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

Thanx to everybody who had reviewed YOU GUYS ROCK XD.

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

Since everybody has been asking me about their ages, I decided I’ll write them all here :)

Itachi: 22

Naruto-Shikamaru: 21

Sasuke- Gaara –Neji-Shino: 17

Sakura-Ino: 15

I’ll rewrite them whenever I add a new character

"speech"
'thoughts'


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Chapter 6:

Ino was standing in front of her closet. She had a towel warped around her naked body. She was chewing on her nails while looking at her wide-opened closet.

She heard the sound of the front door closing. That was when tears willed up her eyes.


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Naruto drove his car back to his house after the ‘not so much date’ at the restaurant. What he just realized was that two years and a half of studying abroad were much better than studying in his homeland. The reason to that realization was sitting next to him in his car and screaming at him like crazy.
Sakura hadn’t stopped nagging since they left the restaurant. Now Naruto was biting the insides of his cheek to keep himself from screaming his head off. He was so mad that when they neared a left turn he turned really fast Sakura yelped, banging her head against the window. She turned to Naruto and opened her mouth to yell at him when he made a nasty stop at her house.

“Out!” said Naruto sternly.

Sakura narrowed her eyes at him. “Take me to your house”

Naruto didn’t say anything. He just started the engine and drove away. When they reached his house, he slammed on the brakes so hard the car almost span. When Sakura got out, she slammed the door shut. Naruto rolled his eyes.

Sakura turned the doorknob to the front door of the house, but it was locked. She groaned and her shoulders slummed. She turned to Naruto with a little pout on her lips.

Naruto, who had gotten out of the car by now, raised an eyebrow at her and crossed his arms. “Oh, so now you need me?”

Sakura whined, “Naruto, please, don’t be mean. I really need your help.”

“You sure about that? ‘Cause five minutes ago it was ‘Get the hell away from me. I can do it by myself.’” Naruto said the last part in a high pitched girly voice.

“Come on, Naruto! I don't have the keys. I can't get in.”

“Oh, really? ‘Cause I beg to differ.”

“What, you're calling me a thief now?”

Naruto just smirked not saying anything.

Sakura gasped. “Remained me of one time I stole something from you?”

“Oh, well, how about the time you stole my cookies?”

Sakura’s eyes widened. “I was five! So stop holding that against me! Besides, I only did that because you broke my Barbie.”

“Yeah, well, if you hadn’t refused to marry me, I wouldn’t have done that, now would I?“

Sakura gasped. “Is that why you did it you big meanie? You know I cried for a week because of that.”

Naruto rolled his eyes. “Oh, give me a brake, your parents bought you a new one the next day!”

“Yeah, well, it wasn’t the same.”

“Why? What was so special about that old one?”

“For one thing, it was the first gift I ever received from you! And it was my fist Barbie ever.”

Naruto unwind his arms, his face giving a look of disbelief. “No kidding! I gave you a Barbie as a gift back then? Man, that's so lame.”

“C'mon, it was cute.”

Naruto made a face at that then his eyes widened. “Wait was it that blond one with that stupid pink dress?”

Sakura nodded.

Naruto put on a fake sympathetic look on his face as he said, “Poor-little-Suki I had stolen that one from Ino and gave it to you.”

Sakura was shocked. “You mean your first gift to me was tented! How could you do that Naruto? How could you steal? And from your own sister!"

Naruto scoffed, “Oh, please, I was nine. Stealing was cool back then.”

Sakura stuck her tongue at him. “Well I was four! And stealing is never cool!” .Than she furrowed her eyebrows. “But actually that would explain it!”

“Explain what?”

“That big 'I' on her butt.”

Naruto looked confusedly at her then realization hit him “Oh, yeah!” Naruto chuckled. “Boy, Ino was so possessive of her stuff.”

“Yes, she used to write 'I' on everything she owned.”

“Yeah, and she would never let us play with any of her things.”

“Nooo! Never.” Then she laughed as she said, “Hey, remember that time I put peanut butter on her favorite Barbie? When she found out she made me lick it all off.”

Naruto scoffed. “You think you had it bad? When I did that she went crying to mom and dad they grounded me for a week and made me say sorry to her.”

“Oh, I hate saying sorry to Ino."

