Naruto You

The last consciousness stopped at the moment when he touched Naruto.

It was already afternoon when Sasuke woke up again, the south-facing casements creaked with the summer breeze, but otherwise there was no sound in the wooden house, Sasuke realized where he was after a short period of distraction .

He sat up abruptly, but Kyuubi had long since disappeared from the wooden house, the transparent lid of the sarcophagus had been opened, and Naruto was still lying quietly in the sarcophagus, motionless.

Sasuke came to the sarcophagus and lay down on the edge of the sarcophagus to look at Naruto. Naruto's chest in the sarcophagus rose and fell slightly, and his nose fluttered slightly breathing.

Finally, I see you alive again.

The mood is chaotic and I don't know the severity.

Sasuke rested his head on the edge of the coffin, closed his eyes and laughed silently, clasped the edge of the coffin tightly with both hands, and carefully sorted out his mess after a long time, stretched out his body tensely, and touched the edge of the coffin. Naruto.

Pushing you into the deep red with my own hands, I really thought that I had no chance to recover, so I lived in real darkness for a long time.

Sasuke picked up Naruto, carried him away from the sarcophagus, and left the wooden house step by step.

The summer afternoon sun outside the house was scorching, and the moment the bright sunlight fell on Naruto's face, Naruto, who had been sleeping peacefully, suddenly made a sound, turned his head and buried his face in Sasuke's arms, and his warm breath passed through The thin clothes scratched Sasuke's skin lightly.

Sasuke watched Naruto's instinctive movements in his sleep, felt the warm commotion on his skin, and his subtle senses were infinitely magnified. He was stunned, but his stiff and tense body relaxed little by little. He lowered his head and The tip of his nose touched Naruto's blond hair on the side of his forehead and rubbed lightly.

Looking up, the summer light is as blue as washing.

You're still alive, Naruto.

Sasuke took Naruto back to Konoha, and although he didn't see anything unusual, Naruto fell asleep all the time.

Tsunade carefully checked Naruto's situation, and finally concluded that Naruto consumed too much chakra during the sudden fusion of split souls, so he fell into a coma, and he would wake up naturally after a few days of rest. come over.

The revived Naruto was carefully taken care of by everyone. Although it was just a general lethargy, Sakura still insisted on letting Naruto be admitted to Konoha Hospital.

Needless to say, because of Naruto Uzumaki, Konoha Hospital attracted a lot of people, but in order to let Naruto get a good rest, everyone was very quiet and careful when visiting. For Sasuke who has been standing silently by the bed, There is nothing to say.

The news of Naruto's resurrection spread quickly in the five major countries. People from all over the world came to visit Naruto one after another. Gaara hurried over the next day Naruto returned to Konoha.

He stayed in Naruto's ward for a long time, looking at the appearance of Naruto's young man, the time went back to each other's past when they were fifteen or sixteen years old. He opened his eyes in the loneliness and saw Naruto standing in front of everyone. At that time, he realized for the first time that he might not just have a simple friendship with the boy who pulled him out of the darkness.

I can't express the feeling of cherishing, cherishing enough to give everything for him, and cherishing enough to be just a friend who doesn't see each other quietly - then I watched Naruto fall into the vortex created by another "friend". Died at the hands of Naruto in the chaos, and when he opened his eyes again, he only had time to see the man's desolation and madness alone...

Gaara turned his head to look at Sasuke who was standing on the head of the bed with an expressionless face. During the time when he was resurrected from the ice, he really had a long-lost bloodthirsty killing intent for Sasuke Uchiha, that kind of hatred There are too many unreasonable complexities in it, and there is no simple word of forgiveness in any case.

Sasuke frowned slightly as his eyes met, "Naruto is going to rest, you can go."

Sasuke opened his mouth and chased people away.

Gaara didn't mind either, she lowered her head and continued to look at Naruto, "What identity do you use to say this? Are you sure who Naruto wants to see more when he opens his eyes?"

"What do you mean?"

Sasuke's hoarse voice concealed his panic with anger, but it sounded like a natural question.

Gaara smiled, thinking about Sasuke's ignorance of cherishing all the time, thinking about Naruto's pursuit and expectation that he never gave up, and seeing Naruto's return to his youthful appearance, a kind of sore pain suddenly surged come up—

So before he had time to think about it, he lowered his head and kissed Naruto's slightly parted lips in his sleep.

