It's A Wonderful Life! Naruto Style!
A/N: Disclaimer time, I do not own the Naruto characters presenting in this god-awful FanFic.
Neither did I come up with the story line
That's right folks, I took the characters of Naruto, and the plot of It's A Wonderful life and wrote this, Enjoy
By the way, if you think by reading this counts for knowing the it's a wonderful life movie you're so wrong, that movie is awesome, this is more like a FanFic tribute or something, okay I'll stop telling you how awful this'll be or no one will read it XD
Chapter 1: It's a Terrible Life
Naruto sat there, looking down on his former sensei. Iruka was lying in the bed next to him unconscious. Pneumonia, least that's what the doctors said. It wasn't looking good, when Naruto was told due to it being an advanced case his cases were not looking good at best, Naruto felt like his world was falling apart. Lately it had been one thing after another.
[Flashback, 3 days ago
Naruto had been sitting in his favourite Ramen stand for 10 minutes now, waiting for the arrival of the girl he had a crush on, He was so nervous he couldn't even eat, not even ramen could fit into his stomach it was so filled with butterflies. Suddenly he felt a tap on his should that nearly made him jump out of his skin.
"Hey"
"AARRGGHHHH! Don't do that!!" He whined, Sakura giggled, usually it was the other way round, she enjoyed the switch.
"So, why didn't you bring me out here anyway?" She said, straight to the point
"Ugh, well, you and I have know each other for a long time, and I was er, you know, thingk maybe we could get to know each other a bit more… maybe like… a couple does?" Sakura's eyes widened then closed, she looked down disappointed.
"Sorry Naruto, but…… You know who my heart belongs to" Sakura said, regret clear in her voice.
Naruto had hoped maybe her feeling for him were as his were for her. But he was wrong, again. He tried to shake it off, but failed miserably.
"S'okay, Sakura-Chan" He replied, applying a fake grin to his face. Sakura wasn't fooled for a moment, her expression was one of remorse and pity.
"Nar-"
"C ya around Sakura-Chan" He yell as he ran off. He couldn't stand there after that, this wasn't the first time she's rejected him, but it always hurt him deeply.
[End Flashback
'This is turning into this worst Christmas ever" He thought to himself. "I was hoping so much that this year I'd finally have a good Christmas, but, this is turning into the loneliest one yet. First Sakura says no again, then Ero-Sennin least me, now Iruka-sensei….. please….don't leave me all alone." He wrestled with the knot in his throat, he wasn't going to cry, Iruka-sensei was going to be fine, he had to be, it's Christmas after all . . .
The door opened behind him and in came a dark haired girl with pale eyes holding a bouquet of flowers. She immediately spotted Naruto, and mustered the smallest of smiles. He smiled faintly to her.
"Hey, Hinata, nice to see someone else here" Naruto said quietly, without any of his usual cheer or energy present in his voice.
"N-nice to see you here Naruto-kun" Truthfully she knew Naruto would be there, but that wasn't why she was there. Iruka was also very kind to her. He knew how her nature was conflicting with the daughter Hiashi wanted for his heir. During that time she often felt useless and worthless, Iruka comforted her, and make sure those feeling never lingered.
Sat pulled up a chair on the other side on the bed and placed the flowers in a vase on the side. Minutes past of them both thinking, drifting off into the maybes and could be's.
"What did the doctors say?" Hinata asked after several minutes. Naruto looked up slowly, but not daring to meet her eye.
"They said it's a complex case, and that all we can do is hope for the best, but should prepare for the worst." He said slowly and in a hollow voice. Hinata closed her eyes to suppress the tears that pushed against her eyes. Slowly they trickled out. She couldn't believe what was happening.
Suddenly she felt arms pull her into a warm embrace. Grief overcame her usual blushing and fainting, she hugged back. She felt the warmth of her crush soothe and comfort her. Had this been anywhere else under and other circumstances she would have fainted by now. But not now, now she needed this to stay together. Her tears slowly dripped off her cheek onto his jacket.
After a few minutes, Naruto broke the hug and stood up.
"I er, need to clear my head" Hinata nodded, electing to stay a little longer.
Naruto made his way through the thickening blizzard slowly to the Hokage office, maybe Tsunade could help, maybe she just didn't know it was Iruka that was in the hospital, and maybe she could cure it up no problem. But for some reason, he couldn't bring his legs to move any faster than a slow walk. By the time he got to the Hokage tower he knew it was a bad idea. He heard her shouts and commands from 3 floors below. When he finally got to the door, he thought twice about knocking "No, wait, this is Iruka Sensei we're talking about, nothing is gonna put me off this!" He mentally shouted to himself. He knocked and the door.
"WHAT IS IT NOW?!" Tsunade shouted. Naruto entered, and began to pour into the details of Iruka, and question why she hadn't been there to do anything, and how she needed to sort it out immediately. Tsunade's rage subsided partially.
"Naruto, I know of Iruka's condition, I'm afraid there's nothing anyone can do, all we can do is wait and hope." She said, sympathetically. This merely angered Naruto
"What do you mean wait? Wait for what?? We should be doing something, now waiting around for this thing to eat him from the inside!"
"Naruto! Calm down, we need to"
"No! I Won't! You're not doing anything, You're supposed to be the Hokage! You're supposed to Deal with this stuff! That's your job!" The knot in this throat was rising and tightening with every passing moment. Tsunade didn't answer, "Logic doesn't ease the pain of the wounded" she thought to herself.
"Well?! WHAT ARE YOU GONNA DO?!" He yelled at her. After a few more moments waiting he couldn't keep that knot down, tears rose to his eyes, and pour down his face. He turned and ran, he had to run, get away from it, and escape from it all. If he ran far enough things couldn't catch him, they couldn't catch him. Wiping away the tears as he ran with all his might, he soon found himself on the outskirts of Konoha. There on the outskirts, looking down on the town from above, in the freezing furious frost that hailed from the heavens, he realised, he could get away from it all.
He stopped and thought about it "Things look bad now, Iruka-Sensei… Then Sakura, even the others, they don't really care about me, I always make the missions fail. I get in peoples way, and I say things I know I shouldn't. Sasuke… I couldn't even bring him back; I still haven't, even after all that training, is wasted on a fool like me. The villagers hate my guts, they'll never let me forget that, I always used to think, maybe it's be better if I was never born… now I know, it really would be, a much better place if I never was born…Maybe by doing this now… some wrongs will be righted"
He looked down the cliff; few hundred feet he guessed mentally, that should do the trick... he leant forward, bit by bit. "See you on the other side, Iruka-Sensei"
A/N: First chapter Done, I fully intend to finish this off here and now, I'm stuck here for 6 hours anyways (Don't even get me started) Hope you like, It'll be 3 chapters long, though I would bet each chapter gets progressively longer.
As the same in all my FanFic don't be shy in letting me know what you think, If you think my character are too OoC, tell me! If you think it's too unoriginal tell me! These stories don't get better unless you tell me what I'm doing wrong, so now I made that clear, it's A-okay if I blame you that they stink ;p And it's my talent if they're good (Obviously ;p)
