CHAPTER 3!!! Yay!! Sorry for the long wait for the update, i'm really busy with school and...ugh...German class. As soon as i get un-grounded i'll be posting more often.

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"...Naruto you do know you left the asshole of a waitress a $30 tip, right?"

"Wow! I did? But she's not an asshole, Sasuke... I'm used to it."

"You shouldn't take that from people! You should stand up for yourself!"

"I really don't mind it Sasuke. I probably deserved it."

"No way! You didn't do anything wrong! She was just treating you like dirt because she knew you didn't care!"

Naruto sighed and walked on, not watching where he was going. He bumped foreheads with Gaara. "Gaara?! What are you doing here?" Gaara lived in the village hidden in sand, why was he in Konoha?

"...Lee and Sakura." Gaara shot a glare towards Sakura's house. "...He deserved better than that brute of a lady. It's too bad he settled for imperfection."

"...Imperfection?"

"...She's a hag. He deserved a perfect being and got the ugliest, loudest, weakest, and bitchy-est girl on earth." There was jealousy in his voice.

Naruto awkwardly smiled. He agreed with Gaara about Sakura, but he didn't want to seem too mean. "Gaara... Did you ever think that he was in love with her? They say love can be blind, you know. I think that two people that like each other don't care about imperfections..."

"That's stupid. Lee deserved better! And that big browed hag deserved to be with... a hobo!"

"...Gaara... are you mad that Lee is happy with her?"

"No! But still... he won't be happy very long. He'll be doing all the housework and raising the kids and working while Sakura sits on her lazy butt all day long eating... brocoli!!! He'll see he was wrong..." Gaara's voice trailed off and sand wrapped around his tense fist. "Anyway... I have to go." The red haired man walked off with his sand hissing at his heels.

Naruto smiled as he watched the son of the Kazehage walk towards Lee's house then turn around and run away. "...Gaara is jealous of Sakura!! Haha..."

Sasuke rolled his eyes and kept walking. He wasn't sure where he was going, but it had to be somewhere secluded. He had to tell Naruto something important.

"Saaaasuke!! Isn't it cute that Gaara likes Lee? I think it's adorable."

"...It's weird." Sasuke grabbed Naruto's sleeve and kept walking, dragging the swooning kitsune behind him.

"It's not weird! It's funny, and a little odd I'll admit. But I think it's like Shino's childish crush on Kiba."

"...And Hinata's childish crush on you?"

"But she's over that, Shino and Gaara aren't."

"I wouldn't be so sure that she is."

Naruto suddenly looked worried. "I sure hope she is... I don't want Kiba to think i'm trying to steal her or anything... If anybody heard that and believed it they'd nail me to a light post and throw rabid squirrels on me to tear away the very essence of my flesh and then make me eat my own left kidney and then they saw off my legs and call me stumpy and then--"

"You have an overactive imagination." Sasuke knew he was exaggerating, but it wasn't too far from the truth. They would attack him and burn things and it would be horrible. That's why he had to tell Naruto this thing before it was too late.

Naruto grabbed Sasuke and shook him. "I don't want to be stumpy!!! I don't want to not have legs!! I like my legs!!"

"...You aren't supposed to like your legs.... I don't think."

"I'm a very lonely man, Sasuke... very lonely..."

Sasuke stared at Naruto. Did he just seriously say that?!

"I'm joking you baka!! I'm not that sick. That's a Kakashi thing! Ew..." Naruto stuck his tongue out.

Sasuke came upon a row of bushes lined up against a bunch of trees. It was the overgrown park in the west side of Konoha. He pushed his way through the bushes and found a sheltered bench. It had vines all over it. He sat down. This was the secluded place he needed. Nobody was ever in this park. "Sit next to me?"

"...O-Ok... can I ask why?"

"I need to tell you something." Sasuke drew a deep breath. This was going to be hard to do.

Naruto sat. "...Don't tell me, you're rejoining Anbu and i'm never going to see you again."

"No. Nothing like that." Well, he was here so... no backing out now. "...I meant to tell you a long time ago, but I never could. Naruto..." Sasuke took another deep breath and let it out slowly and shakily. "Well... you've always been there for me, through thick and thin. So it made me think and now I've made my decision about what I wanted to do."

"What are you talking about?"

"... This would be easier if you close your eyes and relax... and if you were in hand cuffs so you wouldn't choke me. Here goes."

Naruto closed his eyes. What did Sasuke have to tell him that he would want his eyes closed? Oh well, Sasuke always was one for surprises.

Sasuke gulped he leaned in close to Naruto's cheek and kissed him. His face turned bright red and he looked away.

Naruto's eyes popped open. Did Sasuke just...? No way, it was Sasuke he was talking about. Naruto nervously scratched at his neck. "I see why you might want me handcuffed."

"...ACK! Not like that you weirdo... it's just that I... forget it."

"...I know what it means." Naruto stared at his shaking hands. "...Look, I want to think for a minuet... is that ok?"

"...Of course it is, you're your own man. Come by my house if you ever have an answer... It's ok if you don't too... I just don't want to not be friends anymore." Sasuke stood up and ran off, jumping over the bushes. He ran all the way to the east side of Konoha where his house was before he looked back. 'How is this going to end for us...?' Sasuke opened the door and ran inside, slamming it shut.