Rare provocation.

A force pulled him away from the hospital bed and pressed him against the wall, Sasuke stared at him with bloodshot eyes, "You!"

Gaara was also stunned for a moment, surprised by his behavior, when a voice suddenly came from outside the door interrupted the frozen atmosphere between the two, "Master Kazekage, Fifth Hokage welcomes you."

Gaara came back to his senses, remembering that he was eager to see Naruto before he had time to meet Hokage-sama, as Kazekage, this behavior was indeed inappropriate, so he pushed Sasuke away, and the words he said were, "I know Naruto better than you, Why do you expect Naruto to accept you without any hesitation?"

"I--"

"Actually, you are not worthy of Naruto, because you still don't understand what Naruto wants, and you will not be what he expects to see now."

Gaara left the ward after saying that.

Sasuke stared at the direction where Gaara left, and after a long time, he slowly squatted down, looked at Naruto in his sleep, stroked his slightly parted lips with his fingertips, and spoke softly in a whirl of thought...

"But I don't want to let go..."

With a hoarse voice, he insisted on not wanting to retreat, but in fact, apart from the expressionless silence, he was at a loss at all...

He was looking forward to Naruto waking up, and was afraid that he would open his eyes. There was no room for explanation for his obsession in the past, and his persistent reluctance to let go seemed like cheating...

Just because of the desire to be together.

Naruto opened his eyes on the afternoon of the third day after returning to Konoha. At that time, Sasuke was lowering his head and wiping Naruto's lips with a gauze soaked in clear water, when he suddenly met those blue eyes.

"Naruto?"

Sasuke was taken aback, and before he realized what he had done, he clasped Naruto's arms firmly.

Naruto, who had been sleeping for too long, couldn't stand the too dazzling bright light for a while, he turned his head to avoid the bright light, tried to raise his hand to cover his eyes but his arm was held back, "Let go, bastard..."

He muttered a little unwillingly, his body that had not moved for a long time struggled limply, Sasuke watched Naruto's twisting and slowly reacted, he let go of his hand in a hurry, Ren Naruto raised his arm and rubbed his eyes , after getting used to the bright light, he sat up and looked around, his expression was a bit innocent so he didn't understand.

The azure blue eyes finally landed on Sasuke after looking around, and the expression of not knowing why slowly turned into a strange tangled one.

"Naruto, I—"

Sasuke opened his mouth, wanting to pull Naruto over, but Naruto pushed his outstretched hand away, "Don't touch me!"

As he spoke, he moved back into the bed, the entanglement on his face turned into a kind of defense while he was at a loss, but after seeing Sasuke's bewildered expression, he suddenly turned his head and scratched his hair vigorously, "That... ...I don't know you, you get out."

"Naruto--"

Sasuke was stunned by Naruto's words, and when he wanted to say something more, Naruto suddenly pulled up the quilt to cover his head, and a muffled voice came out from under the quilt, "I told you to go out..."

That kind of tone carried some pleas and was like a child's self-willedness. Sasuke realized that something was wrong with Naruto and was repelled by Naruto, so he went to the Hokage Tower to find Tsunade.

Tsunade who came in a hurry separated all the people who heard the news outside Naruto's ward, pulled out Naruto who was hiding under the quilt to check and question, opened the door after a long time, and gave the answer, "Because Naruto The two halves of the soul have been separated for too long, and the half of the soul that has been in the Lingshi has been separated from the body of the trace, so there is a problem with the fusion of the soul. His current sanity is mainly based on the spiritual consciousness of the half of the trace in the coffin. Master, I am a child, my memory is completely chaotic, and I don’t know anyone..."

"But he seems to trust me a lot—I think he will be affected by the chaotic memory, and he will choose to accept a person...or not accept it based on his feelings." Tsunade said and looked at Sasuke, "How long will this situation last? It's not clear, you can go in and see him, but don't provoke him."

Sasuke frowned fiercely because of Tsunade's words, and then silently followed a group of fellow contemporaries into Naruto's ward.

Sure enough, apart from him Sasuke Uchiha, Naruto did not reject anyone else.

Sasuke stood aside and looked at Naruto's familiar smiling face, clenched his fists and tried hard to suppress the urge to monopolize, suppressing a kind of expressionless indifference...

