Happy Ending
Chapter 12
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Sasuke sighed.
He had asked the blonde boy over and over again if something was on his mind, he could clearly see that it was something, and he had a hunch on that it was Sakura.
Sasuke looked into the sky-blue eyes, he really wanted to know what he had missed, and it must be something big, Naruto wouldn't act that way if it wasn't for something.
Sasuke started to caress Naruto's chin with the back of his hand, the blonde looked adorable in the Uchihas eyes.
Naruto and Sasuke was currently on the bed, more exactly; Naruto was sitting on the older ones stomach and holding Sasuke's hand with his own.
"I know that it's something." Sasuke said to the boy.
Naruto moved his head aggressivly to the side, avoiding Sasuke's touch at the moment. He didn't like it when Sasuke didn't leave a subject unanswered.
"Sasuke, can we please talk about something else?" Naruto tried to hide the annoyance in his voice the best as he could, but it didn't really work.
Sasuke turned Naruto's face towards him, now the blonde couldn't deny the fact that something was on his mind.
"So, it is something?" The raven-boy asked.
Naruto started to roll his eyes; this could go on all day if Naruto didn't put a stop to it. Naruto bent down and gave Sasuke a brief kiss on the lips.
"It's nothing, okay?" He whispered to the other's lips before withdrawing his head.
Sasuke wanted to sigh once again, but he guessed it was no use. He had been asking the fox-boy the same question 45 minutes straight, maybe he should try again after his mission.
He looked at the blonde on top of him; he really loved to look at him. Nothing else could catch his attention or make him think things he would never think if it had been someone else. Maybe the blonde had cast a spell on him to make him feel like this? Nah, if that was the case, far more things would have happened already.
"Tell me next week about it then, when I'm back." Sasuke moved so he would be able to get Naruto off him and stand up, but the blonde blocked his movements easily and Sasuke was again, lying on the bed.
Naruto looked away, a blush appearing on his cheeks, making him look innocent and extremely girly. Sasuke ignored that Naruto wasn't looking at him and touched his chest with his fingertips, playing a little with the shirtless boy.
If he would have his way, they would have been doing something other then talking right now, but the blonde didn't want to go that far, which sucked according to Sasuke.
"Can't you, stay tonight?" The blonde said quietly, blushing even more then before. Sasuke raised an eyebrow, looking over at the boy with a slightly curious look. Maybe he would get something after all? Maybe the Gods wanted to be nice tonight.
Naruto noticed that Sasuke was looking at him, and looked over at the boy who had left to pay the dreamland a little visit.
"Don't think anything perverted." Naruto snapped. Still blushing and annoyed, with that he wasn't really sure.
Sasuke's little dreamland shattered and looked at Naruto again, giving him the look 'What do you think of me?'.
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Knock Knock.
The knocking noise could be heard over the whole house, even if it was quiet and barely heard, Sasuke could hear it perfectly fine. He didn't know why, but when it came to mornings, he could hear everything and wake up easily.
He walked towards the door, not remembering that it wasn't his house and opened the door in annoyance, ready to scream at the person on the other side.
He opened and shut his mouth before it even had opened. Sakura was eyeing him, blushing a little while taking a careful step back; apparently she had been scared when Sasuke had opened the door rather fast.
She didn't say anything. He didn't say anything. She continued to look him over, and then it suddenly hit Sasuke. It wasn't his house, he wasn't supposed to open the door, well, he could have opened the door, but to only open it in boxers wasn't the best thing.
It's morning; don't expect him to think of everything.
Sasuke decided to say something, so he leaned against the doorframe and raised an eyebrow.
"Yes?" His voice sounded calm, and it helped to get Sakura out of her gaze. She blushed even more, because of embarrassment, he guessed.
"I was just surprised…" She began, giving him a little smile. "I wanted to ask Naruto if you had left already, but here you are standing…" She bit her lower lip; she didn't really know what to say.
Sasuke wanted to say that he had just passed by this morning to join Naruto for breakfast, but he knew that the girl would know that it was a lie; he was in his boxers for god's sake.
"He let me sleep at the couch." He said smoothly, giving himself credit for being creative.
"Naruto is in the shower right now, I was about to make breakfast." He paused, taking in Sakura's reaction, when he saw none he decided to continue. "Do you want to join us?"
Sakura shook her head and smiled at him, he had always wondered how she could smile at him all the time. She must get angry at him sometime, they weren't kids anymore, and she didn't have to pretend that she liked him.
"No thanks." She said. "Just tell him I came by to say I'm sorry." She waved at him and disappeared before he could ask for the reason.
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Sasuke had told Naruto about Sakura. But he had just smiled at Sasuke and changed subject into something else. Sasuke didn't like it, but he played along the whole morning with it.
He left then, for a new mission.
Naruto felt that he didn't want to think, and he didn't have to be with his team today. He decided to walk around Konoha, anything to get out of the house and get some fresh air.
Maybe some training would do him good later?
He had walked around Konoha for about two hours, meeting people like Lee, Tenten and Neji. Asking them how things were going and what was happening. It hadn't really changed so much from the last time he talked with them, two days ago.
He reached the bridge at last, and his eyes widened when he saw Sakura staring down at the water, looking at her reflection. He walked over to her; she turned around when he was a few steps away from her.
They looked at each other at first, but Naruto had never liked silence, so he was the one who began to talk. He explained to her how he felt about her and how her words had affected him and such.
Her feelings weren't responded the way she wished they would have been, but deep inside she knew that it would have come down to this, and she didn't show any weakness about it. She only smiled at him, not wanting to show him the real expression she wanted to make.
