When Sasuke did finally go to see Iruka, Iruka wasn't very.pleased.
Actually, Sasuke was sure that if Kakashi hadn't been there, Iruka would've
killed him. Sasuke was even surer that if Kakashi hadn't been his teacher
first in this life, he would've killed him as well.
"What do YOU want?"
"To talk about my past life. Naruto."
"Why would you care now? Four months later?"
"Because I remember."
"Why should I tell you now? You'll only hurt him more."
"Iruka."
"What Kakashi? You know as well as I do that it's true! Naruto might as well be dead because of him. Again."
"What do you mean again? It wasn't my fault the first time!"
"Yes it was!"
"Iruka, he died protecting Konoha."
"Kakashi, you know as well as I do that wouldn't have killed him. No. Sasuke died protecting Konoha. The Kyubi's chakra healed him as it always did. He killed himself to be with Sasuke again."
"Iruka, please tell me."
"Why should I? So he can die again?"
"Iruka! He deserves to know."
"And I can't tell him. I didn't know you - know Sasuke. He was only my student in the training academy."
Sasuke looked from Iruka to Kakashi who shook his head as well.
"I didn't know you either. I know your physical strengths and weaknesses, but only two people knew you emotionally. Sakura, when you let her and Naruto."
"Sakura already refused to talk to me."
"Then you'll have to go to Naruto."
"I can't. He. hates me. He'd probably kill me if I gave him the chance too."
"He did then too. In fact he nearly did once, and would've if I hadn't stopped the fight. But somehow he got past it all then, and if you give him the chance, maybe he will now."
"Arigotou." Sasuke said, running out in hopes of finding Naruto.
However, finding Naruto when he didn't want to be found was never very easy, for anyone. Moreover, in this life he had twice as much practice. Along with all the memories he had of his previous life, he had all the training in this one. It was only when Sasuke was about to give up looking that he realized where Naruto was. A memory of the day Sakura and I had agreed to go on the date. I'd been searching for him all day and all night. The look on his face when he first found out had been so betrayed. It was only slightly before then I think that he'd realized he wasn't really in love with Sakura, and that he actually did love me.
It was after the date when Sakura and I realized what idiots we'd been to the people who we actually cared about. I'd run off to find Naruto and couldn't find him anywhere. I'd given up trying to find him and was walking through the woods when I.. NO! Oh Kami! How could I have.? I told him I would never love him in the same place where I told him I always would.
Then the dam opened. Every memory I still hadn't remembered came rushing in. The day fighting Haku. Fighting Itachi, Orchiamaru. my life. Everything. From my favorite color to the exact color of Naruto's eyes when he was getting angry I remembered. Moreover, I was Sasuke. Both sets of my memories. Now I understood what Sakura meant when she said she was trying to sort between them. One life blurred into the next.
"Trying to remember what took place in this life, and what took past in my last before I remembered it didn't really matter."
Sakura was right. It doesn't really matter. All that matters is for some reason we were given another chance at life. And I knew exactly where Naruto was.
"Naruto."
"Go away Sasuke."
"Now why would I do that - dobe? Or are you to scared?" And I watched as just for a moment his eyes widened and the old Naruto was there.
"You know, for a moment - you sounded like him."
"Wasn't it you who first told me? I am he."
"You'll never be Sasuke. Leave! Why are you even here?"
"Finding you. Just like I did last time, and every time after. Although soon it got easy to know where you'd be. A hiding place isn't very hidden after it's revealed."
"Hai. Very good Sasuke. You got a memory. Am I supposed to clap for you? Cheer maybe?"
"Baka! I didn't get a memory back. I got all my memories back."
His eyes widened once again. Emotionless dark eyes becoming a bit brighter. A bit more of their sky blue. And once more, I could read him like a book as I always could. Hope, hurt, disbelief, mistrust. But I also saw the one I was afraid I'd never see again. Love. Although how he could even care about me - let alone love me, I'll never understand. If I was he, I'd still be trying to kill me, memories or not. But that'd always been the difference between us. Naruto could change from emotion to emotion like he could clothes, but I was always stuck on one.
"So why should I care now? You already promised never to love me again, and haven't you already broken enough for the both of us? All I ever get out of a relationship with you is a whole lot of pain, hurt, and being left behind and alone again."
