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Naruto yawned, he hadn't exactly been getting much sleep lately. It had about a month and a half since the new students had arrived and Sasuke and Naruto had made it a habit of staying up to all hours of the night just talking and laughing . (a/n: and sometimes playing around –smirks- if you know what I mean)
Naruto yawned again, and then peered at his dark companion, No matter how late we stay up he never seems to be tired the next day. Sasuke turned, feeling the gaze of the shorter boy on him, and locked eyes with the blonde. Naruto blushed and turned back to the front, ashamed at being caught in the act of staring.
Sasuke's and Naruto's relationship was an interesting one. They weren't exactly dating, like Kiba and Hinata, but they weren't friends with benefits either. In truth the only ones who knew about their little rendezvous' were Gaara, Neji, and Shikamaru. Naruto had naturally told Gaara, him being his best friend and all, who had told Neji, who the red-headed boy had become quite fond of. And Shikamaru, being a genius, had figured it out on his own.
Naruto sighed as he left his class with Sasuke on their way to lunch. He watched as many a girl came up and offered love confessions to the stoic raven, I wish I could just tell these bitches to back off! He's mine for fucks sake! Why can't Sasuke and I just be boyfriends? Everything would be so much simpler that way! Naruto was abruptly pulled out of his musings, however, when something grabbed onto his sleeve and harshly yanked him to the left to avoid collision with an open classroom door.
"Watch where you're going idiot" Naruto nodded in response. Something that Naruto had come to realize was that the insults that Sasuke and himself threw at each other no longer held any venom, instead, names like 'dobe' and 'teme' were used by one to address the other, sorta like nicknames.
"You've been abnormally quite today" Naruto smiled knowing that what Sasuke really wanted to say was, 'Are you okay?' but his pride had once again gotten in the way.
Naruto watched as Kankuro and Shino entered the cafeteria, hand-in-hand, and felt a pang of jealousy, not towards either boy but towards what they had. Is it so wrong for me to want something like that? I don't think so. It seems like everyone around me has someone to love that'll love them back, Shino, Kankuro, Kiba and Hinata are dating. Temari has a crush on that boy Shikamaru and he seems interested in her as well, not to mention that Gaara and Neji seem really close lately…
"Hi Sasuke-kun!" Naruto rolled his eyes as his pink haired friend ran up to their table and sat down next to Sasuke, "Oh hey Naruto" she added as an after thought, noticeably less enthusiastic. He didn't bother to respond seeing as she had already begun a one-sided conversation with the handsome boy beside her. Ino had long since given up on the raven haired boy, there was only so many times she could handle being shut down. She had instead shifted her focus on Shikamaru but Naruto doubted that she was his type.
"—so do you wanna go with me?" Sakura finished, Naruto quirked an eyebrow, "What are you talking about Sakura-chan?" Sakura shifted her hopeful eyes off of Sasuke to answer her confused friend. "Haven't you heard Naruto? There's a dance this weekend! To get in you have to have a date! So Sasuke-kun will you go with me?"
Sasuke raised an eyebrow at Sakura, then shifted his gaze to Naruto and then back to Sakura, "Fine" Naruto's eyes widened a faction and he felt his heart crack but he quickly schooled his face into an expression of happiness as Sakura squealed, jumped up, embraced both of them and ran off to, no doubt, find Ino.
"Shit" Naruto said with fake horror, "I forgot I had to do something for that thing! You'll be okay right? You know your way around now so you'll be fine! I probably won't be in class for the rest of the day, so will you tell our teachers? Thanks! See you bye!" And he ran off without waiting for a response.
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Naruto panted as he leaned against the door of his room, he had run all the way, a full out sprint, from the cafeteria to his dorm. How could he do that? He just accepted like I meant nothing to him at all! Naruto felt tears begin to fall down his face as he walked to his bed and buried his face in a pillow, I honestly thought he cared, I'm so naïve, he could have anyone he wants! Why would he settle for me?
Naruto looked up when he heard hesitant knocking at his door. He quickly got up and glanced in the mirror, to make sure he didn't look like he'd just been crying, before answering the door.
"Temari? Wha—" An extremely distraught Temari interrupted him, "I-Is my brother here by an-any chance?"
"No he's not, but T (1) what's the matter you look like you're about to cry!" As he said this tears began to well up in her eyes but she put on a fake smile nonetheless, "It's nothing I'll just come back later then" She was about to turn and leave when Naruto caught her wrist, "If your looking for a brother's support, you know you always have it in me…" Her eyes softened at his words before she burst into tears.
"Oh Naruto! I like him so much and I really thought he liked me too but then he just accepts Ino's invitation like I mean nothing to him at all! I don't understand him! Why would he do something like this to me?!"
Naruto's eyes widened a fraction, he was shocked to see strong-headstrong-Temari reduced to a blubbering mess, he motioned for Temari to enter his dorm, "You mean Shikamaru?" He said as they sat down on the couch in front of their TV. "Yes!" Naruto frowned, I thought that he liked her as well.
Naruto smiled weakly at her, "I guess you and I are in the same boat then, aren't we?" She wiped her tears away with a tissue that Naruto had gotten her, "What do you mean?" Naruto sighed and began to retell the incident that had happened at lunch.
"That bitch!" Naruto chuckled as Temari's 'how-dare-you-hurt-my-loved-ones!' instincts kicked in, "Which one? Sakura or Sasuke?"
"Both!" She sighed, "And you know what the worst thing about all this is?" Naruto shook his head, "This dance is supposed to be amazing and we're not going to be able to get in because we don't have dates!" Naruto nodded but then stopped.
"Not necessarily!" Naruto kneeled down in front of Temari who remained seated on the couch and placed one of his hands over his heart and took Temari's hand in the other, "Beautiful Princess Temari" Temari laughed at this, "Please do me the honor of allowing me to escort you to the up coming ball" Temari schooled her face and answered in mock-seriousness, "Why of course Prince Naruto! I would be delighted to be your date!" They both turned as they heard coughing behind them, to see Gaara and Neji with identical confused, though Garra's was more horrified then confused, expressions on their faces.
"What the hell is going on in here?" Temari and Naruto looked at each other, mentally agreeing that they didn't want anyone else to know about their little predicament. "Nothing baby brother! I'll see you guys later!" and with that said she exited the room.
Gaara turned to Naruto and raised an eyebrow, "What? She's your sister you should be able to understand her by now!" And with that Naruto left as well.
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(1) I've decided that Naruto will give Temari the nickname of 'T' in my fanfic
Wow I'm not going to lie but that was the shortest suckiest chapter I've written to far! I blame the fact that school and field hockey practice are sucking all the creativity out of me! Ok well I promise to update soon and with longer chapters if yall review!
Next time: The dance! Sasuke and Shikamaru's jealousy! Until next time! Ja ne!