Naruto Fan Fiction ❯ Naruto: The sands of time ❯ Chapter 17 Faded pictures in a broken glass part 2 ( Chapter 17 )

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Chapter 17: Faded pictures in a broken glass part 2

“This…Can’t be happening…” Sasuke said to himself, dashing towards the sound, hoping for any signs of life in the neighborhood where his family lived. He heard gunshots, and the distant sound of some one talking…

The alley was only a path between the two surrounding buildings, it lead behind them to what seemed to be a construction area. The ground was nothing but dirt bulldozed flat and devoid of anything else. It was only a few feet until Sasuke ran in to a chain link fence with barbwire on the top meant to keep others out. Which didn’t do a good job considering that it looked as if a hole had been ripped open in the part he was standing in front of.

Sasuke slipped through, finding more dead on the other side, morel of the police force which was composed mainly of the Uchiha family anyway. “No…No!” Sasuke knelt down by one of the bodies, identifying each family member and confirming each to be dead. He was way past scared…terrified didn’t do the fear he was feeling justice.

The sounds of voices grew louder as he moved closer to the area of construction, a building with a 10 story frame but only two stories built. The steel was covered in wood and drywall that surrounded the first floor blocking any view of what was inside. Sasuke pressed his body against the wall, listening closer to the familiar voices…of his father and Itachi.

“You’ve abandoned your duties, you’ve forsaken and betrayed your family!” His father yelled. Gunshots could be heard after that from both sides.

“Dad! Brother!” Sasuke screamed, dashing towards the door only a few feet away.

He heard Itachi’s voice as he rammed the…locked door. “Sasuke, don’t come in…” Sasuke didn’t listen, instead he rammed the door open and stumbled inside of the dimly lit first floor. It was a large room considering no walls had be put up, the blue glow from a street light outside was just barely enough for Sasuke to see what had happened.

“No! Mother!” Sasuke ran to his mother’s body laying a few feet ahead in pool of blood with a shot to the head. “Fa-Father!” Seeing that his mother was dead, he ran forward to his father just a foot or two away from his mother. He had been shot in the hart….

And in front of all of them he could see Itachi, his face covered in the shadows of the room. “Why!?” Sasuke yelled, looking towards his brother with confusion. “Why did you kill everybody!?”

Itachi stood there, only looking at Sasuke for a moment. “I told you not to come in.” Itachi raised his gun, an unusually modified M4A1 that had what appeared to be a highly insulated fuel tank equipped behind the barrel, a set up that appeared to be a flamethrower. Why all of the isolation was needed could easily be seen, a large sliver battery back was attached to the top of the gun with a long rod that lay just above the barrel, it spilt into two rods at the tip. What appeared to be a volt gun.

He fired a few shots above Sasuke’s head, the door could be heard slamming shut behind them. Sasuke looked back nervously. “You murdered them!” he shouted, that confusion and uncertainty turning into a blind furry.

“They were…a measurement to my skills, I needed to see how strong I’d become…”

“You…killed them for that!….The lives of our family was for that!?” Sasuke felt his body begin to tremble and his eyes water. “What the fuck!” Sasuke reached down and took hold of his father’s hand gun next to the body, but before he could even lift it he felt a sharp blow to his stomach. Forcing him to drop the gun and fall to his knee’s clinched in pain.

Anger started to pull away some, letting the fear return stronger then ever when his brother picked him up off the ground by his shirt collar. Itachi threw him with all his strength, sending his small body soaring through the air, busting through the door of the building and sliding to a stop in the mud outside. “AAAHHH!” Sasuke held his body, feeling the worst pain on his back.

“I’m…scared…” Sasuke mumbled fearfully, stumbling on to his feet by holding on to the plow of a nearby bulldozer. He watched Itachi emerge from the building and coming towards him. “D-don’t kill me.” He said pleadingly as Itachi picked him up by his neck.

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“So, what happened after that?” Konohamaru asked.

