I munch on the apple that came with the hospital meal.
Why... does everyone complain about the hospital food? It's either cheap or free.
The fact that it's free makes it delicious.
It has been a few hours since they smacked me back to reality.
"You have a visitor." a nurse says.
Who the fuck would come to visit me? My whole family is dead and my sister is a dick .although she doesn't have one ....but I'm calling her a dick.
Hmm....maybe I should call her a vagina?
Naruto walks in.
The guy is a mess.
Baggy red eyes. Snot nose.
He comes in ....stands there like he is looking at a ghost.
Is Snape my chin towards the chair?
He sits.
"How is it going? Did ya eat the ramen?"
No response.
I munch on the juicy apple.
"For your information, brother, I could've won that. It's dumb luck that you got to eat that ramen. Oboitoke!" I say with a snot.
Still nothing.
"I won't lose next time.... hey!!! Are you good brah? Did the cat get your tongue or something? You look like someone put a rat in your ...!"
"I thought you died .", naruto says in a low voice.
Soon he starts trembling. Tears start to drop like floodgates.
"I thought you died man Adebayo? What gives? What thought we were brothers ttebayo? ", he says while crying from his nose and teeth.
"And it's because of a stupid ass coupon. If ...I...didn't fight for it with....you wouldn't be in this mess....ugh....!!!", Says Naruto while trying to wipe his tears. But it won't stop.
As if the sky is crying with him.
The sky becomes gray, with slight drizzling.
Tipper tapper sounds from the window.... the smell of wet grounds fills the room. I take a breath full of the smell...I love it.
"It's my fault. They say, my parents died because of me. Now it's happening with you too< ttebayo.." Says Naruto while sniffing the snot in and swallowing it with a gulp.
Disgusting.
"No." That is all I say.
Naruto looks at me.
"I am invincible naruto. Nothing can kill me."
"Everyone dies. My parents died so hard that I don't even know who they were."
"Yes....I will die one day. But not before I reach my goal, naruto."
"But you did almost die today-ttebayo.", he says as a matter of fact.
"You don't believe me? I am invincible. Naruto. Your demon or whatever it is ...can't kill me." I say with a smile.
"You lier.", naruto snorts.
Suddenly I'm feeling anger ....so much of it.
"You stinky poo...brat....you think I'm lyin', huh! Want me to prove it to ya? Nothing can kill me."
"then prove it. Prove it that you won't die. Leave me behind.... if you are gonna die because of me...I would rather be alone." He screams.
The rain intensifies. It's a storm at this point.
It's as if responded to my anger and thunder strikes.
"Okey... village demon brat. Follow me. If ya have guts.", I pump chakra my IV ports.
They pop out. I jump through the window and climb onto the rooftop. The fucking hair sticks to my face.
I take off my hospital gown. Cold rain hits my skin. Chills to me to my bones.
The sky roars as if angry. Angry at me. Angry at the world.
But I have to. I have to anger the gods today.
To Naruto, I have to be a symbol of invincibility. A symbol of absolute strength and resolve. I need to be strong. But to be strong...the impression of strong is more effective.
Itachi Ne was right. As pathetic as I am...even a caged-up Bijuu with no powers can kill me. But I can't let Naruto have any weird impression of me.
I tie up my hair with the strip of the hospital gown.
I've been planning to do this for a long time.
And it's the right occasion. This is the only chance to pull off the trick.
"Nanistendaaaa...temeeee!!!" Naruto sceams at me . The rain dempster down his voice.
With a flip and a hop, I get on the lightning pole.
"Naruto....I will prove it to ya. I am invincible. The god of lighting will test. Witness me... naruto,"
"Bastered have ya gone crazy", naruto is a bit scared. 6 year olds ...buch of cowerd.
"Naruto.... I'm not strong. Not strong enough to beat everyone in this world. What is the point of being strong...if I'm not chosen by the gods? Today you will witness....the power of gods. If I am worthy, the lighting will not hit me. If I'm not....." I wipe away the water from my face. Strach my hands wide.
Naruto looks scared. But he is quiet. Looking at me with eyes that expect something. Yeah.... that's the look I want.
"I will die....my brother.", I scream.
Naruto is silent. The trembles from the cold rain. Trembles from the rumbling of the sky.
But his eyes are firm.
Lighting starts to strike. As if angry at my insolence the god wants to punish me.
It's all around me. The wind blows hard. But I stay firm.
I channel lighting nature in my hands with the little chakra that I have.
The lighting starts to become increasingly rowdy.
I feel eyes on me. Multiple.
Okay.....let's start the show.
I increase the output and channel the chakra through me.
BANG!!!!!!!!
Lighting strikes directly to my hand.
But it is harmless since, I am standing on a freaking lighting poll, in which I am channeling the full brunt of it.
Naruto blocks his ears and eyes from the explosion.
But after the initial one....things start to get more ...hectic.
Multiple strikes pass through me.
Like machinegun shots, it keeps on making noise.
At some point, it gets so rapid...I look as if I'm holding solid lighting.
