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Author's Note: Ahh! Thank you all for your reviews! I didn't think this story would go so well! Happy, happy, happy! Anyway, here you go, chapter five! Wonder what Sasuke chose, huh? Well, I think you all will love his decision. I know I did! It was such a fun part to write! Fun, fun, fun! Yes, I am very hyper at the moment, live with it! Well, until next time, SilverRose88.
Chapter Five
Sasuke swore. Five minutes later, he swore again. Why had he agreed to this? Had he been thinking straight? Who's idea was it? Oh, yeah, his brother's. Itachi. It was all his fault. Sasuke began formulating a plan to kill his brother. And, kill Naruto, he added as an afterthought. It was all the blonde's boy's fault that Sasuke was now stuck in his bed, and couldn't move an inch.
Apparently, sometime throughout the night, Naruto had decided that it would be nice to use Sasuke as a pillow. Now, the raven-haired boy was stuck under arms and legs of the other, and no matter how hard he tried, he could not get out from his position. Sasuke hadn't been able to sleep all night. There might have been a few moments when he'd dozed off, but for the most part for the last eight hours was that he'd been lying in his bed, next to Naruto. Next to Naruto, his mind kept telling him as if he still wasn't fully aware of the fact.
Sasuke wasn't sure what to do about the mess he was in. For one, he wouldn't let himself fall asleep, because he wasn't sure what would happen. Two, he didn't want Naruto to wake up and find them like this. Three, he couldn't move. Four, he was starting to realize that Naruto was extremely soft and had the nice scent of apricot shampoo. Five, there was this odd feeling occurring over and over in his chest, and he wasn't sure what it was. Six, he couldn't move at all. Seven, Sasuke felt he was going to go insane without sleep. Eight, Naruto had just snuggled closer to him. Nine, Sasuke was involuntarily reminded of the kiss. And ten, if he didn't find a way out of his dilemma, Sasuke was sure he'd die before Naruto woke up.
Sasuke groaned with irritation. He glanced at his alarm clock and groaned again. Nine-thirty only. Naruto had said before that he was a late sleeper. How late did he usually sleep? Sasuke wasn't sure, and he didn't want to wait and find out. He had to get out of this mess now. Either that, or risk the embarrassment of waking up next to Naruto. No, that's not what I meant! I meant, risk the embarrassment of Naruto waking up and seeing me. That's what I meant. N-Not that other thing. But…waking up next to Naruto…and the nice smell of his hair…NO! Okay, must get out now! Before I lose my sanity.
The raven haired boy looked at Naruto and then carefully shifted the blonde's body over a few inches. Sasuke shoved Naruto's arms off of him, and then carefully shook himself free from Naruto's grasp. Just a bit more. Damn Naruto, move your stupid leg! Sasuke pushed Naruto's leg over with his feet and then sighed. Finally, I'm free-- "Ah!" Sasuke exclaimed suddenly, tumbling over the side of the bed and to the floor with a loud thud. "Damn it. I forgot about the edge of the bed,"
Just then, as luck would have it, Naruto sat up, and looked around. He saw Sasuke on the floor, a blanket entangled around him. "Haha! Sasuke-bastard, what are you doing on the floor?"
Sasuke shot him a death glare. "You stupid dobe," he said angrily, stood up and stalked out of the room.
Naruto sat on the bed, a confused look etched on his face. "What's got him all wound up?" he said aloud.
"I did what?" Naruto exclaimed.
"You fell asleep on Sasuke's bed," Itachi replied. "You stayed over the night because no matter what, you wouldn't get up,"
"That's why you're so pissed off this morning," Naruto said, turning to Sasuke.
Sasuke didn't say a word, just continued eating his breakfast.
"So, Sasuke, did you sleep well last night?" Itachi asked suggestively.
Sasuke turned a light red. "I was fine. The floor was not that bad,"
"I'm sure it wasn't," Itachi replied, amused.
"Shut up, Brother," Sasuke said getting very annoyed.
"Sasuke-bastard, I'm sorry I stole you're bed," Naruto said. "I was just really tired,"
"I didn't notice," Sasuke said sarcastically.
"God, someone apologizes to you and you're still a coldhearted bastard. Don't you warm up ever?" Naruto asked.
"The day Sasuke warms up shall be the day hell freezes over," Itachi said.
"Very funny," Sasuke said. "I'm done. Naruto, do you need a ride back?"
