Naruto - Light Ninja

Chapter 36 - Leaving Fire Country 02!

[Chapter Size: 2000 Words.]
Third Person POV
Konoha
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Sora went to Naruto's room, wanting to know why Naruto was absent from breakfast. She even closed her brother's door and knocked on it, "Naruto, wake up. It's time to eat!" she exclaimed, but silence was her only response. "Naruto!" she shouted, but still no answer.

"What is he doing?" she murmured as she turned the doorknob and entered the room. But the first thing she saw was the empty bed, and the window open. "Naruto?" she asked, looking for him, entering the room and checking every corner, but there was no sign of her brother.

She quickly went to the window, wondering if he had opened it and left through there. She was met with the common sight of a morning at the Namikaze estate, her gaze wandering through the trees until she spotted a body lying on the ground, immediately becoming stunned, knowing that this was the Anbu who had been guarding their house that night.

"No!" was the only thing she said as she quickly stepped back, thinking that Naruto had been attacked by someone. She glanced at the corner and saw a letter on top of the headboard.

Still in her current state, she took heavy steps toward the letter, picking it up with trembling hands, already fearing the worst. She opened the letter and saw that it was Naruto's handwriting, a message for them, a message from her brother that she would never forget after this day.

She read and reread it, unable to believe what was happening there, wondering if Naruto had written this on his own or if someone had forced him to write it.

"Sora!" she heard her mother shouting in the distance. "Why are you taking so long? Come here with your brother," Kushina complained from downstairs. Sora, just a lifeless doll, exited the room with the letter in her hand, and her face began to fill with streaks of tears.

She descended to the kitchen, as her mother was preparing another coffee in the middle of the table, stopping when she saw her daughter approaching and crying. "Sora, why are you like this?" She asked worriedly, causing all the family members, her sister, and her father to also look surprised and concerned at Sora.

"It's Naruto, mom," she spoke in a tearful tone, hardly believing her own words. "He's gone," she simply said.

"What do you mean, he's gone?" Kushina walked around the table, approached her daughter, then placed her hand on her shoulder. "What do you mean by that? Wasn't he in his room?" she asked with a tone of urgency.

"No, mom. He's not in the room," she said, showing the letter. "The Anbu who was supposed to be watching the house is passed out on the ground outside." When she said this, Minato quickly stood up and disappeared, reappearing in front of the man lying on the ground, leaned against a tree, and touching his neck. "Fortunately, he's only passed out, but he was hit with a blow..." He questioned with a frown, wondering who could have done this.

He returned to his family, while Kushina, looked at him crying. "Minato..." Kushina was scared, with the letter in her trembling hands and a hand over her mouth with some tears. "Look for yourself, Minato. Tell me this isn't true," Kushina pleaded with her husband, while handing the letter to Minato.

He took the letter and began to read, it was a bit wet from the tears of Sora and Kushina.

'I know it's hard to explain. I've spent a lot of time thinking about this. I knew I was born different from everything in this world and always wondered what my purpose here was. In the last few weeks, I've decided what I've been planning for many years. I'm leaving Konoha, not because I don't love you, after all, I really do love you, you are my family, but my path is different from staying in this village.