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Post-Revenge Blues	By : susanna Category: Naruto > General Views: 1211 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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Chapter
Eight: Threefold, Tenfold, Hundredfold

When
dinner was over the two Jounin finally told their news: A messenger
bird from Konoha had arrived, bringing them the sad tidings of
Jiraya's death but also a message that Jiraya had finally found out
the true identity of Akatsuki's true leader.

“He
had thought that he had found out about him before he went to Rain
Country to confront him, but then it turned out that the man he was
fighting was just a puppet and that the true leader is someone else.
Only that the puppet managed to kill Jiraya.”

“But
he found out who is truly responsible?” Naruto said, gasping.
“So who is it? He'll pay for it: Threefold, tenfold,
hundredfold.”

No
one can die more than once, Sasuke thought. Having gone through this
himself he recognized what Naruto was doing: Fantasizing about making
the killer pay, so that he did not have to realize the true meaning
of Jiraya's death: That he would never be able to see him again, to
talk to him, to learn from him, to say whatever had been left unsaid.
It would work only for a short time.

“Calm
down, Naruto”, Kakashi said. “You won't be able to do
anything if you are all angry and not able to listen or to think
clearly.”

“I
do listen! So tell me who it is! You said that Jiraya found out about
him – what is his name?”

“It
is not that simple”, Kakashi replied. “There are some
mysteries surrounding his identity. Jiraya found out that he
possesses some powers that were unique to Uchiha Madara, which is
strange, since Madara was one of the founders of Konoha and the
ancestor of the Uchiha clan. He is supposed to have been killed by
the Shodai Hokage, and even if that's not true he should have died of
old age a long time ago. We don't know whether Akatsuki accepts his
claim: This puppet of his, who killed Jiraya, apparently did.”

He
turned to Sasuke: “What do you know of this affair?”

I
am not responsible for him, Sasuke thought. Being an Uchiha as well
does not make me answerable for his actions, or his crimes.

“I
heard about him only yesterday”, he said. “Itachi told me
about him. He as well accepted the man's claim that he was Uchiha
Madara.”

Thoughts
were racing through his head. What should he tell, what should he
leave unsaid? He did not want to tell that Madara had a share in the
murder of the clan, and that he planned to take revenge on him as
well. He did not want to listen to more lectures about revenge being
evil and leaving you all empty. He did not want them to know that he
had a personal interest that this man should be killed.

“Itachi
considered him weaker than himself”, he said. “And I just
killed Itachi.”

“May
I take this as an offer that you will help us hunt him down and take
him out for good?” Kakashi asked.

“You
may”, Sasuke answered haughtily. “Whether he is really
the founder of Konoha and the forefather of the Uchiha clan, or
whether he is an impostor who somehow managed to get into possession
of some of his powers and thus persuaded Akatsuki of his claim: I
will help you.”

I
won't do it on my own, he thought. It won't be my own personal
revenge. He did not know how he felt about this. He was a bit
disappointed; on the other hand he felt relieved. Three years of
thinking of nothing but revenge had worn him out, he had hoped for a
break that would have given him time to think of other things. Maybe
it was good that this time there would be people to do it together
with him. He had proven his valour by defeating Itachi, after all, he
did not have to do it again.

“What
do you yourself think about the man's claim that he is Madara?”
Kakashi continued to ask.

“I
have no idea. I will tell you when we meet him.”

Kakashi
understood that he would not say any more. He turned back to Naruto.

“There
is something else you have to know. Madara had the power to control
the kyuubi. Jiraya thinks he was behind the attack on Konoha sixteen
years ago.”

That's
what Itachi said, Sasuke remembered. He would have to share his
information, but not tonight.

“So
it's his fault”, Naruto said, “that so many people died,
that Iruka was without parents, that I am stuck with this monster,
that everyone hated me when I was a kid. I will make him pay. I shall
kill him.”

“Calm
down, Naruto”, Kakashi said again. “This is not why I
told you this. I told you in order to warn you: He can control the
kyuubi, and when you try to use the kyuubi's chakra or allow it to
get free because you get angry and lose your grip on yourself he will
control you as well and make you his tool to fight your friends. So
calm down, or we will have to see that you stay at a safe distance.”

“I
guess it would be better anyway if you did not join the fight”,
Yamato added. “The risk of the kyuubi getting free and being
controlled by Madara is too high.”

Why
did they take him with them at all? Sasuke wondered. Wouldn't it have
been safest to leave him in Konoha if they are scared that the kyuubi
might get loose?

“I
won't stay behind as if I were a helpless child!” Naruto
protested. “I can fight myself.”

“Not
with the kyuubi inside you”, Yamato replied. “Not if you
behave childishly and irresponsibly as you are doing right now. You
have to get used to the fact that you are not a normal kid. You
should have learnt to accept your fate by now. If you don't accept
your fate you will never be able to fight a strong opponent, or any
opponent for that matter, but in the long run you will have to be
kept safely in Konoha.”

This
silenced Naruto: He sank down, his shoulders falling forward, only
his hands were still tense, tightly clenched around his teacup.

“He'll
pay”, he murmured, and Sasuke wondered if anyone else had heard
him.
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