Author's Note: Well, here's chapter two (: I'm SO glad that I got my very first review after the first ten minutes of updating! Your reviews filled my satisfaction, but now that chapter two is up, I'm hungry again! I know, I'm such a fatty right? I've never read a SasuNaru fanfiction before, so I guess it's a good thing because some of you guys said that it's hard to find a good one, but I've never read any… So here you go! Bonappetit!

Agon

Chapter Two—Practice

It was close to nearly around midnight when Sasuke was forced out of Sakura's office due to hospital regulations, and because the medic complained that he was being a distraction in her studies. He shuffled his feet on the dirt ground for a bit before deciding to head back home. Their talk was long, but was useful. There was one thing that Sakura did say that caught his attention. He remembered her words perfectly: "Whenever there's something Naruto-kun wants, or likes however, his ears start to turn pink a little. It's something I noticed after him taking us out to ramen several times. He's supposed to be back from his solo mission sometime this week, so knowing him, he'll drag the entire team for ramen." Had Naruto's ears turned pink when they kissed back when they were genin?

"Sasuke-san?" an all too familiar voice called his name. The Uchiha looked up to see that it was his sensei, Kakashi. "What are you doing up so late at night? Not trying to leave the village now are we?" Kakashi had on his usual one eyed grin, but he also showed concern, wondering if Sasuke was actually leaving the village.

"Just taking a midnight stroll," Sasuke answered, seeing that Kakashi's shoulders visibly relaxed at the response, "Catching up with Sakura in her office a bit and was about to head back home. What are you doing still walking around?" He noticed that his sensei wasn't reading that infamous book.

The silver haired jounin looked nervous for a second, scratching the back of his head before letting his hand fall to the side, "To tell you the truth Sasuke, I've got sleeping problems. I guess you could also call me an insomniac."

It wasn't until then that Sasuke noticed dark bags underneath Kakashi's visible eye. He tilted his head to the side a bit before answering, "You should see Sakura about that. She's always takes the night shift and should still be in her office. I should be heading home soon…" He was starting to look forward to slip underneath the thick covers of his bed.

Kakashi nodded quickly, "Yes, yes, I suppose it'd be a good idea. Well then Sasuke, see yo—"

"Is it true?" Sasuke quickly interrupted Kakashi, "That Naruto's ears turn pink around something he likes or wants?"

The teacher raised an eyebrow at this odd question, "I haven't noticed, gomen Sasuke. You should head back home and get some rest. I'm sure your family is worried."

The young shinobi hesitantly nodded, "Right… Oyasumi," he began walking off into the opposite direction, leaving his teacher slightly confused.

He quickly made his way back home, sneaking through the back to see that his parents had fallen asleep already, and prayed that Itachi fell asleep as well, or that he was off the compound. The last thing he wanted now was to be interrogated. He entered his room, glad to see that everyone had fallen asleep and quietly sighed in relief to himself. He didn't bother changing into more comfortable clothes, just slipping out of his shoes, taking off his hitai-ate and placing them right next to his bedside before slipping under the warm covers of his bed.

Right as soon as he was about to drift off into a deep slumber, he felt his door sliding open to feel Itachi's presence in his room. Sasuke pretended to be asleep, hoping that his brother would take pity on him and just leave him alone, but sadly karma wasn't on his side at that time. "If you're going to pretend to be asleep, then try a little harder. Relax your shoulders for instance and even out your erratic breathing." Itachi lectured before taking a seat by the edge of Sasuke's futon mattress.

Sasuke sucked in breath and exhaled as he turned around to face his brother, "Fine. What do you want?" From Itachi's wet hair and towel draped around his neck, it looked like he just got out of the shower.

"Don't think that you can just easily get away with what happened during dinner otouto. What's been troubling you?" He could tell Itachi was beginning to put on that big brother face he hated so much. He hated it because whenever it was up, he felt like he could tell him anything.

There was no use lying to his older brother, but it also didn't mean that he was going to be telling him his darkest secret, and he was still unsure about it as well. "Well," he muttered quietly, looking down at the blankets. "Is it… Does…?" He had a hard time phrasing what he wanted to say, but Itachi was a patient man. "Are there any… abnormal shinobi in Konoha?" He had hoped that Itachi understood what he meant by 'abnormal'.

Itachi gave a thoughtful look and nodded, raising Sasuke's hopes just a little. "Of course, you're entire team is pretty abnormal. Hatake Kakashi wields the Sharingan, even though he's not an Uchiha. Uzumaki Na—"

Sasuke narrowed his onyx eyes and shook his head, "That's not what I meant. Look, forget it. I'm tired, and you've got a mission tomorrow morning."

The older brother grew concerned, but knew how stubborn his brother his and just nodded, getting up and began leaving the room, "If there's anything, anything you want to talk to be about, then just tell me otouto. Oyasumi."

"Hn," Sasuke grumbled underneath the covers, turning around so his back faced the sliding door where Itachi exited. He was secretly hoping that Itachi knew what he meant. He wanted to know if there were any other gay shinobi out there. Were there lesbian kunoichis in Konoha? He had thought about Tenten as a lesbian, but quickly shook his head. He had remembered her obvious crush on the Hyuuga prodigy when Team Gai had trained with Team Seven before. She kept blushing each time Neji kept glancing at her. It was almost like staring at a genin Sakura again, only, Tenten knew better than to dedicate herself to be a fan girl.

He then began to wonder when exactly Naruto would come back, because he wanted to test Sakura's observation, to see if Naruto's ears turned pink or not. He sighed, wanting to see the idiot fox's cerulean blue eyes again, to see the vibrant orange again on his ridiculous uniform. The Uchiha growled silently to himself, hating this warm blossoming feeling he begins to feel whenever the image or the thought of the Uzumaki appears. It felt like the sun was being engulfed by a smooth china silk in the center of his chest and spilled its warmth throughout his entire body. Maybe this was love. Or, he began to doubt himself again, this was just confusion. Sasuke shook his head and buried his head in the soft pillow, quickly drifting to a light slumber, but not before catching that small scent of top ramen, a light smile on his face.

As much as Sasuke would have loved to sleep in since it was the weekend, and it was allowed in the Uchiha household, he was woken up with a loud rapping at the door to his room. He grumbled, acting childish and hid under the covers, almost tempted to tell whoever the person was to go away, but decided against it, since it would be very un-Uchiha like.

"Sasuke, the Hokage has summoned you to her office. It's about a mission. Come back for breakfast later after the meeting." A deep serious voice was heard from behind the sliding door. Sasuke recognized this as his father and was thankful he didn't tell him to go away.

"Yes chichi," he yawned, addressing his father respectively before pushing himself up from the covers to quickly get ready and to appear decently.

Soon enough, he was out the door with a good morning to his mother, father and older brother down in the kitchen, not before grabbing one of Itachi's onigiris much to the weasel's displeasure. Quickly finishing up the rice ball, he made his way towards the tower, passed the many guards who recognized him and gave him a good morning. Finally making it into the office, he saw familiar pink and silver hair of his teammates. Raising a thin dark eyebrow, he asked, "A mission?"

Sakura turned to face the young Uchiha and grinned, "Ohayo Sasuke-kun."

Kakashi turned at the same time and gave him that single one-eyed crinkle whenever he smiled, giving him a quick wave, "It's a team mission."

Sasuke furrowed his eyebrows in contemplation, "But how can this be a team mission if Naru—"

At that exact time, he heard an all too familiar voice, the door to the Hokage's office slammed opened wide. A loud obnoxious yell could be heard, "Yo!"

At that very same moment, dark onyx orbs met with cerulean blue eyes.

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