Okay so just so you know people and don't say I didn't warned you before hand... Winter depression has officialy gotten to my work...
This chapter suck and I know it, you know it... but there's just simply no way in hell I'm gonna sit down and redo it, because after al, this is all can manage at the moment and anyways anything I come up with is gonna suck just as much, so I'm gonna post it anyways.
If you wanna complain about how it didn't feel like with the flow, like the characters seemed so out of character and you just didn't feel the story with this one... well do so and breed my winter depression with further reasons for it... However, I would apreciate if you gave me any good criticism and any idea as to where story might be going to, so if you had anything to say about my work say it, but don't expect me to be nice about everything you say okay.
And so I present you this chapter of doom!!
And anyways, thanks to Divinely Insane for betaing this for me... I'm gonna try to improve I promise awww!!
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Naruto fumbled with the keys on his pockets as the screen on the elevator announced his arrival at the 23'Th floor.
The hallway was empty, but he could hear the humming noise from the air conditioning.
It had been a long confusing day… he was still sorting through his emotions.
And so he was so caught up in his own raging thoughts that he failed to notice the music coming from the living room as he put his key into the lock.
I'm going home to the place where I belong where your love has always been enough for me I'm running from you know I think you got me all wrong I don't regret this life I chose for me But these places and these faces are getting old So I'm going home
When the lyrics and notes finally hit him, his blue eyes collided with dark questioning ones.
Naruto noticed how pink lips seem to have parted as if to say something, but nothing came out, but the mouth remained open and the blond wasn't sure why he felt a pulsing need to close it with his own mouth on Sasuke's lips.
-"Okaeri"- mumbled the raven after some time and allow his eyes to roam over the other's body; he hadn't realized how long it had been since the last time he had seen the blond.
-"Tadaima"- answered Naruto a smile already forming on his lips.
When they were in high school, they spent most of their time at each other's houses, mostly because they lived alone.
Sure, Sasuke had Itachi, but he spent a great deal of time working and studying in college, so they hardly spent anytime together at the house anymore.
And so they both had ended up spending their nights at each other's houses. It felt somehow comforting to have someone waiting for you when you got home, for someone to say "Welcome" when you got home instead of the echo of your own voice saying "I'm home!"
-"I haven't seen you for a while"- commented Naruto taking a few steps towards the couch in which the raven laid, surrounded by scattered papers, a few magazines and his laptop laying on top of his lap.
I've not always been the best man and friend for you But your love remains true and I don't know whyYou always seem to give me another try I'm going home
A silence settled in and the blond wondered if Sasuke was not going to answer. The lyrics filtering in between them, as if they were more than mere words.
-"Yeah… I've been busy…"- answered Sasuke finally breaking the silence: -"But so have you"-he added waving the magazine he was currently reading: -"You seemed to have given a ton of interviews"- ha said and placed the magazine next to him, on top of a pile of folders and loose sheets.
-"Yeah, but soon it'll be all over"- commented Naruto feeling somehow more relaxed and confident in the raven's presence: -"This Sunday it'll be the closing of the exhibition"- he added leisurely strolling closer to the couch, stopping just two or three steps short to get there.
His hand found its way to the arm of the armchair he was now standing next to.
-"Yeah, so I read"- commented Sasuke and started gathering his stuff: -"They keep asking you the same question though"- he added and turned to look at blue eyes.
-"Oh yeah… The kiss collage right? Well, you already know the answer to that"- answered Naruto and took the few steps to the couch and let himself seat in the opposite end, not really sure how much closer he could get to the raven.
-"Yeah, but, you don't feel satisfied with it, do you?"- asked Sasuke as he placed his laptop on the coffee table, the last words and notes of Chris Daugherty's Home playing out.
I don't regret this life I chose for me' But these places and these faces are getting old But these places and these faces are getting old I'm going home I'm going home
-"No"- answered the other curtly as he examined the raven fix a few of his folders to then place them in piles.
