chapter 26: lost memories

Chappy name: My promise

Sai's words of unknown wisdom:

If I cannot promise you life, then I promise you death. I follow those two nindo's, one for the unborn child you slaughtered, and the woman who was willing to give life to my child. If I chose my nindo, the one you forge across my heart, then you and the world would be burned and placed inside my tormented soul as I gored my self on your flesh.

For, a Demon has to eat and has to have some form of moral? or am I wrong?

The Demon Naruto

Kakashi stared at Naruto, there were red stains down his chest that had stained the orenge of his jacket, but it was still his eyes that trapped and called Kakashi's mind to look. they were not normal. the slits where there while the outer rims of his eyes were red. His cheeks had lost the whisker like marks only to be replaced the lines of blood. The usual smile was taken over by a look or fear and anger.

"Hey Kaka baka, we need to leave before Gai and the others come to investigate." Kakashi quickly began to draw himself back into being who he was, it was slow, but he knew it would help him over come the shock.

Something had happened and he didn't know what it was.

"Kakashi sensei." Kakashi was momentarily shocked, his blonde hyper student never called him that unless something was wrong. "You look pathetic." Kakashi glanced up at the boy before he felt something strong pushing him to his feet. What was it that was moving him, what was it that had Naruto like this?

While he watched Naruto he noticed tht the boy looked tired, worn out form something hard and almost eating him away. What ever it was he felt the need to save the boy.

"We need to leave Naruto, Kakashi." Haku stated before undoing the binds that were around the jounin, he blinked before he felt the ropes fall form his arms and fell to the floor. Yet his gaze never drifted from Naruto's.

"If you take a picture, Hatake, it'll last longer, now wont it." Naruto sneered up at him before turning around and leaving, he felt disgusted that he had to help someone who 'assisted' in his murder and the murder of his loved one. A low growl left his throat before he risked a glance behind him to Kakashi and Haku. He could not allow Haku to die, and he would not allow Sasuke...

He felt the tears swelling in the corner of his eyes before he blinked them away, allowing them to slide down his face.

He had to make them strong, or he would kill them if they got in his way.

They had cleared the area and had made it to Tasuna's house. The three bearly uttered words before Kakashi felt something pop in his head. HOW could Naruto act like this; so cold, so angry, and so vendictive towards him. WHAT did he do to deserve this?

"Naruto, could I-" he was cut off as Naruto glanced at him over his shoulder. His eyes were cold, frozen over and filled with something that was not suppose to be on a childs face; a desire for his blood.

"Hatake, I believe the question you want to know wont be answered because I refuse to answer someone from Konohagakure." Kakashi blinked before looking at the boy, Haku watched, shocked at how naruto was acting, it was not normal for a boy, even him, to want to kill for a reason that should not be.

"Naruto, what has gotten into you!" Kakashi shouted, grabbing Naruto's shoulder before he felt something prickling along his arm, riding up until it brushed his chest.

"I wanted to give her a decent burial, but what Konoha did, I wont forgive them. They took everything from me and left me hollow and empty with only the thoughts that 'they wanted me dead'." Naruto blinked up at him before baring his teeth. "THEY TOOK EVERYTHING FROM ME AND HUNTED ME LIKE I WAS SOME KIND OF ANIMAL!" Naruto jolted his shoulder forward before storming forward, he paused, swaying a little before cursing, "Times up, isn't it..." Kakashi rushed forward, catching the small boy into his arms as he collapsed. His eyes fluttered closed before a smile fell on his face.

What ever he was dreaming of was a nice one.

"Naruto." Naruto smiled softly as he looked at Sakura, the pink hair had lighted alot in the years that he departed Konoha. "Naruto, I don't... I can't... Why must you fight us?" her left arm was hanging limp at her side while she weilded her kunai in a way to ward off any attacks that he might make.

"I can't Sakura chan." he took in a deep rattling breath before he began again. "They killed her because I loved her and because of the fact that... that..." his voice had become softer, where he knew Sakura could not hear him. They had killed her, but he knew that Sakura didn't do it. She had always stood by him, maybe she still would. "Do you know what I am?" Sakura paled, nodding her head. "Then you know what Konoha is. What they wanted from me." she looked confused, making Naruto smile. Of course they wouldn't tell the 'innocent'. They only wanted to keep it from those who would fight. "I was made to destroy all of Konoha's enemies, but they failed to realise that I am only a person who can love so easily. Hinata was my lover, my friend, my sould, heart, and all the good I should have been if I stayed with her." Sakura watched him before taking a step forward, only to be pushed back by the other shinobi with her. "I cared for her that I gave her my child, I wished her to live so I left Konoha, yet, because I was in love they planned on her death..." it was becoming hard for him to speak, he realised, as the tears came down from his face.

