(A/N…sorry for the long wait but i was on vacation without a computer but i got a lot written down so here it is)

"" someone talking

'' someone thinking

FLASHBACK well flashback

Disclaimer: all though i would like to i don't own Naruto…

Naruto walked hastily to his locker when he heard his name called. Turning around he noticed Temari running up to him. "What's the matter?" he asked confused.

"Nothing it's just that you forgot the homework for global 'cause you left so fast." she replied handing him the worksheet.

"Yeah i guess i did, thank you."

She smiled in return but it turned into a frown. "You're going to see Sasuke aren't you?"

"Of course, it's my fault he got hit by that car in the first place." Naruto said, grimly taking the books out of his bag and into his locker.

"Don't your parents find it wrong that you're spending all this time out of the house? You're not even doing your homework; your grades are falling." she said sounding like she was his mother. "You're eating what the people give you at the hospital and you even stay there. When was the last time you went home Naruto?" she continued, eyeing the change of clothes stuffed in his bag under books from time to time.

"Look, I said that I'd stay with the bastard till he woke up, say what i need to say, make it up to him in someway than continue on with my boring life." he said getting annoyed; wincing when he shut his locker. 'That is if i can survive those beatings.' the blond added in his head.

Naruto stayed with Sasuke longer and longer each day, soon starting to stay throughout the night too. When he did need to go home from time to time to take a shower or get a change of clothes, Sieto was always there waiting from him, cracking his knuckles. The beatings worse the longer he stayed out but he didn't care; it was his entire fault he always reminded himself. His self-proclaimed split personality was also getting exhausted from constantly intervening Naruto's beatings. Though the sudden rebellion from the blond only seemed to fuel his 'father's' anger now. Even Kyuubi couldn't escape the beating without a bruise or two now.

Temari only watched the blond leave through worried eyes. Ever since the car accident sent Sasuke to the hospital, Naruto seemed cold and distant towards everyone, even his favorite teacher Iruka. 'You're really taking this hard, aren't you Naruto?'

Naruto gazed at the ground as he walked towards the hospital. It had been raining all week and this was the first sunny day in awhile. Moving his azure eyes he looked over at his arm. 'I gave him blood….so why, why isn't he awake already?!' he yelled in his mind.

Flashback

Naruto walked a few paces behind the cocky doctor who soon disappeared into a room. Following him in, the blond squinted his eyes as the fluorescent lights in the room were turned on.

The blond slowly reopened his eyes fully, eventually getting use to the luminosity. The room was a pale creamy color with one window adorned with curtains. The colors reminded him of Sasuke's skin. However, his eyes quickly washed over the rest of the room, uncovering test tubes and needles adorning counter tops.

Naruto gulped and stared blank ahead in confusion and slight fear at what was going on. "Ah….."

"Well what are you just standing there for, come and sit down!" the doctor said now clearly annoyed and started preparing a needle.

Slowly walking over to the only chair in the room, the blond looked at it than hesitantly sat down. "W-What exactly a-are w-we doing here?" the blond asked now afraid, gripping the arms of the chair like he was in the electric chair about to get shocked.

Seeing as the needle was all prepared the doctor walked over to Naruto with a what-are-you-stupid look. "Needle, tube, you…figure it out kid, we're drawing blood. We have you're files with us and your blood type is O meaning you can give to anyone. In short kid, it will help save your friend. Ever heard of a blood transfusion." he explained in annoyance.

"Well sorry I'm not a doctor." Naruto murmured, pissed off at the doctor's attitude and looked away. "MOTHER FU…!" Naruto yelled in surprise at the sudden pain in his arm. Turning his eyes back to where they were before, he noticed the doctor had already stuck the needle in without warning him.

'He's more of a bastard that Sasuke and Sieto combined…….well maybe I'm exaggerating.' he thought, glaring down at the man than staring at the needle now connected to a tube. He soon regretted that choice when a thick red liquid started to fill it. Quickly turning away he calmed his breathing so he would throw up. 'I've seen enough blood today thank you very much!'

"Feel like you're going to throw up kid?"

"Yes actually! I've seen enough blood today thank you very much!" Naruto yelled voicing his thoughts out loud.

The man opened his mouth to reply but instead closed it and simply smiled. Naruto glared at him enraged. 'That teme is close to dieing and all he can think about is making fun of me!'

