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Hey guys! I'm sorry it's been so long! I was planning on updating sooner, but shiz happens :3 so yeah. Anyway, I hope you enjoy this chapter I wrote. It's been a total pain in the captain's quarters because I typed it up on my cell at school then walking home I was finishing it up and then I was going to e-mail it to myself (I have the original droid not the X or the Droid 2, but it's still a kool phone) and I accidentally pressed the 'discard' button shuffling for my iPod in my pocket. Ain't life a bitch? But whatever I still have some time to at least BEGIN typing this because I have to be at my chorus concert at 7. That also stinks, but whatever I signed up for it so I have to deal with it I suppose. I wish there was a way to sign up for a period that lets you do what ever the hell you want. That would be AWEOMSE! However… I don't think our beloved school system would consider that 'politically correct' so up theirs. I don't really care since I'm typing it up now… but enjoy!
p.s. I still don't know when I'll update again so keep your pants on and just be patient with me I'm still forming a plot on how this thing is gunna go down. I'm not sure when I'm going to end it though. I just don't want it to drag on endlessly and wind up being 100,000 sum-odd words.
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After Sakura was sound asleep, Sasuke quietly made his way to the bathroom. As he took a shower he thought of how he was going to train his squad of genins. He decided that he would figure it out tomorrow when the time came. Once he was done pondering his thoughts in his own little 'Uchiha-wonderland' world, he turned the shower water off and grabbed a towel to wrap around himself. He made his way back into the bedroom then went over to his dresser to pull out a fresh pair of boxers and then his favorite navy blue plaid pajama pants. When he turned around he saw the peaceful expression on Sakura's face. He always wished it could stay that way, peaceful, happy, but he knew that shit happened because life happened and it wasn't going to be all eating skittles and pooping rainbows. Once he was content with how long he'd stared at the pinkette, he crawled into bed next to her and drifted off into sleep.
Sasuke woke feeling like his blood had run cold. An aura of dread was everywhere. He almost couldn't move, until he heard screams coming from way in the distance from the village. He looked over to Sakura to see her sleeping like a rock. He grabbed his shurikin holster and his ninja tool pouch and put them on then walked out. He was shirtless wearing only his flannel pajama pants, but he didn't care. He wanted to know what the heck was going on. When he was outside of the Uchiha compound his eyes widened in shock at the sight of the leaf village up in smoke and a two-tailed beast running recklessly through the village. He quickly prayed to kami that Sakura stayed in bed inside the Uchiha compound where it was safe.
"Sasuke!" someone yelled below him, "go to the Hokage's office, now!"
Sasuke nodded at the random chunin then humped from burning rooftop to burning rooftop not knowing if one of them was going to cave in and swallow him. He eventually thought it best if he took the ground route, just to be safe. He quickly made his way to the Hokage's office. It was one of the few buildings not on fire, and it was crawling with anbu jounin. He burst into Tsunade's office with a menacing glare that spoke all to clearly 'what the hell is going on?'.
"Take a breath Uchiha. Shikamaru has already found a solution" Tsunade told him pointing to an unconscious boy sitting in the corner of her office.
He hadn't noticed him before. He guessed it was because he was too dead set on getting answers from the Hokage. But when he did look at the boy he almost let the chock show on his face. It was his student, Takashi.
"What do you need him for?" Sasuke asked nonchalantly.
Tsunade gave the boy a weary and almost sorrowful look as she said "he's going to carry the two-tails inside of him…"
Sasuke's eyes widened for a fraction of a second before asking "wasn't the two-tails captured by the Akatsuki?"
Tsunade closed her eyes scowling before she said "when we brought down the Akastuki and destroyed their precious statue the tailed beasts they'd captured escaped. They scattered all over these lands. So far the only beasts not re-captured are the two-tails and the six-tails."
Sasuke wiped a frustrated hand over his face before turning his attention back over to his student. He was starting to squirm, but he wouldn't be waking up anytime soon.
"What do I have to do?" Sasuke asked in a low whisper.
Tsunade rubbed the temples on the sides of her head before saying "we still have some setting up to do. I'd hoped we'd be done by now, but we aren't. I need you to help get everyone to the safety shelters in the Hokage faces. Come to the roof of this tower when you see a blue light begin to shoot up. The people involved in this sealing are me, you, Shikamaru, Shizune, Kakashi, Yamato, and my two anbus, Yugao and Towa."
Sasuke nodded then bolted out of the office and went to the compound. He had to get Sakura out of there. He kept a stoic expression on his face as he walked into the house he picked Sakura up and began carrying her to the shelter. He thought that since she slept like a rock that she wouldn't wake up, but he was proved wrong when the smoke from the fires caused Sakura to cough and brought her back to reality from her dreams. It took her a few moments for it to register that Sasuke was carrying her somewhere, but when it did she turned her head to see almost the whole village up in flames.
(play 'Run This Town' by Jay Z feat. Rihannah and Kanye West)
"Put me down!" she screamed frantically squirming.
