Chapter Ten

"Naruto get down from there!" I hear Sakura yell at me. "Your gonna fall!" she continues. "It's not that tall of a tree for me to get hurt Sakura," I say back.

"One of the nurses are gonna see you and your gonna get in trouble" chimes in Ino. I look down at the bottom of the tree I have climbed up. Ino has her arms crossed with an annoyed look. Sakura is standing next to her worried.

"I'll be fine, the branches are covering me"

"Hmph, fine have it your way. Come on Sakura lets go" she says as she grabs Sakura's arm and leads her back inside. I'm at the edge of the courtyard, I doubt the nurses will find me here. They don't like coming out here.

I begin to climb up higher on the tree. Until I am as high as I can be without falling. I look out and in the distance, I see the city. If I focus hard I can hear it too. When I was a kid I had always dreamed about living in a big city.

I'm in a city yet I'm trapped in this place. Like a bird with a broken wing. I just want to fly. But they keep here.

They tell me I'm 'sick' I need their help to get better. But I don't need their help anymore. I'm fine now. I had to do what I did. But now I will never need to do that again.

'Your a monster Naruto. Your birth was death. Your childhood was death. You are death. All the things you love will end in chaos and misery because of you.'

IT whispers in my ear. "I'm not a monster for what I did" I recite.

'Killing people is wrong. Yet you did it so freely. You secretly loved it.'

I shut my eyes. It's not real. What IT is saying isn't real either. It has no power over me. I open my eyes. "That's right it has no power over me... It's not real..."

Nothing ever feels real anymore. This medicine they make me take has a huge tole on my body. I better get down from here before I lose my balance and fall.

Would it really be all that bad if I did fall?

"Naruto!"

I look down and see Sasuke. "Get down here! I have something for you!" I smile and start to climb down. I get to the ground and look at him excitedly. "What do you got for me?!"

He hands me a bowl of ramen, my favorite. I quickly take it and sit under the tree to eat it. He sits down next to me. Even after I finish eating neither of us says anything. We both stay silent but were both thinking about the same thing.

"8 years... 8 years I've been here. I've done my time, why can't they just let me go?" I whisper.

"They're scared your gonna hurt someone again"

"It's bullshit... It's all bullshit. I w-was a kid when I did that. I didn't know what I was doing. I just wanted to stop. That's all wanted. I didn't mean to..."

Tears begin to gather in my eyes as remember.

"All I did was push her... she was going to hit me with the hot hanger again. I didn't want to be burned again... I hate being burned and s-she always did it anyway. Every day she did it. I loved my aunt but I don't know why she hated me so much. I would scream and beg her not to until I couldn't speak anymore. But she never listened...

It was just a small push... and she fell. She hit her head on the corner of the table. It was an accident... I'm sorry! Okay, I'm sorry for what I did! But keeping me locked here-"

I feel Sasuke put his hand on my shoulder. "You did what you had to survive. If you hadn't had killed her then she would have eventually killed you and she would have made it a slow and horrible death. You were a scared child and no one was there to help you so had to help yourself..."

I wipe away my tears. "I don't know why the villagers hated me so much" I whisper than let out a chuckle. "They hated my dad. They called him a 'corrupt politician' blamed him for all their miserable problems. But despite the hatred, they had for my father. They loved my mother. She was their 'queen' and when I killed her..."

"You didn't kill her. Death during childbirth is always a risk."

"Well, they didn't see it that way..." I look away and begin to remember my father. "You know they called evil but they were the evil ones. I remember my dad and he never even hurt a fly... I may have not had my mother but I had my dad and he made it all okay. He was an amazing dad, he really was... It wasn't till they killed him did I realize that. And then they took me to my great aunt."

"What was your dad like?" Sasuke asks to lead the conversation away from her.

