Pain.
Something that every human despises, but also something they can never be rid of.
Some people would argue pain makes you human.
That it helps develop a personality, whether the pain is emotional or physical.
Different People can tolerate pain in different ways, sometimes able to ignore it all together.
Humans have suffered from pain since the beginning of their species.
Pain was there to tell you when something was wrong, that a part of your body was damaged.
But what was happening now, Naruto had no idea.
The pain was excruciating, it pulsed down his arms, stomach and legs. His neck ached and his head felt like it was going to burst. Holding himself and putting pressure on some of his limbs did nothing to stop it. Not one part of his body didn't hurt.
He didn't even know why this was happening; all he remembered doing that day was returning home from the mission in wave. After his team gave in the report to the Hokage, he stopped off for some ramen and headed home to his apartment.
When he entered through the door, he started to get a mild headache.
He summed it up to being tired.
While brushing his teeth earlier, he started to feel cramps in his stomach.
He thought he must have eaten too much Ramen.
Thinking nothing of it, he climbed into bed in hopes of getting some sleep.
Half way through the night, the pain got worse, and eventually spread to different parts of his body.
He tried sitting up to get to his medicine cabinet in the bathroom, but the pain was so bad he could only lie down again.
He tried screaming for help, but all that came out of his mouth were quiet whimpers.
Feeling utterly helpless and painful, he hoped morning would come soon so someone might find him.
As time passed on it got worse and worse.
It was so bad he felt like someone was peeling off all of his skin from his body.
Time seemed to go painfully slow and minutes seemed like hours.
Shaking slightly from the pain, it was getting to be too much for him to handle.
The only thing his mind could think of doing to stop it was turning itself off, so after a few more minutes Naruto started to feel drouzy, and eventually, his eyelids dropped and all he could see was black.
"Kakahi-sensei, you're late!" Sakura shouted in a practiced fashion.
Kakashi's visible eye curved upwards.
"Sorry guys, I was giving an old woman directions to the bath house, but I forgot where it was and had to go all around town to find it. On my way back a black cat crossed my path and just in case I went down a different route. Sorry I'm late!"
"LIAR!"
When Kakashi looked at his team again, he noticed something different about it.
"Where's Naruto? I thought he'd be here extra early today since we're training together."
Sakura made a noise of disapproval and scowled.
"He probably slept in or something, that idiot!" Sasuke made no visible movements but his face looked like he agreed.
"I see… well, training's not that important so I'll guess I'll let it off this time.
We should go to his apartment and get him."
His two genins looked sour but nodded, and they all made their way to Naruto's apartment.
"You know, even if the place isn't that desirable, I would love to own an apartment on the top floor wouldn't you Sasuke-kun?" he grunted in response.
"The view he gets when he wakes up must be nice, but I would be kind of scared to sleep next to such a large window, right? It'll feel like its easy for an enemy to attack me in my sleep."
For the rest of the journey there, Sakura was ranting on and tried to get Sasuke to join in the conversation.
Even as they stopped at Naruto's front door, she hadn't succeeded.
Kakashi knocked twice and waited for a reply.
….
After a minute of waiting he knocked again.
Sure that he wasn't going to get an answer, he gripped the handle on the door and it opened with a 'click'
"He slept with his door unlocked? What it someone tried to kidnap him? Naruto-baka!" everyone agreed with her.
For an unkown reason Kakashi started to feel a bit uneasy.
Stepping inside and looking around, he indeed found his genin student lying in his bed. He looked to be in deep sleep.
Walking over to him, he gently put his hand on Naruto's shoulder and shook lighty.
"Naruto, time to wake up."
His other students walked in and waited for Naruto to open his eyes.
He didn't.
Sakura sighed and trudged over.
"He's a very deep sleeper kakashi-sensei, you really need to hit him if you want to wake him up. Like this" giving Kakashi no time to protest, she grabbed Naruto's shoulder and slapped him in the face.
"Um, Sakura, I think that's a little too forceful." Kakashi sweatdropped and looked at his student again.
No sign of waking up.
