The Uzumaki Clan
Chapter 11
The Aftermath
AN: A lot will be confusing at first but just stay with it, trust me
"Forward" the leader cried.
The men, fifty at best, moved in a pack close and tight, swords in defensive techniques, protecting the man to the left, each jutsu that came close was met with an even stronger jutsu, with the opposite and more effective affinity, the men moved slow for their skill, but a careful eyed observer could see the formation was centering and in a defensive manner.
The jutsu's were swept away without a second thought as the caster was quickly taken down
Naruto's unconscious body was being pulled from the war zone, his mind dark and his injuries smoking darkly as the open wounds slowly closed and the skin regenerated in inhuman speeds.
The men ignored the strange happenings, their attention focused on the foreign nins and the route to their eventual escape.
But what the men of whirlpool didn't notice was the small flicker in the young boys eyes, the blue color seemed sad and distant at first glance, his eyes made any observer feel the deepest depths of loneliness and heartbreak.
Something happened to this boy.
Something really, really, bad.
Temari dropped her brother rather roughly for an injured sibling, his left eye had a small open wound across the left side, his entire shirt was ripped to shreds, with a wide gash across his upper torso, and several purple bruises across his face and forearms, presumably from blocking attacks that the sand couldn't reach in time.
She looked around in the dense forest surrounding them, dirty, dusty weed filled grass surrounds the floor, and the sweet songs of birds went ignored to the distant sounds of explosions and metal and flesh mixing.
She realized this was an alright hiding location for now as her younger brother will use this time to heal and get back to the mission.
She reached in the back of her pouch and pulled out a small medical emergency kit, she pulled out some bandages and some solider pills, she pulled out a small canteen to give to her brother.
"Temari" she glared at her barely conscious brother, Gaara was shocked to see this look that only people from afar would dare commit to him.
"What" she growled back as she looked away from her brother.
"I-I am sorry" he said with a hiss as his head stung more and more as he spoke those few words that Temari never thought she would never hear before.
She looked back at her brother, blood flow not leaving as quickly as before, her eyes looked at him suspiciously as if expecting him to laugh evilly and or send his sand to quiet her up for speaking so rudely before.
But nothing happened, his pain died down and he opened his eyes to look directly at her almost as if to solidify what he previously said.
"I'm sorry, Temari, truly I'm sorry" he apologized, almost at tears, but Temari, she didn't care, if her brother said this to her before the chunin exams, she too would be in tears.
But she just couldn't, she couldn't forgive him, at least not yet.
"Just shut up, your needed for the mission" she said to him, not daring to look into Gaara's confused and sad eyes she grabbed the white bandage tape and motioned for him to come closer, he grunted as he pulled his bloodied and bruised naked torso off the ground.
Her frown was still marked on her face as she rolled out the tape and started pulling it over his wide open wound across his chest, by the depth it would most likely scar.
As she placed the tape over his injuries, practically ignoring Gaara's stiffening as the foreign pain increased the pain he originally felt.
She mumbled and mumbled to herself over and over the same sentence, as tears flowed slowly and softly across her checks.
"Why did you make me choose"
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Jiraiya looked around the damaged hospitable for any survivors, the second the attack happened an entire division attacked the hospitable, a usual target when it came to these sort of invasions, Kage towers, military outposts, granaries, communication outpost, places of political and or economical importance.
He looked around with the help of a few toads that made the search a little easier for him.
"Anyone here" he yelled out as he looked at the damaged building insides, rubble and stone was everywhere, with the occasional Konoha and Iwa nin found laying in its own pool of blood.
"Jiraiya"
The voice made Jiraiya freeze, no one said his name with that sort of tone, except one.
He turned and saw the busty figure of his long time teammate, her blonde hair and skin like a young twenty year old, which Jiraiya never had a problem with and her famous breast size seeming to allure Jiraiya's eyesight.
"Nice to see you again" he said with his hermit smile.
"Where is he" she demanded, he knew who he was talking about.
"You don't deserve to see him" he said as his smile faded and grew to his hard and serious look that was only used in life or death situations.
"And what gives you the right to say no to me" she said just as serious, if not more.