“I’m not sure…uh…well.” Naruto rubbed his head nervously.

Shikamaru sighed “Then go to the next part you do know.”

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Naruto lifted his arm to his forehead and wiped the water from his eyes, he smirked a bit. Despite how the day started it turned out alright. Today was when he first met Iruka, who had managed to save his last bit of sanity by treating him to some ramen. He had literally saved his last bit of sanity because he felt himself on the verge of finally losing it after 7 years of a completely miserably life.

After that small act of kindness, nothing could possibly ruin his day or week for that matter.

Naruto lowered his hand, turning the corner and coming that much closer to his home, but he quickly jumped back as a badly limping Sasuke finally fell to the ground in front of him. “Huh?” Naruto knelt down next to him in mild confusion, flinching from a loud roll of thunder in the sky. “Hey! Are you ok?”

Only loud sobs could be heard from Sasuke as he struggled to get up, but fell back down on his face and cried louder. Naruto rolled him over on to his back, “What happened to you?” He asked, once again not getting a response for Sasuke who didn’t seem to be paying attention, almost as if he was in a daze. “Damn.”

Naruto lifted him up, wrapping Sasuke’s arm around his shoulder and attempting to move him someplace else. He got some help from Sasuke who tried to walk even though he didn’t know where Naruto was leading him, he didn’t care at that point as long as he was as far away from everything that happened as he could get.

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Naruto kicked his door open with his foot after the awkward process of unlocking it with Sasuke barely conscious in his arms. After a much harder walk in the rain, Naruto managed to lay Sasuke down on his bed. “What happened to you?”

Sasuke coughed some, feeling a deep pain from the action in his chest from where he’d been hit by Itachi. “He…killed everyone.” He said as if still in disbelief, his eyes blurry from the tears.

“What do you mean?” Naruto asked, after drying his hair and face he started to do the same to Sasuke. Wiping away the blood, sweat and rain from his face only to have it replaced by more tears from his eyes and blood from the cuts on his face.

“My brother…he killed every one.”

“What? Who did he kill?” Naruto asked, holding the other boy by the shoulders.

“My family…” Sasuke said, a steady flow of tears escaping from his eyes along with a few soft sobs. Naruto looked at him for a minute…

“Are you ok?” Naruto asked, feeling a warm liquid falling on to his hands. Pulling them back he found that Sasuke was blood was streaming down his face and dripping on to him. “Hold on…”
Sasuke looked on questioningly as Naruto knelt down and reached under his bed, after a second of shifting Naruto emerged with a first aid kit.

Sitting the large box next to Sasuke, he opened it up revealing that most of it had been used. Sasuke wondered how Naruto managed to use up this much bandages and antiseptic, he wasn’t the type person that was clumsy enough to hurt himself this much. He could even see some dried blood that looked as if it was spilled in the last day or two, he’d have to ask about that later.

Naruto wiped off more blood from Sasuke’s face, opening an antiseptic pad from it’s packaging and cleaning Sasuke’s cuts. “Why are you helping me?” Sasuke asked. Watching Naruto put on a few band-aids on his face.

Naruto shrugged, “I don’t know, you just fell in front of me.” Naruto looked down at Sasuke’s shirt, finding that the black fabric was tented red from blood. He found himself lifting it up with out asking but getting no protest from the boy otherwise. “Whoa….” The only thing not hidden by the copious amounts of blood was the large burses.

Sasuke just held his head down, finding that he couldn’t stop himself from crying. He didn’t care, nothing really mattered at that moment. Naruto started wiping away the blood again, getting a hiss of pain from Sasuke as he brushed over the bruises. He was almost done when he felt he wetness of a tear drop fall on his forehead.

“…” Naruto pulled out more antiseptic pads and dapped them over the cuts, finding it easier to pull Sasuke’s shirt off altogether then keep holding it up. “Don’t cry…”

“Don’t cry!” Sasuke shouted making Naruto flinch. “You have the nerve to tell me not to cry.”

