Trapped | By : havenoclue Category: Naruto > Yaoi - Male/Male Views: 1277 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0 |
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AN: So here it is… the end… Thanks God! I know I'm the worst fanfic writer ever, with those sporadic update and excuses and everything… I'm really sorry you guys… but we finally here… at the end. Yay!
AN2: not beta-ed, sorry for any mistakes.
Chapter 11
He was here…
It took him two days of running non-stop but he was finally here… The Valley of the End…
Hah! What an appropriate name…
Naruto didn't even know whether he has to laugh or cry for the irony. Maybe he could just do both. He was pretty sure it can be done.
Without warning Naruto dropped to the ground, trying to catch his breath. It feels like his feet...no… the muscles of his whole body conspired against him, forcing him to stop moving.
Again Naruto couldn't make up his mind.
Cry or laugh, you dobe?
He didn't know… should just do both… yeah just do… both…
Naruto forced his body to move closer to the edge of the valley. His muscle screamed in agony but hey, he was the great Uzumaki Naruto, the Hokage-to-be… this obstacle… was nothing.
Just a little bit more…
"Yo~sh! I did it… did it!" screamed Naruto as he thrust his right fist into the air and laugh maniacally.
Once again the jounin forced his body to move and then sitting on the edge of the cliff with both of his legs dangling over the river below. He then took a deep breath and opened his eyes…
Oh!
The beauty in front of him took his breath away. He had forgotten how stunning this place was.
Again, the irony struck him. How beautiful this place was… how… how brutal the fights that took place in this very spot were… including his and… Sasuke…
A familiar pain pierced his heart and Naruto embraced the old friend.
For the last time… and then… no more…
Naruto slowly opened the pouch that attached on his right thigh and taking out the object that has become his most precious thing. The blue color on that piece of cloth was not as vivid as 5 years ago, but the metal plate that was engraved with the symbol of Konoha still as shiny. The blond has taken a good care of it.
The tears began to emerge in the brim of his eyes as one of his fingertip bit by bit followed the engraving of the Konoha symbol on the old hitai-ate, including the vicious slash across the symbol that was put there by his own hand. Sasuke had left his hitai-ate for him as a sign. Sign that their friendship has ended, sign that he should just give him up, though Naruto never heed those silent request.
How fast time flies. Five years of struggling… is it really the end?
It was all began here. This place has changed him, forced him to grow up and ended his innocence.
He left Fire Country as a part of Shikamaru's team, in that said man first mission as a chuunin, with a promise to his most important people at that time, Sakura. Three days filled with madness as one by one his teammate stay behind to face a deadly enemy so he can keep going and going…
No… not just this place… this place and that fight…
When Sasuke ripped his heart out, he never fully healed. Physically maybe, but that day he had lost his heart. On the way home on the back of Kakashi sensei, his world had shifted. Sasuke had become the centre of his world… had become the number one and he… was trapped ever since.
Despite the pain and heartache, last year was the happiest days of his life. Since that first… no… second kiss… They had claimed each other first kiss when they still in the Ninja Academy. It was accidental alright… but still counted.
Naruto chuckled at the memory but his eyes blurred by the tears that keep falling.
See? It can be done.
As he got on his feet, the blond shinobi took a deep breath one more time. He rubbed the hitai-ate lovingly with his thumb for the last time and then give it a kiss.
Now it's time… let's end it once and for all…
"Goodbye, Sasuke…" whispered Naruto and then throw the hitai-ate to the river below.
It was happened so fast… one moment he watched his most precious thing falling down and next he saw a figure dressed in white captures the said object just second before it touching the water.
"Are you really going to throw us like you throw this hitai-ate?" asked the voice from his back. He didn't even know how the man manage to move that fast.
"Us? There's us now?" snorted Naruto. "Since when?"
"Naruto, I…"
The clad orange ninja really really want to turn around. He never was a coward before. But he really didn't know whether his determination to end it all is still as strong as ever when he saw his… practically his everything stand before him. And it scared him.
"Just say your piece."
"Can you turn around?"
Trying his best to act indifferently, Naruto turned around to face Sasuke. "What do you want?"
Naruto could see clearly how Sasuke pleading with his eyes, but he refused to give him an inch this time. He has too often succumbed to this man. If he wanted something from him, then he better fought for it.
The Uchiha prodigy tried to open his mouth but nothing came out, it looks like there's something stuck in his throat, whilst his hands non stop twisting the hitai-ate.
"Just forget it," said Naruto firmly then starting to walk away.
"Wait!" yelled Sasuke.
The blond stopped on his track.
"I… I want to live…"
No respond from the jounin, but he stayed on.
"What I'm doing now… ever since I came back to Konoha… is not living," confessed Sasuke, "I let myself drowned in guilt… and I… I hurt… you."
"I forgive you."
"I… I want to live now, Naruto."
"Good."
"W-with you."
The two last words really surprised Naruto and he stunned. The table have turned now, this time it was Naruto who speechless.
"It would be nice if you said something."
"Like what?"
"Like you will give me another chance," answered Sasuke, "…that you will help me relearn how to live."
Again the pleading eyes and Naruto never really had a solid defense when it comes to Sasuke. "Okay."
"Okay?"
"Okay."
"It's not going to be easy."
"I know."
"I will drive you crazy most of the time."
"I know."
"I will brooding and make you sad and-"
"Sasuke!" cut Naruto, "I know… but I wouldn't change it for the world because it's you, okay?"
"Okay."
Sasuke smiled and again Naruto stunned. His lover never really smile before... he smirked.
"Now what do you say if we take advantage of this place?"
One of his arc-shaped brow lifted upward before the raven asked subtly, "What do you have in mind?"
Naruto of course didn't miss the flirty undertone, "What do you have in mind?"
"What?" denied Sasuke, but the lusty black eyes said it all.
Pervert!
The blond decided not to call Sasuke on it just yet, there was plenty of time for that afterwards.
"This thing between us began with a fight… so let's have another one in this place."
The flirty mode gradually shifted into the fight mode... the Uchiha patent smirk was back in place.
"I beat you at that time, usuratonkachi…"
Naruto smirked back... hey, he had learned how to do it properly from the master himself.
"I will beat you this time, teme…"
"Bring it on…"
END
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