Bucephalandra



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    They didn't talk about the future. There was no point. The future belonged to the living, and Sasuke was fading more each day, becoming more translucent, more fragile, like he was slowly dissolving back into whatever realm the dead inhabited.
    But they talked about love—the love they'd shared without knowing it, the love they'd hidden from each other, the love that had survived death but couldn't survive the fundamental laws of existence.

    "I wish we'd been braver," Sasuke said one night, his voice barely audible.

    "Me too," Naruto whispered back.

    "I wish we'd had more time."

    "Yeah. Me too."

     

    Or: Three weeks after Sasuke dies in a car accident, Naruto starts finding things—coffee that tastes exactly right, Post-it notes in familiar handwriting, textbooks that fall open to the right page. When books start flying and Sasuke finally materializes as a ghost in his dorm room, Naruto discovers that death doesn't stop Sasuke from being his academic conscience, his best friend, or the person he's been hopelessly in love with for years.
    But ghosts can't stay forever, and some confessions come too late to change anything—except maybe everything.

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    27 Jun 2025

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    He wastes no time opening the bag, shuffling through a couple of different medicines and listing what they're for. "I don't know what you're sick with, so I just grabbed a couple of things," he explains. "We can figure it out together."

    Once he's sifted through the medicine, he sets a bottle of gatorade down on the coffee table noisily. Sasuke looks at it, then back up at Naruto, brow furrowed quizzically.

    Naruto doesn’t need any more prompting before he launches into his explanation. “I called Sakura while I was at the pharmacy, and she said it’s important that you stay hydrated. She also said orange juice was good because of the vitamin C, but they were out of it so I got this instead. I think I've heard people say electrolytes are good?”

    He talks so fast it makes Sasuke’s head feel like it's spinning, and all he can think to say is, “Of course you got me the orange flavor.”

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    16 Jun 2025

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    Sasuke locking himself into his home usually isn't good news. Is he slipping again? Is he angry because Naruto tried to kiss him? Is he finally through with all human contact? The options seem endless. But whatever Naruto had expected, it definitely wasn't the baby in Sasuke's arms.

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    14 Jun 2025

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    Sasuke is his best friend. He knows, rationally, that Sasuke would never make things weird between them. But it would still be different, wouldn’t it? If the gap between their feelings could never be bridged. If Sasuke never feels the same way.

    If Naruto has to live with the pain in his chest and the wishful thinking and the longing stares and know that it will never end.

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    Sasuke finds himself, somehow, still alive.

    So he tries his best to do just that; live. He cooks. He reads. He takes care of the neighbourhood cat. He lays awake, dulls off, wakes up tired. Some nights, he listens to Naruto snoring. And some days, his old friends come over uninvited.

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    14 Jun 2025