Chapter 7: Cookies

Sasuke's POV

That fucking idiot. I swear he is the stupidest thing to have walked this earth! How can someone confuse love? How could he have possibly thought he was in love with me, tell me so and then shoot all my hopes down (breaking my heart along with it) and tell me he was just mistaken!

I had gone into that room with the intentions of telling the dobe my feelings. I had wanted to tell him that I was going to call off the wedding…so I could be with him…

That fucking dumbass!

And Gaara! I swear he had something to do with this!

Wait, had to do with what?

Ugh, all I know is that every single little bad thing that happened in that office was his fault! Naruto pushing me away, us arguing, him punching me in the gut…

Naruto telling me he didn't love me…

Or at least he didn't love me the way I want him to love me…

Ha! I can't believe I'm obsessing over someone like him!

Someone so stupid, absent minded, ignorant, naïve, loudmouthed, trusting, hard headed…

Adorable, cheery, cute, kind, strong, has a brilliant (contagious) smile, never backs down from a challenge, never gives up, is always there for me…for everyone he cares about…

And that was what the problem was! He was always there for everyone he cares about. I only want him to be there for me! I only want him to care for me! To love me!

I sighed as I leaned more into my sofa, wanting to get Naruto out of my head. After our little conversation (and after Gaara kicked me out) I had headed straight to my house (more like apartment really).

No one could disturb me there with all the blinds shut, the windows and doors all locked. I just felt too pissed off to deal with anyone after that and quickly stormed to my home, my little sanctuary. Though on the way over, a woman had greeted me, telling me what a nice day it was (I guess she thought she was being polite). My anger had gotten the best of me and I had punched that woman in the face. Many saw what I did but I didn't really care at the moment. Besides, with me getting married and all no one would dare to report me to the Hokage.

Ah damn, there go my thoughts, back to the blonde idiot.

I sighed once again, this time getting up from the sofa to pace around my house. I did that a lot when I had something on my mind, something that I did not want there. I looked around me as I paced around, trying to get anything that'll get my mind off of him.

I had so far passed my bed, my bathroom, some clothes thrown here and there, a few scrolls, some weapons, my kitchen…

Hey, I was feeling a little hungry.

I grabbed a few pots and pans out of the cupboards, and began making steamed rice with a side of chicken. I really didn't feel like making anything special, just something that would cook quickly so I could eat something and find something else to occupy my thoughts.

But then again I could cook something that takes a really long time so all that time I could be concentrating on what I'm cooking and not have a single thought about Naru-

That guy.

So I decided to take out a few more pots and pans. In one particular pot I was making curry, another some soup, I even had some breakfast foods cooking.

There were cookies baking in the oven (even though I detested sweet things).

I stepped back and looked at my creation. All four burners had something cooking over them, the rice cooker was out, there was bread in the toaster, some leftover spaghetti being heated in the microwave, and those cookies in the oven.

I had like 6-8 timers on to remind me not to burn the food.

Now having nothing else to do but to wait, I grabbed a tomato from the fridge and began eating it as one would eat an apple (hey I really like tomatoes ok?).

I sat down cross legged in the middle of my living room and pulled the closest scroll to me, deciding I should reread them unless I missed or forgot something.

"Ok, so the first technique in this scroll is…" I stopped before heavily sighing and reading the next few words with great sadness, "Shadow replication…"

I plopped backwards, with the scroll in my lap, and just lay there, an arm over my eyes.

"Goddamnit Naruto…how do you always seem to be everywhere?"

I rolled over to my side and stared out into nothing, my thoughts drifting back to Naruto, back to the days when we were younger.

When we were a team…

My first memory was the first time we had trained together, just the two of us, when Kakashi and Sakura had gone home from a long days mission.

-Flashback-

We all stood in the Hokage's office (Me, Naruto, Sakura and Kakashi) as Kakashi gave our mission report to the Sandaime. It was another one of those meaningless missions where we had to pull out weeds and chase that damn cat that always seemed to be misplaced by its owner.

When the Sandaime quickly skimmed his eyes through it, he dismissed us with a wave of his hand congratulating us on another job well done.

Like something that meaningless even deserved praise.

We had left his office, and as always Kakashi would smile that way he does behind that damn mask of his and say "Well, see you guys tomorrow" and disappear in a puff of smoke. That just left me and my two teammates alone.

We walked out the Hokage tower as we normally would, Naruto complaining how easy the missions were and how a great ninja like him deserved something much more challenging, while Sakura latched at my arm, trying to ask me out on a date.

And as always, I would reject Sakura with a cold "No" and then tell Naruto to shut the hell up. We would then argue, Sakura would break it up by smacking Naruto at the side of his head, screaming "Naruto, don't you dare insult Sasuke-kun like that!" because of course these arguments always involved name calling of some sort.

Sakura then stomped away (because by now we had reached the fork in the road where we would all part) but not before yelling out a, "Goodbye Sasuke-kun! See ya tomorrow!" leaving me and Naruto alone.

