Author: Greetings, this chapter makes my heart very warm and soft inside. Enjoy gentlemen and ladies.
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Chapter 9
All's Useless
Naruto slowly opened his eyes, adjusting to the blurred vision. He was greeted with a pure white ceiling once he fully opened his eyes.
He then looked towards his left and saw a familiar raven haired man dozed off on his chair.
"S-Sasuke…?"
Naruto slowly sat up on his bed and observed the sleeping Sasuke, looking directly at his face.
'Is he sleeping?'
Naruto waved his hands in front of Sasuke's closed eyelids and checked to see if he would wake up, but he didn't.
'Hmmm…that means…'
A mischievous grin appeared on Naruto's face as he suddenly thought up a brilliant idea.
Naruto waved his hands in front of Sasuke's eyes again to make sure he was really asleep and quickly but quietly grabbed a black marker from the bottom drawer of the miniature desk beside him.
He opened the cap of the marker and inched closer towards Sasuke's face, holding his breath so as not to wake up the sleeping prince.
'Ohhh this is gonna be so goooood…hehehehe…'
Naruto giggled out loud in his thoughts as he brought the marker closer to the brunet's face.
Just as he was about half a centimeter away from making contact with Sasuke's skin, Sasuke immediately and vehemently opened his eyes, scaring the crap out of the blond.
Naruto immediately hopped back a couple of inches on his bed and swiftly hid the marker behind his back.
"S-Sasuke, y-you're awake!"
Sasuke looked at the nervous blond in front of him. What the blond didn't know was that Sasuke was awake the whole time, he was just observing the blond and musing what he was going to do while he pretended to sleep.
"What's behind your back?"
Sasuke already knew what was behind Naruto's back but was curious how the blond would react.
"H-Huh, o-oh n-nothing…"
Naruto avoided Sasuke's gaze and looked to the left, droplets of sweat dripping from his right and left temple.
"I see"
Sasuke quickly got up and walked around the bed.
Naruto quickly tried to hide the marker under his butt but his arm felt weak and much slower than usual.
Sasuke grabbed the marker before Naruto had a chance to hide it and arched his right eyebrow at the blond.
"What's this?"
"A marker..."
Sasuke gave a small smirk towards the blond, which the blond didn't notice.
"Pulling pranks even when you're bedridden – you haven't changed at all"
"HEY SHUT UP…I have changed!"
Naruto glared at the brunet, this time staring right into his eyes.
Sasuke let out a small chuckle, which the blond noticed this time.
"What's so funny?"
"No… you're right – you have changed"
Sasuke inched closer to Naruto's face and grabbed his chin with his index finger.
"You're much more prettier now, Naruto-chan"
Sasuke confirmed his words as he looked at Naruto's new prettified delicate appearance. Naruto did look much more feminine now, therefore Sasuke decided to have a little fun with the blond in order to lighten his mood about his current condition.
Multiple veins popped on Naruto's upper left forehead as he clenched his teeth and glared at the brunet with rage.
Naruto Slapped Sasuke's index finger out of his way and mashed his teeth together.
"WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOI- COUGH…COUGH…COUGH"
Naruto Suddenly began coughing aloud, not managing to finish his sentence and losing all traces of previous anger directed at the brunet.
Sasuke quickly went to the sink to the left of the room, got a glass cup from the cupboards and filled it with water.
He quickly walked back to Naruto and handed him the glass of water.
Naruto quickly grabbed the glass and gulped the water down slowly. and handed the glass back to Sasuke.
"T-Thanks…"
Sasuke placed the glass on the desk beside him and gazed back at Naruto.
"You should rest"
"I got it, mom"
Sasuke's left eyebrow twitched slightly at the comment but the rest of his expression remained neutral.
Naruto slid back into his covers and laid down on the sheets again.
In truth Sasuke wanted to ask the dobe more about his condition but he chose not to because of how weak and frail the blond looked right now.
He decided to inquire more about his condition from Tsunade, later on.
"Sasuke…I'm gonna be here for a while…at least a week…so-"
"I know, I heard from Tsunade"
Sasuke lied, in actuality he had followed them secretly and eavesdropped on their conversation but he would never admit that to Naruto.
