Notes: Takes place after Sounds.


Sasuke could not concentrate. He sat at his desk, staring at the screen of his laptop as if his homework would complete itself. He drummed his fingers against the keys and luckily was not harped on by the Hyuuga, who had stepped out to escort his cousin while she went shopping with her friends.

Dark eyes flickered down to the corner of the screen to check the time. It was getting late, so Naruto should be --

"Oiiii! Te – me!"

Taking a calming breath, Sasuke looked away from his computer and up at his intruder with slightly narrowed eyes, "You need to learn how to read signs, dobe. Knock first."

Naruto rolled his eyes and pulled up the chair from Neji's desk on the other side of the room before taking a seat next to the brunet, seated with the chair backwards and arms draped across the back. He took one look at Sasuke and broke into a huge grin, "What sign?"

An exasperated sigh left Sasuke's lips before he turned his attention back to the screen in front of him. He continued to sit there, drumming his fingers away.

A moment of silence passed before the Uchiha reluctantly asked, "How... was it? Your date." Not that he cared. He didn't. He didn't want to know, either. He didn't want to know what people did with his brother. This was no different.

Honestly.

A nervous chuckle from the blond drew Sasuke's attention back to him, and he wasn't surprised to find pink cheeks and a finger scratching sheepishly at a whiskered cheek. He shouldn't have been, but he was. Sasuke once again looked away, forcing his fingers to stop they're rhythmic tapping.

"Hn. That good, then. I assume he asked you out again as well."

"We're kinda dating, yeah." Naruto offered a sheepish grin that was quickly wiped away by the surprised look on the Uchiha's face. But, as quickly as it had come, it was gone as the brunet recollected himself.

"If you're only going on a second date, then you're not dating him just yet. You're just going to see him again. That's all."

Naruto chuckled as he got up to his feet, ruffling the Uchiha's hair as if he were a child, "Denial doesn't do you any good, Sasuke-chan!" With an 'eep!' and a dodge away from a swinging arm, the blond left the room laughing.

"... Usuratonkachi." Sasuke muttered, a hand covering his face to hide the slight tint on his cheeks.