Just Another Pretty Face

4 months before the break up

There was a knock at the door which made Sasuke halt in his journey to raid the fridge. He walked toward the door, flinching when his bare feet came into contact with the tiled floor. Swinging the door open Sasuke peered outside and spotted an older teen.

“Hey love.” Daichi said quietly, hiding his hands behind his back. Sasuke tried to look around him.

“What do you have there?” Sasuke asked curiously.

“Its a surprise!” He grinned. Stepping up to the smaller boy he pecked him on the cheek and stepped in the house making sure what ever he was hiding was out of site of Sasuke. “Wheres Kakashi?” Daichi looked around.

“He's outside...” Sasuke pouted a bit knowing that the surprise wasn't for him. Daichi grinned cheekily before heading out of the patio into the backyard spotting Kakashi watering the lawn. The brunet walked out to the older man presenting a small box with holes punched into it.

“What have you got there?” Kakashi asked turning off the hose. Sasuke walked up behind Daichi.

“Well I remember you saying a week or two ago that you always wanted a dog...Well My cousins pug just had pups and she gave me one!” He handed the box over to Kakashi. Curiously Kakashi opened the box and a small head pocked out.

“You got me a puppy!?” Kakashi all but shrieked. The tiny pug yipped up at him. The older man scooped the pup out of the box. Kakashi ruffled the boys hair. “Why thank you Daichi!.” He handed the boy the puppy. “Take him for a couple minuted I have to make some calls.

“Sure.” The boy turned to Sasuke who he noticed was a couple feet away. “Hey Sasuke, come hold the puppy!” He took a step forward and Sasuke took a step back.

“I'm fine.” He mumbled. Daichi raised his eyebrow.

“Whats wrong?” He tilted his head and headed over the the boy.

“Theres nothing wrong.” Sasuke started to walk backwards until Daichi had him pinned to the wall the separated their backyard from their neighbors.

“Are you afraid of dogs?” He asked with a big stupid grin on his face. Sasuke's cheeks flushed.

“No!” He looked away.

“Then hold the puppy.” He help the excited little puppy out to Sasuke. The younger boy bit his finger tip looking at the puppy who was squirming to get out of the bigger boys hold.

“Why are you so nervous?”

“Because...” Sasuke mumbled.

“Cause what?”

“I...I might drop him, and then he'll get hurt. I'm never good at holding babies and stuff.”

“Did something happen?” Sasuke looked in to hose honey brown eyes for a second before looking away again.

“When I was younger we went over Kakashi friends house. She just had a baby and I asked to hold him. I...I got nervous and I dropped him. Itachi caught him though.”

“Did you get in trouble?”

“No, no one blamed me because I was little.” Daichi sat down and pulled Sasuke with him, their backs up against the wall.

“Give me your hand.” Sasuke blinked at him for a couple seconds before handing it to him. Taking the smaller hand in his bigger one. Let the puppy get used to your scent. He said quietly as he held the pup up to Sasuke's hand. The small pug immediately started sniffing and nipping at Sasuke's fingers causing the raven haired boy to giggle. Sasuke rested his head on Daichi's shoulder and let the small puppy crawl into him lap and promptly fell asleep.

“I don't know what I'd do without you Sasuke...” The older boy mumbled. Sasuke sat up straight and looked at Daichi. His eyes were downcast and Sasuke could tell his mind was way off in a distant place.

“Dai? Whats wrong.” Golden brown eyes locked onto him and smiled sadly.

“I want you to remember something Sasuke...” He paused and looked at the clouds. “No matter what happens, no matter what I say or who says what...I want you to know and remember that I love you.” Sasuke was starting to get nervous.

“Dai, whats going on.” Daichi opened his mouth but stopped and closed it when he saw Kakashi come back out of the house.

“Well you two certainly look comfy.” He noted as he walked closer to the two boys. “I see pakkun fell asleep already.” He smiled and picked the puppy up out of Sasuke's lap.

“Pakkun?” Sasuke asked standing up and dusting himself off.

“Thats what I decided to name him!”

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It had been twenty minutes since the pakkun incident. All three guys were sitting at the dinning room table eating lunch which were cheeseburgers and fries. Naruto's eyes were down cast as he stirred his ketchup with a fry, his cheeks still tinted pink from embarrassment.

“Wheres Itachi? He should have been home by now.” Sasuke commented, eating a fry.

“Well since tomorrow is a holiday Itachi is spending the night at a friends house. Speaking of which! I got a phone call from Iruka and it turns out Naruto is spending the night!” Kakashi announced.

'What!?' Sasuke yelled in his mind, his outward appearance not changing any.

“I am?” Naruto asked, dropping his fry.

“You'll be sleeping in Sasuke's room. Now both of you finish eating!” He said eating his last fry and getting up, putting his plate in the sink. And walking back to his room leaving the two boys alone in an awkward silence.

“Um...Sasuke.” Naruto stuttered out. Sasuke gave him a quick glance letting the younger boy know he was listening. “What does dobe mean?” His blue eyes looked at older boy curiously. Sasuke stopped in mid chew before he decided to just swallow.

“Why?”

“Well, uh, thats what you called me...I was just wondering what it meant...” Sasuke blinked a couple of times.

“I called you dobe?”

“Yeah, like twice!” Naruto said with a bit of a chuckle.

'Have I!?' Sasuke's eyes darted to the left then the right. 'Shit, have a I really been using my nick name for him on Naruto?' He stood up from the table, deciding not to eat the rest and walked into the kitchen. “It doesn't mean anything.” He dumped his half eaten burger and fries into the trash, Naruto followed suit. “Lets get to my room.”

