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"I think this is the first time that I have seen you genuinely happy."

Naruto stopped her humming and swirled her head to look at her boss. The middle-aged man had his hands folded against his chest, a thoughtful look playing on his face as his dark eyes lingered on her face. She tilted her head, eyebrows scrunched together while the other waiters and waitresses stopped what they were doing.

They flickered their eyes at her, their eyebrows scrunched together as if trying to figure out the differences between her moods.

Her boss tore his eyes away from her and turned to the curious staff. "I'm not paying for all of you to gossip! Get back to work!"

The staff gulped and promptly rushed out of the kitchen. The middle-aged man shook his head, looking almost faintly amused at the speed that everyone ran, and gestured for Naruto to take a seat on the only chair in the kitchen.

Naruto slid into the chair, folded her hands on her lap as her Boss poured her some tea for her to drink. If there was one thing she could never deny about the man, it was the fact he cared deeply about the well-being of his staff. The only problem she had was when the man seemed to fish for more information from her.

"So who is the boy? Or girl?" Her boss questioned.

The blue-eyed girl blinked and tilted her head at her boss, tilting her head and eyebrows knitted together as she tried to understand what the man was asking from her. Boy? Girl? Is he asking me about someone? He kinda needs to be more specific. She might not be completely dumb but Naruto didn't always understand what her boss was trying to get at.

If Sasuke was here then she probably would ask him.

The middle-aged man sighed and elaborated himself. "Who is the person that snapped you out of your depressive mood? Your mood are usually dark but I can see some yellows and pinks, which means that you met a certain someone that makes you happy.

"Oh! I saw my best friend again!" Naruto declared, giving him a small smile. Her boss blinked while the blond-haired girl stared out at the window. Her lips twitched when she thought of the unspoken words by her best friend. Sasuke is an idiot if he thinks I'm going to give up on him. She knew her friend wasn't as heartless as he tried to show the world. "I thought I would never see him again."

"You never mentioned anything about your best friend." Her Boss commented. "In the three years that you worked here, not once have you ever mention anything about them."

"I thought I would never see him again," She rubbed the back of her neck and tilted her head when the man stared at her with knowing eyes. Why does he look at me like that? The last time he gave that look was when he sees couples. She simply shrugged her shoulder and looked out to the door, raising her eyebrows when one of the waitress looked at them with curiosity.

"Was he the reason that you were upset?" Her boss questioned.

Naruto simply smiled at the man and shook her head, earning an arched eyebrow from the man. I was pissed, not upset. Bastard thinks going to that damn pedophile was his best solution of getting what he wanted. She felt her temper rise when she thought of what could had happened if her friend had succeeded with his wish.

Orochimaru would have taken his soul away as soon as he needed him.

If Naruto knew that there was a slight chance that Orochimaru wouldn't have taken away his soul then she might not have fought so hard.

If she knew that he wasn't choosing a path of darkness and loneliness then Naruto would have just shut her mouth and allowed him to do what he wanted. She might be an idiot but the blonde knew if she had never persisted with their friendship, then Sasuke would have dropped her. The bastard tried to push her away after he lost his family.

'You can act as cold as you want Bastard, but I'm not going to leave you alone.'

She said those words after the third month of his family's massacre. Her friend had tried to distance himself from her, saying hurtful words that would make any other person cry but made her so pissed off. Those black eyes that used to shine with happiness and innocence, started to shine with so much anger and hate.

It terrified her.

None of the other students noticed it but Naruto did. The teachers claimed he would recover from the pain while most of the girls just saw his sadness and pain. Naruto saw everything. She saw the pain, hurt, anger, the betrayal but most of all the sadness in his eyes. It was why she ignored his words, knowing that he should never be left alone. The massacre changed him in the worst possible way.

"I'm sorry Boss! But Naruto, your admirer is here to check on you again!" Her co-worker declared, barging into the kitchen. Naruto knitted her eyebrows while her boss pinched his nose, not looking one bit amused about the fact that someone was asking for her again. "I tried to reassure him that you are okay but I think it will be better for him to see that you are okay."

"Am I paying you to meddle with Naruto's love life? Or to work shifts?" Her boss grumbled as the young woman flushed a bright shade of pink.

"Love life? What does my love life have to do with anything?" Naruto tilted her head.

Hina gawked at her while her boss just chuckled, earning a frown from the blonde. For me to have a love life would mean that someone likes me in a romantic manner. Naruto could count the number of times that someone confessed they liked her and the number was zero. Sakura and Ino had more boys confessing they liked them then her.

