A wolf's Tale Chapter 2: the cherry blossoms wolf, a naruto fanfic

Chapter 2

hello faithful readers sry for the atroucious wait but im a lazy bugger and i know it, anyway heres the new chapter and i hope you like it and i will try too update faster but i make no garuntees

-OC POV-

Pain…

That's the first thing that registered in his mind, just endless searing pain. Then there was nothing, as though it was just switched it off like a light in a room. Then there was that voice, a voice he could not place, yet it was comforting but he didn't know why.

'Who are you?' it asked.

It was the first voice he had heard in a long time. And he was not sure how to respond. The voice was deep and powerful yet wise beyond understanding of it. He called out.

'What? Where are you?'

'Who are you?' it asked again

'I don't understand.' he replied.

'It is too soon then.' it replied sadly, 'remember… Okami. (Wolf)'

All at once there was a rushing sensation as if his body was flung through the air by a great force yet he felt no pain from it.

*gasp* air rushed into his lungs as he sat up quickly, but regretted the action instantly as he felt extremely dizzy afterwards. Clutching his aching head in his hand, only to find that his left arm was in a splint.

'How did that happen?' he thought

After looking at his now splinted left arm he began to take in his surroundings. He was in a room with a single oil lamp that glowed just enough to illuminate the room to get a look around. The walls were a light brown color like that of bark from an old tree yet they were smooth, the floor had just a simple wooden floor with nothing special to it almost as if the owner of the house had made it slap dash or had simply chosen not to finish the floor properly, there was little furniture in the room only a single shelf off to the left of the room. In the middle is where he lay in a simple bed, with a small cushion next to him as if someone had been sitting there.

The soft thudding of footsteps reached his ears and he turned to the door in time to see it slide open, to reveal a woman standing there with jade green eyes, and soft pink hair standing in the doorway.

"Oh, your awake, how do you feel?" she asked while coming over to sit next to him.

Instantly he was on guard and ready to flee if necessary. The pink haired woman stopped walking towards him when she saw this she forced herself to stop and put her hands up in a placating way to show the injured boy that she meant no harm, she then continued to slowly moving forward in a very cautious step.

The wounded boy slowly settled but never let his guard down his mind still racing through the survival mode it was in, as the strange haired girl got next to him she slowly knelt onto the cushion to sit next to him, he continued to watch her as she moved, while at the same time she moved just as slowly to avoid startling him. He watched as she reached into the pouch at her lower back and he tensed but she only pulled out a small container of cream, and he slowly relaxed, the whole situation was very aggravating for him having to remain on guard all the time and then relaxing but his instincts would not let him do anything else.

"Here" she said "Let me see you I just want to help you I'm a medic."

That statement did little to ease his tension but he let her do what she needed to do as he realized that her scent held no ill intent.

She smiled seeing him allow her to move as she slowly undid the bandages around his chest to look over his wounds. As the bandages fell away the pink haired medic gasped at what she saw.

It was not possible, it was unreal, there was just no way she, had only seen healing of this level on Naruto so what the hell was he, was he possibly a… but there was no way he could be a... jinchuuriki? But even a jinchuuriki like Naruto would not be healed this quickly he would at least have some smaller wounds on him left over so what the hell is going on

"Something wrong?" the boy enquired as she stared at his toned chest like she had never seen one before.

The pinkette looked up and blushed for being caught staring at him and pulled away from him and shook her head, though she was still amazed she could say nothing for what she saw. The wound in his chest from the kunai was completely gone and she had only removed the broken blade not three hours ago there was just no way a wound of that level could heal that way so what was he? Was it some kind of bloodline? Was it only an illusion (she doubted that very much)? So what the hell was going on?

These questions and many more ran through Sakura's mind until she was snapped out of her musings as her patient began to stand.

"He...Hey wait what are you doing your in no shape to be getting up." She commanded.

The teen looked at her like she was not quite right in the head he always healed after sleeping didn't she know that, and then it hit him maybe she didn't, she was a new person and this was not his cell so of course she would not know about his body and it's healing habits. He would have to look into the change in accommodations further with his Keepers oh how he hated them, but due to that dam seal there was little he could do. He decided to look into the issue later and just sat back down but did nothing more as he waited.

-Sakura POV 2 hours earlier-

"Mmmhhhhm" Sakura mumbled.

