Solar Eclipse

Sasuke's POV

I was hurting so much on the outside I couldn't even move a bit, therefore I was up for a short period of time before falling into a slumber again. Although, there was a drastic and sudden change in my body, but in a good way.

My heart began to pound against my chest harder than before and that's when I began to wonder what the hell could've gone differently. My eyes opened slowly but widened to see who was beside me. Naruto...my one and only friend, the guy I desired to be my lover was alive, in front of me, and kissing me.

This was a sign of his love, and I didn't want it to go to waste since it was the real him. Keeping the long and sweet kiss going, I wrapped my right and only arm around Naruto's body, closing my eyes and letting all of the pain slowly ease away. My head hurt like hell, but the contact our lips were making was like, sending a signal up to my head and making me feel better.

After the lengthy and warm kiss, Naruto pulled me into another hug and a tight one too. "Sasuke!" He cried out my name, burying his face into my shoulder. "Why would you do such a thing to yourself?! Just look at you!"

"It's okay, Naruto...I wanted to do it." I told him honestly, looking into his sapphire blue eyes. "I'm so sorry...really I am..."

"Shh..." Naruto whispered to me, grabbing onto my hand and interlocking our fingers. "I want to tell you something very important...Sasuke. Remember how you would always ask why was I so obssessed with you, and I would say because I'm your friend?"

I nodded my head. "Yes, so what? You've said that many times before and I don't know what exactly that is suppose to mean."

"Well...I'm so obssessed with you now is because I find you more as a friend, my best friend, the one...I want to forever be with! It's hard to explain, sometimes I don't understand my own feelings. Just...when I see you take on stuff and get all messed up, it kinda...hurts. It hurts inside so much, I just can't leave it alone!" Naruto replied.

My eyes widened slightly, but a smile formed across my face. "What I have to say is much longer...so you better listen up." I said with a small chuckle before I began to speak again, "Naruto, I knew you were always alone, without parents or friends, someone to raise and guide you. The village shunned you because you were a Jinchurikki just like they did me, the lone Uchiha survivor. You intentionally did stupid things to get scolded and get people's attention. In the beginning, I found you as a good for nothing loser, a weakling enternally begging for attention. But...the more I watched you being idiotic and getting yelled at over and over, it started weighing on me. That's when I wondered if your weakness was rubbing off on me. Afterwards, every time I see you, I think about you more and more. We ended up on the same team, and I began to think of my family again. Completing missions with you and you rambling on about how you would become Hokage, both of us becoming stronger, and I wanted to battle with you someday because deep down inside I knew you were very strong. And I began to see a shadow of my own family in Team 7, it felt so good but at the same time it hurt. That's why every time I saw you suffering, I felt pain as well..." I stopped for a moment, looking over at the blond who was sobbing uncontrollably. "I'm not done, Naruto."

"G-go on!" Naruto begged, wiping his face with the sleeve of his jacket which was pretty stupid. Like I said I wasn't done, therefore it was expected that he would cry some more.

"When I understood your hurt, I finally saw you as a comrade. I always knew you were alone too, I felt better knowing there was someone out there like me. I was so happy I wanted to talk and be around you, but...I never could. Because...I was also jealous at you for being good at everything, you were my rival, you were my goal! I had nothing but I then built bonds. And then in our missions as Team 7, I kept chasing after you because I wanted to be as strong as you, cool like you too! It was the opposite, Naruto. You thought you were jealous of me because I was so cool, but in reality I was the one jealous and you were the coolest. You had a strength that I didn't have. You were always walking in front of me, just like Itachi did..." I confessed, a small smile forming across my face. "Basically in shorter terms, I really love you, you big dobe."