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The only reason this is rated M is becuase of the extra chapter at the end of the story (which is still in work). The rest of the pic is rated PG, PG-13 at most. Please keep this in mind if you are looking for smut or fluff.

This is a Shounen-ai/Yaoi fanfic containing SasuNaru (SasukexNaruto) pairing. If you do not like the pairing or shounen-ai in general, then please do not leave any comments and discontinue reading from here.

Naruto and Company and Naruto related things are all property of Kishimoto Masashi. Yes, everything from the chararcter designs to the SasuNaru!

Character manipulation are all done by me.

Monday morning. Everyone in the school was whispering to one another, and they all had a good reason why. Last week, the school idol Uchiha Sasuke drank a potion, or some call it poison, that made him fall madly in love with the most hyperactive kid in the school, Uzumaki Naruto. Although it was suppose to last for 24 hours, the raven was still following and kissing the blonde for the rest of the week, all thanks to the chemistry wiz Haruno Sakura. So now, what was to become of Valentine's Day? They guys cheered for their chance to finally get someone, most of the girls lost all hope in love, and some had even tried for others (some girls were beginning to follow Neji around). All because Sasuke was now with Naruto, and Valentine's Day was tomorrow.

But the weirdest thing happened at the beginning of the day. Well, maybe not weird, but just unexpected. All down the halls and from each classroom, the students stopped all activities and stared at what they almost couldn't believe. Even when it made its way into a classroom, people were still in awe. It was Naruto. He took his seat and buried his face into his folded arms. But there was no Sasuke to be seen. And there was a terrible expression on the blonde's face, but no one could figure out why.

Then Sasuke walked through the door minutes before class started. When he took his seat, he didn't give the blonde a second glance. In fact, he didn't even give him a first glance. The two boys didn't say a word to one another, they didn't acknowledge each other's presence, and they didn't even make eye contact. Naruto kept his head buried and Sasuke only adverted his head to the window.

The girls looked at each other and silently squealed. Now Sasuke was available! The boys swore under their breaths. Now that bastard was gonna get the girls' attention again. Now whatever happened that made this all stop wasn't really an issue. As for Naruto, everyone thought he was just tired from what happened and would get over it. So the teacher came in and class started, but the word was ready to break out and roam over the whole school.

As soon as the break came for classes, all the girls gathered around Sasuke's desk and tried to get his attention. They pulled out the little gifts that their broken spirits could muster up over the weekend and tried to present them to Sasuke. But he continued to avoid eye contact from everyone and kept his black eyes pointed towards the window. The girls began to get more riled up trying to talk to them until a hush started from the back of the crowd. The wave of silence moved all the way from the back of the group to the front, and the girls parted to show the cause. Sakura. The pink-haired girl slowly made her way to the front with her head hanging and her eyes staring at her feet. Even now, Naruto brought his head up to see why all the girls stopped chanting the raven's name.

The girl approached his desk, but Sasuke still made no effort to look. Since she got no response, she began to speak.

"Sasuke....could I talk to you for a bit?"

"No way!" one girl screamed.

"After what you did?! Why should you?!"

All the girls began screaming and making threats to the pink-haired student.

"Yeah! You have no right to speak!"

"Just drop dead, b*tch!"

"SHUT THE HELL UP! ALL OF YOU!!!"

Everyone, but the raven, turned their heads to see the blonde shoot up from his desk. His face, as well as his eyes had a hint of red in them, possibly from anger or something else. Most of the girls stepped back a bit before straightening their faces.

"W...why should we?! She started all this! She's useless!"

"I SAID SHUT! UP!"

When he slammed his fist on the desk, the whole room grew deafly ill. The girls stepped back further fearing they were the next ones to be hit. When Naruto was done shaking from anger, he raised his head to meet Sakura's eyes.

"Go ahead, Sakura-chan."

She hesitated for only a few seconds before she took a step closer to the raven's desk and started out with a shaky voice.

