Disclaimer: If I owned Naruto, would I be writing fanficiton? I don't think so. Also, don't own the awesomeness that is "Runaway" by Pink.
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Nobody Knows
By Demon's Cherry Blossom
I've got my things packed
My favorite pillow
Got my sleeping bag
Climb out the window
She wasn't so young anymore. Her hair was longer, she was taller and older and sick of this bull. Packing her bag she stared in mild disgust at the portrait of her dear mother. She threw it against the wall and was satisfied to hear the glass shatter.
Where was her dear mother now?
Probably out getting drunk somewhere.
But that's okay, 'cause I don't need her anymore.
All the pictures and pain
I've left behind
All the freedom and fame
I've gotta find
She shouldered her pack, well aware that by doing this she could never come back. She may have resigned from being a ninja for this purpose alone, but they wouldn't let her go without a fight.
Didn't matter anyway. Wasn't like she could tell anyone important village secrets. She didn't have anyone she knew outside this disgusting cowardly village.
It was their fault her brother was dead.
Killed in the Sound/Sand invasion by her dear, darling sensei.
And she didn't care to find out where her father had gone.
And I wonder
How long it'll take her to notice that I'm gone
And I wonder
How far it'll take me
She wondered what dear old Sasuke-kun thought of her now. She knew he was going to leave too. Eventually. Idiot had the right idea.
With all the money she'd saved from missions and money stolen from her mother's purse, a pack filled with necessities, and 3 different weapon scrolls tied to her hips she left Konoha.
Here I come world.
To run away
It don't make any sense to me
Run away
She jumped rooftops to the Library. She'd had a friend copy all the non-family jutsu she could find and then seal them all into a scroll.
"Thanks Naruto. I'll send you a letter soon."
"Sakura-chan…"
"I can't stay here anymore Naruto, be glad, at least I'm not going to go all psycho and come back to kill everyone like certain people. Just send me a message with one of your frogs."
This life makes no sense to me
Run away
It don't make any sense to me
Run away
It don't make any sense to me
She put the scroll in her bag, and headed to the eastside of town. She had one more stop.
Taptaptaptaptaptap
"Sakura-san?" His voice was laced with sleep.
"Do you have what I needed?" She wished she could stay and talk, but she was running out of time. The guards switched shifts at midnight exactly and it was already 11:45.
It was another scroll, filled with weights and a small notebook of his notes from what Gai-sensei had been able to teach him, and what Kurenai-sensei had taught Hinata about Genjutsu.
She hugged him before finally setting on her way.
She was free.
And no one could stop her.
I was just trying to be myself
You go your way, I'll meet you in hell
All these secrets that I shouldn't tell I've got to run away
It's hypocritical of you
Do as you say not as you do
I'll never be your perfect girl
I've got to run away
She wove through the trees with her eyes closed. She had a week's journey to her first stop. And that was without putting on her "new" weights.
So that made it a week and a half.
I'm too young to be
Taken seriously
But I'm too old to believe
All this hypocrisy
And I wonder
How long it'll take them to see my bed is made
And I wonder
If I was a mistake
Back in Konoha (the next day)
"Where is she?" Kakashi was pacing in frantic worry. She had resigned three weeks ago stating loss of interest. Something not altogether that uncommon with gennin, but he knew her better than that. She was planning something, and this was it.
I might have nowhere left to go
But I know that I cannot go home
These voices trapped inside my head
Tell me to run before I'm dead
Chase the rainbows in my mind
And I will try to stay alive
Maybe the world will know my name
God won't you help me run away!
"Naruto, surely you know why she left." He was pleading with the boy, he needed to know, she'd been his student.
"She felt unappreciated. So she left." His voice was uneven, as if he wanted to cry. But that's not really why. She left because you killed her brother.
Sasuke scoffed in amusement, She was a weakling anyway.
Run away
It don't make any sense to me
Run away
This life makes no sense to me
Run away
She went through the basic kata with her "new" weights at night and hunted with them on. She could take care of herself, no matter what they thought. She didn't need them.
She would be arriving in Wave tomorrow.
I could sing for change
On a Paris street
Be a red light dancer
In New Orleans
I could start again
Choose a family
I could change my name
Come and go as I please
In the dead of night
You'll wonder where I've gone
Wasn't it you
Wasn't it you
Wasn't it you that made me run away
"Sakura-chan! Where's Naruto?" Inari was happy to see her. Maybe she could stay here longer than she had planned. Start life again with this family. She dashed the thought quickly. She had to get stronger. She had to.
"I'm on a undercover solo mission. Know any places I could stay, I would hate to impose." Inari jumped at the chance to let her stay.
"Kaa-san and Jii-chan will be happy to see you!"
I was just trying to be myself
You go your way I'll meet you in hell
All these secrets that I shouldn't tell I've got to run away
It's hypocritical of you
Do as you say not as you do
I'll never be your perfect girl
I've got to run away
Life don't make any sense to me
Run away
This life makes no sense to me
Run away
Life don't any sense to me
Run away
Life don't make any sense to me
Being a runaway wasn't all that bad.
This life makes no sense to me
It don't make no sense to me
It don't make any sense to me
Life don't make any sense to me