Chapter 107

Kankurou paled considerably as he tried to stammer out an excuse, "W-Well you see Gaara, they started it and I-"

"Shut up," Interrupted the red-head, "or I'll kill you."

"R-Right, I was totally out of line," Kankurou stuttered.

Gaara disappeared in a swirl of sand, reappearing in between the blond girl and Kankurou. He looked over at Naruto and increased his killing intent in an effort to frighten the blond haired genin, though he ended up raising an eyebrow when Naruto shrugged it off. "My apologies for him being such a nuisance," he apologized eventually.

Naruto gave a grin, "Meh, it's all good. Though I would suggest you keep him on a leash, seeing as how he almost beat up the Hokage's grandson. Wars have started for less after all."

Kankurou paled at the new knowledge, knowing he was going to get in trouble for doing something like this with their sensei.

"I'll be sure to keep that in mind," Gaara looked over at his two companions, "Kankurou, Temari, we're leaving."

As the three ninja left, Sakura decided to make her presence known, "Hold on a second!" The three Suna ninja turned around to look at the pink-haired girl. "While it's true that Suna and Konoha are allies, it's illegal for you to be in our nation without permission. So I have to ask, what are you doing in our village?"

"Ugh you're so clueless," Naruto groaned, making everyone turn to him. "It's obvious they're here for the Chunin Exams, or have you not noticed all of the foreign ninja who have been coming into Konoha recently?"

Sakura's face turned red with anger at having Naruto tell her up like that. The pinkette had been constantly upstaged by the blond so far every time she had tried to say something smart. It was like he was trying to make her look bad in front of Sasuke-kun! She would have yelled at him but Temari spoke up.

"The blond cutie is correct," She pulled out her Passport. "We are here for the Chunin Exams. You really should pay more attention, or people will think you live under a rock."

"We've wasted enough time talking, let's go," Gaara said, getting annoyed by all the conversation.

"Hold on! What's your name?" Sasuke asked the retreating figure.

"W-Who, me?" asked Temari with a light blush.

"Not you, the one with the gourd on his back." Sasuke corrected.

"My Sasuke have you finally found someone who matches your wet dreams?" Naruto asked with a grin, "I always did wonder if you were into guys."

"Don't call Sasuke-kun gay Naruto-baka!" Sakura shouted in anger, though on the inside she felt mortified at the thought that her Sasuke-kun might actually be into men. Oh no! What if he really is gay!

OF COURSE HE ISN'T GAY! THAT'S JUST NARUTO -BAKA TRYING TO GET US TO LIKE HIM INSTEAD! SHANNARO! the ever delusional Inner Sakura shouted.

"Dobe!" Sasuke hissed through clenched teeth and a red face to match his anger and embarrassment. This had been something that had been happening more and more recently. Naruto seemed to have made a game out of taunting either him or Sakura, taking some kind of innate pleasure out of torturing them with words. It was something that pissed the raven-haired Genin off to no end.

Naruto smirked, "What? You can't blame me for thinking that. All those girls in the academy threw themselves at you, and you completely ignored them." He gave a shrug, "What am I supposed to think?" Grinning the blond turned his attention to Temari. "I apologize for my teammate being such an ass. He just doesn't know how to properly treat such a beautiful woman."

Temari blushed, not actually used to someone calling her beautiful, or having the guts to do it in front of Gaara, "I-It's alright."

Naruto tilted his head to side as he saw Temari's face turn red. For a moment he wondered if he had said something wrong. Since his only real experience with woman were Tenten, Anko and Haku, one of which liked to think of herself as one of the guys, another who took pleasure in making him squirm and torturing/training him and the last one being a girl whom he had only just started to explore his feelings for before she died had left him somewhat lacking in the female knowledge department.

Of course he did know a little bit about females, and was not completely unknowledgeable about 'flirting' since Anko had a tendency to tease him in a manner that could be considered flirting, well if trying to feed someone to their snakes, cuddling to them while rubbing their cheeks against his whisker marks, or pressing someone's face into their bosom was flirting. However it was thanks to the experience he gained from the interactions he had with those three that he was able to determine that since she had not hit him and since she was smiling despite the redness on her cheeks, that he had not said anything wrong and may have actually done good by complimenting the girl on her looks.

A small flash of pain crossed his eyes as he thought of Haku, and of the many times he had gotten that rosy color on her cheeks. Thankfully he was able to bury the small flash before anyone was able to see it, "Now that we've determined my teammate's sexual preference, how about I get your name?"

"It's Temari, Sabaku No Temari," She answered with a small tinge of pink still running across her cheeks, "and you?"

Naruto grinned, "Uzumaki Naruto."

Gaara looked over at the blond shinobi in curiosity before turning to Sasuke, "It's Sabaku No Gaara. And yours?"

Sasuke smirked as he tried to get back on track, "Uchiha Sasuke."

"I see. I hope to see you in the exams," Gaara replied before leaving, with his two teammates following him.

"Awww, it's so nice to see you finally found someone for yourself Sasugay or should I say Sas-Uke?" Naruto commented, smirking as his two teammates turned and glared at him.

"What the hell dobe!" Sasuke growled at him, his eyes morphing into his Sharingan in an attempt to scare or at least deter the blond from his constant remarks on his sexuality.

"Don't be mad Teme, I don't care if you're secretly in the closet or anything," Naruto grinned as he began walking away. "Though, Sakura may be disappointed. Anyways, I think I'm go ing to get some Ichiraku's, I'm starving."

Whistling a jaunty tune Naruto left his two angry teammates.

A little ways away three figures had just finished watching the confrontation.

"So what do you think?" a figure asked as he leaned against a tree.

One of his companions looked at him, "They're nothing serious, although we'll need to keep an eye on that black-haired one, and the one with the gourd on his back."

Sakura gave an annoyed grunt as she looked at the bridge she and her teammates were supposed to meet at today. Both Naruto and her sensei were late…again. Really she couldn't understand it, how could the person who had asked them to come at a certain time always be late. She glanced over at Sasuke to see him leaning against the rail, looking so cool and calm with his serious expression.

This is just great Sasuke-kun is right in front of me and I can't even enjoy it, she had tried everything she could ever think of to get the raven haired boys attention but nothing seemed to work. Looking cute, seductive, wearing make-up, or different clothing she had tried all manner of things. All of it had ended in failure, every attempt she had ever made to make Sasuke notice her had ended in failure, she was running at her wits end.

"Morning you two."

Sakura turned her attention to the other end of the bridge as her blond teammate finally arrived. "Why the hell are you always so late!" A tic mark appeared on the pinkette's head.

Naruto shrugged with an air of indifference as he walked over to the end of the bridge, "Unlike you and the Emo-king, I've realized that Kakashi is going to be three hours late every day. Rather than wasting my time sitting here, I train in the mornings."

Sakura's right eye twitched and she opened her mouth to yell when a puff of smoke signaled the arrival of their sensei.

"Yo!"

"YOU'RE LATE!" Sakura shouted as she pointed at the silver-haired Jonin.

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