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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.
Valentine's Day. Everyone in the class awkwardly squirmed in their seats as class carried on. As if the entire week hadn't been weird enough, the most unexpected thing happened that day. Even Sakura couldn't pay attention in class. She kept a worried look on her face, much like her other classmates, and continued glancing over to the other side of the classroom. Today, Sasuke's desk was empty. And just as unpredictable as Sasuke's absence, Naruto wasn't in class either.
The said blonde was lying in his bed with the sheets pulled over his head and with his face buried in his pillow. Most of the morning had already passed, but Naruto had no intention of going to school, knowing that Sasuke would be there as well. Iruka swung the door open ready to yell at the blonde for skipping school.
"Naruto! What are you doing?! School started hours ago!"
"I don't care!" came the scream from under the sheets. "I'm not going!"
"Yes you are! You already have a bad record for pranks and tardiness! You don't need another absence to pile on!"
"I don't wanna go! I'm not going! Forget it!"
Iruka sighed and scratched the back of his head.
"I don't know what's gotten into you. You can get up better when Sasuke comes and gets you in the morning-"
"Yeah? Well, he didn't come today, so that's that."
As soon as he heard that cold statement, it dawned on the brunette. Iruka walked over to the bed and sat on the edge minding where the blonde's feet were.
"Did you and Sasuke get into a fight?"
"He's such a bastard!"
When screaming that sentence, he flung the sheets from over his head and shot up so he could a full rant about the said boy.
"He doesn't care for anyone else but himself! He plays with everyone's emotions and has no regard to how it makes others feel!"
"Are you still mad about Sasuke getting Valentines?"
"I don't care if he gets Valentines and I don't! It's not about that!"
"What do you mean? I thought he always gave you a Valentine's gift."
"Look! It isn't about the gifts! It's about-! Wait, what?"
Now he wasn't wailing around and screaming so much.
"What do you mean he gave me gifts? He's never done that."
"Sure he does! Every year, he gives you a box of chocolates that you are always so happy to inhale when you get your hands on them."
"But those are just leftover chocolates that Sasuke didn't want to eat. He didn't like any of the other girls who gave them to him and he definitely hates chocolates."
"Oh, so he only gave you one box a year out of the hundreds that he gets and says he won't give you anymore so you don't get fat?"
"....yes."
"Naruto, none of those boxes he gave you had a name on them, so it wasn't from any of the girls who confessed to Sasuke. How can you be so oblivious to your boyfriend's gifts?"
Naruto's face grew bright red and didn't say anything for a few moments.
"He's not my-! What are you-! What makes you think he likes me?!"
Now Iruka was confused.
"Huh? Haven't you guys been going out?"
"NO!"
"Wow. I thought you were. So Sasuke doesn't like you like that?"
Naruto's head sank down as he brought his knees to his chest.
"...he...he has a funny way of showing it..."
"Oh, I see. Listen, Naruto."
Iruka placed a hand on the blonde's head as a way to comfort him.
"Sasuke had never been a person to show his emotions as openly as you are. But I could see that he always softened up when he's around you. I bet he even goes as far as to smile, right?"
Naruto only gave a slight nod.
"So if he has a funny way of showing that he's happy, wouldn't he also have a funny way of showing that he likes you?"
"...I guess...."
"He wouldn't do anything to purposely hurt you. If you give him a chance, I bet he'll try and make it up. Alright?"
He only gave another nod as a response.
"Alright. So get ready and go to school. I'll call you teacher and let him know you'll be coming late. But don't get used to these late days."
Iruka rustled the blonde hair a bit before getting up and walking out of the room. Not long after, the blonde got up from the bed and began searching for his uniform, all the while thinking back on past Valentine's Days.
"Do you want some chocolate?" Sasuke asked.
The boys were walking down the sidewalk, heading over to Naruto's house, about two years ago, both in their middle school uniforms and dark blue and orange coats, orange of course belonging to Naruto.
"Hm?"
Sasuke looked away with Naruto staring at him in confusion.
"I said would you like some chocolate?"
When asking, the raven held out a plain box.
"You don't want it?"
"You know I don't like sweets."
"Then I'll take it!"
Naruto snatched the box out of Sasuke's hands with the biggest grin on his face. Sasuke only stared for a bit before turning his head away once again. The blonde picked a piece out of the box and was ready to pop it into his mouth until he stopped to look at the box.
"Wait a minute...don't girls usually decorate the boxes all cute and fancy for Valentine's Day? This one's really plain..."
"Look, if you don't want it..."
"No! I want it! I'll eat it, alright?!"
