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Author's Note: I'm back! Finally! I'm sorry it took so long! Anyway, I've got a few things I want to say in this author's note. First one is kinda sorta important because it concerns me, and you wonderful reviewers. It took me a long time to write this chapter because I want it to be long enough for you people to enjoy it. I hate reading fanfictions with short chapters, and that's why I try to make mine somewhat long. Because of this, I wanted to know what you guys preferred out of these:
Short chapters that are updated more frequently,
or
Long chapters that are updated whenever possible.
I write to make you all happy too, and I don't like being an author who doesn't update after long long times. So, please in your review, tell me which way you prefer and I'll try to be which ever way you guys prefer. I don't like writing short chapters because I feel you guys won't like it, but I don't like not being able to update soon either. This way, I know what you guys prefer and I won't feel bad about what I'm doing. Please, please, please give me your input on this, okay?
All right, that's the more serious part. This next part is to thank some people for certain reviews:
To TheCagedBird: I loved your review with the point assignments! That made me laugh, and happy. Think I can count on you for keeping a daily score board on our three bachelors? It'll be great fun for me. I just loved it.
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To mkh2: I liked your idea of what Sasuke should have said when he was smelling Naruto's sheets. That was a good idea. If only I'd have used it…
Okay! That's all. I also have to thank all of you reviewers for your great reviews! I love getting them, they always make me happy! Thank you all sooo sooo sooo much! I love you!
Now, on with the story! SilverRose88.
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Chapter Twelve
"NARUTO!" they yelled, barging into the hotel room.
Naruto looked up and stared at the three livid-looking boys who had burst into the room. Shikamaru and Kiba looked up, too.
Sasuke, Neji, and Gaara just gawked at the scene before them. Naruto, Kiba, and Shikamaru were all sitting cross-legged on the floor in a circle with a board in front of them. Are they holding paper money? …Is Kiba holding die? What the hell's going on? I know what I heard!
"Hey, guys! What's the deal, just running in like that? Something up?" Naruto asked, truly oblivious to the fact that Sasuke, Neji, and Gaara were all staring wide-eyed and confused-faced at the sight before them. "…Want to play too?" Naruto asked when no one answered.
Play what? The three thought. They stared at Naruto, Shikamaru, and Kiba, and then slowly realized what they were doing. Fake money, die, a board, and little figurines.
EH! MONOPOLY! What the hell is going on?
"Guys, what's up? You're just standing there. Um, say something! You're creeping me out," Naruto said.
Sasuke blinked, and stared again. Then, slowly he said, forming the words carefully, "…Ah, N-Naruto, wh-what are you doing?"
"We're just playing a game of Monopoly!" Naruto replied. "I've only played like once before and Kiba brought the game with him, soooo we all decided to play,"
"M-M-Monopoly?" Sasuke, Neji, and Gaara all stuttered, still trying to make sense of it all even though the proof was right there.
"Yep!"
And, god…I thought…J-Just let the earth swallow me right now…
"What's up, guys? You look pale…" Naruto commented.
"Monopoly…and I thought you were…they were…" the three stammered.
"Were what, guys?" Naruto asked.
The three blushed profusely and looked down. Stupid dirty mind!
"Was there something you three wanted?" Shikamaru asked, noticing and wondering about the shocked and confused looks on their faces.
"Oh! Right…we just came to tell you to get ready…it's time to go soon…" Neji replied awkwardly.
"All right then," Naruto said. "Maybe we should stop for today then, guys,"
Shikamaru and Kiba nodded. "Yeah, fine," they said, but kept glancing at Sasuke, Neji, and Gaara who were all still standing by the door, somewhat red in the face, looking both embarrassed and stupid.
I can't believe I just ran in like that! Th-They were just playing Monopoly! A harmless game of Monopoly! B-But it-it sounded like they were…No, no, no! I am not going to think about that. Damn my stupid thoughts! And damn Kiba and Shikamaru for talking that way! Give a guy a heart attack why don't you?
