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

"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.

Chapter 26: The clock struck

Naruto was pulled onto Sasuke's back and was carried to the door when Naruto managed to cry, "wait!"
Sasuke abruptly stopped.

"What?" Sasuke snapped, sounding more forceful than he'd meant to and with a glare to his back that immediately vanished after seeing Naruto's frozen, frightened look.

"...where are you going?" Naruto asked in a quiet, quivering voice.

"Hospital," Sasuke answered nearly rolling his eyes, as if he was stating the obvious.

"NO!" Naruto shouted, immediately rejecting the idea and went against it strongly, "no! No! No! No! No! No-"

"Then WHAT!," Sasuke shouted louder, then instantly calmed down before continuing, "are we supposed to do about your arm?"

"…just leave it, Sasuke… It'll heal," Naruto mumbled in an unsure, unconfident voice that doubt his own words and wanted to just avoid saying or admitting that people won't help him even if they did go to the hospital.

"Heal and bend the right way up?" Sasuke asked, louder still.
He felt Naruto become small behind is back, trying to shrink as much as possible, as if wanting to hide into a small hole that will separate him from the rest of the world, and that made Sasuke regret his harsh sarcasm. But it couldn't be helped that Sasuke was feeling mad and frustrated.
All he had who could listen and take in his anger out on was Naruto which was no option for Sasuke, so was trying not to lose control and take out his anger on Naruto.
After realising that Sasuke was at fault and his heart feeling heavy, he tried to calm his whole body and mind before talking to Naruto again.

"Naruto…," Sasuke tried again, softly, "I just want to make sure you're alright, okay?"
Naruto nodded on Sasuke's shoulder, his one grip tightening on Sasuke's back.
Sasuke sighed and turned back to the couch after feeling Naruto's tense body against his back which didn't seem to relax any moment now and instead, was shaking madly.
Sasuke made Naruto sit on the couch and Sasuke crouched before him with a thinking face pulled over, accompanied by a furrow on his brows.
Minutes ticked by rather quickly and Sasuke finally scratched his head roughly before announcing his thoughts.

"Okay he's what we'll do," Sasuke said, looking straight into Naruto's anxious eyes," normally it's too risky to do it ourselves, but since you're -... fast at healing, I'm going to re-adjust your arm to make sure it'll bend the right way again."
Sasuke tried to make himself sound confident to take away Naruto's terrified feeling a little, but it didn't matter. Naruto lookedscared to death, and Sasuke put effort into himself a little more to assure Naruto by giving him a smile and reassuring words.

"Trust me," he said.
Those words struck Naruto's heart deeply and gave a starting push to the hand of his clock to start activating it which Naruto had stopped ages ago and had shoved it to the bottom of his Pandora box deep inside him.
Naruto shakily nodded his head and Sasuke then pulled Naruto's head over to Sasuke's shoulder.

"Bite my shoulder, Naruto. It's gonna hurt," Sasuke ordered.
Naruto didn't know what Sasuke was on about, but since he promised to trust Sasuke so he did as he was told.

"Harder, Naruto," Sasuke said.
Not wanting to hurt Sasuke, Naruto only clamped his teeth on Sasuke's bare shoulder but bit a little more strongly by Sasuke's orders.

"Okay, here we go," Sasuke said and tugged hard on Naruto's left arm, pulling Naruto's radius away from the hinge joint of the elbow as he held Naruto's arm in place with his other hand.
Naruto bit hard from an attempt to stop his screams and scraped hard at Sasuke's arm with his other free hand. He hand bitten so hard that Sasuke bled but Sasuke's didn't allow any sound to come out from his mouth.

"Here we go again," Sasuke said through his gritted teeth and pushed back Naruto's arm the right way.

"Guh!" This time, Sasuke didn't bother to stifle his painful groan.
Naruto's grip on Sasuke by teeth and fingers tightened so fiercly that Sasuke had to stop himself from jerking, but didn't back away.
The arm where Naruto dug into his flesh by his nails was letting blood escape from underneath the skin and the wound, where Naruto had bitten, was a blood fountain.
Minutes passed before Naruto finally felt his violent pulse of pain calm, and let go, only to see what he had done and looked horrified at the sight.

"Sa-Sasuke… I-..." Naruto started.
Sasuke gave a weak smirk at the sight of Naruto's helpless, mortified facial expression and pulled a hand towel over the wound which he had ready.

"It's okay, I intended for this to happen. It's not as bad as it looks anyway… The pain is nothing compared to yours," Sasuke explained before Naruto got a word of apology out of his mouth.
Naruto looked down at his right hand where it was covered in blood.
Just like when he used to wake up, finding unanswerable blood on his fingers and unquestionable scratches all over the house.
Except, this time, it was Sasuke's blood.

This is…Sasuke's blood…

With that thought, Naruto fell back softly and fainted on the couch.