Naruto Fan Fiction ❯ Does it hurt? ❯ Lost without you... ( Chapter 1 )

[ P - Pre-Teen ]
By: Darkened Fire - Tears of a Kitsune
I know I died that night and I'll never be brought back to life
Once again, I know

(If you listen) Listen, listen
(Listen close) Beat by beat
(You can hear when the heart stops) I saved the pieces
(When it broke) And ground them all to dust
So...

(If you listen) Listen, listen
(Listen close) It dies beat by beat
(You can hear when the heart stops) I saved the pieces
(When it broke) And ground them all to dust

Anime/Manga: Naruto Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Angst | Type: Self Insertion | Uploaded On: 03.23.2005 | Updated On: 03.24.2005 | Pages: 1 | Words: 1.5K | Visits: 663 | Status: Completed

Authors Notes: Well, you got your wish, `Inuyasha is a Total hottie'! I've continued this one, since you asked. I keep fretting that I'll mess this chapter up (which is more then likely) but please read it anyway! Reviewers get plushies!
 
Inuyasha is a Total Hottie: I'm sorry! I didn't want for you to cry! Here, have a Sasuke plushie!
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Silence reigned over Konoha.
Stretched, taunt and cold, it appeared as if the silence were waiting for something to come along and break it, shatter it into a thousand tiny shards. Or perhaps, a someone.
The village too was waiting, frozen in time as they remained to linger for the usual sounds that occurred each day. Loud bangs followed by annoyed shouts and wild laughter that were always able to surprise a person, despite how much one expected them.
However, deep inside them, they knew that the silence would not be broken that day, or the day after, or the one after that, due to the absence of a certain blonde ninja.
One would expect that this missing person must be someone particularly important or of a high stature, but Naruto was neither. He was an orphan, once thought to be the most hated person within the village because of the demon fox contained within him. Without family and friends, he had reached the rank of a Chuunin ninja, moving slowly towards his dream of becoming Hokage.
But now he was gone, deserting his home village to search for something more, for someone to love.
Once it was discovered that the blonde Shinobi had disappeared, search parties were immediately sent out to retrieve him or at least convince him to return to the Hidden Village of the Leaf, though none of them had succeeded. Uchiha Sasuke accompanied many of these search parties.
It had been him who had first learned of Naruto's absence, the only one to have read the note he had left behind before it was lost into the night. The dark haired teen had never told anyone of the reason the blonde had left, let alone the actual extent of the relationship the two had held between them. He had never been one to talk much with others.
He regretted that now.
Within the last few days, he had often thought that perhaps he could have prevented this if only…if only he had told Naruto how much he'd loved the other boy. But he hadn't, and now nothing he could say would bring the blonde back when he didn't even know where he was.
It was not only Sasuke who had felt the pain of losing Naruto, others bore their own sorrows that had come from his absence.
Sakura had been hit unexpectedly by it all; she had not thought it would hurt her so much to lose the obnoxious shinobi. He had always been just an annoying little voice in her ear that just wouldn't go away, forever pestering her. And yet, with each second that went by with him gone, the more she realized how wrong she had been. Somehow, somewhere along the line he had become something more, though she resented the fact. She refused to believe that Naruto could make her feel like this.
Along with this, the cherry blossom girl discovered many other things that she had never really understood. At some point, Naruto had stopped searching for her love. Though he still asked for her to date him and pestered her incessantly to go places with him or to take him along with her, it was no longer real. It had just become a ritual; there was nothing more behind it. As the blonde's feelings for her had faded, he hadn't known what to do, so instead simply continued with the game they had played for so long now.
It was not only that, but it appeared to her that from his disappearance her visions upon things had changed dramatically. Her view upon her long time crush, Sasuke, had dropped. When Naruto had been there, the dark haired Uchiha had seemed to be so far above it all. He was forever saving the blonde, forever ignoring and provoking him with a calm indifference, or, so she had thought. She saw it now and wondered how she could ever have missed it before. Sasuke had never reacted to anyone the way he did to Naruto, he had managed to break through all of the dark haired boy's barriers without even trying. Whenever Sasuke had `saved' the blonde, it hadn't been real; Naruto had allowed himself to fall into position so that once again Sasuke would be the hero. For some reason, the fox was…special. It was something she never could really be.
But though she knew this, she ignored it. She had forced herself to believe that one day the dark haired Chunnin would love her, and now she could never turn away from the goal.
Through it all, a certain silver haired Jounin had watched his two former students with growing be concern. To many, Sasuke would have appeared to be his usual stoic self, however, to one who had spent over three hours a day over the last five years with the boy, they could easily tell that much had changed about him.
Lately, he had become (if possible) even less social then he had been before, drawing into himself once again. He rarely spoke, only doing so when it was absolutely necessary and even then it was less then a few words at a time. Sakura had begun to fret over this greatly, having attached herself to Sasuke's arm and refusing to let go. More then once did Kakashi have to step in and rescue the foolish cherry blossom girl when Sasuke's temper grew short.
Once again, the darkness that had nearly consumed the dark haired boy all those years ago was resurfacing from deep within him. This time though, it was Naruto who had caused its coming and it was only him who could stop it.
Ugh, I hated every word of this chapter, it was so slow too! Nothing really important happened, and it was shorter then I'd had hoped it to be, but in the end it was just a filler type thing to tell everyone what's been going on. Anyway, Please review to tell me whether to keep going or to let this fic drown in the never ending sea of NaruSasu fanfictions.