Hey everyone remember me? Yea I'm not dead! Sorry this took so long to update, there's really no excuse other than I'm lazy and overwhelmed with work for highschool. Anyways, here's chapter two of the newly rewritten UNTITLED! IKR fabu name, remember guys I'm holding you responsible to make up for my lack of creativity here. Not much to say here but I want to thank you all for your wonderful support especially darksoulwolf who was the first review for this new version and a reviewer from the other version as well. Hey, hey, since I'm here I might as well shamelessly advertise so while you guys are waiting for my ridiculously long updates, check out some of my other stories and one-shots and FOR THE LOVE OF GOD REVIEW THEM PLEASE!
On a seperate matter, I know all of you have probably heard about the shooting that took place in Conneticut just a few days ago. I can't even imagine the agony and pain the families of those poor children must be going through right now. I'm not one to bring religious matters into a discussion but I ask that everyone please pray for those families. It's awful that they have lost a child because no parent should ever have to bury their child. It's even worse they won't have justice because the damn coward killed himself. I hope the bastard rots in hell for all of eternity because of his heinous sin. If you are reading this and have been directly affected by this tragedy, my thoughts and prayers go out to you. If you all don't mind, please wear blue tomarrow in honor of those who passed. The date would be 12/17.
Now after that depressing note, on with the chapter.
Disclaimer: There are so many reasons why I shouldn't own Naruto.
Tsunade clutched her desk in her famous bone crushing grip. It splintered beneath her hands in protest but the woman paid it no heed as her impassive gaze was on the man before her. His silver (grey) hair stuck up in at least fifty different directions and if she didn't know any better, she would say he had just crawled out of bed. She stared at him intently and he stared back, although his attention bordered on something akin to mild interest. Tsunade's lips turned downward in a minute scowl. Why on earth had Yamato told her to ask Kakashi of all people, for information on Sakura's episode earlier today? Honestly the man couldn't bring himself to look up from his porn for more than thirty seconds. What would he be doing keeping tabs on an old student he had hardly trained? Alas she couldn't voice these questions as said wood-user would be unconscious for the next day or so. Kakashi's visible grey eye surveyed her with boredom. He rubbed it.
"Tsunade-sama, why am I here? It's one in the morning."
She snorted humorlessly. "Don't give me that Kakashi, we both know you weren't sleeping. Icha Icha Violence just came out with a new book."
He visibly deflated and tapped his jonnin vest pocket longingly. The blonde woman grunted, hardly amused with his antics.
"Follow me." she commanded, exiting her office in a rapid fashion. He followed, pulling out his beloved book and burying his nose in it. They walked down the dimly lit halls of the Hokage tower, exited the building and continued down the dark street towards the hospital.
Kakashi eyed the fast approaching, gloomy looking, hospital almost warily. He was pretty damn sure he hadn't missed his latest check-up. He paused for a second to think about that. No. As far as he knew, there was still another three months until he would subtly request a month long mission while Tsunade was drunk and unaware of his tactics. His forehead visibly creased. Why was he here then? Did Naruto and Sasuke beat each other up again? Did that dumb-ass Genma finally swallow his stupid senbon? He brushed the thoughts aside. There was no need to be concerned until he found out what he was here for. With that, he continued to absorb his book while skillfully sidestepping the occasional trashcan or stray animal.
The glass doors of the hospital slid open quietly, upon seeing them the nurse at the front desk bowed.
"It is an honor my Lady, what can we do for you at this hour? And may I inquire how the sweet pet pig Shizune is doing?"
Tsunade smirked, pleased that the nurse remembered to use the security code. "Tonton is doing fine Mizure." Her facial expression became serious. "I am checking on patients 1-67835, 3-56424, and 9X-6567. Hatake-san will be accompanying me."
Surprise flashed across the nurse's face but she quickly masked it. "As you wish my Lady." The brown haired nurse reached behind her for a set of keys. When she had them in her grasp, she unlocked a drawer on her right and handed Tsunade a bronze key. After the young nurse had bowed once more, Tsunade led Kakashi up a flight of stairs and through a corridor on the second floor.
