The Survivor {Naruto x Reader}

Chapter 9

"W-Wait! (Y/N)! Shouldn't we wait for the others?" Naruto says as I keep pulling him. "It's fine! They will catch up!" I have never done these types of actions before! I always thought things through before deciding to do them. Ever since I got to this village, I've been doing a lot of things differently. "(Y/N)! Wait!" He pulls his hand back while holding my own wrist and pulls me with it! I stumble back and bump into his chest. "What's happening with you today?! You're acting weird." I feel the heat radiating from his chest and hear his heartbeat; I instantly feel my face redden and I push him away and turn to the other side. "I'm not! I'm fine!"

"What's wrong with you two today?" Kakashi says as the others, and himself caught up to us. Why is everyone saying that today!? Everything is fine! "Nothing, everything is fine, I just want to get started with the mission! Troubles don't wait around for us just cause we want to talk to friends or flirt around!" I blab out my thoughts, and that left everyone speechless and awkward. Damn it!

"Ok fine... let's go. You heard her." Kakashi says and starts walking towards the destination of our mission. Naruto looks at me suspiciously and follows Kakashi and Sakura. I knew this day wasn't going to go well...

Suddenly Sai stands next to me and looks towards the group and back at me. I look at him questioning what's wrong. Then he spoke, "you like Naruto." Kill me. I'm ready to be buried! "W-W-W-WHAT?! HUH? NO! W-Why would I like someone as loud as N-Naruto!?" My plan of playing cool and denying it... failed.

"You're right. I don't know why you would like someone like that. But I read it in a book once, the way you're acting shows that you're jealous. And that usually means you like the person." I heard that to help Sai understand more social things; they made him read books. Just what type of books are they making him read!?

"Ok fine! Maybe I like him... but Sai! You have to understand that you can't tell a single soul about this! ok?!" The last thing I need is for him to blab it. "Why? Shouldn't you tell him?" As if it's that easy when he likes someone else. When I suggested that the princess should come out and confess, I didn't know he loved Sakura. Only to realize later that I fell for him and now I don't want anyone to have the courage to confess!

"It's not that easy... I'm not sure if you know, but he likes Sakura. There's no point in me telling him my feelings for him to reject me..." saying it out loud is actually hurting a lot more than thinking about it. "I know that. But Sakura doesn't like Naruto. So he might just choose you." He seriously doesn't know anything about social life or compassion...

"I don't want him to choose me just cause he was rejected Sai! I want him to choose me for me! Because his heart chooses so..." We both look towards them. Naruto is talking and laughing about something with Sakura. This is stupid. Naruto has liked Sakura since they were kids... why would he forget her now and look at me? "Forget it. Just please don't tell anyone! No one Sai!!" He nods, and we start running to catch up with the others.

According to Kakashi, it will take us around two days to get to our destination. Which means we will have to spend one night camping out. I'm used to that, but I decided that I would make things less awkward between Naruto and I. Our mission depends on it.

So that night, as we were preparing our area to camp. I was going through the conversation I'm going to have with Naruto in my head. I don't want to mess this up. Even if he may never feel the same way, I still don't want to lose him as a friend. He's the first one that believed in me from day one.

I look towards where Naruto is; he was helping Sakura carry firewood for later on. Hey, two birds with one stone, I interrupt his time with Sakura, and I get to talk to him. I walk over to them and call him, "can I talk to you?" Sakura takes the logs from Naruto and tells us to take our time; for some reason, she had a smile on. "What's up?"