"Because. The previous one superceded my last promise. I promised to love you forever remember?"
He didn't believe me. But that wasn't going to warn me off, he wouldn't believe me the first time I tried telling him either. And now remembering what it was once like to have him, I couldn't let him go again. I don't know how he did it honestly. Being alone.
"You could never love a monster like me remember? All you did was pity me."
"Naruto-baka. All the Kyubi has ever been to me is a blessing."
"It's far from a blessing."
"Gomen. Gomen nasai. For what I said, and for leaving you alone again when I'd promised I never would."
"You died. And because of that.blessing as you call it, I was forced to live."
"So how did you die?"
"I don't know really. All I remember is watching them bury you, put up that gravestone and begging the Kyubi to just let me die. And after that I don't remember anything."
"You know, you could've been Hokage after that."
"But what's the point of being Hokage without being able to boss you around?"
"You'd just love that, wouldn't you?"
"It's my greatest dream in life. But then, I did love everything about you. Even those freaky eyes of yours trying to steal all my moves."
"Now why on earth would I want your moves? They wouldn't get me anywhere."
"I lived longer then you did, didn't I?"
"By a week!"
"But that was one week longer then you!"
"You cheated!"
"No I didn't! I just used those moves to my advantage."
"Want to show me some of those moves back at my place?"
"Uchiha Sasuke!"
"What dobe? It's been 50 long years! We have a lot of catching up to do."
"Sasuke, for some reason I'm getting the idea that your version of catching up has nothing to do with talking."
"If it makes you feel any better, you're still using your mouth."
"Hentai! Sasuke you are a bigger hentai then Kakashi AND Jiraiya with their books!"
"Hey, if I remember right, you're the one who was caught with a copy."
"I was not."
"You were on page 213!"
"I started on 103!"
"Ha! So, you admit it! That's over 100 pages!"
"Oh don't act so righteous! You weren't innocent either! You enjoyed yourself later!"
"NOW who's the hentai?"
"Don't you start on me! I remember how long you waited to get off me when you fell on me while you spied on Sakura and I."
"Hey you did earlier that - hey wait. Speaking of -"
"Sakura. We do owe her quite the, 'Thank You.' "
"She was right though."
"SASUKE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
~ Owari.~
"What do YOU want?"
"To talk about my past life. Naruto."
"Why would you care now? Four months later?"
"Because I remember."
"Why should I tell you now? You'll only hurt him more."
"Iruka."
"What Kakashi? You know as well as I do that it's true! Naruto might as well be dead because of him. Again."
"What do you mean again? It wasn't my fault the first time!"
"Yes it was!"
"Iruka, he died protecting Konoha."
"Kakashi, you know as well as I do that wouldn't have killed him. No. Sasuke died protecting Konoha. The Kyubi's chakra healed him as it always did. He killed himself to be with Sasuke again."
"Iruka, please tell me."
"Why should I? So he can die again?"
"Iruka! He deserves to know."
"And I can't tell him. I didn't know you - know Sasuke. He was only my student in the training academy."
Sasuke looked from Iruka to Kakashi who shook his head as well.
"I didn't know you either. I know your physical strengths and weaknesses, but only two people knew you emotionally. Sakura, when you let her and Naruto."
"Sakura already refused to talk to me."
"Then you'll have to go to Naruto."
"I can't. He. hates me. He'd probably kill me if I gave him the chance too."
"He did then too. In fact he nearly did once, and would've if I hadn't stopped the fight. But somehow he got past it all then, and if you give him the chance, maybe he will now."
"Arigotou." Sasuke said, running out in hopes of finding Naruto.
However, finding Naruto when he didn't want to be found was never very easy, for anyone. Moreover, in this life he had twice as much practice. Along with all the memories he had of his previous life, he had all the training in this one. It was only when Sasuke was about to give up looking that he realized where Naruto was. A memory of the day Sakura and I had agreed to go on the date. I'd been searching for him all day and all night. The look on his face when he first found out had been so betrayed. It was only slightly before then I think that he'd realized he wasn't really in love with Sakura, and that he actually did love me.
