Thought about this for a few weeks before I even published Black Cherry. It has always been on my mind to write this kind of story about my favorite YAOI couple - Sasuke and Naruto!

[Summary] Pride seems to be the thing stopping the two young lover's from confessing to each other. The fear that by uttering those three words, they will lose to the other. Naruto will do anything to bring Sasuke back to the village. He even threatens to break his arms and legs. But Sasuke only wants him to say that he loves him, that's all. Will Naruto allow his pride to keep him from saving the person that means the most to him?

Read on, my lovely readers.

One day, I want to be able to hold him in arms one more time before I leave forever. My hands moving all over his glorious body and making him make those pleasurable sounds. A dream that I could instantly make happen with just three words he longed to hear from my lips.

I love you.

People often threw this word around like it was meaningless. It was when I met him that I realized that those three words meant too much to be whispered so freely. They came with emotions and twisted feelings that you never thought you were capable of feeling. That day comes for everyone whether it ends happily or not. Everyone falls for someone at least once in a lifetime. It is unavoidable.

"Sasuke, won't you come back with me?"

His lips moved with each word he uttered to my unwilling ears. The sight of him only made my internal heart sounds deeper than they were. He would make everything I worked so hard for in the last two and a half years crumble to the ground. I had worked too hard for that to happen.

"I can't."

We shared a night before I left Konoha. A night filled with passion and warmth. Those memories would forever be embedded into my mind. I couldn't lay down in my bed and not feel his soft hands running along the middle of my chest or his lips pressed against my neck. He knew that I would be leaving sooner than he hoped for. That was what that night was all about. He worked me into the bedroom, wishing that I would stay for him.

"We can have many more nights like that one. Don't you miss it?"

Sakura hadn't shown up yet. If she had heard him say that, she would begin to wonder. That wasn't required. My hands were on his face within seconds of him uttering those words. Our lips connected like two magnets. He tasted delicious. My tongue explored his warm mouth, taking in everything I could before anyone would interrupt us.

I pulled my lips away, "Tell me that you love me and I'll go back to you." I breathed.

He wanted me to say those words to him first. He wasn't going to give in. My arms hung loosely at my sides, the hurt in my eyes well hidden. He turned to stare at the broken down wall on his right. Our kiss made both of our minds go into a crazed frenzy. The feel of his lips against mine was enough to drive me insane. My tongue swept over my bottom lip. Savoring every piece of him that I could.

"I don't care if I have to break your arms and legs, you're going back with me."

Always saying that to me before I left him. He said he would do anything to get me back, anything but tell me those three words. I couldn't say them to him because I had my own issues about love. My heart had already been through enough hell. The pain of losing my lover would be too great for even me to handle. I patted the top of his head affectionately.

"Until next time then."

Those were my parting words. Sakura arrived as I was leaving. Her mouth moved, but I heard nothing. She meant absolutely zero to me. Not like he meant the world to me. When I had done what I had set out to do then I would return to him and have one more night with him exactly where we shared the last one before leaving his side forever.

Hurt and sorrow filled his eyes. My head turned to focus on the land before me. If I turned back now then I would surely go back to him. Every time I saw him, my heart would race and my palms would get sweaty. Why him of all people? I couldn't stand him in the beginning. All I wanted to do was beat him to knock some sense into his thick skull.

Then, I saw him for who he really was and he had me at that moment. I saw all of the suffering he had been through and realized that we were the same. We had suffered in different ways but we were still lonely. All the two of us wanted was someone to say that they loved us. That was the sole reason why we couldn't say those three words to each other. The phrase that would end everything.

"Later then, Naruto."

Sasuke: All you have to say is that you love me, dobe.

Naruto: *blushes* T-that's...

Misa: Behave! Well, that's the first chapter. Naruto's stubborn ass lets Sasuke get away because he won't say he loves him.

Naruto: Those words are precious and if I say them t-then...*chokes up* Hinata-Chan! *cries*

Hinata: Naruto-kun?

Naruto: *hugs Hinata and cries* T-They are mean to me!

Hinata: Misa-chan, leave him alone. You as well Sasuke-kun.

Sasuke & Misa: Alright.

Sasuke: But...he could say that he loves me...that's all. *sinks into deep depression*

Misa: *hugs Sasuke* I love you!

Sasuke: I don't care.

Misa: That hurts, ouch. *scratches head* Well, watch out for chapter two! See you later :3