The Mystery of Konoha…
Part 1
It was a peaceful day for Naruto as he looked out the window of his apartment. He already had breakfast, but there were no missions for him lately, so he watched the children play a game of catch on the streets below him.
Sigh. I wish I had something to do today, Naruto thought to himself.
Suddenly he realized something. He had not seen Tsunade in a few days. He didn't know why…
Why do I feel as though something happened to Granny Tsunade? Naruto thought.
As he ran down the stairs out into the street, he bumped into Sakura, who was carrying groceries that she had just bought.
"Oh, hi Naruto-kun. You're in a rush today. What's on your mind?" Sakura asked a very nervous-looking Naruto.
"Well, I just thought. I haven't seen Granny Tsunade for awhile. Do you know where she is?" Naruto asked.
"No actually I haven't seen her myself lately either," Sakura replied. "Maybe we should go look for her."
"That's what I was just thinking Sakura-chan!" Naruto exclaimed. "Let's hurry. Maybe something happened to her…"
"If she was going somewhere she would have informed us or at least had someone inform us for her. And she usually doesn't go anywhere outside the village," said Sakura.
That's true. I've never seen her outside the village since she became Hokage… Naruto thought.
"Hmm… maybe we should ask Kakashi sensei. He should know something.
He's always helping her with stuff and gets tons of S-ranked missions from her," said Naruto.
"Wait. I heard he was in the hospital," Sakura mentioned.
"WHAT?" Naruto asked furiously. "What do you mean he's in the hospital? He hasn't gone on any missions lately. How could he get injured?"
"I don't really know myself. I just heard something about a mission and they wanted Kakashi sensei to go on it but he was in the hospital… and that's all I heard," Sakura admitted.
"Well then what about Shizune-neechan? She's always around Granny Tsunade," Naruto suggested.
"Actually I haven't seen her around either much lately…" Sakura said with disappointment.
What the hell is going on? Kakashi sensei is in the hospital for no reason that I know of, Granny Tsunade and Shizune-neechan are missing…I've got to get to the bottom of this Naruto thought to himself.
"Well, I need to take these groceries to Hokage-sama's mansion. She needs the ingredients for her medical research," Sakura said.
"If she's been missing for a days, how did you know she needed them?" Naruto asked.
"What are you talking about? She was at the Hokage's mansion yesterday training me in medical Nin-jutsu," Sakura stated with a look of confusion on her face.
"Huh? I haven't seen her in days. I even went to the mansion to try to get her to give me missions but her and Shizune-neechan weren't there!" Naruto practically shouted.
"Naruto, that's silly. You came barging in yesterday and almost asked for a mission but… hey. What exactly happened anyway?"
"Huh? I barged in and there was no one there!" Naruto argued.
"No… you barged in and said 'Granny Tsunade! Please I want to go on a mis…and then you looked shocked…but your eyes were closed…were you sleepwalking?" Sakura asked giggling a little.
"No…and my eyes were wide open…what's going on?" Naruto began to get anxious.
"Well, tell me your end of the story Naruto," Sakura suggested.
"Ok," Naruto agreed.
Flashback:
Wow. Tsunade hasn't called me for anything in awhile. I wonder if she forgot about me. No she would never do that Naruto thought while looking out the window.
But suddenly, even with the hot summer air circling around him, Naruto felt a slight cool breeze. That breeze reminded him suddenly of everything that has happened. From when he was just in the Academy to now as a Chuunin.
What was that?? Naruto whispered to himself.
Naruto looked at where the breeze had come from. It came from the Hokage's mansion.
Why would there be a cool breeze coming from Granny Tsunades' mansion? Naruto said aloud.
So Naruto decided that maybe he could drag some missions out of the Hokage-sama. And at the same time try to find the cause of the breeze. But he had an excuse if anyone asked him.
Naruto ran down the hall and burst into the Hokage-sama's room.
"Granny Tsunade! I want a mis…" Naruto's voice trailed off as he saw that no one was in the room.
"Hmm. She must be training with Sakura-chan," Naruto decided.
He still was curious about that breeze… but thought it was not good to go peeking in rooms that Granny Tsunade would not want him to go into.
So he went back to his apartment and laid down on his bed, his mind full of questions. Then he looked out the window thinking about where Tsunade and Shizune-neechan were, but mostly, about that breeze…
Flashback ends
Naruto told this to Sakura.
