Title- Story of my Life
Chapter 11- No One Deserves to be Forgotten
AN- OMG I HATE FINALS-groans- Stupid Spanish class...my teacher gave 250 questions! Can you believe that-dies and goes to heaven, before being thrown back to earth. Is resurrected.- So yeah, I do have another excuse. Heh heh... -(procrastinator).
Also, how many of you have seen the musical Les Miserables? I read the book, and am currently listening to the soundtrack. I LOVE it! I doubt anyone's seen it, but you should-cough- Okay, I'll go back to anime.
YAY! there was another earthquake! I'm beginning to love earthquakes...About a month ago there was a pretty big one. It was awesome!
Thank you my reviewers: Goddes-of-Sol, fatlazicat, crimson nightmare, SuzuSparrow, Kittfox, sasuke-4ever, emu, YoungSasuke, Little Fox Kit, kaira, Shadow Eclipse, potpourrigrl, TenshiKaitou, sylver rain, Kyuubi-kun, quaebah24, Yaoilover S, sassy-kun, KhaosFlamez, KunochiDreamer
CitrusPeach- ...-eyebrow twitches- I hate people that give a bad name to Yearbook...one of my friends actually had the audacity to say that yearbook was just "playing around with computers" during deadline week, in front of the rest of the staffers, the Advisor, and the Senior Editor. I swear, that room went as silent as a tomb and was filled with murderous intent towards that girl. (I'm the Senior Editor of the Elementary Yearbook and the Associate Editor of the Junior and Senior High School Yearbook. Such a pain...)
Anime-Boi-Crazy- HAHAHA! I LOVE TORTURING PEOPLE LIKE THIS! I mean...-cough cough- er, sorry for the long wait...-attempts to hide evil snickers-
Ruby Love- Naruto wrote both the secretive journal entries and the childish ones. They're just from different time periods. (He doesn't keep track of years . )
Ivy Adrena- I'm honored that you chose my fic out of so many AU fics to read-bows- Thank you!
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Out here in the fields
I fought for my meals
I get my back into my living
I don't need to fight
To prove that I'm right
I don't need to be forgiven...
- "Teenage Wasteland", by The Who
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In the morning, Naruto seemed to have totally forgotten his previous anger against his fellow cellmates. ("That Kid must have a horrible memory," Kiba remarked) Getting ready, he was just as noisy and wild, splashing water all over everyone else at the sinks. At breakfast, he begged the others for extra food. He acted quite normal throughout the rest of the day.
That is, until the afternoon.
During the exercise time in the yard, Naruto was arm-wrestling Kiba while Shikamaru stared at the clouds, Neji watched silently, Sasuke drew, and Haku lounged on a low tree branch. All of the sudden, Naruto's arm went limp, and Kiba slammed it against the ground.
"Ouch!" Naruto yelped, rubbing his hand while looking around anxiously. " What'd you do that for?"
"Why'd you give up?" Kiba demanded irritably. "And why are you looking so paranoid?"
"I thought..." the blonde's mouth fell open, and his cerulean eyes widened. "H-hey, Haku! Look! It's Chimera and Faerie!"
Haku sat up straight, and stared in the direction Naruto was pointing. "What the- you're right!"
"Hey! Hey Fae! Chimera!" Naruto jumped up and ran over to a solomn-looking teenager with dirty brown hair and a nervous woman with cotton-candy pink hair that was obviously dyed.
Sasuke rolled his eyes and ignored his cellmate's outburst.
The woman spotted Naruto running towards them and tugged on the short boy's shirt, saying something to him. The boy didn't seem to hear, because he pulled out of his comrade's grip and ran towards Naruto. "NII-CHAN!" he yelled, tackling Naruto and wrapping his arms around the blonde's waist. He buried his face in the blonde's orange shirt and a stream of muffled words began to emit from his mouth.
Naruto laughed and hugged the boy back before ruffling the boy's hair. "Chimera! I can't believe this!"
Shikamaru groaned. "What, another kid? Is this prison turning into a daycare center or something?"
"Don't be fooled." Shikamaru looked up at his guard friend, Chouji.The prison guard was currently munching on a bag of chips. "That 'kid' is a part of one of the toughest gangs in Konoha. At least, it was the toughest gang in Konoha."
