Naruto and Sakura ran through the sound of Sakura's crying echoed against the empty streets. Millions of scenarios were running through Naruto's mind. Sasuke lying dead on the ground. Sasuke bleeding in a hospital bed. And worst of all, Sasuke not there at all. Naruto had figured out long ago that Sasuke was planning on leaving. And he, himself, was planning on stopping him. He just didn't know how yet.

Sakura pulled on Naruto's arm and he looked up, startled out of his thoughts. He followed Sakura's gaze and looked at the building in front of them. Well, what was left of the building. It looked like someone had let a very large bomb go off in the middle of the building. And now that Naruto thought of it, someone probably did.

As Naruto looked more closely at the building and the surrounding area, it began to become more familiar. His eyes widened when he realized it was Sasuke's street. Not just his street, his house. Naruto turned his head to look at Sakura.

"Sakura do you know what happened?" Naruto asked desperately. She nodded her head in between her sobs and Naruto swung around so he was facing her. He grabbed her shoulders and looked her in the eye. She looked up at him, tears pouring from her eyes.

"Sakura. What happened?" he asked, worry flooding through him. She shook her head.

"Sakura! You gotta tell me what happened." he shouted at her. Slowly she removed her hands from her face and looked at him.

"I had come to give Sasuke a present. And when I was walking away I heard an explosion. I turned around and saw Sasuke's house on fire. So i ran to you." She sain in between sobs.

"Why did you come to me?!" he screamed as he quickly turned and ran into the still burning house. Naruto couldn't believe that Sakura was stupid enough to run and get him. Why didn't she go to the Hokage? Or go in and help him? No, she just left him in a burning building and ran and got a genin who couldn't do much more then she herself could do. Naruto shook his head at her stupidity and continued to run through the burning building.

"Sasuke! Sasuk!" Naruto called out as he made his way to what was left from the second floor.

"N-Naruto?" it came softly but Naruto heard it. He ran into Sasuke's bedroom and gasped. The room was almost completely dissolved in flames and Sasuke was sprawled out in the middle of the room. His head and arm were bleeding and it looked like he had been unconcious. Naruto ran to Sasuke and quickly picked him up. He was heavier then he thought he would be but Naruto put all his strength into it. He ran down the burning stairs and out the door. He ran past a crying Sakura and quickly made his way to the hospital.

As he ran through the streets, Naruto looked down at the one he loved. If only he could tell him. It would make things so much easier. But Naruto knew Sasuke would hate him if he knew the truth about his feelings.

"Please. Stay with me Sasuke." Naruto begged quietly as he continued to gaze at the raven.

"I'm not going anywhere Naruto. I've got too much left to do." Sasuke replied in an almost inaudible whisper. Naruto smiled and looked ahead as he sprinted through the quiet streets.

Naruto ran into the hospital and ran right to the emergency room where Sasuke was put in a bed. Naruto sat outside the room while they healed him, head in his hands. Hevsat there for hours. As people passed by they glanced at him. By the looks of it, it looked like someone had died.

Two hours later, the Hokage came out of the operating room and walked up to Naruto. He stood up and looked at her.

"Granny Tsunade. Is he gonna be ok?" Naruto asked. Tsunade looked at him. He looked exhausted.

"Yes. He's gonna be fine. We've healed the major wounds. There still burn marks but that's it. He's sleeping right now if you wanna go in." Tsunade finished talking and watched as Naruto nodded and walked into the room. She sighed. 'Could you be more obvious about your feelings?' she thought, shaking her head. She smiled slightly and walked away.

Naruto walked into the room and looked at the figure laying in the bed at the far side of the room. He inhaled and then exhaled loudly.

"What are you sighing about?" a soft voice said. Naruto looked up to see Sasuke looking at him from his bed. "You're not the one that just almost got blown up." Sasuke smirked and shifted slightly in bed and Naruto ran over.

"Don't move. You're gonna hurt something." Sasuke stopped in the middle of sitting up, his elbow propping him up, and looked the small blonde in the eye. They stayed there, looking into each other's eyes for almost two minutes before Sasuke rolled his eyes.

"Dobe." he said as he laid back down. 'What was that? It was almost like there was something between... no. There's was nothing. And yet?' Sasuke shook his head, shaking the thoughts away. An unreadable expression, almost like pain and sorrow, crossed Naruto's face, taking Sasuke off guard. 'What is going on!?' Sasuke screamed inside his head. He didn't like the sudden feelings that were running through him as he looked at his best friend.

What he liked even less was that it wasn't the first time he had had these feelings while he was around Naruto. It had been happening more and more lately but everytime it did Sasuke just shook it off and said that he was just annoyed. He laid back into his pillows and looked at Naruto. He smiled when he saw his friend sitting in a chair, dead asleep.

Ok i really worked hard on this so please tell me what you think.