"I see…"
There was an awkward silence in the room for the next couple of minutes until Sasuke broke the gloomy mood.
"So tell me, I'm curious, how did you nullify my sharingan during our fight?"
Naruto moved his head slightly to the left, gazing towards the brunet, while the rest of his body laid still, flat on the bed in a rested position.
"Oh that, it's a secret"
"Hooh? I didn't think you could keep a secret, you're a big boy now"
"S-SHUT UP"
Naruto blushed embarrassedly and looked the opposite way.
"Besides, that was a one-time thing, so it doesn't really matter anymore anyway"
Sasuke eyes grew larger in curiosity.
'A one-time thing? Nullifying my sharingan was a one-time thing?'
"Explain, Naruto"
Naruto let out a sigh and looked back towards the left, and stared at the brunet.
"Hinata's dad gave me a special liquid injection…er I don't really get how it works but he told me it would stop your sharingan temporarily for a couple of seconds or so"
Sasuke's eyes expanded again in bewilderment.
'It wasn't just a couple seconds…it was longer, at least half a minute or so…just how?'
Naruto noticed Sasuke's thinking expression and clenched his teeth.
"AHH GEEZ, what does it matter anyway, you're back now – everything's over and we're all going to live happily ever after, so stop making that stupid face!"
Sasuke blistered out of his thoughts and looked back towards Naruto, observing the big pout on his face. Sasuke let out a small chuckle at the sight.
"Hmm, so I guess that means you cheated, huh?"
Naruto mashed his teeth together and revealed a flabbergasted expression on his face.
"W-WHA!? CHEATED!? OH PLEASE, I COULD HAVE KICKED YOUR ASS WITHOUT THAT STUPID NEEDLE"
Naruto glared at the Uchiha in utter annoyance, while the brunet just calmly smirked back.
"Once a loser always a loser, huh?", Sasuke said as he grinned straight at Naruto's face.
Naruto became enraged and his forehead turned bright red with all the blood rushing to his head.
'This will be fun', Sasuke thought.
Naruto started screaming incoherent curses at Sasuke while Sasuke just continued grinning at the blond in an insulting manner.
30 MINUTES LATER
The two had calmed down, well mostly Naruto had stopped screaming and Sasuke returned to his neutral expression that he always wore.
Now, there was silence in the room once more, however it wasn't the awkward silence from before.
This silence was forced.
Sasuke looked at Naruto and noticed that Naruto was sweating profusely, and breathing, and panting, large volumes of air – in and out quickly.
'He looks exhausted…I should let him rest'
"It's getting late, you should get some sleep"
"Huh? But it's not even 10 yet"
"Well, I'm getting a little tired, so I'm going to head off for the night"
"O-Oh…okay"
Naruto showed a saddened expression and stared his eyes downwards.
"What, are you going to be lonely without me?"
"LIKE HELL I WILL, GET THE HELL OUT ALREADY"
Sasuke chuckled as he got up and off his seat, and he headed towards the room's exit.
Naruto quietly watched Sasuke leave his room and slid back a little on his bed, slowly closing his eyelids.
Naruto gently relaxed his frail body and entered into a deep sleep.
3 O'CLOCK IN THE MORNING
Naruto suddenly opened his eyes. He was thirsty, excruciatingly thirsty – he needed water.
He slowly moved his feet out of bed and took his first step off the bed.
However – his body crashed, again.
His body fell like a rag doll straight onto the cement floor, hitting him straight in the jaw and chin.
"ARGH…what the hell"
He tried moving his body up, summoning strength onto his legs, but his lower body refused to respond, no matter how much he struggled.
"Fuck…water…I need water…"
Naruto licked his lips to suck any moisture that was present but they were completely dry and devoid of any form of wetness.
Naruto quickly and painstakingly latched his arms towards the bottom rails of his bed to help him stand up, but his legs still wouldn't listen to him.
"Shit…I…can't…move..."
Naruto's eyes started to show signs of desperation as his pupils decreased dramatically in size and his face showed an expression of lethal earnest.
Naruto swallowed a lump of dry saliva as he tried to reach for the top of his bed but as soon as he did – he felt something regurgitate from his mouth.
