Sorry for the long wait but I've been really busy

Disclaimer: maybe in some insane world I would own Naruto but not in this one…

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Bold dream state or flashback

Naruto woke up early again noticing Sieto passed out drunk on the couch once again. He must have come home at least an hour ago. 'How disgusting.' The blond thought.

Not even bothering to pick up, he walked out of the door and to school. 'Damnit, it's a Friday.'

As he walked to his friends, he smiled, his eyes crinkling up. "Hey, I had a wonderful day yesterday, how bout' you guys?" he lied.

The blond watched as Temari's eyes lightened up. 'Naruto is back!' she thought excited.

"Good, Gaara left back for his hometown early yesterday so he should be back already." She explained.

"What? You never told me Gaara was here!" the blond yelled in shock.

"Because he was here due to health issues. A yelling hyperactive, clumsy blond-haired blue-eye kid wouldn't be good for him would it? It's a miracle that the Uchiha even woke up with being around him all the time." The girl joked.

"Y-Yeah…" Naruto stuttered as he fakes a grin. "Better head to homeroom, I've been late twice already, one more time and I get detention." The azure eyes boy made u before running off down the hall before Temari and Kiba could say anything.

Staring blankly in front of him, Naruto waited for the bell signaling the beginning of first block to ring. Unfortunately for the blond, it was a Day 1 meaning, every single block……was with Sasuke.

Speaking of the raven, here he came, bandaged wrist and hand and everything. Naruto had hoped that for some reason, Sasuke would stay in the hospital longer but by the looks of it, not a chance. It was a wake up and leave situation.

The blond watched as the raven was attacked by rabid fan-girls, hovering over him to make sure he was all right. A few shot glares at Naruto for getting 'their beloved' like that. Word spread fast around here.

'It wasn't my fault, it wasn't my fault…!" Naruto repeated in his head but it gave him no reassurance. Naruto felt his hands tightly grip his pants legs under the table he was sitting at. They only tightened when Sasuke made his way out of the fan-girls and sat down beside him.

'Should I try to take to him, will he talk to me back?' he asked himself, trying to find the courage within him to speak. Finally finding it he opened his mouth to speak but was interrupted by the bell and the teacher walking in.

"All right class, today we'll work on your projects independently." He said than pointed to the computers that lined one wall.

Without saying a word, everyone got up and went over to the computers. Logging on his account, Naruto got to work. Laying his fingers on the keyboard, he got ready to type but couldn't think of anything.

For awhile, his thoughts wandered over everything from his past, his likes and dislikes, how much his life sucked right now, his future, did he even have a future, but he mostly thought of Sasuke.

'Maybe he was right. I've only just met him and I thought he'd tell me stuff about him. I'm so stupid. If only I could tell my story to someone without actually telling them….i got it!' Naruto thought then went to typing.

'And the story goes like this…'

Naruto walked slowly to lunch, his head hanging down. First two blocks were worse then hell to him. Sasuke hadn't looked, talked or even do anything to acknowledge the blond at all despite his attempts to apologize.

'He really hates me now doesn't he?'

"Hey Naruto how…woah, why the emo-ness here?" Kiba asked as he walked up to the blond noticing the sadness on his face.

"Long and pointless story, it doesn't matter." The blond said quietly, almost to quiet to here over the roar of the grades in the lunch room.

"He really is being emo." Temari said walking up to stand beside Naruto.

"Well then just give us the important details." Kiba said quickly then ushered the emo boy to the table.

With only ten minutes left in lunch, Naruto finished up the events, after much persuasion of course. As the story went on though, the most depressed he got.

"What am I going to do? I have that project we need to work on, but how can we do that when he ignores me."

"Look man, he's just got something shoved up his ass. Give it some time." Kiba suggested.

"Wow Kiba... that was actually…dare I say it, logical." Temari said shocked. "You're actually learning from Hinata!" she squealed in an I'm-so-proud-of-you tone. Turning her attention back to Naruto, both Kiba and she noticed that the blond now had his forehead resting on the table top.

Both of them sighed and helped Naruto sit up straight.

"Look Naruto, we'll take care of it just worry about yourself."

"No, I don't want to be a bother!" Naruto quickly defended, the raven's words coming into his mind. He remained silent thought staring down at the ground once he received glares from both his friends.

