Naruto burst into the room, without knocking though nobody seemed to mind. He had half expected Sasuke to chastise him but he remained quiet only focusing on Lee. Lee greeted him cheerfully and welcomed him to sit in the room with the two of them. Had it been anybody else, they would have stayed for a short while and left. Naruto plopped himself right on down and started talking his head off much to Sasuke's annoyance. The two of them had just barely gotten alone after Team Gai had left when Naruto burst into the room. There was so much the two of them needed to talk about and none of it could be said with him around. As both Naruto and Lee enthusiastically, Sasuke stayed quiet, merely listening to the pair talk their conversation while wishing Naruto would get the hint he shouldn't be here and leave. No such luck as a couple of minutes turned into 30 minutes which turned into two hours. With no sign of their conversation ending soon, Sasuke was about to leave to stretch his legs when Naruto said something to stop him in his tracks.

"...and he's been working on it all day long, isn't that right, Sasuke?" grinned the ninja at the older teen.

"What?"

"Weren't you listening?" he shook his head. "I was telling Lee about the dinner you were planning on cooking up for him for his recovery."

"Oh right yeah," he nodded though he hadn't been planning on doing much a thing really. Don't get him wrong. He'd happily cook Lee a delicious meal for his recovery. He had just wished he had thought about it. Good thing Naruto had lied to make the Uchiha look good. Then again, it wasn't really a lie as he was going to do it now that Naruto said it. "I..."

"He's been working hard on perfecting it just for you. And let me tell you, it's delicious! Right, Sasuke?"

"It's coming along alright."

"I look forward to it!" he smiled at the Uchiha causing him to blush.

"Well we've talked your ear off enough," said Naruto as he got up. Sasuke glared at him.

'We?' he scoffed in his head. The entire time Naruto had been in the room, he didn't say a word.

"But we have to go now and prepare for your celebration party!" Without giving Sasuke the chance to either tell Naruto he wanted to stay with Lee a while longer or that he wanted to leave, Narutoo dragged him out of the room. "See ya Lee!"

"I wanted to stay, idiot!" he hissed as the younger male pushed him out of the room. "We barely got any privacy thanks to your gabbing."

"Hey, he's my friend too," he reminded the Uchiha. "You can't hog him all day. You can always see him later."

"But..."

"Come on. We have to get to gather up materials for Lee's victory surgery," he interrupted. Sasuke looked back one more time at the hospital before heading to get what they might need. Like the last time they were together, Naruto grabbed all the spicy ingredients he could while Sasuke grabbed the other ingredients. While out in the meat aisle in the grocery store, he heard Ino call his name.

"Hey, Sasuke!" she said cheerfully. "I haven't seen you in a while. Everything okay?"

"I guess," he shrugged.

"That's great!" she smiled at him. She looked around as if searching for someone as Sasuke scanned the meat. "So uh you alone?"

"Naruto's somewhere," he said as he picked up a package of meat and examining it.

"Oh really?" He thought she was going to stay and talk to him a lot more, but she ended up running away from him. That was odd. He just decided to shrug it off and go back to his shopping. After managing to find some satisfying meats, he moved onto the vegetable aisle only to find Ino with Naruto.

"No, I'm serious he really is!" insisted Naruto. "I've seen it for myself."

"Who is it?" she asked.

"I-I can't really say," he rubbed the back of his head. "Sasuke doesn't want me to tell anybody."

"You can tell me," said Ino attempting to look innocent. "I won't tell anybody."

"Well if you promise not to tell..." he said slowly. Sasuke thought about throwing something at Naruto. However, luckily for Naruto, he didn't have to do a single thing besides glare at the fool. Naruto's eyes went over to where Sasuke was and his eyes got wide once he saw him. Ino turned to see where his eyes where and spotted him too. "On second thought, I gotta go. Bye, Ino!"

Naruto hurried over to where Sasuke was. "Can't you ever keep your mouth closed?"

"I didn't tell her!"

"You were about to!" he sighed. "Look Naruto, let's just go to your place now. I've got everything I need. You've got everything?"

