A king's treasure (SasuNaru)

Take the blame

"Naruto.. " I took a deep breath. "I-I'm sorry, but your father is.. gone." I mustered up a ton of courage and I finally spilled the beans.

His eyes widen in shock and his face turn pale. He blinked and blinked again before his eyes watered.

"What...?" He mumbled as if he was in a trance. "What..what happened..?" The tears finally overflowed and leaked out of his eyes, dripping and rolling down his cheeks.
"What happened, Sasuke?!" He screamed at me with a sound so desperate and sorrowful it killed me. He went out of control and tried to break the ropes to set himself free. But it was no use.

"I'm sorry I couldn't stop it."

"Wait.. You.. You were there?" He stopped struggling and moving rapidly. And looked at me straight in the eyes.

I was more silent than usual. I had no idea what I could say or do to make him feel better. I was completely useless.

"Sasuke, talk to me! You were there and you didn't save him?! YOU DIDNT SAVE MY FATHER?!" He just kept screaming at me with tears streaming down his face.
Don't do that to me.
I know I am all to blame.
Don't punish me like this.

"Sasuke Uchiha! Why didn't you save-"
"I TRIED. Alright? I TRIED TO SAVE HIM, I COULDN'T. BUT I DID TRY MY VERY BEST TO." I held his shoulders as I explained.
"Naruto.. I tried. I really did. I tried to catch that knife, but I couldn't."

"What happened, exactly?... You have to let me know!" The prince pleaded me as he inched closer.

"He knew I had you. He caught me and interrogated me. Your father suddenly had a seizure while he was holding a knife.. Look, I tried to grab that knife. But I DIDN'T kill him." He have to believe me. He have to. But my love never responded. He only looked me in the eyes with such hatred and rage burning as he bit hard on the insides of his cheek.

"Don't do that. You'll bleed."
My thumb wiped his tears.

But his eyes kept tearing while he was looking straight at me, staring daggers into my soul. Just glaring at me as if he wanted me dead. Such hatred and anger..
Don't punish me like this.
He was biting harder and harder into the inside of his mouth.
Was he trying to swallow his rage?
Was he trying to suppress his hatred?

Or was he simply angry because he can't do anything to avenge his father?

"I said don't do that. Listen to me."

...

"Stop. I said stop!" I kissed him hard and he reacted fast to kick me away with his two feet.

I untied him quickly, "You're free now. You're mad at me right? You can end me now."

I passed him my gun.

"If it makes you feel better, end me now."

I would do anything, anything in the world to make you feel better.
Even if it means I'm going to hell.
I know I'll never go to heaven where you will be at. I know I won't be able to be with you forever.

I know you hate me and want me dead.

"I can't live with myself anyway. I can't live without you." So I'm better off dead. End my misery, end my pain of the days I'll spend alone when you're gone.

You're actually doing me a favor.

Naruto slapped me with all his strength across my face.

And when I looked at him, he was still crying. "I'm not slapping you because of what you did." He spat out the saliva with blood because he bit himself.
"I'm slapping you because of what you said."

He dropped my gun and slapped me again, "Do you really think if you're dead, that I would be happier? Will killing you, bring my father back to life?"

"You shouldn't have taken me away from him. If you didn't, none of this would have happened.. It also means you have also taken away the time I could have spend with him. And it wouldn't have resulted like this. But NO! You just had to take me away, you had to take me away from my father! And now he's gone..."
He kept hitting my chest. Again and again just pounding on me.

"He's gone, Sasuke..." He gradually leaned on my chest after all that hitting. He was tired and broken.
"He's gone...and I.. can't believe it." He sobbed.

He continued to weep into my chest, crying and screaming as loud as he can. Gripping onto me so tight, all I could do was put my arms around him.

I spend hours just hugging him while I listened to him mourn. It killed me but there was nothing more I could do.

Suddenly, Sakura paced towards us and she broke the silence. "Sasuke.. My boss is here. And he wants to speak to you."

Huh.. Why is he here?

I turned around and my eyes met the man I haven't seen in ages.
He was Sakura's boss and also my mentor. He was the one that trained me.

"You... You are alive.." Naruto noticed him and he wiped away his tears.

A smile appeared from the prince.

"You know this man?" I asked. I was jealous that Naruto cracked a smile because of him.

"Of course he knows me.." The man answered for him.