Shelly's Note: Oaky so this is the second to last chapter! I can't believe this story is almost over...hopefully this song will work for this and you'll like this chapter because I had to switch this all around and this wasn't the song that was supposed to be this chapter in the first outline but I hope it works

As always I own nothing

Also thank you to my beta Naruto Yaoi 911

Enjoy!

Chapter 17: Addicted

Sasuke sat in the back of the school's theatre after the talent show was over. He took a deep breath as he looked at his phone, knowing that the text he had just received was from Naruto and that it must be time to talk.

Meet me at the bench in the park closest to the tree.

Sasuke frowned at the message; it didn't say 'love you' or any kind of thing the blond would usually write since they had been together. He sighed and looked around to see if he could find Suigetsu. Since he couldn't, he grabbed his guitar so that it wouldn't get stolen, and walked out of the back of the school's theatre toward the park. On his way, he was stopped by people who he didn't even know, telling him that he did well that night, though he couldn't really help but feel that none of that mattered as long as his blond was still mad at him.

The park was rather dark and he could see the blond sitting on the bench by himself, looking down at the ground.

"Hey," Sasuke said as he looked at him and bit his bottom lip.

"Hey." Naruto looked up at the raven with a frown.

"So, I guess we need to talk," Sasuke said nervously.

"Yeah, I guess so," Naruto said as he slid over, indicating he wanted the other to sit down. "So, what's with the guitar?"

"I didn't want it to get stolen and I couldn't find Suigetsu to take it home." Sasuke sat next to him, put down the guitar, and let out a deep sigh, "So, let's talk."

"Alright. Let's start with the small thing first, the change of look," Naruto said as he looked him over.

Sasuke took a deep breath, "I just figured it was time to be me. When you first met me, I was under my parent's control. You got me to break out of that a little, but then you broke my heart and I needed support. They saw I was vulnerable and, well, they used that to their advantage and changed me into that, which was someone I'm not. So, now, I just figured it was time to be me… And honestly, I still am a little bit of the geek you first met."

"Sasuke, it's fine, I get it. I was just wondering why the sudden change. In fact, if you want to go back to total geek, that's fine." Naruto looked at him and smirked, "I mean, that way I'd be the only one to know how sexy you really are."

Sasuke rolled his eyes at the blond and looked down, "So why were you so mad?"

Naruto looked away, "The song..."

"I told you before the show, it wasn't going to be about you," Sasuke said.

"Yeah, I know, but a guy could use a little more warning," Naruto said.

"I'm sorry I didn't write you a song, but not everything is about you!" Sasuke turned away from him.

"I'm sorry, when my boyfriend told me he was writing a new song for the talent show after we got back together, I just assumed that maybe it was for me…" Naruto looked down. "I didn't think that you would write about something like that when all of your other songs have been about the people around you. I mean, your parents have one, Sakura, your stalker, has one and I guess I just kind of wanted one… but maybe you can only write me a song if it's a hate song."

"I'm not good at writing love songs. Sakura and my parents—do you see the kind of people you just classified yourself with? I mean, damn it, Naruto, you're so much better than that," Sasuke said as he turned to look at him.

"Then why write a new song for the talent show?" Naruto asked.

"Because the old one was about you, but I called you a heartbreaker in it and I don't think I should call my boyfriend a heartbreaker," Sasuke said.

"So what, you only write songs about people that piss you off?" Naruto smirked.

"It sure does seem that way. And how would you know that you don't have a song already written, that you just may not have heard?" Sasuke asked.

"Do I?" Naruto asked.

"I don't know, maybe." He smirked.

"Can I hear the song you were going to play if we hadn't got back together?" Naruto asked.

Sasuke thought about it for a second as he looked at his guitar. "Are you sure you want to?"

"Yes," he smiled with a nod.

"Okay." Sasuke picked up the guitar he had put down when he got there and began to play.

Naruto concentrated on what Sasuke would have said to him if they hadn't gotten back together. He didn't want to interrupt the raven, but he had questions already. Like that Sasuke thought he was the dick and that he thought Naruto didn't think about him.

He knew what he had said—or more what Kiba had said—which he had not refuted. However, he couldn't help but concentrate more on the fact that Sasuke had been saying that he couldn't forget him. It rather made him smile that he had such an effect on the raven; after all, he knew Sasuke had the same effect on him

Naruto looked at him as he sang. He found it hard to believe that he was going to sing the song he was singing to him at the talent show. The song was far nicer than what he was expecting. Sure, it said that he was trying to forget him, but it was also practically saying that he was still in love with him and the only problem was that Naruto was a heartbreaker. Naruto paused in his thoughts and realized that that was the problem.

He questioned how much it was about their relationship because he hadn't left, Sasuke had broken up with him. Then again, maybe he meant that Naruto had chosen his friends over him, and that was how he had left.

Sasuke couldn't help but find it odd that Naruto was smiling at him as he sang his song. He called him a heartbreaker and yet there he was smiling at him. Nevertheless, he didn't stop to ask about it, he just kept playing.

Naruto moved closer so that his leg was touching Sasuke's, but not so that is would mess up his guitar playing. He smirked at him and ran his fingers through the raven's locks. "

Naruto smiled as he watched Sasuke's talented fingers play the guitar and suddenly realized he didn't feel mad, nor did he remember why he was so mad to begin with.

The blond couldn't help but think how ironic the line "I never wanna do this again" was, as they were very well doing it again.

