Kaira-chan: Sorry for the long update . I've had this written out for the past 4 days, but I haven't been able to go on the computer long enough to type it out *sighs*
Dark Kaira: Why are you apologizing for that. If anything you should apologize for cursing everyone with another chapter.
Kaira-chan: Bleh XP you're right...
Naruto: *Blinks* I'm going to stay out of this. If Kaira-chan owned Naruto, she wouldn't be writing it on a FAN fiction site.
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Naruto paused when he reached the edge of Team Sevens training grounds.
He was hoping that he was going to be the only one there that day. It turned out that that was too much to hope for. In the middle of the clearing, punching and kicking away at the post in the ground was Sasuke.
He pursed his lips together.
He could just go and train. That's what he would normally do. Normally he'd ignore Sasuke, or challenge him, or something.
But this wasn't normally, now was it? This was different. Today four years ago, Sasuke's parents had been killed. Today, Sasuke probably wanted to be alone. Okay, so Sasuke wanted to be alone everyday. But today, he probably wanted to be alone more so.
Besides, Naruto knew he was annoying. Usually he didn't care. But every now and then he knew that the thing people needed least was someone like him. That was one of the reasons he never even so much as rolled out of bed on his birthday...
That, and he still was trying to understand this new relationship between them. And trying to forget this new feeling that was developing for the other boy.
But~, he really was itching to train. If he just trained, and ignored Sasuke, it should be okay, right? If Sasuke felt like speaking to Naruto about anything, he would, right?
Naruto stepped into the clearing, portending not to notice how Sasuke's training seemed to slow and loose focus a little when Naruto entered his line of vision.
Naruto soon began to focus upon doing some handstand push-ups, leaning against a post. He still wasn't strong or balanced enough to do them freestanding. Sasuke's rhythm to his training began to speed up and become normal once again.
The two fo them continued training until the sun began disappearing behind the heads of th former and present Hokage a few hours later, seemingly oblivious to the other's presence.
"Hey, Naruto," Sasuke called up to his teammate.
Naruto nearly feel flat on his face from his position of hanging upside-down in a tree.
It wasn't completely the fault of the fact that neither had spoken to each other the duration of the time that they had trained. Actually, it had more to do with the fact that Sasuke had left out the familiar nickname of "dobe".
Naruto let the chakra drain from his feet, and flipped onto the ground, trying to ignore the nausea that having all the blood rushing to or from your head when you're upside-down provoked. "Yeah?"
"We've been training nearly all day. Wanna grab a bite to eat?" Sasuke asked casually if not coldly.
Naruto somehow resisted the compulsive urge to rip of Sasuke's mask and find out who was pretending his usual indifferent rival.
"Like where?" he asked instead.
"Where ever. The Ichiraku sounds like an idea," Sasuke shrugged, seemingly indifferent.
"Ramen?" Naruto asked cautiously.
"For you, if you want. I'm personally thinking of getting some rice balls."
Naruto grinned widely. "Then onward we go!" he exclaimed.
Sasuke smiled softly as Naruto loudly slurped his ramen.
Sasuke took a bite from his rice ball, not taking his eyes from Naruto.
It was strange, really. He had seen Naruto just the night before. But he was a completely different person no then he had been that night.
Naruto, then, had been closer personality wise to Sasuke the nearly everyone Sasuke had met, now he was further than anyone.
Sasuke wondered which was the real Naruto. The determined, seemingly carefree one, or the brooding, seemingly deep-thinking one?
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Sorry it's so short T^T I didn't have time to write a longer chapter. And December has sucked all the creativity from me
Naruto: So please review!!
~~~REVIEW REPLIES~~~
Chibi Dragon:
Wow -.-; wasn't this updated soon ^-^ lol. I'm glad you're not so disappointed with Behind the Smile now. I do plan to write a sequel... really I do...
Firedragon97:
Hmm... I suppose I could try to get an angst pile up XD *grins stupidly*