Ah gotta love rewrites… they take me just as long as updating new chapters do… and I never do that… whatever, rewrite of Chapter 4!

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… oh and there are some spoilers to stuff much later in the series, and some stuff from later in the series has been ignored for purposes of this fanfiction. Some OOCness… sorry

Disclaimer: Masashi Kishimoto isn't getting laid, and is therefore unhappy, that is why he won't give me Naruto….

Chapter 4: Well I'll still say that…

"Drugged again?" Naruto asked, staring at Sasuke calmly. "Hn…" came the usual, exhausted, reply.

Sasuke looked tired, in the worst sense of the word. There were small bags under his eyes and the usual 'fire' about him seemed to have been quite 'put out.'

Naruto stared calmly at Sasuke and tapped his fingers, to no particular tune, on the bed. He wasn't bored, just sort of 'at peace'.

Sasuke groaned uncomfortably as his stomach growled, pangs of hunger shooting up his body, and he looked over at Naruto, hoping he hadn't noticed. His prayers, of course, went unanswered.

"Hungry?" Naruto asked.

"No, my stomach often does that for no reason in particular." Naruto shrugged off the sarcastic remark and went out to go find food.

Sasuke sighed and stared blankly at the ceiling. It was abnormally quiet, not that it was loud when Naruto was around, the room just felt rather eerily quiet and empty without him in it.

Several minutes past and nothing happened. He could hear the clock ticking on the opposite wall, but other than that, no noises could be heard. He turned his head when he finally heard the doorknob turn, but rather than Naruto at the door he saw a very familiar head of silver hair and a face partially covered by a mask.

"Naruto said you were hungry…" he said indifferently as he shut the door behind him and set a bowl of mushy oatmeal on the bedside table.

"Where'd you send him?" asked Sasuke, sounding uninterested. He was getting the vague impression that Naruto was forced to let Kakashi bring the food.

"Tsunade thought it best that Naruto leave you alone for a little while…" Kakashi answered curtly, sounding just as uninterested.

Sasuke stared at the bowl and didn't bother sitting up. "I get the impression you don't want to talk to me…" Kakashi admitted.

"Hn…"

"Want me to feed you?"

Sasuke glared at him, but stopped when it hurt his head. "I'm not hungry anymore."

Kakashi merely shrugged, "Figured."

"Tsunade says you need to talk…" Kakashi continued calmly, taking Sasuke, momentarily, by surprise, though he recovered quickly.

"I don't need anything, least of all something you and that old hag say I need…"

"No, she means you need to vent, not you want to vent. Go ahead; it'll be good for you…" Sasuke closed his eyes and ignored Kakashi. "Just talk Sasuke…"

Sasuke sighed, "About what?"

"Anything," Kakashi shrugged. "The weather, Make Out Tactics, Naruto, whatever floats your boat."

"Hn…"

"Come on Sasuke, it doesn't even matter what you're talking about, so long as you talk…"

"Well, I wouldn't know what the weather's like, I'm not allowed outside, I have no interest in your perverted books, and I do not want to talk about Naruto, whatsoever…"

Kakashi blinked and grinned.

"Wow I think that's a record length sentence for you Sasuke, you really are sick…" Sasuke rolled over, his back now facing Kakashi, and he shut his eyes, pretending to sleep.

"You're a terrible faker." Sasuke could feel the headache settling deep within his head again as he heard Kakashi sigh and stand up from the chair he'd sat in.

"I told her you wouldn't talk to anyone but Naruto…" Sasuke ignored the comment and continued to keep his back towards Kakashi.

He heard the door shut and voices muttering things he couldn't hear outside the door. He ignored them as best as he could and began thinking about what Kakashi had just said.

Naruto wasn't the only one he talked too. He'd talked to Kakashi didn't he? Even if it was for just a little while. He ignored Sakura, but so did the rest of the world. He ignored the doctors but that was only because they had nothing interesting to say…

Sasuke brooded on it for a little while until it gave him another headache and he felt the medicine bring on a new wave of tiredness. He rolled over and faced the door, ready to sleep until Naruto finally showed up again.

….

"Sorry Sasuke I—" "Forget it dobe, I don't really care…" Sasuke thought back to what Kakashi said and it irked him. He rolled back over and decided to ignore Naruto, and prove Kakashi wrong. He and that stupid old hag could think whatever they wanted but he did NOT only talk to Naruto.

Naruto tilted his head slightly, confused by Sasuke's actions but thought better then to ask him what was wrong. He sat, rather than his usual spot in the chair, on the bed by Sasuke's stomach and looked at the ceiling. "Get off dobe…" Sasuke stated from his position, back still facing the annoying blonde.

Naruto grinned, "Not till you tell me what's up."

