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'well..actually..,' sasuke lifted his head up from his hands 'there is actually no proof of orochimaru's death..'

'no way! then, that means...that orochimaru could have know about this all along and about naruto...'

kiba was worrying now, if orochimaru knew about this...then they could be in danger...especially naruto...

'sasuke...' naruto was tossing in his sleep, everyone now had their eyes on the writhing kitsune, while sasuke's own mind was filled 95 with the urge to suddenly sex the life out of that blonde, heck, he was writhing and calling out sasuke's name! that could only mean one thing...

though, the blonde's closed eyes weren't filled with lust, only tears..

'mmm...please...don't...le...ave...me...sasuke!' naruto's hand reached for the nearest person (who just so happened to be sasuke himself) and began to clutch him desperately even more tears welling in his eyes and trickling down his face..

'please...we made a promise never...never...to leave...each other...'

sasuke's own eyes seemed to be creating tears of their own...or was that a trick of the light...because there is definitely a rule in the book of uchiha somewhere which says that uchiha's NEVER EVER CRY!

'naruto...did you remember...?'sasuke was looking down at the blonde who was now shivering and repeating the same words over and over..

'we made...a promise...'

'what promise?' but no-one noticed Neji's words only the raven and the blonde were to be heard in the darkened room..

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'promise we'll stay together?'

'forever'

'and ever...?'

'and ever'

'even if we die?'

'i won't die i'll always be with you'

'really?'

'really really, even if i die i'll come back to life again'

'waa! really?'

'it's a promise'

'it's a promise'

'you have to do a shake when you promise sasuke!'

'that's only for idiots who don't keep their promises'

'shake!'

'tch..'

'see...what makes something real isn't just words its actions too!'

'then...what about a kiss...'

'a kiss?'

'yeah..next time we meet, to show we kept our promise we'll kiss to show we remembered and we stayed together...'

'okay, lets make that a promise too!'

'and when we remember...'

'we'll get married!'

'dobe..that's something that big girls and boys do!'

'it doesn't matter!'

'tch...okay then..'

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'naruto...you finally remembered...'

'er..gaara neji...lets leave...'

gaara, neji and Kiba materialized into the shadows to teleport back to the gang.

sasuke reached out with his free hand to touch naruto's soft blonde hair, but the blue eyes snapped open at sasuke's touch.

'SASUKE!'

sasuke slyly wiped his tears away, as he looked at the dobe who was in front of him...

'sasuke...i remembered our promise...'

'which one...?'

'wha..what do you mean?'

'we made three promises...'

'you knew all this time?'

sasuke averted the blonde's eyes..

'yes...i never once forgot about you...'

'huh?'

'usuratonkachi..how could i possibly forget about my first lov-' sasuke cut himself off. he had just confessed to naruto...if anything, uchiha's always waited to be the last one's to convey their feelings.

'first what?' okay, scrap that, naruto clearly had no idea what was going on! was he an idiot or what?!

'what do you remember?'

'i remember all of our promises, but nothing before or after'

'thats good then..'

'why?'

'i can't say..'

naruto slowly reached his hand up to his lips...his first kiss...he had to kiss sasuke?!...well...he did promise...but..he couldn't kiss him..

sasuke reached over to naruto and reached for his top, he began to pull it off..

'hey sasuke! what do you think your doing? we only promised to kiss!'

sasuke pouted grouchily, 'and get married..it's okay if we're going to be married..'

'are you really that unaware of the situation!? you do realize that you still haven't fully explained to me the situation we're in now!'

sasuke sighed deeply...he really could not be bothered to do this right now..he glanced at naruto, sighed yet again and brought his two right hand fingers to his lips and blew on them gently, he then placed them on his forehead and then placed them on naruto's own forehead.

'this will show you everything you need to know..'

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