Forbidden Fruit
AN: Just as I promised here is another update CHAPTER 20Actually 19, I will fix it later, when I am like at 25.
Please enjoy, and I really do mean that. Thanks to all the readers and reviewers, you do not know how much I appreciate you. Without, you guys and gals have no clue as to how I'd probably given up. Well maybe a little, okay so I wouldn't have given up, but I would have been desperate for reviews. XD
WARNING: This Story Contains Yaoi/Shounen-ai (Male on Male Relationships, Boy on Boy/Male relationships) You have been warned. Proceed with your own caution. Contains Violence. DO NOT FLAME ME AS YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED! Cesarean-sect
Rated: M for safety measures only, such as Yaoi/Shounen-ai, smexyness between an adult male and teenage boy, along with blood spills, language, and all those lemons and limes I like to throw in. Also with the ability to corrupt minors. XD Yes, I can turn anyone into that of a mindless Yaoi fan pervert. On the other hand, just making them have the thoughts, and it is the thoughts that count, right? :66:
Summary: You'll know by now. XD
Disclaimer: DO NOT OWN...NEVER WILL...No matter how much it saddens me. Nevertheless, I'm extremely happy to get my thoughts and own opinions on to paper, well internet, and have it reach all of you.
'Flashbacks'
'thoughts'
"Speaking"
"Kyuubi"/ "Nine Tails"
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Chapter 21: Ore no Rinjuu: Saigo no Kotoba
(My Death Bed: Last Words)
Reg POV
The rain began to fall, slowly washing away evidence that was needed to help aid the search and rescue mission for Naruto. Tsunade felt for traces of Naruto's chakra, but it too failed, she had no choice, but to follow the ones in front of her.
There was no time wasted as Kakashi, and the others caught up with her. "Any luck finding any traces of them?" She asked the masked man, he released his own jutsu to help with the search, but it too came back negative.
"We have to keep searching for them. We can't let that monster get away with taking another person that we care about."
"Tsunade-sama!" One of the guards called out, "We've got something."
The power of the Kyuubi no Kitsune's ripped through the air, making it hard to breathe as the feeling of fire stung at their skin. The group turned, gulping in the back behind everyone, Sakura felt guilty. She could have stopped all of this, but her oath to Naruto kept her from saying anything.
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The sound of water could be heard as it dripped inside of the darkness. Naruto looked around, and was faced with emptiness. Water surrounded him, and he was floating, not walking like the last time. He was in an unfamiliar room inside of himself.
Following instinct, Naruto came across the Nine Tailed Fox. "Welcome back."
"What happened?" He shouldn't be here, he didn't want to be here.
"Why am I here?" Naruto asked as the red bubbles started to surround him.
"You've called me."
"Why now? I've called you many times before, and you haven't showed."
"Your distress." Kyuubi said curling his tail around Naruto
"Reasons? The real answer." Naruto felt like yelling, but his voice was weak, he was tired.
"The answers, will be revealed, soon." Kyuubi replied.
"What are you doing?" Naruto asked as the Kyuubi no Kitsune's tail tightened, and pulled him into the cell.
Outside, Naruto was being covered, by the deep red cloak. His red claws swung at the others, clearing space, and giving away their location. Inside, Naruto could see everything. "Stop it please!"
Naruto started to plead with the large fox, "Kyuu-otou-san! Onegaishimasu!" He begged.
Kyuu slowly tightened his grip, Naruto now had trouble breathing, and his vision was fading. "Imaru-chan." His eyes closed, and he was released. Kyuu kept him safe, close to himself.
"We have to settle this quickly." Kabuto spoke as Naruto's form was taken over.
They moved out of the way of another attack, "This is your entire fault, Hebi." Naruto's voice mixed in with the foxes, Kyuubi clearly stating blame on Orochimaru.
"Rin." Orochimaru called out to the injured girl, he'd need her help to get a temporary Five Prong Seal placed on the blonde. Using up some of her chakra reserves, Imaru was able to transform.
"Are you sure she can handle this?" Karin asked Kabuto, "It's what she was made for."
Throwing small sowing needles at the Kitsune, the invisible lines passed around the form. They became apparent when the beast roared. The blue lines turned red, she had released the power she'd been storing from Naruto, and was able to get a grip around him.
A second tail was coming in," You don't think the fox would go any higher, do you? Cause damage?" Kabuto asked Orochimaru, while getting a distance away from the kitsune's power range.
"I don't think he'd risk that." Kabuto said as they watched Rin's dance, her strings held fast, and the burning sensation in the air that affected everyone in surrounding area had no effect on her.