"W-What were you doing anyway, Naruto?" Gaara asked. "W-We heard you talking about buying something…"
"Huh, oh! I was just thinking of buying a hotel or not for one of my properties. Since I've never played the game before, I didn't know what was the best choice. Kiba and Shikamaru were helping me out, and I was about to buy it when you ran in," Naruto replied.
B-Buying a hotel? T-That's all he was doing? The three thought. I-I can't stand my stupid damn thoughts. ARGH…
"Well, let's go guys, we don't want to be late!" Naruto said, and he led the way down to the lobby.
I've learned my lesson about eavesdropping…Never again…That was so embarrassing! Monopoly! Of all things! …But if they had laid a hand on Naruto, I would have killed them! Didn't they realize how dirty they sounded? …Apparently it was just me…
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At five-thirty on the dot, the students piled into the bus and drove to Sapporo. After a hour long tour at the Sapporo Museum, the class headed to Jozankei Spa, the place everyone was looking forward to. The spa was gorgeous. It was very spacey, comfortable, and well-kept. The class eagerly walked in and separated according gender to get into the hot springs and have a relaxing night off.
For Sasuke, Neji and Gaara, the evening was going to be anything but relaxing. The mere thought of just being with Naruto in the hot springs caused their blood to boil as their hearts began to race faster. They couldn't prevent the furious red blush that clouded their faces and the indecent thoughts roaming their minds. Then there was the jealous emotions that surfaced when they each realized they had no chance whatsoever to be alone with the blonde that night; that the other two had perfectly good chances of talking to Naruto and being near him; that the rest of the male class was going to be there, preventing their prospects of trying to be with Naruto without seeming weird; and, of course the fact that Naruto was not giving them the chance to talk at all.
The blonde, having never been to a hot springs before, was a constant source of energy in the supposed to be relaxing environment. He kept moving around, talking continuously, and making quite a big deal out of anything unordinary. To Sasuke, Neji and Gaara, it was quite cute for awhile until it got very annoying.
"Naruto, will you stop being such an annoying brat?" Sasuke snapped finally, not able to take the hyper-activeness of the blonde any more.
Naruto pouted and stuck his tongue out at Sasuke. "Bleeh. You're just mean! I'm having fun. I've never been to a hot springs before, so can you blame me?"
"I suppose not. But, when you start getting on everyone's nerves, it's just being obnoxious. So, stop it," Sasuke said sternly.
Naruto pouted again and turned to Neji. "Aww! Neji, make Sasuke-teme stop! He's being mean to me!" Naruto threw his arms around the pale-eyed boy and being sobbing, though everyone could tell it was fake.
Neji blushed at Naruto's gesture, and awkwardly patted the blonde on the back. "D-Don't worry, Naruto, I'll deal with the Uchiha,"
"Thanks, Neji! You're so great! You're not annoyed by me, are you?" Naruto asked, blue eyes staring widely up at the flustered Hyuuga.
Neji knew better than to say otherwise. Sure, the blonde was annoying the hell out of him, but Neji was definitely not ruining his chances of being the hero by saying he was. Neji turned to Sasuke and smirked superiorly at the twisted look on the Uchiha's face. Gaara, who was sitting a few feet away was also staring lividly at Neji.
"Uchiha, how can you be so mean to Naruto? I demand you to apologize to him this instant," Neji said, still smirking.
Sasuke narrowed his eyes at Neji and said through clenched teeth, "If I was to apologize, I'll do it on my own. Not because you asked me,"
Neji glared at him.
Sasuke turned to Naruto, and said, "Naruto, I'm sorry, okay? But, you were giving me a headache,"
The blonde let go of Neji and turned to Sasuke. The Hyuuga felt the warmth of Naruto leave his system the second the blonde had let go. The absence of the warmth felt like an emptiness in his heart. He wanted nothing more than to pull the blonde back into his arms and feel the soft of his skin, the warmth of his body, and the sweet smell of apricots that came from the mess of blonde hair.
