First Kiss–Chapter 34

"Reading emotions is like trying to fly without a plane, you'll end up where you started. The ground."

AN: Sorry for the wait. School, as you know, has started up again and life has once again become hectic. So, only one update a week. I'll take the weekends off to write. So expect new chapters around Saturday or Sunday. I may be in a writing mood and add one during the week, but that's unlikely.

Blood fell from two bodies, and as it fell, it made a distinctive sound as it hit the ground. Like it was hitting the water, a small splash was heard, each time. One of the bodies laughed, as blood stained his teeth, and as the hand through his chest started to shake.

"Why are you laughing Hojo?" said Ishida as he looked up at him.

"Because. . .I'm going to die. . ." he made a small laugh again before his eyes closed.

The other body, Soonichi stood cold. Naruto slowly started to walk toward Sasuke and Soonichi, shocked. He dropped his kunai, and the sound of it hitting the ground was immense, as everything had stopped, and all sound was heard.

The guards who hadn't ran out in the middle of the fight were hiding in a cell, and it was only till Naruto walked past that cell did he notice. "H. . .hello?" he said.

They quivered, and Naruto slowly walked away. "Soonichi?" said Sasuke as he slowly removed his bloody hand from Soonichi's chest. Suddenly the limp body fell to the ground.

Hojo hit the ground at the same time as Ishida and the guards started to walk away from the bloody body. Time almost stood still as they walked towards the prison. Not more than a hundred yards away, Sasuke and Naruto walked towards the prison door as well.

His eyes opened as he saw the two walk, their footsteps echoed, and each one irritated him even more. He slowly stood up, as blood fell from his wound.

Anger became his primary factor, and it fueled him. Through clenched teeth, blood ran down, and he started to run towards them. No sound was heard, as his feet moved with such grace that was so inaudible, nothing could hear.

Hojo opened his eyes, he groaned as he flipped over to his back. 'Why am I not dead. . .' his head fell to the side, and he saw Ishida and the guard walking. Pain shot through his chest as he looked down, and touched his chest, a small hole in his clothes lay where the wound once was.

"What the hell. . ."

Soonichi created his Rasengan in his hand, and jumped towards Sasuke and Naruto.

Hojo stood up, and then saw Ishida walk towards the door, anger grew over him, and as he stood up, he felt his strength come slowly back to him. He sighed as he felt his fatigue loosen.

"Time to die Ishida. . ." he started to run towards the boy.

Ishida walked up to the door, he moved his hand to the handle, and slowly grabbed it. He looked forward for a second, then flew the door open.

The sound of the Rasengan made Naruto flip behind him, and before he could move, it was too late. A giant explosion occurred, and as Hojo, Ishida, Sasuke, Naruto, and Soonichi all hit the same place, at the same time, such energy, both coming from Soonichi and Hojo, exploded.

Fire flew from the building, engulfing the city, sound, undescribable, flew over all of them. Nothing but a giant, loud, sound.

Naruto gasped as he awoke. He flew up, and looked around him, he looked down at the ground and picked up a pile of ash. ". . .Ash. . .what the hell happened?" he said as he gave a long look around him, trying to pick up his settings. ". . .oh my god. . ."

All around him, there was nothing but ash. The building still stood, but for reasons Naruto didn't know why, all it was now, was ash. He stood up, and then finally noticed that around him was nothing but grass, nothing but a small patch of green.

'There's no way anyone could survive what just happened. . .but. . .how did. . .the kyuubi?' thought Naruto. He started to walk around, and as he soon got to what he saw as the outside, it was the same as the inside. From what he saw, it was nothing but a giant city of ash. Wind slowly blew away some of it, each time it came through.

Suddenly the thought hit his brain, he fell to the ground and started to push as much ash away as he could. "Sasuke!!" he frantically searched for him. He gasped as he stood up and ran back inside the building. There he fell again and flew his hands through the ash. "Come on! Come on!" Tears started to fall from his cheeks as he stopped. "No . . .all this way. . .for this."

He stood up and slowly started to walk away. As he reached the exit he looked back at the prison, then started to walk away once again. Suddenly, as he walked, he flew to the ground, Soonichi, who had been hiding in the ash jumped up, the ash flew off him and onto Naruto as Naruto flipped over to see what had happened.

"What the hell!" shouted Soonichi. "What the fucking hell."

"What?" said Naruto.

"You know? You? You should have stayed the fuck out of this. I'm serious. You know what you just did!? That explosion!? That was you!"

