Nathaniel Kent

Chapter 6: Craving

It's been 4 months since Johnathan's death, and Naruto took it hard, he had began to cut school, and when he did show up he kept to himself. Lana, Chloe, Pete, and Lex tried to be there for him but whenever they showed up at the farm, Martha would have to tell them that Naruto had just left, when in actuality he would come home once every 2 days.

The fact, that he lost Johnathan the way he did frustrated Naruto, as more than a few times since he's regained his memories he didn't really see the Kent's as his parents as it felt wrong like he was going to replace his real parents, he respected the Kent's as good people, and while not seeing them as parents he saw them as precious friends that he old a lot to.

He sometimes wished that Johnathan was killed on a violent way, as at least he could hunt down the perpetrator and work out his anger and grief that way, but for Johnathan to actually just die of an accident from that old truck he was driving made Naruto restless.

Cassandra had also died, with Lex being her last visitor, and he tried to be there for Martha as best he could he was a shoulder for her to cry on, and he did the farm work no problem. It was apparent to Naruto that she would never truly be alright as he knew just how much she loved Johnathan but he was patient with her and didn't complain when she would spend all her time in her room

Naruto was just now beginning to open up again, he would stay in school in respect for Johnathan but he still needed money, so the Lottery and gambling at Casinos in Vegas were things he began to do when he was free

Martha was in so much grief she didn't know where the money was coming from and didn't bother asking, Naruto had began to regain his ability to sense emotion and felt that she was afraid that he would leave so she tried to get him to reopen up to his friends,

Currently Naruto was in his loft doing push-ups with 6 large chunks of kryptonite hidden around the room, his was caked in sweat as he worked out, when Chloe walked in

"How long you been doing this?"

"Stopped counting at 250, 2 hours ago." Naruto said causing Chloe to look at him in surprise before she blushed when he stood up and she looked at the veins that bulged on his sweaty arms and his defined sweaty six pack "What're you doing here?"

"Did you hear about the accident last night? A deer was hit on Route 5."

"Can't say that I have." Naruto said jumping to a rafter and began to do pull-ups with one hand

"Check out the paper." Chloe said handing Naruto a newspaper "Animal control said that the deer died of causes unknown." Chloe said as Naruto kept doing the pull-ups before he handed her back the paper "Your going to check this out with me."

"Not toda-"

'I've let you wallow by your lonesome for 4 months, I might not understand completely what your going through, but I know your hurting. Your done pushing me and everyone else away." Chloe said walking up and grabbing the hem of Naruto's jeans and pulled him down to the floor and looked up at him "You are not alone."

"Fine." Naruto sighed

"Good, go take a shower, and then we'll head over to the animal control." Chloe said before with a sigh Naruto walked off and entered the house to see Martha in the kitchen drinking some coffee

"Hey, Chloe is dragging me on one of her wall of weird investigations, I'll be back." Naruto said getting a nod from Martha

"That's good, I want you to open up to your friends again. Just be careful okay?" Martha asked getting a nod from Naruto who kissed her cheek and walked upstairs as Martha looked to the screen door at Chloe and smiled at her