there isn’t a scene in all of cinema, literature, or even lived experience that can compare to sasuke and naruto slowly bleeding out, having blown off each other’s arms as they remembered each and every moment in their childhood where they long to be close to each other, and just lying there, bitterly trying to antagonize each other, before sasuke asks “why did you do that for me, no matter what i did to you, why did you always chase me?” grappling with his self-hatred and feeling of utterly isolated from the world
and for naruto to answer “you know already, don’t you? because you’re my friend” and then sasuke asks “what is a friend to you”
and naruto to again answer, “it’s not like i really understand it either, just that when i see you take on the world and get all messed up, it kinda… hurts. it hurts so much, i cannot leave it alone”
and they lie again in silence, reflecting on their memories, until naruto asks if they’ve died and gone to heaven
like there is NO romance in the WORLD that could EVER COMPARE TO THAT