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… spoilers and OOCness… and mean Sasuke… sorry Naruto :(

Disclaimer: Masashi Kishimoto is being quite selfish, didn't his mother ever teach him to share!? Give me Naruto already!!

Chapter 6: Don't you know that

Sasuke awoke to find himself inside a strange room that definatly was not, in any way shape or form, a hospital room. There were orange colored shirts thrown everywhere on the floor. There was a calender with… interestingly clothed woman on the wall. The bed he was on was horribly made (then again he'd just been sleeping on it) and all in all the room was a total mess.

Sasuke sighed to himself, you'd think that after years of living on his own Naruto would have learned to pick up his own apartment.

He sat up and looked around the room again. He found nothing that really held his interest except for a picture frame that was face down on a table.

He blinked at it and thought about picking it up. He wasn't sure what it was but something stopped him. It was like a small pain in his chest, not the kind he'd felt while he was sick, a different kind. He felt sad and guilty when he looked at the face down frame and he thought it would be better if he left it alone.

"So you're awake?" came a voice from the door. Sasuke turned his head and saw Naruto wearing grey sweatpants, a black t-shirt, and a bright orange apron. Sasuke raised his eyebrow at Naruto and Naruto simply shrugged and grinned.

"Want something to eat?" "I didn't know you could cook…" Sasuke said in a bored tone. Naruto grinned, "I had to eat somehow didn't I?"

Sasuke shrugged and followed Naruto to the kitchen where "extray-mushy-ramen" awaited him.

….

Sasuke found the day went by surprisingly fast. He and Naruto ate, watched TV, talked, played some card games, and just enjoyed themselves for hours.

He found the simplicity of their enjoyment in itself amusing. Neither of them did anything extremely difficult. There were no missions, no problems. They simply 'hung out' and Sasuke actually found that he was enjoying himself.

He supposed that lately Naruto's company itself often made him happier, but the added joy of being out of that hospital just added to his happiness (the little that he actually had).

The sky had darkened long ago and, despite the amount of fun Naruto was having, he felt very ready for sleep. Naruto plopped himself onto the couch and began to make himself comfortable. He didn't mind sleeping in whatever he was wearing, he'd done it loads of times.

Sasuke gave Naruto a strange expression, a mixture between confusion and amusment. "Tired?" he asked smirking in a very familiar fashion at Naruto. "Well what do you think teme, we can't all be happy-hyper-active-homicidal-maniacs…"

Sasuke blinked and raised an eyebrow, "… wow you must be tired if that's the best you can come up with dobe…"

"Shut up teme, and let me sleep!" Naruto complained as he shut his eyes and tried to block out Sasuke.

"I'd rather talk to you…" Sasuke admitted reluctantly.

"Just find someway to entertain yourself…" Naruto said clearly drifting heavily out of conciousness.

Sasuke stared at Naruto for about five minutes till Naruto's breathing evened out. He knew Naruto would let him sleep in the actual bed again but he wasn't really tired and didn't really feel like going to sleep himself quite yet.

He knew Naruto was asleep and that he could do whatever he wanted now but he just continued to sit there and watch Naruto breath gently in and out.

"Go to be teme…" Naruto muttered quietly in his sleep.

"Talking in your sleep dobe? And you thought I had bad habits…" Sasuke joked, fully aware that Naruto was asleep and his insults didn't really mean anything.

"I don't mind your habits teme…" Naruto admitted, still fast asleep, his breathing still even. Sasuke blinked at Naruto.

"What?" he asked astonished. "You were just complaining about them earlier…"

"I know…" Naruto said simply, "I lied…"

"What else have you been lying about Naruto?" Sasuke asked suspiciously.

"Not much," Naruto shrugged. "I really did mean most everything I said…"

"No matter what the others say about you I still think… I'll still say that… you're my best friend and… I really am glad you're home…"

Sasuke remembered what Naruto had said and wondered if that too was true.

"Am I really… your best friend?" Sasuke asked, feeling a slight twinge of guilt.

"You always were, and you always will be…" Naruto said, without thinking of Sasuke's concious or guilt at all.

"I don't get you Naruto…" Sasuke said quietly, shaking his head.

"What don't you get?" Naruto asked simply, curiosity in his tone.

"Why you're so willing to accept people who did you wrong… why you still love them, even when they've hurt you… I just don't get it…"

"I care…" said Naruto simply as though it were a simple fact of life. "I think people deserve to have what they want, whether or not what they want is me is their decision, and it's a decision I have no right to make for them…."

Sasuke contemplated this for a minute. "I think people deserve to have what they want…" It was a simple statement. Naruto probably hadn't meant any specific case and yet Sasuke became curious about a specific case.

"What did you think I wanted…?"

Naruto, despite being asleep, seemed to think about the question for a moment. "You wanted revenge and you wanted power, and I wasn't about to stop you…" Naruto said after a while.

"What do you want Naruto…?"

He didn't know what made him ask it but he did, and while he regreted the question he was curious to know Naruto's answer.

For a moment Naruto was silent but after a few minutes. Eventually he answered in a small, quiet voice, and Sasuke had to strain to hear the small three letter word escape the blond's lips, "You…"

Alright there you are chapter 7, I updated quickly to make up for my delay last time… enjoy…

Yeah admit it you've always imagined Naruto talking to himself in his sleep!!

Dragon77 – glad you liked it, thanks for the comment, and here u go, I 'updated soon' :)