A/N: This story was started a while ago, but never got finished. Then I didn't think I'd like it when I completed it, but when I finally did tonight I fell in love with it. If it's confusing, it's actually meant to be and I'll explain it all at the end. It's more of a one-sided SasuNaru. I do hope you like it.


One-Shot #53
Everything and Nothing

He watched them from his spot hiding in the bushes. It wasn't their first date by any means. They'd been dating for months, and he couldn't be more jealous.

It wasn't that he didn't want to see her happy, just not with him. Why couldn't she go for that other boy who was always after her? Fuzzy brows was addicted to her. So, why couldn't she just forget about her obsession – her infatuation – with his infatuation?

He didn't have what she had, apparently. He was just annoying and irritating. But, wasn't she irritating and annoying too? He didn't have anything to offer that boy. She could take him out to all these fancy places. She would treat him, sometimes, too. Something he couldn't afford to do on a good day. There was no way he could afford these upscale establishments that boy seemed to enjoy.

They were leaving now, and he watched them from the bushes until they were outside. They began walking back toward his home, to his bed…again. The pain swelled up inside of him, beginning somewhere deep down that he couldn't name. It wasn't all because she had what he wanted, it was also because he was left out. They were together, they were happy, and he was not a part of that happiness. They were they and he was he. They were dating and he was alone.

Of course, it was always like that, wasn't it?

He was the one left out in the cold, the rain, the snow, the dark, the alone. She was the one who he came back for, who he seemed to care for, who he changed for. That boy was the one he pinned away for late at night when thoughts of that boy was all he had to cling to. It was lonely, it was frustrating, it was depressing, he was pathetic.

That boy was beautiful, with no better word for it. Perfect features, mannerisms, charm, that boy had it all. She was beautiful, too. She'd grown into all her awkward features and grown into them beautifully. That boy had taken notice the second he came home and really looked at her. She now had it all.

And he still had nothing.

Nothing except an empty apartment and the moonlight that cascaded into the window above his bed. Once again he'd be there, alone, and his dreams would haunt him.

Wasn't he the one who brought the boy back? Wasn't he the one who practically gave his life for that boy? Wasn't he the one who went to the end of the world for that boy?

Sure she was there, but did she really give everything he did?

In the end it didn't matter. He, who had nothing, gave everything for that boy who now had everything.

Everything but him.


He Naruto
She Sakura
That Boy Sasuke
They Sasuke and Sakura

I really hope you love it as much as I do. I really think it's one of my better stories. Oh, btw, it's modeled after that song Jordan Sparks sang on American Idol "I (Who Have Nothing)". But, you don't need to know the song to get the story...I hope...