Chapter 16: 'Remorse'

A/N: I'm so sorry about not updating for quite a while but hopefully I have somewhat made it up! Thanks for reviewing and reading everyone! The feedback has been incredible. Probably not another update for a bit because finals and the holidays, but enjoy this chapter for now! Thanks again! Also thank you to DeviouseDevil for pointing out that I put up the wrong chapter before!

Naruto grudged into school, dark circles were heavy bags under his distant blue eyes and his liveliness was not radiating as it usually was. He bumped into kids in the hallway as he walked towards his locker to grab a school book. Sakura was just done talking with Asuma when she noticed Naruto at his locker.

"Narutooooooooooo!" She called out to the boy, waving towards him. The blonde just focused on his locker combination, ignoring his best friend. Sakura puffed out her cheeks and stormed over to the locker.

"Uzumaki!" She yelled in his ear. Naruto gave a huff and faced the fuming pink-haired girl. "What do you want?" He snapped. Sakura's emerald eyes went wide with Naruto's tone and the look of depression on his face.

"Naruto.." Her voice was shaky; she hasn't seen her best friend look like this for years.

Naruto kept quiet and leaned down to pick up a hefty text-book, he ruffled up his hair and lifted himself back up to close his locker.

Sakura just kept looking at the pitiful blonde before her; she was biting her bottom lip, waiting for Naruto to look back at her.

"What happened?" She asked calmly. The depressed boy just shifted his weight onto the locker, leaning against it and closing his tired eyes. He had a massive headache, a nauseous stomach and a terrible feeling in his heart that wouldn't go away, not to mention the lack of sleep.

"Nothing." He muttered and kept his eyes closed, hoping that he could just sleep for a few minutes.

Kiba ran up to the blonde and playfully shoved Naruto further into the locker. "Maki!" He exclaimed with a grin. Naruto's blue eyes were now wide open and he knew he wasn't getting sleep at all today.

"Kiba!" Sakura sent a glare towards the brunette.

"What?"

"Hinata was looking for you." She lied. "She's upstairs, probably waiting for you so I suggest you get your ass up to her, if you know what's good for you." Sakura was now smirking.

"What would Hinata do…." Kiba stopped in the middle of his sentence. He almost forgot the one time Hinata got upset that he was hanging out with another girl who also had a love for dogs. His face went pale and he silently left Naruto and Sakura and dashed up the stair case as quickly as possible.

Naruto gave an amused snort and he went back to his original stance and closed his eyes again.

"So are you going to tell me what happened, or what?"

"Why?"

"Naruto!"

"Fine, fine." Naruto waved off the pinkette. "But-um we'd have to go somewhere..uh private." He blushed profusely.

Sakura looked confused but shrugged, "My car?"

Naruto nodded and they left the school and walked towards the parking lot.

Sakura unlocked her car doors and got in shortly after. Sakura sat down in the driver's side and faced the passenger seat that Naruto was seating in.

The blonde gave a loud sigh, "It's about Sasuke, I think." Naruto wrinkled his nose and set his book bag on the carpeted floor of the car.

"What about him?"
"It's a long story, don't mind?"

Sakura shook her head and listened intently to Naruto's story.

"Well, Sasuke and I made out during our practice but it wasn't just…" Naruto trailed off and the rosy blush found its way onto his scarred cheeks.

"Oh my God.." Sakura's eyes went wide.

"After that he asked me to bring him to my house, I did and he met my parents, Tsunade and Jiraiya. He also ate dinner with us and we talked and it got awkward because mom thought we were dating."

Sakura gave a chuckle but continued listening to the story.

"I offered Sasuke a ride back to his house. He kissed me outside the house and I kissed him back. Then he gave me directions to his house, but once we got the place there wasn't anything there."

Sakura looked confused but held back a question and let Naruto continue his tale.

"He um—well..he. He gave me a blow job." Naruto said quickly and covered his mouth and turned away from Sakura.

The pink haired girl heard her best friend and her jaw was hanging open.

"What?!"

Naruto continued on, making sure Sakura couldn't ask any questions about the blow job.

