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Chapter 4: U Got It Bad

Naruto sat at Sasuke's table eating Sasuke's food, when said raven came into his kitchen.

"Hey dobe," Sasuke said as he grabbed one of the pieces of toast on the blonde's plate.

"Hey teme that's my food!"

"I bought it."

The blonde just rolled his eyes and said, "Are you sure you should go on a date with a guy you barely know?"

"Where did that come from?"

Naruto had a small blush spread across his face, "Well…I was just thinking about it…and it's just that you barely know him...and I was just wondering how well you know this guy?"

"Naruto it's not like I'm going to start dating him right away, it's just a date."

"Are you going to suck his face off again?" Naruto asked bitterly under his breath as he walked out of the Uchiha's house.

Sasuke watched as the blonde left, at this point he was very confused. It was true that Naruto was always skeptical about his boy friends, just usually he didn't walk out like that.

'If he knew why I always dated these guys, he'd probably wouldn't be my friend anymore…he can't know that I like him…we're too good of friends…I can't screw that up.

Sasuke felt a headache coming, he walked his stairs, and he was in dire need of a relaxing bath.

Meanwhile

Naruto went to the store. He knew he needed to pick some things up before he went home.

'Ramen! Yes I need ramen, lots of ramen.'

The blonde was looking at the rows of ramen when he heard, "Naruto?"

Said blonde turned around to see a man with long brown hair and white eyes staring at him.

"Neji? Hey man it's been forever."

Neji's eyes looked the other man up and down, "You look great."

"You do too!" Naruto said, not realizing he was being checked out.

"How have you been?"

"I've been okay, you?" Naruto said putting on a semi-fake smile as his mind trailed off to Sasuke. 'I have to try to forget liking Sasuke…or I have to make him jealous.'

Naruto grinned as he looked at Neji, "So, any chance you'd want to go out this Friday for lunch?"

"Are you asking me on a date Uzumaki?" Neji asked in a teasing tone.

"Are you saying yes?" Naruto asked just as teasingly.

"Cool, I'll call you later with the details. Do you still have the same number?"

"Yeah, I'll talk to you later," Neji said walking away.

Naruto smiled, 'Oh yeah, I'm going to make him see what he is missing.'

The blonde whipped out his cell phone and dialed Sasuke's number. After a few rings he heard the sexy voice he loved so much.

"Hey dobe, what's up?"

"Hey teme, so you know how Friday you're going on a date?"

"Yeah, why?"

"Well, I have a date too; I was thinking maybe we could double."

Sasuke felt a piece of his heart break, "Yeah."

Naruto heard the obviously hurt tone, "Are you okay?"

"Oh, yeah I'm fine; I'll talk to you later."

The phone went dead before Naruto could say anything else, 'That was weird.'

FRIDAY

It was Friday morning, and Sasuke and Naruto hadn't talked, nor seen each other since the phone call. Naruto didn't like this and was about to change it, he rang the door way and waited patiently for the raven to answer.

The raven wasn't having a good morning, he had, had a we dream about the dobe, then tripped as he was waking up the stairs, causing hot coffee to spill on him, all together it was not a good morning. That's when the door bell rang.

The raven answered the door and saw the blonde he loved at his front door.

"What dobe?"

"We've hardly talked," Naruto said as he stared at the raven, who was only wearing a pair of jeans.

"I've been busy," Sasuke said as he leaned against the door frame.

"Too busy for you best friend?" Naruto questioned a little hurt.

"I didn't mean it like that," Sasuke said as he saw Naruto's eyes sadden.

"Then how did you mean it?"

"Look I've just had a bad morning, come on in," Sasuke said moving to the side so the blonde could enter.

Sasuke shut the door after Naruto had entered, "So what's up?"

"Listen you've been avoiding me, so really I should be asking you what's up."

"I haven't been avoiding you," Sasuke said as he looked away.

"Yes you have, you won't even look at me!"

Sasuke looked at the blonde, he felt his heart ache, "I told you, I've been busy, I've hardly had time to think."

Naruto knew that he was lying, he knew there was something else, but he let it slide, "Well maybe you need to work less teme."

Sasuke just chuckled, yeah maybe," he knew that Naruto could tell he was lying, he knew that Naruto was letting it slide, but he didn't know why.

They ended up hanging out, it was sort of awkward, but they wouldn't let it get to them, though they both found themselves dreading the date that was that night.

Naruto and Sasuke sat at the restaurant, waiting for Neji and Gaara to arrive. Sasuke kept glancing over at Naruto; he felt he should be with the blonde, not the red head that would soon be there.

