Naruto Fan Fiction ❯ A Life for a Life ❯ A Burst of Emotional conflict ( Chapter 24 )

[ Y - Young Adult: Not suitable for readers under 16 ]

I do not own Naruto…or its second arc Shippuudeen

Rasegan86…Yeah, Naruto through training and the fights he needed to do was the outlet I believe in the show to take out his frustrations. Earlier on when he was a child, Sasuke helped him release it whether most people like him or not, thus causing the two to bond for it was the same way with Sasuke. Now with first and best friend gone, and his ability to do what he needs to do to stay sane sufficiently grounded…needless to say what will it take to set the boy off?

S.T Nickolian…This has some spoilers for you if you have not seen Shippudeen or read the new arc…Sasuke isn't going after Naruto…or at least not yet.

Chapter 24

Searching for a blonde in orange and black, Arashi finds the youth sitting upon steps in front of an apartment building. His heart reaching out to the young man, who is running his hands over his arm again over and over, he reaches out to grasp a shoulder.

“Naruto…”

Startled by his voice being called, Naruto jerks away unintentionally when he realizes who it is. Arashi feels his heart hurting at the wariness and the slight anger in the bright blue eyes that mirror his own.

“What is it Sensei?” The youth asked as he tries to remain calm. Naruto was not stupid by any sense of the means. This man was the same one who had the power to seal Kyuubi within him.

So the seventeen year old, who admittedly wants to know his father…,having yearned for an actual family all his life, despite his friends who have become his family.

Is getting plagued by the child, who resents the man who did this to him, regardless of who he was. It hurts finding out that your own family; your own father would seal a demon inside you.

One that would especially never let youforget…the fox chuckles inside him. The creature grinning from within its cage, as the entertainment value of his jailer's situation amuses him.

“I…I just wanted to see how you were doing Naruto.” Arashi says quietly. Thus causing the fox youth to look up, and growl a little bit in anger that he has been fighting. Ever since he had found out everything, it was different now compared to before.

As the Fox has so eloquently been reminding him…he lost one outlet when Sasuke had left…and now he has lost another, even if it is for only a short time.

“I'm fine as you can see, my arm is just messed up that's all.” Naruto replied. “Give it a day or to and my prisoner of sorts, will probably have it healed by then if he feels like it.”

Lost for a moment, by Naruto's comment, Arashi looks at the youth to find the eyes flash a deadly red for a second, in reminder.

“Well what are you still doing here Sensei?” Naruto asks as he stands up. His hand reaching into his pocket, the youth fumbles with the keys to his small apartment. “It's not like I can train or anything with my arm busted.”

“I just wanted to see if you wanted to do anything later.”

“No thanks…” Naruto replies as he drops his keys. Reaching for them, he winces a little bit in pain as he bends down wrong and his arm takes a little squeeze from his body. But before he can get them again, Arashi grabs them within his hand and looks at his son with a questioning gaze.

“Which one is it?”

Snatching the keys away from his father, which he still refuses to admit, Naruto fumbles with them once more. Finding the right one, he sticks in the log to turn it. But is stopped as Arashi's hand covers his own….

“What the hell is wrong with you Naruto?!”

Glaring at him with pent up anger, Arashi lets go and backs away with a pained expression on his face.

There has been anger and hatred before directed at him from his enemies. But then he has understood the reason, for he was doing something he did not like nor did he wish to do. This anger though…this anger from his own son was different.

Naruto turns away from him and jiggles the key in the lock, as he pushes the door open. As he enters his small apartment, the youth as he pulls it out, slams it in Arashi's face.

Standing there in front of that apartment for going on twenty minutes, Kakashi eventually finds his former teacher and friend, just crying with heartbreak and pain. This was something that even he himself had never seen before on the former Hokage…. Arashi was very much like his son.

He was always happy…but for this kind of reaction, something had to have hurt. Hurt real bad…

“Arashi-san…” Kakashi worded gently, as he approached the hooded man.

“You and the others were wrong Kakashi…” The blonde haired man choked out. “My son hates me…he doesn't want me around.”

“That can't be true…” The Copy ninja said softly, in an attempt to reassure and comfort. But as Arashi looks up at him, the silvery haired man can't help but want to reach out, but the Yondaime flees. This kind of pain, in Arashi's eyes, he has seen once before…

Three years ago at the Valley of the End…Naruto had that same look when he found out that Sasuke had left after their fight….

Loneliness…

The owner of Ichiraku was right…

He had said something after Kakashi had realized what he had meant when it came too pent up emotions. He said that the youth is getting ready to blow, training and fighting recently with Jiriaya and others these past three years allowed Naruto to focus on something else. He would think only of those things and it helped him to forget if only for a little while…

Take that away and he was going to take it out on somebody…and hard.

When Sasuke had left originally, Naruto had gone on a pranking spree, after he had gotten out of the hospital. The ANBU and some of the others had intended on going after the young teenager, but Kakashi had stopped them. He never knew why he did, but he stopped them.

Now he does, Naruto needed to release some of the rage, some of the pent up emotions that the battle had done to him. Losing Sasuke had hurt all of them in Team 7. Sakura was hurting as much as Naruto, but the young girl had an advantage that other student had not. She had her family, and her need to not be weak anymore. Hence the young woman's impromptu apprenticeship with Tsunade in healing skills.

He himself had friends, and family and even Rin who had come back for a little while to offer him comfort. A close friend someone whom he could trust….

But Naruto's closest friend had just left after attempting to kill him…

With no one to really talk to, no one who could understand him...the only other way he could deal with his pain was to train and to fight…even to play jokes.

That was taken away from him, thanks to the Akatsuki. Naruto's ability to release pent up emotions was taken out for a few days. And unfortunately, Arashi was going to be a prime target…

Walking up the steps to Naruto's apartment, Kakashi was going to do something, which he doesn't intentionally do that often.

Interfere….

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As Sasuke walked out of the room, Kabuto was just standing there to its side in awe at the amount of blood he had found coming out from underneath Orichamaru's door. Silent and unemotional as he walks by, Kabuto feels a shiver of oppressing power emanate from the Uchiha who ignores him.

“Which one are you…”

Turning around from his set path, Sasuke looks at the known traitor to flash his Sharingan eyes for but a moment…

“How….”

“There is a new person in charge now…” Sasuke replies, as he looks at him. “And as to the how…lets just say I destroyed his immortality jutsu…”

Leaving it at that, Kabuto falls to the ground as the Uchiha walks away.