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A Fine Fine Line	By : eksimenrol Category: Naruto > Het - Male/Female > Naruto/Sakura Views: 5904 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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Chapter List
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Quick notes:� No spoilers if you have read up to Chapter
330 of the manga. �This is during the
events that takes us to the evening of the 4^th day.

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Chapter
Sixteen: Untimely News

��

��
�� It�s
amazing what can happen with a little time.�
Two days ago I didn�t have a clue how to add wind chakra to my
Rasengan.� One day ago I thought I mixing
the two was impossible.� One hour ago I
thought the worse think that would happen this day is that it was raining and Kakashi
tried to hit on me.� One minute ago I
learned that one of my best friend�s mentor and sensei was dead.� Life throws all sorts of surprises at
us.� What will tomorrow bring to us?� Death, new friends, maybe even a new
life.�

�� The
three of us were shocked to hear that Asuma was dead.� Kakashi even had to sit down to come to grips
with the news before he said that training was over for the day and that we
should head back to the village.� There
wasn�t much talking on the walk back into the village, I guess each of us had
too much on our minds at the time.�
Eventually it was Kakashi who was the first to talk.

�� I�m
going to go see if Kurenai is.�� He
seemed to trail off after that and looked towards the largest of the clouds in
the sky.� �I�m going to make sure she�s
not alone.� I know what it�s like to lose
someone close to you, she should be alone.�

�� I
should go see if Shikamaru or Konohamaru need someone to talk to.�� I could feel both of my sensei looking at me
as I stared at the sky.

�� Even
if they don�t want to talk with you right now, they�ll appreciate the fact that
you�re there for them Naruto.�� Yamato
was right.� They might not want to speak
with me, they might just want to be alone right now.

�� So
I decided I would look for Konohamaru first.�
He was my unofficial little brother after all, and if he ever needed a
shoulder to cry on I would want to be first on his list.� It was hard enough on him when he lost his
grandfather, but now he�s lost his uncle too.�
He�s now the last shinobi of his clan, it must be really hard on him.�

�� Sadly
when I found him he wasn�t taking it as best as I thought he might.� He was trying to hide away from the world,
almost literally. Oh course it wasn�t too hard for anyone to notice the large
square patch of fence where the wood wasn�t wet, and was nailed on the wrong
way.� I decided that if he wanted to hide
I�d let him, but I would let him know he wasn�t alone.

�� So
the two of us stood there for most of the afternoon getting rained on.� Finally as I was starting to get hungry
Konohamaru decided to speak.� �You�re not
going to try and cheer me up?�

�� Nope�� I kicked at a stone before sitting down and
looking to the sky.

�� How
come?�

�� I
looked over to the wall and noticed that his camouflage had been pulled away
from his face and that he was sitting next to me.� I also noticed how he was still crying.� �Because your uncle is dead.� You have every reason to be hurt and feel sad
and there is no way I�d be able to cheer you up.�

�� But
why aren�t you talking to Shikamaru, or Chouji?�
He was their leader, their friend.�

�� Looking
him in the eye, I stood and offered my hand to him. ��Because like the best of rivals, we�re
brothers.� And brothers are always there
for each other, even when they�re not.�
Now I�m a little hungry so let�s get something to eat.�

�� I�m
not really that hungry Naruto.� I really
don�t feel like anything at the moment.�

�� Come
on, I�m buying.� And if afterwards you
want to go off and grieve we�ll do that.��
Shortly after I set off walking I could hear him running to catch
up.� �Still not hungry?�

�� He
didn�t respond for quite some time, just stared at his feet as he walked along
with me.� I noticed a few people giving
me the evil eye as we walked along, probably thinking I�m trying to corrupt him
or something.� However when Konohamaru
looked over at me with the smallest of smiles on his face the other villagers
all stopped.� �I�m not hungry.�� We continued on for three more steps before
his stomach gave it�s excuse to his statement.

�� I
decided to let him off easy on that.� �Yeah
sometimes I�m not hungry at all one minute and then I�m so starving I just got
to eat the next.� So come on, we�re
almost there.�� Lunch was a simple
affair, we both had ramen and very little was said beyond the simple pleasantries.

�� It
wasn�t until we were walking back to his house that Konohamaru finally spoke
up.� �Why did he have to die?�

�� Pulling
him aside I sat him down on the first bench I could find, following him thereafter.� �I�m not sure why he had to die, but I know
like any shinobi of this village he would have willingly died to prevent anyone
else from dying.�

�� I
know that but he was going to be a father!�
And now my cousin when he�s born will never know his father.�

�� I
know what it�s like, not knowing who you�re father was.� But that�s why you�re here.� You can tell that kid all about him.� The things he taught you.� The stuff you learned from him as you grew
up.� All the things that he did to help
you, you help his kid with.�

�� All
the stuff you taught me?�

�� Not
all the stuff.� You have to keep something up your
sleeve.� I mean you never know when your
rival starts catching up to you.� You have
to keep them reaching.�

�� So
I suppose when you finish this training you�re doing now you won�t show me how
to do it.�

�� It�s
not really something you�d be able to pull off right now.� Put it this way I can barely do it twice in
one day.� Kakashi has to struggle to make
just one.� It�s a very powerful and
chakra intensive jutsu.� But we can talk
about that later.� You should get some
rest, the memorial is early tomorrow and you don�t want to be late for that.�� Noticing the look of fear on his face I gave
him a sad smile.� �Don�t worry, I�ll be
right beside you through the whole thing.�

�� As
I started my walk home I looked across the way to the Yamanaka Flower shop.� Sakura was sitting there hugging Ino as she
cried over Sakura�s shoulder.� As our
eyes met I gave her a halfhearted smile and tried to wave; but as my hand rose
it froze.� Now wasn�t the time to be
happy and carefree.� Now was the time to
mourn and be there for our mourning friends.�
So, with a final nod to Sakura, I again set off for home, to get ready
for bed.

�� Tomorrow
was going to be a long and emotional day.

Author notes:� SORRY!�
That�s all I can say for four month hiatus.� Sadly I had trouble finding my muse for this
chapter, which is why it�s so short compared to the other chapters.� However I hope to be able to re-commit myself
to my work and get back on schedule to about 1 chapter a month.

Now onto reviews.

Okay I�m kinda
tired and lazy at the moment, so I just want to thank everyone for their favourable responses and I hope to hear from you
again.� Some people have asked about Sasuke�s
mind attack.� Basicly
I figure when he was talking to the fox when they met up again, he had time to
do some tinkering.� And to slow down any
pursuit from his old friend he left a ticking time bomb.� I figured that the bastard knew how much Naruto
loves Sakura and that he could use that against him.
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