Prologue: Pain
Naruto Uzumaki was not happy.
He seemed happy. He still laughed the same, still grinned the same. He still said the same things, still added "Believe it!" to his sentences. He dressed the same. Ate ramen everyday, just like normal.
But on the inside he was dying.
It had been three years. Three years since Sasuke left Konoha for power. For hatred. For revenge.
Naruto hadn't understood it at the start. He had everything Naruto had ever needed. He had friends, skill. He used to have a mother and a father who loved him. An older brother who doted upon him, most of the time.
He had people he loved.
Now, three years on and with a storm of pain inside his very soul, Naruto understood that Sasuke's pain had been different from his own.
Naruto hadn't had anyone.
Sasuke lost everyone.
The difference, Naruto thought, was that he had broken through the pain. He had come into the light, having been in the darkness for so long. Whereas Sasuke had been in the light, and when he was cast into the dark he couldn't see the light anymore. It had been dark and cold and he probably hadn't understood it.
Now, with Sasuke gone, Naruto was back in the dark again. But this time he still had people. Like stars in the distance, where he could never reach them.
Sasuke had taken away almost all the light from Naruto.
Sasuke had forced him to understand the pain of being the last Uchiha.
Which made Naruto wonder, in the true darkness that came at night when the sun went down and when Naruto didn't have to smile and didn't have to lie…
Just who was Sasuke Uchiha to Naruto Uzumaki?
What gave him the power to destroy everything he had gained over the years?
What would it take to bring him back to the light?
To bring both of them back?
Naruto thought he knew.
But he was scared of what could happen if he failed.
The stars would go out.
There would be no light.
And he would die.
Because there was only so much a soul like his could take of being in the dark.
Especially when the only one who could bring him back was so tormented himself.
A/N: Okay...I've written a few more chapters for this already and I'll update this if I get 10 reviews. PLEASE BE NICE!!! This is my second fanfic. Anyways, I hope you all like this. The rest of the fic will actually be a story, instead of just feelings and stuffs.
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