Insanity's Slip

Chapter Five

By Boejangles

Naruto sighed as he leaned against the railing on the Hokage monument. He was losing hope of ever seeing his brother again. 'Itachi, why did you leave? Why didn't you do anything before everyone thought you were a criminal?'

"Come here to think?"

Naruto turned to look at who had spoken to him to see that it was the Hokage. "Yeah. It's been awhile, whatcha doing here?" The blonde asked. The Hokage had always checked in on him and Naruto felt like they could have been related.

"Oh just needed to get out of that office and thought a walk would do me good." He said with a smile, "How are you doing? Liking being a genin?"

"I'm doing alright." Naruto decided was a reasonable answer. "Our Jounin leader is nice too."

"That's good to hear. You come and tell me if anything ends up going wrong." Sarutobi said knowing that the young blood sometimes had problems with violence. He wasn't sure that the boy would make it as a ninja, but the kid's spirit and heart was one of a kind.

"Y…yeah I will." Naruto answered then gave a smile.

"I have something for you and Sasuke. It's a scroll that was saved from the fire. There are some more, but I will hold onto those until you two are ready. However I feel that you can handle this." He spoke while he pulled out a scroll. "There is also something special in there for you that I found the other night when I was looking for this. Hopefully you like it."

The blonde looked at the scroll slightly shocked, he hadn't known that any of the important documents had survived the fire. "Thank you. Thank you very much." Naruto spoke even though he was still kind of shocked.

"It's yours, but remember to share with your brother."

"I will, thank you again."

"I'm glad you like it. Now hurry on home." Sarutobi said and smiled watching the retreating back of the blonde.

Naruto closed his door and threw the lock before pulling the scroll out from under his shirt. He wanted to look at it first, plus part of him knew that once Sasuke saw it the thing would become his.

He untied the knot and opened it slowly wondering what was put in there especially for him. When it was opened he saw a white square. "Hmm?" He picked it up and flipped it over. A gasp left his mouth.

It was a picture. It was of him when he was three being held by the only mother he had only known. A tear fell from his cheek. He hadn't had a picture of her until now. He pulled the picture to his chest and hugged it.

"I miss you mommy." Naruto said softly before looking at the photo again. He took it and slid it under his pillow for safekeeping. A smile made its way to his face, "Thanks old man." He said to the air.

He turned back to the scroll to see what it was. It had techniques on it. He looked through it, there seemed to only be five written on it.

One- Fire Phoenix 'looks complicated, I'll leave that to Sasuke'

Two-Fire Shuriken 'Hmm I think I can do that'

Three-Grand Fireball 'Heh Sasuke can already do that one'

Four-Fire Flicker 'Hmm this one looks interesting.' He read more 'with a flash of fire this technique distracts the users opponent while the user is able to hide'

Five-Fire Clone 'Wow' Naruto's eyes went wide as he read on. This was the one he wanted to learn above all the others. This one he would make his own. He ripped off the end of the scroll and then rolled it back up hiding the piece of the scroll he wanted under his bed. He decided he also wanted to learn the other, but would do so with Sasuke. However the last one he wanted just for him.

Naruto walked out of his room with the scroll and knocked on Sasuke's door.

"Come in." was said from the other side of the door.

The blonde opened the door and walked in, "Sasuke look what the Hokage gave me. He said it was saved from the fire."

Sasuke looked over at the scroll, "Give it here." He took it when it was handed to him and opened it looking it over. "Four techniques, why is it ripped?"

"It must have been like that from before the fire."

"Hn." He evaluated the skill available, "We will start practicing the first, third and fourth tomorrow. I'll hold onto this for now."

"Okay, goodnight Sasuke."

"Night."

Naruto sat in his bed looking at the photo again before putting it away. He pulled up his sleeve to look at where the burn had been. It was gone now. He poked where it had been and noticed it felt fine. He sighed falling back against his pillow.

He smiled closing his eyes, "If I could I would give you wings…"

Flashback

"To lift you way up in the air. And you could find the rainbow then, cause wings would get you there." The woman smiled, "If I could I would give you wings to carry you out of the storm they take you higher then the wind and you'd be safe and warm."

Naruto smiled and waved his arms around, "Wings!" The two year old said excitedly, "Wings mommy."

"Wings little wings, wings in the wink of an eye, soon your little wings will be big enough to fly."

"I can fly mommy" The blonde said excitedly running around then grabbing the woman's legs.

She smiled and continued singing, "If I could I would give you wings to lighten your heart through the years, they'd flutter soft around you then and dry up all your tears. Wings little wings, wings in the wink of an eye. Soon your little wings will be big enough to fly. Soon your little wings will be big enough to fly." She finished and picked up the giggling boy.

"I love you mommy."

"I love you too Naruto."

He smiled glad he stayed with his mom instead of going out with his brothers. "I wanna fly."

"Some day you will baby."

End Flashback

"I'll fly some day mom, are you watching me?" He asked looking out the window at the stars.

A/N: There you go, I know it's a quiet chapter, but hopefully you liked it.