Author's notes at the end of the chapter. (The notes are a must read in my opinion)

Warning: YAOI! SasuNaru pairing! Don't like don't read.

Disclaimer: I only own this plot, not Naruto.

Sasuke ran to Naruto's room to wake him up and comfort him. Problem was, Naruto wasn't waking up. He just screamed and cried. Minutes turned into an hour. Sasuke was getting worried. He tried to shake Naruto awake while yelling his name.

"Naruto!"

Naruto continued to scream.

"Naruto!"

He continued to sob.

"Naruto! Everything's fine, I won't let anybody hurt you. Just wake up!"

Slowly Naruto open his eyes that are full of fear and hope that the person calling his name is telling the truth.

"Sas-hiccup-ke?"

Relief flushes Sasuke's face as he nods, trying to show a kind but small smile.

Naruto lunges toward Sasuke to hug him. For a moment, Sasuke's body stiffens but he soon makes his body relaxed.

"Naruto must still remember that dream. I wonder if he will talk about it. I wont force it out of him though," Sasuke thinks as he wraps his arms around Naruto.

Naruto begins to cry into Sasuke's shirt as he hears Sasuke telling him "It's ok."

"P-please stay w-with me for a while. I- I don't want t-to be alone."

"Its ok Naruto. I'll stay with you until you've calmed down." Sasuke asks as he is rubbing Naruto's back, attempting to soothe him.

Naruto lets out a sigh in relief but continues to shake, "T-thank you." He snuggles into Sasuke's chest more as he continues to cry but more softly.

Sasuke looks down at Naruto and Naruto looks up at him. He looks so small and scared that if you didn't know him you never would've guessed that he is the one who's known as the knucklehead ninja, Naruto Uzumaki. Naruto's blue eyes were full of a mixture of fear, relief, and tears. A pang went through Sasuke's heart at seeing Naruto like this.

"Do you want to talk about it?" Sasuke asked.

Naruto froze in response.

Sasuke sighed and rubbed Naruto's head. "You don't have to if you don't want to. I won't force you."

Naruto stayed silent for a while. In the meantime, Sasuke was worried that he had made Naruto hate him even more. His worries erased when Naruto spoke up.

"I-it's a m-memory from m-my p-past. I-I'll tell y-you if y-you promise not t-to hate m-me."

Sasuke was shocked but he didn't show it. "I won't. Now go on," he said as he smiled sweetly to Naruto.

Slowly and painfully Naruto explained between sobs. Sasuke understood more about Naruto and he could feel his own rage boiling at all the villagers. How could they have been so cruel?

"T-then (hiccup) Orochi-m-maru…" Naruto froze mid sentence. He didn't want to tell Sasuke.

"What did he do?" Sasuke asked, trying to hide his anger. What had that snake-bastard done to his dobe? Then he looked down at Naruto who had begun to sob harder again. His face softened and he hugged him as reassurance and to tell him to go on.

"…r-raped m-me," Naruto whispered. If Sasuke hadn't been that close to Naruto he would never had heard.

"He did what?! That snake-bastard. I let him die too easy of a death. I should have tortured him before killing him off," Sasuke thought as his grip tightened in frustration.

"P-please d-don't h-hate m-me Sas-'ke," Naruto pleaded as he tried to snuggle even closer into Sasuke's chest.

That snapped the Uchiha out of his angry thoughts and into focusing on Naruto. "I would never hate you. Don't be an usarutonkachi," Sasuke said as he attempted to try to comfort Naruto. He really wasn't good at it as you can see that he called him a moron in the process.

Well that seemed to calm Naruto down… and then fill him with anger. He let go of Sasuke and went to the other side of his bed and began to glare at him. "Teme! I am not a usarutonkachi! I can't believe that I just told you one of my deepest secrets and you called me a moron. Why did I even tell you? I'm not weak you bastard and I never will be again!"

"Naruto…"

"I can't even understand how I didn't remember that memory until now! Why did I have to remember it?! I don't want to have that memory make me weak! I feel disgusting because of it."

"Naruto calm down."

