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Chapter 2 – Rebels attack

As the sun came up over the horizon the two teams arose to the sound of Naruto screaming in his sleep, it hasn't happened in a while but its normally because he is having a nightmare and the demon fox is fucking with the blond trying to break free, Naruto shot awake blasting Kiba with a small rasengan only to realised what he has done and rushed over to Kiba hoping he hasn't hurt the brunet,

"KIBA! Are you okay?! Im sooooo sorry!" Naruto cried, hearing all the commotion the others came out of their tents to see what has happened, Kiba was on the ground holding his shoulder as that was where Naruto hit him with his jutsu, seeing the injuring Naruto called for Sakura to help,
"Move out of my way then idiot!" Sakura shouted as she moved over to inspect the damage, seeing that it was only minor injuries she healed Kiba's shoulder, when she finished healing him Kiba looked over to where Naruto was but seeing he was gone he knew Naruto must have hated himself, he got up and went in search for his blond boyfriend.

After walking a couple of minutes Kiba heard someone crying, as he approached the area he heard the sounds from he saw the blond sitting at the base of a tree crying to himself,
"Naruto…" Kiba said gaining the attention of the blond,
"Kiba im sorry, I didn't mean to hurt you," Naruto said still crying, Kiba approached the crying blond and pulled him into a hug,
"shhh, its okay, you didn't really hurt me, and besides Sakura was able to sort the damage that was caused, I know it wasn't your fault Naru, please don't cry" Kiba said reassuring the blond, after hearing his ukes' snivelling die down he placed his hand under Naruto's chin and brought him into a tender kiss,

"I love you Naru, nothing is going to stop me loving you" Kiba said as he grabbed the blonds hand, "come on we have to get back to the others" Kiba said as he started to drag the blond behind him,
"I love you too Kiba," Naruto said as he wiped the tears away with his free hand.

As the pair got back to the camp site they saw the others have packed everything away,

"there you are Naruto! Geesss it was only a scratch!" Sakura shouted at how Naruto reacted, after hearing that from Sakura, Naruto blushed from the embarrassment,
"Leave him alone Sakura, you would act like that too if you hurt someone you loved" Kiba said defensively making Sakura shut up, after a short pissing contest between Kiba and Sakura, Shikamaru interrupted them as he has formulated a plan for when the rebels decide to attack, after explaining his plan the others agreed and headed closer to the village but stayed far enough not to be noticed.

After a couple of hours, a large group of shady looking people came to the town they congregated in the village centre making onlookers retreat into the safety of the buildings,

"okay these look like the rebels, but wait until we get conformation as we don't want to jump out and start something with this group without knowing who and what they are" Shikamaru said calmly.

"Everyone listen! Gather around! We come in peace!" one of the members of the group started shouting,
"the Leaf village has fallen, they cannot protect you, they are the false leaders of the land, follow us and we can take back out land and rule it how we see fit!" he continued, causing some people to come out,
"if we don't stand up and fight for our freedom they will use that demon weapon to make us bow to their might!" as he said that Naruto tensed up, unexpectedly the villagers who came out started to curse the group, telling them to leave, seeing that they wasn't getting though the group started to laugh,
"if you don't submit to us, we will destroy this village and take your resources" after hearing this Shikamaru gave the go ahead to make themselves known, as they jumped from their cover and landed in front of the rebels the group looked shocked but knew the leaf would have sent shinobi to stop them,

"kill'em" the main speaker of the rebel group said effectively starting a fight within the small village.

The group charged the two teams and a small group splintered off to gather resources from the village, seeing this Shikamaru shouted to initiate battle plan A, with hearing this Sakura, Hinata and Sai headed towards the splinter group to stop them and protect the villagers, and Naruto, Kiba, Shino and Shikamaru dealt with the main force.

After dealing with half of the main force the rebel leader called for back-up, seeing that more rebel fighters join the battle it concerned Shikamaru if they could keep up on the defensive, seeing that it was an uphill battle Shikamaru came up with a new strategy and called for Sakura, Hinata and Sai to protect and escort the villagers to safety outside the village, agreeing to the new plan they started gathering the villagers and escorting them to safety, after ten minutes of fighting and the majority of the villagers out of the villages Shikamaru told Naruto to use his shadow clone jutsu to even the odds for them, doing as he was told he performed the jutsu creating equal amount of clones to the enemy, this allowed them some more breathing room with dealing with the threat, after another five minutes the battle was winding down, the majority of the enemy were killed or incapacitated, but the battle had drained them all apart from Naruto who was now finishing off the remaining rebels, seeing the leader of the rebel movement try to escape Kiba gave chase but being tired his senses weren't as fast as he needed and that's when the leader turned and revealed a paper bomb vest strapped to his chest, seeing at the last moment Naruto sprinted to save Kiba from the impending explosion.

