Farewell, mi amour Chapter 7b, a naruto fanfic

Another update to the unfinished part of the 7th chapter. I'm not going to talk too much now because right now, all I want to do is update. And of course make my fellow readers happy.

Disclaimer: Naruto does not belong to me. If it did, I'll turn the whole Naruto series into a homo series!! (MY STYLE!)

Warning: Rated M. Definitely not for the weak-hearted or those who like mild homophobic relationships. Contains lots of cursing and swearing and death as well. So, if you can't handle it, you might as well leave. No worries, there's not going to be any major death characters, I think…

DemonFoxgirl101 – Your question will be answered in this chapter.

Chapter 7b: Flashes of the Past

Naruto looked blankly at Sasuke. He was covered in blood that didn't belong to him, soaked from head to toe. Sasuke was shocked. Too shocked to move, too shocked to breathe and too shocked to say anything. The empty eyes stared straight at Sasuke but no life reflected from it. It was as if the light from Naruto had died out.

"Naruto?"

"They died." The detached voice didn't sound like Naruto.

Sasuke took a step closer to Naruto. He was unsure what should he do. "Naruto, do you know who I am?"

"Mom, Dad, everyone. They died. All because of me." Naruto looked down at his bloody hands, as if wondering why it was there. "All that blood... I killed them." Naruto said tonelessly. He turned his head towards Sasuke. "I killed them. I caused their death."

Sasuke couldn't take it anymore. To see his beloved suffer like this was tearing him apart. He grabbed Naruto's shoulders and shook him, trying to get back some sense into him. "Naruto! You still have me! I'm Sasuke, remember?!"

"Sa, Sa-su-ke?"

"Yes, yes! Your Sasuke!"

Suddenly, Naruto's eyes became very frightened and he trembled from head to toe. He pushed Sasuke away and ran. "NO!"

"NARUTO!"

The night was cold and cruel. The wind was beating harshly against his frantic face. "Uchiha did this, Uchiha did this!" Naruto continued running. He didn't know where he was going and he didn't care. All he wanted was the warmth of his mother's hugs and cuddling, his father's assuring smile and pats on the back of encouragement. Naruto wanted those back. All he thought of now was to join them.

"NARUTO!"

Who is that shouting his name? He had no one else anymore to call him by his name anymore. He was not needed anymore. It was time for the monster to disappear. That was what the elder Uchiha had said. Naruto was not needed in the society of the living. There was no place for him here and there will never be. Sasuke was gone too. Gone to a place where Naruto will never be able to reach him.

Sasuke...

The images of his parents' mangled bodies were fresh in his mind, their blood spilt all over him because they wanted to protect the demon child. No matter what Naruto did, there was no way he could change his fate. It would have been better if he had not been born. Why did he need to go through so many sufferings in life? Why did he have to endure all the mockery and bullying?

Because he always knew that there will be someone to always give him a push at the back to go on when he could go no more. He would turn and see his father's and mother's smiling faces which gave him the courage to brave the challenges ahead of him. "Mom..." The image of his mother's broken body flashed by. "Dad..." The image of his father's torn body flashed by. Then the torn and slashed bodies of the children from the orphanage; their innards turned outside with chopped off appendages strewn all over the bloody floor, their mouths opened in a silent scream of death and their eyes stared accusingly at him, blaming him for their death. Naruto finally slumped down on the wet mud, soaked with the earlier downpour.

"It's your fault they died." The ruthless deep voice rang in Naruto's ears. "I already warned you." The red eyes burned into Naruto's tainted soul; haunting and taunting him. "The demon child who was never supposed to be born. Your parents have paid the sins of your crimes and my little otoutou will end up the same way they did if you continue to be with him..."

And Uchiha Itachi laughed. The horrible sound echoed in Naruto's ears. The words replayed in his vulnerable mind, shattering it into little shards of unrecoverable pieces. He closed his heart, mind and soul to the outside world, and retreated into a safe cocoon within himself. But not before the words, "It's your fault, Uzumaki Naruto.", delivered its final and killing blow...

And he screamed.

And screamed.

But there was no one to hear him... anymore.

"DIE! UCHIHA!!" The man had a maniacal smile plastered on his face, his eyes were bloodshot and bulging, and his skin was pale. His thin hair was matted on his head from the sweat. There was a sinister aura around him because there was no telling what else he would do. No one is able to predict what a desperate man is capable of doing. And he was getting desperate.

Naruto screamed as the crazy man lunged towards Sasuke who seemed strangely calm. Sasuke quickly pulled Naruto behind him as his men moved forward to protect them. The next few seconds were a blur but Naruto could make out that the bad man was slashing blindly at every person who came in between him and Sasuke nii-chan. He was scared and terrified. He wondered why the bad man wanted to kill Sasuke. Naruto trembled as he clutched the lapels of Sasuke's suit, afraid that the bad man might hurt him.

But Sasuke's bodyguards weren't for decoration. They wouldn't have qualified to be at the Uchiha's side if they weren't the best.

When the man was finally pinned face down onto the hard pavement by Sasuke's bodyguards, it was only then Naruto managed to get a good look at him even though he cowered behind Sasuke. It was terrifying to see the bad man so close and Naruto clutched the hem of Sasuke's suit harder, as if he was reassuring himself that Sasuke was still beside him. The man bared his teeth and seethed at the arrogant man before him, struggling to get back on his feet.

"UCHIHA!!" The man shouted at the top of his lungs, his darting eyes focusing on his target. "You took everything from me! My life! My money! And my home!" And he continued to struggle more violently, trying to get free. "You made my life a living hell!!"

