The Sun starts from the East

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Chapter 5
Walking down the lane where the festival was taking place in his disguise was a truly enlightening experience for the usually solitary Uchiha.

He was amazed at the bright lights, bright colours and the yukata clad blond walking beside him. He couldn’t help but appreciate how dashing Naruto looked in his azure coloured outfit that complimented his eyes so well. The blue-eyed shinobi had left his awkward teens behind, growing into a fine young man under tutelage of the legendary toad Sennin. Ever since he reached eighteen, he had lost his baby fat and became leaner and more muscular. Reaching an unusual height of six feet six, he towered above most in Konoha. Sasuke thought it was strange that very little of the female population noticed what a treasure he was, hiding right underneath their nose. If they’d just stop to notice him, they’d realize what a hunk Naruto had grown into.

He averted his focus and his gaze away from the fox Anbu. It just was not right to think of Naruto that way, they were friends, intimate but friends nonetheless.

“You want that stuffed animal Saki-chan?” a smooth baritone voice brought him out of his musings for the second time in that day. However it was the feeling of a warm calloused hand weaving its fingers through his own that really started him.

He quickly shot Naruto an early warning about being so close, but Naruto merely smiled warmly and reassured him that it was all part of the experience.

“So you want that stuffed animal? You kept looking at it just now.”

“I was not, usuratonkachi!”

“Oh come on, let me do something for you! If I go out with a beautiful girl the least I can do is run laps and act like her dog for the day. Please Saki-chan, it’s my greatest dream!”

“Your greatest dream is to be exploited by a female? I thought it was to be Hokage?” Sasuke asked in utmost disbelief.

“Well yeah after that dream.”

Sasuke mulled over that intriguing piece of information. Maybe it wasn’t so bad being woman. He could feel the overwhelming power over men right now, and it was absolutely deliiciiousss…

Naruto was concerned by that power hungry look in Sasuke’s eyes at that very moment. He remembered seeing it only one time before… at the Valley of the End. Deciding whether he should make a break for it, he was suddenly accosted by Sakura and her husband, Lee.

“Wow Naruto! Who is that pretty lady on your arm eh?” Sakura teased mercilessly, this was going to be going through the grapevine within minutes.

“Yes, such delicate beauty only appears once in a man’s youthful life!” Lee proclaimed, offending both Sasuke and his jealous wife.

It was then Sakura proceeded to pound the living daylights out of her ratherrepentant husband, leaving Naruto and Sasuke to beat a hasty retreat.


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Suddenly along the one of the many lanes, Sasuke felt a foreboding presence nearby. Glancing to his right, he could see a large group of…FANGIRLS! Oh the absolute horror! He closed in eyes and braced himself for the squeals, the shrieks, the manhandling. He waited and waited but nothing, absolutely nothing. Curious he peeked and tightened his grip round Naruto’s arm. If anything happens, his best friend will serve as his best decoy (it’s a sacrifice he was willing to take). It was quiet, too quiet, in fact a fangirl just walked right past him without any vicious mauling. “They don’t recognize me!” he thought gleefully grinning in a demented manner. “No more Sasuke-kun, no more groping, no more awe-struck stares and who could forget no more people begging him to go out with them!”
“Will you go out with me please?” widening his eyes in disbelief, Sasuke turned around to see a man cowering at her feet, lifted hands offered up beautiful flowers. He sighed in exasperation, how could he forget the fanboys? A large crowd of them had surrounded him while he was too busy gloating over the loss of his fangirls, he silently berated his carelessness.

“Go out with me my ultimate beauty, for such is the great joy of youth!”

“Your lips are like a red red rose, so let me kiss them!”

“Guys I hate to burst your bubble but Saki-chan is with me. So please BACK OFF!” growled a rather annoyed Naruto who marched right in front of one hopeful suitor and cracked his menacing knuckles a few centimetres away from his face.

Sasuke couldn’t help but blush at such an outward display of machismo possessiveness. It was always nice to be fought over, did his ego such good (though he would never admit it). However he couldn’t quite place why Naruto could make him feel so special sometimes.

“Don’t mind them Saki-chan,” Naruto grinned as he spoke. “Let’s ditch this festival and go someplace less crowded.”

Sasuke nodded in agreement, he couldn’t quite tolerate the milling crowds either.


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“The view here is amazing right, Sasuke?” Naruto asked jovially as he stretched himself out on the grassy hillock that overlooked the bustling festival.
“Hnn…”

“Yeah, I like the lights too Sasuke-teme,” the tall blond laughed. Lengthy missions and the surprisingly close friendship with his mission partner had allowed Naruto to decipher the basics of Sasukenese aka the strange grunts Sasuke utters.

Strangely, being alone together was always comfortable. When it was just the two of them, they need not keep up pretences. There was little need for masks or illusions, it is as if sometimes they could see right into each other’s soul.

“Sasuke,” Naruto spoke in such a serious tone that the Uchiha was forced to stop his sight seeing and focus solely on his companion. “I know that Tsunade-obaachan said that I cannot affect your decision but I just want to tell you that no matter what you choose to be, you will always be Sasuke to me. My rival, my friend, the biggest jerk in the whole world and the second strongest shinobi in all of Konoha.”

Sasuke smiled at this touching yet strangely out of character display. “Only second strongest?” he teased, raising an eyebrow to add effect to his statement.

“Yeah after me of course!” came the familiar boisterous reply.

“Dobe,” Sasuke smirked at his friend’s tomfoolery, “Thank you …”


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