Disclaimer : Naruto and other characters are not mine.

Warning : SasuNaru. Shonen-ai. Some other pairings later on.

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Sunshine After the Rain

By Misaki Sakura

Chapter 2 : He's Mine!

Sasuke was walking down the corridor when he heard Sakura and Ino calling him. Inwardly, he sighed. This girl never learnt. He hated his fangirls, they're annoying him, but he hated those two girls the most. They both acted like he was theirs and usually fought about it. Sasuke increased his pace but somehow Sakura and Ino managed to catch up.

"Sasuke-kun, will you go out with me?"

"No, Ino pig. He'll go out with me!"

"No, ME!"

Usually Sasuke would ignore this and walked away, but that morning he was so pissed. He had a talk with his father and it's always bad news when it came to talking with his family. Always. Now, back to the present. He was pissed and Sasuke was sick with his stupid fangirls. Unfortunately, Sakura and Ino didn't notice the twitch his eyes made nor the vein that went pop on his head. The last thing Sasuke needed was two girls bickering over him and latching themselves to him.

"Go away!" he growled. And when Ino didn't react to his order, he pushed her. Ino fell to the floor. Sasuke was shocked at first, so was Sakura. That's when Naruto decided to walk into the picture.

He was in his classroom, talking with Lee about the art competition Lee was going to enter when Naruto heard the commotion outside. Curiosity got the better of him, so he peeked his head out and saw Ino on the floor, crying. Sakura was looking at Sasuke in disbelief. He saw the guilt in Uchiha's eyes before it changed into … nothing. Then as Sasuke turned to leave, Naruto found himself standing in front of the black-haired boy.

"Apologize to her."

Sasuke looked at him. He looked back. It went on that way until Sasuke opened his mouth to say, "And what if I refuse?"

"Then I'll force you to do it. Apologize to her, teme!"

Sasuke stared blankly at Naruto and pushed him aside without saying anything. He barely walked away when he heard some gasps behind him before he found himself staring at the floor with Naruto on his back.

Sasuke was shocked but he managed to kick Naruto off of him and pinned him on the floor. His hands were held above his head. "Just what do you think you're doing, dobe?" he hissed.

Naruto tried hard to push Sasuke away but Sasuke was too strong. He lifted his foot to kick Sasuke. Unfortunately, Sasuke had seen it and held Naruto's leg in its place with his own, straddling him in the process. A smirk started to form on his handsome face. Their faces were almost touching, so close that Naruto could feel Sasuke's warm breath on his face. "Usuratonkachi."

Naruto was so angry. Never in his life before he was that angry. "At least I'm not a coward who raises his hands against girls!"

"I'm not a coward, Uzumaki." He paused before he added, "Dobe."

"WHY YOU-"

"What are you two doing here? I know about the teen's raging hormones but can't you two wait until no one's here?"

"Kakashi-sensei!" Naruto blushed at his statement. Sasuke stared at the blond boy before letting go of him reluctantly and stood up.

The masked man looked at the Uchiha, amused. The grin on Kakashi's face obvious even with the mask covering half of his face. "Don't you have class with Anko-sensei, Uchiha?"

"Hn." With that, he walked away. None of them notice the smirk on his face except Kakashi.

Then he turned to the students in the corridor. "Now, get into the classroom. All of you."

Naruto offered his hand to Ino, but the crying girl glared at him. "He hates me now because of YOU!" then she ran away with tears spilling down her face. He didn't understand them sometimes.

Lee patted his back. "Come on. She'll be alright."

"I don't understand them, Lee."

"Well, girls … they are hard to understand." Lee said, looking longingly at Sakura who was walking to her seat.

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Neji looked questioningly at Sasuke, so did Shikamaru, but neither said anything. They didn't have to. Sasuke could see it in their eyes. "I was pissed, okay? Stop looking at me like that!"

"But hitting a girl, Sasuke?"

"Neji, I didn't mean it. I pushed her away from me and she fell. I didn't hit her!"

"Same thing. She was crying. The whole school knows now. The almighty Uchiha Sasuke hit a girl." Shikamaru said.

"So? I don't care."

"What happened?"

"I thought you already know what happened." Sasuke glared at Neji who returned it in the same intensity.

