Last time, Nagi and the Ala Rubra had completed defeated the enemy of the magical world. Unfortunately, the enemy has completed the ceremony that would destroy it. In a last ditch effert, Naruto made the ultimate sacrifice to save everyone by using himself as a catalys for a sealing cereomony. After it was complete, he expected to be dead, but now he fell down into the water and lost conciousness in a middle where Kakashi Hatake and team 7 were busy fighting Zabuza.
Tazuna's house
Currently in a bedroom, Kakashi was laying down on a futon on the 2nd floor of Tazuna's house. Lying next to him, about a meter away, was Naruto. But unlike Kakashi, he was bandage up and still out cold.
After Naruto fell into the water, Kakashi immediately rescued him from drowning. He then saved Sakura from Zabuza's swordstrike, while carrying Naruto under his left arm. Kakashi then pushed back Zabuza to give them some space. Kakashi place Naruto near the shore, which he ordered his team to not only protect Tazuna, but also help the unconscious person, whose face was hidden because of his hooded cloak.
Once team 7 drags the person to shore, Kakashi then focus his attention on Zabuza. He used his sharingon to copy Zabuza's movements, which he was able to get the upper hand. Right before Kakashi could finish him, Zabuza was killed by a Mizu hunter Nin. Once the hunter Nin took Zabuza's body, Kakashi's team immediately came up to him, while he walked towards them. But it was also then that the effects of sharingon took its toll on Kakashi and knocked him out.
Team 7 decided to take Kakashi to Tazuna's house to get some rest. But before making that decision, they looked at the person that was lying before them. Sakura took a closer look at him, but once she touched his body, she felt something warm on his left arm. She thought it was his arm trying to warm up again from being in the cold water, but when she looked at her palm, she saw that it was blood and that he was breathing shallow. After deciding on what to do, they took him too to get him some medical attention.
Once in the house, they took Kakashi to the 2nd floor to rest, the same with Naruto (who they don't know) to start some medical stuff. Sakura knew a bit of medical knowledge from the academy, while Tsunami, who also knew a bit of medical knowledge, helped in bandaging the person. They stripped him of his clothes to see that he was young blond spiky hair teenage boy.
As they strip him down, Sakura couldn't help, despite the situation he was in, he was quite attractive. Tsunami quickly saw that his left arm was completely bruised and bleeding badly, along with bleeding forehead, an open deep wound on his right side. Tsunami and Sakura did all they can do and bandage above his waist and hoped that he can pull through his own strength.
Evening
It has been a day since the battle with Zabuza. Kakashi woke up early evening from his fight with Zabuza. As he looked around, he saw that Sai was watching him. Once Kakashi was awake, he looked around his environment to see that the person that, unintentially, saves him was here and out cold from the serious injuries that he could see.
After gathering team 7, with Tazuna, and discussing the battle between Zabuza, as well as the likely hood that Zabuza is alive, Kakashi informed them that he would train them in order for them to prepare on fighting Zabuza again. Sasuke grinned on the thought of having another chance to fight Zabuza again, while Sakura looked kinda worried. Sai, didn't really care or that how his face said about him.
"Now, since Zabuza is out of the picture for the time being… I'm now more interested in finding out on who that person lying next to me is?" said Kakashi, as he once again looked at the young teenager. This time he was more detail on looking at him.
Kakashi saw the boy that he had blond spiky hair and tan skin. He would have like to get a more accurate look on him, but his face had a few bandages on, along with the bedsheets that cover his body, 1 on his cheek and another around his forehead. He can also tell that the boy was also strong since his body was well built (Negima ch: 238. Pg: 2 to see Naruto's body features). Of course he can also see some of the bandages that were on his body.
After examining the boy, he looked at his team.
"Were you able to find out anything about him while you were treating him?" asked Kakashi
"Not yet… since I only help with some of the bandaging above the waist, while Tsunami looked and bandage the rest of his body since she saw that he had a few more bruises on him. I did ask Tsunami to give me his clothing so we can check if he had anything on him." Answered Sakura, which she brought to Kakashi a few pieces of paper that looked like letters, which some were old and new, a pendant, and his boots
"So that's all you've been able to find? What about his clothes?" Sasuke asked
"Yeah…that's all I found and his clothes, Tsunami put some spare clothing on him before washing his clothing since it was dirty and had dried blood on it." Answered Sakura, until she snapped her head up a bit, "Oh wait… Tsunami said as she was checking on him that he shouldn't be called a boy for some odd reason while she blushed a bit… other than that, there was nothing else she saw on him." Sakura said
"Hm… I see." Answered Kakashi, as he thought about the boy and the mystery that surrounded him
Sai looked at the boots to see if there was any hidden capartment, while Sasuke looked at the pendant, which brought his curiosity up since it was the ying yang, but in a way that it was a whirlpool design. Sakura looked at the letters to see that it had some unique way it was made it. The letters (written in Latin) had 2 black horizontal and vertical lines near each edge. Above the letter had strange writing that was written horizontaly and had many of the strange writing going down. In the center was like a circle with strange symbols. Near the circle, was a mute button, a play button and stop button symbol (which she doesn't know).
Sakura continue to look at the letters until she'd accidently touch the play button on the oldest looking letter. When she touched it, a holographic image appeared in front of her.
"Ahh… what is this!" yelp Sakura
Everyone turned to look at the letter that she dropped to see the image of an attractive white hair woman that looked to be at her early 30s. She wore a white, long sleeve, dress that went down her body until it started to fade from the image it had. Just before they question on how an image appeared from a letter, the person in the letter started to talk.