"S....Sasuke-kun?...I wanted to tell you that what I did last week....well, it was wrong. Obviously. I never should have done that to you, tricking you, manipulating your feelings like that. I wasn't thinking at all and was only being selfish. And because of all this, I've caused so much grief and trouble that I don't know if any of this can be reversed or forgotten......Sasuke-kun, I never should have taken advantage of our friendship and....I just.....I don't know how I can make a proper apology. I'm really the worst and I can't even apologize correctly. Please...."

She took a step back and bowed her head and her body, trying to ask for forgiveness.

"Sasuke-kun....I can't say anything else, and I have no right to be talking to you at all....This is...all I can say right now is....I'm sorry. I'm really, really sorry Sasuke-kun. Please....I just want you to know that....please..."

Everyone sat incredibly still watching as Sakura was pleading her heart out to the young Uchiha. But the boy didn't even move a muscle. His eyes remained fixed on the scene outside of the window and he didn't even bother to make a noise to even confirm he was listening. For all they knew, he was ignoring her. Several minutes passed by, but still nothing. Sakura looked up from her pleading position, but Sasuke remained still as a statue. His patience finally ran out. The blonde let out a loud grunt as he pushed a desk off to the side and pushed his way past the raven as he made his exit from the classroom, people moving from his path unable to figure out Naruto's frustration. Sakura's emerald eyes followed the kitsune boy as he went through the door, then fell on Sasuke one last time before she spun around and chased after him.

Naruto made it quite far down the hall before he could hear the pink-haired girl calling his name and her footsteps as they got closer. When Naruto finally stopped, she stopped right next to him and bent over a little to catch her breath.

"Na *pant* Naruto! Why'd you *pant* storm out of the classroom *pant* like that?"

"Because that bastard completely ignored you! You were pouring your heart out, everything that you had for forgiveness and he didn't even give you a glance! I never thought he could be so heartless! He really has no respect for other people's feelings!"

"Naruto, please! Sasuke-kun has every right to be mad at me after everything I did! I even expected him to give me the cold shoulder. I just needed to apologize. That was good enough for me."

"But it's not for me! He has no respect! He thinks he can do whatever he wants and hurt people like this! At least you had the nerve to say you didn't mean it and that you were wrong! He doesn't understand about feelings! No one is this whole goddamn school even gets it! Anyone of those stupid, bimbo, Sasuke-fucking-lovers would do the same thing and never even give a second thought to what they were doing! Manipulating someone's feelings and leading them on until there's nothing left!!"

His body began trembling. Sakura looked at him with a curious but sad face at the same time.

"But....I never thought about what I was doing either..."

His body stopped shaking.

"I never even guessed about how this could be affecting him. I really was, no, I am selfish. I just don't get...why don't you hate me too?"

"What?"

"Naruto...I don't know what happened between you two, but it seems like....like something broke, and you two can't seem to fix it. And it's all because of me. I've put you through all that pain as well, but here you are, talking to me. I just don't get it."

"Sakura-chan...I could never hate you..."

That's all he could say. Even Sakura could hear it. His voice was getting shaky.

"Naruto," she continued. "I'm really sorry...about everything. But please....could you please turn around so I tell you properly?"

The entire time, Naruto had been talking with his back facing his pink-haired friend. Not once did he turn around to see her face. He chuckled to himself a bit from the irony. Even when he was just complaining about Sasuke's actions, he seemed to be doing the same thing to the poor girl.

"I'm sorry, Sakura-chan," he choked out.

"W...why?"

"Because....if I turn around....I would feel like...I need to scream. I just want to scream my lungs out, and I don't want to do that to you."

With that said, he took off down the hall, not giving a glance to her, not looking to his destination, and trying to hold in all of his tears and screams. By the time he made it to a secluded part of the building, he leaned his hand against the wall, buried his face in the other hand , and began to cry. His breaths became hiccups and his knees could no longer support him, causing him to sink to the ground as his eyes overflowed.

