Midnight. Peaceful and quiet. Everyone had either gone to sleep or were beginning their shift. The shinobis on guard duty and the hospital staff were part of the second group. The soft glow of the moon shone on the hospital. In a particular room, lain face up on the hospital bed, was Naruto Uzumaki-Namikaze, hero of the Fourth Shinobi War. There were almost no disturbances around his room. The only time the peaceful silence was disrupted, was when nurses would come to check in on him, smiling fondly. And in some cases reward their hero for his valiant efforts against Pein, Akatsuki, Madara and The Rabbit Goddess Kaguya.
Naruto slowly stirred from his sleep.his blond hair ruffled and dishelved as he turned from side to side in slight discomfort. His hand moved to cover his eyes so as to forcefully prolong his slumber. However that proved to be fruitless, as the sleep in his eyes suddenly evaporated. Sighing tiredly he gave up. It was impossible to go back to sleep.
"Well at least it wasn't that stupid sun that woke me up." He suddenly stopped to remember the amount of sleep the sun had deprived him. "One of these days sun, one of these days I'll find a way to punch you so hard you fly into another galaxy." After saying that and glaring murderously at the sky, he decided to look around his room.
"All right, I know I'm clearly in the Konoha hospital." Taking a whiff of the air, the smell of detergent, bleach, blood and drugs attacked his nostrils. He gagged slightly in disgust, scrunching his nose tightly to block out the smell. After some minutes he got used to the smell albeit with slight winces and a small frown. "And near the emergency ward too, the hell happened to me."
A slight beeping sound from his right alerted him to a somewhat large machine. The machine seemed to have a screen built into it. The screen was green and had slanted lines moving across it at various heights. The machine also emitted a beeping sound at regular intervals. Naruto wasn't a stranger to medical equipment as he had been put in hospitals quite a lot during his childhood. He also had a teammate, a mother figure, and a sister figure who basically breathed the stuff, so it wasn't too much of a stretch that it knew what it did.
The machine in question was used to check his heart rate, and from what he knew about medicine, he could tell that his heart rate was normal.
"My vitals seem to be normal,so that's a relief I guess." He said before laying on his back and looking at the ceiling. He licked his lips to moisten his lips, but froze noticing they were already moist, and sticky. He raised his hand to his lips and touched the sticky substance, before tasting it. It tasted like vanilla, strawberry, and cherry amidst other flavors
"There are only three possible scenarios: (1) I drooled in my sleep, and my drool tastes like lipstick, which is creepy. (2) Someone regularly gave me girly makeovers, which is embarrassing, or (3) Somebody or somebodies have been tongue-raping my unconscious body." A pause " That last one doesn't seem so bad." Just then a voice that rang through the moon-illuminated room broke Naruto from his musings.
"Sorry to burst your bubble Naruto-kun, but no, you aren't in the morgue, not by a long shot. You guessed correctly though you're in the hospital." The familiar voice came from a black haired woman garbed in the routine nurse attire for the hospital personnel. She conveniently left out denying the last scenario though, something Naruto picked up on before he noticed something else.
"Shizune-nee, what are you doing here, and why am I in the hospital. And more importantly." Naruto sucked as much air as he could into his mouth before finishing "WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU WEARING?!!!" Naruto all but yelled with a large blush on his features.
Shizune just smiled as Naruto took in her attire. She seemed quite pleased when she noticed his blood flow south. The outfit in question was the standard garb for Konoha medics decades ago. They stopped making them because of how tight and form-fitting the outfits were. That and the fact that most if not all male patients kept loosing blood through their noses everytime the nurses bent over. Tsunade could attest to this.
"Well Naruto-kun, I came here check on you because I was worried about you. Second you're here because you passed out from chakra exhaustion and blood loss after beating Sasuke at the Valley of the end. You also lost your right arm in that fight though. And lastly I'm wearing this outfit."
