Chapter 4
XxAshishxX: He's there! I promise he's been there the whole time, I'm sorry if I don't make it clear enough.
Tony Blu: First off, you're dirty I see what you did their cx. Secondly I did write it rather quickly but I hope it was good nonetheless. Lastly, I'll start using the line bar, it looks better than (this shit).
"Hey kid snap out of it" growled Kyuubi.
'Sorry sorry..I was just thinking back to that day, haha. I wonder what Baa-chan's up to, does she miss me?' Naruto thought sadly as he made his way towards the exit.
'If only you knew, if only..' muttered the Kyuubi quietly, making sure the boy wouldn't hear him. 'If he knew what they had done…what they still were doing to try to find him, he'd be ecstatic.'
Ever since Naruto had gone missing, the Hokage had been sending out team after team to try to find the boy, to any regular shinobi of Konoha they would think she was just trying to get back a very powerful weapon of Konoha's but to anyone who understood the relationship they shared they would understand how much his disappearance hurt her.
She was the Hokage, it was her duty to protect the Leaf yet she couldn't even protect the one ninja who had saved her.
-Flashback Three Months Ago-
"H-h-he's dead?" lamented the pink-haired kunoichi, grief-stricken across her face.
"Yes" stated the Anbu operative.
As that single world left the operative's mouth the Hokage slammed her fist onto the desk, nearly shattering it.
"Fuck, how the hell could this have happened, it was just a simple C-rank mission." She remembered when she received the mission; it was a simple mission really. It was just to investigate a tiny village in Otogakure. Normally she would have just refused the mission knowing of the village's ties to Orochimaru but with him captured and caught, locked away in one of Konoha's cells, she was confident that it would be an easy mission. That was until she realized that not many people had been to the village, and even fewer people had come back.
With no knowledge of the layout of the village she decided to send a special team to go on the mission. The team she had sent consisted of 4 nin. Kakashi, Naruto, Sasuke, and Orochimaru.
She was very hesitant to let that slithery bastard go but she realized his knowledge of the village would be very useful so against the council's wishes she sent him on it. She had also sent the raven haired boy, he had been itching to get out and prove his strength. Ever since Naruto had brought the boy back he was basically restricted to the hospital and she knew how much he hated that, so she let Kakashi take him to the training grounds to do some simple training. When Sasuke had demanded to up the intensity of the practice as he felt it wasn't good enough for him, Kakashi had swiftly refused. When his sensei wouldn't teach him anything he stormed off, basically going missing until later in the evening when he returned to the hospital.
After she had received news of the incident she effectively ended his practice. To say that enraged him, wouldn't do him justice, so a few times when he had tried to sneak out Tsunade would show up and "sedate" him, returning him to the bed.
She understood how much it angered a shinobi to restrict them to doing basically nothing so she allowed him to go on the mission with Kakashi, Naruto, and Orochimaru. When she told him he was going on it she heard him mutter "not good enough" quietly as he returned to his slumber.
She was confident that the group would have no problem with the mission and if Orochimaru tried anything she told Naruto and Kakashi to keep a close on him. Soon after the team left she had called in three anbu agents and told them to follow the team, just in case anything happened. She was confident that if Kakashi and Naruto weren't able to stop him, then the agents would at least be able to subdue him. She couldn't have been more wrong.
-Flashback End-
"I can't see a goddamn thing Kyuubi, are you sure this is the right way?" Whined the blond-haired ninja.
"Yes it's the right way, I told you before, the exit is by that foul-smelling chakra, and we're heading straight for it" scoffed the Kyuub, in an annoyed manner,
"Well if you say so.." Naruto trailed.
"We're almost ther-shit" the nine-tailed fox quaked, finally seeing where they were located.
"What's wrong fox? Cat got your…woah" intoned Naruto.
Naruto's jaw nearly hit the floor when he saw what made the Kyuubi stop talking. He had stumbled into a room, no more like a laboratory of sorts. All around the room laid different types of equipment. There were vials filled with almost every color the boy was familiar with on a table next to him. Across from that table there were machines that were make strange sounds, as if reacting to the boy's presence.
