First Kiss–Chapter 35
"I've been waiting for a long time. . .for this moment to come. . .I'm destined for anything at all. . ."–Waiting, Greenday, perhaps the greatest band of all time.
Mr. Tao walked through the ash, as the left wall, the side they planned to enter the city through, had already fallen. The city was falling in itself. The three behind him watched in awe as Mr. Tao walked through the halls of the prison building.
The ash, both gray, black, and even a little red, still burning, caused them to throw their arms above their faces, causing the ash to stay outside their bodies. As they reached the outside, Soonichi stood over Sasuke, waiting for him to wake up. Mr. Tao's first reaction as he spoke, "What the hell!? Did you kill Mr. Taguchi!?"
"No, no!" said Soonichi. "I didn't, hell I saved him!"
"Give me proof. . ." said Mr. Tao as he put his hand to his side, to prevent Sakura or Shino to go forward, with the other hand he took out a kunai.
"You know that there is no proof in the truth." Mr. Tao clenched his teeth for a short second, then suddenly charged Soonichi, Soonichi, who was determined not to fight back, was speared straight through a wall of dust.
It flew through the air, as the wind started to pick up, and the height of the walls started to fall. Soonichi quickly got up as Mr. Tao gave a stab at him, Soonichi ducked as another dust wall came down, and Soonichi jumped back.
Mr. Tao, blinded in rage, jumped towards Soonichi again, and then threw a kunai at Soonichi, who, again, jumped back, running into an ash wall. This caused him to trip backwards, falling to his back, with Mr. Tao diving at him. Soonichi took his feet and kicked Mr. Tao out of the way, to the right.
Jumping to his feet as quickly as he could, Soonichi gave a deep breath as he started to talk. "Mr. Tao. . .I'll tell you now. . .I didn't kill Sasuke, or Mr. Taguchi, whatever the hell you call him. He's just unconscious, and, to prove that, go ahead. Kill me. Cause if I did kill him, I'd of killed you by now."
"I don't, and I never will, never believe anything you say," said Mr. Tao as he wiped off his ashy blade. "But. . .if you are giving me a free shot, I'd better just speed up the inevitable.." Soonichi looked back at Sakura and Shino. He gave them a long look, and suddenly closed his eyes, looking up.
"God will save me. . ." he said, looking back at Mr. Tao. This caught everyone off guard. "Mostly because. . .if I die, it's of a stupid, and vain cause. Do you want to be called a murder of that cause, Tao?"
"Yes." He flipped his kunai around in his hand, and instantly caught it. Smiling as he charged Soonichi, diving at his last step, towards his chest. Sakura shut her eyes as quickly as she could.
She started to breathe heavily as she clenched her teeth, and fell to the ground, putting her hands over her eyes, as to protect herself, even if she did cheat and look. "Oh my god. . .Sakura. . ." said Shino. This caused even more fear to envelope on her, and she cowered in fear of what could of happened. Then, Shino made a small laugh.
Sakura opened her eyes, and looked up, surprised at what Shino had just done. "Shino. . .?!" Shino looked down at her, and smiled as he pointed towards where Mr. Tao and Soonichi were. Her heard slowly turned to the situation that she saw.
Standing there, Soonichi gave a deep stair into Mr. Tao's eyes. He smiled as he stepped back. Sasuke held Mr. Tao's blade, and Mr. Tao looked deep into Sasuke's gleaming eyes.
Naruto, Hinata, Ino, and Shikamaru all stood behind them, as they had just got there. Naruto looked at the situation, and said, "Sasuke. . .you're alive. . ."
Mr. Tao, still enraged by the situation said, "Naruto. . .where were you?"
"I was with Soonichi, right after he saved Sasuke, then I went for a walk around the city, and found these guys."
"See. . ." said Soonichi, "What I said was true." Mr. Tao looked around, then dropped the kunai, Sasuke did as well, and it fell to the hard ground.
Naruto and Hinata sat on a piece of square metal that had survived, Naruto had his hand around Hinata. He tried to figure out how and why the explosion had happened. "One sec. . ." he said to Hinata as he got up.
He walked over to Soonichi, who was talking to Sasuke. "Yeah?" said Soonichi.
"How. . ."
"How what?"
"Did the explosion happen. . .I can't figure it out. You said it was me. . ."
"I. . .lied. It wasn't you. It was me. . .I caused it to happen in the first place. A jutsu, that worthy of a bomb. Ishida, the Einizigartig, Hojo, all too powerful to their own liking. Or mine."
"So. . .you killed them. . .what about Hojo. . .?!" Naruto was in a small shock.
"Why did I kill him, you ask? Well. . .Sasuke here, he even knew that in his village, Hojo was probably the most dangerous thing there. The kid was a monster, more of over than you are, or can be. What I said to him. . .in that hallway. . .that he killed a whole village just over an argument. All true. Don't mess with people like that, I did, and I almost died. I had to resort to this."
"I still don't understand. He was a good person. Can't you bring him back!?"
"No. He's dead. Let it go."
"I wont, he is the only reason I'm still here."
"And he is the only reason that this city isn't here. Earth will never reach this point, ever again. These people, just the children, could beat you Naruto. They could easily take over anything they wanted. Except for maybe the more giant countries, such as the Leaf or Sand. And that's only the children."
"And you. . .?"
"I'm a chunnin, I told you that."
"Not even a jounin. . .Naruto. . ." said Sasuke. "And this is how powerful this place was. "I believe, Soonichi, I believe that we can reach the power this city had. I believe that. . .if. . .people like you, Soonichi, lead half my men, and people like him, Naruto, lead the other half, we can reach higher than anyone else ever has."
Three days later
"In order to commemorate the following people who stand here today, we will have to commemorate the person who isn't standing here today. He died an honorable death, protecting Sachi in the greatest way possible," said Sasuke as he stood on a platform. "Hojo. . .a man who lived with all of us, will continue to live here. . .only in his memories."
The crowd in front of him consisted of the whole village, every ninja, villager, child, mother, father and son were crowded into the village center.
"And with that, we commemorate the following for their efforts to take down our greatest, and the world's greatest enemy, the Einizigartig. . .and with that. . .I'll tell you this. I used to belong to a great village, that you all know, the Leaf. This village, it had a long line of heros and great ninja, and we all had to read and study about them during school. Now, these men. . .will be the first along the great line of ninja that will be in our history books someday. Soonichi, a man who we all thought was going to kill us, ended up being the greatest savor. Uzumaki Naruto, another that we all know and live with, was one of the greatest helping hands in the end of the Einizigartig, and of course the following for giving up all they had to save me. Hyuuga Hinata, Haruno Sakura, Aburame Shino, Yamanaka Ino, and Mr. Tao. Thank you all. . ."
With that, the ceremony ended and the crowd started to walk out of the center.
Hinata and Naruto bust through the door, and immediately slammed it closed. The two held a kiss that lasted all the way to the bedroom, where the door, too, slammed.
AN: Alright, another one down. But. I must tell you all, that these may be the last chapters of FK, as the major storyline throughout the story is over, and the dream of about nine books is growing more dreary. Although I love writing this story, it's become more than a hassle than anything, but I do love it. Maybe this is just something passing through, but, I really want to do other projects, and this ties me down. So yeah. No real announcement yet, but expect something big to come up, as this Arc is over.