Chapter 1
The words were like a nightmare, unbelievable, but so hauntingly real. They brought terror into his heart, his eyes, and he wished more than anything he would wake up, and have the sentence fade into dust in his mind. But he couldn't.
"I'm Going to Orochimaru." Sasuke had said. He had left, left for Orochimaru's power. He had left Naruto, and now Naruto felt broken. He felt like a part of him had been stolen. He wanted to close his eyes, let himself slip away into the darkness, but whenever he closed them, all he saw was the dark eyes, the curse mark covering the pale skin, the cold lips repeating those awful words.
"I'm going to Orochimaru."
So there Naruto lay, in a hospital, wounds covering his body. But they weren't the normal wounds, the wounds of any normal battle. They weren't wounds you could dismiss, one's that had been cut into you by a nameless enemy. Sasuke had laid these blows. The slashes all over had had been cut by his closest friend, and they burned worse than fire.
Why did he leave?
Naruto felt the tears caress his cheeks, his fists clenched so tight his nails were cutting into his palm. He didn't care. He could barely feel it. This pain has so small in comparison to the sight of Sasuke with Orochimaru's mark covering his soft skin, His eyes, so dark, so perfect, so beautiful, filled with the desire to kill normally directed at an enemy, those eyes looking at him….
Why?
The next Morning Naruto woke up finding his pillow to be wet with tears. He remembered the events of the past day, the day he had tried to save Sasuke from the darkness. He remembered the feeling of hands ripping him apart, words hurting him even worse. He could feel the bloodlust in the air that day, the remembered watching Sasuke's transformation into a monster. He glanced to his left and saw the single picture on his bedside table. A picture of him, Sakura, Kakashi, and of course, Sasuke. He stared at the picture for a long time. He looked at Sasuke, forever preserved in the picture the way he should be. Happy, calm, beside Naruto. Forever. but he was't he was on a deadly quest for revenge. And Naruto knew he needed to save him