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Sitting on the building directly horizontal to Naruto's apartment, carefully gazing through the window were Temari and Hinata. It had not taken them long to locate Naruto due to Hinata already knowing Naruto's living address.
As soon as they had heard of Naruto's escape, Hinata had quickly gone in the direction of Naruto's apartment. Temari rationalized that if Hinata was heading in such a straightforward direction, she must know where Naruto was going to be, and so opted to follow her. Hinata was sorely tempted to try and trick Temari into going a different direction, but her desire to find Naruto outweighed her desire to get Temari off of her back.
Hinata had arrived at Naruto's apartment, but found he had yet to arrive there. Part of her wanted to wait in his apartment for him, but with his recent attitude change, she doubted that was going to go over well. She then decided to wait for him on the building parallel to his own. It had taken her awhile to find the perfect vantage point to watch his apartment without having to resort to her Byakugan. Temari had followed Hinata to the location she had chosen.
Briefly, Hinata readied to strike Temari with a Juken strike, but ceased her brief thoughts of violence when Naruto arrived at his apartment complex.
Temari had a similar train of thought, though unlike Hinata, she kept a weapon readied at her side even as she watched Naruto.
When they saw Loli enter his house, they had to restrain themselves from doing something drastic.
Even now, after several minutes, they were still trying to restrain themselves from trying to assault Loli.
Temari glanced at Hinata, and said Heiress glanced back as Temari whispered, "Who is that woman?"
Hinata frowned and looked back, "I-I don't know. B-but…it appears a-as they sh-she and Naruto-kun a-are close."
Temari frowned and looked back to the apartment complex, her eyes narrowed at the woman Naruto seemed so friendly with.
The two Kunoichi were so preoccupied, that they never noticed a blur and swirl of leaves just two buildings away from them.
Meanwhile
Sakura Haruno was skulking down the street; her posture slouched as she headed away from the training grounds. Her arms hanging at her side pathetically as she walked down the streets of Konoha.
She had just finished 'training'…if it can be called that. All Sakura really did was do a few kicks, punches, and maybe a few laps and exercises, but beyond that, she was barely doing anything at all. Mostly just standing in the training grounds, her overactive imagination giving her elaborate fantasies of her and Sasuke being married and falling in love.
Truly pathetic…but not surprising. Sakura having been raised in a civilian family had never once had a role model to base herself off of other than civilians. When she joined the Shinobi academy, in her mind she was seeking grandeur, fame, and glory for herself. However being raised in a civilian environment blinded her to the true horrors of being a Shinobi.
Within the walls of Konoha, the civilian populace had little to fear, and so none of them knew just how dangerous it was outside the walls of Konohagakure no Sato, those that did rarely ever allowed their children to even enter the academy. It was the sheltered civilians who usually put their kids in the academy, their excuse being that they want their child to have a better life than that of a civilian, in actuality, it was their own selfish desires to increase their families name and power.
Truly pathetic.
Sakura was born in a similar environment, one that knew not of the horrors of the Shinobi lifestyle, and was forced into the program after being properly brainwashed and indoctrinated to desire such a lifestyle. Then again, even if her parents had not brainwashed her, since Konoha is a Shinobi village, more than likely she would have become enticed by the Shinobi lifestyle anyways.
Nontheless, she had been raised with the desire to become a Shinobi, with the mindset of a very spoiled civilian.
So when she was rejected for training by Tsunade, well…it was not hard to discern how she would react.
Sakura's thoughts immediately turned to how unfair it was, how she was being cheated out of what was rightfully hers, how the door to her destiny was abruptly slammed into her face.
Soon enough, her thoughts turned to question as to why she was rejected for training. Of course, her mindset would never allow her to think that she was in the wrong, instead, her mind conjured dozens of different scenarios seemed far more plausible than what was obvious. Until finally, she came to the only conclusion which seemed even remotely possible in her mind.
That Tsunade wanted Sasuke all for herself.
With this in mind, Sakura chose to head straight for the Uchiha compound, hoping to catch Sasuke and show him how much she loves him, and how he did not need anybody else except her.
As she arrived at the Uchiha compound, the sun was beginning to set. There were fewer people on the streets than before. Sakura quickly slinked up to the entrance of the Uchiha compound, about to enter…when something caught her eye in her peripheral vision.
She saw a shadowy figure jump over the walls of the compound, and begin to quickly walk towards the main gates.
Sakura may be a horrible Kunoichi, but her obsession with the Uchiha had led her to recognize her object of affection rather easily…
And she could plainly see that the shadowy figure was in fact Sasuke Uchiha.
Her mission in mind, she quickly ran after the Uchiha, being careful to keep her distance.
Same Time
Minato and Kushina looked at the ANBU before them, who had just finished reporting to them, "Are you absolutely certain of what you saw?"
The ANBU nodded their head, "Hai, Yondaime-sama, Kushina-sama, Naruto Uzumaki was within his apartment, when a woman entered his apartment. He allowed her in willingly, and so I returned as quickly as I could."
Kushina frowned and spoke, "Was there anything else?"
The ANBU noded their head, "Hai, Hinata Hyuuga and Temari no Sabaku were on the building parallel to Naruto's apartment complex. They did not seem to harbor any ill intent."
Kushina frowned, but looked at Minato, who sighed heavily, "Return to your post, report to me if there are any new developments…" Minato's eyes narrowed as a sharp burst of KI shot out, "And I do mean anything."
