Author Note: It went faster to make this one than I thought. Well good for
you ^_^ I guess. I don't have much to say cause I'm going to start with my
third fic, I should be doing it now but it took me less then 3 hours to
write this one down so not much lost here. Considering it could take more
time than that. The ending will be happy, I promise. AND for those that
haven't got it yet, YES Naruto is very much back and alive. Even if he is
not himself. I know I said I would work on Return of a Stranger but it
takes longer then I thought and school isn't helping, I'll explain once I
have it ready... but enjoy this one in the mean time.
Couples: SasuNaru, HinaNeji, SakuLee.
Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto.
What you left me
By Monkan and Edited by asaroth
Chapter 6
Satoshi and Naruto looked at each other for a few minutes. Naruto wasn't showing any kind of emotions and that made Satoshi nervous but he didn't look away.
Someone walked up to them and said in a low voice. "It's time to send the scroll."
Naruto's face didn't move as stood up and walked over to the others. They got nervous when the blond man got closer. He then wrote something down on a scroll and handed it over to one of the others. He then walked to another corner in the alley and sat down there. The hat was hiding his face once again.
Satoshi looked around; he could feel that every one of his kidnappers was looking at him. He then looked up toward the edge of the roof and he could see the cascade of colours on the sky. The day was almost over.
*Daddy and I would be watch the sun now from our house now.* The thought of his daddy made Satoshi sad. *Daddy's probably sad again 'cause I'm gone.*
From his seat Naruto watched the little boy. *How old could he be? Five? Six? What's with him that makes my heart act like this?* He clutched the area on his chest, it hurt badly. He didn't know why but when he saw Satoshi look up at what he could see of the sky an idea hit him.
Naruto walked over to Satoshi and without much effort he lifted the boy up into his arms. He received a few protest from the other but he only send them a glare that made all of them shut up.
Satoshi leaned into the dark coat Naruto had and tried not to panic when they suddenly jumped in the direction of the roof the roof. Naruto walked over to the edge and sat Satoshi down on the plates that covered the roof. He then sat down himself beside Satoshi. They were facing the sun now and Satoshi could see the mountain and much of the Village, the view was actually great and the sun made everything looked surreal.
For a moment nobody of them moved, Satoshi due to the fact that he's still bound. Naruto didn't do anything, as if it were second nature to him. He then removed his hat and laid it down beside him. He closed his eyes for a moment, letting the wind blow through his hair and across his face.
*I feel calm when I let the wind carry me with it.* Naruto looked down at Satoshi. The boy was taking in every detail of him. Naruto was sure the kid had his image burned in his memory now.
"You look like Yondaime." Satoshi said.
Naruto blinked. "Nani?"
"It's him over there!" Satoshi nodded with his head toward the stone mountain with five faces on.
"Hn." Naruto just looked away from Satoshi and looked down over the Village.
"You also look just like someone my father loved." Satoshi wasn't sure if that was a good thing to say when Naruto turned back to him.
"Your father? Uchiha Sasuke?" Satoshi nodded. "I can't be the one he loved." Naruto hesitated for a moment. "I don't know what love is." Naruto lowered his head almost in shame. *A little kid know what it's like to love someone but I don't even know what the WORD means.*
Satoshi looked curiously at Naruto but when he saw tears forming in his eyes and as they spilled over his cheek Satoshi regretted bringing it up.
"Gomen, I shouldn't have said it." Satoshi looked away from Naruto. Tears welled up in his eyes again. *Why do I make people sad?*
Naruto look back at Satoshi and when he see the tears a pang of guilt hit his heart. He reaches out a hand toward Satoshi's face. "Please, don't cry. I don't want to see you unhappy."
He touched Satoshi's pale cheek to brush away the tear that made its way down.
~^~^~Memory~^~^~
"Come one Sasuke, don't worry about me I can take care of myself now." Naruto said as he pushed Sasuke toward the door.
"Are you sure? I don't want..." Sasuke was silent by Naruto's lips on his.
When they pulled away Naruto smiled at Sasuke's face. "I wasn't that badly wounded on the mission. I'm fine now. If it makes you feel better I can call Hinata-san and ask her come over. It's not a big deal, really!"
