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Chapter 10: Does He Really?
I wake up to sun in my face. I blink until I could keep my eyes open. What time is it? I look around for my phone, I find it in my pocket. Why did I sleep with it in my pocket? I turn it on looking at the time. 8:33. Why did I wake up so early? I stand up and stretch. I walk out the door and see Naruto and Sakura laughing, Naruto was showing her something on his phone.
"What are you two laughing at?" Naruto quickly turns his phone off and sets it in his lap smiling. He looks over at Sakura who nods so he looks back to me turning his phone back on and showing me a picture of ... me sleeping.
"You look so peaceful when you are sleeping." Naruto laughs turning his phone off again.
"Not to mention how adorable you look in that picture!" Sakura laughs when I glare at her.
"Come on guys. Get your bags in the car, we're leaving soon." Jiraiya says walking into the kitchen telling us, then going to tell everyone else. I walk back into our room with Naruto following me. We clean up grabbing our bags and heading out to the car throwing our bags in the trunk. After a while everyone eventually put their bags in and got in. This time I got stuck in the back of the car with Lee and Neji, I was in between them. Lee was trying to reach for Neji and Neji was using me as a shield.
"Neji! I never got to kiss you."
"How many times do I have to tell you! It wasn't a dare Lee!" I see Naruto and Sakura laughing at me from their not so annoying seats. After a while Lee settled down. I pull out my phone and get ready to text Sakura.
To: Sakura
Naruto kissed my cheek last night.
I send the text and a minute she texted me back.
From: Sakura
Details now Uchiha.
To: Sakura
Naruto and I were talking about the game by the fire and all of a sudden he told me to close my eyes, so of course I do thinking he was going to kiss me. I was really disappointed when he only kissed my cheek, so I ended up kissing him. He eventually stopped me or else I wasn't going to. He said he didn't know what he thought yet so he wanted to wait. Or something like that, I don't know what he meant by he didn't know what he thought yet though.
Sakura looks back to me surprised, she then looks forward again and texts back.
From: Sakura
Oh my gosh I can't believe that you and him did that. Don't worry I'll ask him what he thought about last night.
My eyes widen. Her text makes me freak out a little. No, if she asks then he'll know I told her.
To: Sakura
No! Don't!
"Hey Naruto."
"Yeah?"
"What did you think about sleeping in the same bed as the Uchiha?" Naruto's eyes widen.
"Uh ... normal I guess."
"I see," Sakura looks away for a second then looks back at him nudging him with her elbow. "So what did you two do?"
"W-went to sleep."
"That's not what I heard."
"What did you hear?"
"I walked by your room and heard you two doing something."
"Uh..."
"I'll get right to it then, what do you think about Sasuke? I see the way you look at him, you want him."
"Wha- why do you think that?"
"Because I'm a girl, I know these kinds of things." Sakura smirks making Naruto look away slightly blushing. "Don't worry, I won't tell anyone what you say."
"Fine." Naruto faced her pulling her close to whisper in her ear. She back up when he was done.
"Really?" She looks a little surprised.
"Yeah, I just-" He looks out the window. "It's just a little complicated."
xxxxxx
Home sweet home. I walk inside taking my shoes off.
"I'm home!"
"Sasuke." Itachi comes around the corner smiling. "How was it?"
"Fun, I kissed Naruto."
"My little brother is growing up!" Itachi ran over to me hugging me laughing as I tried pushing him away. He lets go of me backing up. "So tell me what happened."
"With Naruto?"
"And the whole trip."
"Well." I walk back to my room and Itachi follows. He sits on my bed as I start to unpack. "The ride there I was stuck in the back cramped in between dog boy and the youth nut. I seriously wanted to kill them both. When we got there Tsunade and-" I stop from saying Orochimaru's name. Itachi doesn't need to know right now.
"And?"
"That's it, Tsunade was the only other one there at the moment. I ended up having to share a room with Naruto. We then changed to go swimming, I said I didn't want to but Naruto didn't give a shit. He dragged me into the water and then jumped on me getting my hair wet."
"You poor thing." Itachi sarcastically says making me glare at him.
"It was a tragedy." I finish unpacking and sit next to him. "I then made a fool of myself and Naruto picked on me, but then I fired it right back at him. All of my friends then went on a hike without me so I walked along the beach since I didn't go with them, but then I decided to take a shower. Which took a long time to take the shower, then do my hair, and then get dressed. After that uh-" I shivered a little bit.
"Are you cold?"
"I just got a chill, but after that they came back and we had a fire." I look to Itachi glaring. "We were playing a game and Naruto said he would pick ramen over me." Itachi started laughing so I hit his shoulder and he stopped.
"Sorry, continue."
