DISCLAIMER : The usual. I don't own Naruto.

WARNING : Boy x boy pairing, swearing, mental illness (panic attack, anxiety, PTSD). I'm terribly sorry if it triggers you in any way. Viewer discretion is advised.

This chapter will be on Naruto's perspective! We'll see more about his side of the story. Oh yeah, and some more plot progression;)

Enjoy! xx

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The Island

Part 3


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The blond was standing on the middle of Ginza, Tokyo. The traffic was full as usual, and people were roaming in the streets. They didn't seemed to notice him, the blond man that was standing with torn clothes without any shoes. Naruto looked around, up, and down, making sure of where he was. He started to walk forward, before suddenly seeing a figure way in front of him. It was his godfather. He was grinning as usual, waving a stick of popsicle at him. The tanned man instinctively run to him, crashing into the wave of people. He had to meet him. He had to talk to him.

The blond didn't look to where he was going, and he crashed his face to a street light pole in the road. Ouch!

Just as Naruto wiped his face, he realised his teeth were crumbling down to the floor. Oh no. What's going on!?

He tried to close his mouth, but he could feel his teeth plucking out from his gum, and he decided to spat it all out. With trembling hands, he touched his mouth and cheeks. Shit. All of his teeth were gone. In shock, he sat down on the middle of the busy street of Ginza.

Suddenly the scene changed, and he was sitting down on a chair. Wait a second. This is.. an airplane seat.

He was back on Flight 150 to LA.

Sasuke sat next to him on the window seatand Naruto tried screaming at him, telling him to get out now, but Sasuke just sat there ignoring him. It seemed that whatever Naruto said didn't have any effect!

"Get out! Now! This plane will crash!" He tried warning the rest of the passengers and flight attendants, but they couldn't hear him. They just continued doing their mundane activities.

The blond could hear the thunder roaring outside of the plan. Oh no. Not again.

Suddenly, Naruto felt his body dropped from thousands of feet high above sea level. The thunder stroke the plane again, and it split into two. It was horrifying. His head was spinning around, and the feeling of the wind hitting his face was surreal. No. No. Stop. Naruto was screaming and screaming, his hand was trying to find something to grab so he could calm down. No! Stop falling, dammit! Not again!

The journey down to the ocean was incredibly rough, and he felt his whole body lunged to the back of his seat. He felt his back slammed backwards, and it stung. The rain hit his face, the wind was so strong it hurts his front part of the body. The whole body of the plane was twisting around, and the only thing keeping them in place was their seatbelt.

He couldn't move, he couldn't run away, and there was only one direction which they were all going. Down to the ocean. The sound of thunder, rain, screams, shouts, and burning fire were all mixing up on Naruto's head. Help!

And once more, the plane slammed into the surface of the sea.

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Naruto startled himself till he woke up from his sleep, holding the warm heat source next to him. His eyes was wide open in terror, and the blond's breathing was speeding up. He even grabbed the warm heat source firmly, in shock, as the feeling of being dropped from the sky felt so freaking real.

Wait.

A warm heat source? What could—

"Ow!"

Something jab Naruto's jaw. Shit, that hurt! The blond forced his eye to open, to see an angry looking Uchiha next to him.

Ah.

D-Did he just cuddled Sasuke?

No wonder the kitten looked pissed.

"What the hell?" he rubbed his throbbing jaw. Naruto received a solid jab from Sasuke's elbow. Ouch.

"I'm the one who's supposed to ask that, you moron! You were cuddling me," His tone sound disgusted, but there was a trace of pink on his cheeks. So he was not so disgusted. That's a relief.

Sasuke Uchiha was such a tsundere.

"Jeez, I didn't do it intentionally or something, I'm sorry," the blond continued to rub his jaw. It seemed to be bruising.

The raven narrowed his eyes, and then he laid back on the cold ground.

"Let me sleep again. Don't disturb me," he grumbled as he rested his head down on the ground.

Naruto peeked at the surrounding outside of their shelter, and it seemed that the sun was probably high up. "It's probably afternoon, Sasuke. We should explore the island or something."

He received Sasuke's coldest glare yet. Wow.

"Okay, okay. Lesson learnt. Don't bother a sleeping Sasuke," Naruto muttered under his breath. "Just, let me, y'know," He tried to signal Sasuke to scoot out for a moment so he could get out. The place was pretty small.

"Just walk over me."

"Okay."

