The next day Ashten and Naruto arrived at Konoha High. Ashten pulled into a parking space and killed the V8 engine. He and Naruto gathered their book bags and got out. Ashten's car was a chic black 2014 Ashton Martin Vanquish, so when they opened the car doors they smoothly opened upward like butterfly wings. Ashten and Naruto got out and sighed, they had a bad feeling about school today, but they paid it no mind.
"Ready?" Ashten asked.
"Yeah, let's just get this over with" Naruto replied.
Ashten nodded his agreement and pressed his keys, the doors came down by themselves then closed and locked automatically. The two boys strolled into the school. They wanted to be twins today, so they both wore white skinny jeans with black shirts and black boots. Ashten had his hair pulled into a ponytail while Naruto's hair was still gravity defying. Eyes turned their direction as they quietly passed, laughing at insiders and memories. Their hellish past wasn't all death and gore, there were some fun times.
"Hey Naruto" someone said behind them.
The two brothers turned immediately, and smiled politely to Sasuke as he fell into step with them. Eyes widened everywhere, and Ashten growled his irritation.
"Hey baby!" someone else called, and a hand swatted Ashten's ass.
Ashten screamed and dropped his stuff. It was Kiba, he winked at him while his friends laughed. Ashten trembled, beginning to walk over, but he stopped when Itachi came into view. He walked over to Kiba and punched him in the jaw, dislocating his jaw. Ashten's eyes widened. Naruto picked up Ashten's things and handed them to his brother, who went to take them but Itachi beat him to it.
"I'm sorry he did that to you. Are you alright?" Itachi asked.
"I didn't see you! How did you-
"I was right behind Sasuke and I saw him. Are you alright?"
"Oh… Yes, thank you very much" Ashten smiled.
Sasuke grabbed Naruto's book bag and slung it over his shoulder.
"You have the same classes as me today, come on"
"Ok… Bye Ashten"
"Bye Naruto"
The two brothers hugged each other tightly and parted ways. Naruto watched as Ashten left with Itachi, who saying something about escorting him to class. Ashten smiled and laughed and looked to be so happy…
But he wasn't.
Ashten thought Naruto was an idiot… But he wasn't. He knew that Ashten woke up screaming every night, dreaming of the day when he would finally end his own life. He knew Orochimaru and Kabuto did unspeakable things to him, even worse when Naruto wasn't around. He knew… And yet…
He couldn't bring himself to talk to Ashten about it.
Naruto felt a hand on his shoulder, and he snapped his thoughts back to reality.
"Huh?"
"We're here. Come on" Sasuke told him.
"Oh… Hehe! Sorry!"
Naruto walked into his Probability and statistics class. He sat near the wall at the back of the class, and Sasuke sat in front of him. This was good, since it gave Naruto an opportunity to think about his dangerously suicidal brother. It hurt him to the core to see such eyes that used to be so full of life… Dead. Tears brimmed his eyes as he thought about this, and the demon inside of him howled in sadness.
Meanwhile, Ashten was sitting in his calculus class, working on the problem on his paper. He loved how it took so long to solve one problem, it was a great distraction from the everlasting winter inside of him. If only he could solve all of his problems by using this one simple formula…
"Ashten! Amazing! You've solved a problem that would take anyone an hour to solve in thirty minutes!" the teacher exclaimed.
Ashten wrinkled his brow and looked down to see that he had indeed, solved the problem. He growled at himself savagely, gripping his binder with borderline bruising force.
"Thank you Iruka-sensei…" Ashten growled.
'Who the fuck told you to do that!?' Ashten hissed savagely.
'I just want to please you…' the demon inside of him said.
Ashten's eyes brimmed, and he sighed in agony.
'I'm sorry… It's not your fault… I shouldn't blame you…'
The demon shook his head, letting Ashten feel his warmth pulsating through his markings. Ashten knew his demon loved him, and he loved him too… But he was tired… So, so very tired…
Naruto on the other hand, was ready to start a new life with his aniki, but he just wished he could do something to make Ashten realize that death wasn't his only option to get away from the pain. That death wasn't the only way he would be freed. He wished he could make Ashten see…
Before he knew it, the teacher had snatched his notes from him. Naruto's eyes widened as he read through it… Then smiled. He put the paper back and forced a glare.
"Naruto, instead of songs, how about you write these notes"
"Yes sensei…" Naruto sighed.
The bell rung, and Naruto quickly packed his things before rushing out of the class to meet Ashten. What he saw made his smile fall and dread hit him like a ton of bricks. A group of girls surrounded Ashten, hissing and sneering at him hatefully.
"You think you can just waltz in here and steal our Itachi!? Well he doesn't like boys you bitch! So back off!" a girl with pink hair hissed savagely.
Ashten looked down and said nothing, he only nodded and tried to continue on his way. A hand flew and landed a sharp across his cheek, and Ashten gasped at the impact. Everyone stopped and watched the scene with wide eyes. It was slow motion from then on.