She had had a long night and a tiring mission and a stress full not to mention emotional last few days and just wanted to sleep but her body was doing what it wanted by instinct, that was the problem of having been trained by a medic (more like death) nin like lady Tsunade, she snapped the rest of the way awake when she heard Naruto shouting about an injured that he had found. The pinkette had begun to quickly gather her medical supplies as Yamato- taicho explained some of the injuries he had seen and what was wrong, at his description she began to move faster, when she was ready she came into the room Naruto and Sai were in with the strange boy.

She quickly kneeled next to the injured youth and began her diagnostics on the stranger's body. What she found was daunting even for her but she was also shocked at the fact that some of the wounds described to her were not as severe as originally indicated but no less troubling she also detected traces of a poison in his system.

The pink haired medic began to work more diligently but as she began to focus she was brought of her thoughts as a hand reached forward to pick up a medallion she had not even noticed before laying on her patients' body before Naruto's voice brought her out of her thoughts as he said

"Just who are you?"

That statement puzzled the girl but she pushed it back to focus on the task at hand.

"Naruto move out of the way please I need to concentrate on him" she barked with authority.

"Huh" was the intelligent response she got "oh… sorry Sakura-chan."

Had it been another time and had she had the opportunity to think on it she would have caught the way he said it in that subdued tone but she ignored it to look over later.

"You know dickless, you should let the banshee work if you want her to save this person" said the emotionless brick that was Sai. She made a mental note to pummel him later about the comment but had to focus on her task as Naruto got into a scuffle with the pasty faced boy, at least until captain Yamato gave them both his scary face and had them both leave the room so Sakura could concentrate.

"Thanks Yamato-taicho" she said as she continued to work on closing the wound in the boy's chest after having removed the kunai shard from the wound.

"No problem Sakura-san" he responded. "So how is he?"

"Not too good but I think he'll live but barley if Naruto had found him any later he may have died" she said but then added "but it would not have been from his wounds if I'm getting this right I would have been from the poison in the kunai shard in him."

"What? Are you sure? Because being stabbed in the stomach is not that survivable you know" he replied a little confused

"not entirely but if I'm reading his chakra right then the wounds themselves were already beginning to close the only thing hindering him or killing him was the kunai poison which I removed." The medic said "The really strange part is that I'm getting the same feeling I'm getting from this man and the feeling I get when I heal Naruto, almost as if he has an accelerated healing factor in him. But that does not make sense unless he has the same thing as Naruto and is a jinchuuriki."

"Hmm that is interesting can you determine what it is or feel anything strange about his chakra paths?"

"Not really but I won't know for sure until we get back to Konoha to do some proper tests and have Tsunade-shishou look at him."

"I see very well do what you can with him and let me know what you find, I will think on this for a while and send a messenger clone ahead to inform lady Tsunade. In the mean time keep an eye on him the best you can and let me know if he wakes"

"Hai."

With that Yamato got up and left to send his clone then get some rest.

After he left Sakura sighed and continued to work on the strange youth. After exhausting her chakra healing what she could, given that she was already exhausted from the day's activities that it wasn't much but she at least made sure he would not die on her, she began to bandage his wounds and splint his leg. When she was finished she took another look at the medallion around the man's neck, it was gold and polished and looked well cared for, it was about the size of a midsized coin*, on the one side it had the image of a wolf head howling, at a small moon, the strange part is that the wolf looked so real that she almost thought it would turn and look at if she moved, on the other side of the medallion there were some symbols that looked like seals but different archaic almost ancient, how she knew this she wasn't sure, because she didn't know a lot about seals except for the more powerful ones used in healing.

She dropped the medallion at the sound of a groan from the man. She looked to him to see if he was waking but relaxed when he only shifted but she thought It was strange that he looked as if he were in pain.

'Must be having a bad dream' she thought

After the youth relaxed or seemed to she took a close look at his face, he had a strong jaw but soft too like he could be spoken to easily his eyes were smooth and rounded his cheeks firm and strong, his hair was silver gray like her chronically late sensei, but streaked in white as if he were old but he was only a teenager by the look of it.

Giving a yawn the pinkette decided to get some sleep scenic it was so late, as she made to leave the room she looked back at the wounded teen and sighed, she knew when he woke up it would be bad.

"Baka, Naruto always bringing me problems." she grumbled as she closed the door.

