A/N: I know this is a very short chapter, compared to the length of time that it took me to update it, but I found it a struggle to rewrite this chapter.
What happened to him?
This was the one thing Naruto could ask herself as she stared at the bottomless pits of her best friend's eyes. At first glance, the only thing that changed about her best friend was his height and the length of his hair. However the deeper she stared into his eyes, the more the girl could see the complete lack of emotions in his eyes. There was just nothing but cold, dead eyes staring at her.
She could feel water dripping down her face and a tightness, which she only felt in her dreams. There were several voices yelling at her but Naruto felt like someone placed a couple of headphones on her. Their voice felt like a distant buzz in her ears when compared to the thudding heart against her ribcage.
"Uzumaki! Do you know these villains?"
A tired smile crept on Naruto's lips as blue eyes stared into the black eyes of the one she called friend. Villain? Could she really think Sasuke as a villain? Villains were evil people. They were nothing, but people who did not care about anyone. The lifeless boy, in front of her, might have hurt her. He might have even tried to kill her but Sasuke did care for her at one point in their life.
A part of him might even still care about their friendship because why would he miss her heart? He cared for her because Sasuke was not the type to miss such an easy target. Instead of aiming to her heart, he chose to aim slightly above her heart as if trying to fool the both of them into thinking that he was capable of being cruel.
"Sasuke isn't a villain…my best friend cannot be a villain."
Everyone gawked at her admission, staring at her and then to her best friend. Black eyes didn't reveal his emotions but Naruto knew from looking at him that a part of him saw her as she saw him. They were the best of friends. When he lost everything, she had been there for him. When he had been so gloomy, all Naruto tried to do was cheer him up because she hated to see him sad.
"Best friend? Did you know he was going to be here?"
How could have I known?
Sasuke never contacted her and never even tried to find her. The flicker of chakra today was proof that he planned to avoid her, which hurt even more. Did he blame her for this stupid mess? Or did he blame himself? She blamed the both of them. In the beginning, she blamed Sasuke. It had been easy because she always lay the blame on him. The girls bullying her? It was his damn fault.
She never blamed herself for getting close to him.
"I thought he was with Orochimaru," Naruto declared, blue eyes locked on Sasuke's dark eyes. "The doctors told me that there hadn't been anyone else with me when the Hero found me. So I was left alone in a world that was nothing like my home, a world where my dreams could never come true. It seems like I am not the only one who suffered through this."
Her heart clenched and her throat burned as images flashed before her eyes. She had been lucky. The doctors recommended her to go to school and while she never made a lot of friends, she did make a few. What did Sasuke do? What did these people do to him? Bile rose to her throat as more images flashed through her mind.
The hair on the back of her neck stood up as she felt a presence approaching her. She blocked a fist and stared into the black pits of her friend's eyes. In the corner of her eye, Naruto could see her classmates gawking and shaking at the speed that her friend attacked her. Only Bakugou and Todoroki did not seem to be frighten at the sight in front of them.
"I am surprised that you caught my punch, Dead Last."
There was a tone of blankness but Naruto could hear the lingering fondness in his voice. It was faint, almost easily dismissible but she knew him like the back of her hand. He was trying his hardest not to show his emotions to her, to fool her into thinking that he didn't give a crap about her.
Naruto had never been blind when it came to Sasuke.
It was for that reason she would not lose to him because she would bring him back to the light.
"Maybe you have gotten slower Bastard, because that wasn't fast."
"Uzumaki…" Naruto did not bother to turn her head around to look at her furious teacher. Why would she? From the eagerness in Sasuke's eyes, she knew he planned for them to fight again. Perhaps he gotten stronger and was trying to use her as a measuring stick or maybe he just wanted to pay her back for what their fight costed him.
Either way, this meeting was going to end as a fight.
"I thought I was alone in this crazy world and I was worried sick when I think about what Orochimaru might have done to you," Naruto whispered, blue eyes locked on him. "But I wonder if this is any better for you. I thought you wouldn't lower yourself to join these type of people. How are you any better than your big brother?"
