Chapter Seven
Sasuke sat in his seat , sighing. Another boring day in school , just like always, things never changed in school. Sasuke glanced at Naruto's seat , but it was empty, what hurt him more , that no even payed attention to it.
"Did you hear, that the faggot finally dropped out of school?" Sasuke heard one of the students say.
"You mean Uzuamki Naruto?" The other said.
"Yeah, I've heard that he finally put enough with all the bullying and other shit here."
"Finally! I thought that he'd never drop out."
"Faggots don't belong here." He laughed.
Sasuke suddenly felt anger boiling inside him , he clenched his fists very hard until they became yellow from the lack of blood. The angry Uchiha got up and held the students collar , everyone went quite , they knew better than to mess with The Uchiha at this state . Sasuke held the student's collar , his eye's were burning from all the anger. If looks could kill , the student would be dead by now.
"Who told you about him dropping out of school?!" Sasuke said trying his best not to punch the guy. The student tried his best to pull away from Sasuke's grasp but it was to strong.
"I-I just heard about it!" Sasuke slammed his shirt on the wall harshly.
"Who told you?!" Sasuke said losing his patients.
"T-They're just rumors." The Uchiha harshly let go of the student's collar , forcing him to fall down.
Everyone was horrified ,they never in their life seen Sasuke so mad before . The female student's held their books tightly against their chest , trying to calm their selves down, while the males just stood there , not muttering a word. Sasuke barged out of the room , still angry.
He went outside,trying to calm himself down. The onyx-eyed male panted and lent against the wall , in hope to calm down. Did Naruto really drop out of school? Did he really give up? Wait,wait,why was Sasuke worried in the first place? Wasn't he the one that wanted Naruto to leave so bad? Sasuke cared , and he just admitted to himself ,it might take years before he admits it to his brother, yes, he was that stubborn.
After the bell rang Sasuke swung his bag over his shoulder and left the school quietly . There were no fangirls today. After Sasuke's rage , they were smart enough to leave him alone , before he rages on them too.
-After School-
Sasuke sat in his room studying quietly , until a knock on his bedroom door was heard.
"What?" Sasuke said ,clearly annoyed.
"Mr Uchiha , someone wants to see you and he's waiting outside."The maid said and Sasuke sighed.
"Tell them I'll be there in a minute." The maid nodded and left his room.
Sasuke got up and slowly walked to the front door. He opened the door without looking at the person.
"What?" He said , clearly annoyed that someone would disturb while he's studying.
"H-Hello Sasuke!" Sasuke recognized that voice anywhere. It couldn't be him!
"N-Naruto?" Sasuke said surprised. The Uchiha glanced at Naruto that had a bruised cheek and swollen eye. Before he wanted to ask him how he got that(Which he clearly knew how) Naruto tried dodging his question quickly, and succeeded.
"Sasuke! I'm really sorry for not attending the tutoring sessions! I-I had to work two shifts! Please forgive me!" The blond slightly bowed, showing his apologies.
"Come in" Sasuke muttered , walking inside. Naruto lifted his head up and quickly walked inside. He followed Sasuke quietly to his room , not muttering a word.
Sasuke felt relived , he thought that Naruto actually dropped out of school , and never came back , he thought that he finally put up with everything and decided to leave for the best . Sasuke tried to dig his happy feelings , he wanted to feel happy that Naruto was here , but at the same time , he didn't.
Since The Blond didn't attend the past two tutoring sessions , Sasuke tutored him for hours straight,without rest , if his tutoring lessons were late , the principle would get angry and of course punish him. So he tried his best to not let that happen.
"Sasuke, I-I need to use the bathroom.." Naruto said, shyly.
"Fine, don't take to much time, we're late and we need to keep going." Naruto nodded and exited the bedroom.
