Chapter Five
Sasuke looked around him , he was in a small place , which looked like an apartment . This place looked so familiar He knew he'd been here before. he was sure this wasn't the first time . Suddenly a door appeared out of no where , just as he opened it, a small figure whimpering could be heard ,which was most likely to be male . Sasuke came closer to that person and placed his hand on the person's shoulder to try to get a better look at his face .
The Uchiha gasped a bit when he saw the person's face; it was Naruto. His face was wet with tears and his eyes were red and puffy which looked like he was crying for a long time,His fresh cuts could be seen and his small body was shivering.
"N-Naruto?" Sasuke said with a guilty tone.
"Y-You did this to me..." Tears escaped from the blonds eyes , and rolled down his bruised cheek,slowly.
"W-What do you mean?"
"You know what I mean! You're the reason every bad thing has happened to me! You made think about suicide many time times! YOU made me think that I'm just a waste of space! A waste of oxygen!" Naruto slid his sleeve even more to show all kinds of scars and fresh cuts on his wrist " Look! I want to die so bad because of you! You called me a disgusting fag and threatened to call the cops if I even started at your eyes! What kind of life am I living?!"
Sasuke backed away, not knowing what to say.
"Naruto I-"
"Just shut up!I don't even- BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP"
"W-Wha-"
Sasuke woke up panting and sweating, fear was clearly written all over his face. "It...It was just a dream...More like a nightmare..." Sasuke said while massaging his temples in hope to calm down.
Of course The Uchiha felt guilty about Naruto , he knew almost everything that happened to him was his fault. He just never admitted it to anyone, not even to himself. Maybe his brother was right,maybe he was bullied everyday , abounded by his parents, hated by everyone, and maybe he was actually right. Sasuke shook his head in order to clear his thoughts and got up to the bathroom. He splashed cold water all over his face , Sasuke finally was calm again . He then took a look at himself on the mirror and sighed. He looked terrible; there were black circles under his eyes and his face was paler than usual. The Uchiha finally decided to get ready for school, and went with his daily routine. And made his way to his own hell.
~After School~
Sasuke sighed as he heard the bell and packed his stuff. He swung his bag behind his back and existed the school . Naruto stood outside the school shifting from place to place , waiting for Sasuke. The Black haired male soon approached the blond.
"let's go" Sasuke muttered , walking. Naruto was taken by Sasuke's action. He actually talked to him , was this a dream? Or was it a trick? He didn't want to get his hopes to high after what happened before, so he remained silent.
The walk was filled with a awkward silence between the two. Sasuke's 'pride' wouldn't let him start a conversation first , while Naruto was too scared of getting yelled at by Sasuke for even talking . Things weren't the same anymore , they really have changed .
But Sasuke felt strange, his heart kept getting heavier and heavier the more he walked with Naruto, he felt guilt slowly swallowing him the longer he walked with the blond. Sasuke stole glances from Naruto while Naruto's head was lowered to the ground, The Blue eyed-male didn't want to face Sasuke like this ,after all he did hurt him mentally and physically, and Naruto thought that Sasuke hated him for being weak and actually crying in-front of him more than once .
Naruto griped harder on the bag when he thought about the moment when Sasuke slapped him, his heart was sinking inside , he felt tears getting ready to fall like a water fall from his eyes , That's when Sasuke noticed the smaller male drying his tears with his long sleeve .Sasuke tried his best to ignore Naruto , but it was so hard to ignore a little angle, as soon as Sasuke was going to ask Naruto 'what was wrong?' the blond turned his head as if he knew Sasuke was watching him.
He felt his heart drop, a million degrees ,why did he feel so bad? He did hurt him after all, but Sasuke was still a human , and Naruto was his best friend . The Uchiha himself didn't know why he treated Naruto that way , the rejecting, hating and slapping , happened out of his hand , he was confused both his heart and mind were confused he thought the only way to solve Naruto's confession was by hating him , and that's what he tried to do.
The two finally arrived at the Uchiha mansion but this time they weren't greeted by maid's only , the whole Uchiha family was home.
"Hello sir , may I take your bag?" The maid asked politely. Sasuke threw the bag to the maid and went up stairs . Naruto gave the maid a small bow and went after Sasuke while taking books out of his bags and holding them to his chest quickly, just about when Naruto was going to enter the Uchiha's room , he tripped which resulted the heavy text books to fall on his wrist . Naruto winced in pain, the scars on his arms were very deep and haven't fully healed, he noticed his sleeve becoming a light shade of red . The blue eyed-male tried to hold the pain in , it was too much, but he manged to keep the pain and got up. His wrist was stinging, his cuts were very deep , deeper than Naruto had thought, but he thought it was for the best if he ignored them and went on with the tutoring session with Sasuke.
