Static...
Somewhere in Konoha, Naruto is plopped down on his shabby couch, watching his poor quaility television, which was tuned to the news. Sasuke had left early for some anime convention a few hours away from Konoha, so he was left alone.
For four months, he and Sasuke have been going out and lived together and slept together all that time. People thought it was weird. They criticized them, and teased them and bullied them. Naruto, being the sensitive one, always wanted to break down and cry, but before he could, his Sasuke would always hold him and comfort him.
Naruto shift in his spot and listened boredly.
"And thats the weather for today. Patty."
"Thank you, Tom, for that awesome report." Patty shuffled her papers around and coughed and looked up at the camera. "Breaking news, an anime convention has gone wrong. There's been some accident involving guns, bombs, and shinobi from other villages. Police say only one person died, and several injured. How this one person died was tragic... and... quiet selfish too; the killer that is."
Naruto paid close attention, he knew his Sasuke wouldn't be that weak to die there and he isn't injured thats easily, but something told him to listen.
"Ahem... Reports and wittnesses say that a young man, named-" Naruto sneezed and missed the name, "about twenty-one years old, was trying to escape from the convention when the shinobi came and threw the first bomb. While he was running, a chubby old man ran back for some... food, and when he turned to run, the intruders had guns and were shooting people; most have fled by now.
"Well, the young man saw him and went back to get him out of the way, but as he got there, the old man grabbed the young one and threw him in front of him and at that instant... the young man was shot in the chest, right on his heart."
Naruto couldn't believe that old man's actions and wanted to beat the crap out of him so bad.
"Though he suceeded... saving the old man's life... Uchiha Sasuke lost his own..."
Naruto choked on his own saliva.
He couldn't belive his ears.
Sasuke... his Sasuke... His Sasuke that always protected him and loved him like no one else... His Sasuke!
"No..." Naruto pleaded, as he fell off the couch and on his knees. "No.. please... Not my Sasuke..."
Tears were rolling down Naruto's blue eyes as his silent sobs were heard all over the apartment he lived in.
"Oi, dobe." a voice called from no where.
"S-Sasuke?" Naruto whispered as he looked up.
"Over here."
Naruto turned his heard to the window, which the early morning light came out of, and there, sitting on the window pane, was Uchiha Sasuke. Though his whole body was faded, Naruto didn't care.
"Sasuke... I- I... they said..." Naruto said as he stood up, shakily.
"Yea... I am dead..." Sasuke said as he looked at Naruto with his dark coal eyes. "I just wanted to come back and tell you something before I leave, which I forgot to tell you this morning... before I left."
"W-what is it?"
Sasuke approached Naruto, faded as he drew away from the light, but Naruto took a few steps into the light, so he could still see his Sasuke a little longer.
When Sasuke reached Naruto, he grabbed his waist and planted his lips to his small Naruto's soft lips. After he pulled back, a small sympathetic smile appeared on his face, and he stared into Naruto's tear filled eyes.
"I will always love you, my Naru-chan," Sasuke began walking away. Then he stopped before he reached the window. "I'll wait for you."
"Sasuke..." Naruto said, but then, before his eyes, his Sasuke disappeared, forever. "I will... always love you, too..." and he dropped to his knees and cried his heart out.
As he cried, a pair of strong, invisible arms wrapped around him, and they stayed like that for hours, in each other's comfort.
"Naruto... I will always... protect you."
In the background, his television lost connection and was nothing but static.