"KKIIBBAAAA!" Naruto shouted as he ran towards the brunet who stood shocked believing he was going to die right there, as the paper bombs exploded Kiba covered his face with his hands still frozen in place, then something hit him and he believed that was it he was dead, after the explosion there was a massive dust cloud and the remaining rebels surrendered, there was minimal damage to the village and no resources was stolen, when the dust settled everyone saw that there was two bodies next to the explosion site, all they could see was rubble, dust and a blond haired male on top of a brown haired male in a protective manor.

"Kiba! Naruto!" Sakura shouted as she ran towards the two men on the floor, as she got there she gasped at the sight, Naruto protected Kiba but the blond was unconscious and bleeding all over where he took the brunt on the explosion,

"Naruto! You have to be okay! Please be okay!" Sakura screamed whilst tears rolled down her face as she tried to stabilise the blond, that's when she remembered the Kiba was underneath him she lifted the blond and Hinata who was in shock of the sight before her grabbed the brunet and pulled him free from underneath the blond. As Hinata pulled Kiba away he started to groan at the pain he was feeling then he opened his eyes to see Hinata above him crying, his ears where ringing from the explosion, he believed he was going to die and he could only remember hearing Naruto shout his name and then a flash and boom, when Kiba tried to sit up he found it rather painful, he landed rather hard on his back from the shockwave and his abdomen hurt too from a heavy impact, that when he heard Sakura calling out Naruto's name causing Kiba to look around in panic because he couldn't see the blond,

"where is he?" Kiba asked, Hinata knew who 'he' was but she couldn't tell the brunet,
"Hinata where is Naruto?!" Kiba asked now getting angry, he then saw Hinata look another direction where he saw Sakura crying begging for Naruto to stay with them, that's when he realised what happened,

"Naru?" Kiba hesitantly called out as he tried to get up to walk to where Sakura was kneeling,
"Naruto?..." was all Kiba could say, now truly understanding what has happened, he couldn't stand so he crawled to the crater where he saw Sakura trying to heal the unconscious blond who was covered in blood, "NARUTO?" Kiba shouted seeing the state the blond was in, but got no answer,
"no, no, no, no Naruto come back, come back, please Naruto you promised you will bring Sasuke back, you promised to become Hokage!" Sakura cried as Naruto was slowly dying and she couldn't stabilise him quick enough, suddenly Shizune and her team arrived to the village under the orders of Tsunade, as the Hokage felt like something bad was going to happen so she sent Shizune with her team as backup,

"Sakura?" Shizune called as she ran too her side,

"what happened?" Shizune demanded, this is where Shikamaru stepped in and told Shizune what happened, seeing that the blond was on the verge of dying Shizune stepped in to help Sakura save the blond, Kiba was now in hysterics as he waited helplessly as the blond fought for his life after saving his,

"Kiba, he is going to be fine, he always is" Hinata said with sorrow in her voice, she hated to see two people she loved hurt this much, after ten minutes they stabilised the blond but couldn't tell how bad the damage really was until they got him back to the leaf village, but seeing the extent of the damage and what caused it, Shizune was worried about Naruto having brain damage as his head was split open, and a lung was punctured meaning there was less oxygen going to his brain, seeing that if she told the brunet he would be pushed over the edge so she held that information back.

As they headed back to the village it was silent apart from the crying Inuzuka, his wounds were treated by one of Shizune's team members,

"will he be okay?" Kiba asked hoping that Sakura or Shizune would tell him,
"we don't know until we get him back to the village, he's lost a lot of blood, we need Lady Tsunade to treat his wounds" Shizune said calmly hoping her voice didn't betray her. They finally reached the village in record time but for Kiba it felt too long, the longer the blond wasn't treated the closer he comes to death,

"Lady Hokage it's Naruto!" Shizune shouted as she barged into the hospital seeing that Shizune was crazy enough to barge in she knew it was serious,
"take me to him!" as they arrived in the hospital emergency room Shizune informed her what has happened and what she thinks the damage is, hoping that she was wrong Tsunade got to work immediately, whilst the others waited outside the emergency room.

"Kiba don't worry he will be fine, Lady Hokage is treating him now, he will pull though" Sakura said to try to calm the brunet but seeing her comments went on deaf ears she decided to head out to find Kakashi and Iruka sensei to tell them what has happened.

