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Chapter 5: Door Slammed Shut
"C'mon, it's just one day skipping school, no one's gonna care, they'll understand!" Naruto jogged down the street behind Sasuke who hobbled along on one crutch with his backpack over his other shoulder. His wounds were still fresh; a weekend wasn't enough to make them better.
"I shouldn't have to explain this to you," he growled at the blonde, "if I don't go to school they'll just come to my house and "ask" me why I didn't come to school…"
Sasuke's head snapped to the side to glare at Naruto. "Why are you helping me?"
Naruto carefully took Sasuke's backpack off of his shoulder and threw it over his so that he was carrying both.
"Because you're a dumbass." He parroted. "Sasuke, just turn around and go back home, no one's going to come to the house and you'll feel much better tomorrow." Sasuke sighed and shook his head but maneuvered back around and let Naruto lead him back home.
Sasuke sat on the couch in a huff with a mug of chai tea in his hand when Naruto came in with the last of the board games he could find in the house.
"What are we going to do then?" Sasuke asked. Naruto sat on the floor on the other side of the coffee table, leaning his head on the edge of the table.
"I don't know, I thought we'd just hang out, maybe get to know each other since we'll still be roommates for five months."
"No." Sasuke tried to stand up and leave but just as he put weight on his injured leg it buckled and he fell back down.
"You couldn't get away if you wanted to." Naruto chuckled.
Videogames, board games, television, movies, conversation, all sorts of tortures Sasuke was subjected to. He listened to Naruto and the blonde listened to him.
Sasuke looked over at the couch where Naruto lay sleeping; he dozed out in the middle of Iron Man at eleven o' clock at night. Sasuke switched the TV off and got up slowly both to keep his leg from hurting and to keep from waking Naruto up. Sasuke smiled at his successful efforts once he got to the stairs, he'd been quiet so Naruto wouldn't be tired in the morning.
No, I just don't want to have to talk to that loud guy anymore if I wake him up. Sasuke shook his head until any kind thoughts were gone, I must be really tired, he thought.
Suddenly his foot caught on the stair, Sasuke reached out and caught the rail to support himself. It was a close call but he eventually made it up the stairs. He hurried down the hall to his room and tore his shirt from his body to see that his side was bleeding again. To make sure that nothing else was wrong he removed the rest of his clothing.
There were bruises covering his head, face, and arms. His femur was still fractured and of course the small knife cut in his side was bleeding in addition to the fact that his muscles were sore all over. After patching up his side Sasuke collapsed onto his bed, he stared straight ahead at the ceiling. He thought back to Friday when Naruto may or may not have saved his life.
"Let someone help me huh?" Sasuke's eyes blurred over until hot tears spilled silently out the corners, "If I did that… if I did that I'd have to tell them everything. I couldn't do that."
Suddenly Sasuke raked his arm across his face, ridding himself of the tears. He frowned. "Why should I let that guy change me at all? I just need to survive until he's moved out, I like being alone anyway," Sasuke smiled softly and rolled onto his side, wincing at the pain, "when I'm alone no one can hurt me, no one can make fun of me." He tossed onto his back and threw his arms up in the air.
"My paradise is the dark and the night, anyone else who tries to get is nothing but a spark. An extinguishable light trying to disrupt my dark paradise."