The ANBU gulped and nodded their head, and then quickly vanished in a Shunshin.
After the ANBU had left, Minato reached into his coat and pulled out the box which they had gotten from the orphanage. The box was a burgundy red, and covering it were twenty-five concentric circles, each with the exact same coding's as the ones in the library.
Kushina frowned, she knew that this box had to be of some importance, otherwise it would not have been placed in the orphanage by Hiashi's now deceased wife. They knew that something was inside of it, but the question was, how in the hell were they going to open it?
Minato stared at the symbols on the box, and no matter what angle he looked at them, he just could not figure out what they meant, or what the purpose of them were.
Kushina grabbed the box and looked at it, "Minato, these symbols are similar to the ones at the library…maybe if we look at the library symbols, we can figure something out?"
Minato nodded his head, "Maybe." he reached to a small pile of papers on his desk, and pulled out the copies of the symbols they had made. He laid them out on his desk and began to look through them.
Kushina was doing the same, looking between the box and the papers.
For half an hour this continued, but still, they could not seem to figure out what the significance of these symbols were in accordance to the symbols on the box, if there even was one to begin with.
Kushina sighed, "Maybe it is just a coincidence? Maybe Hana just used the same coding style as the ones in the library?"
Minato shook his head, "I want to believe that, but I know Hana well enough that she would never do anything like this by coincidence. There has to be a way into this box, and these symbols have to be the damn key." he began to curse under his breath as his eyes darted between the pages and the box.
Kushina placed her hand on Minato's shoulder, "Minato-kun, we were dead for several years before Hana did this, it is possible that she-" Kushina stopped when the shadow of her arm cast over the pages and the box.
She blinked a moment, then looked closely at the page and the box, and her eyes widened, "I got it!"
Minato stared up at his wife, "Kushina, what is it?"
Kushina grabbed the box and the page, "The symbols in the library held codes in them…look." she pointed at a number on one page, and then pointed at the same number on the box in one of the concentric circles, "She wrote these letters with different styles of penmanship, we have to match the letters up with the penmanship, that should open the box."
Minato's eyes widened, and he looked at the box, then the paper…his heart was filled with joy, "Well then, what are we waiting for?"
It took all of a few seconds for Kushina and Minato to begin…
Meanwhile
Sasuke Uchiha was walking as quickly as he could along the main road towards the gates, towards his new future as a student of the Hebi Sannin.
He could already taste the power that would soon be his on his lips. His mind filled with thoughts on how he would crush Itachi, right after he crushed all those who dared to deny him power.
He allowed a sick grin to come to his features when he thought of how he would kill Naruto in front of Minato and Kushina, before he tortured them both to death.
He was about to sprint towards the gates…
"Sasuke-kun!" when he was suddenly tackled from behind by Sakura Haruno.
Sasuke cursed and snapped his head to look back at the offending excuse of a Kunoichi as she nuzzled into his back.
Sakura giggled, "Oh Sasuke-kun, I am so glad I got to you in time." she hugged him closely, "I came here to tell you that I-"
'SQUELCH'
Sakura was silenced as a kunai buried itself up to the hilt in her stomach.
Sasuke sneered and pulled her arms off him, and then threw her into the nearby garbage pile, before spitting on her, "Pathetic…" and he then turned back towards the gates and quickly began to run.
With Minato and Kushina
Minato and Kushina were applying the last key into the box, which quickly began to click and whir as the circles spun, and the lid clicked open.
Minato quickly opened the lid and looked inside…
To find a rusted kunai with etchings in the handle.
Kushina frowned as she looked at the kunai, "What the hell is this?"
Minato's face was one filled with shock as he grasped the kunai, "This is…my first prototype of my Hiraishin kunai."
Kushina looked at Minato, "But, what does that mean?"
Minato frowned and looked at Kushina, "If it means what I think it does, then we are going to have to leave the village. I only ever used these kunai in hidden training grounds outside Konoha's walls, deep in the forests of Hi no Kuni."
Kushina bit her lip, "But who will be in charge of the village…i-in charge of Naruto?"
Minato frowned and sat down…and he looked back at Kushina, "The only one I trust to keep our child safe is Tsunade. She will have to stand in as Hokage until we return."
Kushina nodded her head in agreement, "I will go and tell her the news, you pack everything up." she quickly ran to the door to go find Tsunade.
Minato sighed and looked at the kunai in his hand…and slid it into his jacket before he exited the Kage tower.
Meanwhile
A small dog was sniffing at a pile of garbage as its owner walked up to it, a smile on their face, "Now scruffy, you know you aren't supposed to eat the garbage."
The dog growled at the garbage and began to bark at it angrily.
The owner frowned, "Now, why are you barking at the-AAAHHHH!" the owner lifted up one of the trash bags, and jumped back in terror as they saw the barely breathing Sakura Haruno as several rats had already begun to eat at her flesh.
The owner looked around and began to scream, "Help! Help!"
West Gates
Minato had finished packing up the supplies, and Kushina had arrived with good news, that Tsunade was willing to stand in for them while they went out of the village.
As they exited the village, they cast one last look back at the village, before they headed out to find what they prayed to every deity would help them get their son back.
If they only knew what would happen because of their decision.
Short chapter for such a long wait, I know, I know, you are all pissed off, however, I forced myself to write this, and just wanted to finish this damn chapter...sigh...I hope you enjoy this update...cause I have no idea when the next one is going to be...
Ja-ne