Fic Slayr - Tell his friends what? -truthfully confused-

Note : I love my cliffhangers. It tortures my reviewers and makes them send funny reviews. -glee-

WhitteGarnet - Sasuke was comparing...vampire to Kyuubi...or...well...vice versa actually, but oh well...

KiyokoCartoonist - Why are you prodding me? -cute confused look-

P.S. Onee-chan made a comment on the last thing (well, basically last thing) Sasuke does in this chapter. I told her that, by that point, he didn't care anymore except for his own feelings. -smile- You'll see what I mean.

Chapter 6

This shall be my last chapter! I hope you liked it!

Pale...He was so...pale...

No, not the pale that always seemed to adorn his beautiful, angelic looks. Not the regular pale that seemed to run in his family. The contrast between their skins had been a semblance of night and day, but now...it was deeper than that...

Now the difference was that of life and death.

The paleness of his skin was scary and deathly. The feel of cold skin beneath his fingers, made the boy staring flinch back in alarm.

No...it wasn't supposed to be like this! It wasn't supposed to happen like this!

And he took off running, the air coming off of him making the pale boy's hair flutter...lying still on the hospital bed...

-

He walked through town, well...the outskirts of town. He wondered whether he should just go and live in the forest to his right...But then...

Sasuke...

Sasuke's pale face returned to haunt him and Naruto felt the tears build up...But he wouldn't let them fall...That would show even more weakness to the dark haired boy...

"Naruto..."

It was spoken with venom dripping from every fiber of their being...Every syllable and letter, drenched in hate...Turning around in slight surprise, Naruto found himself face to face with none other than Ino...his first victim...

"Naruto..." her head was down, so he couldn't see her expression. But she was shaking...her blonde hair shook back and forth when the girl began shaking her head.

Ino rose her head in the blink of an eye, her eyes portraying even more distaste than her voice. Her voice shook with her hate too, but her eyes also showed a certain sadness...

"You Bastard!" she rushed at him, throwing ninja stars at him as she went.

Naruto didn't even try to block. He let them throw him backwards, pinning him to the tree 5 ft behind him. A little bit of blood leaked out of his slightly cut shoulder, but he paid it no heed. Keeping his head down, the sun-blonde let her come at him.

Ino punched Naruto in the right cheek when he glanced up at her, knocking his head down again. Afterwards, she punched the tree next to his head, above his right shoulder with her left hand.

"You..." her voice shook, but with more sadness to it now..."How...how could you? We were your friends!"

"Friendship...I don't...have any...fr-"

"You idiot!" Ino cut him off. "You could've killed someone...Hinata nearly died!"

"I know...I know..." Naruto whispered.

"If you know...then why did you attack her in the first place?" Ino's voice was soft...Then it rose again. "I hate you! I hate your guts! You bastard!"

Tears were rolling down her cheeks as she yelled at him. Ino tore a kunai from her pouch and set it right next to Naruto's neck.

"I'll kill you...You...and...Sasuke...He was just trying to help!" she yelled. "I'll kill you!"

"Then go ahead and do it..."

"Huh?" Ino paused, staring at Naruto's lowered head in confusion, tears still pouring down her cheeks.

Naruto raised his head, his eyes locking with Ino's...

"Kill me! You said you would! I deserve it!...So kill me..." Naruto's voice softened, but he didn't lower his eyes or his head.

The kunai drew away from his neck...the fist was removed from the tree next to his head...Naruto had only a bit of surprise showing on his face as Ino backed away. She suddenly closed her eyes, and yelled as she threw the kunai deep into the ground between herself and Naruto.

"Dammit!"

And then she turned around...and ran off...with tears rolling down her cheeks...

Naruto lowered his head again, tears spilling from his eyes to fall as precious gems to the ground, where they shattered...Like broken dreams...on the harsh ground beneath him...

-

"Ino?" Kiba let out in confusion. Hinata and Sakura stopped too.

