Alrighty well, I'm being a good girl and continuing with the "revamp" of this story… like I said the chapter will be a little different than you remember it being… probably a bit longer with little side anecdotes thrown in there just cuz I'm bored… :)

Summary: Sasuke and Naruto fought again and Sasuke gets sick, so Naruto brings him back to Konoha, in the hopes that he'll want to stay.

Warning: Yaoi (SasuNaru), cursing, and maybe suggestive stuff later on… and some stuff from later in the series has been ignored for purposes of this fanfiction and because I simply don't read Naruto anymore…. :)

Disclaimer: You think Masashi Kishimoto would give me Naruto for my birthday if I promised to take good care of him and feed him Ramen?

Chapter 2: Well I would have never known…

Sasuke awoke feeling sore in just about every place he thought possible, and a few places he didn't think it was. He felt bruised and useless as he lay in the surprisingly warm hospital bed, and he felt himself wishing dearly that he could be anywhere but here. He lifted his head slightly and looked down to see Naruto asleep on a chair, with his head resting on the bed, a small smile on his light lips and looking so at peace.

Sasuke sighed and looked away from the sleeping blond. He didn't need it, Naruto looking after him. Even in this current, utterly pathetic, state he could take care of himself, and besides it was only a matter of time before they came to get him. Naruto would just get hurt again, and knowing him that little detail didn't matter to him at all.

Sasuke looked back at the blond and took note of all the bandages he wore. There were ones all over his face and his right arm was in a cast. Plus Sasuke was sure there were plenty more underneath the stupid hospital outfit he was wearing. Despite this Sasuke could have sworn that the small smile was still plastered onto Naruto's face.

He sighed again and turned his back to the blond. He felt sleep and dizziness wash over him in one massive wave and he let himself fall back to sleep.

…..

Sasuke was surprised when he found himself actually sitting in a dream. It was rare for him to dream at all, but when they did happen it was even rarer for him to not realize he was dreaming, so, like usual, he took note of the fact that he was definitely asleep.

This was a rather boring dream; he couldn't help himself from thinking. He was sitting in a chair, injuries gone, in a dark stone room with one window. Sasuke snorted at the dull attitude of his subconscious and stood up to have a look around. Within a few minutes, well actually Sasuke wasn't sure how long it'd been since time is so wrong in dreams, he'd discovered that Naruto, of all people, was sitting in a dark corner of the room, practically invisible under the cover of the darkness.

Naruto looked at Sasuke warily and eyed him suspiciously, much to Sasuke's surprise. "Hn," came his usual eloquent conversation starter. That seemed to satisfy something within Naruto as he stood up, smiled, and hugged Sasuke very tightly. Oh please no, Sasuke internally begged, even in my dreams I can't avoid this sentimental idiot. He found himself unable to fight the hug off so he relaxed and just let it take place, but if he had to be honest that light, gentle, breathing on his neck felt sort of good, in a weird, totally messed up, kind of way.

Somewhere from the ceiling of the room he heard shouting and screaming. He couldn't make out what the voices were saying and it bothered him, so he closed his eyes and strained his ears to hear, the annoying blond still attached to him. When he opened his eyes again he found himself blinking in the bed in the bright hospital room, a warm heavy blanket wrapped very tightly around him, and the voices coming from the two very angry people next to him.

He shut his eyes again and groaned, the hug still fresh in his mind. What the fuck was that?

…..

"I'll be damned if I'm not here when he wakes up, old hag!"

"Don't talk to me that way, brat, you know you need to get back to your own hospital room!"

"I want to be here when he wakes up, why is that so hard for you to understand? Going deaf and senile in your old age?"

"I told you, brat, don't call me old!"

"And I told you, hag, don't call me a brat!"

Sasuke groaned into the pillow a little louder and reopened one of his eyes to watch the arguing pair of blonds.

"Sasuke!" Naruto shouted and ran over to the bed. Sasuke tried to glare at him but it gave him a headache so he stopped. Naruto gave him a worried look and kneeled down next to the bed. "Sasuke? You ok?" he asked, gently. "Hn…" came the quiet reply.

Naruto beamed at him, "Yup you're Sasuke alright!" Sasuke raised one eyebrow slightly at the silly grin on Naruto's face. He would've rolled his eyes if his head hadn't been throbbing so much. "Hn…" he grunted again at the idiot in front of him. Naruto continued to grin and stared affectionately at his best friend, "Welcome home buddy."

Sasuke closed his eyes again, let the warmth that this time seemed to come from within and began to fall into a, this time, dreamless sleep, part of him a little bit more relaxed and content.

….

Naruto visited Sasuke's room often during the next few days. Most of the time he kneeled on the floor by the bed and grinned at Sasuke. Some days he'd sleep with his head on the bed and other days he'd return to his own hospital room. Tsunade often visited to check up on him and assist the doctors. Sakura visited and Sasuke was surprised to find that, unlike last time, she didn't attack him with hugs or tears. She simply said she was happy to see him. Kakashi even visited once (though he was later than he said he'd be…) and had given Sasuke a small smile, along with the usual crap of being happy he was back.

