"He was kissing my fucking best friend, on my fucking birthday!" Naruto hissed after finally went on memory lane of that specific night. He was lucky that night that he was an hour earlier than usual. If he were late for an hour or so, he didn't know what could have happened. But it was the best fucking present to see his lover French-kissing his fucking best friend on his fucking birthday. He couldn't have asked for more.

"A kiss?" Both Kakashi and Itachi asked in unison.

"It's not about the kiss, but the betrayal. Of all people he could be cheating on with, but why Sakura, my best friend? A cheater should just die, honestly."

"Naruto, that night I found him dying of blood loss, he smelt of alcohol. He was dead-drunk. He had been cooking foods for the dinner, waiting for you for hours!" Itachi argued.

"To hell with it!"

"Naruto, are you okay living your life knowing that you are someone else's reason to die?" Kakashi finally gave his pieces of mind, now that he was concerned. It was only a kiss and they were still teenagers at that time. It was understandable to have mistakes and have a labile mind.

"Even Sakura is nowhere, and she didn't even make any attempt to apologize!" Naruto argued back. What's with people lately? Kakashi now is defending Sasuke, too? Naruto thought drily.

That traitor...

"Oh now that you've mentioned it… I have something to show you." Itachi took his phone out and tapped something on the screen before he handed the black device to Naruto.

"It was a video from Sakura."

Naruto was stunned. He didn't expect that.

"Before you play it, go and get Sasuke back. You don't want to regret anything if it's too late. Now go. You can decide what you want to do next. Only you who could save him now."

Naruto was hesitated at first but eventually, he shook his head after a quick contemplating. "But, I don't know where Sasuke could be now." He still loved the man and he couldn't lie about it. Because deep down, he was still worried.

"Don't worry. That car over there will lead you. Now go."

Naruto snatched Itachi's phone and he hurried to his car and did as he was told, followed the car in front of him, probably one of Itachi's men.

Naruto positioned the phone on the phone holder he had stuck on the dashboard and began playing the video before he hit the gas, following the grey car ahead.

"Naruto, it's me, Sakura…"

Naruto swallowed his saliva hearing his ex-best friend's voice.

"First of all, I want to apologize to you for what had happened that night. I… I want to clarify here that it was a misunderstanding. That night was your birthday and I wanted to give you a present and say happy birthday to you. You know being pharmacist was as much pain in the ass as your classes."

Naruto agreed to that. But then again. He had thought that she had made a shitty excuse that he would be absent that day to French-kissing his boyfriend, no?

"So I decided to drop by. When I arrived at your apartment, I was yanked inside the dim room. I wasn't expecting that. I couldn't even do anything when Sasuke…

"He was drunk, Naruto… Forgive him. It wasn't his fault, well, partly, but… It happened years ago, and we were still teenagers. We all did mistakes… Nobody's perfect. Also, if you are wondering why I didn't apologize to you right away until now, I did. Tons of it. After that unfortunate, damned night, I tried to call you. I sent you bunches of text. I emailed you thrice a day, for the first two weeks. I tried looking for you, but yours and Kakashi's place was always empty every time I went there. I couldn't find you. I was desperate then…

"The guilt was overwhelming. You didn't even answer any of my texts and emails, and I couldn't reach your number. I had to move out of the country just so I could continue my life. When I heard from other friends that you couldn't be found, I was, even guiltier than before. I never knew Sasuke's stupidity could cause this to happen. I lost both my best friends. Naruto… Please forgive me… I have missed you… I thought you were…"

There was a pregnant pause Naruto thought that the video was over until Sakura began speaking again.

