I, piie-chan, (Becky that is), do not own Naruto! Although, it is rather awesome and I would LIKE to own it! But yes, I do apologize to those of you who I seem to have disappointed when notifying you lol note to self, don't do THAT again! But yes I have been stupidly busy recently and this is quite a lil ol chapter!

Sasuke and Sakura were in deep discussion while Naruto lay blissfully unaware of what his friends had planned for him.

"Right," they turned around and sat down either side of the sleeping blonde "Naruto, can you hear us?" Sasuke smiled again, deviously.

Naruto nodded slowly, his face was peaceful and his chest was rising and falling methodically. He's kinda cute... for a pain in the ass! Sasuke thought.

"When ever you hear the word sleep you will instantly fall back into a deep sleep, when you hear the words wake up sleepy head you will regain consciousness with no recollection of being hypnotised." After much debating, Sakura and Sasuke had decided to give Naruto three commands, one each and then a joint effort.

"No...recollection..." Naruto mumbled sleepily.

"Good. Now, when ever Lee pulls his 'nice-guy pose', you have to punch him in the face." Sakura sniggered, she felt slightly guilty but Lee had been really getting on her nerves recently.

Naruto nodded again, rather robotically.

Next was Sasuke's turn, he bent down and whispered something into his ear, that Sakura couldn't quite hear. Naruto nodded again and Sakura gave the Uchiha a suspicious look.

"It's a surprise," he winked "Anyway, it'll be more entertaining this way."

She shrugged, but was rather surprised to see Sasuke wink.

The last one, Sakura and Sasuke exchanged mischievous smiles. Although it was rather cruel, they had always taken great amusement from watching Hinata stutter, go red and, on more than one occasion, faint from encountering Naruto. Anyone who wasn't blind could see that she liked him, but didn't have the heart to tell poor oblivious Naruto.

"Naruto, when ever you see Hinata you will shout at the top of your voice that you love her and then run away frantically, giggling like a school girl." It was utterly stupid but hey, it's hilarious!

"Right, now we've had our fun, we need to find out what's wrong with him." She said, the look of concern returning to her face.

Sasuke nodded and looked at his sleeping friend, he hoped that it wasn't anything serious, and now was the time to find out.

"Naruto," he whispered kindly and softly, as if he was speaking to a child "we need to know why you've been having trouble sleeping lately. Is there anything wrong?"

Naruto frowned slightly, "I...I've lost him" He sounded a lot less monotone this time.

"Lost who?" Sakura enquired, making her voice as gentle as possible.

"I've lost yela-kun!" Naruto sounded like an infant on the verge of breaking down into tears.

"Who's yela-kun?" Sasuke glanced at Sakura who was just as puzzled as him.

"Father gave him to me, it's all I have to remember him by." Naruto trembled slightly, and Sasuke was shocked to see tears forming beneath his closed lids.

"What does yela-kun look like? Maybe we can help you find him!" Sakura smiled weakly, she had never seen him like this before, so... vulnerable.

"He's a small yellow lion. I lost him last week when I was cleaning my room. I can't sleep at night without him!" He said, his voice cracking.

"Okay," Sakura whispered to Sasuke, "you stay here with Naruto and I'll see if I can find yela-kun, if we leave him on his own he might wake up and we'll probably have to hypnotize him all over again." She then turned back to the blonde "It's alright Naruto, I'll go and find yela-kun, while Sasuke-kun will stay here and keep you company. Now you need to go back to sleep, but don't worry you're not on your own and I'll be back as soon as I can." Sakura stood up "Look after him, Sasuke" she whispered, she wiped her eyes with the back of her hand, then left the two boys alone.

Sasuke lay down beside Naruto and stared up at the ceiling, he felt bad for him, never knowing the love of a family. Sasuke may have lost his, but at least he still had memories.

Sasuke suddenly blushed, he turned his head to see Naruto had rolled over, and in doing so, had wrapped his arm around Sasuke waist. He felt warm and relaxed.

Sasuke's eyes slowly began to close, and soon he too, was fast asleep.

X#3 CUTE!... yes :P lol I think that Sasuke might be softening heehee

I once had a cuddly toy that I couldn't sleep at night with too but I lost it at the age of about five or six :( I just imagined Naruto's dad giving him a cute yellow lion, don't ask! lol

The next chapter will be up soon, not tomorrow but maybe the next day!

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