Ok, I thought I had enough inspiration, but it seems it fled away as soon as I thought it...so if someone has any suggestions, it's welcome! More than welcome! Tell me what pairing you want, and I'll see if I can do something with it..
This time the pairing would be Naruto and Sasuke, just because I like it how naruto devoted is to bring back a runaway idiot...enjoy
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"Come back, teme"
When night falls, and his beloved pink- haired fiancée sleeps peacefully in their shared bed, Naruto leans against the cool glass of the window, repeating that sentence over and over in his head.
It has been more than six years since Naruto had seen his raven teammate last, and in that time he had trained hard, waking up early every morning before dawn, and staying up late until the moon rose up and everybody was asleep.
He had gone to several S-rank missions by now, and was about to become Hokage. With all his efforts, he'd finally gain the respect and recognition he'd always graved for from the villagers, who no longer saw him as the Kyuubi monster who killed half of the village before, but as a strong and devoted ninja, loyal to his home and a strong leader.
Something Naruto ever dreamed about, but what wasn't his real motivation anymore.
Hell, motivation had gone since long, and it was all but a mask to everybody – including himself – to fool into believing Naruto did all those things he did for the village.
No, the real reason for him to go on long and tiring missions was not only to gain trust anymore, but just because he'd always hope to hear something about Orochimaru's hideouts. The only cause for him to train this hard was to being able to beat the hell out of Sasuke when he'd find him, and knock some sense in him.
It has been more than six years ago, when Naruto had tried to bring back the Uchiha prodigy – only to hear he was his best friend and afterwards being beaten totally shitless – and many things has happened by then.
A neighbouring village had attacked them, and somehow Konoha had won the short war, hearing afterward that it was Orochimaru's scheming that had the other village had invaded them. They searched around, but no sign of the Snake Sannin himself – or any of his followers.
Sakura had come to lean against Naruto for support when thinking about her runaway love was too much for her to bear, and eventually she began to forget about Sasuke, and accepted her blonde teammate more.
After a year, Naruto had finally summoned enough courage to ask her out, and now – on their 18th – the pink haired Kuniochi was his fiancée.
The Hyuuga family had accepted Neji more, and Hinata had grown out to be a ninja after all. Still not as good as her cousin – who had managed to get in the ABNU squad – but she made an expert healer, with her warm hands and gentle eyes.
And, when chasing some weird Akatsuki with blonde hair – Deidera Naruto suspected his name was – Naruto had found the corps of one of the last sharingan bearers.
He had been delighted, for he was one hundred percent sure about who the murderer was, and that Sasuke would return now – he hadn't any reason to stay with that Snake freak anymore, right? Yet he began to worry about in which state he would find back his teammate, would he still be the same?
That's a year ago now, and still no sign.
And although all those years, and after all that had passed, Naruto secretly still waits for his teammate to return.
Kakashi used to help him out a lot in his search for the raven boy, gathering information here and there about the Sound, and even the Akatsuki whereabouts.
When Kakashi himself got killed in the war between the two villages – dragged into an ambush and nailed down by more than ten ninja's – Naruto had volunteered to keep all Kakashi's belongings out of respect for the legendary Jounin and among the piles of research had found whole books of Sound and Akatsuki information.
Even now, Naruto thanks his former Sensei for it in silence every day.
But now, with Itachi killed – by his younger brother, which already was a fact in Naruto's mind – and a year passed since then, even the ever happy and optimistic blonde ninja began to lose hope.
On missions, he has lost will to ask anywhere around for some raven haired young man – Naruto vaguely wonders how Sasuke would look like now – with flaring red eyes.
When training, his blows are not the usual enthusiastic ones, nor do they hold his famous power and determination.
Why would he train anyway, now the only person he really wanted to beat was gone forever?
But still, his old habit stays: of waking up every night from red eyed dreams, to look out of the window, and wait.
Sometimes he thought he sees something that looked like Sasuke, but it was just a crow most of the time, or a cat, or even just a shadow or imagination.
"Sasuke…" Naruto mutters softly, none to hear it.
"Come back, teme…"
Fin
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