I'm back! I really wanted to update this story. I'm SOOOOOO sorry for the at least month and a bit wait. I kinda had MSP membership. But I won a completion for a kindle fire and I had a review which really made my day. Thanks to (Guest) Ren-chan for reviewing and making my day Oh yeah in the last chapter I said down, but I really meant done. Sorry for any confusion. AND I now own Naruto volumes 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9, Yay!
Len: Who cares!
Ttcf: I do! Cole does!
Len: Cole! How could you!
Cole: Sorry Len, she's the authoress after all. Now say sorry to her!
Len: I'm not sorry.
Cole: Oi! On with the story!
Len: How could you!
Alone chapter 7
Gold, bloodshot eyes stared up at me, tears leaking down the side of his face. I rocked him slowly, before grasping his chin lightly. The Uchiha brothers stared on in shock as fresh tears appeared on his face. And mine. It broke my heart, seeing the crystalline drops fall freely and soon I was crying along with him, holding his face into my shoulder as he sobbed. After a good 10 minutes Itachi came over with his brother and sat down behind us, patting Len's back in an attempt to sooth him, for which I was grateful for.
"This wasn't a sight I expected to see." He said quietly and Sasuke chuckled dryly at the shabby (Yet effective) attempt to lighten the oppressive mood. Len lifted his head slightly and I wiped the tears from the puffy golden eyes, forcing a smile his way and gaining a genuine one in return.
"Len, I want to know what's wrong with you. You never acted like this, ok slightly exaggerating there" I paused as he giggled slightly then continued. " I know what I may ask may be hard but I need you to tell me what happened to you, from the beginning, I need the honest truth of what happened. Ok?" Len nodded furiously at me, tears still threatening to overspill. I felt myself starting to cry again; it was heartbreaking to see him like this, so depressed, so upset, so vulnerable...
It was the worst sights I had ever seen. And I had seen a lot of terrible things.
"D-Do... you... mean *Sob* after y-you left or...?" He whispered, stuttering. I gave him a warm, hopefully comforting smile and nodded. He continued, wiping away the tears.
"After you left, straight after our argument, I sat in your room hoping you'd come back. You didn't. Uncle hated me for driving you away; he would constantly remind me that it was my fault, that because you h-hated me and I w-was your weakness that you were gone.
He b-beat me regularly and reminded me that I wouldn't be here if you hadn't of saved me, and that I was selfish enough to completely disregard that and drive you away. He trained me every day, but it was the hardest training I had ever received a-and it nearly k-k-killed me. But I was told that if I was shaman king, you would want to come back because I was strong. But you never came back. My Aniki never came back." He paused for a bit, as if trying to read me. I gulped and hung my head guiltily. Aniki was his nick-name for me when we were little.
"Please continue, Len" He nodded once more.
"I was participating for the shaman fight when I met yoh Asakura. He and I were rivals for ages, but we drew in the shaman fight. We were still rivals, but friends as well and I travelled with him and his other friends Trey, whose real name was Horo Horo, Rio, Lyserg and a terrible comedian called Jocko. Asakura won the tournament. I cried in my room for days, knowing you'd never come back. I dared to show my face to uncle, who beat me for it and told me I had betrayed the c-clan. I don't even know why my friends hate me. They just turned on me, told me I was an arrogant jerk who shouldn't even have had a second chance. They s-shunned me. I had nowhere to go. Except h-here. With you. I managed to weasel it out of Zeva but I couldn't find it. Konoha wasn't on the maps, anywhere. Eventually I c-came across one of the ninja of the village, Naruto I think his name was, who told me. I hadn't eaten in days, because of my diet, so I was so hungry. It took me months to find you, so by the time I got here I had all but zero energy. Th-That's ev-ery *Hiccup* Thing that h-happened."
I gawped at him. The effect of his words hit me like a ton of bricks: I was the reason that my baby cousin was in tears. No, not cousin. Otouto. Yeah, that has a better ring to it. I looked into the purple mess of scruffy hair and kissed his blotchy forehead lightly. I've had practice doing this. When Len was little and still had his nightmares (I wonder if he still has them) He would run to me.
"Aniki! Aniki! Make the bad monsters go away! I don't like them!"He would yell (occasionally in the process he would wake up the entire household), running towards me. And we would sit like this. I would whisper to him, dry the tears, smile at him and make him tell me about it then kiss his forehead. Just like this.
It took all most an hour to get him to sleep, which included me reading him 9 pages of Pet Semetery (Yet he'd just had a nightmare? Strange kid) and putting on Shrek's thrilling tales until he fell asleep on my incredibly wet Black traditional PJ's. Which are in the tumble dryer. This means I'm standing with my boxers on, freezing. With a very red Sasuke laughing at me and a very un-amused Itachi sitting on the sofa. Oh the Joys of being me!
"Hey c-c-ole" Sasuke stuttered, laughing all the while.
"What!?" I ground out.
"I'm going now, so let's hope the next time we meet is when you happen to have your trousers on!" He yelled, bursting into an uncontrolled laughing fit. Itachi rolled his eyes, muttered a very quite 'Gomen' and dragged his embarrassing little brother out my door.
Well,did you like. Please,forgive me if it wasn't worth the wait. Time for Ttcf's Japanese dictionary:
Aniki – Older brother/big brother
Otouto – younger brother/little brother
Gomen – Sorry