Chapter 10 – A love returned
"Sure, I taught you how to use the Shadow clones and you can practice the Rasengan!" He said enthusiastically. "After, we can go and eat at Ichimaku's place again." He stated, looking at his stomach.
"Yeah, but first we need to go work up an appetite!" She said, giving him a kiss.
"Well, what are we standing around here for!" Naruto said at that. They both leapt off to the far side of the city to start their training for the day.
"Good Hinata, use the clones and increase the range of your attacks! Use the Byakugan to control them and direct your attacks!" Naruto said, dodging 2 Hinata clones. He jumped in the air and then had to use one of his own clones to push him out of the way. Hinata jumped at him using an uppercut gentle fist, barely missing him. "Good!" He yelled again.
"That could have hurt me bad!" He thought, continuing to evade the clones. He hit one of them making it disappear into smoke, using the distraction to create his own. The 3 Naruto used the distraction to jump out of the way of an incoming shuriken and kunai knife, thrown by one of the Hinata clones. Only then did he realize his mistake, taking a full blow to the leg and arms. Falling to the ground, he looked up.
"Damn, I can't get used to that!" He said, waiting for his chakra beginning to flow in the affected areas again. He stood again, looking at the 5 Hinata clones that were now staring him down. His other two clones stared back at them. Using them as a boost he threw himself over the clones and began to fight the real Hinata, combating her Gentle fist style combo with Byakugan with his own rendition of taijutsu. He held his own for a while until one of the clones was thrown at him, knocking him into Hinata. The pair went flailing to the ground as they both recovered themselves from the blow. Using the advantage, Hinata was able to strike him again, this time catching him in the chest. Regaining his breathe she took advantage again, this time hitting him in the neck. His clones immediately disbanded as a result. Taking the effect that she won, looking at her capture, she rolled him over, still unable to move and then sat on his chest.
"Well this is comfortable!" She said, sitting on her new throne, looking at the prisoner. "Now, how are you going to get out?" She said, giving a faint snicker.
"Well, I don't know." He said, coughing. He still hadn't regained his movement and his breath was restricted by a certain girlfriend on his chest. "Maybe I need something to stimulate my resources?" He said, eyeing the clones that were still there.
"Will this do?" She said, leaning over and kissing him. He reached up as she did, grabbing her by the shoulder and rolled her left, and then himself on top of her. "Maybe." He said, kissing her back. They started making out, both exhausted from the training. This was harder than she had ever trained with team 8 or Neji. She had never gained this much experience training with anyone else, or experience outside of training alone. This is why she wanted to be with him, she loved him. And this just reinforced that fact. They got up, brushing each other off, looking out at the training field.
"What a mess." She said. "Maybe someone with earth and water abilities can come and clean it up." She continued, surveying the damage that they had done.
"Hehehe, maybe they won't mind. This is a training ground after all." He replied, looking out toward the city. "Let's go back and get cleaned up. Ill take you out to dinner." He said, kissing her again. They took off for the city to get cleaned up before their date.
"Alright, all of you are the best in your class. Each has a different chakra nature. Earth, Fire, Water, Wind, and Lightning. Not all of you are Medical ninja," Tsunade explained singling out Kakashi. He was the only Lightning user in the whole town trained enough to do this. "But you will all be taught the necessary procedures and Jutsu." She explained. It had taken all day to get all the information together they needed. It had taken all day just to find 4 medical ninja in the city of four different types. She knew she could count on Kakashi for lightning. She would show him the procedure personally so she knew he could get it right. "All of you are the best Medics we can find, and we need you to be the best when we do this procedure. The cursed seal is going to take much time just to seal. The sealing process itself, will take 17 hours. And we have to prepare for another 4-7 before that before we can proceed with the sealing. This is a very difficult Jutsu to complete, so we will try our best to find secondary replacements to use. If not, we will do what we can with soldier pills. I am contacting the Akamichi clan to see if they can make us special, chakra based pills to restore chakra, but we won't know the results of that for a few hours." She continued. All the medic ninja were all nervous; they had never done anything of this magnitude before, if even coming close to it. Kakashi was the only one in the room who had any experience in advanced and mastery Justus, and ironically, he was the only person in the room not a medic nin.
All the medic Nin talked among themselves as Tsunade went over the list of medic Nin, looking for appropriate substitutes for other chakra natures. There were no lightning, so Kakashi was on his own. There were 3 more fire chakra, 3 water chakra, 5 earth, and 1 wind chakra that were all qualified to do the procedure. This was going to be difficult.
