Heya people! Just a quick shout out to Syynex, nightwatcher55, One Warrior 86, and Soarath for their reviews concerning the story plot itself and/or pointing out the spacing problem and helping me fix it that was a great help so much appreciated.
Having explained some stuff in an earlier quick post I figure I should just go ahead and skip the usual opening to the chapters and get right with it so without further wait I hope y'all enjoy the chapter!
Konoha-Hospital-OR
Tsunade and Sakura had all but blown the door off its hinges with the speed they used to reach the hospital and blaze through the lobby to find an empty operating room, once inside the two gently lay Naruto on the soon to be stained medical bed and each began to run diagnostic jutsu over his body, as they traced their hands over his various wounds they began to call out what they found as they spotted them.
"He has four Lacerations on his head, two on his left cheek one of the chin and another behind the right ear, he has a mild concussion." Began Tsunade who was starting her check at the top while Sakura at the bottom "There are some slight abrasions on his left thigh and both knees as well as several contusions on both his shins and thighs, he has four broken toes three on his left foot and one on the right." Sakura continued as the two made their way to the middle of his body.
"A large puncture wound on his right shoulder, a fractured collar bone, eleven puncture wounds three with identical exit wounds through his back and chest." Tsunade called out growing more worried by the second "His hip is fractured and has internal bleeding around his large intestines and a small avulsion below his rib cage." Sakura continued with tears welling up in her eyes "The lungs are bruised, his left shoulder is dislocated and his left hand has third degree burns covering the palm and fingers." Tsunade said as they both worked on the chest to make sure they didn't miss anything concerning his major organs "Three of his ribs are broken and one of them is cracked, a piece of bone has punctured his lungs, Sakura alert the nurses in the lobby that we need surgeons in here!" Tsunade ordered and without hesitation said pink haired kunoichi bolted from the operating room as commanded.
Tsunade began to strip Naruto of all articles of clothing and hooked him up to a heart rate detector before she started going through hand signs for medical jutsu 'Why hasn't the kyuubi started healing him?" she thought to herself as she started healing and closing the bigger wounds that required the most attention.
Narutos Mindscape
Inside the cage the kyuubi had front row seats to the massacre that went on before he was dragged to the hospital and for the first time in years she felt that this was completely her fault in every sense of the word, as she sat in the now bloody water with the beaten and unconscious form of her best and only friend cradled in her arms she tried desperately to pump him with her chakra only for some unseen force keeping it at bay with every attempt.
"Why can't I heal him!?" she cried out as she continued to try and force her chakra inside the blond young man to no avail, she stopped and began to pant heavily as she looked upon his calm features if she didn't know better she would have guessed he was asleep as his steady quiet breaths brushed against her skin.
The fox demoness buried her face in his hair as tears found their way from her eyes and poured down her cheeks 'Why won't it work, it has always worked.' She thought to herself as she held him as close to her as possible "You will get through this Naruto, you always do don't you?" she asked hoping to get a response only to be returned by silence and the occasion drip of water.
Seeing the state he is in reminded her of the only other time he was this close to death, she had watched in anger and slight awe as her container fought against his brother in all but blood Sasuke Uchiha in the same battlefield of their ancestors, during the fight Naruto had received several wounds ranging from blunt force trauma to burns but the worst was the chidori he had taken in the chest by his so called 'friend' in his attempt to escape the leaf village.
She had to work overtime to keep her closest friend alive during the fight pumping in as much chakra she could without harming him from the inside out and while he had lived through the ordeal she still couldn't heal his first real scar via chidori.
Back then she had held him in the same way for the whole duration of his unconsciousness before he awoke and the first thing out of his mouth was to ask why she was crying, that day she bopped him on the head and cried tears of joy 'Baka…always worrying about everyone else before yourself." She thought with a sad smile.
Back in the operating room.
It has been fourteen hours of non-stop surgery in an attempt to keep Naruto alive, every time they would finish one area a different one would re-open brought on by spasms his body went through at random making it difficult to keep him from bleeding out, over the hours surgeons would relieve the work of others so they could rest while the only two who had stayed throughout it all had been Tsunade and Sakura both worn down but refusing to stop until they knew he was going to pull through.
"Sakura get on that puncture wound in the shoulder its opened again." Tsunade ordered in a calm but serious tone "Hai, Tsunade-sama." The pink haired kunoichi replied as she did what was commanded "Shizune hand me some bandages." Tsunade ordered once more and with a swift nod from Shizune she began to carefully wrap the burned hand and several of the cuts along him arms after disinfecting them, to say each person in the room was dirty from the blood and tired would be an understatement never before have they had to go this far with their blond friend which made them all worried that he would not make it through the surgery.
As if Kami had heard their worries and decided to be cruel something they each thought impossible happened, Naruto began to thrash in the bed violently "Hold him down!" Tsunade yelled "He's opening more wounds, put the restraints on him!" she continued and with his back arched in the air he suddenly fell back into the bed while his heart rate monitor flat lined.
