Naruto One-shots

Shinobi Don't Love

Summary: Shinobi don't love, they obsess. They're obsessed with their family, they're obsessed with their friends, they're obsessed with their significant other. That may seem fine, but love and obsession are very different things. One-shot.

[This is honestly one of my favorite one-shots that I have written]

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Hinata was obsessed with Naruto.

Hiashi never once discouraged it. He knew it the moment his daughter first saw the blond boy. Her pupils dilated, her heart rate increased, and her face went red. Any civilian would have cooed at how adorable it was. Aw, she's in love!

Everyone in the Hyuuga Clan avoided her for a week after that.

Shinobi don't love. They obsess.

Every Shinobi knew better than to get in the way of another Shinobi's obsession. Hinata seemed weak, but they all knew that if someone got between her and Naruto, she would snap.

After all, she was part of the Main Family. Even the weakest of them had the strongest of blood.

And obsession increased strength a hundredfold.

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Sakura was obsessed with Sasuke.

Her parents were civilians. They never saw it for what it was. They thought it was adorable. Inoichi knew though. The moment he saw the way Sakura looked at Sasuke, he understood. She would never love him, she was obsessed with him.

Ino didn't see it until Sasuke left the Village. She saw the gleam in Sakura's eyes that flashed, only for a second, through her tears.

Sakura Haruno was obsessed. And, just for a moment, she was willing to do anything to get him back.

Anything.

Ino let Sasuke go after that. He was an interest that would only do her more harm than good.

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Kakashi was obsessed with Obito and Rin.

His brand of obsession was one that even a civilian could understand. It was the kind that could have been diagnosed by every doctor in the field if Kakashi had ever seen one.

Kakashi was so obsessed with them that he would visit their graves nearly every day. Sometimes it was to ask them for forgiveness for every wrong he had ever done them.

Sometimes it was so that he could beg them to let him sleep without waking up in a cold sweat, tears in his eyes.

Kakashi was obsessed and everyone knew it

Even Obito.

Obito would never admit that he was obsessed back.

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Itachi was obsessed with Sasuke.

It was a more familial obsession. The kind a Shinobi child would feel for their parent. It was a stronger brand of it though, so potent and firm.

It was so potent that, sometimes, it scared Fugaku. Itachi wouldn't show it often, but when it showed, it always reminded Fugaku of one fact. This one fact was hammered into his head, stamped into his brain, and etched into his mind.

Itachi Uchiha would do anything for his little brother.

Maybe that was why Fugaku subconsciously knew that the Coup would fail.