Ok this is kinda an explaining chapter

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A Few Months Later

Sasuke POV

He's been laying, with his head in my lap, for the past nineteen hours. I'm beginning to worry, though I would never show it, that he's never going to wake up. This training that they've been subjecting him to is taking an immense toll on his mind and body. I'm beginning to think that they're killing him faster then Kyuubi.

But worst of all is the fact that he won't let me help him. I know he's doing it for my safety, but doesn't he understand that watching him fade away his hurting me more then Kyuubi ever could?

I let my eyes wonder back to the sleeping teen. He doesn't rustle, doesn't even sigh or mumble like he used to while he slept. He just lays there, pale and motionless. I felt my grip tighten on him; he's fading from this world and there's nothing I can do about it.

Actually no, there is something I can fucking do. My Sharingan could help him more then Tsunade and that pervert ever could! But he's shutting me out, he refuses my help.

I'm loosing him.

"Sa-Sasuke?" My eyes snap to him immediately, "How long was I out this time?" He attempts to sit up but fails miserably. I chuckle as he settles for curling up in my lap.

"Around nineteen hours." He sighs but I can't see his expression because he's hidden his face in my thigh.

"Well at least its shorter then last time." His voice is muffled but I can hear the sorrow behind it. "Maybe I'm getting better?"

I sigh and pull him up into a sitting position so he's sitting cross-legged between my legs. "I'm sure you are."

My voice is blank and I'm sure it bothers him, but what can I say? I'm pissed. My lover refuses to let me help him, I've never felt so fucking powerless in my entire life. "S'uke, stop being an emotionless bastard."

His reprimand only causes me to become more frustrated. "You're dying, Naruto, and you won't let me help you at all."

"Sasuke, if you were to help me you'd only be hurt as well, if you were in my position would you allow me to do something so stupid?" His voice was so tired. We had, had this conversation so many times that I'd lost count.

I let out an angry snort, "Don't be a hypocrite, Naruto. Are you telling me that if I was dying you wouldn't attempt to save me because I told you not to?"

He looked stunned, "Well…I—um, that's different!"

I smirked, I had finally gotten him, "How is it different?"

He blushed and scratched the back of his neck in is signatory way, "I don't know, it just is."

I raised and eyebrow, "At least let me try, Naruto, if I can't do anything I'll back off."

He worried his lip between his teeth, and I suppressed the urge to take that same lip into my mouth. "Its not that I don't think that you'll be any help, I just don't want to see you get hurt."

I scoffed, "You won't hurt me—"

"How the hell do you know?!" Pain. I saw so much pain in his eyes. "I've hurt people Sasuke." He was no longer looking at me, instead choosing to focus on his quivering hands. "I've killed people, Sasuke, innocent people. I won't allow you to die as well."

Naruto had killed people? No—Naruto could never hurt anyone. "No, Naruto, Kyuubi killed innocent people, not you."

He sniffed and I watched, horrified, as wet trails began to appear on his face. "No! I let him out! Its my fault they died!" He was shaking with suppressed sobs. "They were my friends, Sasuke. My very best friends, and I killed them."

He needed to let this out. If he didn't overcome this then how could he expect to defeat Kyuubi. "Tell me what happened, Naruto." His sobbing intensified, so I decided to ask something easier. "What were their names?"

Minuets ticked by before he finally answered.

"Sora, Temoguen, Isaribi and Sasame. (1)" He smiled as he said their names. "We all hated each other at first, I remember that I pushed Sora off the swings his first day at the orphanage because he sat in my seat during lunch…"

"Keep going." I didn't want him to stop, this was the first time Naruto had ever spoken to me about his past.

"I had the biggest crush on Sasame when I first met her, but she turned me down so often that it just became a habit after awhile." He laughed before getting serious again. "Temoguen and Isaribi were the weirdo's of the orphanage, they never played with anyone just sat in their corners. I didn't talk to either of them for five years because I was convinced they were aliens that wanted to eat my brain."

I smiled at him, that seemed like something Naruto would do. "So how did you become friends?"

He looked at me, his smile back in place. "The entire house went on a field trip to a national park. A bunch of us got separated from the chaperons, we wondered around for hours, getting ourselves thoroughly lost. I decided it would be a good idea to climb a tree to get a better look around and Sora, him being my rival and all, didn't want me to have all the glory of finding a way out of the woods."

He was getting really into the story by now, using all sorts of hand motions to make sure that I understood every detail.

"It had rained the previous night so the bark was slick, and all I remember was slipping and then Sora grabbing my wrist. We dangled about fifteen feet up, him hanging one-handed from the branch I had slipped off of. He didn't have a very good grip so we fell together only a few seconds later. We should have broken our necks but then Isaribi, Temoguen, and Sasame were there to break our falls."

He smiled at the end. "And ever since then we were inseparable, they used to call us the Five Biju." He laughed at his own joke.

"So what happened?" I asked very tentatively, the last thing I wanted was for him to start crying again.

His eyes started to water and I cursed myself for bringing it up again, he had been so happy...

"Sasuke, I swear o-one day I'll tell you, but right now I-I just can't deal with that memory."

I nodded, "I understand." I nuzzled my nose, soothingly, into his hair as he gently fell back to sleep.

I wonder how long it will be this time before he wakes up again.

(1)- Those characters are real Naruto characters!

Thanks for reading, I know it was really boring but I had to get some of Naruto's past in there.

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