"Shizune! Get over here!" she ordered while she removed any metals from his body "Sakura Shizune on my call we give him a jolt of Raiton chakra understood." She said in more than an order than question, with a dual "Hai, Tsunade-sama!" the three placed their hands around his heart and gathered the required chakra into the palms of their hands.
"Three, two, one CLEAR!" she called as the three sent a surge of electricity to his heart while his back arched slightly before falling back down, they each looked to the heart monitor to check for a pulse and there was a blip of a pulse before it flat lined again "Again!" she called as they continued.
Back in the cage.
The kyuubi felt completely helpless as the cage around the two began to grow darker slowly creeping around them as she held him tight "Wake up Naruto-kun!" she cried as the darkness slipped closer and closer "You said you would never leave me alone again remember? You promised me!" she yelled at him her eyes puffy and red with tears pouring harder for her friend "Please...you can't go like this." She pleaded.
She was snapped from her sobs when a hand found its way to her face and cupped her cheek, she gazed down with her red eyes to become locked with his single blue one "Why…are you… crying?" the now conscious Naruto asked with a weak smile on his face, before he knew what happened next he found his head in a death hug via kyuubi "S-stop scaring me like t-that!" she choked out between sobs and a large smile on her face as the darkness in the cage slowly disappeared.
Back in the operating room three minutes prior.
"Clear!" Tsunade called once more refusing to give up on her godson before the trio looked to the heart monitor only for the flat line to continue "Once more!" she yelled with tears in her eyes as she gathered the chakra in her palms before she felt a hand on her shoulder "Tsunade-sama…" she snapper her head in the direction of Shizune who already had tears running down her cheeks and just slowly shook her head while Sakura was on the opposite side of the bed looking down with her fists clenched and tears of her own flowing freely.
"No!" Tsunade yelled "I won't give up on him!" she continued as she placed her hands back into position over the heart "We just got him back…" she said as the fatigue found its way into her system preventing her from channeling chakra properly as she slumped to the floor with both hands holding his left "He just got home.." she whispered as her tears finally broke free.
Shizune kneeled down and wrapped her master in a comforting embrace, on the inside she was a sobbing wreck, just like everyone else who knew him well she thought he was an invincible knucklehead who always managed to come out of every bad situation.
Sakura was taking it just as hard as the others if not more so, she couldn't help but think back to their earlier days in the academy hearing him shout about becoming Hokage and making the village recognize him as a person, the day he was brought back to the village after the failed Sasuke retrieval mission she felt entirely responsible for his condition but she knew he would come back from it just as happy and determined as ever, she never thought she would see his death first hand and not be able to stop it from happening.
She steeled her senses and slowly began to raise a sheet over his body "T-time of d-dea—" she wasn't able to finish her sentence as Naruto shot forward in a sitting position "AAAAAAAAAAAAAGH!" he screamed followed by heavy panting and the heart monitor going wild, his single eye was scanning the room franticly trying to make out his surroundings through blurred vision before noticing he was restrained, he tried his hardest to free himself as some of his lesser wounds opened once more causing the rest to snap out of their daze.
"Naruto please calm down!" Sakura called out while trying to hold him down "You're in the hospital, you're safe!" she said trying to get him to stop before he kills himself "One of you help me!" Sakura yelled forcing Naruto to lay back, with this Tsunade quickly stood and went through a few hand signs before placing her hand on his head with a dim blue glow causing him to fall back into unconsciousness once more as Sakura gently laid him back.
As his heart rate slowly began to stabilize the three looked at him shocked but relieved that he was alive "How does he keep doing that?" asked Shizune confusion and awe clear in her voice, she was present during the operation he went under after Sasuke ripped a hole into his chest and even though the chakra of the kyuubi as constantly healing him it wouldn't have been enough to keep him alive without their help.
"We can figure that out later." Tsunade answered "We need to close the opened wounds again." She continued with a sigh still completely worn down from this nights events "Let us handle it Tsunade-sama, you need to get some rest you're the Hokage after all and you have other duties." Shizune said as she and Sakura started patching him up once more, Tsunade sighed and nodded a bit "Alright, inform me if anything happens though." She said with a yawn as she made her way out of the room and to her office quickly discarding the surgical apron and gloves as she went.
After a good twenty minutes they had finished cleaning and bandaging the re-opened wounds it being a lot easier than the last without his random muscle spasms messing it up, the two had Naruto transferred to a single person room and stayed to guard him while he slept neither wanting to leave him alone with the chance of more people sneaking in to take his life, a lot of the medical staff on duty hated him just like most of the village does and that frightened them both.
At the Hokage tower.
It took Tsunade nearly an hour to reach the tower with how exhausted she was and by the time she made it through the doors to her office she was already half asleep, with a quick glance around her office she made her way to one of the large couches and collapsed onto it quickly drifting into a deep sleep.
She had managed almost five hours of rest before a knock woke her from her sleep, quickly standing and walking to her desk and plopping down in the chair before entering Hokage mode "Enter!" she called and on cue the doors slid open revealing Anko and the rest who had previously gathered the witness reports.
"Hokage-sama." They all greeted with a bow "We have gathered the witness reports of around forty of the red light district residents that had watched the scene from start to finish." Anko stated as they each raised their head "How would you describe it Anko-san?" asked Tsunade looking over the group a couple times some of them having trouble staying awake.
