Not Old Enough

Not Old Enough

Pairing: NaruSasu

Warnings: Boy love. Don't like don’t read.

Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto! Naruto belongs to Masashi Kishimoto-sama.

Summary: AU, NaruSasu, Uchiha Sasuke was always known for his icy exterior. That is until the dreaded return of one Uzumaki Naruto. Can Sasuke get his act together long enough to woo this handsome young doctor, or will he always be seen as just a blushing little boy?

special thanx to “Suki” for the summary : honey thanx so much for the summary I don’t think I could thank you enough it is perfect I couldn’t wait for the next chapter to put it so I put it right away I’m happy that my story made you smile I hopeI still can do that :).

Thanks to my lovely beta my big sis "Farah M" thanx for helping me:)

Thanx to everybody who had reviewed YOU GUYS ROCK XD.

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IMPORTANT NOTE: I changed Sasuke’s age on the 4th chapter from 12 to 13. and I wanted you to know that Sasuke’s age changes every semester like in the 7th grade he was 12 at the first semester but 13 on the second and he told Itachi about his secret crush on the 8th grade I hope that clears things for you. Now on with the story

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Chapter 5:

Sabaku Gaara, a seventeen-year-old eleventh grader, was making his way through the schools corridor toward the student lockers.

He was a redhead with turquoise eyes and no eyebrows. He had a tattoo on his forehead of a Japanese word written on kanji that meant 'Love'.

Gaara stopped at a locker that was occupied by a boy with a raven hair. The raven-headed boy was emptying his bag and taking what he needed from his locker for his next class.

Gaara didn’t wait for the boy to notice him. He outwardly said, “Uchiha.”

The boy, known as Uchiha Sasuke, raised his head to look at Gaara and replied uninterestedly, “Sabaku.”

“You were selected.”

Sasuke just stared at him with an uncaring look. He hadn't said anything.

“I need to interview you.”

At that, Sasuke reacted. He turned his attention back to his locker, “When?”

“Lunch?”

“No.”

“After school?”

Sasuke, finishing what he was doing, put his bag on his back. “Fine.” He was about to walk away when he remembered the 'date' he had with Naruto.

“Actually, no, I can’t make it after school. I… I’m… ahem… busy…” He was trying hard to fight the blush that wanted to take over his face to the point where he didn’t realize that he was stuttering.

Gaara looked at him weirdly. “So… tomorrow?”

“Can’t.”

Gaara was starting to get mad. “When then? You're busy the whole damn time!”

Sasuke answered smugly, “Yeah, well, it's not my fault that I have a life and you don’t.”

That hit the spot. Gaara’s face turned red with rage, and he sneered, “You know what, Uchiha? I’ll just meet you today at lunch in the place you hide in from your stupid fan girls!”

“I don’t hide from anyone,” snarled Sasuke glaring.

“Sure you do. Every freaking day you run away from your groupies to hide in the...” A hand covering Gaara’s mouth stopped him from completing his sentence.

Gaara growled low in his throat and slapped Sasuke’s hand away from his face. “How dare you touch me!” he growled in fury.

Sasuke glared back. “Look around you."

When Gaara looked around he found all the girls in the hall were holding their breath and listening to the conversation silently.

Gaara’s eyes widened with shock then they glittered deceitfully. He turned his gaze back to Sasuke and asked, “What will you do for me not to tell them?”

Sasuke’s glare darkened as he said, “I’ll meet you at lunch today.”

Gaara smirked. “At your hiding place?” He dared Sasuke to say it.

Sasuke gritted his teeth. “At my hiding place.” He never backed out of a challenge no matter how humiliating or stupid it was.

Gaara’s smirk grew bigger at that.

Then the bell rang, Sasuke grumbled, “Grate. Now I’m late. Thanks a lot, Sabaku!” He started walking to class.

Gaara’s smirk turned into a grin. “Why you are welcome, Uchiha.”

