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project partners

chapter 4: are you?

after school, sasuke left without asking naruto if he was coming or not. when he arrived home, itachi was ince again sitting on the couch filling out paperwork. he took notice of sasuke and was close to saying his normal greeting until he noticed something was missing.

"sasuke", the older uchiha called.

"yes?"

"where is your friend? don't tell me you've broken up with him already?" sasuke blushed but turned away before itachi could see.

"he's not my boyfriend..."

sasuke walked off but before he was out of range of his brother he said,

"...yet."

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naruto had iruka drive to sasuke's house since it was out of walking distance and naruto didn't have a car of his own yet. he had just exited the car and watched it pull off when the door opened and sasuke's older brother's head popped out.

"uhh, hey", naruto said raising his hand in acknowledgement.

"oh. hello naruto-kun. i thought you and ototou had broken up. well it's nice seeing you. come in", itachi said leading naruto into the house.

"nice seeing you too but i wasn't dating your brother. we're just partners for a project."

"oh. well he's in his room. do you remember where it is?"

"i'm sure i'll find it. thanks itachi."

"anytime naruto-kun."

naruto walked up the stairs and directly to sasuke's room. he hadn't forgotten where it was and opened the door without knocking. he instantly regretted this because once the door was open, his eyes were flooded with the sight of a fully nude and dripping wet sasuke standing in front of him drying his hair with a towel. naruto's eyes roamed over the raven's upper body and were going further down the body until a towel was thrown over the blond's face.

"idiot! what the hell?!" sasuke yelled. he glided into the connected bathroom and locked the door. "didn't ever learn to knock before entering", the raven yelled from behind the locked door.

naruto removed the towel from his face to reveal a full-blown blush. sasuke had the sexiest body he had ever seen. of course he swore to himself never to admit this out loud, but a boy can think anything his heart desires.

"haven't you ever heard of locking a door?" naruto yelled back. "anyone could've walked in."

"anyone couldn't have walked in unless they were already inside. and anyone who had common sense would've knocked first."

"well it's not like i wanted to see you naked...who walks around their room naked with the door unlocked and people in the house."

"i wasn't walking around, i was standing and drying my hair when you came in. what are you doing here anyway?"

"didn't you invite me?"

"..."

"..." sasuke unlocked the bathroom door and stuck his hand out.

"hand me my clothes", he said pointing to the bed. naruto handed him the clothes then waited the minute it took sasuke to put them on.

when sasuke exited the bathroom, naruto was spread out on the bed playing with a pencil.

"idiot", sasuke said sitting on the bed next to him.

"don't call me that bastard", naruto replied sitting up so he could face the raven.

"so...how...how much did you see", sasuke asked trying to cover the slight red of his cheeks.

"not much."

"hn."

"can i ask you a question?"

"you just did."

"can i ask you two questions then?"

"what?"

"are you gay?"

"..."

"..."

"..."

"...are you?"

"are you?"

"i asked you first! so, are you?"

"am i what?"

"gay!"

"what about gay?"

"are you gay?"

"oh...why do you ask?"

"because itachi said he thought we had broken up and for us to break up we'd have to be dating and for us to be dating you'd have to be gay. so are you?"

"for us to be dating you'd have to be gay too."

"so? i'm asking you."

"and i'm asking you."

"but i asked first."

"so?"

"so you should answer first."

"but if you asked first shouldn't you answer first?"

"no. if i ask first then you answer first. if you ask first then i answer first. since i asked first you answer first."

"oh."

"..."

"..."

"well bastard!"

"well what?" at this naruto anime-sweatdropped.

"sasuke! can you just answer my question?"

"yes."

"...well?"

"well what?"

"answer it."

"i did."

"what? when you said yes?"

"yes."

"oh."

"oh what?"

"that's another thing in common."

"what?"

"that's another thing we have in common."

"you're gay?"

"what of it?"

"..."

"sasuke?"

"..."

"sasuke!"

"..."

"you're embarrassed that i saw you naked now aren't you?"

"..."

"you have to talk to me sooner or later."

"..."

"would you feel better if you saw the parts of me that i saw of you?"

this is when sasuke passed out from what naruto had said.

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lady: i am so tired right now i have no idea what i just typed