Disclaimer – I don't own Naruto…This HOT character belongs to the even more amazing Mr. Kishimoto…Please, to the people who are about to read this story seat down and enjoy!
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June 07, 1925.
Blood tainted the floor as vultures filed the skies in circles, the very few survivors of the raging war that swiped over many lands cried in pain as they saw the enemy closing in, some of them with eyes turned to the sky in trance in that end of June, wishing once again that this afternoon would be like the others they had have in the years before, full of life as children run up and down the streets, lovers exchanged secrets looks every now and then, flowers danced to the wind of every afternoon before the fog slowly sat down, too many hopes yet so little time to live them. One vulture catch the eye of one of the soldiers and he kept as quiet as he could as it got nearer and eyed him with eyes that reminded him of the stare of someone heartless, two black orbs as dark as his, the hunger for flesh clearly displayed as it got even closer and tried to peak the soldier's ivory skin, but for the winged creature it meant its biggest mistake, its dark feathers now flied the air leaving only a single drop of blood on the spot that once it stood. The soldier turned once again to look at the approaching enemies and rolled to his left to the nearest dying soldier, his felt his wrist and whispered asking for forgiveness and as the fog started to set down the soldier took what rested from his comrade's life and waited for the incoming danger, as pleads for life filled his ears in that long night that was about to begin.
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June 20, 1925.
"Hey! Watch out!" a man shouted as a young boy dashed across the street missed by his chariot only by inches, the boy just took a fast look behind and kept on running to an unknown direction, his scarf flowing in the wind as he kept his speed and jumped over a dog that suddenly appeared in his path, people looking at him with angry eyes as he passed by bumping pedestrians here and there, he dashed in front of another horse and heard another angry shout but still ignored it and turned in the next corner, his eyes fast scanning the surroundings as he entered in a store that had its big doors open, the place was full of people, of many different colors and sizes, all talking at the same time, making his task even more difficult, he walked fast to the front desk with his fist glued to his chest and felt like crying when he saw the two ladies that were there, talkative as always, the two best friends were trying the newest hats that just arrived that morning as they waited for costumers to come to them with their chosen goods. The boy cursed under his breath and scanned the place once again in hopes to find whom he came to talk to, maybe he was acting quite strange at the time for an old lady approached him and looked at him worried.
"Are you okay little one?" the woman asked.
But the little boy ignored her and went about the store firmly holding his task on his hands, he was about to go out to look somewhere else when he heard the storage door open and two men coming out from it followed by a beautiful young man, they were quarreling over something and stopped when they noticed the small boy staring at them.
"Konohamaru!" the young man exclaimed happily and dropped to his knees to hug the small kid, whom to his surprise didn't seem to be happy as he always was.
"Is there a problem?" Sakura spoke as she approached followed by Ino.
"I don't know, but our little friend here seems to have another problem again" the young man said as he tousled with the small kids hair and his eyes went to his fist that were firmly glued to his chest, the knuckles already turning with the pressure.
"He is always getting into trouble" Ino said but closed her mouth as she saw the way how her friend looked at her.
"Did someone bully you? "The young man asked.
The kid just kept his eyes lowered and he saw the hands of his trusted friend run over his clothes to clean the dust that had accumulated there during his race to the store.
"Come on, you can tell me" Konohamaru heard the voice again and his strength left him as he started to cry, making the hands that cleaned him halt.
"Naruto…" he spoke as his tears fell down and his body started to shake and he was firmly embraced by the young man.
People were gathering around, watching the scene, some annoyed for the lack of attendance from the cashiers, others for the curiosity about what was going on, others wanted to talk with the store owner, the circle got bigger and as Naruto hugged his little friend he tapped his small back and whispered sweet words that he had used as many times as he remembered when Konohamaru had come to him crying due to fights among his friends and him, when finally the kid's cry seemed to cease, Naruto lifted his chin and looked to swollen eyes of the kid.
