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"What do you mean they just showed up?" There is violence on Sasuke's voice. Care and well meaning goes alongside it, but there is still violence.
His hand is rested gently on Naruto's face, inspecting purple coloration along his cheekbone carefully.
Naruto flinches under his touch.
"It's fine, Sasuke." Naruto tried his best to smile as he spoke. He always tried, he liked to tell himself he did at least. But it stung like a bitch to do so. He couldn't even muster half a grin, just a sad little solemn expression.
"It's not fine, Naruto," Sasuke spat back. He retracted his hand from Naruto's face tentatively. His brows furrow slightly, "Did they get you anywhere else?"
Naruto shrugged, "I dunno. Woke up with this one. I didn't really bother checking myself in the mirror, I fell asleep in work clothes anyways."
Sasuke bites back a retort about how Naruto also needs to get into the habit of wearing fresh clothing. He knows for a fact that he has enough clothing and pajamas to change every now and then, he just doesn't. He bought Naruto enough clothing to outlast the apocalypse, all in that bright orange hue, in the hopes he'd take a hint.
In a brief moment, one sharp inhale and exhale, Sasuke has himself composed again. "Go get Sakura to help fix you up, I'm gonna look into it."
"Really, Sasuke-"
"Shut up!"
And Naruto does exactly that.
It still feels forbidden when Sasuke speaks with emotion to his tone. Raw emotion. It's intense, far too intense for something so simple as a bruise on his face that is vaguely fist shaped. Sasuke is acting like it's the end of the world, and Naruto is acting like it doesn't matter that it looks like he got decked last night.
Naruto is cautious as he opens his mouth to speak.
Sasuke gives him a look.
"I'm not gonna say something dumb."
"You better not."
"I probably just hit my face funny when I fell out of bed last night."
"When you what?"
Faint red comes to Naruto's face. "Fell out of bed- it happens sometimes."
Sasuke just sighs. "Of course you'd fall on your face when you roll out of bed. Why didn't you say that right away?"
"You wouldn't have held my face if I said so." The red on his face gets darker.
"Idiot." Sasuke raises a hand to Naruto's face, "You fucking idiot." There's an aggravation to his tone but it's drowned out by some form of adoration.
"I'm your idiot though," Naruto answered with. His body language speaks half as strongly as his usual smug grin.