And by now, Naruto was supposed to say something about meeting Iruka-sensei at the Ramen stand, running back to where we had just come from while I just shrugged and walked away.

Today that had not happened.

This time, me and Naruto watched Sakura walk away until she was out of view (something we never did before) and then slowly turned to look at each other. Now for a long time, I had intentions of training with Naruto, just me and him (at the time I had no idea why I wanted to do such a thing) and wanted to ask him of this today.

Of course with me and my big pride and all, I wouldn't dare ask.

He would make fun of me till the day we died (or so I thought at the time).

Fortunately for me, Naruto had been the one to ask me if I wanted to have a little spar, or in other words, train together.

But it was evident it wasn't easy for him to say it.

He had started by just looking at me with this half glare half troubling look. I guess at the time he was struggling with the fact if he should ask me or not.

"Hey, bastard, I was thinking…" there he went calling me names again…

"You know I was actually thinking about this for a while now…" He had now began scratching his cheek with one finger, looking at nothing in particular but he always made sure to avoid eye contact with me.

"Well, it's just…nah forget it. You'll probably say no" He began to turn away but I snatched out and grabbed his wrist.

"What?" I wasn't much of a talker back then. (Well I'm still like that)

Naruto had just stood there, with his back faced to me, my hand still wrapped tightly around his wrist. I heard him slowly breathe in before he turned back to me, his head down.

"Look…I was just wondering…"

I looked down at him waiting for it…

"You know…if you wanted to…"

Ok…keep going….

"And yeah, so…."

Goddamnit say it already.

And then the idiot mumbled a few words, causing me not to be able to hear the stupid ass. There was silence followed afterwards and after a few seconds he pulled his wrist out of my grip and yelled "Fine! If you didn't want to train with me, you could've at least said something!"

He quickly turned on his heel and was stomping away as I processed what was just said…

That took approximately .05 second (I am a genius you know).

I then ran (more like power walked) to catch up to him and smack him upside the head.

"Idiot, I'll train with you."

He looked at me, rubbing the back of his head before glaring at me and screaming "Then why didn't you say that when I asked you!"

I just sighed, rolling my eyes saying "You mumbled, Dobe. I couldn't hear you"

Naruto had stopped glaring and blinked at me, his cheeks heating up with a blush (and I wouldn't admit it at the time, but it was adorable)

He then clenched his fists, one knee bent in front of him, and he waved his right fist at me.

"Ahh! This is all your fault! Do you want to train or not!"

I remember I had lost my temper, and I yelled back "You fucking dumbass! Didn't you hear what I just said a few seconds ago? Yes I will train with you!"

I'd been wanting to for a while now…

Well I would've told him that if I wasn't me…cuz Uchiha Sasuke will never admit that kind of thing.

He straightened his posture and looked at me confused for a second before breaking out into a grin. He then folded his arms behind his head and asked "Ok, well where do you wanna train Sasuke?"

Wow he actually called me by my name.

I looked at him, my hands in my pockets, and tried my best to look uninterested.

"Wherever"

"What about that one clearing, you know where we see Neji and the others train"

I looked to the side and muttered a "Whatever".

And with that we were off.

When we had arrived at the clearing (which later on we began calling "training grounds") we at first didn't know where to start. We just kind of stood there and looked at each other. Usually, Kakashi would be there and tell us the rules of the fight then tell us when to begin. But now, there seemed to be no rules and no one to tell us when to start.

Well, I guess we would do that all ourselves now. (Now that I look back on that it does seem I bit stupid).

Naruto seemed just as lost as I was so he began stretching for some odd reason.

I shrugged and did the same.

That ended quickly though.

So we kind of stood there again.

After and hour or so (how we stood there doing nothing for that long is beyond me) Naruto seemed to be getting bored. So he looked at his surroundings, turned to me and said "race you up that tree"

No words were exchanged between us after that as we both launched at the tree and climbed as fast as we could, all the while trying to push the other off (this training had been before Kakashi showed us how to use our chakra to run up the tree).

I had successfully pushed Naruto off but he grabbed the back of my shirt and pulled me down with him. Then after the hard landing on the forest floor, we began rolling around which lead to wrestling. Seriously, looking back, all of that was really stupid.

Wrestling lead to actual sparing and before we knew it, the sun had set and the stars started to twinkle in the night sky. I couldn't remember there being a moon that night.

By that time we were both lying beside each other, breathing hard and trying to catch our breath. I heard Naruto chuckling beside me and he rolled over to look at me, his eyes amused.

"You know the funny thing is," he pointed to my weapons pouch, "we could've used those but didn't."

I made a small smile and said "Well, I guess we got used to Kakashis way of doing it. No weapons, only your brute strength and skill."

"Wow Sasuke, that's the most I've heard you speak all day! It's kind of like an overdose on your voice." He began chuckling again and I rolled over and kicked him, but lightly. He began laughing harder and I couldn't help but laugh a little too. Naruto then screamed out another "wow!" and preceded that with "You're actually laughing! That's freaking unbelievable!"