The blond sat glaring at the cocky doctor as he pulled out the needle, cleaned up the little mark and taped some gauze on it. Taking the two tubes full of blood from a nearby table, he stood up and walked to the door.

"Go get a nurse to clean up those scratches you got." he advised then left.

End Flashback

Naruto sat on the bench outside the hospital looking down at a puddle. Visiting hours at the hospital didn't start for another ten minutes.

"Don't worry so much, I'm sure the bastard will be fine." Kyuubi said, the reflection in the puddle, quickly changing to fit Kyuubi's appearance.

"That's easy for you to say, you weren't the one who almost got ran over by a car but instead the jackass who you met two days ago saves your ass instead, almost dieing. What he did was suicide, does he want to die or something!" the blond yelled ignoring the now multiple people staring at him. Some held worry in their eyes for the blonde's mental well being, others walking back faster or backing away in fear.

"Well actually…"

"Shut-up!" Naruto yelled realizing what he said. Standing up, Naruto threw his school bag over his shoulder. "Sorry I guess I'm a bit stressed." he whispered.

"A little…?" Kyuubi said but the blond just walked away.

It was true, Naruto had homework to make-up, if what Temari said was true then he was a dead man walking. He also had to take care of Sasuke, well he didn't have to but he wanted to, and he had to work on the project which he had nothing for so far, that was due in two weeks. Not to mention all the added stress of his new responsibilities made his wounds heal extra slow.

In all truth, Naruto felt like passing out but he wanted to stay up long enough for him to apologize to Sasuke.

Walking through the hospital doors, he noticed one of the nurses; in fact it was the same nurse that let him ride in the ambulance that day, arguing with a pink-haired girl and a blonde haired girl.

"I'm sorry but Mr. Uchiha needs his rest and you girls are too noisy. For the last time you can't visit him until he is awake." she explained to them.

"That's the thing thought, we have a feeling that Sasuke-kun's going to wake up today." they both yelled at once.

"I doubt he will, he's lost too much blood, he'd have to have amazing physical strength." the nurse said.

"And Sasuke-kun's strong, real strong!" both girls both yelled in unison again.

The nurse only sighed than shook her head 'no'. Reopening her eyes that she had just shut, she caught sight the blond-haired boy and smiled and waved in greeting to him.

Naruto waved back, noticing the death glares from Sakura and Ino, the girls instantly starting to complain to the nurse again.

"Why does he get to visit Sasuke-kun, he's the one who got Sasuke-kun almost killed."

The nurse glared at them, pissed that they were insulting, in her eyes, the sweet blond boy. "Naruto, I mean Mr. Uzumaki, has done nothing here but car for Mr. Uchiha. He does not disturb the Mr. Uchiha or any other patient! Now I'm going to ask you one last time to please leave." she said defending Naruto.

Naruto smiled only widened at the silly crestfallen looks on the girls' faces. 'Take that bitches!' he yelled in his head than walked towards the elevator; once again waving to the nurse who was now shooing away the annoying parasites that clutched to Sasuke.

Pressing the button, he waited for the elevator to come to the floor he was on. A beeping signaling that the elevator had arrived; the doors opening to reveal a female doctor, her blonde-hair back in pigtails with chocolate brown eyes. Her eye brows were furrowed in anger or concentration or both as she pushed by him. "Move it brat!" she yelled.

Naruto stumbled to the side as the lady pushed him aside. "Man are all the doctors here all like that, but I do feel like I've seen her before, whatever." he mumbled.

Pushing the incident to the back of his mind, he walked into the elevator and pressed the button for the fourth level. Sighing, the blond leaned against the back wall of the elevator as the lights changed as he moved up the floors. One more beeping signaled that he had arrived at that floor. Walking out when the doors opened, Naruto made his way to Sasuke's room. Slowly opening the door, his blue eyes met the familiar sight of a pale Uchiha wrapped up in even whiter sheets. The beeping of the ECG machine next to him saying that the raven had a normal heart beat.

Pulling a chair up beside Sasuke's bed, Naruto sat down and looked sadly down at the unconscious raven.

"Hey you bastard, you gonna wake up today, i don't how many more beating I can take." Naruto said just staring at the raven. Sight, Naruto gave up staring and grabbed his bag from where he had thrown it on the ground and started doing homework.

