Memories of Betrayal
"He shouldn't be alive." A man said. They were in a big room, al the members of the council were seating a large desk the formed a semi circle. In the middle of the room stood a blonde women, around here twenties and wore a white LEAF uniform, she had an irritated look on her face. Next to the woman stood a little blond kid, around four years old, the infant was looking straight at the ground, he had been like that since the beginning of the hearing.
"How could you even say such a thing?" The blond woman said irritated. "He's a human being." She finished, on of the council members snorted. "He's anything but human." He said. There were sounds of agreement around some of the council members. "You do know what he is, don't you? Tsunade." The man finished with a mocking tone.
Tsunade clenched her fist. "I know what you turned him into, if that's what you mean." She said with venom on her voice. "Watch what you said Tsunade, you may just have become LEAF's new commander, but we're still LEAF's supreme council." An elder woman said.
The women glare at each other for several seconds until someone else spoke. "Don't get off track; we're here to discuss what we're going to do with it." Tsunade immediately turned to look at the council member that had spoken; she was almost overwhelmed by hatred towards the man for calling the little boy 'it'.
"The majority of the council agrees that this boy's 'creation' was a mistake." Another council member said looking at the boy with disgust. The boy just kept on looking towards the floor; he didn't make any movement or sound whatsoever. "It's on LEAF's best interest for this boy to live no more." Sounds of agreement from some of the members of the council were heard once again.
"Not so fast Homura." A man with pupil-less white eyes and long black hair said. "Remember that for the council to make such a radical decision as this one, it needs to be unanimous, and I for one don't see anything wrong on this boy's existence." The man finished with a calm voice. "Hiashi" Homura murmured with venom on his voice. "I agree with Hiashi." A man with green-emerald eyes said. There were only a few others members that agreed what the black haired man had said.
Tsunade smirked at the look of anger on the faces of some of the council members. "Don't you understand?" The elderly woman said. "If this boy is allowed to life, we will be jeopardizing the future of LEAF." The woman finished.
"What do you think this boy is going to do? He's only a kid." Tsunade said glaring at the woman. "You know damn well what he is. You've seen what the other one can do; now imagine what this one is capable of." A council member said. "They're just boys; I've never seen any kind of aggressive action from them." Tsunade exclaimed.
"Stop treating him like a human Tsunade, because his not." Another council member said pointing towards the boy who was still looking towards the floor. "Why isn't he a human? He had a human father, and a human mother. The only difference between him and the other children is that he wasn't able to meet any of them." Tsunade said with anger in her voice.
"Don't insult his memory by relating him with this thing." Homura said also pointing towards the boy. "You're the one insulting him by treating his son this way." Tsunade responded with hatred on her voice. "On LEAF's eyes, this thing has no relation with him." Homura started. "For all that matters he's only the second…"
End Flashback
Naruto opened his eyes, he was seating in on of the Raikiri's cells; he was meditating on his experiences with the council when he sensed someone approaching. (A/N: The cell he's in is like the one Sai was sent on Gundam Seed, not like the one Dearka was in.) Naruto heard footsteps coming closer to his location, moment later the cell's door open, Naruto was surprised when he saw who it was. "Sakura-chan? What are you doing here?" The blond asked.
Sakura blushed slightly when she heard the suffix on her name; even though Hinata had said the Naruto liked to give suffix to almost everybody he met. "Hi Naruto." The girl started awkwardly. "I-I just wanted to know how you were doing." Sakura said.
Naruto looked up toward the pink-haired and gave her half a smile. "Well is not like I didn't know this was going to happen, I'll just have to deal with whatever the council throws at me." He said as he rubbed the back of his neck and grinned. Sakura couldn't help but felling sad, after she had heard what had happen from Neji she couldn't help but feel depress with the whole situation. "Neji told me what happen in Kirigakure." The girl said sadly.
Naruto just chuckled slightly. "Neji has a big mouth." The blond said. There was an awkward silence between them, Sakura started to look around the cell, it was only a small room something to seat on. Something Next to Naruto caught the girl's attention.
"What's that?" Sakura asked pointing at the photograph next to the blond. "This?" Naruto said picking up the picture. "It's just a photo taken in the colony Konohagakure from the day we all graduated from the academy." The boy said. Sakura moved closer to Naruto to look at the picture. "Most of the people in here are in the Raikiri, so you already know them." The blond said.
Sakura took a look at the picture, Naruto was in the middle rubbing the back of his neck with his left hand, and Neji on his left side smirking, she saw Lee, Shikamaru, Hinata, Ino, Kiba, Tenten, Chouji, and Shino, they all looked around twelve. She recognized everybody in the picture except for a total of four.
"This picture was taken three years ago." Naruto said with half a smile on his face. "Who are those?" Sakura asked pointing at three people on Naruto's right side, there was blond girl attached to Naruto's arm, a red-haired boy at the girl's right said, and behind the stood a brow haired boy that was glaring at Naruto.
