Author's note: Two oneshots in one night? Don't get used to it :P This idea wouldn't leave me alone and it's all about the balance after all. Don't take this seriously, because it definitely isn't.

Warnings: Dual pov; Sakura being an unreliable narrator; established slash; former SasuSaku; the problem with gossip; NOT FOR SAKURA FANS!; Alternate universe

Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto. Kishimoto owns it.

I hope you'll like this drabble!

The Old Adage

Sakura wasn't vindictive. She wasn't! She believed in the whole let bygones be bygones and all that crap. But could anyone expect her to remain calm when she got dumped not that long after sleeping with her boyfriend for the first time?

Her ex-boyfriend now. Unfortunately. Her face soured as she slumped down on the driest bench in the park, sipping morosely from her strawberry milkshake. Uchiha Sasuke had been the heartthrob of the town the very minute he set foot in primary school. Cute as hell as a kid and an absolute heartbreaker once he hit his teens, Sasuke had been desired by many girls and even some boys. The more brave ones had tried asking him out, but time and time again he had rebuffed them, citing a complete lack of interest – and that was putting it in much nicer terms than he had ever used.

To be frank, a lot of them had started to suspect that he was simply aromantic or asexual – until they got into university and Sasuke started dating for the first time. Sakura had not had the fortune to attend the same university as Sasuke had, but she had caught the gossip all the same through her friends and the online message boards. She doubted all the gossip was true; she had a hard time believing Sasuke had truly had a new boyfriend or girlfriend every other week, but there had been pictures circulating of him going on dates with several people, until he had started to date a red haired girl called Karin.

That hadn't lasted long for some reason and then a girl named Tayuya had seen her chance and had grabbed it, dating Sasuke next. That one hadn't lasted long either. After Tayuya, Sakura had lost track of the gossip for a while, buried to her neck in books as she was, and by the time she had resurfaced from her studies and had got her own degree in medicine, Sasuke had already been working for nearly two years at his family's company.

Sakura had never expected to meet Sasuke again; their fields of work just too different for them to ever come across one another, but then Ino had thrown a party and had invited everyone. To everyone's shock, Sasuke had actually shown up – and this time it had been Sakura who had seen her chance and nabbed it.

Dating Sasuke had been like a dream come true! He was such a gentleman the whole time, treating her like a princess and making her feel like she was floating on clouds. Everything had been perfect – up until she had slept with him for the first time. She hadn't remained a virgin on purpose; her studies had never really left her with an opportunity to find herself a boyfriend and the men working at the hospital didn't attract her attention at all. Yet it had seemed so fitting, keeping herself pure for her Sasuke-kun. It had been so romantic!

Not even a week later he had dumped her. Just like that. As if she was a bag of trash. He didn't answer her calls, ignored her emails, and when she had shown up at his work he had even ordered a guard to kick her out! What the fuck?!

Furious and desperate for answers, she had returned to the old message boards where threads detailing Sasuke's love life at university had still been up. They had been buried underneath a bunch of new messages threads naturally, but it hadn't been difficult to find back the ones she had wanted and oh, what she had read in those posts … It all became very clear all of a sudden.

Sasuke apparently kicked on having innocent partners – up until he rid them of their innocence and then they were no longer of interest to him. Several people who had claimed to date Sasuke for a while all posted the same thing: he was perfect, an absolute gentleman, up until they made love for the first time together. Then it was bye-bye and on to the next one.

Sakura hadn't wanted to believe that tripe, but if so many people mentioned it, it had to be true, no? It certainly was true in her case!

She had no idea what to do with this information, only knowing that she was still pissed off and hurt, and sat there on the bench, stewing.

Until a very familiar voice had her stiffening.

"Just pick whichever one you like, it doesn't matter," Sasuke's deep voice – the one that had never failed to send shivers down her spine and in which, she discovered crankily, it still succeeded – urged.

"Careful or I will order a big bowl with every flavour of ice cream in it," an unknown man laughed.

Carefully Sakura turned around, spotting Sasuke first. He and a blond man were standing right around the corner in front of a cute ice cream vendor. Sasuke was as always dressed immaculately in a dark blue suit while the blond man was more casually dressed in a light blue jeans and an orange shirt.

"Then order everything, I don't care," Sasuke repeated flippantly.

"Bastard, you already took your break later just to line up with mine, I'm not going to empty your wallet for some ice cream," the blond man insisted.

Sasuke's laugh made Sakura scowl. Had he ever laughed like that with her? She couldn't remember.

"You think some ice cream is going to empty my wallet?" he asked amused.

"Okay, you know what? Just for that, I'm going to order a scoop of every flavour," the blond man threatened and did just so, turning to address the vendor. "A scoop of every flavour, please. With a lot of sprinkles on top!"

"Oh no, how ever will my wallet survive this?" Sasuke bemoaned mockingly.

Sakura clenched her fists when she saw him wrap his arm around the blond man's shoulders, tugging him closer so that he could whisper something in his ear.

Only three months and he had already set his sight on someone else? Un-fucking-believable! Had she really mattered that little to him?

Well, if that was the case … She narrowed her eyes, watching the blond man laugh at whatever Sasuke was telling him. Perhaps she should warn his new boyfriend just exactly who he was dealing with, hm?

"Hello there."

