Re cap: Naruto was having a good day, until he was bullied badly, leaving him with several unwanted bruises. Sasuke was worried and decided to look for Naruto, unfortunately he couldn't find him but instead he found a necklace with the Uchiha symbol on it, he took it and continued looking for Naruto and this time he found him. He found out that the necklace belonged to him and he was the one who gave it to him. Leaving Sasuke at pure shock, memories started playing through his mind. Sasuke soon then walked back home with Naruto, to start their tutoring session, insisting on helping Naruto, with his bruises.

Chapter Thirteen

"Hold still,"

"I'm trying, but it hurts."

"Then stop moving,"

"I'll try, alright?"

Sasuke wrapped Naruto's back with bandages, trying to ease the pain. Bandage after bandage, it seemed like they would never stop. Naruto's body was soon covered with white bandages, that made him look like a small blond mummy.

"Are you done?" Sasuke nodded while sitting down, throwing Naruto his shirt. Naruto caught it and wore his shirt right after.
Surprisingly, Sasuke insisted on taking care of the blond's bruises. He even made Naruto take off his shirt, of course the blue eyed male, refused too, but Sasuke threatened that he'd take off his shirt himself, if he wouldn't. Yup, the brother's both are alike somehow.

"How long ago, did I give you that necklace?" Sasuke asked, laying down, on his king sized bed. Naruto was taken aback by the sudden question, it took him a few seconds for his mind to process.

"Uhm, right after we met by a month," He blushed, looking away very quickly. He couldn't forget that Sasuke just saw him half naked right now. He then mentally scolded himself for blushing at the smallest of things.

"Oh," The onyx male said, staring at his dark blue ceiling.
Things definitely had changed, how did Naruto go from ' Bright ball of sunshine Naruto' to 'self hated, depressing Naruto' Oh right, it was his fault.
The one who rejected him, Sasuke. The one hated him Sasuke. The one who called him a faggot, Sasuke. The one who hurt him deeply, Sasuke. It was all him, every single thing he's done. He didn't even have anyone to blame but himself.

Naruto cupped his shoulder with right hand, slowly rubbing it to ease his nerves and to collect all the courage he had left. Gulping the lump in his throat he manged to look at Sasuke, without blushing or even looking away, like he usually did when he talked to him.

"Sasuke, um, the session," Naruto manged to say making Sasuke, sit up. He sighed a bit while running his pale ghost like fingers through his dark colored hair, to help relive the stress. "Yeah, let's start."

Sasuke began tutoring Naruto like he usually did, starting by teaching him the basics of the subject he was learning, then slowly explaining the harder things.
Hours went by and Naruto still hadn't left, the blond tried to leave several times but Sasuke refused for him to leave claiming that he needed to get better in the subject he was teaching him but Sasuke's intentions were no near that fake excuse. He was actually worried about Naruto's health. He had just gotten a beating, he couldn't possibly leave suddenly like that with all those injuries.

Naruto sighed in irritation, closing his eyes for a few seconds to register what was going on. He opened his eyes and looked at Sasuke once more.

"Sasuke. I. Need. To. Leave." Naruto demanded, trying his best not to glare at Sasuke. The Uchiha got up and crossed his arms over his chest and walked to the door, to block Naruto's path. "You can't leave until I finish tutoring you, Naruto."

"You can tutor me tomorrow, I'll even come earlier than I usually do, we can both tell the principle, I'm sure she'll understand." Sasuke being the stubborn asshole he was refused and shook his head.

"No, we're finishing now," He looked at the clock that was located at his right side, he then slightly squinted his eyes as he saw the time and sighed, pinching the bridge of his nose. "You aren't leaving."

"But Sasuke, I've got to work, I'm going to be late if I don't leave in a few minutes."

"Where do you work?" Sasuke rose his eyebrows in curiosity as he let his arms fall to his sides, bringing one hand to scratch his head, making it messier than it already was.