She wasn't anything special.

"Naruto, are you telling me that you haven't realize that an older boy keeps coming back here is because of you?" Hina frowned at her while her boss just sighed, rubbing the sides of his head.

"Why would he come here because of me?" Naruto asked, knitting her eyebrows together. Did she do something for him to decide to visit this café? She tried to rack her brains to make certain that she hadn't made him promise to visit her every day. Nope. The way she acted with him was how she always acted like the other customers and her friends.

"Because he thinks you are pretty," her co-worker declared, nodding her head. "A lot of the male customers come here because of you. Why do you think that you get the most tips? Out of all the girls, you are the prettiest girl that works here. It wouldn't even surprise me if some model agency comes here and asks to hire you."

Wouldn't I know if a boy likes me? Naruto tilted her head and stared out at the door. She always presumed she would know if a boy liked her. Wouldn't he just blush? Or stutter? Try to make himself annoying like Sakura used to do to Sasuke? Wouldn't he compliment her looks? Or her skills? Yo blushed but he was a weirdo in that sense.

Yo was just like Izuku and was just shy around people.

It didn't mean anything.

Sasuke looked down at the address given to him and stared at the small café that Naruto worked. Of all the places he expected Naruto to work, he thought the blonde would work in a ramen stand. The girl used to say that if she could never become a ninja then she would just find a job in a ramen stand. He always had to remind her that even if she worked in a ramen stand then she couldn't eat on the job.

The girl would always pout and tell not to ruin her thoughts of how working in her favourite ramen stand worked.

He pressed his hands inside the pockets of his hood, black eyes locked as a couple of girls walked out of the café in their uniforms. Smiles decorated their faces as they waved their goodbyes to each other, before walking out of the streets. Sasuke flickered his eyes to their skirts, lips pressed into a thin line as he tried to imagine Naruto wearing a skirt.

"See ya, old man!"

Sasuke blinked and turned his attention to Naruto. The blond-haired girl had a smile on her face, hands pressed in her pockets while a middle-aged man stared at her with fondness. Sasuke lowered his hood, black eyes focused on the smiling face of his best friend.

He didn't know whether to be relieved to know what that smile meant or to feel weary that he just knew what to do to get her to open up to him again.

Once he found a way to get back to their world, Sasuke was going to murder All For One for putting him and Naruto through this hell. For the first time in his life, he found someone that he hated just as much as Itachi.

Naruto slowly twisted her body to turn towards him, blue eyes locked onto his. It might have been years since they properly saw each other but it never ceased to amaze Sasuke, how blue the girl's eyes were. He remembered as a child telling his mother that Naruto had the prettiest eyes that he had ever seen, which made his mother laugh.

'Sasuke-kun, I think you are developing a crush.'

His mother said those words with amusement but Sasuke could still recall the pain in her eyes.

"Not that I'm not happy to see you but mind explaining to me why you are here, Sasuke?" He kept his expression blank as Naruto walked towards him, hands on her pockets and blue eyes glinting with both curiosity and suspicion.

He was here because All For One wants him to use her emotions to get more information about All Might. He was here because he would do anything to get us back to our world. Most of all, he was here because he was a selfish bastard that couldn't find the strength to break this stupid bond between them.

Blue eyes softened and stared at him with so much understanding that Sasuke wanted to lash out at her again. She didn't know what All For One wanted him to do. She didn't know of the shit he went through just because of his desire to go back to their world. Naruto would never understand because she always had a strong moral code.

He hated how naïve Naruto could be and how Naruto almost always knew something was up with him. When he tried to distance himself from her, Naruto constantly bulldozed her way back into his life. She was always yelling and smiling, trying to make jokes to cheer him up. She was also the one that comforted him when he had those nightmares of his clan being murdered again and again.

No matter how many times he acted like an asshole to her, Naruto would just yell back at him and then act like nothing was wrong.

"Sasuke if you fucking tell me that you decided to quit then I'm not a fucking idiot," Naruto said hotly, blue eyes locked onto his. "You never changed your mind about anything."

I almost changed my mind before I left for Orochimaru and it took my whole willpower to turn my back on you again. Those words were on the tip of his tongue, ready for him to spill but Sasuke could not bring himself to do it. It should be easy to be vulnerable to Naruto but once he opened up to her, then everything would spill.

His feelings, his desires but most of all his doubts.

Naruto could not have any more hold on him.

"Come with me, Naruto." Naruto opened her mouth to protest and Sasuke grabbed her arm, forcing the younger girl to look him in the eyes. "You look like you are starving and we need…to talk."

