Okay guys, here is the latest installment of Dragon's Rebirth Chapter 11. And I have some good news, I GOT INFAMOUS 2! THAT GAME IS AWESOME! I also got Pokemon: SoulSilver and Marvel vs. Capcom 3. Although, no one ask me for a match in those last two. I just started SoulSilver and I completely suck at MvC3.
(8:30 P.M-JuuHachi Town)
As the gallon of liquid was thrown on the object of her affection, Tenten was unable to say a word. As a matter of fact no one was. Until Naruto's bloodcurdling, pain-filled cry filled the air. After letting out that horrible cry, Naruto dropped to the ground and was shaking in pain. Both Tenten and Hinata yelled out "NARUTO!"
They both rushed towards Naruto. Forgetting about the liquid, they kneeled down and comforted Naruto. Hinata cradled Naruto's head in her lap, while Tenten grabbed onto his hand for dear life. She turned to the monster who ordered that liquid to be dumped on Naruto and yelled "What kind of a sick person are you?"
Kazuya started laughing out loud. He said "Me? A sick person? I'm not the one fucking some demon. No matter what that fool of a Hokage said, I knew that that monster was just trying to get on our good side, just so it could get the sick pleasure of betraying people who trusted it. If it wasn't for your dumbass sensei and his pet cyclops, I would've succeeded in poisoning that demon and ridding all of Konohagakure of it's taint. I always knew that that..."
Kazuya scrunched up his face in disgust, pointed at Naruto, and paused in his speech for a moment, as if to think of a word to describe the sick, twisted abomination that rested near Hinata and Tenten. He finally settled on a word "...thing was nothing more than a Demon in human skin. And now, I have proof. Nothing else could've reacted that horribly to that."
Tenten looked at Kazuya as if he was the devil incarnate. She said "You're lucky Naru-kun's so hurt, otherwise I'd make you pay for what you did to him!"
Kazuya smirked and said "As if you could possibly hurt me."
Throughout that entire speech, Hinata was looking down at Naruto, her face shielded from sight. Hinata said, in a very low voice "She might not..."
Hinata then looked up and gazed at Kazuya. On her face, there was no expression of anger. No narrowed eyes, no flaring nostrils, no clenched teeth at all. As a matter of fact, if you only based your opinion on those facts, you would think that she was just stoic. But her eyes told a different story. Hinata's eyes were full of nothing but hate. No happiness, no love, nothing to remind someone that they were looking into the eyes of one of the happiest people in Konoha.
Hinata's aura flared up around her, stronger than it had ever been in her life. Hinata, with her eyes still on Kazuya, said "...but I will."
Hinata disappeared from Naruto's side and reappeared right in front of Kazuya. Hinata aimed a right hook at Kazuya's head, but Kazuya hopped back to dodge the attack. As he landed, he felt pain shoot up his spine as he remembered his wound. The wound was so horrible that he dropped to his knees in pain. As he tried to get back up to his feet, Hinata formed her bow of energy again and yelled out "Spirit Arrow!"
Hinata quickly shot out arrow after arrow at Kazuya, but Kazuya quickly started to move, even with that horrible stab wound in his stomach. Amazingly, he was able to dodge all of Hinata's arrows. As Hinata was shooting, Tenten took out a kunai and waited for the right moment. As Kazuya started moving closer and closer to the shadows, Tenten had her chance. She chuked her kunai right at Kazuya, and it landed in his leg. Kazuya hit the ground in pain of the stabbing as Hinata got into a special stance. She spread her legs slightly and put her right leg back. She bent her knees slightly in order to lower her center of gravity. She moved her hands to her right hip and them, and cupped them. As she did, a reddish orange orb of energy started forming inbetween her hands. As the orb grew bigger, Hinata moved her hands farther apart in order to compensate for the orb. As the orb reached a certain threshold of size, it changed form. Instead of an orb of energy, it transformed into a raging firestorm condensed into an orb.
Hinata let the first tidbit of emotion on her face when she narrowed her eyes and glared at Kazuya. She said, in an even tone, "This is for Naruto. Fire Style: Solar Destruction Jutsu!"
Hinata thrusted her hands forward, and as she did, the orb of fire opened up and let loose a gigantic tongue of fire. Kazuya tried to limp away, but as he moved, the fire turned on a dime and chased him. Eventually, the fire caught up with him and engulfed him.
