"Dobe, where are you going?" Sasuke directed his words at Naruto.

"I am going home right now," Naruto huffed as he lugged bags of groceries through the door way, "I am sure that you are very happy to get me out of your hair, but don't worry this feeling is mutual."

"Are you out of your mind? How are you going to get home? Walk? You should know very well that the subway is not working. You can get killed in that storm! Even if you don't, you will definitely fall sick. Then what?! You want everyone to be worry for you, like m-...?!" Sasuke shouted in anger at Naruto, keeping a firm hold on Naruto's arm, he blush a pale pink in realization of his own words.

"Eh...? You are probably right, Iruka nii-chan will get very worried. He is such a mother hen you know...alright I will stay for his sake. Might as well be polite...Sorry for troubling you," Naruto said gently, before adding harshly, "Don't you think too much of it bastard!"

"Whatever...dobe..."

"You can let go now, why are you keeping a hold on me anyway in the first place?"

"Nothing, come back in...dobe."

"Teme, why you..."

His later words were bluntly ignored by the dark haired man as the said man was feeling relief that he had managed to convinced Naruto to stay instead of foolishly heading out facing the storm.

"Hey teme, I said I want to borrow the phone to call Iruka nii-chan, where is it?"

"In the living room beside the couch and don't say thank you or anything."

"Fine...Thank you very much!" Naruto muttered sarcastically as he dragged his feet towards the communication electronic, discarding the bags of groceries around him as he made a phone call to Iruka.

"You baka, how many time do I have to remind you to call me immediately at times like this! Where are you now? Are you at least at someplace with a shelter...." Iruka reprimanding voice was heard even by Sasuke, who was keeping a fair distance away from the blond.

"Sasuke's home..."

"What are you talking about young man...Oh...Sasuke's home, then I have nothing to worry about, bye, I have to check up on the others."

"What do you mean by having nothing to worry about, aren't you worried that we are going to rip each other throats out?"

"Both of you wouldn't do that, at most just engaging in words fight I hope...you better don't go around creating trouble for Sasuke-san, remember you are a guest and is to be polite and considerate of the ho..."

"Alright, Iruka nii-chan, I will be good, bye."

"Now that's my good boy, bye."

Click

Naruto replaced the receiver, the idea of living with his arch rival for three days and two nights under one roof looming over him as a threatening dark cloud.

"I promised I will be a good boy...mommy," Sasuke imitated in a whiney voice before flashing a smirk at Naruto.

"Bastard, I had to say that to keep Iruka nii-chan from nagging, and I need to stock my food before they start decaying and having fungus growing on them."

Sasuke simply pointed to the fridge at a corner in the kitchen and the food cupboards above the sinks and preparation counters.

Sasuke looked on as Naruto once again pulled the many grocery bags behind him into the kitchen, starting to stock the frozen meats and fresh vegetables. Sasuke then studied Naruto's height, turning his gaze towards the cupboards and decided to lend a hand.

He retrieved a few bags that contained dry foods, surprised to find them filled with nothing else except cup after cup of instant ramen of a wide variety of flavours. He made a mental note to ask the blond about this then set himself to work, placing away the ramen cups, taking extra care to put them neatly and closer to the edge so that the short blond will have an easier time reaching for them.

The dark haired man was lucky that Naruto did his shopping on that they, or else they are going to be most likely starved while waiting for the storm to clear up.

"Now what do we do?" Naruto asked as they finished storing away the foods.

Their stomachs both gave out a low growling sound.

Naruto scratched his head and gave a sheepish smile as Sasuke just look away in embarrassment.

"We can't order food...can we?"

"Of course not, I don't think anyone is stupid enough to make a delivery in this storm, baka."

Somewhere in a part of Tokyo, a food delivery man sneezed suddenly as he struggled to balance bento boxes on his motor bike, fighting the storm to make his last delivery.


Sasuke unwrapped the chilled sandwich, taking a bite out of the bread with cabbage leaf, a few slices of tomato, salad dressing and tuna flakes, eyes trained onto Naruto who was at the stove making home cooked ramen.

"Why do you like that MSG laden noodles dobe?"

"Because they taste great, don't you dare to insult the almighty noodles or me!" Naruto stated as he dumped in the ingredients he had prepared earlier into the simmering broth, stirring them absent mindedly.

"Whatever...dobe." Sasuke could not help staring at the pot containing the delicious noodles in hunger, munching on his own food in distaste as the aroma of the ramen drifted to his nose.

Sasuke was about to throw away the sandwich wrapper and escape from the tormenting smell when a bowl of ramen was placed onto the table with a thud, followed by a pair of chopsticks. Sasuke looked up and into the eyes of Naruto who had offered him the noodles.

"Don't think too much into it teme. I made extra and didn't want them to go to waste, and take it as a thank you gift for letting me stay here," Naruto said hastily.

"Thank you." Sasuke replied softly.

Both of them settled down at the dining table, enjoying the food. Even though nothing was said over the meal, eating with someone else and sharing from the same pot of food made their hearts filled with warmth, contentment and most importantly, they did not feel lonely anymore.


Naruto was slouching on the couch, bored out of his mind as he stared at the falling rain outside. He had wanted to watch television, but the storm seemed to have affected the reception, thus the screen was all lines and dots of various shades of black and white.

A familiar tune invaded his mind, not realizing it, he started singing according to the tune as he made his way towards Sasuke's study where the music seemed to come from.

The blond man found Sasuke playing a sort of game on the laptop, there were seven vertical bars against the navy blue background. A few strips of white traveled down the bars and when they reached the bottom, Sasuke pressed buttons corresponding to the bars at the same time the white strips reached the bottom, generating sounds of different notes and pitch, resulting in the song itself.

Naruto watched on in interest as he sang along, recalling that the title of this song was Final Fantasy 8: Eyes on Me, a sad love song.

"Can I have a try at this game?" Naruto asked excitedly after Sasuke finished the round, the screen flashing the score of 82.

"You can play this game on the computer over there." Sasuke said distractedly as he tried to think of other thoughts then how beautiful Naruto's voice was.

Naruto bounced happily towards the computer beside a study desk, suspiciously ignored for quite some time proven by the fact that a thin layer of dust was present on the top of the monitor. Soon Naruto was engrossed in playing the game named as Virtual Orchestral Studio, trying out many of his favourite songs in its archive.

All was peaceful and fine until a small dark shadow made its presence known to the blond. The blond ignoring it as a fragment of his imagination until he felt a sort of tugging on his hair, frustrated, he lifted his hand to sweep through his hair. A deep sinking feeling settled in his stomach as he felt a warm furry something, he immediately swept it off his hair and stood up in fright.

And there on the wooden floor was a cockroach with the capability to fly a fair amount of distance.

Now, Naruto was not a coward who was scared of creepy crawlies, but one insect he was terrified of was the house pest, cockroach, in addition was the flying ability of this insect before him which had landed onto his hair.

Naruto let out a shriek of terror as the cockroach looked innocently at him, not knowing the trouble it was capable of causing.

With that, a night of craziness ensued...

A/N: Hi, thank you for the reviews. I indeed had the game mentioned and the incident of the flying cockroach happened a few days before. Looking forward to reviews.

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