Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto, a very talented man by the name of Kishimoto Masashi does, thank you so much for creating such an amazing Manga and Anime for us, we are forever in your debt.
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Chapter 3
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For weeks he set there, just staring and waiting. He was looking and waiting for some kind of sign. Anything would do, a twitch of the fingers or the tremble of the lips. He waited, but no such sign came.
Sighing, Naruto rubbed his eyes furiously, trying to rid himself of the sleep that called his name. It had been several days since he had gotten a good few hours of rest in. When Tsunade declared Sakura's limbs almost healed and removed the casts from her legs and arms Naruto had not slept a wink for fear of missing the slightest of movements.
Kakashi, Lee, and a few others had come several times to check up on her, all to leave the hospital the some way they came in; in misery. Lee had come to visit just about everyday, bringing a daisy with him each time to replace the last. He claimed that he didn't want her waking up to a bunch of wilted flowers. Naruto smiled at the large eyebrow boy, no man...
They had all grown while he was gone. And what of Suku, Sakura's little boy? He came almost and every day when his body would allow him. He usually came with Lee since Sakura had placed Suku under his care while she was off on missions. When had Suku happened? He had missed it all.
After talking with Tsunade during visits he found out that Sakura preformed these types of missions all the time. Her job was to go in, undercover, and gather as much information as she could then report back to the village. Naruto was okay with the idea until he found out what she went undercover as...
Cringing, Naruto looked back down at her beaten form and shook his head, "I should have been here for you. I would never have let you do those things, much less be put in that much danger." Tears pushed slowly out of his eyes, but he made no move to wipe them away.
"There was nothing you could have done. There was nothing any of us could of done. She had to prove her worth as a Ninja, as a person." A light draft filled the room.
"But she was a good Ninja as well as a great person." Naruto didn't turn towards the voice.
"She was, but she didn't think she was. I was such a fool." The figure stepped up next to Naruto's setting form.
"I guess in a way we all were." Naruto looked up at the person standing next to him.
"You know what they say, 'You never know what a good thing you have until you loose it'."
"Well we haven't lost it yet." Naruto looked over at Sakura, "How'd you find her?"
"Tsunade had sent out a unit to retrieve Sakura at all costs. I found them half dead in the woods and got what I could out of them before they died. I placed a perimeter around the fort where they were holding Sakura and waited for any sign of life. From what I gathered from the shinobs I caught out on their coffee break, she was still alive and not talking. Things were getting bad and just when I was about to go in, they came out. I followed them into the woods and waited all day for someone to come back. When no one did, I grabbed her and brought her back...I should have gone in." He shook his head.
"You could have been killed too Mr. Hot-Shot. Your not as invincible as you think you are." Naruto smiled his fox gin up at the man.
"Dope."
Silence filled the room as the two men stared at the still form. The moonlight peeped in through the curtains of the room casting eerie shadows around it, "Hey Sasuke?"
"Humph?"
"Did you love her?"
Again silence filled the room as the dark figure thought about the question.
"Did you?" Naruto's voice raised a few decibels
"That's kind of a stupid question." Sasuke turned towards the open window.
"Don't you dare walk away! Did you love her?!" Naruto knocked his chair over as he stood up in fury.
"Drop dead, dead-last!" Sasuke reached for the window, but a hand stopped him. He looked to his side and saw Naruto with tears streaming down his face.
"Did you love her?"
"Yes, yes I did." With that he jumped out the window and disappeared into the night.
"Bastard."
The moon vanished behind a cloud and red light touched to horizon, "Red morning, sailor's warning." He turned from the window back to Sakura.
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A slight tap on his shoulder woke him. Naruto rubbed the sleep from his eyes and yawned.
"I'm up." He stretched before turning his attention to Suku, "Mornin'" Naruto gave him his famous fox grin. He heaved a sigh when the boy didn't reply, "You still not talking?"
The boy turned his head and pointed towards his mother, "Still nothin' kid"
Disappointment passed through the redheads' sea green eyes. He gave a small sniffle before hoisting himself up on the bed-with the help of Naruto-to 'speak' to his mother.
They would set like this for hours on end; Naruto in the chair holding Sakura's hand and Suku lying at her side playing with her hair and whispering secrets into her ear.
Suku often looked over at Naruto to make sure he couldn't hear what he was saying. Naruto pretended that he didn't catch the glimpses for he could-being that he was a Ninja-hear even the smallest whispers that escaped the tiny boys lips.
That was another thing; Suku was so tiny! He didn't even look 3 1/2. He looked more like 2! He had the smallest hands Naruto had ever seen. They looked so fragile, especially when compared next to his or even Sakura's. His nose was like a button; small and round. The only thing that was normal on the kid were his ears, and when put up against his miniature form, they looked huge.
