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Chapter 3- Confusion


Naruto walked curiously over to Shikamaru and said, “Hey Shikamaru! ^ ^ Is there something I can due for you?”
  “Man, this is so troublesome,” Shikamaru whispered to himself.
“I was wondering if you were going to the dance with anyone.”
“Oh! Actually, I am…kinda…sorta…maybe…” Naruto stuttered.
  “What do you mean? Are you or aren’t you?” Shikamaru asked.
  “Well… It’s sorta complicated,” Naruto said while sitting down next to Shikamaru on a bench.
“See… I want to ask Sa...”Naruto stopped ,realizing that he probably shouldn’t tell Shikamaru about the name of the person, and instead said, “I want to ask a certain someone to the dance but I’m not so sure that they would say yes…Actually I’m pretty positive they would say ‘no’.”
  “Would this ‘certain someone’ be Uchiha by chance?” Shikamaru said, fully aware that it was.
  “What! No…yes,” Naruto said while looking down.
  “Well, I think you should ask him because you’ll never know what he’ll say until after you ask.”
   “Thanks Shikamaru. That helped a lot,” Naruto said while giving Shikamaru one of his famous ‘Uzumaki grins’, “By the way…Why did you want to know if I was going with anyone in the first place?”
  “Hey! Don’t get the wrong idea Naruto. I’m already going with Tamari. Tsunadae just wanted me to make sure that you weren’t left out of the dance.” Shikamaru said sternly.
   “You mean grandma Tsunadae! That doesn’t sound like her.” Naruto said surprised.
  “Well she did. Now I got to go get ready. See ya!” Shikamaru said while walking back to the academy.
    “Okay well bye!” Naruto said while walking towards the tree where he last saw Sasuke,

   *Back with Sasuke*

  Sasuke was at the hidden meadow but didn’t see Naruto anywhere. He then spotted Shikamaru walking with Tamari and decided to ask him if he had seen Naruto.
  “Oi, Shikamaru!” Sasuke yelled. “Have you seen the dope anywhere? I gotta ask him something.”
   “Oh yeah. I just talked to him actually.” Shikamaru said while telling Tamari to give them a few seconds alone.
   “Really! What did you talk with him about?” Sasuke asked curiously.
   “If he had a date for the dance,” Shikamaru said casually.
   “And did he say he had one!” Sasuke said while getting a little frustrated/nervous because he had remembered what Kiba and he had talked about.
   “Kinda sorta” Shikamaru said truthfully.
  “Kinda sorta?”
    “Why don’t you let Naruto explain? I saw him walk that away.” Shikamaru said while pointing in the direction of the tree where Naruto and Sasuke had met earlier.
   “…fine…”Sasuke said while jumping onto one of the trees.
  “Also! Sasuke!” Shikamaru yelled while putting his arm around Tamari’s waist, “Don’t go assuming things!”
   Sasuke just kept on moving like he hadn’t even heard what Shikamaru heard, when he did, and he was confused by the words too.
    
    *Back with Naruto*

  Naruto was about to the tree when Gaara poped out and startled him.
   “Don’t scare me like that!” Naruto said while trying to breathe again.
    “Sorry but are you free at the moment?” Gaara asked.
  “I guess for the moment. Why?” Naruto asked.
  “Because I need to ask you something, O…Kaaaayyy.” Gaara said a bit annoyed.
  “Man, so many questions today.” Naruto thought to himself.