The blonde could see the sadness in Sasuke's eyes, 'Why is he sad? He's going to be on a date soon…I wish that date was me…Gaara probably won't even notice that he's sad. I really shouldn't think of wanting to be with him right now, but I can't help it…he's all I ever wanted…damn now I sound like some kind of Lifetime movie.'

"Sa…" Naruto started to say, only to get cut of by a certain red head coming over to the table.

"Hey Gaara," Sasuke said, though he gave a small smile, Naruto could tell in his eyes that he wasn't really happy.

"Hello Sasuke, Naruto," Naruto could also tell that there wasn't much liking on Gaara's part either. 'Then why are they trying to get together? I guess I can't really say much on that though…I'm doing the same thing.'

The brunette with long hair, walked over, causing Gaara's eyes to widen and Naruto to say, "Hey Neji!"

There was a rage of jealousy swirled within both Gaara and Sasuke, though toward different people.

"Neji?" Gaara said, if he had eyebrows, they would have been raised.

"Gaara?" Neji asked as his heart skipped a beat, or so it felt.

"You two know each other?" Naruto asked as he thought about it.

"We used to date," Gaara said as he looked down.

"Oh, well this is awkward," Naruto said as he scratched the back of his neck and let out a nervous laugh.

Sasuke kicked Naruto under the table and whispered, "Shut up dobe." The blonde just nodded dumbly.

Neji glared "daggers" at Sasuke, "Sasuke, can I talk to you?"

"Uh, yeah sure," the raven said, slightly confused as he got up and followed the brunette.

Neji made sure that they were out of sight before he pushed Sasuke harshly against a nearby wall, "You listen to me, STAY AWAY FROM GAARA."

Well if there was one thing Sasuke hated most, it was being told what to do, so he pushed the brunette of and turned them around so that it was Neji being pinned to the wall, "I will when you stay away from Naruto." Sasuke practically snapped at the brunette as he sent him a classic Uchiha glare.

Sasuke recomposed himself as he let Neji, who was just smirking, down. "What are you smirking about?"

"Who would have though that the Uchiha would fall for his best friend?" Neji chuckled.

"Shut up," Sasuke growled out.

"We can finish this date, but after that you stay away from Gaara and I'll stay away form Naruto, deal?" Neji asked as he held out his hand for Sasuke to shake.

Sasuke took the other's hand, "Deal."

Meanwhile, Naruto and Gaara sat at the table; Gaara spoke first, in an almost deadly tone, "Stay away from him."

"Sasuke?" Naruto asked confused.

"Neji."

"Why? I thought you broke up."

"Don't play dumb, I see how you look at the Uchiha. You don't want Neji, so stay away from him and go for Sasuke."

"But I thought you were going for Sasuke."

"To make Neji jealous, that's why I was going for a boy friend. Kind of like the Uchiha goes for other guys so that he doesn't make his move on you."

"What?"

"He won't make a move because he's afraid it'll mess up your relationship."

"How would you know?"

"I can tell by the way he looks at you."

Naruto bit his bottom lip as Gaara continued, "Just stay away from Neji."

"Then you stay away from Sasuke."

The red head nodded as he saw the other two boys coming back to the table.

The rest of dinner was filled with awkward tension as none of them were with the one they should be with. If they knew how the other felt, or if they were at least certain, they could just stop the date and say 'I want to be with him not you!' But no one could really do that, no one would at least. Instead it was just awkward silence and conversation whenever Naruto thought of something to say.

That night, when the date was over, when all was said and done, Naruto decided to confront Sasuke. He went to the raven's house, since Sasuke didn't invite the red head back, and the brunette didn't invite him – not that he would have gone if he did.

They were sitting on his couch watching a stupid movie, that neither of them was really interested in watching.

"Hey Sasuke?" Naruto said as he looked to his best friend.

"Hm?" the raven said as his eyes met with bright blue, even in just the light of the TV he could see the eyes shine, though they looked nervous.

"Well…why didn't you invite Gaara back? Usually you invite the guys you date back," Naruto asked as he bit his lip.

Sasuke bit his bottom lip, 'I have to tell him.'

"Look Naruto…I don't want this to ruin our friendship…but I have something to tell you."

Naruto could feel his heart skip a beat, 'Is he going to say it?' All he could do was nod, as he was at a loss of words.

"Promise me, no matter what?"

"I promise," Naruto said as he felt the excitement build up.

"The thing is," Sasuke sighed as he felt his nervousness increase by the second. "I love you and not in the way a best friend should," Sasuke closed his eyes, waiting for the rejection.

TBC…

So obviously not much longer till the end… sorry this took me so long…I as having a hard time writing it but here it is…so tell me what you think :D

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