Chapter 2 Hope
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-Konoha-
Sasuke looked out his window to see Sakura arriving at gates along with Naruto. Running downstairs he ran to the gates to see Naruto have left them already. Kakashi stood by Sakura lost in his memories.
"What happened?" He questioned trying to get Sakura out of her stupor.
"Oh Sasuke how are you?" Sakura tried to smile.
"Well?" Sasuke led them to his office and sat himself down in his seat.
Minutes passed and Sakura explained all the details of the mission leaving the room silent. Sakura sat in the couch trying not to cry recalling the memories.
"How did this happen?" Sasuke told out rubbing his forehead.
-Naruto-
"Naruto, are you doing alright?" Kyuubi rushed out of the room seeing the blonde collapse on the floor.
The foxes bring in some dried clothes as Kyuubi carefully changed Naruto setting him on his bed.
"Naruto, how are you feeling?" Kyuubi placed a wet towel on the forehead.
Naruto opened his eye still having a patch at one of his eye and his clothes were replaced with white pajamas.
"Tired." His mouth muttered with weakness in his voice.
"Rest now and I'll have a way to bring the scroll of your mission." Kyuubi wrapped Naruto under the white linens as the foxes tended to the house cooking some soup.
Naruto relaxed slightly breathing his way to sleep and Kyuubi would just read and revise the whole mission scroll once again.
-Next Day-
"Naruto, wake up." Kyuubi muttered shaking the blond who grunted.
"Give me 10 minutes!" Naruto pulled the blanket over his body as kyuubi sighed yawning from all the paper work from last night.
Kyuubi pulled the blanket of the body and sighed since Naruto, the real Naruto isn't as active as the mask. Naruto tried to reach the blanket seeing that Kyuubi had it in his hands holding it up. Grumbling he stood up dressing up after a small piece of toast as ramen was the only food provided to him when he was younger. Naruto took one last gulp of water going outside to train with Kyuubi right behind him.
"I'm going to train for a while and I'll go straight to Uchiha's office." He informed stretching his arms behind his head.
"Alright then I'll go back home since you left the house dirty when you came back."
"Sometimes you just annoy me so bad." Naruto remarked running off.
"Stupid brats and their mischievous ways." Kyuubi looked around the area to see no one as he once again just stays home.
-Hokage's Office-
(Hours Later)
"Okay back to the subject at hand." Sasuke looked through his pile of papers. "What made him change so rapidly?" Sakura just stared at him.
"W-we did this to him." Sakura faced him eye to eye.
"How? What do you mea-"
"Haha! The Hokage of Konoha does not even know what he has done for the past 6 months" Tsunade giggled as Sakura glared at her.
"You should give more respect!" She snapped.
"I never gave respect to my grandfather nor did the gaki. So why should I?" Tsunade huffed as Sakura lost her words.
"Anyways the medical ninja of Konoha knows the reason faster than her own surrogate brother." Tsunade saw a small shadow in the window.
'Naruto.' She thought biting her lip and faced Sasuke with utter disgust. Naruto had been done with his training and was looking forward to giving his mission report away before roaming the streets once again. Due to the large circumstances of the situation his former teammates were discussing he waited outside slightly annoyed. 'They have finally realized after all this time.' He thought giving a small silent laugh covering his face. 'They were all idiots!' He repeated looking inside the room seeing that Tsunade had known of his presence.
"Just give respect to Sasuke-kun." Sakura whispered back to her old sensei.
"Hmmm…. No." Tsunade tapped her chin and looked at the scowling Uchiha.
"No matter if the council makes me eat the crappiest and most illiterate stuff on earth… I will never respect you and that goes for you Haruno." Tsunade turned her head as Sakura just shook hers.
"Naruto come in here." Tsunade called out as Naruto plopped himself through the window.
"What?" He said with a bored expression.
"Talk with your teammates." Tsunade pointed to the silent stand by.
"What's there to talk about especially with you?" Naruto placed his scroll on top of Sasuke's desk.
"They were you're teammates." Tsunade held the door.
"Yeah what does include with you and Orichimaru along with Jiriya-sama say to you." Naruto blurted out.
Tsunade took a breather looking at Naruto with guilt in her face. She stepped outside not yet leaving the halls slumping to the floor.
"Naruto." She sobbed.
Naruto looked at the large red doors with a blank face since his dream was lost among with his heart. Sakura stared at her old team mate trying to think up of a discussion. Sasuke tried to put things together as he had his eyes on the blonde the whole time.
"I brought my report and I shall take my leave." Naruto pulled his black hood over his head about to disappear in wind.
"Naruto may you want to hang out with me and Sakura for lunch today?" Sasuke asked looking at his pink hair team mate as they wished Naruto would accept.
"I have many things on my plate… Hokage-sama." He answered with formality.
"I insist as there is no mission left on today's schedule." Sasuke showed a sheet of paper saying assassination missions.
"I have no such time for social standings." Naruto knew that Kyuubi was waiting for him at home.
"Please Naruto!" Sakura pleaded. "We haven't seen each other for months and this is the only time we have to ourselves! Let's spend this time all together as a team."