"Do you really mean it?" Naruto asked.
"Yes. I shouldn't have snapped at you, but you were just getting on my nerves,"
"Heheh. I guess I was being a bit of a brat, but you didn't have to yell at me. Why can't you be like Neji or Gaara? They never yell at me,"
"I said I was sorry," Sasuke insisted. He felt a bit upset about Naruto implying he was mean, and he felt even more jealously and anger at being compared to Neji and Gaara.
"Yeah, well, that's just the way you are! And, actually, it's fun yelling at each other," Naruto said.
Sasuke smirked. "You have an odd sense of fun, dobe,"
"Don't call me dobe, bastard!" Naruto said.
"Will you two knock it off? Let's go get into the springs," Gaara said suddenly, not able to take the growing sentimentality between the bastard and Naruto.
"Oh, yeah!" Naruto exclaimed. "Let's go! Hot springs, hot springs! This will be so much fun!"
The energetic blonde led the way to the changing rooms, the others following behind.
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He couldn't help it. He just couldn't stop the feelings and thoughts that were taking over his entire soul. Being at the hot springs, in a place like this, with him, just made his entire mind go haywire. It was getting harder to focus on anything other than him, and no matter how hard he tried, the feelings and thoughts just came back ten times more stronger. He knew he shouldn't let his thoughts control him; shouldn't let them get in the way of having a good time; shouldn't let them look like a flustered idiot who looked like he was embarrassed of taking baths with others, when he wasn't. But they wouldn't stop.
Sasuke sighed. It was getting annoying really. Even more annoying than Naruto who was now almost swimming around in the water. His thoughts were getting out of hand. His emotions were growing. And, asking them to stop nicely didn't seem to have any effect. Neither did demanding, yelling, or persisting. In the end, his mind won out. His feelings and thoughts were named champions. Sasuke was just their little pawn; a little minion they enjoyed controlling.
Sasuke didn't like being a minion. He knew that much. He also didn't like the fact that Neji and Gaara kept staring at Naruto, and only Naruto. They kept staring at the blonde's perfect toned skin, his well-built body, complete with slightly muscled abs. Or his blonde hair, which when wet, fell gracefully into his face as if he'd combed it there, the blonde spikes almost hiding his wide bright sapphire eyes, in a mature, sexy way…
No, no, no. I did not just call Naruto sexy! Sasuke thought, shaking his head and trying, but failing to prevent the blush that crept up his neck. Little did he know, at that very moment, both Neji and Gaara had thought practically exactly the same thing, and were now blushing madly as well, finally tearing their gazes from Naruto.
"Oi! What's the deal with you three?" Naruto exclaimed, causing Sasuke, Neji and Gaara to carefully look up at Naruto, but staring at an angle away from his body. "Be more lively! If I didn't know any better, I'd say you were all zombies!"
Sasuke shook his head at the childish comment. "Very funny, dobe," he said.
"What'd I say about calling me dobe, bastard?" Naruto said indignantly.
"Don't know. Why don't you remind me?"
"I told you not to say it!"
"It's hardly fair if you still call me bastard,"
"I suppose that's true," Naruto said, "but, I like calling you bastard,"
Sasuke stared at him. "…Why?"
Naruto shrugged. "It's kind of like a pet name now,"
Sasuke couldn't stop the heat rising in his cheeks. "A-A pet…name?" he repeated to himself. Then, he let out a rare low chuckle. "Then, I can't stop calling you dobe, can I? That's your pet name,"
"Well, fine then, I guess," Naruto said. "But I still don't like it! Why has it got to be dobe anyway?"
Sasuke shrugged this time. "Beats me," he said. "It just suits you, don't you think?"
"Not answering that," Naruto replied.
Sasuke just smirked.
Neji and Gaara glared at Sasuke's back. If looks could kill, and they wished they could, then the Uchiha would have been drowning under the water. But since that wasn't going to happen, the two pissed off on-lookers made their way over to break up the moment.
