Hey there! Got another one for you guys! This will be a flashback to when Itachi (ANBU-san) and Naruto were still together, so sorry. And one thing that I always forget is that while I write I always forget that Naruto says 'Dattebayo' like all the time, which I'm just like 'Wow, why do I forget to write that every single time? He says it at the end of almost all his sentences!'. Anyways... ENJOY!

P.S.

You guys probably don't even read these, but oh well.

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It was a late night and I was just returning home after eating out at the Ichiraku Ramen stand. My keys jingled as I pulled them out and unlocked my apartment door. I entered while being sure to firmly close and lock the door behind me. And not even a minute later, I hear a familiar coded knocking at my door.

'ANBU-san? What's he doing at this hour? I guess he just got back from the mission he was talking about a few days ago, but why would he come here so late? He could've just gone home and visited me in the morning. Geez, sometimes I just don't understand his way of thinking.'

However, as I approached the door, I immediately noticed something was wrong. There was a faint pungent smell coming from the other side. The smell of blood... I quickly flung the door open only to see a normal everyday looking ANBU-san standing casually at my door. I cocked my head to the side and wore a puzzled look on my face. ANBU-san knelt down to my level and softly patted my head, something that I often found him doing other than pinching my cheeks red.

"Is something the matter, Naruto-kun?"

I placed my hands on both his shoulders and leaned in close to get a better smell of him. After having my fill of sniffing a very confused and slightly flustered ANBU-san, I pulled back and looked at him confused.

"You smell like how I used to, but stronger. Are you okay?"

And telling by the slight flinch of his shoulders, that I had just barely caught, he probably knew what I meant. He continues petting me and simply chuckles.

"I see. Don't worry, Naruto-kun. I'm alright."

"Are you sure? You wanna sleep here tonight?"

I asked worryingly, he shakes his head and continues to pat and rub my head in a gentle loving manner, which I found to be strange because usually he does it a way that makes me think that he's gonna end up rubbing the hair out of my head until I'm bald

"No, it's alright. I can't stay long."

"Oh, okay then... So why are you here? You should go home and sleep, dattebayo."

He shakes his head again and suddenly pulls me into strong a hug, his arms tightly wrapped around my body, and although hard to tell, I could feel his arms trembling as he held me. I was used to him always randomly hugging me out of nowhere, but to feel him shaking like this? It was a first. It worried me a bit, and quite frankly scared me at the same time, so I did all I could at the moment and simply hugged him back with the same- if not weaker (because I'm not that strong)- amount of force.

"Naruto-kun, when I leave... We may not be able to meet again..."

When the words escaped his mouth, my eyes instantly widened with pure disbelieving shock and I pulled away from him so that I could properly look at him in the face.

"Wh... What?... Hehe, y-you're just joking right? Right?"

His gaze fell and he began to speak in a quiet voice

"No, I'm not... I'm sorry, Naruto-kun... I truly am..."

He said to me sorrowfully. My small, quivering hands gripped at the cloth over his shoulders as I begin to feel burning tears blur my vision, threatening to overflow, and I stared at him with sad pleading eyes

"D- Don't go... Please... I don't want you to leave me alone... If it's my fault, I'm sorry! I'm really sorry! Just don't leave me!"

I begged in a weak trembling voice. ANBU-san gritted his teeth and he pulled me into an even stronger and more forceful hug.

"Don't cry, please don't cry... None of this is your fault! You had nothing to do with this! So don't cry, I hate when you cry because of me!"

He said in a loud and almost commanding tone, he sounded incredibly upset, if not angry. I could feel so much emotion pouring out of him, more than I had ever felt before that I didn't know what else to do other than embrace him in return and cry hot tears into his shoulder. We desperately clung to each other as if clinging to dear life.

"*Sniff* Didn't you say that you would never do anything I didn't like? Then, *hic* tell me you'll stay! *Hic*…"

"I... I can't! Please forgive me, Naruto!... Please, don't cry anymore."

