Look Both Ways.
"Naruto!"
The blond boy smiled fleetingly in response, and raised a hand in greeting to his raven-haired friend. Startling blue eyes met coal black.
"Sasuke! Morning!"
The raven found a small smile had worked its way onto his face.
The blond had that effect.
...
"Sasuke!" The raven turned to the panting boy who'd just run up behind him and he reached out his hands to have a text book shoved in them. "You left it in biology."
"Thanks, Naruto." And the blond jogged off, flashing a grin over his shoulder.
Sasuke stared at his fingers where they'd brushed fleetingly with his just a moment ago.
...
He waved to him across the road.
"Sasuke! Wait up!" People turned to stare at the blond boy and Sasuke rolled his eyes at the shouting idiot. But a grin found its way onto his face and sweet warmth blossomed in his chest. Before Sasuke got the chance to cross the road to join him, his blond friend rushed across.
He didn't look both ways.
...
Sasuke stared at the empty desk on his left.
His best friend had been hit by a car.
And left a dark, empty hole in his chest.
Naruto...
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Sasuke stood in the doorway, staring through the glass at the figure in the hospital bed.
Naruto...
Tubes and wires wormed their way into his skin. A mask over his face. The steady bleep of his heart on a monitor.
His best friend was in a coma.
It should have been him.
...
Seven weeks.
And Naruto was still trapped within the darkness of his mind. He was at home. In his own bed. A tube in his mouth. Wires in his skin.
Sasuke held tight to his hand, talking to him, willing him to wake up. Please. Please wake up. Please... Naruto... please wake up...
He was so close to giving up on him. He couldn't see the point in hoping. He couldn't see any light at the end of the tunnel. Only darkness. But then he realised if it were he who'd been hit...
Naruto would never, ever give up on him.
Sasuke rested his head on the side of his Naruto's obnoxiously orange bed and interlaced his fingers with his blond friend's. It was then, in that short moment, as Sasuke let out a long, heavy sigh and clutched his hand tightly... that those fingers... twitched.
A movement. Barely anything at all. Tiny. But there.
"Naruto!"
...
Blue eyes blinked wearily up at him.
The cold dark hole in his heart healed over.
Warmth bubbled in its place.
Whiskered cheeks curved up as his blond friend smiled.
Naruto.
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