I smile, "He would always carry me on his shoulders. I always wanted to be as tall as him so I could reach the trees and pick the leaves..." I say as I pick a leave from the ground. "I wanted to go as high as I can go so I could see everything... I always secretly hoped that I could reach the clouds... That way I can see how my mom looked like..."

We both fall into comfortable silence. Without a word, we both understand that the conversation is over. I lean against the tree trunk and shut my eyes. I open them again when I hear someone walking towards us. It's one of the nurses.

"You have a visitor," he says. Both Sasuke and I turn to each other confused. Neither of us ever get visitors, unless Jiraiya is in town but that's not until another month. "Who?" I begin. "Uchiha you have a visitor" he clarifies.

Sasuke chuckles, "you got the wrong person. I don't get visitors." Now that I think about it, I don't think Sasuke has ever gotten a visitor. The guy looks at his clipboard, "Nope it's definitely you. We were all surprised, now get up and come with me" he says in an authoritative tone.

Sasuke glares at the man and reluctantly stands up. "Wasting my time" he mumbles as he follows him.

"What are you thinking so hard about Hinata?" Kiba asks me. I don't turn to him I'm busy looking out the window. "Kiba what's that?" I ask and point outside.

Yards away from us toward the entrance there is a group of people. But I can't be sure we are mostly blocked out by the fence. We can only see through a small gap about a foot wide.

"Is that an ambulance?" Kiba whispers. The others must have heard him because they all come to the window also.

"That's not an ambulance. That's a coroners van" whispers Shikamaru. Everyone turns to him. "You don't think Kabuto..." Ino starts. "I wouldn't put it past him," Shikamaru says and turns back to the window.

I look around at everyone. Shikamaru, Kiba, Sakura, Ino, and Sai. Naruto and Sasuke are in the courtyard but. "Where is Choji?" I ask. At that, everyone looks around. "He was here an hour ago..." Ino says confused.

We all look at each other thinking the same thing. Without a word, Shikamaru begins to run to his dorm. We all follow behind him.

I walk to the visitor's room. The only room in this entire hospital I'm not familiar with. I turn to the nurse, "the one all the way in the back" I glare at him again and begin to walk to the back.

But as I do I stop halfway there. There is someone I know. "Obito..." I whisper. Despite whispering it he looks up at me, he gives me a small hopeful smile. I glare at him, I turn back and begin to leave the room but as I do I see Kakashi at the door.

"Move"

"Nope"

"You called him didn't you?"

"Maybe. Your gonna talk to him Sasuke."

"I don't want to"

"Just go sit with him for 10 minutes"

"Why should I? I don't owe that coward anything"

"Itachi would have wanted you to talk to him" I glare daggers at him. How dare he bring Itachi into this. He sighs, "10 minutes Sasuke. That's it and you will be closer to leaving this place"

The last part catches my attention, "fine." I turn around and slowly walk back to Obito. I sit down in front of him. Although I hate to admit it my heart is racing, I haven't seen him in five years. Since I got arrested.

"It's nice to see you Sasuke. God, you've really grown up."

"This place does that to you. Plus killing someone ages the shit out of you"

I look at him and take in his features. He's aged also. Sleepless nights and drinking. Even now I can smell bourbon on him despite him being sober. At least I think he's sober.

He sighs, "Sasuke I'm-"

"Sorry?" I finish for him. "Had you not been such a fucking coward I wouldn't even be here."

He looks away from me but I don't stop. "How is Madara doing? Are you still listening to everything he tells you to do? You always were such a loyal bitch"

At that Obito slams his fist on the table and grabs my collar, everyone notices. I start to laugh, "What are you gonna do Obito? Kill me? You don't have the fucking balls too. You gave them to Madara remember?"

He punches me but before I have the chance to hit him back the nurses come between us and begin to drag me away. As they are dragging me back we pass Kakashi. "Happy?" I say sarcastically. He says something but I don't hear him. It's too late when I realize one of the nurses have given me a sedative shot. I fucking hate those. Everything goes dark.

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