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The Truth

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Friday was the first time, in what felt like years, that I spent alone. There was no Shino to show me all the insects he'd collected, no Hinata to quietly stutter out a story about something Kiba had done that I would definitely use as black mail later. No Gaara to make snide remarks about everything I did.

There was no Kiba to shoot me looks at the lunch table; none of Naruto's annoying other friends and certainly no Naruto. Yes, today, I was alone just as I was before, no one to talk to, no one to bother me about being nice, and no one to obnoxiously laugh in my ear…oh wait, yes there was.

"Sakura would you shut the fuck up." I hissed angrily not bothering to turn around to look at the pink menace and kept my gaze on the clouds passing by. I didn't dare look around anyways, dare I catch the eye of one of the three who sat together at the front of the classroom, where I used to sit.

"I'm sorry Sasuke-kun, it's just still so funny to me that Naruto would even consider the two of you friends, I mean, obviously you're so much better than him and you obviously stooped to his level since you pity his sad lif-"

"Sakura," My tone was ice cold as I finally turned to look the idiot in the eye, I could feel the whole classroom go silent, even Iruka who sat at the front of the class working on his computer seemed to look up and watch.

"Shut up, I don't want to hear your voice speak of shit you don't understand ever again, in fact, don't speak to me all together, don't look at me, don't even think about me because if anything I'm many, many levels above you and so is Naruto." The class waited in anticipation as Sakura leant back into her seat slowly before shakily raising her hand to ask Iruka if she could go to the bathroom.

Before he had even answered she was off and out and I smirked at her departure. Turning my head, I accidentally caught Hinata's eye who had obviously watched the whole ordeal. Hesitantly, she shot me a shy smile and I almost smiled back, almost. Instead I turned back to the window and waited for this agonising day to end.

Soon, but not soon enough, the bell rang and I was out of my seat in second. Rushing towards the door I was hoping to beat the crowd so I didn't have to face anyone. "Sasuke, stay back for a sec would you."

With a restrained sigh, I reluctantly turned around and took a seat on the edge of Iruka's desk, once again gazing out of the window. Once everyone was gone he turned to me, "what's up today, Sasuke? You weren't sitting with your friends."

"They're not my friends." I said through gritted teeth as I clenched the strap of my bag in my hand angrily. Iruka shot me a wary but didn't dare press on the fact, "you do remember than next week I'm setting the group work on Tuesday right? Whether they're your friends or not, you need them to pass this project."

I let my head fall as my body was wracked with a sigh, "I know that Iruka but right now I feel like I'd rather just fail."

His eyebrows shot up in surprise, "Sasuke," he murmured in a worried fashion and his hand rose to comfort me. I pushed away from the desk before he could touch me, "I'll figure it out Iruka," I said with my signature smirk, "I mean there's always Sakura."

The man let out a harsh scoff as he began to weed through the homework given in, "after that stunt you pulled today? Not likely."

I rolled my eyes and strode towards the door, "they always come back." I called over my shoulder. Opening the door I immediately made eye contact with Gaara who stood leaning against the wall on the other side of the corridor. His eyebrows furrowed slightly as his eyes bore into mine before he swiftly turned and waked away.

"I hope."

He got it, lord knows how he did but Itachi had somehow managed to get Naruto's address and it was neatly written on a crumpled up sheet of paper that was stuffed into my pocket; and although I had read the paper enough times to have it memorised to the very smudge, I pulled it out for the nth time to check I was standing in front of the correct house on this cold Saturday morning.

Mustering up all the courage that I had, I put a blank expression up on my face and rang the doorbell, waited 5 seconds then rang it again, "ok, ok, give me a seco- Sasuke, what are you doing here?"

The door opened and I came face to face with my history teacher Iruka, I briefly forgot he was Naruto's guardian. "I'm here to figure things out." I said swiftly with a confident smirk now plastered on my face.

Rolling his eyes, Iruka stepped aside to let me in, "up the stairs, second door on the right."

My smirk grew as a sauntered towards the stairs, "it's like you already knew why I was here, are you psychic?"

I didn't have to turn around to know that the man was probably rolling his eyes into oblivion, "fuck you Uchiha."

"Kinda crude for a teacher don't you think?" I called from halfway down the stairs, "well right now I'm not a teacher!" A muffled voice called back.

With a soft snicker I stopped at the top of the stairs as the door to Naruto's room opened and he poked his head out, "Iruka, who're you talkin-"

He cut off when he saw me, "Sasuke…"

"Naruto, can I come in?" I asked indifferently as I moved towards his door.

Without a shroud if doubt, Naruto stepped back and let me enter his room with a wide smile. "What brings you round to this side of the neighbourhood Sasuke?" He moved to sit next to me on his messy bed.

