Sasuke sat on his bed in a sullen trance, staring down at the phone in his hand as if waiting for someone to contact him, he didn't know who, but he was waiting. His mind wandered to the events that took place this morning between him and Naruto, he didn't know why he reacted so strongly, it was very unlike him. He had forgotten about their friendship a long time ago, assuming that Naruto was through with him and he became bitter. He didn't try to salvage it either, he wasn't going to be the one making the effort, the ball was in Naruto's park.

The 'drip drop' sound that was Sasuke's text tone broke him out of his trance. He looked down and boy, that wasn't a name he had seen on his phone in a while. Naruto. His chest tightened in a myriad of emotions, he didn't want to look at what he had to say, but his hand moved on it's own and before he knew it he was looking at a single blue box

What the heck happened today? Sasuke closed his eyes and contemplated responding or not, he decided the first one.

Nothing. That response might have been not even responding at all, but that's all he wanted to say.

Bullshit, you freaked out today and I want to know why.

Sasuke couldn't respond, he didn't want to spill out his heart again like a fool. No, he was not about to do that.

It's nothing, stop texting me. And with that Sasuke turned off the screen. It wasn't until moments later it lit up again, but this time Naruto was calling him. He quickly declined the call. Seconds later it lit up again, Sasuke declined. Third time, Sasuke stared at the screen and sighed before answering.

"What is it Naruto?"

"We need to talk, Sasuke"

"Why do you suddenly want to start talking with me now? Do I have to storm off and yell at you for you to even think about contacting me?"

"What are you talking about Sasuke? What's wrong with you?"

"If I told you, would you care?"

"What the hell dude? Seriously?"

"Don't fucking call me that like I'm your friend"

"...what?"

"You heard me"

Naruto went silent, pondering what his next words should be. After a while he said;

"Sasuke...come to my office tonight. We need to talk."

The soft white noise that was accompanying Sasuke's ear from the silence over the line stopped and his phone lit up again. Naruto hung up on him. Now he was left to sit in silence, allowing his thoughts to run rampant with fury.

The evening sun started to fall and Sasuke was still sitting in his room, Sakura had come to the door several different times to try and get him out to talk but he refused. He continuously fought with himself, trying to figure out whether or not he was going to go to Naruto's office. His pride wouldn't let him go, especially since Naruto had not asked him, but told him to go to his office. His defiance was out of this world.

Almost as if his thoughts had been read, his text-tone went off; it was Naruto.

Are you almost here?

You didn't give me a specific time. Sasuke responded dryly.

I said tonight, it is tonight.

Sun hasn't set. He was trying to stall this as long as he could.

Doesn't matter, just come over.

Sasuke turned off his phone after that. He conceded defeat and once again said "Why not?" Maybe it wouldn't end up like his other "Why not?"

Naruto's head shot up as he heard the door to his office open. He was almost too afraid to look at the door way in fear that the person in the frame would not be Sasuke, but his doubts were denied as his eyes fell upon Sasuke's lean build standing in the doorway.

"You came!" the blonde exclaimed.

Sasuke scoffed "Obviously. What do you need, Naruto?"

Naruto sat back in his chair and put his arms behind his head. "I told you I wanted to talk"

Sasuke got slightly annoyed with how laid back and leisurely Naruto was about this whole situation, that was typical of him though, he never picked up well on social cues. "About what?" Sasuke bit back.

"Sasuke, stop acting stupid. You know what I'm talking about...What happened earlier on today and why you're acting like this towards me. That's what I want to talk about" The room went tense after Naruto spoke.

"I don't know, Naruto, why don't you ask yourself that question."

Naruto glared at the raven "Stop playing those mind games with me Sasuke. Cut the bullshit and tell me what the hell is wrong."

Sasuke glared back, with just as much, if not more intensity than Naruto's. "What right do you have to ask me what's wrong?"

"I am your friend Sasuke, isn't that a good enough right?"

The air in the room went ice cold after that sentence and Naruto felt it, he visibly tensed up and looked to where Sasuke was standing. His figure was stiff and tensed, his hands balled into fists at his sides, shaking slightly with pure anger. His eyes, wide with disbelief, forlorn, and fury. A myriad of emotions swirling around like waves in stormy sea. His face grew dark like the sky in a tornado and stayed perfectly emotionless. Paper thin lips pursed in anger, visibly twitching as Sasuke worked to hold back the fire roaring inside of him right now.

"Friend?"

That one word shot into Naruto's heart like a knife and he knew exactly what was going on, before he had time to say his blunder of an apology , his thoughts came to a halt as Sasuke ghosted across the floor to his desk. His feet did not seem to move as his long cape-coat covered them, and his body stood still and rigid as he moved, making him appear as if he were levitating. Naruto leaned back further in his chair to try to get away from the apparition approaching him.

"You're my friend, huh? Is that what you call this? Friends?"

Naruto shivered at Sasuke's murderous tone directed straight at him "I-I'm sorry Sasuke..." he stuttered nervously, avoiding eye contact at all costs. He felt that if he looked into those ardent eyes, he would burst into flames at the spot.

"It's too late for you to apologize, Naruto." Sasuke felt himself about to explode with anger "It's too late for you to do like you usually do and forget it like it never happened." Before he knew it, the words he had been holding in for the last 15 minutes came bursting out "You fucking left me!"

