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The Embarrassment

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5 minutes after receiving my list back from Naruto and I was already going through difficulties.

I had come into the classroom as usual, sat in my seat as usual before searching the classroom for my first target (I decided to go along with Naruto's idiotic ways), Shino Aburame. I had scanned and rescanned the room a few times before I mentally face palmed.

I had no idea what Aburame looked like.

I sighed inwardly as I looked around the classroom again in one futile attempt to spot anybody who fit the name of 'Shino' or maybe looked a little out of place so I would be able to befriend him easily; but before I could catch a glimpse of anybody in the class, a puff of pink hair covered my view.

"Hi Sasuke-kun!"

I sighed through my gritted teeth, "Sakura."

She smiled at me as she moved closer to my seat and began to babble nonsense, I glanced at the girl for a second, maybe I could ask her who Aburame was, it would save me a lot of time and unnecessary stress. I spared her a look once more and a disgusting grin was covering her face. I shook my head, I would rather go through the humiliation of asking Naruto who Shino was rather than asking her.

"I saw you at lunch today," suddenly her words caught my attention, I, obviously, didn't show it though, "in the canteen with Naruto." My interest piqued, was Naruto really that well known.

Sakura put a hand to her cheek and sighed, "why does that idiot always have to drag people along into his stupid schemes? Don't worry Sasuke-kun, I'll tell that moron to leave you alone and then maybe we can go home together?" She spoke in a hopeful tone but I ignored her and packed up my thing; she looked at me in confusion.

"That 'idiot' you speak of," I sneered at her, "just happens to be my friend and it would do you well to remember that." I finished off before stomping as far away from her as I could and taking a seat next to a boy with round shaped sunglasses.

I sighed as I unpacked my stuff again, not bothering to glance at the dumbstruck Sakura from across the room, I was supposed to be smiling and speaking positively but there was just something about the way Sakura talked about Naruto that made me want to defend him. I called him a friend, he wasn't supposed to be a friend, only a short term acquaintance, I didn't need friends.

Once the project was over me and Naruto would never speak again and I was OK with that. I chanted it over in my head like a mantra before the door slammed open and a panting Iruka walked in.

"Sorry I'm late, Kakashi held me up with a lot of useless questions." The murmur in the classroom died down to a faint whisper as people began to take their seats; I glared at the person who used to occupy the seat I currently resided in until he ran away with tears in his eyes.

"I'm going to take the register so quiet down." Iruka called out as he sifted through some papers to find the folder.

Although I didn't show it, my face lit up, I could just listen and wait until Aburame's name is called out and I can find out who it-

"Sasuke Uchiha." Iruka barked, I raised my hand like I usually did rather than speak. I listened intently but a few names after mine Iruka was done. I cursed inwardly; my musings had obviously made me miss the calling of Aburame's name.

I scouted the room once more but nobody looked like a 'Shino', nobody looked like an anything, just ugly blurs of colours. I didn't need glasses; I just don't take note of people's distinctive features. That's probably why I didn't know anyone but Sakura.

I sighed and placed my head on my table, this was going to be a very long History lesson.

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At the end of class I went to Iruka, no matter how hard I looked I couldn't find Shino. He wasn't called to answer a question nor did he ever ask questions, I didn't know what else to do so Iruka was my last resort.

"Huh, Shino? Why do you want to know where Shino sits?" He asked as he tided a stack of papers and moved them over on his desk. I sighed, "just answer the question Iruka, please."

He looked at me questioningly but talked anyways, "it's Iruka-sensei to you and Shino was sitting right next to you in class."

I paused, he was sitting right next to me and I didn't notice? What did he look like? Iruka seemed to notice my confusion and elaborated, "you know, the one with the black hair, sunglasses and high collared coat."

I almost slapped myself because of my own stupidity. How could I have not seen the sunglasses and trench coat? Of course Naruto would have chosen someone like him as the first target; he probably hates talking and works well, pretty much perfect for what I was looking for.

