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Parings: Naruto and Sasuke
Naruto knew that Sasuke hadn't realized his mistake in his words yet. Other wise he would have tried to cover it up like he normally would have. Why would he say something like that? Naruto frowned confused, trying to solve these questions when there was someone tapping at the door, knocking.
"I'll get it!" Naruto's spirits lifting to have a reason to leave the uncomfortable silence that he left in his bed room to answer the door.
Sasuke hadn't heard the knock and stood up to follow Naruto waiting curious in the hallway door frame. He watched as Naruto opened the door to a very sleep deprived, un-cheerful, and pink-haired ninja.
"Where's Sasuke" Sakura said skipping the 'hi's' 'how are 'you's' politeness that was usually expected from a house guest. Her shoulders were mostly burses and scratches. And to Naruto, her delicate and naive face had been replaced with hate and loathing as she glared restating her demand.
"Where is Sasuke, Naruto?"
Naruto took a step back and shuddered and gave her the response, "ai Sakura-chan. Nice to see you, but Sasuke hasn't been here for a while now you know that," he put on a relatively convincing smile.
Sakura hung her head in frustration "Naruto. I just saw him through your window. I'm not stupid you know."
"Ah of course your not Sakura-chan!" he flashed her a wide nervous grin as he looked back in his dim apartment to see Sasuke's eyes light up in a new wave of panic, he skidded off to the other room to hide quickly. Naruto looking back at the pink haired girl, trying to think of a way to distract her in some way to buy Sasuke more time, he said, "ahhh you see Sakura-chan uh Sasuke just came to visit. But he's gone now, you just missed him too. If you want I can tell him th-"
Naruto cut off his last sentences as he swore he saw flames shoot up from behind Sakura, and for a split second she had an uncanny resemblance to what how Naruto pictured the devil. She pushed by Naruto like it was nothing and began to comb over the house throwing clothes to the side and cursing under her breath.
Naruto hadn't ever been positive why Sakura had become so hateful towards Sasuke, her child-hood love but something had happened around her 18th birthday awhile back. It was really a misfortune that master Kakashi had pass away on her birthday. Well not passed away more like was killed by a mysterious assassin. Naruto had his suspicions that it was something to do with Master Kakashi's death, but he wasn't sure how Sasuke had been involved.
Dodging his own possessions being tossed in the air the blond made a dash to the other side of the apartment to the bathroom, where he suspected Sasuke was hiding. He jiggled the knob to find it was locked, he cupped his hands together around his mouth and whispered, "sasuke-kun, let me innnn," he heard some fumbling with the door knob as the brunette opened the door a little bit. Naurto snuck in without drawing attention to him from the rampaging girl.
Once inside of the bathroom Naruto locked the door back up again and he then surveyed the room. His assumption had been right on the dot. Sasuke had already sat back on the edge of the bathtub. He probably was half expecting Sakura ripping off the door off of its hinges. But the pale teen was glad it was Naruto and he gave him a pleasant smile.
On the other side of the spacious bathroom Naruto returned the smile 'still being cautious?' he thought, had to be, he didn't want to frighten Sasuke that way again. So the blond walked over and ruffled up Sasuke's hair some and said, "You should pro'lly go, ne?" he chuckled lightly. And the Uchiha looked up at Naruto playfully,
"Ai I have the feeling that, me staying will bring even more of a mess" Sasuke smiled and pecked a kiss on the side of the blonde's face. "By the way sorry about Sakura. Do ya think you can come over to see me tonight? I want to ask you something ok?" and with out a response the teen made a motion with his hands and he disappeared and not a second too late.
Sakura ripped through the door like fabric, all of her self training was really showing through her rage.
Naruto didn't know how to really react let alone what to say to the girl so he leapt out the window crashing through the thin glass of his bathroom window and then rolling to his up to feet as he hit the ground. Incoherent shouts were coming from above him from Sakura. Not really sure he cared or wanted to hear her rant and rave about what an awful person he was from the rose haired girl Naruto brushed off the dirt from his pants, he walked down to the end of the street.
No one seemed too bothered by his absence of a shirt on a day like today, no one seemed to care about anything. Naruto casually walked into a book store and he thought to him self 'perfect, no way that Sakura-chan would look for me in here' he smiled at his own cleverness. He placed him self in the back of the store and sat down, very lumpish like.
Confided to him self he thought of things that could have happened, or people he could go too. Even at the peak of his youth at age 20, Naruto has been lonely, he had plenty of friends that was sure, but no one to really talk too. No, that had all gone away. His only friends that he has ever known now hated him. But why does Sasuke hate him?
Naruto looked up from the ground as he felt the presence of another closing up next to him. Lifting his gaze his bright blue eyes were met with pale as a worried burdened girl with dark hair she looked down at him a faint blush forming on her cheeks. She knelt down to about the same eye level to talk with more ease.
"Ai Hinata-chan," Naruto put on an exceptionally happy grin on his face to hide his true feelings. "What's shakin'?"
