Why?


What makes a man walk away from his mind?

I think I know. I think I might know


This wasn't how things were supposed to happen.

He was supposed to welcomed back with open arms, no questions asked.

But as luck would have it, he was stuck. Stuck in a holding cell, waiting with ease about what his fate would be.

Would he die?

Probably.

Would there be an uproar about it?

Not likely.

He had been a rouge for several years, after all. There just wasn't much that he could do about it.

The only ones that would really care, or have any power for that matter, would be the people that he abandoned and hurt the most.

If they didn't want to save him, who could blame them? He sure as hell couldn't. He was the traitor in this case.

He didn't regret his decision to leave. Not once. He wouldn't live with regrets. There wasn't a point in it.

Well, he had one, but after everything was said and done, he couldn't change it anyway. It wasn't fixable. Not by a long shot.

He would just have to live with the guilt.

And he was doing just that in the small holding cell, deep within the prision. Sitting there in absolute silence, thinking about what he had done.

He felt like a child.

He couldn't dwell on it, however. His thoughts were devouring him. Eating at him alive.

'Why did I have to hurt them?'

'Why was I so stupid?'

'Do they forgive me?'

Questions of all sorts would pound in his head. So much that he had forgotten how many days he had been in captivity.

It had to have been a while, for he had a beard by the time they pulled him out.

This certainly wasn't what he was expecting.

He was a free man.

'But why?'

The only explanation that he could fathom was that they lifted all crimes for the sake of his teammates. Or maybe they had become more merciful over the years he had been gone.

It didn't matter though, they had pulled through. For him. Even after everything that he had done to them.

Tears rolled down his face as he stepped into the sunlight, a free man.

A changed man.

A person who was saved.


A/N: Shitty ass one shot I came up with really quick like. It's really bad :v. I was reading some NaruSasu junk and I came up with this. Bleh. I didn't spell check or anything either, I just went with the flow. I hope you enjoyed!

Oh, and the song I listened to while writing this is What Makes A Man by City And Colour. Some of the lyrics are up top. :p

And for those of you who are waiting for the next chapter of Something I Can Only Hear, It'll be up soon. Still workin' on that.