I glanced around his room and found it to be the complete opposite of mine, there were posters and pictures on the wall, a plethora of games and movies on his shelf above his TV, a worn out looking bean bag chair that was a monstrous orange colour. I could even make out the little lines on his door frame accompanied with ages to mark his growth.

"Nice room," I said talking it all in with a soft smile. As if embarrassed, Naruto scratched the back of his neck, "if I knew you were coming I would have cleaned up a little."

"I need your help Naruto with convincing the others to forgive me." I blurted out deciding to get directly to the point.

His smile faltered a little, "I don't think it's going to be that easy, Sasuke, you hurt them all pretty bad, Hinata, Shino and Gaara especially since they were closest to you."

My head tilted questioningly, "and what about you, weren't you the one that was closest to me?"

He shook his head, his blond hair flying in every direction and I was trying my hardest not to reach my hand up and rake my fingers through the knots I knew were there, "I obviously didn't know you was well as I thought I did."

That hurt, a lot, especially since it was accompanied by a bitter chuckle. I blinked the away the tears that would never fall and cleared my throat, "so will you help me?" I changed the subject.

"If it's forgiveness you're asking for shouldn't it be something done by you personally? If I went up and asked for them to forgive you I think they'd just get angrier."

"Oh come on, couldn't you just pull your Naruto magic and make them all work on the project with me?" I intended for it to be a light joke with underlines of truth but obviously it sparked something in Naruto and he shot of the bad and faced me, anger burning in his eyes.

"Are you actually serious? Is this why you want forgiveness, so you can pass some dumb project? Do you not care how sad you made them? How betrayed they felt because someone they trusted basically told them they were pawns in his little game?"

I scowled at his attitude and crossed my arms over my chest once I got over the initial shock of him shouting, "don't you dare get angry at me, I told you from the beginning that I wasn't doing this for friends, I was doing for the grade, you're the one who blackmailed me into letting you help me!"

Naruto stopped his angry pacing and rubbed at his face angrily, "you're right Sasuke, it's all my fault."

I looked up at him cautiously and he shook his head in disbelief, "of course it's my fault, how could I ever have thought for one moment that Sasuke Uchiha, Ice Prince of Konoha High, had a heart."

The prickling sensation was back and I could do nothing to stop it. Inhaling softly, I turned my head to the side with a scowl to hopefully hide any evidence that I felt bad for what I had done, "you're right idiot, you should have never trusted me."

Naruto scoffed as he backed into his wall and leant on it, "oh trust me I never did."

"Oh really?" My anger was back and my previous tears were harshly wiped away, "then why kiss me, why touch me, why express your love for me if you never trusted me with your heart?" I approached him predatorily with every word spoken till we were chest to chest and my lips tingled with every breath he breathed.

"Because the Sasuke I trusted then, was not the Sasuke here in front of me," he raised his hand and gently caressed my cheek, "the Sasuke then wasn't the Ice Prince of Konoha High but Sasuke Uchiha, my Sasuke Uchiha," He leaned closer and I could feel every word he spoke on my own lips, "and I'm still waiting for my Sasuke to come back."

Using my last shred of restraint I pushed away from him and awkwardly stumbled till I was back on his bed, "why do you do this to me?" my voice was strained and upset as I began to pull at my hair, "who do you have to confuse me like that? We were fighting, we were fighting right?"

I looked at him for an answer but didn't wait for one, "so why did I feel like you were going kiss me and why was I ok with that?"

"Sasuk-" Naruto tried to speak but I didn't let him I was done with his mind games, "no, don't, you'll just make me angrier and sad but happy at the same time and so fucking confused, feeling that I never head when it was just me, feeling that I didn't want when it was just me."

Naruto stayed quiet as he watched me carefully, "it was so much easier when it was just me, myself and I, why did you have to create so much drama in my life, just leave me the fuck alone already!"

The room fell silent and I could tell that Naruto was upset, but guess what, so was I! "Fine," he finally spoke up and his voice cracked slightly, as if he wanted to cry, "I'll leave you the fuck alone."

Before I could say a word, the door to his room slammed shut and his feet where pounding down the stairs. "Naruto?" Iruka's muffled voice called from downstairs, "where are you going?"

"For a walk." I was upstairs and there were plenty of walls separating us but I could still hear the brokenness of his voice.

With a sigh, I rubbed my face and stood up, ready to leave also when I stepped on a piece of paper. I picked up the familiar crumpled sheet and shoved it in my pocket before heading down the stairs and out of the house in a similar fashion to Naruto as my fingertips fluttered over two sheets of paper I was sure I would never use again.

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