A/N: Hey! I'm so sorry that I haven't been updating. I haven't been very well and we've had some guests up so I haven't been able to get on the computer. Sorry.
This shot follows on from the shot called 'Rain'.
Disclaimer: I own nothing apart from my new IRUKA PLUSH! YAY! He came and he's so cute and I love him. Now I just need a 'Kashi and a Sasuke and a Naruto. Squee!
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Blood
Sasuke was covered in blood. It was matted in his hair, dried under his finger nails and was dying his perfect pale skin a horrible deep red.
Naruto hated the way it made Sasuke's skin look so pale. And the way it was all he could focus on as his boyfriend's chest rose and fell slowly. And that all he could hear when he closed his eyes was the steady bleep bleep of the heart monitor. It sounded way too much like it was counting away Sasuke's life with its careful beeping.
The nurses bustled in and out around him, but he ignored them completely. They couldn't tell him anything he didn't already know. Sasuke was clinging to the edge of life, any moment he could be left alone.
And Naruto was horribly aware of all the things he'd never said. Before he knew it he was babbling out everything that he could think of.
"Kami, Teme. Why did you have to go and get yourself hurt so badly? And now of all times. What a day o not concentrate you stupid bastard. I haven't told you I love you anywhere near enough times. And you haven't said it enough either, even though I know you think it. And you can't do this to me. What am I going to do without you? You stupid Teme, I love you so much, I can't lose you."
"I've never heard someone profess love and insult at the same time quite like you do," croaked a voice beside him.
"Sasuke!" Naruto cried, flinging his arms round the boy.
"Ah, watch it Dobe. I'm kind of sore."
"Sorry," Naruto said, letting go and backing away.
Silence fell for a few moments as Naruto shuffled nervously and Sasuke lay watching him.
"Well, if you're awake I guess I'd better go home," Naruto was half way to the door before Sasuke stopped him.
"Naruto? You know I love you too, don't you?"
Naruto nodded, a happy grin splitting his face in two.
"And, I wasn't ever really going to die now, was I? I wasn't going to leave my fiancé to be snapped up by someone else, was I?"
Naruto shook his smiling his sunshiny smile.
"Go home, Naruto. And don't forget to feed the cat."
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A/N: Okay, don't ask me where the cat comment came from. Lol. Review? I'll update tomorrow if I get at least 6.