Tenten, who was still glaring at Kazuya's former position, said "Good riddance."
Hinata closed her eyes for a second, then opened them. She said "I can still feel his energy. He wasn't hit. Stay on your guard."
Before Hinata and Tenten could do anything, someone ran past them and jumped through the fire. That person helped Kazuya get to his feet. As Hinata saw the person, she thought, 'I thought I took Sakuya down.'
Sakuya grabbed Kazuya and took off. Tenten said "They're getting away."
Before Tenten could move to follow them, Hinata said "No, Tenten. We have to get Naru-kun back to the others. That's our priority for now."
Tenten looked like she was about to argue, but when she heard a pain-filled groan from Naruto, she quickly relented. Looking over to where they left Miroku, she wasn't surprised to see him gone. Tenten said "You're right, Hinata. We'll get them back later. For now, we have to make sure Naruto-kun's safe."
Before they started moving Naruto, Tenten took a vial out of one of her scrolls and scooped up as much of the liquid as possible. As she was about to pick him up, she saw a brown belt on his waist. Then, the belt started moving on it's own accord. Tenten yelled out "What the hell is that?"
Hinata said "We don't have time for this. We gotta help him."
Then, with Hinata's help, she got Naruto to his feet. Even though he was only 5' tall, he weighed a ton! Luckily Hinata was a lot stronger than she looked. With Hinata's help, Tenten was able to get Naruto moving back towards JuuHachi Town. As they were going, neither of them said a word, too worried about Naruto's health to make small talk. As they were going, they heard the trees rustle. Hinata quickly pulled a hand back and was about to charge an attack, but she heard Neji's voice yell "Whoa! Whoa! Hold your fire, Ms. Itchy-Trigger-Finger."
Neji along with Lee both dropped down from the trees. Neji looked to Naruto and saw that he wasn't reacting. The fact that Naruto seemed to be sleeping caused Neji to drop his carefree attitude. He looked at Tenten and said "What happened to him?"
Tenten said "We don't know. Someone just threw something on him and he was knocked out."
Neji nodded and said "Hinata, did you look him over with your Byakugan?"
Hinata shook her head. "Not yet. We didn't have time since we had to get Naruto-kun out of there."
Neji nodded and grabbed Naruto, along with Lee helping him. Together, they were able to hold Naruto up better than the girls were. Neji said "Okay, let's get him to our new place."
It didn't need to be said that their old place had to be evacuated. When over fifty enemies attack your base, it's pretty obvious you might need to find a new place to live. Together, the four of them moved through the trees and to an old house on the outskirts of the city. The house seemed to be abandoned. It was in a relatively poor part of town, so not many people paid attention when they went by it. It was a great safe house, for now. As they piled into the old place, they saw that Kurenai and Shino were hard at work trying to make the place partly liveable. Kurenai heard them come into the room and saw them dragging Naruto. She muttered "Oh my god." She then spoke up by turning to Shino and saying "Shino! Clear a spot for Naruto."
As the others moved to put Naruto on the ground, Kurenai went and flipped on the lights. Luckily for them, the building still had electricity and indoor plumbing. As they cleared a spot, Kurenai saw the spots on his body and said "How did he get blood on him? I know that there are barely any weapons that can cut him."
Hinata said "Blood? That must be the stuff they dumped on him. As soon as they dumped it on him, he screamed and passed out."
Neji turned to Hinata and said "Hinata, maybe now is a good time to check his system with the Byakugan."
Hinata nodded and activated her kekkei genkai. As she did, she saw that he had small amounts of red chakra in his system. It was like the Kyuubi's chakra that she saw in his system before, but it was a different shade of red. She watched as the red chakra seemed to flood his entire system and move around randomly. It also seemed to be focusing itself at his stomach as if to fight off the effects of alcohol. She would've kept looking, but she heard Kurenai say "Look."
Hinata deactivated her Byakugan and looked at where Kurenai was pointing. Right before her eyes, she saw that the red highlights in Naruto's hair were starting to turn back into his regular black hair. She reactivated the Byakugan to see that it seemed that the red chakra was leaving his hair and seemed to mimic the actions of the rest of his system.
Hinata started to think to herself 'What could possibly be causing this? If Naruto-kun was hemophobic, his chakra wouldn't be flaring like this. But how could the chakra in his body cause his hair to change color like that? ...Maybe if I was talking to him instead of giving him the cold shoulder he would've told me?'
