Disclaimer: First Chapter
Sorry if my quality has dropped the last few days. Family Issues. But I will NOT stop updating.
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"I can't stand this waiting!" Yang shouted after a moment as she and the other non-injured members of team Ruby waited inisde the waiting room of the nurses office. They had actually tried the hospitals in the cities on the way before coming here, and Naruto had been turned away as soon as his tail was seen. It just made things more complicated when the injured party was a Faunus. Blake seemed to be in a horrible mood because of this fact, and you could tell that she was on a hair trigger. She was an anger bomb just waiting to be set off.

'You idiot... Why do you have to hurt yourself to save us?' Blake thought with anger in her eyes. She knew that the only reason he had taken that attack was because he knew they couldn't dodge it, so he used himself to block it. She knew that if he hadn't then they wouldn't have survived, but this waiting was killing her. No matter what Naruto had always seemed... invincible. The guy had never been phased by injuries before, not counting the shark teeth in the tail, and he had akways just got back up on his feet. Seeing him put into critical condition to save them really made her want to cry out in anger.

'What was that thing, and why did it look so much like Naruto?' Weiss thought with narrowed eyes as she mentlly compared the features of the two. They were the same height, same fox ears, same tail, same general muscle structure, and the spiked 'hair' of the creature greatly resembled Naruto's messy mop of hair. She was the least affected by this whole thing, and looked at it with a more critical eye. The thing had only appeared when Naruto went close to the water, and once Naruto had been defeated it went back into the water. It only ever attacked those that had been able to do damage. Her mind remembered that only Naruto's needles seemed to do any damage, and when they did anything it healed right away.

'This is all my fault. If I was a better leader, then maybe Naruto would be okay.' Ruby thought as a few tears leaked out of the corners of her eyes, and she wiped them away quickly. When Ozpin had given the the choice to go on this mission, she hafd accepted without a second thought. She thought that their was nothing that the cool Blake, the smart Weiss, the fearless Ruby, the strong Yang, and the invinsible Naruto couldn't do when they came together. On their first mission, she had goofed around at the beginning when she should have been serious. Her hands started to shake as her sorrow got the better of her.

She had no idea why Ozpin had even picked her to be the leader, when somebody like Blake or Naruto would be much better suited for the position. The image of that creature appeared in her head, and she shivered just like she did when she had been asked to tell Ozpin everything that had happened. Even she noticed how after the fight the creature hadn't considered any of them a threat, and turned it's back to them.

"You okay Ruby?" Yang asked as she sat next to her sister, and placed a hand on her back. Ruby looked at her sister with a depressed sigh, before shaking her head.

"I didn't think anyone would get hurt... how are you holding up?" Ruby asked in an attempt to keep the question off of her mind. Yang shrugged and looked at the door to Naruto's room with a small sigh, before she gave Ruby a grin.

"Foxy is a tough guy, this isn't going to keep him down for long. Next time we face that thing, we can each take our pound of flesh out of it's hide to get payback. Foxy is no doubt going to want a rematch." Yang said, and Ruby shook her head. She wasn't about to let any of them go back and face that thing again, because as long as it stayed away from people nothing had to be done about it. Yang was surprised though when Blake stood up and grabbed her by the shirt and lifted herinto the air, before pushing her against the wall. Rage clear in her eyes.

"He just SAVED us from that monster, and now you want to go against it again!? You moron! Naruto was the most powerful among us, and he might DIE! How are you going to hold up against it, when we can't even hurt it without Naruto's needles!?" Blake shouted right in her face, and Ruby moved to stop the fighting before she sw Yang wave her hand at her. Yang glared back at Blake, and her eyes turned red.

"Foxy will live, or don't you have any faith in him? I didn't know that you didn't have faith in his will to live, because if it were one of us in there he would have faith in us to survive. This just goes to show that you don't believe in him." Yang said coldy in contrast to the red rage burning in her eyes, and Blake's yellow eyes widened and she let go of Yang when those words hit her deeply. Was she really doubting Naruto's ability to pull out of this alive? After a moment of thinking, she sat back down and put her face in her hands when she realized that she had already written Naruto off as dead.

"That would have been a more impressive speech if you hadn't been using your nickname for him." Weiss said neutrally, and Yang calmed herself down. She just didn't want anyone thinking any less of Naruto, because she was positive that if he had been on his own he would have been able to win that fight. They had held him back, and she didn't want them to think he lost just because he was weak. Yes, he would have gotten himself hurt anyway, but it was their fault he was hurt this bad. If they had just run away, then he wouldn't have had to take that hit for them.

They all stood back up when the nurse came out of the room, and she looked at Ruby.

"I need to speak with you." Shizuko said as she looked directly at Ruby, and she nodded sadly and walked into the room with the Bear Faunus. She winced when she saw Naruto laying on the bed with his skin wrapped in bandages, and with a mask on his face to help him breath. His arm was in a cast, and he had an IV in his arm.

"Is he going to be okay?" Ruby asked with a few tears rolling down her cheeks. A Naruto that wasn't making fun of something, or grinning just didn't seem like Naruto. She wanted him to be awake, and comforting her about something... while making a hidden insult that she wouldn't pick up until they were done talking.