'It's really warm, does that mean I'm alive? Damnit, i can't feel my body. Just wait till i see that idiot, I'm gonna punch him hard enough that he does know what it's like to be hit by a car. But where the hell is that loser…everything here is black…wow, maybe opening my eyes will help. Damn, why are they so heavy!'

With much difficulty, Sasuke opened his eyes half way to see an empty room and a beeping ECG machine.

'What a wonderful welcoming party.' he thought seeing as he was alone. 'Well it's better than screaming fan girls. They need to get a life.' he complained.

Suddenly he felt something, a slight squeeze of his hand. Straining his neck, the raven looked down at blond hair and a calm sleeping face. 'Naruto…?' he thought, his mouth not exactly ready to talk.

Then he felt it again, this time a bit harder, his hand was squeezed. Moving charcoal eyes, he saw his hand tightly intertwined by Naruto's slightly smaller one. 'What the hell!' his mind screamed and yet he made no attempt to move his hand away. 'I'm just too tired to move that's all.' his mind said coming up with an excuse as to why he didn't move.

Looking back at the blonde's face, he noticed blond eye brows now furrowed and sweat beginning to cover the surface of his face. His breathing turning from calm to ragged. 'Is he having a nightmare?'

His question was answered when his hand was once again tightly squeezed only this time the pressure remained.

"Don't'……….kill me." the blond whispered as tears feel down his cheeks. This made Sasuke's eyes widen in shock. 'I've got to wake him up somehow.' he thought. Doing the only thing he could think of, Sasuke released Naruto's hand and whacked him over the head as hard as he could, which was surprisingly was pretty hard.

Waking up startled was not a good thing for Naruto. After screaming, he proceeded with falling out of the chair he was sitting in and onto the linoleum floors. "What the hell? What's going on? Are we being shot at, mugged, or are we going to be blown up in 12.45 seconds?!" he screamed sitting back on his legs and frantically looking around.

'What a spastic person.' "Nothing bad like that is happening loser." Sasuke said glaring at the startled blond.

"Well sorry when I'm just woken up all of a sudden by a bastard who…" Naruto trailed off than rubbed his eyes as if thinking he was still asleep.

Without warning, Naruto lunched himself at Sasuke locking him into a hug. "Sasuke you're awake. Next time let me get ran over by a car instead of you. So…how do you feel, are you in pain, does this hurt, does this?" Naruto asked, running to different places over the raven's body and then poking them. When he got to Sasuke's right wrist and poked it, he head Sasuke grunt in minor pain. However, the worried blond took it the wrong way and instantly ran out of the room to get a nurse.

'Let's see he's a bipolar, a pessimist, an idiot and a worried little child. Annoying most of the time but some times he can be sweet i guess, all thought I've never seen it. What an interesting kid.' His mind wandered but concluded its own vision of the blond just as zed boy walked in with a nurse.

The nurse smiling in a greeting as she walked over to the Uchiha's wrist which Naruto must have already explained to her. Carefully picking up the wrist, she exclaimed it than walked back to Naruto who hadn't walked away from the doorway.

"I'll be right back with some bandages." she said then exited the room.

Sasuke waited for Naruto to come back over next to him but he never did. He just stood there looking at the ground with guilty eyes. He looked like he wanted to say something but couldn't bring himself to do it.

"You got something to say dobe, it's definitely not like you to keep quiet."

"H-How can….how can you still want to talk to me after what happened?" the blond asked quietly.

"What are you a moron?" the raven asked then watched as Naruto looked taken aback from the ferocity of the statement. "Look Naruto, I came after you on my own free will, I pushed you out of the way on my own whim. You shouldn't blame yourself i frickin' choose to do you loser!" Sasuke yelled, angered by the question. His knuckles turning white from the sudden tight hold he had in the bed sheets.

Naruto eyes widened in shock as Sasuke explained. But that wasn't what surprised him the most. Sasuke had actually…

"All right Mr. Uchiha let me see that wrist." the nurse said as she entered the room.

The nurse gently wrapped Sasuke's wrist up, failing to notice the tense atmosphere that had settled between Naruto and Sasuke. "There you go." she said as she finished wrapping it up. "Press this button on the wall if you need anything else." she answered than proceeded to the door. "Mr. Uzumaki you look a little pale, do you feel all right?"

