Song of The Lotus Flute - A Naruto Fanfic

Song of the Lotus Flute (Chapter 7)

Chapter 7 – Pain & Memories

It was just like everyone feared; Naruto couldn’t recognize any of them.  And Sakura felt her heart break to see her friend held prisoner in his own village.  As it was now, Anbu were guarding the perimature of the building.   But that was nothing compared to how bad it was inside. 

Even with the protest from both Sakura and Sasuke, the village elders had their mind set that Naruto would be imprisoned and chained.  The only thing the Hokage had been able to manage, was keeping him in one of her private interrogation rooms instead of a dark damp ceil. 

It wasn’t long before the boy was awake again, and his piercing red eyes were bearing into Sakura.  She felt her heart crack even more as she thought, ‘Naruto never had a look of hate in his eyes like that.’  Finely the young man spoke.

“So, what are you going to do with me?”

Instead of Sakura it was Sasuke who answered.  “Nothing now…   Well dobe, if you hadn’t tried to run off like that you wouldn’t be in this mess right now.” He had his arms folded, and was speaking in the way he almost always addressed the boy.   Cool and somewhat arrogant.  It had lessened a bit over the years, but Sasuke could pull the Uchiha ego complex out when he deemed necessary.  Naruto only growled at him, then stopped his eyes narrowing on the boy.

“You’re name is Sasuke, right?”

“Glad to see you remember dobe.”

“Stop calling me that!” there was a flash of the old easily irritated Naruto in his eyes, and Sakura felt a rise of hope until...

 “So what’s it been?  A Genjutsu-some kind of hypnosis?” neither of the leaf ninja new what he was talking about and he continued.  “Ever since I got to this village, I’ve been seeing things-flashes of people-you’re the most irritating.”  He was glaring at Sasuke who gave his signature half smirk and a, ‘humph,’ to boot.  A moment later, he had the boy chained to the floor by the shirt coller, lifting him up so they were glaring eye to eye.  Sasuke’s face was filled with emotions that mostly came out as anger.  It was the most feeling Sakura had ever seen him show.

“You stupid baka.” He hissed looking right into Naruto’s eyes.  “After all we’ve been through-after all you’ve done for this village-you think you can just up and forget?” his sharingan activated out of anger, something that hadn’t happened in a long time.

“Sasuke stop-“

“Shut up Sakura!” he shouted, making even her breathing stop.  He was glaring at Naruto again.  “How dare you forget your friends you bastard.”  The kitsune boy’s eyes had widened with each word and he snarled at him.

“That’s enough!” Tsunade enter the room, her eyes on the brink of being livid.  “Sasuke let him go.  Now.”

The Uchiha obliged, shoving the boy away from him in disgust.

“Naruto.” Tsunade turned to the boy in chains and he glared at her.  She had to keep from shivering.

“My name is Kyo’kitsu, and I want to know what you’ve done with my friends.”

“No, you’re name is Namikaze Uzumaki Naruto the ‘most hyperactive unpredictable ninja of Konaha.’”

The boy blinked.  There had been so many times back in Tsubasa that he’d been accused of the same crime.  Well minus the name.  How was this woman so familiar with him?  His head began to ache again and he shuddered dropping to the ground on his hands, images flashing through is mind.

‘This is the lady you want to be Hokage.  Looks like a drunk to me…’

‘If you can learn the Resengan in one week, then I’ll consider going back to the village with you.  And you can have this.’ The woman pointed to a cut green stone around her neck.  In the memory Kyo could feel himself grinning.