Sasuke linked his arms around Naruto's waist. "You were brought in half dead. I thought I would lose you." Sasuke rested his forehead against Naruto's. "I thought that I would really lose you." Sasuke whispered.
"Sasuke... Gomen. I didn't mean to..." Naruto looked down when he felt tears of guilt in his eyes.
"I know." Sasuke felt Naruto's own arms sneak around his waist. "I don't want to see you hurt Naruto. Never again do I want to see tears from your eyes."
Naruto looked in up to Sasuke's pale face. He saw tears run down his lovers face.
~^~^~End Memory~^~^~
Naruto withdraw his hand quickly. Looking back at the setting sun but his hands was shaking slightly.
Satoshi looked up at Naruto. "Naruto?"
Upon hearing the little voice he turned his head back to Satoshi. Satoshi was about to say something more but something caught his attention.
"Your cheek!" Satoshi gasped.
Naruto raised his hand and felt the beginning of a new scar forming on his untouched cheek. It grow slowly until it reached the same length like the other two scars he had.
"Don't worry. It's nothing dangerous." Naruto said in a calm voice. The necklace around his neck started to shine more in blue and red now than green. "It's just a sign that I'm connecting more to the powers that sleeps inside of me. When I have six scars, it's completed."
Satoshi looked amazed when the new scar stopped growing. "Doesn't it hurt?"
"Iie! Not that kind of pain. When I didn't have any scars I was like anybody. I had people I could call friends, or so I thought. It began last year to show. I thought that I could trust my so called friends to help me through it but they left me alone. They were scared, called me a monster. I guess everything we went through didn't matter when they saw you were different. It hurt so much to be alone. Everywhere I went people turned their backs to me, it was so painful. I hadn't known them for more then a few weeks but it hurt so . . . much."
"If you meet daddy you don't have to be alone anymore!" Satoshi said.
"Huh?" Naruto looked at Satoshi with big eyes.
"I'm sure daddy can teach you how to love!" Satoshi was feeling brave again. He saw a chance to help this man. "That way you don't have to be alone any more." The smile on his face grow bigger with each word he said.
"Learn... how... to... love?" Naruto said slowly.
For a moment Satoshi thought he saw something in Naruto's eyes that he could place as hope but it was gone quicker then it came and all that was left of the man before him was the same empty eyes that had stared at him before he was brought up here. Those eyes made him shiver with something he hadn't felt before. He felt scared under the piercing glare the eyes turned on him.
Naruto put back his hat on his head before picking up Satoshi roughly and jumping back down to the other kidnappers. Naruto placed him not to gently on the ground and walked away to stand in the shadows. Satoshi looked after him for as long as he could but lost sight if him. Suddenly a piercing red glow filled the shadow. Making all heads turn in his direction. The red faded slowly and all that was left afterwards was a little drop of green that could be seen in the shadow.
The men breathed out. "The orb worked!"
"That was close. We can't let that happen again. Next time maybe we won't be so lucky."
"Don't worry. The orb have suppressed his personality, it won't appear for another few days. Nothing will distract him from the plan now."
The man looked over at Satoshi and for a moment he thought that maybe it wasn't so wise to let that kid be near Naruto.
*Well in a few hours it won't matter anyway.*
*********
The light was on in Sasuke's house. Neji, Shikamaru, Lee, Kakashi and Tsunade was in the living room. Going through what they knew and a few theories on what could had happen to Satoshi and why. Shikamaru and Kakashi were talking about a new plan on finding Satoshi. A shinobi knocked on the door and Lee went to open it, he was given a scroll.
"What is it?" Neji asked.
"It's to Sasuke-kun." Lee said as he studied the scroll. He gave it to Neji for a moment when he reached out for it and open it to see what it was. He closed it slowly again before walking over to Sasuke's bedroom door. He knocked once and waited. Sakura open and stepped out before closing the door behind her.
"How is he?" Lee asked from the other door.
Sakura shock her head. "Not good. I've never seen him like this before. I can't get any kind of reaction out of him. He's just staring into the darkness." Her voice was low and sad.
"Do you think he can handle me for a few moments?" Neji asked.
Sakura nodded. "I don't see why not."
Lee entered the dark room. The curtain was down and nothing of the remaining sun could get in. Sasuke laid with his back toward Neji not moving at all. Neji slowly made his way to his friend. "Sasuke, I think you should read this!"