“Yeah, that idiot had recorded it and kept playing it whenever I'd crossed her room for a whole week!”

Sakura giggled. “Hey, remember that time we'd ganged up on her?”

“Which one? When we had dressed up like devils and told her we came to take her life or when we had told her that her dolls were hunted?”

Sakura started laughing, “Oh my God, remember when we painted her hair pink?”

Naruto grimaced. “Yeah, how could I forget? That one backfired on me and I had to die my hair pink just so I can be able to play with you two again.”

Sakura doubled in laughter.

Naruto just shook his head. He walked to the front door, got out his key and unlocked it. “Ino was really mean back then.”

“Yeah, but a not-mean-Ino is not our Ino.”

Naruto just snorted.

Sakura smiled at him. “Thanks for the ride, Naruto, now I’m going up to scold at your sister for what she did to me.”

“You do that and I’m going to study.”

Sakura threw him a smile and ran up the stairs to Ino’s room.


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Ino was on her knees, sobbing, when she heard the door to her room opening.
“Ino, you better have a good excuse for what you… Ino are you… crying?” she heard Sakura’s worried tone coming from the door.

Ino looked up from her position on the floor, her vision was blurry as she looked at Sakura with her tear-filled eyes. She whispered, “Sakura….”

Sakura dashed to Ino she held the crying girl in her arms. “Ino, honey, what's wrong? Did something hurt you? Are you ok? Do you need me to call Naruto? Ino tell me, please!” Sakura was on the verge of crying now.

Ino hiccupped as she shook her head. “No, it's nothing like that. It’s just…” she took a deep berth and continued, “Shi... Shikamaru… is coming tomorrow and I… and I …” she looked up at Sakura. “Sakura, I have nothing to wear!” She burst out crying again.

Sakura was stunned. She looked down at the crying Ino then up at the opened closet then at the clothes thrown all over the room then back at Ino.

“Ino, how could you have nothing to wear? We just went shopping yesterday and as I recall you bought more clothes than I did!”

“Yeah, but all of them are Sasuke’s style! I need Shikamaru’s style!”

Sakura frowned. “And what is Shikamaru’s style?”

“I don’t know! I just know that these are not the clothes he'd like to see his woman in!”

“Well, honey, it’s been more two years since you’ve last seen him. Maybe his taste changed,” Sakura said as she patted Ino’s hair.

“Yeah, maybe he doesn’t like girls like me anymore!”

Sakura frowned again. “When did he ever like you?”

“Sakura!” Ino sat up from her nestling place at Sakura’s lap and looked at her best friend, shocked.

Sakura grabbed Ino back to her lap “Ino, I didn’t mean it like that. It’s just that…” She sighed and went back to stroking Ino’s hair. “I think that this little crush of yours took a turn into the bad side.”

Ino swallowed down her tears. “I don’t know, Sakura, what I feel for Shikamaru is… when I first laid eyes on Sasuke, I thought that's it. That he's the one for me. That he can make all my dreams come true. But when Naruto had told me yesterday that Shikamaru will be here in two days, that stirred up all these feelings in me. It made me feel that my feelings for Sasuke were nothing but a fling. But what I had for Shikamaru… that's real. You know?”

Sakura sighed. “No, no, I don’t. But, honey, you gotta stop mobbing around and go wash your face.” A thought popped into Sakura’s head and she smiled at Ino. “And when you come out, we’ll go shopping for clothes that are Shikamaru’s style. What do you think about that?”

“But I don’t know what Shikamaru’s style is!”

“It’s ok. We’ll figure something out.”

“Thank you, Sakura."

“You’re welcomed, but put something on before we go out.”

Ino stood up and made her way to her closet. When she finished dressing, she went to the door, then suddenly stopped and turned around facing Sakura again. Ino pointed her finger at Sakura’s face and said, “That does not mean that I’m giving up on Sasuke. Do you hear me?”

A smile blossomed in Sakura’s face. ‘Yep, that's the Ino I know and love.’ “Of cures it doesn’t.”

Ino smiled, nodding her head and left. Unknown to the girls, Naruto was standing right outside the door listening to them.


