the unplanned plan // sasunaru

chapter 8

Sasuke stared up at the ceiling of his hotel room, pondering how Naruto would be today. He had heard of what Kakashi had said to him, and silently cursed him, though regretting it after. He knew Kakashi hadn't meant anything by it, but it didn't stop it from being really insensitive. The raven sighed and sat up, feet lowering to the floor. He stood up and headed to the bathroom, washing himself quickly and slipping his clothes on, before broodingly opening his hotel window and jumping down. He didn't want to run into Sakura at the moment. He decided to take a walk through the village, knowing that Hashiro had banned them from staying in the hospital's waiting room. Sighing again he looked around at the various objects, having found himself in a market. The ravens eyes widened and he stopped suddenly as his eyes caught sight of interlocked necklaces in a stand. He appraoched and took hold of them, examining them closely. One of them was a beautifully designed red fox, and the other was a dark obsidian raven, with a single visible red eye. His eyes snapped up to meet a curious gaze of the shopkeeper.

"These two," He whispered. "How much."

The shopkeeper, a nice looking old man contemplated the price, but before he could utter a word a young man - probably his son - spoke up. "Its for Uzumaki-san right?"

Sasuke's eyebrows shot up at this, but he nodded anyways.

"No charge then, he is someone important to all of us here, we heard he was injured."

Sasuke's gaze flickered to his father for confirmation and the shopkeeper nodded quickly, having always thought highly of Naruto.

Sasuke let himself smile lightly as he bowed in thanks to both of them before turning and heading for the hospital.

The raven's smile stayed in place for his trip to the hospital, intertwined necklaces tucked safely in his left breast pocket. As he landed on the third floor though, - having jumped through the window - his smile disapeared.

A loud scream resounded through the hallway, a scream that belonged to Naruto. In a second Sasuke was in front of the door, pushing it open and rushing in.

Naruto screamed once more as noises assaulted him from all directions, soothing voices turning into some thing else, morphing into a haunting, dangerous voice that he knew all too well, with a cutting edge, full of promised pain.

"Naruto."

Suddenly, all noise stopped, and Naruto felt that he could breath again, he stopped screaming, stopped thrashing, slowly calming down. Footfals were heard coming closer and he tensed again, not knowing who it was. 'But. That voice. There was no way to mistake it, there was no-one else it could belong to.'

"Sasuke?"

"Hn dobe, it's me."

Naruto knew he shouldn't have, but he couldn't hold back at the moment. He would allow himself his moment of weakness. He lunged at Sasuke - or at least where he thought he was - and gripped his shirt tightly in his fist, head tilting back to look up in the direction of his face, small rivers slowly descending down his cheeks.

"Don't leave me teme, please, i can't be in a room with people i don't know, i can't cope, please."

Sasuke was surprised, to say the least, but he understood. With his sight gone, there was no way he could defend himself, having someone trusted there with him could grant him a certain amount of comfort and protection, considering what happened. The raven's hands clenched at the thought of what happened to his dobe. He knew Naruto was strong. The request did not make him by any means weak.

With a gentle voice he answered, placing his hands over the blonde's clenched ones. "Don't worry dobe, i'm not leaving."

Naruto nodded and his fists unclenched, though one hand staying curled around the back of the raven's shirt while he placed the other on his lap.