Well, just to let you know. When I last posted… that was the worst birthday ever. So much for fucking sweet 16.
Anyway… if I get a load of people wanting the saiXneji then I will write it like I said in the last chapter. If not, then let's get this thing rolling.
Also, they are basically just a side pairing, I just had to get it in so that Naruto could think that sai was Sasuke and that Sasuke was cheating on him to build up tension and that shit.
I think I'm losing readers because its narusasu and not sasunaru… well SORRY! Honestly. After my last publication I got a few negative reviews… now I know that I said I welcomed flames and constructive criticism and stuff, but after 102 good reviews it's kind of a shock to the system.
And I know that there are people who won't like my story but for someone to be pedantic and say that the order that I said the characters involved are the wrong way round because Sasuke isn't seme and I had him as the first character, is just stupid… I put Sasuke first because I feel like he is the more important character in this story. Its about how Sasuke learns about Naruto and his secrets, and how they grow to love each other, but I still feel like Sasuke has a bit of a stronger part to play in this story as the summary talks about Sasuke being left broken and alone.
But anyway.
I also got a comment about my long AN, sorry but my AN WAS shorter than the chapter, and I just have a lot to say. You don't have to read it and I hope that it isn't longer than the story but I just need to get things off my chest and explain things in them. I also got a review for chapter two commenting on the flashbacks and saying that I should have stopped chapter one earlier and then just had the flashbacks so that the reader only needs to read it once, but I felt that you get two different reactions, ie when you're reading it in the first chapter, you feel the emotions they feel and somewhat sad for Sasuke and then when you read through his reactions to what he did you laugh or see a lighter side or something like that.
I did it again didn't i?
the really long AN okay STOP NOW!
GOMENASAII!
Plus I am very sorry for stupid cock ups in this fic. When it is finished I will go through it and make sure I havnt jumped to different ages anywhere… or other mistakes…
I may just be feeling really negative about this because I'm in a bad mood, but I feel like the popularity of this story is going to go down :(
Also, got my wisdom teeth out, bit of advice, get them all done at the same time, that way you only have to look like a blown up hamster once.
Truth or Dare
Holiday: Two: Hospitalised
-Last Time-
'I guess he didn't want to wait' was all that ran through his mind as he reached the familiar spot that used to belong to him and Sasuke. But as he stepped into the clearing, he saw something was already there. It looked like a body. It looked like…
-Present-
'Sasuke?? No way! It can't be. I just saw him at Neji's! He was… he was screwing him! But…'
Naruto was frozen to the spot when the saw the still body in the clearing with dark raven hair, blood creeping away from the body. Whether this was Sasuke or not, this person was hurt and he couldn't just stand by and let someone die in front of his eyes! He forced himself forward locking away the part of his mind that was telling him to leave him if it really was Sasuke; that he had cheated on him and should pay.
Naruto didn't even know where the fuck this part of him came from. He loved Sasuke, hadn't he just come to terms with that recently? Hadn't he and Sasuke just started their relationship? Even if they hadn't, Sasuke was still his friend and he would never let his friends die, even those who betrayed him! He moved to the body and mentally prepared for anything and yet he still gasped and collapsed with fresh tears in his eyes as he saw that it was indeed Sasuke lying in front of him.
A fleeting thought figured that it obviously wasn't Sasuke at Neji's house but some other raven. But that didn't matter at the moment.
What mattered now was that Sasuke was in front of him, blood surrounded the body and Naruto saw what seemed to be dry tear marks on the form in front of him, as he reached over to cup the face in his hands and wipe the tears away he nearly withdrew his hands at the cold contact. The naturally pale face was now a sheet of white, his arms where severely cut and bruises lined the edge of them, stretching a fair few centimetres before fading to join the pale complexion.
"Sasuke! What have you done?!" a sob escaped him before a small voice told him to check for a pulse. He placed his fingers against a pulse point in Sasuke's neck, another on his wrist and after positioning the body on its back, placed an ear to his chest checking for his life beat as tears continued to tear at his eyes feeling completely hopeless.
He felt a beat.
It was faint and there was a large distance between them, but it was there. That's all that mattered. Without thinking anymore, he picked up the body bridal style and using extra chakra from the kyubbi was able to get to the hospital in record timing. He ran to the front desk;
"where's Tsunade?!" he ordered from the secretary behind the desk.