"Even If you tell me not to... *Hic* There's no way I can, -ttebayo!..."

ANBU-san, are you really going to leave me? Are you really planning on never coming back? Am I really never going to see you ever again? Even though you're the closest person to me, even though you promised to always be with me no matter what. Did you really think that I could ever accept that? Did you really think that I would just sit back and be okay with never seeing you ever again? Of course I wouldn't! You've become too important to me, I could never be okay with something like that!

I angrily shoved him away, covering my eyes with my hands and wiping away the warm tears with my sleeve

"I hate it! I don't want that! If... If you leave... Then I want to come too!"

ANBU-san's grip immediately tightened around my arms causing me to flinch and winced slightly in pain. He pulled me close and began to shout furiously in my face

"No! Absolutely not, I don't want you to get hurt, where I'm going is dangerous. Being with me will only cause you more grief! Please understand, Naruto... You can't come with me..."

Clouded by sadness, I bowed my head low as my eyes flooded with tears once more, glistening under the porch light as they streamed down my face and met the ground below.

I didn't want this, more than anything I wished that he would just tell me that he was just joking, but deep down I knew those words would never come. No matter how much I begged to hear them, I knew I would never hear them. Yet, even knowing this, my heart still wouldn't understand.

ANBU-san lifted his mask above his mouth. He cupped my cheeks with both of his hands and slowly lifted my face to meet his, and he tenderly wiped away the tears on my cheeks with his thumbs while wearing that stupid fake smile he always wore to hide his true feelings or as another way to brush aside his problems in order to not make me worry.

"I thought you wanted to become Hokage someday? If you come with me then you'll never get your chance to become one."

I placed my hand over his and looked at him with puffy, red teary eyes

"But... I want to be with you more..."

He shook his head and continued to persist

"I'm sorry, but you can't. You have to stay here, okay?"

I stayed quiet and didn't bother to nod or even hum an approval, but I understood, if me staying was what he really wanted then all I could do was simply accept his decisions. He and I were both equally stubborn, so there was no use in arguing with him. ANBU-san chuckled at my silent acceptance and patted me on the head again. I grabbed hold of his sleeve catching his attention

"But, you promised to always protect me no matter what. If you're not here, it'll be scary and bad things will happen again!"

"It's okay Naruto-kun, everything will be alright. I promised to always to protect you and I'm going to continue doing just that. Even if you can't see me, I'm right here by your side, always... So no matter how frightened you are, no matter how far away I am... I'll come running to your side, to take all of your pain and to protect you from anything and everything..."

"Promise?"

"Promise. But, only when it's serious."

He said to me as he gently wiped away the tear stains and brushed back the hair that stuck to my cheeks. I pulled him into a tight hug, wrapping my arms around his neck and nuzzling my face into his shoulder. I could feel ANBU-san doing the same, expect I could feel him breathing in deeply and taking in my scent (I probably smell like ramen).

"Hey, so... Why do you have to leave?"

When I asked, I felt his arms tighten around my waist again in an almost bone crushing hold. Making it hard for me to breath and act like I couldn't feel it.

"I've done something unforgivable, and in turn also hurt someone important to me..."

My own sadness was instantly washed away into shock and pity, I gingerly patted and brushed his hair like I always did during times like these, whenever he was going through the hardest of times and needed someone to hold onto him without feeling like he had to be ashamed of himself for showing how weak he could be.

All people are born human, and because of that they have human emotions like happiness, sadness, and anger. Sometimes it's harder for some to show more than others, no matter how much of a monster they may be, but sometimes it just takes the right person to remind them that they're still human and that it's okay to be one.

And because he's human too, he's also capable of feelings, and right now he's sad, so much so that I could only think of it as having a broken heart. I desperately wanted to make him happy again, to make him smile for real again. And that's when I remembered! I eagerly pulled away and gave him a brilliant smile.

"I know! Don't you remember? You asked what would I do if you disappeared right?!"

ANBU-san slowly nods, slightly confused.

