Yay! Thanks for the review Suzume-Kage, I really appreciated it, so it's Kabuto. Thanks I got it, and I will keep updating and giving previews for next chapters. So for anyone else, send more reviews, give me advise. Tell me what you wanna see happen in the story, I may use some of your ideas, I may won't, or I may come up with new ideas from your ideas. Anything's appreciated, but now without furthor delays, here's chapter 2, "Until Death Do Us Part."
The clouds were dark spinning around the Hokage's shrine as Tsuande looked down at the spy in front of her desk holding his stomach that was drenched in blood coughing . Lady Tsunade looked hard at the her spy thinking pensively as she closed her eyes.
"So, Orochimaru is on the move once again," said Tsuande cautiously. The spy coughed heavily nodding his head.
"Yes Lady Tsunade, he said that he would be attacking the village Hidden in the Wind. He'd take over the village and become their leader," explained the spy.
"I see, sounds like Orochimaru," said Tsunade standing up.
"He's challenged you Lady Tsunade, he says that you can bring your strongest warriors if you want but--" said the spy being cut off by his own sentence as he fell on the ground unconscious. Tsuande looked at her guard and nodded.
"Send the parametics in here." Tsuande walked up to him, her hands turning green as she begun to heal him as the cut in his stomach began to now disappear. The parametics flew into the room picking the spy up on a stretcher leaving. Tsuande's face turned into a look of frustration as she punched her desk, breaking it in half.
"Bastard!" she shouted angrily. "There's no way I can be able to stop Orochimaru's plan now," thought Tsuande. Tsuande looked at her guard and sighed heavily. "I want you to gather three of our top speacial jounins to find and locate the village Hidden in the Wind." The guard nodded.
"Is it really so difficult to find Lady Tsunade," asked the guard. Tsunade walked over to the window sighing heavily and turned facing the guard frowning.
"It is, unlike the other villages. The village Hidden in the Wind is a speacial village that's actually located in the sky. The Hokage there has used a forbidden jutsu to set a barrier around it to make it appear invisible. The village is always moving where ever the wind takes it, so about time we locate the village, I'm sure he'll already have taken over it by then. The best thing we can do now is make him flee from the village. It's our best bet," explained Tsunade. The guard nodded.
"So will you be informing Naruto?"
"No, I'd rather not. I don't want it to come to that point, but if it goes out of hand then I shall."
"But, Lady Tsuande, if he's going to be the Hokage soon enough and the mission becomes a success--"
"I know I know," said Tsuade cutting the guard off. "He'll have to find a way to settle a peaceful agreement and help rebuild that village. But I am well confident with Naruto's skills that he'll be able to handle it, so I'm not worried."
Hinata smiled looking in the mirror wearing a long beautiful white wedding dress. Ino, Tenten, and Sakura smiled beside her wearing their brides maids dresses looking in the mirror.
"Hinata you look beautiful!" exclaimed Sakura. Hinata blushed as the girls laughed.
"I'm sure this wedding gown will knock the socks off of Naruto," said Ino. Tenten grabbed Hinata's hair playing with it.
"Now all we need to do is put your hair in a style," said Tenten.
"I don't believe it, the wedding's tomorrow. I'm so nervous," said Hinata playing with her fingers.
"Cold feet already," joked Ino putting her arms around her.
"Don't worry Hinata, you're gonna be fine," said Sakura.
"We'd still better hurry though, the village is kinda small and you know the rules. Bride and Groom can't see each other until the wedding day," said Tenten.
"Yeah besides, we still have to have a bridal shower right before your big day you know," smiled Sakura.
"Which means male strippers, yay!" cheered Ino.
"What!" panicked Hinata, her face turning red. Sakura hit Ino upside her head looking at Hinata reassuringly.
"Don't listen to her, it'll just be a regular girl's night out okay," said Sakura trying to calm her down.
"What's wrong with male stippers?" asked Ino rubbing her head.
"Hello, she's about to get married tomorrow? You wouldn't be doing that if you and Shikamaru were about to say your 'i dos' would you?" asked Tenten.
"Actually I would because knowing him, he'd get female strippers despite me," mumbled Ino.
"Yeah, and still say his famous catch phrase," chuckled Hinata.
"What a drag!" the girls said in unison mimicking Shikamaru. They all laughed.