Naruto tried to stand up, but the ceiling weren't that high. So with his back bent oddly, he slowly moved his right foot, careful not to touch the angry raven. God. This man was definitely not a morning person. Next time, he should sleep on the outer side and let Sasuke sleep on the inside.

He hold the low ceiling to regain his balance and moved his left foot. Ah. He was finally out of their shelter. Sasuke already closed his eyes, and his breathing was steady. That raven was already asleep again? Well that was quick.

The blond stretched his arms up and breathed in the fresh air. He needed to walk around to try to shake off that nightmare. It still frightened him until now. Naruto shivered and crossed his arms once more, as he tried to walk around the place.

That feeling felt surreal. It was a dream, yes, but it felt like the whole plane crash accident was repeated all over again. Naruto tried his ultimate best to remain positive, like he always do, but he didn't know how long he would stand this. He was sure Sasuke was feeling the same way inside too. There was no doubt that the two men were suffering PTSD. The tanned man knew both of them were trying to shake it off and hide from each other.

The blond swatted away some of the vegetation that blocked his way, and planted his feet to the ground while he was drowning in his thoughts. He made sure he remembered where their shelter was. Okay. That way. Take note of that.

He board that plane, hoping to reach LA and search for a job there or something. He wanted a new start. He wanted to overcome his past depression that was caused by his godfather's death. The tanned man stopped for a moment and closed his eyes shut.

Jiraiya.

The blond missed him.

He clutched his hand to his chest and looked up to the sky. The view was blocked by the tall trees above him.

You perverted dude, he smiled as he thought that to himself. Are you looking now? I'm fucking stuck here. Is it a punishment or something because I'm running away?

A single tear dropped from his eye, and he quickly wiped it away.

At least help me or something, that way I'll know if you're still watching me.

After pondering by himself, he decided to move again. He just need to wonder away for now, just to clear his mind or something. Of course this whole thing was unintentional, how he and Sasuke got stuck in an island and all. But hey, this place was not so bad. At least the view was alright.

Okay, Naruto was forcing his positiveness way too much.

He tried to lift up Sasuke's spirit by telling him that they'll get out, but now, Naruto wasn't that sure himself. They were fucking stranded in an fucking island, for God's sake!

Haha. Shit. Stuck in a freaking island in the middle of nowhere.

Subconsciously, Naruto punched the nearby tree. His fist was still quivering seconds after he punched a hole on it. The blond's face was covered in nervous sweat as he felt himself breaking down.

No.

How the hell were they going to get out of here!? They spent already two nights in this bloody island, and the insanity was starting to seep in inside him. Even if they did get out of here, how would the press handled the news? What if, they made Naruto the terrorist or something for keeping an Uchiha hostage!? That man, or maybe his company, was incredibly famous and rich.

The blond shook his head hard, grabbing his skull, trying to clear that thinking out of his head.

Don't listen to that shit, Naruto. Of course they won't see you as a terrorist or whatever. You're just a good, Japanese citizen who planned to go to LA for a new job opportunity! It's fine!

His other side of mind was telling him a whole other thought. Nobody knows you're here, Naruto. You're going to die here. And everyone in the world will move on with their life. You won't last long. You're going to die soon.

He tried to steady his breathing and clear his mind.

Don't you dare have another panic attack here! He screamed to himself on his own head. Tears were slowly dripping from his eyes. No, Naruto! Gather yourself together!

He chuckled once, and slumped to the ground as he pressed his palm to his chest.

Breathe! Breathe!

Naruto's breathing was unsteady as he went into his panic mode.

You will get out of this island, his inner voice screaming to wake him up. You will go back home, safe and sound.

He was still panting and clutching into his chest. The blond pounded his chest to force more air to fill his lung. God, it hurts!

Naruto!

Pick yourself up! C'mon!

The blond bit his lips hard, so hard it almost tear apart.

Stop!

He couldn't!

Stop!

H-he just couldn't stop!

Remember, his inner voice tried to calm his panic down. You're not alone.

His rapid breathing began to slow down, and tears were slowly stop coming out.

Yes. You're not alone this time.

Shutting his eyes and taking a deep, big breath, Naruto whispered slowly.

"Yes," he whimpered under his breath. "There's Sasuke. I'm not alone. There's Sasuke. There's Sasuke."

He slowly opened his eyes, and his vision was a bit blurry at first, but it focused after a few moments. Naruto steadied his breathing, and realised his was on his knees. How long was he trapped in his panic attack?

The sudden realisation hit him. Oh my God. Did he just.. did he just recover from that all by himself?

