke snapped back at him before storming off. Naruto glared at Kimimaru.
"You lost the story." Kimimaru said calmly. Naruto punched him in the face.
"Don't even give me that bullshit! There wasn't a story to begin with and you just ruined everything." Naruto shouted angrily at him before storming off towards the parking lot.
"Did you break up their argument?" Kakashi asked when Sasuke came back inside. Sasuke growled. "What happened?"
"It was a set up. The whole thing was those assholes at Konoha News trying to get a story. He was just an undercover cameraman." Sasuke growled as he kicked a trashcan.
"Sasuke." Kakashi sighed.
"It's been 15 years and they still won't give it a fucking rest!" Sasuke snarled as he tried to punch the wall but Kakashi stopped him.
"Calm down, Sasuke." He said calmly.
"I trusted him, Kakashi. But those guys just wanted the story." Sasuke frowned. Kakashi's eyes widened a bit and he frowned as well.
"Sasuke, did Naruto force himself on you?" He asked. Sasuke flinced and looked up at the older man.
"What does that have to do with anything?" He snapped.
"Naruto? What happened to you?" Kyuubi asked surprised to see his brother at the office, in tears no less."
"The story's been blown." Kimimaru said coming in behind the blonde. Kyuubi winced at the black eye Kimimaru was sporting.
"What do you mean?" Kyuubi asked.
"This idiot was shouting about it when Sasuke came up and heard the whole thing." Naruto growled pointing at Kimimaru.
"Well if you were doing your job properly I wouldn't have had to come yell at you about it, idiot." Kimimaru snapped back.
"Excuse me? You're the one who came to the school! If you wanted to chew me out then do it here rather than in front of people who could possibly blow my cover! You're the idiot!" He shouted angrily.
"Na-chan, calm down." Kyuubi said calmly.
"Calm down?" Naruto snapped.
"Naruto." Kyuubi snapped and the younger man was immediately silent. "Kimimaru," He said turning his attention to the other man. "While Naruto may not have been filming correctly, you had no right to go to the school to talk to him about it. Because of your error, Naruto's cover was blown and now we can not do the story you wanted. It's your fault for Naruto's cover being blown so you will have to tell Jiraiya about the incident and come up with a new story." He said. Kimimaru frowned and nodded.
"Yes sir." He said before leaving the room. Kyuubi looked at his brother.
"What happened?" He asked softly.
"Kimimaru was chewing me out in front of the school. Sasuke came up and heard that we were going to do a show on him. Even if he had only heard that I was an undercover reporter, I couldn't go back to KA. There's no way we can get a story on Uchiha Sasuke." Naruto explained. Kyuubi sighed and nodded.
"Yeah. We have enough film for another story about KA. I'm sorry, Na-chan." He said. Naruto smiled softly.
"Don't worry about it. It's my fault." He said before leaving. Slowly he made his way to Shikamaru's apartment.
"Naruto?" The brunette man asked somewhat confused about seeing his friend during school hours. "Aren't you supposed to be at school?" He asked.
"Nope, Kimimaru blew my cover by letting Sasuke know we were doing a story on him." Naruto sighed. Shikamaru gave the blonde a sympathetic look and let him in. Naruto sat on Shikamaru's couch while Shikamaru went into the kitchen to grab a few beers.
"So, what happened?" He asked while handing his friend a beer.
"Well, Kimimaru was an idiot and came to the school to chew me out for not getting enough footage for the story on Sasuke. And as he's saying this, Sasuke comes up and hears everything. So now Sasuke hates me and we don't have a story." Naruto explained.
"Troublesome." Shikamaru sighed. Naruto scoffed.
"I have no idea what I'm going to do now. I could get fired for this, you know. And I doubt they'll ever give me another story if I do somehow keep my job." Naruto sighed.
"I'm sorry. I don't really know what to tell you." Shikamaru sighed.
"I didn't want to do this assignment in the first place." Naruto sighed as well. Shikamaru gave Naruto a sympathetic look. "I had friends there, Shika. What are they gonna think of me when they find out I'm a 24 year old errand boy who was basically spying on them?"
"If they were really your friends, they probably wouldn't care." He said with a soft smiled. Naruto looked relieved and nodded.
"Yeah." He smiled.
"Don't worry, Naruto. You'll be fine, I know it." He smiled.