Authors Notes: Drabbly. Back story is that Naruto and Sasuke were fighting for the last time, Sasuke gained the upper hand, maybe Naruto let him rather than have to kill his friend, but Sai came and saved Naruto…by killing Sasuke.
Summary: Naruto's fading and Sai asks questions he already knows the answer to.
With a Whimper
"Why Naruto?" Sai demanded, seeming almost…desperate. Something Naruto, nor anyone else, had never seen in the stoic ninja before.
"I'm sorry." Naruto whispered words carried away easily in the breeze
"Why won't you look at me?" The blonde seemed to shrink in on himself and tried to get away but Sai grasped Naruto's chin tightly and forced blue eyes to meet his.
He wished he hadn't.
Tears ran down Naruto's face. He took a breath and offered Sai a pitiful upturning of his lips. One where all the fissures and fractures that made up Naruto these days shown through.
Softer. "Why can't you look at me."
Naruto was broken and fading, the fire he held slowly leeching out of him day by day.
"Because when I look at you…"
And Sai had done this to Konoha's Light.
"…all I see is the man who killed him."
They stood silent. What more was there to say?