Salt of the Earth
If anyone read my Hercules fiction then this will look familiar, I thought this scenario worked really well with Sasuke and Naruto so I decided to apply it. Watching the murder of his family just made Sasuke go off the rails and become a dangerous villian but....
The battle between the two former comrades was something to see Sasuke was amazed at seeing Naruto in sage mode. Naruto had become stronger than him, how was it possible. Naruto came up to him with what would have been a killing blow, Sasuke or Konoha what was he supposed to do but in the end he couldn't do it he hesitated but that was all Sasuke needed he countered Naruto's attack and managed to render him unconcious and bloody. Sasuke stood over his old friend ready to deliver a chidori that would end this. He had the chidori in his hand raised and ready but before that he saw something he had blocked out. He saw his family lying dead in the street, he saw his mother and father lying dead on the floor of his home. He looked at Naruto and he saw his brother lying dead by his hand. His heart was pounding like it never had before not even when he fought Itachi. The chidori disappeared in his hand and he lowered it, he stood there for a few seconds just staring at Naruto. Kakashi, Sakura, Yamato, Shikamaru, Ino and many more had been watching this battle and were waiting to see what happened, Kakashi had, had to stop Sakura from intervining a few times but now she was too stunned to move. Then something no-one expected happened, Sasuke fell to his knees beside Naruto and gathered his unconcious form into his arms and began to weep into his shoulder. Kakashi was stunned, he was a little tempted to go forward but he thought better of it and decided to move everyone away, he tryed to get Sakura to leave but she adimently refused until Ino came, putting a gental hand on her shoulder she said, "Don't you think we should leave them be, it's over Sakura I can feel it please just come so I can treat your wounds, your traumatized."
Tears leaked from Saskura's eyes and she allowed herself to be lead away. Kakshi decided to stay just incase anything further happened but it didn't. Sasuke just cryed into Naruto's shoulder for at least ten minuets and even when he stopped crying he didn't move away. After a further five minuets Medical agents sent by Lady Tsunade came in, they looked at Sasuke and then Kakashi they obviously didn't want to interupt but they said, "I'm afraid we have orders to take Naruto to be healed."
Kakashi decided that, that was best. There were a lot of things he wanted to say to Sasuke but he knew now wasn't the time so he just approached cautiously and placed his hand on Sasuke's shoulder, "Sasuke, we need to take him away to be healed now."
Sasuke didn't move, Kakashi knelt down and gentally took Naruto out of Sasuke's arms and picked him up. Sasuke allowed it keeping his head downcast. Kakashi placed Naruto carefully on the stretcher and said to him, "You did it Naruto, it's over. I'm so proud of you."
There was so much more he wanted to say but he let the agents take Naruto away to be healed. He then went over to Sasuke and thought it safe to put Sasuke's arm around his shoulder and help him up. He took his former student to the hospital.
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Tell me if you want to know what happens next.