“I’m trying to comfort you. So don’t yell at me!” Naruto said in a raised voice.

“Well fucking stop it! I don’t want your pity!” Sasuke said firmly, he never knew how much someone saying that to him made him mad. It sounded fake, like everybody else and it pissed him off now more then ever.

Naruto didn’t appreciate getting his head taken off when he was trying to help someone, and he was never a person to bite his tongue. He obviously didn’t like Sasuke and had no problem being honest or saying what he wanted too around him. “Well then open your eyes because that’s exactly what your getting! Just because something happened to you doesn’t give you the right to act like an asshole!” Naruto growled. He was surprised to get a strong punch to the side of his face.

Naruto fell and slid back a few feet, holding the side of his face “What the hell!” He jumped to his feet and punched Sasuke in the same place he was hit, knocking him back on to the bed. Sasuke reached up and pulled down some by his shoulders, sending another punch into his face.

“Don’t patronize me!” Sasuke shouted, jumping on top of the downed Naruto and throwing a punch. Naruto grabbed his arm before he could land the blow, pulling him down while he sent his knee upward into Sasuke’s chest and forcing him off.

Sasuke stumbled back into the bed while Naruto jumped on him and pinned him down. “I wasn’t you bastard!” Naruto attempted to throw another blow at Sasuke, but the other boy had a firm grip on his neck with one hand and punched him with the other before he could.

“You have no idea what it’s like to lose everything! And your patronizing me like you know me!” Sasuke yelled. After taking a blow Naruto managed to grab his arms and pin him down. But Sasuke was much stronger then he looked and began to push back, breaking out of Naruto’s hold. Naruto pushed himself all the way on to Sasuke, pressing his body on to his and holding his hands above his head and halting most of his movement except for some squirms.

“Your talking about loss…” Naruto’s voice filled with a bit of sadness along with his anger. “You lost everything, I never had anything!”

Sasuke looked up at him with more questioning in his eyes.

“You had a family! I didn’t have anybody, You have a fucking Fan club! You can’t find one person in Konoha who doesn’t like you. Everyone HATES ME! I don’t even know why. Nothing I say or do can change that. Do you know what it‘s like living like that every day!” Naruto glared down at Sasuke who only looked back at him in confusion.

“I…didn’t know.” Sasuke said, turning away and pushing Naruto off of him. He automatically began holding his chest and cringing in pain from the contact to his bruises. Getting a glimpse of his back, Naruto sighed, he was mad but he wasn’t heartless.

“Roll over…” Naruto said, watching Sasuke comply and roll on to his stomach while holding his self a few inches off of the bed so his torso wouldn’t make contact and cause more pain. “Well now you know.” Naruto started wiping away the half dried blood from Sasuke’s back, then opening another antiseptic pad to clean the wounds.

“I never knew why everyone didn’t like you.”

“I don’t either, why didn’t you like me?”

“Because everyone said I was an Uchiha and I shouldn’t even be looking at someone like you…”

“…” Naruto pulled out a roll of bandages and began wrapping them around Sasuke’s torso. “What are you going to do now?”

Sasuke became more solemn… “I don’t know…My mother and Father didn’t need to die.” Sasuke felt more tears forming from the still sensitive subject. he’d forgotten about what just happened…what Itachi had done to him…everything completely when he was arguing with Naruto. He wished he was still arguing, he didn’t want to face this right now.

“Because I didn’t have enough power--” Sasuke clinched his eyes “The entire Uchiha family was destroyed. Every one was killed!” Sasuke buried his face in his arms, feeling his whole body trembling with anger and sadness.

“It wasn’t your fault.” Naruto said, wrapping the last layer of bandages over the wounds and moving back to look over his work

“How can you say that!” Sasuke said fiercely. “If I was strong enough--”

“You couldn’t be strong enough. Itachi’s much older then you.” Naruto said.