-"I figured as much… you always need to finish everything so perfectly when it comes to your work"- said Sasuke and then as an afterthought he added: -"And they say I'm the anal one"- and a smirk graced his lips.
-"The thing is… I didn't want to break the theme"- said the blond and waited for the other's reaction.
-"What do you mean the theme?"- asked the fair skinned man curious.
-"Yeah, well… It's just that most of the collages had YOU as the center piece… I would be breaking the theme if I didn't include a kiss in which you were involved"- answered Naruto and mentally cringed at his boldness.
A small "oh" formed on Sasuke's lips as an even longer silence settled in between them.
A new song started, the voice of Howie Day introducing John Mayer on an acoustic duet version of Sorry, so sorry ringed through the laptop's speakers.
Spend your nights herewe'll always be up lateKeep each other onChemicals can make us stay
The guitar echoed through the quiet room and Naruto wondered if he had said something he should not have, he thought of faking a joke and letting it slip like that.
But then suddenly the raven reached for his cane resting to his side and made his way quickly to his room.
-"Hey Sasuke!"- called the blond after him; now he had done it. The raven was now going to run away from him, he could hear him shuffling through his stuff, opening and closing drawers: -"Hey listen I didn't…"- but the blond was stopped on his tirade by a flustered looking Sasuke emerging from his bedroom holding a camera on his hand.
-"Don't you dare say you didn't mean it!"- threatened the raven as he took a few steps towards the other male, stopping just short to a few inches away from him.
And if you really didn't knowI swear I really didn't knowso I'm sorry, so sorry
-"I… no, I did mean… it"- Naruto struggled with his words a little as Howie Day's voice reverberated accompanied by a mournful guitar playing on the background.
-"Good… cuz… I…"- Sasuke was very conscious he was stuttering, but he could not help it.
-"Are you going to…"- the blond wasn't very sure what he wanted to ask and neither how to ask it.
Sasuke took a few tentative steps drawing him near the blond man.
Naruto felt a lump on his throat and his mouth felt somehow dry, he felt his heart rate speed up a bit and that made him feel somehow dizzy with the overwhelming feelings that seemed to have taken over.
-"I… wouldn't want to break the theme"- whispered the raven and Naruto briefly wondered why should the other male be whispering, but when he noticed the distance between them he realized why.
-"No, you wouldn't…"- Naruto whispered his response and reached over to take a hold of the other's hand holding the camera.
-"Now… I'll… give you… your kiss…"- whispered the raven with a husky voice as the last strings of the guitar solo could be heard as a background.
Their lips barely touched, but it felt as if reaching the long sought goal after a long race… It felt oddly refreshing and at the same time exhausting, as if the wait had taken everything out of them.
The flash of the camera went off as Sasuke absentmindedly pressed the button, but neither of them noticed.
Naruto let his hand move on its own accord as it roamed through Sasuke's forearm and felt the other shiver under his touch.
The raven was the one to break the kiss, but Naruto stopped him from moving any further than arms' reach.
-"I didn't see the flash… did you?"- whispered the blue eyed man short of breath.
-"No… I… we should re-take it"- he mumbled and leaned in closer to soft lips.
And just like that they kissed again.
It felt all so surreal. It was terrifying and it was amazing and it was far beyond scary… but they had reached the point of no return on this.
Naruto felt bold enough to allow his hand to reach for Sasuke's neck to draw him nearer; the other didn't fight it, and reached over as well letting his own hand rest somewhere near Naruto's hips, though he could swear he didn't remember how it got there.
Their bodies were shaking and they could feel it due to the close proximity of them.
But, why was it?
Was it because it was their first time kissing another man or maybe it was because it was their first time kissing each other? Or maybe it had more to do with the fact of the closeness of their bodies, the feel of each other's skin on their own leaving in its wake a tingling sensation that could not be explain with mere words…
Yeah… that might be it…
Absentmindedly one of the two pressed the button, flashing a few times, but neither of them took notice or cared.
