Kinny: bleh...I've been having trouble writing and finding the inspiration and stuff. So that's why I didn't have the next chapter our right away. I've been watching a lot of movies(Butterfly Effect&Secret Window), anime (Saishu-Heiki Kanojo&Ayashi no Ceres) and reading stuff like Alice 19th, which all tended to be sad and twisted. So forgive me if my sick sadistic/suicidal side seeps into my writing.
But!! On a happier note. I think this chapter is longer. I hope. So here is my awaited longer chapter!!

Naruto furiously rolls around in bed as the dead of night creeps closer.

"Ugh!! I can't sleep!!"

Finally coming to a stop, he lets out a frustrated sigh.

"Maybe ramen will help calm me down!!"

He sits on the edge of the bed and shuffles his feet around, searching for his slippers. Slowly slipping them on, he blinks and looks around a bit cautiously, suddenly sensing something or someone in the room. The presence disappears as suddenly as it had come. "Dare ka??" Naruto asks, his eyes searching the dark. "Is someone there?"

The small boy furrows his brow and squints more determinedly into the dark. Coming to a conclusion that he's just acting like a paranoid old geezer, he shuffles into the kitchen for his ramen. He sits there waiting the dreadedly long 3 minutes for his ramen to cook and his mind begins to wander. Flashes of what happened earlier enter his mind and he groans, thinking about what an idiot he had been. His chance had come!!! Why had he been so stupid to have pushed Sasuke away? His dream had come true. He didn't care so much about being Hokage if it meant Sasuke loved him and they could be happy together. But now, it would never happen. He had definitely screwed this one up big time. There wasn't one thing in his life that wasn't fucked up, other than his friends. But dare he call them friends? Iruka was like a father to him. And Kakashi...was like...something. He cared, but had a funny way of showing it. Sakura, Shikamaru, Ino, Chouji, Kiba, Lee, Hinata, Neji...they were all friends. And even though they acted like Naruto annoyed them, they knew inside that they loved him like any other friend. But Sasuke....Sasuke...he...he didn't know. What was Sasuke?

Friend? Rival?

Maybe...lover?
Naruto laughed an empty, hollow laugh.
No way.

Never in a million years.
"Aw man!! Thought too much and now my ramen's soggy! Never thought that would happen." {thinking too much, I mean}

Slurping down his ramen, he gives a satisfied burp and heads to bed. As Naruto plopped into bed and pulled the covers up, he did not notice the pair of eyes watching him.

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(Next Morning)
Naruto heads to the bridge, determined to act as if nothing is wrong. When he gets there he frowns at the emptiness. Ugh...don't have a mission today. How could I have forgotten? I guess I'll go to see Iruka and disrupt his class!! Hehe. But as he neared the academy, a loud bunch of giggling reached his ears. Being the nosy kid he was, he headed towards the noise. And there. Right in front of Naruto was Him. Lying on the grass in his almighty glory was Sasuke. Surrounded by girls. Naruto was furious with what he saw.
Why wasn't he pushing them away?

Why didn't he give them that well-known glare to back off and leave him alone?
These questions filled Naruto's head.
How could he just sit there with that lazy smirk on his face?
Naruto felt like he was going to hurl.
How could that bastard let them NEAR him?
He watched as the girls shoved their way into Sasuke's view, hoping to get the chance to 'accidentally' rub against him. Shaking his head, Naruto begins to walk again, walking past Sasuke and his fan girls. Sasuke's smile fades away and is replaced with a cold, hard look.. He gets up quickly brushing off the girls and calls out.

"Oi, dobe."

He couldn't help but feel a pang of self-hate when Naruto whirled around and glared.

"Ew!! Don't talk to him, Sasuke-kun!! He's, like, SO weird!!" one of the girls yell.

"Yea!! He's a monster after all!!" another girl says in disgust.

Bakemono.
More girls pitch in and yell sick things and names.
"Go away you monster!!"
"Yeah you better keep walking, you loser!!"
"You're unwanted here!! We all hate you!!"
"Ugh!! He's so disgusting!!"
Naruto tries to hide his pain and continues to walk towards the academy.

"Hey, I said something to you. What's wrong? Are you gonna cry...Bakemono?" Sasuke yells, regretting it almost immediately. Naruto turns around and looks at him. Sasuke flinches, expecting Naruto to yell back and be angry, but he just stands there, hurt and betral written upon his face.

"Bakemono...ka..?" Naruto laughs bitterly. "Sou desu ne...I'm just a monster, Sasuke. Don't talk to me. I'm not even good enough for your eyes to lay upon me. I'm worse than nothing, so why don't you just lay back down and enjoy your fan club, oh-so-great one."

With that Naruto walks away, his tears threatening to fall, but he holds his head high and continues to walk away from the hateful yells. Sasuke stands there shocked, staring at Naruto's retreating back.

"Ne ne Sasuke-kun!! Why don't you lie back down and just ignore him? He's not worth your time anyway!!" Sakura says sweetly, flashing her cutest smile at the boy. {So much for being Naruto's friend.} He looks at her in disgust and walks away, leaving a group of girls ready to kill her.

"Sakura!! Look what you did!! You made Sasuke-kun go away!! Now he will never talk to us again!!" The girls yell and crowd around her as she tries to back away.

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Naruto stands in front of the academy, staring up at the building. He sighs as he turns and looks back at his swing. No one else ever sat there after him. Their parents had forbid them. Why? Because he had sat there. But Naruto didn't care. It meant that he got the swing to himself. Not that that really mattered. Sitting down on the swing, he looks back to the building and sighs (again!!). He begins to swing a bit, watching his feet swing back and forth.

"Is something wrong, Naruto-kun?" A boy says, walking out from behind a tree. Naruto looks up and manages a weak smile.

"Nah, I'm fine."

"You sure? It's not good to hold in things like that, you know."

Naruto looks up at the boy, as if questioning him.

"If it is so painful to like such a boy (referring to Sasuke), then maybe you should look elsewhere. And by that...I mean...like me."

The boy moves forward and captures Naruto's lips. Naruto doesn't bother to fight against him. Instead, he gives in.

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Sasuke walks in the direction Naruto had headed and stops upon hearing a familiar voice.

"Nah, I'm fine."

Sasuke recognizes that as Naruto's voice and walks closer, concealing himself behind a tree.

"...like such a boy, then maybe you should look elsewhere. And by that...I mean...like me."

Sasuke steps out from behind the tree and stares as he watches his Naruto. His. Be kissed by another.