"We said we'd handle it so that's what we're going to do!" Kiba hissed, still glaring at the blond.

"T-thanks…" Naruto stuttered though he knew he really didn't mean those words. He was just being a bother.

"No problem." Temari said, ignoring the uncertainty in the boy's voice; both her and Kiba's glares and frowns turning into smiles.

Sasuke sighed as the last bell of the day rang. Standing up, he made it to the classroom doors. All day he had ignored the blond despite him trying to make simple conversation.

Flashback

The blond looked nervously towards Sasuke as they sat in their second block class.

"Good morning Sasuke." The blond said quietly. He was picking his words carefully which was very uncharacteristic of him.

The Uchiha said or did nothing as a response.

"Sa-"

"My. Uzumaki, do you have anything to ask or say to the class?" the teacher asked looking back at the trouble-making student.

"N-no"

"Then please remain quiet." The teacher instructed going back to the lesson for the day.

"Sorry." The blond said too quietly for the teacher to hear but Sasuke caught it.

The raven didn't even need to look at the boy to know that he was depressed and looking at the ground, he could feel it in the air.

Naruto was definitely not acting like himself today and Sasuke had a feeling it was because of what he said.

End Flashback

'No, it was his own entire fault!' the Uchiha thought as he made his way out onto the school grounds. His thoughts though were cut short by a yell his last name, but it wasn't the usual fan-girl squeal.

Turning around, Sasuke came face to face with two people he usually saw Naruto hang around with.

"Yo Uchiha, we heard what you did to little blondie over there." said the male, pointing to a depressed Naruto walking home a lone. Even though he wanted to, Sasuke didn't look at zed boy.

"So what he said was true, you won't even look at him." said the female this time, noticing that the raven just kept looking at them. Sasuke remained silent

"Look jackass, what exactly did Naruto do wrong?" the wolf-like boy asked, sighing trying to control his anger.

"He had no right to ask about my personal business that doesn't concern him and neither do you." The raven explained pissed off; he just wanted to get home.

"Why, he wants to learn more about you obviously, is that so wrong? You do realize he told you something he never told us till now"

Sasuke remained puzzled for a moment till it hit him what they were talking about. Naruto's dream. 'So I was the first once he told.' "That only makes him more of an idiot, telling someone he just met something so personal about him."

That was it the boy snapped and grabbed a handful of Sasuke's shirt collar. "Look jackass, Naruto trusts you for some reason. Look at him, do you want him depressed his whole life, he's gone through enough already!"

"Let go…" was all Sasuke said.

The boy growled and tightened his grip. "Well do you?" he asked again.

Sighing Sasuke knew he wasn't going to get out of this without saying something. "For the last time, he stuck his nose where it doesn't belong. If he continues doing that to everyone he's going to get himself killed. I don't tell people about myself they'd just leave so why br…"

"Shut-up, Naruto isn't like that! Do you even know what he went through as a kid or what his life is like now? None of us do because he doesn't tell us yet he helps out with our own wit…"

"Temari forget it, this jackass isn't going to do anything obviously so let's just go and leave him to his lonely life." The male said releasing Sasuke from his grip. With one last glare for both of them they left.

"Whatever." Sasuke muttered than walked away.

Walking through the door to his house, Naruto didn't even bother saying that he was home. What was the point, no one cared. Taking off his shoes he headed to his room.

"So you actually decided to come home on time today."

Turning her head, Naruto came face to face with a smiling Sieto.

"Yes sir." Naruto said quietly looking down at the tiled floor. 'He's smiling this isn't going to be good.'

"Why, did your Uchiha friend get released from the hospital?"

"How did you know?" the blond asked, looking up at his step father in shock.

"I'm have my ways. I need to know what my child is doing when he's never home and his chores aren't done." He said smugly.

That was it, Naruto's feelings from that day all mixed to create anger. "I'm not your kid! If all you want to do is abuse me than why did you adopt me in the first place?" Naruto asked.

Grabbing a hand-full of blond locks, Sieto yelled in Naruto's left ear. "Those are my reasons that you don't need to know!"

"I have a right to know why you adopted me." The blond argued.