Sasuke throw him a dirty look but kept on walking.

Gaara grinned still as he too started walking to his class. Until he was stopped by a girl who jumped in front of him and started yelling.

“Who the hell do you think you are! Talking to my Sasuke-kun and getting him all mad! How dare you! Sasuke-kun was in the best of moods today. He didn’t glare at anyone, and then you, you stupid eyebrow-less redheaded weirdo come and ruin his good mood for me… I mean him.” She had a look of determination in her eyes as she said that.

Gaara looked at the girl, not saying anything. Her screeching made his head throb. ‘Who the hell am I? Who the hell you are! Screaming at me like that! Does she not know who I am!’ Then he heard the word Sasuke-kun. ‘Ahhh a Uchiha groupie. How fun.’ He grimaced.

At the end of her screeching, Gaara was really thankful. Because anymore of this and his head would have exploded. He reached a hand to her to tell her that the next time she wanna do that again to make sure that he was far, far away from her. Until a pink-headed girl pushed her away from his stretched arm.

The pink-haired girl turned to him and smiled apologetically saying, “S… sorry G… Gaa… Gaara-san. She didn’t mean that. She was stupid and didn’t realize it was you she was talking to. I’m so sorry, really!” She started pulling the girl away from him.

The blond girl started shouting again, “Don’t think this is over Sabaku Gaara. I’ll kick your ass next time I see you.”

“Ino, shut up you idiot,” the pink-headed girl said.

“No, I won't. He made my Sasuke-kun mad and for that he shall die!” screamed Ino, struggling to get out of Sakura’s grip.

“Shut up, Ino-pig. I just saved your life. You should be more thankful and less screechy and who said that Sasuke-kun is yours?”

“Nobody has to say it. He and I both know that and that's enough.”

The girls' voices started to fade away as they moved down the hall.

Gaara just stood at the same spot Ino had first stopped him at and looked at their retreating backs. “Ino, huh?” He continued his way to his class.


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‘Stop it, stop it, stop it,’ Sasuke kept on chanting in his head but he couldn’t help it. He was sitting at a table in Naruto’s favorite restaurant Ichiraku Ramen with Naruto himself sitting right across from him, and they were sitting alone. Sasuke couldn’t help but blush like a school girl whenever their eyes met.
It was so awkward Sasuke couldn’t get the dream out of his mind. It kept on replaying itself. Whenever it got to the kissing part, Sasuke’s face would go all red. ‘Why are we alone anyway? Where is the pink thing? Wasn’t this supposed to be her interview? Where the hell is she! Damn that girl!'

Sasuke had entered the shop to find only Naruto waiting for him. He thought that Sakura was in the bathroom so he didn’t care. Sasuke was happy. ‘Good. I get to have a little time with him alone by myself.’

Naruto had waved at him and said, “Hey there Uchiha-san come, come. Have a seat. I’m sorry but it seems that Sakura is running out late. But not to worry, it is only a matter of minute before she's here. Just grab a seat and order something, and she will be here.”

That was ten minutes ago. Sasuke‘s happiness had banished, when he realized that he had nothing to say. Actually, no, it wasn’t that he had nothing to say, more like he couldn’t say anything. Because whenever he opened his mouth to say something, Naruto would smile at him, and that would remind him of the Naruto in his dream, and the rest was history. Sasuke would blush, look the other way. Naruto would sigh and look the other way. Now they were sitting silently waiting for their orders to come.

“So…” Naruto started, trying to break the silence that had fallen upon them since the boy had entered the restaurant.

Naruto didn’t know what to say. He didn’t know the kid. So he didn’t know what they should talk about. ‘God, if only Sakura or Ino were here. I know they would’ve found something to say. Damn it! Why did Sakura have to make an entrance? I mean, it isn’t like this is a date or anything. Yet, she and Ino had been talking about it as if it were. And that stupid Ino. Doesn’t she love this guy? Why doesn’t she wanna come now? Man, I don’t get girls. I just hope it wasn’t because of…’ Naruto sighed. He closed his eyes and looked anther way. He didn’t want to think about it.

