Title- Story of my Life
Chapter 9- Secrets Yet to be Uncovered
AN- Okay, here's the dealio, peeps- I've been grounded for my grades. (Which sucks major ass) My mom finally let me back on me comp (thank GOD!!!!), so I'll be updating faster than it took for this chappy to get out. I missed you all so much! -cries-
But that's okay! Let the party begin! Drinks all around! (Think that new Aquafina commercial "Drink! Drink!", or Sparkling Cider. I hate alcohol, other than the smell of wine.)
GAH! I'm so sorry to all my reviewers, but there are so many, so I can't answer all of your reviews. To the peeps to whom I don't review, thank you!!!
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YoungSasuke- Haha, I like hooking people! I do love to go fishing...I can even pinch a worm in half with my thumbnail and put half on the hook for bait, and then later use the other half! (A little gross, I know...but I like fishing!) Hm, does that mean I have to slice Naruto in half? I hope not...he is, after all, the star of this fic...
emu- Aw, that'd be awesome!!! -grins widely- I like to draw, but I don't really have any talent.
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Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.
- Phyllis Diller
Every human being on this earth is born with a tragedy, and it isn't original sin...He has to lose everything that is lovely and fight for a new loveliness of his own making, and it's a tragedy. A lot of people don't have the courage to do it.
- Helen Hayes
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A few days had gone by, and no matter how much prying Naruto's fellow inmates did the blonde adamantly refused to tell them what he and Haku were talking about, and each time re-directed the conversation.
"So, Kid, what was that all about?"
"Hey look, a fight!"
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"What does everyone here have?"
"Hey look, a kite!"
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"Tell me already!"
"Hey look, a flashlight!"
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"So what's going on with you and that gang?"
"Hey, you broke the quiet of the night!"
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And so it continued, until the inmates grew tired of asking and Naruto ran out of things that rhymed with 'ight'. Also, Naruto finally was able to go outside for the first time in weeks.
Naruto took a deep breath. "Ah! Fresh air!" he sighed, basking in the bright sunlight. "Finally!"
"It's not that great," Kiba complained, surveying the exercise yard with a critical eye.
"It is when you're stuck in a tiny cell for who knows how long!" the blonde snapped at him.
"Don't you tell me what to do-" Kiba was cut short, and he blushed slightly.
"What? What is it?" Naruto demanded.
Shikamaru opened one eye and looked over. "Oh. It's Hinata."
"Hinata?" The teenager looked over his shoulder at a group of women in the middle of the yard ((AN: The men and women go outdoor at the same time)) The girl that Shikamaru was so pointedly looking at was fragile and petite. She had purplish hair that was cut short in an angular direction, and long bangs were left to frame her face. Glancing over at Kiba and the rest of the men with the same pale-lilac eyes as Neji, she blushed slightly also and waved timidly at Kiba. The other women in her group saw her waving, and they cooed in the ancient way passed down by the first women on earth loud enough for the first women on earth to hear. "Oooooooooh, Hinataaaaa!"
"Neji's cousin."
"You have a cousin here, Neji?" Naruto burst out. "How cool! I wanna meet her!"
The pale-eyed man glared at Naruto. "You will not on any accounts ask her how she got into jail," he lectured Naruto. "It is a very delicate thing to her."
"Well? How'd she get in?" the blonde questioned him irritably. "At least tell me now so my curiosity doesn't take over!"
"She was a drug dealer."
"HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!"
"It's not funny. She's finally clean, and out of that stage of her life. That was not her destiny."
Naruto pictured the young woman in a heavy black coat, lots of silver and bling-bling, and a black bandana tied around her head, then burst out laughing again. "HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!"
"What're you laughin' at, chump?" a curt, feminine voice inquired dryly. "I don't see anythin' funny."
Looking over, Naruto saw that the person speaking had walked over from Hinata's group. She was slightly taller and muscular than the other women, and walked with a self-assured air. Chocolate-y brown hair was pulled back in two loose buns, and almond shaped-and-colored eyes narrowed as she inspected Naruto from head to foot. "Wh-who you callin' a chump?!" Naruto shouted, glaring at the woman.
The young woman glanced back at her group and called out, "Sure, he's got pretty eyes and nice skin, but that's 'bout it. Hey, Neji," she nodded to the man. "He with you?"
"Unfortunatelly, yes," Neji replied in the same manner as she. "Is there any other reason you came over here other than to harass our newest inmate?"
"I was just having some fun. Th' name's Tenten," she told the blonde. "Expert illegal weapons dealer. You need it, I got it. Back to the news. You know that Uzumaki dude?"
"You mean the man that is supposed to be the greatest escape artist in the history of Konoha?" Lee asked her, his eyes wide.