"I dropped him off at his house and I told him to forget about everything we've done and he got upset and stormed out of the car. I didn't get any sleep last night after that and I just don't feel well."

Naruto gave another sigh, finishing his story.

There was a silence between the two as Sakura went over and over in her mind of what Naruto just had told her.

She leaned over to Naruto and the blonde looked at her confused. Soon a loud thump echoed throughout the car.

"Ouch! That hurt, ya know!" Naruto rubbed at the place where Sakura hit him on the head.

"You deserve it, you idiot!" Sakura yelled at him.

"What did I do?!"

"How could you say those things to Sasuke when you know he is in love with you?"

Naruto looked at her remorsefully and removed his hand from his blonde mop of hair.

"Don't you feel guilty at all?" Sakura asked.

"Yeah." Naruto muttered.

"Tell him you're sorry and that you're in love with him already!"

"What?!" Naruto shouted.

"Naruto..listen to me. You didn't get any sleep last night because you probably felt guilty and he didn't express your true feelings for him. Your heart hurts because you hurt Sasuke, the person you're in love with."

"That's not true." Naruto grumbled.

"Do I need to hit you again, Naruto?" Sakura raised a fist to him.

She turned away from the blonde when she saw something catch her eyes.

She quickly opened her car door and ran over to Naruto's side, flinging the door open and grabbing the blonde from out of the car.

"What the hell?" Naruto shouted as he was pushed out of the car and his book bag thrown at him.

"Sasuke is over there." She nodded towards the direction where Sasuke was walking. Naruto noticed how good the raven looked today. He soon realized what he was thinking and quickly trashed the thought. Sakura began pushing the blonde towards the direction of Sasuke.

"Fine, fine. I'll go talk to him." Naruto gave an audible gulp.

"I'll be watching." Sakura glared at him.

The blonde gave a fake smile and walked towards the dark-haired boy. Sasuke kept walking, not noticing the sheepish blonde that was walking towards him. He was currently messing with his dark sleeves of his shirt.

A figure soon stood in front of him and he lifted his eyes from the sleeves to notice a tired looking blonde.

Sasuke would normally be happy to see the blonde but he was still pissed about the things Naruto told him.

"Naruto." He stated clearly as he faced the nervous blue-eyed boy.

The blonde kept quiet and just kept his stance in front of Sasuke.

The dark-haired boy sighed and took another look at the blonde, he noticed how miserable he looked and concern took over his upset emotions.

Sasuke walked up to Naruto and cupped the blonde's scarred cheeks.

"Naruto, what's wrong?" Dark eyes showed concern for the blonde.

The blue-eyed boy took a glance at Sasuke but looked down at the ground.

"I'm sorry, Sasuke." He said gently.

Sasuke's face sank.

"Naruto.."

"I'm sorry. I'm sorry, I'm so sorry." His voice was now shaky. "I didn't mean to hurt you. I-I'm so sorry, Sasuke." Naruto's hands swiped at the tears that rolled down his cheeks.

"Naru." Sasuke began wiping the forgotten tears off Naruto's whiskered cheeks with the pad of his thumb.

"It's okay, really." Sasuke didn't know what to say, he never seen Naruto this weak and vulnerable before.

"Do you really love me?" Naruto asked flat-out and his dark teary blue eyes looked at the dark-haired boy.

Naruto didn't care if anyone saw him and Sasuke anymore. He didn't want to feel like this ever again.

Ever.

"I'm madly in love with you Naruto. Yeah, we might not know a lot about each other-." Sasuke was cut off when a pair of lips was placed against his own.

Naruto brought his hands up to graze against Sasuke's sides as he deepened the kiss.

Sasuke kept his hands still on Naruto's cheeks. The blonde smelled like cologne, ramen, mint; Naruto's signature scent. He smirked a bit and gently removed his lips from Naruto's.

A blush was once again against the tan skin of the blonde, but his eyes were now a brighter blue and he seemed to be himself again.

A squeal could be heard feet away and Naruto guessed it was Sakura.

Of course, but he was glad she told him that he should talk to Sasuke. He owed her big time.