"Nah, I'll just walk. I'm going to go get some ramen when I'm done anyway,"
"You're getting ramen even though you've just eaten breakfast here?"
"Of course I am!" Naruto said. Then, he looked at Sasuke curiously and said, "And, you're coming with me!"
"What? No I'm not!" Sasuke said.
"Yes you are! It's to apologize for last night. I'll treat you to some ramen," Naruto said, getting up.
"I don't like ramen," Sasuke said.
Naruto gasped dramatically. "Don't like ramen?" he repeated as though Sasuke had committed a big sin. "Well, we'll have to change that then. Come on!" Naruto grabbed Sasuke's hand and dragged him out of the dinning room.
"Dobe, let me go, right now!" Sasuke said through clenched teeth.
"Uh-uh. You're coming with me. I'm going to try and defrost your frozen heart," Naruto said. "That's my mission for right now at least,"
Sasuke sighed. As he stared at Naruto, who was leading him back to his room to get their stuff, Sasuke could only think about how warm the blonde's hand felt in his own. Sasuke shook that thought from his head and tried to loosen to his hand from Naruto's but the blonde held on. Once back up in the room, Naruto grabbed his stuff and then led Sasuke outside to the car. Sasuke got into the driver's seat, and Naruto into the passenger's side.
They arrived at the restaurant within a few minutes and Naruto practically dragged Sasuke inside.
"Naruto!" came a voice from the counter.
"Hey Neji!" Naruto called back.
Sasuke immediately tensed at the mention of the Hyuuga.
"What are you doing here? Working on Sundays? That sucks to be you," Naruto said laughing.
"At least I actually work instead of spending half my shift cleaning the messes I make," Neji said.
"Hey! That's mean! I-I'm getting much better!" Naruto said.
"So, what are you doing here?" Neji asked.
"Sasuke and I came to get some ramen!" Naruto replied.
At the mention of the Uchiha, Neji instantly tensed up. He then noticed Sasuke standing beside Naruto, looking quite angry. Neji turned to Naruto and said, "Naruto, do you want to rehearse today after my shift? We can go over the fighting scenes again,"
Sasuke turned sharply to glare at Neji. He was instantly reminded of the day when he'd walked in on Naruto and Hyuuga…and Naruto had been on top of Neji. Sasuke clenched his fists and wondered how Neji would take it if he knew that Naruto had slept over at Sasuke's house. In Sasuke's bed. Next to Sasuke. Sasuke smirked deviously, but knew there wasn't any possible way to tell the Hyuuga that without having Naruto hear it too, and Sasuke didn't want that.
"Sorry, Neji, but I'm all rehearsed out. Sasuke and I were up almost all night rehearsing," Naruto said.
Neji felt sick. What does he mean by all night? Neji turned to look at Sasuke, who had a somewhat smug expression on his face. "Oh, so you and Uchiha practiced last night?"
"Yeah, so much that I got tired and fell asleep and had to stay over night," Naruto said.
Sasuke smirked even more. This worked too. He didn't have to tell Neji anything, Naruto was doing that all without even realizing what he was doing.
Neji stared at Naruto as though he hadn't heard him correctly. Stayed over night? he thought, now getting very angry. "I see," Neji said. "That's nice,"
Only Sasuke heard the sarcasm and annoyance in his voice. Naruto just nodded, grinning. Sasuke turned to Naruto and said, "Come on, let's get our orders and sit down,"
"Oh, right!" Naruto said. "Um, ramen for me and, Sasuke-teme, what do you want?"
"Whatever you have is fine with me, I don't really care," Sasuke said, fully aware that Neji was glaring spitefully at him. Sasuke found unsual pleasure in making the pale-eyed boy so pissed off. However, as he waited for their orders to come in, Sasuke realized that he wasn't sure why he liked it. Why did it matter to him if Neji was angry about him being with Naruto? It almost seemed as though he wanted to make Neji jealous, but that couldn't possibly be the reason. For one, it was just plain absurd. For two, it would mean that Sasuke would have to like Naruto to ever want to make another person jealous about him being with Naruto. And Sasuke didn't like Naruto. Of course he didn't. Naruto was just some dumb dobe, and that's all. There weren't any feelings between the two of them at all.
