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A/N: Oh my gosh…the last time I updated was October! You guys must hate me! Jeez, I didn't think it was that long since I last submitted a chapter. I am so sorry! I'll try to make this chapter as good as I can for you guys! ^_^ Oh yeah, and I'll also list all of the reviewers names in a special thanks…at least that's what I was going to do, until I listed nearly all of them on here and they took up nearly two pages. I didn't really realize that so many people liked this story! I really appreciate it, all of you, whether you just favorited it or reviewed or even if you just read it. Thanks so much! Enjoy the end to Mission: Make Sasuke Smile! :D

Chapter 14: The Final Attempt-Will the Uchiha Smile?

"…I thought you said that you were going to get him to smile without any tricks," Jiraiya accused, watching the blonde shinobi run around Konoha, setting his plan into action.

"No, I said I would make him smile without torturing him or anything like that," Naruto corrected.

"Whatever you say, although I don't think the two are that different," the white haired sannin mumbled to himself.

"Yeah, well you're 60, your opinion doesn't matter," Naruto stated rudely, continuing on with his business.

"I'm only 50!" Jiraiya growled.

"You're that young?" The blonde questioned in genuine surprise.

"Why you little…"

"Hey, hey, calm down you two," Kakashi said calmly, holding his friend back from tackling his student. "You're going to run out of time to make Sasuke smile."

"Which is why I'm fixing that problem," Naruto reminded him. "There, I think that's the last one."

"Now, we just have to find Sasuke."

"Not we, me," the Uzumaki corrected Jiraiya. "I said I was going to accomplish this on my own. I have a plan."

"Fine, you can do it on your own. Let me just tell you this though: I think I know where Sasuke is."

"Ok, you can tell me, but don't follow me when I go to him," Naruto told Kakashi.

"Fair enough," the Copy Ninja agreed. "If I remember correctly, his favorite place to think is the dock over the lake. I know you know where that is."

Naruto swallowed. He knew too well where that was. This was going to be awkward…

A memory flashed through the shinobi's mind, a memory of a 7-year-old Naruto walking from the park back to his house. He passed the familiar sight of the lake, except it wasn't so familiar at the moment. Something made the scene unusual, or someone, actually. A young dark haired boy sat on the dock hanging over the lake, his feet swinging back and forth over the dark depths. The kyuubi container recognized the boy as Uchiha Sasuke, the genius in his class.

Except there was something different about him…it was hard to see from the distance between them, but Naruto recognized it. Unlike the emotionless mask the Uchiha wore every other time he saw him, Sasuke looked lost and alone…and sad…What was wrong with him?

Uzumaki Naruto felt a strange pang of sympathy towards the Uchiha, and he felt the urge to go comfort him. However, he walked onward, knowing that the Uchiha would probably shun his help if he offered it. However, Naruto could not help but spare a backwards glance, and he noticed that Sasuke was staring at him also. The cheerful boy released a huge grin, and out of the corner of his eye he spotted a small yet happy smile spread on the raven haired boy's face, too...

How were the two boys to know that on this day, if Naruto succeeded in nursing a smile out of the Uchiha, the same moment might occur again?

Naruto bit his lip, hard, not realizing how long he'd been thinking.

"Naruto?" Kakashi urged gently.

"Oh, yeah!" The energetic blonde snapped back to reality, slapping on a cheerful grin. "I'll go to him now. Thanks for your help, guys!" Naruto called, waving over his shoulder as he took off towards the docks.

The two older men watched his back disappear, and the eldest one released a sigh. "If the Uchiha doesn't smile, and Naruto went through all of this and put us through all of this for nothing, then I'm going to kick Sasuke's ass to next September."

Kakashi chuckled as he pulled out his perverted book. "Don't worry, the odds are high that Sasuke will smile, the place they're meeting up at will ensure it." (1)

The Sannin shot him a look of confusion. "What do you mean by that?"

"Oh, nothing," the Copy Ninja replied cheerfully, flipping a page and giggling in a perverted fashion.

Wow, Kaka-sensei is smarter than I give him credit for, Naruto thought as he approached the dock, which Uchiha Sasuke was indeed perched on. Naruto stood a few feet behind the raven haired boy, nervous about approaching him. He knew that Sasuke knew he was there. Well, it was now or never.

"Sasuke?" Naruto approached hesitantly, taking a seat beside his friend. The avenger said nothing in response, and Naruto took that as his cue to continue. "I admit it…you're better than me." (2)

Sasuke looked slightly surprised at first, but then his lips curled into a smirk. "Are you just now realizing that?"

"No…I've always known it," Naruto replied quietly. "You've always managed to upstage me in everything. You have better aim with shuriken than me, your ninjutsu is better than mine, and you're so popular with everyone else, especially the girls."

"Is that why you hated me?" Sasuke asked, still surprised that Naruto actually admitted it.

"No, I never really hated you…I actually admired you. That admiration just turned to jealousy."

Sasuke looked up in shock at Naruto's words. He…admired me?

"I always wanted to be just like you because you're really strong, a lot stronger than I am," Naruto said quietly, avoiding Sasuke's eyes. "You're even strong enough to defeat your brother, I think."

Sasuke's eyes widened in surprise. That's the first time anyone has ever told me that they think I can kill Itachi…

Naruto raised his eyes when his friend didn't say anything. "Sasuke," the kyuubi container began with a small gasp of surprise, "you're smiling!"

