Love In The Blood Prison | Sasunaru/Narusasu

A Promise Unkept

I'm able to discover that the Satori cannot read the minds of individuals, but, instead, he can read their fears, allowing me to fight Satori evenly in Sage Mode. 

I, while trying to keep an eye on Sasuke, endeavor to finish the battle by forming a large Rasengan with two shadow clones. However, before I could attack Satori with it, I get impaled with Ryūzetsu unfortunately in the way. 

I, while attempting to keep Sasuke who noticed the impaling from coming closer, am able to wake Mui up and immediately use my shadow clones to pinion Satori's wings, pushing Satori back and therefore allowing Mui to weaken it.

I use this time to carefully free myself and Ryūzetsu and defeat Satori by detonating a Wind Release: Rasenshuriken, which fortunately returns Satori back to normal. 

"Naruto!" Sasuke runs over and frantically examines my wound. "Are you okay? Why isn't the wound healing? Naruto, why did you―" 

I cut Sasuke off by hugging him, sucking in a shaky breath. "I'm glad you're alright, Sasuke. I don't know what I would've done if I had lost you in this too." 

"You didn't answer my question, Dobe," Sasuke mutters, hugging me back. 

"I don't know why I'm not healing, Sasuke." I hold him closer, savoring his presence in my mind in case I die from this wound. I want to take this memory with me, knowing Sasuke is alive and unscathed. 

"If only someone was here to heal you." Sasuke buries his face into the crook of my neck, equally trying to savor this moment in case I die in the end. 

"Me too..." 

If only I'd left the village to find him sooner, then maybe, all of this currently, wouldn't have happened. I could've found a way to free him from prison, brought him home with Itachi, and secured him in my arms ― if he had let me ― to assure him I'll never let him feel pain again.

That I'll always be by his side. 

But the world is funny in these kinds of circumstances. Causing us pain to feel love, then mercilessly causing us pain again to eventually feel at ease in the end. 

Yet, in this case, Sasuke might have to bear the pain alone if I die. 

I don't want to die. I want to be with Sasuke until the end of my life until we're old and wrinkly, but I can't. It's just not possible. 

"Sasuke... I―" A sharp sound, followed by groaning, interrupts me and I leisurely lift my head to see where the noise came from.

My eyes widen. Muku killed both his father and himself and, with a soft smile on his face, apologizes to Ryūzetsu for not keeping his promise. He wasn't able to return no matter what happened. 

In this saddening moment, I can tell what he's thinking; Mentally, he is consumed with rage because of what his father did to him years ago, but emotionally, in the depths of his broken heart, he wants Ryūzetsu to know his thoughts before dying with his father. 

I didn't have the heart to stop him from dying. He knows he wants to die to feel free of that pain. It haunted him for years and years inside of that box. I know how it feels to be mocked by pain in a dark place where nothing feels real and nothing feels contenting. 

If I stopped him, I would have ripped him from his true desire to be dead. 

Not everyone is meant to be saved. But I'm happy he can be in a better place with no rage engulfing his mind. To be stuck with grief and sorrow after that time, I'm glad I hadn't chosen his path too. Falling into despair and rage after what's inside of me. 

I don't hate my father as much as he does. I hate what he has done to me and how he disappeared from my life.

"Naruto!" Sasuke points behind me and I turn my head. 

The prisoners are attempting to escape. I try to run after them but, instead, collapse to the ground. 

"Naruto!" Sasuke looks up at the prisoner, down at me, up at them, before kneeling next to me to try and stop the bleeding with his hands. "Don't die on me, Dobe. I spent too many years waiting for a chance to be with you like this. Please. Don't do this. I'm not ready to see you die."

"Sasuke..." I can feel my heart rate slowing down and my breathing growing denser. 

"Naruto―" 

 In the farther distance, I can hear the prisoners being stopped by familiar voices. My friends. They have come to help me. They didn't abandon me. 

 Ah... they are amazing in their own way. It's a shame I won't be able to live long to thank them for coming here.

After capturing all the prisoners, Sakura runs over to us to try and heal me, despite seeing my life slip away under her.

"Naruto!" She cries out, tears falling from her cheeks. 

"Dobe, don't die!" Sasuke also cries out. 

I reach up with a weak, trembling hand to wipe away his fallen tears and smile. "I'm glad... I'm glad I could've been with you one last time, Sasuke. Don't forget me." 

"Dobe―" 

My hand falls from his face as darkness surrounds my vision.

"Naruto!" 

My name was Sasuke's last words to me. 

***

 After thinking I've died, I open my eyes and I take in a gasp of air, abruptly sitting up. I feel a pair of arms encase me and lean into them for support, smiling wearily realizing who it is.

"I wasn't gone long, was I?" I ask.

"No, you idiot." He sobs, shaking his head.

I hug him back, trying to calm him down while reassuring him I'm alright now, until realization dawns on me. "Wait, how am I alive?" I look around, noticing someone is missing from the people surrounding me. "Where is Ryūzetsu?" 

Turns out, Ryūzetsu revived me by using her kekkei genkai without a second thought. But, in return for bringing me back from the dead, it cost her life.