Special Delivery- Chapter 8

The End ~Finale~

SUMMARY: Naruto had a great life, but his world was turned upside down when he recieved a beautiful boy with some problems in the mail. Can Naruto learn to love him before the young male's time runs out? Who said love was powerless? NaruSasu YAOI SHOUNEN-AI Enjoy

WARNINGS: Yaoi (BoyxBoy), OOC-ness, NOT REALISTIC EVENTS, sucky writing, horrible writing, even more horrible writing, probably the worst writing you will ever find, probably language….

A/N: So I'm finally finished with the Giver play, it's done and over with, though I have to miss next Speech tournament for the Jr. Vase thing. Jr. Vase - Middle school version of the High school art UIL thing.

Yes, I'm in middle school.

Anyways I'm going to a lock-in at Amazing Jakes on Friday. Yay! My stalker invited me to it. Hurray for creepy stalker kids!

Oh, and, I'm sorry for the absence. I'm working on an original novel currently, so yeah.

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~Flashbacks~

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"Talking"

(Author's Note)

And almost anything else is stage directions- I mean the narrator. As in the guy who states the obvious.

Damn plays got me saying stage directions…

P.S. I don't appear to have MS Word, so I am currently using a program without grammar/spell check. And, as it appears, I cannot speak my own native tongue, and my keyboard is slightly broken, so I'll try my best to catch any of that stuff before I post the chapters up. Sorry for the inconvenience.

Previously, on Special Delivery (The actual story Lmao~)

The doctors had said it was probably a one time thing, and that they were keeping him for a little longer to be safe. They were also doing something about his cough, which was, as crazy as it seemed, just a cough.

Naruto began to cry again. He felt so useless, so hopeless.

There was nothing he could do for Sasuke.

And he hated it.

-30 days-

"Hey, Naruto, how are you?" Naruto wilted further away from his friends.

"Naruto, come on, don't be like that. We're sorry not everything is working out for you."

They didn't understand the urgency of the situation. A week. One excrutiatingly long week. A month. One heart-breakingly short month.

"You guys just... don't understand." Naruto said, looking Kiba in the eye, then Ino, then back.

"Naruto, we know it's been a week-"

"It's not just that. I-I... He's going to be gone. Gone. In a fucking month." His friends were stunned into silence by this latest intel. "And I... I feel like, somehow, it's my fault..."

A silence enveloped them almost sadistically.

"Naruto..." Ino began.

"...how could it have been your fault?" Kiba finished. They both watched Naruto intently, expectantly. They wanted an answer, and they wanted it now.

"Well... I..." Naruto sighed, came up with a reason on the spot that made sense in some contorted way, and continued. "Someone, he says this guy named 'Kaito', sent him to me. He sent him to me for a reason, though I don't know why. Maybe I'm supposed to help Sasuke. Maybe... maybe I can save him."

"Naruto, what makes you think that?" Kiba asked.

"Well, come on, how do you explain how Sasuke is never well when I"m not near him? Is in pain all the time? And then he was until I hugged him? And holding hands with him dulls out the pain from time to time? Maybe I'm the key to helping him." Naruto had never really considered this, but he found himself liking the reasoning, a plan forming inside of his head. Not a plan so much as a theory, but it was close enough to a plan.

"Well, Naruto, how did this 'Kaito' guy find you, out of all of the other blond-haired, blue-eyed males in the world? Huh? He just happened to randomly find your house on Google maps and go, 'Oh, this is the boy that's supposed to save my boy with his love!'? I mean, come on, how stupid sounding is it that you think you'll save him with your love?" Ino ranted on. She shut her mouth upon seeing the look of hurt on Naruto's face.

Naruto gave Inoo a death glare.

"So... if you're not near Sasuke... how is he ever going to be alright?" Kiba asked.

"It just does't help anymore. And, as it appears, you don't help anymore." Naruto bit at Ino. He turned to walk away from his friend and ex-friend. Who needed her, anyways?

Naruto made his was into math class, sitting down in his normal seat. The class got started like normal and Naruto felt a horribly forcefull tug on his heart. How could everyone just get on with their lives, go on about their regular routines, even possibly care about Tobuscus's brand-new video when Sasuke was in the hospital, suffering a pain Naruto couldn't even begin to imagine, waiting for the month to be over so he could finally die?

Naruto stared at the paper, the numbers a big jumbled up mess in his head. His eyes couldn't even begin to register the lines as letters and numbers, much less his brain make sense out of the meaningless piles of ink. Naruto looked up when the sound of footsteps made themselves apparent to Naruto's not-so-keen ears. The teacher was hovering over Naruto, and said-boy gave the man a fake grin.