As Hinata was contemplating what was happening in Naruto's body, Naruto was learning it also.
(8:30 P.M-In Naruto's Mind)
After thrashing around on the ground in pain, Naruto was transported to his mind. As he made it to his mind, Naruto stood up, wondering what the hell happened to him. As he took a step, he felt immense pain as if he was shocked by lightning. Naruto screamed in pain as he felt it. The pain caused him to drop to his knees. Naruto tried to jump up and move again, but the pain caused him to drop right back down. Naruto stumbled to his feet in spite of the pain and hobbled forward, his destination being his grandfather's cage.
20 agonizing, pain-filled minutes later, he made it there. As he reached the cage, Kurama was laughing at him while his mother instantly reached him and tried to help him. Kushina said "Naruto-kun? What did you get yourself into this time?"
Naruto said "I don't-AAAAH!" In the middle of his sentence, he was hit by a huge spasm of pain that made him drop to the ground and damn near pass out again. Kushina helped him up to his feet and changed the mindscape. She changed the mindscape to a regular park and sat her son on a nearby bench. As she sat him on there, she said "Now what happened?"
Naruto said "I was fighting Kazuya and then some guys dumped some stuff on me. I don't know what it was, but all of a sudden it was as if someone put me in a tub full of water and dropped an iron in it. I passed out and woke up here. Ever since I've been trying to get here, but the pain was stopping me."
Kushina said "The liquid. What color was it?"
Naruto said "It was a really deep red, like blood."
Kushina lowered her head, closed her eyes, and touched her forehead in thought. 'Blood red, causes him pain, made him pass out, what could it-' "OH MY GOD!"
Naruto jumped back from his mother's yell and said "Mom? What is it?"
Kushina didn't seem to hear him as she was still freaking out. She was damn near hyperventilating. "!"
Naruto fought through the pain coursing through his body and grabbed his mom and yelled "OKAA-CHAN!"
Kushina stopped hyperventilating, and Naruto said "Mom, calm down. What the hell is the problem?"
Kushina started sniffing and her eyes started tearing up. Eventually, she couldn't keep the tears back as she started bawling and hugging her son. Naruto could do nothing but hug her back. As he did, he heard a deep, rumbling laughter. He turned to see, no surprise, Kurama interrupting the moment. Kurama said "Of all things to run into, he runs into lamb's blood? Wow, stupid human, when you fuck up, you fuck up big."
Naruto turned to his mom and said "What is he talking about?"
Kushina said "That stuff that they dumped on you was Lamb's blood Naruto."
Naruto was revolted at the fact that animal blood was dumped onto him, but he fought through the revulsion and said "What's so special about Lamb's blood?"
Kushina said "Naruto, honey, the lamb is a very special creature. When demons used to visit this world, their favorite food to eat was the lamb. Eventually, Kami-sama saw this as a way to kill the demons, so she gave the blood of the lamb special properties. It was made to be addictive. Also, If it was drank by any person, it would act like a mild poison. 8 ounces of lamb blood in a human body would have the same effect as half a gallon of sake. But in the bodies of demons, it was even worse."
Naruto said "What does it do to demons?"
Kushina said "When it comes into contact with demon skin, it immediately nullifies the abilities of the demons. Also, the demon would be left without youki. If it stays on a demon's skin long enough, it starts to eat through it like acid. If ingested, it would feel like the demon ingested acid. The sheer pain from having that stuff in their body has caused many demons to go insane from the pain. Some of them died outright. These ailments would persist for as long as the lambs blood was in the body. When the demons realized what the lamb's blood was doing to them, they retreated to the Demon's Domain, the home of all demons, and decided to stay there."
Naruto looked at his mom in disbelief. He said "So you mean to tell me that as long as this lamb blood is in my body, I can't use any of my Youki?"
Kushina nodded and said "Yes, Naruto. So that means that until this lamb blood is gone, no demon form, no Youki, hell, I don't even think that you're partly demon anymore."
Naruto looked at his mom, in awe of the consequences of coming into contact with the substance. "Lamb's blood can do all of that? Unbelievable. ...But wait! If I'm basically 3 quarters human, that means that the enhanced healing that my demon blood gives me is gone."
