Hello random fanfiction readers of the world! How are you today? I'm kinda in a weird mood right now so the chapter will probably have little bits of randomness in it, but hell I hope you enjoy it.
Yeah, the names weird but… try to look past that. You'll get the reason for it later.
I've had this story in my head for ages now; I just couldn't be bothered to write it up.
Then the plot bunnies attacked.
It's awful, I've got about 5 stories in my head and most of them are crap but some I could actually do but I JUST CAN'T BE BOTHERED!
Like I said, weird mood. Anyway, hope you like this, bye.
Summary: After the Uchiha massacre, when she passes him by the bridge, instead of walking off Naruto becomes friends with Sasuke. They become really close and help sort each other's problems out. How will this change the plot? Femnaru most probably will Sasunaru
XXSASUNARUXX
I was walking home from school when I saw him.
Sasuke Uchiha that is.
It was a beautiful day, hot but with a cool breeze so you didn't overheat. The sun was setting; it was a gigantic round ball of orange dipping over the horizon of a lake. The lake itself was shimmering, reflecting the light, little ripples of waves running to the makeshift shore lazily. There was a pier in the middle of it all, a little wooden thing, and on the end I saw him sitting there.
I shuffled along with no real hurry; I have no one waiting for me after all. Then I remembered, neither does he. It had been all over the village for weeks, the Uchiha had all been murdered by their prodigy, Itchy, or something along those lines. I hate to think what it must be like, losing your family, I personally have none but I have a fairly good imagination. Poor him.
He must have sensed me because Sasuke glanced over. I considered sticking my nose in the air and walking off, me and him don't get along after all, he's the class favourite while I'm the monster no one likes.
Plus he's a bastard.
As I was walking off I swear I saw him smiling, but I was not, I repeat not, smiling myself…
Okay, maybe I was, but it's nice to know I'm not the only one out there alone.
But, I know what it's like to be alone; I wouldn't want that for anyone else. Plus, we might become friends.
But overall I'm bored and have nothing else to do… I will say this now; I'm doing this out of pity, nothing else.
So, when I got to the steps leading down to the lake from the hill, I trotted down them and walked over to the start of the pier.
I peered at his silhouette and wondered if I should do what I'm about to do, and decided that nothing bad could happen, most probably.
With that thought in mind I started to walk to the end of the wooden planks and silently sat down next to Sasuke. For a while I was quiet, wondering what to say and decided to go for an ice breaker.
Sasuke had yet to look at me… or at least not when he thought I was looking.
"I know your probably really, really tired of hearing it, but, I'm sorry for your loss." His eyes slid to meet mine and I saw the loneliness he was desperately trying to cover up.
"Thanks." He mumbled quietly. After that neither of us talked, not really sure of what to talk about. But I'm not really a patient person, and I don't like not talking for long periods of time, so I found myself blurting out.
"Being alone sucks, doesn't it?" Sasuke's eyes which had gone back to staring blankly at the sky were immediately on mine again. It was quite unnerving actually; it was like he was lost and wondering what he should do. I could almost see the darkness creeping into his soul.
"What would you know about being alone, you have a family! I don't, not anymore." His voice had become a little bit cold, but I replied anyway.
"I don't actually," his eyes widened in surprise, "I'm an orphan, I have no family that I know of."
"Oh, sorry."
"Nah, it's okay. I never knew my parents, they apparently died the day I was born… during the Kyuubi attack." I whispered the last part.
"You were born during the attack?" His voice was defiantly interested now.
"Yeah…"
"Cool."
"Not really, I think everyone thinks I'm like the kyuubi incarnated cos' they call me names."
"Like what?"
"Demon, monster… stuff like that. They're quite creative sometimes."
"That sucks."
"Tell me about it." By now both of us had turned to each other on the pier. "So, what about you?"
"What about me?"
"How's life?" I prodded
He raised an eyebrow, "Why would you care?"
"Why wouldn't I?"
"Nobody cares; all they care about is gossip on the 'Uchiha tragedy'. They pretend to care; they can't see I want to be left alone." He was frowning angrily and his voice turned completely cold.
"That's a lie." His head snapped to mine, surprise written all over his face. "Of course you don't want to be left alone! Why else would you be talking to me? You just want somebody to truly care, to understand you. And even if it is true that no one cares, I do! Everyone should have somebody who cares about them."
"Who cares about you then?"
"Eh?"
"Don't be a dobe, you just said that everyone has someone who cares about them."
"No, I said that everyone should have someone who cares about them, not everyone does. And I'm not a dobe!" I hissed, my anger levels were rising.
"Heh, you certainly act like one!" That's it!
"TEME!" I jumped up and started to stomp away. I got to the end of the pier when suddenly Sasuke called, rather uncertainly and definitely quietly may I add,
"Thanks." I almost didn't catch it, it was so quiet, but I did and my foot hovered above the ground for a second before I carried on. I had my head bowed so my hair would cover my smile and I said.
"You're welcome."