"Permission to speak freely Hokage-sama." Asked Anko, Tsunade raised a brow but nodded signaling for her to continue "Well if I didn't hear the same story from so many people I would have said it was complete bullshit." Anko started "Each report starts the same, they all saw him walk down the red light district to his apartment like any normal day." She paused for a moment before continuing "It was much later until the explosion that lit the complex ablaze and each had seen Naruto escape through a window on the top floor."
"After reaching the ground he was confronted by a mob of Shinobi which he ignored and handed a shop lady his jacket and other items he had saved from the fire." She continued "Right after he had done this he went back to confront the mob and that's when shit got hard to believe." Anko finished.
Tsunade cocked her head to the side "What do you mean?" she asked as Ino stepped forward to explain "The reports claim that Naruto-kun engaged and defeated roughly fifty shinobi without using a single jutsu or even molding chakra Tsunade-sama." She started much to Tsunades surprise "How did he manage this?" she asked now completely baffled, it would be understandable for a single shinobi to take down fifty or so enemies alone but not without chakra enhanced blows at the very least "Did he use some kind of weapon?" she questioned while the group slowly shook their head "The witnesses claim that for the majority of the fight he had used his bare hands Tsunade-sama." Ino continued "The only times he used any weapons was if he removed them from his person or they were close enough for him to reach but he always dropped them when he was finished with a kill." Shikamaru stated tossing in his bit.
The room fell silent for a few moments while Tsunade ran the information through her head 'How in the hells did he manage to pull this off!?' she yelled internally, she like the rest were completely oblivious to the fact Naruto had spent almost the whole four years incarcerated training himself to fight without the need for chakra.
"Hokage-sama." Shikamaru called snapping her to attention "What is it Shikamaru?" she asked with all eyes on him "I know that this is hard to ask." He started "But what could possibly have happened to him to cause this big of a change? Naruto always tried his hardest not to kill his enemies unless he was pressured into it and even then it ate at him from the inside." He continued "From what the witnesses say, he had no hesitation in slaughtering his attackers and in some of the most brutal ways I have ever heard of."
"He won't talk about it to anyone not even Sakura." Tsunade said "Whatever it was that caused this I can tell you now that it's very unlikely that it will reverse on it's own after the event of tonight." She continued with a saddened expression "What do you mean Tsunade-sama?" Anko asked with a raised brow.
Tsunade sighed softly and looked her dead in the eye "Think about it, he just got here not even a week ago and someone had made an attempt on his life." She paused to allow the information to clear the confusion "Whatever trust he had in anyone before tonight it is probably gone completely." She continued before looking to the Ino-shika-cho trio "And if I were you I'd warn the rest of the rookie nine to stay clear of Naruto while he recovers." This got confused expressions on all but Shikamaru who had an idea of where this was going.
"But why Tsunade-sama?" asked Chouji trying to figure out the hidden meaning he thought was in the warning "Because he already feels betrayed by us, Imagine what he might do if we showed ourselves to him right now." Shikamaru answered "For all we know he could be under the impression that we set this up and even though he is badly wounded I have no doubts in my mind that he could kill us all if he feels threatened by us." He finished "This is to troublesome."
"That's exactly my point, therefore warn your comrades." Tsunade ordered and with a group nod the trio left leaving Anko and Tsunade alone "How is he Tsunade-sama?" Anko asked concern practically leaking from her tone, the Lady Hokage sighed and sat back into her chair "He almost didn't make it this time Anko, for whatever reason the kyuubi is no longer healing him like it used to." She claimed as Anko took on a serious expression.
Anko was probably the only person in the village who knew that Naruto and the kyuubi were friends and to hear this rose questions that she needed answered once he released from the hospital, seeing her expression Tsunade raised a brow "Anko-san." She said gaining her full attention "Why do you show so much concern for Naruto-kun?" she asked earning a sigh from the pineapple haired kunoichi "It's that obvious eh?" she asked rubbing her head while internally cursing herself for dropping her mask for so long.
"Well…" she started "Let's just say we have…history." She said trying her best to avoid a full explanation, seeing this Tsunade leveled a glare on her that made her sweat a bit before sighing and rubbing her temples "Alright, I'll accept that for now Anko-san." She said much to her relief "But." Tsunade said drawing her attention back "I will want an explanation sometime soon." She said with a smirk.
Dropping her head in defeat Anko just nodded "Alright Anko-san, I want you to head to the hospital to help guard Naruto-kun he's in a vulnerable state and I'm sure the others would appreciate the help." She ordered and with her usual sadistic grin placed back in its rightful place said purple haired kunoichi simply shunshined away leaving a now slightly worried Hokage.
'I hope that was a good idea.' She thought to herself as she removed a bottle of sake from the desk and took a drink straight from the bottle before falling back asleep on her desk.
Alright y'all I apologize for the short chapter but I got a call like ten minutes ago by my great grandmother asking me to take her to a doctors appointment so I'm on my way out the door now.
I hope you guys liked the chapter.
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