Naruto Fan Fiction ❯ Forbidden ❯ Chapter 5 Insecurities ( Chapter 5 )

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Chapter 5 Insecurities


Naruto was depressed for quite sometime and it seemed that no one was able to cheer him up. After the appearance of Yondaime at the party Naruto had not been the same. Itachi was getting worried and he knew it was not healthy for someone to be that depressed. Naruto barely ate and all he did was work at the office. There were times where Itachi had to knock Naruto out to get him out of the office. Haku, Sasuke, and Gaara tried their best to but their efforts were useless. Kyuubi had insisted that everyone left Naruto alone and in time he would be back to normal. To everyone's surprise, Naruto did get back to normal but Itachi was still wary.

Haku was relieved and visited when he had the chance and Gaara and Sasuke did the same. Akatsuki had seemed to not care and their actions were becoming suspicious enough for the elite ninja in Konoha to notice, that's including Naruto, Gaara, Haku, Shikamaru, Shino, Hinata, etc. Naruto started to doubt Akatsuki's word on alliance and was glad to have given them false strengths and weaknesses of Konoha. Naruto also thanked that Haku, Gaara, and Sasuke had done the same. But Naruto still could not shake off the feeling that the Leader of Akatsuki was taking a liking to him and Naruto knew that Itachi was not taking well to it. Naruto had to calm Itachi down on more than one occasion, including when he was in depression. Naruto knew that Itachi felt threatened that his former leader was going to take Naruto away. Naruto assured Itachi that would not happen, but Naruto knew better than to be fooled by Itachi's relief. He knew that Itachi was still wary but was less tense about the issue.

Since Itachi was granted back to the ANBU, Itachi wore his mask when he was on duty and was around Naruto when Leader was around. Lucky for Itachi, Leader had not known that little piece of information and just thought that Itachi was another ANBU that was starting to distrust him. Kakashi was becoming quite wary of the Akatsuki as well but there was some members, like Kisame, who were left in the dark about everything that happened in Akatsuki. Naruto sighed and drew up the mental list of insecurities that he kept locked away in his mind. He added the Akatsuki alliance to the list before dragging himself out of thought to greet the visitors that had come for the Chuunin Exams. Naruto was going to be forced to make a speech but that was the least of his worries and everybody knew that.

***********************************************************< br> Sorry for the short chapter. The next one will be longer.