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Chapter 2- Resist me, Kiss me!
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Naruto grinned happily as he dragged Sasuke Uchiha, his best friend through the pouring rain and into Ichiruka's ramen shop, not noticing that Sasuke was currently blushing bright red in embarrassment at the blonde teenager dragging him around. When they reached the shop, Naruto ran through like he usually did when he was hungry, but this time the floor had just been polished, and everyone knows that wet shoes + a newly polished floor disaster.
And that's exactly what happened; Naruto slipped and fell flat on his back, and because he still had his hand around Sasuke's wrist, he accidentally managed to pull his dark haired teammate on top of him. Sasuke blinked, confused and wondered for a second what the hell just happened, and why he was staring at something orange. At that moment Sasuke realized that he'd fallen on top of Naruto. Blushing at the provocative position they were currently in, Sasuke looked around the shop; luckily for the both of them, the shop was empty apart from Ichiruka and his daughter, who both looked half exasperated and half amused.
Thanking whatever god above for small mercies, Sasuke quickly got up off his friend, who stared at Sasuke with a sheepish grin and a light blush on his lightly tanned face. "Ah, sorry Sasuke, I kind of slipped" the dark haired Uchiha rolled his eyes in annoyance and turned away from the blonde to hide the blush rising on his cheeks, while muttering 'baka' under his breath as he walked over to the counter. Naruto pouted and got up off the floor before following the dark haired teenager and sitting in the chair next to him. "Miso Ramen (1) please!" Naruto said happily, grabbing the chopsticks from the counter, waiting in excitement.
"I'll have beef ramen" Sasuke said not really looking at the menu, ramen wasn't his most favorite food in the world, but he'd eat it for Naruto. When the two hot bowls of ramen finally arrived, Sasuke pulled out his wallet and paid for both meals, Naruto stared at Sasuke in amazement; the dark haired teenager had never paid anybody's side of anything before, let alone Naruto. "Wow Sasuke you paid for my meal too! Thanks!" The blonde haired Chuunin(2) actually ignored his ramen for once, and instead of eating the ramen, he got out of his seat and glomped the dark haired boy happily. "That's the nicest thing anyone has ever done for me!" Naruto said still hugging Sasuke, who had frozen in his seat stiff and unsure as what to do, all the while resisting the urge to do something very naughty that should NOT be done in a public place.
"Your welcome, now get off me dobe, your making a scene" Sasuke managed to get out pushing at the blondes chest gently as Naruto continued to hug him. The blonde ninja mewed like a cat, which sounded adorable to the dark haired ninja's ears and instead of letting go, just hugged Sasuke tighter. The dark haired teenager swallowed hard and resisted the urge to just hug the boy back. "No! I don't want to! Your the first person to pay for a meal for me" was Naruto's muffled reply as the blonde teenager buried his head in Sasuke's shoulder.
Sasuke thanked whatever god that was listening, that the ramen stand was still deserted, if Kiba or Shikamaru saw this, he wouldn't be able to live it down. Sasuke lifted his arms and forcefully pushed the still wet blonde boy away from him "Baka, stop doing that or I'll be as wet as you" the teenage Uchiha snapped, Naruto blinked, a hurt look on his face, this look made Sasuke feel very guilty as the blonde ninja sat back on his seat and turned back to his ramen, snapping the chopsticks it two, and eating it at an unusually slow pace.
Sasuke swallowed, wanting to apologize for what he had said, but saying sorry never had been one of his strong points since his brother Itachi had killed his parents. The dark haired teenager sighed and turned back to his own bowl of ramen. Once the two had finished eating the two sat in an uncomfortable silence. The dark haired Uchiha found this odd, usually Naruto would be asking for a second or third bowl or ramen by now, but the blonde boy was silent, his head resting in his arms, which were propped up on the counter. "Can I ask you something Sasuke?"
Sasuke blinked at this, and frowned; Naruto still hadn't turned to face the dark haired Uchiha yet but from what Sasuke could see of his face, the blonde loudmouth of a ninja looked serious. "Hn, that all depends on what your going to ask me" Sasuke replied with a sly smirk, as he turned his seat to face the blonde teen. Naruto giggled at this and turned to face him, a happy smile on his face, his eyes turned to slits. "How did I know your were going to say that? Huh? You bastard" Naruto laughed and punched Sasuke on the shoulder lightly, who was glad to find all hurt gone from the blonde's face. "Come on let's go...I think the rain might have stopped"
Sasuke nodded and followed Naruto out of ramen stand and out into the dark, musky evening the rain had left, the two walked alongside one another in a comfortable silence for a while, Sasuke was looking straight ahead but he was deep in thought. 'I wonder what the dobe (3) wants to ask me?' the dark haired Uchiha glanced at Naruto out of the corner of his eye and noticed the other teen was smiling and staring up at the sky, Sasuke looked up also just in time to see a shooting star go by. "Ohh! Sasuke! Did you see that! Quick make a wish!" Sasuke looked at the loudmouthed ninja who was tugging on his sleeve again in excitement, almost like child would with its mother.