Hinata paused to think about the blonde's reaction and responded in a calm but timid voice, "nothing… but I am surprised to see you here." She waited for an answer, or at least an explanation. Naruto grinned as his cleaver theory was proven that a book store would be the last place anyone would look for him, but his cheerful smile fell when the thoughts in his mind replayed on why he was there. Hinata noticed and she tried to not to seem overly nosey in asking, "Did something happen?"
"Ne, yeah" his vibrant eyes faded a bit. "Some weird things are happening with Sasuke" he started to explain slowly, making an effort not to say anything to the timid girl about his relationship with the Uchiha and himself.
Hinata blinked, coming to a realization. "Sasuke-san is back?" her delicate face lit up at the exciting news. She was rarely let in on this kind of information so this was overwhelmingly electrifying for her.
Naruto mentally kicked him self, "Um, yeah I guess. Just a little while ago too, but he's a lot different from what you probably remember. He's been acting really strange too… Ai Hinata-chan?" she looked up to meet his eyes. "What's wrong with you? You look sad too."
Naruto's simple concern made a faint blush on her cheeks. She replied softly, "I've been looking for Sakura-chan all day and I can't find her."
The blonde looked eager to help the girl by saying, "Then you should go to my place she's currently destroying my house," he chuckled lightly even though it really wasn't that funny. But Hinata joined him in giggling after about a minute of the two sat next to each other in silence.
Hinata cleared her throat and stood up and nodded her head down to Naruto, respectively, "Thank you Naruto-san, you really saved me a ton of time looking for Sakura, you don't know how much you've helped me."
"any time."
She held her hands close to her face and headed out of the shop.
Leaving Naruto alone again, he thought, 'why am I just sitting here?" the blond swiveled his way to his feet and headed for the shop door. But before he left he peered out and checked to see if the coast was clear of rose hair colored ninja. Not seeing her he walked out of the building. He let out a heavy sigh. It was starting to get dark out, even though the day started out dank.
He had already started heading for the Uchiha's house, as promised. "What am I going to do? It sounds stupid to come out and say 'Sasu? Honey bun? Have you been in a relationship that maybe you forgot to mention?'" he shook his head at the mere thought of calling Sasuke 'honey bun'
'geeze Naruto. You still have to keep your manliness in check… but he does have a sweet ass' he chuckled at the thought just as the mansion came in to view, and the sun just starting to set.
"Oh well, take what life gives you, I suppose."
He pulled his body up to the front door, and stood there starring questioning at the door bell. His lower left eye twitched.
"Ai, Dobe up here!"
Naruto stepped back to see Sasuke on the roof indicating for Naruto to join him. With out a second thought Naruto high jumped to the edge of the roof and then he gave Sasuke a curious look.
"You know you can't call me dobe any more because you're the I'm better than you now," Naruto teased. Sasuke pretended to be offended by placing a feminine resembling hand to his collar bone and sighed.
"aww Naruto-kun! That hurts, but it's your nickname that I gave to you and it sounds really cute, I think…" he really didn't put much thought into it before took Naruto's wrist and pulled him higher on the cool roof.
Naruto followed reluctantly.
"Come on Naruto," Sasuke urged. Naruto was lead into the side of the house through an open window by the brunette. The room was dark, having a gloomy feel to it. Naruto stood at the side of the room while Sasuke moved towards the center and then too a desk, he went digging through one of the drawer. The blonde boy took a seat that was next to him was having a hard time remembering this room from the other times he had visits, and he was thinking of the relativity of the positions of the rooms of the mansion. His focus was blurred by a photograph that was shoved into his face. He took the offered picture between his thumb and pointer finger readjusting the distance he could make out a little Sasuke and what looked like a younger Itachi with what Naruto could only guess was Sasuke's parents.
Even though Naruto could tell that this was a really important step for Sasuke, probably almost embarrassing too, but Naruto couldn't help but feeling warm and fuzzy looking at the youngest Uchiha looking happy next to his older brother.
"They were so important to me," Sasuke paused and the blond looked up to see the older boy standing next to him, avoiding eye contact, "… and I miss them a lot."
"Sasuke…" Naruto wrapped his long arms around the raven haired boy and then moved his smaller frame to sit on his lap. Sasuke hung his head low, gazing at the floor of the shady room. "Sasuke? I need to ask you something. It's probably nothing but I really want to know."
The mop of black hair nodded indicating for Naruto to continue his question.
"uhhh, you see… you… do you remember back at my apartment and I asked if you wanted to try something new?" The blonde was finding it hard to get the words from his head out of his mouth, which was a very unusual event.
Sasuke thought he understood what the blond was implying, to the offer of having sex. So at this break in speech Sasuke jumped to assumptions, "Gomen, Naru… I said that I liked you I shouldn't have overreacted…" his dark eyes met with the blonde's "I love you but it's really hard for me- me to want to care for someone this much. I don't want you to go away like they did." Sasuke angled his head to look at the picture of his beloved family. Naruto handed the photograph to the Uchiha, and he held it lovingly to his chest. "I swear I'll be a better person for you Naruto"
The blond loved the way Sasuke was promising to work harder to be more real, but there was something that was gripping at his heart perhaps a warning or caution for what would come of this whole ordeal.