"Yeah, that one. Well, they finally caught up with him, about three or four weeks ago!" Reaching into her pocket, she pulled out a folded newspaper clipping. "Ino gave this to me yesterday."
Naruto went slightly pale and coughed nervously, but nobody noticed, as they all gathered around Tenten to read the article.
"Aw, look! You got it wet!" Kiba complained. "His picture is all smudged!"
Naruto leaned forward slightly. There, attached to the clipping, was a picture of him being dragged off the streets in handcuffs; but his entire head was smudged by water.
"Damn Ino! It's all over the place! He belonged to smudge gang, and resided in smudge city with his foster father, smudge...and he's gonna be taken to smudge prison!" Shikamaru sighed in frustration. "This doesn't help any about finding out who he is."
"Um...um...um..." Naruto whipped his head around frantically, trying to find a way to change the subject. "Hey Kiba! Where's the Uchiha-bastard?"
"Er..." The dog man looked around for a moment. Akamaru, who was still on his head, barked. "Oh. He's over there. I wonder what he's looking at?"
Naruto glanced over to where Sasuke was (which was currently against one of the giant concrete walls), then did a double check. "What the fuck?" he hissed suddenly, and left so quickly Kiba thought that he had disappeared. "What the hell are you doing?" Naruto snarled at Sasuke, grabbing his notebook and articles out of Sasuke's hands. "These are MINE!"
The Uchiha looked up at him, a bit irritable. "It was just lying around, and I-"
"It was not just lying around, you bastard. It was under my fuckin' bed for a fuckin' reason!" Naruto hurriedly pulled his goggles over his eyes, and even though Sasuke couldn't see the blonde's eyes he could feel anger radiating off of him. Kneeling down, Naruto snatched up newspaper articles that had fallen out. "Don't you ever fuckin' touch this again, bastard!"
"I was just curious. What's the big deal?"
By this time the two of them had gained a crowd. Shikamaru walked up, hesitantly, and placed a hand on Naruto's arm. "Hey, Kid, this isn't a smart thing to do-"
"Who gives a fuck?!" Naruto shouted. "I don't care if he killed a thousand people, if I catch him looking at my stuff again I'll fuckin' kill him!" He pointed an accusing finger at his cellmate. "You hear me, Uchiha? So you keep your murdering ass away from my notebook, and keep your God-damned nose out of my business!"
Sasuke bristled as Naruto called him, to his face, a murderer. "You want to say that again, asswipe?" he said in a low, deadly voice.
"You heard me the first time!" Naruto clutched his notebook to his chest and glared at Sasuke with even more intensity. "Stay the fuck away from me and my personal stuff!"
Sasuke began to step forward menacingly when Kakashi sauntered over to them. "There isn't a problem here, is there?" he questioned them.
"I was just leaving," Naruto hissed. He spat on the ground in front of Sasuke's feet, then turned and walked away. Sasuke watched him go and finally plop down beneath a big tree in the center of the field.
Kakashi also watched him go, then grinned. "Good! Stay out of trouble, Sasuke." He walked away.
Kiba scratched his head. "Um, I hope you don't mind me asking this, but what was that all about?"
"His notebook is filled with newspaper articles and blank pages," Sasuke told him emotionlessly. "Here." He handed a newspaper clipping to Kiba.
Kiba scanned the article, then began to read it aloud. " 'The mystery of the Third Street Massacre is yet to be revealed. On the fifteenth of May forty-five children and ten adults were found slaughtered in the halls and playgrounds of the Third Street Grace Orphanage. Only one child was discovered alive, huddling in a small broom closet on the second floor. This five year old boy, name unknown, disappeared soon after the bodies were discovered. Police are searching for the boy, and are requesting any knowledge of this massacre that the public might hold. "This disgusts me," Chief of Police Ebisu tells us. "It really does. And I'm going to catch this murderer if it's the last thing I do. Whoever could kill like this deserves to die, and I won't let him get away with this.' "
"The Third Street Massacre..." Lee said slowly. "I remember hearing about that when I was much younger. It was all over the news."
"I would have read more, but he saw me," Sasuke told them. "Another thing I don't understand is why all those pages seem to be blank."
"That must be it," Neji stated. "They seem to be blank."
"Whatever it is, the Kid's really freakin' out over it all," Shikamaru said to no one in particular. "So we better be careful."
'And he looked scared,' Sasuke thought suddenly, realizing something. 'He didn't want me to know, and the fact I may know scared him. But why would it scare him?' He looked over to the blonde, watching him shuffle through his papers nervously. When he found a certian one, Sasuke saw the blonde sigh with relief and clutch it to his chest, before shoving it back into the thick notebook.
After a moment of silence, Shikamaruvoiced what they all were thinking.
"What is he hiding from us, and why?"