"You said you were pissed. Why? What happened?"

Sasuke growled. "My father … he wants me to marry someone. His friend's daughter, he said."

"And that makes you mad?"

Sasuke answered Shikamaru with another glare. That's enough of an answer for them.

"And Naruto?"

"What about Naruto?"

"I heard he attacked you."

"Che! That dobe can't beat me. But he's interesting though. No one has tried to physically attack me before."

Shikamaru smiled. "Wrong. No one has tried to attack you physically and still live or sane enough to tell about it."

"I didn't kill them."

"Mentally, you did."

"I don't like weak people."

"Which makes that dobe really interesting, right? For you to react like that? After all, like you said, he has the courage to attack you."

"Courage or stupidity?" Neji asked in an amused tone.

"Shikamaru …"

"Yes?"

"I'm the only one who can call him dobe."

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Ino was angry, furious, because of the boy, Naruto. Sasuke-kun hated her because of him and he'd have to pay for that. Which was the reason why they gathered in the Sasuke's fansclub HQ in one of the spare rooms Konoha had.

"I- I- think it's not fair to blame it on Uzumaki-san, Ino-san." The heir of the Hyuuga clan said. Hyuuga Hinata never considered herself an Uchiha Sasuke fan, but she was in the fansclub. Why? Three words. Sakura and Ino.

"Why not!"

"He did no- nothing …"

"Sasuke-kun looked so angry this morning and who could make him angry except that stupid boy!"

Hinata wanted to point out that Sasuke ALWAYS looked angry but decided against it.

"And you did nothing to help me, Sakura!"

"Well, Ino-pig, in case you're forgotten, he's Sasuke-kun! What do you expect me to do!"

"Not to Sasuke-kun, big forehead! Naruto!"

"That can be arranged." Sakura gave Ino an evil smile.

Hinata didn't like the smile Sakura's giving Ino. Yes, she's worried about Naruto. Hinata found that she was attracted to him the minute she laid her eyes on him. His eyes, full of courage, his smile … especially since the incident that morning, when he attacked Sasuke. No one who did that before, managed to walk away from Sasuke's wrath. She still remembered a boy who stood up against Sasuke and got pranked so bad he went crazy. And if Naruto were to have the same thing …

Yes, Hyuuga Hinata never felt so worried before. She closed her eyes slowly and hoped that they wouldn't do the same thing to Naruto.

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Naruto put his books in his bag and hurriedly got out of the classroom. He should be home fifteen minutes ago and he was late because some 'people' decided that it'd be nice to frame him for throwing a water balloon at Kurenai-sensei. Thus, detention.

He almost reached the front gate when he ran into someone. Some seniors to be exact. Ino and Sakura could be seen behind them.

"What do you want?" Naruto took a step back. This didn't look good.

One of the second year sneered at him. "You should know how to talk to seniors."

"We'll teach you a lesson."

Naruto knew he couldn't fight them all, so he turned to run to find he was blocked by more boys. No way to escape them. Behind them, Ino and Sakura laughed as they saw one of the seniors grabbed Naruto's collar. It was easy to get help from those boys when they said it'd impress Sasuke. Uchiha was a very famous clan and to be in their good side had its own advantages.

Naruto closed his eyes, readying himself for the upcoming punch that was aimed at him … which never touched him. He opened his eyes slowly to see none other than the Uchiha Sasuke holding his attacker's hand from having contact with his face. He sent them his patented glare. "What do you think you're doing?" His voice dripped with anger.

Naruto stared shockingly at Sasuke, so as the others. But they're not stupid to defy him, except some girls, namely Ino and Sakura. Ino seemed to forget that Sasuke made her cry that morning and Sakura never thought about the possibility of that happening to her, so they whined. "But Sasuke-kun …"

"No one is allowed to touch this dobe!"

Naruto should've taken that chance to run away, but he was too shocked by the fact that the same Uchiha who wanted his life as miserable as possible before, helped him. Uchiha Sasuke helped him, Uzumaki Naruto. That's enough to make Naruto stunned. He's not alone though. Ino and Sakura were in the same state of shock. "Sasuke-kun …"

"No one touch him! He's mine!"

And that's the last thing Naruto heard before he fell into a complete darkness.

TBC