She felt her lips twitched upwards when she caught sight of the rage bubbling in his eyes. An angry Sasuke was one that she could handle, not this emotionless robot that he was trying so hard to convince her that he was. Sasuke tried to swing his arm at her, but she grabbed hold of his arm, twisted it around until he stared at her.
"They offer me a chance to go back to our world," Sasuke growled. "I wouldn't have join them if someone here didn't try to use the Rasengan on me—it is your fault that we are in this mess."
She tightened her grip on him. "You blame me? It is also your fault that we are in this mess. You asked me to fight you and to finish what we started in the hospital. You used the Chidori just as I used the Rasengan so you have an equal blame for this. This isn't just my faullt. I wanted you to come back home to me, to Team Seven."
"Why?" He yelled back. "I told you time in and time out that Konoha won't make me stronger. Those bonds that you clung to so badly, they just bring us down. Why couldn't you ever stop to think that it was my choice to go to Orochimaru? Or were you too selfish to even comprehend the idea?"
Naruto felt her temper rise at his words and smashed her fist against his cheeks. The older boy held his ground but there was a faint red mark on his cheek from where her fist hit him. She felt her anger swirling inside her, tempting to consume her but she held herself back. Selfish? Was it selfish of her to want him by her side? Was it selfish for her to want him to choose a path filled with laughter and friendship? She never wanted him to be lonely.
She loves him so much that she never wanted him to be alone.
"Because I care for you, idiot," Naruto screeched. "Your brother got stronger in Konoha or did you forget that? If you went to Orochimaru then he would have taken your body, making you an empty shell of a person. You think I wanted that for you? I wanted you to live for goodness sake. Yes, I am selfish but that is because you are my first friend. The first person that acknowledge me when everyone hated me."
You are my first friend.
You are my first bond.
You were the first person to go out in the streets and not care about what the other villagers say about this.
She would have said those words if it was not for the fact that there was a black misty figure looming over them. Wasn't that the guy who stood beside the leader? Why did she have a bad feeling about this? She glanced at her fellow students, who stared at her and Sasuke with a mixture of fear and awe in their eyes. She looked at Aizawa, who had a calculating look in his eyes.
"Sasuke, I thought you know that you should never attack young women."
Sasuke snorted. "I don't see a young woman."
If he wanted to be petty then she would follow his lead.
"Well that is good because I see only a little boy." Naruto snarled, earning a growl from her best friend. The misty man could only flicker his eyes at the pair of them, giving them a look that spoke volumes about how unimpressed he was with their behavior. If anyone should be unimpressed then it should be her since she was dealing with this bullshit.
"Do you mind telling me what is your relationship with this young woman? Were the two of you in a relationship?"
Naruto felt her cheeks burned while Sasuke didn't show much expression except for a slight pinkness of his cheeks. The two of them hadn't been in a relationship even if there had been rumors that Sasuke had a crush on her. Other than that, what made this bastard think the two of them had been in a relationship? There might have been two kisses. One of them happened in their classroom while another happened in the Wave Mission.
She might have been a little bit too happy that Sasuke was alive.
"Naruto was my teammate."
"And we weren't in a relationship!"
The black-haired boy stared at her like she was an idiot for saying those words out loud. She could only glare at him. There was no chance in hell that she was allowing everyone to think that the two of them had been in a relationship. It would be lying about what happened between them. It would be the biggest lie she ever told.
There had been a possibility at one point but Naruto had no idea about now.
"In that case, I will have to alter the plans."
With those words, the man wrapped the pair of them and all Naruto could see was darkness.
What the hell was happening?
"What the hell just happened? Where did you take Naruto!"
Bakugou scowled at his classmate's words while everyone stared at the villain with you. In just a space of a few minutes, Uzumaki had managed to block the attack of an incoming villain, insulted said villain and hinting to everyone about her origins.
"If the girl is Uchiha-san partner then she is going to be a huge problem." The yellow eyes narrowed, giving it an even more sinister look to it. "The boy is one of the strongest comrades that we have, if that girl can rival him then we have a slight alteration to our plans. Uchiha-san did mention he had a teammate who could throw a punch which can rival All Might."