Naruto never recovered from his panic attack alone. Usually.. there was Jiraiya, or his teacher Iruka. Or maybe his friend, Sakura. And they helped him a lot. But today, he finally beat it alone. He was actually feeling like crap, his eyes were probably swollen and ugly, and he had no idea how he was going to tell Sasuke about his shitty looking face. But he did felt better. He beat it alone. Naruto finally did it, he recovered from a panic attack all by himself.

Wow. Somehow, he felt incredibly proud.

Naruto wiped his face with his shirt. Ugh. His T-shirt was so freaking filthy. It felt disgustingly dirty when he pressed it into his face.

And his smell. Oh God. This was what, day three? And he smelled like a dead fish. He wished there was clear water somewhere around here.

That reminded him of something. He should check the beach. Who knows if some kind of code was left there. He moved his body to the direction of the beach. Thankfully, Naruto was good on finding his way back, so it shouldn't be a problem.

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The beach was empty. They're SOS sign was still there, a bit disoriented. He fixed it, of course, and now he was carrying those bunch of coconuts back to the shelter. Sasuke needed to eat, too. He just needed to balance those fruits on his palm and safely made it back to their shelter.

Ah, there it was.

Sasuke was still in the same spot. Naruto stopped walking for a few moment to observe the raven from the distance.

The Uchiha was folding his knees up to his chin and curled his arms around it. He looked like shit, to be honest. His lips seemed to be quivering, and he didn't look okay.

He quickly walked to the shelter, carefully balancing the coconuts that he carried from the beach. When Sasuke saw Naruto walk closer, he wiped his eyes discreetly and tried to change his facial expression. The blond knew that both of them were trying their absolute best to conceal their emotions from one another. Naruto didn't want Sasuke to know about his earlier incident, either. The blond put down the fruits in between them, and he sat next to Sasuke.

"Food," he said to the raven.

Without changing any other words, because they were starving and thirsty, they cracked the coconuts violently. Once it was opened, they dunked their hands inside, and plopped the contents into their mouths.

Ah, that felt great.

They ate in silence, all they could hear were the sound of chewing, gobbling and swallowing. Naruto cupped the fruit up and drank the rest of its water. He made sure that every bit and every drop was devoured by him. He was damn hungry.

He missed ramen.

Oh shit. The wonderful broth. The magnificent noodles. Topped with sliced pork on top and-

"Gaah!" He shouted in frustration. That startled Sasuke so much that the raven almost spilt his supper.

"The hell?" The pale man's voice was a bit croaky.

"H-Haha!" He nervously laughed in return. "I, uh, haha never mind."

"Moron," Sasuke mumbled after Naruto replied him, and continued eating his coconut. Even Sasuke was gobbling it as if there was no tomorrow.

They left two fruits behind, and sat in silence. Naruto glanced to Sasuke, who's hair looked like as if it was blown off by a hurricane. The pale man's face looked dirty, his eyes were bloodshot red. Not to mention the dark circles beneath his eyes were becoming worse.

Naruto himself probably looked the same.

The two men smelled like shit. It was incredibly humid, and they couldn't take it. Naruto slid his shirt up and remained topless. Sasuke did the same after a few moments. The raven even teared up his black pants, leaving it hanging just above his knees. The blond felt like only wearing his boxers, but he felt kinda weird to be stripping in front of a very good looking man. But the heat was unbearable. He gave up, and took of his jeans. Sasuke gave him a look, but then the raven but his lower lip moved his gaze away. Both of them remained silent until Naruto spoke up.

"We should explore the island," Naruto said.

"Why?"

"Well," he paused for a few seconds, "I feel like I'm going to be insane if we're just going to sit here miserably." He stood up. "You coming?"

Sasuke stared at him, and silently stood up. The two walked to the direction of the beach.

The air was fresher here, the scent of the sea was very strong.

They sat on the same spot as yesterday as they stare at the blue sky.

"What's your brother like?" Naruto asked Sasuke, and he laid his body down to the sand.

The raven did the same thing before replying him. "A prodigy, a genius. He's pretty much the same as me, but he can be more ruthless at times," Naruto gave him a surprised look. "Protective of me. Too protective, if I might add."

"I see," the blond moved his gaze from Sasuke's face to the sky. He folded his arms to the back of his head.

They could hear the sound of splashing waves and birds chirping from a distance. The two pretty much spent the day exchanging light conversation, or remaining silent as they stared at the sky.