At the academy were Naruto, Sasuke, Shikamaru, Rock Lee, Neji, and Choji walking the halls goofing around.
"Okay, yeah, so remind us Naruto why we're here again exactly?" asked Neji.
"Oh come on guys, we haven't been here in ages since we've leveled up so far!" said Naruto enthusiastically.
"So wait, let me get this straight, we're hear to go down memory lane, what a drag," said Shikamaru putting his hands in his pocket. He froze and sneezed looking around.
"Problem Shikamaru?" asked Sasuke looking back at him.
"It just felt like I had deja vu all over again or something. Sounds like Ino's talking about me behind my back again."
"You can tell if your lady's talking about you behind your back, man your good," said Choji chowing down on some potato chips.
"Ah, I'm sure it's nothing. Don't tell me you actually believe that whole legend thing about if you sneeze that means someone's talking about you behind your back do you," asked Rock Lee.
"Sure I do, any saying always seems to work with Ino. Espeacially Ino." Shikamaru sneezed again covering his mouth. "There she goes again, she must be on the role with the girls." Shikamaru sighed heavily frustrated as the guys laughed.
"So, having cold feet about tomorrow Naruto?" asked Neji.
"Me? Cold feet, no, never!" he said chuckling nervously sweating. "I'm as scared as a chicken, I can't believe this is it!" he panicked in thought.
Sasuke put his arms around him chuckling as he punched him in the arm. "Calm down squirt, you'll be fine," teased Sasuke.
"I told you I'm not nervous already, so get off my back would ya!" snapped Naruto.
"Oh yeah, well then, if you weren't so nervous Naruto then why are your feet shaking?" asked Rock Lee. Everyone looked down at Naruto's feet to see them shaking as he blushed embarrassed.
"Well um, that's just my allergies is all!" replied Naruto uneasily. The guys laughed.
"So Naruto, the wedding day is a whole day away, what do you wanna do until then?" asked Sasuke.
"Well we could--" said Choji.
"I mean besides eatting," said Sasuke cutting off Choji's sentence.
"There's nothing wrong with eatting you know," said Choji playing with his fingers.
"Well, I can't think of anything, so how about we have a contest to get me into shape," said Naruto.
"You mean you wanna brawl?" asked Neji confused.
"That's totally not my style and it sounds boring, if that's the case leave me out of it," said Shikamaru.
"But Naruto, isn't there anything else like wedding plans or last minute stuff you need to look at?" asked Rock Lee.
"Oh trust me," said Choji licking his fingers from the chips. "The girls are gonna take care of that, that's right up their alley."
"And of course we know this as being true, so you do know something other than about food, good job Choji," said Sasuke as everyone laughed.
Choji cocked his eyebrows up looking at Sasuke angrily. "You really are a jackass," mumbled Choji.
"Maybe, but I'd rather be a jackass than a--" said Sasuke.
"Can we not go there!" pleaded Rock Lee cutting off Sasuke's sentence. Choji and Sasuke glared at eachother electricity flying between me.
"Actually Naruto, a brawl sounds just fine," said Choji angrily.
"Go for it," said Sasuke smiling challengingly.
"Sasuke between you and Shikamaru, you both play way too much. You'd honestly say stuff that'd really want someone to kick your asses," said Naruto cautiously.
"What's wrong with bullshitting a little, everyone around here doesn't say stuff they really mean, except for you I mean," said Sasuke.
"Hey that's my line," said Shikamaru.
"Hey, are we gonna brawl or not? I could be doing other things you know. I canceled my plans for this, please let me cancel it for something worth while. Are we gonna fight or aren't we?" asked Neji getting irritated.
"Remind me why we're doing this again?" asked Shikamaru lazily scratching his head.
"Just to pass the time, we're not gonna kill each other, but if you're on the ground for more than twenty seconds you're out," said Naruto.
"Twenty seconds?" said Rock Lee shocked.
"I agree, isn't that a tad bit too long, we'll be all day," asked Choji.
"It's to pass the time remember," said Naruto shrugging his shoulders.
"Fine then, count me in I guess," said Shikamaru lazily leaning against the wall smiling.
"I don't have to tell you twice, Naruto you're mine," said Sasuke.
"Neh, I'll take on Naruto," said Neji walking in front of him.
"You know what, all of you can take me on and I'll still wipe the floor with you!" said Naruto.
"Is that a challenge?" asked Shikamaru taking his hands out of his pockets smiling.