"I appear to have replaced my math brain with my lounging one." Naruto said to the teacher. Naruto mentally face-palmed; had he ever sounded so stupid in all of his life?

"Naruto... I'm sorry. Just do what you can, alright? I won't grade you too harshly."

For some reason, this made Naruto angry.

Naruto didn't want pity; he wasn't a sissy little girl that needed pity just as much as she needed oxygen. He could do something about Sasuke, he wasn't just going to sit here and wait. He just needed to get the school day over with and run up to the hospital and...

...and what. What was the next step? Being around him, hugging him, holding hands... wait, was the next step a-a... a kiss? Naruto blushed, despite himself. Did he have to kiss Sasuke to save his life? He wasn't so sure that he could, Sasuke was just so pretty... so delicate... so feminine... and Naruto, he couldn't bring himself to kiss Sasuke! Just thinking of brushing his lips lightly against the boy's slightly scared him, made him shiver, though the shivering wasn't really from the freight. If that's what Naruto had to do in order to save Sasuke, that's what Naruto had to do. He just had to pop right into the hospital and plant a kiss on his lips. Then Sasuke would be alirght and...

Wait...

What if Sasuke didn't like him? What if the fact that Naruto had kissed him revolted him so much that he stopped talking to the blond? Would Naruto be able to handle it, living his life knowing that the boy that meant the world to him hated him for saving his life, even if it was by kissing him? No, Naruto could handle it. And besides, Sasuke would be grateful. He would be alive, no more pain. But would the pain stop there? Or.. would it continue? What if a kiss wasn't the answer, just another buffering technique? What then? And... was Sasuke really the person that meant the world to him? Really?

Naruto would have to consider this later. Right now, his top priority; survive the school day.

Naruto ran to Rena's wating car. RAN. Naruto piled into it, his backpack thrown in haphhazardly. Rena subconciously ducked a little as the backpack went soaring only to be stopped by the door on the opposite side of the car (Sorry backpack, not today.).

"Whoa there, someone's eager." Rena said.

"Hospital. Drive. Now." Naruto ordered, sliding into the passenger seat, seatbelt clicking almost simultaneouly. Rena smiled, shaking her head.

"You're so sweet. Hospital it is, then." And Rena drove them there, the whole time Naruto was excited. He couldn't wait to stop Sasuke's pain, he was sure it was going to work, absolutely sure.

The plan was fool-proof.

"What do you mean we can't see him? I'm hoping you just added an extra 'appostrophe t' there." Naruto said.

"I'm afraid that Uchiha Sasuke is in the extensive care center and cannot be visited at this time."

"Bull shit!" Naruto yelled at the receptionist. She glanced up at Naruto above her reading glasses.

"Excuse me?" She asked.

"I appollogize, he's been very upset, that boy's been in the hospital for a week now." Rena said, smiling. She pulled -practically dragged- Naruto away from the information desk. Rena spun Naruto around so that he was facing her.

"What the hell's gotten into you, Naruto? Why are you acting so strange?" Rena asked. Naruto looked her straight in the eye.

"I think that I can help Sasuke. I just need to see him. If I could see-"

"And just what do you plan to do, Naruto? You haven't exactly gone to medical school." Naruto looked at Rena's eyes, saw the anger, dissappointment, and concern, all working together to break down Naruto's reslove.

Naruto cried.

"Oh, Naruto, hunny, I'm so sorry. I know you're worried about him, I really know you are. But you're fooling yourself, Naruto. You really can't help him."

Well, yeah. Not if he couldn't get to him.

-29 days-

"Hey, Naruto. What's up? Why the long face?" Kiba asked, sliding into the seat beside his best friend.

"I just... I really think that I can help Sasuke. But I need to get to him, Kiba, and they won't let me see him. If they just let me visit him, I think I could help." Kiba gave Naruto a look and the blond sighed. It was hopeless, Kiba would never understand.

"And how could you help him?" Kiba asked. "This is exactly why Ino's pissed off at you."

"No, I'm pissed off at Ino." Naruto corrected him.

"So you're both pissed off at each other, big deal. Come on, Naruto. I'm sorry, bro, but there's nothing you can do for Sasuke. If he means so much to you that you'll try to fool yourself into believing your the key to helping him... you might want to re-think your relationship." Kiba stood and walked off, leaving Naruto alone with his thoughts at the lunch table.

Rethink their relationship?

