"Please Teme! Pretty please! I'll do anything!"
"If I say yes will you shut up until we get back home?"
"Yes! Anything!"
"Fine."
"Thank you Sasu… Oh yeah… I'll be quiet."
Training got over not too long ago. Naruto got to spar with the raven again. He's always so happy with that boy, even when he loses… Unfortunately for the Uchiha, Naruto likes to eat ramen after training. My kit is very persistent. He has been begging the raven for the past half-hour to take him to Ichiraku's. Poor Sasuke's resolve has finally given out. I wonder if Naruto can truly go that long without speaking. There's Ichiraku's. I wonder if the raven is worried about his wallet.
Five bowls of ramen later, a slightly peeved raven and an energetic blonde step back onto the Konoha streets. Surprisingly, Naruto didn't talk the entire time they were eating. It was probably due to having all of that ramen shoved into his mouth. My kit's eating habits, put even me to shame.
The walk back towards the Uchiha mansion has been almost silent. My kit wasn't told he couldn't whistle or hum, so he decided it'd be ok with the raven if he did a mixture of the two. Of course, the raven seems fine with it, but then again, maybe he's planning the best way to keep Naruto's bottomless pit from eating away all of his money. Imagine that, my kit beats the raven simply because he eats at Ichiraku's everyday.
Even though Naruto hasn't said anything, I can feel my kit's gratitude. In time I hope he will be able to speak with me. A single conversation with my kit and maybe I could change his life around… This situation is turning out to be very amusing. I am imprisoned inside a mortal boy. Me, an immortal demon, cursed to live a half-life such as this, and yet… This boy, this vessel which is my prison, I do not hate. I have come to love him as one of my own kin. Given the chance I would gladly give my immortality for him. Never in all my thousands of years have I felt this way for any creature. Sifting through Naruto's emotions and memories I can see that he desires a mother. Seeing all of the other children with one has put a great sadness in his heart. Oh, if I could but show him that he has a mother. What am I saying? My kit would probably be killed if I became his mother. He has survived these years against torture and brutality, but even he with his great courage and fiery spirit could not stand against the village if they attacked him at once because of me. I doubt even the dolphin, the pervert, and the raven together could truly defend him if the time ever came… My poor kit, I wish I could encourage you to show your love to Sasuke. I wish I could convince Sasuke to love you as you do him. I wish I could save you from this wretched existence. So many wishes to be granted, yet no power to do so.
Even if I had the power I wonder; would you truly be happy if I changed events as they happened? Would the other Naruto be the same boy as he is now; caring, compassionate, friendly, and everything else that is hidden under the stone outer appearance. Would you still love Sasuke in the other world, or would it be that pink haired girl? In that other world would you still want to be hokage so that you and your senseis would be free to love whom you choose? So many questions about what would happen, if the past were changed… I could say that I will never know the answer, but I think I really do. It's no. Nothing would be the same. Everyone would be your friend because of the bright person you are. Sasuke wouldn't be able to get close to you because of your popularity and Iruka and Kakashi would be doomed to live a lie. Pain is all I have caused from the moment I had set paw in the village. But I may look to the future in hopes that what I have done will bring about some good. Maybe one day my kit will no longer see me, nor himself as a monster, maybe one day I can truly protect him and his love.