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Naruto had headed to Ino’s room to ask the girls what they wanted for dinner, when he heard Ino’s trembling voice say that she had feelings for Shika. His best friend and Ino’s 'supposedly' ex crush.
He couldn’t move a finger. He was very shocked he froze in his place. Just an hour ago he was sure that Ino was over him and now… now everything had turned upside down. ‘No, that wasn't supposed to happen. I was just telling Shika about how he was off the hook and this happens? No, I gotta do something, but what can I do? I can’t change what's in her heart and I can’t do anything about Shikamaru’s situation. Damn!’

He then heard the sound of Ino's footsteps coming his way. ‘Quick, hide,’ he thought. He looked at the stairs, but going down would make too much noise. He thought about hiding in one of the rooms, but all the doors in the hallway were closed except for the bathroom’s door and that would mean that he would have to face Ino and he didn’t want to. Therefore, the only option he had left was to stick to the wall and hope that the door would cover him.

When the door opened, it hid him perfectly, as Ino went to the bathroom. Naruto smiled and started tiptoeing to the stairs.

“Naruto!” screeched Sakura’s voice.

Naruto’s body tensed then he looked at Sakura, put a finger on his lips, and hissed, “Shhhh.”

Sakura, who stood at Ino’s door, glared at him, whispering, “What you doing in here? Were you eavesdropping on us?”

“I didn’t mean to. I was just going to ask you what you wanted for dinner,” replied Naruto in a shushed voice.

“Dinner! We just had lunch!” Sakura screeched.

“Oh no, no, no, no, no you! Just had lunch I, on the other hand, had to watch my bowl as it wasted away because you stopped me from eating!” retorted Naruto, raising his voice.

“I stopped you from eating! When!” exclaimed Sakura, her eyes widening.

“When you dragged me to that little hallway and started screaming at me for not picking you up!” yelled Naruto.


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Ino was cleaning her face when she heard the loud voices, coming from the hall. She turned off the faucet in order to hear better. ‘Oh my God, is that Naruto and Sakura I hear? What are they screaming about?’ She wiped her face with a towel and opened the door to see what was happening.
When she looked outside, she saw Sakura’s face so red she was about to explode, while Naruto had veins sticking out of his head. They were both yelling at the same time, she couldn’t understand a word they said.

“Will you both shut up and tell me what is wrong in here!” shouted Ino.

Naruto and Sakura stopped arguing and turned to look at Ino. Naruto narrowed his eyes and pointed a finger at her. “You! You were the one who told me that Sakura didn't want me to pick her up!” he accused.

“Ino, you pig, you made me embarrass myself in front of Sasuke-kun,” yelled Sakura, too.

Ino’s eyes widened as she looked between the two of them. “I... I gotta go!” She made a hasty retreat to the bathroom with both of Naruto and Sakura on her heels. Ino closed the door behind her and locked it. Naruto and Sakura were banging the door behind her while she tried to pop the window out of the frame so she could sneak out.

Once she succeeded in opening the window, she looked down and her eyes bugged out. It was too high. ‘Oh my God, why did I not notice how far it is before? When I was younger, I used to jump down from here all the time. Boy, I was an idiot back then. What if I had jumped and broke my neck? I’ll just stay here until they leave. They’re bound to get bored in the end.’ She was about to take a seat at the edge of the bath tube when the banging suddenly stopped. She heard her brother's voice shouting at her from across the bathroom door. “Ino, I swear if you didn’t get out right now! I will tell mom and dad about that bottle of vodka you stole from Tsunade-baa-chan last year.”

Ino gasped. “You jerk, I thought that was a sister-brother thing. I can’t believe you're holding that against me”

“Yeah, that’s what you get for almost making me lose an eardrum. Now come out and take what you deserve like a man!”

‘Oh, well, it seems like I have to suck it up and jump out in the end.’ “Well, nii-san, for your information, I'm no man. But just so you know, I am coming out, but not the same way you expect me too,” she said that and jumped out of the window.


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“Not the same way I expect you to? What? You gonna jump out the window?” Then he started laughing.
No answer came out of the bathroom.

“Ino, are you there?” Naruto asked, leaning against the door to listen for any sound from inside.

“Oh my God, Naruto, I think she did it,” said Sakura worriedly.

“No, it's not a thing she does.” Then he raised his voice, “Ino! Are you in there?”