He quickly placed his right hand over his mouth to block what was coming out of his esophagus but it was too late. A lump of blood – and flesh – puked out from his mouth and onto his right hand. He looked at in shock and disbelief.
"Kit, you're dying"
"Wha-BLEeUUUGH"
Before Naruto could question the kyuubi, he immediately started vomiting again, however this time the contents were far worse.
Naruto looked at the ground in horror and gazed maniacally at the crimson that stained it. The cement floor was splattered with blood and tiny amounts of flesh that came with it – it was his blood and his own flesh.
"SHIT…I CANT STOP IT - KIT, SCREAM FOR HELP, JUST YELL"
Naruto's face was flushed with terror and panic that he had never experienced before. He had no idea what was going on. Every time he tried to scream, he would be interrupted by his unconditional need to vomit over and over again. The floor was now splattered with at least half a litter of blood and numerous tiny bits flesh mixed in with it.
Flushes of tears streamed down Naruto's eyes as he began puking the contents of his inner body restlessly like a waterfall.
However, that wasn't the end of his nightmare.
Suddenly, Naruto felt a sickening pain hit his stomach like a giant needle sewing his organs together.
He undoubtedly felt something moving from within him – not just one thing but multiple things.
"FUCK, THE INTESTINES THEY'RE TEARING APART"
Naruto gasped in pure utter pain as he felt his organs tangle and mash against each other from within his own body. It was chaos – complete utter unknown disgusting chaos which was taking place inside Naruto's very own body.
Naruto's pupils almost became nonexistent as they shrunk to tiny millimeters, his eyes continuously birthed endless streams of tears, and his mouth, and nose, spurt out gallons of blood mixed with bits of flesh all over the floor.
"ARGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH-BLEEeUGHHH"
Naruto finally let out a terrifyingly sickening scream before beginning to puke again, hoping that something would change, hoping that this nightmare would end, hoping that he would somehow live, hoping that someone would save him - but somewhere deep down in his cringing heart he knew - he was all alone.
HOSPITAL RECEPTION AREA
Sasuke was sleeping on a chair in the reception area. The Konoha pubic hospital was open 24 hours a day, and with the document he received from Tsunade, he was exempt from the curfews of visiting hours.
Sasuke opened his eyes, awakening from his sleep with an itch in his throat.
'I'm thirsty'
He got up from his chair and headed to a water fountain that was down the hallway to his right.
Once he reached the fountain, he pressed the small tap button and held it there as he watched the water coming out of a small circular opening.
He bended down and took a few gulps of the water until he was satisfied. He then let go of the tap button and straightened his posture, as he began walking back.
However, suddenly – he heard a scream.
He could barely recognize the voice behind the scream but he didn't ponder too long and immediately ran upstairs towards Naruto's room.
ROOM 3125
The doorway slid open and Sasuke rushed into the room, and gasped at the situation in front of him.
Naruto was lying on the floor making no movements with blood guzzling everywhere. Sasuke's pupils immediately shrank and his eyes widened in horror as he felt his heart beat rise at an exponential rate.
"NARUTO!?"
Sasuke screamed his name as he quickly rushed to the unmoving Naruto that was lying deathly on the crimson stained floor.
Sasuke carefully held up Naruto's head on his left arm and gazed horrifyingly at the mess that was Naruto's face.
It was covered with blood, bits of flesh leaking out from his mouth and nostrils which were seeping onto the floor beneath him and onto Sasuke's legs.
Sasuke's face was filled with a fear that he had never felt before. His body trembled from the sight of Naruto, and his heart pounded so hard that he could hear it beating throughout his entire body.
'SHIT, I-I HAVE TO GET TSUNADE'
Sasuke immediately did a hand sign and summoned a shadow clone. The shadow clone shunshined in direction of the Hokage's tower, while the real Sasuke held onto Naruto's body for dear life.
HOKAGE TOWER
Tsunade was busy stamping some seals on numerous documents that were stacked on her desk, when all of a sudden she felt an all too familiar chakra signature appear right before her window.
Before she could even gaze through the window behind her, the chakra owner in question jumped inside the building and glared at Tsunade with a desperate and horrid expression on his face. It was Sasuke.
"What the hell are y-"
"NARUTO'S DYING COME TO THE HOSPITAL NOW"
Tsunade's eyes expanded in bewilderment and she immediately jumped off her chair, and prepared a hand sign that shunshined her to the hospital immediately.
