Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto
Sasuke stares at the ring Naruto had brought him. He's sitting next to him, smiling and tells Sasuke that a ring symbolises eternity.
Sasuke merely glances at Naruto, solemnly telling him that he couldn't promise the boy an eternity. And his Naruto gently smiles at him, his eyes telling Sasuke that he knows that already.
That doesn't stop Sasuke from wishing he could.
He examines the ring again. To Sasuke it symbolises recycling. Because if you start trailing your finger along it, starting from some point, you will eventually brush that same spot again. And again.
Never getting anywhere. Always repeating the same pattern. Trapped in a cycle.
That's how Sasuke felt. Like the lack of meaning his name held. In his opinion, he had the best love in the world, but how could he keep him?
He knew Naruto was giving all of him to Sasuke, and Sasuke was more than happy to receive it. And he so badly wanted to give all of himself to the person of his life, but he wasn't sure if he had enough to offer. If he had anything to offer.
How could a nothing deserve a fishcake?
Maybe Sasuke should have listened to his weasel of a brother and just gone with some meaningless girl. Like that Tenten his family wanted him with. They even said that her name meant heavenly but in Sasuke's eyes, she meant nothing.
Only Naruto meant something. Naruto meant a fishcake. Naruto meant the world to him. And he as nothing felt unworthy of a world of fishcakes, trying to exist for a nothing like him.
Naruto blinks at his brooding Sasuke. He had thought the boy was over the meaning of names. And Naruto laughs at the now glaring Sasuke, and tells him that long ago, a little Sasuke told him that his last name was Uchiha and that it means fan.
Sasuke raises an eyebrow, clearly not getting the point of Naruto's speech. Naruto leans in closer and tells Sasuke that his name was Uzumaki and that it means whirlpool.
And Sasuke still doesn't get the point of what Naruto is trying to say. Only, he is starting to feel slightly more inferior because Naruto's surname sounds more powerful than his. Naruto shakes his head, amused. He then takes Sasuke's hand and places it above his heart.
And tells Sasuke that a fan had the power to create wind. A whirlpool consisted of wind and Naruto was a whirlpool when Sasuke was a fan. Sasuke created the wind that Naruto was.
And as long as Sasuke kept being so, Naruto would be a fishcake for the both of them, covering the lack of meaning Sasuke's name held.
Sasuke's eyes drift back to the ring in his hand, but Naruto lifts Sasuke's chin and their eyes lock again. Naruto tells him that he wasn't excepting an eternity from Sasuke, the ring was just something to remember Naruto by, and maybe keep others away from his fan. He shouldn't think too much into it.
But Sasuke doesn't hear him anymore because Sasuke isn't thinking as he slips the ring around his finger.
An eternity with a fishcake. He could live with that.
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Does it even make sense, I wonder. I just felt like writing something extremely sweet. :D