The Breaking Heart
Thought or Kyuubi's
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Naruto stare coldly at Sasuke, "Our bond is over Sasuke! You just scream it this past 7 months, where you never paid attention to me!"
"You walked away when I called you, just stare at me when Akagi throw me with a rock, and Makio called me a dirty monster."
"Even when Sai became your replacement, you never protest or do anything to become the member of team 7, Neji became your buddy and you two never care to me with his eyes go ga-ga when seeing Hinata-chan!"
"The most painful is when you always stare at me with those cold emotionless eyes."
"How could you expect me to believe that you actually care about me? Stop it Sasuke, don't pretend to care about me when you don't. It's more painful to see you faking it than the cold glare you always sent to me."
Chapter 03
"I don't hate you, please trust me." Sasuke swallowed his pride.
Naruto stared accusingly at Sasuke, "What part do I could trust you anymore?"
Sasuke felt his heart being stabbed, Naruto is right, after everything he had done to Naruto, what part of him could be trusted anymore. Sasuke then walked to Naruto, slow and calm, he didn't care if his clothes became wet. Naruto was standing at his place, didn't know what he should do. Now they are very close, about 50 cm to each other, Sasuke placed his palm on Naruto's cheek slowly, he caressed the soft skin, "From now, I would protect you, that is my word as an Uchiha." He spoke surely, meeting his eyes to Naruto.
Naruto flinched a little but keep stared coldly at Sasuke, "Liar, why don't you do it since you came back here?"
"It's because certain villagers would hate you more if I defend you. I knew they are talking behind my back, saying that the demon boy making our last Uchiha want some friendship with him"
"Naruto, I told you the truth. If I defend you when they threw rocks to you, it would became worse."
"Now, I care no less, seeing you like this I would protect you, but you should tell me what do they do to you this time?" Sasuke spoke with his hands gently touch Naruto's shoulder.
"Sasuke…" Naruto felt his throat dries, could he trust Sasuke this time? Could he tell him the truth? He was so broken and confused to the point that he can't think anymore.
Kid...In this kind of situation, don't use your head, use your heart. Kyuubi spoke after all the time.
Kyuubi!? Why don't you heal me and speak to me? Naruto jumped inwardly.
Kyuubi would not talk to him after the rape happened, not until 3 days. There was no answer.
Kyuubi sounded weak, he must be using heavy efforts just to spoke to me, and Naruto realize that.
Yes I could trust him…His instinct scream to trust this man, and his instinct usually speak the truth
Thanks Kyuubi. He give his thanks to the old fox, knowing even he can't speak he can hear him
"I…was raped." He admitted.
Sasuke just stared at him wide eyes, unable to speak.
"I was raped since I turn 8, every year at my birthday they would do that to me." His head hung in embarrassment.
Sasuke's sharingan eyes activated when hearing the last sentence, "Why don't you defend your self? I know what you capable of"
"I…I can't attack them, because when I did that, they would told all the villagers that I am a monster and attacked civilian."
"What I have achieved until this times, would not matter when they told the villager that I attacked them." Naruto spoke like he wanted to cry.
Those bastards! Sasuke thought.
"Naruto, who are they?" Sasuke spoke coldly. Inside, he swore they would pay a hundred times worse then what they did to Naruto.
"You know them Sasuke, they are Makio, Akagi, Tetsuo, Akai, and Kai…"Naruto told carefully.
Sasuke's grip at Naruto's shoulder became rougher unconsciously, making Naruto winced a bit. Yes, Sasuke remembers, those assholes from academy time, the same year as Sasuke and Naruto. If Sasuke remembered correctly, they are the gang who bullied Naruto the most, when they graduated from academy, they wouldn't make it into genin. Among 50 students, only 9 became genin that time, they were the rookie nine. Makio, Akagi, Tetsuo, Akai, and Kai then became civilian and didn't do any ninja job. But who raped Naruto when he was 8 years old, surely they couldn't do that.
"There are more Naruto, who raped you when you were 8 years old?"
So were the following year. Sasuke mussed angrily
"Sasuke, please I don't want to talk about them." Naruto turned up his head, stared directly at Sasuke's eyes and almost gasped when he saw a pair of sharingan spinning madly.
"Tell me! So I can make them suffer 100 times worse then what they did to you!" Sasuke spoke impatiently.
Naruto shuddered in fear when he saw Sasuke eyes became like that. Sasuke realized the fear in Naruto face calmed his self a bit, so his sharingan did not spinning madly anymore.
"Tell me, Naruto." He spoke much calmer than before.
Naruto who began to relax said then, "It was their father, they raped me until my 16th birthday and then it was their sons… They said, it was their father wish so the punishment will continue."
Naruto spoke next, beginning to trust Sasuke even more, yes this time Naruto felt even sure that he could trust him. Sasuke who is already seethed with anger became more furious, How could they treat their savior like this! How many times Naruto risked his life to protect their pathetic ass and some people is stupid enough to think that Naruto is the demon! Sasuke began to question the villager's sanity.
"Why didn't you tell Tsunade?" Sasuke tried the personal approach, he know how close the relationship that they share.
Naruto just stared at Sasuke like he was dumb."There's no way I could tell her Sasuke, Tsunade became Hokage thinking that this village was worth to be protected."
"I don't want my case to be a burden for her and then she would resign from her position because of this."
Sasuke fixed his eyes to Naruto's, "This time, follow my words, tell Tsunade what happened to you!"
"Trust me Naruto she is not that shallow, she is not the type of woman who would leave the fixing once she found it was broken."
"But…Tsunade-baba…I care for her…" I don't want her to hurt
"Naruto, tell her." You know very well that telling the truth is the best way to say you care.
