Yes, I said that this would be a one-shot, but some of my reviewers 'asked' me to put up a second so this will then turn into a two-shot instead of a one-shot, though this is the last chapter: ) So, neways, this is taking place a couple of days after the other took place.
Warnings: Still shonen ai, and much angst in the beginning, but nothing too bad. Just...lots and lots of thinking. : )
Disclaimer: oO Still don't own Naruto...
)))))With Sasuke(((((
It was a two weeks after the accident, and Naruto still hadn't woken. Sasuke had barely left his friend's side, even when his sensei and Sakura tried to get him away. Finally, he had said that, "I'm not moving until that dobe wakes up", and so they had finally had to leave him alone. It was around midnight, and Sasuke was getting desperate. Why didn't Naruto wake up?
"Come on, Naruto. Please wake up. Let me tell you how I feel before it's too late." Sasuke whispered, stroking Naruto's pale cheek slightly.
)))))With Naruto(((((
Naruto walked through his dream world, looking around at the familiar sights. He would've expected a happy feeling, being here where nothing could cause pain, but that wasn't the case.
He was actually, hurting, inside. Why? He'd been trying to answer that for the past few days he'd been here. There was no reason for him to hurt, nothing here could hurt him. It had to be something he had brought on himself. But what was it? That's what he couldn't figure out. What would cause him this much pain?
Every now and again, Naruto would hear his name being called by someone from reality. He didn't exactly know who, but he kept guessing that it was one of his friends. Who else would call his name out so despairingly?
Naruto's ears caught another voice from reality talking to him. "Come on, Naruto. Please wake up. Let me tell you how I feel before it's too late." Naruto's eyes widened. What the hell! Who was that? Naruto looked up at his sky, trying to figure out who it was. He had a suspicion that it was his dark haired friend, but he didn't get his hopes up.
It was at this moment that Naruto finally figured out why he was hurting so much. It wasn't caused by anything physical! It was his heart. He was longing for the real Sasuke's love, not a dream Sasuke he had thought up and gone to for refuge. He wanted to know that Uchiha Sasuke loved him for real. But how do I get back?
Naruto looked around at the forest surrounding him. There was nothing dangerous in it, unless you counted foxes as dangerous, so he could easily start exploring for a way back to reality and back to his friends. Naruto walked off of the path and into the brush, hoping to find a portal or something to help him get back.
'I've been so stupid! I should've told him instead of keeping it secret, dammit!' Naruto thought, his senses on high alert.
)))))With Sasuke(((((
Sasuke was holding Naruto's hand gently in his own, sure that no one was going to be coming into the room for a bit, seeing as how the nurses and doctors hated treating 'the demon boy'.
Sasuke smirked as he remembered when Kakashi had threatened the doctors if they didn't treat Naruto as they would him, and he was there to back up the threat, too.
The smirk faded, however, as his dark eyes rested on the pale face of his friend.
'He looks so fragile like this. It doesn't suit him at all. This can't be the loud-mouth, knucle-headed Naruto that I know. He looks so...helpless.' If only Sasuke had been paying more attention. Then none of this would've happened and Naruto would still be here, loud, bragging, and eating ramen. Sasuke felt like it was his fault that Naruto was now in this coma, like he hadn't been able to protect Naruto like he should've.
Tears of fury, regret, and helplessness welled in Sasuke's eyes. "Naruto. Please. Wake up before I go out of my mind without you!" Sasuke whispered as he leaned forward, burying his face in the sheets beside Naruto's still body.
)))))With Naruto(((((
Naruto's nose picked up the scent of...tears? Why would he smell tears when there was no one except him around? Was someone in reality crying over him? Or was it just his imagination again, playing off of his hopes that someone actually cared about him.
'What am I doing? I'm trying to get back to the world that shuns and hates me. Why?' And yet Naruto didn't need someone to answer him. He already knew the answer himself. 'Because I need the real Sasuke to love me, not my fantasies.'
Naruto stopped as his eyes found a large tree that he had never seen before. He walked up to it slowly, reaching out his hand to touch it, when suddenly, a light shined from part of it. Naruto yelped and jumped back in a fighting stance, waiting for an attack from an enemy.
But the attack never came. When the light cleared, a door of solid gold was where there had been nothing but tree bark. 'Could this be my ticket to reality?' Naruto thought, a smile playing on his lips as he made to open the door.
"If you go back to reality now, Naruto, you will not be able to come back here." Naruto jumped as he turned his head to look at his fantasy Sasuke. Naruto nodded.
"I know, but I...I need to face up to my problems instead of running away from them. And besides...I think someone's waiting for me to wake up."
Fantasy Sasuke nodded, a sad smile on his lips. "Then good-bye, Uzumaki Naruto. You'll no longer need me to heal your heart." Naruto nodded as he turned back to the golden door, his hand resting on the knob in hesitation, before finally turning and opening it. He looked back at fantasy Sasuke for just a few seconds before stepping through the door. He never did return to that world of his out of loneliness or heart-ache.
)))))In reality(((((
Sasuke had just about cried out all of his tears and was about to leave the room, seeing as how his sensei was supposed to be coming in a few minutes, when something spectacular happened. He felt Naruto's fingers twitch. Sasuke's head snapped up in shock as he stared into the sky blue eyes he had missed so much.
"Hey...Sasuke." Naruto whispered hoarsely, not having used his voice in a while. Tears once again welled in Sasuke's obsidian eyes, but this time because of joy, as he wrapped the younger shinobi in a tight embrace.
"H-Hey, dobe. G-Glad to have you back." Sasuke whispered.
The two Genin heard the door click open and their sensei and Sakura stood in the doorframe, their mouths hanging open and their eyes wide. Sasuke looked up at them and smiled brightly.
"H-He's back."
Naruto nodded, a weak smile playing on his lips. "And I'm never leaving again. I promise." He whispered, mostly to Sasuke than to his sensei or Sakura. Naruto didn't object when he felt Sasuke's lips on his. Instead, he smiled inwardly and returned the kiss. With the feel of Sasuke's tongue against his own, Naruto knew that he had made the right decision, coming back to reality. How could he have ever recreated the feeling of Sasuke kissing him like this?
)))))End(((((
There! Jeez, people! Are you happy? I was working on this when I read the first review telling me to put up another chapter, but you've got to give me time, here! I can't write something like this in just five minutes! Well, actually, I can, but that's not the point! Still, your reviews were interesting. :laughs: Neways, I hope you liked the ending to this and I'm gonna go work on the next (and last) chapter of Whisper, since someone wants me to put the fight scene between our fave Genins and Orochinaru. : )
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