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(last post for the night. see ya!)

Sasuke smiled slightly. 'I'm ready for that question...' "I had to get away from the memories...because it hurt..." Sasuke paused, thinking his words through before starting again. "It was hard...I was mad- no...jealous that you chased after Sakura when she treated you so badly... but...it was unhealthy, the way our rivalry was going...the way I was starting to...notice you. It scared me...I didn't want to believe it, I had to set my sights on killing my brother and reviving the clan. The pressure of the Uchiha name... and the emotions I always kept locked away......I was...scared. And I ranaway like a little child." Sasuke moved away from Naruto, not daring to look at the blonde as he slid under hi covers on the bed and curled up. 'He's disgusted with me...guys aren't supposed to like other guys...' Sasuke bleakly noticed that the cat was gone.

Sasuke skooted away from the blonde, now flush against the wall. "...I didn't want to tell you......I enjoyed and suffered the time I had..." '...with you.' he finished the sentence in his head. 'How can he stand to be near me?' "Why are you still here? Why aren't you angry? Shouting? Why..." Sasuke spoke what he was wondering for quite awhile. 'Why was he always there? I never minded but...why was he always there?' Sasuke curled into a tighter ball as he heard chocked sobs from Naruto. His chest throbbed in pain at the muffled sounds.

Sasuke loosened slightly from his ball. He glanced over his shoulder to see Naruto crying while speaking to him. "Yeah...I remember......" Sasuke laughed lightly. "Ever heard of lieing Dobe?" he joked at the 'I always thought you hated me' comment. "......Naruto..I'm sorry." Sasuke's head drooped as he looked at his knees. 'I'm sorry for running away, for putting you threw trying to bring me back...and for telling you the truth. I've probably ruined our friendship...' he thought to himself. Sasuke felt a warm, salty tear run down his cheek. He caught it with his finger and looked at it in suprise before chuckling at it. "I guess I'm the weak one now...crying over spilt milk..." he mumbled.

Sasuke stiffened at the contact, but soon his muscules relaxed. "You're a weirdo..." Sasuke smiled faintly before unsure hands wrapped around Naruto's waist. Feeling more confident Sasuke buried his face into Naruto's hair. '...smells like Sunflowers...' he thought.

Sasuke smiled gently at the slumbering blonde. "Night..." he whispered before hesitantly brushing his lips across Naruto's. He laid down with Naruto still nuzzled into his chest. He pulled the covers over the both of them, closing his eyes as he listened to the rythmic breathing of his blonde.

"You know, it's not nice to stare." Sasuke said to the now awake-blonde. He lazily opened one eye to look at the blonde boy in his arms. Sasuke chuckled lightly at Naruto.

Kabuto glanced at Haku once more and decided that he was definitely male, however effeminite. "Hey," he said softly, still eating his strawberries. He seemed absentminded as though he was thinking. Though he wasn't, he was just getting tired, and he had a headache, and that giggling.. He couldn't stand it. He closed his eyes and rubbed his temples gently, trying to rid himself of the, as Shikamaru would say, troublesome headache.

Gaara, on the other hand, had just woken up. However, he was on the floor of his plain bedroom. He had already found his clothes, just went back to sleep. He made his way now to the bathroom to put on eyeliner and fix his likely-to-be-muffled hair.

Once he had completed that mini-mission, he was griping to himself quietly but audibly about the lack of makeup in this house. In any case, he found his way to the livingroom and kitchen area, looking around. Looked like there were sound ninja here. He hadn't seen any sand ninja, but he knew Kankuro was here- he could sense him.