"Later on that night we went to bed and I ended up kissing him." Itachi mouthed aw which made me glare at him. "Then I woke up and it turns out Naruto took a picture of me while I was sleeping. Then we packed up and left. Oh, but this time I was trapped between the youth nut and Neji. Lee was trying to get to Neji to kiss him but Neji was using me as a blocking device. Now I'm here."
"You know what." I look to Itachi and raise an eyebrow. "We are having a movie pizza night tonight." Itachi stands up looking down to me. "We should spend a little time together, don't you think?"
"Hn." I smirk and nod making Itachi smile.
"I'll let you relax a little while. Come on out around eight." Itachi leaves my room closing my door. What do I do until then? Sleep? I look out my window and sigh. What did Naruto say about me? I grab my phone about to send a text to Sakura when my phone vibrates.
From: Sakura
Hey Sasuke, I have a favor to ask of you.
To: Sakura
What is it?
I lay back on my bed.
From: Sakura
I was going to have a party, but my parents said that I couldn't so I was going to see if I could have my party at your house.
To: Sakura
No way, then I'd have to clean up my house. Itachi would be here. I'd have to buy food, and all of that requires effort. Go ask Naruto if you can have it at his house.
From: Sakura
Please Sasuke, I'll clean your house for you and I'll buy the food. Itachi is cool, that's why I asked you instead of Naruto. Plus you're my best friend.
I sigh glaring at my phone's screen.
To: Sakura
Don't worry about it. I'll tell Itachi tonight sometime, when is it?
From: Sakura
Oh my gosh thank you Sasuke! You're the best! It's tomorrow at six. See you at school tomorrow.
Tomorrow? Seriously? You couldn't of told me in advance by like ... oh I don't know, a couple of days or something. I sigh leaving my room. As soon as I step out of my door I smell pizza. Itachi looks over at me smiling.
"Sasuke, just in time." I walk over getting a slice of pizza and sitting on the couch.
"What's the movie?"
"I don't know, Kisame recommended it to me." Itachi put the movie into the TV and started it.
"Itachi."
"Hmm?" Neither of us move our eyes from the TV.
"I'm having a party tomorrow." Itachi glances at me from the corner of his eyes but then he looks back to the movie. "Actually it's Sakura's party, she just has to have it here."
"Okay, I'll leave you guys alone tomorrow."
"You don't have to." Itachi looks back at me again confused.
"Alright." Itachi smiled looking back to the screen.
"Just don't embarrass me this time."
"I'll try." Itachi laughs making me sigh.
xxxxxx
"Sasuke!" Naruto runs up to me putting his arm around my shoulder. I look over and glare at him and he lets go of me laughing. "I'm walking home with you today."
"No you're not."
"Yes I am." I look over to see him grinning at me. I sigh in defeat. I really didn't have the energy to fight any more than that, and honestly I really didn't care. "Oh, right, I heard Sakura's party got moved to your house."
"Yeah."
"Does everyone else know?"
"Don't know, don't really care either." The bell rings and we are late for history. I see a teacher come out of a door in front of us, go figure it had to be the most annoying and the most strict teacher in the school. He really should retire ... or die, either would work for me.
"Hey! You two! Uzumaki? Uchiha." He walks up to us blocking our path. "Well, well, well. Why does this not surprise me? Uzumaki, get to class. Uchiha, come with me." The whole time the old man's glare didn't leave me, you better believe I was glaring back.
"W-wait, Mr. Gre-" Naruto was cut off by the old man.
"Naruto! I said go!" Naruto glares at him and leaves, only looking back once at me a little saddened.
"What the hell do you want old man?"
"That is no way to speak to your elders! Apologize this instant." I swear this old hag has it out for me.
"Why the hell should I apologize to someone who doesn't deserve it?"
"Watch your mouth, boy. Come with me." When he passed me I was so tempted to trip him and leave, but that wouldn't of ended well. So I decided to follow the stubby asshole to wherever he was taking me. We ended up at the principles office ... go figure. He wants me out of this school, and he is willing to do anything to do so.
"What is it this time, Green?" Tsunade sighs sitting forward in her chair.
"Uchiha here was skipping class."
"Sasuke?"
"It's not true, this old piece of shit has it out for me. The bell just rang, and I was with Naruto. He let Naruto go but made me come here."
"Sasuke," Tsunade sighs closing her eyes for a second. "Stay here with me, I want to talk. As for you Green, go back to whatever you were doing." Mr. Green leaves the room and I glare at her from where I was leaning on the wall. "Take a seat." I sit down in the chair in front of her desk sighing and look out the window. "What's on your mind Sasuke?"
That's a nice tree outside.
"Sasuke."
Oh look, a bird.
"I know he pisses you off, but you don't need to say anything smart back to him. What happened to the old you where you never spoke?" When I didn't talk back she heavily sighed.
"... Naruto."
"What about him?"
