Memories are memories - Uzumaki Boruto Fanfic

Chapter 2 - The Broken One

~~And something inside me just...broke...free...That's the only way I could describe it.~~

The next morning Boruto woke up with sweat covered his body, powerless, he check on himself, his wound doesn't heal really well, he tries walking to the living room, to find Mitsuki.

"Mitsuki... Are you there?" Every step become heavier for the kid, at some point he have to lean on the wall to walk. Until, he falls. "Mitsuki!!!" No one reply. "He must be... Out of the house... I must... Return to my bed." As he tries to stand up, his arm slipped and he slam to the ground, His forehead started to bleed again. He is too weak right now. He fainted.

"Boruto... Such weakling..." a whisper.
"Huh?! Who is that?!" Boruto opened his eyes and look around a dark empty place, he doesn't know where does that whisper came from, nor who said that.
"Do you really think that just staying by your family is fine?" The voice echoes through Boruto minds.
"WHO ARE YOU?! SHOW YOURSELF YOU COWARD!!!" Boruto shout as loud as he could.

"Hahaha, you don't know this voice? This is YOUR voice, I AM your shadow, Uzumaki Boruto."
"My... Shadow...?" with his trembled voice, Boruto ask.

"Hah, such foolish are you, no wonder why, nobody likes you Boruto!" again, that whisper shatter his heart, piece by piece.
"Please... Stop..."
"I won't! Think of it! WHY DO YOU EVEN DO ALL THAT?! TO DISHONOR YOUR DAD?! YOUR FAMILY?! WHAT ABOUT HIMAWARI?! DO YOU EVEN THINK OF ALL THAT?!"

Boruto is on his knee, he cried quietly, the dark aura completely surround him.

"Kill yourself!" a knife stab his heart.
"Foolish." another stab his head
"Weakling." another one stab his abdomen.
He bleeds yet he smiled, he feel at peace when he feels the pain, those knife then pulls themselves out and sliced his chest open.

"You should just leave this place." A slice cross his chest, appear an angel, it's his illusion, with white wings and golden aura surrounded. "That's the only way you can be free Boruto. Only the broken are truly free."

"Free..." Boruto said, laughing miserably as tears keep escaping from his sorrow eyes. He cry out loud, his voice broke, follow with blood out from his mouth.
"Help me... Someone... Please..."

Boruto closed his eyes, he snapped back into reality, his forehead is still bloody, he stands up, try to find Mitsuki but he is nowhere to be found so he went to the bathroom and clean his face, then patch his forehead up, he want to wait for Mitsuki to say thank you, he wrote a small note instead, then head back home.

On his way home, he tried carefully as possible, not to let anyone see him, but he got detected by a very-agressive-villager-who-used-a-knife-to-cut him last time, he use shadow clone to trick him and walk home.

While running on the tree, he land on a weak branch and felt. "Argh..." he lies there to rest a bit, but some other village saw him again, he quickly got up with his right arm covered so it would stop bleeding from the left arm wound, he keep running until he got to Uzumaki house, he close the gate and run inside.

"I will need... to hold the bleed... Ugh-argh... Mom! Himawari-chan!" entered the house using his key, he realize no one is at home right now, he ran to his room, he tear his jacket to cover the wound and drink some energy pill that Naruto gift him after defeated Momoshiki.

"What should I do now... I can't become a missing-nin, that is a crime..." whispering to himself while being unclear about his fate, out of nowhere, as always, Mitsuki is right beside him.
"Hello Boruto-kun, It's okay no need to thank me! ^^"
"Wah?! Mitsuki! You're gonna give me a heartache!" Boruto jumped up with a nervous face, then he become more calm and realize.
"Mitsuki... What should I do now...?"
"Well I think, you can either choose to ask your father to depart from the village on special mission like your uncle Sasuke, or you can choose to regain trust from villager, but I doubt you can go for the latter one though..."
Mitsuki said with a truthful face, making Boruto even more nervous of how less choices he have.
"Or, you can run away with me."
"No... That's not viable, we can't make money out there ourselves dattebasa." letting out a long sigh, Boruto making his decision.
"I'll go and ask my dad if I can depart from the village for a while." Boruto stand up, with Mitsuki helping him since he can't walk because of injuries, they get straight to the Hokage office.