"Wait..what is this place Kyuubi?" croaked the boy.
"It seems like a laboratory but don't ask whose laboratory it is, I don't know" murmured the Kyuubi, analyzing the area.
"If it's a laboratory then could it be Orochimaru's?" Naruto questioned.
"That's possible, it could be one of his laboratories, but the thing is this one looks like it's been used recently and that should be impossible." Affirmed the fox, shaking his head.
"Why would it be impossible?" Interjected Naruto, raising an eyebrow.
"You helped capture him." The Kyuubi proclaimed.
"I did?" Naruto questioned.
"Yes you did. You, Kakashi, and Team 8 successfully captured him and brought him back to the leaf." Recalled the nine-tailed fox.
"I don't remember.." he tried thinking back to it but all that greeted him was a brief flash of pain. "Urgh, fuck that hurt. Kyuubi…why, why can't I remember? I couldn't remember how I ended up here, I can't remember that mission, what if I've forgotten something else important?" Groaned the blond-haired boy.
"Only time will tell boy, think is there anything, anyone that you feel like you're missing?" Kyuubi speculated.
"No..er I don't know!" he exclaimed sadly.
"Well no use in sitting around and trying to remember now, if we get out of here we'll try to figure out if anything's amiss." Asserted the fox.
"What do you mean by i-" he stopped as he realized why the fox said "if." In the corner of the room, hidden under a table lied a person, at least that's what he thought it was. It was so skinny and frail; the only clothing that he could see was a plain piece of cloth draped over the shoulders of the person.
"Hey, hey you! Can you hear me?" Naruto bellowed, he hoped he would get a response of some kind from the person but as he waited he realized he wasn't going to get one. Knowing that nothing would come from him just shouting he decided to make his way over to the person, albeit very slowly. As he made his way closer the person he saw a movement come from them and then a familiar sound started again, the scratching.
"So this is where that insufferable sound resounded from, be careful Naruto I don't trust this person, they seem very dangerous" Kyuubi warned, eyeing the person skeptically.
Naruto gave a mental nod to the fox as he finally made it to the person. He tried tapping him on the shoulder but nothing happened. Then he looked over and what he saw nearly made him gag. The person's fingers, or what was left of them were covered in blood and dirt, it seemed the person was intent on scratching his way out of the room.
"Hey uh..buddy, can you hear me?" he softly said.
"Naruto.." growled the Kyuubi anxiously.
"What? It's not like he's resp-" his response was cut short as the person turned his head toward him, nearly making him jump back.
As the person slowly opened up their mouth, Naruto's eyes feel upon their face and his eyes widened, his lips were cracked and bloody, his cheeks were gaunt, and the way their eyes looked saddened Naruto to no end, it was as if someone had taken all the happiness out of his eyes and just left a desolate look.
"A-are y-y-you here to bring me to my masters?" the person's voice was barely audible; if Naruto hadn't been right next to them he wouldn't have heard them.
"Who, who are your masters?" a strange unsettling feeling came upon Naruto as he feared what this person's answer would be.
The person mumbled something, this time to low for Naruto to hear.
"What was that?" he asked curiously.
"I said…" as he was about to finish what he was saying he burst into a coughing fit. Splotches of blood escaped the boy's mouth and landed on Naruto's pants. Suffice to say he was disgusted.
"Hey, hey, are you alright? Do you ne-" he was cut off as the person put their hand over his and the coughing slowly stopped.
"Erhm, as I was saying, I-I'm looking for my masters do you happen to know where they are?" his eyes were full of sadness as he said it.
'These "masters," must mean a lot to this kid, yet how could they leave him here in the condition he's in, that pisses me off if I meet his masters…'
"What are their names?"
"Their names? Oh well its Master Kabuto and Master Orochimaru." He said cheerily.
A/N: Well I'm back from the college, had an amazing time there it honestly wasn't I was expecting at all. Also sorry for the late release as I said I was going to be gone all week so I really didn't write at all so when I came back on Friday I devoted my time to getting out a chapter out quickly but I still wanted it to be goods that's why I was unable to upload on time. I hope you guys enjoyed it, have a great day c:
