【Ming Zuo】Walking Alone in Darkness

Sasuke knew he was wrong.

Just by feeling the air, he knew that he had said something wrong.

Naruto's murderous aura is almost concrete...

Tsk... Isn't it just to give you back what you said in your previous life, the reaction is so big, what did I say in my previous life?

Sasuke thought a little bit unjustly.

Yes, I didn't say anything in my previous life, but the first time I opened the curse seal, I hammered the tailed Naruto to death, and the second time I simply died together, so that the two of them lost both arms.

...So Naruto, who is still holding back from beating him up now, is considered to have a good temper?

"Okay." It turned out that Sasuke broke the silence first, "Let's not talk about this, we have been together for too long before, you are more dependent on me or something... But the word 'like', you may still I don’t understand enough, this word is not…”

"Sasuke," Naruto interrupted him, "you always treat me like a child."

Sasuke was speechless for a moment.

Because...he is.Reborn with memories, the appearance is the same age, but the experience, vision, and ideas are all worlds apart.Indeed, he has always regarded Naruto as a child, and it is difficult for him to think at the same height as him.

Naruto was still staring at him, the two stood by the campfire and looked at each other, young men of similar height, with a glance of ten thousand years, past and present.

"I may be really not smart, and my mouth is still stupid, but I like you, I can tell the difference between Shikamaru and Choji or Uncle Shikaku and Aunt Yoshino." Naruto said.

Sasuke couldn't help being a little distracted, thinking that you are still stupid, and the whole ninja world is full of clumsy mouths.

Being stared at by such Naruto with such eyes, Sasuke realized that he still couldn't stand it.

"It's late, you go back." Sasuke stopped talking, "There is a town four or five miles away, you can..."

"I'm not leaving. We agreed to go back together."

"I didn't say I couldn't go back, but I said you go back first..."

Naruto is no longer a six-year-old child who will be abducted by the topic, and remains unmoved: "Sasuke, I like you, how about you?"

Sasuke was really overwhelmed, he really didn't expect the child he raised to be so difficult to deal with when he grew up, he took a step back in embarrassment, but Naruto grabbed his wrist again and pinched him tightly.

Naruto waited for him for a long time, probably about 2 minutes, but Sasuke turned his head sideways and didn't look at him, and didn't answer him.

"Oh, I see." Naruto said, "Sasuke doesn't like me, let me tell you."

do not like you.

Sasuke snorted inwardly.

how is this possible.

Already fell in love with it.

I fell in love with it even when I didn't even know what it was like.

But liking this kind of thing doesn't mean that if you really like someone, it will definitely have a good result.

There are too many things between them.

Moreover, even if he is unlucky for Uzumaki Naruto, the one who likes him is Uchiha.A family that is the craziest, most persistent, and most ruthless about "love".

It was true that Sasuke liked him, and it was true that he said he would kill him.He has the philosophy he insists on, and the path he wants to take, but there is a Uzumaki Naruto on this path, and he lay down in the middle of the path carelessly, saying that if you want to take this path, just step on me.

He had to step on it, but not only would this guy not wait to die, he would even fight back.

Hands are darker than his.

Sasuke felt a pain in his left arm for no reason, and subconsciously reached out to touch it, and then found that what he touched was exactly the place where the arm was broken in the previous life.

"Sasuke, what's wrong with you?" Naruto was startled when he saw Sasuke suddenly raised his hand to touch his left arm with a pale face.He suspected that there might be something wrong with Sasuke's left hand since he was a child. Sasuke's action frightened him a little. He couldn't bear the coldness he had just maintained for a while, and the color of his eyes faded a lot. He hurriedly held Sasuke's left hand, trying to give it to him. He rubbed and was afraid of hurting him.

"It's okay." Sasuke shook his head.

Finally, he gave up.

I gave up the path I wanted to go, and instead supported the idea of ​​the tail of the crane.

Because he believed in him, recognized him, and also because of his last sentence "the only one".

If you can't get the answer you want, forget it, it's okay to be his ghost friend all the time, he is fire, he is shadow, and he still protects the world.

Later, Naruto said that he was getting married.

okay.Sasuke thought, since he already gave up once, let's give up again.

Give up your position by his side.

In fact, from the age of 17 to 19, in the past two years, the two of them also got together less and separated more. Sasuke basically drifted outside to do tasks, and occasionally returned to the village and couldn't stay for a few days.

At the age of 19, the day after Naruto said that sentence to him, it was nothing more than seeing each other for a few months and not seeing each other for 13 years.

almost.

Every time Sasuke opened the letter paper with his mouth in his mouth and turned to the next page to see Naruto's ugly handwriting, he always thought this way.

He has long given up the slightest thought of getting what he wanted.

As a result, now, so long has passed in his memory and life, so long that he almost believed that he was just a friend to this crane tail, but he told himself that he liked it.

