When Naruto reached Mount Myoboku he had planned to just say hello, then leave. But he hadn't thought of the risks.
He was greeted by a mob of guards, (toad guards) and was taken to see Gramps Toad. When he arrived the old toad shook his head.
"Naruto boy, do you understand why your here?" He asked. Naruto growled defiantly and struggled in the guards grasp.
"No! What's this about Gramps!?"
"I'm sorry to hear about what happened to your old sensei, Naruto boy." The old toad looked away. Naruto's eyes widened and he stopped struggling.
"And I know that if you had this chance when Jiriya boy died, you would've easily taken it... But we were ordered by Tsuande to restrain you. I'm sorry Naruto boy... I want to help you. But I'm not capable... She only wants to protect you." Gramps Toad looked at Naruto sincerely but not clearly.
Naruto clenched his teeth. "To protect me!? Everything anyone ever does is protect me! I want to save someone dear to me! Don't you get it!? Gramps you gotta listen to me!" His voice broke at the last sentence and he looked down. "How can you take away this chance from me?... Would you have done this... If it were Pervy Sage?..."
The old toad's eye's widened at the statement. Naruto looked back up at him, eyes glassed over. "Well would you!?" He boomed. Gramps toad sighed and said with a sorry look,
"I'm sorry Naruto. Until this is done. We can't let you out. I really am deeply sorry."
Gamakichi butted in. "What are you doing!? Naruto's just doing the right thing here!"
"It's not right that your taking a chance that might kill you! Don't you see! Your waking blindly into your own death!" The old toad shouted. Naruto blinked.
"Your underestimating me! And here I thought you believed in me?" Naruto looked away furiously. "Fine. I don't need you anyway."
And with that, the guards carried him away into the underground cells.
After Naruto was gone, Gamakichi strode up to Gramps toad.
"What are you doing!?" He exclaimed. "Putting him down like that!?"
"I have no other choice Gamakichi." He waved him off. "I want to keep the child of prophecy safe from harm."
Gamakichi narrowed his eyes. "You know damn well that Naruto is much stronger than he makes out to be, he could easily do this. I can't believe your doing this." He strode off.
Naruto didn't struggle as he was taken down. He realised that this was the end. Kakashi would die. Maybe he should've just accepted it long ago.
He was thrown into the cell with a few sorry's from the guards. He didn't care. What they were doing was just... Wrong.
A thousand voices rung in his ears. Hissing at him, telling him to just give up. He squeezed his eyes shut in a lame attempt to stop thinking about Kakashi. And everyone else.
Kakashi was his sensei, it was funny how he was always so cool, how he always read Pervy Sage's books.
And what would people think of him if he came back empty handed? Was he just supposed to say, 'Oh hey sorry I left the village and put my own life and Bushy Brow's life in danger for a couple days and didn't bring back Kakashi. Sorry.'
Naruto bit his lip... Should he just give up?
Meanwhile, Lee was still crouched down on the floor. He was thinking up a solution for finding Naruto. Although everything seemed hopeless. He felt a kick on his back again.
He flinched and jumped away. As he got into his fighting stance, he noticed there was someone there this time.
"G- Guy sensei!?" Lee cried running over to him, urging to tell him everything. Guy sighed and looked at Lee.
"Yeah it's me!" He grinned his usual grin, though Lee knew it was fake. Ever since his best rival/friend 'passed away' he had been ever so gloomy. Not his usual self at all.
"Guy sensei, w-why are you here!?" Lee struggled to find words to give to Guy which was strange as well.
"I knew you'd gone after Kakashi. It took me a few days to realise but I knew you hadn't thrown your life away! No, not with my teachings you won't!" He smiled again and Lee burst into tears. "Lee! What's the matter?"
"N- Naruto... He... He's dead!" Lee sniffled. Guy froze.
"W- What?" Guy let go of Lee.
"B- but he can't be... He can't be, sensei! That is why I have made a resolution to find Naruto!" Lee clenched his fists. Guy was still shocked.
"Naruto!?" He exclaimed at Lee. "He's dead!?"
Lee shook his head, then nodded slightly. "I... Don't know..."
Guy swallowed. He knew he could suppress his emotions better than before. It was because Kakashi died, it had made him stronger. "I doubt Naruto is dead!" Guy grinned. For real this time. "He wouldn't die that easily." He looked to Lee. His snivelling student whom he loved as much as he would his own child. He ruffled Lee's hair.
"Now, let's go get him!"
Kakashi punched the wall over and over again. He had taken his gloves off, so his knuckles had became bloody from the punching. But he still kept at it.
What was he doing!? What were his students thinking?! He only saw snippets of reality through that hole in the wall but he saw enough to know his students were mad. Why was he even here? Was this his half-dead state? Why had he died? What had happened? He hadn't figured that out yet. He hadn't LIVED.
Kakashi didn't usually think like this but he couldn't keep his thoughts straight. But every time he tried to rethink his situation, the answer always came back to one point.
My life is incomplete.
I wasn't supposed to die like this. It's not my time. It's not like I really know what's going on but should I really let Naruto just throw away his life for my sake? No. I'll find a way out myself. I'll try. Or maybe... I can try to complete what I have to, so I can pass on peacefully.
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Naruto had been sitting in the cell for at least half an hour. All he could think of was old Team 7. He'd lost 2 of them already. He didn't want to believe it.
"I... I..." He mumbled to himself. "I... What do I do?" He looked up at the black eeriness of the ceiling. It was night now and it was peaceful. Though it would've been more peaceful outside, Naruto was almost thankful they'd given him this room, as he could reflect on things. For once he could just sit down and think. Figure out what was happening.
What was he doing? He didn't know himself. He looked at his feet. "Why d'you have to die at a time like this, Kakashi sensei? And like this? I mean, c'mon, cut me some slack." He chuckled to himself. He closed his eyes and leant back against the cold cell walls. "I think..." Naruto stopped.
"I'm coming to find you, Kakashi. I'll get you and Sasuke back in no time. Just you watch. "
Soz its kinda late but here ^^ :) Alsoooooo thanks for the amount of viewd this story gets, it's amazing! :D idk when the next chap'll be out. Probably soon. :)