Naruto pondered as he watched the cloud. A few days ago, they were flying up there, and the plane crashes down to the ocean. How the hell did they survived again? Oh yeah, the chakras.

"Your affinity are lightning and fire?"

Sasuke tilted his head so it faces Naruto. "Hn."

"Show me the lightning one."

The raven raised his eyebrow.

"Why?"

"I don't know," Naruto said, "Just wanna see it." He sat up slowly and stared at Sasuke who was still laying down on the sand. "C'mon."

The Uchiha stared at him with a suspicious glare, before agreeing to show him lightning. Sasuke sat up and spoke to Naruto.

"We should move away from the water, then."

Naruto glanced at how they were very close to the sea water, and nodded to Sasuke.

"Okay! We can go.. over there," he pointed at a spot far away from the water.

Both Sasuke and him stood up and walked over to that area. Sasuke then focused the chakra to his palm, closing his eyes. His right hand was holding to his left wrist tightly, and his left palm was opening up, probably to unleash the lightning. All of a sudden, blue and purple light started to form around the raven's left hand, and Naruto could hear the electric buzz from it. Oh shit. That was incredibly cool!

Sasuke ran up to a nearby tree and slammed his hand to it, splitting the tree into two. The large vegetation broke into two, and it fell down to the ground with a large bang. Of course, the two men moved away merely seconds before it slammed harshly to the ground.

"Sasuke..," said Naruto, "Oh my God! That's so cool!"

The raven was panting, and his electric chakra was gone. It only lasted for a while, but the result was incredible.

"Heh," The Uchiha gave him a smug look.

"Oho! Are you challenging me?"

"Maybe," The paler man raised his eyebrows and shrugged his shoulders.

"I'll show you the power of wind!" Naruto rubbed his palm together and flexed his arms. Sasuke rolled his eyes, as if that was unnecessary. Hey, of course he needed to stretch first!

He tried to recall his old teacher's words. Okay, stretch your palm like this..

Naruto opened his right palm and curled the fingers, just like how Sasuke did it. He focused his energy to it.

Alright.. Here we go..

A few seconds after that, a gust of wind appeared merely centimetres above his right palm. It swirled slowly at first, but it sped up after Naruto added more chakra to it. It was almost like a mini whirlwind. Once it was big enough, he charged for the tree next to him, and slammed his palm to it.

Bam. That's how you do it!

His wind chakra broke the first few layers of the tree, and Naruto still pushed his palm even further. Oh. It stopped midway. The tree still stood where it was.

A snort could be heard behind him.

"Hey!" He pointed his finger to the raven. "What're you laughing at!?"

"I win," he stated.

Naruto crossed his arms in protest, but he was actually right.

"Tch. Fine." He admitted his defeat. This was unusual of him, but hey, Sasuke did cut a tree down.

The two decided to go back to their shelter as soon as they heard thunder rolling in the distance. Naruto glanced up and saw dark clouds forming around them. They shared nervous glances together, but remained silent. Of course, Naruto and Sasuke were reminded of their tragic events a few days ago. As they started to walk back, Naruto realises his palm was quivering. He hugged his own body as the wind blew stronger, and both him and Sasuke were topless now.

"L-Let's hurry up," his teeth were clattering. Sasuke nodded to him, and the raven crossed his arms across his chest, feeling cold just like the blond. When Sasuke did that, the Uchiha's muscles popped out, and it was toned nicely. Naruto bit his lips and decided to look away. The two fastened their pace as their surroundings were getting darker and darker.

"Ugh!"

The wind was really getting stronger. What was going on with this place anyway? The amount of thunderstorms were not normal!

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The two were already inside their shelter, their teeth clattering and their bodies shivering hard from the extreme cold. They took off their other clothing earlier that day, and when they got to their shelter, it was already soaked wet from the heavy rain. Well that was a bummer.

Sasuke created a mini fire just like yesterday, but the show-off competition they had just now had somehow drained his energy. And now they were stuck in the cold.

"F-Fuck," Sasuke cursed as he wrapped his arms tighter to his body.

"S-Shit!" The blond cursed too, following Sasuke. Suddenly he thought of something.

"S-S-Sasuke," He called out. The raven turned his head to him. "H-Hug me."

"T-The f-fuck!?" Sasuke gave him a very surprised glare.

"T-Trust me," Naruto tried to talk but his body was trembling so hard from his lack of clothing. "B-Body heat. S-Share. S-So we c-can sleep."

