One more Last Chance | By : KuroKitsune Category: Naruto AU/AR > Yaoi - Male/Male Views: 1815 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0 |
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**N**
I woke to the sounds of crying. I opened my eyes to see Sasuke looking at the calendar. He looked miserable. My first thought was that he was regretting last night.
“Sasuke?”
He jumps and spins to face me. Tears rain down his cheeks, and his eyes are blurry.
“Naruto!” he cried, rushing to bury his face in my shoulder, crying all the harder. Now I’m confused.
“Shhhh. Tell me what’s wrong, kitten.” I sooth, petting his hair, my other hand rubbing circles on his back.
“My flight leaves today,” he said, his voice muffled slightly.
Now I understand. This is it the same thing I wanted to avoid when I left. He won’t want to go live the life he has. But I couldn’t hurt him anymore.
I could push him away in a way that would ensure he would never come back but I can’t. I can’t hurt him like that again. Never again.
But I can’t leave, and he can’t stay.
I didn’t cry even when I felt my heart crack.
I survived ten years without him and will just have to do so again. I was ignoring the fact that I only survived be telling myself lies that I could no longer tell.
He did love me. He did miss me. He wanted me just as much as I wanted him.
But even now I could lie to myself. I could tell myself that he was better off without me. That he only needed closure, and he had that now.
He could do what I never could.
He could move on.
**S**
“I don’t want to leave,” I say. I don’t want to leave him, not after I just found him again.
“You have to,” he said.
My eyes snap to his. He did not just say that. I have to blink the tears away to see his face. He looks resigned. Like we have no other choice but to part.
“I don’t want to! I just found you again! How can you expect me to leave? To just get up and walk away?” I searched his face, trying to find my answers.
All I see is a resigned sadness. I remember the one and only time I have seen that face. It was only for a flash, but I remember it clearly. I saw it the day he left.
“You can’t leave me. Not again,” I beg. I don’t think I could survive the separation again, especially knowing he loves me.
“You have to. You have a life, one you can’t just drop. You have a job, friends, and people who count on you. And I can’t leave. This is the only place to do my work. You have to go back,” he said his hand cupping my cheek, rubbing my tears away with his thumb.
All I could do was cry. I knew he was right. I knew it. But I didn’t want it to be true. I was willing to drop all of it to stay with him. But I knew he would not let me.
He left for ten years just to make sure I got where I am today. He wouldn’t let me give it all up for him like I wanted.
So I just lay my head on his shoulder again and I cried. I couldn’t stop. I don’t think I can live without him again. How could I have not known I loved him for so long?
He just held me and let me cry. He didn’t say anything. He didn’t have to. I knew that was just as hard for him too.
The airport,
We walked to the terminal together. I held his hand, and he held back just as tightly. I was leaning my head on his shoulder as we walked as slowly as we could get away with.
“I don’t want to leave,” I said again.
“I know.” He doesn’t say anything else.
I can see Itachi ahead and we slow down even more. He is talking to a man and he has a look about him. It’s the same look I see on him at work when he’s pushing for something.
“You are too smart not to see the advantages of this,” he said. He is really working this guy. Who is he?
“Kisame,” Naruto said, as if reading my mind.
Both men turn to us. Itachi looks relieved, Kisame looks confused, and worried.
“Naruto can I have a word with you? Alone,” Kisame asks looking at me pointedly.
But he flinches at my glare. My hold on his hand tightens. I won’t let Naruto go before I absolutely have to. Not even for Itachi.
“It can wait Kisame. You don’t have to make a decision right now. I just wanted you to know,” Itachi said. Kisame nods, but still looks uncertain.
Naruto raises his eyebrow in question but Kisame mutters a ‘I’ll tell you later’ and walks off a bit. Itachi sighs at his back but makes no move to go after him.
“We should be going now,” he sighs again. Turning to us he has a sad look, and I get the feeling he doesn’t want to leave either. But like Naruto he knows we have to.
I try not to cry again. I don’t want to hurt Naruto any more that I already will.
“I love you,” I whisper as I lean up to kiss him one last time.
He kisses back but doesn’t say anything, but I can see it clearly in his eyes. I can see what he wants to say but can’t: I’m sorry. I love you too. I don’t want you to leave. I want you to stay with me but I don’t want to get I your way. I’m sorry.
I have to turn away from the pain I see in his eyes. If I look too long I might cave in and stay anyway.
We are in the plane when I finally break. I wrap my arms around myself and cry. Itachi tries to comfort me but it doesn’t help. I have left a piece of my heart and my soul with Naruto, and nothing can help.
One week later.
“Sasuke I want you to meet my boyfriend, Kisame. He’s a friend of Naruto’s. Remember him?” Itachi says.
I just blink at him. I vaguely remember seeing this man at the airport only because he tried to take Naruto away. What was he doing here?
The next hour was spent answering that question. Apparently Itachi had spent several hours talking to Kisame before we left and had talked him into taking a scholarship offered by the company.
And after talking with him myself I agreed that Kisame was very smart. The next hour was spent with Itachi telling me how they met. And after a lot of prodding when Kisame left the room for a minute he told me everything.
I commented about how unlike him it was to sleep with someone he had just met but he said they just clicked. And after seeing them act around each other I had to agree they had a spark.
I was ready to just kick them out - it was too painful to watch them together - when Kisame said, “You know I heard a really bad storm caused fires in a few hotels back on the island.”
When I asked where that came from, he only said that the hotels made a lot but the owners didn’t care to rebuild. “It’s a damn shame too. The hotels their where legendary, some of the best in the world. I’d hate to see them go.”
His words triggered the gears in my head to turn. The next day I finally went back to work.
I hadn’t been able to do much of anything after we got back, but now I had a goal, and like the past ten years I threw myself into work to forget Naruto (temporally) and get things done.
The next week I had a game plan. I proposed to Itachi that while the company had many different holdings, there was one thing we didn’t do. After he listened to all I had to say he agreed but said someone would have to personally over see everything on the ground.
I volunteered.
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