章節 60: Chapter 60 : Truths (3)
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Naruto and Sasuke were standing on top of the Hokage Monument, taking in the peaceful image of the setting sun. The clouds were thin and the sky was a mixture of burnt orange and yellow. The air was cool and the breeze was calming.
"Why do you think I call Konoha Heaven, Sasuke?" The blond suddenly asked. Sasuke was a little surprised since they had been up here for an hour and neither of them had said anything. They did that a lot lately, just sitting up on the Hokage Monument and watching the village. It was always calming and nice after a long day of training.
The Uchiha took a moment to seriously think about it. "A lot of people would say that it was because you call the Hokage 'god'," he finally said.
"Do you think that's why as well?" Naruto asked, curious of what he thought. The two of them were still looking at the village.
"No." The Uzumaki didn't have to look to know there was a smile on Sasuke's face. "I used to," he said honestly. "But I know better now." He took in a deep breath. "I may not have empathy, but being around you all the time, hearing how you think about the world… I think I understand it a little now."
Sasuke closed his eyes. "Even with my eyes closed, I can hear it. I can feel it." His eyes opened. "This is our Heaven, our golden city, our sanctuary. Konoha is a safe haven for the pure. The Hokage has always talked about the Will of Fire, and before, it was just the words of an old warrior past his prime, in my eyes at least."
"And now?" Naruto asked.
"Now, it makes more sense than anything. It's the will, the desire to protect Heaven. It's the desire to protect the pure."
"And who exactly are the pure?"
"The men and women of our village, of our Heaven." Sasuke took another deep breath. "You call Konoha Heaven not because of the god leading it, but because of the angels residing in it."
Naruto finally turned to Sasuke. His face never changed from the stoic expression he wore. "I know this is hard for you to talk about, but I need to hear you say it." Sasuke hesitated for a moment before nodding his head. "Did you love Itachi?"
Sasuke froze for a minute before closing his eyes and turning his head down and to the right. "Yes." He whispered, like it was a terrible taboo to admit his feelings. "He was my big brother… of course I did…"
Naruto took a deep breath. "I have one more question." Sasuke's eyes met his. "Do you trust me?"
Obsidian eyes kept ocean blue ones for a good minute before Sasuke spoke. "With my life."
Naruto smirked. "Good." His eyes turned gold and his hand met Sasuke's head. "You're ready to see it." His chakra flared. "All of it."
****Flashback.*****
Naruto immediately recognized the small form that was held in the man's left arm as the person he felt. He could still feel their fear even now. He wanted to change that – immediately.
The man looked down on the small boy in front of him and snarled, "Out of my way runt!" The Head Ninja of Kumo barked.
Naruto was silent for a moment, too angry to even move his body. He had felt the unknown man when he arrived and he now knew his intentions. He was taking what was not his to take. He was condemning an innocent and – what he now knew – the gentlest girl he'd ever felt to a life of servitude and abuse.
He knew the man thought of her as nothing more than a pawn, a means of reproducing powerful and, if her eyes were anything to go by, special shinobi. Naruto truly despised this man; he was the scum of this earth.
Something inside Naruto clicked. He knew what he had to do. He could now feel and understand himself.
He knew what he was now.
The dark-skinned shinobi vaulted over the child in front of him, knowing that time was against him. He had no time to deal with someone who was in the wrong place at the wrong time.
He kept running, making decent distance, until he was stopped once more. Again, the blond-haired boy suddenly flashed in front of him, almost too fast for him to react to. In the back of his mind, he was worried just how strange it was for someone so young to be so fast.
He snarled, and went to grab a kunai from his pouch to dispense with the nuisance. That's when he felt it…
Naruto's hand raised into the air, ignoring the man's attempt to bring out a weapon, and began to do the impossible. The world – which was the only way he could describe it – began to twist and turn, producing the same energy that was currently occupying his body. However, now it was different, more refined, sharper, and tangible. From the very air itself, bright golden – the same color as his eyes – particles began to appear, floating in the sky above him.
With the flick of his wrist, the particles stirred, slowly rotating, grinding itself in a circular motion, enthusiastically obeying its master's whims. The grizzled man's eyes widened, he didn't exactly know what was happening, but he was able to understand that it wasn't all that good for his health.
It was supposed to be dark out, being well past sundown, but with the golden matter that was flying around, the sky was ablaze in a molten gold fury. It briefly passed through the Head Ninja's mind that, for a moment, it had looked like the heavens themselves opened up to bring forth their wrath on him.
It was the most terrifyingly beautiful thing the seasoned jonin had ever seen.
Naruto's hand shot open, spreading his fingers in the air. That's when the particles took form, mimicking his right arm, the spread fingers and all, just in a much larger proportion. It looked like it was the right hand of god more than a small child's anger.
Naruto gave one more soul piercing glare at the man, their eyes meeting for mere seconds. In those chaste moments, the Head Ninja had thought the boy could actually see his soul for what it was; tainted.
He had never felt sheer terror like this before.
So why was it so serene?
For a moment, the Kumo-nin wondered why he wasn't moving, why he wasn't cutting this strange child's throat and vanishing into the night. And then he knew, with a strange, detached realization that he couldn't.
Whatever the thing in the sky was, it demanded all his attention. Not even the fear of being caught by the Konoha shinobi could spur him.
The Uzumaki could feel the familiar presence of who he guessed was the girl's father. Familiar as in he had felt the man before; he had by now memorized all of Konoha's citizens. He nodded at the man, and the older Hyuuga wasted no time to leap forward and scoop his daughter in his arms. Once he leapt back out of the way, Naruto had no reason to wait anymore.
In the back of his head he knew he was being watched, he could recognize Hokage-jiji's presence anywhere, and he was always with members of the zoo, so they, too, were he very familiar with. Especially the lazy feeling one, he was the blonde's favorite.
That didn't matter now though. All that mattered at this very moment was to rid the world of this disgusting man.
Like an enraged god bringing down his divine judgment, Naruto clenched his hand in a fist while slamming it down into the ground at his feet, cracking a large portion of it.
He unleashed all his anger with a monstrous shout, something that sounded more animal than human.
"AAAAAAHHHHHHH!"
In a blink of an eye, the gold hand-like structure fell to the earth right above the would-be kidnapper from Kumo with earth shattering might.
*****End Flashback.******
Sasuke gasped and fell back. He was breathing heavily and sweat adorned his brow. He took a few seconds to catch his breath before he spoke.
"D-did that really happen?" He asked breathlessly. When Naruto nodded, Sasuke gulped. "But you were only six… that's… that's impossible." The Uchiha was visibly shaking.
"This is why I am showing it to you, Sasuke." Naruto began. "I'm showing you that nothing is impossible for monsters." The blond once again put his hand on the raven-haired boy's head. "Now, there is much more for me to show you."
And just like before, Sasuke's eyes lit with gold, and he once again felt everything that Naruto had felt, like he was the one experiencing it.
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