Chapter 8: 'The Challenge'
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Sasuke's alarm clock on his phone went off, the reason he had an alarm on the weekends still confused himself. He groaned as he stretched out his arms and gave light slaps to his cheeks to keep him awake. He looked around his room and gave a hefty sigh as he began undressing.
He searched in his closet for a casual outfit to wear and decided on some dark pants, and a dark blue long-sleeved shirt. Shortly after getting dressed he walked down towards the kitchen to grab a bite to eat. Itachi was already downstairs at the dining table on his laptop, his reading glasses perched on the bridge of his nose.
"Good morning, Little brother." Itachi yawned and continued typing.
"Morning." Sasuke replied as he sat across from his brother, eating a couple of grapes.
"Why are you already dressed up today?" Itachi raised an eyebrow and his eyes glanced from his laptop to Sasuke's outfit.
"I have to go buy some furniture today for my room. Mom asked me to a couple of weeks ago, but we've been busy moving in. So today's the perfect day." The younger Uchiha shrugged and popped a grape into his mouth.
"Where are you going shopping at then?"
"I saw that there was a mall a few minutes away."
"What if the blonde prey is there?" Itachi gave an amused look to his brother.
"I'd be in the furniture stores. Why the hell would he be in that section too?" Sasuke snorted and finished off the grapes in his hands.
"Okay, okay. Be careful." Itachi waved a goodbye to his brother.
"I will." Sasuke mumbled and grabbed his keys and wallet from one of his coat's in the closet. He quickly tied up his shoes and left the Uchiha manor.
Sasuke drove for several minutes until he reached Konoha Mall. The parking lot wasn't as full as he expected, which he was relieved after finding a parking spot easily.
Sasuke walked into the mall through the west entrance which led to the major furniture shops inside. Sasuke made a list in his phone before of what he needed to buy. Sasuke read off the list in his mind as he looked through windows of shops to see if they had what he needed.
The Uchiha went into multiple stores as he looked around for the items in his list. Sasuke already found his picture frames and posters which he carried around with him in shopping bags. All he needed now was a couple of art supplies and a small box to keep some of his smaller belongings in.
Sasuke groaned as he had to walk all the way to the other side of the mall to find his art supplies. As Sasuke got further and further to the other side of the mall he could smell the food court and hear kids laughing and yelling to each other. Sasuke spotted another furniture store and stopped outside of it to window shop and check his phone's list.
Naruto and the group were goofing around; yelling into quiet stores, pretending to try on clothes and just messing with anyone they could. Naruto was a lot happier now that he got his and Sakura's mind off the whole Sasuke incident last night. He figured he could figure out everything during later this weekend since he knew he wouldn't see Sasuke till History class on Monday.
Naruto was staring off into space as he walked into someone and landed on top of him.
"I-I'm so sorry about-" Naruto began to say before horror-struck his face as he looked down at the person below him.
"Sasuke?"
"Naruto?"
Naruto shook his head and got off immediately, his heart was beating at 100mph now.
'Why the hell am I always falling on him?'
Sasuke just looked at the blonde before a pink haired girl helped to pick up Sasuke's shopping bags that he dropped and his cell phone.
"Uh- thanks." Sasuke shook off dust from his pants before grabbing a hold of the items.
Naruto's face red and his eyes wide just like the night before. Sakura looked between the two and remembered that Naruto and Sasuke kissed when Naruto fell on him. She held in a laugh as the two just stared at each other.
"Oi, Sasuke!" Kiba exclaimed as he broke the silence.
Sasuke turned to face the grinning brunette but gave him a scowl in return.
Kiba didn't seem to notice and continued to talk, "We missed you, Naruto and Sakura at the party. You should hang with us."
Sasuke was about to decline the offer before a blonde butted in, "No, we're leaving right? I bet Sasuke has shopping to do anyways."
Naruto was nervous and he looked at the group with desperate glances.
"Well, I just need to talk to Naruto. You guys can go on ahead." The young Uchiha told Naruto's friends.
Naruto threw Sakura a worried look but Sakura ignored it and gave him a smile of encouragement before heading off with the rest of her friends.
Sasuke watched as the group was further away before grabbing a hold of Naruto's sleeve and pulling around the corner.
"What the hell?" Naruto muttered as he was released from Sasuke's grip.
"About the other night.." Sasuke began to say.
"What happened the other night?" Naruto tried to play dumb.
"Don't be an idiot. You know what happened last night." Sasuke deadpanned.
"No, it never happened."
"What are you talking about, Naruto? It did happen. We kissed last night. Don't tell me you are pretending nothing happened between us." Sasuke snapped.
"Last night was a mistake, wasn't even a real kiss."
"You're an idiot." Sasuke mumbled.
"Nothing happened between us and nothing ever will." Naruto stated coldly.
Sasuke gave a pained look but took Naruto's words as a challenge.
"I purposely kissed you, Naruto. It was your first kiss so there is something special about it."
"No. We don't even know each other! You just kissed me after a fell on you. We just met on Friday."
"I don't care about that."
"Well you should, Uchiha. I'm a guy, you're a guy. I'm not like you, okay?"
Sasuke gave a snort and gave a glare to the blonde.
Naruto tried to glare back but became uncomfortable under his gaze.
Sasuke smirked and grabbed Naruto's shirt by the collar, bringing his face close to his.
"Listen, I'll make you fall in love with me. I'll learn everything about you and you'll learn everything about me. Got it." Sasuke whispered into his hear.
Naruto blushed from the contact and was released soon after, he could still feel Sasuke's breath against his ear.
"How are you going to find out about my life? I'm not telling you and neither are my friends and family." Naruto gave a sly smirk back.
"I'll show you, Uzumaki."
"Also, I don't want to learn about you, Uchiha." Naruto stuck out his tongue.
"It's a challenge then." Sasuke's smirk grew larger.
Naruto's face sank and his face grew into a scowl. Sasuke hoisted his bags back up and gave another smirk to the blonde before leaving him.
Naruto stood there as he took in everything that happened within the last five minutes.
'Damnit' Naruto scoffed under his breath.
He sighed and decided to go find his friends, he broke out into a jog as he went to the direction they left in.
'If it's a challenge, then I'll definitely not lose. Especially to that perv.' Naruto decided to himself as he caught up with the group.
Sakura gave him a glance and saw his determined look on his face.
'This should get interesting.' Sakura gave an evil smirk to Naruto and kept her laugh quiet.