"So, Naruto, having fun?" Gaara asked, turning the blonde's attention to himself.
"Oh yeah! This is so cool," Naruto replied, grinning.
"We should go to one another time," Neji said.
"Really? That'd be awesome. You'd take me, Neji?"
"Whenever you want,"
"Ah! You're great!" Naruto said, grinning, and hugged Neji.
The Hyuuga blushed crazily, feeling the blonde's bare skin against his own was more than enough to cause his emotions and thoughts to explode.
Naruto pulled away a second later, still grinning. Neji continued blushing. Sasuke and Gaara looked livid.
Before the others could say anything, Gaara decided to take a chance, and said, turning to Naruto, "We have to spend more time together when we return to Tokyo. I mean, we haven't done a whole lot, not like before,"
"You're right, Gaara. I mean, we were best buds! We've got to do more together!" Naruto said, grinning, and slapping an arm around his friend's shoulder.
Gaara turned a slight shade of pink. "It's settled then,"
"For sure! We've got to get back on our old best friend routine!" Naruto exclaimed.
Sasuke and Neji cringed at the 'best friend' comments. They glared at Gaara from the corner of their eyes.
"Ahh! But I don't want to go back! It's so nice here. Let's just stay here forever," Naruto said. "Can we do that, Sasuke-bastard?"
"Probably not," Sasuke said, shaking his head.
"Aw, man, that sucks. If we go back, we'll have to work and rehearse," Naruto said.
"That's right. Meaning, Naruto, we have to get back on our rehearsing and researching schedule," Sasuke said.
"Oh, right. Well, I guess that's okay,"
"What? No complaints? That's not like you,"
The blonde shrugged. "I don't care. It's fun. And, that way, I can make you cook and I can eat your cooking!"
Sasuke smirked. "Then we're working at your house. Remember, it's your turn to treat me,"
"But I can't cook!"
"Then, learn,"
"I don't wanna!" Naruto said. Then, he looked at Sasuke curiously and said, "All right, but only if you teach me!"
Sasuke blinked. "W-What?"
"You've got to teach me to cook. Then, I'll treat you!"
"I don't teach,"
"Aw, Sasuke! Please?"
"No,"
"Come on!" Naruto said, peering up at him with big blue eyes. "Please?"
Sasuke tried not to cave easily. But it was hard with the blonde's cute pleading expression. "Why do you want to learn?" he asked, suddenly curious.
The words were out of Naruto's mouth before he realized what he was saying, "Cause I like spending time with you, I guess,"
The blood in Sasuke's body froze. Then, a moment later, his heart began pounding uncontrollably, and he stared at Naruto, as if the blonde had just spoken in another language. "W-What?"
A light blush crept up Naruto's neck. Then, he stared at Sasuke and said, "I like spending time with you,"
Even though Sasuke heard the words for the second time, it still took him a moment to really fully understand what he was being told. He likes spending time with me? He actually likes being with me. "Really?"
"Yeah," Naruto said and grinned. "What? You make it seem like I hate you! God, Sasuke-bastard, you're so weird. It's like you've never had friends before,"
Sasuke chose not to comment on that. Instead, he just stared at Naruto longer before letting a slight smile escape his lips. "Well, if you want to, then I guess I can teach you, for awhile at least," he said.
"Seriously? Sweet! I can't wait! It'll be fun," Naruto exclaimed.
Sasuke smile widened as he saw the excited look on Naruto's face, and the furious ones on Neji and Gaara. The pale-eyed boy and the red head were both glowering upon Sasuke with looks of pure unadulterated hatred. Why was it that every single time these two got together, they kept getting closer?
But before either one could say something, Kakashi called for them to get out because it was time for dinner.
"Aw! Already! I want to stay longer," Naruto said.
"Any longer, and you'll be as wrinkled as a prune," Sasuke said.
"And I'm certain you don't want that. Do you, Naruto?" Neji asked.
"I guess not…But it's so comfortable!"