HOSPITAL
Tsunade immediately appeared at the front of the hospital with a whirl of leaves surrounding her and quickly gazed at the third floor, while running towards the outer hospital walls. She ran up the walls with chakra imbued on her feet, and smashed the window that belonged to room 3125.
She jumped in and her heart immediately dropped at the sight of what she saw.
In front of her lay Naruto covered in blood from head to toe lying on Sasuke's arms, with eyes that almost seemed dead, and his body not moving an inch.
"NARUTOOO!"
Tsunade immediately ran up to the blond that was lying on Sasuke's arms and looked carefully at his face, examining it with dying intent.
Tsundae immediately looked at Sasuke and ordered him to bring the doctors, and nurses, into this room immediately.
Sasuke nodded and summoned a shadow clone that ran to the bottom floor to inform the nurses.
Not even a minute later, a herd of doctors and nurses burst through the room, panting furiously.
"GET THE MRI READY AND BRING ME MY TOOLS, WE'RE OPERATING RIGHT NOW"
Tsunade yelled at the nurses and doctors.
The nurses and doctors obeyed, and brought Tsunade her tools from the surgery rooms close by.
Tsunade looked at Sasuke with a dead serious expression on her face.
"Carry him to the bed but be very careful, make sure you don't move him recklessly"
Sasuke nodded quietly but seriously back at Tsunade.
Sasuke gently picked up Naruto and was horrified at how light he was. It felt like he was carrying a bag of potatoes that he got from the flea market.
Sasuke walked over to the bed making sure to keep Naruto perfectly still while he was in his embrace, and carefully placed Naruto on the bed.
Tsunade immediately grabbed Sasuke's shoulder and told him to get out of the way.
The brunet complied immediately and got out of the way in lightning speed.
"OK GET THE MRI RUNNING, GET THE ANESTHETICS IN FAST, WE'RE STARTING"
Tsunade yelled at the top of her lungs, not caring if any of the other patients in the hospital were disturbed by her.
She looked at Sasuke and told him to get out, as he would only be a hindrance if he remained here.
Sasuke obediently obeyed and walked towards room's exit while clenching his fists. He gazed over his shoulder one last time before he left the room and saw Naruto's face buried in the midst of all the doctors and nurses surrounding him.
Once Sasuke was out of the room he punched the wall, leaving a giant hole that cracked through the cement.
'Damn it…'
ROOM 3125
The anesthetics were swept into Naruto's blood vessels, however it didn't even look like they needed it as Naruto was already unconscious from all the blood loss and pain he'd experienced.
Tsunade immediately began setting up the MRI, adjusting the frequencies at a ridiculously fast pace that left all the doctors stunned in amazement.
She then set up all her tools, got the blood fusion ready to load, and wore her latex gloves after dipping her hand in liquidated alcohol.
One nurse injected a needle and connected the end of it with the blood packets Tsunade had, Naruto's blood type was type B positive which was good as they had an abundant amount of blood for that type.
Tsunade then ordered a nurse to connect the pump machine to the blood packet and begin pumping the blood at a low EF level.
Another nurse set up the heart monitor and the MRI was finally connected.
The MRI showed the colorblind picture of Naruto's innards – his organs.
Just as Tsunade was about to begin operating, all the nurses and doctors had immediately come to a halt as they all gazed devastatingly at what they saw on the MRI projection.
"WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING, LETS GET STARTED, GET MOVING, SCAL-"
"Lady Tsunade…t-the MRI…look"
A nurse pointed to the MRI projection and Tsunade slowly but surely followed the direction of the finger of the nurse.
She gazed at the greyish black screen and was dumbfounded at what she saw.
"W-What!?"
Everything on the projection was mashed together and was a complete ball of mess. The organs were placed in places they weren't supposed to be – they were all tangled up like a bunch of Lego pieces that were sprung together with glue. They had no idea where anything began or even ended. They had no idea where to even start.
Tsunade's face showed a horrifying expression of pure and utter despair. She felt bile rise up her throat and sweat forming around her forehead.