"I can see that. I mean why are you wearing that outfit?" Naruto asked somewhat calmer now albeit with a raging boner that wouldn't be going down anytime soon.
"I'm wearing it because it is perfect for the activity I have in mind. It's also quite snug too." Shizune answered honestly with a soft smile on her lips, although she licked her lips quite a bit hungrily eying him like a piece of meat.
"You're telling me..." Naruto let his mind wander a bit, and it went straight into the gutter. "Anyways you said I lost my arm to Sasuke. Then how do I still have it." Naruto asked confused seeing his arm still attached.
It was at this point that Shizune lost her smile. "Naruto-kun, you have no obligation to speak of him with such endearment." She was speaking of the amount of care with which he addressed the last Uchiha. She continued.
"He is a good for nothing asshole who has betrayed not only the village, but your trust and admiration on several occasions. For Kami's sake, he's the reason you're in the hospital in the first place. At least hate him for that. Shizune sighed out loud in exasperation.
"I'm sorry you feel that way Shizune-nee, but I can't stop caring for Sasuke. He is like my older brother" Naruto sighed softly before continuing. "Sasuke might not show it, but he cares. If only just a little bit, he cares about me the same way. Maybe even slightly more. We only clashed because our wills and ideals were different from each other."
At this Shizune raised a single eyebrow. "You put too much trust in him. Right now even Sakura hates him. Though how do you know he cares for you." She asked somewhat intrigued. 'If not for anything else,this is an opportunity to know what makes him love that Uchiha bastard so much.' She inwardly mused.
"When me and Sasuke first clashed at the Valley of the End, when he was defecting to join Orochimaru, I was severely hard-pressed. He could have killed me with his Chidori. His attack was cursed seal powered. I didn't want to be a hindrance to his dreams so I couldn't kill him. He didn't have such restrictions. The day before we were sent to retrieve him I ran into him and I even assisted him in leaving."
FlashBack
Sasuke was standing near the gates to Konoha, hidden amongst some trees. He looked towards them wondering whether or not it was worth it. Whether it was worth leaving just to avenge his clan. Whether or not it was worth breaking the bonds he had formed just to gain power. If he trained hard enough, he could gain the necessary power to beat his brother here right.
He noticed laughter coming from the booth by the gates. Seated there were the eternal chunin gate guards Kotetsu and Izumo. They were playing a game of cards with some bottles of sake somewhat stashed around them. There were two bottles of sake in the open however, which they used to refill their saucers. They were quite drunk if the blush staining their faces was any indication. They were the perfect example of what he never wanted to become as a ninja. They were perfectly contented with their positions, never striving to become stronger.
'This is exactly why this village is so weak. No one tries to get stronger. They will only slow me down and prevent me from getting stronger. If I want to beat Itachi, I need to leave it all behind.'
'If I'm going to escape, I need to slow them down a bit so they can't report to Hokage-sama.' He mused, his eyes trailed to the bottles of sake again. 'They seem to be hell-bent on finishing those. I might be able to drug their sake so they sleep for a little while longer. There should be some sleeping pills in the hospital. I can use that.' And with that the last currently loyal Uchiha went towards the hospital.
Walking into the hospital, he inquired from one of the nurses whether or not Tsunade was in the hospital. He was answered with a 'no' and additionally informed that her apprentice Shizune was also unavailable. As both were in the Hokage tower. Hearing this made him smirk. It was almost too easy. Swiping a bottle of the strongest sedative pills from the pharmacy was a piece of cake. The pharmacist had fallen asleep on the job.
Just another reason to leave this village. They weren't even paranoid to believe that they could be back stabbed or killed by one of their own. It was pitiful. However it was beneficial to him in this case, so he wouldn't complain.
'So far things are going good, nothing could possibly go wrong.' This was Uchiha Sasuke's last thought before fate decided to show him how wrong he was. This came in form of Sasuke's bumping into someone, his somewhat rival and best friend. Naruto Uzumaki.
