Hey guys. This is a short one-shot for you guys to read while I work on Forgiven. I'm still not so sure about Promise, don't want to write it that much…
Warning: Contains character death, shonen-ai.
It's All My Fault
Bloodied, beaten, and broken, he stood up, determined to continue fighting.
"I…won't…let…you…win!" The blond yelled, teeth gritted against the pain. The raven smirked.
"What can you do about it, Naruto-kun?" the Uchiha asked. Naruto gasped, spitting out blood and collapsing to one knee. Pain evident on his face, he pushed himself back up, groaning.
"I will protect Konoha…no matter what...it ta-ahh!" he said, coughing out blood. "No matter what it takes! Even…my life…" he finished.
"That, Naruto-kun, is irrelevant. I do not care about Konoha." The Uchiha said emotionlessly. Naruto's eyes widened in shock, and then his face contorted in pain as blood flowed from between his lips.
"I don't care…what you want! But…I won't let you…have it!" Naruto spat out.
"No? Then let us see, shall we?" the Uchiha smirked, the three tomoes of his Sharingan merging into the feared Mangekyō Sharingan. Naruto, upon making eye contact with Itachi's eyes, fell into the world of Tsukuyomi.
'Kuso…I can't let this stop me…' Naruto thought, before sinking into the world that Itachi controlled. A black-haired boy stood watching. Rushing out, he disturbed Naruto's flow of chakra, releasing him from the genjutsu. Naruto blinked eyes that had seen too much.
"Sai…he showed me…I saw everyone dead…Sasuke-teme, Sakura-chan, Tsunade-baa-chan, you…every…one…" he whispered, eyes beginning to close.
"Naruto! Keep fighting, Naruto…Don't sto-…" The raven said before getting cut off by the katana now currently stuck through his chest. Naruto's eyes snapped open and widened.
"SAI!!" He yelled, as the great sword Samehada, whistled through the air, Sai's now dead body flung through the air and landing on the ground with a sickening thump. Naruto began to shake.
"No…I won't let you do any more harm to this village!" Naruto yelled, shifting into kyuubi mode, one tail appearing, the rest fast forming. Itachi smirked. This was the moment he had been waiting for.
"Deidara, Sasori, Kisame." The three stepped forward, preparing to pull the Kyuubi out of its container. After all, he was weakened enough that it would only take a few minutes, and not even the full Akatsuki would be needed…And the screams of agony ripped through the air, even piercing the ears of the Hokage, Tsunade. And in her heart, she knew that this did not bode well for the village…
"Hmph, this is too easy, un." Deidara complained. They were more than halfway done already. Itachi smirked.
"And to think I thought the Kyuubi boy would be more of a challenge." Itachi said. Deidara smirked.
"I guess you were wrong, un. This is so easy, it's not even funny, un." Deidara said. Minutes later, the process was complete, and Deidara began forming his best C4 explosion. "Kukuku…this will be fun, un." A raven-haired boy stumbled out of the shadows, bloody, beaten, dying.
"N-Naru…to…" he choked out. The sight…Naruto's face, still, unmoving, frozen forever in a pained look. Gray, cold, none of the warmth that he had known. "N-Naru…to…don't be…dead…please…" he whispered, forcing himself over to where the blond lay. "Argh…It's…all my…fault…" Spitting out blood, he collapsed next to his best friend, his dobe. Lifting a weak hand, he lightly stroked the cold face. "Ai-Aishiteru…dobe…" he whispered, fading quickly.
"Katsu!" And the town exploded…a million different colours of sparks, sparks that lit up the sky.
"Naruto…" Sasuke breathed out, closing his eyes. Konoha…was no more…
And you were going to be the next Hokage, Naruto…But I guess no one can now.