Sasuke didn't move or said anything. Neji sighed before walking to the other side of the bed. He looked into Sasuke's almost dead like face. His face held the remains of long gone tears and his mouth was in a thin line, his face was more pale in the darkness then Neji had ever seen it. It took a few moments before Sasuke's eyes locked on Neji's face and acknowledged him. In one way at least.
Neji looked down to the scroll. "It's about Satoshi." He held it out and Sasuke grabbed it immediate. He sat up while he open it. He read the words that greeted him. Before Neji could react Sasuke was out of the bed and half way to the door. He flung it open and caught everyone's attention. He ignored them and walked over to Tsunade. Neji was now right behind him now.
"Hokage-sama, I need you to enter me in the tournament." His face was determined and didn't show any emotion as he spoke.
Tsunade looked at him. "Why."
He held out the scroll. "Because!"
Tsunade read it and her face became determined as well. "Alright, I will allow it."
Lee moved closer to Neji. "What did the scroll say?"
Neji closed his eyes before he spoke. "Enter the tournament, there is a opponent waiting for you there. If you beat him then you will have your son back, unharmed. Don't do it and you will never see him again. Signed; the hidden mist symbol."
Everyone was shocked at that. Sakura was the first to speak. "It sounds like someone set this up."
Sasuke walked back to his bedrooms door. "Hai but I'll do anything to get Satoshi back. They must had known it to kidnap him." Sasuke's grip on the door tightens as he was sure it would break it he held harder. "I won't forgive them."
With that he closed his door and left everyone standing where they were.
In Sasuke's bedroom.
He had pulled up the curtain and stood now watching the few stars that had appeared on the sky. His eyes glowed red in the growing darkness. "I won't forgive them. I'll kill my opponent if I have to. I'll do anything to have Satoshi back."
tbc...
Author Note: Well, it got better then I thought. Not very long but very good. I haven't really thought of this one as a mystery story. It started with a sad, angst beginning and now I have much more into it. Thanks for the reviews I got, they helped with this one.
Right now it goes slow if I don't beat myself up and don't go all Shikamaru: It's too troublesome. That's what gets in my way all the time right now. I'm working on it and soon school is over in a few more weeks, don't know exact but that doesn't matter. Hm... but that means the teachers will put more pressure on us. *Sigh* That IS troublesome.
Couples: SasuNaru, HinaNeji, SakuLee.
Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto.
What you left me
By Monkan and Edited by asaroth
Chapter 6
Satoshi and Naruto looked at each other for a few minutes. Naruto wasn't showing any kind of emotions and that made Satoshi nervous but he didn't look away.
Someone walked up to them and said in a low voice. "It's time to send the scroll."
Naruto's face didn't move as stood up and walked over to the others. They got nervous when the blond man got closer. He then wrote something down on a scroll and handed it over to one of the others. He then walked to another corner in the alley and sat down there. The hat was hiding his face once again.
Satoshi looked around; he could feel that every one of his kidnappers was looking at him. He then looked up toward the edge of the roof and he could see the cascade of colours on the sky. The day was almost over.
*Daddy and I would be watch the sun now from our house now.* The thought of his daddy made Satoshi sad. *Daddy's probably sad again 'cause I'm gone.*
From his seat Naruto watched the little boy. *How old could he be? Five? Six? What's with him that makes my heart act like this?* He clutched the area on his chest, it hurt badly. He didn't know why but when he saw Satoshi look up at what he could see of the sky an idea hit him.
Naruto walked over to Satoshi and without much effort he lifted the boy up into his arms. He received a few protest from the other but he only send them a glare that made all of them shut up.
Satoshi leaned into the dark coat Naruto had and tried not to panic when they suddenly jumped in the direction of the roof the roof. Naruto walked over to the edge and sat Satoshi down on the plates that covered the roof. He then sat down himself beside Satoshi. They were facing the sun now and Satoshi could see the mountain and much of the Village, the view was actually great and the sun made everything looked surreal.
For a moment nobody of them moved, Satoshi due to the fact that he's still bound. Naruto didn't do anything, as if it were second nature to him. He then removed his hat and laid it down beside him. He closed his eyes for a moment, letting the wind blow through his hair and across his face.
