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Sasuke looked indifferent towards the whole situation, but was obviously avoiding eye contact.

Sakura looked somewhat wistful, nervously tugging her skirt.

Sai just smiled.

And supposedly all three of his friends, currently known as suitors, were in love with him. All of them. In love. With him. Naruto couldn't believe it. Who would anyway?

Sasuke rarely spoke even one kind word when it came to Naruto.

Sakura just kept shouting how stupid he was and punched Naruto more than often.

Sai liked to insult his manhood. The most unacceptable crime.

Just where was the love in all that. Love was, according to Naruto that is, when someone shouted it from the top of their lungs, just like he had done to Sakura. Loud and clear and added with a smile. So where were they hiding it?

Behind Sai's insults or Sakura's violence probably. Or in Sasuke's case behind both of them.

Naruto shook his head vigorously.

"I'm thinking too much…"

Jiraiya watched his student with a raised eyebrow, patting his back as an act of comforting. After all, Naruto went from confused to pathetic in a record time, even when one of his suitors was fine lady Sakura. If only he picked her.

Said fair lady just crossed her arms, looking slightly hesitant.

"Don't you have any kind of response to that, Naruto?"

How could he have? Didn't he just tell them how he didn't really know what it was? Looking anywhere but his former teammates, Naruto let out a long sigh.

"I don't think I love any of you."

So blunt. Just what they were expecting of their Naruto. But still, that was harsh. All three looked slightly defeated by it, but Sakura knew from fangirls experience that giving up was not an option. Not that it ever worked on Sasuke ways back.

"Then what about Neji and Hinata?"

Naruto looked at her and blinked.

"What do they have anything to do with this?"

Jiraiya couldn't believe his student's ignorance. Or more like he couldn't believe he was actually so used to it.

"I think they want the same thing from you as these three."

Naruto turned slowly to Jiraiya with a look that was pleading him to tell that it was all a bad joke. He let out a pathetic laugh.

"Them too?"

"You don't look too happy about it."

Naruto turned to look at Sakura again. She seemed a bit sad, and Naruto hated it. He also hated how Sai seemed to have stopped smiling and how Sasuke still wasn't looking at him.

"No, I'm happy, flattered even… but I don't…"

"It okay, Naruto. But just tell me this. Kyuubi said that if you combined how you feel towards the three of us then it might be close to love. So what do you feel?"

Naruto was a bit surprised on what kind of information Kyuubi had told them. In all honesty, Naruto hadn't realised it even himself, but now that he thought about it, maybe the fox was right. If he did combine the feelings then he would probably act like the people did on those romance novels Iruka had made him read.

Realising every eye was on him, he scratched his cheek nervously.

"Umm, I want to make sure Sakura is the happiest person in existence."

Sakura nodded, more or less satisfied. It would only make sense to want to make the person you love the happiest one. Sasuke didn't look too happy about the blond's thoughts when it came to Sakura.

"And after watching that movie with Sai, I think I wouldn't mind, you know... going a bit further."

There was not even a hint of embarrassment on Naruto's features, even when Jiraiya glared at him, not approving of the boy's answer. Sai seemed a little too pleased about this though. Sure, it wasn't love, but at least that meant some sort of relationship. A very satisfying relationship. All who had rebellious hormones when it came to Naruto, even Gaara who was still hanging around, glared.

After awhile, they stopped brooding over the newest confession from the blond, and waited for him to announce how he felt about Sasuke. But Naruto looked quite done with explaining and if they didn't know any better, they'd say he was currently trying to look for an escape route from where he stood.

"What about me?"

Naruto seemed to freeze at Sasuke's voice. He tried to glare at Sasuke but failed quite miserably as his nervousness came through his act.

"W-what does it matter, you arrogant bastard!"

Sasuke's eye twitched in annoyance.

"Just tell me dobe. You already know how I feel. Besides, it can't something as bad as Sai's."

"But it is! I'm sure you'll laugh at me."

Team 7 shared a look. A look they shared when it came to Naruto. And to their misfortune, Naruto took this as an opportunity to flee. Suddenly they were all surrounded by many Narutos. Narutos as far as the eye could see! They had time to blink before all the clones, and the one real Naruto, started to run into different directions.

Sasuke cursed and started to chase after them, knowing that his chances on finding the real one were slim. But he wasn't about to let the boy escape without telling him how he felt. His teammates seemed to think along the same lines as they too chased after the many Narutos.

Jiraiya kind of hoped his student could manage to escape the bloodthirsty demons.

To be continued...

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