He looked at Sasuke again and saw Sasuke was in deep thoughts. He tried to meet his eyes, once he did the boy‘s face turned all red and he looked down.

‘And what is up with that dude? Every time we make eye contact he'd look away! Is there something in my face?’ He looked at Sasuke again, and he did the same thing. That freaked Naruto. ‘Sakura, please hurry.’

Suddenly, the door to the restaurant was opened revealing a pissed off Sakura who had just barged in. She looked around the place until her eyes landed on Naruto and she walked straight his way.

Naruto raised his head when he heard the little bell on the door jingle. When he saw it was Sakura. He smiled and waved his hand at her. “Hey, Sakura, you finely made it.”

Sakura was looking maniacally at him and hissed to herself, “Why you stupid fox face. I will crush you down like a little bug.” That was until Sasuke raised his head and looked her way. She stopped in her tracks and smiled at him. “Sasuke-kun! You're here. I’m sorry you had to wait for me this long. I know you were worried about me. But not to worry, I’m here now. And I promise I’ll make it up to you. But if you may excuse me I need to talk to Naruto over there for a second.” She grabbed Naruto’s arm and proceeded to pull him out of his seat.

“Ow, ow, ow. Sakura, easy on the arm,” yelped Naruto as he stood up to follow Sakura, who dragged him away from Sasuke and through the door that led to the hall between the restrooms.

Sasuke’s eyes followed them as they disappeared behind the door. His gaze glaring at Sakura the whole time.

Sakura released Naruto’s arm and pushed him against a wall. She pointed a finger at his face and snapped, “Why didn’t you come to pick me up? I waited for you to come for hours!”

Naruto blinked. “Sakura, it’s only been 15 minutes since I left the house.”

Sakura seemed taken aback for a minute then she yelled, “That’s not the point! The point is you left me!”

Naruto’s eyes widened. “I didn’t leave you.”

“Oh yeah. You're right. Stupid me I forgot to put on my anti-invisible glasses so I wasn’t able to see YOUR INVISIBLE SELF WHEN YOU CAME TO PICK ME UP!”

“This is not my fault,” said Naruto, not impressed by her tone at all.

“Why didn’t you pick me up, NARUTO!” screeched Sakura.

Naruto covered his ears with his hand and closed his eyes at her last scream. When he felt it was okay to remove his hands, he glared at her. “Weren’t you the one who had Ino to tell me not to pick you up so you'd come in here all late and make an entrance!” he yelled back.

“I didn’t tell Ino to tell you anything, you phony…” The realization hit her like lightning. The maniac look came back to her face as she growled, “Inooooo!”

When Naruto saw the homicidal look on Sakura’ face, he decided to calm her down. He put his hands in her shoulders, and started whispering in her ears, “Calm down, Sakura. Calm down. You must focus on the fact that the Uchiha boy is waiting for in that table. You! Not Ino or anyone else. Just you!” that seemed to cool down her rage a little bit.

Naruto sighed. ‘So that's why Ino was fixed on staying home, and I thought it was because of Shika. Hmmm, well, it seems she had gotten over him on her own. That's good. That way it won't hurt her as much when she finds out.’ Naruto smiled. ‘Shika, my boy, you're off the hook.’

Naruto looked at Sakura who seemed to have calmed down. He grinned. “See it wasn't my fault”

She glared at him. “That doesn’t mean I forgave you for not coming.”

“But I didn’t do anything.”

“That's right you didn't do anything."

“Wha…? Hey, I set up this whole thing for you. If it weren’t for me, you wouldn’t be seeing your precious Sasuke-kun here in the first place.”

But Sakura didn’t hear what he had said. She was already walking away from him and through the doors that led to the tabled area of the restaurant.