-26 days-

In just six days, Naruto could count on his fingers and toes how many days Saskue had left. In ten more after that, just his fingers. Five more, just one hand. And then... wow, Sasuke really didn't have all that much time left. Naruto was currently laying down on his back, facing the ceiling. He was on the floor by his bed. He didn't want to mess with his bed; he and Sasuke had slept on it together. And Sasuke's...? Naruto stood up to stand next to Sasuke's bed. He grabbed fistful amounts of the blanket and brought it up to his face, inhaling the faint scent of Sasuke.

Sasuke...

Sasuke was dying. Naruto couldn't do anything if he couldn't get to him. And even if Naruto could get to him, he still didn't know if his plan would work. It followed the trend, but you never know, it could be like one of those math problems; the trend seemed to change in the middle, when really it was different then how you looked at it. Earlier Naruto had said that the plan he had come up with was fool-proof, only to find that he couldn't visit Sasuke, so Naruto was having his doubts. Who could blame him? He wanted to save a boy's life. That's a lot of pressure, believing someone's life rested on your shoulders. Kind of like a mother, but not really. Like a mother... was that what Kiba had meant on Wednesday? Or was that Wednesday? It seemed so long ago...

Yes, Naruto judged, it had been Wednesday. It had been three days ago, and it was currently Saturday. Saturday, a day to sit and think about your dying... what? What exactly was Sasuke to him? A friend? A best friend? A brother? A son? A... boyfriend? A soul mate? Naruto wasn't exactly sure. What were they, as a whole? Probably more than just two peas in a pod, considering. Naruto sighed, releasing the blanket from his grip.

Naruto plopped down onto Sasuke's bed, enveloped in his scent, his presence. Though Sasuke was so far away, Naruto felt as if he were right there beside him, asking in that small voice of his if he were alright. Naruto missed that, found his eyes tearing up. Naruto wiped them dry. Don't cry, he told himself, don't cry...

Naruto opened his eyes. The room was dark; Naruto had slept the day through. Another day of planning wasted. Planning what, exactly? Naruto already had a plan, no matter how stupid it seemed to be. Though he couldn't get in...

Could he break in?

Why would he do that? Oh, yeah, to save Sasuke's life. But then they'd probably throw him in jail or something for breaking and entering. Well, no doctor would hear him out, so break in was, sad to say, the most reasonable way of executing this little plan of his. Were doctors with Saskue all day around? Maybe they left at some hour... maybe he could slink in, ninja style, and kiss Sasuke, then leave, never to be caught, Sasuke miraculously recovering? Naruto doubted it, but it was worth a shot...

...Why was Naruto even considering putting himself on the line for Sasuke? Why would he put so much at stake for him?

Maybe... maybe because-

"Naruto, you want to eat dinner? You haven't eaten all day, I'm worried about you."

-dinner...

-25 days-

Sunday. Joy. Naruto sat outside of the hospital, watching people walk in and out of the doors, both happy and sad. Naruto wondered exactly what he was accomplishing by sitting there in a tree. How did he get to the hospital? Why, he walked there. He had told Rena he was going to Kiba's house. That was a fat lie. And if Rena or Nathan called Kiba's house? Naruto was probably going to be grounded for the next century. So why was he here again? Because, as he had thought earlier and settled on the conclusion, Sasuke meant the world to him. Why? He wasn't quite sure. He hadn't even known the male for that long, yet he felt a stong attraction to him, like the north and south poles of a magnet. Hey, North and South. N and S. Naruto and Sasuke.

He pulled the binoculars out of his bag and looked through a window on the wall. It was a patient's room, though it was a blonde chick. She was in a gown, holding a very animated conversation with what appeared to be the nurse. Naruto looked in another window; an old woman someone was giving CPR to. Naruto quickly changed windows; two people, a man and a woman, were making out against a wall. Naruto put down the binoculars. Why was he doing this again? Naruto didn't even know if Sasuke was in an internal or external room, so why was he even trying? He guessed that at this point, when Sasuke had 25 days left, everything was worth trying.

Naruto held the binoculars up to his eyes once again.

-20 days-

Naruto could now effectively count Sasuke's dayd left on his fingers and toes. Currently it took all of them, but later he wouldn't be so lucky. Naruto was getting his things out of his locker when someone slammed it shut. He glanced up to see who his locker's assailant was only to find Ino standing behind him, snickering.

"How'd you like that, big shot?" Ino asked.

"How immature." Naruto said, putting his combination in again. Ino huffed out a breath, reaching over to mess up the combination.

"There." Ino said.

"How rude." Naruto said. He began to, once again, put his combination in. Ino let out a whine and stormed off, parting students as she went. Naruto chuckled. Sorry, Ino, it won't be that easy.

