Well… That’s Awkward

Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto © or any of its characters, they belong to Masashi Kishimoto.

So this is my first chapter fanfic, at least if people like it it will be. Thank you for readng!

You Two Should Date!

“We think you two should date!” The three Kunoichi stood in front of the two boys looking down on them sitting under a tree. The blonde boy blinked then burst out laughing, as the blonde girl continued.

“No we’re serious!! You’d make such a cute couple! Right Sakura?” she turned to the pink-haired girl standing on her left who nodded vigorously, as the blonde continued to laugh as if this was the funniest thing he’d ever heard.

“Yeah, so you guys are dating now let it be known that Sasuke-kun and Naruto are officially dating!” The pale boy who had stared at them silently until now snorted at this and looked back up at the leaves of the tree, as he had been before the girls intruded.

“HA! NO WAY! We aren’t!” The loudmouth ninja yelled, giving Sasuke a look that said, ‘isn’t this ridiculous?’ Sasuke glanced at him, almost undetectably and resumed relaxing from the morning’s spar with his blonde friend. The brunette that was standing with Ino and Sakura continued.

“So you guys should start holding hands,” she bent down and put their hands in each others before the boys could do anything. She held them there, “Aww look you’re holding hands!” Sasuke scoffed and tried to pull his hand away, while fighting off a blush. Naruto however couldn’t resist his blush.

“What the hell?! Let go!” He jerked his hand away still blushing. He was getting angry now, “we’re NOT dating.”

“Yes you are,” Ino said tauntingly, “you make such a cute couple, look you are both sitting the same way, staring up at the sky!”

“No we’re not!” Both boys said at the same time, as Naruto sat up and crossed his legs Indian-style.

“Aw see you even say things at the same time,” Sakura cooed.

“No we don’t”

“See!” said Tenten. Just then Kakashi returned to his students with a puff of smoke.

“Alright let’s resume training.” Kakashi said calmly, “Ladies will you please return to your teams I believe Asuma and Gai are looking for you.” The girls turned to Kakashi excited for their new audience.

“Sasuke and Naruto are dating!” They shouted, completely ignoring Kakashi’s statement.

“Really well I can’t say I’m surprised,” Kakashi drawled sarcastically, his eye turning into and upside-down ‘U’ suggesting a smirk, “How far have you two gone?”

Naruto sputtered and blushed for a moment, then roared, “WE HAVEN’T GONE ANYWHERE! WE’RE NOT DATING!” Sasuke just hid his face with his bangs in case his blush should sneak on to his usually apathetic face.

“Still shy about it?” Kakashi’s eye had almost disappeared in his mischievous smile, “Well don’t let it interfere with training, ladies please excuse us.” Sasuke and Naruto got up, at the same time, making the girls faces light up, but Sasuke shot them an Uchiha © glare, and Ino and Tenten backed off. Sakura on the other hand was immune by now.

“You guys are so alike! Why can’t you just admit it?!” Sakura said emphasizing the words ‘so alike’ in that sickening way only a girl can.

“Ha! That bastard is nothing like me!” Naruto shouted.

“Don’t compare me to this dumbass,” Sasuke said calmly.

“What did you say bastard?!”

“Don’t tell me you’re deaf too,” Sasuke retorted purposely enraging his blonde friend. Sasuke wouldn’t let anyone know, but Naruto was the only person who could make him smile genuinely, even if just with amusement.

“Why don’t you two settle this lovers’ quarrel with a spar?” Kakashi said trying to steer them back to their training, “Sakura and I will spar while you two go at it.” Kakashi said, waggling his eyebrows at those last words.

Naruto spluttered again, “y-you p-pervert!”

“Come on, dumb-ass.” Sasuke started walking to the center of the clearing. Naruto quickly followed.

“Well at least they didn’t say ‘I’d never,’ or, ‘I’m not interested,’” Sakura said with an accomplished sigh, “that means there’s something there!”

Kakashi raised his exposed eyebrow at her disbelievingly, “They didn’t? You would think they would if they weren’t interested…”

“Exactly! That means they are interested or at least don’t want the other to think they aren’t!”

“Maybe you’re reading too much into it…” Kakashi pondered, “Anyway come on Sakura we have to train.”

“Hai, Sensei!” With that training resumed, and this wasn’t mentioned the rest of the day by either of the boys, who left as fast as they could at the end of the day, to avoid Sakura.

That night as Sasuke lay in bed he contemplated what the girls had said.

‘Sakura, Ino, and Tenten have obviously lost it… Me and that dumb-ass?… he probably doesn’t swing that way, from his reaction… They must have thought about this for a while, he probably was caught completely off guard, tch, dumb-ass… he’s so oblivious, and loud, and annoying, I mean why does he shout so much? And his obsession with ramen? Does he even eat anything else? That’s so unhealthy, not that I care… And his hair, I bet he uses a bottle of gel a day to get it so spiky… no wait it’s way too soft to have ever come in contact with gel… and those whisker marks are so… weird. I wonder if they’re like scars, etched into his skin… maybe
I should ask him.. No! Wait, what am I saying? I don’t care about his soft hair or the cute whisker marks on his cheeks!… Did I just think cute?! I’m not thinking that I don’t like Naruto like that in any way, no matter how close we are!… Do I?’

As he went over his very confused thoughts, on the other side of Konoha, a certain boy with soft blonde hair and cute whisker marked cheeks was having some interesting thoughts too.

‘Why would I like him, I’m not even into guys! No matter how smooth their skin is, or how soft their dark black hair is, or how I could get lost in his onyx eyes….’

“NO!! STOP! STOP! BAD THOUGHTS!” Naruto shouted in his small apartment before clamping both hands over his mouth.

‘I did not just think that. I didn’t! I don’t like boys, I’m not into boys, I’ve never felt anything for a boy! I mean why would I like Sasuke? We’re best friends; I mean in our own way, I’m sure he considers me a good friend. Besides even if I did like guys, I bet Sasuke doesn’t… I mean, sure, he won’t go out with any girls or anything, but that doesn’t mean he doesn’t like them, right?… Oh Kami! He does like guys! Who could resist Sakura for so long anyway… See there I liked Sakura for years! I couldn’t like guys if I like girls! Or can you like both?… Ok no more! That whole thing with Sakura-chan, Ino-chan, and Tenten-chan was just a flook, they just went temporarily insane, it will all be forgotten by tomorrow, and I’ll never think about wanting to run my fingers through Sasuke’s hair again…’

“AH!”

And as both teenage boys tried to grapple with possible feelings they drifted off into not-so-restful sleep.

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Akane-chan