The tutoring session went alright at first , until Naruto noticed his text book becoming a light shade of red while writing down his notes , half of his writing was smudged with blood and was hardly read , he took a look at his wrist and it was red.
'W-What am I going to do? And What if Sasuke see's this?...I bet he'll just ignore me...He won't give a damn about me anyway's' Naruto panicked and winced at the sight of blood , and regretted for being there. He sighed and took a look at Sasuke who seemed to be deep in thought. Naruto excused himself, and headed to the bathroom . He slid up his sleeve and blood could be seen allover his wrist , Naruto winced once again at the sight of blood and the feeling of pain. The Uzumaki took off his shirt and started rubbing it with water in hope to move the stains , he splashed water a couple of times over the sleeve and Luckily his shirt was clean again ,he then wrapped toilet paper all over his wrists , whore his shirt and tried drying his sleeves .He tried leaving quickly as possible before Sasuke asks him what happened, but The Uzumaki thought it didn't matter whether he knew or not,he'll just ignore him after , so why put an effort in telling him?
Naruto soon exited the bathroom quickly and sat down.
"Where were you?" Sasuke asked Naruto , curiously.
"I um, I went to the bathroom" Naruto dug his hands in his lap ,while lowering his head , not making eye contact with The Uchiha.
Sasuke sighed and placed his pen on the table. "That's it for today, you can go," Naruto's eye's widened a bit , for the first time in days , Sasuke spoke with him not in a disgusted way.
"T-Thank you." Naruto took his books and got up. Just about when he was going to exit the room, Sasuke's mother opened the door , with a tray in one of her hands.
"H-Hello Miss Uchiha!" Naruto bowed slightly.
"Naruto~ It's been so long since I've last seen you, how have you been?" Mikoto flashed Naruto a warm smile. The Uzumaki suddenly felt something so warm inside of him , he wasn't used to someone being nice to him and Sasuke's mother hasn't seen Naruto for a long time , due to work, so no one else other than Tsunade was this nice to him.
"I-I'm fine , thank you. Would you excuse me? I need to get going."
"Nonsense, I haven't seen you in awhile Naruto , why don't you stay for dinner?"
"I really appreciate your offer! But I-"
"Naruto, you're staying for dinner, and that's final."
"T-Thank you," Naruto excepted Sasuke to be angry and decline his mother's offer , but he did nothing at all.
Naruto again felt something warm inside him. Were things finally taking a different path? Were they going to finally change? Or was he just getting his hopes to high? Maybe Sasuke just acted this way in-front of his parents, or maybe it's an act. Naruto didn't know what to believe in anymore.
Naruto greeted all the other Uchiha's shyly and sat down . The Uchiha mansion was very big , their dining room was twice as big Naruto's apartment and the dining table was very long . Fugaku sat at the shorter end of the table with Mikoto on the opposite side , Naruto sat next to Itachi , while Sasuke was in-front the two. Everyone began eating quietly, But there was an awkward silence , Naruto honestly didn't mind this silence , anything but talking in-front of Sasuke .
"So Naruto,how's school?" Mikoto asked while Naruto sighed, there went the silence.
"It's going alright." Naruto answered with a small smile , hoping she wouldn't detect his lie.
"That's great!" Mikoto smiled " Oh Sasuke, I noticed you haven't hung out with Naruto for some time now, did something happen?" Sasuke was taken by his mother's sudden question.
"I uh we-"
"We do hang out! But We've been busy with all these exams" Naruto covered Sasuke quickly.
"But don't the exams start next week?"
"W-Well the teachers thought it'd be better if we'd get over it already" Naruto laughed nervously.
"Oh,now that makes sense, I hope this doesn't affect your friendship ,because it'll be a shame if you two weren't friends anymore." Mikoto smiled softly at both Naruto and Sasuke .
Sasuke was shocked at Naruto's sudden move, he never thought he'd actually help him like that. Sasuke started doubting himself , he was very confused , he didn't know what to think or do anymore , he began thinking that maybe he was wrong about Naruto, or maybe Naruto was acting in-front of Sasuke's parents. This situation gave Sasuke a headache from all this overthinking.
After the dinner Naruto thanked Mikoto for the dinner , and left , forbidding everyone a goodbye. He went to his apartment, took a shower and slipped under the covers.
"I don't know what to think anymore... Sasuke." Naruto sighed and went to sleep.
