Disclaimer: The characters of Naruto and settings are all owned by Masashi Kishimoto not me.

"Can you just do what I tell you to do and do me a favor for once! You always make things so sh-tty! You're not helping me any better than anyone else in this f-cking world! Like I said, I don't ever intend on trusting you ever again! You think all the stuff you did was for me? No, you just wanted to justify your f-cking crime. You think I'd actually be grateful that you pulled me back into this f-cking world? If you left me alone, I wouldn't have been starting my sh-t like all over again! If you want to at least prove that you want to help me, get the hell out of here, you f-cking bastard! Leave me ALONE!"
"Be warned. If I catch the two of you together again, I will have to kill you, young Uchiha!"

Chapter 25: Seriously serious

In the darkness, a heavily wounded little figure kept walking down a desolated street until it staggered to the only house that was there at the end of the street.
He was a masterpiece of how ugly people's cruelty can be with their poisoned hearts.
There were bruises all over his face and massive bleeding everywhere, although most were already starting to heal with a faint red glow.
Once the figure opened the door, it slumped down on to the floor, not being able to supports its own body up any longer...

"Naruto!" A shout alerted the figure on the floor.

"…Sa…suke?" A scared, frightened voice escaped through the boy's cracked and bleeding lips.

"Naruto! Are you okay? Oh, god!" Sasuke panicked as quickly pulled Naruto in and shut the door.
Naruto tried to push Sasuke away during Sasuke's process with a strong loud shout of, "no!"

"Naruto?" Sasuke stopped dead on his tracks which was in the middle of the living room.
Sasuke's hurt expression was clearly seen in Naruto's vision with his frightened eyes and a help from the dim light casting upon Sasuke's pale face.

"…why are you here, Sasuke?" Naruto asked in a bare whisper, "I thought I told you to-"

"This is my home!" Sasuke exclaimed aloud with a face that showed that he was about to burst into tears any second now., cutting off Naruto, "This is my home now too…"
Sasuke had a pleading look to which Naruto's didn't lose to either. He had much pleading eyes as did Sasuke. Like Naruto had predicted, Sasuke was very stubborn. And he hadn't given up yet, even after all that.

"You have a place of your own, Sasuke. Go back. Never come back. Stay away from me," Naruto ordered.

"I don't-"

"Get out of the house!" Naruto screamed, "forGod's sakejust get the hell out, please! What if they find us together! What if they find you here! They're gonna really kill you for real!"

Naruto's scream was heard a thousand times louder than in reality in Sasuke's ears.
Naruto's scream sounded so desperate to get rid of Sasuke, and Sasuke missed the fact that Naruto didn't include any swearing in his screaming.
The resonance of the voice vibrated heavily into Sasuke's brain, almost making him insane.
An uncontrollable earthquake was triggering inside Sasuke and wasn't going to calm any second now. Naruto's words were black, poison-tipped curses, draining away Sasuke's blood from his heart and face, getting paler than usual, his heart, starting to fail to pump in a regular beat.

"I-It's okay… they won't come here," Sasuke said calmly, a wry smile forming on his lips and tear drops at the tip of his lashes, ready to be sent down at any moment, "…I'm not going anywhere."

Sasuke didn't know why, after being rejected so many times, that he still clung onto Naruto strongly. Naruto's words affected Sasuke so badly that Sasuke didn't even know what he was doing or saying, partially becoming mental with emotion overload. His blood runs cold and his hands begin to shake. But none of these symptoms, Naruto seemed to notice, and not even Sasuke himself.

"No! Sasuke! I don't want you killed! I don't want to be alone again! I don't want to see you hurt, ever again. So please just listen to me, Sasuke…" Naruto cried into Sasuke's chest with one hand gripping onto Sasuke's sleeve.
Naruto just bawled out on Sasuke, thinking why Sasuke just couldn't understand what he was trying to say.
Why Sasuke couldn't get the message through, that this was dangerous and that he might get killed, into his brain that was assumed to be smart. Naruto's heart was just as filled up as Sasuke's and his whole body throbbed with pain from physical wounds and emotional wounds.
But as if Sasuke felt Naruto's message through strong thoughts and emotion, Sasuke's body started to function again and Naruto's sobs reached Sasuke's ears as he suddenly clicked back to himself, paying attention to what Naruto was saying now, his tears falling one after another.

"I don't want you to die…I don't want to lose you…I don't want you to get killed…I won't be able to forgive myself...," Naruto sobbed.

"Naruto, get a hold of yourself," Sasuke said, his own voice quivering while he carried Naruto to the couch which was currently Naruto's bed so that he was able to sleep with Sasuke who slept on the floor with the bed mattress.
Naruto didn't want him to die. That was all the satisfied feeling he needed from Naruto.
At least it showed him that he cared for Sasuke even if it was a little bit.
This brings back Sasuke's courage to take this matter about Naruto within his hands and get in charge of the situation, regaining his confident 'Uchiha' self.

"Naruto. It's okay. I promise that they won't come here. They won't be bothered since it's far away. We'll figure something out. As long as we're not seen together by the drunken men and that old man, we will be fine."

After sometime, Sasuke soothed Naruto as he lay him down, who didn't let go of Sasuke but instead, gripped tightly onto him as if holding him like a lifeline.
As if Sasuke will leave his side permanently if he let go now, which was one of the fears that Naruto ever dreaded, and did not know that it was about to become the truth a few years ahead.
Naruto's tears subsided for awhile and at that moment, Sasuke found time to pull away from Naruto just momentarily to grab some stuff.
Sasuke placed his hand over Naruto's and pulled down lightly, trying to get Naruto off him.

"Naruto, I need you to let go of me so I can get some bandages for you," Sasuke said, lightly tugging, but Naruto shook his head and didn't give the slightest sign of letting go.

"Naruto," Sasuke sighed.

"…-m…sor-," Naruto said in a bare whisper which Sasuke couldn't catch.

"What was that, Naruto?" Sasuke asked quietly, straining his ears.

"I'm sorry, Sasuke…," Naruto mumbled with his head partially buried in his pillow, muffling his voice more than enough already," I didn't mean any of the stuff I said back then… I just couldn't think of another way… you wouldn't have left otherwise… I was so scared of losing you… that's why… I'm sorry…"
Sasuke smiled as Naruto buried his head fully on the pillow, crying into it again with refreshing tears.

"I know, Naruto. I know… And I forgive you," Sasuke assured.
Sasuke tugged lightly on Naruto's hand again which came away slowly from Sasuke's sleeve.
When Sasuke came back from a short trip to the drawers where the first aid kit was, he found Naruto asleep.
Sasuke carefully treated the wounds and not to wake the exhausted small blond at the same time but Sasuke discontinued the success when Sasuke slightly moved Naruto's left arm.

"Aa-h!" Naruto cried as tears slipped down his face.
Sasuke was momentarily shocked from Naruto's sudden movement of sitting upright on the couch, and had frozen.

I only moved his arm a little…Sasuke thought, still shocked from the sudden outburst.

"Na-naruto…Are you okay?" Sasuke hesitantly asked.

"What's wrong?"

"…It…hurts," Naruto cried and that was when Sasuke focused on Naruto's left arm properly and was shocked to see it bent in and awkward angle.

"No… they didn't," Sasuke whispered, "they didn't!"

Sasuke became enraged by the fact that Naruto's left arm was broken and very badly.