~Sorry for my recent short chapters… Here's another one shot to cheer you up… I swear I'm just writing these to help me…~
"Brother my brother, tell me: What are we fighting for? We've got to end this war."
Naruto Uzamaki glared at his opponent, and best friend. Nothing in the world would have prepared him for this. He was battered, bruised, and broken from attempting to kill the one person he'd viewed as family. He wanted to give up and let the onslaught of punches and shuriken engulf him, but he knew his family, the villages, life would be caught in the wake. So he punched on.
"We should love one another."
Sasuke's friends stood around him waiting for him to destroy someone he never wanted to. He hadn't killed Naruto that night because he didn't want to be at the same level of evil as his brother, but here he was doing exactly that. His mind was turning on how to get Naruto to stop… Kohona was his home… But they'd wronged him… Why was he thinking like this? He needed to snap out of it. Kohona was going to be destroyed.
"Can't we just pretend this war never began?"
"Sasuke!" Naruto cried in one last ditch effort to save his best friend. "Think of what you're doing! This isn't right. We're your family-"
"I have no family!" Sasuke growled. "Remember! Kohona had my family destroyed, and pinned it on my brother!"
"We could try. Brother my brother."
"Sasuke, don't think of Danzo, or the Elders, but of Me, Kakashi, and Sakura… Ino, Choji, and Shikamaru… Hinata, Kiba, and Shino…. Neji, Tenten, and Lee… Us! The people who care about you the ones that have spent half our lives trying to get you to come back. Don't you care about us, Sasuke…?" Sasuke stopped for a moment, but the anger burned inside him.
"We face each other from different sides. The anger burns can't remember why."
Sasuke stood staring at Naruto's outstretched hand trying to forget about his friends, and his life in Kohona. The people here hadn't changed, but he had.
"We face each other from different sides. The anger burns can't remember why."
He had become stronger, and more aware of the evil that surrounded even the innocent, the innocent who didn't deserve to die, to be punished, or to be feared. The peace loving man who never wanted to hurt that was forced into war, and the war loving monger who fueled the hurt, so he could have his fix being seen as the hero. Why couldn't they see what he did?
"It's kind of crazy to cause such pain. Our foolish pride makes us hate this way"
Naruto stared at Sasuke who was looking at the already broken Kohona. The people searching for loved ones in the rubble Pein had caused. The destruction that two consecutive attacks had caused on the once beautiful village was immense, and had turned the place upside down in sadness and loss. They'd watched their strongest warriors fall under the power, but seen the greatest warrior rise to the top to save them. Now here was their hero facing a power that equaled or surpassed him, and they felt the doom upon their precious world.
"We watch our worlds fall apart. Tell me what good is winning, when you lose your heart?"
"Where is Sakura, Naruto?" Saskue had always told Naruto to protect their fragile female teammate.
"Working her magic. She's a great medical nin now… You'd be surprised at how strong she's gotten." Naruto smiled feeling Sasuke being pulled in.
"Go away…" Sasuke glared at his team hebi. "Kohona has seen enough pain." Sasuke turned and nodded at Naruto.
"Good to have you back Brother." With that they began to rebuild what they had lost in the destruction.
A friendship, a family, and a home.
~~FIN~~
Sorry it's not the best, but I like the idea.
Song- Brother my Brother by Blessid Union of Souls
