Disclaimer: Naruto is not, and most likely never will be, unless i step into an alternate dimension and somehow in that dimension it is. While I'm dreaming about things I want in this different dimension I also want a pony.
Last Time
"I can't help you, I need to leave" Naruto said urgently and bit into his thumb, performing the first two hand signs before he was knocked out from behind.
"This is a little harsh" Chouji whispered and Shikamaru nodded, "he was probably trying to escape from them and now he's going to be bait to lure them out" Shikamaru said sadly.
Naruto woke slowly, moaning a little bit. "I see you're awake" a woman with black hair and red eyes said.
Naruto jerked on the ropes binding his wrists to the chair. "Let me go" he cried frantically. "I'm sorry, but we needed your help" the woman said. "Find someone else, I can't help you" Naruto insisted.
"Oh, we think you can" Kakashi said as he entered the room, reading a book. "Those ninja that were chasing you, they have something that belongs to our village, we know you know about it, the kikai running through your system prove it" Kakashi explained.
Naruto frowned, the kikai, that were normally buzzing were barely making a sound now. "What'd you do to them?" Naruto demanded to know. "Take it easy, we just knocked them out with a bit of chakra" Kakashi told him, that didn't calm him in the least, they were his last option for escape since he couldn't make the seals to summon.
"Like I said, I can't help you, I have to leave, I can't let them catch me" Naruto said.
"They won't, if you cooperate with us then we'll be able to capture them and retrieve what we need, also they will be arrested for betraying Konoha." Kurenai assured him. "Konoha" Naruto repeated. Kurenai nodded, "It's our village, the Hokage ordered us to capture them and retrieve scrolls stolen from several clans. If we capture them then you'll be safe, you can even come with us to Konoha if you want, we know Suna isn't your real home since you were leaving"
At this Naruto tugged at bonds harder, "No, I'm not going to Konoha, ever" Naruto said angrily.
"You don't like our village?" Kurenai asked. Naruto shook his head, "It isn't that, it's that they hate me, there's no way I'm going there" Naruto informed her. "Konoha, you aren't from Konoha, I would recognize you" Kakashi said, snapping his book shut. Naruto shook his head, "I haven't lived in Konoha for many years, but they hate me I know it" Naruto informed him. "No, no child, no matter who he is, would be hated in Konoha" Kurenai insisted.
Naruto looked at her for a moment. "I know that they do, it's the reason why I was taken away so easily. Apparently I was practically handed to them" Naruto said sadly. Kurenai shook her head, "That wouldn't happen in Konoha, you must be mistaken" she said. "It did" he told her.
Kurenai looked furious at him for saying such things about Konoha and left the room. "So, how about telling me your name" Kakashi said, "I gave you mine". Naruto was extremely angry, they weren't going to release him, they were going to use him as bait. "Screw you" Naruto shouted, something the wolf summons had taught him was extremely rude. Kakashi just looked at him in amusement. "You aren't leaving here until you help us. If you cooperate it would be better for all of us" Kakashi said, and left the room.
Naruto struggled for a little bit more before deciding to shout.
He yelled for nearly three hours before one of the genin got fed up. "Will you shut up, it's impossible to sleep with the noise you're making." A boy with black hair and red paint going down his cheeks shouted as he entered the room. He raised his hand a little and Naruto flinched and closed his eyes, waiting for the strike. It never came.
Slowly Naruto opened them again and glanced at Kiba. The genin wore a confused expression on his face. "I wasn't going to hit you" he said. Naruto looked at him, unsure for a moment before slowly relaxing.
"Thanks" he said. Kiba nodded, "You aren't able to fight back, it wouldn't be fair" Kiba said softly. "But if I was you wouldn't hesitate would you?" Naruto asked, not meeting Kiba's gaze. Kiba shrugged, "If you were threatening me then yes, but not If you weren't" Kiba assured him, still confused by Naruto's reaction to him.
It had been quiet long enough and Naruto decided to change the subject. "Now, about letting me go…?" Naruto asked. Kiba shook his head, "Sorry, but our sensei say that you're the only way to get back our stuff" Kiba said.