Sasuke didn't answer but tightened his grip on her. He was almost to the safety shelters at the Hokage faces.
"Let me go!" she yelled finally breaking out of his arms and tumbling onto the ground.
She rolled a few times then got on her feet and ran to the closest injured villager she saw. It was an old woman who was trapped under some burning debris. She used her superhuman strength to remove it then healed the woman's arm. Right when Sakura was about to tell the woman to get to the shelters she felt someone abruptly pull her backwards off her feet. She quickly spun around boring daggers into onyx eyes.
"Get to safety" he told her sternly.
"No!" she yelled back at him stomping her foot.
"Stop it Sakura. I don't need you in danger. You're important to me."
"And this village is important to me!" she snapped back at him.
Sasuke was taken aback by her response and knew that there was no stopping her. She was going to help as many villagers as she could, even if it killed her. Then he saw Naruto standing on the rooftop above looking down at them. After seeing Naruto, Sasuke suddenly got an idea.
"Fine" he told her, "but the dobe goes with you" he said pointing up at the rooftop next to them.
Naruto hopped down from the elevated location wearing his nighties mumbling "well this is one weird ass pajama party…"
Sasuke still had his pajama pants on with no shirt, Naruto was wearing an orange shirt and blue boxers, and Sakura was wearing a pink spaghetti strap nightgown.
"Cut the crap dobe. I need you to help me. Watch her" he said pointing to Sakura.
Naruto nodded then turned to face Sakura and said "let's do this."
(Play 'Strong and Strike' by Toshiro Masuda)
Sakura and Naruto took off running down the street at mach-ninja speed. They even ran along the sides of buildings when the streets were too crowded with fleeing villagers. They would ordinarily help, but it seemed that the chunins had it covered. They ran through burning buildings looking for stranded villagers. Sakura wasn't the only medic-nin doing this. Ino was out with Choji helping her as well. Eventually Naruto and Sakura come full circle through the village. It seemed that all the villagers who were alive were at the shelters. However, the two-tails still seemed quite amused with smashing the empty buildings. Naruto gritted his teeth. Even though he was a jinchuriki, he wasn't as powerful as a tailed beast itself. He knew that it was going to be sealed inside a kid. He wasn't dumb. You couldn't kill tailed beasts, you had to seal them. Naruto wondered who the unlucky soul was that was going to be forced to harbor a demonic aura alongside their own. Naruto was about to call it quits when he saw a blue light behind them coming from the Hokage tower.
(Play 'Hysteria' by Muse)
Sasuke saw the light and immediately made his way to the rooftop. He sat down behind a rolled out scroll with writing and made the hand sign of the tiger. No one said anything because they were concentrating completely on the unconscious boy in the middle of the circle. They then located where the two-tails was and began the sealing process. There was a large column of light that shot up to the night sky. The boy slowly levitated off the ground as the column turned red.
Naruto was running to the Hokage tower with Sakura behind him. He knew whatever that column of light was, it wasn't good, especially when it turned red.
Sasuke and everyone else began chanting a sealing mantra and the two-tail's aura began to spiral inside the column slowly making its way inside the boy's body. Naruto landed on the rooftop with Sakura right when the two-tails disintegrated and the last of its demonic aura found its way to the boy. When all the demonic aura was inside there was an upward gust of wind as the mantra continued and the writing on the scrolls left the pages and started circling around the boy.
"Now!" Tsunade barked.
The mantras stopped and you could see the chakra emitting from them as the words in the air spun faster. The written words melded together into a black line and circled around the boy's stomach forming perpendicular figure eights. Then there was a zig-zag circle around the figure eights. The boy was set down and the upward gust of wind ceased. Sakura had her hands clasped at the hem of her night gown to keep it from flying up when the wind started. When the boy was back down on the ground all the people in the circle were panting with swear dripping down their faces, including Sasuke. Naruto gritted his teeth at Tsunade as she walked up next to him to look out over the burning village. The anbus were already putting out the fires, and the jounins were escorting the people out of the safety shelters.
"How could you?..." Naruto hissed behind his barred teeth.
"Everything I do is to protect the village Naruto" she said in a sorrowful tone, "it was either seal the two0tails inside this boy or watch the whole village be destroyed. I had to make a choice Naruto. I swore to protect this village, and everyone in it. I was stuck between a rock and a hard place. This decision wasn't easy. Especially when I thought of you…"
Naruto for once didn't talk back, he just hopped down off the roof of the Hokage tower and went to go help put out the fires. Sakura still stood there facing Sasuke dumbfounded. She really didn't know what was going on. All she knew was that it didn't feel right.
"Sakura…" Sasuke whispered in a tone that almost sounded guilty.