"Well~, do you also remember how I replied?"

He nods again, beginning to gradually understand where I was going

"You said you would cry a lot."

"Which I did, but I also said something else! I said that no matter what, I'd come look for you! Even if it took me to the ends of the earth I'd find you! Remember? So you better believe it, dattebayo!"

"Heh, that's right, I do remember."

Finally, he finally smiled a genuine smile, and I returned the gesture with my own big happy grin

"Then that's also another promise! Just you wait, one day, somewhere out in the world, I'll find you again, okay?"

"Not unless I find you first."

"Hehe, then I'll be waiting for you too then!"

He cupped both of my cheeks again and lightly brushed my bangs away, he then slowly leaned in closer to me, and before I knew it, I felt a pair of cold lips on my forehead. When he pulled away, I stared at him blushing and wide-eyed.

"A parting gift, to my most favorite person in the entire world."

'F-favorite?! I-I'm his most f-favorite?! In the whole w-world?!'

I began blushing a beet red and I could feel my heart racing a mile away. Is it bad for me to be this happy? Was it possible for people to die out of happiness? Surely it has to be. ANBU-san chuckled at my reaction and lightly pinched me on the cheek.

"I have to go now... Stay safe, okay?"

'That's right... He still has to leave... How could I forget...'

I looked at him with tearful eyes, but this time they weren't entirely of sadness. Just knowing that I could see him again was enough for me.

"Okay... But first, one more hug okay?"

He smiled again and brought me in for one last embrace. And just as he pulled away, I snuck a kiss and quickly pecked him on the lips, and this time it left him blushing and stuttering incoherently. He gripped my shoulders firmly and stared me dead in the eyes

"D-don't do that! It's dangerous, understand?!"

"Dangerous? What are you talking about? How?"

"It just is! So promise you won't do it again! Especially if it's with another person!"

"Whaaaa? But you did it too, dattebayo!"

"It was on the forehead! Besides, I'm different, if it's you then it's not okay! Bad things will happen if you do, so promise me you won't do it again!"

I didn't quite understand what he meant, but I nodded anyway and watched as he sighed in relief. He then took my hands into his own and gazed at me

"Well, I have to leave for real now, so... Goodbye."

I shook my head and smiled at him

"It's not 'goodbye', stupid. It's 'see you later'."

"Heh, see you later then, Naruto-kun."

"See you too, ANBU-san..."

We waved each other goodbye and I watched as he disappeared into a cloud of smoke, leaving no traces behind. Almost as if he was never there. And when he was gone, I went inside, closed the door and leaned my back against the door and slid down onto the ground in my foyer. I covered my mouth with my hands and held in the small whimpers and cries, my eyes tightly shut as I tried my best to stop the tears that wouldn't stop flowing down from my eyes. My hands moved down to clench the soaked fabric over my chest and feeling the hard aching beating of my heart.

"We'll see each other again... I'm sure of it..."

And soon enough, my eyes gradually fluttered close and I ended up falling asleep at my doorway.

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Glowing red eyes flickered open through the darkness of the foyer. They stood up and irritably scratched the back of their head and ruffled their short, bright blond hair.

"This idiot. Freaking fell asleep in the goddamn doorway. What the hell."

He grumbled to himself, sounding very annoyed and upset. He yawned and continued to mumble displeasingly to himself as he walked down the short hallway and into the bedroom. He lazily pulled off his clothes and rummaged through the wooden drawers of the room before he stopped when found what he was looking for, a pair of light blue pajamas along with a nightcap. He changed into the pajamas and then slipped himself under the covers of the bed, being sure to tuck himself in, before cuddling into blanket and closing his eyes.

"Next time don't sleep in weird places, idiot Kit..."

He quietly murmured before receding back into the depths of the boys subconscious.

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Haha! It's shorter than usual, sorry, but I I been working on other fanfics that wanna put out in the future! Anyways, I hope you guys enjoyed it, and please do review! Welp, until next time!