Right! Here's chapter 2!! Hope it's cute enough, enjoy!!
Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto or any of it's characters.
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Valentines Day
Naruto noticed the clear change in Sasuke's expression, let alone his colour. Naruto guessed that if he held a plum next to Sasuke's face, he might end up licking Sasuke instead of the plum….by accident of course.
'But seriously, what's up with Sasuke-kun?' Naruto didn't know if it was healthy for anyone to be that colour. He saw the look of complete concentration on the ravens face as he leaned in….
Chapter 2: Mixed feelings
"Sasuke-ku-?"
Sasuke's lips reached Naruto's, black eyes meeting blue. Naruto suddenly closed his eyes and leaned into the small kiss, moulding their lips together softly, his right hand reaching out to Sasuke's arm, savouring his soft, sweet lips.
Sasuke quickly pulled back, shocked at himself for initiating the kiss and at the same time, shocked at Naruto's reaction to it. He turned away, staring at the ground, making sure that his hair fell forward to cover his beetroot coloured face from the boy next to him. He didn't know what to think, 'what does this mean? Why did he do that? Does he like me too?' Questions raced across his already confused mind. It was driving him mad!
'Oops!' Naruto hadn't meant to do that, his body had just automatically reacted. 'But why?' he asked himself, feeling confused. Why had he reacted like that? Naruto knew how attached he was to Sasuke, after all they've grown up together, there's isn't a day when they're apart. Even when they were separated, Naruto would always feel as though a part of him had been ripped away from him. He always just thought that was because he saw Sasuke as a brother, a brother that he loved dearly. The warm feeling he felt inside of himself right now only confused him more.
Feeling the tension between them rise Naruto tried to lighten things up by moving on from the subject all together, despite the fact that all he really wanted to do was ask Sasuke about it. Naruto knew his reaction was strange, but Sasuke initiated the kiss after all.
"Where's my present then Sasuke-kun?" He asked, his voice slightly shaky, unsure if Sasuke had actually gotten him anything or not. He obviously had a reason to, judging by his little stunt earlier. 'I am so gonna die if he hasn't got me something, how embarrassing that's gonna be!'
Sasuke looked up at the sound of Naruto's weak voice, seeing his grinning face, the smile not quite reaching his usually bright eyes. 'I hope he doesn't hate me now, all I've done is make things awkward. Hopefully this will cheer him up.' He slid his hand into his trouser pocket, retrieving the box, while still pondering Naruto's reaction….and the kiss. "Here Naru-chan, I hope you like it."
Trying to act normal, he handed the small black box to Naruto who took it, looking excited. He seemed to stare at the box intently for a while before slowly opening it, as if cherishing every moment. 'Quite unusual for Naruto, normally he'd just rip it open in a second.' Sasuke noted.
Naruto pulled out a small pendant. It looked like a balloon, that had been halved with a circular line that split it onto two colours, red at the top and white at the bottom. Naruto had no idea what it meant exactly but he knew what it meant to Sasuke, which only caused questions to bubble up inside of him.
Sasuke saw Naruto's eyes had brightened up as he held the necklace up by it's silver chain, so that the pendant was level with his eyes. Then a frown developed on the blondes forehead, however, as though he didn't understand something while was lost in thought. He turned to Sasuke, still holding up the necklace.
"Sasuke-kun?" Naruto looked at Sasuke with his shiny blue eyes, questioningly. Sasuke understood, Naruto wanted to know why. Why give him the only other important thing in his life to Naruto. Naruto knew it was important to Sasuke, he had always asked him why he never took it off, even when he slept, but Sasuke always just shrugged and had never really explained. 'Looks like I'll be doing exactly that now.'
"That necklace was the only thing, apart from that card with my name on it, that was found on me the night I was abandoned." Naruto sensed the feeling of betrayal, thick in Sasuke's voice, it made him unhappy seeing Sasuke like this. He shifted uncomfortably.
