Cant They See? : Chapter Two
Two young genin stood at the training grounds waiting for their continuously late sensei to arrive, orange book in hand, along with their blonde and hyperactive teammate. Sasuke was leaning against a tree at the edge of the close-by forest. Sakura was sitting further up in that tree, looking down at Sasuke, giggling and trying to flirt with him. Soon, their silver-haired jonin turned up in a poof, earning a scolding from one student. Only one…
"Sakura, Sasuke, have you seen Naruto?"
"no, I thought he would come around with you" answered Sakura.
"tch. That dobe is always getting himself into trouble…"
"he hasn't looked so good recently, maybe he's sick…"
"I don't know Sasuke, Sakura might be right, he's never been late before, and training is the most important thing to him…" Something must be wrong, we should go check up on him.
The three ninjas made their way over to Naruto's apartment. They ran up to his door, surprised to find it semi-open. They saw the graffiti covering the walls, and all of the furniture.
"oi, Naruto, are you here?" asked Sasuke, as he walked into the kitchen.
"Sakura, I'm gonna go check that room, could you check his bedroom?" said Kakashi.
"Hai!" She answered. She then walked over to the door, and slowly opened it. "Naruto? Are you in here?" She looked over the room, and since the shades were closed, and it was dark, she flicked on the light switch. "Naruto? Are you-"
The next thing Kakashi and Sasuke heard was Sakura's scream. They ran over to her and asked her what was wrong. She shakily held up her finger and poited to the corner of the room. Kakashi ran over to where the young genin sat in a pool of his own blood. His eyes were half- lidded, and his breathing was erratic. Kakashi held down pieces of his sleeve he ripped off, down on Naruto's bleeding wrists. He was semi-conscious, as he was woken up by Sakura's scream. He tried to struggle out of Kakashi's grip, and mumbled something about how he got what he deserved.
Sasuke was shocked. He was frozen in his spot, where he was hugging Sakura, who was sobbing into his shirt. He couldn't believe that his best friend had just tried to... He couldnt even finish that sentence. He was snapped out of his daze by Kakashi's yell.
"Sasuke! He's still alive! We need to get him to Tsunade now!"
"Hai!" was the only word he could manage.
The three ninja ran to the hospital, Naruto, unconscious again, in Kakashi's arms. They ran into the emergency room, calling out for the hokage. Shizune ran to get Tsunade, and they reappeared in seconds.
"Oh my god, Kakashi, what happened?" she held back a sob as she examined her almost little brother. "Get this boy into surgery NOW! He needs blood, stitches, and an iv" she yelled at a nurse, who ran with Naruto into the surgery room.
"Hokage-sama, he did this to himself..." Kakashi said with a sigh.
"B-but..."
"Tsunade-sama! We need you in here fast! We're losing him!" said Shizune.
"NARUTO!" she ran into the room, where the door shut out three very concerned ninjas from what was happening.
"I-i d-did'nt e-even t-think th-that N-naruto, h-he would e-ever..." sobbed Sakura.
"None of us did. What kind of friggin ninjas are we? We couldn't even friggin see that our teammate was, was..." Sasuke ranted, unable to finish the sentence.
"suicidal?" said Kakashi, "no, for not seeing that, it doesn't mean we are bad ninjas, it just meant that Naruto had a better façade than we thought. He has probably used that his whole life, and has gotten quite skilled at it. Anyway, I guess I should tell Iruka and Jiraya, along with the other senseis about this." and with that he vanished.