j//Jealousy
Bitterly hardened eyes wandered over to where the blond boy was still speaking eagerly to his friend, back turned to him. They had been on their way to get ramen, even though Sasuke was growing tired of it, when a friend of Naruto's had just finished and offered them some as well. The unfortunate part was that this meant all of Naruto's attention was on that friend and not him. In other words, he was only wasting his time there. Yet he couldn't bring himself to up and leave, so he just stayed there and stared.
"He's looking over here right now." He tried not to make it obvious he had noticed, but he had definitely noticed.
"I know," Naruto said, shifting a bit, "But that's the thing. He doesn't pay a lot of attention to me unless I'm with someone else." The other boy nodded at this point. "Do you think trying to make him jealous or something would work?" Naruto was growing a bit mad from it all. He'd tried being straight forward with Sasuke, but maybe the black haired boy was too embarrassed to say anything about it. Regardless, Naruto needed a plan.
The other boy wasn't completely sure about the idea, but he figured it was worth a try. He adjusted them so that Sasuke could see their faces. "Now we'll kiss," he said under his breath, leaning in as Naruto did the same.
Naruto blushed when they parted, feeling too bad for doing that in front of Sasuke. He would have to apologize. But when he turned around to see Sasuke's reaction, he wasn't there. His eyes widened, dread pouring into them. Maybe he shouldn't have done that.
He left without much explanation, but his friend had understood. The plan had worked in one way: proving Sasuke's feelings. It wasn't quite right, though, if Sasuke was never going to talk to him again. He had been searching in the woods for around twenty minutes when he saw a figure huddled into itself with familiar hair. Oddly enough, he didn't seem to have noticed Naruto being there until the blond took him into his embrace. "Sasuke, I'm sorry."
Sasuke tensed up immensely.
To be continued...