"He happened." I see her eyebrow raise from the corner of my eye.
"I've seen you two walking around a lot together, you're friends now?"
"You could say that."
"Will you tell me what you're thinking?" Believe it or not, me and Tsunade are pretty close. I was a trouble maker when I was younger and I got sent here a lot, over the years we got to know each other good enough to talk openly.
"Sakura is having a party after school today," I glance over at her then back out the window. "but it's at my house."
"Why?"
"Her parent's wouldn't let her have it at her house. I have a bad feeling that she purposely did this so it would be at my house."
"Why should it matter if it was at your house or not?"
"Don't ask me, ask the crazy pink haired girl." I sigh. "I swear I'll never understand her." I heard Tsunade chuckle slightly.
"I think she has a plan for you, I suggest you be careful if you don't want to fall into it." I sigh looking at my hand not knowing what I should look at. "So, I heard you have a crush on someone." I look up to her furrowing my brows. Not this again. "I bet it's Naruto, am I right?" I raise an eyebrow and smirk.
"Good guess."
"Tell me all about it." Tsunade leans forward again resting her head on the tops on her hands smiling.
"Shouldn't I go back to class?"
"Don't worry about it." I slightly smile looking at her. I love our principle.
xxxxxx
"That asshole, I hate him." Naruto kicks a stone angrily as he shoves his hands in his pockets and walks next to me.
"Luckily for me Tsunade already knew it wasn't anything that mattered, so she let me go."
"She kept you in there until just five minutes ago. What happened?" Naruto looked at me confused.
"Long story."
"Well I'm just glad school is finally over."
"Until next time."
"Don't remind me." Naruto laughs making me smile a little more than normal. I look forward and my eyes go wide, but then they turn into a glare. I stop and Naruto notices so he stops too.
"Sasuke?"
"Let's find another way."
"But this is the only way."
"We'll find another one." As soon as I grab Naruto's arm and turn he says something.
"Sasuke, just the person I wanted to see."
"Sorry, we're leaving."
"Not so fast." Orochimaru grab my arm making me release Naruto and he turns me to face him.
"Let me go." I pull my arm away and glare at him. "What the hell do you want?"
"To talk ... alone." Oh hell no.
"He can't go with you Orochimaru, he has something to do." Naruto walked up next to me glaring at Orochimaru.
"What could that possibly be?"
"None of your business." I say glaring at him. "Let's go Naruto." I start to leave but Orochimaru stops me and leans over my shoulder whispering something to me.
"I wonder if you would come to me if I had something precious to you, or should I say ... someone." My eyes widen and I turn around starting to punch him but he backs up and Naruto grabs me and runs.
"Naruto! Let me go!"
"You had a look in your eyes like you were about to kill him."
"I wasn't going to kill him ... intentionally anyway." Naruto lets me go when we get to my house. He starts to walk up to the front door but I stop him.
"What are you doing?"
"I'm going to help you get ready for the party."
"No you're not, you'll come here when everyone else does." I smile when I see Naruto pout a little. "Now get your scrawny ass home." I push him to the sidewalk and go inside closing the door. I take my shoes off.
"I'm home." I walk into the kitchen and see food. "Itachi?"
"Sasuke?" Itachi walks into the kitchen and smiles. "I got you guys some food and drinks for tonight."
"I have a feeling you're more excited about this party than I am." I smile setting out some food and putting the drinks in the fridge.
"Of course I'm excited! You've never had a party here! I want to see everyone again, it's been a long time you know."
"Can you clean up a little in the living room." Itachi furrows his brows looking back at the living room with his arms crossed.
"Why?"
"It's a mess. There are papers on the table, pop cans in the floor, the couch looks like it will eat you, just go fix it." Itachi pouts and slouches his back as he walks into the living room to clean, the sight makes me smile. My smile soon fades when I realize that I have to clean my room. Dammit. I walk back the hall into my room. I take a quick look around. A pile of clothes in the corner of my room, books all over my desk, cords everywhere, old notes to myself on my wall, my bed needs made, and I need to empty my garbage.
I quickly take my clothes and throw them in the washing machine then heading back into my room. I put all the books back onto my shelf, and in the process two books fell on my head. I hide the cords. I grab tie up the bag of garbage and throw it away, putting another bag in the small garbage can. I struggle making my bed, this reminds me why I never make my bed. Finally I was done. I look around checking to see if I missed anything.
I did, the notes on my wall. I walk over to my bulletin board taking down the scattered notes. When I take down the last one I look at the wall again. There were pictures of my friends and me. Why did I cover these? One of the pictures was of Sakura and I playing in the snow. She threw a snowball at my face and I started crying and Itachi was to busy taking a picture to help me. I smirk looking at the picture. I look over the pictures noticing I had one for everyone of my friends and me, even one with Naruto. We were at my house playing a game of go fish. I beat Naruto and he called me a cheater so then we started fighting, later on that night Naruto apologized and hugged me. Go figure Itachi had to take the picture at that moment. The doorbell rings snapping me out of my thoughts. I leave my room leaning against the hallway wall when I see Itachi at the door. Sakura was the first one, not a surprise.
