Cable Car over my head, a naruto fanfic

I never knew I never knew that everything was falling through

That everyone I knew was waiting on a queue

To turn and run when all I needed was the truth

Naruto had been told. He'd been told again and again. But it never really sunk in. his ninja code was to never break promises. So why would he start now?

But that's how it's got to be

It's coming down to nothing more than apathy

I'd rather run the other way than stay and see

The smoke and who's still standing when it clears

Sasuke didn't know what to do. He'd killed his brother, but he'd lost everything that mattered to him at the same time. How could he pick up the pieces of a life that now had no meaning?

Everyone knows I'm in

Over my head

Naruto was still fighting for him. His live was becoming consumed. All his ambition had changed. No longer did he want to be hokage. And now it was focued on an impossible task that no one seemed to be able to stop him from attempting.

With eight seconds left in overtime

She's on your mind

'The strange thing is', thought Sasuke, while fighting ten missing nin, 'is that I can't stop thinking of him. That dobe'. He knew he could never go back to the village hidden in the leaves, but with nothing else to do he tried to help them in any way he could. What he wouldn't let himself think about is how he was throwing himself against more and stronger enemies every time he could. As though trying to prove some thing.

Let's rearrange

I wish you were a stranger I could disengage

Just say that we agree and then never change

Soften a bit until we all just get along

The mission had been hard, Sakura had used up all of her cackra and had entered a coma, so Kakashi had returned to the village in hopes that Tsunade could help. Naruto was to finish the mission himself. He wasn't worried, it was only a few missing nin. Or so it seemed until he found the nin dead, and Sasuke passed out along them

But that's disregard

Find another friend and you discard

As you lose the argument in a cable car

Hanging above as the canyon comes between

Naruto had brought him back to the village. The dobe had always been sentimental, or he would have realized what this truly meant for Sasuke. They had fought about it the whole way back, but Sasuke was to weak to really try and escape. And, a nagging voce in the back of his head asked, did you really want to?

Everyone knows I'm in

Over my head

'The things I would do for Naruto', Sasuke thought while he was blindfoled and cuffed as they entered the village. He could hear Naruto protesting. Didn't the dobe realize that this would happened? That putting a bird in a cage is almost the same as cutting its flight feathers? But not quite. At least the bird in the cage has a chance to go free.

With eight seconds left in overtime

She's on your mind

Naruto couldn't sleep. He really was a dobe like Sasuke said sometimes. He should have listened when Sasuke told him what would happen if he went back to the village. He just couldn't believe it. When had it happened that Sasuke knew more about the village, and the people that lived in it, than Naruto? Or was it more about human nature?

Everyone knows I'm in

Over my head

"I'm sorry Sasuke," mouthed Naruto as he stood in front of his cell. Sasuke didn't respond. He couldn't see the words.

With eight seconds left in overtime

She's on your mind

Naruto knew he had to do something. The guilt was killing him. He couldn't sleep, couldn't eat, couldn't concentrate…

And suddenly I become a part of your past

I'm becoming the part that don't last

I'm losing you and its effortless

"Sasuke," pronounced Tsunade, "the court has ruled, seeing as you will not speak to either redeem or condemn yourself, that you will chose one of two punishments. You may have death, or we will cut out your eyes and bind your chackra. You have until this time tomorrow to decide."

"death" said sasuke

Without a sound we lose sight of the ground

In the throw around

Never thought that you wanted to bring it down

I won't let it go down till we torch it ourselves

Naruto felt the world spin out beneath him. Death? But why give up the chance to live? He crept to Sasuke's cell again. "Why Sasuke?" He whispered. "Does a bird want to be caged or flightless Naruto?" Came the answer.

And everyone knows I'm in

Over my head

It wasn't hard to figure out how to free Sasuke. Naruto was a ninja for a reason.

With eight seconds left in overtime

She's on your mind

Standing of the wall of the village. Knowing that this would most likely be the last time that he could look into those deep black eyes, Naruto felt that he just couldn't say good bye. He turned his face away, and when he looked back, Sasuke was gone. That guilt was gone then, that debt paided off. But why did he still feel so bad?

Everyone knows

She's on your mind

Everyone knows I'm in over my head

I'm in over my head

I'm in over...

Sasuke knew he was running. It was all he knew how to do any more. He would never go back. He heard in seedy bars in seedy towns about what Naruto had faced because of helping him escape. To never be hokage. To never reach a rank of anything higher than chunin. To never…

Everyone knows I'm in

Over my head

Naruto didn't mind the limitations; he felt that he had done the right thing. And knowing that Sasuke was free in the world, spreading his wings, made pilling weeds for angry old ladies worth it. Naruto hoped he was living enough of life for both of them.

With eight seconds left in overtime

She's on your mind

'I never forgot,' Thought Sasuke, as he lay dying in an ally. To be killed for money that he didn't have while drunk; and he had thought he was a ninja. He knew better know. It was just a name. 'I hope your life is better than mine,' He thought, Naruto. 'I never stopped thinking…'