AHHH!! - I'm SO SO SORRY for not updating for a long time x.x I had the worst month of homework so pleasee forgive me ! But still, I am having partly of a writer's block...rawr . Well, this chapter was a short one...cause my aim was higher :D I'll try to make a longer one in my next chapter ! Enjoy !
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Chapter Four: Trouble
Confused and shocked, what is happening to her? Me? An assassin…? How could they doubt me that way? This is insane…who am I? What am I? Am I really like this…this pathetic? Naruto-kun…why didn't you save me that time? …Please stop this cruel joke… Her tears fell down, clothes torn and dirtied. She stared blankly at the sky above, wanting to be free like the stars, dancing in the horizon, shining so brightly. She sat under a tree while her tears mixed with water. Rain. Squinting at the pain, she had received from the two jounins multiple stabs of kunais with weird papers dangling from them. The knives lay buried in her flesh as her essence seeped out from her. She was losing blood. Before passing out, she saw the clear blue sky. No wonder Naruto's eyes were always described as the sky in fan fictions. How ironic. This might be the end for her…No more fantasy. It was fun while it lasted…
"Itoe-chan!!"
Naruto…
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Hearing from Kakashi, he was ordered to test out the girl's skills before confirming her as an assassin. Therefore explains the offense resorted from him. Knowing that Naruto would get in trouble, Iruka went along. The inscriptions on the kunai were to deplete any chakra found in the victim. It would force the victim to be vulnerable and lame on the floor. These kunais were only used for exceptional times. Unfortunately for Kakashi and Iruka, Itoe continued moving, escaping. Their only suspicion was that she had too much chakra for the kunai to store. It was impossible. The blonde then took this chance to run to Itoe, calling her name.
Naruto sat on his swing beside the academy. He outgrew it so fast. It seemed more like days to him when he met his team and others from different villages, going off for a journey to get stronger with Jiraiya…then coming back again to see everyone. Then Itoe came into his life. Remembering her diary for a moment, maybe he could make a diary of his own. Laughing at his own thoughts, the trees rustled as the wind caresses his side view. It might be a good time consumer. With this, he sprinted back to his apartment.
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"Say kid, are you writing an erotic novel?" Jiraiya blushed as he peeked curiously at his work.
"As if, you pervert. I'm writing a diary for Itoe-chan." He replied, busily scribbling on the paper, writing his own thoughts. 'Itoe-chan.' He said that often now, quite unconsciously. Shaking this feeling off, he pushed Jiraiya away from his private documents and told him to mind his own business. Harsh. It was time to visit Itoe-chan. Warning his sensei not to read his work; Naruto went to the bathroom to prepare.
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Neji glanced through the patient's body with his byakugan as Tsunade stood beside the patient's bed, Shizune at her side. Finished scanning her body, he reported.
"Tsunade-sama, she does not have any chakra flowing through her. It is no wonder the kunai does not work against her. Itoe-san here is not a ninja. Unlike what Shizune-san expected." Neji gave her an irritated glare. She flinched at this while played with her skirt, feeling guilty. He did not like the preposterous idea Shizune made up about Itoe being a secret assassin, trying to kill Tsunade-sama. Involving innocent people made Neji's face wince. Hard.
"Good work, Neji." Tsunade thanked the jounin as she turned her attention to Shizune.
"Shizune, you have an explaining to do." She stared at Dan's guilt-stricken niece, fidgeting the real document behind her. Shizune couldn't take the intense stares from the duo no longer. She gave up, presenting the document to Tsunade-sama.
"I apologize for the misconception done by me…but if I had shown you the real truth, you would not believe me otherwise." She explained, looking down to her feet.
Reading Itoe's biography, Shizune saw the expected expression on Tsunade's face. It was nonsense to begin with. That was what Tsunade thought. Since the girl had a big stroke, she would come in later to interrogate her. After her dinner and sake of course. For now, it was back to paperwork. Tsunade dismissed Neji and left the room after taking a glance at Itoe.
Shizune made eye contact with Neji before following her. It was only Neji and Itoe left in the room. Before the jounin went out of the room, Itoe tugged his shirt.
"Neji..." She barely whispered his name out, but her eyes told everything. She wanted help in something, pleading silently.
He turned his head to look at her frail figure. Sighing, he then asked what she wanted him to do. Hearing this, Itoe smiled ever so slightly, expressing her gratitude wholeheartedly.
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"B-But, Tsunade-obaachan!" Naruto was making a ruckus at the Konoha hospital lobby, demanding a reason from Tsunade. She just gave an irritated look at the junior, saying:
"I'm still suspecting her for something else. Until my suspicion is cleared, there will be no visitors." That was that. Simple. Clear. Straight. Of course, this made the little yellow sunflower head a tiny bit-…ok, very angry. Giving the Hokage a glare, Naruto went out of the hospital carrying his big bag of presents. People just might be thinking of him as a Santa Claus. It resulted with people laughing after he was out of an eye's distance. Tonton, Tsunade's pet pig suddenly ran out of the building, whining in a terrifying way. She sensed something bad happening. Frustrated, the pig ran back in and tried to find the bad aura emitted almost everywhere in the hospital.
"Tonton smelt something bad, Tsunade-sama." Shizune told her as she tried spotting the aura, taking an offensive stance. The blonde just went to the counter to make an announcement. An announcement of having every single patient and visitor to evacuate the building immediately.
With this, she and Shizune went outside with Tsunade creating a barrier while Shizune went to get backup. The Akatsuki was in the building.
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Back in Itoe's room, Neji was fulfilling the request granted by the patient. His hands were on Itoe's bare back as the girl tried not to scream out in pain. He was trying to release the trapped chakra deep inside of her.
Itoe actually asked Neji if there was any way for her to become what everyone always were; a ninja. After a few minutes of reconsideration, Neji revealed that there was an old method that his father taught him before he died. It was to open up your chakra veins to the maximum. With this method, anyone who wanted to be a ninja at an old age could be one without even going through the basics.
Even though there was a way for Itoe to not become the odd one out, this process causes excruciating pain for her. Opening chakra veins all at once was not a pretty sight to see. This process must take at least two hours to complete. But hearing the announcement for everyone to evacuate, Neji would need her to come to him for sessions in this 'torture'. With this, he stopped Itoe's pain, for now. Only part of her chakra vessels were opened, and he advised her not to use it. Not that she knows of any jutsus… Itoe then dressed herself, trying not to collapse.
Neji silently signaled to help her, knowing that it is hard to stand; especially when the process was cut half way. He had it before, when his father did it on him. That explains why he was such a genius in ninja school.
Before Itoe could grab hold of Neji's back, a member of Akatsuki came in; Sasori.
"Looks like I went to the wrong room…Have you all seen Naruto-kun anywhere?" The red haired puppeteer snickered.
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