A/N: Wow, more than a month since the last update. So sorry about that. I got caught up with my other stories.

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warning: Foul language, extreme deviation from plot, first time fic.

"Sasuke, please"

Naruto cried out, clutching at Sasuke's sleeve for dear life. The dark haired boy turned his head back lazily. The blonde felt a chill travel down his spine at the look on the other boy's face. Dark eyes, he had often gazed into and had looking back into his own with warmth and maybe even love if he dared to hope, were now cold and aloof.

It reminded him of their academy days, when the Uchiha used to consider him nothing more than an annoying pest. Back then his eyes were filled with contempt. But now, it was worse. There was nothing.

Naruto braced himself against the empty soulless black pools and reached out to him.

"Let go idiot"

The blonde swallowed down the dread that rose up in his throat with every passing second. He had known that this day might come. The Uchiha had spoken of revenge for as long as he had known him after all. But he had hoped and hoped that it wouldn't come to that. They were so good together. Sasuke had even let himself smile so many times.

Naruto had often indulged in the arrogance of thinking that what they had would be enough to turn the dark haired boy around. That he would be enough.

It was clear now that it wasn't.

Sasuke yanked his arm back to detach the blonde's hand still grasping at his shirt.

They had argued and then they had fought, first with fists and feet and then with weapons. Naruto did and said everything in his power to deter the other boy from leaving. Couldn't he see that Sasuke meant the world to him at this point?

But Sasuke's mind was clouded with anger. His very soul was flooded with thoughts of revenge. He seemed to have quashed out every bit of nice feeling in him. Every bit of life that Naruto had breathed and nurtured into him was now gone.

Naruto couldn't stop his tears from falling anymore and choked out, "Please don't leave Sasuke"

Sasuke's eyes turned a swirl of black in red.

The world went dark, and the last thing Naruto saw was Sasuke's diminishing form.

"How long are you going to keep staring off like that?"

Naruto shifted his eyes to Sakura's, but his expression remained unchanged. It was a brand new day, but his memories were old – Old and tiring and painful.

The scented breeze drifting in through the open windows of the hokage tower did nothing to soothe his wounded heart. Sasuke's return had reopened some very painful scars.

"Just reminiscing"

Sakura recognized that tone immediately, "Naruto – "

"He left me, Sakura." His voice was faint and distant, like he was still staring off.

Sakura licked her lips and asked a question that had been plaguing her for quite some time, "Are you ever going to give him a chance?"

Naruto looked at her with narrowed eyes, "Why should I?"

She furrowed her eyebrows, studying his face closely before her eyes widened, "You sly little – "She scoffed in amusement, "You want to make him work for it, don't you?"

Naruto smirked, "It's his turn"

" – give him my what?"

Sasuke glared at Kakashi. The man's irrepressible amusement was quite obvious, despite that weird mask.

"Are you trying to get me killed?"

He then glared at the snickering brat, "Aren't you supposed to be in school or something?"

The boy squawked, "Or something." The kid started laughing harder at Sasuke's fuming face, even Kakashi chuckled before replying, "He won't notice"

Sasuke hissed through gritted teeth, "I think he'll notice if I slip my dick in him"

He ran a hand through his hair wondering if he was scarring the child for life by having this – 'brainstorming session' in front of him.

"Well, you'll never know until you try"

"Are you insane? He'll chop my dick off"

"Obviously there are certain risks involved with every plan"

Sasuke realized that he should have listened to Sakura's warning.

He growled at the laughing pair and turned his back on them, determined to find out a way to get back into the blonde's good graces.

"Wait"

Sasuke sighed 'What now?'

The child stood in front of him, looking at Sasuke like he was the stupidest creature on the planet. Which apparently, when it came to wooing a particular blonde, he was.

"Give him flowers"

"Flowers?"

Ryuga nodded enthusiastically.

Sasuke scoffed at the child's eager face, "That's ridiculous."

The kid scowled, "You're ridiculous".

Sasuke rolled his eyes.

One hour later he found himself in front of Naruto's home, clutching a single red rose in his right hand and feeling like a complete fool. He rolled his shoulders and rapped his knuckles against the door.

Naruto came out, fresh and clean from a recent shower. His blonde hair darkened with water. Sasuke felt strangely empowered under the scrutiny of those clear sapphire eyes.

He held out the rose, put on one of his sexy smirks that seemed to make the ladies swoon and drawled, "Naruto, I'll always be by your side."

Naruto blushed and took the rose with wide eyes. Sasuke drank in the blonde's beautiful features. With hair a shiny shade of gold and eyes a unique sapphire blue, he looked – exotic.

The blonde's healthy caramel skin made Sasuke's mouth water. He saw water drip from the blonde's hair and make a path down a shapely neck. Sasuke's eyes followed it eagerly, revealing more and more of that tantalizing cinnamon skin. It disappeared under Naruto's shirt.

Sasuke swallowed.

"You think I'm a girl?"

'Huh'

Sasuke hurriedly retraced the path up to narrowed blue eyes.

"You think I'm one of your ditzy fans?"

"Fa – fans?"

Next thing he knew, the door was slammed on his face. Right on it.

He winced and made his way to the road, clutched his nose. Sasuke looked up at the sky to stem the flow of blood and saw the two figures in the trees.

It was Kakashi and the brat, laughing at him. Well, the kid was atleast.