"It's liking if you want to marry someone, Naruto." Sasuke said.

"I just want to marry Sasuke." Naruto said, "Ah, although we are underage now."

"..." Sasuke didn't know what he was thinking when he said this: "That's not the point, we are all men, and only men and women can hold weddings in Konoha."

"Oh." Naruto also lowered his head and remembered, "It seems to be like this...then let's discuss it with Granny Tsunade. Hmm, or ask me if there are any same-sex marriages in Gaara Saren?"

Sasuke: "... Isn't your dream Hokage, are you going to betray the village in order to get married!?"

Naruto clapped his hands together: "You reminded me, I said, if the mother-in-law disagrees, she will not agree. When I am Hokage, I will just order one more."

Sasuke felt that he was really stupid, why not try to reason with him, who in the whole ninja world tried to reason with Uzumaki Naruto was not persuaded by him to cry and die.

"...I won't tell you this." Sasuke rubbed his forehead. "I just want to say, you don't like me, it's not... this kind of liking, it's just for friends..."

"No!" Naruto interrupted angrily, "Sasuke keeps saying that because you don't like me at all, right!"

"Of course not." Sasuke calmed down instead, and he was surprised to hear himself say it directly.

"I've always liked you, but you don't have the same feelings for me."

Naruto fell silent, but those eyes were burning with a strong fire, they were red, and the pupils were slightly erect, Sasuke felt palpitations when he saw it.

"No." Naruto said.

"you do not like me.

"The one you like is the one you've been looking at through me," I said.

"The one you said who can't tell the difference between friends and liking is also him, not me.

"I like Sasuke, the kind I like the most, especially, but Sasuke doesn't like me at all."

Naruto finished speaking quietly, ignoring Sasuke's instantly collapsed eyes, turned around and jumped up, and disappeared into the woods after a few ups and downs.

"Wait—Naruto!" Sasuke screamed, but before he could stop him, Naruto had disappeared.

He actually found out.

Sasuke collapsed in an instant.

He didn't expect that Naruto, the slowest Naruto, would see his eyes clearly. He actually found out that he was looking for the shadow of Naruto in him.

Then he told him that he wasn't him.

He liked Naruto for a long time, many years.

At the beginning, I hoped to get the same answer as myself, but then I gave up and wanted to be by his side all the time, and then I gave up even this, and only kept the most superficial contact.Even if other people don't know, he himself knows what kind of feelings he has for Naruto, even if he wants to avoid suspicion, he can't be so close to a married man.

After dying once, he found that he might have another chance to stand beside him.He already knew the ending, so this time he won't leave, he won't leave, and he can stay with him for a few more years, and when he gets married like in his previous life, he will leave again and do what he is used to, supporting in the dark village affairs.

I thought it was good at first, but the tail of the crane suddenly said that he liked him.

Not only like him, but... not him.

He... is not that Uzumaki Naruto.

Isn't it the person I've loved for half my life...?

Then what are you doing?

The emotions that had been suppressed for decades suddenly broke out completely, and Sasuke found that he couldn't bear it at all.

He finally couldn't hold it anymore.

Standing by the lonely bonfire, the young man tightly clutched the clothes on his chest. He was breathing heavily, but he didn't feel any oxygen entering his lungs.

So... At that time, was Naruto also in this pain?

To think of Naruto at this time, Sasuke couldn't help but laugh.

He really couldn't take it anymore.

The boy's thin body fell heavily by the campfire.

"—Sasuke!!"

When Zhishui saw it, he saw the child fell down in pain, he was completely frightened, and quickly jumped over to pick him up.Sasuke lost consciousness for a while, as if he couldn't get oxygen, his beautiful eyebrows were tightly frowned because of the pain, Shisui hurriedly patted a few acupuncture points on his chest so that he could breathe smoothly.Fortunately, Sasuke opened his eyes again soon.

Shisui breathed a sigh of relief, and called him softly: "Sasuke? Are you feeling better?"

"...Shisui?" Sasuke's eyes struggled to find the focus, and it took him a long time to forcefully call out to him.

"It's me." Seeing that he could still recognize someone, Shisui felt a little relieved, he didn't even dare to ask Sasuke what happened just now.

Sasuke reached out and grabbed the corner of his Hongyun black robe, and murmured: "Take me home.

"I want to... go home."

"Okay." Shishui felt a sharp pain in his heart, and hugged Sasuke into his arms.He felt that he was shivering a little. He didn't know if he was feeling cold. He unbuttoned the front of the robe and wrapped the young man inside. He let him lean into his arms like this, and quickly rushed towards Konoha with him in his arms.

As if feeling warm, Sasuke's body trembled less.Zhishui heard him call "brother" in a very low voice.

"I'll take you back to find Itachi, and I'll be home right away." Zhishui whispered in his ear.

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