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Naruto loves to read, he really does. He really likes analyzing and observing people. He took the course psychology because he likes to help people mentally. If there are tons of nurses or doctors who can help with physical health, then so should the nurse or doctors that work in mental health. Currently him reading and studying more about his course, he did hear the door clicking and wide open — Naruto took a glance towards the dark haired that just entered their dorm. Of course, Sasuke and Naruto have different courses taken. Since Naruto has psychology, Sasuke has Computer; specifically Bachelor of Science in Computer Science (BSCS) and Naruto knows that his work doubles every time because Sasuke talks to him about it.
After a small thought from Naruto, He heard a grunt as well as a plop on the couch; head back and just.. exhausted. Naruto knows when he never gets greeted with an “I'm home.” Or just a simple kiss — it means he is just more than tired.
Sasuke looked back up, and stared at the wall. Naruto doesn’t really know what to do but, he sure knows he is stressing about upcoming midterms. Naruto tried to think of something that will assure him, but he does have an idea. 3 Questions. He will ask Sasuke those.
So he stood up from the floor and sat besides his dark haired lover, putting his left arm around Sasuke's broad shoulders
“Heyyyyy, Sasuke.” He said with a low tone to not piss Sasuke off at a late night. Sasuke slightly grumbled from the voice from the younger blonde.
“What, Naruto?” He shot in frustration to the other. Naruto looked straight at his eyes and smiled a bit to his liking.
“Let me ask you three questions will you? will you?!” The blonde excitingly asked, trying to work on letting Sasuke settle for at least tonight and not making him worry about midterms.
“What?” Sasuke confusingly raised a brow at the end for Naruto, but the blonde straight forwardly asked anyway.
“Explain how the system ensures atomicity and durability in a distributed database after a power failure.”
Sasuke immediately opened his mouth to speak. Naruto knows he is smart, naturally.
“A persistent log on the disks records every change that is happening before they modify the actual data. So the committed transactions with the partial data updates were redone while the uncommitted ones or the incomplete transactions are rolled back of what so we called atomicity” Sasuke answered without pause. Naruto knows he knows, that he is just incredible as he himself is.
“Awwwwwright! Next question!“ Naruto blissfully said happily. He knew that Sasuke will also ace midterms.
“… ? “ Sasuke confused stayed silent, what is the point of asking him BSCS questions? Most of all, how did he know them and the answers? Either way, Sasuke just sat still and waited for the second question.
“Alright, so.. What is the term used for describing the judgmental or commonsense part of problem solving?” Sasuke slowly thinks about the answer.
After a bit of a silence, he confidently answered — “Heuristic.” The blonde just smiled at the dark haired guy. He is definitely sure that he doesn’t need to worry much.
“Okay then, What is Heuristic? The exact answer that you know.” Naruto maliciously asked.
“Uh.. okay sure. “ Sasuke slowly started speaking while thinking — “It's a practical or experience based technique used to solve complex problems faster when it’s traditional, or the exact algorithms are too slow, inefficient, or impossible to be used.”
“Exactly! Now hey, to be honest.. “ Naruto slowly toned down his voice into something more gentle now. “You never have to overwork yourself over midterms, the questions I asked you are from your textbooks and you definitely, and I mean, definitely nailed it.” The blonde slowly hugged the other by his waist and snuggled his head on his neck. “Please, do not overwork yourself too much. Your eye bags are something I can’t handle — as well as you eating less and such.”
Sasuke eyes widened in shock. Just the thought of Naruto saying this much as concern for him, he might probably surrender all his studies just for Naruto's sake.
“Naruto.. Look I.. Okay, I am sorry. Midterms are really important and, I’m not really like you. Natural. I’m just a medi-“ Naruto cuts him off
“OKAY!” He yelps. “No more negativity for you, mister I know it all. Cuddles shall be delivered to you now and never!” Sasuke, who before replied to his bicker; he was getting bridal carried now all of the sudden and going to Naruto's room now.
“Oi! Put me down you—! “ Before Sasuke could say more, he and Naruto finally lay down in the blonde's bed and immediately getting pulled closer to him.
“Now.. Sasuke, no more negativity and just sleep, alriiighhhhhht?” He said as he slowly closed his eyes and hugged him higher — Sasuke just gave up again to his wants (or needs?) before hearing a low murmur from him lastly; “You’re… an Uchiha, Sasuke. You’re smart, like me. “ That was what Sasuke last heard, before he started snoring to sleep.
Well, He’ll give tonight's study a rest — If it meant sleeping and resting with Naruto. He will never admit the fact that he has always liked Naruto's presence, despite them being together.
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Midterms results are out now. Sasuke was nervously walking with Naruto, which — “Hey, you don’t need to worry so much.” Spoken by Naruto. He is correct, Sasuke thought. He is sure he passed, they helped each other.
As they reached their destination, they checked if they at least passed; and safe to say, they both passed with the exact score of 93.5 for Naruto, and 93.7 for Sasuke.
“See? You passed. Not because you’re just Uchiha, you’re dedicated” Naruto placed a soft kiss at his forehead.
“Yeah, you’re right.” Sasuke smiled, slowly gazing to the other. “Why don’t we go to a good restaurant? My treat for you passing and getting a better grade!” Naruto happily invites Sasuke now to a treat in some restaurant for passing
“Sure, I wouldn’t mind. “ Naruto held Sasuke's hand now and started to walk to their favorite restaurant ever.
Sasuke thinks, He wouldn’t sometimes mind working too much if it means Naruto will go helping him. He wouldn’t admit it though.