Rival All Might? Bakugou frowned at this revelation while the people around him broke into whispers at that declaration. He knew Whiskers was strong. He watched the girl twist the arm of their senior when he tried to put his hands on her. He seen the girl take down some gang members as if they were nothing but flies to her. However, he never seen her throw a punch like All Might.
Then again, it was not like he knew anything about Whiskers.
"Can Naruto really throw that kind of punch?" The pink skinned girl glanced at Deku and him as if the two of them could answer that question. How the fuck would I know? Whiskers never talked about her quirk except for the fact that she can use her energy to do a lot of things. It would not be a stretch to presume her quirk would allow her to throw a strong punch.
"Thirteen! Evacuate the remaining students!" Aizawa narrowed his eyes at the misty form in front of them. "And try calling the school while you are at it, tell them about the current situation. There must be a villain who is jamming the sensors. There is also a good chance one of their electric-types is causing the interference. I can't save Uzumaki until one of these villains begin telling me about where her potential whereabouts might be."
Deku charged forward. "But Sensei, you can't fight them all alone! You can't fight these many people, it will be difficult for you to nullify all their quirks!"
"No good hero will just have one trick." Aizawa lowered his goggles and stared at them with such seriousness that it almost chilled Bakugou. "Do not enter the battle scene unless you are given orders."
With those words, Aizawa leaped down into the main arena. The scarf, which used to be wrapped around his neck, was now wrapped around the villains. He smashed the two villains' heads against each other, before battling through the villains, which seemed to be surrounding him.
Bakugou scratched his neck. He felt his lips twitched in annoyance when Four-Eyes tried to push him into evacuating from the scene. He yanked his arm away from the boy and followed in the direction that the boy wanted them to go. There was no chance for them to win, not when there were just so many villains that seemed to be willing to surround them.
"Since Uchiha-san is fighting his partner, it seems like that I have to deal with the problem."
Bakugou narrowed his eyes and lunged forward. A flash of red hair flashed before his eyes as he attempted to grab hold of the Villain who took away Whiskers. His ears rang from his explosions, a fading buzz as the smoke slowly clear away. He could almost hear Spikey say something, but his hearing was still crap from the explosions.
"Oh, dear that was dangerous."
He tensed up as his instincts told him that this guy was going to do something insane. He tried to will his body to move and stop the bastard but his legs seemed frozen in place. Golden eyes regarded them thoughtfully and before Bakugou could blink, the villain's figure began to wrap, stretching outwards. "As expected of students from such a prestigious school."
"Move away, you two!"
The thick mist shot around all of them, weaving tightly and blurring their surroundings.
All Bakugou could see was darkness.
"My job is to scatter you all and send you to your deaths."
He really should have thought things through.
'If you become Hokage then I will become the ANBU guard that will protect you.'
The childish words of their youth echoed in Naruto's ears as Sasuke launched himself at her. His long pale arms swinging towards her face, chaotic and unpredictable as if he was trying to prove something to himself. She dodged the punches, waiting for the right time to really hit him in the face. Maybe a good punch in the face would remind him that she wasn't his enemy.
"Sasuke, do you remember the first day we met? The first day of school?" Sasuke didn't slow down in barrel of punches but Naruto could see a cloud of emotions enveloping him. She grabbed hold of his fist, twisted it around and pressed herself close to him until he could clearly see her eyes. "Do you remember how you offered your hand to me and play with me? Because I still remember that day till now."
"Don't try to manipulate me, Naruto!" He yelled, yanking his arm away from her. He swung his other fist at her but Naruto grabbed hold of it. Taking a deep breath, Naruto slammed her fist against his cheek and sent him flying several feet away from her.
The trees tore in half as Sasuke continued to crash through the trees.