"Naruto." Naruto's head shot to look at the Hokage, Danzou. "Come back to Konoha, I promise you, we did not kill Hinata Hyuuga."

Silence crept around the area before Naruto burstedo out laughing, one that was not human, that crept along your skin, eating it making it cold in areas before burning others. It was a laugh of a man on the edge of living and the dead, one who would not care for himself or the others around him. He had been scorned, lost everything, so he would not forgive them of their lie.

"No, Danzou, you lie." Danzou's eye widdened before he opened his mouth to shout out a command to the shinobi he held control over. He felt it before he knew what had happened. "I don't care about Konoha, their rules, or their people. All I want is for those who commited this sin ageinst me to die, and I shall SPARE NO ONE WHO GETS IN MY WAY!" Naruto screamed before destroying all those around Danzou.

Kakashi and Haku walked towards the door, Kakashi felt the increasin twitching in Naruto's chest and hands with each step he took. He couldn't understand what was happening, but he knew that if Naruto didn't wake up soon, then what ever he saw would be...

"Kakashi, if you don't want to carry him any more, I will." Haku stated this as if he was asking a question, yet the Jounin knew that the boy could feel the worry seeping out of the leaf shinobi in nausiating waves.

"No, I am his Jounin leader. If I don't take care of him, then what ever is plaging him-" Haku hushed him before knocking on the door.

The silence as they waited was worring Kakashi greatly. It seemed to span hours before the door opened to reveil Gai, his fave grim before it took on the uttor shock.

"Kakashi!" Kakashi blinked before he dropped Naruto to the ground, in that second Gai lept forward, hugging Kakashi with enough force to shatter his spine and turn his insides into pudding. "You're alive! I thought that he killed..." Gai opened his eyes to look at Kakashi before he saw the orenge lump sleeping at their feet. "YOU LEFT HIM ALIVE!"

Kakashi jumped at the sudden shout from his friend, it was not one that he knew or heard before. It was laced in anger and so much.... he could identify it.

"He's my student, I can't kill him Gai." the look that Gai sent him was all that Kakashi needed to see. Konoha had sent him here for no other reason then to poison Kakashi's mind. To turn him, and propably his students, ageinst Naruto.

"I can't kill you guys." Naruto looked at team eight, ten and what remained of team seven. Team Gai had been killed, all by Naruto's hand. Tears fell from his eyes as he remembered how they attacked him, he pleaded with them to stop being like this, to listen to him and... "I don't want to kill any more people that I love."

"Naruto..." Sakura began only to be silenced by the others.

"Then maybe you shouldn't have killed them, huh freak!" Kiba shouted, throwing a shuriken at him. Naruto allowed it to cut his cheek before he looked sorrowfully at Kiba and the other last member of team eight, shino. "If you just allowed them to kill you, then they'd be alive, didn't think of that, huh Demon!" he felt hurt, how could they... he thought...

"We knew you weren't human, all of us knew that inside you had no other reason's to befriend us." Shino stated before he stepped forward. "You only cared about how it would hurt us to kill you or watching you kill us."

"No!" Naruto shouted out as quickly as he could. "You're-"

"Shut up Dobe." Naruto paused, looking behind him he saw his friend, one that he thought would help him. "I came back to konoha, or didn't you get the news." Naruto's eyes widdened before he stepped back. "You lied about who and what you are, you took everything from me, and you betrayed me." Naruto couldn't speak yet his lips kept mouthing 'no' over and over.

"SASUKE!" Sakura shouted, falling to her knees. "Please, please, just leave him alone, don't kill him, please!" she whimpered. Sasuke blinked before smirking at Naruto.

"You're lucky that someone fells sympathy for a demon spawn like you." the words cut deep into Naruto's heart that he felt it bleed out.

He had no one, they all left him... except Sakura... she still cared... "If I kill them all, Sasuke, all my 'friends' who should I spare?" Everyone froze at these words before looking at Naruto in fear. Sasuke watached him before stepping close enough that he whispered into his ear.

"Sakura." Naruto smiled at that, for if he said someone else, then this finale promise would be broken.

"Then, I want to applogies." with that Naruto howled as he released his beast, allowing it to kill those who he wanted dead. Yet, as he watched them all die, Sakura clung to Sasuke, saving him.

"NARUTO!" someone was calling his name, he had to wake up to make them happy, to let them know he was fine. "Please, don't..." what? don't give up? don't die? don't become the monster that his other self was made into by his Konoha, his other life? No, don't leave them, don't let their friend ship die. Yes, those were the reason.

"Sorry." he whispered before he felt three pairs of hands touch his arms, telling him they heard and understood his drowsy word.

Sai's thank you's: to those who have not abandoned me because I have failed to update constantly

Sai's ending words: ah 2000 words, that makes me happy.