A/N: hey :) Second fic I've posted. SasuNaruSasu. Yaoi/Slash/Boy love. No lemons (I can't write those x.x). Oh and this takes place in the manga, during Shippuden so = MEGA SPOILERS! Rated T for language. Will be more than one chapter.
Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto or the characters or the plot that Masashi Kishimoto has created, but the plot of this following story. I wish I own Sasuke though .
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"WHAT? WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU? WHY DO YOU CARE ABOUT ME SO MUCH?"
"Because I'm your friend Sasuke"
Silence… A sigh was heard from the raven.
"Just forget me Naruto." He spat, "I've changed, and I'm not reverting back. I am not going back to Konoha; I am not regretting my decisions. I have chosen my path."
"Fuck," Naruto cursed, "You don't get it do you? Do you even know why you are targeting the whole of Konoha?"
"Uh, ye-" obviously… Sasuke thought
"No, you don't. You are just so blinded by your own rage that you can't even realize that there are only three living people to blame! Only freaking three! Almost the whole population of Konoha never even had an idea of what happened!"
Naruto heard no reply. Fuck! that bastard!
"If you blame Itachi's death on Konoha, and go into battle with the village… I will not consider myself as your friend then. If you attack Konoha, you will be my enemy, my target." Naruto spoke quietly, now shaking with rage, "Really Sasuke? Do you really want that to happen? You know that Itachi DIDN'T want you to destroy Konoha! HE DIDN'T WANT YOU TO DO THIS! HE WANTED TO PROTECT YOU." Naruto didn't really know what he was saying, but these words were true. As Madara had told Naruto, Kakashi and Yamato about the truth of Itachi's mission.
Sasuke's breathing had hitched; he looked around and mumbled something like "Fuck…. Need some space…" before he propelled himself off towards the deep forest running off to somewhere; that Naruto presumed, to think. So without words, as Sasuke took off, Naruto instantly followed. In the midst of the sudden departure of Sasuke, Team Taka also had the reaction to follow but was halted by Kakashi and members of Rookie 9.
"Do not follow them. Let Sasuke think this out - on his own. You are surrounded anyways."
Gliding past blurred trees, dodging oncoming branches, Sasuke ran. He ran.
[Sasuke's thoughts]
-Shit. This is the reason why I try to separate myself from Naruto. ARGH! He always does this. He always finds a way to talk me into rethinking my plans. Shit.
- But what is he is right? Am I really going too far this time?
- Fuck. Stop thinking like that.
-Am I really going to try and destroy Konoha? Really?
-Dammit.
[Normal POV]
Making his way through a small clearing, Sasuke finds himself in a secluded area nearby a cliff, overlooking a small valley. Strong winds whistle through the trees, raven hair whipping his face. Sasuke let out a tensed breath and sat, dangling his aching feet over the cliff's edge.
-Shit, why does he have this effect on me? Every time. Every time I see him now, I rethink my actions… I try to bring myself to kill him. Just put an end to all his attempts to convince me. But that pathetic kid inside me just. Can't. Let. Go.
-… Yeah, that's easy. I will kill him. Next time I see him Probably soon. I'm ready. Watch out.
Where the hell is that bastard? Naruto thought, swiftly glancing the area. Ugh, I swear I saw him just a moment ago. His eyes fly past swaying old trees, left, right, left, right.
Tree, tree, stump, tree, rock, tree, squirrel, tree, tree, tree, duck's ass, tree, tree.
Whaddafok? Naruto did a (graceful) double take, stealthily swerving around the trees near Sasuke.
"Fuck" he heard Sasuke say, and saw he raven rest his head in his porcelain hands.
Sasuke knew Naruto was behind him. He just didn't do anything. Yet. He was planning how to attack him.
Naruto stepped closer slowly. One step. Two step.
He looks so peaceful. Naruto thought, big mistake.
"Oh shit!"
Sasuke had unexpectedly swiveled around and extended his foot, whacking Naruto off balance, sending him flying to the grass floor.
