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Chapter 16: There will be Blood

The world is many things, fair and unfair, loving and cold, hard and soft. Its easy to forget that because of the extreme desire we have to organize our lives in ways that make the most sense to us.

Don't always count on the world to be the way you see it.

The next day at school was the probably the weirdest day I ever experienced in my life so far.

It all started with Kakashi.

I walked out of my new room, heading for the bathroom, only to bump into my ever loving stalking guardian Kakashi. He smiled down at me with his hands on his hips, I glared daggers at him silently commanding him to move, and we stood that way for a good 10 minutes at least.

"What do you want?" I finally bothered, "Going to give me parental advice about how to pee, or style my hair, or brush my teeth?"

"No, though you could use a little work in the hair department." Kakashi commented, leaning against the frame of my door. "I was going to tell you to stop obsessing over Itachi and live your life, I know you're in mourning but pouring over those journals isn't going to change what happened or solve anything. Use them to find Itachi, I'll do the rest."

"Its way too early for this." I commented, pushing past him and sliding my way into the bathroom.

"I have no choice; you're prone to doing stupid impulsive things!" Kakashi called, through the door I slammed in his face, "Just go to school and focus on fixing your relationship problems like any normal teenage!"

In the mists of scrubbing my teeth and replaying his words over and over again in my head I realized that the annoying perverted bastard was actually right. I, the ever popular former devil ice prince of the hell, feel in love with an annoying little mere demon and then acted like an idiot and screwed everything up so now of course it must be fixed.

I can't believe it but I'm a dumbass.

Later that day, in first period waiting for the arrival of inevitable doom I tried to focus on what it was that I needed to do to make it up with Naruto. Speaking of the devil….mere demon, Naruto decided in the middle of my contemplation to storm in the room, glare at me, and took the farthest seat possible.

So far not so good, but at least the others didn't say much to me. Surprising, especially with Kiba being….Kiba.

In second period I managed to get in a small conversation with Shikamaru, considering that we were the only ones in the classroom. "What did Temari say? Stop thinking about it."

"Well I can't!'' I grumbled, how in the world would I manage to fix something on this scale without a little thinking? It isn't logical, it makes no sense.

"For such an emotionally driven guy you really believe you make decisions based on logic, I didn't know you followed your stereotype so well." Shikamaru commented, "Well, I'm typically known as the lazy smart guy. So do yourself a favor mister genius and listen to me, don't plan anything."

Then he resumed his usual routine of sleeping, where will I eat lunch? Back to the bathroom stalls, or maybe Ino and Sakura will get to me before I can run.

Actually it was Shikamaru and Choji of all people to drag me away, with Gaara joining a second later after we sat down at our usual table. "I really don't care much for you, but your stupidity is upsetting Naruto so I'll help." Gaara shoved a brown paper bag in my direction just as Shino and Kiba appeared from opposite directions to take a seat. They didn't comment on the paper bag, instead they started a conversation about some "bitch teacher" pissing Kiba off in second period.

I watched them laughing when Shikamaru made a comment about her width, only to snap back into reality at literally the snap of fingers in my face. I turned to face Gaara, "What?"

"Take the bag…please." Gaara said, scooting the bag closer to me, I grabbed it feeling the weight in my hands slightly, "Use that and don't waste it."

I unrolled the bag, peering in and feeling a smirk molding my lips in expression, "This will work."

"Heads up." Said Shikamaru, everybody stilled with silence and decided to focus on their food instead as Naruto made a rather loud approach stomping his feet, slamming his bag down on the table and plopping down in the seat next to Gaara across the way.

"What are you doing here?" He growled, his blue eyes glaring at me with an intensity I haven't felt since the death of my father.

"He's eating." Gaara stated, Naruto looked around the table and everyone avoided his gaze, Shino abruptly stood up and took off in the direction of the courtyard, probably to go bug hunting. He tends to not like it when there is conflict I noticed.

"So what? You guys are just going to let him eat here?" Naruto said, his voice going down a few octaves, "Fine. Then I'll leave."

He was storming away as soon as he arrived and I wondered if I would really be able to reach him. What if he never listens to me, what if he hears….my love confession and then laughs at me? What if we don't work out and I did an embarrassing thing for nothing but hurt in the end?

Setting my uneasiness aside, this is something I have to do because if I don't then what? I regret it.

Either way, it could become horrible on my end.

I resolved myself to follow Naruto after school then. Until he turns around and punches me or has some kind of contact with me, then…..then what?

I guess I'm just going to have to beat the crap out of him until he listens to me, no wait Sasuke wrong track here that's not the direction you want to go. But I can't just let him beat me up, that's not my style. Either way there will be blood no matter what I do.

For now I let him blow off steam, it wouldn't do any good to chase him down in school and cause a scene that gets both of us in trouble… again.

Afterschool I just decided to use the Kakashi Method; bother the one you are aiming for until they cave in and give you what you want using stalking techniques and personal style. It seems to work for him, so why not me.

That's how I ended up here, stalking Naruto home. He kept looking behind him, but I managed to hide just in time with every turn of his head. There was no way I was going to let Dobe catch me off guard that easily.

We were almost to his front door when he paused suddenly, I braced myself against a nearby wall peeking in between trashcans watching Naruto throw his head in all directions trying to pinpoint where the feeling of piercing eyes was coming from.

"Sasuke?" He called out in a small questioning voice, a few people walked by staring but to me they weren't there, my heart caught in my throat at the sound. I can see why Kakashi does this; it's actually sort of entertaining.

No, I will not be like Kakashi, I refuse.

"Sasuke?" Naruto called again, seeming more confident but it faded from his features suddenly as he sighed continuing his stroll to the door. For being so mad at me, why does he seem so disappointed I'm not there? I resumed my following when suddenly Naruto stopped and said in an even stronger voice, "Sasuke?"

I hesitated for a second, what do I do? "Yeah." I breathed, swallowing some pride as I attempted to choke me.

He turned slowly and I resisted the urge to take a step back. "What the hell are you doing?"

"Following you." I answered, that's pretty obvious actually, "Because…I made a mistake the other day, when I lied to you."

"Lied to me?" Naruto said, he stumbled on his feet slightly, "Why? About the….Did you lie to me about the kiss?"

"Yeah." I said, this is so easy but I can feel my heart pounding in my ears and my breathing slowing down to rhythm that was slow, "I did."

"Yeah, Temari may have mentioned something to ma at lunch, I called her a liar I guess I owe her an apology now." Naruto explained, "So, what now?"

"I don't know." I answered, silently cursing Shikamaru and Temari for leaving me out of the loop and making me a nervous wreck for the absolute wrong reasons. Forgetting all that I pulled Naruto forward pecking him lightly only to feel something sharp prick my lip.

"Oh I bit you!" Naruto said as blood rushed up through the small cut, I wiped at my hand resisting the urge to get revenge as Naruto grabbed my hand and lead me to his home. "Come on, I think I have some stuff from my boxing days with Sakura."

I looked down at my stained fingers, laughing a little at the sight.

See what did I tell you? There was blood.