Two Truths and a Lie 9

DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN NARUTO!!!
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Kisame sat in the sterilized hospital room, his only companions being the monotone beeps of a monitor and the drips from an I.V. His eyes roamed over the pale body layed out before him, the bleach white sheets only a shade lighter than his skin. Itachi's chest rose and fell steadily with his breathin, wire and needles running from under his skin to muliple machines. Kisame could do nothing but sit in the deafening silence and think. What did he do wrong? He had finally been happy, his life was finally turning around, he was going to hav e aperfect life...

Maybe this was a sign.

A sign that he wasn't allowed to be happy, to tell him he didn't deserve the joy or love that you can only receive from another human being. The shark felt tears sting his eyes. Why? Why couldn't he experience that light and warm feeling like a flegdling trapped in his rib cage, the fluttering of butterflies in his stomach like so many of his past friends has described to him? Why was he doomed to an eternity of torturous solitude?

Itachi stirred in the bed, catching Kisame's eye. The blue man held his breath, waiting for the Uchiha to open his eyes, to tell him he loved him, that he needed him, anything. But the weasel just settled instead, going back to his dreamless sleep. The tears that had stung Kisame's eyes now raced down his face and plummeted to the ground below. So that's the answer?... A shrug of the soulder, a rustle of the sheets, a simple movement of adjustment while he was here pouring his emotions out? If that was the case..

"Then who needs love?" Kisame muttered his thoughts out loud, shattering the sheet of silence over the room. "I was doing just fine on my own. What does it matter if someone has feelings for me, someone will always get hurt in the end."

The blue man rose from his seat and walked to the door. Once outside the threshold he took out his phone, calling an all too familiar number.
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Sasuke paced outside his brother's hospital room, worry etches into every groove and line of his face. He had to wait a couple hours after Itachi was admitted due to a certain shark-like man demanded he went to school before visiting his flesh and blood. His now boyfriend, Naruto, stood back against the wall to give him some space, feeling the Uchiha's urgency radiating off of him. Finally a man in a white coat walked out, looking to the two younger males.

"Sasuke, your brother is doing much better since last night." He offered a light smile, seeing the boy visibly relax. "We thought it might have been a stroke, but really it was just a mild heart attack... He has been working and stressing too much, he needs to be on medication for a while..."

The doctor continued to ramble on as Sasuke nodded along, his bonde counterpart looking over just in time to see Kisame. Naruto smiled and got off the seat going over to try and comfort the blue man when he saw something interesting. Kisame was talking to someone on the phone, some sort of "Face Time" chat or whatever it was called these days. But that wasn't the interesting part, the thing that caught the blonde's attention was whose face was on the screen: Lance.

Naruto sighed heavilly, not this crap again. That was all his and Itachi's relationship was, just stupid breaking up and getting back together, and breaking up, and getting back together, and one cheats on the other,and then they get pregnant and you know, how every relationship works. And for crying out loudl can no one calm that blue bastards libido?!

Naruto grumbled and watched the blue man walk off, turning to tell Sasuke but stopped. The young Uchiha was actually relieved for once, maybe even a little calmer than earlier. He shouldn't ruin his mood... He'll tell him later...
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