Sasuke stared him in disbelief, but he was shivering and his teeth were clattering. The raven bit his lower lip, and stared at Naruto. The blond guessed the man had to agreed to it. Another lightning was heard from the distance and its light zapped the surrounding, giving Naruto a better look at the miserably cold Uchiha next to him. His hair was damp from the rain, water were dripping from his bangs.

They slowly scoot over closer, and Naruto opened his arms to the raven. Sasuke hugged him tight and Naruto did the same. Once their wet, cold bodies touched, the blond could feel the tremor that the other man was having. Damn, Sasuke was probably feeling the same thing. The raven's body was just as equally cold as his. Naruto slid his hands to his slippery back, and the Uchiha slid his hands to Naruto's neck. Sasuke buried his face to the blond's shoulder, and he could feel his warm breath on his shoulder.

Another thunder stroke, and the wind blew stronger.

"U-Ugh," Naruto was trembling when it blew to them. Both he and Sasuke tightened their grip to each other's bodies. After a while, the heat from Sasuke's body was starting to ease him down. It seemed to be the same with Sasuke.

They slowly moved position without losing their grip on each other. Naruto was on the outer side and Sasuke slept in the inner side of their shelter. Naruto felt incredibly tired, he wanted to rest. Sasuke finally moved his head from Naruto's neck and stared at the blond. It was warmer now. The raven's eyelids looked heavy.

"Sleep, Sasuke," Naruto hummed to Sasuke's ear.

"Hn."

Without more words exchanged, they drifted into a deep sleep with the rain still pouring outside.

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BAM!

It was getting into a habit, isn't it?

Naruto would subconsciously cuddle Sasuke in the morning and this bastard would punch him in the chin.

"Sasukehh! It was still bruising!" He whined in protest.

"Don't. Touch. Me."

"We were hugging and cuddling last night!"

"That was an exception," Sasuke insisted. "We needed to share body heat."

Their condition right now was basically crap. It was day four, and they were extremely tired. Eye bags, worse. Skin, scorched. Body odor? Ugh. Hair? Greasy. Body? Thinner.

Naruto's body and soul was screaming and begging for a good bowl of miso ramen.

Oh Kami-sama! Help us!

The blond sat up with a grunt, then he rubbed his bruised chin. This man could be an absolute ass at times. Okay, most of the times. The good part here was that he had no nightmare last night. Was it because he and Sasuke was hugging while they were asleep?

"I'm gonna explore," Naruto said. "You're gonna sleep again?"

Sasuke hummed something and then turned his back into a different direction. The raven acted like a kitten at times. Maybe he should call him Nekosuke some other times.

Naruto stood up and stared at his oh so dirty body. It was almost disgusting. Twigs, mud, all were mixing up in his bare upper body. Oh boy. The blond look around again.

Hmm.. I've never visited that part.

So he moved there, carefully parting away the vegetation that was covering his path. Meh. It looked the same to Naruto. He continued his walk while he observed the area.

He suddenly stepped into something hard. Eh?

Naruto tapped his foot several times to it. Hmm? It was definitely not dirt. He scoot down and used his bare hands to wipe away the dirt and grass that covered it.

It was a wooden trapdoor.

The blond's heart skipped a beat. This was an abandoned, deserted island but why was there a trap door here!?

He used his long fingernails to try to pop the thing open, since there was no handle in this thing. Ugh, damn. His right palm was quivering because of his bruise. Oh yeah. He punched a tree yesterday. Naruto puffed his breath to it and wiggled it for a moment, and the proceeded to try to open this thing. It seemed that no one opened this for a long time.

"Ah!"

He broke one of his nails.

Fuck it.

After fiddling with the trapdoor for a while, it finally cracked open slowly. Naruto used the rest of his hands to force it open. An erie creak was heard when Naruto finally opened the mysterious trapdoor. He was stunned of the content inside, and he stared at it for the longest time.

What the fuck!?

I gotta tell Sasuke!

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Heyy! I'm sorry for the cliffhanger! I'll try to update as soon as I can!

So yeah, at this point, they were alone in the island, stuck eating coconuts. The anxiety was starting to creep them.

About the dream that Naruto was having, well, I searched that usually dreams where you lose your tooth means you are stressing over something or having an anxiety. Naruto was trying to act proud, confident and positive around Sasuke, because he knew Sasuke might be in a worse condition if he didn't try to motivate him. Sadly, Naruto has difficulties to motivate himself at times. He managed to overcome his anxiety and panic attack by remembering that he was not alone in this situation.

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Happy holidays guys! Love, myfavoriteramen.