It turns out that the pain is seared into the bone marrow, and your rejection is like an instinct, an undisguised accusation.

My name is Uzumaki Naruto?

Yes, you are Naruto.

what's your name then

Haruno Sakura, you like to call me Sakura.

Oh, you're Sakura... what about you?

Nara Shikamaru, just call me Shikamaru.

……

Naruto asked those people's names one by one, and the familiar smile that had been grinning suddenly stopped when he saw Gaara.

He looked at Gaara, the expression on his face became a little cautious, "You...what's your name?"

he asked, moving a little closer to Gaara's side.

"Gara." Gaara replied softly, with a silent pampering in her shallow smile.

"I love Luo?"

Naruto slowly repeated his name, raised his finger and pointed to Gaara's heart, then leaned his head and put his ear on it, as if to confirm something, and then backed away after hearing the heartbeat, looking up at Gaara , open your mouth——

"Here, have you been injured?"

Heart constriction.

At that time, Sasuke saw Naruto carefully looking at Gaara's expression, and believed in karma for the first time.

A few steps away and out of reach.

Sasuke looked at the tenderness and lost and found treasure in Gaara's eyes, and clearly understood that it was not a simple friendship.

He felt flustered, like a carefully guarded treasure being coveted by someone but he couldn't find a way to bring the treasure into his own territory-if you don't remember that you liked me, would you choose him because of subconscious guilt?

The people in the room also fell silent because of Naruto's doubts. The past hurts a lot, and I don't know how to tell the person concerned.

Sasuke couldn't help but want to approach Naruto in a panic, he pushed away the person in front of him and took a step forward.

"Hey, Naruto..."

He yelled softly in a hoarse voice, staring straight at Naruto's side face expecting him to turn his head to meet his own eyes, but Naruto just looked at Gaara carefully, waiting for Gaara to give him Answering the doubts, I didn't hear Sasuke's soft murmur, there was no response, and the room was quiet.

"Had."

In the silence, Gaara opened his mouth, but passed away the blood in his memory. He looked at Naruto, his light green eyes were filled with warmth, "But now everything is fine, we are all fine, what was it before? The appearance is over, and in the future we..."

"Naruto……"

Sasuke stared at Naruto, and spoke again, the hoarse voice was a slight breath of air, which was easily overwhelmed by Naruto's questioning voice——

"What about us in the future?"

Naruto still looked at Gaara carefully, and asked seriously.

Gaara didn't answer, he looked at Naruto for a while and was silent for a while, then turned his head to see Sasuke approaching, smiled lightly, as if he had made some kind of decision suddenly, "We still have a lot of time in the future."

As he spoke, he separated Sasuke from reaching out to grab Naruto's hand, and Naruto then paid attention to Sasuke who was close to him.

He raised his head, his blue eyes finally looked at Sasuke, the careful and serious concern in his eyes turned into an entanglement of defense and unknown reasons, he leaned back subconsciously, and got close to Gaara's side.

Gaara looked down at Naruto's uneasiness, put his hand on Naruto's shoulder to reassure him, then raised his head to look directly at Sasuke, "Naruto, this is Sasuke Uchiha."

"Sasuke Uchiha……"

Naruto looked at Sasuke, and gently repeated the name he heard.

That strange tone made Sasuke hurt. He looked at Naruto next to Gaara and looked at himself with defensive eyes. His chest seemed to be pressed by something and he couldn't breathe. He wanted to speak to Naruto. What, faced Naruto's defense but didn't know how to speak, "Naruto, I..."

He opened his mouth and then fell silent. From saving Naruto to now, he has been afraid of being rejected because of the heavy hurt in the past, so the feeling of loss and recovery in his heart has always been like pain, complicated and entangled together. true salvation.

Couldn't find a way to get close, so the urgent mood was expressionless and at a loss.

"Who are you?" Naruto asked, the existence of Sasuke seemed to make him puzzled, he seemed to vaguely feel that Sasuke was different from the others present.

"He was your former...companion." Gaara answered Naruto's puzzlement.

"Companion?" Naruto looked up at Gaara and turned back to Sasuke, "But..."

Naruto didn't seem to believe this answer, but after looking into Sasuke's eyes, he didn't say anything negative after all. The simplicity of the boy was mixed with some tangled complexity...

