Sleep In Sunlight

SasuNaru

Chapter 3: Wilting Flowers

Naruto slowly opened his eyes. He could hear the TV. Once his vision cleared he realized he wasn't alone in the room. "You're still here." The blonde sat up. "I figured you would have left again." Sasuke glared at him. "If I could leave, I would. Believe me, I really don't want to be here with you."

"Why can't you leave?" Naruto asked tilting his head. Sasuke rolled his eyes at the blonde for continuing his questions. "I can't leave until my brother comes to get me."

"You have a brother?" Naruto asked. Sasuke nodded his head slightly and looked at the TV again. The blonde stared down into his lap. He still felt uncomfortable with the raven. "What's he like?" He asked trying to get a conversation going.

"He's," Sasuke just glared at the TV. "a lot you. He's annoying as fuck." Naruto tried to glare holes into the back of the raven's head. "Why the fuck are you so mean?" He yelled.

Sasuke shrugged. "I didn't get enough love as a child." he said sarcastically. There was silence for, maybe two seconds, before Naruto lost it.

"God! No wonder I didn't remember you!" He through his pillow at the other boy's head. "I probably hated you so much, I just decided to block you out!"

"Would you shut up!" Sasuke thorough the pillow back at Naruto. "I hate the sound of your voice!"

"Well I hate the sound of you breathing!" Naruto glared.

"Fuck you! Why don't you just do the world a favor and die!"

Sasuke expected to hear another verbal blow from the blonde, but it never came. He turned around to face Naruto only to see something that made him feel nothing but guilt. The other boy looked absolutely torn from what he had said. "You really are heartless... aren't you?." Naruto said. He was looking out the window at the garden. Only one thing went through Sasuke's head.

'Oh my god... I did not just say that.'

There was a knock on the door and the nurse, Shizune, walked in smiling at Sasuke. "You're brother is here." Sasuke tossed the remote onto Naruto's bed and walked out as fast as he could.

Shizune grew a concerned look for Naruto again as she saw his saddened face. "Naruto, are you ok?"

"I want to go to the garden."

Sasuke charged down the hall towards the front desk. He saw his brother smiling cheerfully. He shoved past him and went out the doors. Itachi followed trying to keep up. "Hey, what's wrong?"

"Nothing! I want to go home."

'Fuck! I don't like this anymore! Why did I have to go and say that?' The younger raven got to the car and tried to pull the door open but it wouldn't open. "Would you unlock the damned door?"

'He looked so...sad when I said that... I mean... what if he really is dieing... I don't even know why he's in there... he could be...'

"Hold on..." Itachi hit the button and there was a click noise and Sasuke through himself in the car. Itachi got in and looked over at his younger brother. "What happened?"

Sasuke laid his head against the window and stared at the hospital. "What's wrong with him?" Sasuke asked. Itachi stared at his brother. "What?"

"What's wrong with him?" The younger raven yelled. "Why is Naruto in this hospital?"

"I don't know. I thought someone would tell you." The older raven studied the look on his younger brother's face. "What did you do now?"

Sasuke snapped up. "Why do you always think I did something?"

"Because you are usually the one to do something wrong... plus, you look guilty..."

"Can we just go home?" Sasuke looked back out his window.

'That look on his face...' Sasuke thought. ' I think I went to far... ' Sasuke bit his lip and looked at the sky. 'But... he doesn't look like he's dieing... I feel bad... I never feel bad...'

000000 THE NEXT DAY...

'I should at least say sorry... No, I don't apologize... maybe I can talk to him a little more... something.' Sasuke thought as he walked down the hall to the doors that lead to the garden. The same nurse who he's seen everyday told him the blonde would be out there again.

He saw Naruto sitting in the exact same place he was yesterday. He walked up to him and sat down on the bench next to him. "Do you remember me today?" he asked with a fake chuckle. He was trying to sound friendly. "I sure do." The blonde replied coldly.

Sasuke looked out at the flowers. They still looked beautiful. "So, um... how has your day been so far?" he asked. Naruto looked at him confused. "What's your problem?"

"Problem? I don't have a problem. Is there something wrong with me asking you a simple question?" He said quickly with a very fake smile. "Well, for you, yes. Why are you acting so weird?" Naruto squinted at him and examined him closely. "Are you high?" He whispered.

"What? No!"

'I cant do this. Maybe I can just ask him if he's... dieing. No! How sick would that be. Just say sorry.'

Sasuke sighed and slouched on the bench. "Ok, look... I'm sorry for... saying you should die. I didn't mean it. It's just one of the symptoms of being a total ass."

Naruto laughed. "It's ok."

"Really? I mean... the way you looked after I said it... I thought I like really hurt your feelings or something."

"Well you did." The blonde said with a smile. "But I got over it. I kind of figured you were just saying it because you were mad."

Sasuke stared at Naruto. "Why are you in this hospital?" Sasuke just blurted out.

"Didn't they tell you?" Naruto asked.

"No. No one told me anything."

Naruto looked down at the ground. "Do you really want to know?"

"Yeah."

Naruto blinked and looked up at the sky. "I'm not going to tell you."

Sasuke snapped his head up. "Why not?"

"You'll start acting weird around me."

"No I wont."

Naruto sighed and looked into Sasuke's eyes. "I'm really sick." He slouched into his chair and tapped his foot on the ground. The blonde averted his gaze back to the garden and continued with Sasuke's full attention. "About two months ago I started getting really bad headaches, and I would get really dizzy out of no where, so my dad took me to the doctors and they did all these tests. A few weeks later they called me back in and told me I had a brain tumor. They said there were not a lot of things they could do about it. They said I would most likely die with in a few months."

Sasuke's eyes widened, but he remained silent. "They told me I would need to stay out of school. I stayed at home for a while until I passed out. When I woke up, my dad said it would be best if I just stayed in the hospital." A sudden look of anger and sadness ran over his face.

Naruto looked back at Sasuke who seemed more concentrated on the blonde than ever. "Then they gave me an option. They said I could keep taking the medicine, or I could have the surgery." Naruto sighed. "There was a 40 percent chance of survival with the medicine, and about 10 percent chance with the surgery. So obviously I decided on the medication. But it doesn't really change anything, it just slows the growth rate of the tumor." The blonde straitened up in his chair. "So I'm still dieing... I'm just dieing really slowly."

Sasuke leaned back and stared at nothing in particular. He rubbed his hands over his face, trying to absorb all the information. "...my god..." he mumbled. He looked over at Naruto. The blonde was scraping his foot on the ground looking back out at the flowers again.

'...there is no way this is true...' Sasuke thought. 'He really doesn't look sick at all. He's fine. There is nothing wrong with him.'