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'Thought'
"Speaking"
Summary- After his fight with Sasuke, Naruto has two choices, to give up or to keep going. Which will he choose? What are the consequences of his actions?
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CHAPTER 1: The Choice
'I'm sorry Naruto, but this had to be done'
Sasuke gave one last look to his unconscious friend, and turned to leave. He didn't want to hurt Naruto, but nothing was going to stop him from achieving strength. He was an avenger, Sacrifices had to be made. With one last look, he disappeared into the trees.
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'Shit, I don't sense their chakra anymore. I hope I'm not too late' Kakashi thought while running as fast as he could to where he had last sensed the chakra signatures. He had a very bad feeling in his gut.
'Please be okay, Naruto' he thought while pushing himself off the tree trying to gain more speed.
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A plant suddenly made its way out of the ground away from Naruto. It opened up and a half green half white head appeared.
'Interesting' it thought.
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Naruto opened his eyes slowly, and then closed them. 'Where am I?' he thought. His mind raced back to the fight with Sasuke. He remembered the last attack, and regretted it. He had pulled back at the last second, and for that he had lost.
He had failed. He had failed himself. He had failed Sakura. He had failed Konoha.
His thoughts drifted to his past memories. The memories of his life.
How he was hated by everyone. How he was treated. For over 10 years he had no one, but then he finally had some friends. He had a team, a team with people who cared for him, and he had finally had happiness.
He smiled at the thought.
Then the memories of his fight with Sasuke flashed again. Friends?
Would friends do this to each other? Naruto's thoughts turned dark.
Friends wouldn't try to kill each other, Sasuke was no friend. And Sakura.
She never cared about Naruto. It was always Sasuke; she never gave a rats ass about Naruto. She didn't even tell him to be careful when he went after Sasuke. She just wanted her precious Sasuke back.
No they were definitely not his friends. Even Kakashi favored Sasuke, always training him to be better. What had he done for Naruto anyways, some stupid tree walking exercise?
No, he definitely did not conceder them friends.
Naruto was getting angrier. He had no friends, no family. He was hated by almost everyone. And now to top it all of, he had failed everyone.
He had made a promise and broke it. He was a failure. He had tried his hardest to be noticed, and to get stronger. But none of that helped or mattered. He was still unnoticed, still hated and still a failure.
His thoughts wandered again. The Uchiha was gone. Konoha's precious Uchiha. That could only mean one thing. More people would be coming, probably to make sure their Uchiha was alright.
Naruto wondered what he would tell them once they got here. What he would tell Sakura when he got back.
His thoughts wandered again. Why should he? Why should he care about telling Sakura, why should he care about telling anyone what happened. Heck, why should he even go back. He was nothing, just a stupid failure. NO, he would not go back to Konoha.
'I give up' Naruto thought coldly.
That's it. He would just give up. There was no reason to keep going. He would just go wander off somewhere till he died.
He would just die and end his miserable life. IT would be better off for him and everyone.
He slowly got up from the ground. His muscles and bones still aching from the fight with Sasuke.
'I have to get out of here quick before the backup arrives' Naruto thought coldly. He then started limping his way toward the forest.
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Kakashi arrived at the valley.
'This is definitely where they fought' thought the one eyed man. It was easy to tell, there was blood everywhere and broken boulders and burn marks.
"Where are they?" thought the man while looking around trying to locate any of the two boys.
HE then turned to his dog companion, Pakkun.
"Pakkun, can u sense their presence"? He asked the ninja dog.
The dog started sniffing here and there hoping to catch any scent he could. After about five minutes of searching around, he turned to his master with a panicked look.
"Sorry Kakashi, I'm afraid I can't pick up any of their scents" the dog said. Kakashi gave him a puzzled, and sad look." well why not?"
Pakkun looked at Kakashi sadly, then started explaining." my nose is only picking up two very strong and strange chakra signatures. They don't belong to neither Sasuke nor Naruto from what I can tell, and the scent is so strong, I can't smell their chakras through it" he paused. "and it seems to have spread all around the forest, overshadowing their chakra" Pakkun finished off.
Kakashi thought for a moment then his single eye widened.
'KYUUBI!!!... It must be his chakra that is still present from the fight...'
Kakashi then remembered what Pakkun had said. "Did u say TWO chakra signatures?" he looked at the dog wearily. The dog looked up at him and nodded.
Kakashi seemed to be in deep thought for a moment. 'Ok so there were two abnormal chakras, one was obviously the Kyuubi. Then the other had to be Sasuke somehow... but how?' he then put he started rubbing his hand on his chin thinking how Sasuke could have that weird of chakra... It then hit him.
'Damn...' thought Kakashi. 'So he finally gave in to the Snake's Power. Hokage-Sama needs to know about this and quick. IT could mean allot of trouble for Konoha in the future.'
He turned again to Pakkun and said, "Are you sure there is no way you can sense Naruto's signature?" Pakkun nodded, "I'm afraid so."
Kakashi then turned around to head back into the forest he came from, "Come-on Pakkun, there is nothing we can do for Naruto at this point. We cannot waste any time looking blindly for him when we need to report this back to Hokage-Sama." He then started running at a fast pace towards Konoha with Pakkun following closely behind. 'Naruto, I hope you survived and I wish you the best.'
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Naruto was still limping slowly through the forest. He had used all of his chakra, and the Kyuubi for some reason was not healing his wounds. Probably from using too much of the fox's chakra he assumed.
'Man am I tired' he thought while still limping to nowhere in particular. Maybe he should just stop and die right here. It would definitely be easier than limping. His life would be over, and he would have nothing to worry about anymore.
While deep in thought Naruto did not notice someone up ahead of him, seemingly waiting for him. He continued walking completely unaware of his surroundings until he the figure decided to speak...
"Kyuubi..." the figure said.
Naruto slowly looked up to the man. Well man was an overstatement; this thing was a plant with a green and white human head, if you could call it that. Naruto then focused on the "thing's" clothes. It wore a black cloak with red clouds on it. Then it suddenly hit him.
'This guy is wearing the same cloak as Sasuke's brother and his fish friend was wearing' thought Naruto.
The thing looked at Naruto for a while then decided to speak again, "Boy, as you probably know from prior experience with akatsuki, our organization is deeply interested in your tenant. I need you to come with me" it said while still not moving an inch.
Naruto had stopped moving, or limping, and looked at the figure for a good while, he then did something that caught the akatsuki member by complete surprise...
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AUTHORS NOTES:
New Jutsu- none.. in this chapter at least
Well I just have nothing to do and had this idea in my mind for awhile.
I know this chapter is REALLY short, but it was just a chapter to get things started. The rest will be longer and more detailed.
I know that the beginning isn't what really happened in the manga, but I need it for my story so I had to change it a lil...
Anyways hope you guys/girls like
