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own Naruto characters! Maybe I need more onions...
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Chapter 4
Determination
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Naruto never thought avoiding people could be soo hard. I mean all you
have to do is keep to yourself and they won't see you, right? Wrong.
'Well I did it. All I have to do is go to Tsunade, live with someone I
probably don't know, complete my mission and get the hell out of this
village.' Naruto thought as he finally reached the hokages room. His
eyes narrowed suspiciously when he opened the door and found Tsunade
grinning at him mischievously (damn that word is hard to type!)
'She is up to something.' Naruto instantly thought.
"Hey Brat! Heard you made quite a commotion in the village! Good job!"
"..."
"Aren't you talkative? Anyway you need a place to stay right? Well I
found someone, well, actually, he found me."
'oh no.'
"Dobe." Sasuke smirked as he walked into the room.
'Yep, of course. Out of alllllll the villagers I get Sasuke. Karma, you
suck.' Naruto scowled as he followed the raven out of the room and
toward the Uchiha's house.
"So where have you been all these years?"
"Traveling."
"Where?"
"Here and there."BWhy did you come back?"
"Why are you trying to make small talk? You have never once tried to
before and lets not start now."
"You're avoiding the question."
"Hn." Naruto wanted nothing more than to cut Sasuke's head off with his
sword but in the four years he learned true patience and temper control.
Sasuke sighed and the rest of the walk was in complete silence.
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"Well this is it." Naruto looked at the huge building with disinterest
and noticed that it was bigger than any other house in the village.
Nodding, Naruto followed Sasuke inside and listened as he showed him
around. There was only one word that could describe the house: big. Big
living room, big kitchen, big bathroom, heck the Uchiha even had a
training room for kami's sake! Upstairs was a even bigger surprise.
Upstairs was where all the rooms were and let me tell you there were
alot of rooms for someone who didn't like visitors. There were at least
16 rooms up there. "This is my room." Sasuke said as he pointed at the
door beside the staircase before he pointed to the door beside it. "That
one is yours."
"Thank you for your hospitality." Naruto said dryly as he opened the
room and walked in.
'What's sad is I think this one room is bigger than my entire
apartment.' Naruto thought. There was a huge bed with a thick blue
blanket and blue pillows, a big oak dresser, a desk with a lamp on it,
and a closet that Naruto would bet could fit at least four people. With
a long sigh with the thought that he would have to live in the same
house with Sasuke, Naruto shrugged off his cloak, revealing his fighting
robe and sword once again. Taking off his sword and leaning it against
the bed, Naruto stretched his shoulder satisfied with the popping noise
it created. "Nice sword." Sasuke said as he reached to touch it.
"Wouldn't do that if I were you." Naruto said lying on the bed.
"Why not?" Sasuke said as he moved his hand closer.
"Just don't say I didn't warn you." Sasuke touched the hilt of the sword
and gasped in pain when it burned him.
"You could have warned me!"
"I did..."
"You didn't say it would burn me!"
"Then maybe you shouldn't touch what isn't yours." Naruto growled as he
finally took pity on the Uchiha that looked as if he was slightly
pouting and took the sword out of the scabbard. On one side of the blade
was ruby red with a red-eyed fox ingraved on it. On the other side was a
clear blue with a blue-eyed foc ingraved on it.
"Where did you get that?" Sasuke asked in astonishment. He had seen many
swords in his life but never one this unique.
"I can't tell you that since I'm under a oath. I can tell you that it
was specialized for me and my chakra. So anyone without my chakra can't
pick it up without being burnt."
"Interesting." Sasuke muttered as Naruto put the sword back in its
scabbard and lay back down on the bed. Sasuke walked out of the room
since it was obvious that Naruto wasn't going to talk anymore.
'I need to get my act together. I lost it three times today and that is
not acceptable. I will not do that again.' Naruto thought he watched the
Uchiha walk out. Naruto turned off the light and let sleep over take
him.
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Sasuke woke up earlier than usual and quickly got up. Today he was
determind to find out more about this new Naruto. He was also determind
to make Naruto stay in the village.
'Like hell I'm letting him go. He is the one person who cared about me
when I didn't deserve it. Enough to risk his life two times for me. It's
my turn to do the same. I want to show him I truely am wanting to
change. I know I don't deserve it but I want to earn his friendship
because if it wasn't for him, I would never be here, I would be trapped
with Orochimaru in my body.' Sasuke thought with a shudder.
"Naruto! Get your lazy ass out of bed." When Sasuke didn't recieve an
answer, he opened the door and found...nothing. Naruto wasn't in bed or
anywhere else in the room. Only a note on the bed.