Naruto smiled slightly as the boy shot him a glance, "I'm getting rather hungry, you want anything?" He stood up and stretched. The boy just shook his head not evening looking at Naruto, "Suit yourself."
The door swung open and Lee stepped inside, "Hey there little guy!"
Suku slid off the bed and ran to Lee, wrapping his arms around his leg in a death grip. Lee bent down and picked him up, "You hungry?" Suku nodded sternly, "Good 'cause you guys some ramen!" Lee pulled out a paper bag and placed it on a small round table that set in the corner.
"Here's yours." Lee tossed Naruto a thermos of miso ramen without turning to him.
"Thanks."
"Be careful now Suku, it's hot." Lee opened the small thermos and poured some out into a bowl. When Suku was happily munching n his ramen, Lee walked up next to Naruto.
"Any movement?"
"Does it look like she's moving fuzzy-brows?" Naruto scoffed at him.
Lee's knuckles turned white as he balled up his fists, "You know something Naruto?"
"What?" Naruto gave him a hard look.
"Never mind." Lee shook his head and turned back towards Sakura.
"Then I'll ask you something, if you don't mind." The words were drenched in disgust.
"Shoot."
"Where were you in all of this?"
"Excuse me?"
"Well you are taking care of her son." Naruto crossed his arms over his chest.
"You have no right to ask me that when you! Oh, when you where out doing God knows what. You didn't even take the time to find out about what had been going on while you were gone! Hell! You didn't even find out his name till a few weeks ago. Months after you returned!" Lee yelled, throwing his arm towards Suku for emphases.
"Don't you think I know that? I have to live with that mistake, but you! You were here, within arms length of her. You could have stopped her from doing this type of shit!"
"What could I have honestly done? She's her own woman! She doesn't need our protection anymore. Believe me, I would have locked her away in a tower to keep her safe, but I couldn't! And I have to live with that as well."
Tears flowed freely from Lee's eyes, Naruto soon followed suit. Looking at each other with grief, Naruto reached out to embrace Lee.
"I tried, really I did." Lee returned the embrace.
Suku looked on in silence from his seat at the table, his ramen to cold now to eat.
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Chapter 3 is done yah!
I can't believe it! Was Suku that obvious? * wink * I still don't know if... oh hell, yes I will, but know one is supposed to know how he fits in, 'cept Gloria, but she doesn't count.
Anyway I like to hear from you all, so please tell me what you think, good or bad. Saw some punctuation error tell me, I fix it.
Love you all,
Lady DragonHeart
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Chapter 3
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For weeks he set there, just staring and waiting. He was looking and waiting for some kind of sign. Anything would do, a twitch of the fingers or the tremble of the lips. He waited, but no such sign came.
Sighing, Naruto rubbed his eyes furiously, trying to rid himself of the sleep that called his name. It had been several days since he had gotten a good few hours of rest in. When Tsunade declared Sakura's limbs almost healed and removed the casts from her legs and arms Naruto had not slept a wink for fear of missing the slightest of movements.
Kakashi, Lee, and a few others had come several times to check up on her, all to leave the hospital the some way they came in; in misery. Lee had come to visit just about everyday, bringing a daisy with him each time to replace the last. He claimed that he didn't want her waking up to a bunch of wilted flowers. Naruto smiled at the large eyebrow boy, no man...
They had all grown while he was gone. And what of Suku, Sakura's little boy? He came almost and every day when his body would allow him. He usually came with Lee since Sakura had placed Suku under his care while she was off on missions. When had Suku happened? He had missed it all.
After talking with Tsunade during visits he found out that Sakura preformed these types of missions all the time. Her job was to go in, undercover, and gather as much information as she could then report back to the village. Naruto was okay with the idea until he found out what she went undercover as...
Cringing, Naruto looked back down at her beaten form and shook his head, "I should have been here for you. I would never have let you do those things, much less be put in that much danger." Tears pushed slowly out of his eyes, but he made no move to wipe them away.
"There was nothing you could have done. There was nothing any of us could of done. She had to prove her worth as a Ninja, as a person." A light draft filled the room.
"But she was a good Ninja as well as a great person." Naruto didn't turn towards the voice.
"She was, but she didn't think she was. I was such a fool." The figure stepped up next to Naruto's setting form.
"I guess in a way we all were." Naruto looked up at the person standing next to him.
"You know what they say, 'You never know what a good thing you have until you loose it'."
"Well we haven't lost it yet." Naruto looked over at Sakura, "How'd you find her?"
"Tsunade had sent out a unit to retrieve Sakura at all costs. I found them half dead in the woods and got what I could out of them before they died. I placed a perimeter around the fort where they were holding Sakura and waited for any sign of life. From what I gathered from the shinobs I caught out on their coffee break, she was still alive and not talking. Things were getting bad and just when I was about to go in, they came out. I followed them into the woods and waited all day for someone to come back. When no one did, I grabbed her and brought her back...I should have gone in." He shook his head.