"Maybe it was a different day. What day did you go?" she asked.
"3 days ago," Naruto replied
"That was the same day," Sakura said, still looking very confused. "I last saw her yesterday. That's when she asked me to go out and buy these things."
"I haven't seen them for five days," Naruto said, starting to look a little worried.
"No… you barged in to her room wanting a mission. I know that because I was there!" Sakura tried to explain to him.
"But no one was in the room. I went in exactly at 10:00," Naruto stated.
"That's the exact moment you burst into the room, but you just stood there in shock not answering us. And then you left for no reason," Sakura said.
This just keeps getting weirder and weirder Naruto thought.
"Shock? From what? Well when I came in the room I was a bit shocked because she is usually there if I cannot find her anywhere else… so yeah I was shocked. And then I left like you said," Naruto was looking more worried by the moment.
"This is very strange…wait. Could it be?" Sakura started.
"Could what be Sakura-chan?" Naruto asked looking very puzzled.
"No way. How would they…"
"Sakura-chan, what are you talking about?" Naruto asked now very confused from what she had been saying.
"Naruto…we're…" Sakura stammered quietly.
"What? Tell me!" Naruto shouted annoyed by not being told what's going on.
"We're in a…Gen-jutsu," Sakura finally said.
"WHAT? HOW?"
"I don't know Naruto-kun. But that breeze you said you felt was a Gen-jutsu. You've been under it for five days and I've been under it since this morning," Sakura said.
She was going to be very sorry she mentioned that.
"WHAT THE HELL? WHY DIDN'T YOU NOTICE? USUALLY YOU'RE GREAT WITH GEN-JUTSU! WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON??" Naruto was now outraged at the fact he had been tricked.
"Naruto calm down. Just release it," Sakura said.
"Oh yeah. Release!" Naruto said as he made the seal of the horse and tiger.
"Release," Sakura said copying Naruto's movements.
But nothing happened.
"Did it work? Everything looks the same," Naruto said looking around for some sign that it had worked.
"I don't think it worked Naruto. Do you think the whole village is caught in it? If so…" Sakura began to look pale at the thought of what could happen if the entire village was caught under Gen-jutsu.
"No…I will never let anything like that happen!" Naruto said fiercely.
That's Naruto. Always thinking positive Sakura thought.
"How do we get out of it?" Naruto asked Sakura.
But just as he asked, the sky began to turn cloudy. Thunder clapped and lightning flashed. A lightning bolt almost zapped Naruto. It scared the hell out of him. He ran up on top of a pole clinging to it.
Is this part of the Gen-jutsu? Wait… Sakura thought.
Sakura made the sign of the horse and tiger. "Release," said Sakura.
The clouds disappeared just as a bolt of lightning was about to strike her. Naruto was still clinging to the pole looking more scared then ever. She knew he hadn't released the jutsu, so that's why he was still clinging and dodging the lightning.
How could I release that one? Are we still in the Gen-jutsu? gasp I know now! Sakura thought to herself with a smile.
"Naruto it's just a normal Gen-jutsu. Release it!" Sakura shouted to a very scared looking Naruto atop a pole.
"But it didn't work last time!" Naruto hesitated, still dodging the lightning that only he could see now.
"I know, but try it! I think I know how it works sort of," Sakura shouted.
And then he noticed that Sakura wasn't affected by the lightning that flashed around her. He thought she was either crazy or that she had released the Gen-jutsu. He seconded both.
"O-ok…" Naruto stammered as he once again made the sign of the horse and tiger.
"Release," He muttered.
The clouds went away. The lightning no longer flashed. Naruto slid down the pole wobbling a bit.
"Why did it work this time?" Naruto asked still a little scared of the lightning that almost made BBQ out of him.
"That storm was a side Gen-jutsu. We can escape those, but not the entire one," Sakura explained.
"Oh. Wait. WHAT?" Naruto said extremely mad now.
Suddenly, Naruto felt weightless. He looked below him. The ground was gone. Instead, he saw a huge black hole. Sakura was trying desperately to make the hand signs to release the jutsu. Naruto tried to pull himself out of the black hole, but it was no use. It just kept sucking them both into it. Finally Naruto could no longer see Sakura. He thought she had been sucked fully into the black hole. But then, he felt a hand tugging on him. He looked up to see Sakura pulling him out of the black hole. Finally she did it and Naruto released the Gen-jutsu.