Naruto looked at Sasuke, then turned his head to look at Gaara, deliberately avoiding Sasuke who was not clever.

Sasuke became anxious because of Naruto's obvious repulsion. Gaara's hand was still pressed on Naruto's shoulder, and the anger of the territory being violated gradually became uncontrollable. Sasuke stretched out his hand to pull Naruto, but I Gaara separated again——

Sasuke raised his eyes and looked at Gaara, his indifferent face suddenly turned fierce, and he punched out before everyone could react.

Gaara narrowly dodges, and sees the angry Sasuke approaching, and is about to fight back, but Naruto on the side suddenly protects him.

"What are you doing bastard!"

Naruto stopped Gaara with one hand and clenched his fist in front of his chest, staring at the approaching Sasuke, with obvious defense and hostility in his eyes.

Seeing Naruto blocking him, Sasuke hurriedly avoided, brushed Naruto's face with his fierce fist and slammed it on the bed. Sasuke stopped and looked down at his hands, and then slowly turned his head around. The ferocious anger on his face became overwhelmed after meeting Naruto's defensive eyes. He seemed to realize what he had done, and raised his hand to touch the slight scratch on Naruto's face, but he was disturbed. Naruto pushed away——

"Do not touch me!"

He looked at Sasuke with a frown, his hedgehog-like unapproachable appearance abruptly set Sasuke aside.

"Naruto……"

The hoarse voice is inaudible, and there are too many emotions in the black hole-like eyes, but they are all silent when they reach their lips—Uchiha Sasuke has always been used to protecting himself in an indestructible armor and being alone, but he doesn't know how to put himself The softest part is revealed begging for forgiveness.

Standing there staring straight at Naruto with a stiff body and maintaining the posture of being pushed away, all the complicated and intense emotions were squeezed into the light trembling of fingertips under Naruto's defense, without a sound.

Naruto still frowned and looked at Sasuke defensively, his azure blue eyes looked at those black pupils, and then when Sasuke was obviously at a loss, he subconsciously retracted the sharp spikes of defense, and there were many thorns on his childish face. There was some inexplicable irritability, as if hesitating between responding to Sasuke or not.

For a while, everyone in the room was silent.

Uchiha Sasuke once pushed Uzumaki Naruto into eternal doom, and Uchiha Sasuke was also mad and helpless for a long time after that-should he be forgiven if he can return to the original after breaking the glass?Crime and injury, repentance and redemption, should he be forgiven in the end?No one can give a simple and clear answer...

Everyone kept the answer in silence, waiting for Naruto's reaction in silence, as if resigned to fate and watched indifferently.

Naruto suddenly fell on his back on the bed with a thud, pulled the quilt over his head, and a muffled voice came from under the quilt, "I...I don't want to see you now...you, you all go out Bar."

Having said that, Naruto's hand is still holding the hem of Gaara's clothes. It is not difficult to see from the contradictory attitude that he just doesn't want to see Uchiha Sasuke, but for some reason, he seems to be scruples about Sasuke So I tried to make my obvious rejection less hurtful in a very unwise way.

Sasuke didn't make a sound, he watched Naruto's way of escaping rejection, watching his hand holding Gaara's clothes, a faint tyrannical impulse flowed through his blood like a habit - but he just tensed his muscles and stiffened Standing where he is now, he just wants to stand closer to Uzumaki Naruto and confirm his lost and recovered again and again.

Just reluctant to leave.

In the end, Tsunade broke the stalemate. She stepped forward and walked behind Sasuke, patted Sasuke on the shoulder, her tone was gentle but could not be refused, "Come with me, I have something to tell you."

Seeing that Sasuke was still standing there without moving, Tsunade sighed slightly, and added, "About Naruto."

Naruto, who was covered under the quilt, probably heard this sentence, and couldn't help moving, as if he was curious about the topic about himself, but because of Sasuke's relationship, he continued to pretend to be an ostrich and hide under the quilt capriciously.

Sasuke looked at Naruto who was avoiding him like this, and finally turned around and walked outside the house after a long time, faintly desolate and lonely and silent.

Leaning against the wall of the hospital corridor, listening to the hustle and bustle of the ward not far away after he left, Sasuke lowered his eyes slightly, clenched his fists, and said in a dry and hoarse voice, "What's the matter? "

"If Naruto kept excluding you like this, what would you do?"

