Chapter 2: Deep scars.

The boys blood stained face was etched with looks of pain and lose. Kakashi and his students watched the boy for a second; trying to decide weather he was dangerous. After a few seconds Naruto approached and poked the boy. Kaze cringed in pain by the light jab, but it felt like a thousand swords had been stuck straight through him. All he wanted at that very moment was to die.

"Ugh!" moaned Kaze trying to suppress his urge to scream.

"Hey you okay?" asked Naruto, but no answer came back.

"Of course he's not Naruto!" scolded Sakura smacking Naruto on the head. "Look at him! He's bleeding everywhere!"

Kakashi put away his shrunken and as gently he could picked up the boy in his arms. His students looked up at him curiously. Looking to find any answer he might have.

"I'm taking him to the medical center in village," was all they were given as their sensei ran off with the boy held lightly in his arms.

"I wonder who he was," muttered Sasuke to himself.

"Hey look he left his bag," said Naruto noticing the bag pack that was close by where Kaze was.

Naruto instantly dived into the bag taking out its contents as he examined each and every object with great curiosity. There wasn't really much in there to begin with a photo, a large notebook, a little bit of money and a stuffed tiger. Sasuke picked up the book and opened it. All of the pages where blank except for the first page where a question was stated. The question sent a mysterious chill down his spine, freezing the boy on the inside.

'Are we going to die?'

There was nothing special about the message, but it sill sent chills.

Sakura picked up the stuffed animal, a small bangle tiger. The fabric was slightly dirty and the toy seemed slightly worn as if someone had desperately clung to it. The toy almost seemed to come to life with emotions, mostly fear and sorrow. The toy seemed to be made for a little girl.

"What's he doing with a toy? Isn't he a little old for that?" murmured Sakura as she starred out at it.

Its bright blue eyes glimmered as if staring out at Sakura. Sorrow leaking off of it. Sakura frowned as she gently placed the tiger in the bag. Something was not right.

Naruto picked up the photo and stared into the happy faces the photo portrayed. There stood the boy with what appeared to be his mother's arms around him and a little girl. He looked so different form when Naruto saw him a few minuets ago, like he hadn't a care in the world. The little girl stood beside him looking equally as happy holding on to the same bangle tiger that Sakura was putting away. The Adults in the picture looked happy as well. The mother lovingly put her arms around the two and the father gentle held her shoulders protectively. It was clear were the boy got his looks form. His father had the same handsome features of the boy and long white hair to the glowing green eyes. Yet the boy held the gentleness his mother was giving him.

"I think we should give this back to him," said Sakura as she put the objects back into the bag as he took the notebook and photo form Sasuke, and Naruto.

Later Elsewhere

A light pierced through Kaze's eyelids. 'So it's done, I'm finally dead,' thought Kaze as he let his aching body rest on whatever it was he was laying on. He was grateful for the light that glared at him through his eyelids. It was the end of the world remember? Kaze an the people of his world weren't blessed by the light of day for two days and relied heavily on technology to light the world for that time, but it wasn't the really sun so all the plants that survived the drought the day before all died as a result. It's strange how it just disappeared like that; it also froze the world over a bit. It's strange how much you really appreciate things you have when it's suddenly all taken away form you. Over those last few weeks leading to the end Kaze learned to truly appreciate all the small things he had and took advantage of when he was little, before the world went into despair.

"Is this the boy?" said a wise, gravelly voice.

Kaze's ears pricked up once he heard the voice. First riddling him with confusion, but then he realized he was not the first person to die, so it made sense that there would be other spirits.

"Yes. He appeared out of nowhere while I was training my group," replied another voice, this one sounded laid back with a sort of laziness to it. Both of them apparently male.

'Training?' thought Kaze curiously, 'You needed training to move to the next life?'

"Have you found anything form any of the other villages saying about a missing boy?" asked the first voice.

'Villages?'

"We've looked Lord Hokage, but none of them are missing a boy of his age, much less with white hair," answered the second voice.

'Hokage? That's a Japanese term, but what's all this mean? Am I not going to the afterlife?'

"So there is nothing on this, boy is there," sighed this Hokage person in exasperation.

"Lord Hokage, we can not forget the unique way of his appearance to us."

'What? I don't understand? What's going on?' thought Kaze limply. Hearing the conversation swirling around him filling him with more confusion and doubt. His body ached dearly form the injuries he sustained form the tornado. Wait a minuet… I thought when you died you couldn't feel pain because you didn't have a body anymore. ' I have to open my eyes,' concluded Kaze as he tried to open his eyes, but they simple refused to open, when he tried to talk his voice didn't work and his lips didn't even budge. Slowly Kaze tried to move the rest of his body, but nothing work the he just didn't have the energy to move at all. All he could do was lay there and think, each breath painfully slow.

"It's a miracle he's alive, with all those injuries he sustained.

'So I'm alive? But what about my parents and Kana, did they make it?' thought Kaze urgently. 'I should be dead! Why am I alive?'

Kaze could feel the tears begin to prickle at the edges of his eyes but he couldn't allow himself the embarrassment of crying. So held back the tears and mourned his lost inside of himself letting the knowledge tear him up inside. He had lost everything he ever loved and cared for. His family that loved and supported him since his birth and had given him the best they could offer, his friends that were his buddies and chatted about useless and careless things to see who was the best at something and fooled around with, his home where he had lived all of his life with and had known every street and corner of it's massive community and structures. It was gone. All of it was now gone and Kaze had nothing left. He was now and forever more alone than ever before.

Dragonelf 8: Well there you go I update on the story. I know it took a long time but at least it's done now yay for me.