"I'm not trying to manipulate you, Bastard!" Naruto slapped her cheeks and stared at the fallen figure of her friend. I want to remind you of your first dream. The dream that made you want to protect the people and the dream I thought was kind of cool. She pushed aside her choked up emotions and leaned to the side when Sasuke launched at her. "I'm trying to remind you that you aren't meant to be a Villain. You wanted to be a police officer like your Dad and that meant you wanted to protect the people around you. This isn't you."
"You don't know the hell I went through because of what you did!" He channeled chakra to his hand, lightening cracking and going in all direction. Blue eyes widened as she realized what her best friend planned to do. She weaved her hands together, forming the familiar set of hand signs that made up the Shadow Clone Jutsu. A hundred clones appeared right in front of her, blocking her real self from his actual sight. "I'm an Avenger but how the fuck am I supposed to get revenge if I am here?"
"Then tell me!" Naruto yelled as her friend slammed the Chidori at her clones. Her clones tackled him to the ground, only for Sasuke to smash his elbows at them. He flickered his eyes at the clones, trying to figure out which one was the real one. She took a deep breath. "Tell me Sasuke because I'm here. You aren't alone."
"It is always about loneliness for you, isn't it?" He snarled. "You think I am furious because I spent the last three years alone? You stole my dream to kill him. How can I get revenge if we are stuck in this world? This wouldn't have happened if you just listened to my wish."
Naruto launched herself at him and the teen swung his right leg at her.
Boom.
The area around Sasuke was enveloped with smoke and ash. Using the smoke as a cover, Naruto tackled the older teen and straddled him. Her blue eyes locked on his as she grabbed hold of his hands. She tightened her grip on his arm as he struggled against her. What could she tell him? What could she do to explain her reasons to him? Yes, she was selfish. Their team had always been selfish but he was her first bond.
"Going to Orochimaru means that he might have taken advantage of you," she smashed her forehead against his forehead as an attempt to stop him from struggling. She tried to stop herself from choking at the thought. "It means that you would have been sad. Do you think I want my best friend sad? You think I want to see you suffer by taking this lonely path. I don't want to see you be consumed by this darkness. If you continue like this then you will be alone."
"You think I don't know that? I would do anything to get revenge even sacrifice my body," He snarled at her. "You think it was easy to make that choice? It wasn't easy. It was fucking difficult but it would have been worth it if it meant my brother was dead. It was my choice just like it was my choice to join those Villains. They offer me a chance to go back to our world and I will help them accomplish their goal if it means I get back home."
"Even if it means the death of a hundreds of innocent people!" She yelled. "We both know that you aren't capable of throwing away innocent lives! Itachi is one thing but we are talking about civilians—there might even be children getting involved with this shit. Do you want to make them go through the same hell you went through?"
Sasuke kept quiet but the silence was all Naruto needed. Even though she could see the slight conflict in his eyes, Naruto knew what he was trying to tell her. She took in a shaky breath and stared at her quiet best friend. He would allow a whole bunch of innocent people to die just because of his revenge? This wasn't Sasuke. This wasn't her best friend. She tightened her grip on his hands and leaned closer, blue eyes searching for any signs of hesitance.
She let out a sigh when she saw a flicker of emotions.
"This isn't you," she pleaded. "People don't need to die for us to go back home. There has to be a better way to go back to our world, a way that doesn't involve either of us killing anyone. You don't need to be a Hero, Sasuke but you can join me and help me find a way back home together. You don't need to kill anyone."
Sasuke snorted. "And who is the naïve one here? We are shinobi—our job description requires us to kill, Dead Last."
"I can't let you do that," Naruto declared, releasing his arms and jumping back. Her blue eyes flickered around the dome surrounding them and she took a deep breath before tightening her headband around her forehead. She forced herself to smile widely at him, to try and push away all her doubts from him. "I am not saying this because I entered this school to become a Hero, but because you are going to regret it. If my words aren't going to knock some sense into you then I guess some old-fashion ass kicking will."
Sasuke smirked. "You wish for us to end what we started three years ago? I won't hold myself back Naruto."
"And neither will I."
She was going to bring back the Sasuke that she knew.
A/N: Please review and tell me what you think about this chapter.