Sasuke groaned and rolled over, "I just don't want to talk dobe, why or why not is none of your business…" Naruto shrugged at the comment but didn't move from his position on top the bed.

"Still hungry?" Naruto asked after Sasuke's stomach gave a betraying growl. Sasuke grunted and muttered incoherently. "Didn't Kakashi bring you food?" Naruto asked, but when he received no reply he decided it would be best to let it drop for now.

He picked up the bowl and spoon and offered a spoonful to Sasuke. "I'm not that pathetic dobe—"

"Sasuke, you and I both know you can't do anything while on those drugs," Naruto retorted quickly.

Sasuke grunted again and sat up with Naruto's assistance, much to his chagrin, and he ate the bite of oatmeal.

….

"So what did Kakashi want?" Naruto finally decided to ask after Sasuke was about halfway through the bowl.

"Me to talk…"

Naruto grinned and laughed at this, "You? Talk? No wonder he left so soon!" Sasuke didn't particularly appreciate the laughter and continued to eat silently.

"Why'd he want you to talk?" Naruto continued, ignoring Sasuke's obvious attempts to avoid conversation.

"I swear Naruto; did you miss every lesson in socializing?" Naruto simply smiled at him and waited for an answer.

Sasuke sighed, he did that a lot lately. "Something about Tsunade being under the impression that I need to vent about things. Honestly, what could I possibly have to vent about? I've been sitting in a freaking hospital bed, high on more drugs than I can count, listening to your obnoxious voice non-stop."

"Sounds like you had a lot to vent about, actually." Naruto smiled at him, though he did look a little hurt by the obnoxious voice comment.

"I told her you wouldn't talk to anyone but Naruto…" Sasuke quickly became irked again and he ignored the latest spoonful of oatmeal. Damnit, Naruto was NOT the only one he talked to, he was just here all the time, and he wouldn't go away until you answered his damn questions, but that didn't mean anything. The fact that he actually said anything didn't mean that Naruto was special; he definitely wasn't special, not at all. Damnit.

"You ok?" the annoying blonde in question asked, one eyebrow arched. The brooding raven bit onto the spoon and began eating silently again.

"Sasuke…?"

"Hn?" Sasuke raised an eyebrow and swallowed his latest mouthful of disgusting crap.

"No matter what the others say about you I still think…" Naruto cut his own sentence off short.

"What, dobe?" Sasuke asked, sounding harsher than he had intended to sound. Naruto twitched at the anger in the voice and didn't say anything. "Sorry…" Sasuke grunted quietly.

"Right, well…" Naruto looked at him, with a determined, however pained, look in his eye, "I'll still say that… you're my best friend and… I really am glad you're home…" Sasuke blinked. It irked him slightly that there was any pain hidden behind the determination at all and he sighed heavily, again.

"Forget it, dobe; I never cared about their opinions anyway…" Naruto smiled at Sasuke's attempt to be nice. He grinned.

"Yeah."

….

Naruto continued to initiate conversations throughout the last dregs of the bowl until Sasuke felt another wave of exhaustion come over him. He felt himself sway slightly and he ignored the last spoonful of oatmeal in front of him, he wasn't hungry anymore anyway. He saw, through the haze his dizziness provided him, Naruto place the bowl on the bedside table again and move towards Sasuke, still seated on the bed.

"Tired?" he asked, his tone sounding interested, though why that would be interesting was anybody's guess.

"Hn…" he grunted quietly. He felt, thanks to yet another wave of dizziness, himself fall forward onto Naruto's chest. It felt hard, but still comfortable, and warm. He grunted into it. Naruto didn't comment on the strange position and simply let his friend stay there. Eventually he heard Sasuke's breathing even up, thanks to sleep, and he felt his own body relax.

"Dobe…" Sasuke muttered in his sleep, unmovable at this point.

Naruto smiled and replied with his own sigh. He knew Sasuke was tired and somewhat ticked off, so he let it be. After a while he found himself, with Sasuke still attached, sliding down onto the bed, and falling asleep himself.

Outside the door a figure watched the exchange, intrigued, and left, deciding to save their visit for another time.

Yay Chapter 4… I find Sasuke's denial vaguely humorous… anyway just thought I'd mention that while these two are having fluffy love-filled moments they do NOT like each other yet. Sasuke's just highly drugged, hungry, and tired, Naruto happens to be his best friend and there to help him, they don't like each other yet. Alright just thought I'd throw that out there…

Oh and for those of you who want to know I think I've finally decided how I want this to end… so YAY me! Now to figure out what goes between now and then….

Thanks again to my fabulous reviewers, you get some love .:thows hearts again:.

Gaaralover1989 – Merci beaucoup! :)

Dragon77 – Alright, this update gets dedicated to you for being the first person to review twice :) congragulations .:throws extra hearts at you:. And once again, thank you for liking my story :)