Title: Never Really Home (Chapter Thirteen)

Pairing: Sasuke/Naruto, Kakashi/Iruka, one-sided Sakura/Sasuke, hints of Lee/Naruto

Rating: M mostly for language, but for some sexual content as well.

Warnings: Eventual spoilers up to recent chapters.

Disclaimers: Don't own Naruto.

Acting quickly, Naruto turned his back to the water and, using his chakra, clung to the cliff wall with his feet, cradling Sasuke in his arms.

"Sasuke, you bastard!"

"I was about to say the same thing to you, idiot!"

Naruto walked backwards down the cliff. As he reached the bottom, he shoved Sasuke onto a ledge behind the waterfall. "What the fuck were you doing?"

Sasuke turned his back to Naruto and spoke in a voice that was barely audible. "What do you think I was doing?"

Naruto kicked Sasuke's head in frustration, and the Uchiha didn't even attempt to stop his own body from slamming into the icy rock wall. "Why would you try and stab yourself?"

Sasuke's face was in shadow as he slowly picked up his bruised body. "There's no point in living anymore."

Naruto gave Sasuke another hard push. "Don't say stuff like that."

Sasuke scowled. "And why not?" He drove his fist into the blonde's stomach. "What the fuck am I supposed to do if Itachi is dead?"

Naruto gave the Uchiha a blank stare. "Itachi is dead?"

Sasuke continued on his self pitying rant. "I've lived my entire life training and preparing so that I could kill my brother. And now he's fucking DEAD and what am I supposed…to…do?" Sasuke's voice cracked as the full weight of what his brother's death meant hit him for the first time. "What am I supposed to do?" he gasped, trying to keep the tears in. "What am I supposed to do? What is left for me?"

"Sasuke, I always knew you were alone. I really wanted to become like you. You were my inspiration."

Naruto walked over to the Uchiha and lifted up his chin to look into his watery black eyes. "I am left for you."

The blonde's hand gently glided up to Sasuke's cheek and brushed away the tears that had fallen.

Sasuke could barely breath. His heart fluttered and then skipped a beat as the blond lowered his lips to barely skim the Uchiha's. "I'm what you're supposed to do," Naruto whispered before he caught Sasuke's lips in his own again, this time in a more fiery kiss.

"Naruto…" the Uchiha moaned as they pulled apart.

"I will always be there for you, Sasuke," smiled the blond. He then embraced his sobbing friend as if he would never let him go.

What? What is this story?

I'm sure that anyone who had this alerted was like "wtf."

And I was, too. I haven't written a real chapter for this story since June, and it would have continued this way if me buddy Talia hadn't come over.

Yeah, um just pretend there is a yaoi scene after that, or someone else write it for me or something, 'cuz after one more chapter, this thing is over and outta my hair, and it will be in like a couple minutes if Talia and I get our priorities straight.

lalala keep reading and check your email, soon!