Hello there! :) Okay, here's Chapter 11. :] Enjoy!
-Sideways frown- I don't own Naruto...
Oh! And Tiger Priestess! Oh, no. Of course not. -Right eye twitches- Sasuke was just teasing her about that. You know, to get Sakura jealous and stuff. But it didn't work, clearly. Hahaha. :D
And SectumSemprae! :D Haha, I know right? Tsk, tsk, tsk, Sasuke. :c And yeah, go Sai! I kinda missed Sai. :3
"HOW?" Everyone chorused.
Everyone except Sakura who had left the house to go buy food ingredients for lunch.
Sasuke closed his eyes not wanting to hear Naruto's explanation. He already knew why...
"Sasuke," Tsunade leaned forward in her desk and intertwined her fingers, resting her chin on them. "What brings you here so early in the morning…"
She disregarded the fact that he had snuck passed the ninjas that were supposed to be guarding him.
Sasuke spoke, "I'm here to make a deal with you,"
"Oh? … Continue,"
"Let the others leave me alone, I don't need six people following me everywhere I go, and watching every move I make. I think the dobe's enough. You know him. There's no possible way he'll let me leave the village without causing a huge commotion."
"Hn, how should I know this? You did come here alone," she reasoned.
"I already consulted with him before I came here. He's agreed to everything." he explained.
"Very well. But before I go with your deal, may I ask why you decide to come to me with this now?"
"Hn," he retorted. "I have my reasons."
Tsunade rolled her eyes, shooing him off.
"Okay, okay. But in order for this to work, you have to live with Naruto the rest of the time you're still partly on probation, if I may remind you."
"I expected that,"
"I'll have word sent out for Naruto to be informed about this as soon as the sun rises."
He turned around and walked out the door.
"How can we be sure you're not lying, Naruto..." Tenten queried after hearing his story. "You do have a tendency of twisting up stories to make them sound dramat-"
"I'm not lying, Tenten-chan!" he yelled.
"Okayokay!" she protested, backing away. "I get it. Sheesh."
"Huh, you do have a record for lying Naruto." Ino mocked.
"Guys, stop teasing him." Hinata argued shyly.
"We're just pulling his leg, Hinata." The two said together.
Naruto hmphed.
By the time noon had come, the group had packed most of their stuff. Which wasn't much since they hadn't even stayed there for 2 weeks.
Sakura returned to the house, carrying her grocery bags.
"I expect your things to be removed by later today," Sasuke called in her direction, as he closed the door behind him, exiting out the back door, leaving a bewildered Sakura in the kitchen.
What?
She found Ino to explain the situation.
Sasuke stayed outside and trained, avoiding the house as everyone gathered their things. But after a while, he fell on the grounding, exhausted, eyes worn out. His mind had been racing that whole time. Finally, he let his thought trail off. Naruto… He had agreed to live with the dobe. He was willing to leave his Uchiha Manor and live with the dobe… All for what? His pink-haired teammate. He didn't want to see her everyday. With that Sai. Kiba? Kiba would be okay, he knew Sakura had no intentions of loving back that mutt. But Sai had been a whole different topic.
She really have moved on. She had lost all love for him and had began giving it to another male.
He didn't know why he was acting this way toward her. She was just like everyone of his fangirls...
He had told himself that he didn't care. But he knew those had been lies. Of course he cared. He hadn't back then. Then, he had thought of his teammate as a weak, annoying, bothersome fangirl. She was far from being those things now. She was the complete opposite, if anything. She had matured. She intrigued him. A soft close of a door snapped him back to the present. His attention was caught as a pink head appeared in sight. He sat straight and peeked at her. She stared back, a small smile playing on her lips.
"Sasuke, don't over use your Sharingan." She lightly reminded him. "You'll damage your eyes even furthur,"
The Uchiha hadn't heard this as a nag. But just a lightly reminder. One that had showed care. Guilt flowed through his body. What was she doing to him…
And with that, the kunoichi left his estate without another glance to his direction.
Guilt washed over him again as he watched her retrearing form walk out.
I guess this was for the best.
He couldn't stand seeing Sai come to his house. According to last night, he would've came frequently. More than once a day. He wasn't sure yet. But.