"Huh? What's wrong with him? Is he doing this on purpose? Naruto you idiot!"
Sakura again slapped him in the face, and just like last time there was no respsonce.
"Sakura, get away for a moment!" at the urgent and demanding tone, she recoiled and stood next to Sasuke.
Kakashi put his fingers to Naruto's neck to feel a pulse.
His eyes widened, his heartbeat was erratic! Definitely not a good sign.
"You two can go home, there's no training today. I'm taking Naruto to the hospital"
Despite his calm demeanour, inside he was very frantic.
He was no med-nin, but anyone could tell that right now something very bad was happening to Naruto.
Wasting no time he sped off to the hospital with Naruto in his arms
"i hope this isn't as bad as i think it is" he said to himself.
Sandaime Hokage was a wise man.
Sure he made mistakes from time to time, but overall people would rely on his judgment more than anyone elses. He took pride in this, and believed that every choice he made was for the good of the village.
As of late there was one problem though, and that was the village council.
without realizing it, they had somehow grown in power and found loopholes in the laws set by the first Hokage.
Because of this, every decision he made had to be approved by the council before it would be valid.
The thought sickened him but he knew he no longer how to stop it.
It was only a matter of time before they went against him and started making new laws in Konoha, possibly ones that were incredibly old fashioned and even very harsh.
He himself was quite old fashioned, but was open to new ideas all the time.
With every generation comes change, and because of that change, things had to be handled differently. The old cripples needed to learn that.
Instead they always stuck to the same principles. Most of them didn't even care about the younger generation, they cared about power and respect. Not a trait generally good for village leaders.
As he was mulling over what to do about this, a nurse he remembered working at the hospital stormed in the room.
she bowed low but quickly lifted her head.
"I'm terribly sorry Hokage-sama, but a council meeting is about to take place. It's very important!" she looked out of breath but very excited.
Wondering what the hell was going on, he nodded and swiftly made his way to the meeting room.
As he entered, he noticed he was the last one to arrive and took his seat. one of the council members grumbled.
"Tell us child, what could possibly be so important you forced us to have this emergancy meeting? it better be good"
The other council member nodded and looked at her with scrutiny.
"It's very important news! I'm sure you'll be amazed Honda-sama" she looked confident and glanced down at the clipboard she was holding.
clearing her voice, she started reading the report.
"At 1200 hours this morning, Kakashi Hatake from team 7 came to the hospital carrying Uzumaki Naruto.
After a quick check up it was found he indeed was incredibly ill and suffering from intense pain throughout his body.
Not knowing what the cause was, Hoshino-san, Uzumaki-san's personal doctor, did a series of tests.
These proved to be inefficient however, as the pain Uzumaki-san was going through interupted the tests and resulted in him having to be strapped down and given painkillers.
It was only an hour after that he finally calmed down and all pain present before had disappeared."
"Get on with it woman, I didn't come here to listen to you rant on about the boy's health report" the counicl member scowled and glared at her.
she blinked apologetically before carrying on.
"Once Hoshino-san could do the tests in peace, he found something very startling.
And before you all asked if he made a mistake, he redid these tests three times."
They stared at her in wonder and leaned on the edge of their seats.
"It is now confirmed, Hokage-sama. A miracle has happened."
The Sandiame looked as bewildered as the rest of them.
"'What' exactly has happened?" he asked getting impatient.
The nurse gave a blinding smile and spoke in a clear, booming voice.
"Uzumaki Naruto was confirmed, today, at 1400 hours of being immortal"
...
There was a stunned silence, only the Hokage dared to speak.
"What do you mean by immortal?" his voice had an unnatural croak to it and he looked like he was about to pass out.
"I mean that he will never die Hokage-sama. Starting from today he will stop aging altogether, and never be killed, no matter how serious the injury. He is truly immortal."
A/N- This is my first ever fic, and I would be happy to get some constructive criticism.
Surprisingly, it didn't take me that long to write.
I'm not fully sure where I'm going to with this yet though, suggestions are always welcome!
Hope you enjoyed reading it!
Love, MrsKasoogi
