aurrai

In silence, they were lost. Sasuke was back and he wasn’t the same.

hate you. I don’t hate you. I hate what I let you do to me.

But Naruto could give up to Sasuke. He could, if it mattered so much to him—let Sasuke kill him for the final time if that was what he wanted. Whatever he wanted. Naruto didn’t have to be Hokage if Sasuke didn’t want him to be, if Sasuke didn’t trust him or if he thought Naruto too unworthy or if the jealousy was just too great. It wasn’t the first time Naruto had seriously considered giving up his dreams to Sasuke—giving up everything to Sasuke because when thought about a life without him—without being with him as he had been fighting for since he was twelve and stupid—he didn’t see life at all. Maybe it was his own fault that his vision had narrowed so much, maybe it was and maybe he didn’t care.