Kushina nodded and said "Yep. Until this lamb's blood is gone, you need you take extra special care. While your skin is still tougher and your bones are denser than a regular human, you can be hurt easier than normal."
Naruto cursed at himself. His entire style of fighting was based on his invulnerability and healilng. He could easily take a stab wound in the gut if it meant landing a fatal strike to the neck or body. Yank out the weapon, and he would be healed in less than 12 hours. But without his healing, he couldn't just take strong hits to return stronger ones. He would have to start blocking and dodging more, otherwise he would be dead. He had to change the entire way he fought. And now that he thought about it, that wasn't exactly a bad idea. His style was based on taking hits to counter. But what would he do if he faced against someone whose healing factor was as good as his? What about if he fought someone with tougher skin or denser bones? When he fought Sasuke when Sasuke used his Super Saiyan-like transformation, Sasuke was much stronger than him. He could also take more strikes. So trying to take a hit from Sasuke could ruin him. As much as he liked to charge in guns blazing, his fighting style needed a much overdue change. And seeing as he was stuck in his mind for the forseeable future, he could think of no other time rather than now to do it.
Naruto nodded and said "I understand, Mom. So, can we change this place into a dojo?"
Kushina smirked and said "You planning on getting some training done while we're in here?"
Naruto mirrored his mom's smirk and said "Hell yeah."
Kushina's mouth quickly changed from a smirk to a scowl as she punched Naruto across the top of the head and said "YOU DO NOT USE THAT LANGUAGE IN FRONT OF ME, YOUNG MAN!"
(12:30 A.M-JuuHachi Town)
4 hours after their fight with Kazuya ended, Hinata was standing guard outside the shack. She volunteered to keep watch because she couldn't sleep with Naruto knocked out. She wanted to be there for him when he finally woke up. 'If he wakes up. No way, I can't think like that. He'll wake up, definitely.'
But Hinata didn't know if she was stating a fact, or trying to convince herself of that.
As she was keeping watch, Lee showed up behind her and tapped her on the shoulder. Surprisingly, he was quiet and not overly loud. "Hinata-chan, it is my turn to keep watch. I suggest you get some rest."
Hinata stood up and said "Thank you Lee."
As she was turning to go back into the shack, Lee said "Hinata-chan? Don't worry. Naruto-kun is a fighter. He fought Sasuke with a stab wound in his leg. He won't let something like a virus kill him."
Hinata nodded and said "Thanks again, Lee."
Lee gave Hinata a wide smile, oddly causing moonlight to glint off his teeth. "Anytime, Hinata-chan."
Hinata went back into the room where Naruto was so that she could rest by him in case he needed anything throughout the night. As the night went by, Naruto started thrashing and screaming at random intervals. His skin started losing it's color, becoming more and more pale. It seemed to be getting worse, but Hinata kept hope. As she was going into the room, she saw Tenten there holding Naruto's hand and crying. Seeing this, Hinata was pissed. But she was also immensely tired, so instead, she decided to observe rather than cause a scene.
As Tenten was holding onto Naruto's hand, she said "Please come back to me Naruto-kun. Please. I-I-I know that we've only known each other for two months, but you've made such a huge impact on my life. Ever since you walked into my uncle's shop, you've brightened up my life. You've added something to it that I've always needed but never known about. And now that I have it, ...I don't want to ever let it go. I know that you might not feel the same way about me as I feel about you, but please come back. If not to be with me, then just to be in my life. What you added to my life, and what you mean to me, I can't go on without it. If you don't want to be with me, I understand. I just want you to be a part of my life. ...I don't know how you did it, but (sniff) you became the most important person to me in just a few months. I can't imagine a life without you and I don't want to, Naruto-kun. So please. For the love of God, come back to me."
At that point, the tears, sadness, and frustration that Tenten was holding back let go. She started crying buckets and threw her head into Naruto's chest while he was still thrashing. Watching all of this, Hinata was ...shocked! She couldn't believe it. Naruto had made such an impact on Tenten and he had only known her for a short amount of time. Tenten was crying over Naruto's comatose body. She didn't even care if he returned her feelings at that point, she just wanted to be in his life. All this time, Hinata thought that Tenten just wanted to take Naruto from her because of some shallow reason. But now, there was no denying it. Tenten had real feelings for Naruto, just like she has. Tenten wanted Naruto because he became a part of her life. She wanted him because she had very strong feelings for him. She wanted him...for all the same reasons that Hinata did. 'She's just like I was when I first met him. Have I been hating her for falling for the same thing I did? Naru-kun has this type of... aura. I just can't describe it, but he just attracts people to him. Something about him drew me in, and now it's drawing her too. If I try to push her away now, I'll just be a hypocrite. Damnit, what do I do?'
