Naruto stared at the tall, dark haired person that was not too far away from where he was hiding. He had finally found Sasuke after two years of looking. He hardly returned to kohona while he was looking and while searching he hardly ate or slept properly. The first time he went to bring Sasuke back, his former teammate tried to kill him. Naruto didn't care; he used the promise to Sakura as an excuse to why he obsessively looked for Sasuke. He found out a long time ago he had feelings for the older boy and he was going to do anything he could to bring him back. Naruto carried on watching Sasuke. Naruto had waited for this moment for two years now and he had no idea what to do. He bit his lip as his stomach churned nervously. Sasuke had obviously been training in this isolated area of forest and he dropped the kunai he was holding, signalling that he was about to leave. It was now or never. Naruto jumped from the tree and walked over to where the other boy was standing. Sasuke heard the intrusion and turned around; nothing could have prepared him for who was standing there. "I'm…bringing you back, S…Sasuke. Willingly or not." Naruto said. Sasuke stared at him. Naruto was paler than usual, his hands were shaking slightly and he looked like he wanted to run away, not bring him back. "Get out of here dobe." Sasuke hissed. Naruto shook his head and took a few more steps forward. "No! Your coming home this time." He replied. Sasuke snorted.
"You really think your strong enough to beat me?" Naruto moved further to Sasuke.
"I'm not fighting you teme. Come back with me." Naruto said plainly.
"I need to defeat my brother. I'm not going anywhere until I have enough power to do that. And the only way is for me to collect enough power from Orochimaru." Sasuke replied with a smirk. "But he only wants your body! Once you kill your brother that's it! Orochimaru will kill you Sasuke! Don't you get that?" Naruto shouted.
"I don't care. As long as Itachi ends up dead by my hands, I don't care what happens after that!" Sasuke snapped back. Naruto thought for a moment.
"Would you have enough power to kill Itachi with the mangekyo sharingan? If you had that, would you still need orochimaru?" naruto asked.
"don't fuck with me dobe! I can't have that, I would need to…"
"kill me? If you killed me, you could get that sharingan type and you could kill itachi and return hom to kohona." Naruto said. 'if sasuke kills me, he can kill his brother and still go home safe without orochimaru hurting him… I love him so much a life without his love in return isn't worth living.'
"kill me, sasuke." Naruto said sadly. Sasuke was shocked; naruto could be unpredictable, but this was off the scale! "what?" sasuke said.
"kill me, so you can kill your brother without sacraficing youself to orochimaru." Naruto said. Sasuke was speechless.
"y…your serious!" sasuke gasped, taking a step back from the blonde. "why though?" naruto sighed, if he was going to do sasuke a favour, he might as well let the weight off his shoulders that he had been carrying for a long time. "because, I love you. And this is the only way." Naruto closed his eyes, willing himself not to cry as he continued the sentence. "I know you don't love me back and you pobably hate me even more now for admitting my feelings, but…" naruto pulled up his sleeve and showed sasuke his inner arm. Several scars marked his arm; he had obviously been self-harming for a while for the scars to be so deep. Naruto pulled his sleeve down and laughed sadly. "you don't want to see the other arm, trust me. I can't cope without you sasuke…" naruto closed the distance between them both and kissed sasuke lightly on the lips. Surprised sasuke didn't hit him or push him off, naruto moved away and stared into sasuke's dark eyes. "so, now you know." Naruto picked up the kunai sasuke had dropped and held it out for the other boy to take. Sasuke took the kunai and looked at it. This was an opportunity he couldn't refuse; with the mangekyo sharigan, itachi was as good as dead. However that would include… killing naruto. Another thing dawned on him. Naruto loves me? Sasuke once admitted to himslef he perhaps had small feelings towards the other boy. But that was then, and this is now. He had to choose; naruto or itachi? One look into those blue eyes told sasuke his answer. Naruto clenched his eyes shut and swallowed, bracing himself for what was to come. A small thud made naruto open his eyes. Sasuke had dropped the kunai. "what?" sasuke pulled his weapon pouch off and threw that on the ground too.
"I'm not going to do that naruto." Naruto looked into sasuke's eyes again.
"please sasuke. Please?" naruto begged. Even sasuke was beginning to show some emotion now. He had never seen naruto like this and he espically never thought he would see him beg for something. "naruto, get a hold of yourself!" sasuke grabbed naruto by the shoulders. "why are you being like this?" sasuke asked him.
"if you don't kill me, orochimaru will kill you!"
"orochimaru wont kill me. Because… I'm coming home." Sasuke muttered. Naruto clutched at his shirt desperatly. "r…really?" he stuttered. "b…but what about-?"
"he doesn't matter right now. Dobe, when was the last time you ate something?" sasuke said, looking at how thin and pale naruto was. "I don't know, I had a lead on where you might be…and well…I don't know." Naruto was still clinging to sasuke's shirt. "your really coming back?" naruto whispered.
"yes." Sasuke was about to say something else when he felt naruto slump against his chest. "naruto?" sasuke put naruto down gently. He was still breathing thankfully. Sasuke picked naruto up and began walking back home.