In the other room, Anko had already begun preparing for the procedure, repeating a 23 hand sign Jutsu over and over again, getting her chakra built up to sustain her sealing process. It was going to be very difficult and very painful, but it would pay off in the end. Over and over she repeated this, repeating the Jutsu, boiling her chakra inside her. She could not give up, she had lived this long under his nose, and no there was finally a way to make it stop. That painful memory, of being locked in the shed for 3 days came back. Three days of horror stricken, fear inducing nightmares and hallucinations. All the while she continued the Jutsu, thinking of the one good thing that had come her way in a long time. Kakashi. Then, all she could see was his masked face looking at her on the alter. All she did was remember his face looking toward her, staring her down as Tsunade read the excerpts. Even then, he did not take off his mask; he only cut a slit for his mouth to come out. Even Anko, his wife, had never seen his unmasked face. This amused her as she continued making the hand signs and remembering some of the only good things to happen to her in a very long time.
Naruto had just stepped out of the shower, and came out into his room. "You ready to go." He asked Hinata, still lying on his bed. He realized that she had never been to his house, and wondered what she thought of it. He had started to routinely clean so it wasn't as messy as it could have been.
She looked up at him as he crawled down the bed on top of her, then kissing him while looking up at him, she sighed. Looking back toward the window, "No, I'm not." She said, getting a little playful. With a little smirk on her face she pulled him down on top of her and started kissing him. Just a little at first, but then it started to grow and they escalated until the verge of Hinata pulling off Naruto's jacket. She started to unzip the jacket off of him, slowing down her kissing him. Her hand was almost to the end of the zipper,
"NARUTO-KUN!!!" Sakura called, bursting in the door to his house. Panicking, Hinata threw Naruto off her and a crossed the room. "I need to kn…" She looked at the scene, Hinata gasping looking at her on Naruto's bed, while Naruto laid on the floor, dazed after slamming into a bookshelf.
"Were they about to… oh crap." She thought, starting to blush furiously on interrupting them. It almost became so unbearable for her to forget why she was there in the first place. "Um… uh…" was the only thing that could come out of her mouth as Naruto got up, sort of angry. Realizing that he was angry. "Naruto i'm sooooo sorry for just bursting in here but it is an emergency."
"What is it Sakura-chan?" He said, rubbing his head.
"Anko" she said "While we were preparing for her procedure, on of the medic Nins that needs to be there went into an arrest. He is medically unable to do the procedure. This is where it comes to you," She said, now panicked. "We need someone else who can work as a sub with wind chakra nature. Oddly enough, I can't think of anyone else who has your chakra reserves either." She explained. Naruto just looked at her. He rubbed his head again then walked over to Hinata. Sitting on the bed,
"Well why do they need me, why can't they find anyone else?" He asked, not knowing why he should be the one who has to do the procedure.
"Because the only other person in the whole village who can do it is Asuma, but he is out with Team 11 on a mission to The Village hidden in the Clouds on an A rank mission." She said, now worried. "We have to hurry this cannot wait, they will start the procedure in 2 hours and you need to learn the Justus you will be performing." She started to wonder if he would actually come with her.
"Naruto, you need to go, Ill be there with you." She said, grabbing his hand. Sakura felt helpless now, recounting the countless times that she had pushed him away. And now to feel like this. Now wasn't the time for this though, she needed to bring him now, this could not wait. Grabbing his hand away from Hinata's.
"Come on Naruto, this cant wait." She said, her eyes piercing him with a new viciousness. He now understood that he needed to go or this was one of those I'm going to kill you moments would come very soon in the future.
"Alright." He said, zipping his jacket back up. He grabbed Hinata again and pulled her up. All three ran out of the building and dashed as fast as they could for the medical center.
"Where are we going to find another wind chakra user at this hour? No one in the whole village is a wind chakra user of this caliber." She said, looking over all shinobi records in the village. Starting with Jonin and working down she had eliminated all but 4 or 5 candidates before reaching the Chunin and Genin. Unfortunately, every single one of them was out of the village, the closest, in the Land of Rice on a recon mission. This was still 2 days from them.
"Tsunade-sama!!!" A voice called rushing in. Sakura was holding Naruto by the arm and Hinata followed close behind. "I found a wind chakra user!" She blurted.