"Please tell me what the matter is." The young man looked now very serious, he noticed that Konohamaru had something very important to say; his eyes went down to the fist of the kid and asked "Is that for me?" the eyes of the kid started to produce more tears and he bit his lower lip as he handled the paper that he had on his hands, Naruto covered Konohamru's fist and smiled, making sure the kid know that everything was okay and took the now over crumpled piece of paper that turned out to be a letter, Naruto frowned and soothed the paper as much as he could and when he was about to open it, Konohamaru dashed out in loud cry and disappeared in the mist of the people walking in the busy street outside.
"Now that is odd, he is always so lively" Sakura said standing behind her friend.
"Sure it is" Naruto answered, his eyes going from the path that his little friend had taken to the letter in his hands.
"So, are you going to open it or not?" Ino asked coming over after she had sent away the last costumer for the day.
"Yes…" Naruto stared to the letter still wondering what had made Konohamaru cry like that, maybe he should read it privately he thought, so he turned to Sakura and asked her to close the store and bring the sales papers for the day on his office when she was done, he walked to the direction of his office ignoring the complains of Ino about the letter.
When inside, he sat on his chair and searched for the letter opener that his fiancé had given him and noticed for the first time that the letter had been already opened and shook his head when he thought "Konohamaru" and he smiled at the kid's curiosity, he slowly opened the envelope and took out the piece of paper that was there, his breath catch as his eyes read the message in there, it was simple for even a kid as young as Konohamaru to read it, but he read and read it more than he could remember as if trying to make himself see that he had read it wrong, his tears run down his cheeks and wet the paper on his hands, he tried to stand up but his legs failed him so he just sat there, his eyes stared to an invisible point across the room, the letter long forgotten now on the floor, his fingers sliding absently to one of his drawers and opened it and got the letter opener he had been thinking before, the metal piece was spotless, shining as if new, Naruto stared at it and look absently to the clock that showed now that it was about 6pm, the time he had met Sasuke for the first time, 5 years ago.
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Konohamaru sat in the small corner of the platform in the train station, holding his knees making him look even smaller than his years, another tear slid down his cheek and he cleaned it up with his sleeve, he heard the next train arriving but he didn't mind to look up to see the passengers this time, he sat his head on his knees and watched the sun in the horizon, with its beauty and so many colors, the last rays of light could be seen tracing the afternoon sky, the dust of the passing by passengers floated in the air and the effect became even more beautiful, his eyes were lost in their trajectory, making patterns that somehow took his thoughts away from all the happenings since he had gotten that letter in that afternoon, before he would boast to everyone that he had dribbled two chariots in one day, but when his memories went back to the reason why he had done that, the boy had nothing but the feeling of being useless, bringing only sadness to his dear friend; he felt that another wave of cry was about to hit him and he hid his face in between his knees and braced himself, not minding anymore when the dust started to float again in the wind as another passenger came down the train.
"Are you not going to greet an old friend?" a voice came from above his head and he felt something cold touch his head, he looked up and jumped backwards, his eyes almost budging out at the image that was in front of him, when the man looked down at him and tried to open his mouth to speak again, the boy started shouting as high as he could and tried to get to his knees, but before he could get farther than his body was telling him, his arm was grabbed by a cold hand.
"What is the matter Konohamaru?"
"Y..you..you are…are…" the boy started talking, the words not making sense, while his body shaking violently at the sight before him.
"I'm what!" the man said annoyed.
"Dead" Konohamaru finally said.
"What are talking about? Am I not here? How come I'm dead?"
But the answer he got made him forget about everything else but a smiling face that had been always in his mind in the last two years, and as Konohamaru half covered his mouth in fear and whispered something, the man in front of him had suddenly vanished.
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"I don't get it, how can he be so selfish, I bet the letter is from Sasuke and he won't share with us the content, I saw the military stamp on it, I did, so how come he is the only one who has the right to see it? They are only friends after all" Ino once again complained and looked in the direction of the door that led to Naruto's office.