The Uzumaki made his way to the bathroom , he washed his hands once he was done , but when he wanted to leave , he saw his reflection in the mirror , reflecting his upper body. Naruto eye's saddened a bit , he saw his bruised face and swollen eye , he tried looking away, but he couldn't . He was pathetic, most boys of his age were tall , cute , straight and had all the girls , while he was short , gay , hated , rejected and bullied. This never would've happened if he was straight , why couldn't he be straight , just like the others? If he was , he would be loved and accepted be everyone , he would never been bullied or started cutting. He would've been happy with his life. Happy... That's the only thing that he wanted right now , happiness was the key to be accepted and loved by everyone else . But what if he was happy being gay? Why didn't people accept him?
As Naruto was deep in his thoughts , he felt hot tears rolling down his cheek, he tried wiping them with the back of his palm , but it didn't work , his tears were already like a water fall , shortly after he began sobbing quietly in-front of the mirror .The more he wiped his tears , the more fresh hot tears replaced them .All he wanted was happiness why couldn't anyone accept him for who he was? Gender doesn't matter , love is love, right? But no , almost every awful thing has happened to him , people hurt him mentally and physically . Enough was enough. Naruto tried calming down , and wiped his tears for the one hundredth time , Sasuke would be angry if he was late , so he washed his eyes, that were red and puffy . Sasuke wouldn't ask him anyway, so why bother? Naruto finally exited the bathroom deep in thought , things were very hard , these days, no one supported him , The Uchiha once was his support , but now he- BOOM!
Naruto fell on his back and hurt his head badly , his body couldn't take all this damage after the beating he received a few days ago. He groaned placing his hand on his head , trying to reduce the pain ,while getting up , he saw a tall figure . Sasuke? No, it wasn't him , he had black hair and black sharp eyes, it was Itachi Uchiha , Sasuke's older sibling. After Naruto realized it was him he got up quickly and bowed,to showing his apologies.
"I'm so sorry! I didn't mean to bump into you , Itachi!" Naruto closed his eyes , thinking that Itachi will scold him. But he paid no attention to Naruto's apology instead . He glanced at his small body that was most likely to be bruised , his neck was a color of a light purple , while his eyes were red and puffy. Naruto lifted his head up, kind of confused that he didn't get mad.
Itachi quickly , grabbed Naruto's hand , sliding his sleeve to show all his scars on his wrist. Itachi's eyes widened at all the scars that were on Naruto's wrist.
"Naruto..." Itachi whispered to himself , but Naruto barely heard him.
"I-Itachi,please don't tell anyone about this! I swear, I'll do anything but just-" Itachi cut Naruto off by grabbing his hand and quickly leading him to a room ,forgetting to completely shut the door behind him. Itachi took a chair and told Naruto to sit on it , the blond obeyed and sat down .
"Naruto,How'd you get those scars?" Itachi asked, sternly.
"I-.. it was an accident!" Naruto said trying not to panic .
"Take off your shirt."
"W-What?!" Naruto's cheeks heated up , at his request.
"You heard me, take off your shirt." The Uchiha crossed his arms over his chest, sighing.
"B-But ,Itachi, I can't do that." Naruto said flustered.
"If you don't take it off , I will." Naruto felt his whole body heat up, why did Itachi want to see him shirtless? And why now? Naruto panicked inside , and decided to take off his shirt , before Itachi did it himself. The Uchiha tried not to gasp at the sight he just saw, his widen and felt pity for the blond. There were bruises all over his chest starting from his neck to his stomach , deep scars were on his wrists and there were fresh burn marks all over his back. Naruto tried covering his body by hugging himself . He didn't want anyone seeing him this weak , he didn't want anyone to see how badly people beat him up and how he self-harms.
The Uchiha frowned at the sight he just saw , then everything he heard about Naruto was true , the bulling and self-harm were true, that means everything else is also true . How much did Naruto go through everyday? How much does he suffer everyday? People never treated him as a person , which broke Itachi's heart . He knew that he'd been bullied , but he never knew it was that bad, all the bruises , scars and burn marks . Looked to pain him, and Itachi figured that they're all fresh . Then how and why did he come if he was in state like this? People in his state would surly be put in hospitable for weeks , but Naruto was here , and the Uchiha didn't even know how.
