Bffimagine: Sorry if I make any mistakes on this fic. I have this completely based on Shonen Jump, my continuation to the 14th issue.

Nightmares

Sasuke felt his eyes flutter open. His first instinct was to move. But to put it bluntly, he couldn't. Not even twitch his fingers. He tried to move his head, but felt a sharp pain in his neck.

"Yo Sasuke, stay still or you'll hurt yourself," Naruto's somewhat annoyingly cheerful voice piped up, and Sasuke's vision could barely pick up the signature Naruto grin swimming in front of his face.

"Are you okay Naruto?" Sasuke asked, concern brimming in every word.

"You should be asking yourself that question baka," Naruto laughed, "You're practically bandaged from head to toe!"

" Well I can't exactly see the rest of my body," Sasuke reminded him, eyes narrowing to slits in annoyance.

The loud staccatos of Naruto clicking his tongue lashed out onto Sasuke's ears, annoying him further.

"I forgot," he snickered, rubbing the back of his head. "But, I was so worried about you though. I thought you were dead."

"You mean, I'm not?" Sasuke inquired, venomous sarcasm dripping off of his words.

"Heh heh. What did you mean by, 'I used to hate you'?" Naruto had his seriousness written in his eyes, but his question came out as a joking statement.

Sasuke froze. He could no longer feel the pain from his injuries caused by acupuncture needles Haku had embedded in his flesh. All he could think about was the enquiry Naruto had made. He remembered saying the words, but hearing them now made him think they didn't come from his mouth.

"What do you think?" Sasuke asked softly, as opposed to a scathing, derogatory tone he could've used.

"You used to hate me, but now you don't?" Naruto cocked his head to one side, "Am I right?"

"Well, I thought it was obvious enough, even for a numbskull like you," Sasuke joked, rolling his eyes and mocking his usual sarcasm.

"I really want to know one more thing," Naruto added after a short silence between the two boys.

"What might that be?" Sasuke sighed, now feeling tired while he watched blood soak into his white bandages. 'I don't feel so good,' he thought to himself.

"Well, I still want to know a reason for you sacrificing yourself for me. You haven't told me why," and after he paused for a second, he added, "Are you okay? You look real pale and sick." Worry dripped off of his words, and he did a horrid job of trying to conceal it.

"No, I'm fine. Just a bit tired." Sasuke responded flatly, but tried to make his voice at least sound fine.

"I'd better change your bandages. They're really bloody," Naruto motioned toward Sasuke's now extremely crimson bandages.

Naruto carefully stripped Sasuke of his bandages. His face turned an off-shade of a pale peach.

"M-master K-kakashi, I think you'd better take a look at this. NOW," Naruto stuttered, his face turning paler and paler.

"What's going on?" Sasuke felt his eyelids droop, and he collapsed into Naruto's arms, staining the other boy's attire with blood.

Bffimagine: MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! A wonderful cliffie! Sasuke: Oh, I'll kill you for this!