Drabble Rating: K+
Status: 25/45
Word Count: 420 words
Warning: Uh—whoops? Sorry dudes.
Theme: Coward

When Naruto sends out a verbal invitation to Sasuke that uses the words 'training field', he's not going to think anything unusual about it. In fact, it's something that's routine for the both of them.

That's why when he shows up, headband tied on, weapons polished and ready, and Naruto lacking the headband and weapons, he thinks maybe Naruto's forgotten what the point of the meeting was.

Or Sasuke just hadn't realized that Naruto may have had other intentions for meeting up with him, something other than training.

"Naruto? Where's your weapons? I thought we were training..." Sasuke trails off when Naruto's expression turns to one of panic and he feels his chest clenching in concern. "What's wrong? What happened?"

The blond looks even more upset, blue eyes wide in fear. "I – I have a confession," his voices cracks and Sasuke's feeling some sort of impending doom that will soon befall them.

"Don't tell me you forgot," he tries to joke but it only seems to make the situation worse as Naruto shakes his head violently.

"No! Not training! I asked us to meet but this has nothing to do with training!" Oddly enough, the boy's cheeks are tinged red. Sasuke's starting the think that maybe the boy is ill.

"Then what–"

"I like you."

Words die on his tongue, dropping to the ground like flies and Sasuke feels like someone just dumped a bucket of water over his head. He tries to work his mouth, which cooperates hesitantly but his voice box has other ideas. Instead of a gruff, male voice he grew to be so proud of, he could barely squeak out a "What?" as Naruto looked up with cheeks flaming like cherries.

Naruto takes a deep breath and repeats himself. "I like you."

Sasuke decides to play stupid. "I like you too, you're a good friend–"

"No!" The boy shakes his head again and repeats himself with more determination. "I like like you."

The Uchiha can't play stupid this time. He knows he can't because he knows that Naruto can see his own cheeks flaming red, eyes widened into comical proportions.

Sasuke has gone through hundreds of confessions in his lifetime thus far, but Naruto's was the only one to make him feel completely out of control. So he did the only logical thing that came to his mind:

He turned and fled, leaving a stunned Naruto alone in the training field.