The blonde popped the chocolate into his mouth and began chewing frantically. Sasuke smirked a bit as the two continued down the sidewalk until they got to Naruto's house.
"I guess I'll go now," the raven mumbled.
"Ah! Wait!"
The blonde grabbed Sasuke's arm and began pulling him to the door.
"Why don't you stay over! Your brother's out tonight, right? You shouldn't spend the night by yourself, especially Valentine's Day."
"Ah...well..."
"Oh, come to think of it, Iruka's gonna be out tonight as well. I think he even said he'll be late tonight. Wow. So I guess that'll leave just the two of us, huh?"
For a split second, when he was still facing the other boy, Sasuke's face glowed pink, but his head suddenly spun around and he stepped back quite a bit.
"No! I can't do that!"
"Huh? Why not?"
"Something...something just came up! I gotta go!"
Without another word exchanged, Sasuke sprinted down the sidewalk ad out of sight, leaving a very confused, and slightly sad, Naruto.
The said blonde slapped his face with his own hand and slowly slid it off his face.
'Oh GOD!' he thought. 'How could I have said those things?! It was like I was practically begging Sasuke to do things to me that night! What's worse is that I didn't mean it that way, and he had to control himself because he knew! I've got to be the biggest baka in the entire world!'
He just finished buttoning his shirt and stood into the mirror staring at himself.
"I bet I was doing all sorts of things like that our entire life, just egging Sasuke on like that, and had to endure all of it. I've been the one playing with Sasuke's heart, not the other way around. I'm a hypocrite, a dobe....a real loser. I don't know why he would even consider liking someone like myself....I'm the absolute worst..."
Naruto slowly made his way down the steps and to the front door. He called out to Iruka to let him know he was leaving.
"Okay, Naruto. Just hang in there, alright? Things will work out between you two."
"...thanks, Iruka."
He only gave a small, broken smile, which quickly fell back into a frown before going out the door to school.
*~*~*~*~*
It was the end of the break when Naruto made his way back into the classroom. All the students only looked at the blonde as he made his way to his desk and slumped into his seat, doing similar gestures as the previous day. After moments of awkward silence, the students started up again in their talks until the teacher came in to resume class. Naruto finally raised his head when the teacher began his lecture when he found something surprising: Sasuke was gone. There shouldn't have been a reason for his absence, and yet, he wasn't in the classroom. Naruto merely let his head flop back onto the desk and sank into a state of depression.
"I really am the absolute worst...."
*~*~*~*~*~
"Naruto!"
He turned his head around to see his pink-haired friend following him down the hallway.
"I see you finally came to school today."
"Yeah," the blonde exhaled. "It's because Iruka made me. Otherwise, I wouldn't have come."
"...I heard you two had some kind of fight. Someone said the potion on Sasuke-kun finally wore off..."
Naruto thought back when he was last with Sasuke, when he told him the truth and how he always loved him.
"....I guess so..."
Sakura gave a small smile when the pain in Naruto's face was obvious.
"Don't let it get to you, Naruto. I'm sure things will work out."
The blonde didn't give a response. Seeing him so upset, she reached into her pocket and pulled out a small box of chocolates.
"Here. Have some of these."
"Huh? For me?" he asked when taking the box. "But....I thought you said you didn't like me like that."
"I don't. They're not from me. They're from someone else, but she was too shy to give them to you (along with other events that recently happened....)."
Naruto chuckled at the statement and reached for the box, but his hand came to a halt as soon as his fingertip touched the corner. The memories of past years of Sasuke giving candy to Naruto and his awkward smiles that would follow afterwards came flooding in, as well as Iruka telling Naruto that Sasuke truly did care for him. All the feelings of guilt and loneliness filled him so much that he couldn't possibly take the chocolate from her.
"Sorry, Sakura-chan," he finally whispered. "I...I just can't..."
She lowered the box and gave him another smile.
"I understand. But try and cheer up will you?"
The blonde took a turn around the corner while hanging his head.
"Hey, wait a minute, Naruto! Where are you going?!"
"I guess I'm leaving. I can't stay the rest of the day like I thought I could. Sorry..."
Naruto continued making his way down the halls with Sakura following behind him asking him not to leave. But the blonde had made up his mind and was ready to start sprinting the moment his foot got out the front doors. As soon as he opened the door and was ready to take off with tears to flood his eyes, he was stopped with something blocking the way.
