Remember Me   The Ever Elusive Afterwards  This was the first
time in just over a year Naruto had been back to the caves.
Unsurprisingly it didn't look all that different and he
remembered the details and the layout like he'd been here
yesterday. And why not? He'd been dreaming about this place
almost non-stop since he'd left.  But he didn't ever remember
being this nervous when he was here last. Actually he wasn't
sure he'd ever felt this nervous in his life. A lot of his
future well-being, his sense of worth and his happily ever after
rested somewhere within these caves.  Or not, as the case may
be.  Optimism wasn't normally something he was in sort supply of
but it was hard to keep up the excited feeling when so much
rested on whether a certain bastard had any feelings for him
anymore. And the invitation had been clear, 'if you love me,
you'll be there'.  He'd meant to make it sound like it was a
certainty, as though there was no way Sasuke wouldn't show up.
But assuming things where Sasuke was concerned,