"Naruko! Naruko wait! Hold up!" Sasuke yelled out chasing his childhood friend down the statue adorned hallways of the prestigious Gato Enterprises building.
Naruko slowed down after hearing Sasuke's voice, gritting her teeth in frustration and clenching her fists. She was shaking with rage as her eyes turned into a slit. Sasuke stopped running and approached her cautiously, noticing the red aura taking form over her body.
"Naruko, I think you need to calm down. I understand why your angry, but you really need to-?!"
"If you understand than why?! Why are you putting up with this bullshit?!" Naruko yelled out, the red aura encasing her now turning more visible and increasing in volume as she turned around meeting Sasuke's eyes with her own.
Sasuke flinched, noticing the Nine tails' influence over her, and began attempting to calm her down.
"Now Naruko, I realize your angry, but you need to calm down. I know that this is wrong but we can't do anything about it, you know that. So please, calm down before you lose control." Sasuke said as he approached her calmly.
The red chakra aura began to dissipate, but the slit eyes remained the same as she continued to clench her teeth.
"Its just not right! Why does he feel completely fine messing with innocent lives like this?! Whats wrong with that short bastard!?" Naruko yelled and stomped her feet, leaving a dent in the pristine floor.
"Naruko..." Sasuke continued to try to calm her down.
"Does he like doing it?!"
"Naruko..."
"Does he enjoy their misery?!"
"Naruko...!"
"Does he get some sick thrill every time he see's them suffering because of his actions?!"
"Naruko!" Sasuke finally yelled out, snapping Naruko out of her anger induced daze.
She noticed him looking at her side worriedly, causing her to follow his eyes' direction. She became shocked after finding the fine wallpaper peeling off the wall from her red aura. Her red aura dissipated as her eyes became cerulean blue once more, face twisted into an expression of shock.
"I know that its awful! I know that what he's doing is twisted! You don't think I feel awful for having to do something twisted like this?!" Sasuke yelled out.
Naruko looked at Sasuke with a shocked expression and looked at the ground, ashamed of her actions.
"No, I-I know i'm probably not the only one mad at this, and I get that as a ninja we have no choice but still..." Naruko trailed of as her eyes began to water.
"When I think about the innocent people who will be hurt because of this, it just drives me crazy knowing there's nothing I can do about it for once!" Naruko exclaimed as tears trailed out of her eyes.
Sasuke looked her sadly as she continued to talk.
"I-I mean I am the Hokage's daughter. The person expected to be a future Hokage by most of the village! I'm called a hero, i'm praised by everyone in our class, and i'm a prodigy, and yet I, the person who is supposed to be 'The hero who saved the village from the Nine-Tails' can't even save one small village from a short bastard with a Napoleon Complex! Some prodigy I am right?, some hero!" Naruko cried as tears spilled out on mass.
"Everyone expects me to be some beacon of hope! A Symbol of peace for the village. The daughter of the Hokage who can accomplish anything she sets her mind to! Yet, when push comes to shove, all I can do is smile! Like a god dammed idiot!" She shrieked as tears cascaded down her face.
"Naruko..." Sasuke said, for once at a loss for words. Never has he seen the blonde ball of happiness ever react to something like this.
He shook his head and began to speak. A passive look adorning his face.
"I don't." Sasuke said.
Naruko lifted her head in confusion, wiping tears from her eyes.
"You don't what?"
"I don't see you as a hero or a beacon of hope. I mean how could I? Your sloppy, you dress in that god awful color orange, you eat too much ramen, you act like a tom boy, you always pull pranks, you constantly act like your better than me, and to top it all of, your an idiotic loser who always has to have it her way!" Sasuke yelled out at Naruko.
Naruko looked at Sasuke in surprise as he finished, tears no longer in her eyes as she had wiped them. Sasuke looked at her with a smile surprising Naruko in the process as him smiling is a rarity seldom seen.
"You're no hero Naruko. Your just my best friend who has a hero complex and thinks too much of herself. Got it!?" Sasuke finished.
Naruko's eyes lit up like gem stones as she blushed with happiness before she began to crush him in a hug, causing Sasuke to grunt in surprise.
"Thanks DuckButt!" Naruko yelled out.
"No problem moron! Now let go, you're crushing me!" Sasuke said in a strained voice before Naruko let go.