"Yeah, cause we'll hold it to you," smiled Rock Lee.
"Bring it on, this could get dirty so we might as well do this in the mountains," said Naruto.
"So be it then, alright Naruto have it your way," said Neji cracking his nuckles. They all nodded at each other and jumped into the air disappearing. Iruka sensei just then came outside looking around.
"Hey where'd they go, I did have some snacks for them, oh well. I'll just find the girls and see if they want them," said Iruka.
The sun has set, and the girls were in the chapel decorating the church listening to the music that echoed through the church that would be played at the wedding.
"This is a beautiful song, I like it," said Tenten hanging up the banners.
"Are you marching down to this song?" asked Ino hanging the doves on the cieling. Hinata blushed nodding.
"It fits you two perfectly, but what's this song called?" asked Sakura. putting the flowers on the sides of the seats.
"It's called, "Endless Love," by Mariah Carey and Luther Vandross. The words to the song are beautiful. It's exactly how I feel about Naruto. You see, he's my endless love for eternity."
"Awe," said Tenten putting the last pin into the banner. Hinata blushed harder as she continues to paint the ceiling black. Sakura picked up a bowl filled with decorating stars and jumped in the air sticking them onto the cieling.
"Don't worry Hinata you have our word, we're gonna make this wedding so beautiful it'll make the whole crowd cry," said Tenten.
"I don't know about crying but I do want it to be perfect," said Hinata playing with her fingers blushing red as she turned around to continue painting. Rumble was felt under the ground as the girls sighed.
"I told you," said Ino bluntly.
"I can't believe the night before the wedding those guys decided to fight all day," said Tenten carrying the candle holders up to the front.
"I wonder who suggested it?" asked Hinata as she continued painting the cieling.
"Do you really have to ask," said Ino laughing putting together the arch. Iruaka came in with Konahamaru beside him carrying snacks.
"Hey girls," said Konahomaru smiling waving at them.
"We thought you'd be hungry, I can see that you're working very hard," said Iruka.
"I wish I could say the same for Naruto," said Konahamaru chuckiling uneasily scratching his head as another vibration went through the ground.
"I bet you anything Naruto started it this time," said Konahamaru as Tenten took a sandwhich from the plate he was carrying.
"I'm sure between Naruto and Sasuke someone started it," laughed Sakura as she took a sandwhich jumping back up to the ceiling to continue putting up the stars.
"This place looks great, keep it up girls," said Iruka walking off as Konahamaru put the snakes on a chair following after him.
"Thanks you guys, see you here tomorrow. But you're right Sakura, those two are so much alike you can hardly tell the difference," joked Tenten.
"I don't know about all of that, but I think I could tell them apart easily," said Hinata as she continued painting.
"Well you never really got in depth aquainted with Sasuke, but you'll see one day," said Ino helping Tenten decorate the arch.
"That's for sure," laughed Sakura as she landed back on the ground.
"Sasuke huh..." mumbled Hinata under her breath. She nodded and continued painting as she was left with her thoughts.
Night had befallen the village as Tsuande walked the halls of the Hokage shrine. She slid open her office door; looking up she saw standing in front of her with the moonlight shining on him, Jiraiya. Tsunade smiled shaking her head.
"I really wasn't expecting company of this late Jiraiya, had you have called I'm sure I would have offered you some tea or something while you were waiting," said Tsuande.
"There was no need, really," said Jiraiya with caution. "So how bad is this situation with Orochimaru and the village Hidden in the Wind?"
"So I see," smiled Tsunade. "Nothing ever gets past your ears does it Jiraiya." Jiraiya smiled at the compliment.
"Gossip around here spreads pretty fast, espeacially among your guards before I knocked them out unconscious."
"Hah! No wonder it was so quiet then."
"So, is it really as bad as it looks?"
"Oh Jiraiya, it's definately not looking well for the village Orochimaru's taken over, that's a definate."
"So what now?"
"We do what I've been doing all day. We wait I suppose." A ninja came from out of the shadows, revealing himself to be Kakashi who bowed to both of them. Tsuande looked at him and frowned as she noticed the grave look written on Kakashi's face.
"Please tell me this is good news?" asked Jiraiya.
"I wish I could, things are definately more worse than what we first thought possible," replied Kakashi.
"So am I to assume that you've located the village?" asked Tsunade.