Naruto though caught off guard, attempted to jump away but was too slow for Sasuke's blinding speed. Naruto used his arm to prop his body up, and propelled his body towards Sasuke, maneuvering his body in mid air, he had been able to place his foot on Sasuke's left shoulder. He felt cold fingers wrap around his ankle before he could withdraw his foot, and Sasuke's tight grip didn't let go. The raven yanked Naruto's leg and twisted it, earning a yelp of pain from the blonde. Naruto twisted with his foot and drove fist towards Sasuke's face but this was a fruitless attempt as Sasuke's free palm caught his fist. Everything happened in slow motion. Every attack analyzed, every attack blocked. Offense and defense both teens fought. In one last attempt to land a blow, Naruto swung his free knee up into Sasuke's gut. Success. He rammed his knee straight into the Sasuke's abs. The raven couldn't block this blow, his hands were occupied and had to let go of his rival's limbs to shy away, preventing more damage.
"Shit!" Sasuke's wind got knocked out of him and he doubled over. Both boys knew that Sasuke could move so much faster. Naruto has seen it before. Last time I saw him, he was fuh-king fast. What's his problem today? TAKE ADVANTAGE!
-Shit, why am I thinking so much! I can't even fricking fight properly! Dammit! Goddam Naruto!
Naruto didn't give him a chance to recover and instantly created two clones and darted towards the hunched Sasuke. But knowing his trademark technique, Sasuke already his expected this. He had already set kunai in the surrounding trees, and set the kunai flying using chakra strings. Poof. Poof. Having snuck away, (the real) Naruto jumped out of the kunai-swarmed area quickly then creating three more clones hurtling towards Sasuke. The raven watched as three orange masses created a shuriken rain above him. With his (trusty) sharingan, this moved slowly, expecting. He deflected all the direct shuriken and reflected a few, sending them towards the clones. Just before the disappearing-clone-smoke disappeared a blonde head shot out of the blur and with a large rasengan in hand.. But a loud crackling sounded and bright ripples of lightning had sprouted in Sasuke's palm and both boys were caught in a feeling of dreamy nostalgia. Just like the Valley of The End. The two had collided. They saw white. They were standing. No scratches. No chakra attacks, just Sasuke. And Naruto.
"You know Sasuke, I hated everyone too. Because they hated me. Because I was a monster, you know, the whole kyuubi thing. I really won't lie to you. I really despised them, and I hated my life. I didn't understand anything at all. But then I… I met you Sasuke. Heh, please excuse my cheesiness." Naruto said with a funny voice and a familiar grin played his lips, while scratching the back of his head. Sasuke had to look away, anywhere but at the blonde while he carried on,
"Well, yeah, so then I met you. You were so… different, than anyone else. So different than everyone I've met! People, they would either avoid me or shout at me. I heard all their whispers. Every single one of them. They hurt, and I didn't even know why. But then you came along. And though you didn't accept me with loving arms," Another grin, "You still didn't whisper. If you ever insult me, you did it to my face. And I liked your bravery. Heh, I thought you were so cool like that. I gotta say… I was jealous of you! You and your air of aloof, so composed. So, I worked hard. I worked hard to earn your approval. Day in, day out, I'd look up to you. And one day, I realized I had made that bond, Sasuke. I had done it. Earned your approval, earned our strong friendship…" Naruto let out a tense sigh, "But you just had to go try and fuck it all up." The blond looked to his feet. "That hurt the most Sasuke. More than anything I ever had felt. Even worse, was when I thought… I thought I could convince you that night, at the Valley of The End. But all I woke up with was your old headband. So, I was so so so determined… To bring you back. To fill up this rip in me… To not hurt. Not anymore." Sasuke could hear that Naruto's breathing was wavering, deep and shallow breaths.
-WHY… Why do I have this effect on him? ARGH! Why? Why am I starting to feel bad now?
-Think about it boy, you have been trying to sever this bond with him, but all you did, was just burying it deeper, and deeper. Guilt is normal. Come on! Just kill him already!
-Shut up. Fuck… what am I doing?
A silence filled the air of the white dimension. Both boys in deep thought. Both knew the other was talking about Naruto's previous words. Breaths had levelled, to a slow rhythm. Sasuke slowly turned his head towards Naruto, watching his movements.
"Wow moron, I didn't know you loved me so much! I've never heard you say so much at one time!"
CRACKJOKE. (1).
Sasuke heard Naruto's held breath instantly released and he also heard the familiar response.
"You bastard! You know that's not what I meant! Ahhhhhhh you dick!"