The look of shock on Naruto's face almost stopped Sasuke in his tracks, but he kept on. "When you became Hokage you became a dick along with it." Naruto's mouth opened but Sasuke silenced him with an erect finger. "You just ditched me and stomped whatever was left of our friendship in the dirt and then acted like nothing happened. Suddenly Hinata and your work became everything and you had no time for anyone else. Not even a simple text, no you fucking forgot about me."

"Sasuke..." That was all Naruto could say at this moment "I'm sorry...I didn't know. I'm sorry." He suddenly found himself feeling very weak and almost scared like a child in front of his angry father. "I'm sorry for calling you over here. You can leave if you want to."

Sasuke shook his head "What's happened to you?" he closed his eyes and sighed "If you were the Naruto I knew many years ago you would have never said that. You would have made me stay, not beg me to leave like you are right now."

Naruto sat up defensively in his chair "I'm not begging you to leave. I said if you want to, but the way you're acting right now, yeah, I'd actually like you to leave. So get out of my office, Sasuke."

Sasuke glared at him with daring eyes, his frame shaking with anger building up like steam in a pot. Their defiance taking shape into physical beings and butting heads right between them. The lid exploded. "Make me."

The ice in the room melted as flames engulfed Naruto, his defiant spirit flaring up like a wildfire. "Excuse me?" He stood up slowly and squared his shoulders defensively "You are in my office Sasuke, you're the one invading my personal property and I'm not asking you, I'm telling you to leave."

Sasuke crossed his arms and looked at Naruto with amusement "You're actually growing some balls now huh, Naruto?"

"Get out." Naruto forced through clenched teeth, his fists were shaking at his sides. "Get out, Sasuke. I'm warning you."

"You're the one that wanted me over here, Naruto, why do you want me to leave so soon?"

"I'm not arguing with you anymore Sasuke, you need to go."

"But why? Don't you want to know what's wrong with me?"

"I swear to God Sasuke, I'm not playing anymore"

"That's a first"

After Sasuke growled that, Naruto's cap blew and he stormed over to Sasuke, quickly grabbing his shirt and yanking him towards him. "Leave, now." He stared into Sasuke's face which was emotionless and cold, not a single word to be read on it. Their eyes gleamed with defiance and their spirits danced around each other, ready to fight.

"Not until we're done talking." Sasuke spoke coolly, brushing off Naruto's anger like a fly.

Naruto let go of Sasuke's shirt and flung his hands into the air "What more is there to talk about Sasuke? You've already told me what's wrong and I said that I'm sorry! All you're doing now is belittling me and I'm not going to listen to it anymore, especially when you're in my office."

Sasuke took a deep breath and closed his eyes, as soon as he opened his mouth to fight back he heard light tapping on the windows, the two both shot a look at the covered glass. It was sleeting again, they both knew as soon as that familiar sound broke the silence.

"Shit" Sasuke growled, turning away from Naruto. He walked towards the window and pulled the blinds up, surely enough, sharp needles of sleet were falling relentlessly against the ground, bouncing before falling again.

"It's sleeting isn't' it?" Naruto spoke up from behind him.

"Yeah."

Silence commenced onward after that as both wondered what they were going to do.

"Well-" as soon as Naruto began to speak his phone started ringing, he looked down and answered "Hey Hinata"

"Are you staying at the office tonight?"

Naruto looked up at Sasuke and then down again "Yeah"

"Okay honey, I'll see you tomorrow."

"Sounds good, goodnight hun"

"Goodnight baby, I love you"

"Love you too" after that Naruto hung up the phone and looked at Sasuke again "How long are you planning on staying?"

Sasuke gave him a strange look "Why do I have to leave?"

"Stop acting dumb Sasuke you're not staying in my office."

"Well why not?"

"Well for one we are kinda angry with each other aren't we? And second of all, I only have one futon." Naruto explained.

"You're right" Sasuke sighed over-dramatically, he grabbed his coat and started for the door, before his hand could get to the door handle Naruto shouted out;

"W-wait a minute Sasuke"

Sasuke smirked looked back at Naruto "Yes?"

"You can stay. You can just sleep in one of the rooms here. I have a couple of spare blankets and pillows you can use." Naruto sighed and turned around, facing the windows. Sasuke could see his shoulders droop.

"Thanks." Sasuke walked further into the room and was about to say something until Naruto beat him to it.

"What did you mean earlier whenever you said that I've changed?"

Sasuke froze in his tracks, then sighed "You've just changed"

"But how?" Naruto turned around sharply to look at him, a desperate look in his eyes. "I've been the way I always have been, I didn't think anything has changed...Yeah sure, I've been more busy but that's been all, right?

Sasuke didn't respond, he just stared as Naruto kept stuttering on, his eyes darting in every direction, as if overtaken by a panicked frenzy of confused, disorderly thoughts. "Hinata said a couple of days ago that I wasn't acting right, but I didn't pay it any thought though because I was fine...but am I fine?" he ran his fingers aggressively through his hair, frustration overtaking his senses. Sasuke watched Naruto as he just became more and more frustrated, he kept his distance, letting him work it out on his own. He had already said his piece so there was no more he could or wanted to do.

Suddenly out of the silence of Naruto fighting with his thoughts he yelled out "Why did you have to bring this up?"

This startled Sasuke, but he kept a cold glare "You needed to hear this" It was true, he did need to hear this, and no one else was gonna tell him either.

So Sasuke had to be the one.