AN: Okay, so I got these reviews (I think they're from the same person), saying "just die, you virgin f^ck" from a guest, on every chapter I posted. I have posted (informed/noticed) in the beginning of the story that if you don't like this, don't read. But there are people who just so judgemental and narrow minded. I don't know how their parents raised them to be like that. Guess what? It's hilarious reading them, that you'd actually spend the time to post such hateful comment on every chapter that I've posted. I hope you'll enjoy this chapter as well.

Ps. I've made the setting on reviews from guest to be filtered, so I have to review them before I allowed them to be posted, hehehe... Bye, haters... SasuNaru is love, SasuNaru is life...

Pss. For my loyal readers, thank you so much for the lovely reviews. I really appreciated them. Now here I present you the new chapter. Happy reading!

~o0o~

Sasuke was almost fell asleep when Naruto decided to wake up, panting hard, and eventually crying silently.

Sasuke was sitting on a chair he had pulled near the bed, watching the blonde man sleeping. He had told both Kiba and Itachi that he would explain them later. He needed to take good care of Naruto first. Itachi and Kiba had left to the office after that. He had gone with Ino later the night when Itachi had come back so Naruto wouldn't be alone. When he had finished with Ino, he went back to his room to see that Naruto hadn't woken up since this morning. He couldn't bring himself to sleep so he instead stayed awake and watched Naruto. The unconscious man could wake up at any moment so he better stay alerted. He had checked Naruto's skin and it had turned back to normal. So he took one of his sweatpants and an oversized tee shirt on his closet to put it on Naruto very carefully.

It was almost three in the dawn when he felt his eyes went heavy. He almost fell asleep when Naruto woke up.

"What's the matter, Naruto?" He was immediately on his knees beside the bed.

"Huh? Sasuke? Why- Where am I?" It was until Sasuke asked him he lifted his head from his palms and stopped his silent cry.

"Hush… Here." Sasuke got him a glass of water on the night stand and ordered Naruto to drink. Naruto drank it in one go.

"Why am I here?"

"I don't know. Why don't you tell me why you are here?"

"Huh?"

Sasuke sighed.

"Am I still dreaming, Sasuke?"

Sasuke knitted his eyebrows. Cleary Naruto had a dream. It wasn't a nightmare if he was in that dream, right?

"No, Naruto. Why don't we talk tomorrow and sleep right now?"

From Sasuke's suggestion, Naruto averted his eyes from Sasuke. "I don't know if I can…"

Sasuke paused for a second. "Come on, big boy…" Sasuke carefully placed Naruto back to sleep. When Sasuke was about to let go, Naruto grabbed his pale wrists. "Where are you going, Sasuke?" the doctor whispered carefully.

"I will sleep on the other room." Sasuke said and was expecting Naruto to let go of his wrist but that didn't happen.

"Can you just please sleep with me? I mean, just sleep next to me, please? This bed is too big for my liking and with my-"

"Alright."

"Huh?

"I will sleep with you."

There was a pregnant pause before Naruto smiled. "Thank you, Sasuke."

Sasuke nodded. "You can let go of my wrist now." At this time, he was grateful that the light on his room was set on dim. He didn't want Naruto to see him now. He was sure that his cheeks were as red as his favourite food right now, because he could feel they were hot.

Sasuke went to the other side of the bed and climbed toward it after Naruto let go of his wrist. His heart was beating faster than before he had no idea why, he could practically hear it, it was deafening.

"Sasuke…"

"Hmm?"

"I'm sorry…"

Sasuke made himself comfortable beside Naruto before he answered. "What for?"

There was a pregnant pause on the other side of him. He waited but when he still got no answer, he raised his eyebrow in confusion. "Naruto?" No answer. What the hell? He slumped back to his bed and smiled with eyes closed.

The Dobe was already asleep.

~o0o~

Sasuke woke up at six in the morning. He knitted his eyebrows in confusion. He just had the strangest dream he had ever experience in his whole life.