Reaching around to his abdominal, she was able to place the seal onto him. Naruto's scream was heard as he fell back onto the muddy earth, the rain started to pick up, and Orochimaru was at Naruto's side.
"It looks like, he's on the verge of passing out." Kabuto said as he hung onto Imaru.
"Well at least we know, what's so important about him." Karin laughed at Jugo…."I could've told you that."
Leaning over, Naruto lurched up his stomach contents. His eyes seeming to go in and out of focus. Orochimaru lifted the teen up, blood trailed down his face and stained his clothing,
"Kuso." Orochimaru cursed under his breath, this was a classic sign of internal bleeding. Standing up with the blonde, he held him close in his arms. He couldn't lose any of them, they were all important.
Placing her hand on Orochimaru's shoulder, Rin smiled slightly, seeming to sense his own worry that he hid from everyone else; including his right-hand man, Kabuto.
"I have a plan, Orochimaru-sama." Her hand fell back to her side as she was now lifted, Kabuto supporting all of her weight, and carrying her now.
"How much more time does she have?" Karin asked as Kabuto helped Imaru.
"She's losing too much blood, not much time, if we don't get there." Kabuto didn't want to speak the real grim truth.
"We're not that far away, we can make it." Karin spoke.
"Ikimashou!" Orochimaru commanded.
"Hai." The group said in unison as they picked up speed.
Reaching a clearing, they waited until they were in the right placement to cause a distraction, then stopped. They were being surrounded by Konoha ninja, just as planned in case they couldn't escape from a familiar root.
"Naruto!" The pink-haired konoichi screamed out. Tsunade stepped forward, she was the first one to speak to them.
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Coming to a halt, they watched from behind as the small group was surrounded. The forest floor was wet, and the trees were slippery. In Orochimaru's arms laid Naruto's body, unknowing to others, still aware.
Inside, Naruto could feel the other fading. The presence of her chakra slowly burning out, but most importantly the smell of her blood.
Somewhere in the background, Naruto could hear Sakura cry out his name, and Tsuande's yelling. "Let him go, you goddamn Hebi."
"I can't do that." Orochimaru spoke, "I'm sorry, but unfortunately we can't stay long either." Moving in on the small group, he took out a small bomb, along with a smoke bomb, and threw them out. They made their getaway.
"There's no one here!" One of the men cried out. "There's no way, they could escape! They're completely surrounded!"
The smoke cleared, and in the surrounding area, there was nothing to be found. Not even a hole in the ground, indicating how they could've escaped. There was a loud sound of ground breaking, and a yell being echoed.
Tears were seen in the Hokage's eyes, and Sakura tried to comfort her superior; but was forced away instead. Shizune then came by her side, "Sakura-chan, you should probably head back now."
"No! I want her detained, now!" Tsunade commanded them. Her voice trembled, shaking with anger, anguish, and grief. "He got away…" She stifled back her tears. "We let them get away." She was helped up by Shizune, who helped her back to the village.
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Arriving just outside of a whole row of trees, sand became clear in one direction and grass in the other. They were back where they started, on the border. Turning they headed through the sand, until there was a sinkhole, it lead them through a series of tunnels, until they reached the end of the only dead-end hall way in that area.
All the others lead to one another, forcing someone to walk in circles, until they hit a dead end hall. Leading the opposite direction, which was sunlight. Pressing in, a certain tile in the middle they waited for it to open.
The sound of water, and the last remnants of sunlight was just a distance away. Picking up a home made stretcher, they placed the two of them on them, "Good thing we came prepared, nee?"
There was no respond, small talk was over with. "Let's hurry and get them back, if we don't then I fear, that they won't make it." No one said anything about Naruto's appearance changing, they were given the order to ignore it. Say nothing to any one about it, and that everything would be explained later.
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"You didn't tell us everything, Sakura!" Tsunade slammed her hands down on the table in the small room.
"This whole situation could've been avoided, if you told us about that girl the week she got here." She paced around the room, watching as her pink-haired subordinate, or protégé squirmed under her intense stare.
Tears came to her eyes when she thought about, how betrayed she felt. The young girl, that she trained was now a capable adult, needing to take responsibility for her own actions.
"I was sworn to secrecy." Sakura pleaded with the fifth Hokage, the person that she looked up to. The same person, who taught her all that she knew, "Please! Understand, why I didn't tell."
Tears of frustration came to her eyes, 'Why must, I be blamed?'