Sasuke smirked as he scathingly looked down at the pathetic man. "Who were you again? Ah... the former so-called yakuza boss from downtown." Sasuke gestured for the knife that had been thrown nearby. "This is your entire fault that you turned out like this." As Sasuke took the long knife into his hands, a wicked gleam appeared in his eyes. "You got greedy and you must pay the PRICE!"

And Sasuke stabbed the former yakuza boss' hand clean through.

The loud screams echoed throughout the alley as Sasuke laughed with glee, as if he was enjoying the scene of the writhing man in pain. When the screams subsided, Sasuke twisted the embedded knife and continued to relish in the sounds of agony. "Scream more, scream! Hahahaha!!" The Uchiha's laughter echoed together with the pain-filled screams. Nobody dared to interrupt or so much make a single sound when the Uchiha was in 'one of his moods'.

Naruto was very confused. All he understood was that something was terribly wrong. Suddenly, Naruto was scared of Sasuke too. He didn't look like the kind onii-chan he was anymore. This was someone extremely scary. He was much worse than the bogeyman. Naruto slowly released his hold on Sasuke's expensive suit and backed away really, really slowly. It was as if he was overwhelmed with the sense of fear that only basic instincts could pick up. And that instinct told him to run if he wanted to live.

"You... you are the very apparition of evil! You are the devil himself!!" The man spat at Sasuke's foot. He was pumped with adrenaline and the pain gave him strength.

Sasuke stopped laughing and gave him the coldest look ever. He then kicked him, again, and again, and again, laughing as he did. It was pure ecstasy to see someone weaker than you at the bottom of your feet, writhing in pain. Then, he caught himself and pulled himself together. Sasuke lowered himself and grabbed a handful of greying hair, jerking the bloody head to face him. "I'm no devil but I can be your worst nightmare."

Then, Sasuke heard a small squeak from behind him and caught the sight of a terrified Naruto looking at him with the eyes of fear. It was as if a bucket of cold water had been splashed onto Sasuke and he realized that he had just shown what he had been hiding from Naruto ever since he turned amnesiac. It was now too late to change. He had totally forgotten about Naruto's existence beside him and allowed the evil in him to burst out into the open, allowing fear to once more conquer his loved one.

"Naruto...?"

"Hiii... Don't! Don't come near me!!" Naruto continued to back away, afraid of what this monster would do to him if he didn't escape. He shuddered to think that he allowed himself to believe that the kind onii-chan will protect him from being hurt. "You! You monster!!" The words had escaped from his mouth without a second thought.

Sasuke stopped. He couldn't think and couldn't move. Something inside him broke. His wish for a new and clean future with Naruto had shattered. There was no way that they will go back to what they were before. It was just impossible. This is God's punishment towards him for all the grave sins of his past and present.

Realizing that the Uchiha was caught off guard, the former yakuza boss pulled the knife out of his bloody hand and tried once again to make the kill of his revered enemy. "DIE!!"

But Sasuke was faster. His quick reflexes allowed him to avoid the knife from its fatal blow. However, he was not quick enough to move away and so the knife found its way into his right thigh. Wincing in pain, Sasuke took his gun from his holster hidden under his jacket and without a blink of an eye, shot blank point at the head of his assailant. His brains exploded out of the shattering skull as the bullet whizzed through front of the forehead and out back. There was a faint smell of burnt blood that lingered momentarily in the air together with the smell of fresh

blood splattered all over the pavement. The former yakuza boss was dead before his body hit the floor with a thud.

The horrific scene before Naruto sparked off something within him. Cold sweat covered his whole body. It was a very familiar scene; the blood and death. Both were always very near him. The familiar feeling of dread once again filled him; the horror and the massacre. Looking blankly at Sasuke's bleeding wound, Naruto's teeth began chattering. "He's going to die. He's going to die. He's going to die. He's going to die. He's going to die." He muttered over and over again.

"Naruto? I didn't mean for that to happen." Sasuke slowly limped towards the blonde who was still staring at his injured thigh, refusing help from his underlings. "Naruto?"

Averting his eyes from the bloody thigh to Sasuke's face, Naruto's instincts of survival kicked into full blast. "NOOOOOOO!!" It was as if he had been possessed. He pushed Sasuke away with all his strength before he turned to run away from the only person who mattered to him and also the only person he wanted to stay far away from.

"NARUTO!!"

All Naruto wanted was to escape. Everything was whizzing past his vision. He didn't bother to pay attention to where he was going. His surroundings were a blur and his head was throbbing. There was an image from the past haunting him. It was running after him and he needed to get away as far from it as possible. He didn't know how long he had been running. His legs had found new strength to escape from the possibility of being killed. He didn't want to die. Naruto had unfinished business to attend to before he died.

The only problem was... he cannot remember what his unfinished problem was...

Sounds of hard panting filled the silent alley. The pounding of his heart was deafening to his ears. He needed a place where he could call it a sanctuary. A place where he could protect himself from the outside pain that threatened to burst his protective bubble. But there was nowhere he was able to hide himself because a monster is looking for him, chasing him, lurking at every corner and was waiting for a chance to eat him alive just it had devoured his family alive...

Naruto screamed as images of his dead parents flooded through his mind, reminding him of the terrible past that he had so desperately tried to forget.

A/N:

The story is really going to get going now! Hahaha...

Can anyone guess what is going to happen next?

What is Naruto's unfinished business?

Who is Naruto trying so desperately to forget?

What role does Itachi play in their past?

Find out in the next chapter!

That sounded... sucky. . Anyway, everything has begun to unravel because both of them will be once again reminded of a dark and painful past that has finally returned to haunt them. No matter how much they struggle or run, it is impossible for them to outrun the demons of their past. Until they find the courage to face their worst nightmare, there is no hiding and no escape...

I promise a longer chapter next time.

Signing off,

Harajunko.