Notes: Okay, this chapter has little to do with anything and just more to do with me messing around than anything else. I also have been thinking about putting a disclaimer, but no, that would require too much work. This is for my own personal amusement, obviously.
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Ownership: The Fangirl Speaks
Despite what many people thought of Sakura, she was not an OTP shipper, let alone a yaoi one. There was a reason why she supervised the Hokage and Konoha's top jounin, and it wasn't because she thought they should hit the sack together. Given how long and hard it took before Team 7 was able to banter like they did today, Sakura wasn't about to mess it up by presuming that she knew her teammates' hearts.
Sure, she'd like to set them up with a few girls (and maybe guys too, if they were hot enough), but she knew Sasuke was too touchy about people to want to pursue a relationship at all, and Naruto seemed to show no interest in anyone at all. In Naruto's case, Sakura suspected that there was a lot more too it than that, but that would be getting ahead of herself. Sasuke, on the other hand, cared more about living his life again than seeking another's.
And really, there were many reasons to lock those two up in a room together whenever they (Sasuke) were feeling prickly or (Naruto) uneasy. Naruto was the first person that Sasuke learned to really extend his trust to, and Sasuke was perhaps Naruto's greatest reassurance of the future.
Not to mention that hearing them argue like little kids was sometimes rather amusing.
She had many suspicions as to why Naruto needed such reassurance. Really, she had many suspicions of the Hokage even before he took office, and she was sure both Sasuke and Konohamaru had their own. Sakura thought she knew why, but it wasn't her place to push the issue.
She could wait.
Still, they all knew that there were rumors of the two. Sasuke ignored them (unless they were useful to get back at the Hokage for whatever he did to make his life miserable that day), Sakura just grinned and bore it, Konohamaru staunchly denied them (he was there all the time and he didn't see anything suspicious), and Naruto... well, it all seemed like water rolling off his back. Completely unaffected.
She knew that was how Naruto wanted it -- ambiguous. How she knew that, she didn't quite know. It was one of those things that Team 7 had apparently kept to themselves, because she was frankly shocked to find out that the Fifth didn't even know -- Tsunade had simply figured that it was none of her business (and those two had caused her enough headaches while she was in office to not want to know).
Kakashi seemed to know as well, but like all things Kakashi, he was tight-lipped about it.
Konohamaru must have spoken to Naruto about the whole thing before, because while he asked tons of questions sometimes, it wasn't about that. Of course, by the way he spoke, it was obvious that he didn't know but believed that there was nothing going on. He just didn't seem to question it... which was kind of like Konohamaru, in a way. He didn't seem to question very much of what Naruto did, ever.
In any case, that was why when she heard a conversation like the one she currently was hearing, she really didn't think anything of it. Just the usual bantering with the words hard, ass, tight, owning, size, and...
...Okay, they might possibly somehow be in denial, but there really wasn't anything going on.
Really.
As hard as it is to believe, it was true.
Why did they use those words all the time? It had to be their own private joke.
Stupid boys.
"Shut up about the sexual innuendo and just beat each other up already! And no ninjutsu this time, or I'm going to beat youtwo up!" She punched the wall beside the door for good measure, and there was a bit of murmuring and then blessed silence.
And so began her semi-weekly coffee break, which she spent reading Ino's latest work.