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Desert Flowers Still Have Thorns Completed	By : Royality Category: Naruto > Yaoi - Male/Male > Naruto/Sasuke Views: 1296 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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"Sasuke!" Hearing his name called again, Sasuke turned to look at Naruto. The pain on his face wasn't as bad as he thought it was. Smiling, he reached up, stroking the stripped cheek.
"I'm sorry...I had too. I couldn't let you..." The confession stopped as the burning sensation from the poisoned wound was too much for Sasuke to bear. Body tensing, he cried out in pain while holding onto his husband's hand.
"Sasuke!"
Closing his eyes again, Sasuke's consciousness slipped for a moment, before he was shaken hard enough to be woken up. His vision was blurry, and he could only move just enough to reach down, squeezing Naruto's hand. "Don't...worry about me. I have to tell you something..."
It was soon after when two other figures emerged from the darkness. Carrying Gaara on his back, Shiro had followed the noise of the fight between Sasuke and Sakura. The Kazekage had used all of his strength up in battling Shiro, and could no longer move freely. Shiro, due to his bond with the six-tails and regenerative body, was practically unharmed. "What...oh...Naruto..." Slowly entrusting Gaara's body to Kankuro, Shiro inspected the messy remains of Sakura. His eyes softened, taking her lost to heart. Naruto had listened to Sasuke's confession, up until his husband could no longer speak.
Shocked, hurt, and angry, he held Sasuke's failing body. When Shiro moved over, he inspected Sasuke as well. "...Naruto. Naruto." Snapping out of it, the blond turned to Shiro. Angry tears had filled in the blue eyes. "He's gone, Naruto."
"No...No, he's not dead. He's not dead because I'm still alive!" Indeed, Sasuke's heart had stopped. Naruto felt the very moment that it did and Sasuke drew his last breath, confessing the location of their children. Groaning, Gaara stirred from Kankuro's hold, holding onto his side. "He's right...They share a bond through Kyuubi. Naruto's heart is beating for the both of them, but it won't for long." Looking to Gaara, Shiro nodded.
"I see..." Turning to Naruto, he reached for Sasuke's cold body. "Give him to me."
"What...What are you going to do?"
"I have to extract the poison. So...you're going to have to forgive me..."
"For...Forgive you? For what?"
Smiling softly, Shiro pulled Sasuke from Naruto's arms. Placing a hand on the gaping wound, it glowed slightly as the white haired man put his lips over Sasuke's in a kissing embrace. He was only attached for a moment, pulling away just enough, so that their mouths were both open and slightly apart. There, you could see a thin, glowing green thread coming out of Sasuke's mouth and into Shiro's. Once the thread seemed to end, Shiro pulled away sharply as the veins in his body throbbed out, but Sasuke's had returned to normal. Shiro, himself, was obviously in incredible pain, crying out and doubling over. He hugged his own body as he shook for a moment, but it stopped. His body had neutralized the toxins.
Gaara hurried from Kankuro's side to check on Shiro, much as Naruto crawled back over to check on Sasuke. The bleeding had stopped, but his color was still pale and skin cold to the touch.
"He...He's still not breathing!" Hurrying to put an ear to Sasuke's chest, he noticed there still wasn't a heart beat either. "Sasuke! Sasuke!"
"He's...not dead...but he's not alive yet. He's...He's in stasis...suspended animation."
Coughing, Shiro assured Gaara that he was fine. "I had to restart his system. I drained his charka and life, everything the poison affected." Though Naruto was confused, he did sigh a bit in relief.
"How long will he be like this?" The smile that came to Naruto's face quickly faded when he saw Shiro's reaction to his question. Looking to Gaara, Shiro only looked away silently. "...Shiro? A day? A week?...A month?"
"I'm sorry, but I don't know. It's different for everyone. The poison, was created to kill someone by draining their charka and their life, very quickly. For him to be infected as long as he was and lived...I don't know how long it will take for him to recover." Looking down, Naruto reached to caress Sasuke's cold cheek. Kabuto was right, all along. He had lost two friends after all.
"Sasuke told me that twins aren't here. That he didn't want them in constant danger, so he had Neji and Sai take them to look like they were kidnapped. He...told me before he..." Tearing up again, Naruto paused. He refused to say that Sasuke had died.
"...Before he...he told me that I couldn't save Sakura. Why...Why didn't he just trust me? This never would have happened!"
Looking to Naruto, Gaara sighed. "I see, but he was right. You never seemed to understand why you were able to save Sasuke, Naruto. Sasuke loves you, and because it was you, you were able to save him from himself. Sakura...loved Sasuke, but he could not return her feelings. There would have been no way for you to do anything. He knew that...and didn't want you in that sort of danger. He didn't want your children to be in danger."
"I know that! But..."
"There's nothing you could have done!"
Voice cracking, Naruto spoke again. "...I know that..."
Standing up, Akane moved to stand, grabbing the sheet from the destroyed hospital bed to cover Sakura's remains. "If there is nothing else here, we should leave." Kankuro nodded, standing up as well.
"Kabuto is probably long gone, and this place needs to be shut down. The Vanguard are outside, waiting for us." Moving to his brother's side, he helped Gaara stand up. Shiro stood up afterwards, taking a look around.
"This is my fault...I created this place, but I didn't expect Kabuto to betray me so soon." Suddenly, Kankuro glared.
"You..what? This is your fault?"
Shiro only nodded. It was expected when a furious Naruto jumped up, grabbing Shiro to slam him into a wall. "Naruto, stop!" Gaara tried to reach for Naruto, only to be burned by the instant shroud of the emerging nine-tails.
"Why! Why did you do all this! You pretended to be our friend, but you really were behind everything! Sakura is dead because of you! And Sasuke! Sasuke is..."
"I'm sorry." Shiro didn't even fight back. "I know that doesn't mean anything, but I am. This wasn't how it was suppose to happen."
"Talk! Now!"
Nodding, Shiro explained the original plan. The machine was suppose to extract the demons from the Jinchuriki, putting their bodies in stasis, but not kill them, as the original case with Gaara. The twins, the blood of Naruto and Sasuke, were the only tested combination capable of holding the final form of the demons, combined. In theory, it was suppose to split the power of the final demon in half, weakening it enough to be brought to the mortal world, and destroyed. Permanently. There would be no more demons, no more jinchuriki that could ever be created again. The sacrifice was that the hosts, and the twins, would be in stasis for an unknown amount of time. A sacrifice that was meant to save the pain of would-be future jinchuriki.
However, with the sharing of the nine-tails between Sasuke and Naruto, Shiro's theory of splitting a demon between two host would weaken it, was wrong. And Kabuto had found out. The temptation to create more than one, fully empowered host of the ten-tailed beast, was too much of an opportunity to pass up. He had turned Sakura away from the original plan, and left the newly memory lost Shiro in the dark. "Sakura was trying to create more hosts for Kabuto's plan. He was going to use the machine to make an army of ten-tailed demon jinchuriki. I did not know."
"That....That's..." Surprised enough, Naruto calmed himself as he pulled away. "Why would Sakura help him...Why would she..."
"It doesn't matter now."
Looking to Sasuke, Naruto frowned. "No, I suppose it doesn't." Walking over, he picked up the limp body. "We're leaving. Akane, can your people bring this place to the ground?"
The young red-head gave a nod.
"Good."
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