57. Sacrifice

Naruto from the moment he was born sacrificed his life for the better of the village. It wasn't even his choice, he didn't have a notion of the horror and chaos going around him. He did noticed that a yellow blob and a red blob were smiling and talking to him, but he couldn't really understand them. He felt happy but so very sad too. He didn't knew why, he was just a baby. But then he felt a burning pain in his belly and he cried and cried, but that warm feeling he had felt just a few minutes ago vanished. And so he cried until he passed out from the pain.

The first conscious notion of someone sacrificing his life for him was on his graduation day. When Iruka took the giant shuriken on his back, protecting him from Mizuki.

Then came Sasuke in their fight on the wave bridge against Haku and his deadly senbon with Sasuke getting hit by them protecting Naruto from them.

Later it would be his time to make the same sacrifice Sasuke had done back there. he was ready to sacrifice himself for his friends, for Sasuke, he put his live at risk just so his "brother" came home. Just so the love of his life could be happy again ad keep smiling like she always did. It didn't matter that she would still hit him whenever he did something wrong. He just wanted to keep seeing the life dance across Sakura's green eyes.

But he had failed.

And it almost cost him his life.

Then three years later, he was ready to die for his friend Gaara, who had just been kidnapped by the Akatsuki. He had lost control. And had almost killed Kakashi, but he'd made it, they'd got Gaara back, but he was dead, and then the old lady Chiyo sacrificed her life to bring back the life of the Kazekage.

And then there was Asuma. Who had died trying to protect him. He fought two other Akatsuki members. And he thought who else is going to die because of that stupid demon stuck inside his belly.

Not long after that he had heard of Itachi's death but that hadn't meant Sasuke's return to the village. And as he entered the village defeated and feeling like a failure once again. He was told about Jiraiya's death. And that death hit him hard.

Not only had Akatsuki being the ones who had done the killing, but also because he had lost another precious person. And the one who actually mattered to the boy.

The white haired pervert had been more than just a master, a sensei, he had being the father he hadn't known. One of the few who actually saw him, who invested his time in making him a better person, a better ninja, but mostly a better man.

And he through himself to depression but thanks to his friends he moved on, he had to keep fighting, getting stronger just so no other friend or loved one had to sacrifice themselves for him.

And he went with the toads. And mastered all he could. If only to protect all the village and that no more people died unnecessarily.

But as he came back he noticed too many people missing their chakra signal. Just like one silver haired jonin.

Once again someone had sacrificed himself for him. He closed his eyes, and took a breath. He would not allow more deaths.

He exhaled and head out to fight.

He was fighting with all he had. And he was left with only one Pein to fight, he was pinned to the ground, and once again someone jumped in between him and danger.

Thos time was the blue haired girl who always fainted around him, who blushed beet red whenever he talked to her. Who always encourage him to do better.

And felt rage boiling inside his veins. So much so that he almost let loose the demon inside him, just to destroy the one who had dared to touch her, who had the balls to toss her aside like trash.

But in the end, the one who had sacrificed his life, just so he could live another day appeared inside his mind. Giving him fate in himself. And he came on top. He defeated pain and went to search for the real one. And finally after so much talking and understanding reverted what he had done to everyone who died that day, breath again.

And then war came. The five elemental villages allied themselves to fight together against Madara and his army of Zetsus and revived ninja legends.

Naruto trained hard to master his powers once again. Trained to fight his inner demon. Himself and Kyuubi. And he made it. Once again with the help of the other person who had sacrificed her life so he could live past the first day he was born.

After that he went and fought.

Against everyone who was an enemy. Anyone who dare to threaten his friends.

And as he remembered his younger days looking out of his bedroom window, on the same old and run down apartment he'd lived all his life, he felt warm and delicate arms wrap around his waist. And a tinnier pair encase his thigh. He smiled. Because he would always be the first one to sacrifice his life for the both of them, so they could get a better life that the one he lived. Because he loved them with all he had. And wont let anything break them.

"what are you thinking?" asked his beautiful wife nuzzling her face against his neck.

"Nothing important, what were the two of you doing?" he asked as he picked up the blond child clinging to his leg to tickle her.

"Daddy we were going to see old man Teuchi, Mom said she wanted to have Ramen for lunch! Can't you believe it!"

"Really now?, I thought your mom hated Ramen" he asked a blond eyebrow raised in question.

The blond mother tsked. "It's not healthy if you eat it all the time Naruto, but it's ok from time to time, but I guess if you don't want to go…" she left the sentence unfinished because she knew her husband too much to not let an invitation like this slip past him.

"Yes! Of course I want to go. Do you know how much time I've spent without the godly ramen Ichiraku's make?… it's been like two days!" he said in dismay as his daughter laughed at him and patted his spiky locks.

"Ok then let's go, I think Shika said he was going to be there also, I haven't seen him in soooo long" the blond woman said as she straightened the little girls orange dress as the little girl was put down on the ground.

"You know I love you, right Ino?" he said as she stood up to her full height.

"Yeah I know" she said as she let a little smile bloom on her lips. "And I love you too".