"What do you mean, was?" Sasuke spoke suddenly, startling those around him. The Uchiha rarely spoke at all, and especially so when he was outside.
Chouji sighed, his face growing solomn. "Well, you see, two nights ago the-"
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"-strange this is that you're at the same prison as me!" cheered Naruto, slinging an arm around the woman's neck. "Hey Fae, why're you so glum? Me 'n Siren are here!"
During all this, Haku had been carefully watching Faerie and Chimera, noticing Faerie's forced smile and Chimera's suppressed tears. "How are the rest of the Demons doing?"
Faerie's fake smile vanished completely, and her lip began to quiver. Chimera, noticing this, decided to be a man and say what she obviously couldn't. "We are the rest of the Demons," he said quietly, voice shaking.
"What do you mean?" A grin stayed on Naruto's face, but it looked more confused than anything. "What about Biakko, and Medusa, and Dragon?"
"The-they're all-"
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"Dead!" Lee exclaimed, eyes wide. "All of them?"
"All of them but the four that are standing over there."
"But-"
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"-how?" Naruto maneaged to ask, his voice unbelieving. "We had everything to stay alive, every resource, every possible protection!"
"They ambushed us," Faerie whispered, wrapping her arms around her body. Haku immediately placed his arms around her in a comforting way. "They attacked us outside Ichiraku. We were offguard. It was horrible. Chimera saved my life."
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"It was a total slaughter," Chouji added. "Blood all over the place. Some were sprayed with so many bullets the bodies were unrecognizable. Others had stab wounds, slice marks, stuff like that. On some of them, their heads were even chopped off. The police found those two shaking in the alley, covered in blood and shaking like they had just seen Lucifer himself."
Lee's eyes widened in horror. "Those poor people."
"They probably deserve it," Kiba muttered, but after seeing Sasuke's cold, cruel glare in his direction as well as well-deserved glares from the others in his group, he shut his mouth.
"No one deserves to be slaughtered like that." Neji stated. Even he was appalled by the idea of how a 40-odd person gang could be so easily killed, and why they would kill like that.
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"The Demons were massacred? No way!" Tenten exclaimed, incredulously.
Ino nodded, leaning against a tree. They were across the yard from the men, but they could clearly see the two newcomers, Haku, and the Kid. "Yes way. And those two were the only ones that survived it. The police can't figure out how they escaped. The exits had been blocked, and they had been surrounded."
Hinata bit her lip, and her eyes watered. "Th-that's so sad..." she stuttered. "I-I used to s-s-sell to th-them somet-t-times...such n-nice
people, even if th-they were g-gangbangers."
By this time it had circulated thorughout the entire yard that the Demons had been annialated, and that the four people in the center of the yard were the only ones left.
The women's hearts ached as they saw the new boy wail and clutch as tight as he could to the Kid. Haku cradled the pink-haired girl, and both of them had silent tears streaming down their faces. All four were so close they were touching shoulders.
Sasuke noticed that Naruto was shaking, and was tightly holding the boy, his knuckled turning white. The blonde's teeth were clenched in a grimace of pain and grief. Chimera looked up at Naruto's face, then gently pulled Naruto's goggles over the blonde's eyes.
Naruto seemed to have snapped out of a trance, because he straightened and wiped at his cheeks roughly, as if trying to smear the scars right off his face. Turning around the yard, the inmates could feel his anger on them, even it they couldn't see his eyes through the flashing black tint. "What're you staring at?" he screamed. "Well?"
The inmates all looked in other directions, not knowing what to say. Sasuke, however, continued to look at Naruto, his gaze unwavering. Noticing this, Naruto's lips curled up in a snarl. Faerie wiped away her tears and tugged on Naruto's jacket. "Kyuubi, please," she said, her voice cracking. "Calm down. Please calm down."
Naruto pulled out of her grip, shaking his head, and disappeared into the thickest part of the forested yard he could find. Faerie and Chimera looked like they were going to go after him, but Haku held them back, whispering something to them hurridly. Sasuke, however, followed the blonde.