"Yes, I understand," Gaara said. "However, you have no choice. Let's go, Naruto, before you burn yourself as well,"
"All right! Let's go! I'm hungry anyway! I hope they have some ramen!" Naruto exclaimed, heading out the springs and almost running into Shikamaru and Kiba on the way.
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Since the group was spending the last day at the springs, they were to stay overnight, head back to the hotel in the morning and after lunch return to Tokyo. Dinner was great; a special Japanese cuisine for all except Naruto, who insisted on his ramen, and had to go with Iruka to buy some at the sake of everyone in the class who was starting to lose their minds. After dinner, the boys and girls separated into two rooms and were told to get to sleep, having spent too much time having fun and needing some rest.
However, it wasn't that easy for three boys in the room. Sasuke, Neji and Gaara were all trying to keep their cool about spending the night in the same room as Naruto. Sasuke and Neji were sleeping on either side of the blonde, and Gaara was on Neji's left. The three boys weren't sure how to take the predicament in which they were in. They enjoyed spending time with Naruto, but being in the same room with the blonde…at night…for the entire night, was beginning to drive them nuts. For one, their thoughts wouldn't shut up. They had the idea they would be up the whole night, and won't be getting an ounce of sleep. The one thing that kept them a bit sane was the fact that the rest of the males in the group were all in the same room. Knowing this, Sasuke, Neji, or Gaara couldn't take the risk of jumping Naruto as they really really wanted to do.
Sasuke could only stare at Naruto, watching the blonde sleep, glad that he was turned in his direction because not only could he see his face, but it blocked the Hyuuga and Gaara from his line of vision. Sasuke's heart was pounding rapidly, and he was reminded of what Naruto had said that night…I like spending time with you, I guess. What did that mean? Naruto didn't mean that he liked him, did he? Even Naruto wouldn't confess to something like that in front of other people. Sasuke didn't know what to make of it. He was glad that Naruto had said that to him, glad to know the blonde did like being with him; but he felt a bit upset not knowing if there was anything more, anything that could come of this.
Sasuke sighed. For how much longer could he handle this? Seeing Naruto, being with Naruto each and every day was driving him nuts, especially since he had to hide his feelings from the one he liked. And now, sleeping in the same room as him was killing him. Sure, it wasn't as bad as that one night when Naruto had fallen asleep at his house, in his bed, but it was still a matter that was causing his heart to work overtime. Then, there was the fact that the blonde looked so innocent and vulnerable at that moment, that Sasuke wanted nothing better than to slowly reach his hand out and touch his face…
"What do you think you're doing, Uchiha?" came the doubled voices of two annoyed and angered boys.
Sasuke blinked, and slinked his hand back to his side. He looked up at Neji and Gaara innocently. "Hm? Oh, nothing. I just saw something in Naruto's hair. I was just getting it out," Sasuke answered in a voice that would have been convincing had any one else heard it. But, Neji and Gaara weren't fooled for a second.
The two just glared at Sasuke over Naruto's sleeping figure.
"What are you two doing up anyway?" Sasuke asked.
"I could ask you the same thing," Gaara replied.
Sasuke narrowed his eyes at the red head and Gaara returned it evenly. Neji joined the glares as well. But just then, Naruto snored loudly and the three stopped glowering at each other to look at the blonde before them. Slight smiles crept across their lips before they decided to return to sleep; after shooting a glare at each other once more of course.
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"Time to wake up, Sasuke-bastard!"
"Hnn, go away, Naruto," Sasuke groaned.
"Come on! Everyone's up already. We've got a yummy breakfast waiting!" Naruto said and then began poking the sleeping boy on the arm.
"Touch me again, Naruto, and I'll hurt you," Sasuke mumbled, turning away from the blonde's voice.