Sasuke continued, his voice becoming softer, noticing the blondes discomfort, "I hated the necklace at first, it just kept reminding me that I had been abandoned, unwanted and maybe unloved for whatever reason. But then I realised, the person who had left me there, had bothered to place the necklace carefully around my neck, they felt it was important enough for me to have. Ever since then it's slowly become a part of me, a part which I'm now giving to you Naru-chan." He smiled and faced Naruto, speaking to him directly as he said this last sentence. Naruto's expression didn't change. 'God, Naruto still looks so confused….Kawaii!' He chuckled under his breath.
Naruto still felt confused, he loved Sasuke-kun for just simply thinking about giving this necklace to him, let alone actually giving it. However, he still couldn't understand why. He thought about this for a bit, carefully trying to analyse Sasuke, who seemed to be laughing?
After a while he decided it didn't matter, 'What does matter is that Sasuke-kun thinks I'm important enough to carry around his one and only childhood possession….well, except for that card with his name on it.' He corrected himself.
"Arigato, Sasuke-kun" He whispered, his eyes fixed on the necklace, understanding now, properly, how important this small pendant was to Sasuke.
'Wow, Naruto must really like it, I don't think I've seen him concentrate so hard in his life!' Sasuke smiled, he was glad it had cheered him up at the same time.
"Well Naru-chan, I'm glad you¾" He was cut off by Naruto who had launched himself at Sasuke in an attempt to give the raven a hug.
"AHH! Naruto! Why don't you just knock me unconscious and be done with it?!" Sasuke managed, slightly agitated, while trying to regain his balance on the bench. Naruto, who was still clinging to Sasuke, suddenly blurted out,
"I will take care of it, I will treasure it, and I will never lose it…EVER! I promise!"
"You won't lose it…ever? Wow well that's quite something coming from you Naru-chan!" Sasuke teased, and was rewarded with a playful punch from Naruto, who then crossed his arms and pouted, his back to Sasuke.
"Careful Sasuke-kun, or I might just take up your offer of just knocking you unconscious!" He threatened, turning is his head slightly so it was facing Sasuke.
Sasuke grinned menacingly, "Like you could anyway."
Naruto muttered something about 'tonight', 'revenge' and 'sleep' and mischievously stuck his tongue out at Sasuke. He grinned wickedly, 'Heh heh! Sasuke-kun has no idea what's coming to him,!' All Naruto needed was permanent marker pen.
Naruto's grin was a big giveaway for Sasuke. He guessed Naruto was going to try and get his mini-revenge on Sasuke while he was sleeping. 'He'll probably try and draw on my face again.' Sasuke sighed, remembering how he'd woken up one morning only to be greeted by a loud laugh from everyone he walked past in the corridor on his way the kitchen, where he was told by one the careers to look in the mirror. 'ah the embarrassment of walking around with a willy drawn on my face! Well the same trick doesn't work on me twice.' He sniggered, already thinking up a counterattack.
Lost in their own thoughts, both boys sat there in a comfortable silence for a while. Both content.
'It's been a strange day' Naruto thought, he had felt something inside of him change. He now saw the boy sitting calmly next to him differently, but couldn't understand how and in what way.
Sasuke however, felt something deep down had been confirmed. 'I have a lot of thinking to do.' He thought while pushing it away from the focus of his mind. He felt something warm slip into his hand, and soon realised it was Naruto's soft fingers that had wrapped themselves gently around Sasuke's hand.
Naruto tightened his grip on the other boys hand hoping for a response, and he got one. He felt himself relax as the other hand squeezed back.
"Happy valentine's day, Sasuke-kun." Naruto breathed happily.
"Happy valentine's day Naru-chan." Sasuke whispered only loud enough for the blonde to hear while looking out at the other children playing on the swings. 'We might not have a mother' he mused, 'but we have each other!'
This was their first real valentine's day, but sitting on a small bench in the park, hand in hand, both young boys secretly hoped for many more day's like this to come.
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Really hope you liked it!! Am kinda nervous, it being my first FanFic and all!! There will be a sequel to this story as I thought it would be nice to see where they end up. It will be about them when they're 17. So a *10 Years Later* kinda thing. This part is being done by my good friend, .mmm :D. (and I'm defiantly looking forward to it :P)
Anyways, (I know I keep saying it but) please review this!!
Thanks for reading! And have a great day!!!