The dark haired man followed the speeding blonde silently and slowly. Finally, he saw the boy in a small clearing, pounding a huge tree trunk. Splinters of wood flying through the air, Naruto punched, whirled, then kicked. Punch, whirl, kick. Punch, punch, whirl, kick.
"God-"
Punch
"-damn-"
Punch
"-motherfuckin'-"
Whirl
"-Kamis!"
Kick
"I'll fuckin'-"
Punch
"-kill-"
Punch
"-every single-"
Whirl
"-God-damned one of them!"
Kick.
Sasuke was slightly suprised at the force that Naruto was beating the stump. Only slightly. He had never expected so much power to come from such a sleek, agile teenager.
He was even more suprised (but of course, he didn't show it) when Naruto spun around and hissed, "What the fuck do you want, bastard?"
Instead, the stoic man just stood there, lounging against a live tree. To anyone that would just come upon the two, it could have been an example of the lean, shadowy panther and the fiery, bristling fox. The thing that unnerved Sasuke the most was the fact that he couldn't see the blonde's crystalline eyes. He could tell what someone was thinking by their eyes, and not being able to see them made him nervous. "Why do you wear that thing?" he wanted to know, ignoring Naruto's earlier question.
"None of your damn business!"
"No need to get angry at me."
"Then fuck off!"
"No."
"What the hell is your problem?"
"You."
"Then why won't you leave me the fuck alone?" Quicker than Sasuke could follow, the blonde was right next to him, a tanned hand gripping the front of the older man's uniform tightly. With Naruto's face tilted up at him, the sun didn't glare so harshly against the glass; and for a moment Sasuke thought that he could see a glint of red.
"Because right now, you don't need to be alone. You need a friend."
At this, Naruto's grip went slack, and his teeth unclenched. But in a moment he was back, advancing on his cellmate. Forcing Sasuke to slouch, he pulled his cellmate to his eye level. The two were only inches apart, their noses almost touching. "You're making fun of me. Stop it."
"No, I'm not."
"You're not my friend."
"Who says? I probably know more about you than anyone else here."
Naruto's eyebrows went up, and Sasuke knew that he had screwed up. 'Shit, now he'll find out about me reading his journal.'
To Sasuke's surprise (he'd been getting surprised a lot lately by the blonde) the teen relaxed his grip altogether and stepped back. Naruto walked over to his side and sat down abruptly on the ground, cross-legged.
"They shouldn't have died." the blonde said softly after a long silence. "I wasn't strong enough. Again. I couldn't help."
Sasuke shrugged. "You were in jail. How could you have helped?"
"I could have escaped."
"Escaped?" the dark haired man raised one eyebrow at Naruto. "No one's escaped from this prison. Ever."
"I could have."
"Sure."
"You know, Kid..."
"Yeah?"
"Maybe we can make a memorial for your friends. So that they won't be forgotten."
"...where?"
"Here."
Naruto looked around. The three stumps that he had been beating on were now torn and indented, but the clearing had a surreal aura to it. "It'd be nice. They'd like that. All the Demons?"
Sasuke looked up at the sky. "Everyone that you want to put on it. After all, it'll be by you."
"Fae 'n Chim would like that."
"Hey, Sasuke?"
"What?"
"Why are you being so nice?"
"I'm not being nice."
"Then why did you ask me about that memorial thing?"
"Because no one deserves to be forgotten."
To All Our Beloved Friends: You Were More Than Our Friends. You Were Our Family. May You Rest In a Peace You Couldn't Experience on This Earth.
And to Our Dear Vamp (Konohamaru), We Pray For Your Forgiveness For Not Being Able to Protect You When You Needed us the Most.
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Vampire, Medusa, Komodo Dragon, Harpy, Biakko, Sphinx, Basilisk, Phoenix, Cerberus, Griffin, Nereid, Anubis, Bakemono, Hoji, Kumo, Hydra, Centaur, Kraken, Cyclops, Kami, Echidna, Roc, Nymph, Imp, Banshee, Selkie, Werewolf, Gargoyle, Harpy, Dryad, Ghost, Hippogryff, Kitsune, Goblin, Manticore, Naga, Titan, Minotaur, Pegasus, Satyr, Kudarung
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