Title: Just for you dobe.

Fandom: Naruto

Pairing: Light Sasuke x Naruto, the barest hint of it really...although it could also be taken as a really close friendship

Rating: PG

Warnings: If you haven't seen that teaser at the start of the first episode of the Shippuden season of Naruto then this won't make much sense. Spoilers for the first ep and future stuff I guess. But I haven't read that part in the manga so what happens after that first line I simply made up. Also spoilers if you don't know about Orochimaru, the sound 4 or if you haven't seen the 'Sasuke in a Barrel' arc of the first season of Naruto (you should be shot for ignorance).

Description: Sasuke and Naruto meet, in the rubble of Orochimaru's hideout. What is going through Sasuke's head as they see each other for the first time in 3 years.

Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto or any of its characters, it is the property of the lord and master of anime and manga Masashi Kishimoto-sensei.

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"How can I become Hokage when I can't even save my own best friend?"

He froze, blade pressed against the blond Kyuubi vessel's neck. He stared over the other man's shoulder, feeling the pained chakra of his ex-team mate pushing against him, unable to bring himself to look into those emotional blue orbs, knowing that this facade would break if he permitted himself a glimpse.

This was all his fault. Before he had met Naruto, before he had joined team 7, he had been focused. He had thought of nothing but getting stronger. He had existed for nothing but avenging the death of his clan by killing his traitor of a brother. In the beginning the blond dobe had only pushed him to train harder, to prove that he was stronger and more capable than the orange clad loudmouthed child. He only realized just how far he had let himself get emotionally attached to his other team mate only when he took those supposed 'killing blows' from Haku's needles in their battle on the Naruto bridge in the wave country. For some reason he trusted the blond. The boy who could get a rise out of him, who could make him smile, who could make him doubt himself, who had made him feel emotions which he hadn't felt in years and it scared him. But of course an Uchiha never shows their emotions, so he simply tried to close himself off. But day by day he could feel himself getting weaker as he began to care for his dobe more and more.

Then came Orochimaru. The man had offered him power, power to slaughter his brother. It had startled him when the larger part of him had told him not to go with this snake sannin, it had petrified him that Naruto was his reason for staying, and that if he had a weakness such as this then surely Itachi would use it to get to him once again. So he had gone with the man, not caring about the conditions that had been set for him to gain said power, only knowing fear and confusion and anger.

Now here they stood. In the ruins of Orochimaru's hideout. His mask perfect as long as his eyes didn't meet with those of his blond team mate. Each one with a blade pressed to the other's throat, confused and pained.

He knew what he had to do. His Sharingan blazed. He knew it was for Naruto's own good.