"You have to get through me to see him" he said rolling his neck and cracking his knuckles.
"So be it" she said as she leapt towards him, fist drawn with chakra ready to be released.
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Kenji and Hiruzen stood side by side as they faced the four men that faced him.
Three coffins with wide open doors revealing who the each held, Orochimaru laughing evilly at the concerned expressions of not only Sarutobi, but Kenji Uzumaki as well, what stood across them were legends, Minato Namikaze, Tobirama Senju, Hashirama Senju and of course the conductor of this parade Orochimaru.
Each name spoken individually would bring fear to the bravest of foe and yet here was all four, three of which were former Hokages, two of which had bloodlines, all were kage in power wise, all were legends in their own respect.
It wasn't as if these two were pushovers, nothing of the sort, both were masters in their element, both were masters in their weapon styles, both were as experienced as anyone in history, one had perfect chakra control while the other had a monster amount.
It wasn't a fifty, fifty match, but it wasn't far from it, all that could be known was that it would be a legendary fight that would be known throughout the shinobi land.
"Hell yeah" Kenji yelled as his childlike excitement got ahead of his self.
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While Temari addressed to Gaara's injuries and Naruto was getting nursed to heath by a young Whirlpool doctor the two thought about what had caused such internal pain to themselves.
It started off with the two talking to each other about how they would stay in touch, the two had a wonderful time spending the last few hours together, while this was happening, Gaara watched from a distance, jealousy flowed through his mind as he watched the two laugh and hold each other in a caring and loving manner.
That was all it took and he snapped, he attacked with all his might and the two were a close match against the other, until one final attack.
"Rasengan" he cried as the blue orb shredded through the piles and piles of sand that was pushed aside from the legendary attack.
Gaara never before felt the fire rush from his hands as the demon inside him called upon his chakra and summoned the fire dragon.
The two powerful attacks mixed as the explosion seemed to have killed and burned every single thing within its range.
Temari watched in horror.
"No stop!!" she screamed as she ran for her life, she forced all the chakra she could to her legs, her muscles flexed as her chakra pushed her faster than any normal human could, but despite her shinobi speed, she was too far.
Her heart seemed to stop as the explosion seemed not to stop, the raging fire burned its surroundings as the forest trees and foliage smoked and burned to ashes.
The force of the two's combined attack slightly pushed her as she moved her arm to block the small twigs and leaves getting in her vision.
Temari stared at the carnage frozen, as the large amount of smoke faded; the two bodies were pushed to different sides, Naruto to the left, Gaara to the right.
Temari's first instinct was to go to Naruto; she felt her instincts screaming to protect him, but unfortunately the logical part of her mind came to her.
If Gaara was injured, he wouldn't be able to perform his major contribution to the invasion.
She saw the unconscious body of Naruto and saw her precious brother.
"No, no, no" her strategic mind went through as many possibilities and consequences of one of the two choices.
She thought of her life with Naruto, the last few weeks with him have been . . . unbelievable, she would never thought that she could ever fall in love, never.
The sister to an overprotective puppet master brother and the town murderer, the daughter of the most hated kage in their history, at an early age she had noticed both the looks of interest and fear whenever she was with her family.
She decided that she was to give up on love and romance and decided to become a true kunoichi, over the years she achieved her ambition and was on her way to being chunin one step closer to being a special jonin and a master of wind.
Then she meets the most interesting, fascinating handsome young boy from whirlpool and her whole world was turned upside down.
She found that all her girlhood dreams come suddenly back with Naruto all in them, holding hands, warm moments, kissing, love, all the things she had laughed at from afar but now knowing the feeling she bears for Naruto she truly understands.
She knew she was falling for the blonde, and she was not stubborn enough to deny it, but stubborn enough to say it to him.
Her body slowly made its way to the blonde, but her logical side revealed itself again.
If Gaara was unable to perform his duty to the invasion plans, he would most likely pulled for treason, an act of defiance her father would say, it would be the pushing point for the village to finally rid itself of the dammed Suna demon.
And no matter what, he was her brother, and she was her sister, no matter what.
Her mind felt numb as she slowly made her way to the red head, she hated this decision, but her love for her brother never left even through his constant fear tactics and crazy persona.
