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A/N: Hi guys, i'm finally back! Sorry, but you know, I needed a break to try and regather my creativity. Firstly this is a sequel to 'A little something between friends.' If you haven't read that, I suggest you do. Secondly, sorry if Sai is OOC. In fact, sorry for everyone is. I don't think this will be as good as the last, but we will have to see. Lastly, I have this resolution that I am going
Sasuke POV
With those 5 little words, my life came crashing down around me. He had obviously met someone else. I didn't like the sound of this Sai character. I had half a mind to storm in there and beat the living fuck out of him, but for once my better judgment overtook that urge.
I turned and walked off going to the one place I knew I could get answers. Kakashi.
Naruto POV- 2 years earlier
I was sitting in Sasuke's tree, just as I had almost every day since he had left. I traced my fingers slowly over the carving in the wood. Sasuke and Naruto 4ever. I still remember the day he wrote it. I can still see the smile on his face.
FLASHBACK
"I love you Naruto." He said as he kissed my head.
"I love you too," I told him. "Promise you will never stop loving me." I said as I nuzzled my face into his chest.
He looked down at me and smiled. "I promise, but you should know, I couldn't even if I tried."
END FLASHBACK
FLASHBACK
"Sasuke?" I asked.
"Yeah." He said, looking down at me.
"Do you really love me?"
"More than anything on this earth, why the sudden insecurity?"
"No reason, just promise you will never leave me."
"I promise." He said finally.
END FLASHBACK
I was snapped from my thoughts when Sai sat next to me. "Something wrong Naruto?" he asked.
Without looking at him I continued to trace our names. "He promised me" I whispered so quietly I was surprised when he answered me.
"Promised you what?" he asked.
"He promised that he would always love me, that he would never leave me." Tears started to leak from the corners of my eyes. I was shocked when Sai pulled my head to his chest and wrapped his arms around me. "Its ok Naruto, i'm here."
I breathed in deeply. Everything about this was so similar. The strong protective grip, the way his breath felt on my skin, hell, he even looked like Sasuke.
At that moment I was just as calm as I had been all the times I lay like this in Sasuke's arms. There was some element of confusion about me but. Not moving from my position I started to fiddle with the bottom of his shirt. "Why are you doing this Sai?"
"Cause I care about you." He said simply before continuing. "Apparently a lot more than that bastard-"
"Don't call my bastard that!" I said pushing away from him. He cocked an eyebrow and I blushed when I realised how ridiculous and hypocritical that more than likely sounded. "I'm the only one who can call him that."
"Okay Naruto, i'm sorry." He pulled me back to him and I didn't object. He started to gently run his fingers through my hair and continued, with his tone slightly softer than before. "You need to move on, try being with someone else for a little while or something?" he suggested.
I snorted. "Oh yeah? Like who?" I asked pulling myself off him and locking my eyes with his.
"Like me." And with those words, he kissed me.
Sasuke POV
I slammed on Kakashi's door loudly and violently. I didn't care how late it was, I had questions and he was going to answer them for me. Now.
When he hadn't answered in two minutes I grew more impatient. "Kakashi! I don't give a shit what you're doing, if you don't get the FUCK out here-" I broke off when a startled Kakashi threw the door wide open with a towel wrapped around his waist.
"Sasuke?"
"Took your bloody time." I stormed past him and once I entered the room I screamed "Who the FUCK is Sai and why the HELL is Naruto telling him that he loves him?"
Kakashi winced. "I see that you went to see Naruto." I could tell that he was bursting with questions to ask me but apparently decided I was in no state of mind to tell anyone anything at the moment.
"I got to the door, heard them yelling about piggybacks or something insignificant before exchanging the phrase 'I love you'" The true impact of the words chose then to hit me. 'I love you.' The words were echoing in my head and I couldn't shake them away. This wasn't some stupid little fling, there was real meaning in that. Had Naruto really moved on? Was he actually over me?
All of a sudden I forgot how to breathe. I fell to the floor silent tears running down my face as I choked on the air that wasn't getting to my lungs. I brought my knees to my chest and wrapped my arms around myself, completely disregarding the look of pure shock spread across Kakashi's face. I bit my lip to try and stop myself from crying but it didn't work and a sob escaped my lips. "He really doesn't love me anymore..."
