In Need of A Saviour

How could you not love someone who had been your salvation, your light at the darkest point of your life?

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"Naruto," Itachi started, staring at the side of his face. Naruto could feel his gaze boring on his face. "The moon is beautiful, isn't it?"

Itachi pursed his lips, a smile alight in his onyx eyes. He drew closer, their noses almost touching. "But why is it that I can't touch it?"

"Moon, I suppose, I always did want it. But perhaps I was too scared." Itachi closed his eyes with a small smile. "Say, Naruto, will the moon let me touch it with the hands that have sinned?"

Naruto looked down at Itachi's hands, reaching out to grasp them in his own hands, he answered. "The moon never cared."

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Or. Post 4GSW, Naruto dwells on his regrets and his broken heart for a certain Uchiha who died for his village.

(Went on reddit, got some ideas and now I'm stuck with it.)

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Cross posted on ao3 under the username: ThyNameIsAeschylus30