"He'd hardly talked to me, because I already knew too much, and I told him, I'd tell. Naruto shut me out completely after that. It took a while, he opened back up just a little to me. He trusted me not to go around telling the world, that Orochimaru was keeping him under strong surveillance."
"How long?" Tsunade stared into Sakura's eyes, her own tough exterior cracking every time she did. "How long, had he been watching? How long have you known?"
"For a while." Sakura turned her head the other way," Months, maybe half a year or a little over that." She couldn't look the other in the eyes.
"Why didn't you say anything? Besides the promise, that clearly wasn't there before."
"Because, I only found out a few months ago. And there was something he said that he wanted to protect."
"Kakashi, said that a few months ago. That there was something, that he was hiding something that he was protecting. But what could he possibly have wanted to protect, that would put him in more of harms way? Why protect that monster?"
"You'll never understand. I told you before, all that I knew before, nothing's changed now."
"Yes, they have! Naruto is gone, and it's all your fault."
"You can feel it too, can't you?" Sakura asked Tsunade, who stood perplexed. "That, there's a bond that they share. You've noticed it too, haven't you?" Sakura now looked the Hokage in her eyes, they gave her the impression of cold.
"There's nothing...that we could've done. Fate was destined to get in the way, and the truth bound to get out, long before this."
"What does that mean?" Tsunade demanded Sakura to answer, but she just sat there still, and silent.
"What is it that he's protecting? What is it that you know, but are not telling me?" Tsunade, now pleaded with the teen.
"I can't tell you. I promised." The tension in the air thickened, heavier than a cloud of black smoke.
"I'm sorry, and I hope that someday you'll be able to forgive me. I know, I should have spoken up sooner. And I reacted, when it was too late. But...there are just some things, that we are never meant to understand! Unless, we experience it for ourselves."
Sighing, Tsunade looked at the young konoichi again. Contemplating, she'd hate to do this to her, but she had no choice. "No, Sakura." She looked the other way, "And I hope, that you can forgive me."
She couldn't even look the girl in her eyes, she would hate herself soon after, but it was all neccessary. "But, what I am about to do is for the best of the village. Ibiki-san, you can now come in."
"Liar!" Sakura stood up, "What you're doing isn't for the village, but for yourself. You think it's for Naruto!" Tsunade stopped her pace to the door to look back at the female once more. The young medic-nin was shaking, fist down at her sides as she asked, "For him?"
There was no answer.
"He didn't want to be here! Because, of all of you!" She took this as her lead. "For Naruto!" Sakura was somewhat hysterical now, tears in her eyes, voice on the verge of cracking.
"Naruto, who clearly said that, he didn't want to be followed, or for any one to know. Stop acting like you're the only victim here!"
"You're not the only one, who's hurting!" Ibiki was at her side, his grip on her arm hurting, tightening, obeying for her submission.
"Tsunade-ba-sama!" She yelled out as the old woman walked out of the door, tears in her eyes. She stopped breathing, when Sakura called her by that name. Her head hanging she closed the door, giving Sakura an apologetic look.
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The small group rushed into the building, carrying the two injured shinobi on stretchers. Rin who was wide awake stared at Orochimaru. "Transfer now, Orochimaru-sama." She said the words, panting in-between, pain clearly drenching her voice. "Not now." Orochimaru spoke softly, "We have to get you both to the infirmary." His eyes never left the boys pale face.
"Please, now! Or else, I won't have the strength to do as I planned for Naruto-nii-san." The name made Orochimaru inwardly flinch, they'd become so close over the course of a small amount of time, he'd never expected them to form a bond. But that was a lie, he realized as he knew that Naruto was a very likeable, and easily to friend with.
"You can't save us both, I'm quite aware of the contract, and my time as well as his. Please, let me do this now, or else it dies with me. I too, only have one choice if that moment comes."
Orochimaru stood, puzzled by her cryptic sentence. She reached her hand out, and gripped Orochimaru's arm. She transferred her chakra into his system, replacing his damaged arms with her own. Blood spurted from her mouth, her eyes rolling into the back of her head. "Not yet!" She yelled out before her body convulsed.
"She's having a seizure." Making their way pass the others, who gathered in the hallway out of curiosity, they paid no mind to them, not even to an inquisitive raven-haired teen. Whose face went grim, at the passing sight of the group passing them all by.
"We need to get oxygen to her brain, quick!" Kabuto ordered out.
"SHIT! He's not breathing!" They made their way through the first set of doors that led to the infirmary, laying the pair on the two sets of silver operating tables, Karin and the others were released.
"Don't allow any one to enter this room!" Orochimaru gave the order, as he tended to Naruto's side. Placing his finger beneath Naruto's nostrils Orochimaru cursed, as he stood over the pale boy, checking his pulse.
