~Twenty-Four: Shed No Tear For Me; I'm Where I Want To Be~
Sasuke woke upon Naruto's twenty-fifth birthday to find the blonde missing. He ignored his team-mates as he rushed to track his friend, hoping to find him before he did something stupid.
He found Naruto with slit wrists, near death, on the bank of the stream from which they had gotten their water the previous night. There was a note beside him, and a blood-covered kunai was clenched in the blonde's hand.
As quickly as he could, Sasuke wrapped up his friend's wrists and applied healing chakra to the gashes, closing them as best he could while he fumbled around in his pouch searching for some blood-replenishing pills. He wouldn't let Naruto die! Naruto couldn't die! Not now, not like this…
"Don't you dare die on me, Naruto," he half-snapped, half-sobbed, as he forced the blonde to swallow the pills. "You hear me? Don't you dare die!"
He had made it just in time. Karin had followed Sasuke and managed to help heal the blonde's wounds where Sasuke couldn't, and comforted her brother-figure while they waited for Naruto to wake up.
They read the note that had been beside Naruto, and realised immediately that it had been a suicide attempt.
One line, as Sasuke waited for Naruto to wait, repeated over and over in the raven-haired man's head.
Shed no tear for me, Sasuke. I'm exactly where I want to be.
Okay, that's the second-last chapter!
About the whole pill thing...I've been reading way too much fanfiction and that just seemed to be the way to go. *shrugs*
No reviews on the last chapter *pouts* but please review this time!
~Ashuri