They came to a door marked 'U.N. 1-67835.' Both entered the room. Kakashi wasn't too terribly surprised to see his blonde subordinate currently twisted at an awkward angle while he slept on oblivious. But the question remained, why was he unconscious? He glanced at his hokage out of the corner of his eye, her face was unreadable which was a sure sign that he was to ask what the problem was. He nearly snorted, like hell he would ask. His hokage should know better than to expect these kinds of things from him. The minutes ticked by with agonizing slowness. Having been forced to put up his book upon entering the hospital, Kakashi had nothing to occupy himself with. He sighed and cleared his throat, Tsunade's gaze flickered over to watch him.
"Tsunade-sama, why is Naruto unconscious?"
She regarded him for a moment, as if trying to decide what information she could disclose that would make him frustrated enough to ask again.
"Jaw completely shattered, knocked out cold in one hit, major concussion, swelling in the face, and maybe a hint of brain damage but it's unlikely."
She watched Kakashi like a hawk as he processed the information in his head. Seeing no visible reaction to what she said, Tsunade growled lowly under her breath and turned on her heel. Gesturing for Kakashi to follow her, she exited the room.
They wove through seemingly endless corridors and climbed what seemed like thousands of stairs. Funny, Kakashi hadn't known the hospital had been remodeled to resemble a maze. After their tenth wind around a spiraled set of stairs, (at this point Kakashi was ninety-nine percent sure his Hokage was fucking with his head and enjoying every damn minute of his frustration) they came to a door marked U.K. 3-56424. They stepped inside and the sight that greeted him was confusing to say the least. Uzumaki Karin was laying flat on her back, hooked up to various machines, and out cold. Kakashi blinked, stared, and tilted his head in confusion, much resembling one of his dog summons. He was at a loss of words for a moment. He didn't understand why he was here of all places. He didn't particularly like Karin, in fact he hated her. While he was sure his hokage wasn't entirely aware of his lack of 'affection' for the foreign shinobi, that still didn't explain why she decided to bring him here. The redhead wheezed as a machine she was hooked up to breathed for her.
This time there was no question asked.
"Really a brilliant technique, unlike anything I have ever seen. The amount of control it would take to manipulate something so microscopic..." Tsunade murmured, her tone of voice sounding oddly conflicted.
Kakashi blinked rather unintelligently. Well he supposed that asking a question would get him a better answer than that. However before he could voice his curiosity aloud, Tsunade spun on her heel to face him. Her face gave nothing away but Kakashi knew, like any good shinobi, that the eyes were the windows to the mind and soul. What he saw in Tsunade's amber eyes was startling to say the least. Instead of a calm and collected demeanor, he saw slight panic, frustration, curiosity, and something else he couldn't quite put his finger on. In all, it was the most expressive he had ever seen the slug princess.
"Kakashi." she began, her voice slightly wavered. "Sakura did this. Naruto and Karin they're unconscious because of her. What. Do. You. Know?"
Kakashi's eyes widened and he took a step back. Sakura had done this? This wasn't good. She was losing control and control was their most precious resource right now.
"Take me to her." he ordered quietly. Tsunade nearly snarled.
"Don't you go giving orders to me Hatake. Tell me what you know now." Kakashi straitened and took a step forward.
"That doesn't matter right now-"
"Doesn't matter?" Tsunade growled incredulously. "It damn well matters! You want to tell me why Sakura tried to kill Karin today? Why she knocked out Naruto with a single backhand swing? Why she was pouring out chakra so menacing that I thought another tailed beast had come to pay us a visit? What is wrong with her?!"
"There's nothing wrong with her!" Kakashi shouted angrily. Karin stirred and moaned before falling silent again. Tsunade narrowed her eyes.