(Slow motion time!)
"Ashten no!" Naruto screamed as he dropped his books and took off towards the group.
Ashten's eyes had gone a deep red in pure hatred. The girl who assaulted him screamed as he reached his clawed hand back to gouge out her eyes.
"You bitch!" Ashten screamed demonically.
Naruto reached the group and yanked the girl out of the way and caught Ashten's hand, pinning him to the lockers. Teachers raced out of their classrooms and restrained Ashten as well. The principal, a big breasted woman with blonde ponytails who was a lot older than she looked, rushed forward and injected a needle into Ashten's arm. He cried out in pain and slowly, his body slouched until his body forced itself to relax and his eyes glazed over.
(Slow motion time over)
Naruto watched brokenly as Kakashi-sensei lifted a medically induced calm Ashten and carried him away, glaring at anyone who so much as looked toward them. Naruto glared hatefully at the group of girls before he rushed off to his next class. He would still be able to talk with Ashten even though he would sound off due to the medicine inside of him. His demon fought to take control, just once so that he could finish what Ashten was about to do, but Naruto talked him into relaxing. He sat his trembling body in his pre-physics class, where Kakashi-sensei was vacant at the moment. One of the girls from that group of whores walked in, and she had the nerve to sit beside Naruto. Before he lost his mind and killed the bitch, he quickly relocated his desk to the farthest seat in the class. Sasuke and Itachi quickly entered the room, ignoring the sighs of the girls as they made their way and flanked Naruto's sides.
"I heard! What happened is Ashten ok?" Itachi asked.
Naruto didn't want to, but damn it was all his fault!
"What's it to you!? Because of you my brother was put into a medically induced coma!" Naruto hissed, standing from his seat just as Kakashi strolled in.
"Naruto, your brother is calling for you"
Naruto raced out of the room immediately, leaving the Uchiha brothers to discuss what happened.
"Aniki…"
"I know… Ashten is… Powerful…" Itachi mused.
"As is Naruto"
"Yes but the demon in him is less aggressive than Ashten's… And I've heard him mumbling to himself about freedom…"
Sasuke's eyes widened. "You don't think he'd-
"Yes. Which is why we need to claim them soon… Or Ashten will die, and Naruto will follow behind him… But right now, let us discuss the situation at hand…"
Meanwhile, Naruto burst into the nurse's office, where the principal was looking over a still coma induced Ashten. Naruto glared at her fiercely, until he heard Ashten's slowed down voice in his mind.
'Nar…To? Wh… Happen?'
Naruto cringed at the sound it. He hated when Ashten sounded like this, he always joked about it later on, but he knew he hated it too.
'Nothing aniki…'
'You… Lyin… I… Wen… Cra… Gain?'
'Yes, you went crazy again… The teachers grabbed you and the principal shot you with something… Now you're lying in the infirmary bed in a medical induced coma'
'I… Hop… I don… Wak p…'
'Ashten please don't talk like that…'
'Lady… Callin u… Go… Bak…'
Naruto sighed as he left Ashten's mind and looked to the principal, who sat on Ashten's bed with a sad look in her eyes.
"Naruto sit down" she told him.
Naruto did as he was told and looked to her with teary eyes. He hated talking to Ashten like that… He was so out of it, even in his mind.
"My name is Tsunade, I am the fifth Hokage of Konoha and principal of this school. I'm not here to hurt you or Ashten… I want to help you two control your powers… Ashten is powerful, and if he can learn to control his emotions he could be a force to be reckoned with… Naruto, did you know that Ashten suffers from severe depression as well as dehydration and PTSD?"
"PTSD?" Naruto asked.
"Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. I would imagine you would have it too, but unlike Ashten, you have an ability to rise from the worst situations… A characteristic Ashten doesn't have… I've examined him physically and emotionally… He's planning to commit suicide once you leave him"
Even though he knew, to have his suspicions confirmed made his heart clench and burn. Tsunade sighed, she didn't want to be the one to tell him this… But Ashten would never admit it, and Naruto needed to know.
"I've also examine past wounds to find that some of them are self-inflicted… Naruto, Ashten is almost to the point of no return, and I can only think of one thing to save him"
"What is it? I'll do anything! Anything to make him see that death is not the answer… Please!"
Tsunade nodded, she could see the love and desperation in Naruto's entire body. He had trying for years to help Ashten, but he couldn't find anything to help him.
"Have you ever heard of our student guidance program?" she asked.
Naruto shook his head. He could feel Ashten scratching his mind, but he couldn't allow Ashten to feel this way anymore he had to find a way to help him.
"Well, our student guidance program is a program in which we allow mentally able students to council the students with troubled pasts, many of our students who've tried the program and they all said that it worked wonders, maybe it will work with Ashten too"
Naruto nodded. He hoped it worked, because if it didn't…
He didn't even want to find out.
