Naruto Fan Fiction ❯ Risque Redux: A Side Story ❯ Chapter 4

Disclaimer: Don't own Naruto - never will. If I did, you would be able to tell by the sheer amount of kissing Sasuke and Naruto will be engaged in.

A/N: Many thanks to Moe for the beta -- however, no thanks for the capped 'update soon' currently on my screen. Swell. I'd also say that if you would only stop the rewriting, you'd get something out too. Oh, and before I forget, the original Risque will be updated by the end of this year, people. That's all I'm saying -- go complain to Moe if it doesn't happen.

And that is revenge. Someday, I'll also do the 'update soon' on one of your fics. Someday.

"Look, I'll treat you to ramen," Sasuke blurted out, interrupting Naruto's still angry tirade; he didn't want to -- hell, it wasn't like he had spare cash to spend -- but Naruto wouldn't let up, and Sasuke desperately needed to run away. Far, far away where he could huddle into a small ball and pretend his life wasn't run by mad, perverted people. People who were supposed to be the best at what they do, the best in their village, but only seemed to give the impression that they were simply lecherous men with nothing better to do than be perverted.

"Okay!" Naruto said, a gleam in his blue eyes. He was rubbing his hands in glee, mouth stretched into a wide grin, and he was nearly bouncing up and down, anger forgotten.

Sasuke warily stepped back and regretted making an offer he knew better to make. From the way Naruto was chortling, Sasuke had a feeling he was going to spend more money than he had at the moment, and that Naruto was going to make the whole experience miserable. Sasuke wasn't quite forgiven yet, he knew Naruto much better than that, but at the moment, there wasn't a whole lot he could do to defend himself. Clutched in his hand, was a letter scrawled by Kakashi's loopy writing; one that he didn't want Naruto to know. Definitely not, because how in hell was he going to explain? Oh, I'm part of the Pervert Hood you see. Kakashi and Jiraiya forced me to join when they discovered me spying on you while you were bathing, and thought I was a welcome addition. And then he would have to shield his ears and duck because Naruto was going to scream like a girl, and then pluck out his eyes before strangling him to death.

Not a good ending, so he had to excuse himself; he had to somehow lose Naruto.

"Fine." Sasuke nodded and tried to slip away. "I'll meet you at the ramen stand...tomorrow night."

"Huh? Why not tonight? Are you trying to cheat me?"

Damn. And Sasuke had nearly escaped too.

"Um. Plans. Training. Have to go now."

Sasuke ran as fast as he could and felt extremely annoyed that he had to run in the first place. Stupid people. Why were they always trying to make his life a living, hell-like misery? Why must he suffer? First, he was forced to join some group that he didn't belong in (he wasn't a pervert damn it; he just saw Naruto naked by accident). Second, Jiraiya and Kakashi wouldn't leave him alone. No, they just had to follow him home, spy on him just when he had stupidly offered Naruto shelter, and then leered at the fact that Sasuke only had one bed. One bed, which had to be shared. He gritted his teeth. This was bad considering the fact that not only were they under the wrong impression (and they were very, very wrong), but that Jiraiya actually congratulated him on a job well done.

He took deep calming breaths and tried to destroy the note they left behind. Once upon a distant time, he would have thought getting praise from one of the three Sannin was a great accomplishment, once upon a distant time, when he was naïve and innocent, he would have felt great pride in Jiraiya's complimentary words. Once upon a distant time. Not so now, when he had gotten to know the man and agreed with Naruto's aptly-put words. Perverted hermit. Oh yes, Jiraiya was a perverted hermit. Kakashi too. And now they were both plotting his demise into pervert-hood, which Sasuke thought was useless because he was stronger than that. Infinitely stronger than that. No, Uchiha Sasuke was not going to turn into another Jiraiya or Kakashi, great Sannin and genius shinobi or not.

Thanks to everybody for the reviews. And thank you, ChibiHarika, for understanding. ;-) I'll try to make sure the drabbles keep on coming, which shouldn't be too hard considering the fact that I've been bitten by the drabble bug.