AN: Sorry I didn't update sooner! School is really holding me up....
Disclaimer: Naruto is not mine.
Bittersweet Return Chapter Two
The afternoon wind was really refreshing after a long and hard day at training. Sasuke was sitting on a tree branch and was looking at the leaves above him. It's been one week since I came here and nothing seemed to change.
I 'm still sitting on the same tree, looking at the same scenery, wandering off into nothingness.
But back when I was here eight years ago, sitting on to this very tree, I was thinking of someone...someone that took away my happiness...who was stronger than me...who tricked me into thinking that he loved us...someone that made me go into this revenge driven life.
Sasuke leans back at the tree trunk. "...Itachi," Sasuke mutters under his breath with sheer loathing in his tone.
I could still remember that night...The wind was really chilly and freezing. Autumn was coming to an end and winter was getting nearer. I was at our garden, playing with fishes in the pond, feeding them, poking them with a stick.
My parents were talking at the main room of the house that night about the mission they were about to take on. And my brother...my brother was in his room doing something only he knows...Everyone else was doing their own usual businesses.
No one even knew, not even my parents or me that the night would be their last... I could still remember their screams...their pleas and struggles. I remember running towards the house, looking at the dead bodies of my relatives.
At a young age, all I could do was to run and cry...That was all I did when I saw them be killed by my brother with my own two eyes. He left me alive that night, and that was his mistake, his very big mistake.
He should have killed me when he had the chance, a chance that slipped away from him when I took his life with my own two hands. Just like what he did to our clan. I never regretted that day and I would never forget it as well.
But before he left this world, he asked me a question, that has bothered me ever since, 'what will you do now...Sasuke?' Those words echoed through me everyday and every night.
I never knew that my brother's last words would make a very big impact on me. What will I do now, now that I have done the sole purpose of my life. I thought of going back to Konoha, but I had no one else to go back to there nor was there anything to come back to. So I decided to travel and find my fortune someplace else.
Yet that question remained within me for four years, and I have spent those four years traveling, trying to answer the question. I've met all kinds of people and I have been to almost every place in the world. I thought I have already answered the question, but it still didn't feel like it. I felt like I was doing nothing.
I also wanted to build a new memory, a memory that would replace my past. Yet running away from my past wasn't something that helped me solve my dilemmas. Memories about Konoha kept on haunting me through dreams. The more I wanted to remove and replace them, the more they came and haunted me.
So I decided to return to Konoha and face my past, hoping that I would be able to finally answer the question that has haunted me for years. And also hoping to find the peace of mind I have been searching for.
As I came into the village, I noticed that it still looked the same, unchanged. The same houses stood to where they used to four years ago and so were the shops. Yet, the people were no longer familiar to me. Four years has definitely changed Konoha's people.
It has been a week and I still don't have a clue to the answer I am looking for. I still feel like I am doing nothing to replace what I thought to be my sole purpose in life. However, I still feel that I would be able to find it here. This village has a different atmosphere; different from any other village I have been through. This village has given all the answers I wanted back when I was a child. And I know that I will find my answers here...
AN: I know it's a short one...But please review! I really need your comments, suggestions and criticism. School is really giving me a very tight schedule so forgive me by not updating soon enough! Thanks! Oh! And next chapter's Sakura's turn in the POV!
Disclaimer: Naruto is not mine.
Bittersweet Return Chapter Two
The afternoon wind was really refreshing after a long and hard day at training. Sasuke was sitting on a tree branch and was looking at the leaves above him. It's been one week since I came here and nothing seemed to change.
I 'm still sitting on the same tree, looking at the same scenery, wandering off into nothingness.
But back when I was here eight years ago, sitting on to this very tree, I was thinking of someone...someone that took away my happiness...who was stronger than me...who tricked me into thinking that he loved us...someone that made me go into this revenge driven life.
Sasuke leans back at the tree trunk. "...Itachi," Sasuke mutters under his breath with sheer loathing in his tone.
I could still remember that night...The wind was really chilly and freezing. Autumn was coming to an end and winter was getting nearer. I was at our garden, playing with fishes in the pond, feeding them, poking them with a stick.
My parents were talking at the main room of the house that night about the mission they were about to take on. And my brother...my brother was in his room doing something only he knows...Everyone else was doing their own usual businesses.
No one even knew, not even my parents or me that the night would be their last... I could still remember their screams...their pleas and struggles. I remember running towards the house, looking at the dead bodies of my relatives.
At a young age, all I could do was to run and cry...That was all I did when I saw them be killed by my brother with my own two eyes. He left me alive that night, and that was his mistake, his very big mistake.
He should have killed me when he had the chance, a chance that slipped away from him when I took his life with my own two hands. Just like what he did to our clan. I never regretted that day and I would never forget it as well.
But before he left this world, he asked me a question, that has bothered me ever since, 'what will you do now...Sasuke?' Those words echoed through me everyday and every night.
I never knew that my brother's last words would make a very big impact on me. What will I do now, now that I have done the sole purpose of my life. I thought of going back to Konoha, but I had no one else to go back to there nor was there anything to come back to. So I decided to travel and find my fortune someplace else.
Yet that question remained within me for four years, and I have spent those four years traveling, trying to answer the question. I've met all kinds of people and I have been to almost every place in the world. I thought I have already answered the question, but it still didn't feel like it. I felt like I was doing nothing.
I also wanted to build a new memory, a memory that would replace my past. Yet running away from my past wasn't something that helped me solve my dilemmas. Memories about Konoha kept on haunting me through dreams. The more I wanted to remove and replace them, the more they came and haunted me.
So I decided to return to Konoha and face my past, hoping that I would be able to finally answer the question that has haunted me for years. And also hoping to find the peace of mind I have been searching for.
As I came into the village, I noticed that it still looked the same, unchanged. The same houses stood to where they used to four years ago and so were the shops. Yet, the people were no longer familiar to me. Four years has definitely changed Konoha's people.
It has been a week and I still don't have a clue to the answer I am looking for. I still feel like I am doing nothing to replace what I thought to be my sole purpose in life. However, I still feel that I would be able to find it here. This village has a different atmosphere; different from any other village I have been through. This village has given all the answers I wanted back when I was a child. And I know that I will find my answers here...
AN: I know it's a short one...But please review! I really need your comments, suggestions and criticism. School is really giving me a very tight schedule so forgive me by not updating soon enough! Thanks! Oh! And next chapter's Sakura's turn in the POV!