"she's on a break and requested to not be disturbed"
"where is she?!" his voice became threatening and his eyes flickered red as he tried to control himself from shaking the body he was holding.
"sh-shes on the second floor in E2" her voice quivered slightly as she finished and watched the blonde run off up the stairs only now noticing the body that he held in his hands.
'Lost cause?' the anger and desperation in his voice made it apparent to her that there was a near to zero chance of whoever it was that needed help recovering getting better and surviving. She'd seen it many times before and felt a sense of remorse every time these cases occurred.
Naruto ran up the stairs making it to E2 much quicker than if he had taken the lift and kicked the door open.
"BAA-CHAN!"
"Naruto what are you doing here?"
"it's Sasuke, he needs help, NOW!"
Tsunade had been drinking her sake in an unused hospital room as it was the only way for her to get away from the constant questions and get a bit of peace and quiet once in a while. Once Naruto came storming in, it was clear that this was not going to last.
Naruto placed Sasuke on the empty bed as Tsunade ran over and examined his cuts and eyes to see it there was any life left in him. She immediately called for assistance using a nearby intercom and soon the summoned nurses were rushing into the room tending to his cuts and bringing in documents of the Uchiha to check for his blood type. One nurse ran out the room to bring blood that he would need if he were to survive, another two got to cleaning out all the cuts and making sure to disinfect them before wrapping multiple bandages around them to ensure that the bleeding would stop, a needle was attached to his hand in a vein to be attached to the soon arriving blood that he would be filled with, other nurses added machinery to various parts of his body and a gasmask around his mouth to keep him breathing. Life supports where added and soon the faintest beeping was heard registering Sasuke's heartbeat.
Naruto had stumbled backwards as the commotion had started, not being able to withstand it he collapsed into a chair the other side of the room and watched with wide eyes as Sasuke was prodded by needles and attached to mechanisms that were supposed to keep him alive. All of a sudden it seemed to dawn on him that he wouldn't be able to survive without Sasuke. He forgot all about his supposed kiss with Neji and thought back to when he had first found Sasuke up on that mountaintop contemplating suicide. Hadn't he and Sasuke had a deep and meaningful talk about how much it hurt other people to know that their loved ones had killed themselves thinking that no one cared for them? Why would Sasuke do this to him? Why would he leave him like this? Didn't he know that he loved him? Thoughts of all the things that they would never be able to do if Sasuke died ran through his mind as he watched people run forwards and backwards tending to the raven until his condition was stable or he had passed. The blood bank was attached to the needle and the flow started to seep into the veins.
Sasuke's face was a deathly pale white, his lips were blue and slightly parted under the gasmask that formed condensation as Sasuke breathed. Naruto caught glimpses of Sasuke's chest rising and falling as the nurses moved and fussed over him; up…down…up…down…up…down..u- it didn't go up… no! it has to! He looked at the gasmask and saw that no condensation was being formed… "NO!" he shouted out as the nurses also noticed and set to work on chest compressions and sending shocks through his chest to get his heart beating and get him breathing. For 2 horrible minutes they performed chest compressions, mouth to mouth and using the fibrillater (A/N: you know, the weird shock thingy…? That isn't the actual name but I can't think what it is called…) to keep him alive and just as they were about to give up and call his time of death, they heard a bleep on the heart monitor, then another and another. He was alive!
Naruto collapsed into his chair and sobbed in relief that he hadn't lost him. Gradually, less and less nurses were needed to tend to the boy as his condition stabilised until there was only the worn out blonde and Tsunade left. After having one last check that all his life signs were normal she made her way over to Naruto and sat next to him.
"he's going to be alright Naruto"
"why? Why would he do this?" 'doesn't he know I love him?'
Tsunade was at a loss for words and didn't know what to say to him, "you can stay by him if you want until he wakes up, but with the sudden blood loss he may have gone into a coma." Tsunade moved a chair to Sasuke's bedside and Naruto went and sat in it holding onto Sasuke's hand, lightly stroking his fingers over the bandages covering his boyfriends' arms. "do you want anything to eat or a blanket to keep warm?"
Naruto remained silent and soon Tsunade sighed and left the room. Naruto just sat there in silence listening to the heart monitors and watching Sasuke's chest move up and down.