"Thanks Iruka!"I called over my shoulder as I left the room, purposely forgetting the 'sensei' at the end. I had to find Naruto so I could tell him what happened, even though I hoped he wouldn't laugh; I knew for sure that he would.

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I seemed to be laughing a lot lately, and it was because of Sasuke. Because everything he does is so funny, and cute, so very very cute. Not that I liked him or anything.

I was laughing at the moment because he was cute, his mistakes were cute, his thought process was cute, his face was c- no no no, back to the point.

Shino, Sasuke couldn't find Shino. But then he found Iruka and it turns out Shino was right under his nose; literally! "So you didn't talk to him at all?" I asked as we walked to our next class which we had together.

Sasuke scowled at the floor, "no, I don't talk to people, remember?"

"With the exception of me of course," I added with a grin, Sasuke faltered slightly but continued with a jerky nod, "right." I bit my lip to stop myself from grinning even more; no matter what I told myself, I couldn't help the fact that Sasuke was so cute sometimes, especially when he was embarrassed.

"What ever happened to your smile and be positive thing?" I asked as we neared our Biology class, he shrugged as he entered the room and sat at his usual desk, but unlike my usual I went to site next to him. "I don't think it's really working out, people get more freaked out than comforted, take my parents for example."

He began to take out his books and stationary while I threw my bag down and didn't bother to prepare myself for the lesson yet. "Well it's always best to make friends while being yourself," I agreed as our teacher entered the classroom. I lowered my voice to a whisper, "plus, you're natural smile is so much better than the fake one you put on, I can vouch for that."

From the corner of my eye, I could see a red tint cover Sasuke's cheeks for a quick moment before he regained his composure and I smirked, Sasuke really was too cute.

... What happened to his parents?

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Through the whole lesson I watched Naruto out of the corner of my eye; his various expressions were quite amusing. His face was shrouded with confusion most of the time, sometimes it was understanding but then it would go straight to embarrassment before switching to confused again.

I had to hold myself back from chuckling, how could I have not noticed him before, how could I have not noticed anyone? I felt like I was missing out in a way, was this what it was like to have a friend or was it just because that friend was him?

I shook my thoughts away as the teacher wrote more information on the board and I scribbled it down, it was too early to be thinking like this, I had only known him for a day, "don't get ahead of yourself Sasuke," I muttered as I furiously scribbled out a word on my page, "don't let it affect you."

Review replies:

Uzumaki Naho: Oh, ok. Haha thanks, sorry for maing you wait, i dont mean for it to be long it just turns out that way :)

Gemini Rose12: Hmm 3-4 years i guess,so its pretty deep if you think about it. Yes, yes you should. ;D

Randomly Talented: Yep,it kind of makes this super serious thing for Sasuke more fun. Good thing huh, dont want to ruin it:D I think it's duct rather than duck. That's a great philosophy you've got there ;)

keltieful: Hehe thank you, ah im glad i could help ;) Really? Thank you very much, i honestly though i was doing a bad job of making them seem a bit different but i'm glad you cleared that up for me:D Thanks, i liked that bit too, nah, i cant picture Sasuke as a super perv, at least not in this story. Ahaha, no apologies needed, i'm very amused but maybe you should try and get some more sleep. You're over praising me but thank you very much, it means a lot to me.

CrimsonNight41: No you're not, if something's going on focus on your real life dude, it's no big deal, just read it whenever you can. Kiba say's you're welcome ;] Hmm why not? Out of all the Naruto characters i think either Shino, Neji or Shikamaru would have been the best picks for a first target. Then skipping classes isn't good! Unless you're really stressed and cant take it anymore, a break is then in order.

Nashi-ossu: Thank you i'm glad you laughed, sorry for disturbing your Mother :) Aww thank you, im very happy to hear that.

nelle13: Thank you! :]

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