Treasured Memories -A SasuNaru Love Story-

Chapter 8 : Staying Over

It was too blurry to make out any faces.

He tried very hard to but all he could make out was a silhouette of an extremely old man sitting next to the bed that he seemed to be laying down on. He could somehow tell it was a hospital bed.

The aged man seemed to be holding his hand, and suddenly, feelings of extreme happiness and contentment rushed over him as soon as he realized his hand was being held by that man.

The man moved a little closer to him, realizing that he was awake.

He could vaguely tell that the man was saying something.

It was too silent.

Right before he woke up, he felt a pure fulfilling sort of happiness.

The sort of happiness one feels, while leaving this world with complete satisfaction.

Naruto woke up and burst into tears. There were times he'd dreamt about their old age but this was the first time he'd dreamt about leaving this world while Sasuke was right next to him, holding his hand.

Even though he felt so happy to have taken his last breath next his beloved. It felt awful at the same time to know he'd left before him, leaving him behind all alone.

Sasuke...

For a long time, he couldn't stop crying.

And when he finally calmed down enough, he got ready and went down for breakfast.

His parents worriedly questioned him, asking him if he'd cried.

He admitted it honestly and just said it's because of the usual dream.

They didn't know what the dream was about but they both gave him warm hugs to try and comfort him.

After having breakfast and heading out, he noticed a familiar raven head poking out from behind the wall next to the gate.

He rushed over to the gate, swinging it open and throwing himself at the raven, hugging him tightly.

Sasuke didn't even have the time to process what had just happened, before he knew it he was already being hugged out of nowhere. That didn't stop him from hugging right back though.

"Sasuke.. I love you", he heard the blonde whimper out. Voice full of emotion that he couldn't completely recognize, but just one those emotions struck him hard, and he could immediately tell that it was sadness.

Sasuke hugged him back just as tightly, "I love you too, I love you so much, won't you look at me please?", he waited till the blonde loosened his grip before loosening his own grip on him.

Naruto reluctantly obeyed, slightly moving back to look at him.

Sasuke couldn't have looked more worried, "..What happened..?", he hesitantly voiced.

"..I cried because of a dream..", he replied honestly.

Sasuke let out a breath of relief, he'd been holding his breath without realizing it. Hugging him again, he voiced out gently, "was it a bad dream? Do you wanna talk about it?"