Here's the next chapter. I hope you enjoy it.

- - -Happy Birthday Sasuke- - -

- - -Sasuke's POV- - -

I walked into the house. "Sasuke-kun! I'm so glad you could make it!" Sakura smiled at him and took him into the living room. Almost all of Rookie 9 and Team Gai was there. There was only one person missing and it happened to be a certain blonde dobe.

"I wasn't expecting you to show up Uchiha. I thought that you were the anti-social type." Neji smirked. I just glared at him.

"Okay, no fights tonight." Sakura glared at Neji who just shrugged. "Where's Naruto?" Everyone just looked around.

"That's funny." Sakura walked to the door and opened it. The blonde was no where to be found.

"Yeah, Kakashi even beat him this time. Kakashi was even here before Sasuke." Kurenai smiled. Kakashi looked over the edge of his book and smiled under his mask.

"That is a surprise." There was a knock at the door and Sakura answered it. Naruto was standing there holding a small box. He smiled.

"Sorry I took so long but Tsunada-sama wanted to see me and it took me a while." Sakura ushered the stupid dobe in and he put the box down on the table full of presents.

"So, is everyone here now?" TenTen asked. Sakura nodded. "Well then lets get this party started!" She turned on the music and a few people got up and started to dance or talk.

"What did Tsuanda-sama want?" I walked over to Naruto who was standing there smiling.

"She wanted to tell me about a new mission that I have to go on with Ero-sennin. It's going to be a bummer." He sighed. His blonde hair was a little longer and it almost went over his eyes. He was much taller and tanner.

"When are you leaving." We were now outside with a few others.

"In two days. He first has to get here, which will be tomorrow morning, and then rest. I don't think that he will do any 'research' this time." Naruto shrugged.

"Yeah."I looked at him and smirked. "On this mission, what will you be doing." Usually the 'mission' is to go do 'research'.

Naruto looked at him confused. "The usual. Seeing what Orochimaru is up to, train, and help Jiriyia with his. . ." The blonde dobe trailed off and widened his eyes. "Oh crap!" He sigh.

"Yeah, good luck with that dobe." I walked back into the full house to find Kakashi sitting on the couch talking with the other Jounin. Sakura, Ino, and Hinata were talking about different things and Shikamaru, Choji, and Neji were talking about techniques and different strategies. Kiba, Shino, and Lee were outside with Akamaru messing around (rather Kiba, Akamaru, and Lee messing around and Shino laughing his ass off in his head). The others were either just sitting there or talking to other people.

"When do we get to eat the cake?" Kiba asked from outside. He was wrestling with Akamaru, who was at this moment winning.

"Here in a few minutes." Sakura yelled from the kitchen getting some more chips and putting them from the bowl. Luckily Choji brought his own stash.

"What about the presents?" Lee asked walking inside. He had a light sweat on him from running so much and getting tackled by a 120-pound dog(1).

"After the cake." The song changed into a techno(2) like thing that a few people got up to dance to.

Sakura came up to me and grabbed my wrist. "The birthday boy should be dancing too." She said over the music.

I just grunted and danced anyway. It was fun I do have to admit. After I returned from Orochimaru's I had lightened up some and smiled lightly toward a few people. They smiled back and just laughed. It was a weird sight for them but it was nice to see.

I looked over to where Naruto was standing. He was staring at me and smiling. I looked back to Sakura and noticed that her and Lee were dancing. I walked back over to him and grabbed his wrist.

"What?" Naruto looked at me with a surprised look. It was a cute look. He looked more like a fox than ever.

"You're going to dance with me." He smiled and let me drag him to the floor and we started to dance. It was a nice beat. Naruto's hips moved perfectly to the beat. His eyes were slightly closed and his hands were slightly in the air. His shirt was raised a little bit over his pants line. I looked down at his tan stomach. I smirked when I saw that he had the lines for an ab pack.

The song ended a little too my liking. Naruto looked up at me and smiled. "Thanks for the dance teme."

"Hn." I smirked and walked over to the couch and sat down next to Neji.

"Okay, time to open presents!" Ino said while turning down the music. Sakura and TenTen dragged me over to an empty chair and I sat down.

"O-okay who's p-present do you want to open f-first?" Hinata asked nervously.

"I don't care." I looked at her and saw her draw a small box from the middle of the pile and gave it to me.

"That's from me and Akamaru." I looked at Kiba and nodded courteously.

I opened the small box and pulled out a small bag of dog treats.

"What can I say? Everyone loves their dog treats." Kiba smirked and a few of them chuckled, including me.