He found Naruto unconscious under the shower head, burning his skin in the proses of taking a shower with the surprisingly too-warm water, if it was even possible. It was one hell of a weird dream, now wasn't it?

Or it wasn't…

There was something heavy on his chest. Was it his pillow? Did his pillow breathing? Or did his pillow has golden hair?

Oh.

It wasn't a dream.

He closed his eyes and a moment later he felt his mouth forming a smile.

Naruto was on his bed with him, cuddling him.

He lifted his free hand and touched the strands of golden that was Naruto's hair. They were still soft to his fingertips as he remembered it. He smiled again. It was a beautiful morning so he ended up fell back to sleep again.

The second time that morning he was woken up was because someone was caught poking on his cheek. He peeked a little and almost snorted at Naruto's expression. The idiot was squatting on the bed. Chin was rested on the knees while poking Sasuke's cheek with his pointer finger, supporting a confused look. When he opened his eyes immediately, Naruto fell on his butt cursing with eyes closed.

"I thought you died!" Naruto complained, brushing his chest to calm his heartbeat down.

Sasuke rolled his eyes. "I thought you are a doctor? You are supposed to know how human works. You could just check my breathing, or my stomach. See if it's still going up and down. Or you could have checked my breath under my nostrils, or pulse on my wrist. Instead, you poked my fucking cheek."

Naruto went red and interjected with his own argument. "You- you are like a fucking corpse! You didn't move! Ask your brother!"

Sasuke countered back, "but still, check my breathing, not poking my cheek!" It wasn't really a big problem but he didn't know why he kept the argument with the idiot. He's a frigging doctor, damnit!

"Do you hate me doing it?" Surprisingly Naruto's voice had turned into a whisper.

"No."

Naruto averted his eyes to somewhere else but Sasuke. "You don't have to get mad over something so trivial like that, you know…"

Sasuke closed his eyes and rubbed the bridge of his nose. "Naruto… You are a fucking doctor, for fuck's sake." Sasuke breathed out.

"Bastard."

Sasuke rolled his eyes but smiled nonetheless. "Let's have brunch."

~o0o~

Sasuke was sitting on one of the kitchen stools, grinning from ear to ear and he didn't know why. He wouldn't do this normally but not in front of Naruto. Was he too happy? Well, who wouldn't? He was having a frigging hot doctor, a sex god, on his goddamn kitchen! Not to mention that this hot doctor was cooking for him!

"What's with that grin?"

Sasuke's grin fell instantly when Naruto spoke. How did he know he was grinning? To answer his unsaid question, Naruto started speaking again.

"I can see it from here, you know."

Sasuke almost slapped himself when he saw his and Naruto's reflection on a pan Naruto had put on top of the counter.

The two fell back to silent again. The only sound that was heard was from Naruto's cooking. Sasuke continued to watch in silent. In no time, Naruto was finished. The two ate in silence, talking light topic as to what kind of plate to use or where Sasuke had kept the utensils.

When they finished, Naruto told Sasuke to sit down a little bit more to make the food go down easier first before doing another activity. Sasuke agreed and the two sat down across from each other.

"So… do you think we should talk about why am I here right now?"

Sasuke was drinking his green tea when Naruto spoke. He put the cup down and stared Naruto straight in the eyes. "I had promised myself back in the hospital that I won't commit suicide again. So tell me Naruto… Why were you lying unconscious under the shower head with overly-too-warm water running?"

Realization seemed to hit Naruto when he bit his lower lip. "I'm sorry…"

"There are people out there who love you dearly and can seriously put their life in danger just for you without second thought. So please, Naruto… Don't put your life in danger again, ever…" Sasuke bowed his head down as he whispered and hearing that somehow pained Naruto to no end. From then on he decided not to do stupid things like that.

