Konoha's Sakura Festival CH. 3

Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto, Sasuke does. Musashi Kishimoto has the rights to his characters and any oc's belong to me.

Chapter three: The least likely suspect!

Naruto seemed like he couldn't sleep that night, still thinking about that masked boy. The curiosity was killing him on the inside. He just had to know who it was and who could do such a wonderful dance. So in the middle of the night the blond got up, got dressed and decided to go for a walk. By this time everything was quiet in the street, everyone had cleaned up and it seemed like there was no festival there a few hours ago. He didn't realize where his feet had taken him, before he knew it he ended up at the old playground where he hung around when he was a kid. It looked like someone was already there on one of the swings, but Naruto could only make out the person's out line.

"Sasuke?" The blond questioned walking up to him.

The raven seemed out of it, almost sad, as he twirled a fan in one of his hands.

"Sasuke." Naruto said a little louder to get his attention.

"Huh?" Sasuke looked up. "Oh…Hey, Naruto."

The blond decide to sit next to him on the other swing.

"Are you okay?" Naruto asked out of concern.

"Yeah." Sasuke answered, though not too convincing.

"Where'd you get the fan?" The blond questioned, pointing to the fan.

"Wha-?" The raven was confused at first but then looked at his hand. "Oh…I found it."

While everyone else could tell it was a lie Naruto was the only one who believed him.

"You missed out on the festival." Naruto said, a bit sad. "Is that why you're sad?"

"You seem to always read me dobe." Sasuke laughed little.

Instead of fighting, Naruto was surprised that they were having a normal conversation.

"What where you doing anyway?" Naruto asked.

Sasuke went quiet and his cheeks became red. It seemed like he was hiding something and the blond could tell.

"I was just helping Kakashi." He answered, managing to keep his cool.

"Right." Naruto said with a weird grin.

The raven shook his head, stood up walked over to the blond and playfully tapped his head lightly. He gave Naruto a rare smile.

"Again, you always seem to read me." He knelt down. "Naruto, can you keep a secret?"

Shocked Naruto could only nod his head. He just couldn't believe Sasuke trusted him with a secret. The raven dug through the pouch on the back of his pants, what the blond saw next almost made him fall backward. In Sasuke's pale hands was the fox mask Kakashi bought from the stand.

"I don't care if you blackmail me later for this." Sasuke continued, putting the mask back. "I had to tell someone, and I figured it had to be you."

"So you." Naruto said finally finding his voice. "You were the one dancing out there?"

The raven nodded his head, getting embarrassed again.

"Yeah, I didn't want to." Sasuke said. "But Kakashi made a point that Tsunade wouldn't be happy if someone didn't do it."

"But Sasuke." Naruto said before he left. "Why did you look so sad?"

"The guilt of lying was getting to me." He answered.

The blonde's heart skipped a beat when he saw the sad look on Sasuke's face.

"Sasuke." Naruto called out, getting nervous. "Why don't we hang out tomorrow? Just you and me, no Sakura."

"Huh?" The raven went over to him again and felt his forehead. "Are you feeling alright dobe? You usually don't ask me stuff like this."

"I'm fine!" Naruto yelled, slapping Sasuke's hand away. "Just please, can we hang out tomorrow?"

Laughing at Naruto's blushing face Sasuke agreed to meat him.

"I don't want you to over sleep." Sasuke smiled again. "So get some rest while you can."

When Naruto got home he tried to calm his quickly beating heart. He was just nervous, he never felt this way when he asked Sakura out in the past, though she never let him take her out. He closed his eyes and attempted to sleep.