"I....I can't help it," he though. 'I....I can't stop thinking of him, even when all of this had happened. Why am I so upset when this was finally put to an end?! I wanted him back! So why do I hate this? Is this really how Sasuke acted before the accident? This doesn't make any sense! I shouldn't see him in any other way than my best friend, but I do! I'm so confused!'

When his tears eventually stopped, he looked up from his sulking spot to look out the window. A bright blue bird in the tree was singing with all of its heart until a red one came to join him. Naruto unconsciously stood but still hung onto the wall. The birds hopped closer together and both began to sing. Suddenly, the blue one began to flap his wings and flew to a much lower branch. The red bird followed him, and the blue one moved again with the red one following. They continued their little act until the red bird finally gave up and flew to the next tree. That's when both their singing stopped. Naruto's sapphire eyes grew wider and jolted back and forth between the two birds to see if either would make a move. He silently stood and waited for a bird to begin singing again or to even make a call.

"What will....the next move be...." he whispered.

The red bird began to flaps his wings, and he took off. The blue bird silently watched him fly away, but he made no movement. He didn't turn his head nor did he begin singing again. He just stood there and stared in the direction of where the red bird flew off to.

Naruto's legs began moving. He didn't know what exactly he was doing, or where he was planning to go. All he knew was that he had to go and find Sasuke.

*~*~*~*~*~

"Sasuke-ku~n!"

Sasuke didn't even bother turning his head to find Karin walking up to his secluded table. That day, everyone knew he was in a bad mood, so no one wanted to sit near him or talk to him. Even Kiba actually tried to avoid him. Nevertheless, there was always that one stupid girl that would either not notice or just not respect his privacy, and Karin happened to be that idiot.

"Sasuke-kun, I just came by to see if you were doing alright?"

Sasuke continued to ignore her and just eat, but it seemed more like an invitation for her to just continue talking. With her 'time to shine' in her thoughts, she moved really close to the raven and sat on the corner of the table in her most sexy manner, trying to show leg and her large (stuffed) breast. Sasuke only scooted his food and himself over, but didn't spare her glance and kept on eating.

"After everything that had happened, I'm glad to see that you are still just as calm as ever. I don't think I can have your kind of talent, Sasuke-kun!"

She gave a seductive smile and leaned back on the table with one hand behind her back.

"I can't believe that that stupid girl had the nerve to even talk to you after what she just did! What a joke! And when Naruto spoke out of line, which was the worst! He has no right to even speak to you!"

That was when Sasuke froze and stopped eating. But he still didn't bother to look up from his food.

"I mean, you were under that witch's spell, and you were stuck to that oh-so annoying and unattractive juvenile! I just felt so bad!"

Although her mouth moved a mile a minute, her hand slowly reached into the pocket of her uniform and pulled out a small vile filled with green liquid. Sasuke didn't ever look up, so he couldn't see the sly smile that crawled on her face.

*~*~*~*~*~

He could hear laughter and talking from a faraway place, but he couldn't focus on a specific sound. His mind was still hazy as his feet continued to drag him to his unknown destination. No, it wasn't unknown, because he knew Sasuke would be there. What was unknown was how the blonde was supposed to react. He wanted to see him, but why? Was it because of hate? Or friendship? Or even love? His feelings were so mixed up at that moment that he couldn't figure out what feeling belonged to what emotion and what his reactions was going to be when he saw the raven ex-lover, ex-best friend. No, it was clear now he didn't hate Sasuke, so he wanted to see him, but he couldn't figure out why.

The talk with Sasuke in Naruto's room replayed in the blonde's head. What if Sasuke was right? What if Naruto really didn't know what bonds were suppose to lead to what? So how could he tell what Sasuke was to him between a friend or a lover or even a brother? It was an emotional limbo for Naruto now. He was so unsure of how his actions were supposed to be, and now he is unable to clarify his feelings. The kitsune had a fragile heart, and Valentine's had always wounded it year after year, but this was by far the worst. So his destination was for Sasuke so he could clarify. He wanted to know what these feelings for Sasuke were and what he should do with them. He just didn't want to lose the person who was so important to him.