Naruto startled and nearly lost his grip on the key to the flower shop. He turned around, spotting a pink haired woman with green eyes who was standing right next to the wooden bench he had just relieved from its burden of plants.

"Oh, hello." He blinked, a bit taken aback. "If you're here for flowers or other plants, I'm sorry but I've just closed up the shop," he told her apologetically. "You'll have to come back tomorrow, I'm afraid."

"Oh no, I'm not here to buy," she said dismissively and adjusted the shoulder strap of her bag. "No, I was just wondering … Are you perhaps dating someone named Uchiha Sasuke?"

"Erm, I am, yes," he said surprised. "You know him?"

She smiled thinly. "Unfortunately yes," she answered to his bemusement. "I saw you two at the park today. You've been together for long?"

"Hm, no, a bit more than a month now, I think?" he mused aloud. "Why?"

"Forgive my bluntness but have you slept with him already?" she asked out of the blue.

"Excuse me?" he spluttered in shock, staring at her wide-eyed. "I don't see how that's any of your business!"

"It's not, I suppose, but I just want to warn you: Sasuke-kun has a kink for innocence, I suppose you can say," she said, which honestly just baffled him even further. What even was this conversation? "You might want to watch out just how much you give of yourself or you'll find yourself kicked out of his life, like the rest of us. It's what he did to me and it's what he did to all the others. Have a nice evening."

She walked off, rather smugly for someone who didn't make one iota of sense just now.

"What the hell just happened?" Naruto wondered bewildered.

Sasuke, a kink for innocence? What?

"I missed you," Sasuke murmured, pressing him against the door the second he walked through the doorway.

Naruto smiled, opening his legs so that Sasuke could slide between them. "Yeah? I missed you too," he said and rose up on his tiptoes to kiss the dark haired man.

Sasuke kissed him back for a moment before he pulled away with a mischievous glint in his dark eyes and started pulling Naruto further into his apartment; the destination very clear as they moved deeper and deeper until Sasuke tugged him into his bedroom.

Naruto easily allowed himself to be manhandled onto the bed, loving the rough, unrestrained way Sasuke was treating him with, but as Sasuke climbed onto the bed as well, the conversation with the odd pink haired woman flashed through Naruto's mind.

He pressed his hand against Sasuke's chest, halting the man right as he was about to bend down to kiss him once more.

"Naruto?" Sasuke looked at him questioningly.

"So, what are your plans with me tonight?" Naruto asked innocently, smiling when black eyes flashed up.

"Hm, I thought we were pretty clear on that early today, weren't we?" Sasuke murmured, smirking when Naruto squirmed slightly. That particular text chain had been … intense to say the least.

"Unless you've changed your mind?" Sasuke tilted his head to the right.

"Not at all," Naruto instantly reassured him and Sasuke started to smile until Naruto added, "So one more question: you're not going to dump me after I'm no longer a virgin, right?"

Sasuke sank down on his knees. "What."

His lifeless comment was all the answer Naruto really needed and he snickered, sitting up as well. "Thought so. Well, I'm good to go now!"

"What the hell, Naruto?" Sasuke frowned. "What's this about?"

"I think I got visited by one of your exes today," Naruto mused. "She came to 'warn' me that you apparently have a kink for virgins? And that you dump them as soon as you've slept with them."

"What the fuck." Sasuke stared at him incredulously. "That's the biggest load of bullshit I've ever heard in my life and I grew up with Itachi as a brother."

"Yeah, that's what I figured," Naruto nodded and chuckled. "I thought it sounded like bullshit too."

"How did she look like? That ex?"

"Hm, pink hair and green eyes," Naruto described, scrunching up his nose. "And a rather big forehead."

"Sakura." Sasuke instantly scowled. "I don't even know why the fuck I gave her a chance and dated her. I didn't dump her because I slept with her, I dumped her because she was becoming too obsessive and wouldn't let me talk with anyone else if she could help it. She even deleted my mother's phone number in my own phone!"

"Oh wow." Naruto winced. "I can see why you dumped her."

"And the only other ex I have, I dumped because she tried to steal my stuff," Sasuke explained, sneering. "I didn't even sleep with her; we never got past some kissing."

"Your taste in women isn't that great," Naruto felt the need to inform him.

"I think so too. I like to believe my taste in men is better, though," Sasuke said lightly and the atmosphere between them shifted once more.

"Yeah?" Naruto let himself be pushed down again and raised his legs, hooking them around Sasuke's waist. "Maybe I will turn really obsessive and possessive after you've fucked me, who knows?"

Sasuke chuckled and captured his mouth in a deep kiss, while his hand slipped underneath Naruto's shirt. "Guess I'll just have to find out, hm?"

"Guess you will," Naruto grinned and started unbuttoning his shirt.

It was time to put their texts into action finally!

Sakura might believe herself to not be vindictive, but Sasuke certainly was. She would come to learn soon enough that karma would bite her in the arse, hard.

And Naruto? He clearly didn't need his innocence to keep Sasuke interested – as the many, many nights – and days! – would prove. Sasuke's kinks were more of the tying up variety anyway; something Naruto had no problem indulging in.

The End

AN2: Nothing serious as I said, but I thought it was fun to write. I already made a start on the updates of some of my other stories, so I hope to finally post those this weekend!

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Melissa

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