"What don't tell me…" she asked.
"Oh hell please no. Don't let her say Naruto is…"
"Naruto can use wind chakra." She said. As she did, Tsunade's head dropped straight onto her desk. Not moving for a moment, she contemplated what to do. They needed to go on with the procedure, but Naruto…
"Tsunade-sama?" Sakura asked, wondering why she just fell to her desk.
"Prep him" she said
"I am GOING to regret doing this." She thought, wondering how long the first medical Nin could hold out.
"Come on!" Sakura yelled, again gripping his arm and hauling him off, this time to the Hospital. Moments later they arrived at the hospital, rushing to the back rooms finding the ready room for all taking part in this procedure.
"Kakashi Sensei!" She called out, finding him immediately by his white hair.
"Yes Sakura, what is it?" He asked. "Why is Naruto here? I thought that this was only for the medic Nin." He questioned.
"He is now; you need to teach him the hand signs for the Jutsu used in the sealing. He is now the sub for the wind chakra user." She explained. Kakashi's eye bulged as she said this. Unfortunately, putting his wife in the hands of one of his pupils, but at the same time, they had no choice in the matter.
"Alright, come here Naruto." He said, taking off his forehead protector. They went into the next room, and began to practice it. "Look into my Sharingan for a moment." As he did his tomoes began to rotate around the Sharingan eye, creating a hypnotic effect. "You need to learn this sequence of hand signs in order to transfer your chakra to Tsunade during the procedure. During the procedure, your chakra will be transferred to her using the Jutsu and a cord wrapped around your right index finger. Each cord will be attached to her depending on the area, for you, it will be attached to her right pinkie." He explained. "Now here is the 23 hand signs you will need to repeat. Put your hands together and repeat after me. Ram, sheep, ram, ox, dragon, sheep, ram, snake, ram, dog, ox, bull, tiger, dragon, tiger, ram, rooster, boar, snake, dragon, sheep, ram, rooster." He repeated this a few times until it had been burned into Naruto's memory through the hypnosis of the Sharingan. Releasing him from the Sharingan, he was able to do it flawlessly, this is surprising that he was able to learn it that fast but Kakashi for the sake of speed was cheating somewhat. Naruto continued practicing with Kakashi, both exchanging chakra from each other so that they did not have to expend any, both copying each other. Naruto made a surprisingly low amount of errors for his previous way. This would still be difficult, it would require massive amounts of patience on everyone's part and only minimal error was to occur, anything else could force the abandoning of the procedure or worse, the injury or death of Anko.
"Now, we must be ready to go now." Kakashi said, looking at the clock. The procedure was going to take place in 20 minutes, and he had to be there regardless of what anyone said. "We need to go see Tsunade outside of the operating room in 10 minutes for pre procedure workups" Kakashi said, his mind still floating off to his wife.
"Alright, the rest of the lines need to be drawn symmetrically, 3 meters from the points to the adjacent lines. Move the rest of the people out, only the chalkers. Make sure that the lines are completely straight." She explained, getting off the gurney that was in the middle of the pentagon they were drawing. Walking to the door, she was greeted by 11 medics and 2 oddballs. "Alright you people, here's the basics of what we are doing.
You will change out every 2 hours. No later, if you start to get tired you switch out then, I want NO mistakes during this procedure.
If you start feeling tired after you get out, we have a vast supply of special soldier pills for you to use, these were made special by the Akamichi clan and have been atoned to your specific chakra natures.
If you have any problems with the Jutsu, switch out immediately, we will continue with the new person."
She looked out at her medics, all unsure of the procedure, with the two oddballs in the mix as well. All nervous the first team got scrubbed up and ready to go into the room. Anko had already been placed in the room on the gurney. She was turned on her side so that the cursed seal would be in the very center of the pentagon and all five people. Since she was so deep in the comatose induced on her. Jumping onto the gurney above her, Tsunade began to release her regeneration seal. This would amount to her being able to have as much chakra as Naruto would. Kakashi went ahead and put 5 soldier pills in his mouth for easy access. He had to go all 17 hours alone, which would be a problem.
