Naruto Fan Fiction ❯ Nothing Lasts Forever ❯ Why? ( Chapter 5 )

[ X - Adult: No readers under 18. Contains Graphic Adult Themes/Extreme violence. ]

Staring at the spot that Sasuke had just occupied, Naruto could do nothing but ponder the words Sasuke had left behind. He wished he was able to interpret the hidden meaning in Sasuke’s words; a hidden message he was sure was meant only for him.
“Let’s get some wood and head back to camp. We will take alternating guard duty throughout the night. Now that we know Sasuke is in the immediate vicinity we will need to be extra cautious. He knows all our weaknesses while we know only a few of his,” Kakashi spoke, brining Naruto out of his pondering.
“Of course,” he said softly.
Kakashi walked up to Naruto and ruffled his hair, “Don’t let him get you down Naruto. It’s all part of his strategy. He will try to distract us both and take us out at our weakest moment. You need to be strong and overcome your past with him. You must think of him only as an enemy of the village.”
Blinking the tears out his eyes, Naruto nodded in understanding.
“Alright. Well let’s get that wood!” Kakashi explained as he smiled as Naruto.
Naruto forced a smile unto his face, “Yeah!”
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Naruto and Kakashi sat on opposite sides of the fire, neither speaking to the other. Both were lost in thoughts of their lost comrade.
Naruto was thinking about all that Sasuke had said, ‘Why would he say those things? ‘Do you kiss Sakura with that mouth?’ I understand that was supposed to be mocking, but what about the pain in his eyes when he said it… and ‘I left for a reason… I have no intentions of returning’. Does it have anything to do with the first one? Oh Kami’, Naruto thought, having reached a conclusion, ‘He left BECAUSE of Sakura… He left because I took away his chances for him to be with her… for him to revive his clan.’
Startling out of his thoughts when someone was shaking him, he quickly pulled out a kunai before looking at the ‘attacker’.
“Whoa Naruto, it’s just me. It’s your turn for sentry duty. If you don’t want to do it, all you had to do was say something, no need to kill me!” Kakashi laughed.
Naruto shook his head and stood, “No, I’ll do it Kakashi. I was just lost in thought.”
“Like I said Naruto, you just have to let everything he says go… he is no longer your friend or comrade, he is an enemy of our village… of our home.”
“I know.”
With that Naruto walked off and jumped into the trees for his round of sentry duty. While sitting there, his thoughts once again drifted off to Sasuke.
‘No wonder Sasuke left… his best friend betrayed him and took the woman he loved. That would break any man down.’
Hearing a rustle in the leaves, Naruto broke from his thoughts and went to see what it was. Turning around all he saw was crimson eyes.
“Sasu-ke?”
Receiving no answer, he went for his kunai pouch but a blow to the back of the head, and darkness was all he knew.