"Sorry, haha!" Naruko yelled out, clearly not apologetic at all as Sasuke shook his head at her.
"Whatever, its fine, now lets go find Kakashi, we need to apologize for running off like that." Sasuke said before a hand placed itself on their shoulder surprising the both of them.
"It is quite alright, after all, thanks to Sasuke's amazing speech, I have blackmail material for you two for years to come!" Kakashi said appearing behind them with a tape recorder in his hand as Sasuke became flushed in embarrassment.
"Dammit Kakashi, give me that!" Sasuke yelled trying to snatch it out of his hands.
Kakashi lifted the tape recorder in the air.
"Nope! Not unless you want me to report your actions in front of the client to the Hokage!" Kakashi said eye smiling at them.
Sasuke clicked his teeth in embarrassment and looked down at the floor, refusing to meet Kakashi in the eye.
"Fine, whatever..." Sasuke, attempting to like he was not at all bothered by the situation and failing at it.
As Kakashi continued to eye smile mockingly at Sasuke, Naruko looked around Kakashi in confusion.
"Hey Kakashi, where is Yuma, didn't he stay behind in the room with you and the others when we left? Shouldn't he be with ya?" Naruko asked arching her golden brow in confusion at her sensei.
"Yeah about that...Yuma's injuries from the battle with Kisame are still plaguing him so I ordered him to go back to his room and rest up. A Medical Ninja from the Village should be here soon to treat his wounds."
Naruko and Sasuke nodded to each other and began walking past Kakashi.
"Hey, where are you two off to? Aren't the two of you gonna wait for the medic with me?"
Naruko and Sasuke continued to walk off.
"Nah, but you have fun with that. Me and Sasuke are gonna hang out with Yuma while he's resting up. Team bonding and stuff, ya know?" Naruko said, halfheartedly waving her hands in a 'bye' gesture.
Kakashi sweat dropped at the both of them as they disappeared around a corner.
"Sure, leave your poor sensei alone why don't you." Kakashi says before sighing and walking off to the lobby, to wait for the Medic Ninja.
Yuma laid in his bed, his thoughts going a mile a minute within his head. Tapping his fingers on the bed bars, he had a look of confusion and anger on his face as his thoughts raced within him. The thoughts were all saying the same thing causing him to wallow in self-disgust.
'You're sick.'
That is what the voices within told him.
'Manipulative bastard.'
'Unfeeling monster.'
'Envious fool.'
'You are...'
'He is...'
'A disappointment.'
The voice within mocked him, laughing dementedly in its deep manic tone.
'I thought you were soft, but you surprise me once again. Using the lives of innocent people as stepping stones to achieve your own ends, how sadistic of you, Yuma Ito.'
Yuma gripped the bed bar tightly, sweat forming on his forehead as his breath became ragged.
"Shut up. I'm not in the wrong, they would've died with or without our help anyway." Yuma said, unknowingly speaking aloud.
'Keep telling yourself that. Tell me, why do you refuse me? You're clearly worthy of my boon, so why? Just give in already.'
"Shut up. What boon? What the hell are you even talking about? What the hell are you?"
The voice chuckled.
'What a good question, I don't even know myself. I guess you could say I am the being born from the will and essence of the human life form Yuma Ito.'
Yuma continued to grip the bed bar as his face became red in angry.
"What does that even mean!" Yuma said trying to yell but in too much pain to actually do so.
'It means what it means. I don't make the rules Yuma. You are the one who made me, therefore I am a part of you.'
"How could I even make something without realizing it? Or better yet, make something I don't even know!"
'I should warn you that sooner or later you will give in and accept my boon. So it is better to consent to it. After all, if you keep resisting you could die.'
Yuma shook his head and began to dry heave. Sweat was pouring from every pore on his body and his eyes widened in pain.
"I-I don't want to give in, but please make it stop!" Yuma pleaded as he gripped the bed bar tighter, causing his hand to turn purple.
'...Are you sure?'
"Yes!"
'Positive?"
"Just fix the da-?!"
Suddenly Yuma heard a snap to his right and the pain subsided.
The bed bar was snapped in half.
The hand with which he had been gripping the bar with...had been covered in black.
Yuma sat there, staring at his hand. Then, much to his surprise, the black thing covering his hand receded back into his skin.
