When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? (SasuNaru/Naruto Fanfic)

I woke up this morning with the vivid memories of a dream that I had. I decided to replace myself and my boyfriend in my dream with Naruto and Sasuke, because, well, they're my favs.

I also did cry multiple times when I wrote this, so good luck...

Enjoy!

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Sasuke Uchiha tapped his clipboard with the sleek thin, black, biro pen while humming a song that he had heard on the radio during his drive to work that morning. Lifting the paper and folding it over, his eyebrow rose when he saw the details about his next patient.

Konoha General Hospital was ripe with screams and the scent of disinfectant. Sasuke loved the smell - it made him feel clean and as if all the different people who held different virus' and diseases didn't have an impact on him. This wasn't to say that he treated his patients differently, but there was always that underlying tension about catching something that he could not recover from.

He would deny it, and blame his family on the fact that he was a wealthy doctor, but he genuinely enjoyed taking care of people and physically making a difference in their lives. The weeps of joy when someone was cured or the small smile that he received in exchange for the patients' discharge paperwork, it truly made all the extra overtime shifts and headaches worth it.

He lowered his clipboard and saw as Sakura walked towards him with a smile in greeting. "Morning." She noted, "What ward are you in next?"

Sakura Haruno was one of Sasuke's best friends. They actually started getting close at around the time that they were sixteen, when she confessed to him. He wasn't surprised, and curtly rejected her, she finally sighed and said, 'Thank god, now I can get over you - wanna go get pizza?'

"Well," Sasuke didn't know why he looked at his clipboard again, he knew exactly where he was going, but something about the photo of the young man on the top left-hand side of the page made him sigh. "Palliative Care Ward."

The Palliative Care Ward was for patients with serious illnesses, which usually always included their life being limited. The focus of it was to provide relief from the symptoms, pain and stress of having - in the case of his next patient - Lymphoma, a brain tumour which developed into cancer. The patient would most likely die, but not before enjoying the last couple of days, or weeks, or months of their lives.

Sasuke's job was to administer the correct dosage of painkillers and ensure that the patient had a good quality of life, considering it may be coming to an end.

He wasn't shy to admit that he disliked the Palliative Care unit; doctors had to take a Hippocratic Oath which meant that he would try his best to save each and every patient that he was responsible for, and the Palliative Care unit usually meant that there was no saving them. But he would try damn hard to do his best for the patient.

Sakura grimaced, "Hate that ward." She said simply, "Can't do shit to save them." Sasuke nodded, agreeing completely to what she was saying, although he didn't agree with the language in public. "Well, Dr. Uchiha, off you go." She patted his shoulder and rushed off after seeing Ino motioning to her.

Grunting, Sasuke straightened his white doctors coat and started walking to the Palliative Care Ward. It was one of the furthest units in the whole hospital, this was because the families of the patient, including the patient themselves, deserved their privacy as they have their own rooms and would be staying there for a while. Also, not many people wanted to willingly go to the ward with the highest percentage of guaranteed deaths.