We Can Change

Chapter 23 - Silence(d)

Recap

Then I looked back at sasuke. His left hand clutching his right arm tightly with a cloth stained with bright red blood. He had a few scratches and bruises throughout arms and legs.

Then it hit me.

I was the one that did it, I hurt my friends.

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3rd person pov

Before naruto could react to what he just realized he was embraced in a hug. Sakura and Minata immediately ran over to the just waking up blond.

"Thank god your okay"

"We were worried"

Sasuke was looking at naruto with a subtle smile that wasn't missed by kakashi.

Naruto stared past the people surrounding him and at the room he had damaged. He zoned out on every crack and scratch on the wall of the room he identified as sasukes room.

Naruto felt immense guilt well up inside him. While he was doing whatever he liked in his mind, he had been destroying the outside world. Those hugs and words of comfort were ment to wash that guilt away but the blond still sat there motionless in a one-sided hug.

When the two girls pulled away, sasuke immediatly noticed the pained expression Naruto was making.

"Are u okay?" Sasuke sincerely asked.

"Yup I'm fine! What happened?" Naruto asked innocently, pushing his emotions down once again.

"You don't seem fine," sasuke said with his voice trailing on.

"I'm just tired that's all," Naruto said laying back down to back up his statement.

"Ah ok..." sasuke awkwardly mumbled.

"I think we should let Naruto be for a bit, he just woke up," kakashi suggested which was replied with a few nods.

"Why aren't you leaving?" Naruto asked. Everyone had left the room except for sasuke who was still sitting on the floor next to naruto.

"This is my room," sasuke said sarcastically.

"Oh ok, speaking of which, I'm sorry..." Naruto muttered out.

"For what?"

"For destroying your room... and for... I hurt you and I'm sorry," Naruto said almost shouting the last part. He lowered his head a little casting a shadow over his cerulean eyes.

But the frustration on naruto's face didn't go unnoticed by sasuke. The raven put his hand on the blond's shoulder reassuring him.

"Look, it was not your fault, first of all you were unconscious, second of all I could have moved away but I didn't because I wanted to make sure you were okay, I know selfish right?" Sasuke said to naruto.

Naruto clenched his fists. "It doesn't change the fact that I hurt you and your home."

"It wasn't your fault"

Flashback

"IT WAS YOUR FAULT"

Thats what naruto heard all day.

"You killed my mother"

"You killed my husband"

"You killed my daughter"

"You killed my brother"

Everything was always his fault. Naruto heard it so many times with scars on his body to remind him of those words.