Notes at the end~
[DISCLAIMER: i do not own Naruto or the characters, they belong to M. Kishimoto.]
The following week was intense.
Sasuke Had to go to the police station four times, where he was questioned several times and one time almost held to stay the night even. He had to fill many papers scheduling the burial and generally taking care of the paperwork. He had to fight with lawyers and grown-ups because he was underage but refused to go into foster care. He was able to somehow claim the house eventually, with an official warning and a lot of rules set up concerning supervision and such. He was told to go see a psychologist many times but refused that as well. He was almost done with all the official bullshit and had slept around two hours every night max, held up by nightmares.
Naruto had seen him change from a vulnerable but strong boy into a closed off, stoic ghost. He barely ate, barely slept, kept busying himself and refused to sit and calm down. He was constantly avoiding Naruto's eyes and spaced off more than before. Sometimes Naruto spotted him rubbing his eyes warily, and even more times found him drinking so much coffee he was surprised the boy hadn't fainted yet.
Naruto had to keep going to school during the days, but he was with Sasuke every minute of the day in his mind. He kept worrying he would do something stupid, even though he knew Sasuke was stronger than that. The unbreakable wall Sasuke had set up to seem untouchable just made him seem more scared and small to Naruto. He was the only one who saw Sasuke slowly killing himself, it seemed.
Naruto's friends often exchanged worried looks when they found Naruto looking at his phone with a deep frown, or found him staring out the window with troubled eyes. They knew Naruto didn't just get depressed or less happy out of a sudden, so they figured it must be something to do with a loved one.
''Sakura, you bitch!'' Ino screeched as she tried to reach for her stolen cupcake in the hands of a certain cotton candy haired 'bitch'.
''You stole my grapes yesterday, this is what you get you pig!'' She yelled in return.
The bickering continued for some time until they realised no one at their table was speaking. They exchanged a look and noticed everybody was looking at Naruto, who in turn was staring at his sandwich with narrowed eyes.
''Dude, you tryna kill your bread with a glare or something?'' Kiba asked unsurely.
Naruto's eyes shot up and he grinned, but it didn't reach his eyes. ''Shut it, dog breath, just worrying about that stupid piece of- '' He spaced off again.
Kiba looked at Shikamaru, who shrugged.
''Naruto, what's wrong?'' Sakura asked with concern lacing her voice.
''Wrong? Why would something be wrong? You know me, haha!'' Naruto laughed.
''You've been out of it this whole week, you idiot,'' Ino offered.
''Tell us what's bothering you, we want to help,'' even Gaara admitted.
Naruto looked around the table suspiciously. ''Noooothing, why are you guys ganging up on me? Hey Kiba save me,'' He said while poking his friend in the shoulder.
''No way, dude, spill it.'' Kiba said with raised hands.
''You too?!'' Naruto squeaked. ''It's fine you guys, just something with this.. acquaintance of mine, who so happens to be.. how should I put this.. I'm worried, anyways, yeah. I'll fix it though!'' He tried.
His friends all exchanged funny looks at how Naruto failed at trying to be vague, but accepted this as a start.
''Well, if there's anything we can do, let us know okay?'' Sakura said while looking him in the eyes confidently.
''Thanks, guys,'' Naruto said while scratching his head and grinning widely. The bell rang and everybody went to their classes.
Sasuke was at home, sitting on the dining table and looking down with half lidded eyes. Home? Well something like that. He was done managing his parent's money for the day, and didn't know what to do with himself. As it was, he got to keep the house if they could check up on him once every two weeks, which was fine with him. He needed to go to school again as well, since he'd stopped going a while ago, or be home schooled. His parents had a lot of money because of owning the police force, so finances wouldn't be a problem for at least a few years. He managed to claim almost all the money, the rest of it was put on hold since they hadn't caught Itachi yet and if they did and he turned out to be 'innocent' he would get some too. They were still trying to force Sasuke into seeing therapists and such, but if he held his head up for just a few more days, he'd legally own the house. He'd get to go live on his own, after which his future was pitch black and cold.
He sometimes almost wished he had been killed by his brother too. He huffed, would have saved him from losing so much sleep.
He sipped on his third cup of coffee and looked at the clock. Naruto would get home in about an hour. He sighed and lost himself thinking about the blonde; His golden hair, his tanned skin, his cute freckles. Throughout pretending to be a solid grown up all week, he was beginning to feel more and more like some stupid high school girl, losing himself in his thoughts about the ball of sunshine in the apartment. He had chosen to avoid looking him in the eyes, simply because he was afraid he'd break if he did. It was like they pulled all the locked up emotion right out of him into the open, which was not what he was going for.
So far, he'd done pretty well with coping. After one day of solely mind destructive thinking, he had closed his mind from the thoughts and had pulled himself up, be it by the neck. He refused to think back; only looked ahead. He hadn't spoken about what had happened with anybody else than the police, and even then he kept quiet most of the time, mostly just glaring until they lost their composure and fled. Pretty sufficient, if you asked him.
When Naruto got home, he found Sasuke curled up on the couch with his head turned away from him. He sighed and felt a stab at his heart. He knew Sasuke was just trying not to think about things too much, but he looked so alone and fragile..
He walked up to him and almost greeted him loudly when he was faced with closed eyelids. He had actually fallen asleep? ''About time,'' he chuckled.
He found himself sitting down in front of the raven, scanning his face for answers, even though he didn't respond. Not that he would have if he was awake, he thought with a pout.
His skin looked like white porcelain, and his lashes were long and black. One of the two longer side bangs covered his mouth and tickled his nose. If there was a real life definition of angelic, this was it, Naruto thought.
Suddenly Sasuke's eyes shot open like somebody had dropped a bucket of ice water on his head and he sat upright with a start. He was very closely faced with a certain blonde he had been calmly dreaming about, not that he would admit that.
''You're close.'' He stated.
''Hi!'' Naruto cheered, refusing to be the first to back off.
''…You're not going to back off, are you,'' Sasuke sighed while rubbing the sleep out of his eyes.
Naruto inspected his face and saw something flicker in those dark eyes. He wasn't good enough at deciphering Sasuke yet to completely understand, but he realised just waking up had his guest off guard and he took a gamble. ''How are you?'' He said with a caring voice.
Sasuke noticed the tone and narrowed his eyes. ''Fine.'' He answered as he stood up and walked over to the kitchen area.
Worth a shot, Naruto thought.
He noticed Sasuke was wearing a sleeveless shirt for the first time since he'd gotten here, and realised his wounds must be almost healed by now. ''Should I check up on your wounds?''
He was met with a confused look.
''After that I think they'll heal real soon, I just want to make sure nothing's infected or anything,'' He explained.
Sasuke shrugged and lead the way to the bathroom.
Okay okay so,
I'm going away for a week, doing the chistmas stuff,, so i'll post two chapters now, i hope that helps ;U;
I'll write more when i'm back n all OwO
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