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Post-Revenge Blues	By : susanna Category: Naruto > General Views: 1211 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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Chapter
Three: Where are you now?

“I
have done it. I have succeeded”, Sasuke kept telling himself
while they were eating. Silently of course: No one heard him except
himself, no one listened to him or payed any attention to him, no one
cared to ask him for details about how the fight had gone.

They
were all busy telling the story of the pursuit from their respective
points of view, discussing whether it had been the pursuited who had
outwitted the pursuers or the other way round.

“We
found you, didn't we”, Kiba said.

“Sasuke
wanted you to catch up with us, that's all”, Suigetsu replied.
“He made sure we'd run into one of Naruto's clones. Otherwise
you would still be desperately looking for clues.”

“Why
should he have wanted to be found?” Sai asked. “He's a
traitor after all, who has deserted Konoha and doesn't care for
anyone but himself. It is only Naruto who cares for him.”

The
pussy who had been his replacement... Sasuke still did not know what
to make of him, only that he had no intention to get to know him
better.

“He's
no traitor”, Naruto replied the pussy, and this led to the
second fight of the evening.

“Actually,
why did you let them catch up with us?” Suigetsu asked after
Yamato and Sakura had managed to separate the two fighters.

“I
thought we might need them to fight off some other Akatsuki who might
try to interfere, as that guy who fled when he saw us.”

“And
I thought you were going to make use of the opportunity to ask your
old comrades to take you back to Konoha. What are we going to do
anyway?”

Sasuke
was not sure whether Suigetsu's “we” included only Karin
and Juugo or him as well. It reminded him, however, that he was still
responsible for his team.

“I
have not thought about it”, he said. “I haven't made any
plans for the future.”

He
had really not thought about it, except that he had wanted to make up
with Naruto, which he had now done. He had thought that it was soon
enough to make plans when he had finished his revenge.

“You
see, it is as everyone told you”, Sakura blurted out. “Even
if you get your revenge your life will be empty afterwards. Where are
you now, after having abandoned everything, your friends, your
precious persons, your career as a ninja, your village, just to kill
one man? And now he is even dead! Where are you now?”

Sasuke
asked himself whether he should regret that last fact. Where am I
now? he wondered. I have just killed the man who is responsible that
I have no precious persons left, and no one to live for. I have spent
three years training in order to become stronger than my opponent,
and now I am one of the strongest shinobi of the world. Where am I
now?

“Well,
at the moment he is sitting with all of us in the shadow of this ruin
of an ancient Uchiha fortress”, Suigetsu answered in his stead.
“That's where he is now.”

“But
what if we had not come to save you?”

“Save
me from whom?” Sasuke asked sharply. “I have defeated
Itachi, if you haven't noticed.”

“Save
you!” Sakura simply answered. “You were obviously gone
mad, so you needed saving.”

“Why
do you think I am mad?”

“Attempting
to kill Naruto and all. You don't want to tell me that you were in
your right mind when you fought him in the Valley of the End.”

“No,
of course not. But that was only for half an hour. I was back in my
right mind before the fight was ended.” I haven't killed him,
he thought. “Anyway, it's none of your business. It's a matter
between Naruto and myself.”

“It
is my business”, she replied. “Naruto is my friend, if
you haven't noticed. And besides, what about the rest, such as
leaving Konoha and joining its worst enemy, Orochimaru?”

“I
defeated him as well, remember? I never joined forces with him, or
aided him in his criminal activities. I was living with him and
learning from him, but never was I one of his subordinates.”

I
was his precious vessel who could afford to do anything knowing that
Orochimaru would never seriously harm me.

“I
had a clear idea of what I was doing even when I left Konoha, and
during my stay with Orochimaru I worked out the details of my plan:
How I would defeat him when he was weakest and then defeat Itachi. I
never planned to let myself be taken over. That you don't see the
true purpose of my actions does not necessarily mean that I am out of
my mind.”

That
one – almost – silenced her. Sasuke asked himself why he
had ever seriously considered marrying her after completing his
revenge. Just because she was desperately in love with him, and
because it had been painful for him to watch her trying to give her
heart to him without him being able to return anything? Just because
he would have to marry someone if he ever wanted to revive his clan,
and Sakura was as good as any other woman (and certainly better than
Ino or Karin)?

He
did not have to return anything to Sakura because she was not worth
it, and he did not have to revive his clan because they were not
worth it, wading in blood as they had been. He was free now to live
for himself.

“You
are still without a home or a goal in your life”, Sakura
continued.

“Leave
him alone”, Karin finally intervened. “I don't know which
self-help books you have read that you think that completing your
revenge will necessarily make you feel empty. He's exhausted, that's
all. He'll find a new goal when it is time.”

“And
don't forget, he still has to revive his clan”, Naruto added.

The
words hurt Sasuke, though he had no idea why. After all, the question
of reviving his clan was on his mind as well. They hurt because
Naruto had said them, he realized. Did he want to get rid of him
already, throwing him to this or that woman, just now when they had
finally renewed their friendship?

“Oh,
does he?” Kiba asked.

“He
said so the day we became genins when Kakashi asked us about our
dreams.”

“Definitely
sounds like more fun than taking revenge”, Kiba said.

“At
least he won't be able to do it all by himself”, Naruto ended
the conversation.
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