The three of them had been going to find Ino, so they could go to the hospital to see...

"Ino!" Sakura grabbed her by the shoulders, holding her close as the girl realized she was no longer running...But embraced by warm arms...

"S-sakura?" she breathed out, still crying. "I...I couldn't...do it..."

"Couldn't...do what?" Hinata asked softly.

"I couldn't kill him!" she held onto Sakura's shirt.

"You...you went to kill...Naru-"

"Yes..."

"Ino!" Kiba yelled in surprise. "Why?"

"He attacked us! Nearly killed us!...I should've...I should've been able to...But I-"

"What happened?" Hinata asked when she saw Ino was having trouble.

"I found him...I saw him near the edge of town...and the forest...I felt anger fill my being...I wanted to hurt him...so bad..." she started. "He just let me pin him to the tree with my throwing stars, he didn't fight back...And when I started yelling at him, cursing him...he spoke to me...and he sounded so defeated..."

"Defeated?" Sakura repeated, confused. Naruto? She'd never heard him sound like that...had she?

"He said he had no friends, and I blew up at him again...I told him that I was going to kill him, because I hated him...for what he did to Sasuke...for what he did to us..." Everyone flinched when she mentioned Sasuke... "And he...he..."

"He what?" Kiba asked.

"He told me...to do it..." they all started. "Naruto wanted...to die...His eyes rose to meet mine...they were begging me...to kill him..." They are wore the same sad, surprised expressions. "And I...I couldn't do it...I couldn't do it!" she sank to the floor. "I couldn't kill him...because..."

"He was asking...because he wanted to die...and because, most of all, you didn't want to. Naruto doesn't deserve to die, does he? We all know he didn't do what he did on purpose. But I'm sure Sasuke knows what happened...but he's..."

"Right now, he's in the hospital...With a high possibility that he'll die..." Sakura whispered.

"It's been a week now, hasn't it?" Hinata muttered. "It's seemed like...so much longer...hasn't it?" Hinata looked at the sky. "I've seen Naruto-kun..." they looked at her, Ino's eyes red from crying. "He goes to the hospital...every day...and leaves looking extremely sad..."

"See Ino? It was alright you didn't kill Naruto..." Sakura assured her, holding her tightly again, trying to sooth the blonde.

"No..." Ino whispered. "He's already...dead..."

-

In the forest...Naruto lay against the same tree he'd been pinned to. The throwing stars were scattered around him on the ground. His head was down. Blue eyes were half-lidded, but dimmed.

'If Sasuke dies...I'll know it was all...my fault...' he thought sadly.

Naruto raised his head to the sky, stars blinking slowly into existence. Naruto knew that somewhere, a star was going out. The light blue color that covered the sky usually, now slowly turning to a deep blue. Nearing black.

There was no moon out tonight...

'Please...if anyone's listening...Don't let him die...He doesn't deserve it...Sasuke is...He's...' He exhaled. 'Beautiful...wonderful...angelic...sad...tormented...needy...stubborn...and so much more...' a small, sad smile graced his lips. The first smile in more than a week...'I've come to terms with it...I love him...'

A star blinked, and the star next to it blinked soon after...

'It's like a lovely dance...One I've been sitting out of my entire life...Sasuke...Make it through this...You deserve...you deserve to dance...'

-

In the darkness, a spotlight lit the people on the dance floor. They were spinning and flying gracefully across the floor. The spotlight spun to light the ones in the chairs...all looking on in awe or sorrow. The light stopped on a blonde, who rose his head from the ground.

He squinted in it's brightness, his eyes floating to the one sitting next to him. The light turned to the dark haired boy sitting in the chair next to him...This one also raised his head.

He was lifted up out of the chair as if on wings, his clothing of rags was transformed into elegant dance outfit. He looked himself over in awe, turning his head to where the chairs had been. But they were gone...

And so was the blonde boy, who had passed him the spotlight...He could hear the voice...

'You deserve to dance...'