"Haruno you seem to have known a part of why I am acting of this character; however Uchiha here does not have a single clue of this case."
"No you tell him Naruto since it's your problem not mine." Sakura replied.
"I have things to do in my hands so you may tell him."
"Just give me one clue." Sasuke stood up.
"What have I always ranted about in why I want to become so powerful?"
"So that you can be accepted by people and-…" Sasuke's eyes widen.
"Now that you know the reason I shall take my leave." Naruto opened the door seeing Tsunade sobbing down below.
"Wait Naruto… I wish to apologize." Sakura called out as Sasuke stared at her.
"Naruto I'm sorry that we don't recall your dream and only celebrated Sasuke's accomplishments but you have done enough for the village." Sakura was to continue but Naruto turned to face her with cold eyes.
"What do you know about me and what I have done for Konoha?" Naruto saw Sakura shiver at his glare.
"I took many things from the country and discovered that no matter what you do there is no one that will help you someday. I took hatred for something that I myself has not done but took all the blame… So what you know about anything about me?" Naruto growled slamming the door walking past Tsunade.
"There is no one left for me in this world." Naruto whispered silently traveling back to his own home.
-Naruto's Home-
"Naruto?" Kyuubi got up walking to the door seeing the blonde with anger on his face.
Even through their merging there were some set backs. Kyuubi was still able to stay in Naruto's mind capable of seeing and hearing everything that evolves around the blonde. Naruto had thrown away his coat taking a bath upstairs while Kyuubi shook his head making some food.
"Naruto!" He called out 5 minutes later to see Naruto wiping his hair.
"…"
"Naruto are you going to attend the lunch meeting?"
"I have no time to meet them." Naruto slammed the door of his room looking at the small red notebook he had when he was younger lay limp on the table.
"Time to write." Kyuubi and Naruto whispered at the same moment.
-Naruto P.O.V-
I held a red journal on my desk ready to write some words down for good measure. I haven't written in this book for the past 6 months and I would always write this book before concerning of my accomplishments that the council takes no pride for. Rubbing the velvet material I grabbed a pen from under the drawers reading the whole book. I recalled the day's events inside my head causing another massive headache to form. One part of my mind tells me to attend the social call while the other clearly despises me to go there. Either way they have seen my true self one way or the other right? Kyuubi would tell me to never back down and always fight with my true strength but the old mask was to help me hold it down as I didn't want to be murdered.
"Naruto?" Kyuubi called from downstairs as I jotted down some normal words.
It read: Journal,
I have met a few of my colleagues and I haven't written any of the happenings here in Konoha.
"Too bland." I muttered loudly.
Twisting my pen around I looked at the clock to see it was early for any lunch meeting. Not that I will attend one. My pen and my journal were all provided by my former academy teacher named Umino Iruka. He was a gentle soul but I know deep down he despises me like the rest after all I'm the demon. I always used to wallow in my own self-pity but it got me no where. My room covered in white walls illuminated the lights from the sun's rays making a heavenly glow rain down. My bed softly cushioned with large pillows and small blankets. All this I have saved my money for instead of buying stupid Ichikaru ramen no offense to the old man and his daughter.
"Kyuubi is calling you." My fox servant called me as I stood up looking outside.
"Kyuubi?" The red head stared at me pointing to the scrolls and dirty clothes lying around.
"What are you a house mother?" I questioned pathetically.
"Just clean it wills you." He retorted to me as I have known of how foxes treat their territory.
Territory for foxes rules rang in my head as one that foxes always want there area to be clean as possible. No food littering the floor or even dirty clothes. They all want to see themselves and where they are stepping on rather than the objects they were about to put their feet upon. Another is they should have a mate during the summer or even spring time and good thing it was the snow season coming up soon. They could be either dominating type or the uke if you say for the bottom. The dominating type should be able to win the battle of love if you know what I mean before the other doing a hickey in the end on the uke's neck. Kyuubi explained all these rules to me since I ever been able to talk to him which was over 8 years ago.
"Are you going to attend the lunch?" Kyuubi asked me picking up some of my remainder of dirty laundry.
"No." I answered bluntly and he so expected the answer.
"You get to show your true self." He chucked a scroll in my face.
"I already am showing a part of my true self." I gathered the scrolls putting them in my scroll room.
"They might want to see the true you." He poked my body as my henge disassembled.
"Hmph." Great I'm acting like Sasuke.
Only difference between the henge I'm wearing is that my eyes were both white and my frame was more feminine than the manly henge I wear around. Both my eyes were capable of losing sight ever since my age of becoming a ninja. Kyuubi on the other hand left me able to use his sight just like any normal person. However, without his sight I need really good eyeglasses which we are now far away from my topic.
"Now are you?"
"No." Why would I go there in the first place?'
"Just saying… You'll never know when you will snap."
Break….
A glass fell after his speech.
-End of Chapter 2-
Hello people once again and hope you have found the revised version interesting? It took me a while to come up with a new story in detail background. There will be some parts on how you see another person's point of view rather than seeing the third person narrating the whole story. Most point of views will be based on Naruto, Kyuubi, and Sasuke. There will be some Team 7 people's point of views but those three are the main people. Okay please enjoy and see you next time!
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