It was a simple question Sasuke's therapist asked. "Tell me about yourself." The gray haired man asked as he lazily looked up from his notes at the young man. What struck as odd to Sasuke was that only one eye was visible, the other hid behind an eye patch.

"Uh...Where should I start?" He asked very uncertain.

"Hm, well lets start with you before...this." He gestured to his office. "Lets start with high school...yes I think thats good. high school."

"Well, I went to Konoha High school. I was an A average student. Honor roll, Deans list...that sort of thing. Nothing unusual..." He trailed off.

"Oh, well thats boring!" He laid his notebook on his desk and stared at Sasuke.

"Everyone has something happen to them in high school. Something that may seem small, or something you think you got over will eventually come back an haunt you or nine times out of ten it never left you. An old friend you had a falling out with, an bad break up, witnessing a murder...that sort of thing."

"I think I would remember a murder, Dr Kakashi" Sasuke muttered. "I-I did have a sort of falling out with a friend." Kakashi's brow perked when he heard this.

"Were you two close?" He asked picking up his notebook and pen.

"Yeah, very close."

"What was his name?"

"Naruto." The younger man strained out.

"Hm...you loved him." Kakashi stated more then asked. Sasuke's eyes averted from the older man. "Don't worry, I don't care about your sexual preference."

"Yes I loved him." Sasuke frowned.

"Did he love you?"

"For a while...I thought he did but he didn't. At all."

"Tell me what happened?"

"Like I said we were close. He told me everything. I was the one he ran to. He had an abusive father, a mother who didn't really care about him and most of his friends besides me didn't really see the real him."

"What do you mean by that?" Kakashi interjected.

"Well everyone seems to have two sides. What we see and what we keep on the inside. All Naruto was...was surface. No one saw that his smiles were fake, that his laughs were forced or that he wanted to break out in tears almost everyday..."

"You did?"

"I didn't when we first me. I thought he was just some goofy dumb ass and I could barely stand him...but something made me keep coming back...After a while he started telling me things about him. His father, his mother and his past. I sort of ignored it at first thinking he was over dramatizing it. After a while though...I noticed that no one else he knew what I knew."

"I'm sure this made you feel special." Sasuke cheeks tinted pink.

"It did. It made me want to be around him more. I kind of liked that he talked about himself. Most people I knew only wanted me to talk about myself."

"You don't like like talking about yourself?"

"Not particularly. Not back then anyway. I wasn't shy I just didn't relate to people you know. Too mature for my age."

"I see."

"Well, anyway, we spent more and more time together. We got closer and closer. Slowly I was falling in love with him. He was perfect. Cute, smart, funny, talented, we liked all the same thing, hated the same things you know that kind of thing. Yet we were different...he was loud and wacky and I was silent and reserved."

"Match made in heaven it would seem." Kakashi said off handedly.

"Hn..."

"How long did this go on? How long did you keep this to yourself?"

"What do you mean?" Sasuke raised his eyebrow.

"Did you ever tell him?" The gray haired man focused his visible eye on the young man.

"I did..." Sasuke eyes drifted towards the floor.

"How many times?" Sasuke snapped his eyes back at Kakashi.

"What do you mean by that?"

"How many times did you tell him about your feelings."

"What makes you think it told him more then once."

"Because mister Uchiha, I have dealt with patients like Naruto before. He wants to be what he thinks is normal since his home life wasn't Let me guess...he had eyes for the prettiest girl in school?" Sasuke's fist clenched in his lap. "He was a puppy(1)."

"A what?"

"A term I use for cute boys who girls think are cute but not date able. Almost like a little brother. They usually crave attention and love that cant seem to find at home and cling onto emotion that might not even be there. Puppies tend to fall in love easily and are just as easily heart broken. They take puppy love to its extreme and are sometimes blinded by their infatuation that they cant see who they truly are. Now, I think that you told Naruto how you felt and I'm sure he wasn't very surprised."

"He said he knew..."

"I'm sure he did. He said nothing would change between you two...but it did. Tell me did you two grow apart or did you feel even closer?"

"Closer."

"Interesting. What happened after the first time?"

"He started dating Sakura."

"The pretty girl." Kakashi stated for him.

"And he thought he was happy."

"Thought?"

