The creak of the door was accompanied by the series of footsteps before the door was slammed shut,
The young man removed his hand from the door to press the muscles on his shoulder, trying to easy the pain as he sighed.
His irritation only seem to grow when he sat on his bed after the hours of intense training, the bed could hardly even be discribed as a bed since it felt like a rock.
He hated every single second of his stay at the horrible place, which always seems to have this eery atmosphere and the smell of blood and rotten eggs.
His food was nothing but a bowl of bland chicken soup which was probably kept on his bed side since morning and had the worlds most over cooked chicken.
'I wonder how these freaks survived all these years drinking this shit.' He cringed.
He scoffed,
'Well, atleast they don't have to worry much longer about surviving with this, much less surviving.'
After finished his soup, he carelessly threw the bowl somewhere fully intended to piss of a certain silver hair.
He sighed once more, and stared at the ceiling where a random spider was pop dancing, honestly he really wouldn't even think twice about it.. if he hadn't heard the distant sound of soft laughter, which no doubt belongs to a certain ravennete.
He remebered every single memory with her, even the one where she pointed at a spider and laughed at how it was 'dancing'.
He even tried to explain how they do it to impress female spiders, which only added onto her amusement and made her believe that pop dancing like a spider can get you many female friends.
It was one of the few times he was able to laugh whole heartedly, without feeling guilty for enjoying himself while he was suppose to be planning on ways to avenge the murder of his family.
He found himself getting up and lifting the cot of his bed, with one hand holding the cot his other hand searched for something.
Something he hid away under that very cot, and vowed not to keep gazing at it only to break his own promise by the end of the day.
His hand found it, and his whole being seem to be completely concentrated on that very picture, the sound of the cot falling had barely even registered in his mind.
With a small huff, he dropped his body on the bed, his eyes never leaving the picture,
'Kana.'
He gently wipes away the dust, as the face of the tiny girl was more clear for him,
He paused and thought for a second, 'She's just a few weeks shy from turning six'
"I wonder if she started with the Ninja academy." He murmured,
how ironic.
He would often find himself like this, wondering how they were doing, his teammates, his only blood relative and the village.
He wondered if Naruto was still going around, searching for him and quickly disgarded the idea.
Naruto is too determined about his dreams of becoming hokage to run after someone like him.
Along with the hate and vengeance, sasuke grew a bit of self-loath everyday.
He would often gaze at the mirror and feel like a stranger to himself, wondering what happened to him, how messed up he was.
Wondering how much of humanity was even left in him.
He would often feel tempted to just give up and go back to Konoha,
But Ofcourse, the nightmares of his parents shaming him about his weakness would give him a harsh reminder of his purpose.
Sasuke could barely even remember any good memories with his family and that... monster.
Even his parent's face had become a cloudy memory, it had been so long since they died.
Right now, the only memory with his parents would be the one nightmare where his mom and dad would sit infront on him on their knees.
face blurry, hands bloody.
They would ask him why he didnt do anything to stop, why he just stood there instead of defending them.
Why he ran away like a coward.
By the end, all he could do was lock away his happiness, and get back into the loneliness lake of depression, where he is left with no choice but to hate
Only to come crawling back once again.
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Kana gazed out the window, staring at the twinkling stares as she hugged her knees close to her chest,
She looked soft under the moon light. Pale, pretty and ethereal.
Although her pale skin wasn't there to indicate her beauty rather her malnutrition.
She sat unmoving, her long black hair was set lose, the ends of it even close to touching the surface on which she was seated.
Kana was currently seated ontop of the blondie's study desk, she doubt he ever used it as it looked kinda new and unused.
It was placed conveniently infront of a window so she decided to claim her spot, sleeping seemed like an impossible task.
Especially since her body is littered with so many bruises which were inflicted less than 4 hours ago.
The pink lady, who's name she learned was Sakura, had nicely wrapped up her limps and told her not to touch the bandages.
So here she was gazing at the night sky, to distract herself from scratching off the damn bandage, this was oddly a very familiar routine for her, being an Anbu and all,
She sighed at how annoyingly itchy her skin felt, although it doesn't change the fact that it was very much troublesome.
Snapping out of her thought, she watched as a shooting star passed by, leaving a long magical trail of white dust which lingered in the dark sky even after the dissapearance of it's main source,
She gaced up with the most innocent face, having witnessed something that's considered so rare.
"Awh! Dammit we missed it! We coulda made a wish ya know!!!"
Kana almost fell off the desk, if it wasn't for a fact she instead collided with the chest of the blonde, he caught her quickly and immediately let go when she pushed herself away.
Having a hand on her heart, kana stared at him for a second before looking away.
"You gave me a fright, Uzumaki-san." Said the girl, before turning her back to him once going back to her sky gazing.
Naruto only looked at her with curiosity, he sat on the desk chair and leaned his upper body on the table, right next to the little girl, who didn't spare him another glance.
He smiled gleefully, it was not fake, it was a real happy smile. Kana wasn't even looking at him but she could feel the smile.
Why was he smiling so much? that she didn't know.
She wondered what she was gonna do, she has to back to her duties tomorrow and she was sure that the old lady wasn't gonna let her off hook.
She would probably come to streets tomorrow morning, crying about how 'her little girl' had gone missing, like she was some little kid who got lost in a big scary world.
She scoffed.
Af if, she probably knew more about this world than the old lady herself.
Naruto gazed at her,
"Heyyyy! you're leaving me out! you're leaving me out! What is it?!" he whinned and kicked his leg like a baby.
She hasn't spent even more than 3 hours with this guy and yet here she was, wondering if he was the oldest between them.
She scoffed once again, which only seem to make the blond Uzumaki whine even more,
In reality, he wanted her to talk,
it was all so adorably childish really. When he was very young, and very much alone he would often find himself gazing at other families and wondering about what happened to his own, now that he'd found someone who's literally experiancing the same..
(expect kana hadn't thought of her family ................. yet.)
.. He wanted to be there for her, like when the kids come out of school and talk non stop about their days, he had always wanted someone to listen to him talk on and about his day, everyday.
Now he decided, that he's gonna be that person for Kana, so she could always come home to someone.
Someone who'd care, someone who'd listen.
That's right! the Idea just made him grin so big, his stomach filled with happiness.
Now all he had to do was find Sasuke!
While he was having his little moment, Kana was staring at him like he's crazy.
"Are you alright Uzumaki..... -san .....?"
her words turned to mumbles as her attention drifted to something out the window, fisting her hand near her chest as her mouth parted.
There it was, in all it's ugly color.. a psychopathic side of her brain was tempted to pluck it off and pour black ink upon what is considered to be it's most beautiful feature.
A damn freaking butterfly.
<I tried, but Naruto's just- nah man! Something's not right- and im so sorry abt Kana's leg! I literally cannot draw toes, legs, arms, fingers.. anything! 😭😭😭😭 >
<I kinda gave up tryna fix it, the page was getting fragile and i was damaging my already damaged braincells.>
<I also tried drawing Kana's full anbu outfit, but- she kinda looks deformed... im sorry man!>
<Y'all noticed that? Well I did- cuz i didnt draw kana's eyes in both the pictures. I couldn't handle it today- Naruto's eyes took me like 35 minutes and it wasn't even open->
<just wanted to do something as a celebration for 30k views, yall are totally the best!- tysm. I appreciate it SO MUCH!>