Naruto felt the other move towards the living room couch and so he moved with Sasuke's body while letting his tongue roamed over the raven's lower lip unintentionally asking for entrance.
It was granted, but once inside Sasuke's mouth, his tongue didn't know where to start, and so it decided to follow its companion around.
The fair skinned man felt the arm of the couch make contact with the back of his legs at the same time his and Naruto's tongue decided to get acquaintance with each other in a more intimate manner, dancing back and forth in between both mouths.
A groan escaped someone lips, but neither of them was sure if it was their own or the other doing, but it didn't matter much.
Naruto too directed his other hand to Sasuke's hip, pulling him closer and unknowingly bringing their groins into contact.
In Sasuke's hand the camera was forgotten, as he let it fall not hearing the racket it made when it hit the floor.
The friction created with the contact of their bodies caused another series of groans to escape their lips as now both of them were forcefully grinding against each other without a care for anything else than just this moment.
The fears and doubts surely lay on the floor next to the forgotten camera; it was okay for now.
Maybe when they came back from their daze they could redress their souls with all those confusing emotions of denial and fear, but for now they had striped from them and their naked souls demanded to make love to each other.
As it was, they didn't notice the sound of a key getting into the lock, the door being opened and a few steps into the house.
-"I'm home!"- called the female occupant of the apartment, but stopped dead as she came to stand before a very surreal image.
Naruto stood there for what felt like an eternity, still holding Sasuke's hips; the other male looked bewildered by the situation; and Sakura... well... she was trying to stop an oncoming nose bleed.
The two males separated immediately not quite pushing the other and subconsciously letting their hands linger a little longer than necessary on each other.
-"It's not what it looks like!"- immediately interjected the raven before Sakura could make any weird questions about the situation, questions he was sure he could not even answer to himself, at least not just yet.
-"You two... were... holding each other... by the waist...? Is that it? Or is it something else?"- asked Sakura with that all knowing look on her face that got Sasuke all flustered and irritated.
-"No! That's it! He was... he was just going to..."- Naruto was struggling to come up with an excuse gullible enough, but was failing at looking innocent enough at the moment as he saw emerald green eyes travel down his body and then concentrate on his crotch.
-"I fell! That's what happened! And Naruto here, he was just helping me, isn't it dope?"- intervened Sasuke trying to save up the appearances and the situation.
-"Oh! And while he did so, your buttons came undone and his shirt got all rumpled?"- asked the female and Sasuke felt his face go all hot and red.
-"Yeah... it was a bad fall you know"- stuttered the blond while looking at everything and nothing at the moment.
-"Yeah sure... he fell right into your arms and you fell right into his pants"- commented the woman offhandedly as she started making her way to her room and noticed the camera lying on the floor abandoned and forgotten.
-"What is this?"- She asked picking the thing off the floor.
Naruto watched with wide eyes as she picked the thing off the floor and turning it on started searching through the pictures.
-"Nothing!"- Both of them exclaimed bolting to grab the camera from her.
Naruto ripped it out of her hands and he felt the other male sighing in relief at the action.
-"What is in there?"- asked Sakura noticing the wariness of the two males and suspecting even more.
-"Well, nothing much really... I just started a new collection and it's not ready yet"- said Naruto stumbling with the words while handing the camera back to the raven, allowing his fingers to linger a little longer when they made contact with the other's hand.
-"In Sasuke's camera?"- She asked this time eyes very aware of the touch they seemed to have shared in the briefest of moments.
-"Yeah... well you see..."- now Naruto had run out of ideas and turned to the other in search of help.
-"His camera is not quite working... so yeah, he burrowed mine... to work on the new... thing"- answered Sasuke letting himself go with the flow and answering with whatever came to his mind.
-"Yeah that!"- exclaimed the blond feeling somehow proud of the other's good lie.