Sasuke ended the song and looked over at Naruto as he set his guitar back down again. "You're smiling, why?"

"Because, I don't even know why I was mad at you anymore," Naruto said as he looked at him.

"If I knew all I had to do was sing about you being a heartbreaker for you to not be mad at me, I would have done that in the first place," Sasuke smirked.

"Smartass," he mumbled, "I just mean that it seems so insignificant right now."

"What changed your mind?" Sasuke asked.

"It was never about you singing me a song at the talent show, Sasuke. It was just you didn't tell me and it was like, what was I supposed to expect?" Naruto said.

"It's just too soon for a love song. I mean, I can't really go from the hate 'I want to forget you' songs I've been writing for you straight to a love song." Sasuke sighed, "Plus, even though I love the fact that we are telling people about us, I don't need to broadcast it to the whole school."

"I get it, Sasuke, I do. It's just… I wish you would have given me a little bit more of a warning than, 'Oh, by the way, the song isn't about you' when I walked backstage to see you. I mean, why did you even bring it up? I probably would have enjoyed your performance so much more if you wouldn't have, because I wouldn't have been thinking, 'well, why isn't it about me?'" Naruto said.

"I know, but I just wanted to give you some warning," Sasuke said as he looked down.

"Yeah, well, you suck at warnings," Naruto smiled.

"Okay, can we just make up for it? I'm so damned sick of fighting. All I want to do is be together," Sasuke said.

Naruto smiled, "Yeah, I think I can agree with that."

"You better," Sasuke said as he leaned in and kissed the blond.

NS

Naruto and Sasuke walked into school together the next day, and they could feel many eyes on them. Naruto looked to where his group usually sat and he could feel their eyes boring into them as if to ask what had happened last night. Sasuke looked in the direction of his friends and felt the same thing. However, most of all, they felt the weight of the question of which group they would gravitate toward.

"So, what do we do now? You're the smart one," Naruto said.

"You're the one that does relationships. I'm not good with people," Sasuke retorted.

Naruto looked between the two. "Let's go off together, not to either group and maybe they will come to us."

"Yeah, maybe that'll work," Sasuke agreed as Naruto took his hand and they walked to their lockers, earning them looks from people as they passed.

"You've got to be kidding me," Suigetsu said with a sigh. "Sasuke, get back here." Suigetsu, Karin, and Juugo quickly followed Naruto and Sasuke.

"Dude, where are you going?" Kiba yelled at Naruto as he got up and rushed toward the blond.

The couple looked at each other as they stopped and turned toward their friends.

"What Suigetsu?" Sasuke said.

"What are you doing? We always meet in the same place and I thought you two were fighting," he said with a glare toward the blond.

"Back off," Naruto glared back.

"We made up, obviously, and things change. I mean, I have a boyfriend now and yeah, we're friends but—" Suigetsu cut him off.

"But we're just not important anymore, I get it. You don't need us," Suigetsu finished for him.

"It's not like that," Sasuke frowned.

"Dude, you didn't come to our meeting spot," Kiba said when his group arrived. "And I thought you'd dumped his ass by now. Weren't you mad last night?"

"We talked and now we're cool and we didn't go to either meeting spot because we didn't know which to go to," Naruto said.

"We've been friends forever, you come to ours," Kiba said.

"Kiba, I have friends, too, and I'm not going to give them up just so we can start hanging out with you guys every day," Sasuke said and his friends smirked.

"Why don't we just have a new meeting spot, for all of us?" Naruto suggested.

"You mean, all hang out?" Kiba asked.

"How about you guys are just attached at the hip?" Suigetsu suggested.

"Shut the hell up, Suigetsu," Sasuke said.

"Can you guys be nice to each other so we can make this work?" Naruto asked.

"Of course we can," Juugo said.

"Yeah, whatever," Karin agreed.

Sasuke eyed Suigetsu who took a deep breath and said, "Fine."

"What about you guys?" Sasuke asked.

"That wouldn't be too troublesome, I guess," Shikamaru said.

"Sure," Chouji said, "as long as our new meeting place is near a vending machine."

"Kiba?" Naruto asked, hopeful.

He just shook his head and said, "If I can agree to put up with Sasuke, I guess I can agree to put up with the rest of them."

Naruto smiled and said, "So I guess we'll meet by the vending machines by the front door?"

They all agreed and Sasuke smiled at Naruto. The blond knew it meant a lot to Sasuke that he was trying to spend more time with him by making their friends get along, or at least tolerate each other.

As they walked to the new before-school hang out, Naruto and Sasuke could see their friends talking to each other and saw that they didn't care if people stared or whispered about them. It was then that they realized, as long as they were together, everything might just turn out okay and their relationship may just work.

TBC...

Song of inspiration: Addicted by Simple Plan

Shelly's Endnote: I know this sounds like the last chapter with how I ended it and that is because it kind of is...The next chapter is the epilogue and it will be set a few years forward so this is the end on some level but there is an epilogue after this that tells where they end up going in their relationship

IMPORTANT FOR NEXT CHAPTER: I have two ways I can go with next chapter, happy and sad I was planning happy but also writing an alternative ending if you guys wanted it because though the alternative ending would be sad and may make you hate one of the characters it'd give you more to read because I really don't think next chapter is going to be very long...but I'll let you guys vote do you want happy, sad, or both endings, because if no one cares I'm not going to write both it's entirely up to the reviewers my beta already said they'd beta both so it's really up to the reviewers