"How did you get all these bruises?" Itachi asked , more like whispered. But Naruto didn't respond he just lowered his head and hugged himself even tighter, not caring if it hurts. Itachi felt his heart sink inside , he knew if he pressured Naruto to answer his question he'll start crying, and that's the last thing he wanted right now.
"Naruto,take off your jeans." Itachi said, in calm tone.
"W-What?!" Itachi sighed while Naruto's cheeks were red just like a bright red cherry.
"Naruto you heard me, take off your jeans." Naruto shook his head."N-No!" he said panicking.
"Naruto, you're acting like I'm about to rape you, just take off the God damn jeans." The Uchiha said, loosing his patients. The blond nodded shyly he didn't want the Uchiha getting mad at him so took off his pants , showing his white boxers. Itachi felt his heart sink once again, at this awful sight . There were bruises all over his legs , it seemed that bully's targeted his legs and his stomach, in order to make him feel more pain. But his legs looked so delicate ,so easily damaged.
"Naruto, I know this is going to be hard for you, but who did this?" Naruto pulled his knees to his chest and hugged himself, again not responding.
~With Sasuke~
Sasuke finally got up , wanting to find Naruto. He was late and Sasuke had a lot of tutoring to do . He searched the bathrooms but he wasn't there , he soon heard some people speaking in low tones that he couldn't make of . The young Uchiha kept walking until the voices were clearer , he finally stopped at a random guestroom . Sasuke was going to knock, until he heard his brother's voice, it looked like it he wasn't alone , he was sure he was speaking to someone .Since Itachi didn't completely shut the door , Sasuke peeped
"Naruto,I just want to help."
"They did that to me," Itachi didn't respond, waiting for him to finish.
"At school, almost everyone hates me...they beat me up almost everyday, wanting me to die..the teachers don't give two damns about me..either."
"Then why didn't you tell anyone?!" Itachi said , obviously angered.
"They'd call me an attention whore, and hate me even more , and they already think I'm just a fake , they just want me to die..."
"Then why haven't you went to the hospital yet?" Itachi said, changing the subject , since he knew Naruto was about to cry. But he made just made it worse.
"I...I have...but" Naruto lowered his head in verge of tears, " The doctors somehow found out , that I'm gay...they...they said that...I'm a disease myself and I should die.." Naruto finished with tears rolling down his cheek . He tried wiping his tears with his hands but all his face was wet , he bit his lip to try not to sob.
"Naruto,how are you putting up with all of this?" Itachi said , in a sad tone. Naruto gave Itachi a closed eyed smile and said: "Isn't it obvious? It's for Sasuke."
Naruto then felt two warm strong arms rap around him, bringing him to a tight hug. The blond looked up to see Itachi hugging him, with his eyes closed. Naruto gasped a bit, no one has ever hugged him before, he was sure that this was his first hug.
The blue eyed male , clinged onto Itachi's chest , trying his hardest not to cry.
"Naruto, just let it go..." Itachi whispered.
"Huh? I-I.." Without Naruto knowing a sob escaped his mouth, he sobbed onto Itachi's chest. The blond sobbed like he never sobbed before. Tears were rushing down his face , just like a waterfall , and Itachi didn't mind getting his shirt wet, he just hugged the teen Uchiha swore he never seen anyone cry like Naruto before , Naruto cried all his heart and soul out , it looked like he was crying all his pain out . Itachi couldn't take all of this , tears escaped his eyes too , and fell on Naruto's head. He didn't want to cry with Naruto, he wanted to be with him and help him to try to get better . So he tried his best not to cry and hugged the teen in a warm way, just like how a mother holds her child, all warm and welcoming.
Sasuke started panting. Has Naruto been through all that?! The young Uchiha leaned against the wall panting heavily. ' no , this isn't happening " Sasuke thought to himself , he knew that Itachi only helps people that need all the help they can get , and he helped Naruto . So Naruto actually been through all that? What kind of life is he living? He never knew he made Naruto's life so much worse than it already was. He felt so guilty , he wished that never rejected Naruto like that, and instead helped him. Sasuke heard footsteps making their way to the door, he got up and quickly made his way to his bedroom.
He sat down , feeling guilt slowly swallowing him.