"Having some trouble, Hinata-chan?"
Hinata jumped in the air in surprise, then turned around to see Neji. She said "Neji-kun, what are you doing here?"
Neji said "Well, Tenten's crying woke me up. I came here to try and lessen her discomfort. But it seems that you have as much discomfort as she does."
Hinata looked around to see that no one was listening. Then, she turned to Neji and said "Tenten has a big crush on Naruto."
"Tell me something I don't know."
"She likes him for the exact same reasons that I do. Naruto just has this way with people that makes them like him. Hell, he could probably spend an hour in a room with Orochimaru and they'd come out as best friends. How can I try to force her away from Naruto when she was exactly like I was when I first had feelings for him?"
Neji smirked as he listened to his psuedo little sister spill her guts about her feelings. The answer to that problem was relatively obvious. She just wasn't thinking about it correctly. Neji, still smirking, said "Who says you have to push her away?"
To Neji's weird answer, Hinata could only say "What?"
Neji, still smirking, said "I tried hinting at this to Tenten, but she didn't take the bait. So I guess I'll just say it outright. There's no law against Naruto being with two women."
Again, Hinata could only say "What?"
Neji said "There's no law against dating two people at once. It doesn't matter if his feelings for Tenten are weak, or if Tenten and Naruto will get married one day, that still doesn't mean he can't marry you too."
Hinata said "But how? There's no way marrying more than one person is legal."
Neji smiled and said "It is legal. Everyone just acts like it's illegal because they think it's morally wrong to marry more than one person. But technically, it was never written into law. So that means that polygamy is only considered deviant behavior, not criminal behavior."
Hinata looked at Neji with confusion, wonder, and a small amount of hope. She said "So you mean that no matter what his feelings for Tenten are, we could still be together?"
Neji chuckled at the hope in Hinata's voice. He said "Yes, Imouto. Naruto could fall in love with 10 women and marry them all, and he could still be with you."
Hinata said "But won't people look down on us for it?"
Neji looked at Hinata with disbelief. 'I can't believe she just said that.'
Neji said "Hinata, your boyfriend is the container of the Kyuubi no Kitsune, beat out the village's Golden Boy for the Rookie of the Year title, and frequently kicks the Golden Boy's ass. It's pretty obvious that people will look down on you already. The question you have to ask yourself is, do you love Naruto enough to put up with all of it?"
Hinata had nothing to say at Neji's statement as she started piecing it together in her mind. Neji said "I can see that I've said enough. For now, I think I'll try and get some more sleep. You should too."
Neji then turned around and went back in his room, leaving Hinata along in the hallway. She looked in the door to see that Tenten was still there, crying her eyes out. Hinata walked up to Naruto and grabbed onto his other hand, not disturbing Tenten. Hinata saw the way Tenten was acting and knew that she and Naruto would have a big decision to make in the future. Hinata just pulled Naruto's hand up to her heart and squeezed his hand harder, hoping that he would be able to draw strength from her this time instead of the opposite.
(With Naruto)
As Naruto was sparring against his mom in his mindscape, he still felt he pain of the lambs blood coursing through his veins. Every move he made was like he had a 10 ton weight tied to each limb. Also, the random spasms of pain that he felt didn't seem to be going away any time soon. But when one of the spasms hit him, it surprisingly didn't feel as painful as it did before. And even though there was no particular explanation for it, he would swear to the end of his days that he heard Hinata and Tenten's voices saying "Please come back to me, Naruto-kun."
Naruto stopped in his sparring match and looked skyward. Even though above him was nothing but an endless white void, he almost felt like he was looking the two women in the eye. He thought 'Don't worry Hina-chan. I told you before that there wasn't a force in existence that would keep us apart, and I meant it. Ten-chan, even though I don't feel for you the same that I feel for Hina-chan, I will still come back to you. That's a promise of a lifetime.'
Naruto turned to his mom and started throwing more punches at her, more determined than ever to change his fighting style.