"Wha...What the hell was...that?" Yuma asked eyes widened in fear of the body horror he had been presented with.
'The boon I have been wishing to grant you. Of course since you haven't accepted it, I had to force it through. Do not worry, it was temporary, I merely had to give it a release to release you of the pain it was causing.'
"What...What is it?!" Yuma asked, thoroughly freaked out over the thing that seems to be inhabiting him.
'I guess you could say it is but an extension of me, yet not at the same time.'
Yuma continued to look at his hand in terror before finally gather the courage to speak once again.
"What are you? Who are you?" Yuma asked.
The voice laughed in its low gruff tone once more.
'Well, since I am the being known born from the will of Yuma Ito, well lets see here...'
The voice pondered as Yuma stared at his hand, scared of the black being emerging from his hand once more.
Then, with that same low creepy tone echoing in his head, the voice responded.
'I guess you may call me Yumito.'
Yuma scowled.
"That's a dumb name." Yuma said in distaste.
The voice did not respond.
"Hello?"
It still did not respond.
Thus Yuma continued to lay in the bed awkwardly and bored for several minutes.
Until of course a blond blur came barreling into his room causing him to curse his bad luck.
"Hey Yuma! Are you okay, are you hungry, need any food, sorry we didn't get here sooner, how are you do-!"
Sasuke bopped Naruko on the head as he causally walked into the room.
"Stop pestering him idiot, can't you tell your making him uncomfortable?" Sasuke said looking at her the same way a disappointed adult would to a hyperactive four year old.
"Oh shut it!" Naruko grumbled grumpily as Yuma lightly chuckled at their antics.
"Nice to see you two are okay after you left the banquet hall, I was worried!" Yuma exclaimed.
'Liar'
Naruko grinned sheepishly and rubbed the back of her head.
"Yeah sorry about that, I kinda lost my cool there!" Naruko said.
Sasuke sighed.
"I'll say, you completely lost it there, I had to rush to you and make sure you were okay. What a baby." Sasuke said mockingly.
"Oh be quiet!" Naruko yelled.
"I see you at least calmed down. Though I don't blame you, I had trouble containing my anger myself. Gato is pure scum." Yuma said anger flashing in his eyes for a split second.
'Look who's talking.'
Naruko looked at the floor a look of disgust forming on her face.
"I know, just thinking about him makes my skin crawl. How can someone be so greedy that they're completely fine with the suffering of others. I hate him."
'Ironic isn't it?'
Yuma gritted his teeth in anger, but composed himself quickly before the other two took notice.
"Yeah...Still, we can't do anything about it though. It's our mission, and as Ninja we must complete it." Yuma said.
Naruko looked at the ground sadly, not wanting to agree with him.
"Hey, can we stop talking about that fool, seriously." Sasuke complained.
"Yeah what Sasuke said, lets forget about that bastard!" Naruko cheered as Yuma fake smiled and laughed aloud to himself.
Naruko began to laugh as well before blushing and looking at the ground as she rubbed her legs together.
Naruko got up and ran out of the room shocking both Sasuke and Yuma at her sudden bolt towards the door while she yelled.
"Gotta use the restroom, don't try to turn Yuma into a DuckButt like you Sasuke!" Naruko yelled as she ran out the door.
And with that she was gone, leaving Yuma and Sasuke to look around awkwardly.
For awhile all was silent as Sasuke tapped his feet and looked at Yuma with a out of place glare before finally speaking up.
"You're faking it, aren't you?"
Yuma tensed up.
Silence reigned as Yuma sat up in the bed, an unreadable expression on his face as he began to gaze at Sasuke passively.
"What gave it away?" Yuma asked.
Sasuke's faced went from a glare to one of passiveness.
"Your smile. It was obviously fake since day one."
Yuma's eyes narrowed.
"I see...should probably work on that." Yuma said.
"Why do you do it?" Sasuke asked, staring at Yuma intently.
"...Tell me Sasuke, have you ever starved?" Yuma asked.
Sasuke became confused, arching his brows at Yuma before responding.
"No, but what does that have to do wit-"
Yuma cut him off.
"I have. Not just once either, but multiple times. Sometimes I would have to dig for food in the trash. Sometimes i'd have to beg."
Sasuke remained silent.
