"S-Sasuke-kun!"
What? You've got to be kidding! And after I was finally happy too, dammit! He's as big of a bastard as ever! Naruto thought, eyes narrowing slightly.
"You came back for me!"
Naruto turned, startled, to look Sakura fully in the face. Apparently she hadn't gotten over him. But Sasuke's expression never changed, his gaze never leaving Naruto's.
"What the hell do you want, teme?"
Cool onyx turned to regard Sakura, his expression becoming one of disgust, as if he couldn't care less about her. Suddenly, Naruto was shoved aside as his girlfriend threw herself at Sasuke, hugging him.
"I knew you would come back!"
But the Uchiha looked at her as if a piece of flaming garbage had decided to up and fling itself at him.
"Great, just great." He said sarcastically. "You live to make my life hell, don't you bastard?! Sakura-chan! We're leaving!"
Sakura turned to him and raised an eyebrow in disbelief.
"Excuse me? What are you talking about? We're through! There's no way I'm loosing this chance to be with the one I truly love. He came back for me after all, didn't you?" She remarked, turning.
And then she noticed the look the Uchiha was giving her.
"Y-you did right?" She asked, taken aback.
Sasuke didn't reply, merely using one hand to daintily peel her off of himself. The kunoichi's eyes threatened to brim, and she took a step backwards.
"Sakura-chan!" Naruto said, reaching a hand out towards her.
"No! You're an idiot you know that?! You thought I could get over that?! Ha! I never even liked you in the first place!" She spat, slapping his hand away. Her tears spilled loose, and she backed away from both of them, turning and fleeing.
"I hope you're happy now! Sakura-chan! Sakura-chan!!" Naruto called after her.
"You can't expect me to believe you still like her?" Sasuke said, throwing the word 'like' out as if the thought itself was unthinkable.
The blonde merely glared at him and went after Sakura. Sasuke took a step after him but stopped himself, realising that it was dumb to go after the boy now. He obviously wanted nothing to do with him.
--
Naruto reached his girlfriend-- wait no, his ex's now, and knocked.
"Go away!"
He knocked again.
"Go away!"
He waited this time, before knocking again.
"I said go away!"
Naruto sighed, counted to ten, and then knocked-- again.
"I said go the frack away, damn it!"
Naruto resumed counting to ten, but when he reached five, the door swung violently inward, revealing a very blotchy and puffy-eyed Sakura. She attempted to slam the door in his face, but Naruto caught it, wrapping one hand around the door and the other around the door frame, and pushed himself through. A defeated Sakura fell back, crying again.
"It's all right Sakura-chan, I forgive you. Just come back to me." He told her camly.
Sakura laughed. "Y-you forgive me? (sniff) You're a big--bigger f-fool (sob) than I thought! I d-don't really like you! I p-played you! (deep breath) And.. and I can't for-forgive m-myself! (sob) 'Cause-- 'cause I got played..." She cried bitterly. "I want you to hate me. Now just leave me! Are you happy seeing me wallowing in my own sorrow?! Go!" She said, shoving him out of her house, hard.
Sakura slid down the back of her door after she shut it behind him. She pulled her knees to herself and held them as she cried.
--
Naruto returned to his apartment to see the teme waiting for him.
"What the hell are you doing in my apartment? I thought you at least had enough common sense to see I absolutely hate you now." He spat, eyes flashing.
Sasuke winced, but so incredibly subtle enough, Naruto didn't notice. He licked his lips, suddenly nervous. But in a moment he was the same cool, composed Uchiha who had broken up his dobe from the pink thing. 'His' dobe. What a strange thing to just slip from an Uchiha's lips.
"I just wanted to make one thing perfectly clear, usuratonkachi." He said, eyeing the blonde. "I did come back for someone."
"And I care, why?"
Sasuke clenched a fist in frustration, but he kept going. "I came back for you."
"And you thought I actually wanted you back? If you hadn't noticed, everything was perfectly fine and dandy 'till you came along." Naruto growled in response, obviously not getting it. Sasuke tensly jerked his head to one side, so that his neck cracked.
"Whatever, dobe. Just forget it." He sighed.
"What? What is it?" Asked Naruto, now suddenly interested, before sarcastically adding, "There was another reason for you to come back, besides wanting to ruin my life?"
Sasuke bit back a sarcastic remark of his own. "No. Ever think that I came back because I missed you? Didn't think so." He said, not giving Naruto a chance to reply as glittering onyx narrowed.
Now it Naruto's turn to sigh. "Look, I'm sorry, Sasuke-kun. It's been tough. I should have known that just because you left didn't mean that Sakura would like me suddenly. It doesn't work that way. It's not your fault."
"Yeah, whatever idiot. You forgive too easily. You'll get hurt." He snapped.
"What's that supposed to mean?" Naruto asked, anger rising again.
"Exactly what I said. I know that when you ran after Sakura, it was to accept the apology she's never going to give you."
"Great! My life is completely ruined! Not only do you first run away, leaving me in a complete mess, as soon as I get over myself and find love, you come along and snatch it away! And now I have no privacy! You follow me around, and listen in on my private matters! I wish you would go crawling back to your lovely Orochimaru and die!"
This time Sasuke flinched visibly, but it went unnoticed by the blonde, who had spun on his heel.
"Look I'm sorry, Naruto. It's a bad day for me too. I just got back and everything, you know how it is, after a mission...."
"Oh great, and apparently you've been watching me all these years! You insult my talents as a Jounin! GO THE FUCK AWAY! NOW!"
"Fine." He spat, turning and leaving from the open window he had come in from, not bothering to look back.
Naruto slammed the window shut behind him before slamming his apartment door closed and storming into his bedroom, plopping down on his bed, and crying for the first time in three years.
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Chapter notes: Disclaimer: same old, same old. Naruto belongs to a some-what-dashing, devilishly good writer named Masahi Kishimoto-sensei, not me.
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