Find your happiness:
Chapter four:
Disclaimer: If it was mine, Itachi'd be singing Rammsteins's Du hast Meich or Bestrafe Mich as the theme song.
He was very beautiful, bouncing around with false happiness. I had seen him before, and this wouldn't be the first time I pondered what was going on inside his head. The only time he ever came to the central market was... always, because he was always at the ramen stand.
I'd often hear his "dulcet" tones, when he was making conversation with the ramen man. I smiled, listening to him brag about his ninja skills, complain about his bastard team mate, and ask for advice on a girl.
Behind the pranks and smile was a lonely child who had to confide in the ramen man, because any friends he had when he was younger had been ripped away by ass whole parents. Even my mom had forbidden me from playing with him, when I was like, eight, and he was just a toddler.
I wondered if you could peel his face off, and behind it there'd be his real face, sad... depressed. Red glowing eyes that cried tears of blood. At least a frown. The only time I'd ever seen him with out a smile was when he pouted, but even that was a pout that held no real depression inside of it. Well, when he pouted and when Hokage died, but no one was really smiling or happy when that happened.
It must feel awful to not have any parents, not have any one to buy you new stuff when you show improvement in studies, not embarrass you around your friends by telling them "cute" things you did as a child. I would even miss their scolding if I suddenly didn't have my parents.
I wanted to give him a hug, you know, just tell him that people would acknowledge him in the end. Some day, someone would appreciate him. Or at least treat him normally.
How could people hate him and love his bastard team mate Sasuke? Sasuke was the demon, not Naruto. Couldn't people see that? Why was it so hard to grasp?
He leaves the ramen stand looking happy, and bliss. I roll my eyes. It doesn't fool me. But in a way, I'm glad he smiles. If he was depressed all the time, didn't show ambition, didn't have a dream... where would the rest of us be? If he gave up on his dream, where would that leave the people who had less ambition than he did?
So keep smiling, it's calming, even though you don't mean it.
He caught me staring at him. It's a common thing for him... people glare, they stare, they shove him away with their cold exteriors. I quickly looked away, I didn't want him thinking I was just another person who ridiculed him. Because I wasn't.
You want to be recognized, don't you? You want to be worthy of a place on that monument, you want to be worthy of the title Hokage. You want to be valued in the hearts of people....
That struck an idea for me. I stopped at the ramen stand for some lunch to go, then went home.
All in all, I was proud of how it came out. After three days of hard work, it seemed silly not to be proud of it. It looked formal, but still a little carefree; the eyes were sad, but the mouth was smiling. I placed the portrait in a wooden frame, like the portraits for the Hokage were placed in. I stuck a post-it note on the glass pane that held the painting in place, scrawling a hasty note.
I asked the Ramen man where he lived, and had to promise with total sincerity that I wasn't going to go egg the house.
A few hours later, at around four p.m., he went with a brown haired chuunin to the Ichiruka ramen, bragging about something. I didn't have to strain my ears to hear what he was saying.
"Someone loves me, ha-ha, Sasuke ain't got nothing on me! I have a secret admirer who painted me, and stalks me. I bet she worships me... surrounding pictures of me with like, dead peoples heads and stuff," he blabbered on and on. I chuckled.... I think now would be the best of times to end this chapter, because I can't think of anything else for the moment....
Naruto is kind of OOC, and for that, I give my apologies. And I can't believe I wrote the word "ain't" ((shudders))
Which character should be next chapter? I plan to do all the important ones (12 main chars, Kakashi, Itachi, Kabuto, Orochimaru.... Probably Gaara and his siblings too).