Sakura eyed them some more, knowing for sure it was a big fat lie, but also knowing they were hiding something they were not quite ready to share with her.
-"Keep your secrets from me then"- she said finally deciding to drop the subject even if just for the moment.
-"There's… there are no secrets"- answered Naruto sounding a little uncertain and the female wanted to think it was because he felt guilty from having to hide the truth from her.
Sakura just smiled, because what else could she do?
-"I'll just hit the hay, I'm…"- she didn't finished her sentence, but it somehow felt that the next word was weary and the blond briefly wondered if she had meant tired or fed up.
-"I'll take a shower"- mumbled the raven as he made his way to the shower as quickly as he could.
Blue eyes followed his two housemates to their destinations, their doors closing at the same time.
In her room, Sakura leaned against her closed door, letting a sigh leave her lips.
It wasn't as if she didn't know this was bound to happen at sometime, but it was just sooner than she had predicted.
She had met Naruto back when they used to live around the same neighborhood, but had never stricken up a friendship with him till later into high school.
Sakura had to admit, her motives for becoming his friend had not been the best and she really regretted having done so for that reason, but in a way she was thankful; had it not been for those ulterior motives pushing her towards the blond she would not have been saved from her loneliness.
She had fallen in love with Sasuke in her early years on junior high. He had seemed so mysterious and intriguing that she decided she wanted to be the one to unravel the mystery around those dark alluring eyes.
It didn't take her long to realize it was an almost impossible feature to make the stoic raven to open up...
That is, of course, until Naruto made his appearance.
The blond just came along and kept bugging the raven until he finally gave in.
On those days, she remembered, she had seen Sasuke smile so much, even laugh; but only when Naruto was around. With everyone else he was his usual broody self.
Sure, he opened up to Sakura a little, but it was always about the blue eyed man.
It intrigued her how much the fair skinned boy had changed from just the coexistence with the blond man that she decided to look closely, more carefully at their interaction...
That was how she noticed...
She suddenly realized she wasn't all that sad and disappointed as she thought she'd be... She felt somehow happy at the fact that the two of them seemed to be happy with each other.
But it did hurt... a little...
But she did not tell any of them how she felt about it.
Naruto would always make her tag along, even when Sasuke seemed to want her out of the equation; but there was always that fine line, in which she could not be there.
Of course, the friendship between two males was always stronger.
And no matter how much Naruto tried, there was always a point in which it was only the two males alone... And Sakura noticed she could not cross that line and go to that secret place only the two of them could share.
She resigned herself to watch from afar as the two of them grew closer and she just tagged along.
Sure, little by little, she got Sasuke to trust her, but it did not matter anymore; she was damned to be the forever watchful witness of the two of them.
The water running in the bathroom could be heard and she could picture Naruto still standing in the middle of the living room, looking at the closed door longingly.
The woman heard the shuffling in the living room and figured the blond was picking up and cleaning Sasuke's mess.
She really wanted to take importance out of the situation, laugh it off and be happy for the two of them... but she just couldn't manage...
She was going to be left alone yet again... And yet again she was to inhabit that lonely place where the third wheel always dwells in...
She sighed yet again turning her light off and stumbling in the darkness towards her bed.
Naruto saw the lights on Sakura's room go off through the crack on the bottom of the door and left himself collapse on top of the mess Sasuke had left at the couch.
What the hell had they been doing?
Yeah kissing… but that had not been all… They had… well they had…
Naruto let out a growl of frustration while standing back up and gathering the scattered stuff on the couch. He went through some of the files trying to arrange them in some order to place them back into their files and into a pile on the coffee table.
The music playing in the laptop was a more upbeat melody and Naruto stopped for a moment to ask himself where did Sasuke got that song from.
Blue eyes spotted a real-a-state magazine; a few of the ads were already circled in red.
He glanced through a few of the pages, stopping at a few of the circled ads, noticing the prices and locations.