Tsunade leaned on the window frame opposite the aisle and looked at Sasuke, straight to the point, "No one knows whether his memory will return to the past...or how he will face you after returning to the past..."

After those things, the relationship between Sasuke and Naruto was not a secret in Konoha, and everyone's attitude changed from rejection before Naruto's death to slowly accepting it with guilt and regret.

For Tsunade, although it is a pity about the inheritance of blood, she is more concerned about whether the two children can live happily in the future-but what she is worried about now is that if Naruto is no longer in the future. Accepting Sasuke, what irreversible things will the paranoid Uchiha do...

"If he just forgot about you, started another relationship, and started a life that wasn't centered around you—what would you do?"

Some things may seem unreasonable to say, but they have to be explained clearly, and in the end, Tsunade is still partial to Naruto, so he knows that Uchiha Sasuke has been paranoid for a long time and refuses to let go. When in love, ask for such a difficult answer, "Can you just look at him like this?"

Hearing these words, Sasuke had no obvious emotion on his indifferent face, "Is this what you want to say..."

"This is very important."

"Then..." Sasuke raised his head as he spoke, staring directly at Tsunade with dark eyes, "I can't do it."

A bloody paranoia could almost be heard in the four words, Tsunade frowned fiercely, and was about to speak but was interrupted by Sasuke——

"Actually, you don't need to worry about anything..."

The summer breeze is blowing from the window, with warmth in the humidity, Sasuke's hoarse voice seems to be sighing softly, but the indifferent and flat tone unexpectedly has an indescribable gentleness and softness, which is unnatural and moving, "I still What can I do with him..."

This is the answer I can give you.

Tsunade suddenly fell silent. Originally, he wanted to let Sasuke put Naruto at ease, and wanted an answer to ensure Naruto's safety and well-being. However, so many arguments he had thought up could not be opened in Sasuke's sigh-like paranoia mouth.

What else can I do with him...

If Uchiha Sasuke still expresses his paranoia in the usual strong way, then Tsunade can't let it go anyway, but he just insists on his never letting go with an almost helpless tone.

Vulnerable and paranoid——

He himself knew that he couldn't find a reason to persist with confidence, but he was reluctant, no matter what.

Tsunade thought, maybe this kind of paranoia itself is the answer she wants.

That afternoon, people in Naruto's ward came and went, and Sasuke was leaning against the corridor of the hospital. Time flowed slowly and long between the noise of a group of people and the silence of one person.

Tsunade returned to the ward when the people in the ward were almost gone. After dismissing the remaining few people as a doctor, he told Naruto to take a good rest. After everyone left, the curious Naruto couldn't help asking Reminds me of the "thing about Naruto".

Tsunade looked at Naruto's childish facial features, thought of Sasuke who was standing in the aisle silently and refused to leave, and suddenly asked, "Naruto, what do you think... How about Uchiha Sasuke?"

The smile on Naruto's face slowly faded after hearing Sasuke's name.

"I don't know..." He frowned slightly, thought for a while, and gave a vague and general answer, "I think... probably he doesn't like him."

"Why? Now you are very strange to us, why don't you like him?"

Naruto froze for a moment, shaking his head.

It seems that I have never considered this issue before, because my intuition generally feels familiar and kind, so I immediately accepted those strange "old friends" who suddenly broke into my sight, except for Sasuke...

So what about Sasuke?

Naruto looked at Tsunade speechless, and for a moment couldn't figure out how he felt about "Sasuke Uchiha". When Sasuke was by his side, he would instinctively feel a shortness of breath. Heavy and depressed, so out of subconscious self-protection, he wanted to exclude Sasuke from his own world...

However, it doesn't seem right to say that he doesn't like it simply - he will feel at a loss when he sees the bewildered expression on Sasuke's face, and there is always a ridiculous illusion that the man with the indifferent expression will Turned into a crying and helpless child - he rejected seeing Sasuke Uchiha, but he also rejected seeing Sasuke Uchiha at a loss - the result of the entanglement was that he was irritable and just wanted to escape...

So, why...

Those complicated emotions are too messy for the current Naruto, he can't figure it out, but he can feel that Uchiha Sasuke is different from the other companions he saw.

"Gara said he was my...well, companion...but, is he really my companion?"

"Don't you think so?"

"I don't think he's friendly with everyone..."