Naruto narrowed her eyes and took a deep breath. "Talk? Oh now you want to fucking talk to me! Why the fuck didn't you talk to me three years ago? I tried to have a fucking talk with you in the Valley Of the End! You refused to talk and went straight to fighting! Why now? Why the fuck do you want a talk now?"

Sasuke kept his expression blank as Naruto clenched her hands into a fist and glared at him. The way her blue eyes blazed with anger reminded him of those innocent days when the two of them argued over the silliest of things. The silliest argument that the two of them ever had was when Naruto asked him if he wanted her to help him get rid of those fangirls.

'I don't want your help.'

He only said those words because Sasuke knew Naruto would have constantly complained about how those fangirls accused her of liking him. The girls already harassed her for being close to him—why should he make her life even more difficult? It might have been cruel but he could handle those girls.

"Hn." I miss you.

Naruto pressed her lips into a thin line. "You always fucking do this to me. One minute you try to distance yourself from me and the next minute you want to be by my side! This time if you ever fucking plan to push me away again then I will make sure that you never have any kids!"

Sasuke felt his lips twitched as Naruto puffed her cheeks, placed her hands on her hips and glared at him. He knew he should keep his face blank, to tell her to try but the girl always made the same threat whenever she was pissed off with him.

They both knew damn well that was one threat she would never follow through. Threats of messing his face was one that could be taken seriously, telling the fangirls about his hiding places and colouring his hair pink were all things that Naruto did whenever she was so furious with him.

The chances of not having kids? The only reason Naruto never did it because she knew about his desire to resurrect his clan.

"Where the hell are you going?" Naruto demanded as Sasuke turned his body away from her, eyes locked on the pedestrians that seemed to have smiles on their face.

"You're starving, aren't you? We're getting some ramen." He didn't need to turn around to know that Naruto looked stupefied or that she was happy. The way she tackled him, slender hands wrapped around his neck as she declared him to be the greatest person in the world was all he needed to know that the girl was overjoyed by his words.

For the first time in three years, Sasuke allowed himself to smirk slightly.

"Slow down, Idiot! You're going to choke if you continue to eat like a madwomen!"

Naruto swallowed the last of her noodles, eyebrows raised at her scowling friend as the server handed her another bowl of ramen. His eyes locked on the ten empty bowls of ramen that surrounded her and then to the bowl of ramen that surrounded Sasuke. There were only four other customers in the ramen stand: two old men and two other teens.

The server shook his head and left the two teens.

"So what do you want to talk about?" Naruto locked her eyes on her friend as she stirred her ramen. Was it stupid of her to continue talking to Sasuke? It probably was. Did she care? Not really. Did she think Sasuke was up to something? Naruto definitely knew for a fact that her best friend was planning something but she was going to be smart about this.

If Sasuke planned to use her for the League Of Villains then Naruto planned to change his mind.

Last time, she did things bluntly but maybe it was time to act like the Kunoichi that she was trained to be.

"What did you do in the last three years?" Sasuke stirred his drink and focused his black eyes on her. There was almost no emotion in his eyes or in his tone if one didn't focus with him, but Naruto could always pick up the subtle signs when it came to Sasuke. The slight rise in his tone told her that he was genuinely curious to know about her life in the last three years in this world.

"I went to middle school," Naruto looked down at her reflection. "And I made a few friends and even though they were great…I kept thinking about you. If I return back to our world, would you be in Konoha or would you be with Orochimaru? If you went to Orochimaru then how long did I have before he tries to take your body? Instead of focusing on their conversations, I kept worrying about you."

This was probably the first time in their lives that she admitted to worrying about him. She always kept it quiet, just making jokes and pretending that everything was fine between them. This was how things worked between them but it was never right. When they kept things quiet then nothing seemed to fix. It just bubble and bubble till it explodes like their battle in the Valley Of the End.

"You usually focus on the positive of every situation," Sasuke pointed out.

Naruto put down her chopsticks and stared at her best friend. "I tried in the first year but it was difficult when I knew you might be suffering from whatever hell Orochimaru planned for you. You were already messed up from what Itachi did to you but Orochimaru is a whole different story. That guy looks like he wanted to rape you! Do you know how fucking scared I was if that happened? That stupid kunoichi lecturer always told us stories about what happened to our mentality when a kunoichi gets raped!"

