A.N.: Hey guys, it's me again. i know what your thinking, second chapter in the same night and all of that. well, in all honesty, these two chapters being published tonight are thanks to a few cans of Monster, my friends Brenden and Dante, the great crew at steak n shake for letting me stay here all night and write, and what has to be the biggest apology to an old author freind i have ever made in my life. anywee, I will also be publishing a companion one shot about Naruto's mother to this story in honor of the passing of a friends mother, which may not be out for a few days. Ja Ne!
Chapter 1:
Awakeniing The Wrath and The Pain
A pair of teens stand facing each other at a short distance, only ten feet or first one has black hair that frames his face and slicks back to a small pull back, mimicing a ducks tail. he has pale skin and black eyes that quickly fade to a color that mimics the shade of blood. three tomoes spinning around each pupil.
Staring him down with a seemingly uncharacteristicly stoic gaze is a blonde teen with blue eyes and three scars across each cheek. he was garbed in a hideous orange jumpsuit that shouts for death. Both fifteen year olds wear blue headbands with metal plates wrapped around their foreheads.
The vicininty around the two teens is that of a valley that leads into a massive lake. said lake was fed into by a giant waterfall with statues of two men facing one another as if they were about to fight.
The dark haired teen has a puzzled look on his face. the look in Naruto's eye was different than any he had ever remembered seeing from the blonde teen. An oddly serious look that showed almost no emotion beyond pure disinterest.
" Are you gonna try and take me back now, dobe?" he asks, bending his knees and preparing to draw a kunai should his teamate decide to attack. then Naruto was gone, like he was never there, and Sasuke's leg holster was missing.
"No." he hears the blonde respond from direclty behind him, causing him to turn quickly, seeing the blonde standing directly behind him, tossing the kunai holster off of the cliff and into the water.
"What I am doing here is trying to recover one of my oldest freinds, not some traitor that acts like a spoiled brat." and with that, Naruto turns around and grabs looks Sasuke direclty in the eyes. The blonde's blue eyes then change, the pupil stretching into a pair of vertical slits. the blue slowly bleeds away, like skin being pulled back from muscle and bone, into a burnished amber color.
Something in Naruto's eyes strikes a cord at the very back of his brain, almost as if he had seen those eyes somewhere before, but, on a woman's face. With a loud cry, Sasuke launched himself forward, left hand becoming coated with pure lightning as he thrust his hand forward.
At the last possible moment, the blonde dodges out of the way and places his foot in the other teen's path, effectively sending him face first into the side of one of the statues.
"How the Hell did you do that dobe?" Sasuke asks, charging yet another Chidori and dashing at Naruto again.
"Don't you remeber, Sasuke. I was always the fastest of us. No matter how hard you tried, you never could keep up. The Boss always said your talents lay elsewhere." Naruto says along with his dodge this time. as the words reach the ears of the teen with black markings crawling over his skin, he feels another, stronger pang in the back of his mind.
"What are you talking about?" Sasuke shouts, his anger gaining more and more control over his actions he tries again and again to hit his blonde freind, meeting failure at every attmept and with every failure, feeling more and more like he had done this before in another life.
"How are you doing this? you shouldn't be this fast." he shouts, only for Naruto to dissapear and reapear right before him, looking him directly in the eye with his own, eery golden amber eyes.
"Awaken now, The Wrath." with those words from the blonde, Sasuke backs away as images from the very furthest part of the darkest section of his mind begin to surface. flashes of a red-haired woman with golden eyes watching over seven children playing in the woods. the same seven holding a race, six of them laughingly lagging behind a blonde boy.
More images join the previous ones in his mind, of him at a younger age controlling fire without handsigns, fueling said flames with wrath and fury. and yet, he was always unable to keep up with the blonde's dissapearing act.
Naruto watches his freinds face and reactions as the memories assail him. he also sees physical changes occuring. his skin grows slightly more tanned, his shoulders broader and his stance more relaxed. Sasuke quickly snaps open now obsidian eyes that were once shut, smirking into the amber eyes of his oldest and greatest friend.
Ducking and spinning quickly, Sasuke launches a gout of fire from his whirlling feet in a sharp arc, laughing loudly as Naruto jumps over it and dissapears again. only to reapear and start speeing circles around the awakened uchiha at a speed that leaves dozens of afterimages circling him at the same time.
Assuming a horse stance, Sasuke then spins quickly, flipping onto his hands as he continues to spin, flames lancing in circles from his outstretched feet. Naruto dissapears once more, before falling ontop of the now upright avenger, slamming his feet into the other teen's shoulders and knocking him to the ground. Their fight went on like this for several hours, Naruto moving just fast enough not to get hit and sasuke reacting in time to prevent himself from taking any serious damage.
Finally, Both sat next to eachother overlooking the waterfall before them, the both of them bearing wounds that would soon become just more scars. after awhile of this, Sasuke turns to Naruto.
" Am i the first one awake, Sorrow?" he asks, getting a silent nod in response from his friend. Sighing, he stands and dusts his pants off before turning once again to his blonde friend. "We should Probably head back then."
"Yeah, lets go home."
Several Hours later
Naruto sat in his apartment, looking over what was layed out on the table before him. a small, brown, leatherbbound journal with a silver crow inlaid on the cover, The slim, wicked looking dagger he had used to kill Mizuki six months ago, and his leaf headband. he was dressed not in orange, bu Black and red. Black jeans, a black t-shirt, black boots. and a Blood colored hoody with a grey crow on the back.
Strapping the dagger to his back, he heads fro the door to his apartment, only to pause as a knock comes from outside. he waits silently. another knock. he waits again. another, louder knock. he once again waits.
"Naruto, i know your in there! Please open up!" comes the voice of Ino Yamanaka. Sighing, he opens the door a crack and looks the other in the eye and just stares at her. Somehow, his state of darker dress doesn't phase her. his blank, questioning stare is all she needs to understand the mood hes in.
"You alright?" she asks, only for him to come out in the hallway with her before he speaks.
"I'm about done here, Ino." he says, cuasing her to immediatly worry for him. thinking on instinct, she wraps her arms around him and buries her head in his chest, a few tears leaking from her eyes as she speaks.
"Please stay, Naruto. at least for a few more hours. for me."
"Of course, Ino-chan. I'll stay a bit longer. For you"
Several hours later, in the rain outside ino's home, Naruto embraces her once again, smirking as she speaks once more.
"I hate the rain." she mumbles into his chest again, shivering just a little as he tries to warm her, just as he did all those years ago.
"It can't rain all the time, Pain-chan." He says, catching her as his words eemingly knock her unconcious.. smiling lightlym he carries her through the rain and up the stairs of her porch to a swing. as he lays her to sleep on the comfortable swing, he removes his jacket and places it over her in order to keep her warm. A noise close by cathces his attention, causing his to dissapear in a blur of movement as Inoichi Yamanaka looks outside to see his daughter seemingly sleeping peacefully.
Atop the stone head of the Fourth Hokage, Naruto takes a long look at the rainy, dreary veiw of the village that this vantage point presents him with. it would be his last for what would seem like a very long time. With one final sigh, he closes his ocean blue eyes for several seconds, opening them quickly to once again show the amber slitted eyes of his families dark history...