Naruto sighed, "I figured you'd say that, what about food?" Naruto asked, he was extremely hungry, "I can ask if you want" Kiba offered, Naruto nodded, "Please do" and Kiba left.
A few minutes later Kakashi entered the room, "Have you decided to cooperate?" he asked, Naruto glared at him, "I don't really have much of a choice, I'm tied up and can't access my kikai, besides, whether I agree or not, one of them is a Hyuuga and will be able to find me here." Naruto answered.
Kakashi smiled, "So that's a yes?" Naruto nodded, "Under protest yes" Kakashi smiled wider, "Well then, I guess you can have some food"
Naruto looked down at his wrists. "Can you at least untie me?" Kakashi shook his head, "No, you have ninja training so we can't take a chance you'd escape" Kakashi said.
He helped Naruto finish off a plate of food and then left him. 'I want Okamura' Naruto thought sadly. She had been the one to take care of him the most after he'd learned to summon.
The next day he woke to find his wrists untied. "What?" he asked and stood up. He stretched a little bit and moved around the room. He tried the door, 'locked' he thought in disappointment and then he moved to the windows, they were shut tightly as well.
Naruto thought for a second before performing the necessary hand seals and calling for Iizuna. For a couple seconds nothing happened but suddenly Naruto was on the floor, intense pain moving throughout his body, he screamed. A minute later his door opened and the pain slowly vanished, he sat up.
"You shouldn't have tried to use your chakra, we've placed a seal over it so you can't harm us" Kurenai told him in a clipped tone, she still was angry about Naruto saying Konoha was a bad place.
"So, I'm still trapped" Naruto summed up, backing away from the angry woman with fear evident in his eyes. Kurenai nodded, "until they come for you" she said and left the room.
Naruto stared at the ceiling for several hours before someone finally came into the room. "Hello, we were having dinner, and I was wondering if you were hungry" a small Hyuuga girl told him. Naruto looked her over, "Yeah, I'm pretty hungry" he said, she turned to leave, Naruto stayed where he was.
"I meant that you're going to have dinner with us." She told him and led him to a room with the others. "I'm Hinata, you know Kiba, this is Shino, Ino, Shikamaru, Chouji, Tsuki, Sasuke, Sakura, and that's Asuma-sensei, you know the other two sensei" Hinata introduced.
Naruto nodded and sat down as far from everyone else as he could get. "Here" Shikamaru said quietly and handed him a plate. When Naruto looked up to meet his eye Shikamaru gave him an apologetic expression 'probably about keeping me here' Naruto assumed. He smiled at Shikamaru and ate the food quickly. He then waited until everyone else was done too.
"So, what's a loser like you doing in Suna?" the normally quiet Sasuke asked. Naruto looked at him impassively, "What makes you think I'm a loser?" Naruto asked. "You aren't a ninja so obviously you got the training but never amounted to anything" Sasuke said with a smirk. Naruto gave a small smile, "I was never trained as a ninja teme" Naruto told him, something he'd heard the Nara call the Hyuuga when he was angry.
"You have kikai though" Shino pointed out. Naruto nodded, "I've had them ever since I can remember" which was true enough. "You also know chakra techniques" Kakashi brought up. "Yeah, I taught myself them" that was only a partial lie, after he'd escaped from his captors he'd taught himself most of the stuff from the scrolls.
"So why are the ninja after you?" Sakura spoke up. "I don't really want to talk about it" Naruto said.
"You know something about our scrolls though?" Kakashi asked. Naruto nodded slowly, "Yes, I know quite a bit about them" "So, they didn't sell them or anything, they still have them?" Naruto thought for a second, 'they said they could capture them so that I wouldn't be in danger from them, they'll probably let them have me if I give them the scrolls now' "Last time I saw they did" he said at last, technically still true, the last time he had taken them they had had them just before.
"Good, so you'll help us?" Chouji asked, not concealing his excitement at the prospects of retrieving his family's scrolls. "If I can get this seal removed once that happens then yes" Naruto agreed. "So let me guess, once they find you there going to sell you to the highest bidder as a slave, I mean there isn't any other reason to try and get you" Sasuke said, trying to irritate the blonde. It worked.