Sasuke,
I went out training. I'll be back whenever I feel like it.
Naruto
"And he use to call me an anti-social bastard." Sasuke said outloud as
he walked out of the house to search for Naruto. 'Right, he'll obviously
be at the training field. I'll watch him for a bit to see how much he
improved.' Sasuke completely hid his chakra as he neared the grounds.
Naruto grunted in pain as his clone his him hard in the stomach, unaware
of the Uchiha in the tree. Naruto side kicked the clone into a tree and
jumped back, making a large distance.
-FOX FIRE- Naruto shouted and large spears of blue fire erupted from his
stomach and flew at the clone who just barely dodged. The clone ran at
Naruto and swung it's fist at Naruto who blocked and kicked it hard in
the stomach, making it disappear. Panting slightly, Naruto took off his
red shirt he was wearing today and threw it on the ground.
'WHAT THE FUCK!!' Sasuke nearly yelled when he saw Naruto's back. On
Naruto's back in bloodred ink were the words "The family of demons and
monsters" in kanji. Under it in blue ink were the words "Sans ame."
Around the tattoo were scars scattered everywhere on the tanned body,
proving that Naruto had been in many fights. "What the hell has he been
up too?' Sasuke found himself asking again.
Naruto sighed as he lay on the grass and gazed at the sky. He had been
training since sun up which had been at least two hours ago and he was
tired. Relaxing, Naruto nearly fell asleep when he sensed someone
approaching him. Naruto quickly analyzed the chakra and inwardly groaned
when he realized who it was.
"What do yo want, Haruno?" (Ha bet you weren't expecting that!) Naruto
said without opening his eyes.
"I just wanted to talk. Hey what's that seal on your stomach?" Sakura
asked as her eyes wondered to the strange markings on his stomach.
"That really isn't any of your business." Naruto growled angerily as he
picked up his shirt and put it on, careful not to show her his back.
Sakura sighed and looked him in the eyes with a determind look.
"Naruto, look I know what I did was wrong and stupid but why has it
affected you so much? Did it hurt you that much?" Naruto scoffed and
glared at her with fury making the pink haired girl take a step back.
"Haruno, before we went out, nobody liked me, in fact the hated me for
reasons that you will not need to know. Before you, I never thought I
would find someone who actually cared about me and I would live alone. I
really had nothing to live for. All that bullshit about become hokage
was really about me hoping by becoming hokage I might have a reason to
like the village when really, I hated the villagers more than they hate
me.
Then we started going out and I dared to hope that just maybe I could
have a reason to live. That I wasn't going to be alone the rest of my
life. That I was allowed to be truely happy.
That is, until I caught you cheating. It was then I truely realized that
I would always be second to the Uchiha and that here, I would always be
nothing. So I left, to find somewhere where I was something, something
better than trash." Naruto's voice remained emotionless and his eyes
remained cold, not daring to show any emotion. Sakura found herself
nearly in tears and she went towards Naruto but before she could get
near him, fire appeared in front of her. "Don't come near me. I do not
need your pity. I only told you so you knew I wasn't simply running away
from you." With that, Naruto turned away and began wlking away.
"Naruto! I'm truely sorry! I never knew the true consquences to my
actions! I never knew it would affect you this much! Please forgive me!
I won't do it again, never again." Naruto stopped dead in his tracks and
gave her a glare a Uchiha would only wish for.
"A broken soul does not mend easily to meer words."
"I'll prove to you they aren't meer words!" Sakura shouted as she ran
off.
Sasuke watched Naruto groan in comeplete annoyance as he made the fire
disappear and walked off.
'So Sakura wants Naruto again. Over my dead body.' Sasuke thought as he
ran off back to his house, being careful not to be seen.
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I'll prove to you they aren't meer words.
'What have I gotten myself into?' Naruto asked himself. Suddenly wind
blew behind him.
"San ame." Naruto spun around to the voice quickly. "He wants to get the
scroll and for you to be back in one week if possible."
"Fine."
"I can convince him to let you stay longer if you want."
"No. I'll back in one weeks time." Naruto turned around and walked away,
ending the conversation. The new arrival sighed and disappeared in the
wind.
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Chapter End Notes:
Yay a new character!!!! I hope you enjoyed this chapter that me and my
friend written. Anyway IMPORTANT NEWS!!! The vote for a SasuNaru or a
NaruSaku is gonna end very soon, like this saturday or sunday.
The vote so far:
Sakura- 9
Sasuke- 9
Amazing another tie! Seriously if this doesn't end I'm gonna flip a
coin! And thank you all for your reviews and suggestions! Love you all!
Until next time!