*I feel calm when I let the wind carry me with it.* Naruto looked down at Satoshi. The boy was taking in every detail of him. Naruto was sure the kid had his image burned in his memory now.
"You look like Yondaime." Satoshi said.
Naruto blinked. "Nani?"
"It's him over there!" Satoshi nodded with his head toward the stone mountain with five faces on.
"Hn." Naruto just looked away from Satoshi and looked down over the Village.
"You also look just like someone my father loved." Satoshi wasn't sure if that was a good thing to say when Naruto turned back to him.
"Your father? Uchiha Sasuke?" Satoshi nodded. "I can't be the one he loved." Naruto hesitated for a moment. "I don't know what love is." Naruto lowered his head almost in shame. *A little kid know what it's like to love someone but I don't even know what the WORD means.*
Satoshi looked curiously at Naruto but when he saw tears forming in his eyes and as they spilled over his cheek Satoshi regretted bringing it up.
"Gomen, I shouldn't have said it." Satoshi looked away from Naruto. Tears welled up in his eyes again. *Why do I make people sad?*
Naruto look back at Satoshi and when he see the tears a pang of guilt hit his heart. He reaches out a hand toward Satoshi's face. "Please, don't cry. I don't want to see you unhappy."
He touched Satoshi's pale cheek to brush away the tear that made its way down.
~^~^~Memory~^~^~
"Come one Sasuke, don't worry about me I can take care of myself now." Naruto said as he pushed Sasuke toward the door.
"Are you sure? I don't want..." Sasuke was silent by Naruto's lips on his.
When they pulled away Naruto smiled at Sasuke's face. "I wasn't that badly wounded on the mission. I'm fine now. If it makes you feel better I can call Hinata-san and ask her come over. It's not a big deal, really!"
Sasuke linked his arms around Naruto's waist. "You were brought in half dead. I thought I would lose you." Sasuke rested his forehead against Naruto's. "I thought that I would really lose you." Sasuke whispered.
"Sasuke... Gomen. I didn't mean to..." Naruto looked down when he felt tears of guilt in his eyes.
"I know." Sasuke felt Naruto's own arms sneak around his waist. "I don't want to see you hurt Naruto. Never again do I want to see tears from your eyes."
Naruto looked in up to Sasuke's pale face. He saw tears run down his lovers face.
~^~^~End Memory~^~^~
Naruto withdraw his hand quickly. Looking back at the setting sun but his hands was shaking slightly.
Satoshi looked up at Naruto. "Naruto?"
Upon hearing the little voice he turned his head back to Satoshi. Satoshi was about to say something more but something caught his attention.
"Your cheek!" Satoshi gasped.
Naruto raised his hand and felt the beginning of a new scar forming on his untouched cheek. It grow slowly until it reached the same length like the other two scars he had.
"Don't worry. It's nothing dangerous." Naruto said in a calm voice. The necklace around his neck started to shine more in blue and red now than green. "It's just a sign that I'm connecting more to the powers that sleeps inside of me. When I have six scars, it's completed."
Satoshi looked amazed when the new scar stopped growing. "Doesn't it hurt?"
"Iie! Not that kind of pain. When I didn't have any scars I was like anybody. I had people I could call friends, or so I thought. It began last year to show. I thought that I could trust my so called friends to help me through it but they left me alone. They were scared, called me a monster. I guess everything we went through didn't matter when they saw you were different. It hurt so much to be alone. Everywhere I went people turned their backs to me, it was so painful. I hadn't known them for more then a few weeks but it hurt so . . . much."
"If you meet daddy you don't have to be alone anymore!" Satoshi said.
"Huh?" Naruto looked at Satoshi with big eyes.
"I'm sure daddy can teach you how to love!" Satoshi was feeling brave again. He saw a chance to help this man. "That way you don't have to be alone any more." The smile on his face grow bigger with each word he said.
"Learn... how... to... love?" Naruto said slowly.
For a moment Satoshi thought he saw something in Naruto's eyes that he could place as hope but it was gone quicker then it came and all that was left of the man before him was the same empty eyes that had stared at him before he was brought up here. Those eyes made him shiver with something he hadn't felt before. He felt scared under the piercing glare the eyes turned on him.
