Sacrifice
9foxgrl
All he wanted was to save his friends. That's why he made the deal.
The Ninja Academy students were falling victim to an unknown illness that seemed to have the medic baffled. High fever, chills, tenderness, and odd welts appearing on their bodies. They fevers held steadily at 103.8 F, nothing they did was working.
To many's surprise, and disgust little seven year old Naruto recovered after a day with the illness. Many speculated it was due to the demon fox sealed inside of him, the few who truly knew him, knew that because Naruto was too stubborn to get sick.
Naruto refused to give up hope on his classmates and would help several of the medics when ever he was allowed. They mostly allowed him to aid in searching for documentation about the disease. None of the old medic text had any prior knowledge of such a sickness.
All the parents were scared, the doctors had only given their children a speculated seven days to survive the illness. All they could do was give the children pain killers and pray.
Little Naruto had not given up yet. He still spent days scouring the library looking fot anything kind of clues to help his friends. Finally he realized they had only a few hours left.
He ran to the nearst temple and began to pray.
"Please Kami, don't take them yet! Please, I'll do anything to save my friends."
"Anything?"
Naruto looked up to see a heavenly looking figure stitting before him in exquist sky blue and gold robes. His face looked serenely beautiful, almost femine.
"Kami?"
"Yes my little one. You have a pure soul so I will make a deal with you to save you friends."
Naruto grinned.
"I will give you the instructions to take the medics in order to make the medicine, but in return you will have to die in their place."
Naruto trembled. Dying in their place? He hadn't count on that.
"B-but...can I live long enough to make sure they're okay?"
Kami raised three fingers.
"I'll give you three hours, three hours after the medicine is administer. Thats long enough for them to recover."
Naruto gulped.
"Deal."
Kami slipped a piece of parchment into Naruto's hands and kissed his forehead.
"One of my angels will come to get you after your time is up. Now hurry Naruto."
Naruto blinked and bowed before running off to the hospital. Unbeknownst to him tears were falling from Kami's eyes.
"Poor child, I wish we hadn't need to do this. But...this was the only way to take you away from this madness..."
He then faded away.
Naruto crashed through the doors of the ICU and gasped scaring all the parents.
"I- I HAVE IT!"
He showed them the parchment. "It tells how to make the medicine!"
One of the doctors grabbed it and raced away to make the medicine.
Naruto walked over to a table and slowly began to write a letter. He kept peeking up to see if the medics were done yet.
Finally at nine o'clock PM the doctors finished the medicine and began to administer it. Naruto watched feeling his heart begin to beat slower.
Finally around midnight the children woke up and acted like they had been asleep the entire time.
During the squeals and hugs, and laughter of the children and parents now one noticed Naruto grow pale. Their attention was finally drawn when they heard his fall off the chair with a loud crash.
One of the medics believed he was sleeping but froze in horror then ran off.
"Is something going on?" Sakura asked her mother.
"I'm not sure."
"D-D-DAMMIT!" echoed in the hospital.
The medic came back and turn to his colleague.
"Uzumaki, Naruto: time of death 0003."
"Hai sir."
It was eeriely quiet.
"Naruto is dead...?"
The doctor looked down at the paper Naruto was writing.
Made a deal with Kami to save my friends. Gave up my life in exchange.
Please don't be mad.
Sincerely,
Naruto