A/N: Oladio and other uncommon greetings! Once again I sit next to my keyboard and covertly typing for you...chapter six!

Lyn: No.

Kira: No what?

Lyn: To what you're thinking.

Kira: What am I thinking?

Lyn: And why would I tell you that if we both know what you're thinking about?

Kira: Because you luffles me?

Lyn: ...No.

Kira: Aha! That's what you're saying no to!

Lyn: No.

Kira: Wait, no? That's not what you're saying no to?

Lyn: No...

Kira: Hold on a second! No, you're not saying no to me saying that you said no or No, you are saying no to what I thought you said no to? -dazed expression-

Lyn: -smirk- No.

Kira: NO WHAT!?

Lyn: No.

Kira: Can you say anything else besides no!?

Lyn: -grin- Yes.

Kira: And what would that be?

Lyn: Let the story begin!


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Naruto hobbled along. Naruto didn't like hobbling. In fact, he hated it. He would have found it awkward too considering he was you using the good looking brother of the guy who had just kissed him as a crutch but he was too consumed with the kiss itself.

'Two in one week?! What the hell is going on!?' Naruto shouted in his own head. 'One minute we were arguing and then he gives that god damn look and-'

Naruto blushed slightly and looked off to his left.

"Something is wrong?" Itachi asked.

'That's the understatement of the year.' Naruto thought bitterly.

"No, I'm fine," Naruto lied.

"Something is wrong." Itachi stated bluntly.

Naruto's canine tooth exposed itself as he bit his lip. He wasn't sure what reaction he was trying to hold in.

"Naruto-kun!" Sai shouted and waved from the front door.

'Shit! What's he doing here!?'

Naruto gulped down said unknown reaction and smiled.

"Sai-kun!"

As Itachi and Naruto pulled up Sai began to look worried.

"What happened?" Sai asked.

"Oh, nothing, I just messed up my ankle a bit,"

'No, wait, that's the understatement of the year.' Naruto corrected himself.

Itachi handed Naruto off to Sai. As Sai slid his arm under Naruto to support him, Naruto felt a shiver run up his spine.

"Thank you Itachi," Sai said.

Itachi nodded.



'He's going to leave us? Alone?!' Naruto shuttered at the idea of bringing up the subject. He'd rather them just forget it happened and go on. Things were too confusing for him.

"Itachi why don't you stay and have a dri-" Naruto stopped, realizing that the red eyed raven locked boy had disappeared.

"Quite the magician, isn't he?" Sai said casually.

"He really is." Naruto said in wonder.

There was a long pause before Naruto looked up and saw Sai staring down at him in a way that said 'God, you are cute.'

Naruto blushed deeply and in a painfully obvious red.

"Well," Naruto faked a smile, 'I guess you can go home now. I'll be just fine."

"I've made you uncomfortable," Sai seemed to laugh a bit.

'How many understatements can be made in one night!?'

"No, why would you say that?" Naruto said, starting to sweat.

"Naruto-kun, how did it feel?"

"Oh, well, uh, my ankle?" he squeaked back.

"No, you know what I'm talking about."

"No, I don't," Naruto squeaked again.

There was a pause before Sai released Naruto and sat down.

"Was it so bad?" Sai asked.

Naruto blinked before realizing the severity.

"No," he said kicking the ground slightly.

"You didn't want me to kiss you?"

"No, well yes, but no, I don't know."

"Can we try again?"

Naruto felt his heart skip a beat.

"Uh- I,"



Just then Lyn popped out from behind the front door.

"Is he home yet-" but Lyn was interrupted.

Naruto flung himself at her and kissed her.

Lyn pushed him off after the general shock.

"What the hell!?" Lyn shouted as she spat out Naruto's imaginary kiss germs.

"Nothing," Naruto observed.

And, as tradition dictates, Kira popped out right after.

"Where's Uzumaki-"

Naruto flung himself then at Kira and kissed her.

Kira's cries were muffled but she began beating him with the feather duster that had been in her hand. Lyn grabbed Naruto by the collar and tore him off.

"Still nothing," Naruto noted again.

"What are you doing?" Lyn asked.

"Testing my sexuality!" Naruto cried.

Naruto looked at Sai. He walked up slowly towards him and reached up and slowly kissed him.