"Hn, I don't believe in things like that" Sasuke said grudgingly shrugging Naruto's arm off his sleeve and continuing to walk ahead. Naruto pouted then scowled at Sasuke's back as the dark haired ninja walked off without him, with a sigh Naruto ran to catch up with him. "Do you believe in anything Sasuke? Apart from revenge on your brother?" The dark haired Uchiha blinked and turned to Naruto, who had grabbed hold of his arm to prevent the Uchiha clan member from simply walking off and ignoring him.
Sasuke had no been expecting this for a question, and for a long moment he wasn't sure what to say, and when he did he didn't know if he had the courage to say it 'I believe in you Naruto, apart from my brother, you are my only other reason to live' Sasuke thought but when he opened his mouth, he couldn't make himself say it 'No! Not now! If I say that he'll start to ask questions and I think I can answer them, if Naruto finds out I'm in love with him...' Sasuke mentally shuddered when he thought about what could go wrong if he told Naruto the truth. 'No, I can't let that happen, Naruto's friendship means too much to me, even if I never tell him the truth and someone else snatches him away, he'll always be my friend' The dark haired Uchiha shrugged, shaking away his thoughts to answer the blonde's question "Maybe I do, why do you want to know?" Sasuke asked trying to keep any shakiness out of his voice out of sheer nervousness, which was an un-Sasuke like personality trait.
The blonde haired Chuunin sighed, stuffed his hands in his pockets and shrugged his shoulders off-handedly as they headed in the direction of Naruto's house. "I guess I'm curious I mean, nothing else seems to drive you to do anything, it seems your only goal is to kill your brother..." Naruto broke off and sighed stopping suddenly and turning to the dark haired ninja. "I mean how can anyone know what else you want to do? You don't talk to anybody Sasuke, you don't tell me or Sakura-Chan how your feeling or what you want to do after you kill your brother, you don't socialize with anyone else like me and Sakura do, your like a brick wall sometimes and it upsets both Sakura and me when you ignore her, and that even though we've become your friends, you still wont let us past the walls you've put up around yourself" The blonde ninja shook his head sadly "It hurts me to say this Sasuke, but how am I your closet friend...if you never let me in?"
Sasuke blinked, he didn't know what to say or think to that, he felt his chest heaving as his emotions threatened to spill over in shock; Naruto had never told Sasuke how he felt about his attitude towards everyone before; the closest they had gotten to that discussion was when they were trying to kill each other in the valley of the end and even then they had barely touched the topic of how Sasuke came to be this way.
"I..." Sasuke tried to speak but he couldn't, his eyes wide in surprise, staring at the blonde ninja who had near enough just confessed what he really felt out to the dark haired Uchiha. For the first time in his life Sasuke Uchiha was speechless; he had never seen or heard the blonde haired teen so serious in his life, hell he had never thought the word 'serious' was in Naruto Uzumaki's vocabulary! "Do you see what I mean Sasuke? I just wish you'd trust yourself to talk to us, I wish you'd trust me"
The dark haired ninja swallowed heavily 'You have no idea Naruto, your so dense you dobe...I'd trust you with my life...' Sasuke sighed and shrugged to himself his eyes fixed on the ground ahead of him; he didn't want to show the blonde ninja just how much what he had said had shaken him up. "...It's not that I don't trust you Naruto...I..." Sasuke broke off and took a deep breath before muttering, "I don't trust my brother..." The blonde frowned at Sasuke's answer, confused. "Huh? What do you mean?" Naruto said cocking his head cutely to one side, making the dark haired Uchiha clench his fists so as to resist the urge to molest Naruto.
Sasuke rolled his eyes in amusement; even on a serious issue Naruto could still be as dense as ever. The dark haired Uchiha shrugged and smirked at Naruto "Never mind dobe, come on, its starting to rain again" Sasuke pulled out the dark blue umbrella and opened it up just in time as the rain poured down, much more harshly than before. Naruto shivered and scooted close to Sasuke. So as to get shelter from the umbrella. "I thought you didn't care if you got wet?" Sasuke asked with a smirk at the shivering blonde. Naruto scowled darkly at Sasuke and growled at him "Teme! (4) The rains a lot heavier this time, and its colder..." the blonde ninja shivered again, more violently this time, and wrapped his damp arms around himself, rubbing his arms franticly, trying to warm himself up.
