Title: Broken

Disclaimer: I don't own any of these characters of course, I think they're the ones who own me as I've become seriously obsessed with this Naruto guys lately… Oo

All the characters are property of Masashi Kishimoto who I thank for this great anime!

Notes: This is my first Naruto fic so I'm pretty nervous. I don't know the out coming of this project, but I wrote it for you guys, Naruto fans out there and I've recently come back to so I'll try and give my best! I've been listening to Amy Lee's songs these days and "Broken" brought this to my mind…

This is a Naruto X Sasuke fic, with no explicit content neither hard yaoi. Just the beautiful shonen-ai they've both shown during the series. Also, I've seen up to Tsunade's first episodes, so this is based on Naruto Anime up to Sasuke's encounter with Itachi ok? I don't want spoilers please!

Chapter 1: Gone away.

"Breathe… Please breathe again…" he whispered to himself.

These words reminded him to the other boy's words:

"Breathe Naruto, breathe…"

Now his friend spoke no more, stared no more and moved no more. Or at least that's how it had been for a week. Behind everyone's back, the blond boy with the sad blue eyes looked at the unmoving figure of his partner, lying under the white sheets, with a painful and tired expression on his sleeping face. Some of them talked to each other, some others just stared at the young shinobi worried. But although the room was pretty crowded that day, Naruto felt far away from them, as he and Sasuke were in a different place, a different time and that hopefully no one would notice if he just moved towards that bed and just get carried away by his feelings.

It was still midday and the sunlight entered through the opened curtains. It was warm outside. It was summer. Naruto wiped away the drops of sweat that were drooling over his face. He was also starving as he hadn't eaten breakfast that morning.

"Wanna go get something to eat Naruto?" asked Iruka-sensei smiling softly. "You seem hungry".

Naruto looked at him and lied: "I'm okay; I'll go get myself something later".

Iruka looked at him and frowned. He knew Naruto was too worried about Sasuke and that made him a bit jealous. Time had passed and Naruto had grown up to become a fine young man that didn't need his attention anymore. He was now living his life on his own, making his own decisions and spending time with people his age.

"Okay, but promise me that you'll eat something. You don't look well, you know…I'm worried about you…If you want I…" tried to say the former teacher.

"Daijoubu Iruka-sensei. I can take after myself. You can go back to your students, I'll be fine" interrupted Naruto with a cold smile towards his dear sensei. Iruka nodded and left. Naruto had definitely changed since the day he had left the Academy and had become a great shinobi. He wasn't needed anymore and he knew it very well.

"You don't have to act so cold" said Kakashi-sensei without looking at Naruto's eyes.

"I'm not a kid anymore… But he still doesn't get it…" answered walking towards Sasuke's hospital bed and sating in the chair, beside the sleeping boy.

The other Jounin left the hospital the rest of the day and only Naruto and Kakashi stayed by Sasuke's side. It was getting late.

"Well, I'll be going now. Don't you think is time you go back to your place, at least for one night?" Kakashi asked, knowing the answer to that silly question he had made.

"I'm staying Kakashi-sensei. We can't leave him alone, that Itachi bastard could come and hurt Sasuke even more…" Naruto whispered looking at his friend.

"Okay, maybe I'll come around sometime during the night, just to make sure you guys are fine. See you later then" he waved at his student and closed the door behind his back.

Naruto looked at the empty room. The curtains and window were both opened now and he could felt the summer breeze on his face and soft wind messed up his blond rebel hair. The little hospital table had Sasuke's fore-protector around a flower pot where the girls had left him some of the best flowers the Yamanaka store sold. Naruto remembered Sakura's face crying when one of the doctors at Konoha's hospital said that although they were trying their best, Sasuke-kun wasn't willing to wake up. "If he doesn't want to wake up, he won't do it" he had told everyone.

"You don't want to wake up…?" repeated Naruto to himself. "Selfish bastard…"

But deep inside he knew Sasuke wasn't selfish at all. In fact, he was very dedicated to his friends, although he rarely talked about it and sometimes didn't even notice himself. But Naruto knew it, he had even gone to that inn to save Naruto from his brother's evil hands.

"Once again, I didn't ask you to help me… And once again you're going to say that your legs moved on their own…? "Naruto said smiling over that lost memory of Sasuke saving him from Haku's deadly attack. Back then, he didn't have a chance to say "Thanks". And although he could have said it, his pride didn't allow it.

"No…" Naruto shook his head, "this time was revenge what made you come right? You didn't care for me at all and maybe you never did…"

The blond boy had this thing going on in his head for a long time and now that Sasuke was suffering in his dreams and not willing to wake up maybe he wouldn't find an answer to it. Never.

This thought made the young shinobi uncomfortable for a second. He standed up and walked around the room.

Too many memories they shared, too many painful things they had experienced together, too many feelings had rushed both of them.

"Dousureba iin datte ba yo…?" asked Naruto to himself, not knowing what to do.

He walked towards the bed again and leaned onto Sasuke.

"Wake up Sasuke bastard, when the hell do you plan to move on with your life!" Naruto grabbed his friend just a bit. But Sasuke didn't wake up. He started shivering as the blond one laid him back on the bed. He looked at him. His was slightly flushed and was beginning to sweat.