"You could have been killed too Mr. Hot-Shot. Your not as invincible as you think you are." Naruto smiled his fox gin up at the man.
"Dope."
Silence filled the room as the two men stared at the still form. The moonlight peeped in through the curtains of the room casting eerie shadows around it, "Hey Sasuke?"
"Humph?"
"Did you love her?"
Again silence filled the room as the dark figure thought about the question.
"Did you?" Naruto's voice raised a few decibels
"That's kind of a stupid question." Sasuke turned towards the open window.
"Don't you dare walk away! Did you love her?!" Naruto knocked his chair over as he stood up in fury.
"Drop dead, dead-last!" Sasuke reached for the window, but a hand stopped him. He looked to his side and saw Naruto with tears streaming down his face.
"Did you love her?"
"Yes, yes I did." With that he jumped out the window and disappeared into the night.
"Bastard."
The moon vanished behind a cloud and red light touched to horizon, "Red morning, sailor's warning." He turned from the window back to Sakura.
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A slight tap on his shoulder woke him. Naruto rubbed the sleep from his eyes and yawned.
"I'm up." He stretched before turning his attention to Suku, "Mornin'" Naruto gave him his famous fox grin. He heaved a sigh when the boy didn't reply, "You still not talking?"
The boy turned his head and pointed towards his mother, "Still nothin' kid"
Disappointment passed through the redheads' sea green eyes. He gave a small sniffle before hoisting himself up on the bed-with the help of Naruto-to 'speak' to his mother.
They would set like this for hours on end; Naruto in the chair holding Sakura's hand and Suku lying at her side playing with her hair and whispering secrets into her ear.
Suku often looked over at Naruto to make sure he couldn't hear what he was saying. Naruto pretended that he didn't catch the glimpses for he could-being that he was a Ninja-hear even the smallest whispers that escaped the tiny boys lips.
That was another thing; Suku was so tiny! He didn't even look 3 1/2. He looked more like 2! He had the smallest hands Naruto had ever seen. They looked so fragile, especially when compared next to his or even Sakura's. His nose was like a button; small and round. The only thing that was normal on the kid were his ears, and when put up against his miniature form, they looked huge.
Naruto smiled slightly as the boy shot him a glance, "I'm getting rather hungry, you want anything?" He stood up and stretched. The boy just shook his head not evening looking at Naruto, "Suit yourself."
The door swung open and Lee stepped inside, "Hey there little guy!"
Suku slid off the bed and ran to Lee, wrapping his arms around his leg in a death grip. Lee bent down and picked him up, "You hungry?" Suku nodded sternly, "Good 'cause you guys some ramen!" Lee pulled out a paper bag and placed it on a small round table that set in the corner.
"Here's yours." Lee tossed Naruto a thermos of miso ramen without turning to him.
"Thanks."
"Be careful now Suku, it's hot." Lee opened the small thermos and poured some out into a bowl. When Suku was happily munching n his ramen, Lee walked up next to Naruto.
"Any movement?"
"Does it look like she's moving fuzzy-brows?" Naruto scoffed at him.
Lee's knuckles turned white as he balled up his fists, "You know something Naruto?"
"What?" Naruto gave him a hard look.
"Never mind." Lee shook his head and turned back towards Sakura.
"Then I'll ask you something, if you don't mind." The words were drenched in disgust.
"Shoot."
"Where were you in all of this?"
"Excuse me?"
"Well you are taking care of her son." Naruto crossed his arms over his chest.
"You have no right to ask me that when you! Oh, when you where out doing God knows what. You didn't even take the time to find out about what had been going on while you were gone! Hell! You didn't even find out his name till a few weeks ago. Months after you returned!" Lee yelled, throwing his arm towards Suku for emphases.
"Don't you think I know that? I have to live with that mistake, but you! You were here, within arms length of her. You could have stopped her from doing this type of shit!"
"What could I have honestly done? She's her own woman! She doesn't need our protection anymore. Believe me, I would have locked her away in a tower to keep her safe, but I couldn't! And I have to live with that as well."
Tears flowed freely from Lee's eyes, Naruto soon followed suit. Looking at each other with grief, Naruto reached out to embrace Lee.
"I tried, really I did." Lee returned the embrace.
Suku looked on in silence from his seat at the table, his ramen to cold now to eat.
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Chapter 3 is done yah!
I can't believe it! Was Suku that obvious? * wink * I still don't know if... oh hell, yes I will, but know one is supposed to know how he fits in, 'cept Gloria, but she doesn't count.
Anyway I like to hear from you all, so please tell me what you think, good or bad. Saw some punctuation error tell me, I fix it.
Love you all,
Lady DragonHeart