"Fine. I will take you to her. But when we get there, you tell me exactly whats going on or I swear to Kami you will be stripped of your rank and be sent off as a civilian." Kakashi nodded stiffly and both exited the room.
This time instead of stairs, they took the elevator. Maybe if he hadn't been so wrapped up in his thoughts, Kakashi would have appreciated the change. The copy nin remained silent as they rode down, down, down, down. He hadn't even raised a brow when Tsunade had produced the bronze key, inserted it in a special slot, and pressed a button that would lead to an unknown floor in the hospital. When they reached the unknown floor, the elevator gave a cheery ding that Kakashi felt was completely inappropriate given the situation. The doors slid open to reveal dull grey walls and steel doors. It was quite depressing, even for the hospital. Kakashi couldn't help the question that slipped out.
"Where?" Tsunade glanced at him from the corner of her eye.
"Maximum security ward." was all she offered. However, Kakashi didn't need anymore clarification. Maximum security ward. Where they locked up the loonies, the strange and the mentally unstable because they were too dangerous to those around them. His fist clenched. Sakura was locked up here, like a dog, because she was considered dangerous. Tsunade led them past dozens of doors, screeches of pain and confusion following them like wild animals. She reached a dull grey door no different than any others. The nameplate on the side read H.S 9X-6567. The hokage pushed it open effortlessly and both shinobi stepped inside. Upon their entrance, blank jade eyes surveyed them tiredly. Tsunade gasped lightly.
"Sakura, you're awake?" The rosette inclined her head respectively.
"Hokage-sama." She rasped, her throat horse from her screaming earlier. Her lips twitched upward upon seeing Kakashi.
"Kakashi."
"Sakura." His eye creased.
Sakura sighed as her hokage studied her with an impassive gaze.
"I suppose you would like some answers Hokage-sama." Tsunade shifted and crossed her arms over her chest.
"Indulge me, please." She drawled.
"What would you first like to know?"
Tsunade thought for a moment before answering. "Let's start with something simple. What was that technique you used on Karin?"
"Why do you ask Hokage-sama? Afraid I roughed up your new precious pupil a bit to much?" Sakura sneered. Her green eyes flashing a menacing yellow. Tsunade reeled back as if she had been struck, hurt clearly evident in her eyes.
"Sakura!" Kakashi snapped. The pink haired woman gasped and covered her mouth.
"Tsunade-sama, I didn't..." she trailed off. The slug princess just sadly shook her head and made a motion for Sakura to continue. She swallowed and did so shakily.
"Kekkan no byoki is a medical technique I invented. It allows me to insert my chakra in through the skin pores of the body and bend the blood vessels in the body. Since their shape is altered, the enzymes lose their function and become denatured. Without blood vessels to transport oxygen throughout the body, the organism dies from lack of oxygen. Another factor of this technique is, it prevents more skilled medics from manually circulating their blood to rid themselves of poison or toxins. I created it a month before my ANBU entrance exams."
Tsunade stared at her for a few moments.
"It's brilliant Sakura."
"Thank you Hokage-sama."
The tension in the air was so thick it could have been cut with a knife. There was a question unasked. It burned in all of their minds. Tsunade shifted uncomfortably, unsure how to ask the question. Without a word, Sakura took off her shirt. Her white chest bindings stood out against her skin but it was the black tattooed markings that stole the show. Black chain like markings were centered around her navel, each chain had a certain barbed detail to it. They wound around in a dizzying circle that took up the majority of the room on her stomach. Every few centimeters, the kanji for the word 'seal' interrupted the sequence of chains. The markings disappeared under her bindings and reemerged again at her collar bone. They spiraled around down her arms, the same barbed effect still present. The whole thing was beautiful, in an ominous way. However, a large flaw stood out starkly. Where the markings should have been on Sakura's left shoulder, a black stain stood. It looked as if a gaping hole was in her shoulder and the chain markings arranged around it were shattered.
