Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto.
Road to Perdition
A Sasunaru fic.
Some say he has a big heart.
Some say he has no heart at all.
Some say he's a man full of compassion.
Some say he's compassionless man.
But then, I've spent 2 weeks on the road with him……
On the winter of 1991……
And this, is our story……
A boy on the mere age of 12 was gracefully walking around the snow covered road of Devil's Road – actually, the snows were already on the side of the road but who gives? - whistling a sad tune softly on his breath. The boy had a big muscular body for a boy his age, his shoulder more defined due to hour of training in the gym, his arms smoothly muscled on his hours of killing exercise with his father and his 'Uncles'. He was slightly taller than boys his age too, though it could have been his clan's gene's fault. He and the other members of his clan were always taller anyways.
He was dressed casually with a simple black shirt and a pair of black slack jeans seemingly oblivious to the chilly winter wind blowing past his shoulder blades. His neck was decorated by his families ancestral silver snake necklace that had been passed down from generations to generations until it came to him on his 12th birthday. The silver snake necklace hung on his neck elegantly, the snake's fangs were revealed and its body gracefully slung on his neck giving the impression of being a real snake about to attack his neck. He could only smile at the horrified looks other people shot at his direction.
He ran fast and swift away from the busy and noisy city. People were only dark blurs on his eyes. Cars were but a black moving blur and others he wouldn't give a damn. Just the thought on his mind. The news that he received after school by one of his favorite teachers. After teaching him and his classmates about something someone ought to know by know in his age, Teacher Iruka had so easily told him that he received news about his father coming home tonight. He smiled wickedly; he wonders 'when' and 'where' his beloved teacher learned the news.
He heard from his father and other 'Uncles' about a certain affair going on between his teacher and a man named Hatake Kakashi. Probably in the middle of the night, on a bed inside his house or this Kakashi's house –whoever he is.
Normally he would bug Iruka just to get information on this Kakashi-person, but today is not the day. His father is going home after 3 months of being away! He knows that his father would surely come home together with his 'Uncles' and as always his father would have a gift for him as if to compensate for him being alone 'with only the noisy and boisterous maids with his cunning little angel'.
Then his favorite 'Uncle', Uncle Shukaku, would take his son with him. The shy little red head whose green luminescent eyes interest him very much. And he often found himself teasing and pestering the little boy just to get some reaction on him. There was always something about getting a reaction on the boy that appeals to him very much. For him the little boy was just shy and misunderstood, he and his father agreed on this, but the other 'Uncles' simply say that it is the way that he should act because he would grown up to later serve him as they served his father.
That was one of the things he doesn't understand. He never understands why his 'Uncles' would always be where his father is. And why the 'Uncles' and the others tiptoe around him, the fear on peoples face when they hear their name, the scrambling that goes around when he asked something.
He knows that his father owns a pretty big business, but that doesn't always explains the commotion whenever something wrong happens or when something displeases him. But all of these questions fled away from his mind every moment that he saw his father.
And seeing him is the most important thing now, nothing matters.