"We need to set up an electrograph now, and give a cardioinhibitory to him. His pulse is too fast. He's going to flat line if we don't!" Orochimaru ordered Kabuto.
"We're losing them!" Kabuto yelled out as Imaru flat lined, he tried cardiopulmonary resuscitation on her.
"There's no need to lose both of them, she already knew what the deal was, after making the switch off." Orochimaru said while standing by her side. "She's gone." Kabuto rushed to the other teen's side.
Kabuto, who was worried about losing the teen, and his offspring's, set up an EFM. Hoping that Orochimaru could check for stabled heartbeats. "None of this is good." He spoke under his breath.
"Naruto. I need you to stay with me." He watched as Naruto's eyes dilated, it wasn't long before he too was suffering from lack of oxygen, they had to act quickly. "Hurry! We need to give anesthetics' to him now!" Orochimaru was on the verge of yelling, there was no way in hell he was going to lose them.
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"How is she?" Tsunade asked the interrogator, when he stepped out of the hospital room.
"I went as far as I could, but she pushed back, causing her mind to overexert itself. Thus, the result of her collapsing." Ibiki answered the best he could. "I've never seen someone, with such a will as hers."
"And we wondered, how she was able to get Ino out of her head." There was a small silence between them. "I've spoken to the doctor."
"What did he have to say?" Tsunade worried about her ex-students condition, she became quite fond of the girl. And now, she feared that her own hate would cause her to lose another important person in her life.
"It's just as I suspected, the Doctor and I both agree that we may have pushed her too far. I fear, that she may be stuck in a temporary coma."
"But," He spoke with hope," If she stays comatose for a very long time. She may suffer severe brain damage, leading to a vegetative state for the rest of her life."
Tsunade stood almost as if she was going through shock, "Am I allowed to see her?" The man nodded his head.
Tsunade thanked him silently for his work, then moved past him. Entering the room, she watched the pink-haired girl lying in the hospital bed. She looked like she was calmly sleeping, peaceful.
Sitting by her, she hesitantly reached her hand out to her unmoving one, "I am so sorry, Sakura-chan."
She held the back of the girls' hand to her face, "Please forgive me." Tears streamed down her face, and she whispered slowly into the air, a prayer for everything to be alright.
'Why can't everything return to the way it was?'
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His eyes dilated, and he could hear voices all around him. But he could not return to them, not now.
He quietly wept, on the inside. It was only when, he became aware of fingers in his mouth, that he had noticed the warm liquid running down his cheeks.
A warm liquid poured into his mouth, and he could feel two fingers rub against his throat. Forcing him to swallow, what ill concoction he was given.
Naruto could feel himself becoming cold, his eyes had lost sight a long time ago, and now they seemed to roll painfully into the back of his head. The darkness was closing in on him, just like before.
He knew this feeling all too well.
He couldn't breathe, and he felt his lungs expanding as someone breathed for him. It was getting cold, and the feeling of numbness started to take over.
"Naruto!"
He became aware of his name, being called by a familiar voice. Looking around, he found the source. 'Imaru?' He seen her in his head, a small light, and her presence brought him back.
"Imaru? What are you doing here?" She smiled, bringing him back to old days.
"I came to say farewell." Her warm embrace was around him.
"Farewell? You mean…?" Realisation dawned down on him, "You can't go! I don't want you to leave, Rin. You're like a little sister, I've never had. You can't just go, when I still need you."
"I won't be gone forever. I promise, that I'll still be here."
"How?" Naruto looked confused.
She touched his chest, "Inside of you." She turned away, the light fading, "I'll always be apart of you, Naruto-nii-san." Her light faded inside of him. 'Rin!' He screamed her name.
Naruto's eyes snapped open, a bright light blinded him, and the last thing he heard after his name was called, was Imaru's whispered last words. "Please, Orochimaru-sama, take care of Naruto." Then her presence was gone completely.
Tears fell from his eyes as he felt her passing, on the inside all of the emotions that he'd been blocking for the past month now took over him. Swallowing him whole, dragging him inside of unknown darkness.
His whole body trembled.
It felt like his whole body, was releasing pain. Like he couldn't handle it all on his own. So he cried, until he fell into the darkness of sleep.
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AN: And thus this chapter comes to an end. Been working on this story for three years and tying up all the loose ends. It seems, I am almost done. Now, that this has been re-read and re-written. I thank all who have come this far with me. Thanks to all those who also reviewed, critised, and cherished this with me.