Hello dear readers and reviewers !
This is a chapter made of a succession of differents point of View. Bear with it.
Disclamer : I still do not own Naruto. But it does not hurt to remind it to you... .
Thanks to xX Konoha Ninja Xx for beta-ing this story.
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Chapter 5
Tsunade's POV
She was glaring at him, her eyes burning with unshed hatred.
Why was he here and not Naruto ?
It was the necklace's fault : It was her fault...
No, no, no... It was not that acursed necklace's fault, it was this little arrogant bastard...
The Uchiha had always been too selfish and arrogant for their own good. But she could not do anything, she was bonded by the elders' council.
She could always overrun their decission by calling the Shinobi's council. She was sure she would have had the support she needed there. After all Naruto had the support of the ChoInoShi team like he had always had, if she believed the reports of the council reunions; and he had earned the Hyuuga's support since the chuunin exam. Plus the Uchiha were not popular with some of the lesser clans even less now after the only none insane heir's little escapade.
The thought of what the Shinobi's council would have done to the traitor, brought a sadistic smile on her shapped lips.
But the counterparts were too great : She would lose any chance she may have to ever have complet control over the village. The elder would contest every of her decission and the villagers would be against her.
The villagers : At this very moment they were celebrating. She clenched her fist in distain. A shinobi of their village, someone that had protected them and served them giving away everything he had, was dead to fulfill their selfish wish of having an Uchiha and THEY were celebrating HIS DEATH ! This was all the selfish Uchiha's fault !
She clenched her teeth, her eyes narrowing at the Uchiha whose head was bowed down in shame, his Sharingan eyes still visible through his black bluish bands.
What was that little rascal trying to pull ? Did he wanted to pass for a victim ? Was he asking for forgiveness ?
He had no right to do so ! He had killed him ! The only person for who she had came back to this hell hole ! She would never forgive him ! She never wanted to forgive him ! But Naruto would have wanted her to...
She bit her lips as she remmembered Naruto's bright smile. She had not been fooled by it, she knew he was faking it, who could endure so much and still smiled afterwards ?
Not her, nor him, nor anyone...
But each day he would woke up and smiled. Maybe was he hoping that one day this smile would be true ?
Tsunade heart sanked at this thought : now Naruto would never know how great it was to really smile, to be really happy, to be loved.
She hanged her head down in shame. She had had the opportunity to take Naruto with her but she never answered to Sarutobi's call for help and then she was too ashamed to come back. She could have saved Naruto from this life...
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Kakashi's POV
Kakashi's only visible eye was fixed on Tsunade watching as a myriad of emotions pass through her eyes. He had experienced those feelings too : self hatred, regrets...
He often wondered if he should have taken Naruto in when he could. But he was only a teenager at that time barely able to take care of himself eventhought he was already an ANBU. He was old enough to kill people but not old enough to take care of his own self, Ironic was it not ?
Anyway, Sandaime had adamently refused the possibility, telling him that one of his students would come take care of him and that they needed to respect the last will of his late sensei.
He had never understood that, and hated himself even more each time his gaze crossed the petite figure of the blond vessel.
So he could perfectly understand the hatred and frustration coming out of her.
He could almost feel simpathy for the one who would have to face her warth. He turned his eye to the Uchiha standing at his side.
'Almost...' he reminded himself letting escape a sigh.
He put his left hand on Sasuke's shoulder and nudged him forward.
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Sasuke's POV
Sasuke stambled on his feet, he turned around swiftly glaring at Kakashi's gray eye which was closed up looking like a rainbow; his hidden mouth deforming in what could be mistaken with a rassuring smile.
Sasuke turned his head sharply, bowing down in mock respect : He respected no one.
No one respected him anyway. Just fake... They were all just Fake...He could not stand it. He could not stand for it...
Respect was somethig that had to be earned. Naruto had earned his respect, his love... The only person, outside his familly, he ever had faith in, and he had killed him.
Sasuke took adeep breath looking down at his trembling opened hands. He saw the crimsom blood slowly dripping down his fingertips, rolling down his writh clinging along the sleeves of his beige shirt. It was now totally recovering his arms. His breathing became labored as the blood began to recover him like an illness trying to suffocate him.
« Uchiha » The hatred filled voice of Tsunade came, effectively getting him out of his illusion.
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Iruka's POV
Iruka had not taken a step outside his appartement since the return of the rescue team.
Speak of a rescue team : sending five of the most promising Genin and a newly appointed Chuunin out only to get back an arrogant prick that never cared about his teamates or anyone in the village for that matter.