Still no answer came.

“Naruto, what if she'd jumped and broke her arm or leg or something else? If any of that happens, it's your entire fault!”

“What! How come is it my fault!”

“Because you were the one who pushed her into jumping out of that window!”

“Hey, don’t blame all that on me! You were also part of it!”

“Yeah, but you were the one who threatened her!”

Naruto rolled his eyes. “Could we not talk about that and go see if my little sister is okay?”

“Oh, you know I’m right.”

“Shut up,” he said and went down the stairs to check on Ino. Sakura was right behind him.


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The next day at school, Ino and Sakura were walking side by side. Ino had a pained look on her face, as she walked next to Sakura to their history class.
“Awww my ass hurts,” whined Ino rubbing her injured ass, as she said that.

Sakura giggled. “Serves you right for jumping outta that window.”

Ino gave her a sideway glance. “Ooh if I wasn’t sure that it will hurt I would have smack that big forehead of yours so hard you’ll be seeing stars for the rest of the day.”

Sakura swallowed back her laugh. “I’m sure you would’ve,” her voice was shaking as she said that.

“That better not be laughter. I hear in your voice, Haruno.”

“Oh no God forbid,” she said that and burst out laughing.

Ino glared at her but continued her way to class while Sakura slummed at one of the lockers laughing. Both of the girls were totally ignorant to the pair of turquoise eyes that followed Ino as she walked to the class.


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In the journalist class, Sasuke walked in with a tiny smile on his face. He sat down on his usual seat and started assembling the papers he had brought with him to class.
Anko, who was sitting on her desk like always, frowned. ‘Is that a smile I see on his face?’ Anko rolled her eyes. ‘Great. Now I’m hallucinating. Thanks a lot Tsunade!’ A picture of Tsunade smiling while handing her a bottle of her 'special' drink crossed her mind. ‘Special drink my ass!’ Anko grimaced and raised her head to look at the new intruder.

Gaara walked in to class with a measuring look on his face. Anko raised her eyebrow. ‘What? No glaring? Or nasty words?’ He just sat down and looked at the ground. Anko’s jaw dropped. ‘No way! That's it! I'm never going to Tsunade’s on a school night again! Next thing you know I’ll be seeing Shino walk in talking with somebody,’ she thought that and fixed her eyes on the door. When Shino finally showed up, he just walked in and sat down on his chair and looked straight at her or her way at least she couldn’t be precise since she couldn’t see his eyes through those dark glasses of his.

‘Finally! The curse is broken.’ Anko grinned and stood up, clapping her hands to get everyone’s attention. “Okay, now where are my four interviewers?”

The four raised their hands and she smiled at them

“Are you all done with your interviews?”

They all nodded their heads

“Good, now hand them over so we can start our lesson for today.”


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At the end of the school day, Sasuke was making his way to his car when his cell-phone rang. As he fetched the mobile from his pocket, he looked at the caller ID and sighed. “What do you want, anaki?”
“Shashuke, it ish sho good to hear you. Where have you been? I mished you.”

“Itachi, is that you?”

“Of courshe thish ish me. Who elsh do you call, anaki? Wait, are you sheating on me with another brother, cosh if you are, I’m gonna go to him and kick hish ash…. Ash…. Ash... I don’t like that word.”

Sasuke frowned. “Are you drunk?”

“I don’t know, but if I shee a lot of bottlesh around me. Doesh that mean I am?”

Sasuke rubbed on his temple. “Yes, Itachi, that means you are now. Where are you?”

“At Kishame’s. Shashuke, pleashe, come pick me up. One of the bottlesh jusht bit me. I think they hate me.”

Sasuke sighed. “No, Itachi, they don’t hate you. Just don’t touch any of them, okay? I’ll come pick you up right away.”

“Okay, but come fasht. My head feelssss wired.”

“Fine. Now don’t move from your place. I’m on my way.”

“Okay… Shashuke?”

“Yes?”

“Do you love me?”

Sasuke scowled at the phone and hang up. He went to his car and drove to Kisame’s place. He was used to his brother's drunken episodes, but that didn’t mean he liked them. Nothing good came out of him hanging around that fish faced freak.

When he reached Kisame’s house, he parked his car and went inside. He saw the bodyguards on front of the house and nodded his head to them. They nodded their heads back. He made his way to the front door.