After a couple of hours everyone had headed home to change but Kiba stayed, he wanted to be the first to know if he is okay, Iruka came in to see if Naruto was okay dragging poor Kakashi behind him, seeing that Kiba was still waiting they knew it must be bad and asked the brunet what happened, after explaining what happened Iruka buried his head into Kakashi's chest and started to sob, the silver haired nin comforted the shorter male and offered to inform Kiba's parents that he is okay and where he was, thanking the silver haired nin they disappeared, another forty minutes passed and the emergency room doors opened, they wheeled the unconscious blond to a room where Kiba followed, he sat beside Naruto's bed and asked if he would be okay.

"he will live," Tsunade said quietly, "but he may have brain damage or memory loss" Tsunade finished, hearing this cause the brunet to break down.

"it should have been me! Sho—ld –ave—b—n me!" he sobbed,
"im sorry Kiba" Tsunade said softly placing a hand on his shoulder,
"It's your fault! If you sent another team, he wouldn't be here right now!" he shouted at the Hokage she knew he was right,
"I know…" was all she could say,

"and now I might have lost my Naru!" Kiba continued between sobs, seeing that being near him was affecting him Tsunade left saying she will check up on the blond in a couple of hours, but Kiba didn't listen he was sobbing his heart out because Naruto was hurt and could suffer from brain damage or memory loss.

A few hours past and Tsunade returned to see Kiba was asleep beside the blond, she could see he cried himself to sleep without knowing, she checked over the blond and the brunet to make sure they both was okay, satisfied that Kiba was fine but just exhausted she sent word to Kiba's family informing them on what has happened and the current condition of Naruto and Kiba, after sending the report to the Inuzuka household she left the room to interrogate the rebels who surrendered.

Some more time pasted and Kiba was awoken by a warm embrace, turning his head he saw his mother who looked relieved he was okay, then a pained look as she saw Naruto laying in bed covered in bandages,

"he looks so peaceful when he's like this" Kiba said weakly
"he will be fine pup" Tsume said to comfort her son,
"he will have ether brain damage or memory loss, what if he can't remember me? Or us?" Kiba asked breaking into a sob as he grabbed his mother,
"let it out pup, he will never forget you, and if he does you have to be there for him and remind him" she said knowing how difficult this can be.

She stayed for a while making sure Kiba had everything he needed, Tsunade came to visit Naruto again to check up on him, seeing Tsume she hoped she wouldn't give her any crap like her son, but seeing that she didn't but Kiba still looked at her like she was the enemy Tsume just sighed knowing how Kiba felt right now as he explained what was discussed before the mission and what happened during it, she could understand where Kiba was coming from but also knew that there isn't enough shinobi at the moment to help with these missions and she had to remind Kiba that being a shinobi is about self-sacrifice and that he should be happy that Naruto was alive. After Tsunade completed her checks she left and Tsume followed shortly after,

"ill come by later with some food pup" and she left leaving Kiba with Naruto alone with his thoughts.

It has been two weeks since the mission and Naruto still hasn't woken up, Kiba began to feel hopeless as Naruto was meant to have woken up already, but Tsunade checked again and saw that the impact Naruto received must have be greater than she thought as she believed he will still be out for another couple of days, Tsume knew Kiba wanted to stay with Naruto but he was becoming neglectful of himself so she dragged him from the hospital and demanded him to wash, eat, drink and get some proper rest, seeing how serious she was Kiba did as he was told.

A couple of days later Kiba visited the hospital again, he was there more than the injured, he sat beside the blonds bed hoping he would wake soon as he was overdue to wake now, Kiba heard the door open to see Tsunade again, she came daily to make sure the blond was still stable, Kiba has come to forgive her but still hated the fact the mission was successful at the blond's expense,

"he will wake soon" she said as she headed for the door, hearing this made Kiba nearly jump for joy,

"remember he might not know who you are or who he is, so when he does wake come and get me" she said sternly making Kiba sink in his seat, he forgot that Naruto had suffered a head injury.
A few more hours later and Naruto started to wake,

"ughh, where am i? am I dead?" the blond said openly not expecting an answer, but he wasn't expecting to be jumped ether.
"who are you?" the blond asked the strange male who was now releasing his grip, it was Kiba's worst nightmare, he doesn't remember,
"Naruto? Do you know where you are?" Kiba asked hesitantly,
"Naruto?" the blond asked "who's Naruto?",

It was worse than Kiba thought, seeing that the blond was awake he left to get Tsunade holding back his tears. They arrived moments after the brunet left he had already told he what he has witnessed.

Tsunade concluded that Naruto has suffered memory loss, but to the extent was still unknown to them, "I will have to run more tests to find out how serious this is and if it is a permanent problem" Tsunade said holding back her emotions.