The bell rang that it was time to switch classes again and Naruto slowed down. He walked with his head down, his hair covering his eyes. Nobody in the halls would have been able to tell that it was him. They all knew Naruto as this cheerful person who they believed would always smile and laugh. The Naruto that was now walking in the halls, avoiding bumping into people and heading in the opposite direction of his next class, wasn't the Naruto most people knew.

Reaching the stairs that would lead him to his destination, he slowly walked up as he held onto the railing. Dazed blue eyes kept him from moving out of the way, which would have prevented him from bumping into a certain raven.

The raven immediately sighed, "Watch where you are going usuratonkachi," as he picked up the book he had been holding that had fallen at Naruto's feet. When he heard no retort from the blonde, he snuck a look at Naruto's face and was surprised at what he saw. Naruto looked as if he was going to break down at any moment; he was biting his lips so much that they were bleeding and his eyes seemed to seep red but were also glazed over with the build-up of tears.

"Dobe, what's wrong?" Sasuke asked uncomfortably. He had never really been good at comforting people and he knew he probably never would, but he knew he had to try. He had only seen Naruto like this when they were very little, and rarely even back then. Naruto was the type of person to act like nothing was wrong and act silly all the time. He was the type of person to not let anybody know how he was feeling. Sasuke could only wonder what could have happened that was so bad that made Naruto like this, out in the open.

The blonde didn't answer and, instead, tried to go around the raven. However, the raven didn't let him pass. "Move," the blonde ordered in a shaky but serious voice.

"I've never listened to orders from you before usuratonkachi, so no," Sasuke stated firmly, his arms spread wide to prevent Naruto from leaving.

"I'm serious, Sasuke. Move out of my way and let me go."

"Not until you tell me what's wrong, idiot," Sasuke countered, not moving an inch.

"What do you care? You only care about yourself, you self-centered bastard," Naruto growled, his voice now echoing the empty stairs. The bells had rung and everybody, even the usual stragglers, seemed to be in their classes by now.

Sasuke scowled as he grabbed Naruto's arm roughly and led him up the stairs. He opened the large metal door that opened up to the roof of the school, letting it slam behind him and Naruto after they had entered.

"What the fuck Sasuke?!" Naruto shouted, he seemed to be going hysterical, except for the fact that no tears had been poured out of his glossy, seemingly red, eyes yet. "Why the hell did you bring me up here?"

"You were going to come up here anyway, dobe," Sasuke replied as calmly as he could. Frustration and anger at Naruto couldn't help but seethe off of his voice though.

"I came here to be alone and this," Naruto moved his fingers to point at the both of them standing there in the breeze to prove his point, "is not what I call being alone."

"Well you'll have to deal with me being here until you tell me what happened," Sasuke retorted stubbornly.

Naruto growled before closing his eyes and taking a deep breath. After doing so, a smile seemed to be plastered on his face, "Nothing happened Sasuke, I was just over-reacting."

Sasuke just stared at Naruto who continued to speak, "Ah, class has already started and we're going to be yelled at by Anko-sensei. We should hurry and go to class." The blonde turned to leave but a pale hand gripped his arm tightly, preventing him from leaving.

"Sasuke, let go. We're going to be late for class," Naruto told him with a small laugh.

The usually stoic boy now had a scowl clear on his face and was seething with anger. "Don't you dare fake that you are ok and think I'll fall for it. I've known you long enough to know that you are not ok and you definitely don't over-react like this. Something happened and I am not going to let you leave here until you tell me what it is. "

"But what about class—" Naruto broke in.

Sasuke cut him off, "Being late or missing one class for one day is not going to kill either of us. That Anko-sensei would just be mad for us coming late and interrupting class anyways; she couldn't care less if we skipped it."

Naruto sighed, Sasuke was right about that. Still, he knew he was close to his breaking point. Balling his eyes out in front of Sasuke had not been on his bucket-list of things to do in life, especially if it was over a guy. "Sai…" Naruto thought and he started to shake again.

"Shit, I didn't want to cry in front of you," Naruto mumbled quietly as he continued to face away from Sasuke, who was not showing any signs of letting go of his arm. The blue-eyed blonde struggled to fight back his tears but was losing.