"We've located it alright, it's only twenty miles away from our village right now as we speak, and Orochimaru has completely taken over the village successfully as we had feared," explained Kakashi.
"What?!" panicked Tsunade and Jiraiya in unison.
"There is more, we were actually able to send one of our men in, to see the status of the village."
"And?" asked Tsunade in question.
"Everyone appears to be annihilated, Hokage. The man that we sent in was also killed, his murderer was by Kabuto himself."
"So there aren't any survivors at all?"
"If there are, that message still seems unclear." Tsunade's face became filled with anger as she looked sadly out the window.
"We don't have much of a choice, do we Tsunade," asked Jiraiya gravely.
"I have to act fast before this goes out of my control, they're way too close to the village," said Tsuande.
"If I may interrupt Hokage, we still have one of our men tailing the village waiting for your next orders now," said Kakashi.
"I hate to be the one to do this, but under such circumstances," mumbled Tsunade.
"What are you planning on doing?" asked Jiraiya. Tsuande sat in her chair behind her new desk that was replaced, leaning back in it sighing heavily out of frustration.
"We'll send in Naruto ," replied Tsuande.
"What!" said Kakashi in shock.
"He's right Tsunade, that's crazy. Naruto's never faced Orochimaru head to head, he's getting married tomorrow. Do you know the likliness that he could die out there!" said Jiraiya.
"Open your eyes Jiraiya and look at our situation. I am very well aware of the risks, but right now, Naruto seems to be our last hope. And he will not be accompanied alone I assure you," said Tsuande gravely.
"Are you attempting to have Sasuke accompany him, with that curse mark on him, I don't think that to be such a wise decision," said Kakashi.
"I know it, he could work for our purposes as well as Orochimaru's. But it doesn't matter, to do this mission, obviously it'll take more than two people. For Naruto's protection and Sasuke's I assure you. Kakashi," called Tsunade.
"Yes Hokage," bowed Kakashi. Tsunade sighed heavily rubbing her head frustrated. "Bring them to me, Hinata and Naruto, both of them if you will. Tell them it's an emergency." Kakashi nodded and disappeared off jumping into the air.
"It's a damn shame it had to come down to this, he was so close, and made it," said Tsuande angrily.
"You should have faith in the kid, he'll be fine. You should give him a little more credit than you do," encouraged Jiraiya. Tsuande smiled nodding.
"Of course, he didn't become the Hokage for nothing," said Tsuande smiling crossing her arms.
Hours later both Hinata and Naruto stood in front of Tsunade and Jiraiya with a look of caution and seriousness in their faces. A large silence entered the room between them as Tsunade sat on her desk looking at them both sadly. She sighed heavily looking at them.
"My apologies for calling you in this late, espeacially as your wedding draws closer, but I'm afraid this is very serious," said Tsuande sadly.
"We figured so, what's going on granny Tsunade," asked Naruto tensely.
"Naruto, I need for you to go on a mission that's ranked AA," said Tsuande. Hinata and Naruto looked at her confused worried.
"AA?" questioned Hinata. "There's a mission that's ranked A but..."
"This is new, AA is obviously vital, since I'm sure you know class A is dangerous enough. This rank is for someone we've faced many of times that's mangaged to escape, but is still in endangerment to human kind everywhere."
"I'm assuming you're speaking of Orochimaru," said Naruto.
"Correct," replied Tsunade.
"Our men have went out and found that he has tooken over the village Hidden in the Wind," said Jiraiya.
"That place is actually real, I thought it was a myth?" asked Hinata.
"No, it is indeed real. The problem with that village is, it's located in the sky so it constantly changes directions with the wind," explained Tsuande.
"But this doesn't make sense at all, you'd think someone'd recognize a village flying over you," said Naruto confused panicking.
"There is one way Naruto," said Hinata. He looked at her. "You see, I remember going with Sakura looking it up in the library but-- there is actually a forbidden jutsu where you can create a barrier to make you invisible."
"And that's exactly right Hinata," nodded Tsuande.
"You see kids, the Hokage of that village from generation to generation have mastered this forbidden jutsu to remain hidden, thus keeping their village a secret. Of course with Hinata's huge surprise of the village not beeing a myth, is a result that went around with many shinobi across the country. The village has done so well, people stopped believing that the village Hidden in the Wind, actually existed. But indeed, they do still exist," explained Jiraiya.
