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Post-Revenge Blues	By : susanna Category: Naruto > General Views: 1211 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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Chapter
Two: A well-rehearsed Speech

When
they arrived at the site of the fight they saw that it was only one
opponent, and yet he managed to keep the whole, rather large team of
Konoha nin busy.

Naruto
was, as always, in the center of trouble, fighting with a lot of his
kagebunshin who got dispersed one after the other. Sasuke wanted to
help him out, to make clear that he still cared for him, even though
he had not been able to show him for more than three years. But he
was still too weak, and when he tried to intervene he passed out so
that Juugo had to catch him in his arms to prevent him from falling.

When
he woke up he was lying in the grass and Sakura was sitting next to
him.

“Let
me check you”, she said. “I am a med nin, you know, and I
want to make sure that you are fine.”

There
should be a law against girls becoming med nins in order to molest
people, that is men, Sasuke thought.

“I
am fine”, he said. “How did the fight go? Did you win? Is
everyone okay? What happened to Naruto?”

“Everyone
is okay except you yourself”, Sakura replied irritatedly. “The
enemy fled the moment you and your team joined in. Now let me check
you.”

Again
he hindered her from touching him, making her now really angry.
Luckily Karin came over and told Sakura to leave him alone, which
resulted in the first fight of this evening. Both Kakashi and
Suigetsu had a hard time separating the two kunoichis.

Sasuke
closed his eyes and listened to Suigetsu and Kakashi apologizing to
each other for their female teammates' behaviour. They seemed to get
along, he thought, his team and the Konoha team, even though the
distrust between them was still obvious. Karin and Suigetsu were too
old to take the teenagers from Konoha seriously and too young to be
taken seriously by the two Jounin. Juugo was clumsy and silent, and
when he talked he tried to be friendly to everyone.

Sasuke
enjoyed listening to the buzz of people around him (no blackbirds
here where people were so noisy), all busy with their everyday
troubles, but he could not participate. Not today, maybe never.

He
tried to make out Naruto's voice but he could not: Either he was
unusually silent, or Sakura had not been honest about him and
something had happened to him. Sasuke opened his eyes to look for
him, and there he was, sitting at his side, waiting silently for
Sasuke to wake up.

“Are
you okay?” he asked when Sasuke opened his eyes, insecure and
much more careful than Sakura.

Sasuke
opened his eyes a split.

“I
am. I will join you when the meal is ready. I am utterly exhausted,
that is all. I just fought the fight of my life.”

“You
did. How does it feel?”

“Tiring”,
Sasuke answered, closing his eyes again.

“Sakura
thought that you'd lose your will to live if you ever managed to kill
Itachi.”

“No,
definitely not.” Actually the thought that Naruto had not come
of his own accord but because Sakura had told him to look after him
was far more damaging to Sasuke's will to live than Itachi's death.

“Yeah,
I told her so. You won't be broken because your only brother has just
been killed.”

Sasuke
felt relieved. He was tired but also he felt strangely light-hearted,
as he had never felt in years, probably never since his family's
murder. Maybe it was because of Naruto sitting next to him, with an
expression of worry and confusion on his face, but most of all
happiness and warmth. The heaviest weight on Sasuke's mind during all
these years with Orochimaru had been taken from him.

Lazily
he reached out to touch him – Naruto's upper arm turned out to
be just within reach. Naruto did not react to it, if he did not count
Naruto's even more confused look.

It
should have been easy now, knowing that the answer would be positive,
and still Sasuke had to force himself to speak the words he had
turned around in his mind one time after the other:

“I
am sorry.”

“Oh,
it's okay”, Naruto said, moving his arm and shaking off
Sasuke's hand.”

“Not that, idiot”, Sasuke
said annoyed. Why should he be sorry for touching Naruto? “I
mean, I am sorry for attempting to kill you in the Valley of the
End.”

When
he had rehearsed his speech in his mind he had certainly not planned
to talk in such an angry tone. Also he had not imagined that he would
be lying on his back looking up to Naruto who was sitting next to
him.

“Ah,
that”, Naruto said. “And what about your second attempt
to kill me when we found you in Orochimaru's lair?”

“I
did not want to kill you then.”

“Oh,
sorry, my bad, it must have been a misunderstanding then. It just
looked very much like the real thing.”

“I
had to know whether I was strong enough to subdue the kyuubi, and for
this I had to call it forth by threatening to kill you.” Sasuke
paused and thought. This was definitely not how he had planned to ask
Naruto to forgive him.

“I
am sorry”, he said again. “For the fight in the Valley of
the End and for the way I treated you that time in Orochimaru's lair,
pretending to be all cold. Will you forgive me, Naruto?”

For
some seconds Naruto sat all unmoved and serious, making Sasuke fear
the worst, then he broke into a wide grin.

“And
you call me an idiot! How could I not forgive you? We came here to
save you, remember?”

“To
save me? From whom?”

Naruto
had to think for a while. “I am not sure. Maybe from risking
your life by fighting Itachi and getting yourself killed.”

“That
was not necessary. I don't go into fights without making sure that I
am strong enough to win them.”

“Yeah,
we all know that”, Naruto replied. “Particularly not when
it comes to fighting your brother.”
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