Sasuke kept quiet and just looked at her, which made Naruto turn her head away from him. Breath in and breath out, she chanted to herself like she always did whenever she wanted to cry. She avoided his searching eyes and placed all her devoted attention on the ramen. This emotional stuff wasn't something she was good at. It was easy for her to make jokes, to laugh and put on a smile but to tell someone that she was scared or worried?

She would get one of those Raspberries Awards that her middle school classmates talked about.

"How did you end up in U.A High?" Sasuke asked, changing the topic.

"Remember how you made a bet with me about whether I can master the Fireball Jutsu?" Sasuke frowned and Naruto just laughed. "I made a bet with him, telling him that I could enter U.A High without a problem. I told him that if I won then he needed to apologize to Izuku and if I lose then I will tell him that he was going to be the best hero in the whole of Japan. I think that was when I started to snap myself out of it."

Sasuke shook his head, not looking one bit amused about her bets condition. For a brief moment, Naruto thought she felt jealously coming from her friend. It seemed almost silly in her mind because her best friend was never jealous about anything. Well that wasn't true. When she became friends with Shikamaru and Choji, the bastard kept glaring at them and it wasn't till Sakura and Ino broke their friendship that Naruto understood what happened.

So she reassured him that he was always going to be her first best-friend.

"What about you?" Naruto asked, shaking her head. "How did they find you?"

Sasuke pressed his lips into a thin line, eyes becoming completely blank and Naruto hated it. How could she be there for him when he didn't let her in? How could she be there for him? She wished she never made that bet with Bakugou. It would have been better for her to become a psychologist because she needed to understand what was going through Sasuke's head. All she could do was speculate.

She hates not knowing.

"I landed right in front of them," Sasuke admitted, putting down his chopsticks. "And the rest is history."

Naruto stared at him, blue eyes focused on her best friend. There was no change in his facial expression but she understood now. The lack of words told her that he didn't want to talk about it, not because he didn't trust her. Sasuke knew she would keep her mouth shut just because she wanted him safe. No, he must have went through some form of hell. She could just imagine what he went through. The League Of Villains might have been better than Orochimaru, but they still treated him like crap.

She knew even if she asked that Sasuke would never tell her about what happened in those three years.

"And that is it? You made no friends or any girlfriends? I mean you always kept talking about resurrecting your clan and you need some practice…"

Sasuke raised his eyebrow while Naruto took a bite of her food, eyes avoiding his. Why the hell did she ask about that? She always made jokes about it but they were nearly sixteen now. If things had gone according to her friend's plan, then maybe he would have killed Itachi by now and probably found some girl to resurrect his clan with. From what she guessed, he probably needed some practice when it came to those things.

"Friends? They would never compare to you," Naruto stopped eating and stared at him. Her throat dried when she saw the sincereity in his eyes and she smiled for the first time since she was discharged from the hospital. Most people liked to be complimented about their appearance or their skills, but it made her happy to know that Sasuke thought no friend would ever compare to you. "And no girlfriend. You?"

"Well there are some good looking girls but I don't swing that way," Naruto joked while Sasuke raised his eyebrow at her, not looking one bit amused at her words. She shrugged. "What? You can't possibly think I'm capable of attracting a boy! Remember what Sakura used to say? It would be a miracle if a boy likes me! I mean my clothes are too bright, I smile like a fucking idiot and I don't act like a girl. My co-worker thinks that one of the customers likes me like how Sakura used to like you but..."

"And do you like him?"

Naruto frowned when she saw the intensity in those black eyes. Why was he angry? If he didn't want to know about her love life then why did he ask her? Did she say something wrong? She racked her head, trying to understand if she said anything wrong but nothing seemed to stand out in her mind.

"You know I keep trying to figure out this romantic love that everyone keeps talking about," Naruto admitted. "No one ever asked me out on a date and if Yo asks me out on a date then I will accept it. Beside, it might be my only chance on being a date because well I'm not exactly the most prettiest girl."

"I talked to you on our very first day of school because I thought you looked like those fairies that my Mum talked about in her stories." Sasuke didn't look at her as he said this, instead he had his eyes focused on the old men that had their eyes locked on them. There was a slight pinkness in his cheeks.

Naruto's throat dried at his words and the blonde felt her cheeks burned at those words. It was always on the back of her mind why Sasuke decide to become her friend. When Sasuke admitted that their mothers had been friends, she presumed it was for that reason he talked to her. Now to hear those words…well it almost made her think that those fangirls had been right and Sasuke did have feelings for her.

She would know if her best friend had feelings for her, wouldn't she?

A/N: Please review and tell me what you think about this chapter.