But, Sasuke remembered the events of the previous day. The simple kisses they'd shared and how they had made Sasuke practically lose all sense of reality. How he'd been sleeping next to Naruto the entire night; how Naruto's body felt beside him, and how the smell of Naruto's hair was enough to make him drift off. Sasuke also remembered how angry he was when he'd seen Naruto on top of Neji. But these things didn't really mean anything, did they? They were just some stupid feelings, nothing to be too concerned about, right? Sasuke knew he was just going nuts, and that was only reasonable explanation for what was going on. He didn't like Naruto.
"Thanks Neji!" Naruto said, taking the tray of their orders. "Let's go sit down, Sasuke. Bye Neji!"
"Later, Naruto," Neji replied.
Sasuke gave him a rather smug look, and Neji glared at him in return.
"You know, it defies the whole purpose of me treating you if you don't even eat," Naruto said, staring at Sasuke.
"Huh? Oh, sorry," Sasuke said, sounding somewhat distant.
"Anything wrong?" Naruto asked, staring at Sasuke now with concern in his blue eyes.
Sasuke looked away from his serious gaze. It felt weird seeing a serious Naruto. "Nothing, I'm fine, really," he said.
"You sure?"
"Yes, I'm sure,"
"Good, because when you're done, you're coming over to my place and we'll watch a movie or something!" Naruto said happily.
Sasuke looked back at him quickly. "What? When did we plan that?"
"We didn't! I told you before that my mission for the day is to defrost you! But, seeing as how that's practically impossible, I've come up with the next best thing!" Naruto said.
"And that is…what, exactly?" Sasuke asked, staring at the blonde curiously.
"That is to give you a day off! All the while I've known you, which isn't a lot, I know, you've always been too studious and impassive, I guess. You have to loosen up and have some fun! You're always so wound up, Sasuke, seriously," Naruto said.
"So now you've decided to take it upon yourself to help me?" Sasuke asked.
"Yup!" Naruto said excitedly. "So, hurry up and then we can go!"
Sasuke stared at him for a moment before shaking his head and smiling.
"Whoa! It's working! Sasuke-bastard actually smiled!" Naruto said, pointing at Sasuke with exaggerated shock on his face. "What's the world coming to!"
Sasuke continued to smile lightly as he watched Naruto make a big deal out of his unfamiliar gesture, and couldn't help but wonder the exact same thing.
"What movie do you want to watch?" Naruto asked.
Sasuke shrugged, sitting down on the floor against Naruto's bed. "What have you got?"
"Not many, here," Naruto tossed a few DVDs over to Sasuke, who caught them and decided on The Last Samurai. "All right, then. I haven't seen this in a long time,"
"I haven't seen it at all,"
"Seriously? How sad!"
Sasuke just shook his head as Naruto put the DVD into the player and scooted back beside Sasuke to watch. Sasuke was involuntarily aware of how close Naruto was sitting beside him. Trying not to think about it too much, he turned his attention to the T.V instead.
"What's with all the head chopping things? Can't they cut off an arm or leg once in awhile instead?" Sasuke said.
"Shh! Quit analyzing the movie!" Naruto said. "If you do that, you miss the whole enjoyment of watching the movie!"
"I'm just pointing it out," Sasuke said.
"Well, don't! Just watch!" Naruto said.
Sasuke stared at him. "Getting worked up over a movie. Wow,"
"That ending was horrible!" Sasuke said once the movie ended two hours later.
"Yeah, it was, but it's still an awesome movie. Don't you think? Ah! It'd be awesome to be a samurai," Naruto said dreamily.
"It'd be interesting, that's for sure," Sasuke agreed.
"All right! I'm gonna be a good samurai and you're the bad one!" Naruto said suddenly after a moment's silence. He turned to Sasuke, looking unusually excited. "I've got to kill you before you frost over the entire world with your coldness!"
Sasuke stared at him as if Naruto's had just sprouted another head. "Are you for real?"
"Die!" Naruto yelled, and then jumped on top of Sasuke, knocking the shocked pale boy onto his back with Naruto on top of him.
Sasuke tried desperately not to blush at the position they were in. He was completely reminded of last night. "N-Naruto, get off!" Sasuke said, trying to keep calm, cool, and collected. It wasn't working very well though.
"I can't! I'm killing the bad guy!" Naruto said.
"Dobe, you might want a weapon first," Sasuke said with a smirk.
Naruto looked at him closely. "You're right!" he said. "Hmm, where's my ruler?" Then, without moving an inch from his spot on top of Sasuke, he reached for his backpack and shuffled through it.
"A-Ah, N-Naruto…get off of me and search!" Sasuke said.