When Naruto could feel himself, he was wet.
"Huh?" Naruto asked then he looked behind him. The black hole was really just a lake. And being unconscious he couldn't swim, so it made it seem like a black hole.
"How did you release it?" Naruto asked gasping for air.
"I don't really know actually…" Sakura stammered.
Flashback
Gasp! I'll never get out of this Sakura thought.
She looked over at where Naruto was. He was trying to swim through it but was loosing energy, as though the black hole sucked away his chakra. She could see no way out of this one.
But then… Sakura saw some kind of light behind her. She turned around to see some creature she had never seen before…
Supposedly a wolf with silver eagle wings that spread about thirty feet across. It had a tail with spikes on the end that swung around it. It had teeth that were about a foot long each with two longer front fangs and its claws curved outward, making her think of it as a predator. Its fur gleamed with a silver shine, as though it was an angel itself. It had a necklace like the Hokage's but it was six sided and shone in seven different colors. It was made with a stone that she had never seen before.
The huge wolf grasped its jaws around the back of Sakura's shirt and began to fly up, pulling Sakura out of the black hole. The wolf put her on the ground away from the black hole.
"Thank you whoever, or whatever you are," Sakura thanked the wolf.
But the wolf had vanished. Sakura released the Gen-jutsu and ran to help Naruto.
Flashback Ends
"A flying wolf? There's no such thing," said Naruto. "It must've been part of the Gen-jutsu."
"But if it was, wouldn't it have tried to hurt us? The person who is controlling this Gen-jutsu wants us out of the picture. So why would he make a wolf to save me?" Sakura said.
"Hmm…you do have a point," Naruto said. "How will we get out of this Gen-jutsu?"
"We have wait and hope that someone will find the real us wherever we are and wake us up before we get ourselves killed by these side Gen-jutsu," Sakura said with a sigh.
"And what do we do until then?" Naruto asked looking for a pretty good answer.
"We'll have to try to wake ourselves up," Sakura said.
Then she looked at Naruto with her emerald eyes which spelled pain when they were like that.
"Sakura-chan, why are you staring at me like that?" Naruto asked taking a few steps back.
Sakura reached into her weapon pouch and grabbed a kunai. She held on tight to it and began to charge at Naruto, with the kunai pointing strait at him.
"SAKURA-CHAN HAVE YOU GONE MAD?? AAAAAGGGGGHHHHHHHH!!" Naruto screamed and ran like hell for his life.
"Naruto remember how during the Chuunin Exams we fought Orochimaru and he used a kind of torture Gen-jutsu?" Sakura asked following him.
"No, remember I was in the belly of that damn snake!" Naruto stated, still running for his life.
"Oh yeah. Well then I'll tell you about it," Sakura said, throwing the kunai at Naruto.
"I'd be able to listen more if you stopped trying to kill me for no reason!" Naruto said, dodging her attack.
"Alright," Sakura said, as she skidded to a stop. They were both on top of the Academy now.
Naruto a couple yards away stopped too but stayed where he was.
"Why the hell were you trying to kill me Sakura-chan??" Naruto asked still very scared that she may pull a surprise attack from somewhere if he was not careful.
"I wasn't. I was trying to do what Sasuke did during the fight with Orochimaru at the Chuunin Exams. He and I were caught in a jutsu that Orochimaru had used to immobilize us and Sasuke got both me and him out of it by stabbing himself in the leg with a kunai. He overcame the fear of the jutsu with the pain he felt with that wound," Sakura explained.
The whole time Naruto stared at her with his eyes as big a dinner plates.
"Wow. I knew Sasuke was emo but I never thought he'd go that far," Naruto joked.
At that comment he received a smack upside the head and a very angry looking Sakura looking down on him, her eyes burning like she had let out her true inner Sakura.
"Hey! I was just joking!" Naruto said, trying to get back on her good side.
"Humph. Anyway that's what I was trying to do you baka," Sakura said still pissed off at Naruto.
"You could've just told me before and if I believed you then I could've done it myself. AND IM NOT A BAKA!!" Naruto shouted.
"Right…"Sakura said sarcastically.
"But this could be a different jutsu. If we both try that, we may just end up being injured and you would have to use chakra to heal yourself," Naruto added.