"Well guess what, with me, you only have the rights I say you do!" he growled.

"No I do…" Naruto's sentence was cut off from Sieto punching him in the gut.

"What a rebellious kid, didn't your mother ever teach you manners when she was alive?" he asked punching Naruto in the gut once again.

"How do…you kn…ow m-my mother?" Naruto steadily got out, the punches taking his breath away.

"Didn't I tell you to stop being noisy. Your curiosity might get you killed." Sieto said letting go of blond hair then aiming a jab at the side of Naruto's head. The force of impact throwing Naruto's center of balance off; making him go back first into a wooden chair and breaking it.

"Y-you w-wouldn't dare, I k-know…that you," Naruto took a break to drink in more air for his lungs. "…don't want to g-go to…j-jail." Naruto said smugly hoping that it would make him stop in his tracks.

However, that only made the other even more pissed. "How wrong you are, your past makes for a perfect case of suicide. Not to mention the little argument with the Uchiha that helps the case. I bet he's not even looking or acknowledging your existence is he?"

"Shut-up! How do you know so much about my life?!" Naruto asked standing up with difficulty. Sieto only glared at him the kicked him in the ribs; smiling when he heard bone crack but Naruto was still standing.

"Do you really want to know?" Sieto said taking out of a knife. "The information might drive you to kill yourself, if I don't do it first."

"Like you said though, no own will care." Naruto said quietly giving in.

Walking over to the trembling blond, Sieto laid the knife parallel to one of the scares on Naruto's cheek. "I'm the one who made the proposition to your father," he said.

"What proposition, my father was a business man he got many propositions." Naruto growled out lowly.

"The one the made him meet his death." Sieto whispered as he pressed the knife down, breaking both layers of skin. Slowly pulling down diagonally, Sieto cut the blonde's cheek.

Naruto would have gasped at the pain if he wasn't in shock. "Y-y-you did…it…w-why?" he asked hoarsely.

"For your…." He stopped, moving his mouth to the blonde's ear to whisper the last part; moving the knife a little below the boy's neck.

"Mother." He whispered than quickly brought the knife down, stabbing the shocked boy.

Naruto screamed out in pain the now seared above his chest. After his scream died down, Naruto found it hard to breathe figuring it was because Sieto had stabbed pretty deep.

"Y-you….l-loved her."

"Well you figured it out faster than I thought." He said as he roughly pulled out the knife. Naruto grunted from the pain then started to cough. He felt the need to throw-up but instead of food he felt blood and acid from his stomach come up instead and stain his lips.

"I was in love with her but now look, she's dead, your father's dead, and it was all your fault."

"No it wasn't!" Naruto tried to yell but it only came out in a whisper. He didn't want t believe what he was being told.

Sighing Naruto threw Naruto back into a concrete wall. His head hitting first with a blood stopping shattering sound.

"Listen, believe what you want, just keep in mind that your father died trying to save you while your mom died insane with guilt because of you." He said then walked slowly over to the door after setting the bloodied knife next to the boy who cough up more blood than went back to looking lifeless.

Opening the door, the men turned back to his little puppet. "Now do yourself a favor, if you go insane as well kill yourself like your mother or you're going to bleed to death. Slow and painful or quick, it's your decision." He said then slammed the door shut behind him.

It was true, he had a deep stab wound near the heart, his head was cracked open, and a lot more then one broken rib. All the warm blood dripping down the back of his head and the stab wound creating a puddle where he was sitting against the wall.

'Kyuubi didn't come out. But then again I did tell him to disappear. Nah, who am I kidding, he was never there in the first place. I really am a idiot, just like Sasuke said. Maybe dieing won't be such a bad thing.' He thought as he saw black enter the corner of his eyes.

Sasuke quickly walked by apartments. Each time a new one appeared he would look down at a ripped sheet of paper with an address on it. 'Damnit! I guess I really am the idiot here not the dobe.'

On his way home, the raven had pondered hard about what Naruto's friends had told him. Whenever he tried to tell himself that it was the blonde's fault he get this feeling that he really hated. It was guilt. After fifteen minutes of cursing his Uchiha pride, Sasuke somehow found out where the blond lived and was headed there. He wasn't going to apologize. What he said in the hospital was true but he was willing to give it a shot. It admitted that it would take some time but…

Turning a corner, he finally came upon the apartment complex that Naruto supposedly lived in. Walking up one flight of stairs, Sasuke saw a man with black-hair, a few gray strands here and there, mutter something then slam the door he was coming out.