Why wasting the village ressources for a brat that never wanted to be in the village to begin with ? Why risking those lifes just for the member of a clan which history proved to be dangerously unstable in terms of mental health and loyaty ?
Iruka remembered the time when the Uchiha had been in his class : The Uchiha was very quiet, always seldom, not uttering a word unless it was to answer to a question asked by the teacher. He had tried to take him out of his shell but all that mattered to the boy was his familly even more after they were slaughtered.
Iruka had thought that becoming a genin, being in a team would have helped him understand that being a familly did not always mean sharing the same blood.
Had he been such a bad teacher than one of his pupil did not understand that ? Where had he been wrong ?
Now all he wanted, was to killed the Uchiha. The one who had taken away the only familly he still had.
He felt sick, sick with the village, sick with himself...
He felt guilty, guilty because he was the one to pair Naruto and Sasuke together. Yes, the Hokage had had the final decision. But he was the one to suggest it. He was the one who made the teams...
He was the only one to be blamed for that.
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Haruno's POV
« Sakura ? Sakura? Are you here ? Why is the door open ? You didn't eat your breakfast again ? » The woman sighed as she pushed her door open with her foot, her arms were fulled with her commissions.
She put the paper bags on the table dusting her dress and turned around.
« Do you know that there was a festival in town ? » She asked while walking up the stairs leading to her daughter room. « Would you like to come with me ? Of course not... Oh silly of me ! You would rather go with your friends... »
She took a pick in the room while knocking softly on the door.
« Sakura ? Are you here ? »
She pushed the door completly opened.
« Ino-chan ? »
She took in the scene : Ino was sitting on Sakura's bed holding a sobbing Sakura whose head was resting on her knees.
« Haruno-san... » Ino answered smiling sadly while petting Sakura's hair.
Sakura's mother frown looking sternly at Ino. She knew Ino very well : she had been Sakura's best friend when they were little. But they had parted not long after their second year in the academy; a murky story : apparently they both had a crush on the same boy.
She thought it was kind of sad that that her daughter would let a boy break her friendship with Ino. But they were so young, and at this age, she too had made the same mistakes.
« What happened ? » She asked locking gaze with Ino.
Ino looked down at Sakura to see that she had fallen asleep. She slowly disentangled herself from Sakura's grip and walked up to Sakura's mother.
« We should speak of this somewhere else... » Ino whispered glancing back at Sakura. « She need some time to herself. »
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Itachi's POV
Tsunaru was standing a mere foot away from him. His nude chest was glittering, sweat rolling down his muscles.
Itachi's eyes narowed at Tsunaru's navel, there was no seal visible. Throughout the all fight he had tried to know what had happened to the seal. And now he knew : The seal had been broken... And the result was Tsunaru.
But Itachi felt that something was amissed with that boy. It was all too good. There was no reason for Tsunaru's amnesia. But he could not fake it, could he ? That would be most unlikely : after all, the Kyûbi vessel was known to be boisterous and clueless : he could not have elaborate such a decoy.
Itachi turned around, walking along the corridor leading to his and Tsunaru's rooms. He could hear Tsunaru's soft steps echoing in the silent of the passage.
Itachi glanced back at Tsunaru narrowing his red eyes.
He doubted that training Tsunaru was the best course of action. Yes, they wanted the Kyûbi's power and Tsunaru possessed it. But that was the problem : Tsunaru was a half demon not a demon and they needed the power of the nine tailed demon to unfold their plan, meaning they would have to find a way to obtain this power. Would they have to make him a full pledge demon ?
That seemed impossible. Itachi had seen it during their training, Tsunaru's attack were not incisived enought. He could feel the hesitation in each his mouvements, he had carefully avoided each vital points in his attacks. This may have been training but they were both Ninja and wounds during training were not rare plus this was obviously a test more than anything else.
As a conclusion : Tsunaru was not ready to let go of his so called humanity to become a demon even less to kill a living being. His human side was still too powerful. They would have to work on that.
But Itachi was not the best fitted for this sort of thing because he had always considered himself as more than a human being : He was superior after all.
Kisame was out of question : they would end up killing each other plus Kisame was unable to do something properly.
Deidara was too 'human' for this mission, he would probably screw every thing anyway and they would end up with their new recruit being even more 'human'.
Sasori was too busy with his puppets to take care of this.
Zetsu... Zetsu was away wandering into the ninja world looking for informations on the tail beast's vessel.
Itachi had no choise : he would have to do this himself...
He felt suddenly tired : Why could his brother not do anything properly ? He was not even able to kill someone, foolish little brother...
Chapter 5 end
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