Chapter 7:

Sakura woke up the next day. Everyone was there looking worried. When she woke up, Ino hugged her.

"I-Ino."

"Sakura are you okay!?" Ino asked.

"I'm fine Ino." Sakura said hugging her back.

"...Sasuke-kun! Is he here!?" Sakura tried to get out of bed but Temari stopped her.

"He's not here." She said. "He left."

It took a while for it to sink in, but as soon as it did, she started to cry.

"Sakura-chan!" Sakura turned to see Naruto. "We'll try to find him!" Natruto gave her a thumbs-up.

"Th-Thank you..." Sakura said and managed a smile.

"So..." Shikamaru asked. "What are you going to do?"

"Um...I'll think of something!" Naruto started to laugh uneasily.

'He hasn't thought of anything.' Shikamaru thought.

"How about asking Tsunade. She must know something." Kiba suggested.

"Good Idea!" Ino said and hugged Kiba.

"But how would you see Tsunade?" Chouji asked between his chips.

"...She doesn't show herself often." Neji said.

"We can do it either way!" Lee said shining his teeth.

"How about we ask Jiraya?" Naruto asked.

"...who?" Everyone asked.

"The Vice-Hokage, Jiraya." Naruto said.

"You know him?" Shino asked.

"Yeah! C'mon, I'll show you!" Naruto started to run off in a certain direction.

"Hello." A man with white hair and tons of pimples answered the door.

"Hi, Ero-Vice-Hokage!" Naruto said as he entered the room.

"...and who are these people?" Jiraya asked glaring at the boys that had entered the room.

"We want to ask you a question." Naruto said. "Do you know anything about the Snake guy?"

Jiraya didn't say anything. He couldn't pick what to do next.

"!" Neji noticed something.

'He does no something...' Neji thought. He looked at the other guys. He wasn't the only one who knew.

"You know something...?" Shino asked and stepped forward.

'Who's this kid?' Jiraya thought as he looked at him. Jiraya was feeling uneasy from the way that he stared at him. '...What's with this kid?'

He turned to the other people.

"...He knows something." Shino said.

"Tell us!" Naruto shouted.

"...I'm not allowed to." He remebered something but quickly shook it off. "I suppose you're reason for asking is Sasuke."

The guys were silent. Naruto looked a little sad.

Jiraya sighed. He got up.

"Come with me." The guys followed him to a section of the school that was off limits. He unlocked a door with some keys, and entered.

'What is this place...?' They thought as they followed. Eventually, he came upon a door that was labled,

TSUNADE

He knocked.

"Come in..." A depressed voice came from the door.

Jiraya entered. The guys entered a room that had a desk in the middle. The room was covered with things that had to do with gambling.

"Jiraya, who...?" The figure sitting at the desk asked.

"These kids want to know about Orochimaru." He said.

"Jiraya..." She said. She looked very tired.

"I think we should tell them." Jiraya said. "They are trustworthy kids." He added.

The figure got up. It was indeed, Tsunade.

"Follow me." She said and walked out of the room. They followed her to another room. When they entered, the room was covered with pictures and maps. They all looked old.

"This school was made, by Sarutobi-sensei." She showed them a picture. "There used to be a world that was filled with ninjas. But the world went through a lot of despair." Tsunade's face darkened. "So, Sarutobi-sensei preserved the ninja world into this school." She brushed her hand over a map of a city labled, 'Konoha. "But, my team mate Orochimaru went against it. He wanted to rule the ninja world." She looked at the guys. "Imagine how easy it would be to control a universe that has been put into one school? Sarutobi-sensei died that day, he was too weak from using the perserving jutsu to keep himself alive and face Orochimaru at the same time."

The guys silently listened. Naruto was stunned.

"Orochimaru has started another plan again. He can't use jutsus, but he will try to release the jutsu put on the ninja world."

'Ninja world...' Naruto thought.

"And we can't let that happen. Sadly, Sasuke has been manipulated by Orochimaru. We need to stop this."

"...Stop Orochimaru...?" Neji asked.

"Yes. Or you'll never see anything again. But leave this to us."

"But!" Naruto tried to object.

"And don't talk to anyone about this!" Tsunade interupted. "Now leave!"

The guys exited.

"So what are you going to do next?" Shikamaru asked yawning.

"Not anything yet. Let the teachers take care of it for know." Naruto mumbled.

Sakura looked out the window. Snow was starting to fall.

'Sasuke-kun...'

Some more secrets!!!!

I didn't have this planned out, I just thought about it all last night!

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