"I think so. We can always come back anyways."

The two boys paid for their items and this time went to Sasuke's place. Naruto had never been inside of the Uchiha's place before probably he had never been invited over. It was much nicer, cleaner, and larger than his place. Sasuke neatly lined his shoes up at his door and told Naruto to wash his hands as he placed the groceries on the table. As he went to the bathroom, Sasuke pulled out a cookbook he had picked up and flipped through the book. He was defiantly was cooking that soba again, but what else would be good for the two of them to cook that they wouldn't give them too much trouble.

"Lee doesn't get out today," said Naruto as he joined Sasuke in the kitchen. "What are we doing?"

"Practicing," said Sasuke. "You're learning how to cut properly. But before that, we'll going to pick out what we're going to cook up tomorrow since Lee's getting out after tomorrow."

"That soon?"

"Yeah, Lee said Tsunade told him he'd be okay to leave as long as she followed her orders," he turned the book to another page. "How about this?"

"A turkey? Sounds hard" he pointed at the other page. "What about that? Roasted duck."

"Ugh no thanks," He remembered when his mother attempted to cook duck. The whole kitchen smelled disgusting and the end result tasted pretty nasty. They ended up eating out that night. "Anyways, turkey would be much easier to cook and it won't stink up my house. Then again turkey would be too hard for us really. How about beef steak?"

"We don't have any sake," he pointed out. Indeed this recipe too listed alcohol was needed as ingredient. "I guess we skip it."

"Don't worry about it, I can get some," he said scanning over the rest of the ingredients.

Naruto blinked. "What? They're not letting you get sake! You're not old enough! I'm sure it'll taste fine without it."

"Lee just went through surgery that could have killed him. I want this perfect."

"But didn't that soba require sake or somethin'?"

"I know, but we just got lucky that other time and this time what if it really needs it? Besides, this is an extra special meal for Lee. I want to make sure he enjoys it!"

"Oh well then how are you getting the sake?"

"Don't worry about it," He told Naruto to practice on the peppers. As he cut up the pepper, he wondered why Ino wanted to know. It wasn't like she could do anything if she knew. Maybe she was curious as to what Sasuke saw in Lee or rather the guy he liked. Whatever she wanted, he had to be careful not to let her know until Sasuke felt like telling everyone else.

He only cut up one when Sasuke came back from where-ever he was from with a bottle of sake. "How did you manage to get that?"

"I turned into a woman," he said as he placed the bottle on the kitchen table. He examined the pieces of peppers Naruto had. "Better, but still a little sloppy. Here I'll show you. Hold this straight like this."

"So you used my sexy jutsu."

"Fuck no! I turned into an old woman, they sold it to me without question, and here I am."

"Oooh. We should have done that before then," said Naruto as Sasuke slid the cutting board over to him.

"Your turn. Do it like I did. The only reason why I didn't was because I didn't think of it then. While you do that, I'm going to put this stuff away."

As he cut the pepper up, he saw out the window Ino talking with Sakura. Now that he thought about it, Sakura was pretty sore over Sasuke being gay judging by the way she strange and distant way she had been acting for a while. Seeing as her and Ino were friends, no doubt about it they were trying to figure out who Sasuke was interested in instead. It wouldn't do them any good unless Sasuke was interested in girls as well. It could happen. Sasuke could find that he may like women too some day. At the moment, Sasuke told him and the two girls he was gay and so Naruto believed him. Hopefully the two wouldn't bother Lee or Sasuke once they found out about them. Okay so they weren't really an official couple YET, but Naruto had his fingers crossed for them. Lee was a pretty cool guy, even if he is a little weird, and even if Sasuke could be a jerk sometimes, he was happy for him.

"Looks good," said Sasuke. "Good job. We can use these tomorrow. Make sure you get here tomorrow bright and early. That is if you want to help."

"Of course I do!" grinned the ninja giving him a thumbs up. Sasuke was grateful for the younger male's help and for doing all this for him in the first place. He'd for sure have to return the favor someday.