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Post-Revenge Blues	By : susanna Category: Naruto > General Views: 1212 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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Chapter
Five: You are your clan!

They
had set up watches for the night but Sasuke had not been assigned a
shift.

“You
are too exhausted”, people had told him, and he had known that
people still did not trust him, not even if he shared the shift with
one of the Konoha team members, as his teammates did.

Still
he woke up in the early morning, and following an impulse he set
himself to work. Suigetsu and Sakura, whose turn it was to keep
watch, did not notice him as they were happily chatting with each
other, they did not even notice him when he silently left the camp
and went to a small stream that ran down the Uchiha fortress.

He
found a strong log of wood and began to cut a hole into it, so that
it might serve as a little boat. The sky in the East was all red when
he had finished his work and stepped into the river.

He
hesitated. It was just a symbolic act, without even any witnesses,
and he could take it back whenever he felt like it, and still it
seemed a final step to him and he paused to think before he would
actually do it.

The
birds were singing again. He was free now to listen to them, he
thought, he did no longer have to devote every minute of his life to
getting stronger and killing Itachi.

He
was free to do what he chose to do and to cut all bonds except those
he had formed himself.

He
had waited too long: Naruto had discovered his escape and followed
him and was now standing at the side of the little river.

“Sasuke,
what are you doing?” he called. “Sakura was scared when
she saw that you had given her the slip. She told me to run after you
and see that you don't harm yourself.”

“How
should I harm myself, moron? The river does not even reach up to my
knees.”

“You
could still drown. You'd just have to lie flat down on your belly.”

“Why
should I do that?”

“Sakura
thinks that you are probably feeling all empty.”

“Oh,
does she? And what do you think yourself?”

“I
– I don't know.”

Not
thinking at all – that was Naruto how Sasuke remembered him. By
now he had taken off his sandals and rolled his pants up above his
knees. He stepped into the river to join Sasuke but he slipped on a
wet stone and got all wet, and Sasuke had to give him a hand up.

“What
are you doing anyway?” Naruto asked.

Sasuke
showed him the boat, then what he intended to put on it to send it
down the river with it: His clan's crests that he had severed from
his clothes.

Naruto
was no less shocked than if Sasuke had indeed been trying to kill
himself.

“What
– I mean – Sasuke – what are you doing? I mean,
your clan – it's always been the center and the purpose of your
life. How can you do this? You are your clan!”

“Probably,
now that I am the only survivor.”

He
did not mention the Uchiha Madara Itachi had told him about.

“What
about your dream of reviving it?”

“It's
not worth it.”

“Because
you'd need a woman's help for it?”

Again
the words hurt because they came from Naruto.

“No.
Because they are not worth it. Because it might be better if it is
not revived.”

Because
it might have been a good thing after all that his clan had been
killed by Itachi.

“Why
do you say this? The Uchiha clan has always been one of the pillars
of the community of Konoha. They used to be the military police.”

“You
don't have to tell me”, Sasuke replied.

“So
why?”

“On
the surface they were the military police of Konoha, but in reality,
they waded in blood, killing their best friends in order to gain the
Mangekyou Sharingan and their siblings to stop the process of going
blind that is the price for the Mangekyou Sharingan.”

He
explained to Naruto what he had learnt the day before.

“A
person like Itachi might do that”, Naruto said, “but not
you.”

I
just killed my brother, Sasuke thought.

“Anyway,
who told you that this was regular custom among the Uchihas?”

“Itachi
did.”

“And
you believe him?”

“Why
would he have lied to me?”

“To
confuse you. To make you doubt yourself.”

“I
did not doubt myself. I knew I was stronger than him.”

“To
make you doubt that you were fighting for the right thing.”

“You
don't defeat your enemy because you are fighting for the right thing.
You defeat them because you are stronger than they are.”

“Fighting
for the people you love makes you stronger. Even if they are already
dead.”

Sasuke
had thought that he had loved his parents but Itachi's words had made
him doubt his parents' love for him. What if his father had not cared
for him because he had only seen him as his brother's spare?

Slowly
Sasuke let his little boat down into the river but when he was going
to put the family crests on it, Naruto took his arm. Are you sure?
his eyes asked.

Sasuke
nodded, and Naruto let him do it. But before letting the boat go,
Sasuke took one of the red and white crests and put it back into his
pocket, just in case.

“You'll
have to return to Konoha to find out whether Itachi's story is true”,
Naruto said.
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