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He hated it. The noise so associated with the very thing that maintained life, but was never heard in good circumstance. That hollow, mechanical, foreshadowing sound. You never heard it in good times.
Beep. Beep. Beep. Beep.
In the bed lay a battered and weakened Sasuke Uchiha. He'd suffered a broken collarbone, fractured his neck, six ribs, and his left arm, been impaled through the chest, broken his right arm and three ribs, and been cut very badly in many places. Bandages covered his sternum, right arm, and one half of his face. Both eyes were fine, but only one was uncovered. It was looking at him.
Naruto stared right back into it. His face was emotionless.
Sasuke spoke up.
"What do you want from me?"
Naruto said nothing.
"I asked you a question, you bastard. What do you want? Why did you save me?"
Naruto looked left, and Sasuke couldn't turn his head far enough to see what it was he was looking at. He looked back at Sasuke, and spoke.
"I've killed more people than I can count. I didn't need-... I didn't want any more blood on my hands."
Sasuke stared at him, his charcoal eyes displaying his fury.
"Stop lying. You and I both know there's more to it than that."
Naruto looked away again.
"Who are you... really?" Sasuke's voice was much quieter, almost as if thinking out loud.
"
Naruto turned to face him.
Sasuke had seen many things in his life, but Naruto's face was one of the fey things he would never forget. His once bright and brotherly smile was now a simple expressionless line, and his eyes... his eyes looked dead and cold. What brightness was there had changed into an endless pit of pain and loneliness. Sasuke felt as if all the joy in the world had died that instant, and sucked the soul from everything surrounding him. Naruto seemed to look right through him, rather than at him.
"Do you really want me to answer that, Sasuke Uchiha?"
Sasuke was caught off guard by this address. Naruto had always been so personal and friendly, and now... Now he wanted to know. He wanted to know Naruto's power. He wanted to know what kind of hell Naruto had been through to understand his own pain.
"Yes. Tell me. Tell me it all."