"Okay, the next one if from Shikamaru and his family." Ino said handing me another box. I put down Kiba's.

I tore off the paper and put it in the trash can next to me. It was a box full of kunai's and shurikan's. They had the Uchiha clan imprinted on them and a small pouch to put them in also. "Thanks Shikamaru. I'll need these the kick your ass in a spar one day." Shikamaru nodded and smirked.

"Yeah, you can try but don't be surprised when I win." He sat back and crossed his arms. Sakura handed me the next present.

- - -

There were only two presents left and the only two people I haven't opened a present for were Naruto and Kakashi.

"The next one is from Kakashi-sensei." Sakura said handing him a heavy box with a dark blue paper on it.

"I can only guess what it is." I glared at him and he just shrugged. I took the paper off and opened the box. It had every single book of Icha Icha Paradise that had ever been written. I sighed and looked at him.

He shrugged, "I thought that they would come in hand one day." I just knew that he was smirking under his mask.

"Pervert." I threw a wad of wrapping paper at him. He chuckled and threw it back. Ino sighed and shoved the last present at me. It was wrapped in a red glossy paper and had a black bow on top.

"It's a little cheesy but I thought that you would like it." Naruto said from the door by Akamaru. He was patting the dogs head, who was wagging his head and watching everything that was going on.

"Hn." I took the bow off carefully and then the paper the same way. It was a small box with teme on it. I chuckled and took the lid off of the box. Inside there was a small figurine of a snake, a fox, and a slug. The snake and fox were facing each other looking like they were about the fight. The slug was looking at them and it looked like it had a frown on it's face. A few people gasped. It was just beautiful.

"Naruto did you make it?" Ino asked from behind me.

"Yeah. When you're on the road and there's nothing else to do then you find something to do." He shrugged and smiled a little. I smiled and looked up at him.

"Naruto, how did you make this?"

"I used a little bit of chakra, granite, and dye. It wasn't that hard, except for the carving part. That's were it got complicated." Everyone looked at the figurine with wide eyes.

"That is just so cool. I could never do anything that complicated. It would be so troublesome." Others nodded.

When it got closer to morning everyone finally decided to start going home. "Night Naruto! Night Sasuke! Thanks for coming!" Sakura said from the kitchen. He walked out into the cold night air and looked back for me. We were both carrying some of my presents in small back packs.

"Come on teme! I should be calling you dobe, you're slower than I am!" I just glared at him.

"Shut it dobe." I smirked. We started walking down the quiet streets. Silence was our only companion. When we were near the ramen shop, Naruto looked at me and smiled.

"So how did you like the party? I liked it. Sakura and Ino did a good job." I nodded and shifted the strap from my back pack and sighed.

"I think they did a good job too but I can't wait until I get home and get into my soft bed." Naruto nodded.

"I know what you mean. I dance so much that I think I pulled something." I chuckled. He looked at me and smiled.

"It's good to have you back Sasuke. When you went with Orochimaru I nothing seemed the same." I raised an eyebrow. "I mean, you weren't there to back me up on missions. You weren't there to spar with me. All kinds of things like that."

"Well, I missed you too." He smiled to himself.

"It kinda felt like I was missing an important part of my life. I know that was random but it's true." He looked at me. His eyes were shimmering with a happy glow. I nodded and looked at the mansion in front of me. It seemed dark and lonely.

"I know what you mean." He was now looking at the mansion also.

"Do you fell lonely a lot? I mean you have to. You're all by your self in this big house."

"Yeah, I get lonely a lot. It gets on my nerves at how quiet it is in the house." I opened the door and let him in. We took off our shoes and walked into the kitchen. "You can just put that on the table. I give it back to you tomorrow." He put the bag down and was about to head out the door but turned around to look at me.

"I get lonely too." He smiled and turned back around.

"Naruto?"

"Yeah?" He was about to put his shoes up. 'Uchiha hurry up!' He mussed.

"Do you want to stay here tonight. I mean, you have to walk all he way home," He walked back over to where I was standing, "and it is pretty late, so I was thinking," he's right in front of me, "that you could stay here for a little while?" He was smiling at me and nodded.

"I'd love that Sasuke." He mumbled.

- - -End- - -

(1) If I got his weight wrong then just tell me and I'll correct it. It's when Akamaru's older.

(2)I'm not sure what kind of music they have so I just put this one here.

I hope you liked it. I want to know which couples you want in this story so just put it in a review and I'll see what I can do. I hope that I didn't get any of you confused. I had lots of fun with the few presents I told you about and the comments that Sasuke received. Well I have to get going. See Ya! -Silver