Naruto Fan Fiction ❯ Alpha and Omega ❯ Lessons Learnt ( Chapter 11 )

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"Talking"
'Thinking'

Lessons Learnt


Naruto's POV

Awkward was the only way to describe the dinner they were having. Eating utensils hittting plates and bowls, was the only sound made.
No one was talking, but the air was full of unasked questions.

"So we had a good time at the cottage, thank you again for the amazing surpise." Naruto smiled breaking the silence.

"It's the least we could do for you, you've been an amazing son." Orochimaru grinned.

That grin was a double edged sword, usually it meant there was going to be some kind of request following his statement.

Naruto waited, he could tell that Rei and Sasuke were waiting also.

"Should we just return to our posts tomorrow Otousan?" Rei asked polietly.

Orochimaru didn't answer right away, Naruto figured he was trying to carefully word his next sentence.

"No, there might be new orders for another village." he smiled

"Where" Sasuke asked without looking away from his food.

Orochimaru grinned, "Konohoa"

That name shook Naruto to the core, they hadn't spoken it in years. The three of them promised to never speak if it again.

Naruto looked at Rei and Sasuke, he wasn't sure if he was looking for answers or reactions.

"What is our objective?" Sasuke asked looking unbothered by the name.

"To destroy the entire village, i want it and it's Hokage destroyed."

"Hokage......" Naruto mumbled out loud looking down at the table.

"yes the hokage Naruto. Unless you dont think that you can do it......"

Despite his request to destroy the hokage Orochimaru believing that Naruto couldn't do it offended him more.

He hung his head a moment unable to answer either way. Anger boiled just under the surface his purpleish eyes narrowed and he focused
his glare on the table.

Out of the corner of his eye he saw Orochimaru wave everyone else out of the room. He stood to leave also.

"I want you to take a walk with me Naruto." Orochimaru said in his kind voice.

Naruto only nodded and obediantly followed his father out into the forest.

They walked a little way before Orochimaru spoke.

"I know you must be having a difficult time deciding on your course of action."

"No Tousan i'll do it....."

Orochimaru cut him off, "You grew up there. It was your home. It will not be as easy as you make it out to be to destroy all your friends.
Not even i could kill my friend."

Naruto looked at him confused.

"Jiraya." Was all he said he didn't explain the reasoning.

Orochimaru stopped on a hill that overlooked a lake. "Let me tell you a story."

Naruto sat on the ground and Orochimaru sat next to him.

"there was a boy and he lived in a village. He had a bloodline limit and it made the villagers afraid of him so they locked him up
when he was very young. They never told him why but he knew it was because he was different. They would feed him but he was
never allowed to go outside, see his parents or play with other kids. It didn't make any sense to him. Well the villagers one day let him out
to fight in a war. He fought for them knowing he could die."

Naruto looked surprised, "He fought for them?"

"Why wouldn't he fight for them? They were all he knew. He fought for them and they were all killed leaving him on his own in a world he didn't know
they'd kept him locked up for so long that he didn't know the world and he was left to fend for himself. He fled the site of the war and began wandering.
He didn't know how to get food, or shelter, nothing he was lost."

"I dont understand...."

"In a way Naruto you are like this boy, Konohoa has locked you up for reasons unbeknownst to you and then they expect you to fight for them. Your
childhood was spend alone, and you were shunned for no reason by people you didn't know. Do you want to fight for them? Do you want to die for them?"

Naruto was speechless, he'd never thought about it like that. He knew he was supposed to be a weapon for the village, the fourth had good inentions when he
used him but his intentions were lost in the years. Naruto was a prisioner of a village that had to work to care for him. Orochimaru accepted him for what he was
trained him without limits. How could he fight for people who wanted to hold him back. People who would let Itachi kill Sasuke, Sasuke was right Konohoa was holding
them back.

Naruto looked Orochimaru in the eye, "No I do not want to die for them, I'd like to fight for you Tousan."

Orochimaru nodded, "we will leave in a few nights, everything had already been arranged hoping you'd say yes."

"And if i'd said no?"

Orochimaru laughed, "I might have killed you myself."

Naruto nodded, "At least you are honest."