Sleep In Sunlight

SasuNaru

Chapter 2: Mild Confusion

"Why are you back so early? You've been there for only a hour and a half." Itachi said, a little confused, from the living room. "I didn't like him." Sasuke walked through the large dining room to the even larger living room.

Itachi was reading some book for college and eating chips. He watched Sasuke as he strolled carelessly to sit on the couch next to him. "What do you mean you didn't like him?" The older raven asked. "I didn't like him. Besides, he walk out... well rolled out on me first. So I left."

"What the hell did you do to him?" Sasuke glared at his brother. "Why do you assume I'm the one who started anything?" Itachi grabbed another chip. "Well... honestly Sasuke... you're very mean."

Sasuke scrunched up his face and rubbed his fist over his eyes. "Oh boo hoo hoo! You really hurt my feelings." Itachi rolled his eyes at his younger brother. "You are so immature." Sasuke laughed. "Yeah, that coming from the guy who still sleeps with a teddy-bear." Itachi reached over and punched Sasuke on the shoulder. "Shut the hell up! There is nothing wrong with sleeping with an item of security."

"Yeah," Sasuke scoffed. "When you're five." Itachi continued to glare. "Well at least I didn't wet the bed until I was twelve." Itachi said with a smirk. Sasuke's face turned red and his glare grew more fierce. "I had a blatter problem!" The elder of the two chuckled to himself. "Uh-huh, whatever you say."

Sasuke stared at Itachi before snatching the chip bag from him and stomping away. "Hey!" Itachi yelled. "I was eating those!" Sasuke poked his head back into the room. "Yeah," He patted his stomach. "The fat rolls make it obvious."

Itachi looked down at his stomach. "I don't have fat rolls!" Sasuke walked away. "Uh-huh, whatever you say." he said mocking his brother.

Itachi went back to his book muttering to himself of how foolish his younger brother was.

Sasuke walked into his room which was on the second floor of the rather large house. He tossed the half full chip bag on his desk. He took a seat in front of his computer and turned on the desk lamp. He sighed when he saw that he had over twenty different messages from girls at school. He decided he wasn't in the mood to deal with them so he closed out of the chat room and went to lay on his bed.

He pulled out his cell phone which had been turned off in his pocket for the past two hours. Another annoyed sigh came from the raven when he saw even more messages from the same girls. "Fuck..." he mumbled. He scrolled down the list and found one from one of his real friends.

'CALL ME WHEN YOU READ THIS...' was all that Sai said. Sasuke dialed his number.

"Helllo..."

"Hey it's me."

"Sasuke? How'd it go?"

"Torture. Oh, get this, the person I have to see is Naruto Uzumaki."

"Ooh. So that's were that freak has been? Why the fuck is he in the hospital?"

"Well at first I thought it was because he couldn't walk... because that's what he told me. But when the fucker got pissed off for no reason, he just gets up and walks away. He told me not to come back."

"Don't you have to go back?"

"Yeah... I'm pretty sure I have to. My probation officer told me I had to complete thirty two hours of community service."

"How long were you there?"

"About an hour. But I think I might be counted for the whole four hours."

"Yeah if the freak doesn't tell them you left."

"Hopefully he doesn't. I really would feel bad if I had to beat the shit out of a sick person."

"So why the hell did he walk out?"

"'Cuz he was being a little fucking baby over me ignoring him. He was blabbing on about how the only reason I'm there is to talk to him and a whole bunch of bull shit. And then out of nowhere he calls me a prissy bitch."

Sai began laughing hysterically. "Shut up!" Sasuke yelled into the phone. The laughter continued. Sasuke got even more annoyed and hung up the phone and threw it to the end of the bed.

"People are so fucking stupid..." he mumbled.

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THE NEXT DAY...at the hospital...

'I tell him Naruto doesn't want me to come back... and what does he do? He tells the nurses to keep me in the hospital until he comes to get me... Idiot!'

Sasuke walked through the, somewhat familiar, hallway. He reached room 424 and knocked. He didn't receive a response. 'What? Is this his usual nap time or something?' Sasuke didn't bother knocking again and just barged in. He didn't see Naruto, but he did see a nurse with short black hair looking through his belongings.

"Uh, hello." Sasuke said trying to get her attention. She snapped around to face him. "Oh, hello! You're here to see Naruto. He's out in the garden right now, so if you want to just head on out there, just take a left and go straight out the doors. He should be right out there."

"Ok." Sasuke sighed and left the room. He followed the woman's directions and walked out into the garden. He had to admit it was beautiful out there. There were rows and rows of flowers that reflected the sunlight enough to draw your attention with out burning your pupils out of your head.

He saw the blonde sitting in his wheel chair near a bench staring at the flowers. He walked over, feeling a little nervous.

"Hey." He said to the blonde. Naruto looked up a little confused. "Hello." He smiled and then continued to look at the flowers. "What your not even gonna act mad?" Sasuke snapped.