Sai POV
It had taken me half an hour to actually get into the bathroom. The first challenge had been getting Naruto off me, and then it had been convincing him that he shouldn't accompany me. When I finally stepped into the shower I heard a knock on the door. I turned on the water, knowing that it was more than likely for Naruto anyway. I never got that close to anyone here and those people I had, Naruto was closer to and could amuse until I got out. I didn't even regard his yell, he was naturally loud and him screaming was nothing new to me.
Naruto POV
My fingers were still wrapped around the handle and I couldn't move as I looked out at the face I had spent the last three years of my life thinking about. I felt myself start to shake and tears well up in my eyes. I shook my head violently from side to side, closing my eyes tightly. "No, this isn't happening. You aren't here." I told myself firmly. This couldn't be happening. Sasuke can not have just turned up at my door.
"I am here idiot." I couldn't help but let a small whimper get out as his familiar deep voice rang out. I kept my eyes firmly closed. I didn't want to look at him. He wasn't there, I was hallucinating or something. Sasuke fucking Uchiha was not standing in my door. He wasn't, he couldn't be.
"No, no you aren't. You aren't here, my brain is fucking with me." Even as I spoke the words I knew they weren't true. I knew he was there, but somehow I couldn't get myself to face that fact. Three years of nothing and suddenly he just turned up? I would have been more than happy to just stand there and eventually convince myself that It was just an illusion and that this wasn't real, but Sasuke chose to bring his hand out and run his fingers gently down my cheek. I tore myself away from his touch. "DON'T FUCKING TOUCH ME SASUKE!" I screamed.
He drew his fingers back and looked at me through his hair with a hard blazing look in his obsidian eyes. "Finally realised this is real huh?"
"Don't you dare mock me." I whispered dangerously low. "You left me Sasuke, you fucking left me. You have no fucking right to come here and treat me like an idiot after what you did." His eyes widened slightly, but other than that showed no reaction to what I said. I could have been talking about the weather for all the feeling he showed toward what I said, but I could tell there was more to what he was feeling than he was letting on, but he was always the master at hiding his emotions.
"I didn't want to leave you Naruto." He said slowly, as though every word he picked mattered. I snorted.
"If you didn't want to leave me than you wouldn't have. Why are you back now? What's so important that suddenly you return?"
He continued to look at me, with that same determined look in his eyes. He bit his lip slightly and for the first time I could honestly say I knew exactly how he was feeling. I could tell that he was scared, that he didn't know what he was going to do and somehow I figured he knew about Sai too. As I kept my eyes on him, I watched as he closed his eyes for a moment and when he opened them his face returned to the same emotionless mask that had so commonly adorned his face.
"I had too Naruto. You just don't understand. I came back because I realised that killing Itachi wasn't going to do anything. It wasn't going to change the fact that they all died, that I couldn't bring them back." His voice cracked slightly and a mixture of sadness and something that looked a lot like fear filled his eyes. "And if you want to know what's so important, its you. I finally realised that you mattered more to me than anything in this universe. More than myself, more than power and definitely more than that fucking brother of mine."
I brought me hands to my face for a moment to compose myself and when I looked back to Sasuke, I had managed to wash away the sympathy I was feeling for him. "Fuck Sasuke, I don't need this." I said.
He brought his hand to my cheek again and almost melted under his touch. "Don't say that." He whispered and I tore myself away from him again.
"I have tried so hard to rebuild the life that you shattered by leaving. I'm finally started to move on. I have a new boyfriend, i'm training to be a Jounin, i'm actually starting to be happy again. Please don't take that away from me." I pleaded.
"But I love-"
"Don't you dare say that!" I cut him off. "If you loved me you wouldn't have left."
"Naruto, please, I need you." He begged and I had to use all my self-restraint not to take him in my arms. Sasuke Uchiha doesn't beg, and here he was, standing in my door, pleading with me to take him back. I threw those thoughts out the window and stepped back from him.
"And I needed you for the three fucking years you ran off to Orochimaru determined to kill that stupid brother of yours." I saw him wince and a tear slide down his cheek but I didn't stop. This was something I had needed to tell him since he left. "There wasn't a day I didn't miss you." I felt the strength in my voice waver and I composed myself before continuing. "I have a new life now and if you thought you could come back and just pick up where we left off than you were really fucking mistaken." I said as I slammed the door in his face