"What about you? You don't know healing jutsu," Sakura noted.
"Ah, there's many thing you do not know about me Sakura-chan. One of them is that I know healing techniques," Naruto stated boldly.
This comment also received a smack upside the head of poor Naruto.
"Hey! What did I do now?" Naruto asked rubbing his head where Sakura had hit him with her fits of fury.
"WHY DIDN"T YOU TELL US?? THAT COULD HAVE BEEN HELPFUL A WHILE AGO!" Sakura screeched so loud that Naruto had to cover his ears.
God is she loud sometimes. I'm glad she went with Sasuke and I'm with Hinata… Naruto said to himself.
"Anyway, we can only hope it works. And if not we both can heal ourselves," Sakura said pulling out another Kunai.
Naruto did the same.
"On three," Naruto said raising his kunai.
"One"
"Two"
"Three!" They both stabbed their legs with the kunai.
"Ouch, shit this hurts. Please work," Naruto mumbled under his breath.
He could see that Sakura was in pain too.
They both opened their eyes. They were still in the leave village but instead of them being on the Academy rooftop, they were in the forest outside the main gate. Apparently, this jutsu allowed them to move in the real world without knowing it. In saying that, Naruto and Sakura felt struggling pain in their legs. Just as they did in the Gen-jutsu world, they had stabbed themselves with their kunai.
Sakura didn't want to hurt herself too badly, so she hadn't pushed down so hard, and only a trickle of blood showed. But Naruto wanted to get out of this jutsu and had stabbed himself hard. His whole leg had been cut and his leg was covered in blood. Naruto looked at this and winced. He pulled the kunai out of his leg, resulting in more pain and more blood to flow. Immediately he started to heal himself. Sakura had already healed her leg and saw Naruto's struggle. She went over and her hands turned green as she began to help Naruto heal his leg.
"Thanks," Naruto thanked her.
"You really cut it deep. Maybe we should go to the hospital to have Tsunade look at it," Sakura suggested looking a bit worried at the deep wound in Naruto's leg.
"Oh yeah! I nearly forgot about Granny Tsunade," Naruto said trying to get up. "Ouch!" Naruto said and fell to one knee wincing in pain.
"That wound will hurt for awhile. Here let me help," Sakura said as she helped Naruto up and put Naruto's arm over her neck to help push him upward so he could limp.
"Thanks Sakura-chan," Naruto said blushing a bit.
Seeing Naruto blush at the sight that Sakura was carrying him almost resulted in a smack upside the head for the third time today, but then she remembered the condition he was in and needed medical attention and fast.
"Quick, lets get you to the hospital," Sakura said, half dragging Naruto toward the main gate.
As they approached the entrance to Konoha, the guards at the gate greeted them but seeing Naruto wounded came to help. They both carried Naruto to the hospital so Tsunade could look over him.
They placed Naruto in a hospital room with an open window. Immediately Tsunade came into the room hearing about what had happened. Sakura sat in a chair beside Naruto. Sakura explained about the Gen-jutsu and what they had to do to get out of it.
"What? A Gen-jutsu? How? Who would have done it?" Tsunade started asking.
"That's what I'm wondering," Naruto said slowly trying to sit up.
"Lay down. Pushing your self will only make it worse," Tsunade protested.
Usually Naruto was one to bicker with Tsunade about just about everything, but this time he didn't say anything. He just nodded in agreement and laid back down. This surprised Sakura for she always knew that Naruto would want to argue with her for any reason. Did he know something she didn't?
Tsunade looked over the wound and her hands began to turn green as she healed Naruto's wound more. Soon as it was almost gone, something, not blood, but a red substance began to creep out. Immediately Tsunade stopped healing him and stepped back.
It was the Nine-Tailed Fox's chakra. In an instant, it sealed the wound completely. The only way you could tell it had been cut was seeing the slash mark on his pants where the kunai had sunk through.
So that is the power of the Nine-Tailed Fox Tsunade thought in amazement.
"So what kind of a Gen-jutsu was it?" Tsunade asked now that Naruto was healed.
"We don't know actually. We hoped that by telling you about it that you would know," Sakura said sadly.
"Alright I might know. Tell me everything," Tsunade said.
