Chapter 9: Chapter 9:Naturally afraid
Disclaimer: The characters of Naruto and settings are all owned by Masashi Kishimoto not me.
Chapter 9: Sometimes...instincts can't be helped...if you're human, you're naturally afraid...
"Don't touch me!"
Naruto quoted back the exact words that Sasuke had thrown to him.
Sasuke retracted his hand back quickly.
Naruto suddenly felt himself lose conscious and before he knew what he was doing, he was leaning close to Sasuke and had his face inches above Sasuke's bare shoulder.
Sasuke felt the warm breath of Naruto's and blushed while his mind was spinning in deep confusion. The second he thought he was rejected badly, he had his blond on his shoulder.
"W-What-?" Sasuke started but was cut off short when Naruto bit into his shoulder deeply with his fangs which had formed, and Sasuke let out a deafening scream.
Sasuke tore away from Naruto and shoved him as hard as he could, unintentionally.
Naruto landed with a thump at the foot of a tree where he glared up at Sasuke with red eyes, baring fangs.
Sasuke held the side of his shoulder, terrified, watching Naruto stand on fours as he got ready to pounce on Sasuke again.
But before anything else could happen, Sasuke pushed Naruto back roughly against the tree behind him.
When Naruto opened his eyes, his glare returned to Sasuke. This wasn't Naruto.
Those blood red eyes were so terrifying that Sasuke lost all coherent thoughts and blindly tried to defend himself.
"Don't! Stop! Don't come near me!" Sasuke screamed, "GO AWAY!"
Words didn't work on Naruto, so Sasuke had to shove him back to the tree hard, hoping for Naruto to get his sense back.
Naruto opened his eyes.
Red.
Sasuke shoves again and Naruto hits his head on the tree, hard.
Again. Red eyes.
Sasuke kept repeating, hoping that Naruto's bright blue eyes would return.
In the end, Naruto completely stopped moving. His eyes stayed shut and his body limp against the tree.
Sasuke slowly let go of him, then looked at his own hands, realizing what he had done.
"A...a..," Sasuke stuttered.
He recalled Naruto's words.
"Get away from me you f-cking monster!" That's what you would say wouldn't you! ...to injure it as much as possible so it won't stand up again...
"No...I didn't mean..."
Sasuke tried to get out the words but couldn't.
Scared of what he had done, and not knowing what to do, Sasuke turned and started to run away from Naruto.
Coincidentally, Naruto mildly awoke and opened his tiring heavy eyelids and saw Sasuke's behind, the figure getting smaller and smaller, away from him.
Naruto noticed Sasuke's blood red, wounded shoulder and vaguely remembered bits of what had happened.
Biting into Sasuke, Sasuke's horrified face, Sasuke pushing him hard against the tree where he hit his head countless times...
Naruto reached to back of his head and found it was warm and wet from his own blood while recalling once again, the painful words from the past.
"But you said...'you'll be my friend no matter what'""But I thought you were normal. A human. But you're not!""Yes, I am!""No! You're a monster! Don't come near me again!"
Sasuke's horrified face came back into his mind, followed by the view of Sasuke running away with the wound.
...Ah, Sasuke's afraid of me... just like others...
A tear escaped from Naruto's now closed eyes and found its way down his cheek while his mind found its way back to the dark world of unconsciousness.
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Naruto stayed in his house for several weeks after that and didn't dare to step out of his door.
Iruka sensei came to visit Naruto a few times but Naruto never answered the door and instead, threw something at the door so that Iruka sensei would get the point that he wasn't welcome there.
Naruto was lying down on his couch, mentally and emotionally down with depression.
Still Iruka sensei tried again and again to get Naruto to come to school.
Naruto repeated his answer each time the same way until one day; it wasn't Iruka sensei that had come to his front door.
A quiet knock came and Naruto threw a glass at the door from his couch.
Silence.
Naruto thought the person had left, when a voice came from behind his door.
"...Naruto."
A voice Naruto didn't want to hear.
The voice that made Naruto's heart feels as if it's going to rip apart.
Naruto stuffed his head in his pillow and ignored him.
"Hey Naruto... its Sasuke," Sasuke said in a nervous tone," I'm going to open the door."
To that, Naruto threw another glass at the door as an answer for 'no', but Sasuke had already opened it and the glass hit the side of the opening door, colliding together, glass shards shooting at Sasuke's arm, with his quick reflex, held in front of his face.
The glass had smashed and trails of bright red blood trailed down Sasuke's contrasting pale arms with one gash on his cheek drawing a thin line of blood.
Naruto's face switched from anger to shock.
Sasuke's face remained calm as he slowly lowered his injured arm.
Then in Naruto's mind, the sight of Sasuke pushing him against the tree flashed back and his face tightened.
"...what do you want?" Naruto asked, glaring.
"Come back to school. Everybody's worried," Sasuke replied which was given a straight quick answer.
"Liar!" Naruto yelled.
"Nobody is ever worried about me! I bet they're relieved that I'm not there! They're all afraid! That includes you too!"
"No, I d-"
"Liar! You're afraid of me! Don't deny it!"
Naruto breathed deeply while Sasuke had no words to return.
Naruto walked over to Sasuke who looked uneasy.
He reached a hand towards the shoulder where Sasuke had bandaged himself from the wound he got from Naruto.
Automatically, Sasuke stepped away from Naruto's outstretched hand.
When Naruto reached over, and touched it at the tip of his fingers, Sasuke closed his eyes tightly and flinched involuntarily.
When Sasuke heard Naruto let out a small laugh, he opened his eyes.
Naruto saw fear in Sasuke's eyes and smirked weakly.
He pushed Sasuke's chest softly but firmly, making him step backwards, out of his house.
"F-ck off..." Naruto said weakly and shut his front door on Sasuke's face, leaving Sasuke standing, staring at the door.
The long silence was awkward, but at last Naruto heard footsteps walk away and he leaned on the door, sighing.
His back slid along the door to the bottom where he sat and closed his eyes.
He ...didn't deny it in the end...I was right...
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