The blue eyes shifted over to get a better glimpse of his obstacle. It was a bouquet of flowers. The most noticeable were the orange roses. Then the white roses, yellow roses, light pink roses, red roses, and a single blue rose in the middle. Naruto was still shocked by the sudden appearance of the flowers, but he snapped out of it by a familiar, deep voice.
"The red rose in the language of flowers is true love, which is the most obvious out of them all."
The sapphire eyes looked down to see a pale hand holding the bouquet, but the rest of his body was hidden behind the wall.
"Yellow roses mean platonic love, which I truly feel for you, but can also mean infidelity, and I am truly sorry for that. White mean eternal love. Light pink is desire. The orange ones definitely reminded me of you, but they also mean passion, which you seem to have in everything that you do. Red and white mixed together mean unity. Red and yellow roses represent happiness and joy."
The raven revealed himself from behind the wall. His onyx eyes were the softest that the blonde had ever seen, and to match that was a very small smile that only Naruto could see. Sasuke reached pulled his other hand from out of his pocket and reached into the bouquet.
"There are also some red carnations in there, meaning my heart aches for you, but the most noticeable and the one that I want you to see is this one."
His hand brushed away the other flowers and leaves to expose the blue rose even more.
"This means attaining the impossible, the blue rose. Although I said the orange roses reminded me of you, I think the blue rose represents you the best. You tend to do just that, which is one of the many reasons why I have fallen hard for you. But at the same time, I know I screwed up big time and I know I can't ask for you to be mine. However, I think getting my feelings across is good enough for me, so...."
Naruto looked deep into the charcoal eyes before making his next move. With one hand, he moved some of the flowers out of the way so he could use his other hand to grab the blue rose.
"I think that was a stupid idea," Naruto whispered.
Once he had a grip of the blue rose, he pulled it out of the bouquet and pulled Sasuke into a passionate kiss. When their lips separated, he gave a warm smiled and whispered,
"You already have me, so this flower isn't necessary, Teme."
"Hn. I said that flower represented you, Dobe, so of course it belongs in there."
"Why'd you get a bouquet? And such an unusual one at that?"
"Because there's nothing usual about you, so why should the bouquet be normal? And besides, I don't think there would be any other way to get my point across unless I got flowers for you."
"You could have gotten me chocolate."
"Then you would never get it, Usuratonkachi."
Naruto gave a pout, but at the same time grabbed the flowers from him.
"I'm really sorry, Sasuke. Not just about yesterday, but every year since....whenever. I've been a jerk and a hypocrite."
"Well, I shouldn't have done all that, either. So, I guess we're even."
"By the way, why didn't you come to school today?"
"It took a while to figure out what flower means what. Plus, I couldn't build the courage to face you for the longest time."
"Oooh.~ The great Uchiha Sasuke was afraid of something?~"
"Can it. I heard you saying you were gonna leave just now. And I bet you didn't even show up the entire day."
"What? You keeping tabs on me?"
"No, I just know you very well."
"Hm."
Before the boys could let their lips meet once again, a loud shriek could be heard from behind them. They turned their heads to see a whole hallway filled with students looking at their entire moment. Not only that, but the windows from the higher floors as well as the ground floor were filled with more faces just as surprised as the others. Naruto gave a nervous laugh and was ready to "explain" everything, until a very loud noise interrupted everything.
"WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON HERE?!"
Tsunade was out, and boy, was she mad. Students were scrambling everywhere trying to find a safe place to hide. Sasuke took Naruto's free hand and, with a smile on his face, pulled Naruto to the school gate ready to run away with him. Naruto returned the smile with one of his own and gripped the flowers with one hand and Sasuke's warm hand with the other. They made their way past the front gate and down the street, leaving behind an extremely shocked school and a really mad blonde principal.
Always together without ever realizing, Naruto and Sasuke stuck to one another and were never meant to separate. And even on that bumpy road, the two had finally found a way to stay together. Out of all the Valentine's that Naruto had experienced, this would definitely be one for him to remember and stay in his mind for the rest of his life.
END.
Well? What did you think? A very sweet fanfic for all the SasuNaru fans out there. I really hope you liked it and will wait to see my other-
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What's that?
.....There's one more chapter left?! Who the hell gave you that crap?!
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Last chapter?...Oh....right....
Well, thruth be told, this was actually the end of the fic. But luckily for you, I love the SasuNaru smut, so I couldn't stand all the fluff and no smut. This fic ain't rated "M" for nothing! Stick around for the extra chapter!
...Heh...get it? "Stick around"?..."Stick"?....'Cause the fanfic is called "A Sticky Valentine", so the word stick is said again, like in sticky, and....
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...I'll go work on that extra chapter now...