"Not until Sasuke came to me now and said that you were alive that I made this video for you. I can't stand looking at your eyes directly, that's why…

"I just want to say that I'm sorry… It's okay if you don't want to forgive me but please forgive Sasuke. I don't want to blame you but think of it on his side. Why do you think that he kissed me while he was dead drunk? When he did that, he kept calling your name, saying that you were late. I was about to interrupt when he said to shut up and that happened. You may have promised him to come early that night. He cooked for you and prepared everything for you. He might have grown tired waiting in the result of him drinking the alcohol into oblivion. Think about it, Naruto. I hope you can make it to Sasuke again. There is always this thing called a second chance. It was a misunderstanding. Forgive him. If he'd make such mistake ever again then you can dump his sorry ass. If he didn't make the same mistake, you know damn well that he is sincere to you. Don't you see his determination in loving you by not letting him living a great life after you left his life for over seven years drinking coffee even though he loathed the liquid, no?

"And oh, almost forgot. You might see this video when you have gained your memories back. You can maybe as well check your email address and look it up if you don't believe me sending you tons of emails. Naruto, I love you…"

"Shit." Naruto went to a halt at the entrance of the Yoyogi Park. The guy on the grey car instructed him that Sasuke was inside, and he was sure where he could find Sasuke.

In no time Naruto began with walking, fast walking, to running. He didn't want to lose Sasuke again.

After what Sakura had said to him in the video, his mind made a turning point of where the whole past mistake was part of his fault. If that particular night he had shown up early, Sasuke wouldn't be drunk. And when Sasuke wasn't drunk, he wouldn't have kissed his best friend, and he wouldn't be blinded by jealousy and drove off and put his and Sasuke's lives in danger, instead of just hear Sasuke's reasoning out and save them the trouble. Oh god wasn't he such a fool?

Something so trivial happened when they were young and labile, causing them to almost lose their lives. If he could just turn back time, he would fix what could have gone wrong. Even if he couldn't, he would just demand their explanation and something complicated like this, not even this day, would even happen. But then again, he wouldn't have met Sai and maybe make his life a little bit better after what had happened to him.

He sure learned a lot from this.

"Fuckkkk…" His feet were burning. It had been awhile since the last time he had run this long. He stopped and tried to catch his breath by holding his knees with the palm of his hands, panting.

Naruto stood upright after he felt he could breathe slightly normal. There Sasuke was, sitting on the rail with his both hands holding onto it as he watched the running river below, with his back was facing the doctor.

"What are you doing?" Not the brightest question he had ever asked, apparently.

"You found me." Not the equally brightest answer after all…

The man in front of him twisted his head to his direction with a smile. It was then that he remembered that the man had a dimple. "You should smile more…" Naruto whispered.

For a moment, Naruto had to appreciate Sasuke's appearance. The man was always well-dressed and neat. The hair was styled carefully, and the ironed navy shirt. He's truly good looking and gorgeous.

"Do you know what day is it today?" Sasuke asked as he twisted his head back to watch the running river again, breaking Naruto's train of thoughts. "Every year on this specific day I always visited this place, and this year is not an exception…"

"Sasuke, get back here."

"Since you've been gone, I always come to this place celebrating this day. But today is an exception… If any other years I was alone, today I celebrated it with you… Even though I can't call it as a celebration…"

Naruto stared at the man in front of him absent-mindedly. Too much had happened in such a short time, he had forgotten that today was his birthday. He almost shook his head the fact that the man was ignoring him. "You are soooo stupid, aren't you?"

"I am… I made something stupid in the past which caused me to lost my other half. When I finally found him, I got little time to be happy with him, until he remembered everything and told me to leave him. What am I to do? I have no reason to be here, anyway."

"Come down, Sasuke. I forgive you."

"Is that your way of coaxing me so I wouldn't jump? After what you said? Be consistent, Naruto. Just about an hour ago you told me to fuck off. I'm literally trying."

"You are so heartless…"

"Huh?" Sasuke scoffed. "So you are blaming me for being heartless when I had my fuckin' heart ripped out?"

Naruto had had enough. This guy was too stubborn. Naruto looked up, hoping any deities up there would help him this time. He looked back again at Sasuke's back and closed his eyes, taking a huge intake of breath before he opened his eyes and lurched himself to the man. He yanked the man down and collided his fist on the pale cheek, for the second time that day.