-1 and ½ hours later. -

Sakura woke up her brain on auto-pilot as she stumbled sleepily to the hall towards her patient's room once she reached the door she was now awake she put on a smile and opened the door.

When she looked in the room she found the boy was awake and alert he was looking at her carefully she smiled at him and said as kindly as possible while moving forward "oh, your awake, how do you feel?"

He instantly reacted and got crouched in a defensive position on all fours very similar to a cornered animal. Sakura immediately stopped when he moved and put her hands in the air in what she hopped was a calming gesture and very slowly moved forward to show she meant no harm to him.

When she finally sat on the cushion next to him Sakura noticed that he slowly moved to a sitting position and relax ever so slightly but was still on guard she slowly reached for her medic pouch where she kept her creams, salves and gauze, as well as other medic stuff. He seemed to tense again as she did so but when she revealed the healing cream she had he relaxed again.

'He's so high strung I wonder why?'

"Here let me see you I just want to help you, I'm a medic."

He eyed her carefully but slowly lifted his arms inviting her to move, she inwardly sighed in relief and smiled at him to help calm him, it didn't work, but none the less she continued to undo the bandages and what she saw made her gasp in surprise.

He was completely unmarked not a scratch was on him but that was not possible he should have had some wounds left over because even Naruto did not heal that fast. The only thing she saw was un blemished skin no marks no nothing only a well toned chest and abs… damn he had nice abs almost criminally good… damn.

"Something wrong?" the boy enquired as she stared at his toned chest.

Startled Sakura looked up and blushed as she looked into his golden eye's and blushed they were beautiful eye's, she slowly sat back and shook her head no but remained speechless at what she saw. The wound in his chest from the kunai was completely gone and she had only removed the broken blade not three hours ago there was just no way a wound of that level could heal that way so what was he? Was it some kind of bloodline? Was it only an illusion (she doubted that very much)? So what the hell was going on?

These questions and many more ran through Sakura's mind until she was snapped out of her musings as her patient began to stand.

"He...Hey wait what are you doing your in no shape to be getting up." She commanded.

-General POV-

"Who are you?" he asked breaking the silence

"Oh my name is Sakura, Haruno Sakura chuunin of Konohagakure no sato. The pinkette said "what's your name?"

Eyeing her carefully he says. "Ketto, Okami Ketto."

'Wolfs blood that's an odd name' Sakura thought as she looked at him then she noticed a flicker of light off his chest and saw the medallion that hung around his neck, the candle light gave it a mystical quality as if it held its own kind of power, as she stared at it she swore the wolf head moved, but it had to be a trick of the light, it had to be… right?

"Why have I been moved?" Ketto asked bringing Sakura out of her thoughts about the trinket

"Huh?" was her response, as she tilted her head to the side to only further confirm her confusion. "You were just brought here by my teammate Naruto you were really badly hurt when he found you so he brought you to me to be healed."

Puzzled he looked down trying to figure out what had changed for him to be out his cell, wait did she say Konoha, 'damn it' he cursed himself for not seeing that before, he was so concerned about the change in scenery that he completely missed that she was not one of his Keepers' pets, she was far too kind for that.

"Um are you ok?" she asked.

He glanced at her, finally taking in her appearance she wore a red zip up sleeveless shirt slightly open at the top, with black shorts covered by a tan short skirt, and bands around her elbows. Sticking out of her pocket he could see a pair of leather black gloves, and her kunai holster on her right leg over some bandages finally at the top of her head he saw a strip of red cloth that he assumed was her Hitai-ate though he could not see the plate, it appeared to be holding her hair back.

"I'm fine" he said in a clam tone, then proceeded to ask "why are you helping me?"

The teen smiled at him in a warm way. "Well I certainly wasn't going to let you die in the middle of the woods, and you definitely made an interesting impression on my teammate so..." she ended with a shrug.

He stared at her in mild surprise, he was not expecting kindness after what he had gone through but then again she was not connected to his Keeper's so perhaps this was alright, a lite thudding of footsteps alerted him that someone was coming and he turned towards the door, which prompted the girl to look as well.

The door slid open to reveal….

well theres the chapter hope it was worth the wait and if you feel like reviewing please do and tell me on how i can improve the story (being clear: please don't tell me who the characters should be hooked up with because i probably wont have too much romance anyway also only tell me weather you liked the style of writeing or if i should add some comedy which may come later or if i should do some thing else thx) so read review and tell lots of friends