Wow thanks for putting up with me through writters block (and formatting issues)

Yes. This is most deffinatly a filler. But a good filler.

Sakura had been wandering for about two hours and finally dicided to rest on a bench. It had to be at least 15 degreese and she was barley in the mood to serch for a freezing Uchiha late at night.

"Exuse me sir..." Sakura asked a man next to her who was also sitting there. He looked young, even though she couldn't see his face, and he was wearing...shorts!

"Do you have the time?" The man peered at his watch. "8:30."

"Sasuke!" She breathed. Sasuke turned his head, his face red and tear-stained, and now shivering.

"Sakura...!...What do you want, you bitch..."
"Oh Sasuke! I'm sorry!" He tried to shake her off when she grasped him in a hug.

"Forget it. I know you-and Naruto-arn't."

"Sasuke I was completely wrong! I didn't meen to hurt you like that!"

He started to stand up but she pulled him back.

"You can't just run away from the things you don't want to here! Like a coward!" Sasuke's eyes widened.

He waited a moment before he sat back down.

"Listen to me! You don't know the hell I went through trying to find you!" Sasuke looked away.

"I don't need your lectures. Skip them." Sakura scoffed "Your going to listen to me!"
Sasuke crossed his arms as Sakura draped her poncho over his slim shoulders. he left it there, probably appriciating the warmth, but hating the fact he couldn't provide it for himself. Sakura knew him all too well.

"It's obviouse he loved you! Even to me, who wants you for myself!" Sasuke looked at her. He was finally listening.

"He's hurt and he missed you! He just can't say it! You know Naruto!" Sasuke chuckled. "What a dobe."

She put a hand on his shoulder.

"I made a mistake because I was jelous of your love for him, the love I could never have!"

He smiled. "Dose he forgive me for almost doing it with Neji?"
"W-whaaat?" Sasuke twitched. She didn't know! He never told her! Shit!

"Um..it was a joke...?" She decided it was best to go with that. "S-sure..."

Sasuke looked up at the night sky and thought immidiatly of Naruto. It was cold and all he wanted to do was lean in Naruto's warm arms.

"So he wants me back?" Sakura smiled weakly. She nodded. "Guess I don't want to dissapoint him..."

"No you don't...go to him, Sasuke. He needs you." He stood up and gave Sakura a quick hug.

"Thank you Sakura. Now lets go."

Naruto sobbed quietly to himself in the darkness.

How was he goint to find Iruka when he had no will to do so? Would he fail yet another person in his life?

No, he couldn't allow himself to.

But how could he, he asked himself in sorrow, not?

He was enjoying the silence when he felt a feeling he wasn't used to. He wasn't allone.

"Get the hell out." Naruto hissed. After a while, he herd a inane laughter circling him.

"Give us the Uchiha or the men die..."

"The men?" All he heard was the sound until he a piece of creamy-white paper flutter infront of him, slightly glowing the the pure darkness.

Naruto's heart lept. They must meen Kakashi...but Iruka's still alive!

He sighed. There was no way out out of this. He had to give in. Iruka had been with him all his life.

Tears welled up in his eyes.

"G-give me a week." He could just make out the shadowy figure standing the the doorway.

"But why do you want Sasuke?" Naruto shouted. But there was no-one there. (1)

Sasuke couldn't understand the feeling he got when he knocked on the door of Naruto's apartment.

He knocked lightly, looking back at Sakura who smiled and made the gesture for him to knock again.

Naruto didn't bother to see who it was. He just opened the door and braced himself to see somone who wanted to take his life. He might as well let them.

Sasuke didn't know what to say when he say Naruto's face; he looked back at Sakura again, but she was gone.

Naruto looked down at Sasuke, the two locking eyes in a fierce gaze.

Sasuke leaned up and kissed him lightly, a slight touch against his lips. His onyx-colored eyes brimmed with tears. "I was wrong, Naruto. I was really wrong, and I made a big mistake."

I wish I had the strenth to say that before.

"I made a mistake too, Sasuke. We both did, but so dose everyone."

I wasted the time I could have spent with you.

Naruto bent down and kissed Sasuke again, leaning his body against the raven haired boy, the heat like a drug, unbearably hot, but so, so addictive.

