Naruto Primer: Sakura and Sasuke

Please Don't Say You're Gay

Sakura needs to hear the words directly from Sasuke's mouth.  All he needed to do was say that he loved at least one girl, preferably her, and she would be satisfied, for if it turned out that Sasuke "The Stud" Uchiha was actually interested in people…er…of the same gender as himself, she would be devastated.

Sasuke was unaware that Sakura was having these troubles concerning his sexuality preference.  He was sitting by himself atop his favorite thinking spot while dunking the delectable chocolate cookie into the vanilla icing of his package of Dunkaroos.

Just as he was finishing the last cookie, he looked up to see Sakura standing there.  What was this?  Why did she know about his favorite thinking spot?  Perhaps because he was there all the time.  Perhaps because she stalked him.  There were a number of reasons.

Sakura took a good look at Sasuke sitting by himself.  There was no way someone that attractive and popular could possibly be gay.  But then again, usually all the attractive and popular guys ended up being gay.  The more she thought about it, the more she wished the idea had never come to her.  Now she had to know for sure if it was the truth.

"Sasuke…" she said, approaching him as he put the empty Dunkaroo package into his paper bag.  "I have to ask…do you…have a crush on anyone?"

Sasuke gave a heavy sigh.  If he had a dollar for every time someone asked him that, he'd have enough money to hire a hundred thousand jounins to kill his brother FOR him.  "Not this again." He said.

"You have to answer me!" she said.  "I have to know!"

"And why is that?" asked Sasuke.

"Uh…it's kind of embarrassing." Sakura said, avoiding looking at him.

"Are you looking for me to say that I'm in love with you?" Sasuke questioned, though he knew it was true.  All the girls wanted him to be in love with them.  But he was better than that.  He was better than them all.

Sakura felt a little weird about telling him that she didn't care who he was in love with, as long as it was a girl.  Of course, she would love it if he was in love with her even though he had previously said that he hated her, she figured she'd have a fighting chance if he at least loved a girl…

"I don't get you." Said Sasuke, crumpling up his paper bag.  "First, you come up to me and say that you've hated me ever since before you can remember, and now all of a sudden, you're asking me who I like."

"What?" Sakura said hesitantly.  "I didn't say anything like that!  Is that why you said you hated me?"

"I don't hate you." Said Sasuke.  "I just don't love you."

Sakura couldn't hold it in anymore.  She had to just say it or they would keep going around in circles.  "Then who do you love?!"—Sasuke expected her to name off a few girls here, like Ino—"Naruto?!  Shikamaru?!  Gaara?!  Neji?!  Who?!"

This caught Sasuke off guard a bit.

Sakura could see the shocked look on his face.  That either meant that she had wrongfully accused him or embarrassed him by discovering his secret.  Either way, she knew it would be a difficult relationship between the two from now on.

"…What?" Sasuke said finally.

"You ARE gay, aren't you?" Sakura said quietly.

Sasuke took a deep breath.  "No." he answered.

"Then how come you don't like any girls?" asked Sakura.  "The only time you ever seem to be mildly happy is when you're with guys!  Should I tell all the girls to stop bothering?!  Should I tell all the guys that you're actually gay?  Maybe they're gay too!"

"Stop." Sasuke interrupted.  "I'm just an anti-social person.  I don't like company.  The only reason I'm happy with guys is because I'm fighting them and that makes me happy."

"So if I asked you to fight then you'd be happy?" Sakura asked.

"No." Sasuke answered.

"Oh, you ARE gay!" whined Sakura.  "I wish you had told me sooner!"

"I'm not gay." Sasuke said.

"Then prove it." Sakura insisted.

"How?" asked Sasuke.

"You have to go on a date with me." Sakura replied.

As soon as she said that, Sakura realized that it sounded way too much like she had been trying to trick him into dating her this entire time.  And, even though she liked the idea that Sasuke would be dating her, she didn't like the fact that he'd be dating her just to prove that he wasn't gay.  Because, not only would that be extremely artificial, but he could still be hiding it and actually be gay.

"I don't think so." Sasuke said.

Now that she was in this deep, Sakura realized that she could potentially get a date out of this.  She was convinced that Sasuke wasn't gay… for the most part… or at least, she tried to tell herself that he was telling the truth.

"Then I might as well go tell someone you might be interested in dating…" Sakura said slowly, turning around.  "Maybe…Naruto?  Or would you prefer someone else?"

"Wait a second." Sasuke said, standing up and walking over to her.  Sakura cheered on the inside.  "Maybe we could get something to eat.  But that's it."

"All right!" said Sakura happily.  Why hadn't she thought of this sooner?

Sasuke was rather frustrated now.  It's not like he cared that girls wouldn't be chasing after him anymore.  In fact, he would like that a lot better, but he definitely didn't need guys chasing after him and he knew that would happen if word got out that he was gay.  Even though he wasn't.

"So where do you want to go?" Sakura asked.

"Now?" Sasuke asked.

"Yeah!" Sakura answered.  "I've got nothing else to do and there's no way I'll be able to make it through the afternoon."

"I just ate." Sasuke reminded her, even though it secretly annoyed him that it was so obvious that she had planned all of this all along.

"That's okay, you can get something small." Sakura said.

The two departed Sasuke's favorite thinking spot on their way to a place where they could eat lunch.  Considering they were only twelve years old, they didn't have that much pocket money so they ended up settling on McDonald's.

"What are you going to get, Sasuke?" asked Sakura eagerly.

Sasuke didn't say anything, he only scoffed at her.  He knew what he was getting and didn't need to share it with this conniving girl who had used the worse possible way to trick him into going on a date with her.  Threatening him with a date with Naruto…oh man, Sasuke was just… so much better than him!!

After ordering their food and drinks, they sat down at a table.  Sakura had her McSalad, and Sasuke sported his Happy Meal.

At least some good came from this ludicrous date, Sasuke thought as he fished around in the bag and pulled out the Hamburglar.  I finally got the Hamburglar…

Sakura, on the other hand, was feeling slightly uneasy.  She got the feeling that Sasuke wasn't exactly enjoying their little outing.  What could she do to make him have some fun?  That thought went through her mind more times than she could count.  I guess taking him out to eat right after he ate wasn't a very good way to get him to have a good time, Sakura sighed to herself, realizing her mistake.

She probably should have taken him to see a movie.

He probably should have suggested seeing a movie.

"Um…Sasuke?" said Sakura.  "Do you wanna…go see a movie after this?" she asked.

"I told you that I was only going to get something to eat with you." Sasuke answered.

"But you're not having fun at all!  Is it because I'm a girl?!"  She knew she was taking it too far now.  He would definitely hate her after this, even though he already did.

He gave her a cold stare.  Why did she have to be so persistent?  How long would she keep up this 'I think you're gay' act?

"I think I'm done eating now." Said Sasuke as he took his bag and stood up.

Sakura didn't say anything.  She figured he had a right to be mad.

He left McDonald's and went back to his house where he set up his Hamburglar on the table right next to all his other toys.  He wondered if Sakura was going to try to spread the word that he was gay.  It wasn't true, but maybe, in the long run, it would work in his favor.  But then again, she wouldn't do that.

Sakura finished her McSalad since she had spent all her allowance on it and then walked outside.  She still didn't know positively for sure if Sasuke was gay because all he had really done was walk next to her to McDonalds, buy something and then quickly leave.  For all she knew, gay guys did that with their girls that are friends all the time.