I know, I know, I'm supposed to be working on anything but a new bit of a story. I promise those updates are coming…TaT's next chapter is done and ready to be uploaded, Sisco is working on the next chapter of BW, I'm working on PbS, and for the person who asked about CR, I'll light a fire under my butt for that one too.
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Hate Me
"How can you do this to me?" The words hung heavily in the air and he began to wonder if he would ever receive an answer. The words were quiet when they were finally whispered and he had to strain to hear them. It wasn't easy considering the hand that was shoved through his chest, but the words hurt him more.
"Hate me," the other boy whispered before pulling his hand free and dropping Naruto to the ground. He stood there staring down at him before he dropped the one thing identifying him as a Konoha ninja, his forehead protector, ruined by the scratch that would now identify him as a traitor. The scratch that made him the same as his brother. He had no more ties to that place, no more ties to the man lying on stone bleeding to death. There was only one place he belonged now. Sasuke knelt beside the boy he had been trying to prove himself to and placed his forehead against the other's. "Hate me so you can finally see what's good for you."
He stood and turned away. "Hate me," he whispered before walking away.
"Sasuke, wait," Naruto gasped, trying to stand and follow him. He'd made it to his knees before Sasuke pushed him back down. Naruto looked up at him with tears brimming in his eyes and Sasuke had to turn his eyes away. "Why…why are you doing this?"
Sasuke lifted him. He carried Naruto to the edge of the cliff and held him out over the water. "It doesn't matter. Hate me!"
Naruto's eyes widened as Sasuke let go of his shirt and he began to fall. He couldn't even yell as he dropped rapidly. It was only after Kyuubi's chakra saved him from a gruesome death on the rocks and Sasuke had walked away that he managed to yell, "Fuck you, asshole!"
It echoed back to him off the cliffs and he slumped to his knees.
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Three years later…
The wind blew his hair around his face as he stood facing Hokage Mountain after the three years he had spent training with Jiraiya. He tried to smile as he ran his eyes over the faces of the men who had come before him but as his eyes landed on the face of the Fourth he had to look down in shame. That man had saved the entire village and Naruto hadn't even been able to protect his best friend and rival.
As always before when something brought Sasuke to mind, all Naruto could hear were those last words.
Hate me today
Hate me tomorrow
Hate me for all the things I didn't do for you
Hate me in ways
Yeah ways hard to swallow
Hate me so you can finally see what's good for you
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Eh? I don't know, I got the sudden idea and that's not really all I had the idea to do but that's what I felt like writing. For anyone that doesn't already know, the song is Hate Me by Blue October. I suggest you all have a listen; it'll inspire all sorts of angstiness for Sasuke and Naruto.