Confusion of mind and body

Shock was quickly replaced by anger and in one swift motion he was on top of the raven-haired man who he always referred to as his ‘first friend’.

“Sasuke-teme!!” he gritted. Before said man could respond, Naruto’s hands entangled the Uchiha’s neck, and red chakra was radiating from his body. In an attempt disentangle himself from his attacker; Sasuke kneed Naruto in the stomach, making him losen his grip. Moaning from pain, Naruto backed off against the wall.

“Why?” Naruto whispered as he clenched his fists.

“Why what?” he answered with heavy breathing, looking at the whiskered man in front of him, questioning if his friend finally had gone mental.

Angry with his friend’s ignorance, Naruto charged at Sasuke once more. But this time the former missing-nin was on guard: before Naruto’s fist could connect with his jaw, he grabbed offending arm, and threw Naruto over his shoulder, smacking him hard against the bed frame.

“You’re reckless.” He spoke calm and collected, if nothing just happened, “and you remain an idiot…”

“…”

Lying defeated on the bed, Naruto looked at his teammate for signs of guilt, but found none.

Although it was easy to just turn his back on the bastard, he couldn’t do it. Sasuke was the first bond he made, he couldn’t just throw that away. Not after he’d gone through all that, just in order to get him back.

Awed by the silence of his usually loud-mouthed teammate, the former avenger cocked an eyebrow, and for on reason or another, could not help but worry. He streched his arm and offered his hand as a token of peace. Which, to his surprise, after staring at it strangly for a while, Naruto accepted. He took Sasuke’s hand and pulled himself up. The two men stood in front of each other, closer then they intented, with both their cheeks slighty tainted. Naruto was the first to open his mouth, breaking the akward silence that seemed to linger forever.

He needed to know.

“Why did you do it?” he asked.

“Do what?”

“You know damn well what I mean, Teme!" He spit out, waving his fist dangerously in Sasuke’s direction.

“Hn." Sasuke grunted, as he daringly folded his arms over his chest, not pleased with Naruto’s tone of voice.

Sighing. Naruto turned on his heel and shuffled towards the door. He was about to exit the room, but was stopped by the hand that rested on his shoulder. He turned himself around and saw a Sasuke staring at him. He looked serious.

“Look, Naruto, I know you like Sakura, but she’s no good”. He wispered gently, displaying some rare-seen emotion. It was almost if he cared.

Almost, because when Naruto raised his voice and yelled, “What the hell Sasuke, you slept with her!”; he shrugged his shoulders, returning back to his un-caring self.

“I just decided to take her up on her offer.”

Naruto’s eyes widened. Offer? “What!?”

“Well, yeah, not long after I -cough- moved in with you, she stood at the doorsteps, begging me to give her a chance. I scolded her, I yelled at her, but she kept coming, kept bugging me with her obnoxious behaviour. “Sasuke-kun, please give me a chance. Sasuke-kun why don’t you like me?” and things like that.” He explained, rolling his eyes at the memory..
”I got annoyed, and well... decided to shut her up,” he smirked, while his eyes briefly scanned the room for his discarded clothes.

Naruto was speechless. He knew his teammate could be a real ass, but still, he didn’t expected this! The Sasuke he knew would never cave for the female species.

Watching Naruto’s confusion, Sasuke continued:

“Being away from the female population for three years was a blessing but I’m not a boy anymore Naruto, and neither are you. Men have certain needs and you know this.” He said casually, pulling his sweatshirt over his head.

At this, Naruto blushed. He couldn’t deny it. Lately, when around the female sex, his body gave some unfamiliar reactions. At those times, it was hard to not give in to the urge of jumping the first random girl he could find

"Damn fox" he spoke under his breath.

"What did you say?" Sasuke asked suspiciously.

“Nevermind," Naruto gritted. "Do you love her?”

“Do you think I’m a person that is able to love any one other then himself, Naruto?”

He nodded, “I believe that you are.” “If you’d only remove that stick from up your ass,” he wanted to add.

The raven-haired men’s face slightly twitched at that comment, before it returned back to its usual grim expression:

“You thought wrong” he responded annoyed, as he walked out of the door. Unfortunately not before bumping into a certain pink-headed kunoichi on the way out.

“What do you want, Sakura?” he asked, as she clinged his arm, blocking his movement.

“Please, Sasuke-kun, stay.”

Looking back over his shoulder at Naruto, he saw him following their interaction with a pained expression and grunted “Let.Go.”

Seeing that he was serious, she let go of his arms, and watched him leave with teary eyes. When he was completely out of sight, she turned back to Naruto.

“What?!” she asked, a little rougher then she intended, her gaze casted downwards. The guilt she felt was unbearable.

“Sakura,” he said gently, walking towards her. Looking through her eyelashes, she could see him advancing, and looked up to to meet his bright eyes. She could not see hate in them.

“Naruto...”

His soft fingers on her lips refrained her from speaking any further.

“Hush, Sakura. It’s okay. I understand.” He gave her a weak smile. “I always knew you liked that bastard better then me.”

“I...”

She tensed when his arms embraced her waist and his head buried itself in the crook of her neck.

“See you around, Sakura-chan.”

And seconds later he was gone, leaving a blinking Sakura behind.


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After that things became pretty akward between the members of team 7. Of course, Naruto and Sasuke still lived together, but they seemed to avoid each other as much as possible. As for Sakura, he hardly got to see her at all, as she claimed to be busy with her work as medical ninja. Naruto was sad about that. He never helt a grudge against either of them, he didn’t want to loose them as friends. Yes, he felt betrayed. Yes, it was painfull.

And if not for that one person, he would still feel that way.

Hinata.

She made him realize that Sakura didn’t deserve his tears.

She healed his heart.

Thinking of his girlfriend, Naruto wondered where she was. Sniffing, he inhaled the scent of freshly cooked ramen and hurried to the kitchen. He saw her standing in front of the sink with her back towards him. She was wearing one of his smaller t-shirts, too big for her, but still managed to strech nicely around her curves.

On his toes, he moved towards her and halted just behind her.

“Why do you always have to look so incredibly sexy, Hinata-hime?” He breathed into her ear with a husky voice, and smirked as he saw her jump. Hinata turned around with a flustered face. And she giggled, her hand politely covering her mouth, as expected from the soon-to-be Hyuuga-leader. “Naruto-kun! You surprised me!” she said smiling, hitting him playfully on the chest.

He laughed, head fallen backwards, and pulled her petite frame against his.

“Good-morning Hinata-chan.” He said as he kissed the top of her head.


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