"What I'm asking of you is to go and invade the village to stop Orochimaru and Kabuto. I'm not asking you to kill Orochimaru, but trust and believe when you see the chance, take it. What I'm asking you to do is for you to have him flee the village," said Tsuanade.
"What! I mean I'm fine with it, but Hinata has no experiences in dealing with Orochimaru like Sasuke, Sakura, and I had. I can't let her go on this mission with me, she could die!" shouted Naruto in panick.
"I am well aware of the risk Naruto but--" said Tsunade.
"I can't let her do it," mumbled Naruto sadly with final cutting her off. Hinata looked at Naruto and smiled taking his hands.
"Don't worry Naruto, I'll be fine--really. I can handle it," said Hinata encouragingly.
"But Hinata--" said Naruto, tears streaming down his cheeks.
"Don't worry about me, Naruto. Believe in my skills like I believe in yours, I'm not ranked as a speacial jounin for nothing aren't I?" laughed Hinata.
"The top three in fact," said Hinata. "Wait, I'm the top three, why wasn't I warned about this?"
"You had wedding plans to attend to, I didn't want to bother you, please forgive me but--" said Tsunade.
"It's fine," said Hinata. She looked back at Naruto gently caressing his face. "I'll be fine, and if I stayed here I wouldn't be upholding my promise I made to you yesterday. Rememeber? I promised you that I'd be by your side from now until the day of forever and I will be. Not even a ranked class AA mission will separate me from you Naruto," said Hinata. Naruto smiled and kissed her forehead gently.
"You're just as hard headed as I am, but fine. You can come," Naruto gave in.
"You will not be going alone though," said Tsunade. She nodded her head and sliding open the door came in Sasuke, Sakura, and Neji.
"Missed us?" said Sasuke smiling. Sakura walked to Hinata and held her hand bowing to Naruto.
"Don't worry Naruto, if anything, I'll protect Hinata," assured Sakura.
"We both will," said Neji joining her.
"Leading you all to the village will be Kakashi," said Tsunade. Kakashi came out of the shadows of thr room reading his "Paridise" book. He looked at them as they all stared at him blankly shocked, Kakashi then sighed putting the book away.
"I see you still haven't changed Kakashi sensei," mumbled Naruto.
"Don't sass me Naruto geese," said Kakashi nervously.
"So when is this mission getting started?" asked Sasuke.
"Right now," replied Kakashi seriously.
"What? Why so soon?" asked Neji.
"Because, the village Hidden in the Wind has changed it's course going towards our village, and with Orochimaru having complete control over it, that's not good at all," said Tsuande.
"Well just how far are they exactly?" asked Hinata stuttering a little uneasily.
"Twenty miles even or less," replied Jiraiya.
"What?!" they all panicked in unison.
"You all must get moving, failing isn't an option. I wish you all the best of luck," said Tsunade. They all nodded and jumped into the air disappearing from the scene.
"It's all up to them now," said Tsunade.
A cold wind blew in the air as Kakashi and the others hid behind the shadows as they looked up in the sky.
"Where is it?" asked Naruto quietly.
"Shhh," said Kakashi cautiously. He took a small smoke bomb and threw it in the air, and a gold entry gate made out of sharp logs appeared.
"There it is," said Hinata. They all looked at eachother and nodded jumping on the trees, jumping down on the branches. They parachuted themselves to get higher air to reach the invisible ground standing in front of the gate.
"There has to be a backway behind this," whispered Sakura.
"We don't have a choice, we have to come this way," said Kakashi.
"I liked Sakura's plan better, at least that way, we'll have the element of surprise," said Neji.
"You kids will soon learn that it's not always the element of surprise that works on an enemy when they expect you. And element of surprise is not wise when you are not sure of the full status of what the enemy is doing and planning," explained Kakashi taking out his kunai knives.
"So we have to break through," asked Hinata.
"Yeah why not, let's see our welcome committee," smiled Sasuke. Hinata did some hand signs holding her position pointing her hands at the gate looking hesitantly at Naruto. He smiled nodding reassuring her.
"This is it everyone, be on your toes," warned Sakura. Hinata nodded.
"Gravity style: Arial Blades Sonnet jutsu!" cried Hinata. A huge explosion broke the gate open as an orange energy formed blades to hit the gate, slicing through the wind. When the smoke cleared, they all gasped to see burned down buildings and dead bodies everywhere. Some on on the ground and others decorating the roof of the buildings.