"Hmph," Naruto said, sitting down beside him. He stared at the dark-haired boy, watching him sleep for a while. Hm, he's mean even when he's half asleep. God, what's wrong with this guy? …Wonder what he'd do to me if I spontaneously jumped him. Heh, he'd probably kill me. Naruto pondered this as he continued to stare at the Uchiha. He was actually beginning to consider trying, just to find out what kind of bodily harm would come to him, and partially to see if Sasuke would even react like that at all. Naruto quietly crawled over to Sasuke's other side to look the dark-haired boy in the face. When he's sleeping, he hardly seems like a bastard at all…He's got a nice face too…Right now, it looks peaceful. I wonder what he's dreaming of.
Naruto sighed and poked Sasuke another time. "Sasuke…get up," he said quietly. The sleeping figure didn't reply, and Naruto shook his head. Maybe I should jump him. He'd wake up that way. …But I don't really want to risk death. Naruto stared at the Uchiha, and his hand involuntarily reached forward, gently brushing dark locks out of the pale face. Hm, his hair's really silky… Naruto slowly lowered his hand to Sasuke's face; fingers brushing lightly over the boy's skin.
But just at that moment, Sasuke moved, and grabbed Naruto's outstretched arm, his hands held onto Naruto's tightly.
Naruto blushed, and stared at the sleeping Uchiha who was absolutely oblivious to who he was holding on. Naruto felt the heat rising up his neck, and he just continued to sit there in slight shock. For some reason he couldn't understand, he didn't try to let go. He didn't remove his hand, or pushed Sasuke off of him. Instead, he just sat there, watching Sasuke continue to sleep while practically holding his arm hostage against his chest. He-He's warm, Naruto thought. It's nice…
"Naruto? Are you there? What are you doing?" Gaara said as he walked into the room. The red head took one look into the room and froze.
Naruto froze too. The blood rushed to his cheeks in a furious blush for two very different reasons. One, he was just embarrassed to be caught like this. Two, and the more complicated one because Naruto couldn't figure out why, was that he was angry at Gaara for walking in. But why? Why would he be angry at Gaara for walking in at that moment? He should be happy that he got interrupted, because that way he'd be able to get out of Sasuke's grip. His warm…and cuddly grip…
"Naruto? What are you doing?" Gaara asked through clenched teeth.
"Ah-Ah, um, n-nothing!" Naruto said quickly while wrenching his arm out of Sasuke's grasp. He got to his feet abruptly and said, "I was just trying to get Sasuke to wake up,"
"Well, we're starting breakfast now, so wake up the basta--Uchiha and let's go," Gaara said, glaring at the sleeping figure.
"O-Okay…Um, you go down and I'll be right after," Naruto said. Gaara looked at him carefully and then slowly left the room, leaving the door open. Naruto sighed and turned to Sasuke. He poked at the dark-haired boy with the tip of his sneakers and said loudly, "Get up Sasuke-bastard!"
Sasuke groaned again, and Naruto sighed. Hm. Morning person my ass. He's just like me! Didn't he get any sleep last night?
"Saaasukkee!" Naruto said, crouching down and poking him again. "Get up, damn it!"
"I thought I told you to go away," Sasuke said, slowly opening his eyes and peering up at Naruto with sleepy black eyes.
"I was told to wake you up. So, get out of bed and get dressed. We've got to eat and leave!" Naruto said.
"Nhh," Sasuke groaned.
"Don't you be going back to sleep on me! I've been trying for the past ten minutes to get you to wake up. Now get up!" Naruto said, getting to his feet. "I-If you don't, I'll just have to drag you out of bed, and carry you into the showers,"
Sasuke blushed at that thought; the dirty half of his mind thinking that wouldn't be so bad, while his righteous half told him to keep control of his raging emotions.
"I'm giving you to the count of three! One…two…three…" Naruto said, and when the dark-haired boy made a pathetic attempt to get up, he sighed and said, "Guess I'm going to have to carry you then,"
"W-What? No! Naruto!" Sasuke exclaimed, jolting over to stare at the blonde.
"I gave you to the count of three," Naruto said and he leaned over to reach for Sasuke.
Sasuke began to blush uncontrollably and he slowly backed away. "N-Naruto, I said no,"
"But you didn't listen to me! I said on the count of three. And, now you face the consequences," Naruto said.