The sound of the bathroom door being opened startled him and he turned to find Sasuke standing at the threshold of the door, steam coming out of the bathroom.
-"What is it?"- Asked the raven and immediately spotted the magazine forgotten on Naruto's firm grip: -"Oh that... well I was..."- Sasuke looked somehow embarrassed at being caught, and for some odd reason that made Naruto happy.
-"Where you planning on moving out?"- He asked even though he already knew the answer to that, but he wanted to hear the raven say it. He wanted Sasuke to say he was going to stay here, with him.
-"Well... not really... I was just..."- stuttered Sasuke as he reached Naruto and took the magazine from him: -"I was just, you know, thinking of the possibility"- he mumbled eyeing the thing in his hands as if it was its fault for getting caught.
-"Is it for the rent? Because if it is I'll..."- started rambling Naruto taking a step towards the raven not realizing it.
-"No... Its not that, its just, you know..."- Sasuke was cornered and he knew it, but he was trying to find a way to save as much pride as he could.
Naruto bolted to his own room, leaving a half naked Sasuke standing in the middle of the room.
-"Listen its not that! I was just looking at the ads, just out of curiosity, you know"- he exclaimed running after the blond into his room, but half way to it, he bumped into the blond coming out of the room.
-"Here"- said Naruto extending a lighter to the fair skinned man.
-"Why would I need a lighter?"- asked the raven puzzled by his housemate actions.
-"Burn that thing. You don't need it, do you?"- asked the blond in a defiant tone.
-"You are crazy! Why would I burn it? Its just a magazine and I was just looking, I wasn't really considering..."- but he was stopped on his tirade as he felt a hand rest on his chest pushing him lightly against a wall.
-"So you DO need it?"- murmured the blue eyed man his features turning sour and sad all of the sudden.
-"Its not that, its just..."- but he was again stopped by the light weight of Naruto barely pressing against his body.
-"If you don't need it, burn it"- whispered Naruto feeling somehow in control of the situation and at the same time no; his emotions were getting the best out of him as he felt somehow upset at the thought of Sasuke leaving him.
-"Why are you being so ridiculous about it?"- Asked Sasuke feign anger, because he didn't want the other to notice he was rather nervous at Naruto's closeness.
-"Fine then..."- murmured the blond giving the other his space and letting his gaze travel somewhere else but at the raven's body in front of him.
Sasuke saw the faint disappointment flicker through Naruto's face when he pulled back.
Grunting he snatched the lighter from the blonds' hand, who presented no resistance and made his way to the kitchen feeling blue eyes follow him until he was out of sight.
It wasn't until he heard a gasp at his back that he knew what had he been doing.
He had burnt the damn magazine!
Damn Naruto and his persistence that got him anything he wanted.
-"Happy now?"- asked the raven as he turned to face the other male and finding an unreadable expression on the tan skinned face.
-"Yes…"- whispered Naruto and Sasuke had to lean over to hear it.
Naruto's blue eyes were focused on a very interesting spot on the kitchen floor and the only sound that could be heard was the faucets faint dripping.
Sasuke caught himself wondering what he should do next; he was never good with interactions, normally Naruto took care of making his awkwardness seem, well, less awkward…
The silence lingered a little longer, but neither of them decided to break it, at least not just yet.
They couldn't tell where they stood at the moment; sure, they had kissed, but what did that mean? Did that mean they were somehow together? Or did they need to talk about it?
It was confusing… But well, whenever it came to the two of them it always seemed to be that way.
-"What are you grinning at?"- asked Sasuke not failing to note the forming smile on the other's lips.
-"Nothing"- answered the other meeting dark eyes with smiling blue ones.
The raven eyed him suspiciously, but let it be for the time being.
-"I'll put on some clothes"- said Sasuke and turned towards his room making his way through the living room.
-"Or not"- commented Naruto when the raven finally reached his bedroom door.
When the raven turned he found a smirking Naruto leaning against the kitchen's door frame.