"Yeah, with his current healing rate he should be alright soon. You are lucky you got him to me when you did, because if you hadn't he would have died. He is suffering from heavy loss of blood, nearly all his muscles are torn, most of his skin seemed to have been pealed away, he had seven broken ribs, his leg is cracked, his arm is broken, his skull is cracked, his lungs are stressed, and there could be some... a lot of pain when he wakes up." Shizuko said with a look of pity towards Naruto, and Ruby winced with each added problem. She already felt like she had caused this, and the list of problems wasn't helping. Ruby walked over to Naruto's side, and she took his hand in her own.

"When will he wake up?" Ruby asked, and she didn't know if it was a good sign, or an instinct but she could swear that she felt Naruto hold her hand tighter than before. Like he was trying to make her feel better, even when he was drugged out.

"In a few days, until then I wouldn't suggest any visitors. His body is extremely injuried right now." Shizuko said, before a groan was heard and the nurse gasped in shock when Naruto opened his eyes. He tried to move, before his back arched when agonizing pain filled his system. Naruto raised his left arm up, and Ruby gasped when he bite down on his hand to calm himself down from the pain.

"How are you feeling Naruto!?" Ruby asked quickly, and Naruto groaned after a moment. He looked at her for a moment, before seeing her tears.

"Stop crying Red, stuff happens. I won't have my Leader crying over me." Naruto said with his usual grin, before the nurse placed a hand on his chest and forced him back into the bed. He groaned in pain again, and Ruby couldn't help the giggle that escaped her throat. Evene in pain he was still both making fun of her, and helping her at the same time.

"You need to sleep and heal Uzumaki." The nurse said with authority in her voice, and Naruto ignored her and looked at the cast on his arm. Flexing his arm the cast shattered, and Naruto closed his eyes before a light orange glow appeared around his body as his aura used it's healing properties to heal his skin the rest of the way. He didn't take the mask off his mouth yet, but not long after he was finished healing for the most part. He would still be worn out and sore, but at least he could get out of here.

Naruot was about to stand up, before the Bear Faunus used a needle and injected him with something storng enough to knock even him out. Ruby looked at the Faunus in fear for a moment, before she saw that he was just sleeping.

"Can you help me out here? Now I have to redo his bandages." Shizuko asked with a grimace as she started to undo Naruto's wrap. Ruby nodded and started help out, before they both gasped when they saw the perfectly normal skin. Shizuko was marvelled by the healing factor, and she threw Naruto's cover off of his. Ruby squeeked out loud and covered her blushing face when she saw somethings he had never seen before. She turned around and tried to get the image out of her mind, and she thanked whoever was watching that Yang wasn't in here to make fun of her reaction.

'I just saw Naruto's p-p-p-p-pe...!' Ruby thought and the nurse rolled her eyes.

"Girl, it's just a body part... admittedly it is much larger than average, but it is just a penis. Did doesn't bite, nor is it something to be embarrassed of." Shizuko said with an airy chuckle when she heard Ruby start muttering to herself with her hands over her ears. You would think that at 15 the girl would have seen a picture of one before, or seen one in person. Apparently this girl was as innocent as they come, or she was sheltered from this kind of topic... nevermind, with a sister like hers there was no way she hadn't heard her sister talking about boys in that way before.

"He's my... teammate!" Ruby yelled after a moment.

"Whatever girl, but are you going to help out or not?" Shizuko asked as she moved Naruto into the sitting position, and Ruby closed her eyes and turned around while trying to help without looking. Shizuko giggled lightly when she saw how shy Ruby was being when it came to this. "I didn't know there was asuch a pure girl at the academy. You two live in the same room, and you haven't had any accidents... strange." Shizuko said shrug, and the ruby red blush on Ruby's face was priceless.

"Naruto is usually kind about waiting for us to finish dressing and showering before he gets ready for the day. The only one that he has seen change is Yang, and that was because she changed in front of him to tease him." Ruby said quickly to defend herself, and the nurse just rolled her eyes. This girl was such a spaz it felt slightly bad to tease her... only slightly though.

"You sure he has never peeked before, he is a guy?" The awake Faunus in the room teased, and Ruby's eyes widened at not having thought of that before. Steam seemed to come out of her head, and her blush extended from just her face to her whole body.

"Naruto wouldn't do that." Ruby said more to assure herself than anything. All her troubles from earlier forgotten with the recent teasing. The nurse looked at Naruto's sleeping face, before smirking lightly.

'You have good friends kid. You got lucky with this crazy bunch.' The nurse thought as she finished wrapping Naruto, and Ruby opened her eyes again when she felt Naruto get put back on his back. With a smile she sat next to his bed, and started to hold his hand again. Seeking this same comfort from earlier, before she had to go back in the hallway.

If Jiraiya could see Naruto now... he would be laughing his ass off.

Chapter End.

A lot of you had moderately good theories, but sadly none of you got the number of beasts right. Naruto may have one tail, but that doesn't mean he has a tails worth of power. SO isntead of their being Eight Single Tailed Naruto Clones, there are NINE! Having a tail, doesn't mean he has the power of that tail. Naruto could have easily dodge the Bijuudama, but the girls behind him COULDN'T escape it. Even if they did, it would explode and kill them. That was why Naruto took the hit, and cancelled out as much of it as he could with the Rasengan.

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