Sasuke was thrown across the room and Naruto ran on all fours, jumping up and slamming his feet and hands into the Uchiha's chest. "I wouldn't underestimate me, Uchiha" Naruto spat venomously and slammed his forehead into the other boy's, knocking him unconscious.
He saw the others coming towards him and took off, jumping over a couch and running through the door connected to theirs into his own room. He closed the door behind him and held it shut as they tried to enter. Without chakra Naruto was no match for them.
The door was flung open, Naruto fell back and the pink haired girl came at him. "You hurt my Sasuke-kun" she shrieked and Naruto dodged as a fist came at him. He threw the chair he'd been tied to and caught her in the arm. She screamed louder and tried to attack him again.
She was stopped by Kakashi, "Do not harm him, he's important to our mission" Kakashi ordered and sent her away.
Naruto crouched in the corner of the room on all fours. He watched Kakashi warily. When Kakashi approached him he scurried backwards, deeper into the corner. "You shouldn't have harmed the Uchiha like that, even if he isn't very valuable to this mission he is needed, as is everyone in this group" Kakashi explained. Naruto nodded, he was tensed and watching Kakashi's every movement. "I won't harm you," Kakashi assured him and left.
Naruto waited for a little while before moving from his position and falling asleep, knowing that if they did want to attack him, he wouldn't stand a chance.
The next day Naruto spent his morning in the room trying to find a way out, he had already tried it but was hoping he'd missed something. "Damn it" he swore under his breath when his search yielded nothing.
The door opened at that time and Naruto jumped. "If you'd like some lunch then you can come out" the Akimichi offered. Naruto followed him out.
"Sleep well?" Kakashi asked from behind his book. Naruto shrugged, "I guess" Lunch was the same as dinner had been and Naruto ate it hurriedly.
He tensed suddenly, "there here" he informed them and ran under the cloth covering the table. Sure enough a second later a window was broken out and glass flew everywhere, "Give us the boy, now" the lead Hyuuga ordered. The answer was a strike from a chidori.
The Hyuuga barely dodged it and struck a couple of chakra points. Kakashi pulled away before too many points were affected. Then it was complete pandemonium. Everyone fought their opponents wildly. \
Naruto saw an opening and before anyone noticed, leaped from the window onto a roof several feet away as Nekoru had shown him and climbed down. He ran through the streets of Suna, getting lost in the crowds.
In the end every one of the rookies was injured, their sensei were beaten pretty badly as well. The Nara, Inuzuka, one Yamanaka and the two non leading Hyuuga were incapacitated before the leader noticed that Naruto wasn't there and ordered a retreat.
Hinata was worst off, she'd gotten all of her chakra points sealed and several broken ribs, her arm was almost completely crushed. The branch member hadn't taken kindly to seeing a main house member there and had tried to finish her off before Shino had stopped the woman.
"Okay, we'll get everyone to the hospital, Suna has allowed us the use of their medical facilities" the less hurt of them assisted the others in making it and only a few of them were well enough to only have to stay one night. The captured enemy nin were being held by the Suna police and had chakra seals in place.
Naruto stayed in Suna for now, they would be expecting him to leave and if he was traveling he would be alone and easier to spot. Since his chakra was sealed he figured that if he did run now then he wouldn't stand a chance.
That night he stayed awake, watching around himself so that he couldn't be taken by surprise.
In the hospital the doctors had been working on the ninja all night. Hinata was the only one that they had trouble with and even then she was only going to be stiff for a little while.
"Alright, now that the boy is gone we still have the rest to catch. The scrolls weren't in the possession of the ones we captured and they're not talking. I doubt the boy has gotten far, we can still find him" Kakashi said.
"No" Shikamaru said angrily and that drew everyone's attention, he rarely spoke out, finding it too troublesome, "we promised we'd protect him, we couldn't even do that properly, he may have already been caught because his chakra is sealed, he's at a huge disadvantage because you forced him to help us."
"Be that as it may Shikamaru, he is in even more danger now and because there are less people that will be attacking us he'll be safer in our company, also the people who were fighting us probably don't have great medical facilities and they haven't been seen around the hospital so they'll be less likely to win" Kurenai explained.
Shikamaru glared at her, refusing to see how they could be right when the boy was getting hurt because of their interference in his life.
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