Sakura just turned her back to him looking out over the village. The two-tails had destroyed countless lives, but she felt more sorry for the boy. She didn't personally loose anyone close to her that she knew of, but she knew plenty of other villagers had and they were going to hold it against this boy. She desperately wanted to help him but she didn't know how. The only person who could understand to new jinchuriki was Naruto. The poor boy didn't even and wouldn't even have a clue why people were suddenly ignoring and shunning him. Though the damage wasn't as bad as when the nine-tails had ripped through the village, it was still rather devastating.
"Sakura look at me" he said from behind her.
She turned around to face him with tears pouring down her face. She didn't even know that she was crying because she was so out of it. She just couldn't believe what had happened that night. Right when Sasuke reached out to hug her the sun started to show over the horizon. It was morning and the whole village was sleep deprived.
"How could you just seal something so terrible inside a boy without thinking things through?..." she blubbered in his arms.
Sasuke grimaced at her words. She didn't even know that the boy was also his student. At that moment, Sasuke felt like a traitor. He felt like he'd betrayed his student and his friends. He felt like he'd hurt Sakura somehow. She couldn't just be crying from the trauma of seeing the village in ruins.
"I didn't have a choice…" he told her, "take it up with Tsunade. She's the one who made the decision."
"But why?..." she whimpered.
"I don't know why either…" he told her resting his chin on top of her head.
It was as if no one could ruin the bittersweet moment, but someone was about to. Kakashi didn't want to interrupt his two former students, especially since he didn't ever see Sasuke's caring side. It was more entertaining than his pervy books. It captured the emotional essence you couldn't write into a book. He felt bad about what he was about to do, but it was on Tsunade's orders, so he didn't have much of a choice.
"Ahem" he cleared his throat loudly causing the two to look at him.
Everyone else had left the rooftop to go assist the other shinobi trying to salvage what was left of the village from burning to the ground, except for Sasuke, Sakura, and Kakashi. It then dawned on Sasuke that he was obviously supposed to be doing something.
"What is it?" he asked in his regular emotionless tone of voice.
Kakashi took a relaxed stance then said "Tsunade told me to bring you to her office."
Sasuke nodded then turned his attention back to the pinkette and told her to go get dressed in regular cloths, and since the danger was gone he reluctantly agreed to let her go help the other medic-nins with healing the injured. After she hopped off the rooftop running towards the compound he turned to face his former sensei and followed him down a staircase from the roof to Tsunade's office.
"Have a seat" she told him still looking out of the large window behind her desk peering out of the partially desecrated village.
"Or not…" she added when she turned around and saw him still standing in front of her desk.
She also saw Kakashi standing in the doorway. She just didn't bother to say anything because she mainly wanted to talk to Sasuke. It didn't matter if Kakashi heard it too. She turned her attention back to Sasuke.
"You want me to cut to the chase don't you?" she asked, and when she got no reply she sighed then said, "It has come to my attention that the boy is your student from your genin squad you've been assigned to train."
"What of it?" he asked back rather quickly.
Tsunade narrowed her eyes then vehemently hissed "you can't tell him about the two-tails being sealed inside him."
"Why the hell not?" Sasuke asked scowling right back.
Tsunade pinched the skin in between her eyes looking back out her window then saying "I've taken into consideration that it might not be the best course of action, but it's safer than telling him and putting him in an over emotional state. He's young enough where he might actually consider that he's become the two-tails and blame himself for all this destruction and chaos. I don't want that to happen. When he's older we'll life the new mandate stating that no one can tell him. Naruto found out later on as well when he was slightly older."
"Naruto learned about it before he became a full fledged ninja" Sasuke snapped back.
"Let things blow over a bit, then we can tell him."
"No"
Tsunade further narrowed her eyes in anger at the stubborn Uchiha. She didn't want to create a giant catastrophe from the boy finding out too soon for his own good. She just wanted all this grief for the loss of lives and then the ruining of the village to pass over and become less pronounced before she told him. However it seemed Sasuke was dead set on telling his student the second he was able.
"Let me tell him granny…" she heard someone call from one of the side windows. It was open and Naruto was sitting with his back to them on the awning right by the window (where Naruto found Kakashi in the 1st or 2nd episode when he gave him that new book).
Tsunade didn't even notice he was there before. He really was exceeding normal ninja skills.
"Why?" she asked curious, but already knowing the answer.
Naruto slowly stood up then turned around to face her through the open window and said "because I'm the only one who can possibly understand what he's feeling… or at least what he will be feeling. I can stand up for him. If I vouch for him, maybe he won't have as hard a time as I did."
Tsunade let a small smile grace her lips before she said "then do just that."
Naruto gave her a smirk and said "I wouldn't do anything less granny" then jumped off the awning headed towards the hospital where the boy was being treated.
To Be Continued…
Hey guys! I'm sorry it's been a while. I've been spiratically updating. I hope you don't mind. I'm failing two of my classes… so yea… that's why I haven't really been up to par on all my stories and just randomly uploading. I've been trying to write every spare moment I get weather I save it as a draft on my e-mail on my phone on the go, or in a spiral notebook. I really hope you all continue to read this story! Thanks!
