Sorry for how long it's been since I've updated…I'm trying to update as fast as I can but I've got a lot going on right now…

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Song of inspiration: Jealous Again by Black Crowes

Chapter 21: Jealous Again

Everyone could see that Naruto and Sasuke were getting closer. The two walked up to the usual group, coffee in each of their hands. It seemed to have become a ritual that they'd go for coffee in the morning. Sasuke sat between Suigetsu and Juugo, the former giving him a knowing look. "What?" he asked looking annoyed, knowing what he was thinking.

"I didn't say anything," the light haired man smirked. He knew how to annoy the dark haired man and he found it highly amusing, especially when it involved a certain blond. "Here comes trouble," Suigetsu whispered to Sasuke as Sai walked up. The other man had seemed to become a permanent part of the group, which annoyed Sasuke more than Suigetsu's comments. "No need to pull out the claws, Naruto's definitely not into him like that. Besides I think he's straight," he continued to whisper as he nodded toward Sai, who was flirting with Ino. Suigetsu just gave another chuckle as Sasuke glared at him, "Dude, you've got it bad."

"Shut up," Sasuke mumbled as he looked at Sai. He felt a little foolish for being jealous. He watched Sai flirt with Ino and he let out a sigh. Perhaps Suigetsu was right; maybe he really did like Naruto. He wasn't going to admit it though. He decided to ignore the fact that he had somewhat admitted it to himself multiple times and tried to tell himself that he wasn't jealous.

"What are you two whispering about?" Naruto asked from across the table. Had it been anyone else Naruto may have been jealous, but it was Suigetsu that Sasuke had been talking to. Suigetsu was straight as an arrow and definitely not into Sasuke like that. While he knew that he really didn't have any right to be jealous, that didn't stop the feelings from rising every time someone tried to flirt with the Uchiha.

"None of your business," Sasuke snapped before Suigetsu could say anything. The light haired man just looked at Sasuke and let out a little laugh, causing Naruto to become confused. "I have to get to class," the dark haired man suddenly said as he stood up.

"You don't have class for another forty five minutes," the blond pointed out as he looked at the time on his phone. He didn't understand why Sasuke would suddenly want to leave; they'd had a great morning so Sasuke's actions didn't make sense to him. Naruto frowned, wondering if he'd ever fully understand the dark haired man.

"I need to study," Sasuke said quickly, almost too quickly. He didn't say anything else; rather he walked away toward his next class. 'Damn it,' Sasuke thought, knowing that he didn't really have anything that he needed to study for.

"You know his schedule that well?" Suigetsu asked, amused. He wasn't sure how Sasuke couldn't see how much the blond liked him. He didn't even know Sasuke's schedule well enough to know the time his classes were.

Naruto nervously rubbed the back of his neck, trying to think of an excuse. "Well," he started, as both Suigetsu and Kiba gave him knowing looks. "I'm his roommate, why wouldn't I?" he said knowing that his reasoning was lame.

"Right," Suigetsu chuckled. "I'm sure that's the reason," his response made Kiba laugh and the look on Naruto's face only made it funnier to him.

"Whatever," the blond huffed. "I should get going too," he said as he stood up, wanting to get away from the conversation. He was wishing he had gone with Sasuke, but with the way the dark haired man retreated he figured that it would have been a bad idea. The way Sasuke left only made him more curious as to what he and Suigetsu were talking about, part of him hoped that he'd been the topic.

As Naruto walked away he heard Kiba yell, "Man up Naruto." The blond only responded with his middle finger. His response only made Kiba laugh as Naruto wondered if he should take the brunette's advice and tell Sasuke his feelings.

NS

Sasuke didn't normally sit in areas that had a lot of traffic, especially not on mornings when he was in a bad mood. It had been a day since Suigetsu had teased him about Sai. The dark haired man sighed, thinking about how he'd decided not to go to breakfast with Naruto. He knew that the blond was disappointed, but Sasuke needed to think. He didn't want to be around Naruto or his friends because he had to work out what he wanted to do. He knew that he liked Naruto, what he was debating was whether or not he should give into his feelings and actually tell him.

The young Uchiha sat at a table in front of the building of his first class. It was earlier than he usually arrived, but he didn't want to hang out in his own room with the blond he knew would only ask him questions. He had his book in front of him, open, making it look as if he were studying. Every now and then a girl would giggle and wave as they passed by him, which only made him remember why he didn't like girls.

"Sasuke?" he heard a familiar voice say from behind him. It was a voice that he hadn't heard in a while, though hearing it again didn't annoy him. He turned toward the speaker and saw exactly whom he expected: Kyuubi. "So it is you," the man smiled as he sat across from him.

Sasuke looked at his old lab partner, "Hey." He wasn't sure what else to say to the man. It wasn't as if they had been best friends in high school, they were merely lab partners. His presence brought back memories, which annoyed him at the time but he realized that to anyone watching the events would have been funny.

"That's all you have to say?" the other man smiled. "No insult or demands of me leaving," he chuckled, knowing how the Uchiha normally acted. "You feeling okay?" he asked, somewhat genuinely concerned. He expected Sasuke to be rude, but was pleasantly surprised when he wasn't.

"I'm sorry, idiot, I didn't realize you were so fond of my insults," Sasuke dryly replied, causing Kyuubi to just continue smiling. "What do you want?" he asked as he looked at the redhead in front of him. He wasn't sure what else to say, he wasn't going to admit that they were somewhat friends in high school and so he wasn't entirely annoyed by his presence.