"Nah! Then you'll escape!" Naruto said. "Aha! Now, you die!" Naruto held the ruler against Sasuke's neck.
"Not so fast!" Sasuke said, and he slapped the ruler away with his hand. It landed under the table a few feet away. "Take that!"
"Hn," Naruto scrambled off of Sasuke, crawling towards the table. He grabbed the ruler and turned back to Sasuke, pointing his sword at the paler boy.
"You, this isn't very samurai-like," Sasuke said. "Samurai's don't crawl like that. You look more like a barbarian,"
"Shut up!" Naruto said, and again, he pushed Sasuke over, and sat above him, pinning the other boy to the floor.
Sasuke's heart started pounding and he tried not to blush. Naruto was staring at him with a serious look on his face. Sasuke stared back at him as a sudden wave of emotions overwhelmed him. Feelings that he'd never experienced before until recently. Sasuke remembered how he had felt when he and Naruto had kissed before. The feelings were back. The exact sensational emotions that seemed to occur over and over and over these days. Feelings that didn't make any sense to him; feelings that practically went haywire when something like this happened. Sasuke didn't understand any of it, and wasn't sure what he'd find if he tried to figure them out. Sasuke knew that either he could learn and understand his feelings, or just shove them into storage in the back of his mind. Sasuke also knew that, no matter what, these insane feelings would come back. They hadn't left him alone for a long time.
But for the time being, Sasuke tried ignoring his thoughts of how it felt with Naruto sitting on him; how warm his body felt; how his eyes were so blue, filled with mischief and seriousness; how the goofy grin on his face only made Sasuke want to smile back as well.
"Sasuke, what's up?" Naruto said.
Sasuke blinked, shut off his thoughts, and focused on the blonde above him. "Oh, sorry. Spacing out,"
"That's for sure. Well, back to the game!" Naruto said, pushing the ruler harder against Sasuke's neck.
"Hey, it's not fair if I don't have a weapon," Sasuke said.
"Um, I know! This is the new game! You've got to get my sword from me!"
"That's stupid,"
"Shut up! I don't have anything else, deal with it!" Naruto said.
"Fine," Sasuke said. Then, he reached up and grabbed the ruler, trying to pull it out of Naruto's hand. At the same time, he used his other hand to push down on Naruto's shoulder. Sasuke struggled to a sitting position, pushing Naruto further back. But then, before Sasuke could stop it, Naruto fell over, his legs swung beneath Sasuke, knocking the raven-haired boy over and on top of Naruto, practically three inches away from his face.
Sasuke's cool completely broke in half. A blush crept up his neck, and to his face. The heat was seriously radiating off of his cheeks. Even Naruto was staring wide-eyed and red-faced up at Sasuke.
The two just stared at each other for a moment.
A long, long moment.
Then, Sasuke sat up, and got off of Naruto. He stood up and breathed deeply, calming his nerves. Naruto stood up too and looked away.
"U-Um, I think being a samurai's overrated anyway…" Naruto said with a slight laugh.
Sasuke turned to him and nodded. "Yeah, I think you're right," he said.
"Ah-Ah, um…"
"I s-should go…I'll see you in school tomorrow…" Sasuke said uncertainly, heading for the door.
"Oh, yeah, right. Later, Sasuke-teme," Naruto said.
"Ah, thanks for today…" Sasuke said.
"No problem! And don't forget, I'm going to defrost you, so be looking forward to this coming weekend!" Naruto said excitedly, all embarrassment from a few minutes ago now gone.
"Okay, later dobe," Sasuke said.
"I'm not a dobe!" Naruto called after him.
Sasuke shook his head, walking down to the parking lot, and wondered about the feelings that had come up again. Why wouldn't they go away? What did they mean, anyway? Sasuke sighed. Something about being with Naruto made him feel this way. Something about spending time with the hyperactive, happy-go-lucky blonde changed the way he acted. Sasuke knew that, he was beginning to realize it, but it still made no sense in the least.
I don't get it. What's going on with me?
A/N: Yeck. I didn't really like this chapter. Too short, not much going on in my opinion. But, I just decided to get it out there so you all won't hate me. You don't right? - Anyway, there you go, a crappy chapter, but what can you do? Sasuke is such a confused little boy, I love it. Hehe. And I know Sasuke's sort of out of character in this one. I mean he'd never play a game like that with Naruto ever, but for the sake of the story, he does, and that's how it goes. Well, that's all for my rambling. Please review, and thanks for reading! Later, SilverRose88.