His eyes softened a bit.

-

Sasuke slowly came back to consciousness. His eyes were still closed, the steady sounds of beeps entering his mind. Black eyes eased open, met with a dark room. It was a hospital room...Why was he there?

Oh right...the forest...Kyuubi...Narut-

"Naruto!" he shot up in the bed, and amazingly...felt no pain.

Looking himself over, Sasuke's eyes were met with the sight of gentle blue chakra swirling around him. He recalled his dream, the dance floor...And he stuck his hands in the blue.

It swirled around and over his pale hands, warming them. Sasuke knew...this was Naruto's...Naruto was healing him...He held the chakra in his hands with care, bringing the warmth to his face.

'Naruto...You...' he felt tears slipping past his defenses, down his cheeks, and onto the sheets below. 'This is ridiculous...why am I crying?' he sniffed as he tried to wipe them away, to no avail. 'Naruto...why am I-?'

He looked to the blue chakra around him, then tore the sheets off and grabbed his clothes from the bedside table. Changing into his own clothes, he raced out of the hospital, the blue chakra vanished as he ran...it was unable to keep up. Only the chakra he held lovingly in his hands was left...

He found himself at the edge of the forest, running along it on the edge of the city. He stopped when his eyes landed on his form...Laying still on the ground.

He could hear thunder in the distance...but his mind blocked it out. The blonde was laying there...eyes closed...and pale...

Paler than Sasuke had ever seen him. He felt his heart tear...

'No...no no no!' his mind yelled.

Sasuke held the chakra in one hand, the other one, his right hand, reaching out to Naruto's face. His fingers brushed the skin, and he flinched away.

Cold...

The dark boy felt the tears pouring down his face. He cupped Naruto's cheek, caressing the whisker marks with his thumb. No...this wasn't right...

'You weren't supposed to...You weren't...Naruto!' he held his left hand, with the last of Naruto's chakra in it, to his heart. The tears were falling still...

The heat in his left hand vanished, and Sasuke pulled it away from him. Opening his hand, Sasuke saw the chakra was gone. He felt his world crumble as he continued to subconsciously stroke Naruto's cheek...

The tears multiplied ten fold, but no one was around to see...so he didn't care anymore...

It was over...it was all over...

For some reason, he was filled with a strange sort of warmth...But it just made his heart ache more. Leaning in, Sasuke placed his lips to Naruto's...feeling how cold they were beneath his own...

'Naruto...Don't leave me...Please! This isn't right! It isn't...' his tears landed on Naruto's eyes, making it seem like they were crying together.

The warmth he'd felt slowly dispersed...and he could hear the thunder, closer this time. The lightning flashed close at hand, lighting up everything around them...and making both boys glow in the darkness that followed...

"Nn..."

Sasuke froze. He pulled away and looked at the blonde on the ground. Blue eyes opened and were met by black ones...Both boys were frozen in time as the rain began to pour...

Sasuke blinked out of his stupor first, pushing forward and kissing Naruto again. Naruto's eyes widened, and before he could react...Sasuke pulled away.

"The first time I kissed you...was an accident...The second time...you were dead..." his voice sounded forced at the last part, Naruto noticed. "I don't ever...want you to do that...again...Do you hear me?" his voice was quiet but forceful.

Naruto merely nodded. He pulled Sasuke in for their 4th kiss.

-

The dark haired boy on the dance floor finally turned away from where the chairs had been as a footstep sounded silently behind him. Black eyes met smiling blue. Both of them smiled, taking each other's hands and walking to the middle of the floor. The spotlight followed these newest additions as they danced around all the others, smiling...

That's the end! For info, Kyuubi kinda...poofed as soon as Sasuke passed out...I still don't know why exactly...but he did...

And, the word 'right' played a big role in this story. The image in the bathroom mirror was 'right' but Kyuubi controlling Naruto, and Naruto dying, weren't 'right.'

Please review and I hope you enjoyed it! -smile-