"When he was with her he looked...bored. He didn't look at her and she didn't look at him. Not how we looked at each other."

"You compared yourself to her." The older man stated again before jotting down more notes.

"She dumped him after a while. She said "Your not the boy I fell in love with." which was a load of crap." Sasuke said bitterly. "She was using him to make someone she wanted jealous. Two days after she left him she was with some other guy."

"How did Naruto take it?"

"He said he was going to hang himself "What do I have to live for now?" is what he told me."

"I'm sure that hurt."

"Like a knife through my heart. I eventually talked him out of it thought." Sasuke let out a big sigh.

"Now, when you say you got closer with him. How do you mean?"

"We started getting more involved in each others lives. He said that after High school he wanted me and him to move in together. Find an apartment far away from where we lived. To get away from our families."

"It never happened?"

"A couple of weeks before graduation, Sakura begged him to take her back."

"He did?"

"Like an idiot." Sasuke said through his teeth. "I couldn't stay mad though he was happy, so I was happy."

"Your a very caring person despite your cold appearance." Sasuke frowned. "What happened after that?"

"Sakura became pregnant."

"Was it Naruto's?"

"No. He never had sex with her, he would have told me..." Kakashi shook his head and wrote something down.

"What happened next?"

"Being the caring idiot he is, he listened to her and they ran away together."

"They left?"

"He left me without so much as a goodbye." Sasuke frown deepened.

"No calls? No e-mails or letters?"

"Nothing. Till this day I haven't seen or heard anything of him nor Sakura. It took a long time but I got over him, I stopped caring and I went on to become what I am today."

"A successful novelist." Kakashi smirked.

"Its what I dreamed to do."

"What both of you dreamed to do." Sasuke eye twitched.

"I long excluded Naruto out of my dreams, Dr. Kakashi."

"Drop the Doctor Sasuke unless you would like me to call you Mister Uchiha."

"No I wouldn't" Kakashi let out a chuckle. "So Sasuke, why is it that you are here?"

"I was hoping I could get rid of this writers block, I thought there was something blocking my flow so someone suggested this to me."

"Well Sasuke I do believe I can help you,but I don't believe your being blocked. I think your missing something vital. We'll discover what that is soon enough but for now our session is over."

"Same date next week."

"Yes, that would be good." Kakashi nodded. "When you get home, try and write something, not your novel. A list or ideas, or a letter. Something of that sort. Bring that to our next session."

"Alright." Sasuke said nothing else before walking out of that office and out of the building. The sun had started to set giving the city an orange glow. He couldn't help but picture Naruto and that grin. Brushing off the imaginary dust off his black suit he strolled to his car which was also black and got in. Starting the engine he took off back to his house.

It had been four hours, twenty three minutes and eighteen seconds since Sasuke had gotten home and sat at his computer, a black word page in the screen and a frown that marred his face. He let out a long sigh and was about to start typing when the door bell rang. Quirking an eyebrow he made his way to the door. He wondered who it could have been since he wasn't expecting any company.

Slowly he turned the knob and opened the door letting out the light that illuminated the dark porch. What Sasuke saw made his heart stop for two seconds, yes he counted.

Bright blue eyes, blond messy hair and that same baby face...except he didn't look much like a baby anymore.

Naruto Uzumaki

"H-hi Sasuke."

Just a little something I came up with when I thought about going to therapy and having a very deep conversation with a good friend of mine who I told about me being in love with a boy. It did me good and got rid of my minor depression.

To fans of my other works I'm sorry about the lack of updating. I just got a new Job and school has started back up so I'm kinda busy. I'll will be trying harder to write though. For my sake.

This is a reference from something I had created. Its called 'Loves Guide to the Wild Side' A list of characteristics of people in relationships or in love and how I compare them to animals who share some of the same features and personalities.

If you'd like to read it I'll E-mail it to ya.

I've also been swamped with Original ideas that I cant seem to put on paper and they keep building up. So my mind if just all over the place.

If you couldn't tell this was more like therapy for me since morst of this and my latest works are about me and my infatuation. This unlike the others though will have a set number of chapters instead of ending it when it feels right. Im going to try and cap it at 7 chapters, maybe 9 since its occurred to me that I have never written an ending to anything. So, short stories for me!

I hope you guys like diving into the mind of someone in a best friend predicament.