Once he was inside, one of the house cleaners came running to him and started talking in a worried tone, “Sasuke-sama, your brother is crying inside. He's bleeding but… we wanted to help him but he won't let any of us touch him. He keeps saying that you hate him, please, help him."

Sasuke nodded. “Where is he?”

“He's in the basement, but watch out for the broken glass. Mr. Kisame had a party last night and it ended with a nasty fight.”

Sasuke nodded again and walked towards the basement. Once he was there, he started looking for his brother between all the bodies lying on the floor. He found him sitting alone on a table sobbing.

Sasuke wrinkled his nose at the smell wafting from his brother. “Itachi?”

Itachi looked at him a big smile on his teary face. “Shashuke, you made it. You didn’t get eaten by the monshtersh!”

“Monsters? What monsters?” Sasuke said as he helped his brother up from his seat.

“They're theshe weird white headed thingsss. They were trying to take me away from here but I wouldn’t let them cosh I knew you’d come and shave me.”

“Yes, Itachi, that's good but when you wanna talk again please turn your head the other way, okay?”

“'kay.”

They continued their way up the stairs silently. Sasuke dragged his brother through the halls and was about to cross the last hallway that led to the front door, when Itachi shrieked and hid behind Sasuke's back, yelling, “Monshter! Monshter! Shashuke, kill it, kill it.”

Sasuke looked at where Itachi was pointing to see one of the maids frozen on her place. He just shook his head and waved a hand to her, telling her she could go.

Itachi was panicking. He pulled hard on Sasuke’s shirt as he shouted, “No, Shashuke, it'sss running away. Go, cash it, go!”

Sasuke sighed as he turned around to face his brother and started speaking to him in a comforting tone, “Itachi, it's okay, that was just a maid. You don’t have to be afraid. She won’t hurt you.”

“She won’t?” Itachi looked at the door where the maid had disappeared through.

“No, she won’t. Now get up so I'd drive you home.”

Itachi frowned at that. “But I wanna drive.”

“No, Itachi, I’m gonna drive.”

Itachi stopped walking and stomped his foot to the floor, whining, “No, I’m gonna drive.”

Sasuke sighed. “Itachi, you're not driving.”

“But why?”

Sasuke didn’t say anything as he led Itachi to his car. Once they were there, Itachi refused to go into the passenger’s seat.

“Itachi, get in the car.”

“No!”

“Itachi, get in the car!”

“No! I wanna drive!”

“Itachi, do you want me to be mad at you?”

“No,” Itachi said with a little pout.

“Then be a good boy and let me drive.”

Itachi seemed to be pondering things when it looked he had reached to a decision he said, “Okay… but I get to drive next time.”

Sasuke heaved a relieved sigh. “Sure!”


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As Sasuke drove the car, he looked over at Itachi who was lying down on the passenger seat and looking confusedly at one of his wounds as if he was wondering where did it came from.
Sasuke sighed. ‘I need to get his cuts looked at but I can’t take him to the hospital or mom will know. If she found out that Itachi has been drinking, she’ll kick him outta the house for real this time. Damn it, Itachi, why didn’t you go to that university that you’ve been bragging about all those years? What made you change your mind all of a sudden? Now mom is mad at you and dad won't even talk to you. Two years ago everything was just fine. Why did things have to get so complicated?’

He looked back at Itachi who had his face scrunched up as if he was fighting a major headache. ‘But first I need to get some coffee into his system and some aspirin, too. And on the way, I’ll get him some bandages and see what I can do. It’s not like this is going to be my first time.’


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‘Cream, cream, cream, cream. I need to get some cream for my sister’s ass. Ok, that sounded gross.’ Naruto wrinkled his nose as he looked at the boxes of cream in one of the shelves to decide which ones were better for his sister’s sour ass. ‘Aha, yes, that one is good.’ He was stretching his arm to grab it when the pharmacist came to him.
“Excuse me, sir, do you need any help?”

“No, it's ok. I know what I’m looking for.”

“Yeah, but, sir, this is not how it works.”

“Of course it is. You just sit there and let me look for what I need by my self. Okay?” Naruto smiled at him.