The Uchiha wore a stupid grin plastered onto his face, a genuine, happy smile. He knew he was smiling, but he couldn't stop himself. He found he didn't want to stop. It felt…good…

"Yeah, I smiled, but it's already past 12:00. I win." Sasuke's grin quickly switched to a smirk, but it still held traces of the happy smile he wore moments before.

"That's what you think," Naruto said with a grin of his own. "However, it's really 11:58."

"No, it's 12:09," the Uchiha objected, pointing up the hill at the towering clock tower.

"Nope, it isn't! I set back all the clocks in Konoha 10 minutes," Naruto revealed, tapping the digital watch on his wrist that he apparently had, which read 11:59 now.

Naruto expected Sasuke to be angry or embarrassed that he had been fooled, but instead the avenger looked disappointed.

"So…everything you said was fake, to get me to smile so you could win...you didn't mean any of it…" Sasuke whispered, pulling himself to his feet and making his way slowly off the dock.

"No, wait!" Naruto pleaded, leaping to his feet and bounding after his friend. Sasuke stopped, but did not turn around. "I didn't lie about any of it Sasuke…it's all true."

The raven haired boy turned around slowly, scanning those sky blue eyes, searching for any hint of a fib. He couldn't find any.

"You know, you're strong too…" Sasuke started, lowering his eyes. "You're strong enough to become the Hokage…I know you are..."

Extreme happiness...it streamed through Naruto like a river. 'You're strong enough to become the Hokage…I know you are…' The guy he always admired, the boy he always tried to upstage and be as good as, believed in him, believed he was strong enough to accomplish his dream. If Naruto made a list of the happiest moments in his life, then this would be at the top.

"What's with the stupid grin, dobe?" Sasuke asked, attempting to cover up the sentimental moment. "You may be strong, but you're not as strong as me."

"Heh, how can you say that when I'm the one who won the bet?" Naruto countered. "Now that I think about it, we agreed that I could make fun of you if I won! I, Naruto Uzumaki, supposed dead last, managed to make Uchiha Sasuke, # 1 rookie of the year, smile! I so totally kicked your ass!"

Sasuke was about to think of a clever come back when a manly yell interrupted him.

"TENTEN! GIVE ME THAT CAMERA BACK NOW!"

"No way!"

"YES WAY!" (3)

"I forgot about them…" the two shinobi stated at the same time.

"Gahh get away!" Tenten, who was currently running from Neji, screamed as she ran towards Naruto and Sasuke.

"You're not getting away until you give me that camera!" Neji leaped towards Tenten, leg outstretched. Unfortunately for Sasuke, Tenten ran behind him and a split-second later the Hyuuga's foot was lodged in his face.

Sasuke toppled backwards, crash landing on Naruto who fell backwards onto Tenten. The three shinobi landed in a tangled heap on the ground, each of them groaning in pain.

"Oops, sorry Uchiha," Neji apologized, sparing Sasuke a glance, although he could really care less if he hurt the Uchiha or not. "Now for you…" The Hyuuga kneeled and pried the video camera out of the young girl's hands.

"Nooo, that's my blackmail!" Tenten yelled, throwing Naruto and Sasuke off her none too gently as she sprinted after her male teammate.

"Not anymore! No one's seeing this; its destiny is to not be seen!"

"I don't give a crap about destiny Neji! Give my video camera back!"

The two loud ninja took off, and Naruto and Sasuke untangled themselves.

"Well, that was fun," Naruto commented as Sasuke stood up and dusted himself off, then offered a hand to the blonde.

"Hn," Sasuke responded, pulling Naruto to his feet.

"You know what, since I got you to smile, maybe I should try to make you laugh next time!" The blonde suggested with a grin. "Ouch!"

The kyuubi container cried out in pain as a fist collided with his skull, a fist which was connected to a body that held a smiling face, not a frowning one.

"Don't push your luck, dobe."

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Don't ask me how Kakashi knows what happened between Naruto and Sasuke years ago, he's just awesome like that.

I personally don't think that Sasuke is better than Naruto. I think that they're both better than each other in some ways, and in other ways they're evenly matched.

I discovered that Yes Way is a street. That's hilarious, who would be stupid enough to name a street Yes Way lol? (no offense if anyone lives on that street)

Special Thanks to all of you who reviewed, favorited this story, added it to your alert list, or even just read it. I am very grateful to all of you! :D

Also, a separate special thanks to GintaxAlvissForever, YoshimiKurosaki, and Anonymous123. GintaxAlvissForever thought of the idea to have Neji and Tenten come running and Neji accidentally kicks Sasuke in the face and gets the camera back, YoshimiKurosaki had the idea to have Naruto set the clocks back, and Anonymous123 gave me the idea to have Naruto admit that Sasuke was better than him. Thanks to all of you!

A/N: Wow, I never thought this story would go so far. To tell you the truth, in the beginning, it was only going to be one chapter! However, your generous reviews made it run this long, so thank you, all of you! Thank you for sticking with it til the very end. However, it's not the end yet! There are going to be three alternate endings, courtesy of a few of my reviewers, so make sure to check them out when I get them out! Thanks again, and I hope you enjoyed the ending of Mission: Make Sasuke Smile! ^_^