That's what he and his mom did for the next 20 hours. From 8:30 P.M to 8:30 P.M the next day, they were constantly fighting, helping Naruto get used to fighting in his new style. While they hadn't exactly succeeded, they had made much progress. Now, Naruto was more equipped to fighting enemies who were on the same level of strength as he was.
What was surprising was that, as time went on, it seemed that the spasms started becoming less and less frequent. By the time he ended training with his mom, he had completely stopped them. After their training session, Kushina closed her eyes and mentally did a check on Naruto's body. It seemed that a lot of the lambs blood that landed on his body had been washed away. That must've helped immensely.
At first, Naruto wondered why demons didn't just take a shower after coming into contact with lamb's blood, but then he realized something. He was only half-demon, and he was put in a coma from the amount that was splashed on his body and the small amount that he swallowed. Imagine the effects it had on a full demon. They wouldn't be able to crawl somewhere to clean themselves, and the other demons wouldn't help for fear of getting it on them. Naruto started thanking Kami that he had just great friends who took great care of him. 'It's ironic.' thought Naruto. 'Demons damn near die because of lamb's blood. They always look at humans as weaker than or beneath them. Yet if they swallowed their pride and accepted a human's help, so many of them wouldn't have died from coming into contact with lamb's blood.'
While Naruto was contemplating the curses of the demon's hubris, Kushina said "Naruto, I think your body has started to shake off the effects of the lamb's blood. You got off easy this time, Naruto-kun, be careful next time."
Naruto nodded and said "I will Okaa-chan."
Naruto then started to fade from his position.
(8:30 P.M-Day after blood landed on Naruto-JuuHachi Town)
Hinata and Tenten both stayed near Naruto, hoping that he would wake up soon. Throughout the night, things got worse. His skin became more and more gray, and he started thrashing more and more. With his condition getting worse, everyone was terrified about it. Could this be the end of Naruto? While everyone else was grieving, Tenten had an idea. It all started when he came into contact with the blood. Maybe taking it away would help him out of it. So at noon, everyone helped in undressing Naruto and cleaning off the lamb's blood. While Tenten and Hinata probably wouldn't be able to look Naruto in the eye for a week, almost immediately his condition started taking a turn for the better. As soon as they were finished washing the blood off of him, he started thrashing in his sleep less. The screams of pain started to lower to a small groan, which was gone 4 hours later. His skin started changing from it's gray state to a pale version of Naruto's regular skin color. By 6 P.M, his skin was back to normal. It seemed that for now, he was just sleeping off the pain.
By 8:30, Tenten and Hinata were still by Naruto's side. But the fight last night, along with worrying over Naruto had taken it's toll on them. They were both extremely tired, and even though they were trying to fight it, they both fell asleep. And that's the situation Naruto woke up to.
Naruto groaned when he woke up, then opened his eyes to see a bright light shining over his head. He tried to sit up, but he felt a weight on his chest. Looking down, he saw Hinata sleeping on his chest, and right over her head, one of the buns that Tenten kept her hair in. Naruto started shaking the girls, trying to wake them, but they were both stubborn. So sadly, Naruto was stuck there. Eventually Neji walked into the room and saw Naruto's predicament. He started chuckling. Naruto just glared at him and said "Will you just shut up and help me already?"
Neji's chuckling died off and he said "Fine, I will. Don't get your panties in a twist."
Neji cupped his mouth and said outloud "HINATA, TENTEN, NARUTO'S SUNBATHING NUDE!"
Immediately, both girls shot up and shouted "Where?"
Neji and Naruto both started laughing at the two girls. The girls glared at Neji for saying that, until they heard Naruto chuckling. They both yelled out "Naruto!" and started hugging him for dear life. As Naruto sat up, he saw that he was missing his clothes. He said "Uum, what happened to my clothes?"
An hour, and some intense blushing later, they were able to get Naruto back in his regular clothes. After they did, the girls started to catch Naruto up on what he missed. After hearing what happened, Naruto said "Well, why are we wasting time here? Let's go out there and find these bastards."
Naruto tried to get up, but both Tenten and Hinata pushed him down. Tenten said "Naruto-kun, you're not fully okay yet. You were almost in a coma. You need to rest more."
Naruto said "Forgive me if I'm wrong, Tenten-chan, but I just got done resting for 24 hours straight. Now I wanna go kick some ass."
