Sasuke heard his older brother's voice inside his head, he continuously heard the taunting voice, teasing him maliciously "You'll never have enough hate to kill me" Sasuke imagined his brother; staring at his little brother, so pathetic, so weak. He had been unable to do anything about the slaughtering of his clan. Sasuke then felt that feeling gripping his heart. No, he had to keep it away or he would never be strong enough. He could never love; his life was one of vengeance, and one of pure hatred. Sasuke could never return Sakura's love, even though deep down, he loved her back with all his heart. He still dreamt of them together, he imagined them a beautiful couple. No! He had to keep those away, or he would never be able to hate.
"So, Naruto, are you done training?" Sasuke asked. He would never end before that little thing barely capable to be called a ninja.
"No! I'm not done until every muscle in my body is aching" Naruto said. And with that he began his exercises all over again. This was his 20th time. And the surrounding landscape showed it. Every tree in the immediate vicinity had been obliterated by Narrator's rasengan.
"Hmm!" and Sasuke was back to his training. He just had to be better than Naruto. Sasuke would never allow Naruto to be equal to him. So he continued to his 20th exercise routine. He did this even every strand of his being ached, every bit of him screamed in pain. Every motion caused him to feel the pain of thousands of needles. Sasuke continued his routine, and the pain continued to get worse. there was no way that Sasuke could continue, his body was tattered, and this was all just training, as he began to attack a tree near him, he collapsed.
Pure darkness, what was this place. Where was he? Sasuke was floating in an abyss of pure nothingness. Wait! There was a light. Sasuke tried to move towards it, nothing he could do would move him. But he was lucky, the light began to move towards him, as it crept closer its eerie ghostly light was cast upon his pale features. There was a little child running. He was so small, he was running, and crying. Why was he sad, why did he cry, Sasuke watched, and suddenly let out a cry of anguish as he realized it was him. The night of the massacre. He knew what would happen next. It always happened. He could not move as he watched again, and again as his brother, the one he loved, kill his parents. Why, why, why hadn't he killed me as well? Why leave me in a pit of hellish existence?
Sasuke knew, or at least this was what he thought. He was left to seek revenge, left to be a child to live a life of pure hate, to hate all, and to kill Itachi. This was what Sasuke had told himself, every night. He could never love Sakura, or befriend Naruto. They would just pull him down. Only the power of hate would bring him the needed power to kill Itachi.
Then there was pure light, a bright light, brighter than any he had ever seen. "Hey, Sasuke are you all right?" Naruto asked. What an idiot, Sasuke thought.
"Leave me alone, I'm fine." Sasuke replied. "I need to continue my training to become stronger" he said trying to rise. He had barely managed to kneel when he collapsed.
"Sasuke!" Naruto ran over to his friend. "You need to stop, there's no way you can continue" he said. Naruto knew he may have been stupid, but he wasn't as stupid as Sasuke. Still attempting to train when every muscle in his body would refuse.
"Naruto! I said leave me alone!" Sasuke said as loud as possible. Unfortunately, Sasuke was unable to speak loud because of his excessive training.
"No! I won't! Sasuke you're done for now. You need to rest. Come on, I'll help" Naruto said. He began to lift Sasuke up but was briskly swatted away by the person he was trying to help.
"No! Naruto I don't need help!" Sasuke whispered this time. Needless to say the swat was even less powerful than being attacked by a cold, wet noodle. Sasuke was finished for now. He knew this, but did not care, he tried to get up, but when kneeling, he once again collapsed.
This time Naruto just picked Sasuke up and slung him onto his back. Naruto then began the trek to Sasuke's house.
a silence enveloped the two genin, each thinking of how to break the silence. Naruto wanted to know why Sasuke kept training, but was beat by Sasuke.
"Naruto, why do you protect the people in this village? Why are you kind to me, even though I act as though I hate you?" he asked. The answer to this Sasuke could never think up, Sasuke was just not like Naruto at all.
"Huh, well...I dunno, it's the hokage's job to protect the village right?" Naruto replied "Well I plan to be hokage some day, and no one can stop me" he said, the fire of battle in his eyes, as he thought of getting the whole respect of the village, and more importantly, the respect of his beloved Sakura.
"That still doesn't answer my question" Sasuke was tired, but he had to know.
"It doesn't.....but....I....thought....ummm..." Naruto couldn't understand how it didn't answer the question
"Well, you answered the first one, but it doesn't answer the second one, I want to know why you're kind to me." Sasuke could barely finish the sentence before he fell asleep, and entered another of his dreams about Sakura.
Sasuke was sleeping pleasantly, thinking about him and Sakura. Her beautiful pink hair, her luscious skin, how she enters a room and it somehow brightens, as if by her perfect smile. And Sasuke just kept on thinking of how perfect Sakura was that he was quite startled when he was awaken by Naruto.
"Well the answer is..." Naruto began
" w-w-what?" Sasuke mumbles still half asleep, completely confused at what Naruto has to say.
"Your question you asked before you went to sleep" Naruto said. Sasuke was definitely a strange person.
"Oh, yeah, the answer is...." Sasuke asked. For some reason he just had to know the answer that was about to come out of Naruto's mouth, but he just couldn't say why.
"It's because I...I....I envy you Sasuke, all the girls have always fawned over you" Naruto said. "They have always wanted to be with 'Uchiha', it's not like you're the only orphan in the whole town. I'm mainly jealous because Sakura loves you, and I know no matter what she will never love me. I mean if you chose someone else she would give up, but you never choose, and so she thinks she will be the one that you will proclaim your love for" Naruto replied, tears began to form on the tips of his eyes "and with you playing that game, I'm left trying to be as accepting as possible, but I'm in the same situation as Sakura, I try to win her affection, but she just loves you....please if you love her take her, if not, then, then...." and with that he was gone.
"Naruto....thank you" Sasuke now realized that he could hate his brother, but rejecting someone's love was just causing pain in his only true friend's heart, and Sasuke, for some strange reason could not bear to cause this pain. This pain of the heart.
Sasuke fall asleep, and dreamed, he dreamed of his love. And then he promised as he dreamed that he would take Sakura, his true love, and how he would tell her his love, and how he felt. His brother's torture of a life filled with hate was over.