Tomato Thief Sasuke X Reader

     “I just don't think the risk is worth it, we should look somewhere else.” After a long sip of water, Suigetsu notice that Sasuke wasn't listening to him at all. “Man, you didn't hear a word I said, did you?”

“Be quiet, I know what I'm doing. Besides, while you've been talking, I've been watching. I don't think anyone's here.” Sasuke stared down at a small farm from his hiding spot high in the trees. “You aren't coming along I take it?”

Suigetsu shook his head. “Nope, you're own your own.”

“Fine, it's probably better. You'd just get in my way.” With an annoyed snort, Sasuke dropped down from the tree and ran into the tall stalks of corn below. He ignored the corn and continued searching. Only a moment later, he found what he was looking for. Tomatoes, row, after row, of delicious, perfectly ripe, tomatoes. “Finally.” With a growling stomach, Sasuke picked a couple of them from the stalk and began devouring the tomatoes, right there on the farm.

“What in the world is going on out there?” You looked out from your small bedroom window. From there you could see the unnatural swaying of your plants. “There had better not be someone stealing my stuff.” Grabbing a large stick, which you kept by your front door, just in case something like this happened, you stormed out in the direction of your crops. Once there, what you saw confused and almost shocked you. Sasuke was sitting cross legged on the ground, with a lap full of tomatoes. Even in his current state, his expression was still stern and unwavering. “What do you think you're doing exactly? You do plan on paying for those, right?”

“No.” Completely uninterested in your presence, or the fact that he was stealing your food, Sasuke didn't even bother to look up at you. Though you wanted desperately to hit him over the head with your makeshift weapon, you restrained yourself and instead hit the ground next to his toes with all your might. Sasuke quickly pulled his feet closer to him and glared up at you. “Wha-.” His glowering expression quickly changed when he saw you. “I know you from somewhere.”

“Nice job pointing out the obvious there Sasuke.” Your eyes narrowed from your irritation. “Now stop eating my tomatoes unless you plan on paying for them.”

“Where did we meet?” Finally standing to his feet, Sasuke polished off another tomato and stood incredibly close to you. “We met recently.”

Honestly, you found him struggling to remember rather funny. “I don't know. We could have met anywhere. Maybe it was on a mission, or at the market.” You shrugged, pretending to be uninterested. “I do go out a lot, you could have seen me just passing through the village.”

Sasuke began to smirk, he'd figured it out. “You're a terrible liar. You know exactly where we met, and your sarcasm gave it away.” He took another step towards you and glared down at you. Though you hated to admit it, he could be more than a little intimidating when he tried. “We met at that stupid party a couple of weeks ago.” His eyes showed obvious amusement as he spoke. “I actually enjoyed that meeting, but you were much nicer then, what happened?”

“You started stealing my stuff.” The strong, confidant voice you had hoped for had disappeared, leaving you with a weak, squeaky one.

“That's all?” Sasuke sighed, seemingly disappointed that something so unimportant as a few stolen tomatoes could upset you to the extent it did. He dug into his pocket and pulled a few coins that would more than pay for what he'd eaten. “Here, now stop your complaining.” After pressing the coins into your hand, Sasuke quickly turned away and prepared to leave.

“Wait a minute.” You looked down at the coins and back up at Sasuke, obviously confused. “If you had money, why didn't you just pay me before, or go to a market? There was no reason for you to steal to begin with.”

With his back still turned to you, Sasuke let out a deep sigh. “You really don't get it do you?  Money should be saved for things I can't just take, like medicine, and weapons. Tell me honestly, are the few tomatoes I took really going to cause problems for you in the future?”

Had you not been looking out of your window, you would have never noticed the missing tomatoes. Even if you had, you would have just blamed them missing on an animal. “No, I suppose not. But if you'd just asked, I would have given you some. The fact that you didn’t even bother to ask makes me much less likely to help you in the future.”

Confused, Sasuke turned around just slightly and stared at you with his brow raised. “Why would you help me anyway? You could get thrown in prison for helping a missing-nin if someone found out. Doesn't that bother you at all?”

You thought for a moment before giving Sasuke your answer. “Yes and no. If  I had been helping you for a while, or even only a few days, and I wound up in jail because of it, I would simply expect you to come rescue me. I know it wouldn't be the first time you broke  into a jail cell, so I'm pretty confident you could do it.”

“You think I would take my time to rescue you?” He sneered at you he walked back in your direction. “If that's the only hope you're holding to, I suggest you never help me, because if you get caught, you're on your own.” Something about the way he said what he said made it hard for you to believe what he was saying. “What's with that stupid look?”

He'd barely had time to finish his question before you answered it. “I don't believe you. Sure you might be acting all tough, but it's really hard to see you that way after our last meeting. You know, you were a lot nicer then too.”

The blush that attacked Sasuke's face made you think your eyes were playing tricks on you. But when it didn't go away, you faced another problem, figuring out if it was really a blush, or anger. “The last time we met, circumstances were completely different than they are now. Of course I was nicer.”

“You know, there is so much awkward tension between the two of you right now, it's making me feel weird. I was wondering what was taking Sasuke so long, so I decided to take a look, and this is what I find.” Suigetsu sighed as he sipped on his water. “You two just need to get a room and -.”

“Suigetsu, that's enough.” Growing more red with Suigetsu's ramblings, Sasuke quickly shut him up by placing his hand over Suigetsu's mouth. This would have been a good idea if done to anyone but Suigetsu, who easily turned into a puddle and reappeared behind you.

“Come on Sasuke, you know better than that.” Smiling a toothy smile, Suigetsu took another step towards you, pushing you directly into Sasuke, and disappeared again.

You landed with your face in Sasuke's chest and his arms tightly around you. “Sorry, he pushed me.” You tried to stand back up, but Sasuke's' grip on you was too tight. “Um, Sasuke, you want to let me go, or, is there something going on that I'm unaware of here?” He didn't respond for quite a while, but with your ear against his chest, you could hear his heart  racing.

“Sorry, I was thinking.” Sasuke let go of you only long enough for you to straighten your back before he rather roughly grabbed hold of your shoulders. He stared at you with his cheeks pink and asked you a question that took you completely by surprise. “If I could promise you'd be rescued if caught, would you be willing to let my team stay with you occasionally?”

His closeness made it hard for you to think. “Well, I do have more than enough room. But why would you want to stay with me? You have to have other places you could go.”

Your question obviously annoyed and possibly embarrassed Sasuke. “If you don't want to help just say so.”

“I didn't say that, I just wanted to know why you'd choose to stay with me.” You shrugged. “But I guess that's not really important. Your team can stay with me when they need to. But I'll expect help from you all when you're here.”

Sasuke nodded as he turned away from you once again, his neck and ears now just as pink as his face. “Fine.” Within a few seconds he was gone, leaving you alone in the middle of your field.

“Man Sasuke, I've never seen you so awkward around a girl before. You were as red as the tomatoes you were eating.” Suigetsu grinned again. “Karin will be jealous you know.” Sasuke seemed completely unfazed by the taunting. “You're not even getting angry and me. It's like she stuck you on cloud nine or something.” Still there was no reaction from him. “You're not even listening are you?”

As predicted, Sasuke hadn't heard a work that was said. “Did you say something?”

Suigetsu frowned as he shook his head. “I lost you Sasuke, I lost you to a girl.”