AN: Up ahead there is some Sakura and Ino bashing and also some blatant Shikamaru/Kiba. Watch out! Ehe.  

Chapter 4: Memories… Sweet Sweet Memories~s

It was a quarter to noon and Naruto was on his way to the Onigirii bar on the other side of town. He walked quickly and everyone got the message he had somewhere to go. A blob of pink landed in his vision quickly followed by a shrill "Naruto-kun!!" and then a, "Fancy seeing you here in…" Sakura surveyed her surroundings "..Konoha." Naruto rolled his eyes, that was soo~o lame… came to mind. Naruto sighed, "How are you today Sakura?" he said in a perfect monotone. "Oh Naruto-kun my day is just –wonderful- now that –your- here." Naruto rolled his eyes again.

Sakura was one of the 'leaders' of his fan club and she took her 'job' very seriously. By making Naruto's life miserable she was happy. You'd think she'd get the point.

Naruto tried to make their conversation as short as possible, Sakura asked where he was going and a simple "Onigirii" was his reply. Then she asked if she could "accompany" him, which basically meant "can I maul you in the booth?" he said "Uhh… I'm already meeting someone there and their not very big on.." What?! Girls? Guys? Anyone? "… Company. "

There. He wasn't lying. Sasuke didn't like anyone. It was a very truthful answer. Naruto was just saving Sakura from the ultimate rejection of Sasuke who will fall madly in love with Naruto just on sight of him and Sakura would screw that up.

Naruto left quickly afterwards, realizing that he had only 5 minutes to get to the other side of town. He opted to take rooftops instead of busy streets. 5 minutes later he was landing gracefully (yes, Naruto can be graceful) on the road outside the Onigirii bar.

He looked around and finally spotted Sasuke looking bored as ever in the booth at the very back of the bar. He smiled and walked towards him blushing a bit from his uncontrolled emotions and plopped himself down on the opposite side.

"Yo, Sasuke-kun!"

"Hn."

"…Uh… how are you?"

"Fine dobe."

Great conversation Naruto, you really nailed that one. He really loves you now.

A waiter came to their table and Naruto ordered the same as Sasuke had. "So dobe, have you finally built up enough courage to tell me what you wanted to earlier?" Sasuke said with a tone of interest. Naruto was surprised that Sasuke actually had any tones, any emotions for that fact. No that wasn't right, he had to have some emotions to act like a jerk.

The Onigirii had come and now Naruto was staring at his plate solemnly. "Well… for the past…" how was he going to word this…hmm…"While." Sasuke blinked at him, "Go on" Uhg. "Well, it's just for the past couple of… years maybe since we were… About 14 I've kind of..."

The blob of yellow almost white hair bounded into his field of vision, accompanied swiftly by a familiar blob of pink. Just wonderful, Sakura and Ino. Sasuke took one look at the 2 girls and let out a long sigh, then turned down to look at his food. "Naruto-kun! Sasuke-kun!" Naruto copied Sasuke's movements and turned his gaze downwards at his food, deciding it was best to just completely ignore the girls.

After all of them had turned 15, Ino had taken a surprisingly large interest in Shikamaru, after getting turned down by Sasuke for the hundredth time. Naruto almost laughed at the memory. Ino had been successful about getting Shikamaru to spill his feelings towards her, but he didn't know if it was for the best. He had said: "In my opinion, you're a bossy, stupid, loudmouthed, two-faced, two-toned lying bitch who needs to get in touch with reality and realize you don't have a chance with any of the guys in Konoha. Oh, and Sakura. The same goes for you."

Naruto had witnessed it, and he didn't know Ino that well but Sakura could fit about half of that description. What had been even more surprising is what had happened after the fact and Shikamaru's little speech.

Shikamaru had turned about, walked back to Kiba (who had been waiting for him) took his had, their fingers intertwined and leaned in to kiss him quite passionately. After pulling back Kiba's hoodie, running his fingers through his brown hair and getting Kiba to moan in quite a satisfactory way he broke the kiss and turned to smirk at the puddles on Ino and Sakura (who had melted at some point).

Afterwards he had left, looking quite flush and whispering in Kiba's ear.

TBC

AN: I'm sorrrryyyyy!!! I have a weakness for a Shika/Kiba pairing. Oh we got some major Ino and Sakura bashing!! Mwahaha. Is this longer? Well sorry for the long update I'll try and get it up sooner. R n' R!!! Please!!! Ehe.