Naruto closed his eyes as he only shook his head and looked down at the ground after. Long after the nurse left, the room still remained silent.

"You…you called me by name without being forced to for the first time. Why?" Naruto suddenly whispered, his azure eyes covered by blond bangs.

"What do you mean?" Sasuke said still pissed but was slowly calming down when it all came back to him. "So what if I did, it's just a stupid name." Sasuke mumbled.

Naruto didn't know why but that made him happy and he smiled a real smile. "I didn't have the heart before but, I apologize for my behavior towards you when we met. I was jealous I guess and my home life…" Naruto once again trailed off, moving his gaze to his arm.

'What about his home life. This idiot isn't telling me something.' Sasuke thought narrowing his eyes at the blond as he walked back to the chair and sat down. Naruto's hands landing near Sasuke's. "Why are you still smiling usuratonkachi?"

"I still can't believe i had the heart to apologize." Naruto explained. "Usually when I mess up I get yelled at." 'Or beaten badly.' he finished in his head.

'He's definitely not telling me something. That sentence sounded like there was more to it.' Suddenly Naruto's tear stained face entered his mind as he randomly remembered the reason he woke up the blond in the first place.

"Naruto….what were you dreaming about, you said something in your sleep." Sasuke said looking away from the blond-haired boy in embarrassment.

Naruto's body visibly tensed as he recalled his dream. "Well actually it was more like a memory from the past." Naruto said.

"A memory where you plead for someone to not kill you?" Sasuke asked, doubting what the blond was telling him.

"That's what i said!" Naruto said his voice going high pitch due to fear; his body tensing even more if that was possible.

"Naruto what the hell was you past like?" Sasuke asked seriously.

Naruto remained silent for a moment than opened his mouth to speak. "Why do you care? It doesn't fit your personality at all. What happened to the cold distant Sasuke Uchiha who only cared about himself?"

"Don't change the subject!" Sasuke yelled, his anger rising yet again.

Once again the tense atmosphere in the room returned. "What should i do. If i tell him he'll laugh at me and say that I'm making it up just for attention…' "Take the risk. Open your heart. Take the big shot." A sweet voice whispered in his ears; the smell of magnolias entering his nose yet there were no flowers in the room.

Moving his eyes from side to side, he expected to see a nurse or the reflection of Kyuubi but all he saw was a glaring Sasuke waiting for him to answer him.

Gulping, Naruto opened his mouth and started the story behind the dream with a shaking voice.

"When i was young, I g-got lost d-during the night. I was y-young, I d-didn't know the dangers of talking to strangers."

Flashback

A scared young blond ran from place to place trying to find his step father. Little did the boy know that his step father had left him there on purpose.

"Father! Father where are you?" The boy yelled until he bumped into a man. Somehow Naruto had made his way into a dark alley way.

"Looking for your father kid, do you need any help?" the man asked nicely. The blond blue eyes filled with happiness and relief at the stranger's offer. Quickly nodding his head vigorously, he clung to the man's pant leg.

"He's tall, he's got black hair and emerald green eyes that are slightly slanted." Naruto exclaimed.

"Well when you see him again in death, remember to tell him 'hello.'"

"What do you mean mister? My step father isn't dead." the blond asked confused, his grip on the man's pant leg loosening a little.

"No but you will be soon. The police are after me so why not leave them a present. "A little blond boy, lost and now dead." He said taking out a nine millimeter pistol out from under his jacket.

A now stunned blue-eyes boy let go of the men's pants and backed up into a wall.

"Come on kid turn around that way you won't even see it coming. Just one shot in the back of the neck with your hands in the air and you begging to be saved. Not to mention the look of you after you're shot, a hole in the back of your head, and a hole right between the eyes."

The now terrified blond could so nothing but stare at the man pointing a gun at his head. "You can live or die, it's your choice. Nah, just kidding, but here take a look at this gun 'cause it's the last thing you'll ever see."

'I don't want to die, I don't want to die, I don't want to die.' "I don't want to die NO!" the blond yelled taking the gun from the man's hand and pointing it up in front of him.

Putting his fingers on the trigger, he pulled it. Opening his eyes he looked down at the man, a bullet in his chest, blood everywhere…and he was the one who killed him.

End Flashback