Bffimagine: This is my second Naruto fic... I don't know if it's gonna be any better than the first, but there will be a whole lot more pain for Sasuke... MUAHAHAHAHA! I'm Back! Long time abscence, but I'M BACK! BOO-YAH!

Silhouettes and Shadows

"I will make you bleed Sasuke. I'll make you feel pain like you've never felt before. I have waited so long to get you to writhe in agony. I have waited too long to watch you suffer. I want to torture you, make you die slowly, inch by inch. The great Uchiha Sasuke will die at the hands of the village runt. I never loved you, and never will." Naruto smirked in mirth as his harsh words drew tears from the other shinobi.

Sasuke's mouth was slightly agape, blood matted in his gorgeous ebony hair, pain pulsing within his flesh. Tears mingled with blood as he cried silently to himself. A kunai knife pierced his back, the blade driven deep into the flesh and dragging down. It cut up, then left, right, down, until Sasuke didn't seem like any type of shape, just a whole lot of blood and clinging pieces of flesh. Most of his bones were broken in several places, yet he never once fought back to the blond boy.

"Why doesn't little Sasuke wanna fight back?" Naruto taunted harshly, "Is it because you love me? Even though I'm practically killing you? Oh, what pain love can bring, eh Sasuke?"

"You aren't Naruto," Sasuke whispered, each word coming with its own flood of pain. "The Naruto I know has a heart."

"Oh, really now?" Naruto kicked Sasuke hard in the ribs. "You mean that kind of heart? Yeah, there's one in this shell of a body. Listen to it beat Sasuke."

"No. The heart that loves, the one that makes him loved. It can't be gone. He's still in there somewhere. NARUTO! WAKE UP!" Sasuke stopped suddenly, choking up a large mass of blood.

A softened look came over Naruto's eyes, but soon they hardened again. "NO YOU INCOMPETENT FOOL! I OWN YOUR BODY NOW! DON'T EVEN TRY TO TAKE OVER! AAAAAAGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHH!"

Naruto's eyes became their usual soft blue, tears welling up near the edges.

"I'm so sorry Sasuke. I do love you! It's the fox demon again. I'm so sorry!" Naruto sobbed quietly, and cried into Sasuke's shoulder when the other boy gathered all of the strength his battered body could muster in order to cradle the blond. He felt unusually faint, woozy and dizzy, but he centered his attention on the kitsune. Carefully, he picked up the sobbing form, much to the dismay of his body, which, at the extra weight, was screaming in anguish and pain.

"Hush Naruto. I love you too. That's why I couldn't fight back, in case the demon gave you control again. I'd be hurting you and I can't do that koi." Sasuke carried Naruto all the way to the little house where team 7 was currently taking resident in. He set Naruto into the bottom bunk of the bunk-bed where Sasuke and Naruto had slept for about two weeks.

Naruto reluctantly closed his eyes, but soon he was snoring softly. Seeing that Naruto was asleep, Sasuke started to climb the ladder but failed and collapsed out of fatigue and pain. His wounds bled more profusely than before and older ones opened up again. He had been going through this for about six months, but Kakashi and Sakura had never found out.

Sea blue orbs fluttered open to the light of day. Not surprisingly, it was another bright, sunny day in Konoha.

But the joy of morning was short-lived. The walls were painted a vivid crimson, bloody patterns splattered across the previously white surfaces. In the center of the elaborate design was a bloody, crumpled heap. Sasuke.

Bffimagine: MUAHAHAHAHAHA!