Chapter-2:
"Idiot."
"Bastard!"
Sasuke's fist flies and Naruto ducks easily. They finish an exhausting bout of taijutsu and have just about enough energy to breath.
Sasuke contemplates.
Naruto is easily the most appalling and impressive person he has ever met.
There is a curiously unignorable quality about Uzumaki Naruto.
(He absolutely refuses to be a background, a bit player.)
By now, everyone in Konohagakure is aware of him, and the Hokage takes tea with him on most days.
"I'm afraid your common sense is starting to resemble a baked potato, Naruto-kun."
"Hokage-ojisan! You are barking mad! Come on, Sasuke! Ignore him!"
(It is all very different from having a perfect brother.)
Naruto makes things better with his insane plans and obnoxious declarations, always aimed at getting a smile out of Sasuke.
Nobody will shield Sasuke anymore, this he realizes painfully. And now, with startling clarity he realizes that nobody is there to shield Naruto either.
Sasuke is not oblivious to the village's hate towards his friend and wonders why, but Naruto shrugs easily and laughs without a care.
Still, it makes him anxious.
"We have to watch each other's back," Sasuke mutters, laying on his back and staring at the sky, "I'm certain best-friends are meant to do that too."
Beside him, Naruto sits on the swing and hums absently, and sews their ripped shirts and doesn't seem to be too overly worried about anything.
Perhaps it is because the idiot is busy invading Sasuke's life and turning it upside down.
Sasuke scowls and drops the subject.
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