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Take a stab for the waiting crowd.
This time we fold, as the future draws your name.
So stay away, when you go away.
Now that its void.
Calling the drop of a sure dime,
Standing ground for the vain in the meantime.
Run.
Run from me now before this has the chance to be something more.
This is the way for you.
This is the way. This is the way.
We're not a fan of the social part.
The urban silence in the cage of sanity.
I'm trying hard to let you go,
and fighting not to let you know.
Surround me.
As the future draws your name,
this time we fold.
And it draws the line.
Standing ground for the vain in the meantime.
Run.
Run from me now before this has the chance to be something more.
This is the way for you.
This is the way. This is the way.
Im trying hard to let you go,
and fighting not to let you know.
They're calling your name.
You're there, so don't turn away.
Standing ground for the vain in the meantime.
Run.
Run from me now before this has the chance to be something more.
This is the way for you.
This is the way. This is the way.
This is the way for you.
This is the way. This is the way.
Automatic Synthetic-The Panic Division
3. Returning to Familiarity
The journey to Kanoha was long and strained and often times I found myself wishing I had said 'no' to Tusunde instead of my original answer. We had packed up quickly, traveling light, but healthy and instead of running on foot we took the strongest horses from Kaan—the village I inherited.
The day we finally reached Kanoha it was pouring down rain, causing us to enter from the front of the village instead of the short way through the back. The streets were deserted, less likely because it was raining and more likely because of the recent violence against the village.
Memories were flooding back to me causing a nostalgic feeling to wash over me. I didn't like that feeling, didn't like how the happy memories washed up at me, pushing back the most important ones, the painful ones.
"Naruto!" Rasheed called over the rain, his voice still faint even then. "We need to find a place to stay!"
"We're almost there," I answered back, not wanting to stop until we had reached our destination.
It was only a few minutes later when were at the entrance to the village council building. I lifted my head back to stair at the raining sky my hood fell back causing my dry hair to become soaking wet. I could sense something; it was swirling with my chakra…almost as if it were giving me power…
"Let's go in," I snapped at the group my mood abruptly changing.
I shoved open the wide double oak doors, causing them to bash slightly against the wall as I sailed through the brightly lit entryway. Jounin and ANBU littered the hallway along with random wayward ninjas of low status.
"Naruto…"Jalil hissed causing me to falter in my movements. "We're wet." He stated the obvious.
"Are we?"
"Yes," he paused. "And we're cold, and tired, and we would all like something dry to wear." Would you? I wondered in my mind. Would you mind if I killed everyone I disliked in the hall right now? Startled at my self for my sudden fury I waved a hand in acceptance that they should find some place warm, food, and dry clothes; then made my way down the hall, past the staring ninjas and towards the Hokage tower.
I stalked through the hallways finally ending up in front of the door to the Hokage, I could hear yelling coming from the inside… along with the feeling of a sharp and heavy chakra that made me feel suffocated.
I knocked once. KNOCK. But it was more like a loud bang.
Abrupt silence ensued inside the room.
No one opened the door.
KNOCK, KNOCK. I did it twice more and waited once again for the door to open.
"Enter!" The word was shouted like a battled cry causing me to pause a moment before delicately opening the door.
"Tusunde," I directed at her angry face. "My company and I have arrived, where do you wish for us to stay." I moved inside the dreary looking room that was piled with shelves against dark maroon speckled walls. In the corner ceiling of the room there was a crack that seemed to stretch along one hole side of the wall and then down to the floor.
It wasn't until I looked up from the crack that I noticed who else was in the room.
Kami-sama! I screamed in my mind. People I definitely did not want to see stood near the walls of the room or otherwise sat in the very few chairs that littered Tusunde's office.
I took in their expressions of shock going over each face slowly thinking their names in my head as I went… Kakashi, Sakura, Sasuke, Neji, Kiba, Kankuro, Shino… My old team was everywhere.
"Naruto!" Tusunde spoke my real name. Kill her! My mind yelled at me… where were these violent emotions coming from? "You've arrived." She smiled looking as though she wanted to hug me but instead settled for gloating smugness…
"Mhmmm…" I answered. Awkward silence fell. I suddenly felt extremely confident in my self and my image.
"Ah yes! Your rooms!" She suddenly said. "You'll be staying in one of the visiting compounds she said tossing me a set of keys. "They're very nice…newly refurbished!" She seemed to be waiting for me to say something.
"Lovely…" I murmured instead. Inside my mind I was reeling LEAVE NOW! My brain screamed. LEAVE RIGHT NOW! Of course I didn't listen to my conscience. Who in the world ever listened to their conscience?
"N-N-Naruto!" Th stumbled out curse was heard from the corner where Sakura and Sasuke sat steaming.
Shit… the thought flittered across my mind a moment before she leaped at me.
"DEMON!"
Whoah! My first cliffhanger... Its ingenious really... honestly how am I supposed to know if you guys even like this story if I don't get any reviews? Please tell me so I know?!
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