This is the second part of my fic. this isn't a song fic but it is based on that song. Any way this is Naruto's POV of the story. Any way on with the story. This is a continuation of the Intro.
Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto and Co. I am not doing this to get money.
Runaway Love Introduction
Naruto's POV
Naruto walked up to a small slate headstone. It read, 'Nara Shikamaru'. He knelt down in front of it and placed a single wilted flower in front of it.
"Hey lazy ass. How is it in heaven or wherever you are? I'm doing pretty good down here with my missions and all. Sasuke doesn't hate me as much anymore I don't think, and people have started to respect me a little. I hope that life wherever you are isn't as bad of a drag as life was down here for you." he said his voice cracking.
Naruto looked around at the empty cemetery. He had come alone as usual to visit his best friend's grave. He had died two years ago on a mission to the sand village. He still remembered that day well.
Flashback Begins
"Hey Naruto, we better hurry up or some lame patrol is going to find us." Shikamaru said yawning.
"Ok, ok, I'm coming, lazy ass." Naruto said jogging to catch up with Shikamaru.
"Do you have the scroll? It would be a total waste if we came all this way and you forgot the scroll. Then we'd get yelled at and have to come back and that would be a total drag." Said Shikamaru looking up at the sky.
"Yea, yea, I have the stupid scroll ok. Its right he…" suddenly a large tree fell right in there path and another one behind them. They turned around to see two sand nin.
"These are the ones we were told to look for. Get 'em!" the first sand nin yelled. Both started running for the two boys. Naruto jumped up into a tree to avoid a punch and then did his shadow clone jutsu. Five shadow clone Narutos popped up and began attacking the sand nin.
Shikamaru used his shadow possession jutsu to capture the sand nin he was fighting and seeing as the sand nin had no weapon holster on his leg Shikamaru made quick work of him.
By this time all the Naruto clones had been defeated and Naruto was fighting the sand nin hand to hand. The nin knocked Naruto to the ground about five feet away and began to make hand signals. Shikamaru saw this and realized that Naruto would be unable to dodge or block the powerful sand jutsu. The sand nin said something and sand began to swirl around him in a menacing way. The sand suddenly stopped swirling around the nin and shot out in Naruto's direction. Shikamaru saw this and ran to jump in front of it.
"No! Shikamaru!" Naruto yelled sitting up and realizing what Shikamaru meant to do but it was too late. Shikamaru was caught in the sand. A loud crunch was heard and Shikamaru screamed out in pain. The sand began to disappear and Shikamaru's limp body lay on the ground.
Naruto ran up to him, knelt down, and cried out. "Damn you, lazy ass. I said to stop." Naruto said tears streaming down his tan face. He held the other boy in his arms and cried.
"Naruto…you've…got…to…take the…scroll…back to…Kon…Konoha…quickly." Shikamaru said in a small whisper.
"Shika, don't die, please. I cant do this without you." Naruto said shoulders shuddering with sadness.
"You…have…to. Naruto…you have…to…Konoha…needs…you. Do…it…for…me" Shikamaru said closing his eyes. His chest rose and fell for the last time.
"NOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! SHIKAMARU!!!!!" Naruto yelled into the air tears falling from his eyes. The Kyuubi's chakra swirled around him. His eyes turned red and his nails turned to razor sharp claws. He laid the boy down on the ground and charged the sand nin.
With the Kyuubi's chakra swirling around him Naruto attacked the sand nin. He slashed blindly at the nin taking out all his anger on him. The sand nin tried to fight back but was quickly killed by Naruto. The Kyuubi's chakra quickly disappeared and Naruto was left breathless and crying.
Naruto dug a hole and buried Shikamaru. Then he traveled back to Konoha and delivered the scroll telling them simply that Shikamaru had died and not giving any details on why and how he died.
Flashback Ends
"Dammit, lazy ass. Why'd you have to step in and protect me? It would have been better if I had died." Naruto yelled into the sky tears falling down his face.
He slumped over and cried. After a while he fell asleep. The sun had set before he finally woke up.
"Damn. He's going to literally kill me." Naruto said standing up and running out of the cemetery to his house.
When he got there he heard glass breaking and cursing. He slowly walked to the door and opened it cautiously.
"There you are. Where the hell have you been?" a husky voice yelled at him as he walked in.
"I was at the cemetery visiting Shika's grave. I must have lost track of time. I'm really sorry. Please don't hit me." Naruto said as he slowly approached the person the voice belonged to.
"You lost track of time. Sure. You just want to cause more fucking trouble for me don't you? Dammed kid, you're going to wish you were never fucking born when I'm done with you." Said a large man with dark eyes and long red hair.
The man walked up to Naruto and punched him in the face. He kicked him in the stomach and threw the glass pint he had in his hand down on Naruto's head. Naruto fell to the floor unconscious blood seeping through his short blonde locks. The man continued to kick and hit him until he felt that Naruto had been punished enough.
Naruto woke up in an hour and dragged himself to his room and lay down in his bed. He cried himself to sleep for the 6th time that week.
The Next Morning
Naruto rolled over in his bed and opened his eyes. It was Monday morning and he had to get to the bridge on time. He struggled out of bed still sore from the brutal beating he had received last night.
He went through his morning routine and went downstairs to the kitchen. He checked to make sure his stepfather (A/N: He is the one who was beating Naruto before and I still haven't decided on a name for him) wasn't in there and he grabbed a breakfast bar and dashed out of the room. Unfortunately, he ran right into his stepfather.
