Chapter 10: Naruto's slip up
It late at night when Sasuke decided to leave Naruto's room for a bit to stretch his legs out, it had been two days since Naruto was in the hospital's care and Sasuke barely left his side. The only time Sasuke was out of the chair was to use the restroom and the Sakura incident the day before. Making sure that Naruto was safe and leaving a kiss on his forehead, Sasuke walked out of the room and closing the door behind him.
Five minutes had passed before Naruto woke up from his dreamland. He cracked open an eyelid to make sure that Sasuke was gone. When he saw that Sasuke wasn't in the room, he opened his eyes before sitting up in his bed. He sat there for awhile, thinking about the events that happened in the last two days. All in those two days, Sasuke had showed Naruto that he was not angry at him since his stay at the hospital; on the contrary, the Raven showed that he was sad and worried about the blonde and would not take any crap from anybody that said bad things about the blonde. This made the Blonde smile when he thought of this, but that smile faded when the memory of Sasuke yelling at him came back to him full force. Tears ran down his scarred cheeks as he bought his undamaged leg up to his chest, wrapping his arms around it before resting his chin on them.
Why can't that memory go away! He was tired of having to see it over and over in his mind. He had wished them to leave him alone; he does not want the memory anymore. But he knew that the memory wouldn't go away, not by a long shot. He knew that he needs help to get rid of it and he knows that Sasuke was the only one who can do it. Wiping his tears away, he made his decision. Naruto will stand wake this time then Sasuke comes back into the room.
So he waited. One hour passed and Naruto was still waiting for Sasuke to come back. Two hours had passed and still Naruto was waiting for Sasuke, growing impatient.
'What the hell is taking Sasuke so long!' Naruto thought as he grips the bed sheets, making his knuckles white.
He knew that Sasuke had left the hospital to go home to shower and change, but he had never taken this long to do it. But Naruto had made up his mind to wait up on the Raven so that is what he is going to do.
It was morning when Sasuke had came back to Naruto's room. He can't believe that he fell asleep in the bathtub when he got home to clean up. One minute he was washing the soap out of his hair, the next moment he wakes up in the tub full of cold, filthy water with the sun shining through the window in the bathroom. Shaking his head, Sasuke opened the door and was shocked to find what he was staring at.
Naruto, to his dismay, had fallen asleep when he was waiting for Sasuke to come back and was sleeping in an awkward angle. His back and head was resting against the wall with his arms on either side to him, his undamaged leg was bent in a way that the bottom of his foot was facing his wrapped up leg. A little drool can be seen at the corner of his mouth.
Sasuke couldn't believe it. In his mind, he believed that Naruto must have woken up some time last night when he was gone and the way that the Blonde was laying, it seemed that Naruto was waiting for Sasuke to come back to him. Tears gathered in his eyes as he walked across the room and bent down to brush the stray hair from the Blonde's sleeping face. Naruto scrunched up his face and shifted in his sleep before setting down again. A warm smile slowly appeared on Sasuke's face as he watched the Blonde sleep. It bought back good memories when they were together before fight that leads to Naruto's current state right now.
Slowly, Sasuke moved his head close to Naruto and lightly brushed his pale lips against Naruto's tanned ones. But before he could move away, he felt a hand gently pushing against his head to deepen the kiss. After a moment of kissing, the hand moved away from his head and he quickly straightens up to look down at Naruto. Sasuke's eye had become wide as he can see the brilliant deep blue eyes as Naruto opens them up to look back at his Raven lover. A small smile was showing on the Blonde's face when he notices Sasuke's shocked state. He gently picks up one of Sasuke's hands and bought it up to Naruto's cheek before he said something that Sasuke was waiting for the last few days.
"I love you, Sasuke," Naruto said in quiet, gently voice.