“Why the hell dose it matter if he’s older, Itachi’s stronger then people older then him! If I’d trained harder--” Sasuke was cut off.

“If the whole police force couldn’t stop him, how could you have stood a chance! Your lucky your not dead.” Naruto snorted.

“If I’d spent more time working and less time in school learning meaningless--”

“Listen to yourself, If you didn’t go to school that day you’d end up just like everyone else. And I’m sure that would have been a great loss for every girl in the school. Not to mention your Fan club, they would have been devastated!” Naruto yelled sarcastically.

“You have no idea what’s it’s like to be me! No one ever talks to me, they talk over me and agree with everything is say just in hopes they can use me to get on good terms with my family.”
“At lest someone says something to you!” Naruto said. “Every time someone says something to me it’s an insult or they’re just telling me how much they hate me.” He once again reconfirmed that Sasuke may have been neglected and used most of the time, but Naruto had it much worse. Which once more raised the question of how did he manage to use up this much of a first aid kit by himself.

Sasuke sat down on the edge of the bed and looked down at the box. “How did you use all of this by yourself?”

Naruto held his head down and avoided Sasuke‘s gaze, “I did tell you people hate me right…”

Sasuke didn’t understand what he meant by it at first, “Huh?”

“Have you ever hated someone?”

“..Yes.” The thought of Itachi raged through his mind, he was quickly sorting out his feelings about the whole matter.

“What would you want to do most to that person?”

Sasuke could easily say he wanted to kill Itachi right now…. which made him realize what Naruto meant. “Oh…” Sasuke wouldn’t put it past people to harm Naruto conceding the way they were about him. Yeah, Naruto definitely had the harder life of anyone he’d ever seen.

“What are you going to do now?” Naruto asked, quickly changing the subject. No one at school knew about that….aspect of his life and it was kinda embarrassing.

“I don’t know…I…can’t go back. There’s no one left of my family but me…Itachi’s trying to kill me. I can’t go back to that house…”

Naruto just shook his head and put the first aid kit back under his bed. “Since you already got my bed wet--” Sasuke looked down and saw that he had gotten the bed completely wet “You can stay here…But I’m sure you’d rather stay someone else so I won’t keep you.”

Naruto handed Sasuke his shirt, who looked down at it curiously. “I…can’t. I can’t stay with those people, I’ll go insane.” Sasuke said holding his head tightly.

Naruto raised an eyebrow. “Huh?” He was sure Sasuke had his reasons about it, there certainly wasn‘t a shortage of people willing to take him in. “You can stay here…you know, if you want to I really don’t care.”


“Thank you….” That was the only time Sasuke ever said thank you to Naruto…well variably at lest.

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“How could you fight Sasuke!” Konohamaru growled “He was hurt.”

“Huh? Sasuke started it with me.” Naruto said plainly.


“What I start with you?” Sasuke’s voice ran from the door way. A very tired Sasuke walked in to the room much more injured then when he left yesterday. Ignoring his own question he turned to Konohamaru, looking over the saddened expression on his face that’d been there since the night before. Konohamaru turn towards him and smiled.

“Hi Sasuke. So how’d it go?” He asked.

“I passed…Are you alright?” Sasuke asked.

The smile toned down from a real one into a fake one. “My parents died.”

“…” Sasuke sat down on the bed next to him, looking down at Shikamaru who only shrugged and closed his eyes. “Are you going to be alright?”

“Yeah…” Konohamaru abruptly turned his back on Sasuke and looked towards the window. “Please don’t give me that look…it’s like everyone else is going to give me. I hate it when people look at me around here, it’s always fake, and it’s going to be even worse now…”

Sasuke laid back tiredly, landing on the other side of Konohamaru so the boy was in-between him and Naruto. “It’s like torture, I’m completely isolated by people I can’t even talk with…all because I’m the President’s grandson.”

Sasuke smirked. “I know what you mean.”

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