"I'm so sorry…"

"What were you thinking when you did that? Was it because of me?" Sasuke asked unsure, peeking Naruto from under his black bangs, waiting for his answer. If it was because of him, he would seriously let Naruto go. But it pained him if it was not because of him. Whoever or whatever could be the reason for Naruto to do something like that when clearly he was against it, they were serious matters. There was no way Naruto could do something he despised.

Naruto averted his eyes away. "I will… tell you but maybe not today… Not now…"

Sasuke nodded. He didn't want to push it. Hell, he didn't even think that he was ready to hear Naruto's reasons.

There was a pregnant pause before Naruto spoke again. "Anyway Sasuke… How did you find me? I was alone as long as I remember, heck, I didn't even remember telling anyone where I was."

Sasuke studied Naruto's face and sometime a thought crossed his mind that never had he thought that he would have Naruto ever again in front of him, inside his kitchen, like right now. Hell, he'd never thought about this very day to happen, where Naruto had no memories of him. He sighed with eyes closed before massaging the bridge of his nose. "I had this uneasy feeling since the night before yesterday until the morning. Just to make sure that the uneasy feeling wasn't true, I decided to check on anyone who I thought was very important to me."

"So?"

"So I started with my parents, and my brother Itachi followed. After I knew they were safe and sound, I check on you. But I always was sent to your voice mail. I got worried so I tried to call Sai. He wasn't answering. So I went straight to your house and found you there."

Naruto bit his lower lip and nodded slowly, feeling ashamed. He remembered that he had locked the door, but decided to not question it.

"And Sai… I ordered one of my men to check on him. Naruto, I had to asked Ino for a favour to help me with you went missing when your… I mean, Sai, was admitted to the hospital."

"Sai was what?"

"He was… found unconscious. He was admitted to the hospital and you were nowhere near him."

Naruto stood up. "I gotta go. I'm his private doctor."

Naruto was about to go when Sasuke stood up and interjected. "Calm down. I will drive you to the hospital. Let's just shower first."

Naruto went red in an instant with his mouth gapping. "Wh-what?"

Sasuke realizing what he had said, he stuttered. "Uh, I mean, I will shower in the other room and you can shower the one in my bedroom."

Naruto strangely shook his head energetically.

"I uh… See you in a… maybe, few minutes, I guess?" Sasuke wasn't one to stutter but he did with Naruto and that was…

"Okay!" Naruto saluted at Sasuke with a nod meanwhile Sasuke nodded too energetically in response. The two bumped to each other before leaving to the bathrooms.

That was so embarrassing…

~o0o~

"I- uh… will see you later, I guess?" Sasuke stuttered for the nth time that day inside his car. They had finally showered and Naruto found no clothes, was now wearing Sasuke's surprisingly black button up shirt and black jeans, oh not to mention the black boxers. Naruto almost rolled his eyes at the thoughts of Sasuke's colorful clothes, but instantly his face heated up at the thought of wearing Sasuke's undergarment.

Naruto nodded in response, cheeks red from some strangely some known reasons. He could only nod because he had lost the ability to speak. He didn't trust his voice. He saluted the man and exited the car in a hurry.

He heard the engine disappeared as he entered the hospital.

He was met with Ino. "You lucky Tsunade stops pestering on me about you! Now tell her that you went to Osaka to gather Kakashi's document if Tsunade asked you, you hear me?" Ino yelled under a whisper.

Naruto saluted, and then he realized that that was the only thing he could do since this morning. "I- uh… Where's my boy- uh… patient? Sai. Where is Sai now?"

Ino rolled her eyes and shoved Naruto his coat. "Wear this first and then follow me."

Naruto did as he was told and followed Ino behind. "How is he? Is it bad?"

"He was sleeping by now. He needed to spend a few days here, I guess." Ino paused and gave him a chart. The two entered the escalator, Ino pressed the button to the fifth floor before she continued. "He was only on medication and it doesn't help him. He should have followed the chemo, Naruto."