"Do you know how it feels? To wake up in the morning without knowing if you'll be able to find food? Having to live in a shit apartment because of a fuzzball who decided to treat our village like a firing zone? How it feels to know that you have to go to an academy on an empty stomach and be mercilessly bullied by other kids simply because you're not as gifted as the others?"
Sasuke began to frown at Yuma, but remained quiet.
"How it feels to have your bullying be ignored by your Sensei simply because he can't be bothered to help out the 'untalented' student? How it feels to after the endless jeers at your expense, go back to the cockroach infested hell known as 'home' and pray that someone take pity on you and spare change or food, because if not, its back to the dumpsters."
Silence reigns as he continues.
"This goes on day after day after day after day. Again and again this goes on and all you can do is hope it gets better...Then one day...You wake up...and you realize... it isn't fair"
Sasuke begins to look at Yuma with pity as he continues.
"You go to school after realizing that and once more your showed how weak you are compared to the others. A mutt who walks on two legs decides it's his Kami given mission that it's his job to make your life a living hell simply because you accidentally spilled your juice over his shoes. He berates you, mocks you, gets the whole class to join in and laugh."
Yuma begins to tremble.
"He forces you into the classroom early in the morning before class starts and tells you it's your fault. He says you should kill yourself, that nobody will miss you. He pushes you onto the floor and straddles you as he punches you repeatedly in the face. Suddenly, the classroom door opens. Guess who it is? None other than the two prodigies of class. Sasuke Uchiha and Naruko Namikaze."
Sasuke tenses up as his eyes widen and memories come back to him.
"They stand there and see you on the floor bloodied and bruised. They see the mutt who sees it fit to make your life a living hell sitting on top of you, shocked and afraid at their appearance. Suddenly, you have hope, you think you're saved, surely the famed Konoha Duo will be able to help!"
Sasuke looks at the floor ashamed, already knowing the rest, memories resurfaced causing him to feel self disgust.
"They leave. They walk away. They don't spare even a glance. Hope is crushed and your beating continues. The Famed Prodigies of Konoha abandoned you."
Yuma lifted his head and looked at Sasuke, tears in his eyes and a smile on his face.
"So, Sasuke Uchiha, that is why I act the way I do and put up a mask. Because if I didn't..."
His smile goes away as his face scrunches up in anger.
"I wouldn't even be able to be near the two of you without violently vomiting out my own intestines."
With those final words he wiped away his tears and let the smile come back to him.
Sasuke didn't look him in the eye, too ashamed of himself to do so.
Time ticks on and Sasuke can't even bring himself to respond and eventually walks to the door, and begins waiting for Naruko.
The door opens up and Naruko walks in. She begins cheerfully conversing with Yuma as she cracks jokes and he laughs at them. This goes on for awhile as everything goes on like normal. Sasuke responds to Naruko's jokes as well, going along with the fake cheer and happiness.
That would be the first time a member of Team Seven would see a Yuma without the mask.
It wouldn't be the last.
Kakashi stood in the lobby. Lazily reading his favorite orange pornographic book. As he stood there he began to wonder how Naruko's 'Team Bonding' was going. He briefly contemplated it before shaking his head.
'eh, there fine.' Kakashi thought to himself.
He stood there for awhile, lazily reading the same book he has had for years when suddenly the lobby door opens up.
"Hello? Did anyone call for a Medic Ninja from the Leaf?" The young man exclaimed as Kakashi walk towards him.
"That would be me, sorry for calling you all the way out here. My students were attacked and one of them were injured. He's mostly okay but has a few fractures in his back." Kakashi explains.
"Ah, I see! Well don't you worry i'll take care of it!" The young man stated with confidence causing Kakashi to chuckle.
"Nice to know we still got enthusiastic people like you for medics, whats your name?" Kakashi asked.
The young man with a pony tail smiled before pushing his glasses further up his nose.
"It's Kabuto sir. Kabuto Yakushi."
A/N: Oh Shniznaps, its ya boi TheKingofShame back with another chapter! How has it been, are you dudes and dudettes enjoying the holidays! I know I am...Anyone else playing Smash Bros. Ultimate? Well anyways, that there is the second chapter of the month. Now you gotta wait till Janurary for another. May be. Probably...*Cough* Christmas surprise *Cough*. Anyways its currently 3 in the morning were I am right now and I am tired. PEACE!
