Summary: …if you don't know by now that's sad…. Naruto and Sasuke fight again, Sasuke is sick, Naruto is keeping him in Konoha hoping that he'll stay…

Warning: Yaoi (SasuNaru), cursing, and maybe suggestive stuff later on… spoilers and OOCness… Confused Sasuke and Confused Naruto… yeah it's just one big confusion party…

Disclaimer: If Naruto were mine he would be getting laid a lot more than he is right now with Sasuke and Masashi Kishimoto… .:pouts:.

Chapter 8: It's not this hard, no it's not this hard

"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…"

"Me what…?" Sasuke asked feeling his face grow hot. He felt extremely thankful that Naruto was asleep and couldn't see him. Though Naruto's being asleep is what got us into this mess in the first place…

"Me to stay?" he asked. The sleeping Naruto simply shook his head, "No Sasuke, I only ever wanted you…"

Sasuke didn't know what to say, or how he should even feel about that. Naruto was his best friend at best, how could he 'want' him. He had to just mean he wanted him to stay.

"Quit talking in your sleep dobe, you're being annoying…" he said after a little while of brooding (A/N: and blushing!!).

Sasuke stood up but stopped when he felt a tugging at his pants. He looked down at Naruto, still asleep, making a pathetic effort to keep him where he was. "I'm tired, dobe, let me go to bed…" Your bed… Sasuke thought with a pang.

"G'nigh teme…" Naruto slurred as he let go of Sasuke and rolled over. Sasuke stared at Naruto's back for a little while and sighed. He walked to the bedroom door but before he entered he stole a small glance back at Naruto's sleeping form.

"Good night… dobe…" he said quietly, positive that Naruto couldn't hear him, and he went to bed.

….

As so often happened with Naruto Uzumaki, he was downright confused. It had started since they'd woken up but Sasuke wouldn't talk to him or look him in the eye or anything and Naruto felt like it was somehow his fault.

He'd decided against asking Sasuke what was the matter after he saw the expression on Sasuke's face when he first tried to ask.

Everytime they made eye contact Sasuke would look like he was in complete agony and utter confusion, and would quickly look away, as though hoping Naruto hadn't noticed. Naruto couldn't understand why either emotion had surfaced as he couldn't see that he'd done anything wrong.

Maybe Sasuke was mad that he'd fallen asleep first but that was pretty stupid… and it really wasn't the kind of thing that made Sasuke looked so pained and confused.

As didn't often happen to Sasuke Uchiha, he was downright confused.

He didn't know what to make of Naruto's comment, since Naruto clearly didn't remember and wasn't acting any different then normal. He mostly felt so confused because he wasn't sure that he disliked what Naruto had said.

This threw him off completely. He tought he'd be sickened by his best friend 'wanting' him but for some reason he felt relieved. He brushed it off as maybe he was glad Naruto simply didn't hate him but he knew, deep down, that that wasn't it….

"Sasuke what did I do…" came Naruto's quiet voice, interrupting his thoughts. Sasuke turned to look at him and looked away quickly.

He found if he did this Naruto often let it drop, he wasn't so lucky this time.

"Sasuke I need you to tell me what I did, you haven't talked to me all day…" Naruto sounded sad and it made Sasuke feel rather guilty.

Sasuke looked at Naruto and felt the same confusion he'd been feeling all day come up again.

"You didn't do anything wrong Naruto…" Sasuke said trying to dodge telling Naruto what he'd said in his sleep the night before.

"You're doing it again Sasuke…" Naruto complained, "You're shutting me out and you won't tell me what's wrong… I care… I want to know… it's not this hard Sasuke… just tell me why you're upset…"

Sasuke felt another pang of guilt wash through him and he looked at Naruto and sighed.

"You said…"

Naruto was wrongSasuke thought as he turned around and stared at the wall, this is hard…

"Naruto you said you…wanted me…"

Sasuke didn't turn around to look at Naruto, he didn't need to. He could hear his breathing get shallow, he could hear the door slam as Naruto left the appartment, and when he finally did turn around he could see a few fresh tears soaking into the carpet. Sasuke didn't need to look at Naruto to tell that he should have kept his mouth shut….

Omg I'm part of a C2 and I'm very very very very very happy so thank you to "Yaoi Pairings + NejiHina this" for adding my story :)

So sorry it's a little short, I promise when I do update next to make the chapter longer…

And I want to say sorry in advanced because I'm going to be away in North Carolina for a week and won't be able to post… and when I get back I will probably only add one chapter because I'm leaving again for a week/week and a half (I don't actually know…) and will be out of the country completely so yeah… updates are going to be slow for a little while, I'm really really uber sorry…

Freexflyer - sorry I missed your review last time so here's my response a chapter late: I will definatly try for road one… though u've made me a little nervous :P and uh thanks again for the long review full of helpful and very much wanted insight… so thank you lots :)

Gaaralvoer1989 – thanks for the review and yes, lol, dearie you, glad you like the chapter