Sasuke ran his fingers through Naruto's hair. "I missed you...more than you'll ever know."

Missing you is somthing I'll never want to feel again.

"Sasuke, your cold..." Naruto cupped his hand on his cheek. Sasuke leaned his head forward, twards the warmth of his hand, then pouted.

"Am not...!"
"But...even though you look really cute making that face," Naruto said as Sasuke put both arms around his neck when the blonde lifted him with ease. "I don't want you getting sick..."

"Why, Naruto? Why do you have to worry about me?"

"Isn't it obvious?"

Sasuke had changed into his flanel shorts with a matching top and went into the seprate guest room.

Naruto grasped his hand just as the raven-haired boy was closing the door.

"Don't go...come with me." Sasuke nodded and fallowed Naruto who was still holding his hand.

Sasuke's eyelids were dropping and finally he gave into the tierdness nagging at his body.

At least he could go to sleep peacfully. Naruto's arm was drapped around him. He would never want Sasuke to leave him again. Sasuke shifted, slightly startling the blonde.

"Naruto..." he mumbled, his voice bearly audible. "I-I love you..." Narut's heart lept. Did he really?

"I know, Sasuke, I know," Naruto said.

"How do you know?" Sasuke whispered. Naruto smiled, slowly and then answered, placing a kiss on his lips once more:

"I've always known, Sasuke. I've always known."

Sasuke said nothing and fell asleep. Naruto's mind, however, was somwhere eles.

"Give us the Uchiha or the men die..."

"G-give me a..week.."

"But you shouldn't love me, Sasuke...you should hate me for all it's worth."

After that, he too, though troubled and somewhat saddened, fell into unconsiousness. (2)

When I saw your face I wanted to run

So fast and so far nobody would ever catch me.

But then I remembered somthing.

I've run for a long time...and...

Only cowards run.

So let's walk for a bit.

I'm kinda tired of running.

As dawn stretched it's lankey physic across the dying darkness, with each passing minutes, wisps of crisp breeze tickled the exposed skin on Naruto's face.

He tried to hide under the slightly high coller of his jaket, his eyes snapped shut, his fingers curled into a fist.

His azure eyes betrayed his emotions; anyone who looked through them could see the love that burned into his heart; it might have well been a picture of Sasuke, the missing, the longing, the painful regret.

Somtimes he doubted the Uchiha was of this world; his skin so pale, his eyes so relentless, his heart's armour somwhat unbreakable. But when he had said that to him, 'I love you', he couldn't bring himself to ask why, or tell the one he loved the same.

It's not like he didn't, he loved Sasuke more than he could remember loving anyone; but the way he was or might betray the Uchiha that couldn't allow him.

The thick, foam-brimmed waves sloshed against the hard, frosted, sand and it reflected off Naruto's eyes.

"Hmph, figures, dobe. I knew you'd be here."

Naruto's eyes shut as a smile played across his solemn expression.

"I knew you knew." He whispered, voice muffled by fleece. Sasuke sighed and locked eyes with Naruto, who turned his head for a breif moment. Naruto adverted his eyes; guilt rising his chest.

Sasuke stood behind him and placed his arms loosley around his neck.

Naruto nudged him away gently with his nose, and Sasuke looked somewhat hurt.

"Naruto I know you say it, but do you meen it?" He was about to say 'meen what Sasuke' but he knew, and sighed.

"I already told you."

Sasuke sat beside him, not quite touching, save the tips of their ungloved fingers. That heat was enough to keep both warm. Naruto gave in to temtation and put his arm over Sasuke's shoulder, sighing, watching as Sasuke's eyes fallowed the water until they finally found themselves in Naruto's.

Sasuke kissed Naruto's cheek, so softly it might as well been the wind.

Naruto felt that moment that nothing could stop him from loving Sasuke, not the cold, not the fear, not the threats against him. He needed Sasuke to save Iruka. He needed him in his life.

He never would doubt the boy's humanity again.

1. Hmm, I don't know how this will fit into the story. I really must say I need a co-author.

2. Yay they made up! Finally!

I'm so happy I'm on chappie 11!

Yay!

Hopefully I'll get more reveiwers!

Until next time, (hopefully that won't be too long)

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