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brotherly love; part 5:

“Your Sasuke? Since when did I belong to anyone, let alone you, Dobe?”

Naruto looked at Sasuke with a hurt expression on his face. “And why can’t I call you mine?”

“Don’t look at me like that, it’s creeping me out. And because I said you can’t call me that. Only…” his voice trailed off and he blushed.

“Only who can what?” asked Naruto, abandoning his hurt expression and smiling evilly.

“No one. It’s nothing,” His blush started receding.

Aww…C’mon!” he said, now giving Sasuke a pleading expression, “I’m your best friend. You can tell me.”

“It’s nothing. Now come on before we’re late.”

“Right! Let’s go!” It took Naruto a few minutes to realize that Sasuke had avoided all of his questions, but by then they were both in class and there was nothing he could do about it. He decided to bug Sasuke about it during lunch, but, by then, he had forgotten about it again. Even if he hadn’t forgotten about it he wouldn’t have had the chance to ask him, thanks to Sakura.

She and the rest of the fan club couldn’t stop bugging them and demanding a better explanation for the previous day as to why Naruto had acted the way he had (A/N: doesn’t make sense to me…). Naruto sat there, trying to ignore them and just eat his ramen at first, and Sasuke just ignored them too. But, when they wouldn’t leave them alone, Naruto started blushing and Sasuke glared at them and told them to back off. After a while the normally always calm Uchiha couldn’t take it anymore and went off at them.

“Just shut up and leave us alone!” he shouted at them, standing up and slamming his hands on the table, “I’m not in love with Naruto! I love…” he stopped, not wanting to blurt out to the whole school that he was in love with his brother and, was is his imagination, or did Narutos’ face drop when he said that. He noticed that the cafeteria had gone dead quiet and all eyes were on them (A/N: save for Shikamaru, he found it too troublesome to bother). The members of the fan club all had hopeful looks on their faces, each hoping that it was them that his was in love with.

“Who?” asked Sakura, the only one who had recovered.

“No one. It’s nothing.” he said as he sat down again, his face bright red.

“Who?” the other members started asking. They continued to pester him about that. The blush faded from his pail cheeks and a scowl replaced it as he started to get annoyed again. “Who? Who? Who?’ they continued to ask.

Naruto could see that his friend was getting really ticked off. Even though he was upset to find out that his friend didn’t have feelings fore him and he really wanted to find out who Sasuke liked, partly because he wanted to hurt kill them, partly was just out of curiosity. He shook his head and decided to help out his friend. As much as he wanted to find out who it was he liked, he didn’t want to find out that way, he wanted Sasuke to tell him himself.

He grabbed Sasukes’ wrist and tried to drag him away from them before he went off at them again and completely embarrass himself in front of the whole school. Sasuke reluctantly let himself be pulled away, but Narutos’ attempt was futile, as the fan club swarmed around them and wouldn’t let them pass. Naruto could practically see the veins popping out all over Sasukes’ face, and started inching away from him after letting go of his wrist. Naruto hadn’t gotten very far when Sasuke went off.

“I love Itachi! There! Happy?” Everyone in the cafeteria starred at him with a shocked expression, including Naruto (A/N and Shikamaru lol). Everyone, including Sasuke, just stood there for a few seconds until it registered in Sasukes’ mind that he had just told almost the whole school that he was in love with his big brother.

He quickly ran out of there, blushing profusely. Nobody moved to stop him as he ran out of the cafeteria and towards his house. Naruto recovered shortly after Sasuke, and fallowed him out of the school and towards where ever he was going (A/N: Naruto had never been to Sasuke’s house and, there for, doesn’t know where it is).

When Sasuke got home, he ran into his brothers who had just gotten home from work. He ran into Itachis’ arms, nearly in tears and still bright red. He almost knocked over the surprised and un-expecting Itachi. Once he had realized that Sasuke was crying he tried to calm his brother, rubbing his back gently. “Shh…” he soothed (A/N: Itachi? Soothe? Lol), “It’s okay. Nii-chan’s here.” After he had gotten Sasuke to calm down a little he asked him what was wrong.

“They…They were…They were picking on me and Naruto and I…I lost my temper and told them…that…that I’m in love with you…And now everyone’s going to hate me…”

“Shh…It’s okay. I’m here and that’s all that matters.”

“But…but…”

“But what? What about them? Who cares? Alls this matters is that we have each other. Who cares what they think? This just means I get to kiss you in public.”

“But…”

“What?”
“But Naruto…the look on his face when I blurted it out…what if he wont be my friend anymore?”

“Shh…of course he will be. It’s Naruto. Now lets go inside. I’m not about to let you go back to school.” he let go of Sasuke and lead hem into the house by the hand.

Naruto sat hidden, observing the scene in front of him. He sighed as he watched Itachi lead Sasuke inside, realizing that he could never replace Itachi in Sasukes’ heart. He stood up and walked back to the school. When he got there he saw Gaara, his only other friend, leaning with his back against the front of the school building.

“Any luck?” he asked Naruto.

“No.”

“Have you given up on him?”

Naruto sighed. “Yeah.” he said slowly.

“Do you think you could give me a try?” he asked, grabbing Naruto by the waist and pulling him closer to him.

“You sure move fast.”

“And you love it.”

The End

(A/N: sorry…es kinda rushed…decided to throw Gaara in there at the last minute cuz I didn’t want my poor Naru-chan to be all alone…will change when I stop being so lazy)