Sasuke didn't care. If Naruto was going to overreact to some offhand comment, why should he waste his time and energy going after him to fix it?

Okay, so maybe the little 'offhand comment' had been a snide remark referring to the blond's murderous habits of the week previous, but still. Sasuke had spoken to him, followed him, even sat down to eat some of that god damn ramen with him so it wasn't as if he hadn't made any effort. He'd done nothing wrong and Naruto was just over-reacting again, like he does with everything.

Which is why, ever since that day at the festival, Sasuke had intentionally avoided having any contact with him. In retrospect this.. wasn't actually any different to how things usually were since Sasuke practically never visited or messaged Naruto anyway. The only difference was the radio silence which irritated him even more- not just because it meant that Naruto was actually angry over this but also for petty reasons. How is he meant to ignore all his messages if they are never sent?

Anyway as he was outside, making his way home from somewhere and thinking over all this stuff, Sasuke looks up at the street ahead and happens to see a familiar ninja walking towards him.

Immediately he frowns. Even more than he had been already. Great.