Naruto looked at what the girl was pointing. "This is Gaara" Naruto said pointing at the red-haired one. "He's one of my best friends; he's the same age as Neji, and he already became captain of a ship." The blond said. (A/N: I have my reasons for making Gaara a year older.) "That one on the back is Kankuro, he's Gaara's bother, even though he's two years older than most of us in the picture, he decided to start in the academy the same year as Gaara." The boy said.
"And her." Naruto continued as he pointed at the blond girl, Sakura could see that he was trying not to blush. "Her name is Temari; she's Gaara and Kankuro's older sister and the only one in this photo who had already graduated before that day." Naruto explained. "Even though she started at the academy a year before the rest of us, she still liked to hand out with our group." The blond said with a grin on his face.
Fore some reason Sakura couldn't help but fell a little annoyed with the girl's closeness to Naruto in the picture, to distract herself she turned to look at the last person she didn't know. "Who's he?" The pink-haired asked pointing at the raven-haired boy at Neji's left. Immediately Naruto's grin disappeared. "His name is Uchiha Sasuke." Naruto responded. "He was once one of my friends, and the third Gundam pilot." The blond continued. "Until he betrayed LEAF."
Sakura was shocked, she always though that the third pilot had suffered some sort of accident, she never imagined it was something like that. "What happened?" The girl asked, curiosity getting the best of her.
Naruto looked up at the ceiling for a couple of seconds before answering. "It was the stupidest thing really; I supposed you hear of the Uchiha family?" The blond waited until Sakura nodded. "And you probably know that the Uchiha family is as big as the Hyuuga and also very involve in LEAF military branch?" Sakura nodded again.
Naruto looked back at the photo before he continued. "Well you see; Sasuke's the second son of the Uchiha family's head, sadly being the younger brother means liven in the oldest shadow." Naruto started. "And Uchiha Itachi cast a really big shadow." The blond finished.
"Itachi, I think I've heard that name before." Sakura said looking at Naruto, "It's not surprising; he was one of the most famous soldiers LEAF has ever seen. You see, when Itachi graduated form the academy everybody thought that he was on his way of becoming the next LEAF commander; that is until he suddenly decided to leave LEAF." The boy said.
Sakura nodded, she had heard the oldest Uchiha had one day decided to leave LEAF. "You see all his life Sasuke was compared with his brother, people always expected him to do as great as Itachi. Well, when Itachi abandoned LEAF Sasuke thought that people will stop comparing then, sadly it just got worse, he then began to become obsess we the thought of someday defeating Itachi." Naruto said.
"Why did he want to defeat his brother?" Sakura said a little confused. "You see, he believed or believes that if he beats Itachi people will stop comparing him. Unfortunately for him, since Itachi asked for his dismissal from LEAF without betraying us, LEAF doesn't consider him as a traitor or treat, so there's no way of knowing his where he is. Sasuke asked the commander many time to try and track down Itachi, but she decided against it. After that Sasuke started to talk about how some of SOUND's ideals where better than LEAF's, immediately Neji and I try to talked him out of those ideas, we really thought the we where getting through to him but…"
Naruto looked back at he ceiling as a sad smile came to his face. "It was two weeks ago, we were to leave to Kirigakure the day, Sasuke asked for him to stay two days more on Konohagakure, because of some family matters. When Neji and I got to Kirigakure we were told that LEAF headquarters on Konohagakure were attack by SOUND forces and that during the battle Sasuke stole the mobile suit that was going to be assign to him and left with the SOUND forces." Naruto said, and to Sakura's surprise he started to chuckle. "Mere hours after we left him, he betrayed us and joined with SOUND, all for a chance to face his brother."
Sakura didn't know what to do or say to the blond, she was as shocked as the when Neji told her what happened on Kirigakure. "But, what's done is done, he betrayed LEAF and I have to pay for disobeying the council." Naruto said. "Naruto" Sakura whispered softly looking at the blond. "Don't worry about me Sakura-chan, I'll be fine." Naruto gave the girl a reassuring smile that comforted the pink-haired a little.
The stayed in silence for a couple of minutes, suddenly the Raikiri's alarms went off, "What's that?" Sakura asked. "It most be trouble, you better go to the bridge." Naruto said. The girl just nodded and walked out of the room and started towards the bridge.
When Sakura made to her destination, she immediately felt the tension, they were obviously under attack. "Sir, the radar confirmed that there are four mobile suits coming towards us." Lee said. "Do you know what they are?" Kakashi asked. "There are three Ginns." Shikamaru responded. "The database is looking for the last one." Shikamaru gasped suddenly. "What is it?" The captain asked looking straight at the black-haired teen.
Shikamaru tried to calm himself before speaking. "Sir, the last mobile suit, it's the Raven."
A/N: If you have any ideas for the story I would like to hear them, I already have some good ideas from the reviews I've recieve. Thanks for reading, please review.