"Everyone percede with caution, we're on the enemy's territory so watch where you step, Sakura," called Naruto.
"Right, already on it," said Sakura nodding looking closely around the area. "This place is covered with traps."
"Welcome," said an evil voice from afar. The group turned around to see Orochimaru and Kabuto looking down at them on the roof, surrounded by their ninjas.
"Orochimaru!" said everyone in unison.
"Well, I do appreciate you bringing Sasuke to me. Taking over a village then having my new body delivered to me all in one day. It must be Christmas," said Orochimaru laughing in amusement.
"I don't think so you sick bastard, because you're definately on Santa's naughty list!" said Sasuke angrily throwing a kunai knife at him. Orochimaru stood there smiling as the weapon touched him, a puff of smoke appeared as a log took his spot and fell onto the ground. Everyone gasped.
"The old substitution jutsu? Aren't you too well experienced for these little kindergarden tricks Orochimaru," said Neji angrily. Kabuto laughed as the ninja's all stood up.
"You'll have to deal with us first, and don't forget the traps that are around here as well," said Kabuto as they jumped off the roof with the other ninja's surrounding Naruto and the others.
"Naruto, we'll handle this, you and Sasuke go on ahead and find Orochimaru," said Neji. Naruto and Sasuke nodded and jumped off. Kakashi watched them leave and looked at Sakura, she nodded with comprehension and jumped off after them.
"Oh no you don't!" smiled Kabuto running towards Sakura.
"Wind style: Tornado Ethnicy jutsu!" cried Hinata. She hit Kabuto with a large amount of chakara formed into a tornado as he fell on the ground, Sakura escaping. "You're opponents are us." Hinata spoke boldy as she watched him stand back up healing himself chuckling.
"Ninjas, attack!" he commanded. The ninjas roared running towards them as Neji, Kakashi, and Hinata stood their grounds.
"Everyone stand ready, here they come," warned Kakashi. They all went in charging into each other with attacks as the battle finally began to commence.
Sasuke and Naruto landed further into the village, looking around seeing many beautiful large shrines.
"For a village that's so secretive, you wouldn't think there'd be this many wealthy people that lived here," said Sasuke.
"I'll say Hey Sasuke, you think you're gonna be alright. You know that Orochimaru's after you, I realize that curse mark is still on you but... are you really over it," asked Naruto cautiously looking at the mark on his neck. Sasuke covered his mark and nodded, "I'll be fine, you take that shrine over there and I'll check this one," suggested Sasuke going to the other shrine. Naruto nodded and walked to the abandoned shrine that lied ahead of him.
Walking inside, a thunder storm began to commece in the village a whispering laughter echoed throughout the shrine.
"Naruto, Naruto," a shrill laugh whispered.
"Who's there!" demanded Naruto as he stood his guard holding his kunai knife. Naruto quickly ran into an abandoned room with a small window, in front of a closet stood a shadow knelt down. As the lightening clashed, the light from it reflected from the window to show glowing red eyes and a long snake tongue revealing half of Orochimaru's face.
"You piece of shit! You have no right being here or destroying this village. Just give it up, you're never gonna destroy the leaf village. It's a lost cause!" said Naruto angrily. Orochimaru chuckled looking at Naruto.
"I may have under estimated you years back Naruto, but never will I make that same mistake again. I see, so this was Tsunade's choice, she's no longer a strong Sanin so she sent stronger and younger ones of the new generation. But you see there's only one problem with that," laughed Orochimaru.
"Oh yeah, and what would that be!" said Naruto angrily.
"You may be young and strong but you're also ignorant!" replied Orochimaru as he attacked Naruto with his tongue that was attached by the sword. Naruto quickly moved his head over and tripped him as they began to fight toe to toe with eachother.
Sakura quickly ran into a shrine finding Sasuke there. Sasuke quickly turned around throwing a kunai knife at her that Sakura quickly caught with her fingers.
"Are you crazy, don't scare me like that. I thought you were the enemy. What happed to Hinata, Neji, and Kakashi sensei?" asked Sasuke.
"They're fine, they're still out there fighting," said Sakura breathing hard dripping wet. Another lightening clashed as Sasuke looked at her blankly.
"What are you doing here?" asked Sasuke.