"…"
"Yes, I will tell her."
"But please come with me, so you can push me to the right direction if I became hesitate." Naruto almost plead this time.
Smirked, Sasuke placed his right hand to Naruto's right hand, pulled him slowly out from the water, "Good, now get dressed dobe, because we will go right now."
This time Naruto smiled genuinely to Sasuke, even the dobe nickname sounds like a good pet-name for him, "Yes, there would be no more in the next year."
…From this time I would be free…
When they passed the gate, Sasuke noticed Shikamaru and Chouji were not in their post anymore.
Weird, Sasuke thought, they supposed to change position at later time.
Wasting no time, they jumped through the roof to reach the Hokage tower, passing the guard and walking to the tallest floor, they reach the front door then.
Naruto stood behind Sasuke, look afraid to open the door he usually kicked in the usual time. Sasuke spoke then, "You have to be the one who open this door."
"Can't it just you?" Naruto pouted unconsciously.
Cute Sasuke thought himself, feeling his lips almost twitching upwards (almost)
"It has to be you, if you didn't have courage to open this door how could you have the courage to explain everything?" Sasuke told him.
Stepping forward, Naruto opened the door, inside he saw Tsunade scribbling her paper.
Naruto took a gulp when he saw her taking his appearance with wide eyes. He hasn't changed to proper clothes yet, it was still torn and bloody.
Abandoning her paper, she ran to Naruto and checked the wound on his skin. "Well, you could explain what happened later but I have to fix this wound first." She said in worry. Naruto wanted to cry, he always thought Iruka as mother figure but Tsunade definitely has mother side to when it came to something like this.
"I am ok, I… want to talk to you about this wound first…" Naruto looked at her surely.
Tsunade looked like she wanted to tend the wound first but seeing Naruto's determined eyes she gave up.
"Yes, what happened to you?" She talked in commanding tone like a hokage she is.
Naruto stood straight, "I have to tell you the secret that I always hold since 8… I trust your decision after what I told you hokage-sama."
This was the second time Tsunade became surprised, It must be very important to make him address her formally.
"Unknown to anyone, even Sandaime-sama, I have been raped every year at my birth day."
If the second time wasn't enough the third definitely going to make Tsunade black out at any moment, seeing her face became really pale.
"There are people who still seeing me in bad way, they always thought the law that Sandaime-sama to protect me is a flaw."
"I am supposed to be killed or tortured because I am a demon."
"The law making hard sentences for everyone who mentioned that I am the container of demon to younger generation."
"So, in order to torture me, they made a group consist of the demon child haters which has a single purpose, torture the demon."
"Their way to torture is to rape me, every year at Kyuubi festival ANBU became busy to guard the village."
"The rape never happened until my 8th birthday because a certain child prodigy has always protected me, until he became a missing nin just week ago from my birthday."
"The child prodigy name is Itachi Uchiha." He stop speaking, taking a glance at Sasuke who became rigid when hearing Itachi's name.
"This memory of Itachi who used to protected me came back 8 months ago, after Sasuke killed Itachi."
"I don't know why he suddenly killed his entire clan members except Sasuke, trying to abduct me and killed me, Itachi in my memory always a kind big brother."
Naruto know telling the story about Itachi is the important part.
"After he had gone, the situation has changed from bad to worse, the gang raped me over and over until it bleeds and hurts, the pain physically and mentally became worse every year."
"The only time I won't get raped is when I was on training with Jiraiya."
"For 2 years the older generation raping me, beat me and torture me until they said the next year it would be their sons duty to cleanse the demon."
He pause the story, seeing Tsunade nails claw hard at her skin drawing blood.
How could the villagers doing this to their hero's only son! She swore to Minato and Kushina she would punish the said villagers.
"The rapes that came from their sons are the worst, having learned from their fathers, they always remember to put some salt and lemon juice to my wounds and welts while raping me."
"Until last night when Sasuke spotted me having these wounds…"
"Today, because of him I have the courage to tell you."
Naruto then finished his story, looking at Tsunade respectfully.
"Naruto, state their names!" She said with dangerous glint in her eyes.
"They are Makio, Akagi, Tetsuo, Akai, and Kai along with their fathers." Naruto spoke surely at last he thought, this would end now.
"Shikamaru!" She barked, then Shikamaru appeared in the room.
"Call every single nin that available to come to my office right now!"
Tsunade looked at Naruto. "Shikamaru has told me there's something wrong with you when you passed this gate, the suspicion confirmed when Sasuke asked him where you had gone, so Shikamaru and Chouji leave the gate to report at me."
"He also in this room since then, making him heard whatever you have told to me." Tsunade spoke wisely.
Naruto stared at Shikamaru, who at the moment doesn't have bored expression.
With hard lines and expressions Shikamaru told, "As the next head of Nara family and more important as a friend, I promise you to avenge every single thing that happened to you."
Naruto wanted to cry, he was such an idiot to forget he has a good friend like Shikamaru, if he knew from all along he must told her earlier.
"Hokage-sama I have already informed Chouji to prepare every ones, they should came here at any moment."
Precisely as the child genius said, 9 smokes appeared at the room, Neji and Hinata came first, followed by Kiba, Shino, Chouji, Ino, Tenten, Lee and Sakura.
"Godaime-sama." They spoke in unison.
"Good work Shikamaru, Chouji." Tsunade said, satisfied with the work.
"Listen brats, we have stink worms to catch." She smirked devilishly.
TBC
Note : Whew, my longest chapter .
What happened with the culprits and Itachi would be revealed in the next chapter.
Thanks everyone for the reviews, it really raise my writing spirit.
My grammar still sucks but it's definitely better.