Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto, but I do own Mitarashi Aiko. She is my OC.
AN: Hey this is the first fan fiction I ever wrote, and I started it back in March. So if the quality is lower than my other fan fictions it is because it is an old story. So read and review. I've already written several chapters so I'll update probably once a day. Alright douces.
Chapter 1
In the distance I can see his cold eyes staring back at me. His cold, dead, unmoving red eyes. His eyes begin to move closer to me, and with them the rest of his body as well. As he approaches I feel the chill dead air around him coming closer to me. I want to run, I tell myself to run, but yet I am unable to run; I feel my feet rooted in the ground.
When he gets up to me I can feel his cold breath on my neck. For a minuet we stood there, completely still.
Then he leans in close to my face and he says, "Miss me Aiko?"
It was then that I woke up with a start. I scream loudly, and I hear a rustling noise; I know that it must be someone else in the room coming to check on me. And sure enough it is Sakura.
"Aiko! What is wrong?" She shouts at me. I see Naruto walk up behind her.
"Saku Chan I'm fine, I just had a nightmare." I assure her. Naruto's gaze catches my eyes and I know that he knows that I'm not telling her the whole truth.
I stand up and he whispers, "Was it Sasuke, again?" His hands on my shoulders he stares me down as he waits for my response. I nod silently in response and he accepts that as an answer and walks away. I walk towards the door and I go through it.
I walk quietly down the hall and I can hear Naruto and Sakura behind me. I open the front door and I feel the whoosh of the chill morning air upon my face. When I walk outside, I see the many trees outside our small little hut.
I stand there for quite some time breathing and thinking. Naruto walks up behind me and puts his arm around my shoulder; he turns me so that I am facing him. He hugs me and he says, "Aiko Chan, Sasuke is gone, he isn't coming back, you made sure of that."
"I know that Naruto. But you can't forget how close he and I were. Sure, I killed him, but I still love him even now."
"Aiko, Sasuke was a manipulative and unloving person. I believe that when you both joined akatsuki he did love you. But as time wore on Sasuke became a different person. Remember Aiko, before you showed up he was ready to drive a knife through Sakura."
"I know Naruto, I know that he was a changed man when he died. I know that I was not killing the Sasuke who was my lover, I was not killing the little kid that fought alongside us against Haku, I was not killing Sasuke the Konoha Genin. I was killing Sasuke the rouge ninja, the manipulative and changed person."
"Aiko," Sakura says speaking up from out of the shadows. "Are you sure that you are okay?"
"Yes Saku Chan. I am fine."
Then Sakura turned around and went back inside. I turn back towards Naruto and say, "We have to go back to the village, living here is not good for her. She needs the village, you need the village."
"No" Naruto says firmly. "No we are not going to leave you out here all by yourself!"
"Then take me with you Naruto! You don't have to leave me behind." I say.
"No," He says, again grasping my shoulders. "You know why you can't come back Aiko Chan."
"But maybe we just haven't given the village a chance, I mean we have been living out here for a matter of weeks. And a lot can happen in a matter of weeks." I say. "I mean Danzou is dead, he can't banish me anymore. And either my father is hokage or Tsunade is still hokage. Either way, I can't imagine that they will banish me. Both of them know that I have changed."
"Then why," Naruto starts, "have they not come to find you?"
"Perhaps they are waiting for me to come back to them," I say. Just then does Sakura walk up behind us.
"Why am I not allowed to be in this conversation?" she asks, as we both turn around to face her.
"No reason," I say putting my hand on her shoulder, "We are merely discussing whether or not now is the right time to return to the village."
"Oh," She says. "And what consensus have you come to?" She asks.
"Well I don't about him but I-"
"No," He interjects, "We aren't going back." As he says this the expression in Sakura's face visibly darkens.
"Well, like I was saying," I say nudging Naruto, "I don't know about him, but I am going back. And you, are most welcome to come with me."
Her face lights up once again, she nods okay and turns around. She walks towards the hut to pack up her things.
"Why?" Naruto asks me.
"Because Naruto, you aren't the boss of her, if she wants to go back, then hell, let her. I'm going back because I am tired of hiding out here waiting for Konoha to finally come and get me because they won't. And you know that I'm right."
His face turns downcast and he nods silently. Naruto is seventeen, but sometimes I forget how young he really is. He is upset at Konoha for not forgiving me, for not welcoming me back into its society. But, I can hardly blame the people of that town. I was in the Akatsuki, I was a common enemy. I was in the organization that nearly destroyed Konoha. And while, yes I have proven my loyalty to the city over and over again, the people are still afraid of me. I have personally killed half of Akatsuki, I killed the last of the Uchiha clan. I killed Uchiha Madarra. But this still was not enough for the village to forgive me.
Naruto turned around and walked back into the hut to gather his things also.
Within the next hour we had left. All of our things with us, we flew through the trees. Our feet hardly touching each branch, we covered a lot of distance in a short amount of time.
Suddenly as we went on, Sakura stopped. Noticing this Naruto and I both also stopped. And looked back at her. We were about fifteen feet in front of her.
Her face was white as snow and hard as stone. I jump back towards her and I place my hand on her shoulder.
"What is it Sakura?" I say.
"I-I-I I just…"
By this point Naruto is standing there with us, looking at Sakura with concern.
"You just what?"
"I-I-I felt the ch-ch-chakra of…."
"Of who Sakura?" Naruto says, his voice brimming with concern.
"S-Sai."
Both Naruto and I are in complete shock. We look from Sakura to each other and exchange glances.
I say, "Where?" Just as Naruto says, "Fuck,"
She points to the direction in which we were traveling, towards Konoha. Her hand shaking I ask her how far away he is.
"He is practically on top of us, there is no use in running." She says.
And with that we hear the rustling of leaves as he stops running as well. He stops and for a moment we all just stare at him. He then starts to walk towards us, and Naruto tenses up, ready to fight. But I put my hand on his shoulder and I walk in front of him, motioning for him to relax.
Sai and I are now walking towards each other, when we are about five feet away from each other we stop.
And I say, "Hey Sai, you miss me?"
"Actually I did," he says with a light chuckle.
"Ha, I'll bet you did." I say laughing along with him.
"Is it true? Was it really you who killed the last of the Uchihas? Was it you who killed Uchiha Madarra?"
"That it was Sai." I say.
"Wow, you really have changed so much. You should come back to the village. Your father is hokage now."
"Wait," Naruto says joining us. "Kakashi sensei is hokage?"
"Yes Naruto, Kakashi is the sixth hokage." After he says this Sakura approaches us. He addresses her saying, "Hello Sakura, how are you?"
She nods to mean good. She then asks, "How is Ino?"
"Yamanaka Ino is just fine I imagine. I haven't talked to her in quite some time." At this Sakura nods in understanding. When Sakura and Naruto left Konoha Sai and Ino were rather infatuated with each other. And after Sasuke died, Sakura and Ino became very distant. So it was hard to be friends with Sai.
"But Aiko, you really should come back. Everyone only speaks the highest praise of you." Sai says again addressing me.
"Well, where do you think that I am going right now?" I say, "Of course I'm going back. The only reason it took this long was because Naruto was hard to convince." I say nudging him.
"Ah I see. Well then," he says extending his arm to me, "Let's go home."