"why Sasuke?" he eventually whispered, "I just want to know why" he lent over the body and gently left a shaky kiss on Sasuke's lips before drawing back and hanging his head, waiting for his love to wake up.
XxXxXxXxXxX
A week had gone by and Sasuke was still in bed still asleep and Naruto was still by his side. He had only moved when he went to the ensuite bathroom and forced to shower. But then he would be back by Sasuke's side, talking to him as though he were awake, telling him that he loved him and talking about their future plans. He told Sasuke how beautiful he was, and what an amazing kisser he was. He told him that he wanted to spend the rest of his life with him and made promises to do anything that Sasuke wanted to do and said how they would take romantic strolls on the beach together hand in hand. Other times he would just sit there in silence, presumably praying to whatever greater force was out there to wake up Sasuke and bring him back to Naruto so that they could be happy again.
Team 7 was given an extended break due to their team-mate's condition and Sakura and Kakashi checked in every now and again to see how both Sasuke and Naruto were doing. They tried to convince Naruto to take a break from being at Sasuke's side and tried to take him to train, they wanted to distract him from Sasuke's condition but he refused to go anywhere until Sasuke was up and out of hospital.
XxXxXxXxXxX
The third day that Sasuke was in hospital Naruto could sense Neji's chakra outside the door along with Sai's. They never went in and Naruto would have wondered what they were doing there if he hadn't been so concerned with Sasuke. In actual fact, Neji had told Sai what had happened between him and Sasuke the day before when he had found out that Sasuke was in hospital and why and after much conviction from Sai, he went over to the hospital to maybe see if he could answer any of Naruto's questions which he was sure he had.
Neji could tell that Sasuke had attempted this out of fear of him telling Naruto and concluding in Naruto not wanting to be with him anymore. He could see with this just how much he really loved Naruto and Neji wanted to confess everything to him and tell him that none of it was Sasuke's fault and even let Naruto beat him if he wanted to, he was sure he deserved it. But when the time came to open the door and spill his guts, he couldn't do it. He couldn't hurt Naruto even more than he already was. Yes, he would confess his sins to Naruto, but not yet. Not when he didn't know if Sasuke was going to make it or not.
So he stood outside their door, Sai's arms around his waist, as he told his silent apology and wished the best for the two of them before walking away.
XxXxXxXxXxX
The eighth day had come and Naruto was still by his side, still holding his hand. The nurse had come in and gave Sasuke a sponge bath to keep him clean and Naruto felt a pang of jealousy at the nurse being able to touch his Sasuke, but the nurse soon left and they were alone again.
It was midday and Naruto had fallen asleep by Sasuke's side, his hands were wrapped around one of Sasuke's and his head rested on his own arm as he breathed deeply and slowly as tears ran down his sleeping face.
It was then that Sasuke's un-held hand twitched. It grabbed at the sheets underneath the hand weakly as it tried to regain its strength. His eyebrows furrowed in concentration and as he slowly tested his arm, he turned his head to see why he was unable to move his other arm. He saw the blonde hair and smiled before flashbacks of him and Neji replayed in his head. He turned away and screwed his eyes shut until they passed. When they had eventually left his mind, he reached his free hand over and gently stroked Naruto's soft blonde locks with tears silently pouring down his face before whispering "I'm sorry" and kissing the blonde head.
This awoke Naruto and he sleepily lifted his head to look into leaking raven eyes, "Sasuke" his name fell from his lips sleepily, his eyes bloodshot and his grip loosened, but then he started to wake up and realise that Sasuke was really awake, "Sasuke! Sasuke! You're awake!" he kissed Sasuke on the lips and Sasuke immediately replied to the kiss as they massaged their lips together. But when they parted they both looked at each other sadly and a couple stray tears fell from Sasuke's eyes.
Naruto was the first to speak; "why did you do it Sasuke?"
"I'm sorry"
"I know you are, but I still want to know why"
"has Neji told you?"
"told me what?"
"about what happened" Naruto paused a moment, thinking what to say before he answered.
"d-do you mean… you and n-Neji… kissing?"
Sasuke looked away and more tears fell down his face.
"I didn't hear it from Neji. Shikamaru saw you two and came and told me what he saw"
Naruto looked away sadly and let go of Sasuke's hands turning from the raven.
