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The Plans

S

Naruto and I sat in my living room staring at the slightly crumpled piece of paper that I called a 'how to be social' list.

After Biology, Naruto offered to walk me home and since he never took no for an answer, I just made it easier on myself and said yes. When we eventually reached my house, he demanded I invite him in for tea so that we could discuss how to get past number 3 on my list.

My parents were out on a date and my brother had an after school activity so I agreed for Naruto to come in for an hour, no more; this leads us to our current predicament, twenty minutes had gone by, Naruto's tea was half finished and cold and we were still thinking up a plan of what to do.

"Ok, I've got it!" Naruto finally said before he took a long swig of his cold tea.

I looked at him expectantly and he just grinned back, "We'll start with Plan A."

N

I watched as Sasuke walked towards Shino Aburame's locker area. School didn't start for another 10 minutes so now was the perfect time for him to strike up a conversation as the mysterious boy used his locker A.K.A Plan A.

The Uchiha walked slowly, his chin was up and a small smile, almost a grimace, covered his face, a lot different from yesterday. I had told Sasuke that he needed his smile to be realer and his words to be deeper for anyone to believe them or be calmed by them, his extremely real grimace was the result but it was better than his fake smile which hadn't done Sasuke's face justice.

Sasuke stopped before he had completely reached Shino, he was close enough to touch him but he didn't lift a hand, he didn't move at all, just stood and waited.

I sighed, he was nervous, why wouldn't he be? He hadn't talked to anyone before now other than his family, Iruka and I. I smiled at the thought of being one of those few special people Sasuke talked to, but of course I wasn't special by his choice, I thought bitterly, I had blackmailed him.

I was brought out of my stupor by the slamming of a locker door and saw Shino fixing his bag straps and turning around only to come face to face with Sasuke.

"Go on Sasuke." I whispered supportively, "now's your chance to talk to him!"

The two stood there for about a minute and a half before Sasuke finally opened his mouth, "come on Sasuke, you can do it." I whispered again.

"Hn." Was the only sound that came out before the Uchiha moved to the side and walked past Shino; I face palmed, we we're going to have to go to Plan B.

S

"Plan B?" I asked Naruto sceptically as I helped him with a Maths problem, he nodded, "yeah, since you failed at Plan A." He snickered to himself silently as the teacher calmly walked around the class.

I scowled at him, "I didn't fail it, I just decided those methods were beneath me."

"What methods? Having a conversation like a normal person?" I flicked his hand making him drop his pencil, "don't push it Uzumaki." I hissed in his ear; is it just me or did he just shiver?

"Ok, ok, don't get all prissy," before I could argue again, he continued, "for Plan B all you have to do is bribe him."

I snorted, "bribe him? With what exactly?" I asked sceptically as I ducked down and finished off the last of the questions on the sheet. I looked over to Naruto's paper and smirked widely when I saw he had only answered 3 questions of the 27 that I had finished.

"I dunno, ramen?" He guessed as he rubbed at his paper ferociously. I made a face of disgust, "who likes ramen?" I scoffed and he looked offended, "everybody likes ramen!" He replied in a voice that was slightly louder than a whisper causing their maths teacher, Kurenai-sensei, to cast them a suspicious glance before continuing her rounds of the classroom.

When she looked away I lightly whacked Naruto over the head, "not so loud idiot, and for the record, nobody likes ramen."

Naruto scowled at me before finally scribbling the right answer on his now crumpled paper causing me to chuckle, I had never done this before; never talked during class or laughed with someone or tried to finish my work early, not caring if the answers were right or not (which they were), so that I could focus on a conversation. The blond idiot that sat next to was making me experience so many firsts and it had only been a day and a bit since I had met him.

I sighed as I looked down at all of my neatly finished questions, was I going to be able to leave this? Would I be able to turn away from the weird warmth that Naruto's presence gave me?

Shaking my head, I picked up my pencil and worked on some extra questions, it had only been a day, maybe a would grow to hate his constant companionship, I didn't need it, "I don't need him." I mumbled to myself reassuring the fact that I was now and forever a lone wolf.

"What about cake?" My head snapped up to the blond who had whispered me the question while sneakily glancing at Kurenai-sensei, "huh?" I breathed slowly.

Naruto sighed at me patronising me making my eyebrow twitch with irritation, "everyone likes cake right? So why don't we bribe Shino with cake?"

My heart throbbed as Naruto said 'we', I normally wasn't included in anything; it was me, myself and I, never we. A soft smile made its way onto my face through the irritation and I said in the nicest way I possibly could, "we're not using a plan as stupid as that."

S

Sitting at a table in the canteen two times in a row started to really freak people out, after all, Sasuke Uchiha wasn't exactly what you would call a social butterfly and yet there he was, surrounded by people as if he was normal, oh the horror!