How could they be happy he was back? He had betrayed them. He supposed he could only expect forgiveness from them, but he still didn't want it. He thought he'd rather have them blame him, yell at him, hate him. This wasn't how they were supposed to act, but he knew that it was the only way they could act. He could see it in their eyes when they looked at him, they missed him, and they loved him, despite the fact that he didn't deserve it. They were all dumb like that.

How could he deserve it? He'd practically stomped all over their feelings and left, multiple times. He'd always run away when they came to get him, he never once even intended to come back to Konoha, and yet here he was. Naruto made him feel the worst, not that he often felt guilt. It was that damn grin that he always had. Sasuke didn't want Naruto to be happy for him; he didn't want to look at that smile. He wanted out, and the sooner they healed him, the sooner he could leave…

…

"You're a dumbass," the raven haired male said dully to the silver haired male opposite him.

"I'm not the one in the hospital."

"What does that have to do with my intelligence level?"

"Nevermind."

"Hn."

Kakashi stared at Sasuke intently. He hadn't expected the news to go over well but that didn't mean it wasn't annoying. He'd showed up late (that old lady needed a lot of help crossing the street!) and sat through Tsunade's short lecture, only to be told that he now, as punishment, had to break the um… "news" to Sasuke.

"You know you don't really have a choice," he tried to explain again. Sasuke stared at him with indifference, Kakashi had to figure it was only because glaring gave him a headache.

"And you think that matters? I won't do it and you and that Tsunade are both dumbasses for thinking I ever would."

"Look, it's either that or you stay in this hospital room for a very, very, very long time…"

"Fine, if that's what it takes."

"Why are you that dead set against the idea Sasuke? It gets you out of this room."

"I will not, repeat will NOT live with Naruto!"

….

Naruto 'hmphed' in his chair for about the thousandth time, Tsunade just repeated herself over and over again, and Naruto wanted a chance to talk to Sasuke, without her there.

"So, like I said," she continued, "Your chakra will be monitored at all times and you will not be permitted to leave Naruto's apartment for a few months, 'till we're certain you aren't running away again…" She gave Sasuke a warning look, daring him to challenge her and say otherwise. She made no point in hiding her obvious belief and expectation that he would try to run away again.

It had been a week since Sasuke and Naruto had entered the hospital and they were both informed that in another week's time they could leave. Naruto had of course taken the news very well and had grinned at the prospect of Sasuke staying with him, in the village. Sasuke fought not only Kakashi, but Sakura, Naruto and now Tsunade. He had groaned that his chakra would be monitored and controlled, meaning he couldn't escape and he had made extreme effort to voice his displeasure at the idea of living with that stupid, sentimental, naïve, over indulging, idiotic, dumbass blond. He wanted no part of it.

It all was one massive prick in his original plan. Not only did he have to deal with the dobe first, no. This also meant he'd have to be trusted first, then he could leave, which made things that much harder for him.

"Listen hag," Naruto cut in, interrupting not only Tsunade's lecture but Sasuke's train of thought as well, "I think he got the point, can I talk to him now?" Tsunade caught the obvious hint, sighed, and took her leave. She gave Naruto a look of warning before she left, leaving him with an unsaid 'be careful.'

Once the door had shut Naruto turned and grinned at Sasuke again, "This'll be great, you'll be my roomie!" Like I don't spend more than enough time with you already …" "Wow! A whole sentence, I'm impressed" Naruto teased, smirking at the obviously peeved Sasuke, "You really are feeling better!"

"Hn…"

"Aww man, I killed it didn't I?"

Naruto and Sasuke continued the exchange (well mostly Naruto talked and Sasuke just 'hn'ed every now and again) for several minutes.

"Um, Sasuke?" Naruto interjected, suddenly more serious.

"Hn?"

"You are going to run away again aren't you…"

It wasn't a question. A simple, obvious and true, statement. Naruto's voice was quiet and calm as he spoke. "I never knew it would end up like this…" Naruto admitted, "I never even imagined that you'd be leaving, and I'd be left behind, asking… no begging you to stay with me…" Naruto's voice seemed almost bitter as he spoke to the floor.

"It's like this cruel and totally twisted irony. I always trying to catch up to you, and then you just left and there was nothing else. All I knew the entire time was that I needed you back. It wasn't for Sakura, it wasn't for the village. It was all for me. I was still chasing you, trying to catch up. And you always kept outrunning me…"

Sasuke let the unspoken "until now" hang in the air and, despite himself, he looked at Naruto. "Dobe…" he said, just as quietly as Naruto. Naruto looked at him and a small, pathetic shadow of a smile appeared on his face. "I know…"

So yeah re-upload being continued… don't get greedy updates will not always be this fast… my extended winter break is almost over and then it's back to college (no!) but yeah, some extended scenes and a few added ones as well (kinda wanted a dream in there…) but yeah so there's chapter 2 again :) thanks again to everyone who's been waiting for this story for so long… when I'm done with the revamp, I promise to try and continue with new chapters!