"Your still a dobe though."
Yeah, I am soooo not going back tomorrow. And if I did it would only because I like dangling my feet over the edge of the pier.
Nothing else.
XXSASUNARUXX
Oh god school was boring today, I swear that if another teacher tries to teach me the wrong way to do hand signs again I'm going to snap. I wouldn't know they were wrong if the hokage hadn't shown me the correct way to do it when I showed him what I learned once.
Out of all the teachers there I think Iruka's the only one with an actual ability to teach, I'm lucky he's my main teacher.
So there I was walking along, scuffing my shoes on the loose gravel, just letting my feet take me where they wanted to go. I hadn't even realised I'd gone to the lake before Sasuke called out,
"Oi, dobe! If you don't want to get wet, I'd stop walking right around now!" I look down at my feet to see them about half a metre from going in the water.
'How did I get here?'
"Are you going to just stare at your feet forever or are you actually going to do something?" Goodness how that boy has mastered bastardism at such a young age amazes me.
"Oh yes, of course, it's my main hobby. That and knitting." Rolling my eyes I went to sit next to him. Noticing he looked rather more distressed than what is considered normal, I said,
"All right, spill it." I do not care, at all, I'm just nice like this.
"Nuttin'" I thought about saying 'yeah because when you look like the weight of the world is on your shoulders, your absolutely top notch.' But decided against it
"Suuureeee…" I replied sarcastically, seriously he needs to lighten up, it's not like I can or will tell anyone.
"…."
"…" He sighed, giving up.
"Promise not to tell anyone?"
"Promise."
"Pinkie swear?" He offered his little finger, I connected mine onto his.
"Pinkie swear with raman on top." That's like my equivalent of a sacred oath. I wouldn't normally do that for a –practical- stranger, but he looked so miserable I couldn't help myself. Plus he must be really sad if he's reverting to normal seven year old speak and letting his stoniness go down a bit.
"Eh… well… see… I... my…" He seemed to be struggling for words
"Spit it out, I promise I won't laugh." I smiled reassuringly at him and he smiled back hesitatingly. Suddenly, that smile turned into a frown.
"It doesn't make sense!" Okay, bit confused here,
"What doesn't make sense?" He sighed as if I had just asked him the most difficult question in the entire world.
"Nothing does!" Could he get anymore vague? I tilted my head to tell him to go on. He turned his entire body towards me now, crossing his legs and clasping his hands, scrutinising me like he was about to tell me something that could change the outcome of the world or something. (A/N God I love irony). I fidgeted a little bit, I don't like being looked at like that, and it was like he was trying to see into my very soul. Once he seemed to have deemed me fit, he looked at me with this oddly serious look on his face that he should never have been acquainted with at such a young age.
I mean, at seven years old shouldn't we be frolicking though woods and flowery meadows or something. (A/N Imagine Sasuke frolicking though a flowery meadow! Had a mental spazz out when I did it.)
Sasuke looked like he was limbering up for a marathon before he started to talk.
"Alright well, you know the story of when…" He took a deep breath, "Of when my clan was massacred, don't you?" I nodded, "Good, well here's my version…"
Flashback
(A/N Oh god, I sooo don't want to have to type this out… But I will, for you ^_^)
((Actually I'm not, if you want to know what happens go to episode 120 something!))
Flashback-that-wasn't-actually-a-flashback end
I am absolutely not crying. The water dripping from my eyes is in fact from a condition I have where after being near water for a long period of time, the water molecules in the air condense on my eyes and start to drip down.
It looks exactly like tears!
"See what I mean? It makes no sense!" I nodded, it didn't make any sense.
"Yeah, why would Itchy-"
"-Itachi."
"Yeah that one. Anyway, why would Itachi kill everyone just to 'test his capacity' or whatever he wanted to do? Couldn't he just ask to fight one of the ANBU or powerful jonins? Hell, the old man would probably have done it, if it meant getting out of doing some paperwork!"
"That's what I thought! And who's the old man?" We were both making wild hand gestures by this point, both of us want to know what was running through Itachi's head.
"The hokage."
"Right." He seems to have gotten used to my total disregard for authority somewhere during our talk.
Then, something like an epiphany shot through my head like a lazer beam through cheese.
"Hold on, how old did you say your brother was?" Sasuke looked complexed at my question,
"Thirteen…Why?"
"So a thirteen year old boy took out the entire Uchiha clan?" I could almost hear the clogs turning in Sasuke's head.
"Yes…" I stood up abruptly, startling Sasuke so much he fell backwards a little bit, and practically yelled,
"And you people think this is normal! Are you actually telling me that a single thirteen year old boy massacred the entire Uchiha clan?" I could actually imagine the before said clogs in Sasuke's head screeching to a holt as he processed what I was saying. He turned slightly pale.
"But he had the mangekyo… and he was the clan's greatest prodigy…" Sasuke was almost whispering, his voice disbelieving. I could tell he hadn't thought of this. I looked closely at him and noticed he was shivering, even though it wasn't cold. It hurt a little in my heart to see him like this, thought I don't know why. Like I've said before, he is practically a stranger to me.
