Ok its Friday. Sasuke slept in his bathroom.

Sasuke sat on the bathroom floor staring at the blank walls as his mind repeated the same words over and over again.

(Nothing Nothing Nothing. I am Nothing Nothing Nothing. He is Nothing Nothing Nothing. I feel Nothing Nothing.)

This deep delusion of Nothingness flooded Sasuke s head. He was trying to forget about all the bad stuff. But really it was just making it worse. He remembered how the whole nothing thing started. He remembered who taught him to do that and why. It was the day he fell in love with Naruto.

FlashBack::::Sasuke-13 Naruto-12 (almost 13)

"Does it hurt?" Naruto slowly lifted Sasuke s sleeve. Sasuke stared at Naruto and just shook his head.

"It sure looks like it would hurt." Sasuke continued to stare at the blonde. Sasuke knew Naruto hated it when he did stuff like this to himself. He felt like crying. He could feel it pushing its way through his stomach, but he swallowed it down and let it pass.

Naruto stood up and signaled for Sasuke to follow. They both walked through Naruto s apartment. Luckily Minato wasn t there. If he was he would be throwing a fit and asking Sasuke all these questions you only hear in a court room.

The two entered the small bathroom. Sasuke settled the toilet lid down and sat on it. He rested his arm on the sink. He looked at Naruto again as he rummaged through the medicine cabinet. He felt it again. The swelling in his stomach. He laid his head back against the wall and closed his eyes. He didn t want to see Naruto when the disappointment was so obviously displayed on his face.

Naruto pulled out a bottle of clear liquid. He grabbed Sasuke s arm and placed it completely across the sink. He held the bottle steady and let it drip down the scraped flesh.

Sasuke s eyes shot open and he jerked his arm back. Naruto stopped pouring and looked at Sasuke.

"Sorry." Naruto placed the bottle back into the cabinet and grabbed the bandaged.

Sasuke stared at his arm. (Peroxide. Not used to that burn yet.) Naruto wrapped Sasuke s arm and then sat on the edge of the tub.

"Sasuke? Why do you do that?"

Sasuke pulled his sleeve down and then looked into Naruto s eyes.

"I don t know."

"You can tell me. We are friends. Remember?"

"I know that."

" So tell me."

"There's nothing to tell."

"Ugh! God! You drive me crazy!"

Naruto got up and walked out of the bathroom. Sasuke absolutely wanted to die now. It s hard to hear stuff like that now. He slowly got up and took a deep breath. He needed to put on an act now. He needed to seem happy for Naruto.

He walked down the hall and up the stares to Naruto s room. He walked in and saw the blonde laying on his bed. He went over and laid down next to him. He kept his eyes on the ceiling.

"I'm sorry. I honestly don t know why I do it. Its just Itachi does it when he and my dad get into fights. It just calms him down. I thought it would calm me down too." Naruto and Sasuke looked at each other at the same time.

"So you do it because Itachi does it?"

"Yeah and it just helps with stuff. Like when my mom and dad yell at each other or at Itachi or me, I get really extremely sad and tense. Its like all the muscles in my body tighten and it feels like my body is going to explode. But when I cut it all goes away. That s all it is. It just takes the pain away. Its that simple."

"No! Its not that simple!"

Naruto shot up and looked at Sasuke. He was half way to tears.

"Sasuke! You re hurting yourself. What happens if you cut to deep? What happens if you cut a vein? Don t you see that? You can kill yourself by doing this! So could Itachi! You could die! I don t want to loose you!"

Sasuke was in shock. He had absolutely no words to respond with. The only word that could come into his thoughts was sorry . But he couldn t get it to fall out of his mouth. It was being eaten by the swelling in his stomach. It was coming. He could feel the tears falling from the brim of his eyes. He could taste the nip of the salt water relaxing on his lips.

"Sasuke. Please stop. I don t like it when you do that. It makes me feel broken inside."

Sasuke watched the tears fall from the blue eyes across from him. He counted the seconds it took for the flow to restart.

"I can help you. You just have to listen to me." Sasuke heard the words and responded in his head but the vocals were still out of commission

"Do you remember when I had to go to therapy after my mom died?" Sasuke nodded his head straining every tensed muscle in his neck.

"The therapist told me about this thing I could do, to make me not wish I was dead all the time."

The word dead seemed to echo in his head over and over.

"In your head you just repeat Nothing over and over again. Just say I feel Nothing Nothing Nothing . It works a little sometimes." They both stared at each other for a few seconds and began to laugh.

"Are you serious?"

"Look all I know is that it made me not cry all the time."

"It sounds like shit."

"I know. But at least try it for me."

The fog in Sasuke s head cleared a little.

"I will."

They both chuckled again as they wiped their tears.

"God Naruto! We need to go somewhere. You got me really down."

"Lets go to Kiba s. He can make anyone happy."

End Flashback

There was a quiet knock on the bathroom door.

"Sasuke?" It was Itachi. "Are you still in there?"

"Uh yeah. Don t come in. I'm changing."

"I just wanted to make sure you packed your stuff. You have to leave tomorrow."

"Y-yeah. I ll get on it."

"Ok."

Naruto-Ok. This part is on Saturday

"So are you nervous?"

Naruto looked up at Kakashi who was standing at the end of the counter.

"About what?"

"ANBU. You leave tomorrow."

"Oh No. Not really. Kiba and Shikamaru will be there. And Gaara is a freshman adviser there too. What time do we leave?"

"Eh Probably around noon. It doesn t take that long to get there."

"Ok."

"Oh and have you talked to your dad lately?"

"Yeah, just last night. Why?"

"No reason. Just making sure you are keeping in touch."

There was a small pause in the conversation before Kakashi interrupted the silence.

"So Are you Ok with you know going to ANBU with Sasuke?"

Naruto froze. He was trying to erase every single fragment of Sasuke from his brain.-It wasn t working-

"Sure."

"Really?"

"Because I-"

"You know I still have a few things to pack. So I'm gonna get to that."

Naruto walked away to his room. In all honesty the thought of being in the same school with Sasuke again absolutely terrified him.

Ok that s Chapter 7. Sorry that its really spacey and UN-interesting. THANKS FOR READING!
KJ