Naruto grabbed his stuff and exited the building. He scanned the parking lot for Rena's car and found that it wasn't there. Huh, strange...

...a car pulled up, though it wasn't Rena's. The window rolled down.

"Hey, Naruto? I'm supposed to pick you and Ino up, your mother had car troubles." Naruto waited for a few seconds then got in, whispering a 'thank you' to what he assumed was Ino's mother. Ino got in the front seat, throwing her backpack onto Naruto.

"Ow!" Naruto exclaimed. Ino turned toward him, then toward her mother.

"Mom! What's he doing in here?" Ino asked, practically barked.

"His mother had car problems so we're dropping him off at his house first." Her mom explained. Ino crossed her arms over her chest.

"They probably can't afford to get it fixed..."

"Ino! Be nice!"

"But mom, it's true. That kid has a month to live, they should just pull the plug. It;s money down the drain."

Naruto could not have been any more angry with the blonde.

"It's not wasted money, we're not pulling the plug, and he's not going to die." Naruto growled at her.

"Oh?" Ino asked, turning in her seat to look at Naruto. "And what makes you so sure? The fact that you're in love with him?"

"Ino! Enough." With that Ino turned back around in her seat, looking out of her window at the passing landscape. Naruto's anger was washed away by sudden realization.

Was he really... in love with Sasuke?

-19 days-

One toe removed from the equation. Naruto decided to discard the toes first, since he really didn't think about them as much as his fingers. Naruto just focused on the fact that he still had all of his fingers in the countdown. It was saturday, again, and Naruto was once again at the hospital. Naruto had found in his 'research' that Sasuke did, in fact, have an external room, so Naruto could watch him, though his room was on the side of the hospital, it made it slightly more challenging to remain unseen. Naruto watched Sasuke in his room. Naruto found that Sasuke had no doctors in his room most of the time, and no nurses usually from 9:00 P.M. - 3:00 A.M. How did Naruto find that out? 'Sleep over at Kiba's house'.

Naruto watched Sasuke breath, could only barely see the chest moving up and down with each breath counting down to his last. Naruto's throat closed at the though. He shook his head to remove those thoughts when his phone rang.

"Naruto?"

Crap. Rena.

"Yeah, Rena?" Naruto answered.

"Where are you?"

"At Kiba's, mom, I told you already."

"I just called them."

Okay, nevermind. Not crap, SHIT.

"Uh... oh... so you did..."

"Naruto, where are you?" Rena demanded.

"...at the hospital..." Naruto answered with a small voice.

"Oh, hunny, Naruto, why? We can't see him yet, you know that."

"I know, it's just that... Rena, I want to see him before... before..." Naruto trailed off, tears almost suffocating his lungs and drowning his eyes. He sniffled.

"I'm coming to pick you up, alright?"

"Alright." Naruto replied, his voice contorted by his now runny nose. Great, he hated runny noses. Naruto gave Sasuke's room a lasting glance then hopped down from the tree he was occupying, making his way to the front of the building where he would await his ride.

-10 days-

Uh oh. Now it was no toes, all fingers. That fact worried Naruto.

It was now Tuesday, but a rare day off from school. It was parent-teacher conference day, of which Naruto's adopted parents had to attend. Naruto's school performance was not going well, due to Sasuke's stay at the hospital and his ever-so-short life span. Rena and Nathan said their goodbyes, Rena planting a kiss on Naruto's forehead, and then he was alone, Nina somewhere hanging out with her friends. She liked to be out of the house because she said 'it felt like a funeral, everyone seemed as if they were mourning a lost soul'. Naruto didn't blame her, Naruto felt like he was mourning a lost sould sometimes, when the truth was that he was almost lost.

Naruto was stumped on what to do, how to get in. He couldn't just waltz right in, past visiting hours, down the hall to a room with a patient that wasn't in the right condition for visitors. Sasuke still hadn't opened his eyes, having two seizures in the past week. Naruto was still haunted by them. Naruto sat on the couch in the living room, eating some instant cup ramen. Could he break through the window, go into his room...?

Fat chance. Sasuke had a third story room. Which meant a third story room window. Which meant a long climb. Naruto sighed. He wasn't even sure if the windows opened, and he was sure as hell that breaking it would make too much noise. How would Naruto ever be able to pull this off? He wouldn't, that's how. He wouldn't, absolutely couldn't, unless some miracle happened and he was granted access. Could he bribe a nurse to let him in...? In order to do that he would need money. He could take it from Rena and Nathan, little amounts at a time... but that sounded wrong. He wasn't even sure it would work. How much money would he need? $100? $200? He wasn't even sure. He guesses $200 would suffice, but if he did that he would have to take $10, $20 dollars from both Rena and Nathan a day. How would he pull that off? He wouldn't.