Sasuke noticed Naruto was shaking again, he heard Naruto's words. "Naruto, its ok to let it out in front of me. Everybody breaks down sometimes, its fine. Naruto, please tell me what's wrong though. I want to know." Sasuke took a deep breath, "Naruto, I care."

Silent tears had already begun to slip out of the blonde's blue eyes and yet, with those words, Naruto spun around, clung onto the front of Sasuke's navy blue shirt, and wailed.

Sasuke was a little stunned at first, not knowing what to do and a little confused as to how he had finally gotten through to Naruto. Slowly, he awkwardly wrapped his arms around Naruto because he had remembered his mother doing that to him when he was a child.

Naruto choked on his tears as he tried to explain what happened through incomprehensible words.

"I-its ok, dobe, let it out. Then we can talk," Sasuke whispered softly as he tried to comfort the boy more. The raven was new to this, he had never comforted anyone before so he was going with his instinct and what his mother had taught him.

Naruto cried on and on for what seemed to be hours but at the same time, it seemed no time had passed in reality. Sasuke had managed to lock the door to the roof while still holding on to Naruto and sitting the both of them down.

As Naruto's sobs seemed to come to a close, Sasuke hesitantly tried to comfort Naruto by rubbing his back. "Um… Are you ok now?" Sasuke asked, still hesitant.

Naruto giggled softly with a shaky voice, "You suck comforting, Sasuke." He looked up at Sasuke, his eyes were red with from crying but he was calming down.

Sasuke let out a sigh mixed with annoyance and relief. "You know I've never done this before."

Naruto let out a shaky laugh, "I could tell." Sasuke glared at him but the blonde continued to talk, "You really are bad at it-" Naruto paused as his cheeks became flushed red, "-but, thank you."

Sasuke felt his own cheeks turn hot, he never expected Naruto to say that. After a while, Sasuke responded in the only way he could think of: "Hn."

Naruto scratched the back of his head, "That… was really awkward, wasn't it?"

"Hn," Sasuke nodded in agreement. They usually were fighting and this whole time they had been with each other today was something out of the ordinary to the both of them.

There was an awkward silence until Sasuke finally decided to ask the question that he had been wanting to ask since the beginning of all this, "Do you want to talk about it?"

Naruto became somber and any trace of even a small smile was gone from his face.

Sasuke quickly interjected, "You don't have to tell me right away, so take your time. I still would like to know though." He was not about to let Naruto curl up into a shell again.

Naruto curled back up against Sasuke without realizing that he had as he spoke, "I- I'll tell you. You'd find out one way or another even if I didn't tell you."

Naruto sighed as he finally finished and looked back up to Sasuke. Even if the blonde boy had wanted to, he was all cried-out from earlier. He could be depressed about it, but he didn't have to cry about it anymore and that comforted him a little.

"Um… Sasuke?" Naruto asked hesitantly, he could feel an aura to kill coming from the raven.

"I'm going to kill that bastard," the raven swore.

"No," the blonde stated firmly.

Onyx black orbs stared down into deep blue ones, "Why not? He deserves it."

"He's not worth it."

"Then why was he worth your tears?"

Naruto paused and was silent for a moment as Sasuke waited for an answer. "…Because I was in love with him."

"If you say he isn't worth beating up then he isn't worth crying over either, usuratonkachi. He already wasn't worth your love."

Naruto sat there stunned; Sasuke's words seemed to hit him like a ton of bricks for some reason even though he didn't know why.

Sasuke shifted Naruto away and got up. "Naruto, I wont even punch Sai this time because you're asking me not to, but if I ever see you cry over Sai again…" Sasuke didn't finish he just stormed off and slammed the doors behind him, leaving the stunned Naruto all alone on the roof.

Naruto let just happened sink in. "Sasuke you bastard," Naruto cursed as he buried his face into his arms. He realized how tired he was from crying and despite everything going on in his mind and how he kept swearing that Sasuke was the biggest prick on the planet, he eventually fell sleep.

~~~meanwhile~~~

Behind the doors, Sasuke slapped his forehead, "That didn't come out the way I wanted it too."

A/N: Sorry this took so long to post! I have been really busy lately and haven't had anytime to write which sucks.

I think Sasuke would be really awkward when he comforted Naruto for the first time so I hope I portrayed that well. Also, I think I used the word hesitant a lot... oh well.

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