Only You
By: Wildwolfr13
Ch.5
Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto. Do I have to keep doing this? Talk about rubbing salt into wounds….Thank you, all who reviewed!
The brilliant sunlight peeked in through the shutters, dancing on a scowling face. Sasuke was in a bad mood. Again. A week had passed since he had met Naruto. He had easily gotten into school and had fished up a job with Iruka's help. It turned out that Iruka was delighted to have another kid to look after. And Iruka wasn't poor. Not at all.
In fact, Iruka would have loved for both Naruto and Sasuke live with him, in the lap of luxury. Ok, Iruka wasn't that rich, but he lived in a spacious apartment, and always had plenty of money. Of course, Naruto had disagreed with Iruka years ago about being supported with Iruka's money. ("You're only sixteen, and you were twelve back then!" "I can support myself! I'm not a kid any more!") It turned out that Naruto had his part-time job at the same place as Sasuke, a cute, popular, café.
He still had no luck in finding his mother, and he was kept busy by his new part-time job. He would start school tomorrow, and Naruto would show him around.
'Why?' Sasuke thought, slamming his head into a wall. 'Why do I have everything with that dobe? School, job, house…And still I don't have what I came for!'
Naruto's home phone rang. And started playing a gay march. Sasuke trudged over the floor and picked it up.
"Hello?" he asked, grumpily.
"Hello?" came a feminine voice. "Oh, ohayo Sasuke-kun!"
"Sakura?" asked Sasuke dully.
"Um, hai."
"Wait."
Sasuke padded inside Naruto's room, and got a brilliant idea. He made a quick visit to the bathroom, and crept up quietly, a smirk on his face. He 'accidentally' tipped over a basin of icy cold water on Naruto's face and grinned gleefully. Now, where did that bad mood go to?
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!" Naruto screamed, his eyes popping open. As his vision cleared, he saw a helpless Sasuke, clinging to the wall like his life depended on it, laughing silently and clutching his stomach. 'That look on his face!'
An angry Naruto was about to pounce when he saw the phone on the ground. "Sasuke-kun! What happened?" asked an anxious voice from the phone. Naruto picked it up.
"Sakura-chan? Yeah...Why? Oh, that? It was nothing…"
Sasuke crept out while he had the chance and went to the main bathroom to take a shower.
He was drying his hair with a towel while walking out, when he saw Naruto sitting on the couch.
"Teme…" Naruto growled, that wake-up call still fresh in his mind.
"Yeah?" Sasuke challenged with a smirk.
Naruto smirked back, and Sasuke backed away quickly, alarm bells ringing in his head. But he was too late. Freshly dug mud was dumped on his hair, and most of it dribbled down his NEW shirt, and NEW jeans.
"You fell for it!" Naruto cackled gleefully, tears streaming down his face in nearly painful laughter. Sasuke's surprised face, completed with the oozy, slimy, green brown mud dripping down his clothes wasn't something you saw everyday. So, of course he didn't see Sasuke raise his hand to throw a mudball in his face. And then Sasuke was the one howling with laughter as startled blue eyes popped out of a green brown expanse.
1 Hour Later
The living room was hurriedly wiped up, and both boys had taken showers and changed. They had written up a truce, between the constant insulting. Exhausted, they both flopped onto the couch.
"Iruka's going to kill us," Sasuke grimly predicted, as he looked around the still muddy living room.
"Maybe," Naruto snickered, "but at least I don't have to sleep in a swamp."
Sasuke grimaced, then smirked. "At least I don't have to sleep on a soggy bed, and tell Iruka all about how you had an 'accident' during the night."
Naruto flushed. "You started it!" he screeched. "You could have just given me the phone by- Oh, shit," Naruto groaned. He stood up and walked quickly to his room and got his jacket.
"Where are you going?" Sasuke asked.
"I told Sakura that we'd meet her at 11, in Ichiraku!"
"It's 11: 23 right now, idiot!"
"I know! I forgot! Let's go, hurry!"
Sasuke raised an eyebrow in silent question.
"She said to bring you too! She said that she could tell you what you wanted to know. About…um, riceballs or something."
"Usurantonkatchi! Do you know how late it is?"
"Teme! You forgot too!"
"You never told me, bakayaro!"
Susan, Naruto's next door neighbor, looked at the forms of Naruto and Sasuke dashing down the street, going impossibly fast. 'Young people these days,' she thought with a sigh.
Sasuke and Naruto raced to the restaurant, weaving through crowds and stands. They soon skidded to a stop in front of Ichiraku and walked in. Naruto looked around.
"Sakura-chan!" he called, a bit nervous about Sakura's reaction to him being half an hour late.
The pink haired girl slowly turned around, a murderous look on her face. "Naruutoo," she said, grinding the name into dust. Naruto squeaked, and faced Sakura's wrath. A few minutes, a carcass that was once named Naruto, and a large, disbelieving audience later, Sakura greeted Sasuke politely.
Sasuke looked at the lump in the corner, remembered Sakura's kickass moves and her inhumane strength, and shivered. Note to self: NEVER get Sakura angry.
"Sasuke-kun?" Sakura asked, reverting to sweet, teenage girl once again.
He looked at her.
"You asked me about Onigiri, right?" Sakura said, blushing slightly.
Sasuke nodded curtly, going into business mode immediately. He was finally getting close! He could see his mother again! He quenched his hopes though, because he would be sorely disappointed if Sakura didn't have the right information.
"Well?" he asked.
"Well…this is a long story," Sakura said, "So we might as well order lunch."
The waitress was called over, and at this time, Naruto happily bounced over and ordered as much as he wanted.
"Well, Onigiri was a really nice restaurant," she began a dreamy look entering her eyes. "It had the best food ever, from beautifully made onigiri, to its fried shrimp. It had udon, ramen, omelets, everything. I went there every day, even though it was on the other side of New York City."
'Wait,' Sasuke thought, and frowned. 'What's with the past tense?' "Did something…happen to it?"
Sakura looked at him curiously. "Yes," she said simply. "It closed down."
"How?" Sasuke asked, afraid but not showing anything.
"There was a nice lady that worked there. I actually later found out that she was the owner. She was really young and beautiful. A lot of men of all ages went to her restaurant to flirt, although she turned down all advances. She was really gentle, and was like a second mother to me."
"But she left, and her restaurant closed down. She had a lung disease, and her fiancé wanted her to get well, so he told everyone they were leaving. The air around here isn't exactly fresh, so he took her on a world cruise. He said that they would take as long as they wanted, staying at the places they liked for a few months, visiting Paris, Italy, France, Japan, and such. Her fiancé was really rich, and they made such a nice couple. He was really handsome too." Sakura recollected, and sighed. "I really miss her food. It was the best. Every young couple went there for dates. I really hope Ms. Uchiha is having the time of her life." Sakura brightened at that thought. "She really deserves it. When she first came here, she was really poor, and she seemed heartbroken. I hope the man that did that to her goes to hell."
Sasuke flinched. He wasn't surprised that his mother married again, but he wasn't ready for that gut-wrenching feeling. 'My mother's gone until God knows when, and this city is completely foreign to me. At least I have a job though, and I live with dobe, and Iruka seems to love taking care of me. At least I have a friend. That's more than I can say for my former hometown... Come back soon, mom. Uchiha Sasuke is waiting.'
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