SasuNaru Yaoi!!
If you don't like it please don't read it and don't flame me because I did warn you didn't I?
Please understand that this starts off as a bit of an anti-NaruSaku and not just a SasuNaru right off the bat. It doesn't really become a definate SasuNaru until Chapter 2. Please also understand I did this on purpose!! Sadly, I do not own any of the Naruto characters or any of the places in this fanfiction. That's all that it is, a fanfiction. Please Enjoy.

The Missing Spark Ch. 1



Naruto was walking home with Sakura after their date and he wasn't quite sure how he was feeling. Sure, he had been going out with Sakura, his long time crush, for a week now but something wasn't right. He had seen Kiba and Hinata's relationship, Temari and Shikamaru's relationship, and even Garra and Lee's relationship but they all seemed different from his and Sakura's relationship. Sakura loved him of course, or at least it seemed that way, but when they kissed he just didn't feel that spark that the others had told him about.

"Naruto, what's wrong? You've been oftly quite today." Said Sakura, interrupting his thoughts.

"Huh? Oh, nothing. I was just thinking."

"About what? Nothing bad I hope."

Naruto wasn't sure how to explain it to her, or if he even should try to explain it to her for that matter. When Naruto was silent for a while Sakura got worried.

"Naruto... You can tell me. You can trust me." She said in an encouraging voice. Naruto decided to just tell her and ger her anger over and done with. Anything was better than seeing the hurt in her eyes at that moment.

"Well, I just don't think this relationship is right. I mean, when Kiba and I talk about our relationships, me with you and he with Hinata, they just sound like two different topics. He and Hinata just, how do I put this, they just share a spark between them that I can't feel between us." Naruto closed his eyes and tensed, waiting for the slap that would come from an angered Sakura, but to his surprise it didn't come. He opened his eyes and looked at Sakura. She looked back but she didn't look angry or even upset but relieved. Naruto was confused by Sakura's reaction.

Sakura finally said. " I was worried that something was wrong with me after Hinata and I talked. I guess we just don't feel that way towards one another."

"We can still be friends though right?" Naruto asked worriedly

"Of course! I mean, we are in the same squad and should at least be friends." She replied in a matter of fact tone. She tehn cried out in surprise. "Wow, we're at my place already! Time just flies doesn't it?

"Yeah, it sure does!" Naruto almost whispered. He and Sakura waved goodbye and he started home. As he walked he heard something quite strange for it being almost ten at night and so, he turned to the sound. His gaze stopped on the testing grounds where he had been tied to the log. He smirked at that memory but that smirk disappeared almost instantly when he located the source of the sound. There was Sasuke, throwing Kunai at a tree to practice his skills which were almost perfect from what Naruto could see.  While Naruto watched, he got this strange feeling in his chest. It sorta felt like he was drowning yet, in a strange way, he didn't feel that it was anything he should be worried about. It was that feeling of non-worriness that worried him the most. Why? What is this feeling and why do I only get it when I look at Sasuke? He clutched at his chest and felt a blush creep across his face as he remembered when it first started. It was right after the mission to the Land Hidden in the Mist. While he was lost in thought he hadn't realized he had been walking toward Sasuke. By the time Naruto noticed this he was almost at the first log to the left. It was then that Sasuke noticed somebody behind him and silently cursed that he hadn't before now. When Sasuke turned to him Naruto thought his heart might have skipped a beat and Sasuke was stunned. I usually sense the dobe before he's this close. Damnit. They stared at eachother for a couple of minutes before Sasuke got tired of the staring contest.

"Hey dobe! What do you want?"

Naruto, who had been caught off guard, couldn't think of what to say, but then he realized what Sasuke had called him.

"Quit calling me that!"

"Why don't you make me dobe."

Before either Sasuke or Naruto realized what was going on Naruto had rushed up to punch Sasuke in the face, which he caught without a problem. Naruto was too angry to see the predicament he was in and to Sasuke's dismay, Naruto was so close that all he'd have to do was lean forward and their lips would meet.