"I want an apology, not your sorry-ass attitude."

Sasuke didn't stand up from his position laying on the floor, eyes closed. He laughed bitterly, letting yet the new freshly droplet of the blood of his freshly cut lips fall down his chin. "What's with the change of mind, Naruto?" The doctor had punched him two times already!

"I watched Sakura's video."

Sasuke shot his eyes open and stood up. He walked to Naruto and hold the man in front of him by the shoulder blades carefully. He was scared if Naruto had invisible wings, he would fly away, or the worst was he would wake up and realized that this was all a dream and meeting Naruto was a lie, and he'd eventually go back to that coffee shop.

"You meant it?"

Naruto knitted his eyebrows. "Meant what?"

"Did you forgive me?"

Naruto stared at Sasuke long enough before he scoffed. "Stupid." And in a second Sasuke was held in a tight embrace. "I love you, you jerk."

"If this is a dream, whoever wakes me up, I will kill the person and commit suicide." Sasuke murmured and held Naruto back even tighter. "I love you so much to the point of being absurd. I only have eyes on you. What I did with Sakura that night was-"

"I miss you, Sasuke…" Naruto cut Sasuke's blabbering with a whisper.

"I…" Sasuke buried his face on Naruto's neck and took a deep intake of breath. "I miss you, too, Naruto…"

FIN

AN: I was stuck with that. If you think I still have things to clarify or maybe questions about what would happen next, please let me know. I will maybe make a one-shot or two. Thank you for reading this! I hope you enjoyed so far~

NB. I have received a couple of reviews, bad or good, critics, and so on. I really appreciate each of them. Some people loved this story, some disagreed with this, too. I understand.

There are things we should learn about human's personality. I portrayed Naruto in the recent chapter as being defensive and egotistical. He was upset and tended to say whatever he wanted even though he might regret them later, and he didn't mean for what he had said when he was being defensive, so that's why there were Itachi and Kakashi, the "mature" people in this situations to help them see things on different perspectives. I have few friends who tend to say things that might be too much to hurt others when they were upset. I thought I don't have to explain this story to you all, but since some people had question things, I'll gladly explain them.

I portrayed Sasuke as suicidal. And when Naruto was the cause of Sasuke being suicidal, Naruto was also the medicine to that. I'm a perfect example of Sasuke, only I'm not suicidal because I'm scared of killing myself, but I just wanted to die when I broke up with my boyfriend. But that's just me and my disturbing brain. I sometimes wonder how my brain work.

Okay, so let's learn psychology and other stuff first.

1. There are people who, when they are upset but they realize that they are wrong, they tend to become defensive by saying things to make them look like the victim, especially when there are people around that said person to "attack" them by pointing out the truth.

2. There are people when they fall in love, they fall hard. Some people might think that it's not "love". Life must go on when you lost your loved ones, but some people's mind works strangely that they make their loved ones the center of their world, to the point of wanting to torture, even kill themselves if they realized that they are the very reason the people they loved to go away. There are also people who took a major step by committing suicide just because of that. A friend of mine hanged herself when she broke up with her boyfriend. That's just how some people's heads work.

3. There are suicidal people. And YES, they need HELP. But some suicidal people just need a person to heal them when that person was the cause of those people who were being suicidal. Do you get it? It's like, Sasuke was sick, and Naruto was the cause of it, but yet at the same time, Naruto was the only medicine that Sasuke needs. I already mentioned that above ^^^

4. This story might be disturbing, but thank you for pointing them out. That's just how the plot has to go to so it could reach the end.

Last but not least, this love story is not perfect, and there are no stories (or maybe there are few) that have the perfect happy ending. Every relationship has its ups and downs. It takes two people to build and keep the relationship going.

Merry Christmas & Happy Holiday, everyone~

Finished: Saturday, December 23rd 2017 02.45 AM (JST)