Naruto Fan Fiction ❯ Homecoming ❯ Homecoming ( Chapter 1 )

 

 

 

 

 

Exert From Uzumaki Naruto's Diary

 

I'm tired so very tired.

 

I know I don't have a lot of time to bring you home it's been what? 2 years now and you still plague my thoughts. We meaning Sakura and I came for you recently with Sai, he's not so bad if you don't mind unemotional closed off people. I laugh to my self I have just described you. Some times I get angry and want to hit something total destroy it when I think of you sometimes I want to lay down, curl into a ball and cry just to feel sorry for my self and sometimes, Teme, I don't feel anything. It's like going numb from the neck up and it's all I can do to keep grinning so no one see's. Sakura almost did once on the steps by the Library it was one of those times I wanted to cry or die but seeing her then at that exact moment reminded me that I had a promise to fulfill albeit 2 and half years old.

You Should be here teme, Sakura is getting more and more beautiful every day she doesn't hit me as much anymore but when she does….MAN!

 

I've learned a new technique since our last encounter; I've worked hard on it. Shikimaru, Ino and Choji have gone with Kakashi to kill those bastards that got Asuma-sensei. I feel bad for them and all of Konoha and I feel guilty. If I wasn't here in the village if I had left instead of you then Asuma might still be here for team 10 but as it stands I know too that if I had then you would have gone with Orochimaru regardless and then Sakura-chan would have No hope. I have to be strong for her and fulfill my promise to her I wouldn't fail Teme I will find you and even if it kills me I will drag you back here and die a happy man.

 

Sasuke you are my best friend and brother not just in arms You don't scare me but not ever seeing you home again does.

END

 

Closing the book she was holding Haruo Sakura began humming to herself contentedly, it was odd to say the least to find the pink haired Kunichi smiling now adays but to hear her humming in the presence of two of the strongest and scariest people in the village possible the world was down right unsettling.

“You planning something?” she asked in her sweetest tone, the boy wasn't fooled the veiled threat of bodily harm hung over his head, but it wasn't that which bothered him it was the blonde lying in the bed next to him. He had yet to wake up since returning the Uchiha heir and to make matters worse Sakura read to him every day from HIS diary. He didn't really mind the company but it was unnerving to hear the blonde's thoughts from her lips. Over the last three days he had learned from Sakura's reading how his leaving had effected the blonde, as well as some of his adventures with the old pervert Jiraiya but over the last few pages both he and Sakura learned how much he truly cared about them and thought of them as his surijet family with Iruka-sensei playing the role as his father figure and Kakashi being something of a perverted uncle.

“Hn.” He answered her. Still smiling she leaned over and patted his cheek he didn't exactly snatch his head away but he did turn it to the side away from her.

“How's your scar feel today?” she reached and pushed his head towards her to inspect her handwork. Under Tsunade-sama's tutelage and with Jiriaya's help she had found a way to remove the seal from his neck given to him by the snake, it had taken a lot of work and careful planning and required Naruto's help and the use of his chakra and from what she could tell it worked. After putting the complicated thing to use Sasuke's personality had begun to return to his usual aloofness his concern for others had resurfaced though he tried to hide it like he always had and she could tell the rough affection he held for the blonde the second day they were back when he asked about Naruto. She remembered well the result of that, she had the Uchiha moved into the blondes room, Tsunade had a fit but Sakura had promised to stay with them and since then the two where never alone either Jiriaya, Kakashi, herself and even tsunade would sit with them.

Sakura opted for the nights most of the time because it was then that she witnessed something she thought she would never see, the first night he and Naruto shared a room it was midnight and Sakura was dozing lightly in her chair when she heard a rustle of fabric and sheets and then the soft pad of feet. Slitting her eyes she watched the love of her life tip-toeing across the room to stand beside Naruto's bed, The blonde was wrapped from head to toe his leg in a cast since the nine-tails chakra was some what depleted from the curse-seal removal. She opened her eyes wider but kept her breathing even and listened.

“Dobe, why did you go so far for me?” the blonde smiled slightly and grasped the hand that was resting on the bed beside his,

“You asked…me that….before…..remember?” he was still to weak and she could tell he was fighting the medication to stay awake a few more minutes. Sasuke looked down at the hand that was holding his and without a word he tightened his fingers around the other boys a single tear hit the sheets his head was bowed.

“I could have killed you, baka.” Naruto's smile got impossibly wider and he tugged the hand he was holding he worked his jaw trying to speak but nothing came out just a squeak and he made a face. Sasuke leaned down to make it easier for the blonde,

“Shut up, Teme.” He whispered before falling back asleep still holding Sasuke's hand. Sakura watched her eyes wide open now as her old teammate reached up with his free hand and brushed the blonde bangs back from the other boys face a small contented smile on his face.

“You don't have to hold me here Naruto I wont leave again, I'll be here when you wake up…nii-chan.”

 

Coming back to the real world she smiled a genuine smile of affection at the one time deserter of Konoha now returned, she finished her inspection of his neck and turned around to find Naruto staring at them a grin on his face.

“Welcome back to the land of the living.” She said to him and his smile grew. Behind her she could hear Sasuke sitting up and glaring at the blonde.

“Oi teme, I told you I would kick your ass!” the hoarseness in his voice made her laugh and he coughed to clear it.

“Whatever, dobe.” Sasuke rolled his eyes.

“TEME!” Naruto yelled at him, which drew the attention of the ANBU standing outside of their room.

“Naruto, you baka!” Sakura chided him.

“Ursatonchi.” Sakura grinned, yes he was back to stay, team 7 would be once again, it would take work but the way these two slipped so comfortably back together anything was possible.

Anything!