A big fright
Naruto and Sasuke are quick to put on their cloths and run out of the bedroom.
Once they are in the hall, they see a terrified looking Chiika, Sakura and Kakashi are also there to check what's going on.
"The scrolls were safe at that location, that's what you told us!" Sakura says, somewhat startled.
Chiika nods. "Indeed, that's what I thought as well, no one else knows about the location of the shrine, but it seems that someone found out, or was else waiting for the right opportunity to attack." She says, still managing to stay relatively calm in this situation.
"We'll look into it; we'll find them, Chiika-san." Kakashi says comforting.
Chiika nods and looks at the three Genin in front of her. She nods again. "I'll go looking as well, we can't tell any of the other citizens that the scrolls are gone, they don't know of their existence." She explains, after that she runs out of the house.
"Sakura, you're with me, Sasuke, go with Naruto, no funny stuff." Kakashi instructs, not sure whether he should warn them not to fight, or not to do something more intimate.
His three subordinates nod and run off.
Sakura and Kakashi go to the left, Sasuke and Naruto go to the right, not knowing what they are looking for, or what to expect. They know that the person with the scrolls would probably not be as fast, seeing that the scroll case he or she should be carrying is really heavy.
Yet they don't know if this person is a ninja, or what techniques the person can use.
Sakura and Kakashi decide to make a plan of attack as soon as they find the person who stole the scrolls, while Sasuke and Naruto are paying more attention to stay awake and trying to concentrate on what is going to happen.
A sudden yell coming from their left side startles them out of concentration and they look at each other. "That sounded like Chiika!" Naruto immediately says, his hearing always being top notch.
Sasuke agrees with that and immediately they turn around and start heading in the opposite direction. Finding her is not really a big problem, seeing that her yell was accompanied by a large explosion that drew the attention of nearly all the villagers.
"What's going on?" "Are we under attack?" "Did someone find the location of the clan?" "I told you that those outsiders meant trouble! We should eliminate them at once!" Voices sound from all over the town square and Naruto and Sasuke know they won't be able to cross there unnoticed.
They think of what they should do, almost simultaneously finding a solution as they transform into a white haired resemblance of the villagers. They had soon noticed that all the clan members were white haired and they hope that this will work to their advantage.
And sure enough, even though some people are giving them strange looks, no one seems to be willing to stop them as they run through the massive crowd towards the place where the scream came from.
As soon as they've reached the source of the explosion and the scream, they find Chiika lying on the ground, almost on the verge of losing consciousness, facing an almost infallible replica of her.
"Chiika-san, what's going on, who is she?" Sasuke asks, heaving Chiika back on her feet.
Chiika takes a little moment to regain her posture, taking a deep breath before she says: "She's my older sister, Hyomori Chira… she doesn't seem to like the idea of the scrolls reaching your Hokage. Instead she's now trying to destroy them all in one." She is quick to explain the situation, as if she is ashamed of her sister's behavior.
Naruto and Sasuke nod. "We should prevent that from happening at all cost." Naruto whispers.
"What's this, Chiika-nee? Did you get some reinforcements?" the sneering sound of Chiika's sister's voice flows into their ears; she also sounds very much like her sister, Naruto notices.
"We are the ones that are supposed to bring those scrolls safely to Konoha, and you're not going to stop is from doing so." Naruto says, making Chira even angrier.
Within the flash of an instant, she has moved from the other side of the clearing to face Naruto's back, drawing a huge Katana from her back and trying to slash Naruto with it, sadly for her, Sasuke is faster, deflecting the Katana with a quick hit of his kunai.
Chira responds by throwing kunai in Sasuke's direction, who is quick to dodge them and throw a few of his own shuriken, followed by one of his famous fire attacks, the Katon; Goukakyu no Jutsu.
Chira is also able to dodge these, although there is a bad smell of burned hair in the air.
Then suddenly everything becomes dark, then bright yellow, and visual returns to the two boys, who are somewhat disorientated by what happened.
"Sasuke?" Naruto yells, looking for his teammate.
Sasuke stands up and waves to his boyfriend. Together they look in Chira's direction, deciding on a battle plan right then and there. Naruto forms a couple of Kage Bunshin, looking exactly like Sasuke and himself, and they charge towards Chira, who is stunned into amazement by what's going on, she is an illusions master, but these aren't illusions and she is unable to determine exactly what is going on.
A few of the Sasuke's and Naruto's kick Chira into the air to perform an Uzumaki Naruto Rendan. As Chira hits the floor again, Sasuke is quick to throw a couple of kunai at her and piercing her arms and legs so she can't move.
The Naruto and Sasuke clones run up to Chira again, trying to snatch away the scrolls, but there is a problem, the scrolls aren't there.
They all look around in complete amazement, but before they can act, Sasuke attacks all the clones at once with another fiery attack, leaving only the real Naruto behind.
"Sasuke, you bastard, what are you doing?" Naruto yells in his direction, his words are immediately followed by a hard knock on his head. Naruto falls down and looks around, looking into the eyes of his sensei, Kakashi, who eyes the scene with one very worried eye.
"Sensei, what's going on? Why did you hit me? Why is Sasuke attacking me?" Naruto asks, feeling very confused.
"Look around you, Naruto." Kakashi demands, and so Naruto tilts his head and looks around him, Sasuke is lying down on the ground, battered, broken and pinned down by a couple of kunai while Chira is standing opposite him, ready to attack once more. He looks around again, Sakura is crying softly in her hands; sure that Naruto has just killed Sasuke.