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On the other side of the restaurant. Sasuke sat waiting for them to come out. ‘Why does she need to talk to him now? She has him all the time. Why talk to him in private now of all times.’ He had a bored look on his face while looking at the door they had disappeared through.
He looked at the ramen bowl Naruto had ordered while they were waiting for Sakura. As soon as the bitch had stolen him away, the waiter had brought his dish in. Sasuke sighed for the millionth time this week, looking back at the door. ‘Come out already.'

It was as if God had heard his prayer when the door opened to reveal Sakura coming out and heeding straight to him. On the outside, Sasuke appeared very cool, but on the inside he was panicking. ‘Forget that, get back, get back!'

Sakura smiled at him as she sat across from him on the table. “So Sasuke-kun, how have you been?” She fluttered her eyes at him and smiled flirtingly.

Sasuke looked at her emotionlessly.

When Naruto walked out, he sat next to Sakura. He gave a long look at his cooling ramen bowl but didn’t say anything when he felt Sakura pinch him on the arm. She glared at him and whispered, “Why don’t you go? I don’t need you, anymore.”

Sasuke’s ears perked as he heard her say that. ‘Quick, think of away to keep him here.'

Naruto, on the other hand, couldn’t believe that he was finally released. Even though this was his favorite place in the world, he really didn’t wanna be the man standing between an angry Sakura and her pry.

When he was about to stand up, Sasuke spoke, “Actually if you don’t mind, I wanted to ask you some questions about being a doctor." Naruto looked questioningly at Sasuke who continued, “Your sister kinda mentioned that you are yesterday”

Naruto was about to say something when Sakura cut him off by saying, “Don’t listen to him, Sasuke-kun. He still hadn’t become a doctor yet.”

“Yet?” Sasuke asked Naruto who glared at Sakura, who glared back as well.

Naruto turned from his glaring match to look at Sasuke. “Huh, oh, yeah, I still have to take the state test to become an official doctor.”

“Oh, and when is that?”

“Two weeks from today.”

“Wow, that's near. Aren’t you nervous?”

“Nah, I even lost the feeling of being afraid after my second visit to the morgue.”

Sasuke raised his eyebrow and asked, “Second? Why not the first?”

“Well, at my first visit, I fainted as soon as I saw the doctor raising his scalpel to cut the body. So I didn’t have the time to over come my fears. But the second one, now that was the best horror show I’ve ever seen. I lost my ability to feel that day.”

‘Now is my chance to ask him the question that has been bugging me all day.' Sasuke smirked. “Lost all your ability to feel, huh? Well, I feel sorry for the girl that will end up being your girlfriend."

Sasuke clutched his pencil tightly. His mind started running with several possible answers. The best of them was: “Well, I don’t really have any girlfriend and if I did have one, I don’t think it will be a girl.” Sasuke prayed to God to make this one the answer. 'Please God, grant me this one wish. I don’t ask you for a lot, but if you grant me this one, I promise I’ll be a good and eat dinner with my family without having them blackmail me to do so. Please.’

Naruto smiled and opened his mouth to speak but Sakura cut him off, “Yeah, well, the fact that Naruto lacks feelings is good for him. Doctors shouldn’t have feeling to begin with. So, Sasuke-kun, should we begin with our interview?” She smiled innocently at Sasuke, who seemed indifferent with whatever was going to happen. While in his head he was screaming, ‘No, that bitch! I’ll kill her one day!'

The interview went well with no interruptions whatsoever from Naruto.

“So, Sasuke-kun, do you think I’ll be a good doctor?”

“Hmmm,” answered Sasuke, busy writing notes on his notebook.

He looked up from his notes to look at Naruto through the restaurant glass window. He had gotten out of the restaurant to answer his cell phone which had ringed while Sasuke was having his interview with Sakura. Now Naruto was pacing outside the restaurant talking on his cell phone.