His feet came to a stop when he hit the cafeteria, the place where all of this began. Every student was talking with their friends and eating like they normally did. Naruto scanned the area, looking for Shikamaru and the others but found who he was looking for instead. He was meant to be alone, but Karin was obviously invading his privacy. His body sagged and his body began to droop until something caught his eye.

Karin had a vile in her hand, and she was pouring it into the glass that Sasuke was drinking from. The way she was sitting on the table was a distraction from what her real intentions were. Her smile grew wider as the last few drops fell into the drink while Sasuke kept his head down.

'That forehead girl may have some smarts to think of this up,' she thought to herself. 'But I'll always have the upper hand, especially when it comes to my Sasuke-kun! My potion is way stronger than hers and with everyone staying away from him, especially Naruto, he'll have no choice but to lay eyes on me!'

She got off the table and moved to the other side so she would sit right in front of the raven. Naruto stood with his mouth open, in horror of what the redhead's plan was.

'Karin...she's gonna do what Sakura-chan just did! She's gonna try and get Sasuke to fall in love with her. How could she?! She really has no morels, no regrets, no thoughts about what this can do to others! How dare she make Sasuke fall in love with her instead of-'

He suddenly stopped from where his thoughts were going.

'Some...someone else? Isn't that what I meant to say? He should go to someone else...but who? All of my thoughts....I can't think....He should be with me? Is that what I want? Why do I think that?! Why?! Am I jealous?! I don't know! I don't know!'

His thoughts broken when he saw Sasuke reaching for his glass. The blonde didn't think of anything else. He had to get that glass away from Sasuke. He had to knock it away. He had to throw it on the ground so it wouldn't be used like that ever again. So no one would have to suffer the same way. His feet moved and he reached for the glass.

Sasuke was sick of hearing Karin complain. He was sick of her talking, and he was especially done with her thoughts on Naruto. All of her sour talk made him thirsty, so he reached for his cup. He could have sworn from the corner from his eye that the redhead had a sinister smile on her face as he was reaching, but he chose to ignore it. Before he could even touch it, the glass was gone from his reach, and he looked up to see who the thief was.

Naruto. He was looking at the glass as if the fate of the world depended on it. He couldn't see everyone staring at him nor could he hear Karin and her high-pitch yelling. But he could sense Sasuke staring right at him. But he didn't know what to think. It was as though all feelings, both physical and emotional, had drained from his body and he had no idea what to do with the raven staring at him like that. Naruto slowly turned his head to look at Sasuke directly, but he still felt so numb. The dark eyes narrowed and the pale body was rising. Naruto still couldn't feel anything. The older boy's lips were moving, but Naruto couldn't hear any sound. He was a few meters away and was approaching quickly. How was he supposed to act? What was he suppose to feel? Naruto's body shook again and he could feel the tears rushing to his eyes. He wished he had the answer, but he didn't know if it was the right one. He only acted by the one thought that came to mind, so he did it.

"NOOOOOOOO!"

Karin was yelling, the other students were staring, and so was Sasuke. Naruto was so unsure, he wanted an answer, even if it were false. The cup in his hand that he meant to throw down, instead he raised it and began to drink the whole thing. He could taste the bitter syrup Karin slipped in and he could feel it burning as it slid down his throat. But even so, he continued to drink and drink until every last drop was gone.

Naruto dropped down to his knees and began coughing. It was difficult to breathe and impossible to hear. He grabbed his chest and coughed and choked, bringing the same hand from his chest to his mouth in hopes not to throw up. It was so dark and he still couldn't find the answer. He just hoped that this plan would work, that this time he could find something to understand and stick by, to hold onto. He could barely feel someone grabbing his shoulders as he finished coughing. He just hoped it was Sasuke. He really prayed and hoped, or he swore he would die. Naruto swallowed what he could without starting a coughing fit again and raised his head. He took a deep breath and slowly opened his eyes to the body in front of him.

'Oh please, let it be Sasuke...'