"Um, at Icharuka's restaurant, why?" The Uchiha grabbed his coat and wore it very quickly and exited his room, shutting the door quite loudly, leaving Naruto more confused than he already was. Naruto sighed and closed his eyes in frustration. Sasuke's acting so weird today, what's up with him today?

Naruto took this chance of being alone, to examine the Uchiha's room. He walked to his nightstand and took a frame in his hands that was sitting still on the brown colored table, he brushed his fingers on the picture and wiped the dust to get a clearer picture of what was behind the glass. Naruto's eyes slightly widened as he saw, two brothers holding the peace sign. The younger one made a goofy face while the older one had a gentle smile sculpted on his lips. They looked genuinely happy, the blond knew it was both Sasuke and Itachi, but why hadn't he seen this picture before? He had been in Sasuke's house several times before but he was sure this was the first time he had seen this picture.
Naruto shrugged it off and gently put the picture where it was. He let out a boring sigh as he sat on the Uchiha's bed and stared at the clock.

Tick tock, tick tock.

Naruto groaned, throwing himself on the king sized bed, as he once again sighed in frustration, he stared at the dark colored ceiling, trying to entertain himself in someway but his eye lids soon got heavier, he then finally gave up the urge to keep them open, convincing himself that he'll just close his eyes for a few minutes without falling asleep and boy was he wrong. A few minutes passed and the blond was snoring like there was no tomorrow.

Sasuke entered his room and hung his wet coat, on his hanger, Sasuke looked right and left trying to find the blond, but he wasn't in sight. He came closer to his bed to find a sleeping figure, snoring lightly, smiling he brought an extra blanket he had for emergencies and covered the male's sleeping figure. The Uchiha was lucky he came after Naruto stopped his load snoring by minutes.

Fortunately Naruto was asleep and he was safe and sound just like Sasuke wanted him to be. The black eyed male sat down at the edge of his bed, letting a short sigh out, as he hid his face between his hands, he slowly rubbed his eyes to ease the pain of his headache.

A pale male brushed his slender fingers into his hair, covering half of his face as he did so. He looked at the confused blond ahead of him, a smirk widening.

"No one needs you," Naruto glanced at the male, clearly confused. "No one loves you."

"W-Who are you?!" Naruto yelled, obviously angered at how the stranger treated him. The pale man, let his hand fall to his side, making his bangs cover his pale face, smiling, he started laughing. Naruto took a few steps behind, making his back meet a wall he hadn't acknowledge before. The man laughed sadistically, and then suddenly stopped, taking a few steps closer to the boy. Naruto felt his body freeze, making him not move a muscle, he struggled to move his legs, but that didn't do any help.

The pale man, came closer to the blond. Naruto's eyes widened, he felt a couple droplets of sweat form on his forehead as the black haired man, was only inches from his face. The man leaned in and whispered into Naruto's ear; "Just go die."
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Naruto's eyes fluttered open, as he suddenly sat up, panting. He wiped the sweat on his forehead with the back of his palm. I-It was a dream! The blond sighed in relief as he realized none of that actually happened.

"You're up." A voice ripped Naruto from his thoughts, he looked up to see Sasuke leaning on a wall, his arms crossed against his chest.

"Sasuke, oh my God, what time is it?! I need to head back home!" Naruto quickly got out of Sasuke's bed, as he was trying to exit the Uchiha's room, he then hit his forehead to feel something blocking his way. He rubbed his forehead to see Sasuke standing in-front of his bed room door.

"Sasuke please! I nee-"The stubborn Uchiha sighed and covered Naruto's mouth with his hand.

"I get it, I get it, you want to leave because you want to head home," The whiskered teen, tried talking but Sasuke's hand blocked every word that tried to escape his mouth, making his attempt to talk sound as if he was mumbling very loudly.