Upon past the Uchiha he smiled, waved, and was gone.

'What the hell.' Sasuke thought, but pushed it in the back of his mind as he re-focused on the task at hand. Checking the address one more time he made his way to the door that the man had just walked out of. He was going to knock on it until he had hands put around his eyes; a nasty smelling rip-off designer perfume entering his nose.

Removing the hands from his eyes he looked back to see none other than Sakura. 'Someone get me disinfected now!' his mind screamed.

"What are you doing?" she asked giving him a smile.

"None of your business so you can keep moving on to wherever you're going." He said.

Sakura said nothing but kept staring at him waiting for an answer she liked.

Sasuke got agitated at this. "Leave Sakura I don't have time for this." He growled.

"Come on Sasuke I'll buy you some coffee or something else you want." She said then grabbed his hand and started walking away. Ripping his hand away from her he glared at her. "Leave now!" he said in an indirect threat, his voice dripping with malice.

Sakura remained silent for a moment then smiled at him ignoring his behavior towards her. "Maybe some other time then, it's late so you must be tired. Good night Sasuke-kun." She said then skipped happily away.

Close to fainting, Naruto was kept awake by the bickering outside. He tried staying awake not wanting to die….just yet. Maybe he could stay a live and awake long enough till Sieto came home. That would piss him off real good and that would be the greatest thing to see before he went to hell.

Soon the voices stopped as a pair of footsteps faded in the distance. 'Great, now how am I going to piss him off?!" Naruto joked bitterly in his head.

His mind stopped laughing when he heard the door open. 'Maybe it worked after all ho…" Naruto's thoughts were cut off when he heard a muffled gasp.

Before he knew what was happening he saw raven hair in front of his eyes as he felt something come down on his chest near the stab wound. He choked on a gasp from the blood in his mouth.

"Naruto you're alive!" a voice said.

"Sa-….s…" he couldn't finish his name as the blood from his mouth traveled down to his chin but he knew that voice. It was Sasuke, but why was he here, what was he here for, how was he here?

'Why are you here?' he asked thought he knew the raven couldn't here his thoughts but Naruto felt calm and happy with the Uchiha's presence.

The raven felt panic as the blonde's eyes slowly fluttered down a little more but he suppressed it from showing. 'Damnit got to get him out of here.' Sasuke thought, looking down at the rest of the blood but soon regretted it. The blond was sitting in a pool of his own blood.

'Who did this to him?' he thought, remembering the predatory smile on the man. He did come out of this apartment so he might of did it he pondered moving his hand away from the blood. Once again thought he regretted it his decision.

Sasuke hissed in pain as he felt the cut on his left hand re-open. Looking down, he eyes me the lustful gleam of a knife. 'Or did he do this to himself?!' was the thought that now terrified Sasuke's mind. 'Did he do this because of me; if he did I don't think I'll be able to stand myself anymore.' The raven thought becoming paranoid.

He was snapped out of his head though when he noticed Naruto's eyes shut a little more.

Stopping all thought, Sasuke picked up the injured blond bridal style. Fixing the blonde's head to lean on his chest, in the process discovering that the blond had a crack in the back of his head.

Without another second of hesitation, Sasuke ran off towards the hospital where they seemed to be spending a lot of their time lately.

The cold weather outside quickly woke p the blond momentarily as his body started to shale uncontrollably.

'Hopefully that will keep you awake for awhile.' Sasuke prayed.

"Sa….u…" Naruto mouthed the rest of his name then the word cold but with troubles.

"Don't speak, save your strength and try to stay awake!" the raven yelled still running at top speed.

Naruto only remained silent as a sign of understanding. Although Sasuke's voice sounded deeper and his words slurred together, Naruto was able to make them out.

'What's this feeling, it hurts yet calming at the same time. Damnit I've only felt this once and I never wanted to feel it ever again! So why do I feel this way for him. I'm such a hopeless cause.' The blond thought but smiled none the less. 'Thanks for saving me…teme.'