His chat with Snake Aunt ended.
Naruto lay with his hands behind his head, staring blankly at the starry sky outside the window.
In the end, he used Flying Thunder God to appear in Sasuke's room next door.
Beneath the clear moonlight streaming in,
Sasuke still slept peacefully, utterly unaware of the storm about to descend.
In truth, with Sasuke's current strength, he could not sense Naruto approaching, just as Gaara could not.
Of course, this was also the deserted Uchiha Clan Compound. Aside from Naruto, only Sasuke lived here, so he felt more relaxed than he did outside.
Naruto sat at the bedside, his gaze lowered as he quietly watched the sleeping Sasuke.
After a while,
he finally, very gently, removed the Amethyst Bracelet that Sasuke treasured.
He had given Sasuke this hollow Amethyst Bracelet on his first birthday after the Night of the Massacre.
Back then, he had simply written a token love letter and tucked it inside the hollow Amethyst Bracelet.
But several years had passed.
As their feelings for each other deepened, and more and more events began to unfold,
Naruto knew that the letter he had originally left would no longer do.
Ever since he had personally fastened the bracelet around Sasuke's wrist, Sasuke had never taken it off, not even for a moment.
Even now, asleep as he was, Sasuke subconsciously frowned when the bracelet was removed, his lashes trembling.
Fortunately, because he was at home, Sasuke did not wake.
Naruto tucked the blanket around Sasuke, then returned to his own room with Flying Thunder God.
Under the moonlit window, before his desk lamp, Naruto took out a sheet of writing paper as thin as a cicada's wing and wrote, word by word, the heartfelt things he wanted to tell Sasuke after they parted.