A female Sasuke fan fiction again. Time travel. Konohamaru X Sasuke.
Summary: Killing is not a fault during war, it is a responsibility. As he poised the blade at her throat, he whispered to her, "This is to end Naruto's inner war." And an afterthought, said silently to himself, 'And mine.'
It is seven years after the war between Madara and the world. It was the worst war (or so he'd been told), and the most memorable one (so say the veterans that have managed to survive a few) for it was in this war that all five shinobi nations were brought together for each other and not against. And it is memorable for Konohamaru for it had been his first war, and though it has been seven years, some days it seemed to have happened only days before.
Sometimes he becomes afraid of closing his eyes for he would come back to that time when he was twelve and all he saw was death and blood and his friends' horror and his own mirrored in each other's eyes. He doesn't want to go back to that time.
He had killed, and it took a while before he was able to convince himself that at that time it was a valid action, and no excuse was demanded to justify it. It was a war. Killing is not a fault during war, it is a responsibility. He has become accustomed to it. At this point in his life, with all the missions he'd done, he has hardened into a decent shinobi worthy of the jounin rank he'd acquired precisely three months and six days prior to this day. He has no regrets (no tremendous ones, anyway) from that time, unlike some who are not even aware of how tragic they'd become from the remorse they'd enclosed themselves in. And there is one person in particular that is a victim of this self-inflicted internal disorder: Rokudaime Hokage Uzumaki Naruto.
Two years ago, a twenty-year-old Uzumaki Naruto was handed the position as leader of Konogakure, a well-deserved reward (or compensation), by popular opinion. Of course it was also by the Council of Elder's approval (as it had always been and always will be).
Naruto is still Naruto. Yet sometimes he becomes different. He becomes distracted, angry, depressed, and even cruel, among many things, and these changes were sometimes severe that Konohamaru becomes frightened. He begins to think of the demon inside that strong-willed, good-natured person's body take over. He wouldn't be able to live with the fact that his Naruto nii-chan would hurt and even kill his own comrades, even though it wasn't really Naruto nii-chan, and even though he'll know that it was the monster he'll still blame the human and not the evil thing inside him and that is the most terrifying.
The most upsetting thing for Konohamaru is the cause of Naruto's condition. Uchiha Sasuke. He'd developed a hate for the girl after the war when he had realized that she had been the source of many damaging situations. It was because of her that Orochimaru had come back to this village ten years ago, and it led to the death of Sandaime Hokage. The village lost their leader, he lost his grandfather. And then again, it was with her help that the war seven years ago took place. And until now, though she is gone, she continues to destroy people with their memory of her. And it is aggravating, that despite the damage she had done to the village and the rest of the world, be it directly or indirectly, there are still those who mourn for her, and even hope for news of her existence. They did not find her body, and not believing her dead is the chain that binds Naruto, Sakura, and Kakashi.
But she has not consumed the pink-haired medic and the Copy-Ninja, unlike the blonde who is obsessed with that black-haired girl who had been his rival and his goal and maybe, hopefully, had been his friend. It had been this twisted relationship that traps Naruto in an equally twisted desire for her (in Konohamaru's opinion anyway). What Naruto needs is closure, and Konohamaru is especially willing to find her for him if it would end the torment, or ease it a little bit.
And if he finds her alive...
I will kill her.
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