Author's Notes: This idea got into my head and wouldn't leave or let me work on other things, so I obeyed. This will probably become a drabble collection, because I feel the need to write these little cupcakes all the time and making them into a seperate story each is just ridiculous. Anyway, enjoy, and please review! You know that your reviews mean the world to me, and I always reply. :D Have fun!
Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto, unfortunately. If I did... Well, let's just say a lot of people would be getting jiggy with eachother. Give us some romance, Kishi-sama!
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Cupcake One
Kaibyaku
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"This sure is rockbottom, teme," Naruto remarks, crossing his arms across his chest and meeting Sasuke's gaze through the bars.
Sasuke doesn't even bother to glare, knowing it will have no effect on them. They know him well enough to not be impressed by any power play he could possibly still put up. Even if he hasn't really talked to them in years or even looked them in the face without intending it to be the last time, he knows they still consider themselves his friends. You don't spend years chasing after someone who left voluntarily for nothing. Does he consider them as such?
Sasuke honesty doesn't know and stares at the wall behind the two of them instead. Everything hurts, so he isn't even sure he would be able to glare at them even if he tried. Naruto has done a fine job of beating him up - a too fine job, really. Even if he was mostly out of it, Sasuke does remember Naruto's fists slamming into his stomach over and over again, cries of "How could you do this to her?" resounding through the valley until Sakura pulled him off and started to heal.
Sasuke grinds his teeth together. Her. Not 'how could you do this to me,' because Naruto would never be that selfish. Naruto would never be fighting just for himself - he has always been like that.
She steps in front of him, crouching down to his level. She is smiling, as though none of what has happened has happened and there's not a cold stone bench and a lot of harsh words, a set of prison bars and many tough years between them. "You know what the best thing about rock bottom is, Sasuke-kun?"
Her eyes are shining like beacons in the dark when she speaks next, reaching out to ghost her fingertips over his jaw.
The only way is up.
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