Naruto felt nervous. He was going up to his crushes bedroom. His cheeks were heating up and his palms were sweating. Sasuke opened his room door and flopped down on his bed. He grabbed the remote from under his pillow and turned on the t.v.

Naruto stood there nervously, eyes darting around the room. Everything was dark except the walls. Bed sheets were black and blue. The furniture was black and his computer desk was also black. His eyes darted back to Sasuke who was staring at him.

“Naruto.” He called patting the spot next to him. Naruto blushed a bit before hoping in bed with Sasuke . The blond hesitantly sat on the bed and turned his attention to the television which was on some random reality show. He heard Sasuke sigh audibly.

“Whats wrong?” He leaned back against the head board pulling his legs onto the bed.

“I'm not a fan of reality shows...” Sasuke muttered looking blankly at the screen. “Take off your shoes.” He added.

“Then why watch them?” He started undoing his laces.

“Theres nothing else.”

“I bet there is!” Naruto said with a cheeky smile which made Sasuke quirk an eyebrow. He snatched the remote from the older teen and flipped through the channels till he came to cartoon network. “Hah! Chowder!” He plopped his head down on one of Sasuke's pillows.

“You still watch cartoons? And you watch Anime?”

“Uh huh.” He said with a smile and glanced at the raven who was staring at him. Naruto blushed and looked away quickly. The rest of the show was spent in an awkward silence. A few chuckles from the show but thats all. When the credits started rolling Sasuke stood up off the bed.

“Em going to hop in the shower. Turn on the computer if you want.” He said and walked out the room. The younger boy had to try hard not to imagine Sasuke in the shower. Getting up he moved over to the computer desk and pressed a random button bringing the computer out of sleeping mode. The desk top was bare, no additional programs other then what came with the computer, no games, no saved work...

“I wonder...” Naruto muttered to himself as he clicked “My Documents”. “Here we go...” Naruto opened another folder named “Works” and inside were a bunch or word documents with different titles but one in particular caught Naruto's eye. It was labeled “Gospel of Zion”. Naruto eyes widened as he double clicked it. After reading the first paragraph he was sure that this was the same story he had drawn for. Naruto's heart started pounding as he realized he was drawing and chatting with Sasuke and the raven didn't know it. He could use this to his advantage. He quickly closed the application and opened the Internet quickly going to a random Anime site. Just in time as Sasuke entered the room in nothing but a pair of dark blue boxers and carrying Naruto's backpack. Naruto quickly averted his eyes from the site.

“H-how was your shower?” Naruto wanted to slap himself at the stupid question.

“It was, uh, good.” Sasuke said not really sure how to answer that question. “You left your backpack down stairs. I'm sure you have homework.” Sasuke threw Naruto's backpack on the bed.

“Oh, yeah thanks. I only have Physics homework today.” He grabbed the orange bad and fished out a purple notebook and flipped it open. He looked down at the notes and the homework sheet that was put inside the notebook.

“You have two senior classes?” Sasuke asked in the middle of putting on a plain white T.

“Uh yeah...But I'm not very good at physics...its like French to me...” He frowned and looked up at Sasuke. “You think you could help me?” He asked eyes hopeful.

Sasuke seemed to mull it around in his head before he slipped on a pair of basketball shorts and sat down in a bed next to Naruto. He pulled the notebook from the younger boy and rested his back on his headboard and Naruto followed. “Physics is all simple math with really big numbers. You just have to remember formulas and simple equations. Now add this formula to this problem.” He gave the notebook back to the blond.

“Oh! I see it now.” He grabbed a pen and started scribbling. “Thanks Sasuke!” He grinned up at him.

“Hey Sasuke...” Naruto looked back up at the brunet after answering a few problems.

“Hm?” Sasuke acknowledged Naruto while flipping through channels before stopping at Scrubs.

“About the whole Pakkun thing. I'm kind of scared of dogs...”

“I can tell. Pakkun was only playing with you though. Hes always like that ever since Daichi-” He stopped himself.

“Huh? What about Daichi?” Naruto asked knowing he was treading dangerous waters.

“He was...” Sasuke stopped to pick his words carefully. “A close friend. Why are you afraid of dogs?” Sasuke changed the question.

“Uh, when I was little I had a little fox plushy and I was walking around in the park when suddenly I was attacked by a huge dog. It tried to Take Kyuubi from me.” Sasuke's eye quirked at that name. It sounded familiar to him. “I wouldn't let him have it so it started mauling me and it gave me this scar.” He hopped off the bed and tuned his back to Sasuke lifting up his shirt and lowering his pants a pit showing off a faint scar. “See?”

“Yeah...” Sasuke said kind of far off, resisting his urge to touch the scar. “It must have hurt...”

“It did. That was a week after Iruka adopted me, he threw a fit when I came home all bloody.” He chuckled. “So yeah...I have issues with big dogs...And I started freaking out when Pakkun started mauling me...”

“Well Pakkun wont do much but ruin your pants. He wont bite too hard.”

“Its all the same to me!” He crossed his arms and nodded to himself before climbing back into the bed and continuing his homework.

It took twenty minutes later that Sasuke noticed that Naruto was no longer writing in the notebook. He glanced at the blond only to find that he had dozed off.

“Tsk, dobe. Its only 7 o' clock...” Sasuke sighed before laying the blond down on his bed instead of in an upright position, knowing first hand how uncomfortable that is.

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