A/N: This
is a one-shot that just popped into my head. I can’t type right now either. Well, I mean I can, but I keep wanting
to type badness. Like one-shot was almost one-shit, and popped was almost pooped. Place those into my first sentence and you
have something that makes no sense what so ever. Anyways, please review my story.
A Reason to Live
Have you ever been so annoyed that you wanted to scream?
Naruto brooded through the town, looking for some place of solitude. Life
sucked so, he was annoyed with everyone. It was a sad time when even the dark corners of the village were occupant or noisy.
Clearly wanting to be alone was making it so that he couldn’t, unless he left the village.
Have you ever wanted to do something, but dared not to?
Muttering incoherent words to himself, Naruto passed through the gates of
the village and into The Outside. Holding his head high, he walked as if he was supposed to be out here. Picking no specific
direction, he just started walking.
Have you ever felt lonely because you loved somebody, but you couldn’t
confess to?
He soon found himself at a cliff in the forest, with a pool of water created
by the powerful waterfall next to him. He had chosen the perfect place of solitude; no one would look for him there.
Have you ever been so confused that you wished that you were gone?
He stared entranced at the water pounding to the rocks below. It looked so
inviting, and all he had to do was take a step. It would end everything. One little movement would end all the torment. He
wouldn’t have to worry where the next meal came from, he wouldn’t have to suffer the humility and the pain from
the humans in the village.
Have you ever got so sick of it all
that you wanted to disappear?
He started that step, but something stopped him. “NARUTO!” Arms
clutched around his waist out of nowhere and pulled him around, away from that fatal fall. Upon setting him down, those arms
whirled him around to face angry, hurt black eyes brimming with unshed tears.
Have you ever found something or someone to go on for?
“Why! Why were you trying to kill yourself!” Sasuke shook Naruto
roughly while those threatened tears fell as the dam broke.
Naruto stared at his teammate in astonishment. Why
would Sasuke follow him? And more importantly, why would he try to stop him?
“I have no reason to live. No one likes me or even cares about me.
I’m just a liability and an extra mouth to feed. After all, I’m the dreaded Nine-Tailed-Fox-Kyuubi." Naruto’s
tonelessness while saying this angered Sasuke even more.
Have you ever found any reason to keep going on?
“Dobe! Did you just assume that no one did? Did you bother asking around
to see if anyone did?”
Naruto was surprised out of his stupor. “Why
would I? Everyone shows how they feel by the way they treat me!”
“DOBE! I like you, I care about you!”
If you ever have found that reason, forget about those other thoughts
and hold onto that reason.
Sasuke grabbed Naruto and kissed him. This enthralled him and kissed Sasuke
back, clutching the sides of Sasuke’s shirt. He needed, wanted this. That annoyance and suicidal thoughts disappeared
out of Naruto’s mind. He had done what he dared not to do in that moment, that blissful moment of Sasuke, he confessed
his love in that kiss.
For I have found my something, my someone, my reason to live.
Sasuke and Naruto pulled apart for air and smiled to one another. In that
moment, Naruto no longer wanted to scream in annoyance, to be gone, to disappear. He had found his special someone, so would
continue to live, to survive.
And I’m not letting those go.
Sasuke and Naruto came together again. Naruto would live for one reason and
one person only, and that was Sasuke. Now that they found each other, they would not lose each other. They will continue to
thrive through anything else that happens, together…
I’m not losing them.
