he likes her.
he likes her not.
let's see shall we?
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10 WAYS to know if he's in LOVE with you~
Sasuke was sure today was going to be peaceful and uneventful. Normal, he hoped. Of course, there was no such thing as normal in Team 7.
He had taken extra precaution today to visit the training grounds on his day off, knowing not many of Rookie Nine loitered there on a weekend. He gazed serenely up at the forests he had wandered into and picked a tree. With the ease and grace of the true shinobi he was, he positioned himself on one of its highest branches so that no one could spot him and he could see the clouds above the thickets of branches and leaves the forest trees made.
He had never understood why the odd Nara genius had chosen to star gaze above all things until Sakura had bodily thrown him down on a gentle(which she was anything but)rolling hill and demanded he watch. He had glared at her stubbornly so she had thrown a fist in his face.
"You can look at the clouds or you can look at the stars, take your pick," she had threatened.
Regardless to say, it was obvious he chose the clouds. No one could really blame him; that girl had fists of steel. And, even though he adamantly insisted he was not, he was as soft as rice pudding in her hands.
"Look Sasuke-kun! It's a leaf in the sky!" she had pointed out to him. He had stared at her for a moment, gauging her excited, glowing face, before following her finger to squint at the puffy, shapeless looking cloud she was pointing at.
"That's a leaf?" he had scoffed incredulously. It looked more like a lump of doggy doo. (Not that he was going to say that, she might- OOPS). He had rolled away swiftly to avoid her fist.
"It is!" she kept saying stubbornly. "It's just like the symbol on our forehead protectors," she insisted while poking at her own exuberantly to show him. His large hand had reached out and grabbed her smaller one before she could accidently poke herself in the eye in her excitement. He let go when she stilled and turned back to the sky.
Sasuke had glared at the cloud some more before making out the curls and lines of its shape that did somewhat resemble the Leaf symbol. When he had irritably Hn-ed to show he saw it, Sakura had beamed and proceeded to point out all the other shapes she saw in the clouds. Her revelations were strange; she spotted a Squirtle battling an Arbok and a thunder bolt striking a poodle with a bad hair day and etc.
Though he had found it annoying at the time, he gradually picked up Sakura's habit of watching clouds which she picked up from Shikamaru.
He frowned. Which reminded him.
She spent too much time around that kid.
Inwardly, he berated himself for thinking about Sakura so much. He had realized for some time now that she was very important to him. As a teammate, as a friend. He frowned again. It wasn't possible that he'd care for her more than that would it?
It was crazy. Impossible.
She was annoying, short, and had a big–, cautiously, he glanced around to make sure no one was there, …forehead. (It was a learned lesson, that sometimes when one thought about her abnormally –pause/glance/–large forehead, she would pop up and smack you and show you the stars). He should just stop thinking about it and concentrate on the clouds. He did so and had nearly settled in a peaceful half doze when a cry rang through the forest, shattering his peace…and eardrums.
"SASUKE-TEME!"
The dark haired boy sighed despairingly inside. He was so sure today would be peaceful and uneventful.
Of course, he had forgotten to take in to account Naruto's existence.
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Naruto had set out today on a mission. Recently, he had had suspicions about Sasuke. That boy was as cold as ice but whenever you put him near Sakura-chan, he melts like butter. It wasn't really noticeable to anyone else, he still acted like an ice prick, but Naruto had known Sasuke long enough to know when he was acting different.
And he was. He was acting different around Sakura.
It showed in the way he'd point his body towards her whenever he was near her, and the way he'd slump his shoulders forward in her direction whenever she was talking. And the way he'd stare. Naruto had never seen Sasuke look at anything like he looked at Sakura-chan.
Plus, he'd get all angry and stony faced whenever she worked too long at the hospital and came back with no chakra. But even though he was angry, he'd help her get home and would tuck her in at night and make sure her doors and windows were locked. (Naruto knew, he saw it with his own eyes). Then, he'd go out and make sure she had breakfast when she woke up. (Though Sakura never did appreciate the abundance of tomatoes he brought with him.)
Not only that, but he'd get such a weird expression on his face whenever she chose to hang out with Shikamaru. Like the kind of face he made when he found out Sakura had used his last precious tomato for an unsuccessful cooking experiment.
Sasuke wasn't exactly a social person, but he was very comfortable around Sakura. Well, he was comfortable around Naruto too, but…Sasuke hit Sakura-chan a hell of a lot less than he hit him. Naruto blanched. He was sure Sasuke would send a katon his way when Naruto broached the subject with him, but that would be necessary to overcome in order to complete his mission.
See, he had prepared for this day for a long time.
Alright, he only prepared for a few days or so, but that's notably applause worthy for someone with such a short attention span as Naruto.
He had gone to the library and (even though he had earned very strange looks from passing visitors and librarians) had proceeded to search for a book that would give him the necessary information he needed to know before confronting Sasuke.
Naruto had been sidetracked a little, not really good at searching for library books, he had chosen to search for the information using the key word: love. Of course, he came across many romantically themed books, and some perverted ones (really perverted, but really good which sidetracked him for a good, steamy while), and some books containing things he did not want to know about a human body. After he had smacked his head against the shelves a few times, he finally found what he was looking for.
10 WAYS to know if he's in LOVE with you~
Yeah, he read about body language, facial expressions, hand positions and everything else one needed to know if one wished to find out if someone was in love.
Because today, Naruto was going to find out if Sasuke was in love with Sakura.
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Naruto congratulated himself on making extra copies of the book. There was a very probable chance that the one he was shoving into Sasuke's incredulous face would be shredded into pieces, burned, and be scattered to the winds in
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"KATON NO JUTSU."
AN:/ i think there shall be a part 2^^