"You can't go home, there's a storm outside and you also have a week off from work," Naruto tried getting Sasuke's hand away from his mouth, but couldn't, hence Sasuke was stronger than him, which left him to do only one thing.

"Naruto!" Sasuke whipped his hand against his jeans, as it was wet from Naruto's saliva.

"Your fault! You bas-" The blue eyed male covered his mouth with his hand. He shivered at the thought of what he was going to say.

"What were you going to say?" Sasuke looked at the male making his heart drop in guilt, he gulped the huge lump in his throat and made his hands into fists, trying to calm his self down. Naruto let his hand fall to his side, lowering his gaze, he also lowered his voice.

"N...Nothing." He uttered, his blue eyes a dark color as the ocean, a color that meant sadness in Naruto's state.

"No, what did you want to say?" Sasuke's onyx eyes fell on the blond whom had his head lowered to the ground, making a few of his golden strands fall on his eyes. The Uzumaki, looked away, in a matter that made the other male worry about him.

Sasuke sighed, and decided not to pressure the blond to answer, but he still wanted to hear what he was going to say, even though he most likely knew what it was. The Uchiha then turned around, without realizing what he was going to say.

"I miss the old Naruto, where'd 'that' Naruto go?" Sasuke mentally scolded himself for asking such a stupid question. He looked at Naruto, who rose his head and looked at Sasuke, making direct eye contact with him, their gaze locked, onyx orbs with dark ocean blue ones.

"Maybe that Naruto," He said focusing on 'that'. "Wasn't stabbed multiple times in the heart, by his only best friend."

Sasuke slightly flinched as what he said was true, but he still had his gaze locked with the blond, mentally telling the blond that he can continue.

"Maybe that Naruto, wasn't bullied as badly," He gulped the lump in his throat, trying not to cry. "Maybe that Naruto still had a reason to live and continue trying." He said with lower voice, his hands formed fists, but he slowly let them go.

Sasuke didn't know what to feel, guilt, pity, sadness, anger? He was a tornado of emotions, he honestly didn't know what to feel anymore. Sasuke broke eye contact with the blond as he sighed and sat down.

"I...I just miss the old Naruto, even though I know, it was purely my fault that I lost him." He said with a low tone filled with guilt. Naruto looked away, not knowing how to respond to that and instead he also sat down, in one of Sasuke's couches that was opposite side of the other male.

Naruto balanced his head on the back of his hand, whilst looking outside, from Sasuke's huge window. Rain lashed down producing a calm soothing noise, which he loved. A few sounds of thunder made it to Naruto's ear, but it didn't scare him, but instead it calmed him down a bit. These kind of nights were always his favorites. He would always drop everything he had or stop what he was doing, just to sit down in front of his window, to look at the sheets of rain, that made it down to the city.

Sasuke on the other hand was afraid of these kind of nights, he would always flinch when ever he heard the sound of thunder, yet he never admitted to anyone, expect for Itachi, of course Sasuke never told his older brother, but he some how found out and made him swear not to tell a soul.
His grip on his jeans tightened as once more a sound of thunder made it's way to his ears. Breathing slowly would always calm him down and that's what he did, he then closed his eyes and started counting.

Naruto analyzed the other male's expression, and then decided to slowly open the window, since Sasuke wasn't noticing at all.
He curled his fingers on the lower edge of the window, slowly pushing it up, he was careful not to make any sound or open it up to far. Soon a scent of the mixed weather was inhaled, it was a mix of rain and another scent Naruto always couldn't recognize, but it didn't bother him as long he could enjoy the beautiful scent. He closed his eyes inhaling the odd mixture of the rain while listening to droplets of water hitting the ground. It never failed to to calm him down.

A huge thud ripped Naruto and Sasuke out of their thoughts, they opened their eyes and glanced at each-other before getting up. Confusion was worn on their expressions.
Sasuke exited his room, with Naruto following after. They made their ways to the living room to see something that took their breaths away.

There Itachi was laying on the floor unconscious

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