Naruto turned on his pacing, and looked away from the busy street in front of him, into the restaurants window. His eyes met Sasuke’s, and he smiled at him. Sasuke’s face heated up and he looked back down at his notes. He smiled a tiny smile and remembered the day Itachi had forced him to tell him who was the one he was in love with exactly.


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“Who says I don’t care about you? I do,” Itachi exclaimed defensively.
“Yeah right!”

“What? Give me one time that you turned to me for help and I turned you down?”

Sasuke looked at him. “Oh, no, don’t get me wrong. You don’t turn me down you only make it worse!”

“When have I ever made it worse?”

“How about the time I told you I liked someone?”

“What? She kept on throwing cookies at you. You would've been fat if I hadn’t prevented you from going to her house. See? I was looking out for you. No boy would have given you a second glance if it wasn’t for me taking care of you.”

“First of all, a simple, “No, you can’t go there,” would have been nice. Rather than convincing mom and dad to transform me into another kindergarten and might I add IN LONDON. Second off all, that's not what I’m talking about and you know it.” Sasuke looked pointedly at Itachi.

“I thought that some European culture might do you some good!”

“Itachi!” Sasuke snarled.

“I was concerned for you," Itachi said, talking about the other incident. "What if you had done it with no condoms? You're my kid brother. We both know that you're an eye candy, I had to ask.”

“I was 13!”

“So what? I did it when I was 12.”

“I didn’t have to know that!” Sasuke snapped. Covering his ears.

“Come on, Sasuke, let’s be honest. You came to my room all scared and trembling and then you told me that you're gay and in love with someone. What else could I have done?”

“I don’t know, how about, ‘It's okay. You don’t have to worry. It's gonna be alright,’ something like that.”

“Hey, I'm not good at that comforting stuff and you know it! And going back to that day I wish you had done it. At least it might have gotten out that stick stuck in your ass.”

Sasuke jumped at Itachi about to punch him. But Itachi caught him and threw him in the floor face down and sat on him.

“Come on, lil bro, it can’t be that bad. Who is he?”

“I won’t tell you!”

“Come on!”

“NO!”

“…..”

“…..”

“I’m waiting...”

“…..”

Itachi sighed but other than that he didn’t move. They sat like that for half an hour before Sasuke gave in. “Fine,” he whispered in a very low voice. Itachi had to kneel down to hear what he was about to say.

“It's… U… Uzu… Uzumaki… Naruto…”

Itachi stood up, while Sasuke stayed lying in his place, defeated.

Itachi was stunned. “N- Naruto? Naruto as in blue eyes, blond hair, 17-year-old doctor-wanna-be Naruto? That Naruto?”

Sasuke nodded. "He's 18 now," he corrected softly.

Itachi was too shocked he shook his head uncontrollably. “Sasuke, he's too old for you.”

A soft, “I know,” was his answer.

“But wasn’t he planing on studying medicine abroad after he finishes high school? If he's 18 now then he's a senior and that means…" he trailed off, looking at Sasuke, who was still lying face down on the floor.

“I know,” murmured Sasuke, his voice trembling.


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“Sasuke-kun, are you listening to me?”
Sakura’s voice brought him back to reality. He looked up from his notebook to see Sakura looking worriedly at him. Naruto had just grabbed his abandoned chair and sat.

“So you two done with the interview?” asked Naruto.

“Yes, we are. Sasuke-kun, do you feel sick?”

Naruto looked at him. “You don’t look so good. Did you get any sleep last night?”

‘Well, I was sleeping just fine until your lovely face decided to come back and hunt my dreams again.’ Sasuke just shook his head and answered, “No, I’m fine.”

“Sasuke-kun,” said Sakura worried.

“Don’t worry, Haruno-san, I’m fine. So, Uzumaki-san, now that we are finished with the interview, can I ask you some questions?”

“Sure, bring them on!”

Sasuke smiled. “Why did you become a doctor? It must be something big that made you choose this career.”