"Hn, at least I have one…"
"GOD! YOU AND SAI ARE SO ALIKE!" Naruto had tackled Sasuke, but surprisingly didn't receive a chidori to his side.
At this point, both boys knew that Sasuke wasn't fully insane, bent on avenging. But also both boys knew that Sasuke still had his pride. He wasn't going to change his mind easily, and Naruto definitely knew that.
The white dimension rippled around them, distorting and started producing colours. Chidori and rasengan connected. Creating that same energy ball. But this time blue shock-waves appeared (2). When they collided, they were above a small valley, Naruto had jumped far backwards in attempt to avoid Sasuke's kunai traps and his clone had flung him back towards the raven – while he had jumped off the cliff towards Naruto. The two boys repelled from each other, both causing equal damage to the other. They were flung to opposite cliff-faces and had rolled down the gradual sides, right to the bottom. A crystal clear slow but steady stream flowed right through the middle, separating the two boys by a few meters.
-Oh god, don't tell me I killed him. Please.
-YES THAT IT! YOUR CHIDORI WENT STRAIGHT INTO HIS LEFT SHOULDER!
-No. No. Please. NO!
Sasuke hadn't even opened his eyes yet. His chest radiating extreme pain, also feeling stabs at his sides. He quickly concluded where he was.
With quiet grunts, Naruto very slowly (and gingerly) propped himself up against a nearby rock.
Good thing I didn't land on that… Naruto winced at that thought. Ignoring the screaming pain from his left shoulder, his eyes slowly crawled the area in search of a head of black.
"Fuck." He heard, darting his eyes over to see the Uchiha scrambling from a bush, and swatting away stray leaves from his hair "What are you laughing at idiot?"
"Oh 'cause you're so cool as the first thing to do right after a direct rasengan is to care about your hair, bastard! "
"Shut up moron." Sasuke turned to glare at Naruto, but only found himself at feebly staring into deep azure eyes. Naruto felt his face warm up, staring into those pooling midnight eyes. He didn't see that distant soul anymore; Naruto saw a different light in Sasuke's eyes. And no, this was not a special sharingan illusion. Just Sasuke and Naruto, sat facing each other. Stumped for words, just staring into each other's eyes, pain dissipating, wounds already started healing. And unsaid words were exchanged.
-I'm sorry.
-Its okay.
-I'm sorry.
-Its okay.
A comfortable silence lingered on the two boys; their eyes were closed now. Smiling to themselves. Until Sasuke opened his mouth.
"I wish I could just sit here for the rest of my life." The flutter of bird's wings was heard, in harmony of the winds creating songs in the trees, the gentle sounds of the flowing stream. "Its so peaceful. I don't have to care about anything else. No Madara, no Team Taka, just you, me, and this pretty stream." Sasuke said, as the two boys both broke out in laughter, but recoiled at their previously forgotten pain.
"Nah, I'm hungry. I wanna get back home and buy some ramen."
"God, you idiot."
Both had sat in another comfortable silence. But this time,
"So what are you gonna do now eh, Sasuke?"
"I don't know… Lets just sit here for a short while."
"Sure. Okay, I can do that. Heh," Naruto grinned again.
-Why can't it just be like this forever?
To Be Continued.
A/N: ahh I hope you liked it, I've got more planned!
(1): Crackjokes are what I call a joke or statement that you use to break the ice, normally really lame or, to ease tension.
(2): Comparing it to the fight at VoTE, the big energy ball thing was purple, because (I'm guessing) Sasuke's chidori is like blue-ish… and Naruto's kyuubi chakra was red-ish. =purple… But this time, Naruto isn't using his kyuubi chakra, so no big purple dome.
And they both didn't get knocked out because one, they are much stronger (defensively) now, and two, because when they came back from the white dimension, they didn't have the intent to kill, thus resulting in less destructive attacks.
And to clear things up, Naruto DOES know about Itachi's mission. (remove**s)
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And everyone knows Sasuke isn't wholly right in the noggin. In this story, one part of him still belongs to Konoha, and actually cares. The other half of him is bent on revenge and avenging. So the bold sentences is him talking to himself make sense?
If you still don't understand the things going on or whatever, just review and ask your question too, and I'll reply to you asap~ Sorry this is really long. Had to clear things up.
Ja ne!
ps. I don't know when I'm gonna update….. I shall be trying.