'N-NO…I…I-I CAN STILL SAVE HIM…I HAVE TO'
Tsunade quickly gulped down the bile that was surfacing from her esophagus and screamed at a nurse to wipe her sweat away with tissues.
She immediately screamed at the other doctors to snap out of their baffled stares and focus back on the task at hand.
"But Lady Tsunade…where do we even sta-"
"SHUT UP, WE'LL START ANYWHERE, NOW LETS BEGIN, SCALPEL"
A nurse handed her a scalpel and she began cutting open Naruto's abdomen. She was baffled and disgusted at what she saw. It was even worse looking at it for real than on the projection.
However, she still continued with a determined glint look in both her eyes.
OUTSIDE ROOM 3125
Sasuke stood there peeking through the glass, beside the closed door, into the room.
He showed a worried expression when all the doctors stared at a grey screen, attached to a machine, with panicked looks on their faces.
However he became relieved when Tsunade reprimanded all of them with one fierce yell.
Sasuke clenched his fists at how useless he felt. He had so much power, so many jutsus but in the end it was all useless. He was good for nothing but destruction.
He bit his lips until blood gushed out and stared at the many doctors operating on Naruto.
'Damn it…'
INSIDE ROOM 3125 – 47 MINUTES LATER
Tsunade was breathing heavy through her medical mask and sweating profusely on both her temples, and forehead. A nurse had to continuously wipe it for her as she operated on Naruto's body.
However, everyone knew that what she was doing was meaningless. The organs were tangled up in too many places, many things were damaged beyond repair, and it was only a matter of time before the inevitable happened.
The other doctor's had given up and just followed Tsunade's advice out of pity for their fellow doctress.
However, Tsunade showed no signs of giving up but instead had an obsessive look in her eyes as she continued operating. It was as if she was in a trance and refused to accept this as reality, thinking that this was all just a bad dream, that she would wake up any moment and the blond sunshine of her life would smile vibrantly at her, muttering his dream of being Hokage with his stupid bright teeth.
Tears began to flow out of Tsunade's eyes as she looked at the organs once more. Even though she had worked on it so diligently, for so long, and so hard – nothing had changed, nothing had been improved; everything was pure and utter chaos.
'SHIT, SHIT, SHIT, SHIT, SHIT, SHIT, SHIT, SHIT, SHIT, SHIT, SHIT, SHIT, SHIT, SHIT, SHIT, SHIT, SHIT, SHIT, SHIT, SHIT, SHIT, SHIT, SHIT, SHIT, SHIT, SHIT, SHIT, SHIT, SHIT, SHIT, SHIT, SHIT, SHIT, SHIT, SHIT, SHIT, SHIT, SHIT, SHIT, SHIT, SHIT, SHIT, SHIT, SHIT, SHIT, SHIT, SHIT, SHIT, SHIT, SHIT, SHIT'
Tsunade lost control of her calm and, slightly, even her mind. For first time in her life, she didn't know what to do – at all.
She just blindly operated on different organs hoping that something would pop into her head, hoping that an answer would be revealed to her for all her dedication and effort she put in, but there was nothing.
Everything was useless.
Then she heard a loud beep that cringed her heart and woke her up from her tranced delusions.
She looked at the heart monitor and her pupils started to convulse rapidly at the irregular pattern of the heart beats.
Beep.
Beep.
'No…NO…JUST STOP…JUST STAY FUCKING STILL'
Beeeep.
'PLEASE JUST A LITTLE LONGER…PLE-'
Beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeppppppppppppppppppppppppp.
Tsunade's hands dropped to her sides like a rag doll and she fell to her knees staring at the heart monitor – her eyes empty.
'N-No….I-It c-can't b-be…NO…NO…NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO'
Tsunade quickly looked back to the blond boy that was on the bed with his abdomen cut open.
Tsunade shook the boy's face frantically hoping that he would wake up again and that this nightmare would finally come to an end.
"W-WAKE UP NARUTO, WAKE UP, PLEASE DON'T PLAY THIS JOKE ON ME NOW, PLEASEEE JUST OPEN YOUR EYES, PLEASEEE….JUST FUCKING WAKE UP…NARUTO…"
But he didn't.
Naruto was dead.
Author: This is not the end of the story and this story isn't a tragedy. Viewer Discretion is advised.