Sai didn't push him off but he didn't react either. Naruto kissed him for a long time.

'This feels…like something…'

Naruto let go.

"I'm sorry everyone," Naruto apologized with a grin on his face.

Sai turned around, waved goodbye, and went on his way.

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"A sexual experiment, eh?" Lyn raised her infamous eyebrow.

The three of them were sitting on the floor with cups of ramen.

"It seems more like a confirmation to me." Kira added.

"Well I just wanted to know." Naruto said as he gulped down his soup.



"And what did we learn from all this, hn?" Lyn asked.

"Yes, Uzumaki, what have you learned?" Kira cornered.

"Well, I learned that –um, I."

"Yes?" the two egged on.

"I learned that I- well, you see-"

"Yes?" the two verged on shouting.

"Well, I am, I think I'm, I-"

"YOU'RE GAY!" the girls shouted.

"I didn't say that!" Naruto retorted.

"For the love of all things holy, you keep a garden!" Lyn shouted.

"And you wear a gardening hat, gloves, and APRON with little flowers on it!" Kira continued, "How are you not gay!?"

"I can't be gay!" Naruto shouted.

"Why not!?" the girls shouted.

"Because they'll stare at me." Naruto said, looking sadly into his ramen cup.

Kira and Lyn stopped for a minute, arms still hanging in the air from their frantic waving and shouting.

"Stare?" Kira asked.

"I've heard them talk about Sasuke. If I don't' have to be an outcast, I don't want to be."

"Outcast?" Lyn asked, "You won't be an outcast."

"Yes I will be!" Naruto shouted, "And I'm not going to make myself one, not again."

"Again?" Kira asked, "Naruto, were you picked on?"

The room fell silent as Naruto pulled his legs up to his chest and held himself.

"They used to call me unwanted." Naruto started, "I didn't have parents. I don't even know what happened to them. I've been in foster homes ever since I could remember. No one wanted to adopt me. The kids at school began to wonder why I didn't have a mommy or daddy. Their parents told them I must have been a bad 

child or something because, all of the sudden, no one would play with me anymore."

Naruto began to shake a little and his grip tightened on himself.

"The kids started to tease me but then they just ignored me completely. It was like being invisible. You don't know what it's like to feel like no one wants you, including yourself."

Naruto looked up for a moment. Kira and Lyn had drawn closer to him. Kira had tears welled up and Lyn looked like she was holding them back. Kira threw her arms around his shoulders and Lyn gently stroked one of the whisker like markings on the blonde's cheek with her nail.

"Yes," Kira started.

"Yes, we do." Lyn answered.

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The next morning, Sasuke sat on his kitchen table staring at the refrigerator.

'I've always tried to help you.' Sasuke thought both angry and depressed.

Itachi stepped into the room and sat beside Sasuke.

"You're not supposed to sit on the table." Itachi said in monotone.

"Neither are you," Sasuke countered.

"You're thinking a lot." Itachi stated.

"Hn," Sasuke replied.

"If you were a cat, you're ears would be flat against your head and your tail would be moving a lot." Itachi furthered.

"I'm not a cat." Sasuke said.

"Your tail stopped moving."

"I'm not a cat. I don't have a tail."

"Your fur is standing on end now."

"Stop it!"

"What shiny teeth and claws you have." Itachi grinned ever so slightly.



Sasuke dropped his head in defeat.

"I hate you." Sasuke mumbled.

"You kissed him." Itachi said.

"How'd you know that?!" Sasuke growled.

"He's just scared. He didn't mean to get angry."

"He's stupid. I've always been there for him." Sasuke grumbled.

"You're impatient."

"You're getting into things that don't involve you."

Itachi paused for a moment and then glared.

"Go to school." he finished.

Sasuke got up and grabbed the photo that had been on his fridge and stuffed it in his pocket.

'Fuck this.' Sasuke thought as he exited the door. 'I love you, Naruto.'

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Kakashi whistled happily as he made his way to his classroom. He was, as custom goes, late as always. He was quite enjoying his lengthy stroll to his classroom and thinking about the wonderful copy of Ichi Ichi Paradise that he left in his desk drawer. Yes, he believed he had left off somewhere around the part where the-

"Trouble," Kakashi said, a little afraid, "I sense trouble coming."