Naruto looked up. "Excuse me? I-I'm sorry, do I know you?" Sasuke joined the blonde in the confusion. "What the hell is your deal? I can put up with the whole yelling and fighting thing, but I can't stand the whole 'I don't know you' thing. It's very annoying."

The blonde looked even more confused than before. "You look sort of familiar. Can you tell me your name?" Sasuke glared. "Cut the bull shit." Naruto stared at him, then averted his gaze. "I'm sorry, I really don't know you. If you would just tell me your name I mi-"

"Fuck off!" Sasuke yelled. Naruto looked shocked and a little angry. "I'm going back to your room." Sasuke walked away from the very confused blonde.

'Who the hell was that?' Naruto thought to himself as he watched the raven walked away.

Naruto stared at the flowers a little longer before deciding to go inside. He wheeled himself into back to the doors, struggling to keep them open as he was going through.

'The only fricken doors in this whole place that aren't automatic.'

Once he was in the building he made his way to his hall way. He stopped when he saw Shizune. "Hi!" he said to her. "Hey Naruto," She looked behind him. "Where's your visitor?" Naruto stared at her. "I have a visitor?" She looked at him with concern. "Oh sweetie. I think you might have forgotten a few details from yesterday."

"Like what?" The blonde asked. She smiled apologetically. "You know I can't tell you. You have to try and remember without help. That way your memory might improve." Naruto stared at the ground. "No Shizune, my memory wont improve. It's being eaten away like everything else." He started to roll away. "Naruto, just read through your book, ok?" He didn't respond.

He made it to his room with aching arms. He turned the nob and kicked the door open and quickly rushed in before it came closed again. He saw the same guy from the garden sitting on a chair by his bed. Naruto grabbed his orange book from the shelf next to the door and rolled over to the raven. He looked at him. The raven just stared back with a slight glare. "What?" He snapped.

Naruto flipped his book open to the most recent entry. He read a little then looked at the raven. "Your name is Sasuke?" He asked. Sasuke rolled his eyes. "Yes! We established that after you called me Dick Head the third, remember?"

"No." Naruto read through a little more. "It doesn't say that." Sasuke stared at Naruto. "You really don't remember anything?" Naruto was still reading through a page. "Nope, but according to this, I know you. We met yesterday; you are a total ass; you didn't want to come here; you're doing this for community service; you didn't want to talk; you ignored me; and I told you not to come back." Naruto looked at Sasuke. His expression quickly became angry. "So what the hell are you doing here?"

Sasuke didn't respond, he was to busy thinking. 'What the fuck? I don't think he's joking. He really doesn't remember me.'

"Do you remember anything at all from yesterday?" Sasuke asked. "Yeah, I remember everything, except meeting you."

"But this isn't the first time we met. We went to school together!" Naruto's gaze went to the ceiling in thought. "Oh!" He exclaimed. "That's were I remember you from! You..." Naruto's smile fell. "You're friends with those guys! The ones who beat me up in the locker rooms that one day."

Sasuke's eyes widened. 'He doesn't remember yesterday... but he remembers something that happened in middle school.' "That happened a long time ago." He stated to the blonde.

"I know that!" Naruto's eyes scanned the room, not really looking at anything. "Wait a second... I remember now!" Sasuke cocked an eyebrow. "You came in when I was taking a nap and turned on the TV really loud." Naruto laughed. "You dropped the remote and everything. It was funny. But then I was trying to be nice to you and you were all... Der der deeerrrr!" Naruto made a face mimicking Sasuke.

'Ok... So he remebers yesterday?' Sasuke thought. "So... um is all the confusion gone now?"

Naruto looked up. "Hm? Oh yeah!... Wait, no. Why did you come back? You said you didn't want to be here, and I told you I didn't want you to come back. So why did you?"

"I have to complete the community service. Plus my brother made me."

"Oh..." There was silence for a few minutes. "You know, I didn't tell anyone you left. I know you would get in trouble if they knew you left early."

"How would you know that?" Sasuke asked. "I had some other people from the visitor program. A few of them were serving community service too. This one guy left after ten minutes. I told the nurse and he got in trouble." Sasuke nodded.

"You know," Naruto started to speak again. "Everyone who comes in here... they act all the same. The ones here for something... like the frickin girl-scouts or something. They treat me like a job. They don't even do anything, they just talk about how well they're doing. Then after I sign a paper, they leave." Sasuke listened intently. "People who are here for the same reason you are... they just ignore me all toghether. They treat me like a punishment, like I'm the one who got them in here. Some of them just are really mean, and others just ignore me all together."

Naruto started to take himself to the other side of the bed. He stood up from the wheel chair, placing his book under his pillow. He climbed into the bed and pulled the covers over himself.

"But your special." he continued. Sasuke felt his stomach twitch. "You do both."

Sasuke's stared at the blonde who now had his eyes closed.

'That kind of hurt.'