"Hey Naruto, how's Sasuke dealing with all of this? He really loves you, ya'know?"

"Yea I do know, but he needs to stop depending on me. Surely you have realised that he is always clinging on to me."

"Yea but, there was a time where I would have loved that!"

"It's the same for me, I used to love him creeping up behind me and wrapping his arms around my waist, whispering in my ear… but now, now he's just obsessed, he won't let me talk to anyone and he won't talk to anyone other than me! It's for his own good"

"Well, okay. Do you think it would be a good idea for me to go over there? See how he's doing?"

"Yes please Sakura-Chan, he needs to know that I'm not the only one to care for him."

"Do you still love him?"

"Well…" he looked down to floor as he said, "no, but that doesn't mean I don't care for him. He is dear to me and I want nothing more that to see him happy, just, not with me."

"You're so real, by Naruto-kun."

She walked away and approached Sasuke's house. The door hadn't been locked and she let herself in hen Sasuke hadn't replied to her call or knock.

"Hello Sasuke? I know you probably don't want to see be right now, but I just wanted to make sure that you're alright."

She searched through the house but couldn't find the now single boy. She went to the bedroom and saw the wet pillows, 'he must have been crying for ages' but he wasn't in there, she was about to leave when she spotted another door, 'of course, this is the great Uchiha's house, every bedroom has an ensuite bathroom' she approached the door and attempted to turn the knob but the door didn't open, 'found you'.

"Sasuke? I know you're in there"

Silence

"I came to check up on you, see how you're doing"

No reply

She started banging on the door.

"SASUKE! open up! NOW!"

When he still didn't respond, she kicked the door open and found Sasuke in a pool of his own blood on the floor all scratched up. She gasped and fell to his side, removing all the glass before healing him.

He coughed awake and looked around to see himself on their bed…no…not their bed anymore, his bed. Naruto had left him.

"argh!!"

He screamed at the ceiling and clutched at the bed covers surrounding him. 'who found me? Why wouldn't they just let me die?!'

"Sasuke!"

A pink haired girl entered the room as Sasuke rolled over and started pounding the pillow with his fists, screaming. Sakura ran over to him and grabbed his wrists before he threw anymore blows at the defenceless pillow. He looked at her for a second before breaking down into more sobs. Sakura let go of his wrists and he fell onto the bed, curled up in a ball like a small child who lost their favourite toy.

"Sasuke"

Sakura whispered, moving closer to him and manoeuvring him so she was hugging him with his head on her shoulder, holding his tight as she soothingly stroked his back and ran her fingers through his hair. She didn't try to stop him or tell him that everything would be alright. She just stayed with him and let him cry till there were no more tears to fall.

-TBC-