Naruto opened his mouth to rudely ask what the teme was looking at but was interrupted by a slight tensing in the other's shoulders.

Instead of exploding, the darker haired nin reached out, ingoring Naruto's cringe, and cradled the injured appendage gently in his hand, running slim fingers across the slightly dirty bandages.

Flushing, Naruto's mind raced.

'He's going to see, pull your arm away! What the hell are you doing!'

The blonde started, mind awakening as he made to jerk away, only to gasp in alarm and horror when he saw the other's brow furrowed in concentration as he narrowed his eyes on the wound, sharigan wheels spinning frantically in his dark irises.

Then Sasuke blinked and the moment passed. Naruto jerked his arm again and this time it came free. Hastily, he pulled the sleeves down, blushing with embaressment and shame as he rubbed the cloth.

"I just lost any previous respect I held for you."The other boy murmured huskily, his face hidden by dark bangs as he pushed past the other boy.

Snapping, Naruto turned and grabbed the others sleeve, red seeping into cloudless blue,"YOU...Why the fuck should I care if you EVER held any respect for me! Im not asking for friggen pity here! But it would be nice to see you show emotion just ONCE Sasuke. Please..just this once..don't walk away from me.." Naruto choked, going down on his knees and letting his tanned hands slip down the other's arm to loosely hold onto Sasuke's hand.

Sasuke tensed, turning slightly to stare down at him emotionlessly,"Give me one good reason why I shouldn't, dobe."

"Cause I fucking LOVE you, you idiot!"

There was an unbearable silence, only broke by Naruto's pained gasp of realization when he felt his heart shatter and he let his hand slide from Sasuke's.

"You don't love me."

'What..what is he talking about...'Naruto thought dully, staring at the dirt and waiting for retribution.

"You don't love me, otherwise you wouldn't have tried to walk away from ME, Naruto." Sasuke continued, turning away once more but not leaving. A shuddering sigh escaped the tense brunette and he stuffed a hand into his pocket. "Do us all a favor and stop LYING. Stop lying to me and stop pretending that you're so fucking happy!"

A lone tear wet the side of Naruto's face as he stared unblinkingly at the ground, saliva joining it as he fought not to throw up.

"Its not right... my whole clan was destroyed..I don't pretend to be happy! You pretended and lied so no one would know then you just quietly try and out yourself! I would have helped you...fuck you Naruto.."Sasuke bit out,"I thought..."He swallowed and took a breathe,"I thought we were friends.."

"Sasuke I-"

"Shut up! You're just like everyone else..you all leave me, leave me here alone with nothing and no one!"

Wincing at the force of the others words, Naruto still couldn't find the energy to protest.

Sasuke smirked coldly, turning to look down at him and ignoring the tears that were gathering on his eyelids."You..you don't know what love is.."

Naruto gasped again and swallowed the pooling saliva, covering his face with one hand while the injured lay limply in the dirt. "Please..please don't do this to me.."

"Why not, usurontakachi? You fucking did it to me!"Sasuke shouted.

The blonde opened his mouth, raising his head with a pleading glint in his now placid blue eyes.

"What's this, a lover's quarrel?"A deep voice interrupted.

Jumping in startlement, Naruto looked from his position on his knees to the toothpick chewing Genma.

The chestnut haired man frowned when he saw Sasuke's tense shoulders and Naruto's tear-streak face and the jounin uniform he was wearing.

"I don't even want to know.." He sighed and closed his eyes, rubbing the back of his head as he strode past.

"I love you..Sasuke I love you..but you..you just don't understand! I can't live with you hating me..please..don't hate me..I can't..live with you hating me.."

"Is that why you tried to kill yourself?"

Naruto sobbed, exhaustion causing him to double over slightly,"Yes, are you happy? Im some pathetic love struck fangirl who obsesses over you even though I don't have a chance! I want you to notice me and smile and laugh and hold hands and..I want all of you..But you can't..you won't open up.."

There was a dull thud when the Uchiha heir fell beside Naruto in the dirt on his knees, wrapping his arms loosely about his dobe,"Naruto, just shut up... I've been here..all along I've been right here.. All this fucking drama and pain..just because you couldn't tell me you felt the same way I feel about you?"

"You...you do..!"Naruto jerked up his head, nearly connecting with Sasuke's chin.

"Idiot..I don't know if I love you..but...its more than friendship... If you promise to never fucking try to hurt yourself again.."

Naruto was already nodding, a nearly hysterical smile contorting his face as unnoticed tears continued to pour down whiskered cheeks."That's all I wanted..that's.."

The brunette looked away, face flushed with embaressment."Don't look at me like that dobe..."

"G-gomen.."The blonde stuttered, giddy with relief as he wrapped his arms around the taller Sasuke.

"Maybe we can make this work.."Sasuke murmured to himself and Naruto,"maybe we can help eachother heal..."

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I havent updated this story in SO LONG! And I know its a lot of hoo ha for one chapter..but ...this scene really needed to happen. lol. Of course there's many more chapters to come, but I might just do a sequel story to that...and Im sorry the chapters aren't as long as I wanted them to be..unfortunately I believe I don't have the brain capacity to do fifty paragraphs for one chapters...sorryyy...