"Sasuke." She walks back to me looking into my room. "Wow, you really cleaned up for this." She walks into my room and she automatically sees the wall of pictures. "I remember this moment! I made you cry." She laughs as I stand next to her sighing. I have no idea why I kept this picture, I look like a mess. The doorbell rings again. This one has got to be Naruto. I walk out being followed by Sakura as I open the door. To my surprise it's not Naruto, it's Kiba, Shino, and Sai. I let them in and go into the kitchen. A few minutes later it rings again, this time it's Hinata, Tenten, Neji, and Lee. After that Ino, Shikamaru, Choji, and Gaara show up. I walk up to Sakura.
"Where's Naruto? It's 6:20."
"I don't know, I'll text him and tell him to get over here." As soon as she said that the doorbell rings once more. I open the door hoping that it was Naruto, but my hopes were crushed. Itachi must have ordered pizza. I take the food and pay the guy and then quickly closing the door. As soon as I closed the door it rang again. I put the pizza's down and just as I was about to answer the door, Itachi got to it first. He opened the door and there he was. The one time I don't answer the damn door and it's him. He takes his shoes off and comes in walking over to me.
"You're late."
"I know, sorry about that." Naruto scratches the back of his head laughing.
"Everyone's here, now we can start with the more fun things." Sakura says making everyone look to her.
"And what exactly is that?" Kiba says after he takes a drink.
"Games." NO! No more games!
"What games?"
"Well we always have the normal games of would you rather, truth or dare," Not happening. "and spin the bottle, but if no one wants to play that I have another game we haven't played before." This got everyone kind of interested, but not me, I wanted no part in any of her games. I am just destined for embarrassment or something bad. "The pocky game." I saw everyone smile. Great, just great. "So it's settled, the pocky game it is. Sasuke, Naruto get over here. We walk over and take a seat. "Itachi." Itachi pokes his head out from behind the corner. "Pick two people."
"Okay, uh," He looked over to me but I glared at him. "Kiba and Shikamaru."
"Okay, thanks Itachi."
"No problem." He normally would have went back to doing whatever it was he was doing, but he stayed to watch. Sakura handed Kiba the pocky and he sat next to Shikamaru, both of them biting an end of the pocky slowly biting away at it. They got really close to kissing, but in the end Kiba gave in. After them was Lee and Neji. Lee grabbed to pocky and both of them bit opposite ends. Lee quickly started eating the pocky making Neji try backing away, as soon as Lee was a couple centimeters away from Neji, Neji backed up. This game when on for awhile. Hinata and Choji, Ino and Tenten, Sai and Gaara, Sakura and Ino, Naruto and Lee, Neji and I, Naruto and Kiba, Shino and Lee, Tenten and Gaara, Sakura and I, and Shikamaru and Sai.
Now Itachi has to pick the last two. "Well, how about Naruto and Sasuke." I look over at Itachi giving him the death glare. I'm so going to kill him later. Sakura handed Naruto the pocky and he sits next to me. We both bite at the ends and slowly bit away at it. When we got closer to each other we started pushing each other away (as if that helped anything). That's when I looked out of the corner of my eye and saw Itachi with a camera. Did he take a picture of us? I look back at the pocky, it was getting dangerously small. Both Naruto and I were trying our hardest not to kiss. Finally I quickly lean forward grabbing the rest of the pocky letting our lips touch for a second. I sigh and look over at Sakura.
"Now what?"
"How about truth or dare." Kiba's suggestion made me want to punch him in the face for bringing it back up.
"Sounds good." Sakura smirked. "I'll go first. Naruto, truth or dare?"
"Dare I guess."
"I dare you to take Sasuke back to his room and go as far as you can." I look over and see that Itachi luckily wasn't there anymore.
"Uh... fine." Naruto stood up grabbing my arm and drags me into my room closing the door behind him. I look around not wanting to sit on my bed, but Naruto drags me to my bed and we both sit down.
"You know we don't have to do anything."
"I know." Naruto looks over and sighs laying back on my bed. "I have something I want to tell you though."
"What is it?" I lay back next to him.
"I was thinking about the trip we had not to long ago," He pauses for a little bit but I don't say anything because I know he isn't done. "and I was thinking about you." I glance over to him then to the ceiling again. "You remember what I said that night, about how I didn't know what I thought?"
"Yeah."
"I know now. I know that I like you, not just in a friendly way." I look over to him surprised sitting up and he does the same. I look over at him, just looking him in the eyes. He likes me.