Naruto tried to move, but Tenten pushed him back down. She looked him in his eye and said "Naruto, you're not leaving this bed."
Looking in her eyes, Naruto saw something that scared the hell out of him. He obediently nodded his head and laid back down. Tenten then smiled and said "Good."
Hinata muttered "Good one."
Tenten was oddly shocked. Not at the compliment, but at who it came from. She slowly said "Thank you."
The girls spent the rest of the night talking to Naruto and each other. Around 12:30, the girls got sleepy. Not long after, they were fast asleep. Noticing that, Naruto thought 'Now it's time for me to get back out there and train.'
Naruto slipped out of his bed, making sure that the girls weren't disturbed in any way. As he slipped out, he started going to a random tree and started punching and kicking it. Naruto tested his speed, strength, agility, endurance, everything he could think of. His results weren't good. Naruto had easily lost about half of his power. His punches didn't carry the same power they used to. He couldn't move as fast as before. It was like he became a poor man's version of himself.
After a half hour of testing himself in his regular form, Naruto called on the power of Super Saiyan. As he was calling up the power, he found that he had to put a lot more effort into calling upon it than he did before. Even with the power and the amazing boost it offered, it couldn't make up for the damage that the lamb's blood did to him.
Naruto also tried going Super Saiyan 2. To start off, Naruto powered up in Super Saiyan. But after raising his power, he reached a point that he couldn't pass. Naruto gritted his teeth and tried harder to raise power, but it seemed that it wasn't working. Naruto screamed and put all his effort into it, but as he did, he felt the power of Super Saiyan 2 flood his body, and he screamed out, this time in pain, and dropped back to his normal form. 'This is worse than I thought.'
It seemed that, like the original Super Saiyan transformation, Super Saiyan 2 gave him a lot more power. But just like Super Saiyan, if he flooded his body with too much power, the power would start to tear at his body apart. His demonic healing helped by repairing some part of the damage. And since the damage was being repaired, he could stay transformed longer. Without his demonic healing, he could barely stay transformed in Super Saiyan, let alone Super Saiyan 2.
After another half hour of fighting, Naruto decided to go to their hiding place. As he reached there, he heard his stomach growl. Deciding to feed the black hole he called a stomach, Naruto opened the refrigerator to see that there was nothing there. 'Damnit, what am I supposed to do? I'm hungry as hell but there's no food here. ...Maybe there's some store open for me to get something.'
Deciding to go that route, Naruto flew around JuuHachi Town, looking for either open stores or stores that looked like their owners were loaded. If worst came, he would just decide to just take some food from the store. These bastards were falsely accusing him and his friends of a crime they didn't commit. The least they could do was look the other way when he and his friends did what they needed to do to survive.
Naruto landed near a reasonably well off store. It seemed to be very upscale, and it was gigantic. Naruto thought 'In a store like this, I'm pretty sure they won't miss a little bit of food.'
Naruto took flight and circled the building, looking for a way in. As he was doing that, he spotted something that piqued his interest. There was a member of the Privaron there looking at the store too. At first, Naruto thought that it was because the Privaron member was being paid by the owner of the store to watch the place, but then he spotted the bag near the gangbanger. Near the Privaron member was a bag that Naruto could tell, even from his distance, was filled to the brim with crowbars, hammers, bricks, everything needed to cause damage. 'Oh, I get it. He's gonna destroy the store to weasel protection money out of the owner. That makes this easier. I can knock him out, get the food, and blame the rest on him.'
As he was about to put this plan into action, he heard a voice say "Naruto-chan, you're not looking at the big picture here."
'What do you mean, mom?'
"I mean that for the past couple days your friends have been looking for a Privaron member to interrogate for info. Now that you have one in your sights whose prime for the taking, you want to frame him for stealing some food?"
Naruto sheepishly thought back 'Oh, right. I forgot.'
"What would you do without me?"
'Have one less annoying voice in my head.'
"HEY!"
Naruto flew down and touched down right behind the Privaron member. He grabbed the guy by the head, and leaned him back to send his skull on a collision course with the ground. The guy dropped to the ground without a struggle. Naruto grabbed him and took off, flying towards his group's location. As he landed, he saw that everyone was looking at him as he returned. Naruto said "Uum, ...Hey guys, did I miss something?"