“Actually…”

“Oh, it was nothing. His grandma was a doctor and so he decided to be come one.”

“Alright then, have you ever thought of becoming a specialist in any field?”

“Well…”

Sakura scoffed. “Him? I don’t really think he could become a specialist in anything.”

And so it was whenever Sasuke would ask Naruto something, Naruto would open his mouth to answer, but Sakura would answer sarcastically instead and make it sound the lamest it could be.

Sasuke was about to explode. He wanted so bad to shove his pencil down her throat and see if she could talk after that. ‘Why the hell is she answering anyway? I thought I was talking to Naruto not to that stupid selfish bitch.’

Naruto, who had stopped trying to answer the questions a while ago, was now looking at Sakura amusedly. ‘Man, is she mad, what's up with her? Why is she mad? I thought that she would be happy to meet the Uchiha boy in a restaurant without other girls around but it seems she's more pissed off than usual. Hmm wonder why?’

At that point the pencil in Sasuke’s hand broke and Sakura asked, “Sasuke-kun, are you alright?”

Sasuke clinched his hand and gritted his teeth. “Haruno-san?”

“Yes,” answered Sakura fearfully.

“Could you shut your mouth for a second?"

Sakura swallowed back the tears trying break down from her eyes and nodded.

“Uzumaki-san?”

Naruto looked at Sasuke with a humorous smile. “Yes?”

“Should we go back to our conversation?”

“Of course.”

“So why did you be come a doctor?”

And so Naruto proceeded on answering Sasuke’s questions while Sakura stayed silent.

In the middle of asking questions Sakura left the table to go to the bathroom. Now it was Sasuke's chance to ask Naruto more personal question. However, he must make them sound as spontaneous as possible. “So Uzumaki-san, did you always want to be a doctor?”

“No, actually I wanted to be a fireman but I gave up on that dream a while ago.”

“Oh, and why is that?”

“I realized that you can save more people being a doctor rather than a fireman.”

“Hmm and how old were you when you decided that being a doctor was your dream?”

“Maybe about five… six… I’m not really sure.”

Sasuke’s eyes winded. “Then how old were you when you wanted to become a fireman?”

Naruto smiled sadly and said, “Two.”

“Don’t you think that is a little too young to be thinking of job dreams?”

The sad smile never left Naruto’s face as he said, “Yeah, well, bad things led to bigger miracles.”

Sasuke opened his mouth to respond but was cut off by the sound of his cell phone ringing. “Excuse me for a second.” Sasuke glared down at his pocket before stuffing his hand inside, bringing up the mobile phone. He pushed the green button and held the cell phone to his ear. “What do you want?”

Itachi’s voice answered him, “Hey there, bro, don’t you think it's time you got back home? Mom is pissed that you've missed lunch.”

Sasuke sighed. “Hold on. I’ll be right there.”

He closed his cell phone, giving Naruto an apologetic look. “Thanks for your time Uzumaki-san, but I have to go.”

“Uchiha-san.” Naruto nodded his goodbye with a smile on his face.


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Sakura had just gotten out of the bathroom, looking around but she hadn't spotted Sasuke. She looked at Naruto. “Where did Sasuke-kun go?
“You missed him. He just left”

Sakura sighed and sat down next to Naruto. “Naruto?”

“Hmmm?”

“Why did you become a doctor?” she asked seriously.

Naruto give Sakura’s face a measuring look before he replied sarcastically, “To ruin your date with your precious Sasuke-kun.”

“I knew it!”

Naruto just rolled his eyes. While Sakura sat in her place depressed. Because in all the time she and Sasuke were together, he didn’t seem to give her any bit of attention the same way he gave Naruto. What was all that about anyway?


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T.B.C.
A.N: YES THANK GOD I’M FINELY DONE WITH THIS CHAPTER! IT FEELS LIKE A YEAR HAD PASSED SINCE I STARTED WRITING IT. Well now that my job is done, I’ll be waiting for your reviews.

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