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Sasuke doesn't like rumours. In fact he especially doesn't like rumours about him and Naruto. So how does he stop the rumour about Naruto's dwellings in his 'pants'? Make it a reality of course. Easier said than done.
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I
Don't Like Rumours
The hyperactive blonde ninja had spent the last couple of days chasing after Sakura relentlessly trying to apologise for misunderstanding and causing a scene revolving around the fact that she was acting differently due to PMS.
He had somehow been distracted by items of Sasuke's and had then lost sight of both Sakura and Ino. There was too much stuff to take back to Sasuke so he would have to return home and tell Sasuke the wonders of what he had found. Stealing is wrong. He knew that, but he couldn't resist taking Sasuke's silk boxers and winter scarf from the pile for his own personal gain.
As he skipped back he noticed Kiba and Hinata sat on a nearby bench. She was using some of her healing ointment on his face. "Kiba? Hinata?" walking over he saw the reason why Kiba's face needed healing. "Na-Naruto-kun?"
"Ouch Kiba, that is quite a shiner! Haha, what have you been up to? You look a mess haha"
"Ha-ha-ha, if this was you, you wouldn't be laughing!" he barked back, rubbing his purpling swollen eye. "That Uchiha of yours gave me this!"
"What Sasuke? Come off it Kiba what did you really do? Did Akamaru run off into the woman's bath house so you had to follow?"
"For your information, he left a message with this gift 'The rumours end tonight' haha, Akamaru did run off into a girl's bath house once. That was truly something eh? Akamaru?" The dog yipped in reply; Hinata sat blushing on the other side of the bench.
"Hinata are you ok? You look feverish again. Is it serious should I take you to the hospital?" She shook her head "Th-thanks Naruto b-but I'll be o-ok" she smiled weakly
"Heh, speaking of health Naruto, are you sure you aren't ill with that scarf around your neck?"
"I … found it and I think it looks good on me."
"It-It's a nice colour, and it suits y-you"
"Thanks Hinata, well see ya later I'm going to go now. All this apologising work is making me hungry."
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"Sasuke!" Naruto had crashed through the front door to the Uchiha's house to find everything dark. Late sun-light from the open front door illuminated the hallway. "Sasuke are you in!?" He opened the door to the living room. No Sasuke in there, he moved to the kitchen. He didn't even so much as find a leaking tap.
Last was the bedroom, there was a glow under the door. As the door opened four candles loomed, and flicked in the corner of the room next to the bed where a figure was lying. "Hn, dobe. You're back then"
"Sasuke? Why are you sat in the dark all by yourself!?"
There was a pause, "Firstly dobe, it is not dark, and the candles are providing sufficient light. I found them in Itachi's junk. Secondly I'm not by myself. You are in the room as well"
"Oh…that makes sense… Ooh I saw Kiba today he had a pretty awesome shiner, he said you gave it to him."
"Hn, that I did. Did he also tell you that I sent a message along with it?"
"Hey, Sasuke you're scaring me a bit, what's gotten into you?" Sasuke flipped over suddenly so that he was facing a cautious Naruto. The sharp movement blew two of the four candles out. "Dobe, have you heard the rumour that is spreading around Konoha!?"
"Which one? Is it the one about Shikamaru having a major accident that he tried to hide behind a purple skirt!? Haha imagine Shikamaru in purple."
"No dobe it is not that one" Sasuke was now sat up on his knees. "It's the one that dog-boy seemed so intent on yelling to a crowd of fan girls who are now after my blood and possibly your head…I put a stop to that"
"Wha!?" Naruto knelt on the bed next to him, cupping a hand behind his ear in an attempt to make Sasuke speak up loud and clear.
"I don't like rumours…" Sasuke leant in closer to whisper into the open ear. "I especially don't like rumours about us"
"Is that why you hit Kiba, because he's spreading rumours about us!?" Naruto asked "What were these rumours?" Sasuke smirked into the blondes face. "Hn, don't tell me you've forgotten your little 'got into Sasuke's pants' comment?" Naruto backed away slightly as Sasuke's face was too close to his own face, "So what are you going to about it? These rumours have probably spread around the whole village and onto the next one"
"This rumour is going to end tonight. I'm going to turn this rumour into a reality." Sasuke was getting closer, causing Naruto to ease backwards. "Hey now Sasuke don't do something you'll regret…Eep!" The scarf around Naruto's neck caught the raven's eye. "Is this my winter scarf?" he enquired amusement in his voice.
"Yes, and I found more of your stuff at Sakura's house, don't you want to get it back…now?" Naruto was unsure of what was going on, there was only light from two candles, enough to make things out but not enough to see properly.
"What's this?" Sasuke went through his right pocket, to find his silk boxers that Naruto had 'rescued'. "Hn, I see you hate rumours too" the body underneath him squirmed as it's stomach rumbled. "Sasuke whatever you're going to do, do it now I am starving"
"Hn, it's taken months and many attempts to get to this point, I don't want to rush into things." Naruto grumbled "Well, it's taken the last two days to find Sakura and apologise I still haven't found her, and I haven't eaten since this morning and I'm hungry"
"So. Maybe I can fix that" Sasuke's face was centimetres away from Naruto's. "Good so you'll cook me some ramen!?" Sasuke glared down at him. "Dobe?"
"What"
"Shut up and follow my lead" Sasuke had already torn his orange jacket off.
"That was my jacket! Why do I always have to follow your lead!?" the blonde growled.
"Because you are a dobe, and I know what I'm doing" Sasuke's voice was strong and Naruto couldn't tell if he was lying or not.