Naruto breathed in deeply. "I can't. Every time I coaxed him, he always refused. I don't have any idea anymore on how to approach him with that topic."

Ino stared at Naruto. They exited the metal room after it gave a ding sound. Ino continued leading. "He got this blue dots on his abdomen, chest area, and his legs. I don't think he would-"

"Okay, stop there, tiger." Naruto grinned to the nurse but Ino could tell that it was forced. She worried her bottom lip and stopped to a room.

"Do you want me to enter too or?"

"I got this."

"You sure?"

Naruto nodded. Ino nodded back and before she left, she spoke again. "Naruto, if you need anything, just call me, okay?"

Naruto nodded again for the nth time that day with a warm smile.

~o0o~

Upon entering the room, he bit his lower lip at the sight. Sai was sleeping. His chest was raising up and down in a steady motion. The heartbeat monitor was beeping in a steady rhythm. IV was connected to pale wrist. Nasal cannula was connected with pale nose. He was wearing the baby blue gown, and a white blanket was covered half of pale body.

Naruto walked slowly toward the unconscious man. He could see already the blue dots on pale skin. Sai's cancer had spread too fast for his liking. This is no good, he thought as he stood up and got out of the room. Where was Ino gone to? And why would he let Ino go before? Acting all mighty, saying he could handle this when clearly he couldn't.

"Where is nurse Yamanaka?" He asked one of the nurses working there when he spot one.

"I saw her in the lobby, doctor."

"Get her. Tell her I need her immediately in Sai's room. She should know it."

The nurse bowed down and left.

Naruto went back to Sai's room. He started scribbled something on the chart, checked on the machines there, and checked on Sai, while waiting for Ino. Half trough it Ino eventually arrived.

"You just put a front on me earlier, blondie…" Ino mocked the doctor as she came approaching him carefully.

Naruto averted his eyes from the chart he was studying to Ino. "What did you find when he was admitted here?" Naruto asked as he chose to ignore her comment.

"Huh? He was admitted unconscious. He had hard time breathing so we put the nasal cannula on. We suspected that the blue dots as the cancer has taken its toll on him faster than we thought." As Ino was explaining, she could see from the corner of her eyes that there were several tears had dropped down tan cheeks. She looked at him with a sad expression and put her hand on his back and drew circle on it.

"He wasn't in coma now. He was just sleeping. I gave him oatmeal before he fell asleep. Don't worry."

"But Ino-"

"Come on, big boy… Let him rest. He needs it." Ino whispered softly as she put her hand around his waist and led him out to his room. Naruto nodded his head and followed. "Did he ask about me?"

"Yes he did. I told him that you were taking care of him when he was out. When he was awake and asked you again, I said that I ushered you to go home and take a shower. He laughed hearing that and thanked me for it, saying that you were stubborn and something along the way." Ino provided with a smile.

Through blurry eyes, Naruto smiled. "Thanks Ino."

"Do you mind telling me what happened? Sasuke came to me and asked me to cover you." Ino asked when they arrived at Naruto's room.

"I don't know, Ino… I don't know what I was feeling. You do know about Sasuke Uchiha and yet the last time I remembered, you acted like you didn't know of him."

Ino sighed as she took a seat next to Naruto on the comfy sofa. She rested her head on it so she was facing the white ceiling. "I'm so sorry… Believe it or not, Kakashi is very protective when it concerns you. He even changed your last name from Namikaze to Uzumaki. Damn right it must be because of him not wanting you to be found by anyone. It was like he was trying to remove the existence of Naruto Namikaze, making you like a brand new person, and the old you were never existed. Thus, I can't say anything to anybody if it concerns you."

Naruto in the same position as Ino, knitted his eyebrows in confusion. "That's why he never answered my question about my encounter with the Uchihas."

"Now that's something I want to know. How did you meet him and how did it go?"