The sky clears .....and the rain dies down. The lighting stops.
But sparks are shooting from my hands.
I get down from the pole. Land right in front of Naruto.
The guy has an indescribable expression on his face.
"You see....naruto....you and I....are not so much different. The people call you a demon.
But I am the actual one. So go don't around feeling smug about it. ?"
Naruto gulps.
Pass by him....put a slight tap on his shoulder.
"Got it?" I ask.
He nods.
I start to walk back towards my hospital cabin.
"Oi theme...!" Naruto calls. I look behind.
"Wanna get half?" He asks.
!!!????.
"You didn't eat it? ", I asked.
Naruto just shrugs.
"Didn't feel like it.....wanna go now? ", he is looking the other way.
What the heck....didn't feel like eating ramen.
Huh.....what did that guy do for the past few days? He eats only ramen.
....meh....whatever.
"Okay.....but I'm getting 6. I am recovering after all." I say with a grin.
"Yeah....whatever. let's go, shameless ", naruto grunts.
'Hei...who you calling shameless...you're the one who's inviting me. To you give your guest extra...", I say.
We jump off the roof, slide along the wall, and roll on the ground.
On our way to Ichiraku.
Man....I really should wear something.
"Haaaccchhuuuu!!!!!!!".
I wipe the snot off.
At the inchi raku, we land.
Taichi looks at me. Doesnt say anything.
With a nod, he takes the order and proceeds to make my ramen.
Ayame came in with the bowls.
"Ittaabakkimusss", we Dig in.
"What....aaaaaa...." Ayame san screams.
"What?"I ask.
Naruto points at my hands.
There....is a huge ass scare... running from my right finger to my neck.
"It goes up to your eyes. "he says.
So... now I look like an actual demon.
What the heck?
It was a calculated prank that I thought of to get Naruto off any weird thoughts.
I guess.....being struck by lightning has its side effects, despite the precautions.
"Meh!!!!" I shrug it off. Start slurping.
Ahh...the bliss...
Any actual jounin and hokage will be able to see through the prank.
It's basic physics.
Right?....
I stop for a moment.
Right...I'm not falling into someone's hitlist or kidney list right?...
Right.
I start slurping again.
######
A stunned old man stood still on the wire pole with wide.
When he was a mere genin of 15 years...he had to take the hat of hokage for the sake of the village.
Since then and even before that he had seen a lot of things in life. Being a soldier of 3 shinobi wars and
being the student of one of the 2nd strongest has HAshirama was a privilege he will never deny....a privilege that allowed him to witness monstrosity.
Water,summoned out of thin air
Forest, grown in an instant.
Sand, as bright as gold bending to a man's will.
Salamander, burning away hundreds of battle-hardened shinobi.
Toads, as big as mountains.
An angle of war, pulling away man from death's door.
One man, killing thousands ....not in a blink....in a flash.
He had seen it all. That is what he thought.
Until today, he saw a boy....a 6-year-old boy catching lighting.
He couldn't believe his eyes.
As if someone put a genjutsu on him.
The Anbu bodyguard appeared beside him.
Unsure of what to think...or what to do.
Never have there been a moment, when his shadow couldn't predict what should be the next objective.
Because his Hokage himself....has no idea what to do about it.
It's not a bijou that you can just seal away.
It's not an enemy you can just kill.
It's a complicated one.
For he has seen the lighting dragon god looking down on his village from the heavens.
######
The council has decided to keep the Uchiha and the Uzumaki together and under strict observation.
The order to separate them has been revoked.
Any request for early graduation of either has been harshly denied.
The incident has been strictly pushed under wraps and has been categorized as an S-rank secret.
######
I stretch one last time before starting my morning routine.
Train.
After that incident, they...gave me an apartment right in the same building as Naruto.
I can still go back to my compound, but they said it was recommended for me to stay here.
I ....didn't bother explaining things.
But either way, I have no intention of going back to the compound just yet.
The scares don't hurt. But they do itch sometimes. "No more trying to catch lighting." That is what my doctor said.
And.....I can...for some reason do basic lighting jutsu like sparks and electrification of weapons pretty easily.
Well....it is my primary chakra nature. So that should be obvious.
Not like I have anyone I can ask questions about it. I can't get into the library for more info and the family school collections don't have much on lighting release, since fire has been predominant in the clan.
Doing fire jutsu isn't that hard.
But I get the feeling that I'm wearing my shoes wrong when doing it...it doesn't feel right.
Aside from some extra guys around to guard him.
Kakashi is gone....maybe retired from Anbu.
Is he supposed to be retired that early?
The guy at least had some sense of humor.
Either way, 3 years went by without much incident.
News of Suna coming into alliance with the Konoha spread.
Maybe Kakashi is doing the delegations.
If so,he won't be back for a while.
In his place some boar-masked guy with weird chakra that smelled like rotten wood came in.
I'm guessing Yamato.
I don't see the need for so many guards.
And Naruto....yeah...hee.....just went back to being himself.
Dumping paint on people, firework bombs in the middle of the night, graffiti all over the place. The guy has zero interest in training.