Sasuke felt an inordinate amount of twisted glee on seeing the little punk fall off the tree. The child winced, rubbing the back of his head with a pained face. Kakashi joined him on a ground a split second later, albeit more gracefully by jumping down voluntarily.

Sasuke scowled at the child, "It didn't work"

They started laughing again.

Naruto leaned his back against the door and smiled, looking at the rose.

He looked warily at Kakashi from the corner of his eye. The man still had his mask on, yet when Sasuke looked at his glass, the sake was gone. He had trouble trusting someone could drink with a cloth covering eighty percent of one's face, including his mouth.

"You need more information."

Sasuke raised one eyebrow at him, "Information about what?"

"Naruto."

The next day, near dark, he found himself perched on the same tree as before. Sasuke couldn't have imagined having a better view. He was currently looking into one of the blonde's rooms. And it looked to be a bed room if he wasn't wrong.

Just then, Naruto entered the room. Sasuke smiled, his sharingan instinctively activating when he saw the blonde stretch his arms tiredly and flop on the bed. Without getting up, Naruto snatched a book from a table nearby and started reading it from somewhere in the middle.

Naruto seemed to like reading. And Sasuke filed the tidbit of information away into his mind. He continued watching as Naruto flipped through the book, page by page, looking completely engrossed with it.

He looked as the blonde put the book back in its place on the table and picked up a picture instead. It was facing Naruto and so he couldn't tell exactly what it was a picture of. But the sad longing look that took over the blonde's features made him hold his breath and lean forward.

Naruto placed the picture back and got up from the bed, running his hands through his hair. Sasuke knew that he probably shouldn't be spying on Naruto like he was, and promised himself that he wouldn't cross any lines.

And then, Naruto started taking his clothes off.

Sasuke realized that it would take a stronger man than he, to stop looking at that point. His sharingan flared, trying to capture everything. The first thing to come off was the blonde's sweater. Naruto was facing the other side, which was probably a good thing, seeing as there might be perverts about in the dark… on trees… peeping… with vision aiding bloodlines.

Sasuke followed the curve of the blonde's back, totally transfixed. He was pleased to note that the dusky tone of blonde's skin extended well below his neck. He leaned forward, barely stopping himself from falling when slender fingers hooked themselves into the waistband of Naruto's pants and shimmied them down.

Sasuke memorized the little wriggle of the blonde's boxer clad bottom. Naruto stumbled on one of the pant legs and Sasuke had to chuckle a little at the way the blonde seemed to be both so graceful and clumsy at the same time. He watched on, completely mesmerized, right up and until Naruto saw him.

Sasuke caught a flying alarm clock with his face, knocking him off his perch.

It really hurt.

"Any more smart ideas?"

Neji smirked at Sasuke, "You gave him a rose?"

The news of Sasuke's rose fiasco seemed to have spread like wildfire. He was just thankful that no one knew of his new peeping tom tendencies.

Sikaramaru raised eyebrows, "And he just left you leave in one piece?" His eyes then darted to Sasuke's nose, "or not"

Sasuke was beginning to think the whole village was filled with assholes. He glared forlornly at the stains on the restaurant table.

"Just ask him out"

Sasuke blinked at Shikamaru, wondering if he could risk taking anymore advice.

"Naruto!"

The blonde turned around, looking angry. Sasuke thought that his spying might have something to do with that, "What?"

"Will you go out with me?"

Naruto raised one raised eyebrow, "A date?"

He nodded.

"Where?"

"I don't know. Dinner. A restaurant?"

Naruto now turned fully to him, surprised, "You are going to take me out to dinner?"

"Yeah" Sasuke smirked, wanting to distract Naruto from his nervousness, "You're pretty scrawny. You could use some food" Sasuke supposed that pissing off people counted as distracting.

But Naruto simply smirked.

Sasuke stared with shocked eyes as the bowls seemed to empty in a matter of seconds. He clutched his wallet and felt his chest hurt just a bit at the thought of the bill.

He then looked down at his own lonely bowl still sitting half uneaten.

"Why don't you wait outside while I settle the bill?"

Sasuke tried to keep up his brave façade and ushered the blonde outside. Naruto blinked his wide blue innocent eyes and conceded, "Ok"

Sasuke ambled up to the manager of the establishment and smiled sheepishly, "I can't cover the entire bill right now. I'll pay it back later or work it off"

The old man smiled kindly before replying, "Don't worry, your friend already paid it in full"

Sasuke joined the blonde outside, "I was the one who asked you out. I should be the one to pay." He frowned in embarrassment at the ground, "I'm sorry."

When Sasuke lifted his eyes back up, it was to see Naruto smiling at him softly, "It's the thought that counts."

They walked back to Naruto's home, taking the scenic route. The night was quiet and beautiful and their hands kept brushing against the others. Neither of them moved away.

Sasuke felt a little disappointed when they finally reached their destination. He scuffed one foot on the ground, "Thank you" and rubbed one hand on the back of his neck, "You know, for agreeing to come out with me" He smiled nervously, suddenly feeling very aware of his body, "Also, sorry again about not paying."

When Naruto continued to simply stand in front of him, smiling, he decided to cut short his misery and said good night. He was pleasantly surprised when Naruto leaned up and kissed him on his cheek, "Don't get any ideas."

Sasuke smirked, "What kind of ideas?"

Naruto rolled his eyes, "Any kind" and went inside.

Sasuke grinned at the closed door for a few more moments before he made his way to his own house.

'Things are looking up after all.'

Couldn't help myself from adding the rose scene. ^_^;

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