Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto!

A/N: This is my first time writing for Naruto, so I hope people find this satisfactory. Be patient with the writing, it is slow but there isa story here,though nothing involving a huge plot. It deals with a lot more of the emotion of things rather than missions andfighting. Enjoy!

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Naruto lay in his hospital bed staring at the ceiling. Tsunade had ordered him not to move. His wounds were severe and moving would only make them worse. Kyubi was more careful now, after finding out that his vessel will die if he forced heal too often, so he allowed for medicines to help the healing process.

Naruto lay in his bed, staring at nothing, letting his mind wonder as the bind-jutsu didn't allow him to move, even his neck was in a bind because it was severely injured. He heard the door slide open, he strained his eyes to the right to see who it was but he couldn't see. Foot steps got closer but they weren't walking to wards him, they were walking towards the window. As the figure sat on the widow sill Naruto saw it was Sasuke.

He sat there, not even noticing Naruto and stared out the window. Naruto didn't say anything, he was content having something to look at and knowing he wasn't alone.

A few minutes passed as Naruto watch the Uchiha that stared out the window when the door slid open again. "Ah Naruto-kun!" A cheery female voice called.

Naruto turned his eye towards the right and Sakura was already by his side. "Ah Sakura-chan!" Naruto smiled his usual smile.

"I see Tsunade-sama released your mouth."

"Tsunade-baba is mean, I had to agree to stop screaming if she let me out of the bind. Hey hey, Sakura-chan, you're Tsunade-baba's student, you probably know how to take this bind off."

"Naruto! You're hurt, if you start to move around now, you'll cripple yourself."

Naruto made a face at this.

Sakura lifted her eyes from Naruto for a second and glanced at the Uchiha. "Ano, Naruto-kun, has Sasuke-kun been like that since he arrived?"

Naruto flicked his eyes towards the Uchiha and back to the worried Sakura. "Yeah. So he hasn't talked yet?"

"No, he hasn't. He's starting to worry me."

"Ah, don't worry Sakura-chan! He'll come around." Naruto said with his best cheery voice.

Sakura nodded and now turned to Naruto. "How are you feeling Naruto-kun?"

"Oh, except for the bind, I'm good. How long will it be before Tsunade-baba lets me out?"

"It's hard to tell, normally it would be two weeks at least but with the Kyubi, it might be a couple of days." She smiled. "Anyway, I have to get back to work, I'm going to leave Sasuke-kun to you."

"To me! I can't even move!" Naruto exclaimed.

"Don't worry Naruto, he's not going to run away again."

Naruto made a face but nodded.

After a couple hours of watching the unmoving Uchiha, Naruto drifted off to sleep. When he woke again it was the middle of the night and Sasuke was asleep sitting in a chair beside his bed. Naruto sighed at this and the Uchiha's eyes immediately opened.

"Oh sorry." Naruto apologized softly.

Sasuke ran a hand over his face and shook his head in an 'it's not your fault' manner. Sasuke and Naruto continued to stare at each other for a moment before Naruto blinked.

"Eh, Sasuke?"

Sasuke's eyes hardened in defense. It was clear that Sasuke didn't want to talk yet, so Naruto didn't say anything further.

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2 days later…

"There you go Naruto-kun. You're free to move around." Sakura smiled at her blonde friend as he jumped out of bed and immediately stumbled.

"Heh heh, I guess I'm not used to using my body." Naruto said as he smiled at Sakura while the Uchiha watched from the windowsill.

"You still have to be careful Naruto-kun. If you put too much strain on your body you can destroy it. So no training or missions for a month, that's Tsunade-sama's orders." Sakura concluded in a serious face.

"Ehh! No training! Then what am I supposed to do?"

"I don't know. Just relax for a month and just in case you decide you don't want to listen to me, Sasuke-kun will be keeping an eye on you." At this both the young men looked surprised.

"Sakura-chan!" Naruto whined.

"Listen to me Naruto, your injuries aren't the kind that can easily be healed, if you destroy your body, that's it. So be patient. It's only a month." Sakura warned and left the room before the blonde could make any more objections.

Naruto turned to the Uchiha and smiled.

Naruto crawled on to the window ledge and made to jump out the window when he was firmly pulled back by Sasuke.

"You're right… it's a little too early for that." He got himself up again and walked out the door and down the hall with the Uchiha following.

"Are you going to follow me everywhere I go?" Naruto asked turning to the Uchiha in annoyance.

Sasuke just shrugged.

"You're not going to take Sakura's orders seriously are you?"

Sasuke shrugged again.

Naruto led him around town, pointing out things that have changed since they were young to the unresponsive teen. Naruto finally stop moving when he reached his favorite ramen stand.

They went inside and took some seats. "What do you want Sasuke?" Sasuke just stared at the blonde with hard eyes. "Right! We'll have two house specials please."

After they were done eating, Naruto started walking again, this time leaving the town behind and out towards the training grounds and the forest.

Uchiha who was only a step behind Naruto was looking at Naruto suspiciously.

Naruto eventually led them to a familiar looking training field.

"Ah, Sasuke, do you still remember that day when we tried to get the bells from Kakashi sensei? When I got back to the village a year ago Kakashi sensei put me and Sakura to the same test, this time though we managed to get both bells, no problem!"

Sasuke look surprised at this. "Hey hey! We're strong now, stronger than Kakashi sensei." Naruto countered the look Sasuke gave.

Sasuke gave a smirk at this. "Hey Sasuke, when are you going to start talking again?"

Sasuke's smirk disappeared and in place was nothing. His look was blank.

Naruto gave a nervous laugh, "I guess that was a stupid question."

Naruto then turned away and focused elsewhere. He was then at the tree in a blur, from there he was running, jumping from tree to tree. He could finally move and he wanted to really move. Suddenly Naruto stopped, right in front of him was an angry looking Uchiha.

Then the Uchiha was suddenly behind him. Naruto felt a sharp pain at the base of his neck and he passed out.

"Dobe!" Sasuke picked up the blonde and moved out of the forest back towards the village.

Naruto woke up a couple of hours later in his own bed, when he threw his gaze around the room he found the Uchiha who had knocked him out sitting on his window sill right next to the bed.

Sasuke looked at the now fully awake Naruto.

"Why'd you do that? I wasn't training!"

Sasuke opened his mouth to say something but immediately closed it and looked away.

Naruto gave a sigh and got up out of his bed. Sasuke immediately got up and stood on Naruto's bed.

"Relax, I'm only going to the bathroom." Naruto responded to the alertness of the Uchiha.

Sasuke relaxed back on to the sill as he saw Naruto enter the bathroom. A few minutes later Naruto walked out again and joined Sasuke at the window.

They passed a few minutes in silence as they watched the village fade into darkness and the streetlights come on.

"Naruto," Naruto turned to his friend who was still watching the village. "Don't do that again. Sakura's worried about you."

Naruto started laughing at this. "She's worried about you too, maybe then you should try talking to her."