A/N: I keep saying that ill update soon but I never keep to my promises --;; sorry guys, summer's not as inactive as I thought it was . but anyways, here's the fifth chapter!

Chapter 5: The Night Before the Dates

'Sasuke!' Naruto yelled as he entered the room to the sight of his best friend with scissors in his hand and shreds of paper all over the floor, 'Just look at this mess you're making!'

Evidently, Sasuke had gathered much more paper as well as a few packs of pencil crayons and markers that lay on the desk. For a while now, he'd been cutting and cutting trying to make the paper form the perfect shape that held an image in his mind. He was never a neat person and because of this just let the many big and small shreds of excess paper lay on the rug of his room.

'Naruto!' he yelled as he turned and spotted the open-mouthed blonde boy at the doorway into his room.

Naruto, on the other hand, was a very domestic and clean person, having to have taken care of himself, with the help of his good friend Iruka, for the majority of his life. Because of his lonely lifestyle, he had become very good at cleaning and other household chores (with the exception of cooking! For food he had plenty of easy to make instant ramen in his cupboards).

Sasuke hid the pair of scissors he was holding behind his back and all but shoved the piece of paper he was working on in his pocket before asking, "What are-" but hearing his voice was much too high-pitched for himself, he stopped his sentenced, cleared his throat and continued with a much deeper and sophisticated voice that he was known to have, 'What are you doing here?'

Naruto had already entered the room and had begun picking up shreds of paper that lay on the floor.

'No!' Sasuke yelled at him before calmng his tone of voice, 'I mean…no, don't bother with that, I'll clean it up myself!' But in truth, he did not want the unsuspecting blond to see what he had written on many of the papers.

Naruto got up from his hunched over position on the floor.

'Are you sure?' he asked, 'I've always been a good cleaner, you know.'

'Yes, yes, don't worry about it.' Sasuke replied, sighing inwardly in relief. 'Anyways, what brings you here?'

'Umm…' Naruto had forgotten the reason himself for a few seconds before remembering, 'Oh yeah! I came to give you back that book you lent me!'

Sasuke had lent the book to the boy about a week ago, saying that reading was very important for a developing mind and encouraging Naruto to try it one day. But he knew very well that Naruto was definitely not even going to attempt to read the book and gave it to him for the simple reason that he found it in his locker and he really didn't want to carry it home.

'You didn't read it, did you?' he asked, an all-knowing trademark smirk gracing his lips.

Though Sasuke's gaze indeed seemed to penetrate everything, Naruto thought it best to at least attempt to cover himself up.

'Of course I did!' he said unconvincingly and smiled nervously, 'War and Peace was a great and long, long, long, long, long, long, long book!' The last long seemed to drag at the 'o'.

'Sure,' Sasuke said, smirk still in place. Naruto knew from the beginning it was a long shot that he would actually believe him.

Naruto fished for the heavy book inside his backpack and while he was doing so, Sasuke took this opportunity to take a good look at the boy.

Finally, after several minutes, the book was returned, the goodbyes were said (though Sasuke did not want them to be) and Naruto was on his way home while Sasuke continued to work on the project Naruto had interrupted.

Later...

That night was terribly long for Naruto who found it terribly hard to sleep with all the excitement of the upcoming day drifting through his mind. He tossed and turned in his bed and when he heard his stomach rumble he decided that the best thing for him to do was eat a bowl of ramen. So he got up from his bed, strolled confidently to the kitchen in his baby blue bunny slippers, heated some water and poured it into the cup of ramen. Now all he had to do was wait three minutes and he'd be fine eating it from the cup.

But as he waited impatiently, the phone in his living room began to ring, which was a very strange occurrence seeing as he had only a small amount of friends and out of all them Iruka and on occasion, Sasuke were the only ones who called. But even they would probably not call at such a late hour. He looked at the clock and found that it was 3:57 am. But phone continued to ring and so he got up and hesitantly answered it.

'Hello?' he said into the receiver but there came no reply. He waited a couple of seconds before asking, 'Is anybody there?' Again there was no answer.

By now he was a bit scared but deciding that the caller was probably some prankster at a sleep over, he put the phone down and went back to waiting for his ramen.

But after a few moments, while Naruto quietly ate his ramen, the phone started to ring once again, almost causing him to spill hot soup on himself. He ignored it for the first few rings but the tension was not ignorable and so he picked up the phone and said, 'Hello?' into the receive, more cautiously than before. But again, there came no answer and so he put the phone down and went back to eating his ramen.

His nerves were by now on their very ends and he stared in suspense at the phone. He hoped to the gods in heaven that it would not start to ring again because he knew that he could definitely not take much more of this without being scared completely to death.

But the gods in heaven didn't seem to be listening because a few minutes later, there came another call. The phone once again rang and when he answered it this time, he didn't start with a 'hello'.

'STOP CALLING ME!' he yelled into the receiver but as an answer there only came long, deep breaths from the other end.

He was very scared now and did the first thing that came to his head. He hung up and dialed another number.

'Hello?' came a deep and sleepy voice on the other end, 'Who is this?'

'Thank god!' was all Naruto could say as he smiled at the thought of comfort soon approaching.

Later...

As Naruto was finishing his fourth cup of ramen after waking up from bed, trying his best to ignore all the taunting phone calls, the buzzer rang, causing him to jump to his seat. He got up slowly and cautiously approached the door, nervously looking through the eyehole to see who it was. After identifying his visitor, he breathed a deep sigh of relief and hurriedly unlocked all 4 of his locks and opened the door to the yawning figure of Sasuke, sleeping bag in hand and backpack on back.