Tsunade went white. A four point symbols seal overlaid by an eight trigram seal. She had seen a seal like this before, oh yes it was all to familiar. The tattooed seal looked all to similar to the work of the late Yondaime. Shiki Fujin. Or in other words, the seal that kept the Kyuubi no Kitsune at bay in Naruto.
"Wh- Sakura! What the hell is this!"
Sakura remained unaffected by the outburst. It was rather a lot to take in. So she waited patiently while her hokage seemed to debate whether she should scream, get a seal expert in here, or crack open a bottle of her trustworthy sake. Given the situation all seemed like productive responses.
Tsunade had chosen to do all three of her options, although she had screamed in her private office. With her trustworthy bottle of sake at her side, the seal expert she had gathered told her the exact fact she had hoped wasn't true. What she had seen was a near exact replica of Namikaze Minato's Shiki Fujin. Now all she needed was to hear the story behind everything. Which was something only Sakura could tell her. Sighing she stood up and walked to the door. With her sake bottle in a loose grip like a child would hold a security blanket, Tsunade made her way to the maximum security ward for the second time that day. "I'm getting to old for this." she thought sourly.
When she arrived in Sakura's room, she saw Kakashi softly stroking Sakura's pink hair with an absent like ease. Given the events of today, Tsunade didn't even raise a brow. She cleared her throat and watched as Kakashi's gaze lazily flickered over to her. Sakura's large green orbs met her own amber ones. It frightened Tsunade to see those beautiful green eyes so blank, so dead. Where had her little girl gone?
"Your little girl is six feet under and then some because you threw her into ANBU. Kami knows whats happened to her since. And to think you once called yourself her surrogate mother. No mother would throw their child to the sharks and then all but forget about them. You even went as far as to try to replace her with Ino and then Karin. Kami you are one fucked up person." A voice inside her head scorned her. Tsunade gripped her sake bottle tighter and willed her tears away. Tears from the mother who made horrible choices could come later, what was needed right now was the hokage that ran this village.
"Sakura, I need to know what happened. Tell me everything." The pink haired girl nodded her head.
"As you wish hokage-sama. However, before I do, I must tell you a story. A story that happened a long time ago."
Bam, second chapter done. Sorry it's shorter but it has to be so I can start the flashback mission mode and story in a seperate chapter. Hehe I ended with a cliffhanget though. How evil am I?
Edit (I forgot to do this for the last chapter):
Chapter 1: The whole chapter was completely redone. It took on a more distrubing scene at the beginning and this time a reason was given for Sakura being mistrusted and disliked by everyone instead of the whole cliché 'oh hey theres this new chick Sasuke brought back who also has oddly colored hair. Just for the hell of it, lets forget about Sakura.' That part drove me nuts. Also Kakashi was taken out of chapter one and moved to chapter two. Tsunade wasn't introduced untl the end of chapter one instead of her agreeing to have the two kunoichi fight. Also Sakura tends to have moments where the demon is controlling her and she doesn't know. It foreshadows something being wrong instead of her just spontaneously freaking out and trying to kill Karin like the old chapter one. Grammer, and spelling were cleaned up and dialogue was completely different. Naruto, Sasuke, ect. won't be as big of charecters now.
Chapter two: The chapter starts with it still being present time instead of the flashback. There is new interaction between Kakashi and Tsunade. Kakashi is made less clingly and obvious about their relationship. Sorry guys, Kakashi and Sakura's relationship won't be playing a key factor in this story anymore. Also just forewarning, Sakura won't be having a miscarriage in this version. I'm sorry to those who liked it but I just found that part of the story useless and it went nowhere with what I'm planning. Sakura's character is also going to be more blank and serious. She will still have very emotional moments but for now shes staying serious while she tries to figure out if she can trust everyone again. Tsunade was given some major characterization in this chapter and again, a reason was given as to why she just stopped interacting with Sakura. Plus Sakura's seal is discovered now and given more detail instead of in flashback mode.
Okay I think thats everything. Until next time guys! Remember review cuz it lets me know you all love me and want me to continue! :)
