[Voice, accidentally recording nearby.]
[Voice grows louder and softer as Naruto paces away from and towards his journal.]
Sakura-chan was in the library. Sakura-chan was in the library. No. No. Damn it. And probably so many other people I know too.
... [Rustling, as though he's putting on clothes and muttering to himself, clattering as rustle of pouch against jumpsuit. Weapons.]
I have to help her. It's Sakura-chan. I would die before she gets hurt. But for all that they're safe and I know that the Professors would get them out. I'd probably just block them. But...the Ghost Widow... She's probably hunting down the people who've offended her. And I know that Sasuke-teme for one would try to get her. ... They're all my precious people. They're my only people. They're...they're...
[he breathes deep and even.]
I'll go the long way, past the great hall to the library to help. But if I see that bitch Belladonna on the way and she's hurt anyone at all, she's going to die again. I'll make sure of it.
[footsteps pounding away.]
Sakura-chan was in the library. Sakura-chan was in the library. No. No. Damn it. And probably so many other people I know too.
... [Rustling, as though he's putting on clothes and muttering to himself, clattering as rustle of pouch against jumpsuit. Weapons.]
I have to help her. It's Sakura-chan. I would die before she gets hurt. But for all that they're safe and I know that the Professors would get them out. I'd probably just block them. But...the Ghost Widow... She's probably hunting down the people who've offended her. And I know that Sasuke-teme for one would try to get her. ... They're all my precious people. They're my only people. They're...they're...
[he breathes deep and even.]
I'll go the long way, past the great hall to the library to help. But if I see that bitch Belladonna on the way and she's hurt anyone at all, she's going to die again. I'll make sure of it.
[footsteps pounding away.]