Love Meter -A NaruSasu Love Story-

Chapter 1

Sasuke stood near the door to his room, staring at the carefree blonde who was laying around on his bed, reading a manga.

He sighed, walking to the foot of his bed and sitting on the floor, leaning on the bed behind.

Naruto, who seemed to notice that Sasuke had come back from the washroom, immediately sat up grinning and moving to hug him from behind - but much to his surprise Sasuke dodged him and glared.

"What are you doing, dobe?", Sasuke narrowed his eyes in annoyance.

Naruto blinked cluelessly, laying on his stomach, after retracting his outstretched arms - that had failed to give the raven a hug, he innocently tilted his head that was resting on his now folded arms, "Trying to hug you..? What's up all of a sudden..?"

It's true that Naruto had always been the type have a lot of skin ship with Sasuke and honestly Sasuke had never thought much about it, because it was like this for as long as he could remember - meaning ever since they were toddlers.

So indeed it's a bit weird to act all jumpy after all this time, but! He couldn't help it!! That thing floating on the blonde's head had way too much of an impact, he's trying really hard to ignore it but it's been quite difficult so far.

He sighed again, "Stop it, don't try to hug me from now on", he said sternly, he had no idea what to make of that pink heart thing yet so honestly he needed some space to get his thoughts back on track.

Sasuke sneaked a glance behind him when the blonde didn't reply at all, and found him hanging his head low looking a little depressed.  Sasuke flinched feeling extremely guilty about phrasing it in a way that might have hurt him. It's not that he hates it after all, he just really needed to collect his thoughts and figure out what's happening so he might have ended up taking out his frustration on him.

'shit...', Sasuke was about to apologize when Naruto beat him to it.

"Got it, I'm sorry, I won't do it again.. Geez! Tell me sooner if you hated it, will ya!", Naruto sounded completely jovial as he said this but for some reason Sasuke couldn't put away the thought that he had definitely hurt the blonde just now.

"Sorry... I just had a lot on my mind, and took it out on you... That was uncalled for, I apologize", Sasuke truly regretted it and looked terribly guilty.

Naruto smiled a little, poking Sasuke's cheek playfully, "I~diot, if something's bothering you, I'm always here to listen, you know.. So rely on me a bit, teme"

Sasuke took ahold of the hand that was still playfully poking his cheek and held it tight, "Yeah, thanks, dobe"

"So, tell me, what happened? You've been weird ever since lunch  this afternoon, did something happen during that confession maybe??", Naruto tried to figure out what was up with his childhood friend.

"Yeah... Something like that, but it's not really about the confession or the person who confessed...", Sasuke trailed off, not knowing if he should consult the blonde about this - especially since he's clearly involved.

"then, what happened..?", Naruto asked and patiently waited for Sasuke to tell him.

After contemplating a bit, Sasuke sighed, giving up on thinking, and spilled the beans about everything, "I noticed something weird during the confession.. I suddenly started seeing things, a weird pink heart floating on people's head with percentages in it, but not on everyone, I only saw the hearts on some 5 to 6 girls in the corridors, some guys had it too... I have no idea what's happening anymore and it's kinda driving me crazy", Sasuke desperately squeezed his eyes shut.

"..are you saying you can see something like a love meter..?", Naruto asked, trying to comprehend it all as much as he could.

"What's a love meter..?", Sasuke questioned cluelessly.

"Hmm, something that shows how much a person loves you in numeric values..? Kinda like the favarablity rates in games! It basically shows how much a person likes you.. So, What percentages did you see till now?", Naruto asked curiously - albeit a little seriously.

"Most of them range from 20 to 70", he didn't really lie but he wanted to leave out the fact that he's seeing a 100 on Naruto.

"hmm, in the game I played before,  the moment a character notices the player in a romantic sense, the player will be allowed to check the favarablity rates of that specific character, but there were also characters that never notices the player in that sense so such characters usually just end up playing a supporting role in your conquest. So basically, comparing that to what your seeing - I'm not entirely sure but - you might be seeing it only on some because they are the only ones who have taken notice of you in a romantic sense and the percentage shows exactly how much they love you at the moment, something like that maybe..?", Naruto tried to explain what he understood as best as he could.

"...So basically, someone with a 60 or 70 means they love me that much..? Is love something measurable like that???", Sasuke was honestly pretty confused.

"hmm, why don't you think about it in this way then, it's not love unless it's 100!", Naruto grinned as if he's figured it all out.

"..say what?", Sasuke unconsciously stared at the heart with a 100% floating on top of the blonde's head.

"You know, how it's not like everyone loves someone unconditionally, especially when it comes to romantic love! It's starts out as a simple interest - let's say around 20 means they're interested. Then, depending on the person they might or might not start feeling even more, if they do then they might start having a crush - let's say around 40 to 50 is a crush stage. Some people get really serious about crushes so such people might start liking their crush even more, even if they don't really know much about them - let's say around 60 to 70 is liking stage, after this I personally don't think it's possible to proceed unless the person and the one they like get to know each other better, so then I'm sure from 80 to 90 is where they're just starting to fall in love, so by the time it's 100 it means they love them so damn much it's practically impossible to fall even more in love! I wonder what it feels like to love someone so damn much", Naruto grinned excitedly, explaining everything that he'd just deduced.

'Shouldn't you know it best..? Wait. Don't tell me... He hasn't even realized it yet?!', Sasuke took a deep breath and let it out, 'Alright let's clam down', he looked at the blonde politely waiting for him to clam down even though he definitely had no idea about exactly why Sasuke was freaking out this much, 'this stupidly carefree blonde...', Sasuke stared at the 100 again and sighed.

"..Hey Sasuke, don't think so much about it, I know how crazy it must feel to suddenly experience something like this but it's not like this will have a bad effect on you in anyway, right? All it does is show you how much someone likes you. Aren't you already used to being told that by now, you popular guy!", Naruto tried to joke around, trying to cheer him up.

'used to it.. That's what I thought too, but...', Sasuke looked at the blonde smiling at him caringly and at the 100, which apparently meant that he's completely in love with Sasuke, as much as humanly possible at that... He really didn't know what to do anymore, especially when the blonde himself seemed completely clueless about it.