Naruto put back his hat on his head before picking up Satoshi roughly and jumping back down to the other kidnappers. Naruto placed him not to gently on the ground and walked away to stand in the shadows. Satoshi looked after him for as long as he could but lost sight if him. Suddenly a piercing red glow filled the shadow. Making all heads turn in his direction. The red faded slowly and all that was left afterwards was a little drop of green that could be seen in the shadow.
The men breathed out. "The orb worked!"
"That was close. We can't let that happen again. Next time maybe we won't be so lucky."
"Don't worry. The orb have suppressed his personality, it won't appear for another few days. Nothing will distract him from the plan now."
The man looked over at Satoshi and for a moment he thought that maybe it wasn't so wise to let that kid be near Naruto.
*Well in a few hours it won't matter anyway.*
*********
The light was on in Sasuke's house. Neji, Shikamaru, Lee, Kakashi and Tsunade was in the living room. Going through what they knew and a few theories on what could had happen to Satoshi and why. Shikamaru and Kakashi were talking about a new plan on finding Satoshi. A shinobi knocked on the door and Lee went to open it, he was given a scroll.
"What is it?" Neji asked.
"It's to Sasuke-kun." Lee said as he studied the scroll. He gave it to Neji for a moment when he reached out for it and open it to see what it was. He closed it slowly again before walking over to Sasuke's bedroom door. He knocked once and waited. Sakura open and stepped out before closing the door behind her.
"How is he?" Lee asked from the other door.
Sakura shock her head. "Not good. I've never seen him like this before. I can't get any kind of reaction out of him. He's just staring into the darkness." Her voice was low and sad.
"Do you think he can handle me for a few moments?" Neji asked.
Sakura nodded. "I don't see why not."
Lee entered the dark room. The curtain was down and nothing of the remaining sun could get in. Sasuke laid with his back toward Neji not moving at all. Neji slowly made his way to his friend. "Sasuke, I think you should read this!"
Sasuke didn't move or said anything. Neji sighed before walking to the other side of the bed. He looked into Sasuke's almost dead like face. His face held the remains of long gone tears and his mouth was in a thin line, his face was more pale in the darkness then Neji had ever seen it. It took a few moments before Sasuke's eyes locked on Neji's face and acknowledged him. In one way at least.
Neji looked down to the scroll. "It's about Satoshi." He held it out and Sasuke grabbed it immediate. He sat up while he open it. He read the words that greeted him. Before Neji could react Sasuke was out of the bed and half way to the door. He flung it open and caught everyone's attention. He ignored them and walked over to Tsunade. Neji was now right behind him now.
"Hokage-sama, I need you to enter me in the tournament." His face was determined and didn't show any emotion as he spoke.
Tsunade looked at him. "Why."
He held out the scroll. "Because!"
Tsunade read it and her face became determined as well. "Alright, I will allow it."
Lee moved closer to Neji. "What did the scroll say?"
Neji closed his eyes before he spoke. "Enter the tournament, there is a opponent waiting for you there. If you beat him then you will have your son back, unharmed. Don't do it and you will never see him again. Signed; the hidden mist symbol."
Everyone was shocked at that. Sakura was the first to speak. "It sounds like someone set this up."
Sasuke walked back to his bedrooms door. "Hai but I'll do anything to get Satoshi back. They must had known it to kidnap him." Sasuke's grip on the door tightens as he was sure it would break it he held harder. "I won't forgive them."
With that he closed his door and left everyone standing where they were.
In Sasuke's bedroom.
He had pulled up the curtain and stood now watching the few stars that had appeared on the sky. His eyes glowed red in the growing darkness. "I won't forgive them. I'll kill my opponent if I have to. I'll do anything to have Satoshi back."
tbc...
Author Note: Well, it got better then I thought. Not very long but very good. I haven't really thought of this one as a mystery story. It started with a sad, angst beginning and now I have much more into it. Thanks for the reviews I got, they helped with this one.
Right now it goes slow if I don't beat myself up and don't go all Shikamaru: It's too troublesome. That's what gets in my way all the time right now. I'm working on it and soon school is over in a few more weeks, don't know exact but that doesn't matter. Hm... but that means the teachers will put more pressure on us. *Sigh* That IS troublesome.