"Listen, I know that you have a broken wing for Sasuke, but that doesn't mean that you can behave about him as your property Ino…" Sakura was about to say something else when there was a loud knock in the door.
"Now what!" Ino put her hands on her hips and spoke annoyed, then the knock came louder making the two girls have no other chance then to check out who it was.
"Who is it?" Sakura said as she put her ear against the thick door.
"Open the door" was the answer with more hitting.
"I am sorry but we are closed" she said and started to walk away, when the door suddenly flew open.
"Where is he?" the man said with cold eyes.
"Sasuke!" Ino shouted and hanged herself to the man's neck; he looked to the astonished Sakura and ignored Ino.
"How did you do that?" Sakura looked pale from the door to him.
"Where is Naruto?"
"In his office" was all that the girl answered, still amazingly looking to the thick doors now crushed into two.
Sasuke walked to the office doors and hit it as hard as he could, his mind going wild with the thought of how Naruto had reacted to that dammed letter, he knew that the dobe was somehow stubborn and always made sudden decisions and still get the best of it all, but this time he couldn't help but to think the worse and as the seconds passed by, the silence that greeted him was making him get more and more worried, he hit the door once more even harder this time then listened.
"Naruto! Open the door!" he finally shouted.
"Dammed door…" he thought and wished he was alone so he could shatter this door just like he had done with the first one, but to explain how he did the deed twice would be hard, so he just contented himself on hitting the door a bit harder each time.
"Sakura! Do you have the key for this door? I need it open now" he looked to the pink haired girl.
"Su…sure" she said and decided to help him and got the long chain that was attached to her long gown.
Seconds later she got the right key and was about to insert it the doorknob when she noticed that Sasuke's eyes were lividly wondering about the store.
"What is wrong?" she paused and stared at him.
"Do you smell it?" he asked.
Sakura frowned and started sniffing the air, maybe the idiot cook next door had forgot his cigarette butt on again and his whole restaurant was on fire.
At that time they both heard a strong tad inside the office of Naruto and their scared eyes met.
"Naruto!" both of them shouted and she inserted the key and hurriedly twisted it around, both stumbled inside the dark room, while she stand on her spot and tried to get used to the darkness of the place, Sasuke was already walking around and seemed to be sniffing again, when suddenly he fell on his knees.
She reached for the switch and the light went on, that was when Sakura finally saw that Sasuke had found someone on the floor and was felling the person's heart beat, he looked to her and shouted.
"Go get a doctor now!" But she didn't move one inch, her eyes glued on the figure of Naruto, his white clothes covered with blood and his left hand holding on to the military clothes of Sasuke and the right one tightly holding on to the bloody wound on his neck.
"Sakura! Call a doctor! Do it now! Fast! Go!" still she didn't move, tears already running down her face, Ino came near behind her and looked inside the office to know what was causing the whole commotion when her eyes sat on the image of Sasuke and Naruto on the floor, she started shouting and went out the store, then Sakura fainted.
"Naruto, hold on" Sasuke said and lifted the blond from the floor, trying his best to don't look to the blood that covered now almost the whole upper part of Naruto, the last thing that he needed now was to be seduced by its smell, when suddenly the once bronzed hand of Naruto held him from getting out the office.
"You are here" Naruto chocked the words out, his two blue orbs fixed on the raven in front of him.
"Don't talk now, we must go to the doctor" Sasuke said putting his finger on the lips of Naruto.
The blond smiled and closed his eyes; Sasuke could hear his heart going weaker and feared for him, the wound seemed to be deep for a lot of blood was coming from it.
The clock on the office rang and then Naruto opened his eyes again.
"Its 7" he said which made the raven look confused and Naruto then grabbed the other man's necktie pulling him down and sweetly kissed him, the kiss went until the last time the clock rang, then the once bronzed hand fell to the floor, the two blue orbs now expressionless and a heart that no longer was beating.
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End of chapter 1