As they started, Tsunade rhythmically produced a 7 hand-sign Jutsu over and over again, taking in the chakra from all of the people around her. Hours pass, nothing ever happens in the room except people moving in and out and doing Justus, no sounds, no talking. In the other room, all the other medics, and Naruto, are always on call, waiting to see what happens and if they need to replace their partner. Naruto had already been in twice in the 4 hours, his partner had started to make mistakes and his hands were numb from forming Justus. Each time, Naruto was only in for about 45 minutes before he was replaced again. By around hour 9 Anko had begun to moan and wail under the strain of the Jutsu. Her body releasing moans and wails unconsciously. They had already strapped her to the gurney because it was the only way to keep her in the position; it now served a second purpose. 13 hours into the procedure, the toll was beginning to take its toll on the medics. Kakashi, used to this strain, had only used 3 of his soldier pills so far that he had gotten. He had a pocketful of them if he had needed them but it was looking like it would not be necessary. Naruto had found it particularly easy, combined with the fox's chakra, to use the Jutsu repeatedly, not moving any other movements. They were always quick to take him out and replace him whenever they thought it would be best to put the experienced medic Nin in. But whenever they did, he began to fail on them immediately. They had to start relying on Naruto to be able to do the Jutsu flawlessly, and with the help of Kakashi, he had been able to, wondering if he would be able to sustain the chakra flow that of Kakashi.
Nearly 16 hours in, almost 1 hour to go, Anko began to have violent seizures and extremely painful wails emanate from her. The Strength and veracity of her seizes almost threw Tsunade off the gurney a few times. Knowing how to counter these erratic movements, she kept her balance, assuming a new position right on top of Anko. Kakashi seemed to find it funny that his wife was being straddled by Tsunade like that. Starting to give a slight snicker Tsunade shot him a glare so piercing that Kyuubi himself probably would have backed down from an attack. Naruto over in the other side of her looked at Kakashi, still performing the hand-signs monotonously. He never stopped, but continued staring at her and his wife. Tsunade now resuming her traced state was performing a new Jutsu, sealing signs with her right hand while her left was on top of the seal. The sealing Jutsu was almost complete, gathering all the transferred chakra into her left hand, she channeled it where she had stored it in her forehead seal and began releasing it onto the seal, marking the seal with the fingers of her left hand. She literally cut into her skin with the chakra it was so potent, singing the skin, making the barrier engraved around the Cursed mark. This procedure continued for nearly 20 minutes until the seal on the cursed mark glowed 5 colors and overlapped the cursed mark. Now only time would tell.
Outside, Hinata and the rest of the remaining teams waited outside to find out the condition of Anko. Most came and went as the time passed but Hinata, Kurenai, Sakura, and a few others sat by the door for the entire 17 hours. Hinata wanted to see him but she knew that they would not let him come out until the end of the procedure, and the light above the door was still on. For hours, she and Kiba sat. Kiba was interested in Anko, nothing more. He was still sore on the reassignment of Hinata, but he would keep it to himself for the sake of the situation. Hinata got up and paced the room, concerned and Kurenai also got up. Putting her hand on her shoulder, "I am sure everything is going to be alright. Naruto and Kakashi are doing everything they can for Anko." She said. This relieved her somewhat; Naruto and Kakashi were helping to do everything they could to save Anko from her fate, tied to an evil Missing-nin. bing. Everyone looked around for the source of the sound. Everyone looked but couldn't tell where it came from. Giving up, they all sat back down. Hinata looked back up at the sign, it was dark now. She looked back down...
"Wait a second, it was lighted" Hinata looked back at the sign.
"Hey, they turned off the operations sign!" She exclaimed, jumping to her feet. Waiting for something to happen she looked at the door expectantly. No one came out; they were beginning to become discouraged when some of the doctors emerged. 4 of them, walking out to the group.
"How is Anko?" Kurenai Said, getting off and holding her stomach.
"She is fine, the whole procedure went perfectly, and we had very few mistakes. The seal took hold, now, if it was effective, we will not know until she tries and activates the Cursed mark." The doctors explained. As they were talking Kakashi and Naruto both walked out, supporting each other. They were both exhausted because Kakashi had had to stand there for the entire 17 hours. Naruto was there for the better half of it, and had to tap into his demon chakra twice throughout the procedure just to keep conscious. They looked somewhat similar, both slumped against each other, and then they fell to the ground together. They had both began to seize eratically.
"NARUTO!!!" Hinata's screams were drowned out by the sound of everyone else's screams.
End Chapter 10 –
Sorry, but Anko's tourture is not over yet, something unexpected happened when he decided to use the demon chakra to help him in the procedure.
No new reviewers or Alerts this time. Surprising actually.