I kicked him again but harder this time causing him to yelp.

"God, Sasuke you're such a bastard." He then began to look a little sleepy and yawned.

"Hey, don't fall asleep stupid; we still need to walk home."

Naruto just put his hands under his head as if using them as a pillow and closed his eyes, muttering "I don't wanna."

I gave a soft groan and kicked him again, trying to wake him up but he just kind of swatted at me and soon I heard soft snoring coming from the boy.

You know, I could've just left the idiot there asleep and let some strange animal eat him but I felt nice that day. So I just whispered a small "Goddammit" and got a little closer to him, but no so close that any part of us were touching and fell asleep right beside him.

And the next morning, I found myself in my bed but still wearing the clothes from last night and a note on my bedside table.

I unfolded the note only to have a picture fall out that made my face heat up.

I knew I should never leave you two alone! I had a feeling you would end up doing something naughty! Blackmail material!

-Love Kakashi

The picture had me with my arms around Naruto, his face buried in my neck, our legs a mess of limbs.

I swore I would someday kill Kakashi.

Damn I just hope Naruto didn't get a letter like this!

-End Flashback-

"I never did find out if he Naruto new about the pictures…and Kakashi made copies too…" I rolled over and headed for the kitchen as I heard about every single one of the timers ring/beep/do other noises to alert someone the time. I turned everything off and took the cookies out of the oven. Well, now there was nothing I could do.

Right then I heard a knock on my door and was relived for the distraction. (What would it have mattered anyways? It seemed I would never get Naruto out of my mind)

I opened the door and was surprised to see my soon to be bride standing there. She seemed a little out of breathe as if she was running around the whole town.

"Sakura, what are you doing here?"

She looked up at me a walked past me to site on the couch.

"Sasuke-kun, I was looking every where for you"

I closed the door behind me and sat next to her, "Everywhere? Why didn't you search for me here?"

Sakura blushed a little, and looked down.

"I was just in so much of a hurry to find you I hadn't thought of that."

Well that was stupid. That would be something Naruto would do.

See! He doesn't leave me alone!

"So what made you want to look for me in the first place?" Now I was curious.

"Well, I just want to discuss to you the wedding plans" She paused for a second, "Are you cooking something?" she sniffed the air, "Do I smell cookies?"

"Uh, that doesn't matter at the moment. Just tell me about the plans." Really I just wanted to get this over with.

"Well, if you hadn't noticed, we will have pink and white roses decorating the whole village…well actually its already decorated with them" I nodded as if interested, "The whole village is invited to the wedding, we will be wed on the balcony of the hokage tower where everyone can see us! Oh and many others from several other villages are invited too" again, nod, "Well, the guest of honors will be seated up there on the balcony with us, and I have my people chosen already; my parents, Ino and of course shikamaru will be there with us, they are together, and also Lee-san"

I raised an eyebrow at her. Lee? As in Rock Lee?

She must have noticed my look because she said "he's been very kind to me over the years, so I think he deserves to be a guest of honor."

I rolled my eyes. I think she would be torturing the poor man by letting him watch his one true love being married off to another up close.

She ignored me rolling my eyes and had asked "Well, who do u want to be your guests of honor Sasuke-kun?"

Well, really, when I thought about it, I didn't really care. The wedding, to say the truth, wasn't that much of a big deal for me. All I really want is the revival of my clan and I need to get married in order to do that. I care about Sakura, really, but in the end of it all, I'm just using her.

Wow, that kind of makes me feel bad but not really.

So to satisfy her and make her leave as soon as possible (I would have enjoyed her company if I wasn't pissed at the moment) so I may brood.

"Well, Kakashi…" damn I actually have to think about this, "And well I don't know. Naruto too I guess."

Sakura eyes widened for a second before she clapped her hands together saying "Oh yes! I forgot to mention that Naruto is going to be there with us already!"

"Because he's the Hokage right?"

"Yeah and well he's the one who's going to be marrying us Sasuke! A priest would be out of the question since we really don't have a certain religion and-are you alright Sasuke?"

Well my heart just stopped. This is just fucking wonderful. The man I'm in love with is going to ask me if I want to marry a woman I have no romantic feeling towards whatsoever.

I got up from the couch and slowly dragged my feet to the kitchen.

I'm going to go eat me a cookie and get so enormously fat they wouldn't be able to drag me out of my apartment to the wedding.

That could so work.

Yay new chapter! I'm so sorry it took so long! I had writers block! I couldnt think of anything to write! but at least i got a chapter in and didnt abandon this fic entirely (which im planning on never doing). i hope you like this chapter. Focuses more on sasuke cuz he needs attention, that whore. and theres a random flashback thrown in there cuz i felt like it and needed someway to make the chapter longer! so please enjoy and review (if not then how will i know if you enjoyed reading this?) and I'll try to update faster this time!