"This morning I went out to get the things you asked me to buy and I noticed that I hadn't seen you since last night. As I was walking by Naruto's apartment, he came crashing out with that determined look on his face. I asked him where he was going in such a rush. He said that he hadn't seen you or Shizune for five days," Sakura told them.
"What? He came rushing in three days ago…and then acted as though we weren't there. The Gen-jutsu must have made us invisible to him. Then why did he see Sakura today?" Tsunade asked.
"This morning he must have caught me in the same Gen-jutsu and allowed Naruto to see me," Sakura explained.
"Ah. Continue," Tsunade said.
"Hai. Then we got caught in a thunderstorm but we were able to release that Gen-jutsu," Sakura continued on.
"What? How?" Tsunade asked, standing there baffled at what Sakura was telling her.
"We don't know…but then we got caught in another. A black hole. But we couldn't escape this one. But…something…happened…" Sakura said her voice getting softer and softer.
"What? What happened? Tell me!" Tsunade ordered.
"A wolf…a silver wolf with silver saved me…and it had a six sided necklace that looked to made with a stone I've never seen before," Sakura said in a very soft voice.
Hearing nothing said from anyone in the room, Sakura looked up to see Tsunade staring down at the floor shivering. Shizune was shivering also. Naruto…well she couldn't tell if he was in shock or what. He just stared down at the floor and said nothing, never raising his head.
"What? Do you know of this wolf?" Sakura asked beginning to become scared at the thought it was something that killed someone a long time ago.
"I-it's not a wolf…" Tsunade stammered.
"So the legends were true…" Shizune said still shivering her eyes getting bigger with fright and maybe even amazement.
"That wolf…is known as a Docu Amathai," Naruto muttered under his breath.
Everyone looked up at Naruto in shock. His head still hung low, but his voice was loud enough to hear, though it sounded like he was scared of something.
"Naruto, you know her?" Tsunade asked Shizune getting a bit closer to him.
"Yes. I do. She came to me in a dream once. Just as you described her. A silver wolf with silver wings, and a necklace make of a precious jewel. I was being attacked by thousands of snakes. They were biting me, injecting more venom with each bite. I tried to get away, but they held my legs and arms…" Naruto said in a low voice.
Now Sakura sat wide eyed at what Naruto had said. Shizune and Tsunade were looking at him in amazement.
"Then a silver light came behind me, and long claws began to slash away at the snakes that held my legs and arms. I felt woozy from all the venom. I began to fall backwards. My strength…was no more. It was too late I thought. Even that person couldn't save me now…but…I fell into the arms of something warm and soft. I opened my eyes to see that all the snakes had vanished. I looked up to see the wolf, wings outstretched, holding me up. Her tail had many spikes on it, but she moved it close to me. I had no strength to fight back, so I hoped she would help me. The spikes turned into soft fur and she laid her tail on my chest. It turned green. She had begun to do the impossible. Removing all the venom from my body," Naruto said his voice getting a little louder with each sentence.
Sakura was now almost breathing down his neck, wanting to know what this thing was and why she helped them.
Tsunade began to come closer with Shizune right behind her.
"And then it turned from green to blue. I began to feel strength coming back into me. Then her tail turned from blue to red and I had so much chakra I almost thought I would explode. I stood up and looked at her. 'Who are you and why did you help me?' I asked her,"
All of them were now almost right in Naruto's face.
"What did she say Naruto?" they all asked.
Naruto looked up at them, but…it was not Naruto. His eyes were an aquamarine color and his teeth had grown long. His ears had moved up to near above his eyes and had curved out like a wolf's. Also his eyes became squinted like those of a wolf's.
They all took about five jumps back at the sight of this.
"Naruto…what…what happened to you??" Sakura asked frantically.
"I'm not Naruto," came a voice from Naruto that sounded like death and heaven together, making them not sure whether this person was good or evil, but a little bit of each.
"I am the creature Naruto has told you about and has helped you Sakura-chan. My name is Savanna. I am a Docu Amathai of the Jemenai clan. I have taken over Naruto's body in order to speak to you. I will tell you what I told him in that dream if you wish, even though it was not a dream at all," Savanna said.
Tsunade and Shizune stood there shivering and staring at amazement.
"The legends were true…she…she is real…the legendary Docu Amathai…one of only eight remaining in the world!!" they both exclaimed.
Sakura looked at them and then at Naruto.
What is going on? Sakura asked herself.
End of Part 1.