The Newest Member (A Naruto-Akatsuki Fanfic)

Chapter 18: Mangeyeko Tears

Sasuke leaped from tree branch to tree branch, the slow rises and fall of his movements were the only thing taking his mind off what had just happened moments before, it did not work. Sakura was limp in his arms, it was obvious she was deep in thought also. She looked up at him and saw what devastation it had caused him, his eyes were streaming with tears, and his mouth shook, trying to hold back the screams he so desperately wanted to release. She knew he did it for her safety, she wanted him to know

"Sasuke ...why" her voice croaky from crying

"I'm sorry. It was the only way for us to be free, the only way we could escape him and live a happy future"

"Sasuke, I don't know if I can live a happier future. We could have just knocked him out, worse comes to worse taking off a limb ..."

"Sakura"

"Please ... just don't talk to me right now, we have both done enough, for the damned villages sake"

"I've damned my own soul"

Vivid images of Naruto's torn chest ruptured through his mind, his eyes burned, but not from the tears. he fell to his knees and screamed. tearing at his face he curled into a ball, this was not sadness or depression, this was the curse of the Uchiha. Sakura ran to his side and pulled his hand's away from his eyes, which were now changing, his pupils had turned red like a sharingan, but were slowly forming a 6-pointed star, Sasuke screamed in agony, feeling the power of his ancestors growing inside him.

"SASUKE WHAT'S WRONG !"

"My eyes !"

He closed his eyes and remained quiet for a good minute, as if losing conciousness, or dying. Sakura was worried, Sasuke became still and calm, he then rose to his knees and opened his eyes, as if nothing had happened. the world looked sharper through his new eyes, his Mangeyeko Sharingan eyes. Only acquired by killing someone close to you, someone you love. what he had failed to retrieve months before, rushed to him as a curse, forever reminding him what he had done

"Your eyes, Sasuke what's wrong with them"

"I have awakened my Mangeyeko Sharingan. Because I killed him, this is what I had always wanted ... but now ... I DON'T WANT THIS POWER !"

Sasuke punched at the tree, breaking through it's wooden surface like rice paper. The power he had sought after for years left a bad taste in his mouth, he no longer wanted this curse if it meant killing his friend, he had killed Naruto to protect the village and Sakura, but that did not mean he deserved to be rewarded for his actions. He would rather climb under a rock and die than gain unimaginable power from such a heartless act. He stared at the bloody bark with an empty stare, his knuckles cracked and bloody. Sakura was disgusted at how brutal Naruto was killed, but she still loved Sasuke. Their relationship however, would never be the same, despite this she placed her hand on Sasuke's shoulder and calmed him down with her soft voice.

"Sasuke, let's get going. Tsunade and the others will be up ahead"

"Y...yes"

She worried for his mentality, had he done a service to the village. Or had he awakened a bloody thirsty Giant with the clan name of Hyuuga.

The sky became a dark orange as the sun slowly made its rise above the valley, turning the dark leaves into a blood red orchard, reflecting the disturbing scene below. Hinata had been frozen in place for the last 2 hours, unable to move herself from his side. She knelt in the bloody concrete, Naruto's head resting on her lap, staring up at a sky that he would never actually see again. She just stared at the hole Sasuke had carved into him, not moving, not appearing to breath or cry, only tears and silence fell. just a solid statue of unstable emotion, ready to crack again at a moment's notice. Her mind repeating the same words over and over like a broken record