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Yay! There's NaruSasu in this chapter! n.n Bwee!


Last time…

A soft whine escaped from Sasuke's lips and his eyes slowly started to open. His body suddenly became tensed, however, when he noticed he was in a room. He started to sit up but his body shook slightly, showing him that he wasn't strong enough to really be moving around and he allowed himself to lie back down, glancing over towards Naruto. "Naruto..." He whispered. "Where am I...?"
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Naruto's head shot up when Sasuke spoke and he wiped the tears from his eyes. "You're in Sakura's room... We brought you here and Sakura is going to try to fix your wound." He glanced at the wound then looked back at Sasuke. "I'm so glad you're alive."

Sasuke's eyes narrowed a little bit, but not from the fact that he was in Sakura's room or because Kakashi or Sakura saw the wound on his arm, but because Naruto had been crying. "You've been crying," He said, raising his unwounded arm and swiping a few fingers across the other's cheek were a stray tear was.

Naruto froze in his seat when Sasuke wiped the stray tear away and felt the spot where he touched go warm. He couldn't deny that he had been crying. Not when Sasuke just wiped a tear from his cheek. "... Yeah, you had me worried..."

"Sorry..." The boy mumbled, allowing his hand to drop back down onto the bed, a small sigh escaping from his lips as his stomach rumbled slightly. Yeah, he was starving, tired and weak and he was still able to maintain a decent mood without screaming at anyone... he surprised himself.

Naruto felt his heart drop when his hand dropped. Shaking his head at the apology, he muttered, "No, it's all right." He blinked as he heard a slight grumble come from Sasuke's stomach. "Would you like me to get you something to eat?" he asked, and smiled faintly.

Sasuke cracked a very small smile, yeah, a smile actually crossed the boy's lips, even if it didn't stay long. "No, I'm fine... I'm really not all that hungry." What a lie.

Naruto's eyebrows rose slightly at Sasuke's smile. "The stomach doesn't lie, Sasuke," he said, moving his head in the direction of his stomach." Naruto nearly jumped off of his chair when the door opened, but noticed that it was just Sakura and Kakashi. Catching his breath, he asked Sakura, "So... what'd your parents say?"

Sakura smiled. "My parents understood and said you could stay here for as long as you like, Sasuke-kun! Until you're all better, anyway. The rest of you can stay here until I'm all finished healing Sasuke-kun."

"I prefer to leave after you're done," Sasuke grumbled, glaring at Sakura for a moment as she walked over to the bed, sighing. "Alright, let me just see your arm then…" She murmured as Sasuke held out his arm.

Sakura flinched a little bit, wondering after she healed it what else she would find. Would she find other scars from his hurting himself? She hopped not. Unwrapping the Uchiha's arm, she placed a couple of her fingers together and held them over his arm as a light bluish-green glowing charka came from her fingers as the wound healed quickly, and the blood merely vanished. "Sasuke..." She whispered as she gazed at the now healed arm, however, his arm was covered in many other scars from him cutting himself.

Naruto let out an inaudible snarl as Sakura unwrapped the wounded arm and touched it, but stopped once she healed it completely, but he soon snarled inaudibly again once she saw all the other scars, although he, himself, was surprised.

Naruto let out an inaudible snarl as Sakura unwrapped the wounded arm and touched it, but stopped once she healed it completely, but he soon snarled inaudibly again once she saw all the other scars, although he, himself, was surprised.

Kakashi blinked as he sensed Naruto's snarling then looked from Sasuke back to Naruto, back to Sasuke, then back at Naruto, slowly figuring this out, and then muttered something not heard by the others, while gazing at Naruto.

'Fuck...' Sasuke thought, narrowing his eyes before he yanked his arm away from the girl. His whole body was tense now and he just felt like running. Running away forever. Curling his hands into fists the boy growled, shifting a bit so he could run easily. That is, if no one noticed the fact that he wasn't getting ready to run.

Sakura seemed rather paralyzed at the sight of the scars, her hands were starting to shake and her hands fell back to her side, her gaze shifting to Kakashi for a moment, her pleading gaze asking him to talk to him very, very, very soon.

Naruto lowered his head and rested his hand on Sasuke's fist and he felt tears once again threaten to surface.

Kakashi saw Sakura's look and nodded slightly after a moment then turned back to Naruto and Sasuke. "Sakura, Naruto... will you two please leave so I can have a word with Sasuke?"

Naruto looked up at Kakashi and gave him a death glare, growling. "No..."

Kakashi was taken aback by Naruto's reaction, even though he knew why he had reacted that way. He looked to Sakura with a face that plainly said, "HELP!"

Sasuke glanced down as Naruto placed a hand over his fist. He muttered a curse under his breath, before he unclenched his fists, sighing a bit. "Naruto..." He murmured, shaking his head lightly. "Just go ahead and go for a little bit... Allow Kakashi to have a... word with me. I'll be ok..."