"Hey sweety… how is your training coming along? Even though I know you can take care of yourself by now, I can't help but be a bit overprotective of you since you're still so young, but as your mother I can't help it. I recently have gotten a letter from your older brothers as well. They seem to be doing pretty well, despite they're being busy from what I gathered especially with Nagi with what has been happening with him lately. I hope you send me a letter soon. Have fun and stay safe while you train. Bye my little sunshine." Said in a sweet heavenly voice, but with a strange accent
It was then that the letter stop and the image disappeared. As everyone stared at it, they couldn't help but wonder on how it spoke and from such a little thing.
"How did it do that? There is no way that a letter can have images appeared out of nowhere, but this one has images and it talked too." Asked Sasuke
Sai went to the letter to press the play button again to see that it was playing the same message as before, meaning that it was a recording. Sasuke picked another older looking piece of letter. He presses the same play button on the other letter.
Another image appeared. Instead of the same woman, a young handsome pre-teen boy with red spiky hair going down that looked to be as old as Sai or Sasuke. When Sakura looked at him, she couldn't help but think that this guy was even more attractive than Sasuke.
"Hey little bro… I got your letter the other day. I was amazed that you not only went to India but made pass the Himalaya's into China. But I'm more amazed that you actually found someone to teach you martial arts as well as basic swordmanship. That's great… but hey once you've gotten a little older or when you're gotten stronger, come and meet up with me. I'm sure Eishen, here, can help you train more in swordmanship." With the same British accent
He was then interrupted by an older person that looked like he was 15 or early 20s appeared next to him. He looked straight lace and serious, with short spiky hair and brown eyes. His face was narrow, but still looks handsome, even with glasses. He wore a black long sleeve sweater and finally what looked like brown pants.
"Wait… what do you mean train him? I'm not going to take your 8 year old little brother as my apprentice just because you say so Nagi." annoyed Eishen
"Don't be such an old bat… I just meant that you just show him some of your fighting style moves and spar with him to get better, that's all. I'm not asking you to train him in everything you know, just things that you are willing to show him." Nagi cheerfully said.
Nagi then apologize with hand signals and then said, "Anyway… I'm still not sure about Eishen on helping you with your swordmanship, but I know that my master, Zect, would help you out on getting stronger… right Master?"
"Sure why not… I don't mind torchering another soul." Said a mysterious, but young voice
Nagi laughed nervously, but then looked at straight forward again, "Well then… hopefully, the next letter I get from you would be soon… See Yah little bro…! Oh P.S. Careful with those girls over there… since like me, you seem to attract girls where ever you go. Bye now Thomas" Finished speaking
Once the letter was done, the miniature projection stopped as well and back to normal slip of paper. Kakashi and the others were now getting somewhere since they now gotten a few clues. 1st was that this letter was a couple of years old and that this teenager was 8 years old when he gotten it, almost 10 years ago they guessed. 2nd was that he was training for something, which they know that it was something with Taijutsu and swordmanship in a place that they don't know. 3rd was that he had an older brother, but they don't look like each other, while the white hair woman and the red head teenage boy did with something things. Finally, the final clue was his name, Thomas.
As they were thinking, Sakura decided to get more answers from the 2 final letters. She press the play button to see that it was the red head, but older now, like nearing 18 to 19 year old.
"Hey bro… listen I know that things lately have been going hard on all of us… but now is not the time to be soft. We have important work to do. Once you completed your work, come and meet up with us at the capital. Well use the information that you were able to gather to unlock the mysterious of Cosmo Entelichea. Ok bro, see you soon." Serious said Nagi
As they thought about it, they're thought were on, who was Cosmo Entelechia since they never heard of this organization. Kakashi asked Sai to press the final letter to see that it was newest looking one of all the 4.
The next one revealed a tall beautiful young woman, 18 to 19 years old, with blue eyes and long golden blond hair that fell past her waist. Even though she looked beautiful, she had a very serious face and from what they can tell a strong will.
"Listen, the next attack from the enemy forces is going to attack in 3 separate divisions. Nagi and your friends will be leading the attack head on, while you are going to sneak around them and take out any surprise attack that they may have. Once you done that, meet up with Ala Rubra to continue the attack. Hopefully, if we push them hard enough we can get them to surrender or at least have a ceasefire with their forces. Remember, you'll be facing an army of a possiblity of 5 thousand forces out of the 25 thousand that we'll be facing if the information is correct. Also your brother has asked me to give you this message. 'I hope to see you in the frontlines.' That's all. Good Luck Naruto."
When the letter finished its message, they couldn't believe on what they just heard. For one, this young man was going to or has fought about 5 thousand soldiers by himself, even though he looks to be young. As everyone was thinking about it, they turned to look at the young man and wondered on who he is. But for Kakashi, there was one thing that was really bothering him. As last message finished, and heard the woman say "Naruto." He was beginning to have a lot of thoughts about what is going on.
It was around this time that Naruto started to wake up from being out cold. He started to struggle a bit from the sheets that were place on him.
Everyone looked to see that he just woke up and started to move. Sakura quickly went to his side; while everyone looked on to see if he was alright. As she tried to keep him from moving, Naruto opened his eyes a bit too only see a blur of pink in front of him.
"Why is there a cherry blossom in heaven?" Struggled Naruto, before he fell back to sleep again.
Even though it was for a moment, Sakura was able to see his eyes open up a bit to see that it was sapphire blue. Once he went back to sleep, Sakura couldn't help but really look at him, imagining him without bandages. As she looks at him, she can see the scary resemblence between him and the Yondaime Hokage. She decided to speak up about it.
"Hey guys...! This guy…" which got everyone's attention, while Sakura continue, "his face… if you really look at him… doesn't he look like the Yondaime-sama."
With that, Kakashi and the rest of team 7 look at Naruto to see that, without the bandages, he really does look like the Yondaime, but with some small differences. But for Kakashi, it got him thinking about something else.
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