"I just saw you and figured I should come say hi," he replied casually. "We were friends in high school after all," he added with a smirk, wondering what kind of response he'd get from the other man.

Sasuke just rolled his eyes as he said, "We were not friends." It was the response that Kyuubi had expected and so it didn't faze him. "Don't look at me like that," Sasuke demanded as the redhead looked at him, obviously not believing a word Sasuke had just said.

"You haven't told me to leave yet," he pointed out in response. "I think that alone says that you see me as a friend," he added, grinning like and idiot. He looked at Sasuke and couldn't help but continue to stare. The man had always been hot, but he had definitely gotten hotter with age, if that were possible.

"Shut up moron," was Sasuke's not so clever reply. There wasn't much seriousness in his tone and they both knew it.

"How long do you have before class?" Kyuubi asked, wanting to see if he could spend more time with Sasuke. He was hoping that the dark haired man would have a long time because he wanted to do something. He hoped that Sasuke would agree.

"About an hour," Sasuke replied, again wondering why he had come to his class so early. Part of him wished that he didn't avoid Naruto considering that the blond had no idea what the conversation was about. The other part was oddly happy to see Kyuubi and the fact that he'd been a good distraction from his thoughts. He knew that he often over thought things and Kyuubi could be the perfect distraction for him to stop thinking about Naruto.

"Cool," the redhead said happily. "Want to go get coffee? We can catch up," he suggested, knowing the Uchiha liked coffee. Before Sasuke could answer two other men walked over. He recognized as Sasuke's best friend, Suigetsu, though the other was a complete stranger. Just by the way he was staring him down Kyuubi already decided that he wouldn't like him.

"Sasuke there you are," Naruto said, ignoring the presence of the redhead. "We've been looking for you," he told him, his sole focus was on the young Uchiha. He wanted to know who the other man was, but didn't dare ask because he knew that the jealousy would show in his voice.

"Kyuubi?" Suigetsu questioned as he looked at the man next to Sasuke. That one name made Naruto become even more jealous. The fact that Suigetsu knew whom the man was made him think that he may be a threat for Sasuke's affections. "It's been a while," he then said, wondering if it were the first time Kyuubi and Sasuke had seen each other since high school. He didn't think they were good friends but with how comfortable Sasuke seemed around him he wondered if he was wrong.

"Suigetsu, right?" Kyuubi replied, to which Suigetsu just nodded. "Who are you?" he asked as he turned toward Naruto. The look on his face clearly showed his emotions, but Sasuke didn't seem to notice. Kyuubi could tell that he wasn't going to be good friends with the blond just by the way the other man looked at Sasuke. In his mind a war was about to begin.

"Naruto," he answered. "I'm Sasuke's roommate," he informed him, glaring at the redhead. He wasn't sure if Sasuke could sense the tension between him and Kyuubi, but he guessed that he couldn't since he didn't seem uncomfortable. He wasn't sure how he could be so oblivious.

Sasuke cut in, feeling some of the tension between the two. He wasn't sure why Kyuubi wouldn't like Naruto, but he didn't want to over think it. "This is Kyuubi, my old lab partner from high school," he told the blond. At that point Suigetsu knew that Sasuke wasn't as blind as it may appear, but rather denying that either one of them may have feelings for him. "He used to try to get me into trouble all the time," Sasuke added, looking over toward the redhead.

Kyuubi just shrugged as he let out a laugh. "I had to get my entertainment some way," he told them. "It was always fun to rile him up," he added as he looked back at Sasuke. The exchanged looks annoyed Naruto; not liking that there was a new person in the other man's life. He knew that Sasuke making friends was a good thing and he was okay with it, just not when it was someone that may like Sasuke. He also knew that he had no right to be angry, especially since he wasn't acting on his own feelings.

"So, Sasuke," Naruto emphasized the man's name so that Kyuubi would know he wasn't including him. "We were going to meet up with the others for breakfast," he told him, though by the look on Sasuke's face he could see that the man didn't care. "Want to join us?" he asked, hoping the dark haired man would say yes.

"I already made plans to go get coffee with Kyuubi," Sasuke informed him, wanting a distraction while he sorted out his feelings for Naruto and just what he was going to do about them. "Come on moron," Sasuke said to Kyuubi as he got up. The redhead didn't say anything, instead settling with giving Naruto a cocky smile as he and Sasuke started to walk away.

Suigetsu could see the frown on Naruto's face as he saw the other two men walk away, obviously catching up. "He's just a high school friend, don't worry about it," he told him, trying to assure him that he wouldn't be competition for Sasuke's feelings. He never thought that Sasuke would have a crush on Kyuubi, from what he could see the man wasn't anywhere near his type.

"Is that why he just ditched us to go to coffee with him?" Naruto asked, his voice somewhere between sad and angry. Suigetsu looked in the direction Sasuke and Kyuubi had just walked away, realizing that he wasn't even sure if his words were true. When Suigetsu only frowned in response, Naruto said, "That's what I thought."

Suigetsu found it somewhat ironic that just the other day it had been Sasuke who was jealous. The tables have definitely turned, but he just hoped that they weren't in Kyuubi's favor. He didn't completely trust the guy in high school and he still didn't. There was something about the redhead that told Suigetsu he'd be nothing but trouble.

TBC…

I am so sorry that this took so long to post…I'm even sorrier because this chapter didn't turn out as well as I wanted it to…hopefully next chapter will turn out better and be posted faster…