He... had grown fond of his pink haired teammate. More than just how he used to see her as.
He had to do that.
He ran.
...
Shit.
"Sakura," a voice could be heard as she was near the exit of the compound.
"Huh?" Sakura turned, stopping at where she stood. As soon as she realized who it was, she smiled. "Hi, Sai."
Sasuke paused, halfway, noticing Sakura wasn't alone. He let out a small scoff and turned.
How pointless...
Dragging his feet slightly, Sasuke made his way back to his house.
"Teme," Naruto called from the door. "What the hell are you doing?"
"Hn," Sasuke avoided his look. "As always, you're not making any sense." He entered the house.
"Stop acting like I don't know anything!" Naruto yelled.
Sasuke was right. Everyone else had left, now it was just him and Naruto at the house.
"You don't, shut up."
"Teme, I may have been drunk last night, but I was that shitfaced enough to comprehend what you and Sakura were doing before we got home!"
Sasuke shot him a glare. He has to be bluffing...
The blonde grinned in triumph. "Heh, not so dumb now, am I?"
"Shut up." Sasuke walked to his room, grabbing the bag he had prepared the night before with his things. Just some shirts, shorts, underwear. No weapons since Naruto had confiscated any object of his with a sharp point in the beginning.
"Sasuke!" Naruto screamed from the living room, getting on the dark haired man's nerves already.
"What!"
Naruto narrowed his eyes at Sasuke's door. "MAKE YOUR DAMN MOVE BEFORE SAI DOES!"
Sasuke rolled his eyes. What an idiot...
But in all truth. The dobe had been right. He, of course, did not want to admit that.
It had been two and a half weeks now since everyone had departed from the Uchiha Manor. The entire time, Sasuke had been practically locked up in Naruto's apartment, with the occasional exceptions when Naruto had dragged him to Ichiraku's for dinner. He stayed in here, following the rest of his deal with the Hokage.
But mostly. He stayed in there to decrease the chances of bumping into Sakura in the streets.
Whenever she did walk by, he'd see her. Walking with the pale-skinned other. He'd let it pass, but as each time he saw the two together, the twist in his chest area grew.
"Hn," Naruto grunted from behind. "Teme..."
Sasuke looked over at him, acknowledging him to go on with what he wanted to say with bored eyes.
"Do you... like Sakura-chan?"
Sasuke blinked.
Naruto continued. "I mean, it's okay if you do."
"I don't," he replied too quickly.
Naruto grinned, sensing the lie. Sasuke leaned back against the wall and tried to ignore his supposedly best friend.
"I knew it, I knew it!"
"Don't jump for joy, there's no reason to." Sasuke muttered under his breath.
"What the hell are you talking about? I just found out my two best friends are in love with each other!"
"Shut. Up." Sasuke glared daggers at the blonde. "I never said I was in love. And Sakura... She..." he trailed off.
"-still likes you," Naruto finished. "I don't think anything's changed with her feelings. She still likes you." he repeated.
"Hn,"
"DON'T JUST 'HN' ME, TEME! I'M SERIOUS AS FUCK HERE!"
The Uchiha snapped his head up at the blonde, still glaring but now he was tinted with anger.
"SHE HAS THAT BASTARD TO CRUSH ON! AND I KNOW SHE LOVES HIM."
"... Sai?"
Sasuke didn't respond. Naruto took this as a yes.
"And Kiba."
Naruto sweatdropped. Since when the hell did Kiba get involved in this... Man, who knew Teme was a jealous type...
"I'll help you out, teme." Naruto finally stated after a while. "I'll help you get Sakura-chan,"
Sasuke's mind wound back to Sakura's words on how to get a girlfriend. He'll use them on her.
As if reading his mind, Naruto grinned back at him, knowingly.
"And I think I know just how,"
Okay, guise. :3 Sorry if it was boring! My baby cousin was crying the entire time I wrote this and it was just. Annoying. XD Hahaha, so I wasn't very focused. And I was too lazy to proof-read this, so there's probably a large amount of grammar errors like always, hahaha. Sorry about that, too. :D
So.
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