Before my mind could catch up with what I was doing, I bent down and hugged him. Whispering in his ear,
"Sasuke, he could've been used, or he may have been helped. There's a lot of 'ifs and buts' in this." My shirt was solidly getting wetter, "He may have even been brainwashed or just plain crazy."
"But revenge…" It was so quiet I almost didn't hear it. But I did, and questions started catapulting themselves at me
"What revenge?" I didn't even realise Sasuke had been hugging me back until he unwrapped his arms and leaned away from me. Staring me straight in the face, his eyes shards of ice, he spat,
"I'm going to kill him and take me and my clan's revenge!" I briefly wandered if insanity ran in the Uchiha blood.
"Sasuke, that's the most idiodic thing I think I've ever heard! And that's coming from the person who has heard someone say their rule the world through squirrels and squid!" (A/N Don't ask). I inwardly laughed at Sasuke's expression before I continued. "If you go for revenge, you'll be playing right into his hand! Didn't you hear what he said, 'let that hatred grow and kill me with it' is basically what he meant. Don't let him control you and turn you life into one of hatred and revenge!" I seriously don't know why I'm so…passionate about this.
Sasuke's face had turned sad again, eyes glistening with unshed tears; he looked like a kicked puppy. I found myself hugging him again; I really need to stop doing this. As soon as my arms were around him though, he broke down. He threw his arms around my waist, gripping like I was his last link to life, and nestled his head in the crook of my neck, I could feel the water spreading through my shirt.
I mentally noted that this should have been awkward but somehow felt natural and I somehow found myself rubbing his back and making soothing noises.
Freaky, I know.
"I don't know what to do anymore." He uttered into my neck, I really want to know what makes him think I know what to do. However, I carefully thought about what I would do if I was in his place.
"Get stronger," he was still sniffling but I know he's listening, "not for revenge, but for defence and purely cos' you want to. I mean, before this mess you wanted to be a great ninja too, right?" He nodded from my neck. "Then train for that, don't let him ruin your life. But also, when the time comes and you finally meet him, you can confront him. You can finally find out what was going through his head. And if he really did what he did for himself, I'll help you kick his arse into oblivion!" he looked up, shocked, and I grinned at him, "I pinkie swear with ramen on top!"
SPOV
I don't know what made me trust her enough to tell her about it. But I just got this feeling from her that she would understand and help me.
Plus I really needed to tell someone.
So when Naruto told me about the other reasons the traitor could have done it that hadn't even occurred to me, I was a little more than shocked. They were pretty reasonable as well which didn't help.
And the more she talked, the more I realised that she was right in saying that he couldn't have done it without some form of help, even with the mangekyo. It just wasn't logical.
And Uchiha's are always logical; I really don't know why I didn't realise it before.
But when she hugged me, all logic went out the window, and I hugged her back. It just felt so warm and so…right, that I didn't even consider before I put my arms around her too.
When I told her about my revenge, first of all I was a little bit disturbed by the squirrels and squids, but I began to notice what she meant by doing what he wanted me to do. And if you ask me, doing what he says is a bad idea.
But then I felt so useless, so void. Without revenge I basically had no reason to live. I had no plan. I could feel my mask slipping again and the tears coming back.
And suddenly Naruto was hugging me again. I didn't even hesitate before I hugged her tightly and buried my head in her neck.
It just felt so peaceful there.
It was so lovely and warm; her heat just sort of surrounded me and protected me from the sadness and anger clawing at me. Her thick hair was down, blocking the rest of the world off from my sight, and the sun shone through the gold locks, making it glow.
I was like my very own little world. No Itachi, no dead people, no shadows, no darkness.
Just me…and her.
I loved it.
I could let it all out, and cry the tears that I hadn't let fall.
I told Naruto that I didn't know what to do anymore. And she surprised me. She seemed to think for a few minutes before she told me.
It was a good plan. But what really caught me was when she said that she'd help me.
And she was so sincere
I could help myself asking
"Why?" She looked surprised for a moment, I could tell she didn't really know why either. Before she seemed to settle on something.
"Because… I think you may be my friend." I could tell my eyes had widened and I could almost see her waiting for rejection. In fact she had stood up and was about to walk away
Friends… She didn't seem scared of the 'kill your best friend to get mangekyo' thing.
And it didn't seem so bad.
I stood up and grabbed her hand. She turned to me, surprise evident in her wide, blue eyes. I smiled a small smile at her and said
"Friends, I could live with that."She smiled back and slid her fingers out of my hand, before offering her middle and index fingers.
I took them with mine wondering what she was up too, before I realised that we were making the sign of harmony and relaxed and smiled at her again.
"Yeah…friends."
XXSASUNARUXX
Well that's the end of the first chapter, if you like it review otherwise I won't bother carrying on with the story. I don't care if it's just a single word it will encourage me!