'Ah, thank you Sasuke-kun!' he practically yelled as he dragged the boy into his apartment and quickly locked all for of the locks as Sasuke stared in awe at the precautions, 'You don't know how glad I am to see you!' he said once they were inside.

Several minutes ago, Naruto had hurriedly called Sasuke and literally begged him to come over in such a fearful voice that there was no way that Sasuke could refuse. The conversation had gone exactly like this:

'Hello? Who is this'

'Thank god!'

'Naruto?'

'Please come over and spend the night here!'

'What?'

'Now!'

'Why?'

'Hurry up! I'm in danger here! And bring a sleeping bag!'

And so, several minutes later, Sasuke had arrived.

'Remind me why I'm here again.' Sasuke said, laying on Naruto's sofa.

But before Naruto actually had a chance to explain, the phone began to ring once again. He stared at it in fear and Sasuke stared at it in boredom. But after seeing the distressed expression on Naruto's face, he asked him a very practical question.

'Why are you scared of the phone?' his eyes were only half open and it was as if he was actually mocking the poor blonde boy. But Naruto didn't notice as he was totally concentrated on the phone and absorbed in wishing it would stop the continuous ringing. After the 7th ring, it stopped and so he begun his explanation.

'Sasuke,' he said as he took a seat on the other boys legs, 'Somebody's stalking me!'

If Sasuke could, he would have burst into loud laughter. But he was much too tired for that. So instead, he asked, 'What are you talking about?'

'That…person keeps calling me over and over again!'

'It's just a prank,' Sasuke said before once again yawning, trying in vein to reassure the frightened boy so that he could get some sleep.

'At 3:45!' Naruto questioned in disbelief.

Sasuke yawned in reply.

'Sasuke!' he yelled, shoving the other boy awake, 'I'm frickin' scared here!'

The phone began to ring again and Sasuke grudgingly picked it up.

'Let me take care of this,' he assured Naruto before speaking into the receiver, 'Hey!' he yelled, into the receiver this time, 'This is Naru-chan's boyfriend! Shut the hell up and stop calling or I'll personally hunt you down and beat you up!'

And then he did what any angry boyfriend would naturally do. He hung up the phone with a loud bang as all Naruto could do was stare at him in shock.

'Sasuke!' he yelled as he began to throw fists at him, 'Why would you do that to me!'

'Calm down,' the other boy replied as he raised both hands and retreated, tripping and falling onto the couch, 'The guy's definitely not going to call any more.'

With his energy fading quickly, Naruto took a seat next to Sasuke on the couch but turned away so as to not see the boy.

'Hey,' Sasuke said, touching the boy's shoulder, 'don't you be mad at me. I was helping you. Emphasis on the helping.'

'But what if it was somebody at school,' Naruto mumbled into a cushion.

'Don't worry,' Sasuke reassured him, 'It was just a prankster. Geez! You'd think you'd be even a bit grateful! The phone's not ringing, is it?'

And he was right. The phone lay there on the table in utter silence.

Naruto had to confess that this was true. And so, with a sigh, he turned towards Sasuke and mumbled again into his pillow, 'Fine,' and after that said a very audible, 'Thanks.' But he didn't like doing it.

And then he got up and walked towards his one and only room.

'Hey!' Sasuke yelled after him, 'Where are you going?'

'To sleep!' was the reply as the door closed behind him.

Sasuke was left to wonder where he was going to sleep and decided that the couch was most obvious and most comfortable choice. But as he was drifting to sleep, right after settling in, Naruto came along and shook him awake.

He turned to face the blonde and asked him in a sleepy tone, 'What do you want now?'

After that night's events, Naruto found himself especially scared and asked him, 'Can you sleep in my room, please?' with a great big pleading smile and adorable puppy dog eyes.

Minutes later, Sasuke found himself inside his sleeping bag on the floor of Naruto's room, his head laying on a supplied pillow given to him by the blonde boy. The lights were soon turned off and as Naruto crawled into his bed he whispered a gentle goodnight.

But though he knew that Sasuke was right there in his room, Naruto found that he was still too scared to sleep and turned to stare at the sleeping figure of his companion. Though Sasuke seemed very stoic when awake, he seemed almost angelic when he slept. He skin seemed to glow in the rays of moonlight that seeped through the curtains and his face was so calm.

Naruto continued to think about what would get him to sleep and went through many ideas in his head.

He decided, though it was embarrassing, that Sasuke was the comfort he needed and, for the sake of his own sleep, got up and crawled into his sleeping bag (which was surprisingly big enough for two people Sasuke likes his space). Naruto, as you may know it, was not a very bright person and didn't stop to think about the effects this one event may have.

But soon he found himself drifting off to sleep, dreaming about what was to come the following day, and at that point in time, that was all he cared about.

Meanwhile, a boy named Gaara lay in his bed in the room he shared with his brother Kankuro, thinking about what had been said to him on the phone: 'This is Naru-chan's boyfriend…'

A/N: Okay guys! There's the… fifth(?) chapter! Hop you like it! This one was originally supposed to have Naruto's Date with Sakura in it but it was running long and I really wanted to post something so here it is! Sorry about the last part. It was a bit rushed. And sorry for the mistakes. I don't proofread:) Next up: Chapter 6: The Dates!

Yes, plural form! Read and review please! Bye!

P.S. I also have another fanfic I'm working on called 'Royalty's Prohibitions' so remember to look out for that:) Personally, I like it better, but hey, that's just me:)