"You're seriously going to carry me!"
"Yeah, why not?"
Sasuke blushed, and got to his feet before Naruto could get any closer. "There, see? I'm up," he said.
"But carrying you is your punishment for not listening to me!" Naruto said, and then walked over to Sasuke, and reached down to lift the dark-haired boy up.
"N-Naruto, p-put me down right now!" Sasuke exclaimed angrily as Naruto picked him up and practically swung him over his right shoulder.
"It's your fault for sleeping in," Naruto said simply.
"Either you put me down right now or I'll make sure you never see sunlight again,"
"You'd actually hurt me, Sasuke-bastard?"
"After this, yes, I would,"
"Aw! You're so mean,"
"Put me down,"
"Nope. We're headed to the showers,"
"N-Naruto!"
"What?"
"PUT ME DOWN THIS FLIPPIN INSTANT!"
"Stop squirming you bastard, you're going to make me fall over!" Naruto said, suddenly losing balance. But Sasuke didn't stop squirming or shouting, and as Naruto stepped forward, lost his footing and began toppling over to his right. At that precise moment, the door opened and two pissed looking boys stood frozen in the doorway as Naruto and Sasuke hit the floor with a loud thud.
"Ow!" Naruto exclaimed.
"Ow? You're saying 'ow'? Will you get the hell off of me, dobe!" Sasuke said angrily.
"It's your fault, stupid bastard!"
"I didn't ask you to carry me!"
"You were the one who wouldn't get up!"
"Will you shut up and move your knee? It's digging into my leg!"
"Move your arm! Why's it around my waist?"
Naruto and Sasuke stopped yelling at one another and looked down at the position in which they were in. To say the least, it was rather compromising situation and red hot flushes swept up their faces. Naruto was hovering above Sasuke, who was pinned between the blonde's hands. Sasuke's hands had somehow found their way around Naruto's waist and back, and was holding onto him rather tightly. Their legs were intertwined in a very inappropriate way.
For a few minutes, the two just looked at the other, not saying a word, but hearts pounding crazily. Before either could say anything, Neji and Gaara, both with twisted expressions on their faces had stormed over to the pair on the floor and wrenched Naruto off of Sasuke.
"What are you doing, Naruto?" Neji asked.
"Uhm, uh, nothing! We-We just fell over…" Naruto said awkwardly, trying to hide the blush on his cheeks.
"We've been waiting for you, so come on," Gaara said. "Since Uchiha is awake now, he can join us after he's dressed,"
"Let's go," Neji said.
The two led Naruto out of the room, and glared at Sasuke before shutting the door. Sasuke didn't care about the death threats in the two bastards eyes. He'd just been in a situation the two were dreaming about, and he happily grinned to himself. Heh. Take that, and try to beat it. xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
After breakfast; during which Neji and Gaara wouldn't so much as let Sasuke even look at Naruto, the class piled into the vans and headed back to the hotel. They were to leave for Tokyo at around four, and therefore had about five hours to do as they pleased.
Neji, Gaara, and Sasuke, all wanting to spend the last day with their favorite little blonde, somehow found themselves sitting in Naruto's room playing Monopoly with him, Kiba, and Shikamaru. Not quite exactly what they had in mind. But, Gaara was able to ask Naruto to get lunch, and managed to leave with the blonde before he could invite anyone else. They went for lunch, and went around town twice because Naruto wanted to say goodbye to everything he'd seen. And then, when the class got into the buses on the way home, Neji snagged the seat beside the blonde and was able to get the blonde's undivided attention the entire ride home.
A/N: I'm sorry for the shitty ending. I just really wanted to end the chapter with them returning to Tokyo, so that's that. You can sort of tell I got sloppy at the end. Oh well. The chapter itself wasn't that great in my opinion. I only liked the beginning, but whatever. Maybe you all enjoyed it. I hope! Thanks for reading and please review! See you next time.
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