"Sasuke listen... I uhm... I think we should break up."

"What?" Sasuke yelled in disbelief.

"This isn't working for me, I just... it's not what I want, so I think we should split up and not see each other anymore."

Chapter 18

Sasuke lay flat on his bed, chewing furiously on a pencil, trying his best to make sense of the words Naruto had said. Break up... Not see each other... He couldn't understand what was going on anymore. It had always been Naruto who'd wanted a relationship with him where Sasuke had only gone along with it. He didn't have any feelings for Naruto so when Naruto wanted to act more like lovers he complied. Sasuke slammed his fists into the mattress at his sides. He'd tried all these new things that he usually didn't like, because Naruto had wanted too, so how in the world could it be him that was saying these things? It was meant to be something Sasuke should say after they have sex.

The reality of it all was a hard one to swallow, nobody had ever broken up with him before. He was always the cold one, the one in control, the one to receive desperate texts and phone-calls. And now this happened. He had thought it would mean nothing, that when they would split it would be easy to leave, but it didn't feel like it. Maybe it was just because of his pride? It had simply hurt his pride because someone else would break up with him, and not because he had any feelings involved …he was sure of that.

Sasuke still couldn't believe all this. Why would Naruto just break up with him? Something just didn't make sense. He tried to think back, to go through all the memories of them together, and hoped he could figure something out. There had to be something wrong, something he had missed. Then it hit him; Naruto was seeing someone else.

Sasuke rolled over on his side and flipped open his phone, looking at the old text-messages. Gradually he became sure of it, there was so many things that fell into place: The weird conversations Naruto had with his friends that he didn't want Sasuke to hear; how he didn't want Sasuke to touch him too much; he had even asked Naruto if he could pick him up from school once, but Naruto had almost panicked and told him to meet him somewhere else; and then tonight he was covered in hickeys.

That purple mark on his neck must have been one his new lover had given him and since he wanted to keep him away from his school, it must be someone who also goes there. Sasuke had finally found a reason and the anger quickly filled the emptiness inside him. If Naruto thought he could just break up with him like this, he was mistaken. Sasuke had never been to Naruto's school, but he knew its name and could easily look it up on the internet.

Naruto sank further down in his chair, everything suddenly seemed so wrong and he felt so lonely knowing he couldn't just go and see or talk to Sasuke. He knew he was the one who broke it off, he had been sure it would be the best decision for both of them. And yet he hadn't slept all night and everything seemed to pass him by in a haze, he wasn't even sure which class he was having now.

At last, someone shook him to repeal him from his torpor and he looked up to see Kiba's worried expression.

"Are you alright?"

"I'm fine" Naruto tried to give him a smile.

"The bell rang a little while ago."

"Oh, I must have been too engrossed in my own thoughts for a while there..."

Naruto went for the innocent and fun tone, but from the look on Kiba's face he must have failed miserably to sound convincing.

"Umm… okay."

Naruto swayed slightly as he got up and felt Kiba grab his arm to steady him.

"Are you sure you're okay?"

"I just couldn't sleep last night, I'm feeling tired... that's all"

He wasn't sure if Kiba believed him or not, but he didn't ask any further questions and just let him go. Naruto tried to figure out which class he had next when a look on the clock told him he had just finished his last. He groaned, he had no idea what they had learned all day, he just hoped it wasn't something too important.

They began walking towards the exit and the light conversation about games with Kiba was enough to distract him from his thoughts until Kiba paused mid-sentence and lightly slapped at Naruto's shoulder.

"Isn't that Sasuke over there? You didn't tell me he would come pick you up."

Naruto froze. Sasuke couldn't be here, he had tried so hard to keep him away from the place where people saw him as a girl and now he just showed up like this. They had just broken up, why would he come here? He was sure Sasuke would forget him immediately, he knew Sasuke didn't really do relationships, so he was just happy he had tried for as long as he had. They had been together for almost half a year, but he had never told Naruto he loved him... he hadn't even expressly told him he liked him, so Naruto had been sure Sasuke wouldn't be hurt when they broke up.

