The Gemstones!
I do not own Naruto or anything like that!
A/N: Anything in italics is a flashback. , Anything in bold is the narrator speaking. Oh and by the way the story takes place after Sasuke after to the village.
Chapter One - Father Time!!
"We'll be together forever!" Those are the words spoken by truly innocent children. To them that was the promise of the world. Forever together, together forever. It's as easy as pie, right? Staying together I mean. But it's not so easy when you start making the wrong chooses. Smoking, drinking, and doing drugs all that bad stuff, you know. I know you're probably heard this trillion times, but I'm not here to lecture you. All I want to do is to tell you the story of three friends, how it all started and how it all ends.
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A tall, slender blonde made his way toward a dark alley with a shady looking ninja in the entrance. The blonde ninja smirked at the shady character as he greeted him. "Well hello there Sai, what brings you to this neck of the woods?" The blonde asked his friend as he flashed his set of yellowed teeth.
The ninja named Sai pulled out a cigarette and lit it before answering the blonde. "You see Naruto, you owe me quite a large amount of money and I with wondering when you were intending on repaying me. You see if you don't requite me, I may be forced to hurt you my friend," Sai threatened as he exhaled a ring of smoke with a grave look in his lavender irises.
Naruto blinked at the brunet man as his smile vanished from his face. "Sai, come on man, it was only hundred dollars. Its not that much right, I mean gosh man. I will tell you what, I will bring you the money tomorrow but you have to meet me here, same time okay?"
The brunet man narrowed his pupal-less eyes at the blonde ninja. "I better have my fucking money! Now get out of my sights before I shove this cigarette up your scrawny ass!" Sai barked as he tapped a bit of the ash off the end of the cigarette in his hand.
Naruto scrambled away from the alley way and sighed to himself. Abruptly smoke puffed up from the ground about twenty feet away from where Naruto stood flabbergasted. A tall elderly man held himself up high. His grey, scraggly beard brushed the dirt road he stood upon. His half-moon spectacles sat at the end of his pointed nose. His vivid malachite colored eyes beared a look of deep disappointment. His apparel consisted of a long royal blue robe with a silver rope tied around his thin waist. Strung about his neck was a necklace with a huge clock attach. He held a large wooden staff in his right hand as he stared at Naruto.
"Who the hell are you, you old geezer?" Naruto blurted slightly stunned by his sudden appearance.
"I, my dear boy, I am Father Time. But reflect upon your miserable life. Are you proud of it? By god, have you no shame?" Father Time spat at the frightened blonde.
"What do you mean old man? I enjoy my life thank you very much!" Naruto retorted indigently as he crossed his arms and turn up his nose.
Father Time snatched him up by the collar and hissed, "Do you not miss his?"
Naruto bowed his head and asked even though he knew very really who he meant, "Miss who?"
"Don't you even dare play coy with my you damn prat!" Father Time bellowed as he hurled Naruto to the ground. "Now I was sent to give you a second chance. Were you like that second chance, to redo from that faithful moment?" Father Time enquired in a very vexed voice.
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Now in the Village Hidden In The Leaves there was an extremely special tree. That tree was called The Tree Of Oaths. And every single villager was presented a unique gemstone with their initials when they turn thirteen. The individual would wear the gemstone his/her neck until she/he decided to bind himself/herself to another person, be it a friend or a spouse. The shape of the gemstone depended on the attitude of the individual. The color depended on the individual's hair and/or eye color. The Tree Of Oaths was the tree people went to bind one another to each other. Example : a man in the village gets married, his wife's gemstone is tied to her husband's chain and nailed to The Tree Of Oaths. And if the two of them wanted to separate, they would have to get the Hokage to untangle the two chains with a justu only known by the Hokage.
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Flashback
Naruto and Sasuke had been dating for about five months when they got into a gigantic fight. And several days before the fight they had their gemstones tied together on The Tree Of Oaths.
"Naruto Uzumaki, how dare you cheat on me!" Sasuke roared at the blonde as he lobbed a kitchen knife at him.
"Sasuke Uchiha, how could you think I would ever cheat on you?" Naruto asked in a flummoxed tone as he moved to dodge the oncoming knife.
"I saw you kiss that Hyuuga guy with my own fucking eyes dobe!" Sasuke hollered in response as tears stung his vermillion eyes.
"But Sasuke Neji kissed me, I was trying to fight him off but he would not quit!" Naruto claimed as he went to hug his weeping raven.
As Naruto's arms touched Sasuke, he flipped. "Do not fucking touch me you teme! I am going out and don't you even think of following me!" Sasuke yelled as he stormed out the door. When Sasuke slammed the door shut, Naruto grabbed a knife and headed to The Tree Of Oaths.
"That Ama, I would never cheat on him! How could he even insinuate such a horrible thing?" Naruto shouted as he stood in front of The Tree Of Oaths. Naruto skimmed each gemstone until he spotted Sasuke's stone. He hacked at Sasuke's chain until it broke and let it drop to the grassy forest floor. Naruto breathed a sigh of relief as he sprinted back to his house.
The Next Morning
"Naruto, Naruto, Naruto, Sasuke was found dead at the bar. This piece of paper was found by his body," Sakura cried as he handed Naruto the paper.
The handwriting was a rather sloppy verse of Sasuke's neat cursive. The heading was My Apology To Naruto. And it read: "Naruto I'm sorry I yelled at you like that darling." The paper ended there, he must have died writing his apology. Naruto's blue eyes filled with tears that stained his tan cheeks
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"So do you want a second chance or not?" Father Time asked irritated.
Naruto nodded as he began to cry.
A/N: Thank you are reading, do not forget to review and let me know what you think of my story and if it should continue!C=
ApocalypticSasuke over!