Sasuke chuckled quietly to himself at this, Naruto looked so cute, like a lost wet kitten. Silently, the dark haired Uchiha moved the umbrella over Naruto so he was shielded from the rain, but this meant that the dark Uchiha was getting wet instead. When he realized the rain wasn't pouring on him any more, Naruto looked up in confusion to stare at the umbrella, then turned to Sasuke in surprise, who just smirked back at him. "Kakashi would kill me if I let you get ill, and besides were almost at your house"
Naruto blinked in surprise and stared ahead, realizing the dark haired teen was right. "Oh, Thanks Sasuke-ko-Teme (4)" Naruto said Sasuke blinked and looked at Naruto, who was staring straight ahead, and Sasuke wasn't sure because if the darkness of the night and the heavy rain, but he thought that he could see a faint blush on the blonde ninja's face. 'Was he going to say Koi?'(5) Sasuke thought in confusion, this thought made hope rise in the dark haired teens chest, even though he tried hard to squash it down. 'Does that mean that Naruto might like me? No don't get your hopes up Sasuke, you just misheard him that's all' But no matter what he tried, the dark haired ninja couldn't make himself think that what Naruto almost said was a mistake.
When they finally reached Naruto's house the blonde sighed in relief as he unlocked the door to his house and stepped inside, away from the rain, the blonde ninja flicked on the hallway light and smiled. "You'd better change out your cloths and get a bath. Kakashi won't be pleased if you fall ill the day before a mission," Sasuke said quietly from Naruto's doorway. The blonde smiled and nodded. "I will...thanks for everything Sasuke" Naruto said smiling at Sasuke with his best bright happy smile, the smile that made Naruto look so beautiful as the setting sun made his tanned skin glow... Sasuke stared at Naruto and felt the resistance he had been struggling to keep in line with the blonde slipping away, just as he felt the umbrella slip from his fingers and clatter to the floor.
He faintly knew he'd given into temptation when he grabbed Naruto by the front of his wet orange shirt, closed his own eyes tight and pressed the blonde's lips to his own. Sasuke thought he'd died and gone to heaven, the blonde lips were soft like silk, and the dark haired ninja could faintly, still taste the ramen the blonde ninja had eaten only minutes before. The dark hair teenager felt himself pressing a (probably) shocked Naruto to the hallway wall, and snaking his tongue into the blonde's mouth while he was still frozen in shock. Now Sasuke really WAS in heaven, he could still taste the ramen in the blonde teenagers mouth, but something else as well, a sort of spice, it was sweet, yet tangy, like cinnamon. Sasuke felt one of his hands in Naruto's hair, feeling the damp silky strands, the other hand was under the blonde ninja's shirt, feeling every part of Naruto's torso. That was when Naruto moaned in the dark haired ninja's mouth.
That was when Sasuke realized what he was doing.
The dark haired Uchiha pulled away from Naruto like the blonde Chuunin had electrocuted him and stared at Naruto in shock as the blonde teenager collapsed in a heap on the floor, wide eyed and shaking. Sasuke swallowed hard, realizing what he had done to Naruto, to his best friend! 'SHIT! What the hell is wrong with me, why couldn't I have just left? Then none of this would have happened!' Sasuke swallowed and before Naruto could try to stop him, the dark haired ninja, turned and ran out of Naruto's house, leaving his umbrella behind and ran out into the pouring rain, he kept on running, until finally he reached his house, unlocked the door, and slammed it shut, before locking it and collapsing in a heap on the hallway floor.
Sasuke sat there, wet, cold and shaking for a long time as he thought of what he just did to his best friend. 'Shit! Why? Why did he have to look so damn cute just then? Why couldn't I stop myself? Why the hell am I in love with him?' Sasuke wanted to scream; he hadn't felt so lost since his parents died. 'What the hell am I going to do when I see him tomorrow? Damnit! We have a mission! How are we going to be able to work as a team after what I just did?' Sasuke sighed and wrapped his arms around his knees; even though he was a genius, he didn't have an answer to his problem. I just have to go to the meeting tomorrow and hope he doesn't hate me...' With that thought the dark haired ninja slowly got up off the floor and went to take a shower, his heart heavy with regret.
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(1) I can't remember, but I think Miso Ramen is Naruto's favorite lol XD.
(2) Chuunin is the rank up from Genin. If you haven't seen much of Naruto or even if you have, you should know there are four ranks of Ninja. GeninTrainee ninja, ChuuninNormal classed ninja, JouninElite ninja and HokageHighest-ranking ninja. In the manga, Naruto was the last out of all his classmates to receive a Chuunin ranking, because he went out traveling with Jiraya for two and a half years after Sasuke left with Orochimaru, so in this story he's finally gotten the Chuunin ranking, while Sasuke and Sakura are both training to become Jounin's.
(3) Dobe means 'dead last' in Japanese.
(4) Teme means 'Basterd' in Japanese I think. Naruto calls Sasuke it a lot in the Japanese version of the anime.
(5)Koi means 'love' or 'lover' in Japanese. People usually say it after there loved ones name.
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So? What did you guys think? Did you like it? When I started this I wanted it to be light hearted all the way through but it kinda didn't turn out that way, it went a bit serious in the middle, because I want Itachi included in this story as a hidden danger. (Grabs plot bunny and hides it) Oops a plot bunny escaped! Ah well! At least they kissed even if it was a little one-sided! I hope you guys enjoy this:) Until next time
Jade Rotaski Queen of the Damned