"It's Orochimaru Sasuke, since when do Kakashi and I ever trust you when it comes to Orochimaru!" barked Sakura.
"Now just calm down, I'm not that same person anymore, you know that," said Sasuke.
"I don't care, you never destroyed Itachi Sasuke!" Sasuke fell quiet and just stared at her shock.
"I will not have Orochimaru come to you at your weakest point to offer you a deal because you want revenge on your older brother and get us all killed in the process because you're so clouded up by revenge. Tell me now Sasuke, tell me!" Sakura got in a fighting position with a look of anger and seriousness. "If you plan on working with that phscyo bastard, tell me now. I will not hesistate to kill you, because then you would be administering to betraying the leaf village and all that you stand for becomming our newest enemy. And I will not allow that." Sasuke looked at Sakura blankly and coldy without saying a word as a large scream was heard throughout the area.
"Naruto!" cried Sakura worried. Sasuke and Sakura looked at each other in angst and nodded running off to the shrine he was located at.
On the battle field the scream can be heard as well as Hinata froze looking up into the sky as it began to pour harsher rain and the wind began to picked up.
"Naruto!" cried out Hinata.
"Focus on your life not his!" smiled Kabuto as he punched her in the face.
Sasuke and Sakura jumped through the door to finding the room, beheld to thier faces they found a dead Naruto lying on the floor. A hole punchered through his heart, and a hole in his forehead, his mouth opened in shock as he laid there soaking in his blood. Sakura covered her mouth stepping back, tears streaming down her cheeks as she screamed in angst falling on her knees screaming out crying.
"NARUTO!!!!!!!!" she cried wholeheartedly. Sasuke fell on his knees hitting the floor with his fist cracking the floor.
"Sakura!" said Sasuke trying to get her together. "You have to find Kakashi and the others, tell them! Tell them that this mission is a fail, we have to retreat now! Naruto was our best hope of success for this mission and he's gone now."
"No, it can't be, it just can't!" cried Sakura.
"He's dead Sakura, accept it now so we can move on. The quicker the better, I'll bring him back, but we have to abandon this mission for now, we have to!" said Sasuke shaking some sense into her. Sakura nodded and ran off, his face disgruntled as he walked up to Naruto's dead body looking down at it.
Hinata kicked Kabuto across the face sending him flying as he crashed into a building getting up angered. All of his ninja's were murdered by Kakashi and Neji as it was merely three against one. Kabuto stood up out of the rubble smiling, as he pushed his glasses up, Hinata's group breathing speed increasing out of breath. Hinata looked over at Kakashi.
"I can't lie, Kakashi, I don't know how much more I can take. Even with the Byakugan and being able to take out his vital parts he's able to do the same to me and in addition rejuvinate his cells that he looses. But unlike his advantage I can't heal myself automatically," panicked Hinata whispering breathing hard.
"Stand strong Hinata," encouraged Kakashi.
"He's right Hinata, even though he can heal himself, he can only do it for a certain number of times, it's not forever," said Neji. Hinata whiped the blood from her face breathing hard as she stood her ground while Kabuto charged toward her. Interfering with the attack was Sakura as she grabbed Kabuto throwing him into the air and kicked him into the buildings knocking him through dozen of houses. Everyone looked at her in shock to see her foot glowing bright blue with the chakara going through her body.
"Excellent timing!" said Neji happily. They all then looked at her confused as they seen her face covered in tears, her body shuddering. They all ran over to her, Hinata quickly pushed through them looking down at her eyes panicked as she kneeled on the ground with her.
"Sakura what's wrong, what happened?" asked Hinata worriedly. "Tell me! Why did I hear Naruto screaming?"
"Sakura what happened, where are both Naruto and Sasuke," asked Kakashi omoniously. Sakura broke down to tears speechless shaking her head looking at Hinata hugging her.
"I'm sorry Hinata..." cried Sakura. Hinata froze in shock as her eyes began to blank completely out as she stood there frozen.
"What!?" panicked both Kakashi and Neji shocked.
"Orochimaru, I think Naruto found him, and he killed him. He's dead, Sasuke's bringing his body back here, but he said in the mean time that we have to leave and abandon the mission for now," said Sakura. The rain began to increase with the wind as Hinata began to slowly cry, her body shuddering.