-"Do not tempt me Uzumaki, you wouldn't know what to do with me…"- said the raven in a musky voice that sent shivers down Naruto's spine, but he hid it with a lopsided smile.
-"You never know Uchiha, you could be surprised"- answered the blond feeling bold enough; he was bluffing, but he wondered if the other was as well or if he meant it.
-"You bluff a lot… I know you"- said Sasuke his hand resting on the towel draped around his waist pulling on it a little bit: -"but if you ever came face to face with the challenge… you would run"- he added and turned around, letting the piece of garment slide a little on his way into the room.
Blue eyes caught a glimpse of skin and all his blood and coherent thoughts went southwards.
Naruto stopped to think if the ajar door was an indirect invitation to come in, but he also wondered if he was ready for it.
He stood there intently listening to the faint sounds coming from the room.
In the living room still on top of the coffee table, Sasuke's laptop kept playing songs from his play list; right now it was playing one of Sasuke's Spanish weird songs.
Naruto had never even considered being with a man before this… Had Sasuke been with a man before?
He had never seen the raven with any girl whatsoever, neither did he seem to talk about them… Maybe he was a bit more experience than he was? If so, did that meant he was going to be the "woman" in the relationship…
Wait! Where they in a relationship now?
Damn it! It was like having a relationship with a woman; they always wanted to talk about every little detail of their situation… but now, well they DID need to talk about it, didn't they?
Men were known for the inability of communicating feelings, and dare he say it, Sasuke was the quintessential man when it came to that.
That damn door was confusing him! Being there, malevolent ajar, letting the light from the inside filter with the sounds of steps and rustling of fabric…
He grunted frustrated averting his gaze somewhere else, anywhere else, but that damn door!
He walked to the coffee table, noticing just now, the camera that stood there forgotten.
His thoughts wandered back to half an hour ago or so, when he had shared that kiss with the other male and felt a morbid curiosity at the image of the two of them kissing…
In that camera was hidden the evidence that HE, the great Naruto Uzumaki, worldly known as being as straight as they come, was gayer than that guy from N'sync… what was his name again?
And why was he even trying to remember such a thing!?!
But his thought met a halt when that blessed – it had been damned just a few minutes ago, but hey! People can change their minds right! – Door opened to reveal a now dressed Sasuke.
It wasn't much different from what Naruto had seen him sleep in the past.
Just some loose sweet pants and a comfy looking yet fitted white wife beater.
-"What are you doing?"- asked the raven as he made his way slowly to the couch in which Naruto was seated.
He tried to speculate if Sasuke was just trying to be purposely sexy or if it had more to do with the fact that his leg still hurt a little.
-"Cleaning up after your mess"- said the blond while trying to pretend he had not been holding the camera and with what intentions.
-"Take it… unless you didn't like the pictures"- commented Sasuke when he saw the blond place the camera back onto the coffee table.
Naruto thought he was going to find a flirting smirk on the raven's lips, but instead he found him looking at whatever else in search of an excuse to not look at blue eyes.
They were both man after all, speaking and showing emotions was out of the question… But how did he know? How could he know what the other felt?
This felt somehow weird; it felt almost as if he was the chick…
-"You look tired"- commented Naruto as he eyed the raven with the corner of his eye.
Sasuke turned his eyes to Naruto's face, noticing he was trying to take importance out of the comment; was this his own way of asking if he was okay?
But the raven noticed how Naruto's shirt seemed to be looser than he remembered it to be, underneath blue eyes he could see bags and noticed the scruffy look of his appearance.
-"So do you"- commented Sasuke and waited for the other to elaborate on an explanation, however, the blond kept his silence, his eyes still glued to the turned off TV screen in front of him.
-"Have you not been sleeping?"- He asked tired of the unresponsiveness of the other.
Now, its not that Naruto didn't want to give an answer, it was just that he was not sure which one to give.
