Alright, the next chapter is dedicated to:Aishiteru-Keiko for a lovely, honest review. It took my a few extra days because I was going back to fix a few things. I will be sure to check future chapters as well before I post them. Also, I have enabled anonymous reviews. Don't know what overall reaction will be, but I'll see how I like it.
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When they got to the field Neji and Sasuke were surprised to see how many people had followed to watch. Almost everyone from the reunion was there. Without a word Gaara moved to stand in front of one of the goals. Neji and Sasuke both removed their ties and coats in order to regain some freedom of movement.
Sasuke watched as Choji, a rather chubby man prepared to play goalie. His ability in goal, in Sasuke's opinion was limited to the fact that he was so fat he covered half the goal already.
"Let's try not to lose," said Neji as he joined Sasuke in his analysis. "It would be mortifying to lose to the very mongrel I refuse to acknowledge as family."
"Hn," Sasuke didn't really care about Neji's personal problems; however, his pride refused to let him lose to anyone. "Just be ready to sprint."
Sasuke took his place in the middle of the field where one of them would kick off as he mentally prepared himself to run. The three on three game involved tons of running because both field players had to be able to sprint the whole field continuously and support each other.
Sasuke was surprised when Naruto took the place in front of him. Inuzuka had always played that position! Even more surprising was that Kiba was set up as support. Sasuke had always known Kiba as the attention seeker; the one who always wanted to score. Whenever their school team as a whole played games he refused to be on the defending side of the field. Now, here he was, giving away his favorite position to the supposed 'Uzumaki Naruto'. Sasuke still refused to acknowledge that they were in fact one person. Uzumaki had not been this… hot. Of course, you could never see past his bangs before, but still.
Shikamaru made his way to the center of the field with a ball. Being the only person with an unbiased opinion, he was to be referee.
"Alright, we're all grown up now. No fouling," yawned Shikamaru, "and… begin."
He dropped the ball unceremoniously onto the field before stepping out of the way.
Sasuke reached the ball first before easily popping it over Naruto's head. Too easy.
As he approached Inuzuka he prepared to make a move and shoot; however, to his confusion, Inuzuka remained stalk still and smirking. Sasuke went to arch around him when suddenly his feet were swept out from under him. Sasuke hit the ground hard. He sat up as quickly as possible to see what happened and was surprised to see Inuzuka now had the ball and Naruto was standing up from what must have been a slide tackle.
Naruto, after standing up turned to look back at the Uchiha and smirk.
Sasuke frowned, this was definitely a new side of the Uzumaki he had known. He was beginning to think he should ask the man for ID.
"Come on Uchiha, you wouldn't want to lose to me, would you?" taunted Naruto.
Sasuke grit his teeth and was about to retort when he remembered neither of them had the ball. A glance down the field showed Neji trying to defend against Kiba. He was holding his own when a flash of gold streaked in from the side giving Kiba someone to pass to. Without even waiting to trap the ball Naruto shot. The ball arched beautifully until it scored in the top left corner. Gaara couldn't have reached it since he was too short.
Sasuke watched in amazement as Gaara retrieved the ball from the back of the net.
"Uchiha!" growled Neji, "Mark Uzumaki!"
With that Sasuke got back into the game. It appeared fairly even until Naruto started switching positions. Kiba played somewhat steadily up and down the field while Naruto ran circles around him as support. Sasuke having marked Naruto had to chase him. His stamina ran out after twenty minutes of constant running.
Shikamaru called the game after both Sasuke and Neji collapsed. Score: 2-1.
"Hell ya!" shouted Kiba as he roughly picked Naruto up and spun him around. "Finally, someone won!"
Naruto laughed at his friend's antics, but he couldn't help but feel somewhat bad about running Sasuke into the ground. He had been taught that revenge served no purpose and that he was better than that. As soon as Kiba put him down and ran off to kiss Hinata excitedly, Naruto made his way slowly over to Sasuke. He lay on the ground panting with his hair plastered to his face and neck. The bastard looked... dare he say... hot. Not that he looked all that different from senior year, but back then Naruto hadn't been looking. Sasuke's hair was spiked up like it used to be; however, his cold black eyes had changed... they were now a deep and fiery onyx; almost wild.
Upon reaching the spot where Sasuke was lying Naruto held out his hand as a friendly gesture.
Sasuke seeing it merely raised his eyebrow in question.
Naruto rolled his eyes, "Come on, no hard feelings. Let bygones be bygones."
Sasuke seeing he was serious, reached for the hand; however, at the last second he thought of something and smirked. As soon as Naruto helped pull him up he yanked Naruto toward him before firmly securing him against his chest.
"What are you doing?" asked Naruto through grit teeth. Even he had limits and Sasuke was pushing them.
"We're forgetting the past right? So you shouldn't have any problems with me trying to be friendly... right?" purred Sasuke as he rubbed circles through Naruto's Shirt.
Naruto clenched his fists and breathed deeply in a failed attempt at calming himself.
"Okay, one, I never said I'd forget the past; just not hold you to it currently. And second..." he breathed deeply once more, before exploding, "THERE'S A BIG DIFFERENCE BETWEEN BEING FRIENDLY AND BEING A PERVERTED, LUST DRIVEN BASTARD! TEME!"
Once again, to Sasuke's surprise, Naruto used the complicated situation to his advantage. Bringing his arms up to grasp Sasuke's shoulders he flipped himself -and the bastard- forward so that Sasuke landed on his back with Naruto's weight pressing down on him. Suffice to say, it knocked the wind out of him. He automatically loosened his grip on Naruto, giving him time to stand up.
Naruto spared Sasuke a glance before straightening his shirt. "See ya round teme." Naruto gave him a slight wave over his shoulder before walking off in the general direction of Kiba and the others.
Sasuke took a moment to catch his breath before sitting up. Thankfully everyone had gone inside and hadn't seen him defeated again. Standing up and watching the blond depart he couldn't help the feeling of desire wash over him. Uzumaki was very different from what he remembered... and he liked it. He would definitely ask Shikamaru for the blonde's number. Realizing that Neji had disappeared and was probably with Sabaku, Sasuke headed straight for his car. He hadn't wanted to come to this hell hole again anyway. At least something good had happened. With this thought Sasuke smirked. Now to find away to meet him again.