So Naruto was stumped. So Naruto wandered into Rena's and Nathan's room on wobbly legs, making his way to their white dresser in the corner. He opened the top drawer, pulled a $100 out from under some unopened mail. Huh. That's convinient. But wouldn't they notice? He rummaged around in the drawer, only to find two more hundred-dollar bills in there. Well, only one wouldn't hurt for now, right? Of course. So Naruto put everything back like it was, closed the door, and exited the room. Naruto closed the door softly, though no one was there to hear. He felt a little guilty, though the thought also had him excited; he could get in to see Sasuke! Now, where to find one hundred more dollars...

-1 day-

Sasuke's life was now depending on one index finger, 1 measley finger of hope. Naruto glanced at the sky, which was dark. He walked into the hospital building, one receptionist at the desk, one of which Naruto didn't recognize, which was a good thing.

"Uh... can I see Sasuke?" Naruto asked.

"Sasuke...?"

"Uchiha." Naruto finished for her. She flipped through something, made a face, then looked at Naruto.

"You can't visit him right now." She said.

"Well..." Naruto hoped, prayed to any god, that this would work. Naruto handed her three hundred dollars, the whole shi-bang. Where did he get $300 so fast? Well, including the $100 he grabbed out of Rena's and Nathan's room, he had been able to get more, adding up to $125, Kiba swiping the rest from his mother, saying it was for snacks and what not. Kiba had called him crazy at the time, and he may be right, Naruto may be crazy (But it just might be a lunatic they're looking for), but he hoped that it would work. Hope was enough, right?

The nurse took a quick look around, grabbed the $300, shoved it down her bra, then stood up.

"Right this way, sir." Naruto smiled as she lead him through the halls and up an elevator of the hospital into Sasuke's room; room 347. Naruto walked in and almost cried. Sasuke looked... dead, thought the heart monitor suggested otherwise. Sasuke was much paler than usual, almost blanding in with the room, almost no colour in his skin. Naruto didn't want to see his eyes. The nurse exited the room quietly.

Naruto walked over to Sasuke's bed, standing next to him. Could he do it? Coudl he really bring himself to kiss Sasuke?

He leaned over and...

...their lips brushed, lightly, a nice, feathery contact. Naruto's eyes widened. kissing Sasuke made him realize how much he missed him, so he deepened the kiss, Sasuke unresponsive. Naruto cried into the kiss, soon breaking it apart, oly to find himself hovering above the younger male, legs straddling his waist. Naruto sobbed. Then Naruto's heart almost stopped when one sound, one tone entered the room.

Naruto had only heard it in movies, TV shows, but... this was real life, this was Sasuke. Naruto stared at the heart monitor in disbelieve, then down at Sasuke. His tears started up again as he let out a choked sob. He began crying again.

Of course his stupid plan didn't work, of course it didn't! And now Sasuke was dead, dead, and it was all Naruto's fault! Naruto looked at Sasuke's eyelids, like white blankets of snow covering those obsidian eyes he had come to love so much...

...that ebony hair framing his sickly pale face...

...and that pale skin, which was cold, stiff, nothing like it had been before...

...and a heart that was to never beat again, to never love Naruto back...

"I love you, Sasuke... I love you..." Naruto sobbed out.

Beeeeeeeee- Beep. Beep. Beep.

"Huh?" Naruto said, looking at the heart monitor. His eyes widened when he heard a groan. Naruto looked down at Sasuke, who's eyes blinked open, long lashes framing them.

"N-Naruto? What's wrong?" Sasuke asked. Naruto sobbed again, kissing Sasuke. Sasuke, stunned at first, began to respond. What had happened that had Naruto so worried? When they broke apart, Sauske was looking around.

"I'm in... the hospital? When... how..." Sasuke said, a little disoriented and cloudy-minded. He looked at Naruto again. "Oh, Naruto, please don't cry, don't be sad." But Naruto wasn't sad.

Naruto couldn't have been happier.

A/n: THE END! After the epilogue it will ALL BE OVER! OVER! OVEEEEEEEEEEEEER!

Finally.

This took a damned long time to write! I mean, come on! Not to mention that it's, like, 2:30 A.M. on a school night... day... and I'm up writing.

Again, I apollogize for the absence, I've been writing my novel, 'Insert Name Here', about two boys named Alex Geoffry Reeve and Nathan Minerva Sherbrooke. It's a dramatic romance novel, since that seems to be all I can write.

Oh, well.

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