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I'm already asking …
"Sasuke, after you killed Itachi or whatever, what did you plan to do?" Naruto folded his arms beneath his head. "Like, how did you want to live."
Sasuke sighed quietly, his eyes closed, head rising and falling on his lover's stomach. "I never thought about it." He murmured wearily. "It never mattered much. I guess part of me thought I wouldn't survive it anyway, so I didn't care."
It had been years since Sasuke had returned from Sound, half-dead and asking desperately for Naruto before he collapsed on the threshold of Konoha. They didn't think he was going to survive whatever Orochimaru had done to him (and he never did tell him what that was), but with Naruto at his side day and night, he pulled through, admitting that he had given up on destroying his brother and confessing that there hadn't been a moment when he hadn't missed Naruto.
They had been inseparable ever since.
"So what now?" Naruto's fingers swam through dark hair, gently tugging at persistent knots. "What do you plan to do now?"
Sasuke's arms wrapped around him, and he shifted to press against him, head on his shoulder. "I plan to stay here just like this."
"Sasuke, I'm serious!" The energetic boy squirmed against him, trying to hold him close and push him away at once. "What do you want to do now? How do you want to live? How-?"
Sasuke left the beginning of his question hang alone, catching his lips with his own. "With you, Naruto," he whispered, dark eyes clear and honest. "I want to live it with you."