He had a fever again. That damn dream was making him sick again. He had a painful look on his face. Naruto was frozen for a moment. He didn't like watching his friend in that terrible state. Sasuke started shaking violently like he was having a convulsion again. Naruto grabbed him and tried to wake him up, furious expression in his face. Broken inside.

"Wake up Sasuke! Everything's fine! You're not there! It's not real!" he yelled desperate.

The doctors arrived at the moment, made Naruto backed off and gave him a shot they usually gave him when he became like that. He had an awful fever. The nurse gave him some remedy and in almost no time everything was back to normal.

Naruto was lying on the floor, on a corner of the room. He had to accept it: he had panicked. The situation was worse everyday and Sasuke's condition was slowly deteriorating. He could barely take it anymore.

He walked to the bed again and sat down. He looked at Sasuke who had now his shirt ripped apart and had sweat all over his face and bare chest. Naruto grabbed a wet towel and tried to lower the fever with it.

"Why won't you wake up Sasuke? Just for me… so that I can carry on with my own life, bastard… You messed up my life enough don't you think?" He left the towel on the little table and lowered his head onto Sasuke's chest. He stayed there for a while just listening to the boy's heartbeat as he usually did. It made him feel they were both safe.

"If you breathe, I breathe. If your heart beats, so does mine"

But Naruto didn't feel his heart beating anymore. He was crushed; desperate scared that his friend wouldn't regain his conscious again. That he will never again hear Sasuke calling him the usual "kono uzuratonkachi"…

Unbearable.

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Somewhere lost in an empty neighborhood a young Sasuke runs to his house desperate.

"Mom! Dad! Where are you? Where's everyone?" asks almost crying. He turns around the corner just to find the piles of corpses lying on the streets with horrible expressions in their faces. Some of them are still trying to live as they realize it's too late for all of them. All of them…except for him… the young Uchiha. The survivor. The only one left to burry them, to cry for them, to get revenge for them. Uchiha Sasuke runs trying to dodge his dying friends and fellows of the clan as he screams in pain his brother's name.

The same scene again. His parents are dead. And he can't help it, he can't save them as he is too weak and too frightened to stay and confront his brother. He watches the massacre under Itachi's spell. He wakes up lying on the floor. He can't help but to throw up. Too much blood. Too much suffering in one shot. He runs away hoping that his brother will have mercy of him. He prays.

"Please don't kill me, please brother. I beg you!"

He is now the actual Sasuke. The 15 year old shinobi lost in the deepest darkness he's ever experienced. He hears something. Someone calling his name. A shadow that forms in front of his eyes and disappears in an instant.

"Who are you?"

"Are you going to kill me for real?"

He tries to follow that shadow that has some threads of light around it. Sasuke believes that person, whoever he is, can save him.

But once again he feels the cold hands running over his body. His legs weaken as he fells onto his knees only to find himself again trapped in his brothers arms.

"Let go… I wanna go with him…"

Itachi's cold eyes stare at him, blood-like red. The powerful Sharingan that has him trapped is infinite. He can't help it but looked into them and as his brothers leans onto him slowly, he is trapped in the empty neighborhood again. Waiting for someone to save him from the never ending nightmare…

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Naruto woke up. It was almost midnight and he had fallen asleep over Sasuke. He looked at him sleepy. Apparently the fever had lowered.

The boy felt a little relieved. He got up and left the room to find something to eat.

"Don't' wake up before I come back ok?" said Naruto smiling. Just to sleep near Sasuke again had given him the little strength he needed to stand up and get himself some snacks from the hospital machine. Naruto though about the Ichiraku store. He wanted a bowl of Ramen more than anything in the world.

"Maybe I'll treat him to some ramen if he wakes up soon" he thought to himself smiling at the thought of having his Sasuke back with him. And everything would go back to normal.

Naruto stopped for a second.

Would Sasuke be the same when he woke up?

TBC

Okay, so this is the first chapter. A little long I have to admit, but I tend to write long stories almost all the time. I watched an AMV that had Sasunaru's scene when they are attacked by Haku and his devil mirrors with the song "Broken" by this guy I don't remember and the gorgeous Amy Lee. Really, it's moving… TT

Then I got the original video and then the song. Of course it has many things that I found on Evanescence songs too, but this one's really romantic and sad at the same time.

I thought it would be good to start the year with a song-based fic.

Hope you guys liked it! It's dedicated to everyone who took some minutes of his/her life to read this story w Minna arygatou, hontou ni…

Wait for chapter 2 really soon! I hope to get some reviews; they really help to carry on with one's projects!

Dewa mata ato dene minna!

XOXO

ShUiChI

Japanese terms:

As you can see I can't help but to use some of them on my stories. I've been studying Japanese for four years now and it's become a part of me . If you find some mistakes also, you should know that I'm Argentinean, so my native language is Spanish UU Gomen ne..

Daijoubu: it's alright.

Sensei: teacher

"Kono uzuratonkachi": this is what Sasuke-kun always says to Naruto. It's something like "this moron".

"Dousureba iin datte bayo?" means "What should I do?". Notice that Naruto's character always uses the suffix "–te bayo". It's a typical characteristic of Naruto-kun' way of speaking.