Naruto took a deep breath. "I went on a date with Sai. Long story short, I happened to meet them there. Well, I didn't know them until Sasuke came out of nowhere and held me in a tight embrace, chanting my name and saying sorry, and please forgive me or some shit. Major headache and bam! I blacked out. When I gained my conscious back, I was already in my room. I asked Kakashi about it, but he just dodged off the question. For a second I believed him and thought that it was nothing and moved on. That was the day where I stared these weird dreams.

"The first dream I believed was the unfortunate event that night. I was in a terrible accident and that left me feeling tired. The second time the dream was about me trapped in this crazy dim room, and someone called me to get out of there. I ended up waking up feeling empty and it left me having sleepless night."

"Was it the dreams you were telling me when you came here late?"

"I told you but you didn't believe me."

Ino sighed. "And?"

"And… I met him again the second time in here. And you pretended to not know him. You could've told me-"

"Oh my god, you know how Kakashi is!"

"Oh my god, if you told me I could have saved the time to meet Gaara and asked him about it."

Ino rolled her eyes. "Ugh, nobody could threaten Gaara. Not even Kakashi."

"True." Naruto grinned.

"Then?"

"Gaara told me everything and left me feeling confused than ever. I feel so guilty about it. Crazy, I had abandoned that poor child for about seven years."

Ino snorted at Naruto referring Sasuke as a child. "Now did Sai knew about you and Sasuke?"

Naruto nodded. "He even suggested me to pay up for the time I had been away from Sasuke."

This time Ino sat up straight from the sofa and eyed Naruto nastily. "Huh? Is he mental?"

Naruto sighed and shrugged. "I don't know how that brain of him worked. He told me something about loving me too much, he was willing to share me with Sasuke. Saying that so I have someone to comfort me when he… You know…" Naruto refused to finish his sentences. It was better that way. Ino would understand.

"And you agreed? No offense. I like you and Sasuke together but Sai was being-"

"I didn't agree on it. We even argue about it, asking if he was on his right mind. He was. He even begged me to understand him. He even reasoned that if it wasn't because of the cancer, he would fight tooth and nails to make me as his only, even though an Uchiha as his opponent."

"That's…"

"Crazy, I know right?"

"Worse."

Ino could only sigh and went to her earlier position. This time her eyes were closed. "So what happened after you agreed on it?"

"Sai gave Sasuke and I a day to spend, which on Thursday, and he had the rest of the days. It was only a week when my dreams had become frequent and that I was left tired."

"I could see them under your eyes before."

"Huh? How about now?"

"They disappeared a little."

Naruto scoffed. "I got my sleep back."

"Now continue."

"On last Wednesday, I got to spend the night with Sai. Something Tsunade told me earlier that day, I got to have, you know, with Sai that night. The morning when he was still asleep, I realized what had happened that night, I somehow felt guilty, I didn't know from what. I wrote something about Kakashi needing me to scan some documents and emailed him as soon as possible, so I got to leave. When I realized that it was already Thursday, the scheduled day with Sasuke, I went mellow and shit. I might be lacking of vitamin B, I blacked-out when I was showering with warm water.

"Miraculously, Sasuke came to a rescue and I didn't know how. Well, leave that to Sasuke." Naruto scoffed before he continued. "That was why Sasuke asked you to cover me. By the way, thanks Ino, really."

"How about Sai? Why it was someone else who admitted him? Who was that person?"

"Uh, Sasuke mentioned about sending his man to check on Sai. Apparently Sasuke has this sixth sense and shit."

Ino rolled her eyes but smiled afterward. "How about Kakashi?" She said absent-mindedly. "What if he found out about all of these?"

"Just… Don't tell him anything. He will be in German for a month or so, so he won't be able to keep track on what's happening in here."

Ino nodded. "Don't stress out too much. Remember, if you ever need of anything, just ask me."

Naruto nodded back with a smile.

TBC

Published: Tuesday, December 5th 2017 01.07 PM (JST)