The man smiled back though it was a little forced. “But, sir, you can’t just barge in and take whatever you need. You see, this is a pharmacy!”

“Oh, is that true? ‘Cause I thought this is a petting zoo!” He smiled. “Hey, check it out. I rhymed.”

“Sir…”

“Hey, chill out, I really know what I’m doing. I’m a doctor.”

The man sneered. “Really? ‘Cause I forget to tell you that I’m a circus-freak.”

Naruto’s eyes widened in fake awe. “Whoa and you got a work in a pharmacy? Man, you gotta introduce me to whomever got you this job? ‘Cause this is much easier than going through all these damn exams the university is forcing me to take!”

The man’s eyes turned red with rage and his grip on the counter tightened. “Ok, sir, I’m gonna ask you to…” The sound of a bell ringing cut the pharmacist from continuing his sentence.

Naruto smiled smugly. “Oh, look you’ve got another costumer. Why don’t you go bug him and leave me alone?”

The man glared at him and was about to say something when the sound of a boy cut him off. “Excuse me, sir, but can you get me some aspirin and some bandages?”

Naruto was getting out his wallet to pay for the medicine while the man was distracted talking with his customer. ‘Hurry! Hurry! Hurry!’

He put the money on the counter and started crawling to the door when he heard the boy say, “How much?” ‘Oh no, no, no, no don’t go. I’m still not done here.’ He heard the boy say, “Thank you.”

Naruto frowned. ‘Hey, wait a minute, I think I know that voice, that’s the Uchiha boy! What is he doing here?’

“Hey, where did that blond go?” cried out the pharmacist.

‘Busted!’ Naruto thought as he made a dash to the door.

“Hey, you get back in here, you thief!” screamed the pharmacist, getting out of the counter to run after him.

“Hey, don’t you call me a thief. Your money is right there on the counter!” exclaimed Naruto who was standing right outside the door, which was still opened. When what he said didn’t stop the man from following him, he shut the door behind him. He looked up to see the Uchiha kid standing with his car door open. ‘Perfect!’ He run up to him and ducked behind his back, so now the boy and the car door were hiding him. He whispered “If you say anything about me to that man, I’m gonna bite you butt off!”

Sasuke had a look of puzzlement on his face. His body was tensed all over. ‘What the hell just happened here? Is that Naruto hiding behind me? Why is he hiding? Why did he hide behind me? Is that his face I feel stuck to my ass? And did he just say that he will bite me?’ with all these questions going around in his head, Sasuke didn’t realize that he was saying the next one that came to his mind out loud. “Was he threatening or tempting me?”

“What?”

Sasuke, finally out off his daze, replied hurriedly, “Nothing!”

That was when the man came out. He looked right and left then looked at Sasuke. “Hey, kid, did you see a man with a blond hair getting out of here?”

‘If I said the truth, will I get my ass bit? Or was he just messing with me? Damn it! Why are all the hard decisions thrown at me today? What did I do to deserve this?’ Sasuke was whining in his head while his face stayed passive in the outer world. “Well, I don’t know if he was a blond or not, but I did see a man running this way,” He said that and pointed his finger to the right side. “But I don’t think you can catch him, ‘cause he got into a car and drove away.”

“Darn it!” exclaimed the pharmacist. “Well, thanks for the help, anyway, kid”

“Don’t mention it.”

The man went back to his shop.

Sasuke took a deep breath before he asked, “Wanna tell me now why your head is stuck to my ass?”

“Oh, sorry about that!” Naruto said that and removed his head from Sasuke’s ass.

Sasuke was facing the other way so Naruto couldn’t see his disappointment. ‘What did you think he was gonna say ‘cause your ass is so nice?' Sasuke whipped the disappointment from his face and turned to look at Naruto.

Naruto stood up from his crouching position and took one-step away from Sasuke. “Well, I was minding my own business when suddenly the man comes to me and starts making fun of me. So naturally, I made fun of him, too. That’s when he asked me to leave but then you, you life saver, came in and I got my chance to run away with the medicine.”

Sasuke raised an eyebrow at that an amused look crossing his face. “Huh, and helping you steal makes me glad I did it how?”

Panic struck Naruto’s face as he denied, “Oh, no, I didn’t steal this. I left the money right on the counter before I left! Believe me, I didn’t steal this!” he said that pointing to the small box he held in his hand.

