I run into the bathroom to regain my strength. It's been a while since I last ate, but I should be fine. I lean over the toilet bowl, retching, desperately trying to rid of this nauseating feeling I've had despite the lack of food. I groan and stand up, swaying around. I get out of the stall and go to the sink, splashing water on my face and glancing in the mirror. I sigh and then smile, wondering if it's convincing. I walk back outside, smiling and waving at Sasuke. I walk up to him, and get ready.
"Let's do this!!" I announce, trying my best to keep my composer. He eyes me down and gets ready hesitantly, which is a brand new behavior. I go to charge first, but as I start running I stumble and land on my face.
"Naruto, you clutz!" Sakura booms. I grunt and shakily get up, coughing.
"Naruto, are you alright?" Kakashi asks, walking over to me. He tries and helps me to get up, but I put my hand up and reject his help. "I'm fine.." I grunt, getting up slowly. "Just tripped over my own feet, clumsy me!!" I say, covering up the poor lie with a big grin.
Sasuke eyes me slowly as Kakashi lingers over me. He lifts me up and sets me down to my feet all the way.
"Naruto, wanna get some ramen? We can all take a break." Kakashi offered. I almost physically gagged at the idea.
"Nope, I'm okay!" I say, smiling again. Sure, ramen did sound really good, but I can't eat. Sakura, Kakashi and Sasuke all look at me with surprise lingering their expressions.
"Naruto saying no to ramen? What a doofus." Sasuke teases, scoffing and crossing his arms. I get a little embarrassed but then smile.
"I already had plenty before we came!" I smiled, looking at the group. Sakura rubbed her arm and Kakashi shrugged, resuming to their sparring places. I go back to mine, taking a deep breath.
"You can go first," I say breathlessly to Sasuke, with a small smile. He nods and charges first. After a while of sparring, Kakashi announces that its time to go home.
"Why don't we get some ramen?" Sakura suggests, glancing at me. I mentally roll my eyes. Why do they keep asking about it? I already said no before, I'm sure as hell not gonna say yes this time. Before I could reject the nice offer, Sasuke cuts me off.
"That sounds like a great idea. Come on, Naruto." He says, walking towards the ramen shop. I sigh in defeat, not looking forward to the puke that would later come.
We arrive at the ramen shop and I order my usual. Instead of getting three bowls, though, I got 1.
"Naruto, aren't you gonna eat?" Sakura questioned, grabbing chopsticks from the porcelain tube holding them.
"Oh, I'm just not that hungry.." I say, grabbing a chopstick and smiling nervously. She nodded in a way letting me know that she did not believe me, but not having the energy to argue with me. I gulp and stick my chopsticks into the noodles, and pick out some noodles. I bring the noodles to my mouth and smell it, physically cringing at the scent. Kakashi and Sasuke shot me a curious look when I winced, and I looked at them, internally panicking. "Uh.. Hi?" I say, seizing the awkward moment to place down my chopsticks.
"Um.. Naruto, are you feeling alright? Well, is your stomach alright?" Sakura questions, a glint of worry in her eyes. I blink and swallow hard.
"Yeah, I'm really not that hungry!" I say, and before they could question any further, I shoved a chopstick twirled with noodles into my mouth. They collectively sighed in half content, and half worry.
I take a deep breath once they all finish their food. We get up from our seats and go to part our ways, until Kakashi reminds us to collect our Ryo from Granny Hokage. We sigh and start walking towards there, but with each step I take I feel dizzier and dizzier. I start to stumble over my own feet and I trip, catching myself on my knees.
"Naruto, be more careful!!" Sakura scolds, but instead of me smiling and apologizing, I start to dry heave.
"Naruto, are you alright?" Sakura and Kakashi yell in union. I try to raise my hand to reject their help, but I collapse. God why did this have to happen?
Heavy breathing rings through my ears. I look around and see a dark room, but not the same as last time. Instead of the water being black, its red. I look at my hands and see red splattered on them, and watch my cold tears splash onto the upward facing palms of my red stained hands. I look around with tears fogging my vision, and I spot the villagers through a window that sat in the room. I rush towards the window, stumbling while dashing towards it. I try to pry it open, but that had no avail. I banged helplessly on the window, screeching for somebody to get me out. I look behind me and see Sakura, Sasuke and Kakashi all standing there, crossing their arms.
"Guys!! We have to find a way out of here, cmon help me get this window open!" I yell, turning back towards the window trying to open it. I realize that I don't have my orange jumpsuit on, I'm only wearing a white t-shirt stained with red splatters and a pair of shorts that Tsunade got me.
I begin to wail, helplessly trying to pull the window open, seeing the villagers walking towards my apartment.
"Naruto." Kakashi says sternly.
I whip my head towards him, and I see him walking towards me.
slap.
he slaps me with the back of his hand, causing me to stumble back and land in the red water. I look at him with tears in my eyes, trying to speak, but no words roll of my tongue like they normally do.
"Naruto, stop trying. They don't like you, demon child."
My breath hitches. I start to breath erratically, and I start to wail again. I pull my hair and shake my head, begging for the team to shut up as they keep throwing insults at me like confetti. I start to scream on the top of my lungs, begging for them to stop.
— 3rd person —
"Naruto!!" Kakashi screams, shaking Naruto awake. He has sweat dribbling down the sides of his face, and earlier he was moaning and screaming in his sleep. He jolts awake, grabbing hold of Kakashi's arm and looking in his eyes. Narutos eyes were stained with tears. He started to breath fast and started to shake.
"Hey.. Naruto it's alright, it was just a nightmare." Kakashi reassures the blonde, kneeling down beside him. Naruto soon calmed down his breaths a bit, looking around at the team from time to time. He then darted his eyes around the room, and shot up.
"Where am I??" Naruto yells, attempting to get up from the bed but trips over his own feet. Kakashi catches him. silently ordering his young Genin to lay down.
"Let me go!!" Naruto wails, thrashing and kicking around. Sasuke comes around the bed to help hold Naruto down. "Let go of me!!" Naruto shrieks, kicking Kakashi down and breaking free from Sasukes grip. Naruto backs himself in the corner, bringing his knees up to his chest and pushing himself as far into the wall as he can.
"Naruto.." Sakura gently states, but Naruto soon remembers his dream. It was all too similar. He looks at his hands and remembers how his hands looked when they were stained with red, and he looks back at them.
"Who are you..?"
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Sorry for not updating, I was super behind with homework and was really bad with mental health. I also had injured my finger so I couldn't really type. Thank you for reading!
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Demon Child (Sasunaru)
FanfictionNaruto. Known as the annoying, happy go-lucky kid, who dreams of becoming Hokage. Who knows what really happens when he's alone? Who finds out? Will his rage become too much? Most importantly, who saves him from this deep, dark void? Included ships~...