"Calm down? Calm down! How the hell am I supposed to calm down! I just remembered the most horrendous memory of my life and you're telling me to calm down!" They were off of the bed by now and Naruto continued to yell at him. Naruto's eyes continued to flash an angry red but were followed by sad, fearful blue.

"Dobe, everything's fine now. Orochimaru is dead anyways."

"You asshole! That stick that is stuck up your ass is too deep. You have no idea how I feel and you call me dobe!? Don't you dare say 'Orochimaru is dead anyways' and think you're going to get away with it! You inconsiderate Uchiha!" Naruto yelled in rage. Sasuke started to walk toward him but Naruto noticed.

"Don't you get anywhere near me, you bastard!" Naruto yelled making Sasuke freeze in place. A rasengan started to form in his hand.

"Get out of this house in 5 seconds or I will kill you and not give a damn about it," Naruto and a deep voice, which was Karuma, ordered simultaneously.

Getting the idea, Sasuke backed off. But he wasn't fast enough. Naruto lunged towards Sasuke and pushed him through the window. Glass shattered everywhere and made Naruto bleed but he didn't care. He was angry but he couldn't leave the house to kill the Uchiha that was on the outside and he sure as hell wasn't letting the asshole back in (he couldn't unless he calmed down anyways).

"I can't believe I had started to trust you again. I hate you." Naruto's eyes were back to pure blue but they were different. They were full of pain and sadness.

"Naruto I'm sorry! Please forgive me! I'll do anything to make it up to you!" Sasuke pleaded. (1)

"Believe me, I really want to. I want to kill the hate that lives in my soul, but I can't. I don't want to get hurt again," Naruto said as tears streamed out of his face. His tears broke out into sobs as he fell to the ground. "Geez, why am I crying over the fact that I said I hate you. How can I look so weak in front of you, even though I don't want to? I want to be strong and move on but I can't. Why is it that after all this and these years of hating that I still care for you deep down in my heart? You're making me go crazy. Why can't I hate you even though you've done so many terrible things to me? Why do I still consider you my special person? Why did I have to fall in love with you all those years ago? Why? Why?! Why!" Naruto cried out as he rubbed his eyes to try to stop the tears but he couldn't.

Sasuke stood frozen in place as he stared at Naruto. He was stunned by the sudden revelation. Naruto was in love with him.

There was a pang in Sasuke's heart. "Naruto deserves better than me. After all, I have hurt him so much. He even said that he doesn't want to be."

Sasuke went down to Naruto's eye level (2) and tried to touch the blonde's head. He wanted to make Naruto stop crying. There was an invisible force field that prevented him from doing so though. He couldn't go back inside unless Naruto allowed him to. Still, Sasuke couldn't leave his beloved alone. He would rather have Naruto hate him than cry about him. At least he would be in a part of his heart that didn't pain him so much.

Sasuke sat there in front of him and waited. Occasionally muttering an apology and listening to Naruto swear at him.

"Why do I have to be so damn weak emotionally? Damn it all. I can't help myself for being in love with such a prick," Naruto thought as he continued to sob.

(1) Yeah I know the thought of an Uchiha pleading is OOC but it had to happen.

(2) the window is more like a screen door

A/N: Please don't hate me! (I throw my hands up in air, begging forgiveness) I feel awful about this chapter but no matter how many times I wrote it, the end result was the same. Naruto always ended up crying and admitting he loved Sasuke even though he wanted to hate him. Uggh... This chapter is what took me all week and it still is like this. Please tell me that this chapter is ok and not that OOC. I want this story to have a good ending and the way it was going I didn't think it was possible. Now I can focus more on getting them together than finding a way for Naruto to stop himself from killing Sasuke.

So... basically all that hate and anger was hiding Naruto's true feelings of love. That doesn't mean that Naruto will be a submissive uke and have sex with Sasuke now. (I promise he will not have sex until the very end of this fanfic.) It means that now Naruto will also have some moments with Sasuke that will make him blush but more moments where he will get angry because of it.

I can't believe of how much I made Naruto cry... I feel awful... but it also makes me fired up about making this fan fic have a good ending. :|

This will be a love/hate relationship, I guess.

Anyways please don't stop reading, reviewing, favoriting, or following. I still really love getting feedback and I take these suggestions/ideas to heart. Thank you. :)