"Naruto I can explain!"
"shh, you don't need to explain anything right now. You need your rest." Naruto got up out of his seat to leave, "Naruto wait!"
"I'll get Tsunade to get a look at you"
"Naruto please" Naruto paused at the door and looked around at Sasuke who signalled for him to go to him. He slowly approached the bed his head hung looking at the floor but he heard the shuffling of sheets that said that Sasuke was repositioning himself.
Sasuke sat upright in the bed as Naruto approached him. Once the blonde was finally there, Sasuke looked at him with sad and hurt eyes and reached an arm up to wrap around the blondes neck. He used the strength he had to pull down Naruto's head and their lips met in a deep kiss. Sasuke parted their lips but Naruto's head remained inches away from Sasuke's. he breathed lightly on the others lips an held Sasuke's face and head in his hands. Sasuke's chin and cheeks rested in Naruto's open palms and his fingers divided on each side of Sasuke's ears and his little fingers lightly wrapping around his neck and back of head.
He gave Sasuke another deep kiss on the lips before placing his lips on the raven's smooth forehead for a moment before parting and leaving the room.
Erm… yea, I wanted to end there…
11 reviews please for next chapter
I'll tell you what. Be happy that my mum was on the phone with one person after the next. It completely fucks up my internet which meant that I was practically forced to write this XD
Although it then meant I had to wait for ages to be able to get to my reviews and post this…
Date today: 4/07/08
Reviews: not enough… its ur own fault that u were prolonged from reading this…
Don't let it happen again.
Sorry if I sound like a bitch. I probably am… still in a bad mood… heh
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REVIEWS:
narutoXsasukelover: yea, Naruto kinda, 'ruined the moment' XD. Glad I could please you :D yea, I don't really know Sai a lot… so I don't really know what kind of character he actually is, so unless I am like really lucky or something, he will be completely OOC.
p.s. I have started working on the scene, not sure when it will be finished but I will say when it is updated :)
Naruto-is-hot: u suck more! Lol give a good review ha! XD
Joni-Lee: yup, he most certainly did, and it took about three chapters before that situation was cleared up, well, to the readers. Not so much hot as 'ridiculously romantic' although it will be ot as well.
Shimaki-33: lol no, I was long but not longer than the chapter, I checked XD and I have started writing the scene and will add it into the previous chapter when it is done and will let everyone know in a chapter update :D
Aiden86: lols yea, it's a bummer isn't it. Well good luck waiting heh… and hopefully this chapter answers ur Sasuke question? He was on the hilltop dying and is now in hospital heh… yeaaa sorry about that..
Bubblegumcrazed: yay ur back to reviewing :D well, that one but hey! Thanks lol and that is A LOT of animals! Are you sure ur not in a pet shop? Ha! But yea, good to hear from you again and that you are still with the story.
GaaraxNejixIsxHot: that's great to hear! I think it was you who said u were a huge supporter of Neji being Gaara's uke so I didn't want to make u angry and hate me, but it seems you would like it so thanks. I have started it and will let you know when I have updated the chapter.
Stary202: Sasuke is not dead… so far, and Neji will not tell Naruto unless he is saying that it is all his fault and to not blame Sasuke and tell him how much Sasuke loves him heh… but I haven't decided that yet… yea bad things do make the story longer, unless it's a sad fic… but at the moment it's going to be very dramatic and (I think) heartbreaking (?) basically it isn't going to be all happy sex and smut… oops…
Chick-with-innocence: for some reason I keep thinking ur name is 'chicken-with-innocence' sorry, that's just my strange head… gland I introduced you to a new pairing that u found u like :D don't hope for too much of this pairing though, they are a side pairing… heh, they just had to be in to make the story fit… oh, and the sex scene with sai and Neji will be in the last chapter :D. and yes. Naruto thought that Sai was Sasuke and that Sasuke was cheating on him D: it's very sad, but soon things should even out… I think. Lol
UchihaTetsuya: there is another scene that will be added to that chapter, not an important one, it will be the SaiNeji scene where they… yea and! Hopefully this chapter is longer? I hope it is…
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Freaky baby XXkashiXX: arigatou for the last needed review :) I was waiting for aaages lol. Well done and I'm glad you didn't get into trouble . Glad you liked that chapter and hope you liked the update.
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