Chapter 2
New Problems
"Justu/Talking"
'Thinking'
Sasuke laid Naruto down onto bed in the room across from Kakashi's bed after they had got to Tazuna's house. He was trying to figure out what had happened after Kakashi had finished his fight with Zabuza. Naruto, who had been carrying Kakashi with the help of his clone, and was walking just fine a few moments earlier sudden stiffened then fell over completely unconscious. Naruto's clone did not last much longer as then disappeared with a puff of smoke causing Kakashi to fall onto the ground next to Naruto. Sasuke was then forced to carry Naruto while Tazuna was forced to carry Kakashi until they reached Tazuna's house.
Sakura had come up to check on Kakashi and Naruto since she had a little medical knowledge. But when she started to check Naruto she was forced to jump back as a sphere of charka came out of his body and surrounded him. Both of Sasuke and Sakura stared at the sphere in complete shock for two reasons. The first was the different colors and types Charka that made up the sphere. The colors were blood red, a deep blue which was a normal human colored charka, and pitch black. The second reason was because that they knew that in order for charka to be seen at all, a person had to have a lot of it and force it outside the body, and this charka was so thick that they could not even see Naruto through it. This that meant Naruto had more charka then even Kakashi or the Hokage, and then as they noticed the sphere growing slowly they quickly left the room taking Kakashi with them, so he was not hurt by the charka.
Finally, when Kakashi woke up the next day he at once called his team to him. But when they got there they quickly told him what was going on with Naruto before he could say anything. Faster than they had ever seen him move before he was up to Naruto room, and as he entered he was met by a weird sight. Floating a little above the bed was an oblong sphere of charka surrounding his student. It was colored red for the most part but with some blue and black stripes mixing in and out of it. It was also about 5 feet long and 3 feet across at the widest point. Kakashi could only stare at it, as he tried to figure out what in the world was going on. He knew it was not just Kyuubi or he would not have seen the black color charka. Then without a warning the sphere slowly disappeared leaving a black cocoon like structures that fell onto the bed then some of the resin like material melted and connected itself the bed. While Kakashi was trying to think of a reason of why this was going on, both Sasuke and Sakura entered into the room.
"Kakashi sensei what is that thing?" asked Sakura looking at the mass of black that was slowly taking over a corner of the room.
"I really don't know," answered Kakashi as he walked over to and then carefully looked it over, even if it was not helping much. Kakashi sighed; he knew he did not have enough charka to use his Sharingan eye just yet so he had to wait to try that. "I will look at it later in the mean time; there are some things we need to talk about." He said leading the way out of the room to the main floor to where he called Tazuna to him.
"I have thought over my fight with Zabuza and he is still alive." There was a gasp around the room as Kakashi continued, "that Hunter Ninja did not destroy the body on sight, but instead disappeared with it."
"But he said he would get rid of Zabuza, why would he lie about that?" asked Sakura.
"It might be that this Ninja is working for Zabuza, and if that is true I need to get you and Sasuke up to Chuunin level and fast which means I am going to be keeping my word on hells training." Kakashi said.
Sasuke and Sakura both nodded looking worried but Tazuna decide to ask something, "If what you say is true, why is he not attacking here right now."
Kakashi sighed but knew it was a semi good question, "with the wounds I gave him and being put in the near death state made by those senbon, he will be lucky to be at full strength by 2 weeks let alone ready to attack right now."
Tazuna nodded, "that means we need to get as much of the bridge done as we can, until that fight." With that he left the room to make sure all the plans for the bridge were in order.
Kakashi turned to Sasuke and Sakura, "I will have you to work on your charka control while I try and figure out what is going on with Naruto." With that he led them off out of the house to some very large trees that were nearby. Then Kakashi took out a kunai and throw it at their feet, "which means today we will be working on tree climbing."
"But Kakashi sensei we can already climb tree." said Sakura giving him a weird look.
"Yes, but can you do it without your hands," the look on both of their face said no, "you will be using your charka to stick to these trees. For your Sasuke this will help you get better control over your charka and use less when you use justu. As for you Sakura I noticed you do not have a lot of charka, so that means even if you get if finished quickly you continue until you cannot climb anymore."
"Yes Kakashi sensei," both Sasuke and Sakura said as they took off towards the trees.
Sakura slowly made her way up the tree, while Sasuke took off at a run and as his foot broke the bark, he marking the tree with the kunai. Jumping back he landed on the ground, and looking up he smirked at the mark which was about a fourth of the way up the tree. But the smirked was wiped off his face when he saw Sakura was almost at the top of her tree already.
"Well it seems the great Sasuke Uchiha needs work or else you will be beat by Sakura here." Kakashi called out to give Sasuke some motivation. He watched as Sasuke scowled and then tried again not getting much farther up the tree, and then over at Sakura who was walking up and down the side of her tree. He then left and went house to figure out what was going on with Naruto and send a message to the Hokage about the weird turn of event.
Back at the house he noticed that the Tazuna was talking with his daughter and her son. Deciding not to bug them he went quickly up to the second floor and into the room he and Naruto would have been sharing and looked at the black mass carefully. It had been over an hour now that he had been looking at the mass that was around Naruto, and he was still clueless at what it was or what it did. He finally gave up and ended the justu he had been using to scan it and went to the roof and summoned Pakkun.
Pakkun looked at him, "it is about time you summoned me, and it has been so boring."
Kakashi merely nodded, "yeah I figured but I have been dealing with genin so there had been no reason to summon you until now."
"Let me guess I am the messenger again," Pakkun said noticing the scroll that Kakashi had pulled out.
"Yes, I need you to take this to the Hokage at once, we have no time to lose got it." Kakashi said with all seriousness. Pakkun nodded taking the scroll in his mouth and disappeared in a pouf of smoke. Kakashi looked around quickly before he went back inside. It was over a day later that Kakashi felt safe enough to use his eye and see if it found any clue to what was going on inside the black mass. As he moved the band of his eye reviewing it, "Now let's see what you hiding." But his eye was no use as there was no charka to be seen, let alone track. In short his eye was able to see nothing no charka, no movement, and no Naruto. He looked out the window and hoped that team he had asked for would be there soon or else they were all dead.