I snorted a little at my own thoughts causing Naruto and his weird friend (Kiba, I think his name was) to look at me funnily before continuing with their conversation. I slowly picked at the pasta that sat in-front of me; it was bland and looked cold so I didn't bother eating a bit of it.

"I've got it, Plan S!" My head jerked up at Naruto's happy exclamation while his weird friend (I prefer to call him that) only lifted an eyebrow, obviously used to his odd behaviour; for some reason that I could not explain, this made me jealous, how long did they have to spend together for him to get used to Naruto?

Ignoring my own thoughts I looked to Naruto, "what's Plan S?"

He gobbled up the rest of his lunch before winking at me, "Plan Sasuke." He stood from his seat and stepped away from the table, "hurry up and finish your lunch, I'll explain on the way there."

I looked down at my untouched pasta and deemed it 'finished' before I too stood. Before I could throw away the food, I noticed the weird friend eying it hungrily; not willing to waste food, I offered it to him, "thanks Sasuke! You're not such a bad guy after all!"

"Hn." Was my only reply as I followed Naruto out of the hall, I no longer felt jealous for some reason.

S

"Why'd you call it Plan Sasuke?" I asked as Naruto and I sped through the halls, we had 10 minutes left of lunch and apparently we were ring to get halfway across the school to the courtyard.

"Because it's a plan specifically designed for you and your particular standards." He explained with a wink, I felt touched and annoyed at the same time; touched that he had taken my person preferences into account and annoyed that he was insulting me.

"This way you won't have an excuse as to why you couldn't do it," he snickered, I was about to roughly punch his arm when he came to an abrupt stop causing me to bump into him before he ducked down behind a wall and pulled me with him.

"What's the big ide-" A hand covered my mouth while another one turned my chin to show me what exactly Naruto was staring at. It was Shino sitting on a bench while looking carefully at something on the ground.

I pulled away the hand that covered my mouth, "well, are you going to explain Plan S?" I whispered and he pulled us fully behind the wall.

"I guess you could call it Plan S Part 1, because with this method you'll only have a reason to talk to him, not a way to become friends." He explained thoughtfully as he rubbed his chin.

I sneered, "well that's no help then is it?" He frowned at me, "with your personality, it's the best I can do."

My heart panged at the insult Naruto had dished, I turned my head away and frowned, yeah sure I was a douche but I really didn't expect Naruto to be douchy back. Internally I berated myself, I was a lone wolf, I didn't need companions and this was a reason why, don't get too close Sasuke, don't get too close.

"Aww don't pout princess, I didn't mean it that way and you know it." Naruto whispered too close to my ear for comfort; I felt a blush spread on my face as my hands rose to Naruto's chest to try and push him away since he had me backed up against the wall and his arms were on either side of my head.

He pulled away slightly but only enough so that he could see my face and grinned, "don't be mad at me princess, your personality is one of the things I love the most about you."

I felt the blush spread all the way to my ears and hid my face in my hands before Naruto could even catch a glimpse. No matter what I said to myself or how many times I assured myself I wanted to be alone, there was something about Naruto that made me open up and I wasn't sure I liked that.

Stop being hasty Sasuke, I thought to myself, it's too early to decide anything; it could have been the same with anyone who approached you first, Naruto is in no way, shape or form special.

Sighing as I felt my heart slow down and my face pale I removed my hands, "what's Plan S?" I asked lazily, not missing the disappointment flash through Naruto's eyes quickly.

"That's right, Plan S, how could I have forgotten?" He asks as he mock hits himself, I snort but don't interrupt him, "It's easy, extremely simple; all I want you to do is walk up to Shino..."

"Uh huh."

"Then walk past Shino."

"Without stopping?" I questioned, he smirked, "it'd be better if you sped up." I nodded and he continued.

"While you're walking past Shino, I want you to trip in the most obvious way possible," I glared at him; "you want me to what?"

He raised his hands in surrender, "let me finish," I kept on glaring at him but didn't open my mouth to interrupt; "after you tripped I want you to threaten him."

My eyebrow rose, "what do you mean by threaten?" Naruto shrugged, "I don't know, say something like 'if you tell anyone about what you just saw I'll personally kill you.'" He offered while doing an impressing that sounded nothing like me.

"And threatening to kill him will eventually lead to us talking more and becoming friends how?"

Naruto shook his head at me condescendingly causing a tic to appear on my forehead, "isn't it obvious? Every time you see him you'll be giving him threatening looks or messages and eventually he'll wonder why you want to keep it a secret so much because let's be honest, who wouldn't be curious? This will sooner or later lead to you talking to him about how you don't want your reputation to be ruined and you don't want people close to you, some sort of sob story will be thrown in there and boom, you've just gotten yourself your first friend, well other than me of curse."

It was amazingly hard to keep my jaw from dropping at the utter stupidity I had heard coming from Naruto's mouth, "that must be one of the most stupidest plans I have ever heard. I am not doing that."