It was after the date when Sakura and I realized what idiots we'd been to the people who we actually cared about. I'd run off to find Naruto and couldn't find him anywhere. I'd given up trying to find him and was walking through the woods when I.. NO! Oh Kami! How could I have.? I told him I would never love him in the same place where I told him I always would.
Then the dam opened. Every memory I still hadn't remembered came rushing in. The day fighting Haku. Fighting Itachi, Orchiamaru. my life. Everything. From my favorite color to the exact color of Naruto's eyes when he was getting angry I remembered. Moreover, I was Sasuke. Both sets of my memories. Now I understood what Sakura meant when she said she was trying to sort between them. One life blurred into the next.
"Trying to remember what took place in this life, and what took past in my last before I remembered it didn't really matter."
Sakura was right. It doesn't really matter. All that matters is for some reason we were given another chance at life. And I knew exactly where Naruto was.
"Naruto."
"Go away Sasuke."
"Now why would I do that - dobe? Or are you to scared?" And I watched as just for a moment his eyes widened and the old Naruto was there.
"You know, for a moment - you sounded like him."
"Wasn't it you who first told me? I am he."
"You'll never be Sasuke. Leave! Why are you even here?"
"Finding you. Just like I did last time, and every time after. Although soon it got easy to know where you'd be. A hiding place isn't very hidden after it's revealed."
"Hai. Very good Sasuke. You got a memory. Am I supposed to clap for you? Cheer maybe?"
"Baka! I didn't get a memory back. I got all my memories back."
His eyes widened once again. Emotionless dark eyes becoming a bit brighter. A bit more of their sky blue. And once more, I could read him like a book as I always could. Hope, hurt, disbelief, mistrust. But I also saw the one I was afraid I'd never see again. Love. Although how he could even care about me - let alone love me, I'll never understand. If I was he, I'd still be trying to kill me, memories or not. But that'd always been the difference between us. Naruto could change from emotion to emotion like he could clothes, but I was always stuck on one.
"So why should I care now? You already promised never to love me again, and haven't you already broken enough for the both of us? All I ever get out of a relationship with you is a whole lot of pain, hurt, and being left behind and alone again."
"Because. The previous one superceded my last promise. I promised to love you forever remember?"
He didn't believe me. But that wasn't going to warn me off, he wouldn't believe me the first time I tried telling him either. And now remembering what it was once like to have him, I couldn't let him go again. I don't know how he did it honestly. Being alone.
"You could never love a monster like me remember? All you did was pity me."
"Naruto-baka. All the Kyubi has ever been to me is a blessing."
"It's far from a blessing."
"Gomen. Gomen nasai. For what I said, and for leaving you alone again when I'd promised I never would."
"You died. And because of that.blessing as you call it, I was forced to live."
"So how did you die?"
"I don't know really. All I remember is watching them bury you, put up that gravestone and begging the Kyubi to just let me die. And after that I don't remember anything."
"You know, you could've been Hokage after that."
"But what's the point of being Hokage without being able to boss you around?"
"You'd just love that, wouldn't you?"
"It's my greatest dream in life. But then, I did love everything about you. Even those freaky eyes of yours trying to steal all my moves."
"Now why on earth would I want your moves? They wouldn't get me anywhere."
"I lived longer then you did, didn't I?"
"By a week!"
"But that was one week longer then you!"
"You cheated!"
"No I didn't! I just used those moves to my advantage."
"Want to show me some of those moves back at my place?"
"Uchiha Sasuke!"
"What dobe? It's been 50 long years! We have a lot of catching up to do."
"Sasuke, for some reason I'm getting the idea that your version of catching up has nothing to do with talking."
"If it makes you feel any better, you're still using your mouth."
"Hentai! Sasuke you are a bigger hentai then Kakashi AND Jiraiya with their books!"
"Hey, if I remember right, you're the one who was caught with a copy."
"I was not."
"You were on page 213!"
"I started on 103!"
"Ha! So, you admit it! That's over 100 pages!"
"Oh don't act so righteous! You weren't innocent either! You enjoyed yourself later!"
"NOW who's the hentai?"
"Don't you start on me! I remember how long you waited to get off me when you fell on me while you spied on Sakura and I."
"Hey you did earlier that - hey wait. Speaking of -"
"Sakura. We do owe her quite the, 'Thank You.' "
"She was right though."
"SASUKE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
~ Owari.~