Aneko: Wow. I wrote this story a while back, I just forgot to post it. Um…oops?
Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto…
Bitterness
For a while, he grew up happily. He knew nothing of grief, or death; pain was only accidentally falling and twisting your ankle during training.
So when that fateful day came, he was more scared than he had ever been in his entire life. The massacre took everything he loved and left only one thing:
Bitterness. That and hate, which fueled his desire to live.
Bitterness at the man he swore to kill. He locked away everything else, bearing the pain alone. The bitterness was simply something he became used to, something to bear until he fulfilled his revenge. He didn't want help. He didn't need help.
And so, when he was first assigned to his three-man squad, the other two were merely an annoyance, a hindrance. Slowly, but surely, time passed, and as they began to treat him as more than a teammate—a friend, a rival, a crush…he found privately that he depended on them just as much as they depended on him.
Of course, they depended on each other for different reasons. They depended on his strength in battle, but for him (though he would never admit it), they were a second family. Being with them, he could forget about his brother, and revenge, and death. Some of the bitterness would fall away.
Until, inevitably, that man appeared again, and he realized that as long as he lived, he could not simply forget and be happy. The option was denied him. He had to finish what had been started.
He left a second family behind, this time breaking the bonds with his own hands, and unexpectedly the bitterness—even more heavy than before—returned to haunt him.
Once again he was working towards that goal of revenge. It was all he had left now, and he grew stronger, getting closer to his goal.
But when he finally reached it, finally defeated that man, and eventually learned the truth of that night, he did not feel the satisfaction that he thought he would have. He didn't get the freedom from his past that he thought he would. But he still has a familiar feeling, which has been with him through it all.
Once again, all he knows is bitterness.
Aneko: Hopefully, everyone's up to date on this reading and understands. I wrote this before his decision to go destroy Konoha, so please understand. Sorry it's so angsty. Usually that's not my style of writing...
Ja, Sayonara.