He turned on his heel and observed his class before taking a deep breath and deciding what he planned to do for this foreseen problem.

"Um, well then, free time!" Kakashi called out merrily and grabbed his book.

Sakura glared at Naruto. She had seen everything. Sakura was simply tailing Naruto after his visit to Sasuke's home (like any stalker would). She marched up to Naruto and pointed an accusing finger at him.

"You're gay!" she shouted.

The entire class turned to face the blonde

"WHAT!?" Naruto shouted.



"I saw you and that guy!"

"What guy!?"

"That guy! You kissed him!" Sakura shouted condemningly.

"Sakura," said a cool and powerful voice, "Sit the fuck down."

Sakura stared at Sasuke.

"But Sasuke…"

"I said to sit down. Now."

Naruto looked up at Sasuke with hidden gratitude.

Sakura swallowed her accusations and made her way to her seat like any semi- well trained pink monkey. Kira got up from her seat and offered it to Sasuke.

"Kira wait!" Naruto called, "I, uh, wanted to talk to you about something."

'Yeah that's a good excuse!' Naruto thought to himself.

"Okay, shoot." Kira said.

'Fuck! Okay, it was a good excuse…'

"Oh, I, wanted to ask if you, hm, like, pancakes?" Naruto struggled.

"…no…" Kira said, "Is that it?"

"Uh, yeah," Naruto said finally.

Kira scampered off to the other side of the room while Sasuke sat down in the now empty seat.

There was no noise between the two for a good ten minutes.

"Why are you here?" Naruto asked.

Sasuke turned to face Naruto.

"Because I can be."

"Sasuke, I've been doing a lot of thinking."

"Hn, you think?"

The blonde growled.



"Occasionally, yes," Naruto then grumbled, "What happened yesterday? I don't understand."

"Baka, you should." Sasuke said in an almost aloof way.

Naruto's eyes widened a little bit before going into a state of just plain confusion.

"I like you," Sasuke said.

Naruto's cheeks turned red.

"WHAT!?" Sakura screeched from across the room.

'That's what I was thinking!' Naruto's mind added.

"Sasuke-kun! Tell me I did not just hear you say that you like Naruto!" Sakura continued to freak.

Sasuke flipped his hair a little.

"And if I did?" Sasuke glared.

"Well, you, you can't!" Sakura cried.

"Because?"

"Um, because, …I like Naruto-kun!"

A hush fell over the crowd as Sasuke glared Sakura into a pink oblivion, Sakura's face burst into twitching, inner Sakura mentally smacked real Sakura, and Naruto's face bloomed into a large and overdramatically goofy grin.

"Really?" Naruto asked.

Sakura looked at Naruto and tugged her hair violently.

"R-really!"

Sasuke glared at the floor.

"You disgust me Sakura." He said.

Naruto looked at Sasuke nervously. Sasuke's hair was in his face, and there was this air about his mood. It was a destructive and angry mood but at the same time sad. It was thick, almost suffocating. It was pain.

"Sasuke?" the blonde ask.

"Date her if you want." Sasuke demanded. "Since you're so excited."



And at that exact moment, the bell rang. Sasuke got up and swiftly made his way out into the hall but something fell out his pocket. Naruto picked it up and examined the object. It was an old photo of a little blonde boy with whisker like marking on his cheeks holding hands with a dark haired little boy with an Uchiha insignia on his shirt...

Naruto had never felt so bad in his life. There was a sharp pain in his chest. Naruto couldn't stand it. It hurt worse than his ankle had. It hurt worse than all the names he had ever been called.

It hurt worse than being invisible.

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Lyn: -sniffle-

Kira: Lyn, are you crying?

Lyn: No! –wails and sniffles-

Kira: Are you sure?

Lyn: No! –sobs-

Kira: Is it because of my story?

Lyn: …Y- Y- YES!! –out right cries dramatically-

Kira: AHA! At last the endless string of 'no' has been broken!

Lyn: Wait, you wrote that whole thing to get me to stop saying no?

Kira: Yesh. –proudly grins-

Lyn: -smacks Kira- BAKA! That's what I was saying no to! I did not WANT to cry today thank you very much!

Kira: …oh.

Lyn: I need a moment to murder so, ja ne!