Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto, nor will I ever…. I don't think I'll own anything great in my life time.
A/N: Just out of curiosity... how many people would like this to be narusasu? and how many care for elaborate battle scenes?
These words came to my head while sitting at work. At first they seem to speak about a woman who suddenly lost her husband, but now it seems strangely appropriate to Naruto's current world.
The world falls apart again. You surely wish it didn't. But this is how it all ends. No choice in the matter whatsoever.
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After a month of no training, Naruto was getting restless. Though everyone thought of Naruto as lazy, even Naruto had limits to how much he could sleep and do nothing.
Naruto walked through the village to the Hokage tower with Sasuke at his side, watching as people went about their business for the day.
When they got there Tsunade was ready and waiting for them. Naruto took a seat on an examining table of an examination room and took of his shirt as she commanded while Sasuke stood in a corner by the window staring not out the window but at Naruto.
Tsunade-sama began her examination of Naruto immediately. She held her glowing with chakra hand over Naruto's chest for a while before she moved to another area of Naruto's torso to check his other organs. She finished in a couple of minutes.
"How are you feeling Naruto?" Tsunade-sama asked.
"Good, great." Naruto said enthusiastically.
"That's good, but you're not done healing. Sorry Naruto but you're going to have to stay away from training for another month."
"Okay." Naruto said, with no hint of intended disobedience in his voice.
Tsunade searched Naruto's face for a hint of rebelliousness but found none. She then remembered what Sakura had said to her. "You know." She whispered and Sasuke's ear pricked up.
"Hai." Naruto said with an emotionless face.
Tsunade shook her head and turned away from Naruto to walk over to a cabinet. "No training for another month." she said authoritatively. She opened the cabinet door and took out a pack from a shelf. She crushed it in her hands and placed it on her forehead.
She turned and sighed. "The headaches never stop."
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Sasuke had not been ordered to stay with Naruto, he had also not been told it was okay to leave Naruto, so he stayed by Naruto's side. In fact after all this time, it only felt natural to stay by Naruto's side.
Sasuke was standing in Naruto's apartment watching the blonde as he went about making his dinner.
"Move in with me." Sasuke said to the blonde standing in front of him.
"Wha?" Naruto asked as if he hadn't heard what the dark eyed boy said.
"I'm getting tired of sleeping on the floor." Stated Sasuke emotionlessly.
"You don't have to stay here every night!" Naruto threw back.
"Then who would watch you?" Sasuke said with anger in his voice.
"You don't have to watch me; I can take care of myself." Naruto said reflecting the same anger as Sasuke.
"You obviously can't, that's why Tsunade-sama assigned me to you. Because she knew you would go out training in the night and hurt yourself."
"Tsunade-sama assigned you to me because she didn't know what to do with you. She couldn't just give you missions!" Naruto yelled back, but then bit his lip as he realized what he had said.
"Pft." Sasuke huffed, then turned and jumped out Naruto's window.
Naruto stood there dead still. Then he cursed at himself for being so stupid.
There was a knock at the door suddenly and Naruto whet to answer it.
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Sasuke went back to his old apartment that he had used before he had left. The only reason it was still open to him is because the Uchiha estate owned the apartment. He opened the sliding door to the balcony and then proceeded to do some house cleaning.
He changed the bedding on his bed and dusted all the furniture in the apartment, which took him an hour and was getting ready to go grocery shopping when he remembered he had no money; he had been living off of the dobe all this time. Surely the council had chosen to freeze his accounts when he left, he'll have to check on that tomorrow, it was too late now. The sun was setting on the day. His stomach gave a loud growl and there was a knock at the door.
He grumbled at the thought of visitors so soon after he moved back in but he got up and went to open the door.
When he opened the door, standing in front of him was Naruto, with a big bag slung over his shoulder and a box in his hands. Sasuke looked shocked.
"Hehe…" Naurto gave a nervous laughed. "I got kicked out of my apartment."
Sasuke moved aside to let him in while Naruto kept talking.
"For me no missions mean no money, and feeding two mouths isn't cheap. Nice place." Naruto commented as he looked around the living room and the small kitchen in the corner.
Naruto put down the stuff in his hands and Sasuke was to tell him to pick it back up when Naruto grabbed his hand and dragged him out the door.
"I'm hungry. Let's go eat." Naruto stated.
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When they got back from dinner Naruto took off his shoes at the entry and put them away in the hall closet. He then went and picked up his stuff.
"Where should I put my stuff?"
Sasuke led him through the narrow living area into his spacious bedroom and then through the bathroom to his closet where it was mostly empty. Sasuke then pulled some blankets and pillows off the shelf and took them out while Naruto neatly placed his stuff in a corner and dug out his pajamas and a towel out of his bag.
He then thoughtlessly stripped off his clothes and took his towel and entered the glass walled shower. He turned on the water to steaming hot and then let the water pour down his back as he leaned his hands on the wall and let his head hang.
"Hey dobe! What are you—" Naruto turned to see a blurry Sasuke at the doorway standing still, now blushing slightly, not that Naruto could see through the steam. Sasuke immediately turned around. "Call me when you're done" and he left.
Naruto turned around again, sighed deeply and turned off the water. "No point wasting the hot water, Sasuke might kill me if he doesn't have any to use."
Naruto got dressed in his pajamas and walked out to the bedroom and saw Sasuke standing at the railing on the balcony.
"Yo Sasuke," he called out. "The shower's all yours." He then went out to the living room where the couch was already made up. He sunk into the warm blankets and sighed into a deep sleep.
Sasuke listen as Naruto crawled into the couch and waited until he could hear the soft breathing, which indicated that Naruto was asleep.
He entered his room again and closed the sliding door to the balcony. He checked on Naruto, making sure he's asleep and then went to the bathroom to take a shower himself.
He stood under the steaming hot water as it burned and turned his pale skin pink. When he got out his skin was wrinkled and pink, he felt old. He put on a pair of boxers and pulled on a t-shirt. He went out to the balcony again to get some air.
He stood at the railing breathing in fresh air and looking over the village while also listening to Naruto breathe. Suddenly there was a very loud thud in the living room and Sasuke rushed to the living room.
"Nar—" he had been about to ask if Naruto was okay, but now he could clearly see what had made the noise. Naruto had rolled off the couch on to the floor and he was still asleep. Sasuke shook his head with a small smile on his lips.
He walked to Naruto and bent over him. He untangles the blonde from the blanket and picked him up. Sasuke moved the sleeping Naruto to his own bed and covered him with the sheet and blanket. When he stepped back he noticed that Naruto's eyes moved beneath the lids. Naruto was dreaming and by the facial expression of Naruto they weren't good dreams.