Author's Note: I have no excuse as to why I haven't updated until today. You may kill me if you wish. I am truly sorry. I have no excuses except for I'm a bad person v.v
I will be including more flashbacks soon... Also, I hope no one is offended by my replies when I don't say thank you for kind words or accept your kind words. I don't know how to accept compliments... :3
This chapter is short. Like, very short. As in, it's so short why did I even think about posting such a pitifully short chapter, kind of short. Again, no excuse for this either. I blame my brain for this. It's been thinking of another Naruto Sasuke love story in my mind as I sleep. It's really cool, BUT IT'S NOT THIS STORY AND IT'S KILLING ME BECAUSE I HAVE TO FINISH THIS AWESOME STORY.
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Lalaluara8565: Don't be jealous of my writing skills. A fish could write better than I can. I'm sure you could write way better than that fish as well.
Serene Grace: No. Tenten was the girl dancing. The person with green eyes staring into Naruto's window was a totallly different person. (: I never mess with anyone... Never... ;D
Priestess Kasumi Uzumaki: But drugs are an essential reason that Naruto is the way he is... I don't like making him do drugs. BUT THERE IS A REASON. I don't give Naruto a cruel life for no reason. All will be explained after a while. (:
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PrettyKitty93: If I hadn't... then I would have just made up my own thingy of heroin and made those the effects! Haha!
IBOSIBRUU: Naruto never seems to get to have a good day... I hate myself for writing him like that BUT ONE DAY things will get better... They have to, right?
Teehees: Maybe, maybe not my dear... Writers block will hopefully not attack for a while. (:
Envyyyy: There are two characters with green eyes, Sakura and Gaara. Which one was in the window? Well... only time and patience will lead to that chapter. ;D
Saint Thomas Hunter: I'm sorry you think the story is getting boring. I just don't want to have them being all like ILOVEYOUSOFUCKINGMUCH in unrealistic time. I know this is fiction, but my fiction always has something that is slightly realistic. This isn't going to be some teenage relationship that only lasts two weeks. I want to build up to the relationship and make it better than them just meeting falling in love and fucking. Sorry if this isn't your taste in a story. You can always come back and read the awesome SasuNaru/NaruSasu relationship after it's developed. (:
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NOW ON WITH CHAPTER 14!
Chapter 14
Months had flown by. Christmas had come and gone. It was now the middle of February. Naruto now had a cycle that he enjoyed and hoped would never break. East, Sleep, Work, Sleep. After the party with Shikamaru, Naruto hadn't heard from him. He wasn't going to go look for him. The streets weren't a place you crawled around in whenever you wanted to find someone. That was asking for an ass kicking.
"Cause nobody wants to be the last one there. Cause everyone wants—" Naruto answered his phone quickly.
"Hello?"
"Dobe, be careful coming in today. There's supposed to be a blizzard setting in soon." Naruto looked at the clock. He only had an hour until his shift.
"Sasuke, go do your work. Don't lecture me like you're my mother. I'm a big boy; I can handle a little bitty snow storm."
"Hn." Sasuke hung up the phone. The deal the two still applied. Naruto found it very helpful for when he wanted Sasuke to leave him alone.
Over the past few months, the two had grown closer, without realizing it. They learned more about each other and even started to enjoy each other's company. Naruto started to feel disappointed whenever Sasuke had a meeting at night when he had to clean his office.
Naruto couldn't remember when he had started to truly enjoy Sasuke's company, but he was trying to stop it. He only wanted Sasuke as a friend, that's all he could have him as. He couldn't think of him as anything more. He couldn't go through another heartache like he had with him.
It was late November. The cold had truly set in now. The snow was always falling, never taking a break. Naruto wasn't sure if he loved or hated the snow. It brought him cold and it brought him pain, but it was beautiful. No matter how much it hurt, the sight of snow falling against the sun rising or setting was breath taking.
"Dobe." Naruto hadn't noticed Sasuke walk into the office. He had been intently trying to clean a coffee stain off of the table. It couldn't have been there more than twenty four hours, but it was damn well stuck on the table. Stupid expensive wood and its absorbent powers.
"Teme."
