Naru&Sasu One-Shots

Freedom

#7794+words Edited 17/06/2024

"this means" - they are mind speaking

****************************************

Naruto POV

Looking out at the scenery surrounding my home makes me glad that I did what I did, other times I miss what I had to give up, a few years ago I left Konoha for a better life, I knew that if I stayed there I would of ended up dead or I would've killed the ones responsible, I already had permission from granny allowing me to leave without a problem, after Sasuke left to follow that bastard snake I only stayed in the village another year before I too left, but the only difference is when I left I wasn't a traitor to the village, but before that pervy sage and I found someone to take the Hokage title, that was Tsunade Senju, I gave her some time to get settled into her new role before I explained the plans that the old man had set up for me, if or when life in the village became too much for me, she asked me to give the village another chance.....I did and it nearly cost me my life, after that incident she said I could go but only if I tried to not get into any trouble, I rolled my eyes when she said that, the only time I ever got into trouble was when I would do a prank and that was only when civilians thought I was easy prey, of course I was when I was younger and without training but if they thought as a shinobi that I would allow it to continue, well they learned the hard way

I've heard a few things over the years about Konoha but nothing to make me reveal my whereabouts to anyone well there is one person who knew where I was and that's Gaara, when I left I stopped by the sand village and told him that I wasn't going to be in the leaf village anymore and gave him a special kunai so if he ever needed me and he was in trouble to throw it and whisper my name.....yes it it like my fathers jujus but I changed a few things to suit my chakra and style, I had to admit it was hard to leave the village only because it was the only 'home' I had but I had no real connection to the place, I know the old man hoped that my classmates would become something important to me and I suppose some of them are more 'friends' than classmates, but even those friendships wouldn't of kept me there, I needed to leave and nothing anyone would've said to me would've changed my mind about that

Growing up I thought that becoming the Hokage the villagers would finally see me and not fluffy but as the years went on, I finally came to the decision that becoming Hokage wouldn't make me happy and I'm sure the villagers wouldn't accept me either, so I started to focus on my training more hiding away from any of the rookies, I knew most of them thought I was training to bring Sasuke home but surprisingly I hardly thought about him, I shook my head {I mean why was bringing him back placed on my shoulders, shouldn't the Hokage had sent Aubu after him and not genin, especially someone he didn't want anything to do with, hell even Sakura placed that responsibility on my shoulders, why couldn't she do it I mean she was the one who actually wanted him back, though that was so she could marry the bastard} I thought sarcastically, I often wondered if they even realised what they were doing, just because Sasuke was on my team meant nothing to him, of course I had first wanted to bring him home but in the end I realised 'why should I'

To be honest I was barely talking to any of the rookies by the time I left, I spent most of my time in the forbidden forest training on my seals away from others seeing what I was doing, Tsunade had me checked out and a few weeks before I left I was classed as a Seals Master, no-one else knows about it but I am happy with that, even now my home is covered in seals, apart from the rookies Iruka had stopped coming round to see me and I rarely saw him, which I have to admit that hurt me more than anything but like everything else in my life I just shrugged my shoulders and let it go, I mean if he couldn't spare a few minutes out of his day just to see how I am, then our friendship wasn't worth that much to him