Naruto scowled at me, from what I see, you haven't got anything better Sasuke and you need at least 3 more people in this group of your for it to actually count as a group, you either take it or leave it."

Sighing, I reluctantly agreed with him, oh how I hated when Naruto was right because it made me feel stupid. I sighed once more before pushing Naruto away from me and stepping out from behind the wall.

He looked on in anticipation and I glared at him, "if this fails, I am literally going to skin you alive." The blond just winked, "good luck princess." Were his parting words before I marched off towards the direction of Shino.

N

I watched with a mix of anticipation, fear and humour. No matter how this situation turned out, it would be funny.

Slowly, Sasuke began to pick up his pace until he was at a speed walking pace in the direction of Shino Aburame. If the boy had noticed the speeding raven coming his way he obviously didn't show it as his eyes stayed trained to a spot on the ground, a spot Sasuke seemed to be heading for, "nice job Sasuke." I whispered to myself.

What happened next seemed to be happening in slow motion. Sasuke had reached the spot that Shino was staring at causing the other boy's eyes to snap up to him, but before Sasuke stepped on the spot he seemed to experience the most spectacular fall ever.

His left leg hooked around the shin of his right leg in a fake yet somewhat real looking trip. As he fell, his arms flailed in and his face morphed into one of shock and disgust at the same time. He fell onto his knees and before he could fall to his stomach, he braced himself with his arms.

There was a moment of silence, for Shino it was to stare at Sasuke who had just landed in the spot he was staring at, for Sasuke it was to try and prevent a blush from creeping up on his face but in my opinion it would have made it more effective, and more cute.

For me, it was to try and prevent myself from screaming with laughter but it was so hard since the way Sasuke fell was deeply and truly amazing, "you're so awesome Sasuke." I wheezed out slowly.

I stopped laughing completely when Shino stood up, Sasuke didn't dare meet his eyes and the boy opened his mouth to speak, "Sasuke Uchiha... you..."

There was a pause, a long stretch of silence before Shino took a few steps forwards until he was standing in front of him; he then kneeled and put his hands on Sasuke's shoulders, "Sasuke Uchiha are you an insect lover also?"

I had to strain my ears to hear him speak but when he finally did my amusement had returned and I had to prevent myself from falling to the floor so I could hear how Sasuke would reply.

"Huh?" I almost face palmed at how dense Sasuke could be at times, but at the same time he made it so cute!

"You were obviously rushing to get somewhere, but instead of stepping on it, you decided to throw away your pride and fall rather than crush this small ant civilisation." Shino explained and although I couldn't see his face, I knew he had an expression of admiration.

"Uh, yeah, I just didn't want to end the lives of all those ants, you know?"

Shino nodded solemnly and I was now quivering with the amount of laughter I wanted to let out. "Let's be friends Sasuke," Shino declared while offering a hand to help Sasuke up after he stood up himself, "as fellow insect lovers." He finished.

Sasuke took the hand with a familiar smirk, "yes Shino, let's." With a nod and a masked smile, Shino walked away in the direction of his next class while I walked up to stand next to Sasuke.

We stood there for a few moments in dead silence until I opened my mouth, "that was easier than I expected."

What did Sasuke say, you ask? He didn't say anything, he just laughed.

Review Replies:

Uzumaki Naho: Haha i bet it's not all gucci anymore since it took a month this time. Yeah but i feel like im getting ahead of myself, it's only been a day and a bit. '~'

keltieful: Aww thank you very much ;D Haha yeah, doubts so early on cant be good can they? Thank you, i didnt want to make her too annoying *coughwhat'sPoBP?cough* Technically he didnt really tune him out since he didnt really know he existed, he was just background noise in a way. I honestly think that's how it's going to be, sorry if that annoys you, i tried to make this chapter longer. Hehe you dont really hear about their wellcbeing in this chapter.

MoonKissedDreamerEureka: Well that's another way to end my story, that's now my backup plan. Ramen Ranger Red OUT! :D

CrimsonNight41: Haha thanks, i try and make it as cute as possible ;) Im glad you enjoyed the chapter.

namvd: Thank you very much X) I'm happy that my fic is making you laugh!

Randomly Talented: You're welcome, i find your philosophy very funny ;] No worries, i should be apologising for taking so long to update. Haha your french is excused but what would he fuck upon exactly? Sakura is always ARGHHH, of course that's what happened, how did you figure it out?! Thank you very much, im happy to hear that.

SkyiMello: Haha thank you :) Hmm, i dont know really, ill make it up as i go along, but Kiba is most likely going to end up with Hinata.

berry5tz: Aww thank you, im happy to hear that :)

AN: Heyo guys! Once again im extremely sorry for the delay and i hope you liked the chapter, Shino was a bit too OOC for me but oh well, we win some we lose some ;) bye guys!