Chapter Three:~
Wake up, Naruto….wake up….
Naruto twitched.
Pretty boy is…injured. Will pretty boy die?
Naruto slowly came to, groaning in pain. He grimaced and began moving, slowly, and pushed himself up a bit to look over to the side. What was going on…? Last thing he remembered…Sasuke…Sasuke??? Naruto turned over onto his back and looked up at to see Haku laying on the ground, and the back of Sasuke. Naruto's first thought were, 'Sasuke did it!' and 'He's alight!'
Naruto ignored the remark about him always getting in the way, too relieved that Sasuke wasn't dead.
"Sasuke, you!" He began, grinning, almost in awe. But the grin was wiped off only to be replaced by a look of horror, eyes gone blank. Naruto didn't notice the blood that surrounded them, nor Haku watching silently across from them. His eyes were fixed on the bloody form of his sometimes rival/sometimes friend, covered in blood and needles.
No…Naruto's mind whispered in horror. He mind seemed to be having trouble focusing…
"What's with that face…you moron." He heard Sasuke mutter vaguely.
"W…why?"
You…saved …me? Naruto felt lost…he didn't understand…
Seeing him….like that…made him feel so saddened…he couldn't take it…those eyes were too blank. What happened to that annoyed glare, reserved just for Naruto? Slightly different from the one he gave Sakura of course, as that one was because of Sakura's unwanted advances.
This can't be happening…He thought, having this huge urge to cover his ears and eyes, and never look up again.
But he had to…
"Pfft. I…hated you…
"But…but…why me??" Naruto asked in desperate need of an answer. Why, why, why? Why him? Him, who was always in the way, him, who was always loud mouthed, him…who always got in the way…
I never asked for your help…
"I…don't know…," Naruto's eyes met with Sasuke's.
"My body…just moved…on its own…baka." Naruto watched Sasuke's body fall I slow motion, and he caught him in an instant.
Naruto listened as Sasuke mentioned something about not dying until he'd killed a certain man…and that Naruto shouldn't die also. Naruto shook slightly, and held Sasuke closer in his arms.
No…nononononononono…He repeated over and over again in his still shocked mind. This had to be a dream…none of this could be happening…Sasuke….couldn't be dead. He was too strong. At this time Naruto didn't even care to mention that Sasuke was stronger than him…because this wasn't real.
But even he had to face reality sometime. Looking down into Sasuke's now lifeless eyes, something clicked inside of him. Tears formed and a view of Sasuke, bleeding and dead, flashed before his eyes…
"…died to protect you. To protect a precious person, knowing it was a trap, he was still able to jump in…"
Naruto listened, but he was a bit hazy around the edges. It only angered him worse when Haku asked if this was the first friend who had died.
"Shut up." He mumbled.
I..I hated you too. Naruto admitted and clutched tighter onto the lifeless boy. He had hated him…but know…he wasn't so sure of anything anymore. Everything was happening so fast and his body was in shock.
I won't forgive you!! He screamed in his mind, filled with a rage he had never felt before. He had a flashback of all the times Sasuke had been acknowledged, not only by Sakura, but Kakashi sensei also…yet, why was he feeling like that didn't matter anymore? Suddenly, he felt as if it was okay to be mad, at himself, to be mad at the world, to let it all out. The feeling came over him immediately, like a blanket that didn't know how to comfort him and clung to his skin. As his mind retreated a ways, he knew he couldn't own all this rage, Despite being lonely, feared, and weaker than the others, there were things that made all that okay.
Sasuke dying was one of them. That was the last thing he thought as the rage consumed him.
His canines lengthened sharply, his eyes widened and the pupils dilated sharply, with a catlike streak down the middle. He was still clutching Sasuke, almost as though protecting a cub even though he was already dead.
"I'LL KILL YOU." The thing that wasn't just Naruto anymore snarled out. Naruto was still there though. And he could feel his and the fox's Chakra mix together and form around his body, into one deadly swirl of fire.
It surged forward and cracked through the ground like it was blades of grass. The rocks raised off of the ground with the power of such Chakra, and it appeared Haku was definitely caught by surprise.
For Naruto, it was somewhat painful. He'd never felt such a surge of power, and he was consumed in the hatred, so it was intensified by plenty. In a sudden burst, there appeared the airy, but appearing solid, form of the Nine Tails Kitsune. It was definitely something that could be put in the 'Out of this world' category.
Naruto was in the center of it all. Although it was hazy, he could still keep a bit of control over the oni kitsune. He wouldn't let anyone else die because of him…
He gently settled Sasuke to the ground and let the Chakra fully surround himself. He felt the wounds on his hands disappear and his fingers and nails extend into deadly looking paws. Finally. He turned his head to the side, and such rage could be seen in his eyes, and the fox marks on his cheeks stood out vividly. No wonder he was so feared. Naruto thought he could understand how the village people who had seen the fox those years ago felt when he came walking into town. It was like a time bomb waiting to go off. And because the Hokage was kind to him, they hated him even more, for the loss of their family members whom they had lost…
He was sure the fox could have tooken over any time, but he held onto it, keeping his friends faces firmly in his mind. And then he set off. In a very fox-like manner.
Review Responses:~
Firedraygon97 – Glad you liked it! I had this written up already just waiting to see what people thought of the last chapter ^-^
:D – I know…you're probably wondering 'fluff?? What fluff???????I see NONE~!!!!' eheh ^^;
The reason is because, I wanted to make the pairing seem possible first. I wanted to bring out the main points that were sensitive, and then when I got to the fluff part, it wouldn't be so ackward for me to write o.o;;
evafreak – Thanks~! Here ya go…and after this, I'm putting it in Sasuke's POV, then the next chapter will be my own little thing, with fluff hopefully…
Cheryl-chan - ~! Heya! Thanks for reading~! Although this wasn't the one I had written first *swetadrop* I wrote this one after I finished the chapter for my other story. So…how's you??? Good? *glomp*
And…yeah, I'll try my hand at SasuNaru later, hopefully chapter five. ^-^~! I'm so glad you liked it @.@ *hops around happily*