Should he be honest and tell him he had not been sleeping well, because he had spent entire nights wondering about the feelings he had for him; how he had not eaten, distracted as he was by hunting thoughts of the raven; how he could not concentrate on anything but Sasuke? Or should he just tell the other it had been a rough month?
Sasuke was not one to wait patiently for an answer and so he grunted a "Whatever" and slumped into his seat reaching for his laptop resting on the table.
-"I…"- mumbled Naruto causing the raven to stop in mid-action to fix his gaze on him: -"I was…"-dark questioning eyes were on him and it almost felt as if they were begging him to tell the truth.
-"You?"- asked Sasuke and his voice sounded a little bit too hopeful for his own liking.
-"I…"- to hell with pride! He was just going to come out and say it: -"I was worried about you… couldn't quite sleep a few nights…"- he finally said averting his blue eyes from Sasuke's own.
But had he been looking he would have seen the look of utter shock and happiness painted across normally apathetic stoic midnight dark eyes.
-"Oh…"- he manages to say after a little while and felt unsure as to what should he should say now.
Should he open up as well? Tell the blond he had been worrying himself about him and his attitude towards him? Perhaps tell him that he had been asking himself at nights whether he should walk away from the blond or stay by his side, even if just as a friend?
-"Well I…"- he started saying, but before he could say anything else his and Naruto's sky blue summers eyes met in an intense gaze that felt short at being described as such.
It was so much more than just a look; it was more than just eyes crashing… it was, it was…
Their bodies were closing in, almost as if pulled by the magnetic force of the other. And they knew it, they were going to kiss again… and after this, whatever happened, it was going to happen no mattered what…
Sasuke's eyes were completely focused on soft pink lips approaching his as he felt his own breath mingle with Naruto's; he noticed the other's breath smelled somehow minty and caught himself wondering if the other had just had another mint just in case they kissed again.
They were so close now… just few more eternal seconds until their lips touched and they could go back to that beautiful place in which they did not have to use words to explain themselves, their bodies would do that job for them.
The blond wondered if they were going to do more than just kiss, if they were going to continue were they had left it when they had been interrupted…
But the answer to that was to remain a mystery, because a loud ring coming from Sakura's room broke the moment and they flinched causing the built up memento to break.
-"Damn it! That stupid Sakura and her stupid loud ring tone!"- grunted Sasuke in between his teeth and that made Naruto feel less disappointed.
They heard the sleepy answer on the other side of the room as their eyes once again crashed together, but this time with less evil intentions in mind.
-"Yeah…I'm awake now…"- they heard the grumbled response and felt somehow happy at her discomfort: -"What do you…"- she couldn't finish her sentence as the person at the other end of the line seemed to have cut her off, her tone had sounded far more distress than it should have: -"It can't… but…"- she couldn't form coherent sentences and this worried both males who were exchanging worried looks: -"I'll be right over"- she said sounding more resolute, but her voice sounded broken as if…
The door to her room was suddenly thrown open as the woman, clad in sweet pants and a zip up hoodie, walk out, her eyes looking puffy and red, a hard to read expression plastered on her features.
-"What happened?"- Naruto asked first, all anger at her, forgotten at the moment.
-"Its… Lee…"- she managed to choke out before she broke into tears.
Naruto saw in slow motion how Sakura's knees gave out and how Sasuke bolted from his seat on the couch barely making it by her side, the sound of the abandoned cane falling to the floor as the soundtrack of Sakura's breaking; the grimace in Sasuke's face made Naruto wonder if the other was still hurting from his leg, while Sakura's tears and muffled unintelligible sobs and cries sounded through the otherwise silent room.
Dark eyes meet blue in an understanding nobody else could have seen or get.
They were after all a "family" and as a family, they had a duty to this woman.
Naruto grabbed the keys to Sasuke's car while he dragged her out of their apartment.
Amongst the incomprehensible soliloquy she seemed to be having with herself, they decided they were going to take her to the city hospital, where Lee, laid in the threshold of death.