"Hmph, tell me what to do and I'll do it better than you will"
"Even better I'll show you. I'll prove that you won't be better than me" Another one of the candles died away, the warmth and cosiness in the room allowed Naruto to feel caught up in the moment. Sasuke was about to close the gap between them, however simultaneously there was a knock on the door. He had frozen still poised ready to make a move. "Sasuke?"
"Damn! There's someone at the door!" Sasuke got off Naruto, and the bed. He walked to the bedroom door. "Oi you could at least finish off what you started!" Sasuke turned his head "Sorry dobe. The moment is ruined" the last candle blew out and left a wispy trail.
Thinking back to Kiba's black eye Naruto got up and followed him to the door to ensure it didn't happen again. The door was wrenched open by the annoyed Uchiha. "What!?"
The rain clouds had gathered outside and it had started raining. Sakura was stood on the doorstep with a small suitcase, shiny tear tracks ran under her eyes. Whether they fake so that she could get their sympathy or real or even from the rain was uncertain. "Sakura what do you want!? You ruined something yet again"
"I got kicked out of my home…I went to see Kakashi-sensei…but he's out…on a jonin mission…can I stay with you…please Sasuke-kun!" she begged, ready to get down on her knees if need be.
"Sakura? Sakura come in! Come in!" Naruto now had his chance to apologise but Sasuke was most reluctant to let her in. He sent the dobe a 'you will pay' glare. "Sakura, we have 'stuff' to do you can't stay here. We told you that last time"
"I'll even sleep on the floor! Please Sasuke-kun I have no where to go, Ino's been grounded and I don't know who else to turn to… Naruto, please let me in I'll forgive you so you won't have to apologise to me" Naruto turned to Sasuke, who had to give in because the blondes puppy eyes were so adorable.
"Hn, you can sleep on the floor in the living room. Don't touch the TV and don't touch my stuff. I know what's in that room, if I find your prints on anything…" Sasuke was dragged by the arm "Haha, Sasuke I'm hungry make me some ramen please" Muttering under his breath Sasuke went into the kitchen.
"Sakura I'm sorry about the other day…and the stalking"
"Naruto, it's ok. Thanks for letting me stay here for a while" Sakura smiled at him. Sasuke popped his head around the kitchen door. "Naruto. Kitchen. Now." The blonde gestured for Sakura to set up her sleeping bag in the living room.
"She is not staying for a while!"
"Come on Sasuke, she's on our team."
"She'll get in our way" a fist slammed on the counter by the microwave
"What do you mean? She'll be in the living room and we'll be in your room" Naruto made his way to the microwave to watch his ramen rotate slowly.
"Hn, Naruto she'll come running in when she hears the noises"
"What noises!?" He turned sharply
"You'll make noises and wake her up. Trust me you will be screaming" a smirk etched on the raven's face as he left the kitchen. There was a ping and Naruto plunged his hand into the microwave and pulled out the steaming ramen snack-pot and finished eating the contents in five minutes regardless of the heat.
Dashing back and joining Sasuke in the bedroom he asked "I'm ready! Try me Sasuke! I won't scream or anything."
"Oh is that a promise? What are you going to do when you break it?"
"I won't break it! If I do I will …um…"
"You will tell Sakura to leave and that she'll never stay here again"
"Aww that's mean! How about I clean the house"
"Pfft, I wouldn't trust that to someone who owns a pig sty"
"…um…"
"Tell you what, if you scream-…" Naruto shook his head, "Whatever let's think of it later right now I'm gonna prove to you that Uzumaki Naruto screams for no one…except maybe himself but for no one else" Sasuke pulled him forwards onto the bed. "You'll scream for me"
"Hmph…Sasuke…erm what do we do now?" Even though Sasuke had gone in with the intention of doing something, he himself had no idea how to go about doing it. He shrugged and pulled Naruto in closer. "Just do what you were going to do earlier"
"Sssh, all in good time dear uk-dobe." Once again after the atmosphere was created with the help of the re-lit candles Sasuke was ready and in position to move closer but another knock at the door stopped him. He growled in annoyance, "What!?" he moved off of Naruto and the door opened.
"Oh sorry was I disturbing something?" Sakura was present in a small nightdress
"Yes, yes you were, now why aren't you in the living room!? Sleeping, quietly not bugging us?"
"I heard noises and…um I really don't want to be by myself tonight…"
"So!?" loosing his patience Sasuke continued to snarl at her.
"Can I join you two in here? I'll sleep on the floor, you won't even know I'm here" She looked longingly at him with eyes not effective like Naruto's. "Fine." He only said that because he knew that's what Naruto wanted.
"Yay, thank you Sasuke-kun!" The hope in her saddened face returned and she exited to go and get her sleeping bag. "Alright Sasuke where were you?"
"I am not doing anything with Sakura here"
"Why?"
"Do you want an audience!?" he snapped, Sakura came in and set up her stuff at the bottom of the bed. "I got my stuff! Thank you so much, for letting me stay here"
"No problem Sakura" Naruto piped lying over the edge of the bed so he could see her face. "Sasuke-kun what did you want an audience for?"
"Grr, I'm going to sleep in Itachi's room!"
"But Sasuke I thought you didn't want anyone in that room?"
"Yeah I didn't want anyone in there" Glaring at Sakura he jumped over Naruto and landed in the doorway. "Goodnight!" he slammed the door behind him.
They both watched the hook on the back of the door fall off. Sakura asked the question they were both thinking. "Was it something I did?"
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A\N: A bit of a short chapter this time, but if I wrote any more I'd be giving away hints to the next chapter :D which surprisingly I have an idea for XD
Lot's of people have asked for this to be a romantic SasuNaru but for the randomness of this fic the SasuNaru is going to hint more to humour than romance, don't worry though I'll add innuendos and lot's of fluffy kawaii moments XD
Happy Fanfic Reading!