With great effort, I was able to teach him a wall walk....but water walking is still too much.
Occasionally, I would help him regulate his chakra and meditate, but that is also tiring with him squirming all the time.
At least Kurama's chakra seems to not overshoot all over the place when I try any jutsu. So his Academy 3 transformation is good, but the clone is meh. Replacement is an output question. I don't fully understand how it works.
After a whole year of pushing him like a kart, he passed the elementary classes. I don't have a fucking idea how he passed in the canon.
And why do I even bother? Maybe, Because he let me stay in his house for all those months.
Maybe because, he dragged me to Mom and Dad's graves to pay respect when I wanted to go but too scared, maybe because he let me cry whenever felt like bowling my eyes out on my birthday and on his birthday, may be the guy sometimes gives me toppings off of his ramen, maybe because he helped anbu track me down to get into inoichi's sessions.
This has been a this has been a hectic few years. Naruto has been no less than a brother to me.
Like....he and I both are the same age, but he had some weird sense of maturity. he never gives up on a person.
I guess now I understand why Hinata liked the guy. If I was a girl, I would be head over heels by now....but I'm a guy...too bad.
That sounds gay though.
Kurama....yeah...no response from him.
And Guy sensei, refused to do any exercise on me until I'm ateast 10 or so.
But I am welcome to watch him train, do stances, and even occasional spars. But no weights or learning secret techniques.
And....as usual...I can't get into the library without Naruto helping me. So I can't really work on any jutsu.
So I went back home and retrieved some family weapons like shuriken and stuff.
Training ground 7.
The large green field by the river. It's a summer day and crickets a singing like crazy.
I sit under a shed and spin the shuriken.
Fascinating thing it is. Just infuse some chakra and it spins.
No matter what nature chakra I put in it, it spins.
There are hidden small coils of wire that can be used.
And scrolls description how to use them.
I guess I will learn the shuriken jutsu for now.
Maybe I can turn something out of it.....how do I make it spin...super fast? Like...saw cutter? Does it have bearing inside?... doesn't seem like it...aside from some engraved seals. Maybe they are the ones responsible for the rotation? I can use a bit of extra chakra to make it spin, but....it causes heat and sparks to fly all over...so it's waste.
So maybe I can....!
"What ya doin' , Sasuke kun?"
I jump up.
"Whow, don't scare me like that?", I winch.
"Oh...gomen gomen,", Says the girl.
She is thin....pink hair, tied with a red ribbon.
"Oh, Haruno san. I was just working with the shuriken is all. What brings you here? ", I ask.
"Me? I just thought,why not meet with the most handsome boy in our class?", she says with a smile.
She sits by me. Close.
"And didn't I tell you to call me Sakura?", she says.
"He he ....as always, the lady of our class. You too are beautiful as ever", I smirk.
Yeah...with all that scar on my face and hanging around with Naruto and the thing with my clan ended with me having no fangirls. I would've liked the attention. Maybe not.
Sakura is the only girl that I managed to make some kind of friendship. Even that is because she used to be my fangirl and Ino gave up on me. Because, Sometime ago , I went full bold after losing another challenge with Naruto, with my eyebrows.
So, Sakura is the only girl that ever bothers to talk to me. And I have too many guys in my life anyway.
I'm pretty sure she just enjoys teasing me nowadays.
"You know ....your friend asked me for a date the other day?", she says while tearing away a weed.
"Naruto....he never gives up now...does he? Even after you gave him that beating?"
"No, he doesn't. I only like you Sasuke kun. And I Didn't BEAT him...I only said no."
" sure didn't look like that!"I muttered under my breath.
"What was that,? Sasuke kun?"
"N...nothing!"
[Flash back: "Come one dobe , the worst she could say is no..."
"Ya sure teme, I can do this?"
"Of course, you are the future hokage."
The next day he came back with his face remodeled]
"So Sasuke kun? Why don't you come instead? "
"What a date?"
"Hmm"
"Yeah... okay"
"...you agreed? "
"Yeah...why not? It's a guy's dream to be asked first?"
There is silence.
She ponders for a bit.
"Hmm....maybe not...I wouldn't want to intrude on your time"
"Okay."
"You just agreed again."
"It's the ladies choice."
...
Sakura gets up.
"It was Nice meeting you, Sasuke kun"
"Yeah...you too....Haruno san."
She leaves.
Winds howling. I take in the fresh air. Breathing is fun.
Naruto flops down from branch.
"You are an ideat. Ya know?", he says.
"I know....my boy....I know....", I huff.
"She's gonna wait for you in the place , last time you promised to date her . again.!" He says ....sounds angry.
"No body waits for anybody my friend,"
"Is this like a sick joke to ya?" He hissed.
I put a hand on his shoulder.
"We are 7year old . Just put a sock on it. You wanna be hokage and I wanna survive in a god forsaken world where one person can kill thousands in a minute. There will be time for bithces bro."
Naruto swats away my hand and stomped away.
Probably after Sakura.
So young so naive.