Sakura looked at Kakashi before she glanced over towards Naruto and Sasuke. Maybe Sasuke could get him out for a little bit. Maybe...

Naruto looked to Sasuke then looked to the others, muttering a, "Ok..." He hesitantly stood up then left, sitting on the stairs near the door, waiting impatiently, not wanting to leave the bedside.

Kakashi blinked again and watched as Naruto left and his hunch was confirmed. Although, it was confirmed when Naruto almost killed him for telling him to leave for a bit. He looked toward Sakura and nodded to her.

Sakura nodded her head a bit and left the room, closing the door behind her before sitting next to Naruto. "I'm sorry..." She murmured, but said no more because to her it seemed Naruto really was pissed.

Naruto put his head in his hands. "What're you sorry for?" He let the tears flow freely into his hands. He wasn't ticked... he was more aggravated... worried... not really ticked.

"I don't know. I'm just sorry..." She responded, lowering her gaze to the ground again.

Naruto glanced at Sakura and muttered, "Sorry if I scared you..."

xxxx With Sasuke and Kakashi xxxx

Sasuke didn't bother relaxing when the two left and the door was closed, he just gazed at Kakashi. "What do you want to say?" He grumbled.

Kakashi watched as Sakura left then turned to Sasuke as he spoke. "I just want to talk. I know you're going through a lot of stress and pain with your... brother. I'd be too. I understand that. I just think it'd be better to talk about it through speech and verbal ways... not sending the message through scars and blood and self-inflicted wounds. I'm here if you ever need talking to, and apparently, so is Naruto. Sakura too, although I don't think you like her that much, do you?"

"I don't need to talk to anyone!" The boy snarled, his eyes narrowing. "Because there's nothing wrong, nothing what so ever! I'm perfectly fine! And no, I don't like her..." He said, his voice going into a low growl.

Kakashi blinked, taken aback. "Are you sure there's NOTHING you want to talk about? I didn't say anything was wrong with you..." Kakashi sighed. He knew this was going to be hard, but damn. He couldn't stop himself from asking. "What about Naruto?"

"And I'm sure there's nothing I want to talk about," Sasuke responded, sighing lightly before he turned away from Kakashi, glaring down at the ground. He shrugged his shoulders a little bit at the question about Naruto. "What about 'em?" He murmured.

Kakashi didn't believe him, but he let it go anyways. "You said you didn't like Sakura... do you like Naruto?" God, he felt like a teenaged girl.

"Why should you give a damn if I like him or not!" Sasuke growled, shifting to where he wasn't on the bed anymore and moved away from the silver haired copy-nin, moving towards the window and flinging it open, placing both of his hands on the edge of the window as if he were about to jump out, which was probably what he was going to do. But instead he just sort of stood there, glaring at the sky before he lowered his head a bit. "Damnit... I hate life..." He murmured.

"Because I'm the team leader and if there are any issues between the members of the team I'm leading, I should know," was all he said as he watched Sasuke go to the window and open it. Kakashi didn't get up, but he kept a close eye on Sasuke, knowing what he might do.

xxxx With Sakura and Naruto xxxx

"You didn't scare me all that much... Just you seem really protective of Sasuke-kun all of a sudden it sort of freaked me out..." Sakura said, sighing a little bit. "I wonder what's wrong with him..."

Naruto returned his head to his hands and muttered, "Oh... I can kind of relate to him... that's all..." He lifted his head a bit when she wondered out loud and answered, "Well, he's under a lot of stress and stuff..."then he lowered his head again. After a few moments of silence, he said, "Hey, Sakura... can I trust you and tell you something?" He couldn't believe he was actually going to say it to someone.

"Oh..." Sakura fell silent for a few moments before she blinked, glancing over towards Naruto. "Uhm, yeah. You can trust me..."

Naruto rested his head on his crossed arms on his knees. "I... I think..." he swallowed what gunk seemed to form in his throat, and then muttered, "I think I love Sasuke-kun."

Sakura froze, staring at Naruto for a few moments. "You think you love Sasuke-kun?" She asked, lowering her gaze to the ground. "I wouldn't be surprised if he liked you... that way, too. He doesn't seem too interested in girls..."

Naruto nodded to Sakura then felt his heart leap. Maybe... there was a chance? Suddenly, an odd feeling came over Naruto. "Sasuke..." then he realized what it meant."SASUKE!" He bolted up and ran into the room, causing Kakashi to look at him wide-eyed. "Shit..." Naruto cursed, knowing that he was right by the look on Kakashi's face. "No..." Tears flew down his cheeks as he ran to the window and saw Sasuke about a foot down. Naruto jumped out the window, ignoring Kakashi's yells to stop, and within a few seconds, he hit the ground, felt Sasuke land on top of him, and everything went black.


Doe: Bwahaha. I know how you all love the cliffhangers, so there you go. n.n