Title: A Click & A Bang
Word Count: 1538

Rating: T+
Warnings:
—Gun violence.
—Colorful language, like swearing and shit.
—boyxboy, but it's just some touching and the implication of a sexual relationship.

Characters: Naruto Uzumaki, Sasuke Uchiha
Setting: Alternate Universe, Modern-Day

Summary: Naruto accidentally kills Sasuke.


For Sasuke, carrying his family's name and responsibilities alone put him in constant and inevitable danger. There would always be people that the Uchiha did not sit well with, and so it was not strange for him to have learned to properly handle a gun at a young age. It was, of course, simply in case of emergencies, but still something that all Uchiha were expected to know. Self-defense was a must, whether it be in hand-to-hand combat or with a weapon. Now, Naruto was beyond ecstatic when Sasuke offered to teach him to shoot. He'd never handled a gun before, for he'd never had a proper excuse. Now, however, he had an awesome (secret boy)friend who was awesome enough to awesomely teach him how to do awesome shit like handling awesome guns, and he was pumped!

He turned the gun around his hands, admiring it in awe.

"It's just a gun, Naruto," Sasuke said, chuckling lightly at Naruto.

Naruto rolled his eyes. "It's my first time," he said back in his defense.

"I know, I know," Sasuke replied, patting Naruto on the back with a smile. "I'm only teasing." Naruto smiled back. "Alright," Sasuke said, turning Naruto to face the targets. "First of all, you need to be sure you have the proper stance," he began to explain as he kicked Naruto's feet out to the proper distance from each other. "Make sure your hips are turned like this," he went on, using his hands to grip the blond from behind. Naruto smirked, knowing that Sasuke was perhaps being more hands on than necessary. He glanced back at the man from the corner of his eye playfully. "Eyes forward," Sasuke said, a smirk on his lips as well, and Naruto obeyed.

Next, Sasuke helped Naruto lift his arms. "Both hands on the gun. This one under here for support," he went on, his lips close to Naruto's ear as he reached around the man. He trailed his hands back down Naruto's arms and sides until they rested on his hips again. "Now aim," he whispered, closing his eye and looking down the barrel of the gun too. "Take a deep breath. Slow and steady. Just before you pull the trigger, hold that breath in."

Sasuke paused then, waiting for Naruto to take his shot. Naruto, however, was struggling to focus on the gun in his hands as opposed to the hands on his waist. It took a few deep breaths before he could really focus on the weapon in his hands. Eventually, though, he did take his first shot.

"Good!" Sasuke said immediately, clearly very pleased with the blond.

Naruto playfully nudged his shoulder back into Sasuke's as he lowered the gun. "Yeah, well, you didn't make it very easy for me."

"If you can shoot that well with me feeling you up, then you'll be good at this," Sasuke said, stepping away from Naruto with a smile. "I don't wanna preach," he went on more seriously, "but you really should be careful. I don't wanna teach you something you'll abuse," He smiled at Naruto though. "—not that I think you'd do that. But my teacher used to always tell me that a bullet never lies," he continued. "And he'd tell me to always think about that every single time before I pulled the trigger, no matter what I'm aiming at."

Just as those last words left his lips, the lights suddenly went out. Naruto's hand found Sasuke's arm and automatically gripped tightly, causing Sasuke to snicker at his response. Though, Sasuke did reach up and touch Naruto's hand gently as reassurance.

"I'm here," he assured through the darkness. "I'm sure they'll be back on in a minute."

Naruto nodded. And then he remembered that the action couldn't be seen. "Not like I'm—" He cut off abruptly when a loud bang sounded off. "—scared..." he finished after a moment of silence.

A couple more moments later and more bangs went off, multiple of them in succession, causing Naruto to flinch badly. Without the sound of his voice layered atop it, it was easy to tell what that sound was. He gripped Sasuke's arm more tightly and Sasuke gripped his hand back, stepping forward to pull Naruto close.

"Stay calm," he said softly.

"Okay," Naruto replied, his voice quiet. "Calm. I'm calm."

