DISCLAIMER- I do not own Naruto.

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A PROMISE

'A promise made is a promise kept and a heart broken.'

"Sakura fetch me another drink." Sasuke commands over his shoulder from window sill perch.

A cold beverage is cheerfully placed in his hand. Green eyes sparkle as blue one darken.

"She is not your slave." Naruto hisses. Grinding his teeth on each syllable.

Without a glance of acknowledgement he slowly sips his hand delivered beverage. "Hn" he breathes after taking his second and last sip. "No, Naruto that is your job she is my wife. An ends to a mean" He raises an eyebrow, "you do remember your promise." he places his still full glass on the sill to be warmed and soon unwanted.

Remember, how could he forget.

As the blood pooled in his mouth Naruto knew every breathe he pulled was a divine gift from a very gracious god. The once determine demon fox whose energy had once swirled and crashed like a tsunami, now barely rippled. Making something as trivial as standing, breathing and maintaining a heartbeat his own personal triathlon. His body collapses but before he can peacefully slip into the quiet sweet darkness, a hand grabs a fistful of hair and yanks up cruelly throwing Naruto into the world of consciousness and pain.

"Now, now Dobe we can't have you dying so soon. Don't tell me, that nine-tailed spirit crutch you always rely on has failed you already?"

Naruto had nothing left just words. "Please...come home." He didn't want to lower himself to begging but a promise was a promise he had exasperated all avenues this was his last hope. For Sakura.

"Please...come home."

"Why?"

Silence. Why because he was a member of the Leaf Village? No that was relinquished when he become a rogue. Because he is a friend? No that once precious bond has long been severed. Because of Sakura? "Sakura." he squeezes out.

"You truly are pathetic loser. All this grandeur about how you were going to drag me back unconscious and broken. " he releases the bloodstained tress letting Naruto fall to the ground in heap. Sasuke knelled down on the ground bringing his nose to the defeated ones ear and whispers. "Why?"

"Because she loves you." He chokes not sure if was from the pain seering throughout his body or the ache in his chest caused by a breaking heart. "Sakura loves you."

"Hn, who said I wanted her love in the first place, Naruto,"he says stressing and exaggerating the nouns proper and pro. "Her love was your heart's desire."

Naruto head turns his nose brushes against Sasuke's unmoved one. His blue eyes scream of a blazing hell, his body can only whimper for and his voice can only whisper to."Bastard."

"I may be a bastard but you are the fool begging me to come home." his canines flash like a predator, "beg me some more."

Naruto sternly presses his lips together with a glare then turns his head to face the clear blue endless sky. His eyes gradually lose their fire as the truth seeps into his heart. He can not win. He will not win. Sasuke stands up. Obsidian eye shadowed by fallen bangs briefly stare at his broken comrade before he turns to walk away. His stride is broken by a single hand desperately gripping on his ankle. He could've broken the grip with gentle lift of the heel. He could have crushed the troublesome hand like a piece of porcelain. He does neither.

"What do you want?" Naruto asks in a tone that would suggest he was the one walking away not the other other way around.

With a brief pause and a feline like grin, "Your pride."

So on that day, Naruto relinquished his pride for the one he loved and the one he wanted to save.

"Yes" he says blue eyes shifting towards the pink haired beauty. "I remember."

"Yes, what?"

"Yes sir." he walks over to the window and retrieves the unwanted glass dangling from the tips of Sasuke's tips.

"Good fox," he says letting the glass drop seconds before Naruto has it in his own grip.