Sasuke looked at Naruto’s face for a moment before he started chuckling. “It's alright. I believe you. No need to panic. So why were you in the pharmacy anyway, are you hurt?” a hint of concern combined the question.

Naruto sighed in relief. “No, I’m fine. It’s my sister. She fell down from the second floor window on her ass and strained some muscles.” Naruto bit his lower lip. ‘And I just realized I said that to my sister's crush. Ino is gonna kill me.’

“Oh, that must’ve been painful.”

Wrapped up in his misery, Naruto barely made out what Sasuke was saying. “Huh, oh, yeah sure it was. Listen could you not tell her that ‘cause she would kill me if she knew you found out and she’ll skin me alive if she knew that I was the one who told you!”

“It’s alright. Your secret is safe with me.”

“Thank you.” Naruto smiled at him and Sasuke smiled back. “So, Uchiha-san, what brings you here? Don’t tell me someone in your house fell on there asses too? ‘Cause if there was you better tell me I’ve got some creams in my hand that well fix you right off.”

The smile on Sasuke’s face froze at the last statement Naruto had said. Dirty thoughts started to take there turn. ‘Yes, I did, but I’m not taking anything until you agree on rubbing it on me yourself!’ Sasuke’s face was as red as a tomato. “Ahem, no, umm n -n -nooo body... ahem, fell on their, umm, ahem, a... ass -es that is so no, no need umm for those.”

Naruto was about to laugh at how frustrated Sasuke seemed. ‘Poor kid, I say ass and he's blushing like a school girl. C'mon, Uzumaki, give the boy a break.’ Naruto grinned at Sasuke and asked, “So what happened?”

Sasuke, seeming to finally get a grip on his feelings, answered, “Oh, umm, my brother.” He pointed to the car. Naruto looked in and narrowed his eyes. Sasuke continued, “Got into a fight while he was drunk and got himself hurt and I can’t take him to the hospital ‘cause they would call my mom. So I thought I'd take care of his wounds myself.”

“And why don’t you want your mom to know?”

“She's not really a big fan of drinkers and when it comes to Itachi, she's even less enthusiastic about it.”

“Oh…” he looked back at Itachi. ‘He seems to have a lot of wounds. Some of them are really bad but not bad enough to cause him any tragic blood loss. But they're deep enough for him to get a serous infection. That's not good. He needs to get looked at. But if his brother won’t take him to a doctor then…’ he looked at Sasuke, who had his eyes on his brother he looked really concerned. ‘Okay, Uzumaki, this is your time to step up but try not to alarm the kid. He seems really worried for his brother.’ Naruto smiled at Sasuke. “Well, I have two nut cases waiting for me at my house but if you want I can give him a look. I know I’m not a Professional or anything but it's better then nothing, right?”

Sasuke looked up when Naruto started talking, “No! That would be great, Uzumaki-san, thank you!” exclaimed Sasuke happily.

Naruto smiled. “It’s no big. And it’s Naruto from now on.”

Sasuke blushed and looked down. “Hai Naruto-san”

“No, no!” Sasuke looked at him, confused. “Just Naruto”

Sasuke couldn’t trust his mouth to say anything comprehendible. He settled for nodding and looking down at the ground.

Naruto grinned. “Great. Then I’ll lead the way and you follow me with your car, okay?”

Sasuke nodded again, and got in to his car. While Naruto walked around the boy’s car to get to his.

When Sasuke sat down he looked over at his brother who was asleep on his seat. ‘He is going to torment me over this.’ He took a deep breath and started the engine.


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T.B.C.

A.N: That was the tallest chapter I ever wrote and its all thanx to Nadramon who kept on nagging at me to write taller chapters hope you enjoyed it :)

Review! And tell me what you think.


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Age------------------------- Grade
S ------- I -- N------------- S -- N

12-13 , 18 , 17------------ 7th, 11th

13-14 , 19 , 18------------ 8th, 12th

14-15 , 20 , 19------------ 9th, university

15-16 , 21 , 20----------- 10th, university

16-17 , 22 , 21 ---------11th, first term: university /second term: back home

- hope that clears it out for you. The numbers and words underlined are their current age and state.


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