"No way. . ."

"Yeah way. You just had to walk the hell down here and try to save your little buddy!" Soonichi took out a kunai as Naruto tried to stand up. "Sit the fuck down Naruto. You know, you, I kind of liked you, till you came here. But now, not so much. You know what you did?"

"No. . ."

"You killed Sasuke and Ishida. And that little Hojo kid but who cares about him. Alright? You killed them. You know what I had in plan? It was fucking perfect!"

"What. . .?"

"I. . .yeah me. I was going to save Sasuke. I was gonna get him the hell out of this fuckwhole and bring him back to Sachi. Yeah me. I know you're going 'oh my god no way' but yeah its true. Alright? You know how long it took to plan that little attack? Two years it took, yeah. I could have thought of it in my sleep, but I didn't because I wanted to stay there. That little village, yeah, I wanted to live there, fuck the Einizigartig and just live there."

". . ."

"Yeah. I told Sasuke. I told him. But he didn't believe me, so he sent me back to my little hill, and I stood there everyday, just looking at that little village. Then you came. That changed everything. The village started to mobilize, as if I were a threat. Then, after word got out that they were doing that, the Einizigartig sent another ninja out there, so I had to do something or they were gonna kill me.

"So yeah, I did that little escapade and ran out of the village, cause you see. . .I was gonna tell Sasuke that I wanted to go there after I rescued him. Then he'd believe me. But no. Fuck no. You. You had to come."

"Why didn't you just get him the first night he was in the prison?"

"Because you little fuckhead, you know how heavily guarded a person is the first night? That's the night they try to escape the most."

". . .so. . .are you sure. . ."

"I'm sure Sasuke's dead."

"Why aren't you?"

"Because. You think that I'm a freaking retard? I saw that coming, as soon as you turned around, that kyuubi in you, I saw his eyes. Everyone else here, they didn't see it coming, and couldn't do anything to stop from dying.

"Anyone in this village could have stopped that little thing, but, if they didn't see it coming, they cant do anything. God damn it. . ." said Soonichi as he dropped the kunai and fell to the ground, putting his back up against a piece of metal that had survived the blast, "what am I gonna do now?"

"You can go back to Sachi. . ."

"Fuck no. They hate me. Without Sasuke there, I'm nothing to them, just an enemy."

"Soonichi. . .I had no idea. . ." said Sasuke as he fell to his knees in front of them.

"What the hell!?" said Soonichi.

"Stop being all excited and save him!" shouted Naruto. He flipped Sasuke over as Soonichi looked at the body, and closed his eyes. He started to breathe heavily as he put his hands over him, his eyes flew open as he laughed.

"There we go. . .he should be alright. . .give him. . .I don't know. . .half an hour."

Naruto smiled as Soonichi as he stood up. "I'll be around. . ." said Naruto as he started to walk away. He looked around him as he walked through the village, and looked at what it used to be.

As he made his way through the city, he saw the giant gate, he had been walking towards it for a while, as he underestimated how big the Einizigartig really was. As he rounded the corner to what he saw as the street to the gate, he gasped.

Hinata, Ino, and Shikamaru all stood looking around. "No way. . ." he said. "Hinata!" he shouted. She flipped around, and smiled as she saw Naruto.

She started to run towards Naruto, who slowly walked towards her. The two met, and Naruto gave her a giant hug, and laughed as he looked into her eyes. "I thought. . .I was dead. . ." he said as he looked at her.

"What happened here?" she said as she looked around, still holding the hug.

Over towards Shikamarui and Ino, Shikamaru sighed as he looked at them. "When am I gonna get a girlfriend?" he said.

Ino gave him a confused look, then sighed. "Shut up."

Naruto sighed as he looked around too. "I don't know. . ." he said. "Lets go find Sasuke. . ."

"Wait!" said Hinata. "We have to find Mr. Tao, Sakura and Shino."

"They came too?" said Naruto as he broke the hug. "No way. . .where are they at?"

"I don't know, they're trying to break into the city."

"Oh. . .they'll be fine. . ." He looked over at Ino and Shikamaru. "Come on!" he shouted towards them.

AN: Woot woot. Arc is almost over. Long chappie this week, and expect them longer, cause I wont be able to do them as much. Well...I hope you enjoyed it. A lot of mind playing in the first part of the chapter, so if you didn't know, Soonichi was the guy who got up first, Hojo didn't. If you have any questions ask.