She just hoped that Naruto would forgive her.
A sigh and moan of pain was heard she looked to the side and saw Naruto's head move to the side looking for something anything beautiful blue eyes stinging her own as she saw the pain in what she was doing, he didn't see the choice, he never saw the look of regret in her eyes.
All he saw was Temari turning her back on him as his blood slowly covered the ground, he saw her help him up with one final glance and a hushed word that Naruto didn't want to hear.
He felt betrayed, his heart was untouched by Gaara's blow, but the blow the blonde Suna nin sent him but it was far more painful, he felt hollow, he felt alone again.
Slowly as the warmth left his body and the blood seemed to reach new limits of distance from his body his vision was wavering and losing focus.
The sad comfort of slumber was approaching him as he felt his eyelids grow heavy.
He heard a manly cry of his name as Temari left his sight and his sensei Kakashi appeared slightly in his vision, but his focus was the fading body of Temari.
His eyelids felt heavy as he gave into the dark slumber.
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The Invasion seemed perfect to a calculated mind, Iwa, Suna, Kumo and Sound against Konoha, actually to a simple mind it seemed kind of one-sided.
The chunin exams was an annual event that was celebrated to not only ninja villages, but large merchant cities, and the smaller more unknown villages, a sign that said that all are equal, to bad it was never really said.
The chance of Konoha getting the chunin exams were very slim, it was chosen through lottery, with the exception of the previous city or village, so it was very lucky enough that Konoha was chosen.
Secondly the relations between the gathered villages needed to be the best it could be, Orochimaru's forces of failed and successful experiments and any forced or paid hand wasn't enough to take down the battle hardened forces of Konoha, with their will of fire and such, not to mention their strong alliance with Suna.
So to take down two birds with one stone, Orochimaru went after the Kazekage, he wasn't very liked and he was very cocky, taking only two jonin guards then the recommended four and of higher ranked.
He was taken care of easily, sure a kage, but still barely one at all, to Orochimaru, he had faced worse jonins.
He manipulated Suna's budget woes and the newly found heated rivalry against their Konoha allies to his own advantage and made his first ally to his cause.
Then there was Kumo and Iwa, they had already heavily persisted in the destruction of their hated Konoha, but the casualties of the previous war and the high council vote against anything higher than a aggression pact against Konoha, had stopped the kages causes to rally the ninja and civilians to a new war.
The war was bound to happen sooner or later, if it was in his favor who was he to stop it.
Orochimaru musings were to a halt as he watched the dark clouds gather over his location, it was an old Kumo trick to scare their enemies, the clouds were infused with chakra and the thunder was jutsus infused with the clouds to further scare the opponents of Kumo.
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Tsunade was just as powerful as Jiraiya and he was hard pressed to not admit it, the two pushed each other to the point of exhaustion, so much so that she was forced to let go of her genjutsu.
The genjutsu to Jiraiya didnt make her any less beautiful than one would think but there was one major difference that anyone close to her would notice.
Her honey colored eyes were not the same color.
It was a dark blue.
Just like her mothers.
Just like her grandmothers.
And just like her son.
And of course her grandsons.
Naruto Uzumaki.
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As Temari finished bandaging Gaara's wounds she wiped the tears off of her face, and told her brother too have a short rest.
What she didn't notice was the red headed assassin waiting patiently in the woods, waiting for the perfect opportunity.
"The dark influence spreads through your mind, she must be purified" she whispered as her dark jade dagger was sheathed from its holster.
She slowly hummed the song that promised death.
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Hay all sorry about not posting in a while, just moved into my new apartment in California and still adjusting to life from New Zealand to America, spent most of my time at Chicago this last few weeks at some B ball camp.
Any way I was thinking of adding Yugito to the Naruto, Temari pairing. Tell me what you think I got a poll in my home page.
Any way please review.
Also looking for betas that are good with lemons and fight scenes, if I cant get one than I Wont be able to continue to do this story or any of my other stories.
Next to be updated will be Honor War and Family, than Yondaime Mistake and than Uzumaki clan, Ill go in a rotation.
Anyway Go Celtics 4-0.
Peace
Maori out-