"Good," Sasuke said, his voice doing wonders to keep the blond from freaking out. Still, he gripped the gun in his hand tightly. Sasuke, whose weapon had been holstered, reached up and slowly took it out. "Stay calm," he repeated before stepping away from Naruto.

Naruto panicked then and gripped Sasuke even more tightly. "Where are you going?!" he hissed, yanking Sasuke back.

"Naruto, I have to go make sure that the people out front are okay," he whispered.

"D-Don't leave me here alone!" Naruto snapped.

Sasuke sighed, one of his hands finding its way to Naruto's face where he rubbed gently. "Just stay calm and stay quiet," he said softly. "I have more experience in this area, so don't worry about me. I'll be fine."

"But those were gunshots," Naruto argued. "Sasuke, they have guns!"

"And so do I," Sasuke said back. Though Sasuke was perfectly calm, Naruto's breath was ragged. "Stay calm," Sasuke whispered again. "I will be right back."

Naruto hesitated for a moment before reluctantly whispering, "O-Okay."

"Ready your gun," Sasuke instructed. "If anyone approaches you, shoot. Don't hesitate, Naruto. Shoot them."

"O-Okay," Naruto replied, his voice shaky.

Sasuke began slowly moving away. When they were finally completely separated, Naruto had to bite his lips to keep himself from hyperventilating. He couldn't help it if he was scared though. He didn't understand how Sasuke could be so calm. After a few moments, he saw the door to the entrance of the range, which he currently stood fairly close to, open and Sasuke's shadow slipped out into the light beyond. The door was left open, so Naruto slowly edged toward it. After a few agonizingly long minutes, Naruto heard more gunshots. All of which made him flinch terribly. Now just a few feet away from the door but still standing in the shadows, Naruto startled when he saw two people barrel through the doorway.

"S-Sasuke?!" Naruto said loudly, frantically. "Sasuke?!"

He heard two more gunshots and then a body fell to the ground. Then, he really began to panic. He held his gun up with shaky hands, not really noticing that he'd stepped out into the light from the doorway. He heard heavy footsteps next, the sound of running. And he really panicked. All at once, a form burst partially into the light, a voice began to speak, and Naruto pulled the trigger.

It was mostly an accident. He had flinched when the person suddenly came into view, so his finger just sort of slipped on the trigger. He'd only been holding it so tensely in the first place because... well... there was a foreign body running at him and he was terrified. The bang had covered up the person's voice, though, so Naruto didn't really realize what he'd done until the form stumbled fully into the light. His fingers went numb and the gun was a long forgotten thing, a horrified gasp escaping past his instantly trembling lips.

Sasuke's face was scrunched up in a grimace, a hand held loosely over the bullet wound in his chest. He stumbled forward another step before tripping over himself and choking out a hoarse "ouch". As he began to fall, Naruto was there to catch him. They both stumbled back into the darkness, but the lights abruptly turned on. Naruto did not care about the world around him though. He had tunnel vision, and Sasuke was at the end of it. He guided the raven gently down to the ground where he could lay in Naruto's lap.

Naruto's breath was shallow, his heart pumping, his vision blurred with tears that burned his chest. It only took but a moment for it all to truly sink in, for Naruto to fully realize what he'd just done. And all he could do after that was sob. With his face buried in Sasuke's neck, he choked out incomprehensible apologies. Sasuke understood though, and he managed to comfort. With whatever strength he could muster, Sasuke gently rubbed Naruto's arm and neck.

Words eluded him—hell, breath eluded him—but he hoped that the gesture would be enough to convey his thoughts nonetheless.

Naruto simply stayed like that. There was no beautiful, heartfelt goodbye. There was no emotional confession of love or a drawn out and passionate farewell kiss. There was nothing but the sound of Naruto's desperate cries. And when the paramedics finally arrived on the scene, it did not take ten of them to pull him away from the lifeless body of his lover. It took one, soft-spoken gentleman. He did not get a blanket that was somehow supposed to help with the shock. The scene was neither elegant nor touching.

It was miserable, and Naruto never stopped crying. Not once. And it would be that way for weeks to come. The tears, they would never stop falling. He would not pause to live or breathe. He would simply mourn.