The Days Without You

"No! That's a lie!" yelled Naruto.

"Yes it is and you know it! Nobody likes you and they never had. You were born alone and you're going to die alone!" shouted Sakura with pure rage. "You're annoying and obnoxious! How could anyone like you?! You're a loser and a freak that should've never been born!"

"No! You're lying! I'm not a loser! And think what might have been if I wasn't born! You're just jealous!" yelled Naruto, tears starting to blur his vision. He turned his back on his teammates, Sakura and Sasuke and ran home.

"Jealous of what?!" Sakura called back but Naruto didn't bother returning that comment. Alone on his room, he cried until he got hiccups, which he seldom anymore. He finally cried himself to sleep. It was lat e in the afternoon when Naruto awoke to knocking on his door. The blond was reluctant to get out of bed and answer the door but he got up and dragged himself to the front door. His hand hesitated on the doorknob. Another, more irritated knock.

"Alright, alright." he whispered to himself and opened the door. It was Sasuke.

"What are you doing here?" asked Naruto, bewildered.

"I have my reasons. You gonna let me in?"

"Oh, uh, yeah." He stepped to the side and let Sasuke in and closed the door. "So... you gonna tell me these said reasons or am I going to have to guess?"

"You can guess." Sasuke said calmly, walking around the room, snooping.

"You came here to be mean to me too? Might as well, I'm all out of feeling sorry for me for today."

"Nope. Guess again."

"I give up. Why are you here?" He was thoroughly confused.

"I'm here to apologize for Sakura. Is this your bedroom?" said Sasuke, getting off the subject.

"Really? Yes, it is, do you mind?" A total emotion crash just hit the young ninja.

"Nope. And really. Those things she said were uncalled for. I don't care how angry she might be or how bad she has PMS or whatever, she shouldn't've said them. Most of those comments were unforgivable." explained Sasuke slipping his way into Naruto's room. Naruto followed his teammate into the room, still trying to figure out everything out. Why? Why all of a sudden does he care and when does he ever apologize for anyone or anything? And what is he doing in my room?! h e thought.

"I guess your right." he finally managed to get out.

"You guess? Well I know. You weren't born alone, somebody had to give birth to you, and I highly doubt that you're going to die alone," Sasuke started to explain, sitting down on Naruto's bed. Naruto sat down next to him and started to cuddle his pillow. "You're not obnoxious and you're certainly not annoying. There are plenty of people who like you. Who couldn't? I mean, you're courageous, kind of funny at times, you work hard non-stop, and you try hard to please everyone. You have beautiful blue eyes, soft shiny blonde hair, and your cute..." Sasuke trailed off at that, lost in his own thoughts. It finally clocked in Naruto's head.

"I'm sorry, what?" Sasuke snapped out of his daydream and tryed to save himself without much luck.

"I, uh, um, and I'm the only one who's aloud to call you loser so there."

"Uh, huh. Hey Sasuke?"

"What." Sasuke said, looking suspicious. Naruto just smiled.

"Do you like girls?"

"Of corse, you dobe! Why wouldn't I?"

"I don't know, you just don't seem to like' em. I mean, you ignore them when they talk to you and you reject them every time they ask you out."

"I'm just picky, that's all." answered Sasuke, nervousness starting to rise in his voice.

"Sure. So if you like girls then you wouldn't mind if I did this." Naruto reached over and put his and on Sasuke's knee. He slowly inched his way up Sasuke's leg. With every move Naruto made, Sasuke got redder and redder and more nervous. Naruto started to go up his shorts, not playing the game by the rules as always, even though there aren't any official rules to the game. He was almost at Sasuke's thigh when he finally snapped.

"Ok, stop!" he yelled, his voice cracking. His face was bright red.

"Ha! I knew it! You don't like girls! Ha, ha, yeah..." Naruto was smiling to himself and feeling accomplished of what he found.

"So what if I don't? What are you going to do about it?" Naruto stopped smiling. He never thought of what he was going to do with the new information he had just acquired.

"Nothing."

"Yeah, I'm sure. Like I believe that."

"Well, you should. Because I'm dead serious. Just look at me, seriously." Sasuke looked deep into Naruto's eyes. His face alone told him that he was serious, but he just liked looking into Naruto's beautiful blue eyes.

Sasuke leaned over and kissed him and quietly left the house, leaving Naruto stunned.