"Where the hell are you going with my food? I bought that for me not you. Get your own dammed food." He yelled snatching the bar away from Naruto and punching him in the stomach. Naruto doubled over and slumped to the floor in pain. Just then there was a knock on the door. Naruto's stepfather went to answer it.
"Uh…Hello is Naruto ready?" asked Kakashi-sensei from outside the door.
"I'm not letting him go today. I want him to stay home with me today." Naruto's stepfather said with a fake smile. Kakashi looked at him suspiciously, turned around and disappeared. Naruto's stepfather closed the door behind him and scowled at Naruto.
"Damn kid, you've even got your stupid teacher coming to find out if you're ok. Are you telling people that I'm a bad parent?" he said frowning and walking closer to Naruto.
He picked Naruto up by his shirt and shook him. "Well dammit, are you?" he said again.
"No, no I haven't said anything about you to anyone. I just told them that I kept getting beat up by gangs on the street so Kakashi-sensei offered to escort me to the bridge this morning." Naruto said tears streaming down his face.
His stepfather threw him at the wall and walked away. Naruto slumped to the ground as another gash opened in the back of his head. He got up slowly and walked out the door to the bridge.
At The Bridge
When Naruto got to the bridge Sakura was the only one there. She looked pretty sick but Naruto was too weak to think about it and he sat down on the bridge leaning against the rail.
Then Sasuke arrived. He looked more dismal than usual. He walked past Naruto and lightly tapped him on the foot.
"What the hell do you want Sasuke-teme?" he snapped. He was very irritated that Sasuke finally showed concern about him when he couldn't tell him the truth no matter how much he wanted to.
"What did you do to yourself, dobe?" Sasuke said with a little concern in his voice.
"Nothing. What does it matter to you anyway?" Naruto said his heart ripping at the concern in Sasuke's voice knowing that he couldn't truthfully ease that concern.
"It doesn't, I was just asking." Sasuke said walking away looking sad. He went and sat down next to Sakura and began talking to her. Suddenly there was a poof signaling the arrival of their very non-punctual teacher.
"Sorry I'm late guys, I got lost on the road of life." Kakashi said using one of his cheesy excuses.
"Yeah, sure, whatever, can we just get on with training already?" Naruto said stomping ahead, shoving his hand into his pockets. He didn't feel like sitting around waiting. The others finally began to follow and they got to the training ground.
When they got there Kakashi sparred with Naruto as Sasuke and Sakura, who was feeling to sick to spar, sat down and watched.
"Naruto, are you ok? You have a lot of cuts on your arms and I could have sworn that when you were sitting down I saw something that looked like dried blood in your hair." Kakashi asked dodging a blow from Naruto.
"It's nothing, I'm fine." Naruto said suddenly throwing punches and kicks faster so he didn't have to ask anymore questions.
After their spar was done, Sasuke sparred with Kakashi. Naruto sat against a tree trunk and closed his eyes.
Then it was his turn to spar with Sasuke.
"Naruto why is your face and your hands all cut and bruised?" Sasuke said easily blocking a wildly thrown punch from Naruto.
"It's nothing, Sasuke-teme." Naruto answered back ducking from a kick from Sasuke.
"Are you going to tell me or am I going to have to beat it out of you?" Sasuke asked kicking Naruto hard in the stomach.
"Why do you want to know so bad anyways?" Naruto asked very irritated by Sasuke's prying.
"I just want to know. Now tell me, or else." Sasuke said punching Naruto in the face.
"Fine," Naruto said rubbing his face. "I got into a fight with a bunch of your fangirls still mad about that meaningless, totally accidental kiss five years ago. Are you happy now? I told you. Now leave me alone, dammit." Naruto said punching Sasuke in the gut and sending him flying. He walked away with his fists clenched at his sides.
Naruto could hear Kakashi saying that they could all go home in the distance. He knew he would have to go home soon or he would get into more trouble with his stepfather.
Remembering that his stepfather would be out at the bar very late that night he dashed home. When he got to the house he went into his room and grabbed a bag and stuffed a bunch of clothes into it. He grabbed a picture of his father, the Yondaime, and ran out of the house.
He kept in the shadows moving very slowly so as not to draw attention to himself. Feeling safe when he got to the market place he began walking fast. Suddenly he bumped into someone. He fell to the ground and looked up into his stepfathers cloudy eyes.
"What the hell? Naruto is that you? What the hell are you doing here you should be home." He said frowning deeper and deeper with every word.
"I uh was uh just about to go shopping for a present for…" Naruto was interrupted by a sharp pain in his arm. His stepfather had taken a knife and slashed Naruto deeply on the arm. The cut started bleeding profusely. His stepfather slashed him equally as deep on his other arm and then slashed him across his chest and kicked him in the stomach. Naruto doubled over in pain and slumped to the ground in a bloody mess. Suddenly it started to rain.
"Damn kid, I'm going home. Don't come home looking look that I don't want you tracking blood through my house." His stepfather said kicking him one more time and then walking away.
Naruto tried to get up but couldn't. He began to sob. He sat there in the rain for a while waiting for his strength to return.
When he felt strong enough to get up and walk he walked to the bridge and slumped down onto the bridge and fell asleep.
He was awakened by Sasuke tapping his foot. He opened his eyes and saw Sasuke standing over him and Sakura (who was unusually fat around the middle) sitting by a tree.
"Sasuke-teme, what are you doing here?" he asked weakly looking into Sasuke's dark pupils.
"I'm running away." Sasuke said calmly.
"Me too." Naruto said looking into the distance.
