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Very short chapter.

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R e p l i c a o f T r u t h
... a naruto fanfiction ...

C H A P T E R T W O :
"Rare Emotion"


The funeral of Uzumaki Naruto brought together hundreds of people together. Possibly everyone from Konoha attended. People in Konoha who hadn't even spoken to Naruto before, but had surely seen him, went to pay their respects. Naruto had saved everyone in Konoha by Pein before, after all. They all owed their lives to him. People had been expecting many people to show up, but not as much that had. Naruto's friends never knew Naruto had known so many people.

News that Uzumaki Naruto had died spread fast. This was Naruto, the Naruto, that had killed Momoshi Zabuza with the help of his team, was under the guidance of Hatake Kakashi, he was the apprentice of the legendary Sannin Jiriya, the best friend of the last standing Uchiha in the world, his dad was Minato Namikaze, he'd stopped Akatsuki from taking over the world, and many more stories of his adventures were talked about. Everyone was just starting to realize how much Naruto had done in his short life of 21 years.

Leaders of other villages attended. People of other villages attended. People who didn't even know Naruto attended. He was a legend, just like his father.

Konoha was packed to its limits. The day of the funeral was sad but the sun was shining. Tsunade was the one who spoke first during it. "We are here today to show our respect and gratitude to a man by the name of Uzumaki Naruto. As many of you know, I was in the process of picking a successor of leader of Konoha. But I'm sure everyone in Konoha already knew who it was going to be. It was always Naruto's dream to be the leader of this village, and I felt he'd proved himself enough over the years that he was worthy and responsible enough to lead this village. He'd already risked his life many times as a ninja of Konoha. So let us celebrate his life."

Kakashi was next.

"Naruto was like my son. When he was little he was an annoying and loud. When he got older, his loudness turned into great charisma. When he was little, he was stubborn, and that turned into an unbreakable determination and a strong will that always drove him forward. As he got older, the more he reminded me of Minato. Their hair, their smiles, they were the same. They both accomplished great feats in their lives. I'm sure Minato would have been proud to have a son like Naruto."

Every one of Naruto's close friends knew how true what Kakashi just said was.

It was unexpected. Sasuke wanted to say something at the funeral too. It was a rare moment of public emotion for the Uchiha.

"I found Naruto when he was dead. It was the worst moment of my life. He was my best friend, one of my first real friends. He once told me 'it is truth that gives you proper despair, so you do not become conceited.' Of course he said it with that big idiotic smile of his. Even though he said that, I can't help but feel great pride for being his friend, or even being able to know him."

That was the most anyone other than Naruto had ever heard Sasuke speak.

Many people after that came up to speak. Sasuke's unemotional mask had returned, but he certainly didn't stop feeling like shit, even after the funeral was over

Gaara was mad. And nobody ever liked a mad Gaara. Of course he didn't show his rage, but inside he felt it, it was spouting from disbelief. Naruto wouldn't be so idiotic to commit suicide like it was nothing. He cared too much, and he would never stop caring. Gaara didn't make a speech because he was too busy (shy) and talking to Temari. But he didn't believe any of the bullshit that Naruto was dead. He saw the corpse of Naruto, but he still didn't believe it. Not one bit.

The scarlet-haired Kazekage found Sasuke sometime after funeral. Sasuke's first thought was 'woah, he looks pissed.' But he didn't say anything. Gaara was at Sasuke's house. It was strange to Sasuke, he'd never really spoken to Gaara, it was Naruto who had been close with him. The first thing the Suna leader said was, "Naruto is not dead."

Now it was Sasuke getting mad, "What? How could you say that? I was the one who found him."

"He's not dead. He's not."

"Gaara… he is."

"No."

That's all he said, and then he left. Sasuke was confused by the sudden visit and sudden disappearance. He just took it as Gaara in shock of Naruto being dead. After all, Naruto was the one who inspired Gaara to try harder and he eventually became the Kazekage.

For a while Sasuke just sat at on his bed, thinking about his deceased best friend. He missed that dobe. He never thought he would, well, he never really thought about the fact that Naruto could die so early on in life. He missed his laugh, his stupid smile, and the way he smelled… okay that was a weird one.

Sasuke didn't even remember thinking about moving or walking or the fact that he was already halfway to Naruto's house. He realized it the moment he was hesitating at the blonde's door. He remembered the last time he was there. Sasuke opened the door and Naruto's scent made it's way to his head. A step into his apartment, and Sasuke felt like crying. Instead he took his time walking through his friend's apartment, remembering and realizing just how many times he'd been there. They'd have a drink after a hard days work there, because apparently Sasuke's apartment was too dreary and dark to have a good time in. Sasuke would go see Naruto when he was bored, and vice-versa. Though it was usually Naruto annoying Sasuke to death with his silly grin when he'd 'stop over' at 3:00 AM 'just to see how he was doing'. Sure it pissed off Sasuke then, but right now, if he was just to see Naruto, he wouldn't care if the blonde were stabbing him with a kunai, Sasuke didn't care, he just wanted to see him.

Naruto's bed was made perfectly, something that was unlike the messy guy who only had time for fun, fun and fun. And maybe eating ramen. It might have possibly been Sasuke's first time seeing Naruto's bed this neat. Strange. Sasuke was pretty sure no one had touched anything in Naruto's apartment after he… he died. It was so clean. It didn't feel like Naruto's room at all.

Maybe Sasuke was just thinking too much. That had to be it. How silly it would be for him to get uneasy about a clean room. Sighing, he laid himself down on Naruto's bed and covered his eyes with his arm. He opened his eyes to see Naruto's ceiling. It was plain white, and spotle—actually, it wasn't as spotless and Sasuke had first thought. A small square, maybe 1 inch wide and 1 inch long, was carved onto the ceiling.

Curious, Sasuke stood up on the bed, wondering why he was going at such lengths just to see what the square was. It was just a square. A square with a small scribble of words on it.

"What the hell…"

The words said 'open'.


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Do you want this to be a shonen-ai/yaoi fanfic…? Or just friendship? I just want your opinions. Someone said they think it should be friendship…? Please tell me what I should write it as! I are confuzzled .

SASUKE OOC MUCH? Yeah but I had to have him say something at his best friend's funeral. Otherwise he would just be a big dick. And I lurve Sasuke 333333333