Yo. Long time no see my friends. Please read the author's note at the end.

I apologize for typos or grammatical errors.


As Naruto got ready for school, the previous night kept coming back into his head. The moment Naruto had step through the front door, his mother was up and ready to begin her scolding. But when she saw her son, her mouth was clamped shut. It seemed to him that she wanted to ask what was wrong, but got the feeling that it was best not to ask. And in a sense, maybe she should have asked, but the feeling that she shouldn't pry was stronger. And luckily her silence was appreciated. Naruto wouldn't want to end the night with uncalled for yelling.

Naruto had silently trudged to his room. His feet felt heavy. His shoulders felt heavy. His heart felt heavy. He wondered how he should face Sasuke the next day. What should he say? What should he do? The jumble of questions in mind were whirling at grueling pace. Later his mother knocked on the door and entered the room. She was carrying his stuff. Placing his things on his desk, she lingered a bit. Naruto hadn't been paying attention much, but next thing he knew she was apologizing. Apologizing for her unreasonable anger, for taking his things, for not letting him no matter how many times he said it was important. Naruto nearly scoffed. Way to make himself feel even worse. Though it wasn't his mom's fault. No, Naruto was making himself feel bad. He had replied with "It's okay" and they left it at that.

She left his room and he was alone. Naruto looked at his phone and decided to check it.

4 missed calls

3 text messages

He opened up the messages.

7:32

Where are you

8:12

Naruto

8:15

Hey

Naruto hurriedly began to call Sasuke. It rang. And it rang. And it rang. He tried again. It rang, rang, rang. He tossed his phone onto the bed. It was no use. Naruto had scoffed out loud that time.

Naruto smacked his head with the palm of his hand. He needed to stop thinking about this. Last night was last night. Today was today. And today he's going to go make it right. With that thought in mind Naruto quickly finished getting ready and headed out to school.

He tried not to seem too nervous as he approached the school. The thudding in his chest as he walked into the building wouldn't seem to go away though, and it was really bugging him. He didn't understand why he would be getting so nervous about this. He was just going to apologize to Sasuke profusely and then tell him the sad tale of Naruto Uzumaki. That was the plan anyway, but as Naruto began to wait around his locker he didn't find any sign of Sasuke anywhere. Sasuke said they weren't having practice that day, so he should have been around there somewhere.

Naruto didn't find Sasuke anywhere that day. He checked everywhere, the bathrooms, the roof, the locker room. He even asked Sasuke's friends, but they said they thought he was with him. Naruto was beginning to think maybe Sasuke didn't go to school that day. That was until after school. Amongst the crowd of students, he noticed the familiar spiked black hair. Upon seeing this, Naruto squeezed himself through the crowd to get to Sasuke's side.

"Sasuke!" He yelled. Said teen seemed to pause for a bit, but kept walking. Naruto cursed under his breath. He successfully weaved himself through the students. "Sasuke." He called once behind him.

Sasuke stopped walking. He turned his head over his shoulder and asked, "What?" Naruto winced slightly at the tone of his voice. Although it was calm, there was a hint of frustration.

"Um, about yesterday-"

Sasuke interrupted him with a tired sigh. He turned his body completely towards Naruto. "It's fine." He said with a brief smile. Naruto stared up at him worriedly. He shuffled on his feet a bit trying to catch Sasukes eyes, but he wouldn't look at him. They seemed to look at anything but him.

Naruto bit his lip awkwardly.

"But, please let me just-"

"Naruto." Sasuke interrupted him quickly. "I mean it, you don't need to explain yourself."

Naruto felt himself begin to cave in at the frustration that seemed to pour out of Sasuke. "Won't you please just let me I can explain-"

"Oh, because you're so fond of explanations now?"

The moment he heard the words, Naruto's whole body froze. Sasuke's fists were clenched and he jaw was wound tightly. The look on his face, in comparison to his previous, calmer, one made Naruto shiver fearfully. He hadn't wanted this. He hadn't wanted to see this.

"Well this insistence to explain would have been great yesterday, don't you think. You know, before I waited for an hour because you decided to go MIA." Sasuke said angrily.

Naruto furrowed his eyebrows. "I didn't decide to go MIA."

"Then what was is Naruto? Why didn't you come?"

Naruto stood quietly. Embarrassment from getting in trouble with his mother was unluckily beginning to sink in, not allowing him to say anything. Unfortunately the embarrassment began to subside too late.

"What is it Naruto?" Said boy could really see that Sasuke was getting even angrier as time went by. But somehow he couldn't say anything. He couldn't get a word out his mouth, and the more Sasuke interrogated the tighter his lips became.

"It gets hard you know." Naruto felt himself tense as Sasuke continued. "The things you begin to realize when you're left alone for a whole hour. You realize it gets real fucking hard when you end up being the only one to trust the other completely."

Naruto felt his blood run cold. This was wrong. This was all wrong. He wanted to plead with Sasuke; to get him to believe him, but Naruto couldn't help but notice the people beginning to gather around.

"Sasuke, I trust you I really do, but please you're making a scene."

Sasuke chuckled bitterly. "Oh great, so now you're getting embarrassed too." Naruto sighed tiredly. Sasuke when he was angry really didn't like to think about surroundings it seemed.

"God Sasuke, I know you're angry but please-"

"You know I've never really forgotten."

Naruto's eyebrows furrowed in confusion.

"What?"

"there are these times where I just think about what I heard Neji say to you way back then, and I think 'Well, what if it's true'. Do you even love me Naruto? Do you?"

It almost felt as if his heart stopped. Naruto felt the blood right to his face as the anger bubbled up inside of him."How could you say that?" He asked.

"Well is it true?" Sasuke countered.

"Of course I love you dammit." Naruto yelled weakly, no longer caring for the others surrounding them.

Sasuke raised his hands into the air with desperation. "Well how do I know that for sure? Aren't you supposed to be able to trust the person you 'love', tell them everything without fear of being judged because you know they'll always be there for you because you 'love' each other so dammed much. You know everything about me Naruto, I have no secrets when it comes to you, but what do I know you! I know crap shit! And every time I get close to knowing something more than stupid superficial shit, you keep fucking running away-"

"How fucking dare you!" The sudden outburst surprised Sasuke. The magnitude in which he yelled surprised everyone, but Naruto didn't care. His face was red with anger and embarrassment. He hated what was happening and the last thing he wanted was to fight with Sasuke, but he couldn't let his words go past him. They were wrong, and most of all it hurt that Sasuke thought this. "How can you fucking say that shit? You think it's only been difficult for you! Well fuck you! Do you know how much courage I had to work up to just tell you that I wanted to tell you! This shit is hard for me to talk about, but I'm sorry that I made you wait an hour without any notice, I'm sorry that my mom's just an emotional fucking mess and made me miss seeing you, but don't go fucking telling me that I don't love you because of that. I do fucking love you and that alone has been hard for me enough as it is." Naruto was panting by the end of his rant, but Sasuke didn't say anything. He kept his gaze down on the ground, refusing to look at him. Seeing as Sasuke wasn't going to say anything, Naruto decided to continue, but this plan was immediately interrupted. Just as Naruto opened his mouth, Sasuke turned away. And before he could say anything, without a word, he walked away. And as Naruto watched him walk away, nothing had ever hurt more.


K so I know it's been a long time, but I really do want to finish this story and I was just gonna let you guys know that I am going to commit myself to writing the story over the summer. So after this I'm planning to update between early to late July. After that I should have more regular updates since I'm going to try to finish writing chapters ahead of time. That's the plan anyways. I already have chapter 29 going, just so you know. Anyways that is all.

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