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"Hi, Ms. Uchiha!" Sakura exclaimed excitedly as she let herself in through the back door with the spare key Sasuke's father gave her and Naruto, tired of all the knocking.
"Hello Sakura dear, Sasuke is up in his room," the Uchiha matron said smiling. Sakura gave the woman a bright smile after taking off her shoes and dashing out of the kitchen giving a quick thank you over her shoulder.
Sakura took the stairs two at a time and stopped next to Itachi's door when she saw it was cracked open.
"Hey Ita, whatcha doing?" she asked bouncing on the balls of her feet.
"Oh hey sugar cube, nothing much. I'm just waiting on Shisui to stop by so we can out. This is so random, but did you know the tongue is the strongest muscle in the body?"
"I did not know that," she stated, smiling broadly. "Guess that comes in handy, wouldn't you say Itachi, especially when you're hanging out with Shisui am I right?" She asked, cheekily wiggling her eyebrows. She enjoyed the way Itachi went red very much. "Well anyway, I'm going to go see what Sasuke's doing, bye" she stated in a rush before Itachi could pull himself together and yell at her.
She was halfway down the hall almost to Sasuke's bedroom when there was a shout behind her.
"Close the Door!"
She just laughed and kept on walking.
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"So when are you going to ask him out?"
Sasuke looked away from his phone and at the pink-haired girl scrolling through Pinterest with her head on his lap.
"Oh and look at this cat isn't he so cute?" she asked the question so nonchalantly. The cat was pretty cute though, it was black and white and was playing with a ball of purple yarn in a bundle of blankets in a basket, didn't get much cuter than that.
"That is pretty cute, and what do you mean to ask him out? Who's him?"
Sakura rolled her eyes.
"Naruto of course!" Sasuke made a poor attempt of hiding his blush by pretending to be invested in his phone.
"That dobe? Why would I want to ask him out? I don't even like him!"
"Don't be silly you two clearly like each other and we all know how you like to assert your dominance like the alpha male you think you are, so I just assumed you would want to make the first move."
"He probably doesn't even like me," Sasuke said a slight frown on his face.
"So you do like him!" Sakura said triumphantly. Sasuke sighed, this was going to be troublesome. 'Ew,' Sasuke thought to himself. 'I sound like Shikamaru'.
Sakura broke through his internal musing. "Don't ignore me Uchiha I know where you live."
"You're literally in my house right now Pinky."
Sakura waved him off, "That's not the point, the point is you like Naruto, Naruto likes you and I'm tired of sitting through weird moments of sexual tension between the two of you, so, I'm going to need you two to figure your shit out. But you two can't even aim where you piss without me so like with everything else in life, I have to do it for you."
"One that's a fucking disgusting analogy, and two how am I even supposed to ask him out I'm me and he's...well, him."
Oh. Sakura wasn't expecting that. I mean he does realize that he's Naruto's best friend.
"What do you mean?" Sakura knows, and she knows that he knows she knows.
"He's perfect."
"No one's perfect."
"No one but him."
Sakura sighs. "And why is he perfect and you're not?" It was Sasuke's turn to sigh.
"Besides the fact that he's blond, if I didn't know him I would think he was a full-time model, and I'm pretty sure his smile could replace the sun." Sasuke said listing things off on his finger eyebrows raised as if to say 'duh'.
"Ok but that's just how he looks there has to be more than that."
"Sakura Naruto lives in a mini-mansion, has his own Audi, has a fucking closest just for his shoes, and is a saint. He's perfect. He donates to charities and I'm pretty sure he slipped that homeless dude 50 bucks the other day."
"Yes he's a great person, great morals, but what does that have to do with anything? You're great as well," Sakura said trying to lighten the mood. "I mean you are a bit sarcastic, but you did beat Kabuto's ass for me when he was getting too handsy."
"You could've folded him in half and snapped all his limbs off like a twig in half the time it took me to beat his ass," Sasuke stated bluntly.
"I know that, but I liked watching you beat him up for me, you know, you went all big brother on his ass. Plus it was lowkey hilarious, especially how he didn't expect that first punch. You were all like 'BAM' and he was like 'Ah my beautiful face', "Sasuke smiled.
Sakura looks cute talking all excitedly like that.
"Anyways, let's get back on topic. You and Naruto," Sakura said her cheeks red from smiling.
"I'm not asking him out."
"You're asking him out," Sakura replied sternly.
"No."
" Fine, but when Sai makes a move don't be mad," Sai wasn't interested in Naruto, but she knew Sasuke had been jealous of him ever since Naruto introduce him to them.
"Fuck it, I'm asking him out," Sasuke said grumpily.
Sakura Beamed.
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Sasuke was nervous. Sweaty palms, heart beating fast nervous.
He did like Naruto, but he was his best friend for Christ's sake. If Naruto didn't like him back this could ruin a lot of things.
He and Sakura were currently at Naruto's house which shouldn't legally be called a house. It was a three-story modern monstrosity that intimidated the hell out of him, even after all these years.
He was about to knock but Sakura stopped him.
"You're thinking too hard," she stated bluntly hands on her hips.
"Well duh, I'm nervous. What do you want me to do? Not think?" he asked her exasperatedly. Sakura rolled her eyes, she's been doing that a lot lately.
"No of course not Sasuke dearest, but you need to pull yourself together. Trust me hon you're going to look back at this when you and Naruto are like forty with your three-hundred kids and you're going to laugh. With that out of the way, put on your big boy shoes and buckle up, let's go Romeo and Juliet this son of a bitch!"
Sasuke wasn't so sure but you know Sakura is serious when she gives you a pep talk.
Sakura knocked on the door excitedly. "You know, Pinky they both died."
Sakura rolled her eyes. Again. Her eyes were going to fall out of her head one of these days. "Yeah, but while they were alive it was pretty romantic all Romeo, Romeo where art thou Romeo I needeth your love and your dick," she giggled at her joke.
It was Sasuke's turn to roll his eyes. " Trust you to make it vulgar pinky."
The door opened to reveal the cause of Sasuke's distress in basketball shorts and a black fitted t-shirt. "Make what vulgar?" the blonde inquired curiously.
"Nothing," Sasuke replied dryly at the same time Kushina yelled from inside.
"Naruto Uzumaki that's is not how you greet guests, let them in!" Naruto's mother scared Sasuke honestly. She was like Sakura but grow up. Naruto on the other seemed unaffected and rolled his eyes with a small smile on his face as if to say ' Mothers'.
"But Ma it's just Sasuke and Sakura!" Naruto yelled back.
"Still!" was his mother's reply from the kitchen Sasuke assumed.
As soon as Naruto opened the door completely Kurama, Naruto's fox - Sasuke still can't believe the dobe has a fox- ran(skipped really) up to them and began to do figure eights between Sakura's leg. The pink girl happily picked him up and carried him as they made their way to the stairs to go to Naruto's bedroom. They passed Naruto's mother and told her that they were fine, and no they didn't need anything, and thank you when she said she would bring up snacks anyways.
As they were walking up the stairs Sakura gave him a little nudge before proclaiming she had to use the bathroom. Very loudly. And then proceeded to skip off, not before shooting Sasuke a look that said 'do it'.
Sasuke couldn't even find it in himself to make a sex joke.
He was nervous as fuck.