"Naruto..." she mumbled speechlessly as her tears went onto Sakura's arms. "Naruto!" she cried wholeheartedly.
"Hmm, interesting," mumbled Kakashi thinking. Neji turned his head away as tears fell from his eyes. "We have to get out of here and come up with another plan, Naruto was definately vital for this mission to be a success."
"What about Sasuke?" asked Neji.
"He knows where the village is, we'll see him there soon enough. We have to hurry before Kabuto wakes up and prepares his next attack," replied Kakashi. They all nodded and quickly jumped through the entry gate leaving the village dropping down to a tree branch and jumping to the ground, forcing Hinata out with them as she cried calling out Naruto's name.
Many minutes later, the group all stood at the leaf village entry gate waiting for Sasuke with Naruto's body as nothing tears and grief filled the area. In the mist of the forest, a shadow appeared, as the fog began to clear, there, appeared walking towards them was a badly injured Sasuke and a dead Naruto in his grasp. They all stood up in shock running to Sasuke as he just froze with his shaken knees, and fell onto the ground unconscious. The others ran over to him in a panic as Hinata merely ignored Sasuke slowly walking over to Naruto's body covering her mouth at how brutally killed he had been.
In the mist of the trees a dark shadow sat leaning back on a tree watching, as only red eyes glowed in the mist. Kakashi quickly looked over where the shadow had been, but it had disappeared as he looked back down at Sasuke suspiciously.
"Is he alive?" asked Sakura in concern. Kakashi kneeled down to him checking his injuries.
"He's beaten up pretty badly but he'll live yes," said Kakashi taking a closer look at Sasuke's injuries. He had blood all over his body and outfit with similar small holes in his arms. His knees badly bleeding and arms injured. Hinata's cries interefered into the atmosphere as they all sadly looked over at her.
"I wish I could say the same for Naruto..." mumbled Neji sadly. Hinata leaned over Naruto's body crying hysterically.
"Hinata..." said Sakura speechlessly. Kakashi put his hand on her shoulder nodding.
"Let her grieve for a while, she of all people definately deserves it," said Kakashi.
"No Naruto don't leave me, you can't die on me now no! you made me promise!," Hinata cried panicking. "YOU MADE ME PROMISE TO ALWAYS BE BY YOUR SIDE AND I KEPT IT!"
At the Hokage shrine Tsunade smiled looking at the village Hidden in the Wind changing it's course as she nodded promisingly.
"Good, it's changing position, Naruto and the others must be winning," said Tsunade hopefully.
"See," said Jiraiya putting his hand on Tsunade's shoulder. "I told you you didn't have reason to worry, they're fine." Tsuande smiled nodding agreeing with him. Both of them froze opening their mouth's in shock holding their hearts as they sat down on the floor feeling immense pain. The pain quickly passed as they looked at each other confused in shock.
"What the hell was that all about," asked Jiraiya.
"I don't know, but something doesn't feel right that's out of balance. Something's wrong because I feel like--" said Tsuande.
"Yeah I know, like something's missing," replied Jiraiya. They looked at each other in panic and nodded as they quickly ran out of the room and into the village towards the entry gate.
Next time on "My Endless Love" : The funeral takes place and Naruto is dead as Hinata and many others grieve over his death. With all eyes on Sasuke, Hinata blames him for his death as she becomes bitter, unable to let his death go. Meanwhile, Orochimaru reveal his plans as to what he will do next since the village has changed it's course. But he is deeply upset, and holding a secret that he's keeping to himself. Next chapter on "My Endless Love." Chapter 3- "Hinata's Heartache and Orochimaru's Wrath!"
Hey I hope you guys like this chapter, sorry Naruto lovers for those who didn't wanna see him go, but keep reading the story because it'll still get good. Now then, some good news and bad news depending on if you love to read or not. But congratualtions, you made it through the first two chapters which are the longest chapters. Whew! You must be so proud, now that's what I'm talking about when I see adoring fans. You may be growing tired, but here's the good news, unless it's bad news for anyone else, but these are the last chapters that I'm writting that's gonna be long like this. Not to say that all of them will be super short, but it'll be about average size. So sorry for those of you who like super lengthy stories. Now I hope you like it. Remember, review, tell your friends about it, and please give me advise since it is my first story after all. I'll listen. Thanks a mega bunch, so plz review for me okay? Like I said, I'd be greatful if I even get one review. This is Torian, signing off.