Honesty || SasuNaru

chapter seven

"You know, Naruto, as we were stating before, your eyes have lost their bright blue flair."

Naruto looked at Sasuke in question, his hand unconsciously raising to toutch under his left eye.

"I noticed when I came home, that your brightness and light had dimmed. It puzzled me, seeing you without that determination and happiness in your features."

Naruto opened his mouth to speak, taking a breath, only to be cut off- "It makes me sad in a way, knowing that who you once were, and the idiot who chased me down all thoes years is slowly fading..."

The blond snapped his mouth shut; a wide eyed look on his face. He didnt know what to say, and what he did know, he didnt know how to word.

"Sasuke.." he whispered, a crack in his voice.

"You've rubbed off on me" - The raven chuckled - "now it seems I've become the one with the loud mouth."

Both men sat together, unknowing what yo say or do.

Naruto, thinking of his life, Sasuke, doing the same.

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"Dad?" Boruto sat up, looking at the blonde haired man sleeping on his floor, occompinied by Sasuke, whom was sitting up with his eyes closed, sword holding his head up.

The young boy carefully got out of bed, his tan feet toutching his cold wooden floorboards as he trotted over to his father, Kneeling down to shake him awake.

"Dad?..Dad! What are you doing in my room?"

Tbe elder groaned and sat up straight, his back popping as he stretched, "Boruto..?" he questioned, slowly blining himself awake.

His eyes widened, "Boruto!" he screamed; pouncing on his son, laughing as they his the ground-

"You're awake!"

"Of course i'm awake, did you think I was dead? Why is uncle Sasuke here?"

Naruto stopped his giggle fest and looked over to his companion, standing up as he did so, causing his knees to pop.

"Sasuke! Wake up!" He called, shaking the man by his shoulder.

The raven slowly opened his right eye, sharingan activated, bloodlust present in his gaze.

"What do you want?" he hissed.

"Boruto's awake.." he hummed, still continuing to smile eveb after the obvious threat of waking the man up.

Sasuke stood up aswell, his knees and shoulders crackling as he shook off his sleeping state.

"Bourto.."

He looked at the young boy,

"We need to talk."

"..about what, Sensei.."

The room was tense, that is, until Naruto started to pout and slap the ravens shoulder,

"Sasuke! The boy just woke up! Give him a break, let him have some breakfast, he lost a lot of fluids with all that crying last night! He must be exausted!"

"I was crying..?"

Naruto walked up to his son.

"Yes, you were, under the rules of the hokage i order you to go drink some orange juice! Now!"

He pointed in the direction of the kitchen.

"Uh..yes sir??" the boy questioned, slowly stepping out of the room.

"What was that all about, Naruto."

He siged.

"We have to tell Hinata and Sakura first. If we don't he'll freak out even more, he ovbiously wont want to talk to us, and Sarada is in the Emergency room healing from her wound. He'll talk to one of them, and its better we tell them before he does."

His tone was flat. His head down and his fists clinched.

"Thats what i'm talking about."

"Huh?" the blonde looked back,

"You've become a darker version of yourself. You're forcing your happiness again, even though you have a family to come home to."

They both knew the underlying question, 'what happened to us, to you?'

But neither would ask, and neither would answer.