"Sasuke, I didn't expect to see you here. Come to think of it I haven't seen you for a while now. Have you been avoiding me?" This was the voice of his blonde haired teammate. His sweet angelic voice reaching his ears and calming his soul.
As he gazed upon his teammate, he couldn't help but admire how beautiful he looked. Not handsome, but beautiful in the female sense. His long blonde hair that was matted down and combed into thin strands that framed his face. Long back length sun-kissed blonde hair, that looked like and felt so soft. Softer than even the softest of wool.
His face that held such soft, nigh-angelic features. His face looked more feminine than most females, he'll it was even beautiful enough to make the famous 'Ice Queens of Konoha' to doubt their femininity and sexuality. Thin long eyebrows and eyelashes, a cute button nose, a beautiful heart-shaped face with such smooth skin, it was almost unreal. And somehow those weren't his most appealing features. That went to his eyes. Eyes of the brightest blue. A lovely cerulean gem color that never failed to draw him in. Such calming, soothing eyes, filled with reminiscent of a child-like innocence.
His beautiful body that rivaled even the sexiest female forms was hidden under his outfit. It was only because of the joint bath they had with other male members of the Rookie 12 that he knew he was male. Kiba had cried out in outrage at the unfairness of it all. Shino was poker-faced, but kept staring at Naruto. Neji was the same as Shino. Lee kept mumbling about something concerning youth, not yelling for once much to Neji's silent pleasure. Chouji kept munching on chips, getting crumbs in the water. Shikamaru just fell asleep, although one could tell he was in denial. Needless to say things got very awkward.
"N-no," he stuttered, damn it!" It's not that, I could never avoid you." He said quickly. 'What was I thinking. Stupid. Stupid. Stupid.' He mentally raved.
"What was that?" Naruto asked, seemingly not have heard him.
"Nothing!" Sasuke quickly replied with a slight blush on his cheeks. This was soooo out of character for him. Trying to save some of his pride he quickly tried to leave the vicinity.
"Well I'll be leaving now. I'll see you around later." Sasuke said turning and heading away from the gates.
Sasuke went only three steps before hearing Naruto call out. "You know you shouldn't try to lie to me Sasuke. If go through with what you're planning we might not see each other for a long time." At this Sasuke froze in his tracks. " I won't stop you though, I believe in you and I know you'll do the right thing. I'll at least bid you farewell though."
Sasuke turned around with tears in his eyes, ran up to Naruto and gave him a big hug." If you tell anyone I said this I'll kill you, but I love you."
"I love you too Sasuke." Naruto said separating from the hug and heading towards the hospital, waving behind him at Sasuke who smiled. Yes smiled.
Flashback End
"If Sasuke is considered a traitor then I am too." Naruto said seriously to Shizune before smiling. "Anyways let's move on to a more important subject like did you rape me in my sleep?"
"Actually lets go back to the previous topic. I'd really like to hear more about it." A familiar voice said as Tsunade Senju, Godaime Hokage of the Konoha walked into the room.
"Baa-chan you came to see me. I wasn't expecting to see you!" Naruto said with a cheery smile on his face ignoring Tsunade's previous remark.
"Don't try to change the subject Naruto, I heard what you said." Tsunade said before glowering at him. "You betrayed the village. You helped Sasuke escape when you could have stopped him."
"But baa-chan everything worked out in the end right? I mean Sasuke came ba-" Naruto attempted to say before he was harshly cut off.
"Enough! I originally came here to console you for what I'm about to tell you, but now I am so disgusted by your actions that I don't cate how you take it." Tsunade angrily said making Naruto flinch.
"W-what is that baa-chan?" Naruto curiously asked feeling dread build up in his stomach.
"For the unanimous agreement of the leaders of the Shinobi villages, you will be irreversibly removed from position of Shinobi in any and all shinobi villages in the Elemental Nations."
