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"Naruto!" Sasuke called, his voice distorted from exhaustion.

Naruto glared back at him and wobbly dashed. "Sasuke!" He echoed, like they always do. It's their cult which goes like: you call my name, I call yours.

Sasuke could swalowed a sharp pain up his stomach where Naruto's punch launched, he frowned, clenched his teeth before paying back with a side kick, not without benefits, of course. Both of them had used up most of their chakra on their last attack, exploding the valley of the end. Which ironically cut both of Madara and Hashirama statue's head off. But as stubborn as they are, refusing to give up and kept quarreling on with what's left of their force, basically just raw taijutsu. No tactic, no plan nothing. just jump onto each other and quarrel until you drop dead. It wasn't new to see Naruto behaving as such. But Sasuke.

He almost couldn't believe how stupid he looked right now. A minute ago, he told Naruto how they are not kids anymore, and there he is, screaming like an immature kid while violently punching into Naruto's face. He's intoxicated, he's mad.

Somewhere inside his head, Sasuke caught himself repeating, give up, almost like a mantra, just give up already, Naruto. Another elbow hit sent him flying to the ground. Sasuke took a sharp breath, for a split of second, he was, pleading.

The fight continued to drag on, before they knew it the sky had already hued down to a yellowish orange. Sasuke couldn't feel his body anymore, his eyes turned black, blood everywhere, Naruto in front of him was no better, an unsteady panting mess. Sasuke felt Naruto's shaky hand on his for head and he almost assumed Naruto was caressing him. In his turn Sasuke threw, what he though was, a punch into Naruto's stomach. Suddenly, at that point, his knees gave up on him, water splashing everywhere. Sasuke desperately cursed himself while panting, there wasn't much he could do now aside from staying immobile like an useless chump.

He felt Naruto's throbbing breaths on his skin. Naruto had also fallen, almost at the same time as he did. If he didn't know any better, Sasuke would have said they were holding on to each other.

And despite himself, Sasuke felt odly comfortable, feeling Naruto in front of him, only inches apart. It's been a while since he felt that kind of warmth. He for once, felt complete. Since a very long time ago, Sasuke knew, he always did, that Naruto completes him.

Two faces of the same coin.


A/N: This has been my favorite update/chapter thus far since I started following the series. So raw and so powerful, very nice! I might later continue this with my own interpretations?!