Tenten came forward and punched him in the head. She said "Yeah. You missed the fact that you just came out of a coma and need to rest. What were you thinking going out there and scaring us half to death?"
Naruto said "I'm sorry, Tenten-chan. But I got something here to make up for it."
Hinata said "Naruto-kun, who is that?"
Naruto dropped the guy he was holding and bopped him across the head. He said "This little bastard here is a member of the Privaron. And now, we have an informant."
Tenten and Hinata, both embarrassed, said "Oh."
Neji grabbed the guy from Naruto and said "Let's get him inside before someone sees him."
Naruto and the others wasted no time getting the man into the building. After getting the man strapped in, Naruto decided to wake the man up with a backhand across the face. The man quickly woke up and looked around. He said "Where am I?"
Naruto said "It doesn't matter where you're at. You're here to answer our questions. Now, if you answer them, we won't have to hurt you."
The man looked Naruto right in th eye and said "Fuck you."
Naruto said "Fine then. I didn't want to do this, but you're forcing me to. Kurenai-sensei?"
Kurenai nodded and started doing handseals. As she finished, she muttered "Hell Viewing Jutsu."
The man's eyes became glassy as if he was daydreaming. The muscles on his face started to relax, making the man look serene and happy. After a second though, that carefree look was replaced with a terror-filled one. The man started screaming, and after 10 seconds of the man screaming, Kurenai released the Jutsu. The man came out of the vision gasping for air and sweating. There was a faint aroma of urine in the room also. Naruto said "Do you remember what just happened?"
At the man's nod, Naruto said "I'll send you back there if you don't answer our questions. Where is Rodorigo Borruja?"
The man said "I-I-I can't tell you. They'll kill me if I tell you."
Naruto put his hand next to the man's face and charged up a Demon's Rage attack. He said "I'll kill you right now if you don't."
The man screamed "OKAY OKAY OKAY! JUST DON'T HURT ME!"
Naruto dispelled his Demon's Rage attack and said "Okay. Now tell us where Rodorigo Borruja is."
The man said "About 10 miles south of JuuHachi Town is a small village. He's been hiding out there. He's paying the people of the village to not tell the cops."
Naruto nodded, and Neji walked up and said "What about those three ninja that Borruja had attack us?"
The guy said "They just showed up one day. Apparently Borruja and that black haired one knew each other from somewhere. Those three were looking for some place to stay and some work, so Borruja has had them helping us. They even helped us learn to use our energy. I think they called it catra-"
Naruto said "It's called 'chakra' you dumbass. Seriously, what kind of idiot doesn't know that."
The man glared at Naruto, before Naruto put his hand up and focused energy into it, causing it to glow. The guy quickly stopped glaring and said "Moving on. They helped teach us a few ninja moves and helped us kick the other ninja out of town."
Neji said "We know that you need to take a tattoo to join the gang. How do you hide yours?"
The man said "When we first got the tattoo, it became too easy to tell members from non-members. But then those three ninja came and helped us. They took some ink, drew some weird symbol over the tattoo, and then 'POOF', the tattoo was gone. And then, just to help with it, they put some makeup over it too."
Neji thought 'Some weird symbol that makes something disappear. Sounds like a Genjutsu seal to me.'
Neji quickly went to the bathroom and returned with a wet rag. He rubbed the man's upper arm where the tattoo was supposed to be, and saw some substance that matched the man's skin color come off. After wiping the spot for a bit, Neji put his finger to where he thought the seal was, and muttered "Release."
As he did, he broke through the Genjutsu seal and saw the seal show up. Around the tattoo was a circle of small symbols that Neji couldn't begin to describe. Neji said "The Genjutsu seal around the tattoo was what was keeping the mayor from seeing it. The makeup on the arm made it so that even if they died, it wouldn't show up unless someone washed the makeup away."
Naruto said "Pretty good plan. But I have another question. What kind of protections does Borruja have at his hideout?"
The guy said "He has about 30 people there at all times. Also, he has those three ninja there. They're almost never away from him. As a matter of fact, I think they run the group more than he does. They're always talking him into doing things and they're the ones who pass the orders to us. It's like he's their cover."
Naruto nodded, then quickly kicked the guy in the jaw. The guy passed out, and Naruto turned to the others in the room and said "Well guys, we just found out where Rodorigo is. Now we need an attack plan."
