Title: Aftermath
Chapter: Headlines
Universe: Modern day AU, high school, three-shot
…Aftermath…
Five Wounded, two dead in Konoha High School shooting
The headline was plastered over every newspaper, the topic of every news report. Everywhere he turned, the headline was all Naruto saw. All he wanted was for it to go away.
But of course it wouldn't.
Konoha was a small town. Everyone knew each other. They were a close knit community, a family. With news this big, this would be all anyone talked about for months. Maybe even years.
Five Wounded, two dead in Konoha High School shooting
On Monday, November 3rd, a student at Konoha High School fatally shot one teacher and wounded five students after opening fire in the hallways between classes. Two of those wounded remain in critical condition.
"They were my students, I watched them grow up," commented teacher Umino Iruka in the hours following the fatal event. "Words cannot explain how shocked and saddened I am. This should not have happened. I can't believe this happened."
The shooter was identified by authorities as the son of Konoha's chief of police, Uchiha Fugaku; he declined further comment about Uchiha Sasuke, 17, who took his own life immediately following the shooting.
Authorities reported finding a list in Uchiha's school locker of names believed to be the main targets of the shooting.
Haruno Sakura, 16, was one of the students whose name appeared on the "hit list."
"I know I should feel lucky. I could be in the hospital like the others, I could be dead," Haruno told reporters tearfully. "But I just keep thinking, why me? What did I do wrong?"
The teacher who was fatally wounded in the shooting was Hatake Kakashi, Uchiha's math teacher. Students say that he was very well liked. He died protecting Haruno and two other students.
He was in Kakashi's classroom now. It was surreal to think that the silver haired man was gone-that he was not merely late coming back from lunch. Naruto looked around the room. Most of the class was absent. A few had been transferred to different school by their parents. A few were not yet ready to come back. A few were still in the hospital. And one was-
He turned his head back to the front of the room, where Iruka spoke quietly with the school psychologist. He did not dare to look at the empty desk beside him.
…Aftermath…