Naruto said this with a very serious expression, as if the "unfriendly" wasn't his unilateral prejudice, but stemmed from certain facts he had witnessed...

Perhaps, the pain of being forced to stand on the opposite side of Sasuke was engraved into the bottom of my heart. Even if the memory is unclear, I still subconsciously remember the kind of hostility and mutual harm-it’s just that Naruto once carried the memory of growth and insisted on his own beliefs Never exclude Sasuke from his world...

Tsunade sighed softly, stretched out his hand and rubbed Naruto's hair, "...So, what about you? Isn't it friendly?"

Naruto shook his head, unable to answer.

"Do you think he's going to hurt you?"

"..."

"Will you keep rejecting him?"

"..."

"Or learn to accept him?"

"what should I do?"

Tsunade looked at Naruto's puzzled look and didn't rush for an answer. She thought for a while, then continued, "Don't ask me. It's up to you whether you accept him or not. I just hope that you can try Get to know him first...Because he was a special person to you in the past, and I hope you can find the answer yourself about where you want to put him in your heart in the future-you must know what others have given him. The answer does not represent the choice of 'Uzumaki Naruto'."

Naruto didn't really understand what Tsunade meant by "Uzumaki Naruto's choice", he just nodded with a vague understanding.

But nodding does not mean that Naruto can accept Uchiha Sasuke. In the next time of slowly recovering, he still rejects Sasuke, but only Sasuke.

He will find some clumsy reasons to try to make that rejection less obvious while rejecting Sasuke, but once Sasuke tries to get close to him, he will show discomfort due to a similar nervous emotion-such as palpitations, such as breathing Rush, or, uncontrollable emotional chaos out of control...

That first bout of emotional outbursts caught people off guard.

Because he was afraid that something might not be checked clearly, Naruto stayed in Konoha Hospital for more than half a month before he was allowed to leave the hospital.

During the half month in the hospital, after trying to get close to Naruto several times and causing Naruto's nervous palpitations, Sasuke seemed to have slowly accepted the fact that Naruto rejected him-but even if he understood that rejection, Sasuke But he was still unwilling to leave Naruto too far away.

Most of the time, he hides in the dark and watches Naruto who is forced to recuperate in the ward, tossing boredly, listening to his colleagues at the same time who visit the sick from time to time piece together the story to the curious Naruto bit by bit, but As if agreed, exclude the part about Uchiha Sasuke...

However, the story about Uzumaki Naruto, without the existence of Uchiha Sasuke, must be intermittent and scattered, like a broken chain that cannot find the cause and effect through it.

Sasuke was always conflicted when he listened to those scattered stories - he was afraid that Naruto would ask about the parts where something was obviously missing, and his memory was always inseparable from Naruto's frustration and pain again and again, even at the very beginning Sentimental innocence has also become a forbidden area of ​​memory due to the subsequent sudden change, and it cannot be mentioned-but a kind of restlessness makes Sasuke really want to grab Naruto's shoulders and clamor for those hidden parts, because those will be hidden. The memory of pain is the only fetter that Uchiha Sasuke can hold in his hands today.

I am in your memory, don't exclude me!

He shouted hysterically from the bottom of his heart, but still hid in the dark and remained silent, fearing that too violent actions would harm Naruto who was recovering, and kept warning himself that it would be good after a while... …

Those hints of "it will be fine in a while" become restless day by day-Naruto's closeness to Gaara is becoming more and more unbearable for Sasuke.

He knew that Naruto's closeness to Gaara was because of the guilt of killing Gaara in the depths of his memory, and he had understood it since Naruto asked Gaara's chest wound that afternoon.

He understands, and Gaara should also vaguely understand, but Naruto, who doesn't know it, turns that guilt into intimacy and love without isolation day by day.

Although Kazekage is busy with affairs, Gaara has only been away for a few days during the more than half a month Naruto was hospitalized.

He always spends time with Naruto in Naruto's ward, and the time they spend alone is always the most difficult for Sasuke. He doesn't know if Naruto, who is now blank, will like the kind of Gaara. It will change, but I know that Gaara's feelings for Naruto are never simple...

And he was isolated from Naruto's world, listening to another man's feelings for Naruto, watching the person he likes unknowingly getting close to others, he was forced to remain silent, he couldn't live peacefully...