Naruto slowly walked towards him, but unconsciously hid behind Kiba when he saw Sasuke's eyes. He looked so angry and it frightened him.

"Sasuke, what are you doing here?" Naruto tried to sound normal and stand beside Kiba instead of behind him.

"So, who is it?" Naruto had never heard him sound so bitter before and had no idea what to do.

"Uhm… who?"

"Oh, so you're playing innocent like always."

"What's going on here?" Kiba frowned looking from Naruto to Sasuke.

"You should just go, this is between me and my EX-boyfriend." Sasuke snapped.

"EX?" Kiba looked confusedly at Naruto who shook his head.

"Let's talk about this later."

"Should I leave?" Kiba was reluctant to just go, Sasuke seemed pretty angry, but it wasn't really something that involved him.

"I can handle it."

Kiba gave his arm a final squeeze and left.

"So, are you going to tell me who it is?"

"Seriously Sasuke, I have no idea what you're talking about."

"The guy you apparently dumped me for maybe?"

Naruto sighed "Sasuke, don't be stupid."

At that Sasuke snapped and launched forward, he grabbed Naruto's shirt and shook him.

"Stupid?!" He yelled. "Are you calling me stupid? You're the one who just won't admit he has another boyfriend. You fucking two-timer."

Naruto tried to get Sasuke to release him, but his grip was too hard for Naruto to loosen.

"I have no idea what you're talking about, I've never liked anyone else but you and I would never two-time!"

Sasuke was panting hard, but stopped shaking him.

"I don't know why you've gotten this stupid idea, but it isn't true. I thought you knew me enough to know I would never do something like that." Naruto felt offended, he couldn't believe Sasuke thought so badly of him.

Sasuke loosed his grip and looked down. "I know" He whispered.

"It doesn't look like that." Naruto said irritated, looking directly at the man in front of him to avoid feeling the eyes of the buzzing onlookers.

"You said you would never leave me."

Naruto had to strain his ears to hear the quiet mumbling.

"Sorry... I just... We can't keep this up." Naruto tried not to cry, he wasn't allowed to cry, not after doing this to Sasuke.

"Why?" Sasuke started yelling again "I never even liked you, the only reason I hung out with you was to sleep with you." Sasuke smirked, he hoped he hurt Naruto, he hoped he realised how insignificant he was to Sasuke.

Naruto looked away, he had a feeling that was true all along.

"You wanted us to be together, you made me do all these weird things, you told me you liked me, and you said you'd always be with me. You tricked me, just like everybody else. You didn't like me at all, am I right? You couldn't like me, if you can just dump me like this. How could you? How could you just dump me after making me fall in love with you?"

They both froze, staring at each other without saying anything. Sasuke looked terrified, he hadn't meant to say that. It wasn't the truth, it couldn't be... or was it. Something clicked inside him. He liked Naruto, he had tried to repress those feelings because he was frightened. He was scared to feel something for anyone, it wasn't what he was taught. But somehow this revelation made all these feelings overflow. He loved him. His happiness over acknowledging this new experience was quickly dampened when he remembered Naruto had broken up with him.

"Hey there handsome." a girly voice interrupted the silence between them. "Is that freak bothering you?"

Sasuke growled and snapped his head in her direction. Nobody talked about Naruto like that.

"Yeah" another girl joined her "just leave that lesbo behind, she won't like you anyway."

Sasuke frowned, but sensed Naruto tensing in his hold.

The girl with pink hair laughed. "Oh you didn't know? I can see how it can be confusing, but that freak gets a thrill out of playing a guy."

Sasuke let go of Naruto as if burned. "What are they talking about?" Sasuke looked at Naruto, trying to get eye contact. "They are lying right?"

The sad look in Naruto's eyes was all he needed to see to get his answer.

So now Sasuke finally know the truth... but how will he react?