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As the rain started to fall, two boys stood together in a clearing surrounded by bodies of those foolish enough to attack the two strongest ninjas in the hidden leaf village. The two boys stood tall because they were able to protect each other and defeat 20 other skilled ninjas without much harm to themselves. The raven haired boy and the blonde haired boy started to go back home to the village hidden in the leaves, when the blonde noticed movement in the trees that surrounded the clearing. Before the blonde knew what he was doing, he pushed the raven out of the way just as a kunai came sailing their way. The kunai hit the blonde on his shoulder causing major muscle damage and severing a major vain. The wound only got worse when the blonde pulled out the kunai before throwing the kunai towards the direction it came from. The blonde knew he hit his mark when he as a body fell from a nearby tree before collapsing to the ground.

"What the hell was…" the raven lost his train of thought when he saw his friend fall to the ground. "Naruto!" exclaimed the raven as he rushed towards his fallen friend's side.

"I think that was the last one." The blonde said weakly as he coughed up some blood. "Are you hurt Sasuke?"

"I'm not the one bleeding from a shoulder wound, moron." The raven replied as he tore off a piece of his shirt and pressed it against the blonde's bleeding wound. "Why the hell did you protect me Naruto?"

"My body moved on its own," whispered the blonde. "There is something I always wanted to tell you, but I was too afraid that you would hate me and no longer consider me your friend. I love you, Sasuke and have been in love with you from the first time I saw you when we were still kids. No matter what happened in the past, I was still in love with you. When you turned your back on me and the village when you left to get revenge for your brother, I was in love with you, and I still love you." The blonde whispered weakly.

"Naruto, you need to save your strength. I am glad that you told me you that you love me because I have been in love with you from the first time I saw you also. And I don't want to lose you now that I know that you feel the same way about me that I feel about you." The raven told the blonde. "Naruto, listen to me, I need you to hold on a little longer while I got you back to the village to get your wounds taken care of." The raven said franticly to the blonde while he wrote an urgent message to the village about the blonde's injuries and sent a falcon so there would be someone to take care of the blonde when they got to the gate.

The blonde looked into the raven's ebony eyes and saw something shocking on the raven's ivory skinned cheeks. The blonde saw the raven crying and the blonde never saw the raven cry before, not even when the raven lost his entire clan at the hands of his deranged uncle Madara Uchiha. The blonde did not know why the raven cared about him but the blonde did know that the raven was crying for some reason. "Sasuke, I will always hold onto you if I can and Kurama won't let go of me either." The blonde said feebly as he began the feel weak, losing focus as he slowly passed out from blood loss and fatigue.

The raven noticing the blonde's normally tan skin becoming paler and a sickly color shade, he finished writing the note and sent the carrier falcon ahead of them before picking up the blonde and holding him close to his chest as he began to run back to the village. The raven kept a tight hold on the blonde fearing that if he loosened his hold on the blonde then he would lose the blonde permanently and the raven did not want to lose the only person he had left in this world who cared about the raven and not the title the raven held as being the last Uchiha. The raven did not want to lose the only person who saved him from himself and saved him from his pain when he lost his entire clan to someone he trusted. He did not want to lose the only one he loved and saved him from the darkness of the world. And most of all, he did not want to lose his only light in the world.

With the thought of losing the blonde, the raven ran as fast as he could. He pushed his limits in order to save his love. The faster the raven ran, the faster the rain seemed to fall, and the faster the raven's tears seemed to fall. The faster the raven ran to reach the village, the greater the blonde's chances of surviving were, so the raven ran with all of his might in order to save the only love of his life. Before the raven reached the gate of the village, he managed to stop crying and put on his emotionless mask because Uchihas don't cry or show any emotions. As the raven neared the village, he noticed that the falcon made it in time because there were a few people waiting at the gate for their arrival. The raven slowed down as he reached the gate, but when he reached the gate, he started to lose his remaining strength and began to fall to the ground with the blonde still in his arms. The raven was so weak from fighting then running that he did not feel someone catch him before he hit the ground. However, he did feel someone remove the blonde from his arms and he also felt weightless as someone picked him up and carried him towards the hospital. While being carried, the only thing going through the raven's mind was if he managed to get the blonde help in time to save him.