"Don't work too hard at that stain; it's not going to come out."
"Don't don't my handiwork, Sasuke! I do this every day."
"Hn. How are you doing dobe?" Small talk had started between the two around the end of October. Naruto sort of enjoyed it. Sasuke never expressed whether he liked it or not, but he was always the one to start it.
"Pretty well. Did you finally get that stick pulled out of your ass?"
"No."
"Figures."
"Naruto, do you like living in Japan?"
"It's alright. I wish it was warmer during the winter though. I like the sun a hell of a lot more than snow!"
"Do you like the snow?"
"It's alright. It's pretty to look at, but it's damn cold."
"Hn."
"What about you Sasuke?"
"I like living in Japan. It's fast and it's cold. When I went to India it was too slow and too hot."
"Tokyo seems to fit you Sasuke. It's dark and cold, just like you. Except it's not as quiet as you are."
"Dark and cold? I am not dark and cold."
"Yeah you are. You never let anyone in and you're always a bitch to people."
"That doesn't make me dark and cold."
"Sasuke, I don't think I've ever seen you smile longer than three seconds! Other than your family, you don't treat anyone with respect when you speak. People are lucky to get more than four words out of you."
"Not everyone is a ball of energy like you, dobe. Some normal people, like myself, don't always want to overly nice like you."
"It wouldn't kill you to be nice though." With that statement, Sasuke threw his pen at my head. I looked up at him, a slight pout settling on his face. It disappeared in less than ten seconds.
"I am nice, sometimes."
"You didn't even hold the door open for Hinata; you slammed it in her face! You call that nice? I call that jackassery."
"Now you are the one not being nice."
"I can be mean sometimes! I helped an old lady across the street today and I got a little girl's doll out of the bushes today. I think I am entitled the right to be mean to a jackass like you today."
"Hn."
"What the fuck down 'hn' mean Sasuke! Can't you give more than a one syllable response!?"
"I'm surprised you know what a syllable is Naruto."
"I'm not a dumbass."
"You sure?"
"Fuck you."
"Naruto?"
"Yes?"
"You missed a spot."
Naruto looked at Sasuke's pointing hand. It was pointing at nothing but air. Naruto wanted to throw the cleaning solution at his head. He resisted though. Pissing Sasuke off wasn't on his list of things to do today.
After Sasuke had told him about the blizzard, he realized that he didn't want to be caught in the middle of it. He wanted to finish early so that he could get back to his apartment, safe from the whiteout that was soon to occur.
"Do you want to clean your office?"
"No."
"Then stop asking for it to be perfect!"
"But that's what we pay you for."
"You don't pay me to deal with your bull!"
"Aren't you just a nice person?"
"I am a nice person. You just bring out the worst in me."
Naruto, you're right. He does bring out the worst in you, me. Naruto's blood ran cold. He hadn't heard that voice in forever.
"I'm sure I do dobe."
"Whatever, teme."
Naruto, how rude of you. Aren't you supposed to be the nice one between the two of us? I'm supposed to be the killer. You are supposed to be the innocent child.
Naruto continued to ignore the voice. He went about cleaning Sasuke's office until suddenly the lights went out.
"What the fuck?" Naruto and Sasuke said in unison. Sasuke picked up the phone and slammed it back down. Naruto went to open the door, but it wouldn't budge.
"FUCK!" Sasuke screamed as he ran his hands through his hair. "The power's out."
"It must be the blizzard." Naruto walked to the huge window in Sasuke's office. All he could see was darkness interrupted with quick flying dots of white. Sasuke came up behind him and sighed, looking out at the skyline.
"Sorry Naruto, looks like you are stuck in here with me until the blizzard passes and they can turn the power back on."
"It's better than being stuck out there."
"Yeah." Sasuke went back to his desk. He leaned his head back against the chair. Naruto kept looking out the window. The wind was hollowing. The snow was pelting the window. It was going to be a long, cold night.
Dun dun dun... First one to guess who the voice is in Naruto's head wins a prize! Although.. It's not hard to guess who, or is it? O.o I'm writing this so it obviously came to me like that *snaps fingers*
Anyway... Any guesses at what is going to happen during the blizzard?
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