'Killed… Sasuke…' Naruto thinks, feeling very cold inside. "How dare you, you bitch!" he screams violently as things grow black before his eyes, an amazing amount of heat and energy is building up inside of him, fighting to break free.
"How dare you using that against me!" Naruto's anger is quickly taking over, and Chira's eyes become big, Kakashi quickly pulls Sakura and Chiika away from the scene, not a second too late, because the next moment, the scenery has changed into an amazing wasteland as Naruto unleashes his Kyuubi powers.
Chira cries out in fear as she feels the immense outburst of dark energy and she tries to run away, but the mere force of Kyuubi's chakra is keeping her immobile, engulfing her, trying to squeeze all the life out of her.
The only thing on Naruto's mind at that moment is that the person who has hurt his love should die; she should pay for what she has done, even though he knows very well that it was him who attacked Sasuke in the first place.
He gets down on hands and feet and runs up to Chira, using fox-like speed and movements,
thinking only about devouring his prey.
Chira can't stop the attack; it is too fast, too powerful, even her strongest Genjutsu is not strong enough to break through this kind of attack. What is this? She wonders, she doesn't know, right now she can't even think straight, and somewhere in her distant mind, she understands that she won't ever be able to think straight again, because these seconds will be the last of her life.
'Never mess with lovers…' she thinks before she feels an immense heat in her chest and everything becomes black before her eyes. She tries to look down, one last time, to see what has hit her, she can't see, but she knows that these are the fox' claws, digging deep inside her.
These are her last thoughts as she leaves this world.
Sakura screams as she witnesses what's going on, there's so much blood, so much fear.
As soon as Chira falls, dead, on the ground, Naruto starts transforming back into himself, he feels tired, but he doesn't think of anything else than Sasuke as he tries to run up to him. "What have I done?" he whispers softly and he pulls the kunai out of his boyfriend's arms and legs, one final effort before he collapses and faints from exhaustion.
Kakashi and Sakura run up to the two boys, carrying them and bringing them to the hospital.
A day passes before Naruto finally wakes up again, but as soon as he does, he sits up straight.
"What happened? Is Sasuke alright?" he asks, trying to get out of bed, but Kakashi stops him.
"Sasuke is still unconscious, and you are still weakened, you will be allowed to get out of bed in a little while, but for now, stay down."
In a corner of the room, Sakura looks at the boy who has unknowingly attacked Sasuke, she isn't angry, just scared. Not so much for Sasuke's life, she knows he'll be alright, the nurse had ensured them that, but because of what happened.
Naruto had looked more than confused at the moment the Sasuke genjutsu had attacked him, he looked shocked, pained, frightened. Of course, she thinks, that's completely normal, they're teammates, they shouldn't attack each other, but it felt like there was more to it.
And once Naruto had awakened from the jutsu, and had seen what he had done, he became so angry that he had shown a power that he had never shown before. Kakashi had explained where that power came from, Sakura still can't believe that an innocent guy like Naruto is carrying a demon inside of him, but then again, strange things do keep happening to him.
But why had the demon awakened at that very moment? Kakashi-sensei had said that it reacts to Naruto's emotions and pain, was Naruto desperate enough to unleash that power right then and there? Why would that be? Does Sasuke really mean something more to Naruto than just a friend and rival? Sakura shakes her head, she doesn't really understand it anymore, but she feels afraid of it.
She is startled out of her thoughts as a nurse comes running into the room. "Kakashi-san, I was told to inform you as something happened to the Uchiha Sasuke boy?" she says, looking a little weary.
Kakashi turns around and nods. "Indeed you were." He says, hoping for good news.
The nurse nods as well. "He has awakened just a few minutes ago." She then says, nodding them to follow her.
Kakashi and Sakura quickly run out of the room, followed by Naruto who is just too impatient to wait for his clearance.
He quickly follows up on Kakashi and Sakura who have just arrived at Sasuke's room.
They open the door and walk inside, Naruto quickly following and looking at his lover, who lies on the bed, completely bandaged and looking a little pained.
"Sasuke-kun…" Sakura whispers, Naruto can hear the emotion in her voice, but at that moment he doesn't care about it. He himself feels more emotion than he has ever done before, and he can't really place them all, although guilt isn't really a feeling you should feel when you look upon your lover. "I'm so sorry… Sasuke…" he says softly, but still loud enough for Sasuke to hear him.
Sasuke shakes his head. "Never mind that." He says, smiling a little.
Naruto puts up a shaky grin and runs up to his boyfriend. "I thought I lost you…" he says, his voice thick with emotion.
"Well, that would've been a nice crime passionelle." Sasuke jokes, but Naruto can't laugh about it; tears are forming in his eyes.
Sasuke notices this and puts a bandaged arm around his lover, daring to shoot a glance in Sakura's direction, but he wishes he hadn't done that, she just stands there, immobile, tears steadily leaking from the corners of her eyes; she shakes her head and runs out of the room, Kakashi following her immediately.
Naruto looks around and knows what happened, Sakura couldn't handle this truth.
As soon as Kakashi's gained up on Sakura, he finds himself in front of the hospital. "It's alright… Kakashi-sensei… somewhere I knew it… I want them to be happy." She says with an unsteady voice and Kakashi takes her in his arms.
"I'll find someone else. Those two are cute together in some very disturbing way." Sakura says, as if jokes can mean all the difference in the world.
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Sasuke and Naruto were released from the hospital after three days; Sakura hasn't spoken to them for five days.
In the end she indeed did find someone else, a person that really startled Naruto and Sasuke, but they could laugh about it as well, since Sakura was now suddenly very, VERY close to her own sensei, Hatake Kakashi.
All ends well for our four Ninja's from Konoha.
The end.