Ginchuriki Series 1/2 (C4)
"I am surprised! Sakura said that you require couple weeks to be able to stand, that wound cut deep, Sakura sutured it but it needs some time to get your flesh and skin gathered again as a one piece, and here you are trying to stand!" He signed to him good, but the other didn't know what to answer, he was just looking straight at the cape and the scarf.
"Why you want them so bad?" Saskue wondered, "You look at them as a holy symbol, what do they mean to you?"
"You don't have to know" The shinobi said trying to ignore him and to get rid of his glances that wanted an answer so bad.
"You know what...I like you, you look like my personality, hate to get admired by others, or to gain a spotlight for your own, you just do what you have to do, that is how I am built too, they call me show off, but every mission I succeed in, looks for me as petty and insignificant, I don't know if you like me in that matter too but I have a feeling that..." he took a glance about the cape and the scarf, "…You look like bounded to the past, a bound that only you can understand, you want to achieve something by yourself, that how I was..."He was about to continue.
"You got no idea about my past, I don't even know what I am seeking all I know that I am holding a prophecy and my godmother said that I will realize it when I grow bigger, but I am reaching a dead end...".
Saskue answered when he started to understand him a bit "Your past might not be what you think it is, it might not be as you think it is, and that idea might alter your look at your past for eternity, you might look at your past as a desperate one that you don't even wish it to an enemy, but it might all flip upside down once you reach the truth..." Saskue said from personal experience.
"My past is not shame, and I am not embarrassed in it, it is just mysterious and covered behind the shadows, I can't find a solution or hopping to conclusions when the last person that I know and I believed that she knows the truth is gone leaving me investigating and getting suffocated by questions" He stated.
"You might need a hand with that" Saskue offered him his hand using it as a metaphor for help.
"No, I will search alone..." The shinobi answered aggressively.
The door knocked then Sakura and Ino, came in with load of weird medicines and herbs.
"So you are finally awake!" Sakura stated.
"He almost stood up too..." Saskue grinned expecting her not to believe.
"But how?! I won't believe that even if I saw it in my naked eye!" Sakura continued.
"How you are feeling today, boy?" Ino asked, "I am fine" He didn't give much care in his answer.
"Saskue, help us getting his bandages off", he suddenly got up promising himself that he won't stop until he acts how he wants, headed towards Sakura caught her shoulder on his healed right hand from the side pressed aggressively caused her some pain and said "did you see what is there, DID YOU?" he was aggressively shaking her trying to get an answer out of her stunned thoughts and tied tongue.
"I...I..." She tried to say something, "Say it!", Saskue got involved pulling Sakura away, "Don't worry we didn't see anything..."
"Then how did you wrap these bandages?!" He desired an explanation.
"it doesn't require that much of a skill for a professional medical ninja, she can do it even if she was blind folded" Saskue answered confidently.
Sakura added politely "We stopped the bleed with your clothes on, we sutured the wound after we carefully torn your shirt around the wound and respected your privacy"
They eased on him, then he felt like the pain went to a break and came back as a huge dose, he didn't want to show that he is in pain, but his aggressive wink explained it all, "Here, walk with me to bed" Ino offered, bowed his face, letting his spiked dim blue hair to get sucked down by the gravity, trying to explain his aggressive attitude that but he wasn't able say anything, just walked with Ino to the bed, leaned, "Saskue.." he said, "Hm..." Saskue made sure that he called his name, "Yeah...?".
"Tear the bandages that circle my scar and reveal its surrounding" he thought it was the indirect way to say sorry.
"I am on it" Saskue gladly accepted.
After Saskue did what he told him, Sakura and Ino came closer to take care of his wound, scared to make something that annoys him.
After they finished, they changed his bandages while closing their eyes, then leaned his back at the rear of the bed, facing the two chairs when Saskue filling one of them in his physical mass.
A word didn't get out, only the sound of Ino packing the tools back.
"Ok, we have to go now..." Ino added, signing to the others to come, after she got followed by Saskue, Sakura took last glance at the shinobi, when he was just bowing his head looking straight to the back of his left hand while the other was covered under the mattress, "Sakura?" Ino said, "He needs to rest", "Coming..." Sakura said after waking up from her temporary stun.
"Can you extinguish the candle?" he politely asked, "Yeah sure!" and so Sakura did leaving him in the dark, under the drags and pulls of his thoughts.
"Yesterday I've made my communication with the Five Kage, looks like they didn't hear about them yet,they probably came from the sea at the south, and expanding from there out to the Great Five Nation, they might seek destruction to our neighbors too..." Kakashi explains what occurred between the Kages.
"But what they are seeking?!, I don't get it, we barely made it out of the Infinite Tsukuyomi from the fourth Great Ninja War, wasn't that enough for them?!" Naruto said.
"I warned the neighbors about the Kishi, added the descriptions that Ino informed me with, they promised me that they will immediately start with the precautions, and inform us about any activity they make or information they gain" Kakashi added, then he pointed his question to Saskue and Ino "Saskue, Ino, both of you faced the same person, any intel about his abilities?"
"He is a sword man, that uses his sword in battles, he equips huge sword, a black one, it had curved angles in the front pointing down and sharp as a razor, also he substitutes or turns anything surrounds him, and filling it with some sort of powder that paralyzes the body temporary once the powder gets inhaled, that is all I know" Saskue ended.
"Interesting intel intel there..." Kakashi added.
"Not only them..."Naruto said, stealing everyone's attention, "Did you forget about the guy that rescued you?!" he added.
"What about him?" Sakura said.
"Come on guys, I can't believe that I am the only one who noticed that, don't you think that it is weird that that dude spawn whenever that guy appears?!" Naruto explain.
"You are right!" Shikamaru answered "You think that he stalks him or something?"
"I got no idea, we have to ask him to know" Naruto said.
"Al right then, where is he now?" Kakashi wondered.
"We left him to rest a little in his room, going to check him now" Saskura said
"Wait I am coming with you" Saskue added, making everyone wonder from where all this sudden care came from, he didn't even care about his comrades like this, "Okay, follow me!" Sakura said.
"Is that Saskue?!" Naruto wondered, "Since when he cares about someone?!"
"He saved him and Sakura from death, Naruto, what do you expect?" Ino explained.
"I know, but for Saskue that is not a good reason to like a person, there is definitely something they share in common" Naruto convincing her about her wrong assumption, "Anyway, after this intel Hokage, what is our next move?" He added.
"None, I can't take any more risks, I almost lost two splendid shinobi, my next step will be discussed with the Five Kages, they might send us some troops too, we are trying hard to stop the enemy here before spreading to the other nations, here will be the Kishi's fatal cure" Kakashi explained.
"Can't you just send team 7 and 10 to split and search?" Naruto begging the Hokage to accept.
"Naruto, it is from the wisdom to be patient in these situations, let us just settle for a while we might get some information that makes it easier to capture the Kishi" Kakashi refused.
"You will not agree with me, I know that, you think that they are searching for the Fox chakra" Naruto explaining his attitude.
"Naruto you know that no one here can chain you and force you to stay here, but I know too that your comrades and friends will follow you and they won't accept you to go alone, and by that you put them in danger, so please, if you really care about them stay silent for some time" Kakashi added to support her idea.
"Naruto listen, we passed tough period of time in that war, we can't risk anymore, we've had enough loss, all of the Great Nations got their piece of the loss, please obey Kakashi" Shikamaru added supporting Kakashi.
Naruto imagined the death of his comrade, Neji, gathered his fist "I promise, that won't happen again!" he mumbled.