She walked away then; making an excuse Naruto couldn't remember and disappeared again. He didn't know how long he had been staring at the spot Sakura had been standing at, everything seemed to just pass by, like the world would soon come to an end.
Neji suddenly appeared beside him in his Anbu uniform. Naruto looked at him, maybe the world was about to come to it's end.
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Tsunade stood before him, as well before other people that Naruto knew or have seen in random mission when he must team up with people he didn't knew well, it was a part of being a ninja after all; get along with other people to success a mission perfectly, or something.
Tsunade gave everyone a serious look, making all of them feel worried and unsure. They didn't want to speak; it was rare that their Hokage looked serious, after all. Everyone wanted to look her in the eyes, but afraid that if they did she would give them more than a glare in return.
She crossed her arms over her chest and closed her eyes, making it look more serious. She closed her eyes just to calm everyone down, she had noticed that they didn't like the look she was giving everyone, she saw it clearly, and a ninja should be able to read under the underneath, eh?
"Some of the Sound have come, wanting revenge." She said calmly. She heard some people in the room move and others made small noises with their mouths.
Naruto stood still, memories of the Sound playing in his mind, making him remember things he didn't want to. He looked over at Sakura, she was the first thing he had noticed when he had walked to the meeting place Neji had guided him to.
He could see that she was biting her lower lip, her eyes wide open. She must be thinking about the Sound, as well as the year Sasuke had came back…
"They have been training have learned new skills." Tsunade continued, making everyone pay more attention to her. "Even if it there are not many people of the Sound left, they are still strong. One person can match four of us, they are very dangerous, and of course, very skilled." She opened her eyes and stared at the ninjas, looking from face to face, memorizing their expressions.
"We don't know that they want, but we know that they have been spying on us for a while now." Everyone in the room stared at her intently, with that she continued. "I want you all here to capture them, I know your ability to track down people and one more thing, I know is that you all can do this."
"Hokage-sama, how do you know something like this?" A random ninja spoke up, trying to keep his voice as calm as the Hokage herself. She eyed the ninja and returned an answer.
"Anbu squad 11 found one of them and he told us everything that is to be told, and yes we have checked if what he said was true." She looked at the rest of them. "They are around the village, and sometimes in it. The reason why ninjas have suddenly come missing is clear to me now. Why? Does someone still doubt this? Speak." No one did.
"You will all be teamed up shortly; an Anbu will be joined in every team. Sakura!" The women called out, Sakura immediately moved to her and bowed. "You will have a medical team, you never know if someone will get hurt. No useless fighting, understand?" She eyed the pink haired girl.
"Understood, Tsunade-sama." The girl walked back to her previous spot.
"If you want more information you can ask all the Anbu who are standing outside waiting, everyone do your best!"
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"This sucks." Shikamaru said while jumping to another tree. When they had left the room all he had done was complain.
"You should be used to it." Naruto spoke up from behind him, jumping soundlessly from tree to tree. Shikamaru sighed and said nothing; he must think that answering must be too troublesome.
Naruto decided to shrug it off, it wasn't like he was enjoying it more then his friend.
They had been searching for almost an hour and with nothing but animals found.
They continued with doing this in one more hour before deciding to stop to rest a little, drinking and eating something before continue. After another 20 minutes the brown-haired boy decided to talk, he looked at the blonde.
"What have you been doing? I mean, since you moved you haven't been with everyone as much as you used to." Naruto looked at his friend and raised an eye-brow; the other should know the answer perfectly without him telling.
"I have my own team, so I have almost no time. Didn't you know?" Naruto replayed.
"I heard you don't have them everyday, something about you being a substitute." Naruto sighed, he knew very well that he was that but he didn't know that somebody knew about it.
"What are you getting at?" Naruto asked suspicious.
Shikamaru moved a little and leaned his back against a tree, his hands behind his head and looked up at the sky.
"It's like you want to be avoided, and I've heard Ino and Sakura talk…" He stopped there; Naruto wanted him to continue but also felt a presence of someone coming and put that thought back in his mind.
An Anbu member jumped down before them and greeted with raising his hand. Shikamaru nodded back at him and Naruto looked away, ignoring the Anbu the best he could. The Anbu looked at the blonde hopelessly through his mask and then sighed like he was expecting something else.
"You're late, Uchiha." Shikamaru said in boredom, still looking up at the sky. The Anbu mask was soon removed when Sasuke heard his name and looked with his dark eyes at the brunette.
"I had a medical ninja taking care of a small wound I got." He replayed calmly, still sitting in kneeling position. Shikamaru didn't show much of a interest by the answer he got, but the blonde who had stopped to ignore looked at Sasuke with a twisted look.
Sasuke looked at the young boy and smirked, like he had just said that to get his attention.
Then they all tensed. The three of them looking at each other in amusement, almost in an ironic kind of way.
Naruto started to chuckle a little. Sasuke continued to smirk. Shikamaru smirked as well.
"Five?" Naruto asked, smiling.
"Plus the skill and incredible strength, I would guess we should triple the number." Sasuke added.
"It is going to be a hell of a party. It's going to be troublesome to clean up." The two other boys looked at Shikamaru helplessly, they were used to the attitude but at times like this he should change it.
They suddenly jumped though, when kunai were thrown at their direction. They tensed, fresh for a fight.
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To be continued
Work, school… I'm glad that I'm sick, but there's a big test coming tomorrow.
I will take my sickness there, and make the teacher join me with a bowl of chicken soup.
Mwahahaha… Cookie?
Thanks to Daitai Otonashii Ookami for beta'd.