"Hey, Gaara, you must be very powerful as Kazekage! After Grandma Tsunade lets me out of the hospital, teach me ninjutsu!"

Naruto, who regained his vitality day by day, listened to what his companions said, and gradually became interested in ninjutsu by nature. When Gaara went to the ward to accompany Naruto to pass the time, Naruto suddenly mentioned this .

"But Naruto, I'm Kazekage..." Gaara replied, her voice was a little helpless and pampered.

"What's wrong with Kazekage? Can't you teach me ninjutsu?"

"I can't stay in Konoha forever. When you recover from illness, I will almost return to Shayin Village."

After Gaara finished speaking, Naruto was slightly stunned, he didn't seem to have thought that Gaara would leave, he was silent for a while before confirming and repeated, "You said...you will leave here?"

"Well, I have my responsibility."

"But I won't see you..."

There was some subtle panic in the voice, Naruto was very uncomfortable with Gaara's departure, as if he was reluctant, but also as if he was afraid.

Looking at Naruto like this, Gaara's green eyes sparkled, "Or, you can come to Sand Hidden Village..."

When he said this invitation, Sasuke was standing by the side wall of the west-facing window of the ward, leaning his back against the wall and listening to the voices in the room, his undisguised breath suddenly became chaotic——now Naruto couldn't detect where he was, but it was impossible for another man across the wall not to know that he was outside the wall.

Sasuke clenched his hands hanging by his sides, and his undisguised breath scattered in restlessness, while the conversation in the room continued without being disturbed...

"It's not bad to leave Konoha for a while, live a good life with me..."

"where are you?"

"Yes, at my place."

Gaara's voice is gentle and clear, but it pierces Sasuke's restless nerves like a poisonous thorn. His invitation is like an unfair battle post for Sasuke today. When Sasuke is trying to regain the fetters of memory , but he wants to bring Naruto to the entrance of another world...

"restart."

"restart?"

restart……

The four words entangled Sasuke bit by bit. Outside the ward separated by a wall, Sasuke turned sideways with his back against the wall, and looked into the ward through the light curtain in front of the window——Naruto had his back to the window Looking up at Gaara standing by the bed, Gaara looked down at Naruto slightly, with a gentle smile on his face, waiting for Naruto's answer.

The three people inside and outside the window just fell into a brief silence.

The turbulent mixed emotions made Sasuke unable to bear the passive silence of being unable to do anything for a moment. He turned around hastily in the confusion and anxiety, leaving the answer that Naruto might say behind him. He didn't think about himself The reason for escaping, there is only one point in the chaotic thoughts that is very clear - so what if you hear the answer to start again?

Even if I'm sorry, but you want to leave, how can it be as you wish...

When Sakura came to visit in the afternoon, Gaara left Naruto's ward. At the end of the long corridor, he saw Uchiha Sasuke standing against the door. The wide sleeves of the white kimono were blown by the breeze passing through the corridor. The slightly long black hair was also a little messy. Sasuke, who had lowered his head slightly, raised his head after Gaara walked out of the ward, glanced in Gaara's direction, then turned and walked out of the hospital with a blank expression.

Uchiha Sasuke asked him to follow.

Gaara knew what he meant very well, he clenched his fist slightly, and followed closely.

Sasuke finally stopped in a dense forest outside Konoha Village. The afternoon sunlight could not see through the dense branches and leaves in summer, and the dark and unknown forest was humid and hot. He stood still in front of a tall tree and turned his back. Leaning against the blue-gray tree trunk, with his head slightly lowered, not much emotion can be seen on his indifferent face, "Don't take Naruto away."

Not an order, not a request, not a negotiation, the hoarse voice said such a request, with a directness that cannot be refuted in the stiffness.

Gaara didn't answer right away, he stood under the tree not far from Sasuke, looked at Sasuke silently, he didn't know what he was thinking, and after a long time, he spoke softly, and asked in a cold tone, "Why?"

"Because I won't let go."

"That's your business, I only care about Naruto's choice."

"Naruto's choice?" Sasuke's face suddenly flashed a sneer, "You think he will choose you?"

"Why not?"

"It's me he likes."

As Sasuke said, he raised his head, and stared straight at Gaara with his dark eyes. He was like a beast king trespassing on his territory, growling his ownership in a low voice, and wanted to use a strong attitude to expel the immigrants——

"It used to be."

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